News, devlogs and patch notes of PESTBOUND, the open-world voxel survival shooter for PC by HACKLWORKS.https://pestbound.com/news/2026-10-19T11:43:44.252ZHACKLWORKShttps://pestbound.com/favicon-32.pnghttps://pestbound.com/changelog/0-1-6/2026-10-19T12:00:00Z2026-10-19T09:07:45.852Z

Update 0.1.6 opens four new places on the map – a swamp with boardwalks, the reworked Kamenec quarry, the underground bunker Objekt 31 and an abandoned funfair – and adds swimming exhaustion and drowning, fruit trees, map markers for you and your group, and joining friends with an invite code. Eating and drinking take effect right away, many weapons sound new, and your progress is kept safely across game updates.

<p>Update 0.1.6 opens four new places on the map – a swamp with boardwalks, the reworked Kamenec quarry, the underground bunker Objekt 31 and an abandoned funfair – and adds swimming exhaustion and drowning, fruit trees, map markers for you and your group, and joining friends with an invite code. Eating and drinking take effect right away, many weapons sound new, and your progress is kept safely across game updates.</p><p><img src="https://pestbound.com/news/img/sumpf_steg.webp" alt="Boardwalks with a small lookout platform crossing the swamp at the mouth of the Vorna"/></p><h2 id="new" class="sec sec-new"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-new" aria-hidden="true"></span>New</h2> <ul><li>Added: Bažiny u ústí Vorny – a swamp at the mouth of the Vorna with boardwalks and plank paths across the water, huts and dead trees.</li><li>Added: Objekt 31 – a military bunker in the hills. Behind a large blast door, ramps lead down to two underground levels with halls, corridors and military loot.</li><li>Added: Lunapark Korabelsk – an abandoned funfair east of Korabelsk with a Ferris wheel, carousel, bumper cars and booths, rusty and overgrown.</li><li>Added: Swimming exhaustion and drowning. The longer you swim in deep water, the more tired you get – heavy gear and wet clothes make it worse. You hear yourself gasp, then cough as you go under; if you do not reach the shore in time, you drown.</li><li>Added: Fruit trees. Search apple, pear and plum trees in gardens and orchards for fresh, dried or rotten fruit; a picked tree bears again after a while.</li><li>Added: Map markers. Click on the map to set up to twelve markers with a colour and symbol; they show in the compass band with their distance. Your group sees each other’s markers with names, and the group leader can clear them. Players outside your group never see them.</li><li>Added: Join with invite code in the server browser. Paste the code a friend sends you; the game checks it right away and tells you if a character is missing or wrong.</li><li>Added: Start areas. New characters wake up in one of several areas along the coast and the edges of the map, away from other players and from high-loot areas.</li><li>Added: Repair kits and disinfecting. Drag a sewing kit, whetstone, weapon cleaning kit, duct tape, electronics kit or epoxy putty onto a damaged item; disinfect rags and bandages with spray, alcohol or iodine so they do not infect a wound.</li><li>Added: Gadgets you can use – GPS, compass, rangefinder, binoculars, radio and megaphone (some need a 9-volt battery), plus kitchen timers and alarm clocks that ring and draw infected.</li><li>Added: Crafting arrows from feathers and sticks, a fish trap from netting and a long stick, and rags from a pelt.</li></ul> <h2 id="improved" class="sec sec-improved"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-improved" aria-hidden="true"></span>Improved</h2> <ul><li>Improved: The Kamenec quarry (Lom Kamenec) is now a real open pit – three terraced walls, ramps down to the floor, a pond at the bottom, two excavators, dump trucks and a mobile crusher.</li><li>Improved: Eating and drinking. About half of what you eat or drink helps right away and the rest digests within about a minute. Wells and ponds give much more water per gulp, and new characters start half fed and half watered.</li><li>Improved: Attachment slots in the inventory. The weapon shows a small field for each attachment point – drag attachments on, and drag them out, double-click or right-click to take them off.</li><li>Improved: Sounds. Many firearms have their own new recordings; kitchen timers and alarm clocks ring; you hear your character gasp and cough when swimming gets dangerous.</li><li>Improved: Walls near you lower smoothly when you approach a building, the same for every player. Blood and bullet holes now follow the cut through a building, and the building preview stays calm while you place it.</li><li>Improved: Doors are easier to spot, road edges and kerbs look smoother, and only inhabited-looking houses have lights on at night.</li><li>Improved: The crosshair ring adapts to your resolution and weapon, and its colour can be changed in the settings. Your flashlight never switches on by itself.</li><li>Improved: Game updates keep your progress. Servers announce an update with a countdown and the new version, save and restart – your character, inventory and base stay. Building parts in the way of a changed map are packed into a crate at your base. In singleplayer, every world keeps backups, including one from before each game update.</li><li>Improved: Joining a server loads the map right away, and if the server turns down an action you now see why. You can eat and drink straight from containers and the ground.</li></ul> <h2 id="changed" class="sec sec-improved"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-improved" aria-hidden="true"></span>Changed</h2> <ul><li>Changed: Walls, floors and ceilings now really block. You can no longer search, open or pick up things through them, infected and animals only attack on your own floor with nothing solid in between, and bullets only pass through soft materials – never through ceilings.</li><li>Changed: The invite code is now entered in the server browser (top right) instead of the main menu.</li></ul> <h2 id="fixed" class="sec sec-fixed"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-fixed" aria-hidden="true"></span>Fixed</h2> <ul><li>Fixed: Hands could stay blocked after eating, drinking or bandaging if you picked something up or opened a door right away.</li><li>Fixed: Moving characters left smeared trails, and rain showed as long streaks.</li><li>Fixed: Blood was visible on other floors of a building.</li></ul>https://pestbound.com/changelog/0-1-5-2/2026-10-16T12:00:00Z2026-10-19T11:43:44.247Z

