Experimental Update 1.29 (Change log)

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PC Experimental 1.29 Update 1 - Version 1.29.160485 (Release on 14.08.2025)

NOTES

• Consider using the Steam client option to verify the integrity of the local game cache to avoid corrupted data after downloading this update.
• Consider de-fragmenting your HDD after downloading large updates.
• In case of problems, please check the Bohemia Interactive support F.A.Q., DayZ F.A.Q., or BattlEye F.A.Q.
• You can help us to further improve the game by posting your feedback on the Feedback Tracker.

FROSTLINE EXPANSION 

ADDED

• New section of the underground bunker on Burukan island
• Sakhal flag and armband
• Pilot jacket
• Winter Military Coat

FIXED

• Bodies on Sakhal could decay and attract flies despite the cold environment 

 

GENERAL GAME

ADDED

• Bear headdress
• Heavy labor jacket
• Military sweater
• Fox headdress
• Military winter boots
• Fur boots
• Long haul backpack
• New promo carousel implemented for the main menu

CHANGED

• Nights on the official Chernarus and Livonia first person perspective servers were switched to the bright ones
• Assault rifles gunshot sound reworked
• Pistol gunshot sounds reworked
• The Server Browser now opens the "Official" tab by default if the player has no favorite servers; otherwise, it opens the "Favorites" tab

FIXED

• Character could glitch and clip through objects when taking vaultable items in hands (T192558, T193315, T193320, T193316)
• Inventory could be accessed in Surrender pose
• Issues with displaying items in Vicinity tab and being able to access them through objects
• Reconnecting removed blinding effect of Burlap sack on head
• Vehicles twitched when driving on concrete panels (T191309)
• AIs could clip through closed door of specific garage building
• Specific boat wreck model became invisible at too short view distance 
• Unpacking a headlight had no audio (T192384)
• Plums disappeared at too short view distance
• Aiming with M79 removed night vision (T193230)
• Part of bear attacking audio sample was incorrect (T192086)
• Fixed multiple locations allowing to look through structures (T191053)
• Windows in specific garage building were missing collisions
• Humvee was Missing Getting In/Out Sound (T167764)
• AP Items deployed through activate widget were missing sound
• Illness symptom sounds (e.g., coughing or laughing) continued to play even after the player has fallen unconscious
• Various clipping issues
• Cars could crash without apparent reason due to unexpected collisions with terrain (T191200, T192926)
• Under unstable or low FPS, the selected gear could be skipped over unintentionally
• Players could see moving cars and boats glitch after reconnecting
• Players reconnecting above the ground could be teleported outside the world (T191843, T191945, T191215, T191664, T192504) 
• Deployed tripwire was not functional (T193431)
• Start engine sound is played when player leaves started vehicle
• Incorrect sound could be played when loading the crossbow (T191119)
• Incorrect sound could be played when disarming Explosive with a different detonator
• Items dropped near some specific assets could be inaccessible afterwards (T189382)
• Certain assets would have incorrect collisions
• Cars could crash on even roads and launch players into near-death situations (T191200, T192926)
• Exploit where players were able to duplicate items
• Exploit allowing players to enter vehicles while holding heavy items
• RAK now spawns chambered when equipped with a magazine
• Players could spawn random items in their inventory (T192644, T192643)
• Players could see dynamic contaminated zones become invisible over time (T192492)
• Players could launch themselves into the air by going prone on a car roof edge (T192699)
• Players could freeze the client by some cargo operations (T192460)
• Players could hit invisible barriers on some fence and wall objects
• Item swapping functionality wasn't working in some cases

 

CHERNARUS

• Player could see through specific wall by squeezing between it and a container (T191053) 
• Specific trees were floating in air (T190606, T191125)
• Fallen tree was clipping through other trees (T190606) 

 

LIVONIA

• Some items and widgets could be inaccessible in swampy locations with reeds  
• Incorrect sizing of contaminated zones in Pavlovo and Radunin

SERVER

• Fixed: Scripts would not compile with '-doScriptLogs=1' CLI on Retail

LAUNCHER

• Frostline DLC was not indicated correctly for players not owning the expansion

TERRAIN BUILDER

• Version information is now shown in the Terrain Builder’s Help > About dialog
• Saves objects with a persistent ID into WRP instead of regenerating them every build
• WPR files, exported with TB version higher than X (lets get the exact version number) require 1.29 binarization executable

MODDING

• Fixed: Crash when using SurfaceUnderObjectByBone on some animals
• Changed: Temporarily increased the maximum size of 'ScriptInputUserData' to accommodate for Network IDs being larger

KNOWN ISSUES

• PLAY button in main menu does not show server last played at when hovered over and clicking it does not connect you to the server
• Indoor shots can sound silenced to the shooter
• We are currently experiencing freezing issues with community Linux servers on Experimental (PC). We have identified the issues and it will come with the future release of EXP.
• We are temporarily reducing capacity on official Experimental servers to stress-test full pop performance. This will cause some strain, and stability will be affected, but it’s intentional for data collection.
   

