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Alpha 6 is out!

Stable2014-01-16

What’s happening Survivalist,

I’ll tell you what’s happening The Fun Pimps have just released Alpha 6 with many new features including: a much larger world, an awesome new metal forging system for gun and bullet crafting, a new snowy biome, 3 new snow zombies, many new locations including a ski lodge, sawmill, army camps, ghost town and more. The build also has many user requested fixes and changes including better PVP player spawning, new key bind window with mouse support and a new hold down ‘E’ vacuum item pickup function.

Here’s how you download it!

We’re using Steam’s awesome Beta feature which means users can still access and play Alpha 5 or Try out the new Alpha 6! Both will be available and here’s how you configure your Steam client to participate.

  • 1. Open your steam client.
  • 2. Click on Games/View Games Library
  • 3. Right click ‘7 Days to Die’ and select properties
  • 4. From the new popup dialogue box select the ‘BETAS’ Tab
  • 5. Under ‘Select the beta you would like to opt into’ - select ‘alpha_6 - Beta Testing’
  • 6. The game will then update and download Alpha 6
  • 7. Switching back to Alpha 5 is as easy as repeating steps 1-4 and on step 5 choose the option ‘None - Opt out of all Beta Programs’ and you’ll revert to Alpha 5 which will be re-downloaded and you can try Alpha 6 after it is improved.

And for you detailed oriented folks here is a complete list of new Alpha 6 Release Notes. So check it out now funk soul brother!

You Stay Cool

The Fun Pimps

Alpha 6 replaces Alpha 5 Stable2014-02-08

Hello again fellow survivors!

You may have noticed that you can no longer opt into the Alpha 6 Beta test.

This is because Alpha 6 has been released officially to all users. Alpha 5 has waved goodbye and Alpha 6 has taken it's place.

I've seen some of you asking about the world being compatible with Alpha 5 saves or not. Alpha 5 saves are at best, semi compatible. In other words, you'll need to start a new world/game in order to experience the new areas of the map and new POI's.So in short, Alpha 5 maps/saves will likely give you some issues.

Another question that has popped up is whether or not you can roll back to Alpha 5. Sadly this is not possible. If you'd however like to still use your buildings and creations in a new map, you can simply go to your saves folder where the game is installed.

In most cases the default for Windows would be

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\7DaysToDie-Alpha5\Data\Worlds\Navezgane\Saves\SaveNameHere

Or C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\7DaysToDie-Alpha5\Data\Worlds\Navezgane\Saves\SaveNameHere

Inside the folder, you will see another folder called "Region"

You simply need to copy all the files inside there into the new world/save's region folder to insert your buildings and creations into the new map.

Please do be aware though, that in some cases the surrounding area where your buildings and creations are, may be stuck in some POI's that were not there in Alpha 5 for example. So theres a chance you might have to do a bit of changes/fixing up after copying the files to the new world/save.

But other than that, all should be fine.

And if you'd like your inventory and location saved, simply copy the player folder as well to the new save.

I hope this clears some things up.

Take care and stay alive!

The Fun Pimps