The second part of update 0.1.5 lets you swim, climb out of the water and onto ledges, and adds fall damage. The graphics were rebuilt with reflections on water and puddles, far-reaching shadows and support for NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR 3.1, stutters were fixed, and the number of items more than doubled to 945.

<p>The second part of update 0.1.5 lets you swim, climb out of the water and onto ledges, and adds fall damage. The graphics were rebuilt with reflections on water and puddles, far-reaching shadows and support for NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR 3.1, stutters were fixed, and the number of items more than doubled to 945.</p><p><img src="https://pestbound.com/news/img/schwimmen_fluss.webp" alt="A survivor swims in the Vorna between a wooded bank and a reed-covered shore, tree shadows on the water"/></p><h2 id="new" class="sec sec-new"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-new" aria-hidden="true"></span>New</h2> <ul><li>Added: Swimming. Deep water no longer stops you at the shore – you swim at the surface. Swimming costs stamina, you cannot use weapons or items in the water, and only your head and shoulders can be hit. Infected, animals and vehicles stay on land.</li><li>Added: Climbing. Climb onto ledges and walls up to about two metres and out of the water onto the bank – with Roll / climb, or simply by swimming against the bank. Low obstacles are vaulted with one hand.</li><li>Added: Fall damage. How hard a fall hits depends on the height, the ground, bushes or water below, landing crouched and how much you carry – from a hard landing to a sprained or broken leg, bleeding and unconsciousness. From great heights a fall is fatal.</li><li>Added: Upscalers in Settings › Graphics – NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution (with DLAA and sharpness) on GeForce RTX graphics cards, AMD FSR 3.1 and the game’s own upscaler. They only change how the image is reconstructed: what you see stays the same for everyone, and the default stays at native resolution.</li><li>Added: Quality “Auto” (experimental). It holds a target frame rate – your display’s refresh rate by default – by lowering only the internal resolution when needed.</li><li>Added: NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency (Off, On, On + Boost), a film grain slider (0 % turns it off) and, on NVIDIA graphics cards, optional GPU crash diagnostics that are only sent with a crash report you agree to send.</li><li>Added: New weapons, including the VAP-91, Sokol D14, Orel OS-98, Vichr 39 and Šroub 9, sawn-off shotguns and a lever-action rifle, plus new sights, a suppressor, stocks and handguards, and eleven new melee weapons such as the cleaver, sickle and pitchfork.</li><li>Added: Hundreds of new clothes and pieces of gear – suits, work and hazmat clothing, caps and helmets, plate carriers, dry bags and many colour variants. Together with the new weapons there are now 945 items instead of 432.</li><li>Added: Infected density for servers and singleplayer worlds – Few, Normal, Many or Hordes, each within tested limits. The server browser shows it and can filter by it.</li><li>Added: Guardrails hold, bend or tear when a vehicle hits them, depending on speed and weight; fences, signs and posts break.</li><li>Added: Captions for gunshots, muffled shots and bullets passing close by (when captions are turned on).</li><li>Added: Licence agreement and start notice. On first start you accept the End User Licence Agreement, with links to the privacy policy and the community guidelines. A short note about Early Access appears at every start.</li></ul> <h2 id="improved" class="sec sec-improved"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-improved" aria-hidden="true"></span>Improved</h2> <ul><li>Improved: Lighting and shadows were rebuilt. Sun shadows now reach up to 320 m, grass shadows up to 80 m without an edge at the screen border, and the night sky has a moon and stars.</li><li>Improved: Reflections on water, puddles and wet surfaces.</li><li>Improved: Water looks more natural – irregular ripples, current, shadows of trees, banks and buildings on the surface, muddy shallows, rings around swimmers and a waterline that follows the shore. Puddles have soft edges.</li><li>Improved: Paving slabs, cobblestones, road markings, asphalt, gravel, concrete, sand, rock and mud look cleaner, without a restless mosaic pattern.</li><li>Improved: Car wrecks. Fewer but more varied and detailed wrecks – off-roaders, vans, buses, box trucks, caravans and tractors with ploughs and disc harrows – with realistic rust.</li><li>Improved: Performance. Stutters while walking or driving and frame drops inside houses are gone, characters and infected are drawn faster, and sounds load in the background.</li><li>Improved: Sound. Gunshots change with distance and sound different indoors, and impacts depend on the material that is hit.</li><li>Improved: Animations. Moving with empty hands looks more natural, and jumps no longer spin – the legs bend instead.</li><li>Improved: Interaction hints only appear when you stand right in front of an object, and camera shake is smoother.</li></ul> <h2 id="changed" class="sec sec-improved"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-improved" aria-hidden="true"></span>Changed</h2> <ul><li>Changed: Not every piece of furniture can be searched any more – only some of it in each house, while in military areas everything can still be searched. Homes can now also hold civilian weapons.</li><li>Changed: More weapons, attachments, clothing and vehicle parts carry names of their own, for example the Rys K4, Puška Z-91, Karabina Sova and the Šiška hand grenade. Items in inventories, storage and saved worlds are converted automatically.</li><li>Changed: The game starts in English the first time; you can switch to German in the settings at any time.</li><li>Changed: You can walk through dry maize.</li><li>Changed: The top-left corner shows Early Access and the build number instead of “Demo” and fades out after a moment.</li></ul> <h2 id="fixed" class="sec sec-fixed"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-fixed" aria-hidden="true"></span>Fixed</h2> <ul><li>Fixed: The whole image trembled and flickered while standing still.</li><li>Fixed: Furniture you had searched could appear unsearched again after loading or a restart.</li><li>Fixed: You could get stuck in doors or be jammed by them.</li><li>Fixed: Problems when joining a server and when getting out of vehicles.</li><li>Fixed: A crash with many characters on screen, and memory use that kept growing while exploring or returning to the main menu.</li><li>Fixed: Grass and plants showed inside cars.</li></ul>https://pestbound.com/news/development-update-base-building/2026-10-12T12:00:00Z2026-10-12T13:54:42.120Z

Update 0.1.5 adds base building with four construction grades, crafting up to your own ammunition, realistic vehicle impacts and smoother performance. An overview of what is new.

