• Recipes have been added that allow you to craft flaming and explosive tipped arrows.
  
  
• Bows can now switch between different types of ammo. Pressing the “B” button will switch between the available ammo types.
  
  
• Furnaces, BBQ, Bee Boxes, and Workbenches will now be much easier to destroy if they are not placed on a foundation. Some of these still require too much damage to destroy and that will be addressed when a wipe happens.
  
  
• Added a new recipe which uses the flare as a component, the Parachute Flare.
  
  
• Added recipes for the basic bandana and gloves. The basic bandana can now be scrapped for cloth.
  
  
• 2 item slots have been added to the loadout that can hold flashlights and binoculars. These slots act as hotkeys the same way as the weapon slots do. Additional items will be usable in these slots in the near future.

General Fixes:

• Eliminated most NPC spawning on rooftops where they have no way down.
  
  
• Solved several cases of stuck and/or teleporting NPCs.
  
  
• You can now craft AK-47 ammo
  
  
• First Aid Kits will now stack properly
  
  
• Car battery bulk has been adjusted
  
  
• Explosive arrows will now manually reload
  
  
• Explosive arrows will now damage cars in PvE
  
  
• Still heavily investigating the leak involving UI and containers. Thanks to your reports we have made good headway. We will get the fix in as soon as we nail it down 100%. It's currently at the top of our bug list.

If having G29 issues in H1Z1, the most likely issue can be found here and will resolve itself soon.

Try logging in / out of Steam.

A hotfix just went live to address the major crashing issues.

Please update your H1Z1 client and give it a shot.

Thank you for your reports!

Servers will be coming down at 5AM PST for approximately 2 hours.

• Communication radios have been added. They can be found throughout the game. After finding and equipping one in the new radio tab in the UI, you will be able to turn it on and select a channel. You will be able send and receive voice chat on that channel. Numpad 7 is the default press to talk key. Currently you will not also broadcast to proximity voice chat when talking on your radio.
  
• The AK-47 is now available.
  
• Added a Police Station at Cranberry.
  
• Added a new recipe to create Lookout Towers. These towers can be placed on foundations.
  
• Added a new recipe to create a Foundation Expansion. The expansion attaches to the edge of a foundation to give it more building room.
  
• You can now "Mute All" via hot key(CTRL + M) or within settings.
  
• Vehicles should no longer drop through foundations when their driver walks out of range.
  
• Vehicles and foundations should now be visible at further distances.
  
• Fixed an issue with buildings not rendering at an appropriate distance.

On Friday morning at 5AM because of database maintenance - we will be performing a full server and player wipe.

We apologise for the inconvenience this might cause you. H1Z1 should be running a lot more solid and smoother for the weekend. If you would like to try out the fixes for the stairs - you can find them on the Test Server right now!

Everything else is looking good for our publish next Tuesday 6/16.

Check out the Roadmap to see what's coming down the line!

• The stairs on the deck foundation have been removed. You can now craft foundation stairs and place them in multiple locations around the deck.
  
• Added a new recipe for a deck ramp that can be placed in multiple locations around the deck foundation.
  
• Made some adjustments to the wolf behaviors. They should no longer behave erratically.
  
• Door lock pass codes are now hidden with "*"
  
• The "Marauder Crate" is now available.
  
• Fingerless Gloves, Sunglasses, Bandanas, and Kevlar have been added to the world.
  
• Placed structures with decay should now retain their decay amount through server outages.
  
• Interacting "E" with vehicles & items should now be more responsive.
  
• Hardcore Battle Royal vehicle spawns have been setup. Hardcore BR vehicles do not spawn with extra fuel in the trunk.
  
• Magnum ammo should now spawn in Battle Royale.

June 9th Update

• The stairs on the deck foundation have been removed. You can now craft foundation stairs and place them in multiple locations around the deck.
  
• Added a new recipe for a deck ramp that can be placed in multiple locations around the deck foundation
  
• Early Survivor Crate containing brand new items
  
• Items will continue to decay after server restarts and game updates

June 16th Update

• Party System – You will be able to join a lobby with your friends, from the lobby you will be able to join either an H1Z1 Survival server or a Team Battle Royale Server in the future
  
• New Weapon – AK-47
  
• Leaderboards for Battle Royale – Everyone will be ranked for now, in the future this will be part of a bigger system involving seasons which will be announced at a later date
  
• Added a new recipe for a Watchtower that can be placed in multiple locations around the deck foundation
  
• Radios (CB and AM/FM), Walkie-Talkies

June 23rd Update

• Team Battle Royale will be available. Join as teams of 2 or 5 in this new version of Battle Royale
  
• 4 military outposts will be added to the current map.

