Vehicles changes in Project Zomboid

Fixed an issue where vehicles could temporarily disappear for players after another player disconnected

Vehicle speed and towing have been rebalanced to make towing work better, and trailers can now come loose if you turn too sharply or too fast.

Rebalanced vehicle speed/towing to improve towing experience; trailers can now detach when turning sharpness/speed is too high

Fixed the vehicle's trunk taking damage when driving over zombie crawlers

Vehicle engine power now uses each vehicle's calculated value instead of being set to the maximum value from its script.

Fixed vehicle engine power being incorrectly set to the maximum script value instead of its calculated value

Vehicles with an alarm, engine or siren running now keep updating properly when they are outside loaded areas.

Fixed vehicles with active alarms, engines, or sirens not updating correctly outside loaded areas

Fixed player names overlapping when multiple players enter a vehicle

Fixed issue causing trailers to flip after attaching if the car is too close to it

You can drop items out of an open or smashed vehicle window again with the right-click Drop option.

Fixed being unable to drop items out of an open/smashed vehicle window via RMC > Drop

Fixed player freezing until pressing ESC after firing Lever Action rifles from inside a vehicle

Fixed vehicle-engine sound not being audible to remote clients in multiplayer at longer ranges

In multiplayer, a vehicle driven by another player and towing a trailer no longer crashes you to the main menu when it hits other vehicles.

Fixed a crash to the main menu when a remote vehicle with an attached trailer collides with other vehicles

In multiplayer you can now hear vehicles from far away.

Added hearing "distant vehicle" sounds in multiplayer.

In multiplayer you can hear vehicles coming from a long way off again.

In multiplayer, vehicle damage no longer applies when a vehicle stays in constant contact with a pedestrian player, as part of fixes to how non-PVP players and vehicles interact.

Vehicle damage no longer applies for persistent pedestrian contacts.

Fixed vehicles sometimes clipping through one another

Fixed towed trailer having choppy movement for remote players

Fixed vehicles taking too much damage on collision

Fixed items dropped from a trailer not syncing properly

Fixed calorie burn rate applying incorrectly when sitting in a vehicle

Fixed players being able to ghost through vehicles

Fixed an issue where characters would be crushed by vehicles instead of pushed away

Fixed not being able to see other players while the vehicle moves in reverse.

Fixed being unable to enter driver's seat of vehicle in specific positions

Fixed vehicle radial menus not closing when exiting / entering vehicles.

Fixed vehicles playing the engine ignition attempt sfx without a key if the engine is at 0%

On the Apocalypse preset, vehicles are more likely to spawn with gas in the tank.

In sandbox settings, the "Normal" chance for vehicles to have gas is lower, so fewer cars will have fuel on that setting.

Vehicle engines can now be heard over a wider area.

Fixed character automatically rotating when standing above/under a vehicle

Uninstalling vehicle parts no longer causes an error.

Fixed an exception when uninstalling vehicle parts

On gamepad, aiming no longer interrupts the vehicle radial menu.

On gamepad, switching seats no longer makes you get out of the vehicle.

Fixed Vehicles sinking into the ground

Fixed the player moving very slowly when strafing to sit or enter a vehicle

Penlights now light a smaller area and vehicle headlights light a bigger one, so driving at night shows you more of the road.

Driving over animal corpses now affects your vehicle less.

In multiplayer, a car trunk's capacity now updates correctly after the trunk takes damage.

Fixed car trunk capacity not updating after receiving damage

Fixed cars getting stuck mid-air again

Parked cars now move when you bump them with another car.

Fixed parked cars not moving when bumping them with another car

Fixed player getting stuck trying to leave cars

Fixed vehicles attracting zombies from far away

Fixed being unable to throw on the ground stack of items while in the vehicle.

Fixed player state where player couldn't get into the vehicle

Damage from vehicles hitting regular and ragdoll zombies is now handled correctly in multiplayer and single player, which should fix most odd collision bugs.

Fixed vehicle and trailer teleport to north-west corner of a chunk

Locking the trunk from inside a vehicle now plays the correct sound.

Fixed inside Vehicle Lock Trunk playing Wrong Sound

Hitting rabbits, rats and mice now does less damage to your vehicle.

Fixed reduce Vehicle Damage from Small Animals (Rabbits, Rats, & Mice)

Fixed vehicles getting stuck in the air after collisions

Motion sickness now affects everyone in a vehicle, but it builds more slowly for the driver.