<p>Update 0.1.5 adds base building with four construction grades, crafting up to your own ammunition, realistic vehicle impacts and smoother performance. An overview of what is new.</p><p><img src="https://pestbound.com/news/img/basisbau_hof.webp" alt="A self-built base at the edge of a village: walls in different construction grades, a workshop and a territory flag"/></p><p>Survivors in Vorna can now build a base of their own. This update also brings crafting at the workbench, realistic vehicle impacts and smoother performance with the same look.</p> <h2 id="base-building">Base building</h2> <p>Open the building catalog with a building plan in your inventory and a hammer in your hands. Foundations, walls, doors, windows, floors, stairs and roofs snap to a grid and adapt to the terrain. A hologram shows where a piece fits – and, if it does not, why.</p> <p>Every piece goes through four construction grades: frame, wood, reinforced and metal. Pieces can be upgraded, repaired and dismantled. They also need support: when a supporting wall falls, whatever rests on it comes down with it.</p> <h2 id="storage-locks-and-territory">Storage, locks and territory</h2> <p>Crates, cabinets, shelves, steel lockers and weapon racks keep your loot, across restarts as well. Doors, gates and storage take a combination lock or a code lock.</p> <p>A territory flag claims the land around your base. Inside it, only you and the players you authorise can build. The flag&#39;s upkeep chest takes a share of building materials; without upkeep, a base slowly decays. On PvE servers other players cannot damage your structures. On PvP servers raiding is possible, but slow and loud.</p> <h2 id="crafting-and-ammunition">Crafting and ammunition</h2> <p>The CRAFT tab of the catalog lists every recipe: planks, nails, metal sheets, tools and locks – by hand, at the workbench, at the reloading bench or by a fire. Ammunition stays scarce: black powder is mixed from saltpetre, charcoal and sulphur, bullets are cast from lead, and cases and primers only come from loot.</p> <h2 id="when-a-vehicle-hits">When a vehicle hits</h2> <p>Players, infected and animals hit by a vehicle are now thrown depending on speed and angle, tumble and come to rest on the ground. In multiplayer every player sees the same result. Collisions between vehicles in multiplayer have been improved as well.</p> <h2 id="a-cleaner-world-smoother-performance">A cleaner world, smoother performance</h2> <p>Objects in the world no longer stick into each other. The game also runs noticeably smoother on the same hardware, without changes to the look. A new benchmark in Settings › Graphics shows how PESTBOUND runs on your PC.</p> <h2 id="field-guide-in-german">Field guide in German</h2> <p>The <a href="https://pestbound.com/wiki/">wiki</a> is now also available <a href="https://pestbound.com/de/wiki/">in German</a> and has a new section on <a href="https://pestbound.com/wiki/building/">base building and crafting</a>.</p> <p>All changes are listed in the <a href="https://pestbound.com/changelog/0-1-5/">patch notes for update 0.1.5</a>. Questions and feedback are welcome on <a href="https://discord.gg/uMknzDvac4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Discord</a>.</p>https://pestbound.com/changelog/0-1-5/2026-10-12T12:00:00Z2026-10-12T13:54:42.113Z

