A17 Feature List: Updated as Developers reveal them!

Vehicles Overhaul
+New Physics
+New Vehicle: Bicycle
+New Vehicle: Motorcycle
+New Vehicle: Jeep
+New Camera Controls
+Shift button to increase Torque on Bicycle for uphill speed
+Space bar to bunny hop on Bicycle
+Jeep can damage blocks.
+Steering using the mouse 2/12/18
+New Vehicle: Gyrocopter 10/15/18
Sleepers 2.0
+Vulture Sleepers
Dungeon POI 2.0
+Environmental Hazards
+Zombie Closets
+Climbable Trellises and/or Vines
+Backstories for many of the POIs
+"Helper Blocks" that visually show whether containers are empty or lootable
+Random loot containers to make each POI unique for where loot may be
+More than 70 new POI's that have been level designed 4/14/18
Player(Bandit) Motion Captured Animation
+Separate male and female movement styles
+Players now look up and down and always appear to be breathing
+Combat movements including power moves 2/21/18
Weapon Overhaul
+Replace gun parts with attachable modifications, compatible with buff and skill frameworks
+Whole guns instead of parts in loot containers
+Weapon quality determines how many mods can be attached
+Mods won't have quality tiers. 3/21/18
+Removing a mod may not be possible....still in development
+Size of crosshairs accurately reflects cone of hit probability.
+All mods use a single item id# but allow for 30,000+ variable mods possible
+Power moves for melee weapons use the right mouse button and expend stamina 2/21/18
+Weapon sounds tagged to animations to better maintain sounds syncing correctly 2/21/18
+Perks and skills and buffs will affect various aspects of each weapon 2/21/18
+Weapons can be crafted at workstation. Mods added through assembly interface 3/20/18
+Mods won't be craftable. Obtained through scavenging, trader, and quests 3/21/18
+Weapons can be tinted to other colors using up a special tinting mod slot 3/28/18
+Six tiers of weapons. Each tier determines how many mods can be attached and durability. 7/24/18
+Weapon damage determined by mods and skill and not weapon tier level. 7/24/18
Buff Overhaul
+Improving old buff system with a more robust and optimized framework
+Designed to work and stack with blocks, items, weapons, clothing, skills, perks, and attributes
+Can be triggered and modified by events during a buff's lifetime.
+Designed to be modder's wet dream 9/15/18
Progression Overhaul
+Improving old skill system with a more robust and optimized framework, also designed to work with items and buffs.
+Character attributes added to better create classes and differentiate play styles.
+Must do activities in a category to improve the category and unlock perks in that category 7/24/18
+Not enough skill points to buy everything. Specialization is the vision. 7/24/18
+Debuffs can cause temporary loss in attribute scores which then cause temporary loss of perks. 10/13/18
Integrated Survival System
+Changes to how health, stamina, fullness, and hydration will work
+Hunger represented by reduction in stamina max. Eating restores max 4/14/18
+Thirst represented by recovery rate. Higher thirst means slower recovery of stamina and health 4/14/18
+There is now "temporary" damage and "permanent" damage. 8/26/18
+Temporary damage recovers slowly over time according to hydration 8/26/18
+Permanent damage lowers your HP max. It can only recover through first aid items. 8/26/18
Quest System
+Cool new group quests
+Dynamically spawns a boss to guard quest objective
+Dialogue system that is fully moddable 3/5/18
+Trader initiated quests 3/5/18
+Quests and quest POIs will work in Random worlds as well as Navezgane 4/19/2018
+Party quests will provide xp sharing when party members stay close to each other 7/24/18
Stealth System
+New Stealth related display bar with as of yet unknown functions.....
Terrain and World
+Distant Trees 2/12/18
+POI Editor accessible in main menu
+Terrain Editor accessible in main menu 3/20/18
+Navezgane terrain vastly improved 3/20/18
+New Height maps for interesting cliffs, ridges, and better variety 4/14/18
+Random maps will be pregenerated to load as fast as and play as optimized as Navezgane 4/27/18
+New tree model for forest biome 5/21/18
+Underwater decorations 6/24/18
+Random Generated Worlds are now 8000x8000 meters 7/24/18
+Random Maps assigned a "county" name for multiplayer server games in order to hide the actual seed name.7/24/18
AI and Pathing System
+Zombies scan obstacles in 3 block height and target the middle block followed by bottom then top blocks depending on block hp 4/19/18
+Zombies prioritize obstacles according to block health. 4/19/18
+Game scans terrain for multiple pathways a zombie can take after any change. 4/19/18
+Turn smoothing and prediction added to reduce appearance of zigzag grid following 4/19/18
+Zombies are slowed by water resistance when they move underwater 4/26/18
+Zombies can dig downward when they detect a target below them. 4/26/18