Motion sickness now affects all vehicle occupants, progressing 50% slower for the driver.

Radios in emergency vehicles now come with the Automated Broadcast channel already saved in their presets.

Emergency Vehicles with radio will have Automated Broadcast channel in presets.

Claustrophobic characters now slowly build up Panic while they are inside a vehicle.

Claustrophobic characters now gradually gain Panic while inside a vehicle.

Junk loot can now include old car parts and normal suspension parts, and each one spawns in a random condition.

Added old car parts and normal suspension parts to Junk loot tables, these spawn with a randomized condition.

Putting gasoline into a vehicle is now faster than siphoning the same amount out of one.

Now adding gasoline to a vehicle will take less time than siphoning the same amount of gasoline from a vehicle.

All police vehicles will have a HAM radio.

Walking or running now cancels refuelling a vehicle from a gas pump.

Fixed refuelling a vehicle from a gas pump not being cancelled by walking or running.

Fixed item break sounds possibly playing when vehicles spawn for the first time

Vehicle stories and zone stories no longer spawn on water where map changes have put water over their old spots.

Fixed vehicle stories and zone stories spawning on water when map changes have water features overlaying old story and navigation zones

Vehicles can now carry corpses in the trunk or on the seats.

The right-click menu no longer has Investigate this area, Vehicle mechanics or the option to smash a vehicle's window.

Removed "Investigate this area","Vehicle mechanics" and option to smash a vehicle's window from RMC.

Nascar cars now spawn in the world, primarily at the Irvington race track.

Zombies killed by vehicle damage now increase the driver's zombie kill count.

Fixed being unable to drop items while inside vehicles.

Vehicles now follow the High Quality condition sandbox setting and no longer spawn in low condition when it is set.

Fixed Vehicles spawning with low condition even if they have High Quality condition set in SB settings

A vehicle's engine force no longer resets to maximum when you get out of it.

Fixed vehicle engineForce being restored to maximum when you exit the vehicle

Looking into a vehicle trunk from outside now gives you a button to close it, plus a button to close and lock it if you have the vehicle's key.

When a player is looking at a vehicle trunk inventory window from outside of the vehicle, there will be a top-button option to close the trunk.

• When a player is looking at a vehicle trunk inventory window from outside of the vehicle, there will be a top-button option to close the trunk. Additionally, if the player has the key for the vehicle, then there will also a top-button option to close and lock the trunk.

Fixed keys appearing next to cars where it is inappropriate, like burnt vehicles or trailers without any doors.

Fixed vehicles spawning inside building in undesirable conditions.

Headlights you removed from a vehicle no longer come back after the vehicle is unloaded and loaded again.

Fixed headlights spawning in vehicles after they had been removed, and the vehicle was unloaded and the reloaded

Fixed a vehicle's alarm being triggered after interrupting the action to smash a window.

Queueing several containers to siphon or add vehicle fuel no longer fills them all when the vehicle is short on fuel, and no longer overfills the vehicle.

Fixed vehicle Add/Siphon fuel context menu from queueing multiple containers, filling them all even if the vehicle lacked enough fuel when siphoning, or overfilling the vehicle when adding fuel.

Vehicles no longer kill ragdolled zombies on the lightest bump, and zombies now get pushed out of walls and vehicles instead of getting stuck, though the fix is only partial.

Fixed vehicles killing ragdoll zeds on the slightest impact.

• Fixed vehicles killing ragdoll zeds on the slightest impact. Zombies now get shunted out of walls and vehicles correctly and no longer get stuck inside them. This fix, however, remains partial and needs improvement.

You can now craft with items in a vehicle's trunk, because the game now measures your distance to it correctly.

Fixed being unable to craft using items from a vehicle's trunk due to wrong distance calculation.

Fixed vehicle radios playing broadcast audio during random static noises

Fixed error when players selected a rear seat via Vehicle menu.

The state of an active vehicle alarm is now saved and restored, so it is no longer possible to quit and reload to cancel a vehicle alarm.

Vehicle headlights now reach much farther ahead, so you can see farther when driving at night.

Made vehicle headlights extend much farther.

Fixed vehicle seat being inaccessible after uninstalling a locked door.

Vehicles you can see when you turn around no longer fade out.

Fixed vehicles that could be seen by turning around fading out.

Ragdoll physics are now switched on for vehicle collisions and gunfire.

Ragdolls are currently enabled for vehicle collisions and gunplay.