Update 0.1.5 adds base building and crafting: build shelters piece by piece, upgrade them through four construction grades, keep your loot behind locks and claim land with a territory flag. Vehicles now knock players, infected and animals down realistically, and the game runs noticeably smoother with the same look.

<p>Update 0.1.5 adds base building and crafting: build shelters piece by piece, upgrade them through four construction grades, keep your loot behind locks and claim land with a territory flag. Vehicles now knock players, infected and animals down realistically, and the game runs noticeably smoother with the same look.</p><p><img src="https://pestbound.com/news/img/basisbau_hof.webp" alt="A self-built base at the edge of a village: walls in different construction grades, a workshop and a territory flag"/></p><h2 id="new" class="sec sec-new"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-new" aria-hidden="true"></span>New</h2> <ul><li>Added: Base building. With a building plan in your inventory and a hammer in your hands, open the building catalog (B, or hold D-pad up on a controller). Foundations, walls, doors, windows, floors, stairs, roofs, fences and gates snap to a grid and adapt to the terrain; a hologram shows whether a piece fits and, if not, why.</li><li>Added: Four construction grades – frame, wood, reinforced and metal – with upgrade, repair, rotate, demolish and dismantle. Every piece needs support: when a supporting piece is destroyed, whatever rests on it collapses.</li><li>Added: Storage furniture – crates, cabinet, shelf, steel locker and weapon rack – that keeps its contents across restarts, and combination and code locks for doors, gates and storage.</li><li>Added: Territory flag with an upkeep chest. Inside a territory only the owner and authorised players can build; without upkeep a base slowly decays. On PvE servers other players cannot damage your structures, on PvP servers raiding is slow and loud.</li><li>Added: Crafting in the CRAFT tab of the catalog – by hand, at the workbench, at the reloading bench or by a fire: materials, tools, locks and ammunition. Black powder is mixed from saltpetre, charcoal and sulphur, bullets are cast from lead; cases and primers only come from loot.</li><li>Added: Rain barrel as a water source; burn barrel and iron stove for fire, warmth and cooking. In singleplayer a bed or sleeping bag can be set as your respawn point.</li><li>Added: Benchmark in Settings › Graphics. It measures performance in fixed scenes, as a short or a full run.</li></ul> <h2 id="improved" class="sec sec-improved"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-improved" aria-hidden="true"></span>Improved</h2> <ul><li>Improved: Vehicle impacts. Players, infected and animals hit by a vehicle are thrown depending on speed and angle, tumble and come to rest on the ground. In multiplayer every player sees the same result.</li><li>Improved: Collisions between vehicles in multiplayer.</li><li>Improved: Performance. The game runs noticeably smoother on the same hardware, with the same look.</li><li>Improved: The wiki is now also available in German and has a new section on base building and crafting.</li></ul> <h2 id="fixed" class="sec sec-fixed"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-fixed" aria-hidden="true"></span>Fixed</h2> <ul><li>Fixed: Objects in the world that stuck into each other, such as trees, props and buildings.</li></ul>https://pestbound.com/changelog/0-1-4/2026-10-09T12:00:00Z2026-10-19T11:43:44.252Z

