A new update for 7 Days to Die has been slated, and it’s shaping up to be an ambitious one. This is V3.0, also known as Dead Hot Summer, and with it comes a new way to customise your worlds exactly the way you want. With all that said, what is there to expect in this new update? Find yourself a nice patch of sand on a zombie-ridden beach, sit back, and don’t relax. Let’s see what to expect.
Interface Improvements
Alright, before we get started on what new features are added, let’s take a look at the very first thing you’ll see: the main menu. You might have noticed it’s looking a little fresh, or I suppose the lack of freshness. Various menus in the main menu have been given an uplift, modernising the menu layout to something more (or less) cleaner.
The new and improved menu, the first impression.
There is more to come with interfaces, with a full face-lift expected at a later date. For now, let’s view this as a taste of things to come.
Tough (or simple) Decisions
Difficulty in games has always been a touchy discussion point, with some thinking easy modes ruin the immersion of a game, while others see it as a way to let others experience the game in a casual setting before amping it up. In this new update, difficulty is merely a preset for a myriad of tweaks and changes you can make for your own world.
The Sandbox Options menu. Pick from over a hundred options to tweak and modify your world to the perfect preset.
With 150 options to change in a single world, 7 Days to Die can become a sandbox zombie survival of your own making. Create a world as unforgiving as you can, create a challenge run with specific setting changes, or play with as many training wheels as you can fit. Whatever you want, it becomes yours.
Difficulty isn’t completely done away with. Instead, these are specific presets to a world’s settings that reflect traditional difficulty settings. However, there’s more to come than your typical difficulties. We have extra presets that switch things up beyond how easy or hard a regular play is.
Bite Club
I hear you few people up the back, you love the unforgiving, masochistic idea of losing a world you have toiled hours away as soon as you die. Well, the Bite Club preset is just for you. This makes your world a high difficulty world with permadeath enabled. Once you’re done for, that’s the end.
You are not going to find yourself in a position where you can take a breather. It’s ride or die.
Dying World
In a world that has succumbed to the zombie apocalypse, there does appear to be plenty of resources to loot from structures and quests. What if that wasn’t the case? In this difficulty preset, precious resources become scarce and hard to find. Find what you need, because you’re going to need it.
There’s not a lot you’ll be able to find here, resources simply won’t make themselves available to you.
Almost Creative Mode
Maybe you just want to see the world in ruins. All you want to do is build your perfect base with that sweet apocalypse-core setting, but you also want just a little bit of work for your reward. This world isn’t quite creative mode, but it’s enough to perform what you normally would with a few extra obstacles.
The apocalypse is an aesthetic. Having to deal with enemies just won’t do.
…and more
There are plenty of new presets to come in this update. Some other presets can generate more garbage loot, turn zombies into speedsters, or change up how you engage in combat. You don't even need to stick to a preset, just pick and choose your settings and get started.
Magnitudes of power
Tools you find might not be any old tool. Some tools you may loot could have some extra stat boosts. This is the Magnitude system, and it allows for tools and weapons to achieve greater power. You can identify if a tool has a boosted stat if there is an indicator over the specific stat.
Tools with a magnitude will have a star and orange stat to indicate a greater power.
The potency of a stat boost also scales up based on the tool or modifier’s Quality. If you have a Quality 1 tool with a good stat, upgrading the quality will also improve the boosted stat even further. This best applies to stats that can be increased over time - sorry to say, but that Helmet Light isn’t going to get any more powerful.
Got a good attribute on another tool? Combine these stats together using a Combine Station, and you’ll get the best of both worlds, or tools, to be specific. Combining also repairs durability of the applied tool, so now you have another way to repair. If you desire, you can also make combination the only way to repair tools using the new sandbox options.
A one-way Summer Holiday
Kick back and relax, or set yourself up on a bootcamp trip, whatever you fancy. V3.0 will drop on June 29th, or play it now on the latest Experimental branch. If you ever felt that a world wasn’t to your liking, now is your chance to make yourself the perfect post-apocalyptic world.
Maybe you want to share the experience with your friends? Pick yourself a truly ferocious world, or set up a simple world for your starting players. Whatever your case, we make the process of making a 7 Days to Die server easy! Simply purchase the 4GB Hero Tier plan or higher and get started with a 7 Days to Die server. As of writing, V3.0 is available on the Experimental branch. Got a world you want to play on the server already? Don’t forget to check out our handy guide on uploading a world to your server.