VEIN 0.025 Hotfix 3 boosts storage and fixes zombie spawns

VEIN's 0.025 Hotfix 3 is out now, published on 15 October 2026, and it's a broad one: the headline changes are bigger container capacities, a longer-lasting memory for the game's AI spawn system, and a long tail of fixes covering desync, food decay, crashes, and world geometry.

The patch raises capacity on several containers and pushes more useful loot into the world:

• Utility Cabinet capacity increased to 2400 lbs
• Log and wood plank storage increased to 2250 lbs
• Propane locker capacity significantly increased
• Metal pipe spawn rate increased
• Car parts such as alternators are now more likely to spawn in sheds
• Scavenging results from building plumbing adjusted

Server-side zombie performance gets another pass, and the spawn system is now better at remembering where you've been.

• Improved zombie performance on servers
• More robust zombie spawn system for tracking which buildings you've cleared
• AI spawn system memory of buildings you've been in increased to three real-life hours
• Improved performance when weather changes
• Significantly increased landscape load distance, addressing issues such as falling through roads when driving fast
• Various performance optimizations

Item and furniture placement has been reverted for now, while multiplayer placement reliability and admin tools get attention.

• Item and furniture placement behavior reverted for now
• Improved desync when placing furniture and items in multiplayer, where placing something didn't succeed on the first try
• Only one UC can be in pylon mode at a time
• god and giveitem commands are now properly networked for admins using console commands
• Fixed a crash when using the admin menu to ban a player who was no longer there
• Fixed being able to use furniture and similar objects placed in a truck while in the truck, and the same for other vehicles

Decay and temperature behavior got a full audit, including frozen foods.

• Decay values for food audited across the board
• Variable decay rate added for frozen things like ice cream, so ice cream doesn't go bad as fast
• Fluids created with a stove now have correct heat values, such as boiled water at 100 C and hot beverages at 90 C

The rest of the hotfix is a wide sweep of smaller repairs:

• Fixed quest UI showing in the journal menu
• Fixed subtitle texts for fortified wood, limestone brick, and scrap metal
• Fixed fridges spawning food rotten when they shouldn't
• Fixed non-vertical ladders not being climbable, such as those on farm windmills
• Fixed gamepads not being able to select dropdown options correctly
• Fixed ore crushers, kilns, and similar structures overflowing items underneath them, like glass panes falling into the void
• Fixed grass in some warehouses and trees clipping through walls
• Fixed microwave light being stuck on
• Fixed the use option on mops, towels, and similar items not cleaning the building you're in
• Adjusted police car seat locations to clip less
• Chip items pseudostack separately
• Fixed switch name in Franklin County Substation
• Fixed floating bollards outside some warehouses
• Fixed a crash when inserting batteries into some items
• Localization fixes, including Chinese text appearing in the Turkish language
• Added a debug command to show heat values for items
• Added a bunch of debug commands to test item spawning
• Fixed arrows hitting zombies' collision instead of the zombies themselves
• Prevented third-person flashlight from casting shadows against the player themself
• Corrected un-interactable tarp furniture
• Fixed cameras disappearing from TVs on dedicated servers
• Fixed silo house garage power outlet not working
• Fixed snapped buildings attempting to parent to the wrong actors, such as windows trying to parent to doors
• Various art fixes, crash fixes, and performance optimizations