Vehicles, weapons and several items now carry names from Vorna. Characters, inventories, vehicles and saved worlds stay as they are.

<p>Vehicles, weapons and several items now carry names from Vorna. Characters, inventories, vehicles and saved worlds stay as they are.</p><p><img src="https://pestbound.com/news/img/kamzik_feld.webp" alt="An abandoned Kamzík 4×4 at the edge of a field of tall grass"/></p><h2 id="vehicles" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Vehicles</h2> <ul><li>Changed: The six vehicles are now called Orlice 25 (saloon), Kamzík 4×4 (off-roader), Jiskra 1300 (hatchback), Zvonec 110 L (rear-engine saloon), Buvol VT-6 (6×6 truck) and Vlčák VP-4 (military 4×4). Wheels, doors and other body parts carry the new names.</li></ul> <h2 id="weapons-items" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Weapons &amp; Items</h2> <ul><li>Changed: Weapons, magazines and attachments carry new names, for example Vranov P20, VAP-62, VAP-79, Šepot 39, Orel OP-70 and VAP-12 Bouřka.</li><li>Changed: Several items have new names, including the Antidote Auto-Injector, Canned Bacon and the Unlabelled Can.</li></ul> <h2 id="servers-admin" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Servers &amp; Admin</h2> <ul><li>Changed: The admin tool and the RCON command spawnveh accept the new short names orlice, kamzik, jiskra, zvonec, buvol and vlcak; existing scripts keep working.</li><li>Changed: Reworded the notes in server.cfg and the hosting guide.</li><li>Changed: The vehicle pages of the wiki have new addresses; old links redirect automatically.</li></ul> <h2 id="interface" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Interface</h2> <ul><li>Fixed: Letters such as Č, Ř, Ě and Ů now display in every font of the interface.</li></ul>https://pestbound.com/changelog/0-1-3/2026-10-08T12:00:00Z2026-10-08T15:08:34.244Z

Update 0.1.3 reworks how characters carry their equipment and adds idle, reload and weapon-swap animations. It also introduces the complete settings menu with key rebinding and controller support, extended voice chat options and private server hosting without port forwarding.