The distance between two vehicles is now measured between the closest points of their bounding boxes.

If both objects are vehicles, the distance is between the closest points on the bounding boxes of both vehicles.

A vehicle now counts as visible to you if you can see any square it covers.

Vehicles are now considered visible to the player if any square overlapped by the vehicle is visible.

Driving on grass handles differently now, so towing a trailer across grass should be much easier.

Adjusted the lerp function when driving on grass, should make towing a trailer on grass way easier.

Animal trailers now sit lower and tip over less, though turning hard at speed can still flip them.

Lowered the center of mass of the animal trailer to make them tip over less (bear in mind, turning aggressively at 40MPH will still make them flip over!).

Fixed animals being able to attack players inside cars.

Towed trailers now always stay visible while you are inside the car.

Force towed trailers to be rendered when inside the car.

Display item icons in the vehicle install-part menu.

Vehicle saving no longer runs into a multithreading problem caused by the new chunk hot-saving feature.

Fixed multithreading issue with vehicle saving related to the new chunk hot-saving feature.

Fixed players being unable to cancel inflate and deflate car tire actions by moving away.

Fixed issues around automatic transfer of items on vehicle seats.

• Fixed issues around automatic transfer of items on vehicle seats. When switching vehicle seats, if the trunk is currently accessible to the player, items on the target seat will be put in the trunk first before other seats. (ie: vans, backseats of hatchbacks)

Fixed exception being thrown when swapping seats in a vehicle

Fixed active vehicle light textures being affected by ambient lighting, making them too dim at night.

Fixed painting trailer's doorframe turning into windowsframe.

Fixed cars in Drive-in theater in Rosewood not facing West.

Scrapping vehicles now gives a more useful mix of crafting materials.

Adjusted how the yields work for scrapping vehicles; a more useful spread of crafting materials should be produced.

Some suitable vehicle types can now have a Sledgehammer in the trunk.

Some appropriate vehicle types have the possibility of spawning a Sledgehammer as part of their trunk loot.

Sleeping from the vehicle menu no longer gives endless sleep; the popup now appears only once and does nothing outside a vehicle.

Fixed vehicle radial allowing infinite sleep.

• Fixed vehicle radial allowing infinite sleep. Popup dialog is now generated once, and has no effect outside vehicles.

Fixed vehicles being too bright inside buildings.

Locksmith, Florist and Craft Supply vehicles have been added to the world.

Added the Locksmith, Florist, and Craft Supply vehicles.

Vehicles in negative world coordinates now collide correctly, and you can interact with them properly.

Fixed negative-world-coordinate issues with vehicle collision and interaction.

Craft Supply business vehicles can now spawn, so Clay is easier to find.

Added Craft Supply business vehicles so more Clay spawns.

Fixed vehicles ceasing to operate on the edges of the world.

Any character who teleports while in a vehicle is now properly removed from the vehicle.

Now any time a character in a vehicle teleports, it is funneled through one java function in IsoGameCharacter.java that will properly remove them from a vehicle.

Florist business vehicles can now spawn in the world.

Added Florist business vehicles because we have pretty flowers.

Vehicles and ragdolls in negative world coordinates now load the correct nearby map chunks, fixing an off-by-one error.

Fixed off-by-one issue with which chunks are loaded around vehicles and ragdolls in negative world coordinates.

Fixed the vehicle dashboard remaining on screen when teleporting from within a vehicle.

You can now read in the dark inside a vehicle as long as its battery has charge.

If it is too dark to read but the character is inside a vehicle it will be possible to read as long as the vehicle's battery has charge.

Ordinary civilian vehicles have a small chance of carrying one of several special loot sets, if special loot is defined for that vehicle.

• Ordinarily, "normal" vehicles, being ones that don't have strong/specific theming such as Police vehicles, Ambulances, etc., but "normal"/"civilian"/"non-business" vehicles, have an 8% chance of having one of multiple special loot distributions if a list of special loot distributions is defined for that vehicle.

Vehicles in burnt parking stall zones now follow traffic jam rules for some key spawning.

Vehicles that spawn in burnt parkingstall zones will evaluate as a vehicle trapped in a traffic jam for some key spawning purposes.

Pickup trucks, pickup van-trucks and cargo vans now often carry special loot instead of default loot; passenger vans are not included.

Pickup trucks, pickup van-trucks and cargo vans (but not passenger vans) have a 40% chance of having special loot instead of default loot, as they are working vehicles.