June 30th Update

Professions – When creating a new character you will be able to select what his profession was before the apocalypse. This will give your character different stat bonuses and other unique things. Note that this will be a very early pass at the Professions system and will launch with just a few to choose from.

• The Magnum and .44 Magnum ammo can now be found in the game along with Battle Royale and Hardcore Battle Royale. Added a recipe to create Magnum ammo and the ability to melt it down in the furnace.
  
  
• Tear gas grenades are now available. When thrown they will create a cloud of gas that will obscure vision, cause coughing, and do a small amount of damage. If you are wearing a full face respirator the gas will not affect you.
  
  
• Large structure can now be picked back up.
  
  
• Abandoned bases with nothing on them will expire after an hour.
  
  
• There is now a key binding set for “Walking”.
  
  
• Hardcore BR spawning is more distributed.
  
  
• Zombie vision/night vision effects are cleared when leaving servers.
  
  
• Dew collectors will now automatically fill up to five bottles of water at the same time.
  
  
• The crossbow will no longer automatically reload in ironsights. To begin automatically reloading release ironsights. As a result of this change, you will no longer get stuck in crossbow ironsights.
  
  
• Drinking coffee will return an empty bottle to your inventory.
  
  
• Repair Kits will now properly repair all weapons.

Hardcore Battle Royale Improvements

Hardcore BR now includes zombies, bears and night vision goggles. Reduced minimum starting players to 64. The match can now take place at night and includes a Hardcore Elite Bag containing new unique items.

A list of known issues with Hardcore BR:

• Icon missing from new elite bag
  
• Currently there are no doors
  
• Currently there are no vehicles or compass, this is intended for testing as we want to see how it effects the gameplay of hardcore mode.
  
  
  Other Additions and Fixes:
  
  
• Footwear has been added to the Battle Royale spawns.
  
• Male and Female character models now have alternate head models to choose from.
  
• New and improved female movement animations.
  
• Fixed cases of loading screen freezing.
  
• Zombies now respond to all acoustic signatures including: ethanol/bio fuel explosions, grenades/molotovs, red hazard barrel explosions, landmines/IEDs, vehicle explosions
  
• Potential fix for bows getting stuck in ironsights
  
• Arrows fired from a recurve bow and crossbow now properly bounce off materials they are not meant to stick in, such as metal or stone.
  
• Molotovs now properly set players and NPCs on fire. This effect will last for a few seconds when outside of the fire.
  
• Grenade/Molotov explosions should be more responsive now on high pop servers.
  
• Battle Royale: Arrow bundles will now spawn near the crossbow
  
• Lip sync mouth movement to voice chat
  
  
• Vehicles: Occupants will be able to shoot from within vehicles. Currently it’s only the passengers who can shoot from within the car. The player in the driver seat cannot.
  
• Occupants can now be hit from people outside the vehicle.
  
  
• Boots now have a small resistance to punji stick damage
  
• Crossbows and recurve bows can now be repaired with repair kits.
  
• Fixed issue where character doesn't appear in BR chute
  
  
  Thank you to all the people who helped with reports on the Test Server!
  
  Test server fixes:
  
  Fixed: Issue preventing placement of furnace, storage and workbenches on a foundation.
  Fixed: Invisible Bio-fuel bug
  Fixed: Crash issue when running over zombies with vehicle.
  Fixed: Unable to pickup items in the world.
  

Hey everyone!

We are going to be bringing the servers down tomorrow morning at 5:30AM PST for approximately 2 hours. This will give us an opportunity to do a full player and server wipe on the Live and Test servers.

As you may have noticed, we are also going to be changing our patching cadence. Stating next week, we will be patching things to the Live servers on Tuesday mornings and putting out our build on the Test servers on Thursdays. This will give allow people to try and break things on the Test server over the weekend and should provide us ample time to have a very solid build on Tuesdays.

The H1Z1 Roadmap has been updated to reflect the new dates of the publishes.

The Pre-Patch Livestreams will be returning again but this time they will take place on Mondays. Not next Monday due to the holiday but moving forward, that will be their new time slot.

Thanks again for all your continued feedback!