<p>Update 0.1.3 reworks how characters carry their equipment and adds idle, reload and weapon-swap animations. It also introduces the complete settings menu with key rebinding and controller support, extended voice chat options and private server hosting without port forwarding.</p><p><img src="https://pestbound.com/news/img/r013_hero.webp" alt="A survivor with a rifle slung across the back in a snow-covered village"/></p><h2 id="animations-characters" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Animations &amp; Characters</h2> <ul><li>Added carry positions for weapons not held in the hands: rifles and shotguns are slung across the back or the backpack, pistols are holstered and knives sheathed.</li><li>Added draw and holster animations when switching between the hands and a carry position.</li><li>Added reload and weapon-swap animations.</li><li>Added idle animations while standing still (shifting weight, looking around, checking the watch, rubbing hands), with a different set per character.</li><li>Added visible breath in cold conditions.</li><li>Improved flashlight aiming: the beam follows the terrain on slopes and stays steady while moving. Applies to other players&#39; flashlights as well.</li></ul> <h2 id="weapons-combat" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Weapons &amp; Combat</h2> <ul><li>Adjusted firing from the lowered stance: the weapon is raised first (0.2 s).</li></ul> <h2 id="ui-settings" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>UI &amp; Settings</h2> <ul><li>Added the complete settings menu with eight categories: Display, Graphics, Game, Audio, Voice Chat, Controls, Mouse &amp; Controller and Accessibility.</li><li>Added key rebinding for all actions (two keys and one controller binding each) with conflict detection.</li><li>Added controller support in all menus and in game.</li><li>Added music to the main menu (can be turned off under Settings › Audio).</li><li>Added the What&#39;s New panel to the main menu with links to the patch notes and the community Discord.</li></ul> <h2 id="voice-chat" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Voice Chat</h2> <ul><li>Added voice transmission modes: push-to-talk, voice activation, open microphone and toggle.</li><li>Added input and output device selection, a mute key and a live microphone test.</li><li>Added noise gate and automatic gain control.</li></ul> <h2 id="multiplayer-servers" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Multiplayer &amp; Servers</h2> <ul><li>Added private hosting from the server browser: a singleplayer world can be started as a server and shared with an invite code.</li><li>Added NAT traversal and relay connections for private servers; port forwarding is no longer required.</li><li>Added Steam integration: Steam sign-in, joining via the friends list and invites, VAC-secured servers. Active from the Steam release.</li><li>Adjusted the default server size to 20 players (configurable from 16 to 40).</li></ul> <h2 id="known-issues" class="sec sec-known"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-known" aria-hidden="true"></span>Known issues</h2> <ul><li>Steam features remain inactive until the Steam release. Until then, sign-in uses the PESTBOUND ID.</li></ul>https://pestbound.com/changelog/0-1-2/2026-10-07T12:00:00Z2026-10-08T15:08:34.250Z

Update 0.1.2 introduces a new weapon handling system with lowered, raised and aim-down-sights stances. All weapons and vehicles were rebuilt at a finer voxel scale, passengers can fire from vehicles, and loot distribution was reworked.

<p>Update 0.1.2 introduces a new weapon handling system with lowered, raised and aim-down-sights stances. All weapons and vehicles were rebuilt at a finer voxel scale, passengers can fire from vehicles, and loot distribution was reworked.</p><p><img src="https://pestbound.com/news/img/r012_hero.webp" alt="A passenger leans out of a car window and fires at infected on the street"/></p><h2 id="weapons-combat" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Weapons &amp; Combat</h2> <ul><li>Added three weapon stances: lowered, raised and aiming down sights (hold or tap the right mouse button), including hold breath.</li><li>Improved shouldered aiming: the stock rests in the shoulder and the cheek on the stock; added a scope overlay for optics.</li><li>Added firing from vehicles: passengers lean out of the window, each seat has its own firing arc, and accuracy depends on speed and terrain.</li></ul> <h2 id="animations-characters" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Animations &amp; Characters</h2> <ul><li>Added action animations with variations for eating, drinking, medical treatment, crafting, lighting fires and refuelling.</li><li>Added a new hands-up animation.</li></ul> <h2 id="models" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Models</h2> <ul><li>Reworked 84 weapon, attachment and magazine models at a finer voxel resolution with per-voxel materials.</li><li>Reworked all six vehicles at a 2.5 cm voxel scale with animated doors.</li><li>Added level of detail for distant characters and ground loot.</li></ul> <h2 id="world-loot" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>World &amp; Loot</h2> <ul><li>Added around 10,000 searchable furniture pieces (cupboards, drawers, shelves); contents are revealed individually per player.</li><li>Reworked loot distribution, with spawn rules per building type and scaling with player count.</li><li>Adjusted vehicle spawns: vehicles are rare and usually missing parts such as wheels, battery or spark plugs.</li><li>Adjusted item sizes, weights and pocket capacities; existing inventories are converted.</li></ul> <h2 id="audio" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Audio</h2> <ul><li>Added 241 recorded foley sounds synchronised with actions.</li></ul> <h2 id="admin-tools" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Admin Tools</h2> <ul><li>Added spawning of items, kits, vehicles, infected and animals to the admin tool, with permissions, limits and logging (also via RCon).</li></ul>https://pestbound.com/changelog/0-1-1/2026-10-06T12:00:00Z2026-10-08T15:08:34.254Z

With update 0.1.1 the project is renamed to PESTBOUND. The game is now fully localised in English and German, uses recorded audio throughout, and adds a server browser, cinematic loading screens and a login queue.