A17 Changes and Fixes List: Updated as we learn them from the developers!

Every biome remastered for Unity 2017/ 2018 5/30/18
Game Engine update to Unity 2018 5/30/18
Removed player collision from yucca and aloe to improve travel
Replace houses in Diersville with dungeon style POI houses
XP indicator bar added to HUD directly above the tool belt
Directx11 and Vulkan menu items in game launcher added
Zombies ragdoll upon impact by vehicles and no longer impede vehicle movement
New art and animations for Deer
Deer split into Stag and Doe versions
Additional paint textures added
Wainscotting Block added
Current Wellness system removed
Small decorative pipe set added
Window trimming added
Reworked the main menu navigation and appearance
Increased the block id limit to....[higher than it was] 1/26/18
Pause feature added to MP but only active when playing solo. 2/5/18
Added Dynamic Origin Point to prevent the shakes when far away from actual (0,0). 2/11/18
Map viewable while using vehicles 2/16/18
Arrows stick to targets (Everdeen!) 2/21/18
Quality tiers indicated by color and number 3/20/18
Gun parts removed. Guns can be crafted from same mat types as all other craftable items. 3/20/18
Shift reverted to familiar controls for running 10/12/18
Zombies running in circles fixed and overall pathing and movements and actions improved 4/5/18
Zombies ragdoll when stunned 4/14/18
Plains folded into desert as sub-biome and maple and pine forests merged into just one forest biome 4/14/18
Base movement speed increased. Running changed to "sprinting" which uses up stamina much more quickly. 4/14/18
Micro-stuttering caused by UFPS camera and garbage collection has been fixed 4/24/18
Friend chat/ Party Chat/ Global Chat modes added to chat window 5/1/18
Water reflections and shading fixed and performance boosted 6/6/18
Vulture flight, attacks, and idling behaviors improved 6/8/18
Ambient lighting added 6/29/18
Backpack inventory increased from 32 slots to 45 slots. 7/24/18
Gamestage calculation simplified: (Level + Days Alive) 7/24/18
Challenge quests found as notes grant xp instead of skill points. 7/24/18
Zombies are no longer lootable nor can they be harvested. 8/26/18
Bodies despawn instead of changing to gore blocks. 8/26/18
If zombies have loot they will drop a loot bag. 8/26/18
Arrows are retrievable 8/26/18
Sprinting only increases speed when moving forwards. Player can still walk backwards, but not sprint. 8/26/18
"Using" an item in your hand remapped to left mouse button 8/26/18
Inventory slots "remember" what was in them so repairing a tool will return it to the same slot etc. 8/26/18
Armor has encumbrance and will slow the player's movement speed. 10/12/18
Armor divided into two classes: Light and Heavy. 10/12/18
Inventory split into free and encumbered slots. Items in encumbered slots slow movement. 10/13/18
All harvestable plants are harvested by hitting with free hand instead of using with "e" 11/1/18
Harvested crop returns to first stage "baby plant" and regrows 11/1/18
Seeds very rare 11/1/18
Xpath is native to the 7DTD mod system 11/14/18


Dropped Features:

Behemoth
Ziplines
Plains & Maple Forest as full and distinct biomes
Blimp 7/24/18
bandits officially postponed to A18 7/24/18
smell detection by zombies 10/12/18