7 Days to Die V3.2.0 Stable Lets You Honk Open Trader Doors

7 Days to Die V3.2.0 Stable is now available with a wonderfully strange convenience: players can honk their vehicle horns to open outer trader doors. Not every entrance has enough room for every vehicle, but an on-screen message will indicate when you are close enough to try.

The update also reworks the Combine Station interface. A plus symbol now shows when an item has been combined, and players must press a button to complete the combination after reviewing the expected result and final stats.

In its Steam announcement, The Fun Pimps said a separate team is handling these smaller releases. Its role is to deliver bug fixes, quality-of-life changes, and cosmetic content more consistently between major versions without pulling focus from the teams working on v4.0.

The developer also plans to send out a player survey soon. It will ask which quality-of-life improvements should receive priority in future smaller updates.

The stable release follows the V3.2.0 EXP build, which introduced the trader-door horn interaction and the Combine Station interface work. The full changelog below covers changes made since V3.1.0.

Trader doors and the Combine Station

Trader entrances are now a little easier to handle when you arrive in a vehicle. The outer doors react to the horn, though the available space around each entrance still determines whether your vehicle will fit. The new interaction prompt appears when you are within range.

At the Combine Station, the interface gives a clearer view of the outcome before the process begins. The extra confirmation step should also make it harder to combine items by accident.

7 Days to Die V3.2.0 Stable Patch Notes

Beyond the trader and crafting interface changes, V3.2.0 adjusts cooking requirements, auto turret placement, loot behavior, animal threat detection, sleeper checks, and trader inventory. The update also fixes issues involving chickens, crafting, quests, server searches, permadeath, collapsing blocks, and zombie behavior.

HONK HONK!!!

Trader doors can now be opened with your vehicle’s horn. While all outer doors will react to them, not all of them will fit your vehicle! An onscreen text will let you know when you are close enough to interact with the trader’s door by honking.

Better Combine Station Visuals

We have reworked the combine station UI to make it easier for players to see what their result will be and what the final stats it will have.

A plus will indicate that an item was combined in the combine station. Players will now have to hit a button to combine items.

Changelog for what changed since V3.1.0:

Added

• New buff icons for chicken stress events
• Custom POI’s should be pushed to client from server (server pushes a minimal metadata package to client)
• Using the vehicle horn open will now open the outer doors at traders
• New door variant oldWoodDoorNoHonk for use in Trader interiors
• Property “AllowDecorations” to separate world decoration in POIs from TraderArea setting

Changed

• Updated requirement logic for cooking pot, cooking grill, and anvil to prevent a held one from influencing the cook time
• Set IsTerrainDecoration to false for the campfire to allow it to morph terrain like other blocks
• Auto turrets no longer support stability
• Auto turrets can no longer be placed on walls
• Updated the junk loot list to provide cotton when Crop Yield is set to none
• Updated general trader inventory list to include a chance for cotton
• Timid animals have improved threat detection
• Updated some Chinese localization strings for clarification
• Optimized sleeper spawn checks for player visibility when players are far
• Commented out screamer spawns in screamer scout groups in entitygroups.xml to prevent screamers from calling other screamers
• Replaced interior oldWoodDoor with oldWoodDoorNoHonk in Trader Rekt, Hugh, and Joel
• Removed obsolete prefab property AllowTopSoilDecorations

Fixed

• NRE when exiting game after client drops Chicken
• Chicken stress increases when player is on a ladder even if they are still
• Chickens can no longer be moved to different toolbelt slots after being picked up
• Unable to craft lower tiered items after they’ve been unlocked
• Demolition zombies not exploding from client damage
• Rabbits running too slow
• Permadeath does not grant Base Skill Points upon death
• Loot Max Tier clamps user mods
• Entities can cause blocks to collapse during chunk resets
• Failed to search EOS servers popup
• Trader progression gets stuck
• cave_05 can fail due to quest boundaries inside POI

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7 Days to Die

Developed by The Fun Pimps

Set in a brutally unforgiving post-apocalyptic world overrun by the undead, 7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. It presents combat, crafting, looting, mining, exploration, and character growth, in a way that has seen a rapturous response from fans worldwide. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

• Genre Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
• Platforms Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One
• Perspective First person, Third person, Virtual Reality
• Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
• Release July 25, 2024
• Publisher Telltale Games, The Fun Pimps
• Age Rating

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