<p>With update 0.1.1 the project is renamed to PESTBOUND. The game is now fully localised in English and German, uses recorded audio throughout, and adds a server browser, cinematic loading screens and a login queue.</p><p><img src="https://pestbound.com/news/img/korabelsk.webp" alt="Infected on a street in Korabelsk at sunset"/></p><h2 id="general" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>General</h2> <ul><li>Changed the game name to PESTBOUND; settings and saves are carried over.</li><li>Added full English and German localisation; the language can be changed under Settings › Game.</li></ul> <h2 id="audio" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Audio</h2> <ul><li>Replaced placeholder sounds with licensed recordings, including birds, insects, rain, wind and water.</li><li>Added engine sounds with RPM layers and gear changes.</li><li>Improved the overall mix with loudness normalisation.</li></ul> <h2 id="multiplayer-servers" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Multiplayer &amp; Servers</h2> <ul><li>Added a server browser with server details, favourites, history, LAN and direct connect, and a map preview.</li><li>Added a login queue for full servers (up to five players log in at the same time).</li><li>Improved server-side cleanup of ground loot and bodies.</li></ul> <h2 id="ui" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>UI</h2> <ul><li>Added cinematic loading screens with eight in-engine scenes and survival tips.</li><li>Improved the action menu with a simpler layout.</li></ul> <h2 id="graphics" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Graphics</h2> <ul><li>Improved fog: density is now relative to the terrain height.</li><li>Fixed white dots flickering on block edges in the distance.</li></ul> <h2 id="animations-characters" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Animations &amp; Characters</h2> <ul><li>Improved head proportions of all characters.</li><li>Added an animation for pushing stuck vehicles.</li></ul> <h2 id="stability" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Stability</h2> <ul><li>Fixed a crash when quitting the game.</li></ul>https://pestbound.com/changelog/0-1-0/2026-10-06T12:00:00Z2026-10-08T15:08:34.257Z

Version 0.1.0 is the first playable demo of PESTBOUND: a 4 × 4 km map with coastline, villages, a town and a military area, playable alone or online. Compared to 0.0.9 it adds vehicle seats and refuelling, vehicle fires, a blood setting, beginner hints and major server performance improvements.

<p>Version 0.1.0 is the first playable demo of PESTBOUND: a 4 × 4 km map with coastline, villages, a town and a military area, playable alone or online. Compared to 0.0.9 it adds vehicle seats and refuelling, vehicle fires, a blood setting, beginner hints and major server performance improvements.</p><p><img src="https://pestbound.com/news/img/leuchtturm.webp" alt="A survivor below the lighthouse on the south coast at dawn"/></p><h2 id="world" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>World</h2> <ul><li>Fixed the coastal spawn: new characters start on the south coast with clothes, rags, a light source and some fruit.</li></ul> <h2 id="vehicles" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Vehicles</h2> <ul><li>Added vehicle seats for several players; refuelling and refilling coolant from a container in the hands.</li><li>Added vehicle fires and explosions with flying debris and burnt-out wrecks.</li><li>Improved close-up detail of tank, military vehicle and helicopter wrecks.</li></ul> <h2 id="graphics" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Graphics</h2> <ul><li>Added the blood setting Off / Reduced / Standard / Realistic, with spatter, pools and drag marks.</li><li>Improved smoke, fire and dust particles with soft blending.</li><li>Fixed feet not resting flat on the ground and on slopes.</li></ul> <h2 id="multiplayer-servers" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Multiplayer &amp; Servers</h2> <ul><li>Improved server performance: 40 players at an average tick time of 9 ms (previously overloaded from about 30 players).</li><li>Added a master server for the server list, with signed servers.</li><li>Fixed desynchronisation between client and server under packet loss and after reconnecting.</li></ul> <h2 id="ui-onboarding" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>UI &amp; Onboarding</h2> <ul><li>Added beginner hints for the first minutes (can be turned off under Settings › Game).</li><li>Added an in-game feedback form under Esc › System › Feedback, optionally with the log file.</li><li>Added crash reports and the credits and licences page.</li></ul>https://pestbound.com/news/pestbound-open-world-voxel-survival-shooter/2026-10-04T12:00:00Z2026-10-08T15:08:34.263Z

PESTBOUND is an online open-world survival shooter for PC, developed by HACKLWORKS. An overview of the game, its current features and where to follow development.