Masonry special loot can now turn up in vans and pickup trucks as well as step vans, so masonry chisels and skill books are easier to find.

Previously only StepVans could have Masonry special vehicle loot; now Vans, PickupTrucks and PickupTruckVans can have Masonry loot.

• Previously only StepVans could have Masonry special vehicle loot; now Vans, PickupTrucks and PickupTruckVans can have Masonry loot. This means more Masonry chisels spawn, alongside skill books.

Special vehicle loot contains many crafting, skill and recipe resources, so vehicles that roll it are a good place to look for them.

Special vehicle loot includes a lot of crafting/skill/recipe resources.

Scrapping vehicles can now give you small iron bands.

Small iron bands can be produced by scrapping vehicles.

Camouflage trucks now spawn more consistently.

Made camouflage truck spawns more consistent.

Gardener and landscaper vehicles can now contain flower seed packets.

Added flower seed packets to the loot that can spawn in gardener/landscaper vehicles.

In the Bandit Raid story, a vehicle's key is now more likely to be on one of the bandit zombies or nearby.

Some extra code for the Bandit Raid story so that if there is a vehicle there is a greater chance of the key spawning on one of the bandit zombies or in the vicinity.

Construction Worker vehicles can sometimes have wallpaper in the trunk or truck bed.

Construction Worker vehicles can sometimes have wallpaper in their trunk/truck bed.

You can no longer make melee attacks from inside a vehicle with the window rolled down.

Disabled being able to make melee attacks while inside a vehicle with the window rolled down.

You can no longer put items weighing over 50 into vehicle seats, which stops overfilled modded bags from getting stuck there.

Added a check to prevent items that "weigh" over 50 units from being put in vehicle seats.

• Added a check to prevent items that "weigh" over 50 units from being put in vehicle seats. This is an ongoing issue with bags/containers that are modded over capacity, which get stuck once placed in vehicle seats when the bag + contents have an Encumbrance of >50.

Hot-wiring a car now has a low chance to set off its alarm, and a higher Electronics skill makes that less likely.

Hot-Wiring a vehicle will have a low chance of causing a car alarm.

• Hot-Wiring a vehicle will have a low chance of causing a car alarm.
• The chance for this is decreased further for higher electronics skill levels.

Zombies pushing against a stationary vehicle that nobody has entered yet can now set off its alarm.

Zombies pushing up against a previously unentered stationary vehicle have a chance to set off an alarm.

Vehicle alarms no longer have a hidden chance to stay silent, so triggering one now sets it off every time instead of only some of the time.

Removed the undesired RNG check that made vehicle alarms go off only 20% of the time.

Car hoods can now trigger a vehicle's alarm, the same as other parts of the car.

Fixed car hoods being unable to trigger vehicle alarms.

Scrapping wrecked vehicles now gives more metal parts.

Increased the yield of metal parts when scrapping wrecked vehicles by 33%.

Trailers now lose a little capacity when damaged, so repairing them is worth doing.

Trailer capacity now reduces slightly when damaged, as there was no point in repairing them before.

Fixed randomized crashed cars not having the correct car keys spawned for them.

Fixed being unable to read in a car when the engine was running.

You can no longer put items that weigh over 50 units in vehicle seats.

Added a check to prevent items that "weigh" over 50 units from being put in vehicle seats.

Fixed admins being unable to remove car hoods while inside the vehicle.

Fixed Make-Up not being appliable when in a car.

Fixed car horns continuing when switching seats while honking.

The Vehicle Spawn Chance setting now takes decimal values, not just whole numbers, so you can tune it more finely.

Vehicle Spawn Chance rate can now be a float value instead of just an int.

Vehicles that come with a HAM radio slot now accept any type of HAM radio, and luxury and modern cars always spawn with a premium radio installed.

Allow vehicles that have HAM radios to allow any sort of HAM radio installed in them; Luxury and Modern Cars will also always spawn with Premium Radios installed.

Vehicle lightbars and sirens now stop working once zombies thump the part down to zero condition.

Fixed vehicle lightbar lights and siren continuing to operate after the part condition drops to zero (due to zombie thumping).

• Fixed vehicle lightbar lights and siren continuing to operate after the part condition drops to zero (due to zombie thumping). The SirenShutoffHours sandbox option already exists to prevent griefing in multiplayer. Is there any need for zombies to destroy the lightbar?

Vehicles in multiplayer stay better in sync between players and have improved physics.

Sync and physics improvements for vehicles.

