Project Zomboid 42.22.2 adds usable ladders and crowbar door forcing
Project Zomboid 42.22.2 stable makes Knox Country's ladders usable, lets crowbars force doors and windows, and fixes a long list of multiplayer bugs.
Project Zomboid’s 42.22.2 stable update lets you climb ladders across Knox Country and use a crowbar to force your way into locked buildings. It also brings a big batch of multiplayer fixes and some welcome quality-of-life tweaks.
Big changes
- Ladders work. Move close and press E, or use the right-click menu on the ladder tile. Zombies can’t climb them, but the developers suggest checking below before you descend. Ladders are fixed in place for now, and any you moved earlier should stay where you put them.
- Crowbars force things open. With a crowbar equipped or in your inventory, you can force jammed or locked windows, locked wooden and metal doors, and locked fence gates. Security doors and jail cell doors can’t be forced.
- It’s not guaranteed. Success depends on the door type and your Strength, and Burglars get a bonus and make less noise. Repeated failures raise the chance of damaging the crowbar, and you’ll pick up Muscle Strain along the way. Forcing a window can also break it.
- More XXL trees are visible while driving, as the developers try to balance scenery with safe driving.
- Pushing zombies while holding items is revamped. If what’s in your hands used to block a push, the primary-hand item is now dropped and the push goes ahead. Large items held in both hands, like a generator, are dropped.
- No sleeping with a Bad Smell moodle, such as generator fumes or lots of corpses.
Quality of life
- You can now open ammo boxes while walking, along with opening or closing an umbrella, ripping clothing or sheets, swapping batteries, extinguishing candles and lanterns, and handling propane bottles and cigarette packs.
- Raccoon skulls can make animal skull necklaces.
- There’s a new recipe for refilling lighters with gasoline and a funnel.
- Metal sawing recipes are consolidated, and flashlight lenses show whether they’re on or off.
- Dozens of new sound effects cover weapon and throwable equipping, ladder footsteps, Sheet Rope climbing and burpees.
Multiplayer and servers
- Server backups are faster, which should cut the gameplay pause on busier servers.
- Damage calculations moved server-side to fix damage not applying correctly.
- The “doppelganger character” bug, where a character could be duplicated at a chunk edge and killed, is fixed.
- More cheats are guarded against, and several client and server errors, including dedicated server freezes, are fixed.
- Trailer physics and towing desync issues have fixes, and a moving vehicle should no longer vanish after a reconnect or restart.
Other fixes
- Animals: fixes for animals dying when you’re away, disappearing from full hutches, and doe rabbits not producing milk for their kits.
- Toasters and coffee machines no longer run without grid or generator power.
- Deadbolts work again, so you can lock external doors from inside without a key.
- Split-screen fixes cover the Cat’s Eyes trait, doubled chat text and a freeze while fishing.
- Modders can now add Town Preview videos to custom maps.