<p>PESTBOUND is an online open-world survival shooter for PC, developed by HACKLWORKS. An overview of the game, its current features and where to follow development.</p><p><img src="https://pestbound.com/news/img/strasse.webp" alt="Infected on a foggy street in Korabelsk"/></p><p>PESTBOUND is an online open-world survival shooter for PC. It is set in Vorna, a 16 km² voxel world depopulated by a plague, and is developed by HACKLWORKS in Germany. A release on Steam is planned.</p> <h2 id="the-game">The game</h2> <p>Players start on the coast and explore forests, villages, towns and military areas in search of food, water and equipment. Infected roam the map, and on PvP servers other players are a further threat.</p> <h2 id="current-features">Current features</h2> <ul><li><strong>Survival:</strong> hunger and thirst, body temperature, bleeding, fractures and illness; fishing and cooking.</li><li><strong>Looting:</strong> houses, shops and military sites with searchable furniture, cellars and bunkers, and a grid inventory.</li><li><strong>Vehicles:</strong> rare and usually incomplete – wheels, battery and spark plugs must be found, fuel refilled and damage repaired.</li><li><strong>Destruction:</strong> bullets penetrate thin walls, axes and sledgehammers break them, and damaged buildings can collapse.</li><li><strong>Events:</strong> helicopter crash sites and police roadblocks, a day–night cycle, rain and fog.</li><li><strong>Modes:</strong> online in groups with proximity voice chat, on PvE or PvP servers, or offline in a singleplayer world.</li></ul> <p>A complete overview is available on the <a href="https://pestbound.com/features/">features page</a>. Changes in each build are documented in the <a href="https://pestbound.com/changelog/">patch notes</a>.</p> <h2 id="availability">Availability</h2> <p>PESTBOUND is coming to PC on Steam; the store page is not yet available. Release news is announced first on the <a href="https://discord.gg/uMknzDvac4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">PESTBOUND Discord</a>. Answers to common questions are in the <a href="https://pestbound.com/faq/">FAQ</a>.</p>https://pestbound.com/changelog/0-0-9/2026-10-04T12:00:00Z2026-10-08T15:08:34.260Z

Update 0.0.9 adds an in-game admin tool for server operators, secure key-based sign-in and a logout timer. It also introduces restraints, helicopter crash and police roadblock events, military wrecks and underground areas.

<p>Update 0.0.9 adds an in-game admin tool for server operators, secure key-based sign-in and a logout timer. It also introduces restraints, helicopter crash and police roadblock events, military wrecks and underground areas.</p><p><img src="https://pestbound.com/news/img/sperre.webp" alt="A police roadblock at night in the rain"/></p><h2 id="admin-tools" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Admin Tools</h2> <ul><li>Added an in-game admin tool: players, bans, server restart, time and weather, loot presets, map, log and events; invisibility, god mode, noclip, free camera and spectating.</li><li>Added RCon with challenge-response authentication and a command-line client.</li></ul> <h2 id="multiplayer-security" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Multiplayer &amp; Security</h2> <ul><li>Added key-based player identity: signed server join and an encrypted connection (DTLS).</li><li>Added a logout timer (15 s, 30 s in combat); the character remains in the world when the game is closed early.</li></ul> <h2 id="gameplay" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>Gameplay</h2> <ul><li>Added the action menu at the target (mouse wheel selects, E confirms).</li><li>Added surrendering, restraining, breaking free and searching restrained players.</li><li>Added the survivor dossier and a new death screen.</li></ul> <h2 id="world-events" class="sec sec-area"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-area" aria-hidden="true"></span>World &amp; Events</h2> <ul><li>Added helicopter crash and police roadblock events.</li><li>Added military and police wrecks, including convoys and checkpoints, and military infected.</li><li>Added cellars and bunkers with underground lighting.</li></ul> <h2 id="bug-fixes" class="sec sec-fixed"><span class="cl-sec-dot cl-dot-fixed" aria-hidden="true"></span>Bug fixes</h2> <ul><li>Fixed blocks not being placed on the server while streaming the world.</li><li>Fixed Linux servers not saving on shutdown.</li></ul>