In multiplayer, a vehicle now stops before its driver gets out or switches seats.

The driver now stops the vehicle before they exit from the vehicle or switch seat.

Trailers in multiplayer should no longer float, and a problem with which player controls a trailer is fixed.

Fixed trailer authorizations / floaty trailers.

Fixed attached cars being disconnected after re-login.

Fixed passenger not being able to exit attached car if they occupy driver's seat while the car is being towed.

Trailers no longer twitch when you get into the towing car, because the server now briefly gives a player control when neither vehicle has a driver.

Fixed attached trailer twitching after player gets in car.

• Fixed attached trailer twitching after player gets in car. The server gives authorization for a short time to a player if both vehicles don't have drivers.

A passenger no longer ends up in control of a vehicle after a collision in multiplayer.

Fixed vehicle passenger could have vehicle authorization after collision.

Fixed vehicle not damaging players after re-login.

Vehicles should no longer pass through other vehicles in multiplayer.

Fixed vehicle local simulation pass through another vehicle.

Pushing a vehicle in multiplayer now correctly gives you control of it.

Fixed player can't become owner of pushed vehicle.

Cars on cruise control now stop when the driver moves to another seat.

Fixed car not stopping when driver changes their place due to cruise control.

Cars in multiplayer now count as stopped once their speed drops below 0.8 kmph.

Fixed car stopping condition.

• Fixed car stopping condition. The vehicle is stopped if the speed is less than 0.8 kmph.

Vehicle physics no longer speeds up or slows down depending on your frame rate cap.

Fixed Vehicle simulation speed depending on locked fps.

The game no longer freezes the first time you get into a vehicle, a freeze caused by loading all the dashboard textures.

Fixed the freeze the first time a vehicle is entered.

• Fixed the freeze the first time a vehicle is entered. This was due to loading all the vehicle-dashboard textures.

Running over zombies now damages the car's engine even when you have removed the hood, so taking the hood off no longer protects it.

Fixed car's engine not taking damage when running over zombies when the hood was removed by player.

Fixed players being able to start changing parts of vehicles when inside a certain vehicle.

Vehicles now use a new rope physics constraint for their point-to-point connections, replacing the z-offset that was used before.

Rope constraint is added to PZBullet.

• Rope constraint is added to PZBullet. Now used for vehicles instead of z-offset for point-to-point constraint.

A vehicle and the vehicle it tows now stay in sync right after they are attached, so other players no longer see them closer together than they really are.

Fixed a vehicle and towed vehicle having different physic delays right after they were attached, causing clients to see the two closer than they actually were.

Control of a vehicle no longer flips back and forth between players at the end of local simulation in multiplayer.

Fixed bouncing vehicle authorization at the end of local simulation.

Towing in multiplayer no longer occasionally leaves the wrong player in control of a vehicle.

Fixed rare incorrect vehicles authorization after towing.

Other players' cars should lag less, because vehicle physics now runs at a fixed rate that does not depend on your FPS.

Fixed remote cars lag.

• Fixed remote cars lag. The stepSimulation function will receive fixed update period. This period will not depend from FPS.

Holding E no longer opens a smashed window when a vehicle is blocking the other side.

Fixed opening a smashed window when holding down the E key, when a vehicle blocks the other side.

In multiplayer, passengers can no longer get out of a car while it is moving.

Vehicle physics no longer runs on the server, only on players' games, to cut down on strange vehicle behaviour online.

The dismantle vehicle command now checks that the vehicle is burnt or smashed before it works.

Car wrecks can now be removed with the new dismantle vehicle command.

Vehicle sirens and light bars now keep running when you move far away from the vehicle, even more than 1000 blocks, and are still on when you come back.

Fixed siren and light bar shutting off once you get a certain distance away from the vehicle.

• Fixed siren and light bar shutting off once you get a certain distance away from the vehicle. Now even when you go over 1000 blocks away and come back, the lights and sirens on cars are still going off.

Static or kinematic vehicles no longer get pushed by physics impulses in multiplayer.

• do not apply impulses to static / kinematic vehicles

The add vehicle menu can now spawn burnt and smashed car wrecks.

Fixed cars not remembering their cruise control setting.

Vehicles with no Engine part but a running engine should no longer cause an error.

Fixed possible exception due to a vehicle not having an Engine part but the engine is running.

Vehicles handle better and some have new sizes and a changed look.

Vehicle handling improvements, resizing and appearance tweaks.