Weather changes in Project Zomboid

The sound of rain now carries over a wider area around you.

Characters no longer survive extreme weather conditions, so severe weather is a real danger to you.

Fixed character survives extreme weather conditions

Fixed tents and shelters not providing any protection from rain when used for resting

It is now possible to open and close lids for the amphora and round rain barrels.

Snow now fills rain collectors and items with water, but more slowly than rain, so you can collect water while it snows.

Snow now fills rain collectors and items with water, slower than rain.

Foraging affinity and bonus icons now get their bonuses properly when it rains or snows.

Fixed affinity and bonus icons not rolling with their bonuses during rain/snow.

The no weather sandbox option now stops weather from being generated right away instead of only after the weather restarts.

Fixed "no weather" sandbox option not blocking weather generation until weather restarts.

Rain, snow, storms and blizzards can now be made endless or turned off completely.

Endless/disabled rain, snow, storm, or blizzards.

Fog can now be made endless or turned off completely.

Endless/disabled fog.

Sinks and rain collectors no longer lose their stored information after certain crashes.

Fixed issue with sinks/rain collectors losing meta info in certain crash scenarios.

Endless blizzards now bring fog with them as well.

Added fog generation during endless blizzards.

Rain now dilutes every fluid type, and this also works on barrels.

Extend rain fluid dilution mechanics to dilute all fluid types/work on barrels.

Fillable items left on the floor now slowly have their water turned into tainted water by rain, so collected water can become unsafe to drink.

Rain will slowly replace water with tainted water for items on the floor that can be filled.

Fixed not being able to plumb rain collectors.

Fixed Watering Can not filling with rain.

Water dishes and debug water buckets now fill up when it rains.

WaterDish and BucketWaterDebug now fill with rain.

Fixed many snow tiles not rendering (snow-covered trees, for example).

Sneaking in different weather and in darkness still isn't fully balanced.

Fixed hearing rain hitting a vehicle when the vehicle is inside a building.

Fixed fog from a previous game appearing briefly when loading a different game.

Weather effects such as clouds now render reliably at every zoom level, so the scene colour no longer shifts when you zoom in or out.

Fixed parts of weather effects not being rendered sometimes.

• Fixed parts of weather effects not being rendered sometimes. This resulted in some clouds not being rendered at different zoom levels, causing the scene color to change when zooming in/out, for example.

Puddles now form during heavy rain.

New puddle system during heavy rain.