Project Zomboid build 42.22 is out, and the big headline is that you can finally climb ladders. There’s also a new crowbar mechanic for forcing locked doors and windows, a recipe to refill lighters with gasoline, and dozens of new sound effects for equipping weapons, climbing ladders and even doing burpees. You can now do more things while walking, like opening umbrellas, swapping batteries and lighting or putting out candles and lanterns. Makeshift radios also now have fixed encumbrance values instead of random ones.
Multiplayer gets a big cleanup, including a fix for the “doppelganger character” bug, server-side damage calculations, more anti-cheat protection and a pile of crash and desync fixes for trailers and towing. Animals also get some love, with fixes for rabbits not producing milk (the kits were starving, poor things) and animals being deleted from full hutches. Toasters and coffee machines no longer work without power, so no more battery-powered breakfast, sorry.
Your saves will need converting when you load them, but a backup is created automatically. If you rely on mods, some may not work yet, and you can roll back to build 42.21 through Steam’s Game Versions and Betas settings until mod creators catch up.