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PC Experimental 1.29 Update 2 - Version 1.29.161219 (Release on 31.10.2025)

NOTES

• Consider using the Steam client option to verify the integrity of the local game cache to avoid corrupted data after downloading this update.
• Consider de-fragmenting your HDD after downloading large updates.
• In case of problems, please check the Bohemia Interactive support F.A.Q., DayZ F.A.Q., or BattlEye F.A.Q.
• You can help us to further improve the game by posting your feedback on the Feedback Tracker.

 

GENERAL GAME

CHANGED

• General server performance optimizations

FIXED

• Fixed a server crash exploited by users (T195100 - private)
• Animation of taking items from the shoulder and belt could glitch (T188349, T188469, T188454, T188536, T189283, T188523, T191268)
• Vehicles were missing attach/detach sounds for battery, spark plug and radiator
• Manipulating a fire barrel could result in desync for other players
• Indoor shots could sound silenced to the shooter
• Chelating Tablets could cure wound infection and influenza (T194353)
• Rain will no longer fall upwards when you run in the direction of the rain
• Bug where items that are very wide would not scale up properly when inspected
• Players could get teleported when exiting vehicles
• Infected movement was stuttering at low server FPS
• Splitting animation was not working for long wooden sticks
• Airfield bunkers had badly placed loot spawns (T193452)
• A ladder at the Rify ship wreck was not functional (T193170)

 

SERVER

• Added: Player location to connection and disconnection logs (T176899)
• Fixed: Freeze when starting Linux server
• Fixed: Items in the ignore list would still spawn when they were part of cfgspawnabletypes.xml
• Fixed: Items that were part of the ignore list would still spawn if they were in the player inventory (T190555)
• Fixed: Some weapons had chance to spawn with incompatible attachments, resulting in errors (T192338, T192311 - private)
• Changed: Enabled multithreading support for Bullet Physics library

 

MODDING

• Added: Physics functions directly on Transport to allow vehicles to sleep
• Added: Physics: 'Physics.GetGeomName' to get the name of a geometry at that index
• Added: New Inventory location type ILT_TEMP for items that are desynced, held in limbo until the server sends the correct one 
• Added: 'Pawn.GetNextMove' to preload data during character CommandHandler
• Added: 'Pawn.GetOwnerState'
• Changed: EntityType can now be used in script per config class definition, used to cache shared variables and expensive initialization logic
• Changed: Partial update of Animation System to Enfusion 2021
• Changed: Physics: Filtered will no longer show collision that has no interaction layer
• Changed: Prioritized usage of variables such as g_Game instead of function calls such as 'GetGame()'
• Changed: Specific optimziations to several scripted functions such as 'Object::IsAnyInherited'
• Changed: Physics: Inactive bodies no longer tick EOnSimulate/EOnPostSimulate
• Changed: Vehicles: Vehicle headlights has been partially moved from script to native
• Changed: Improved Gizmo api, moved to GizmoApi class
• Fixed: Mod-loading order not functioning (T194126, T194109)
• Fixed: Make avoidGrassUpdate property properly transfer during binarization process
• Fixed: Physics: Crashes with geometry element usage on skeleton component
• Fixed: Object::IsAnyInherited should return early on 1st match (T194456)
• Fixed: Several crashes with DebugText
• Fixed: Physics: Crashes with geometry element usage on skeleton component
• Fixed: Vehicles: Players could be sent to random coordinates when getting out of some vehicles with improper geometry
• Fixed: 'DayZPlayer.IsAuthority' would return false in Singleplayer
• Fixed: Ensure Inventory.CreateEntity properly passes the flip flag
• Fixed: Gizmo rotation would be reversed in some cases
• Fixed: Vehicles: Transport class couldn't gather inputs
• Fixed: Vehicles: Transport class didn't have dynamic collision resolution (only cars did)
• Fixed: Vehicles: Vehicles could still be controlled while in freecam while "Player move in FrCam" was disabled
• Fixed: Assigning typename to variable wouldn't work for base types (e.g. string, int)
• Fixed: Some cases when assigning a quoted vector to a variable would fail
• Removed: Unnecessary native calls that reduce poor performance

TOOLS

ANIMATION EDITOR

• Added: Live Debug, connect via in-game diag "Animation > Enable debugger"
• Changed: Animations now always re-import from the TXA source file when editing Events
• Changed: Changes to animations are now saved via  "Workspace -> Save Changed Animations" instead of using the small "edit" button in the timeline
• Fixed: Various crashes
• Removed: "Test" button in Controls window, now automatic based on active context

TERRAIN BUILDER

• Added: Align to ground mode in Buldozer (default keybind 7)

 

KNOWN ISSUES

• Navmesh is currently not updating on Fence gates when opened or closed
• Some weapon animations will playback broken in some cases

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PC Experimental 1.29 Update 3 - Version 1.29.161281 (Release on 12.11.2025)

GENERAL GAME

CHANGED

• Adjusted player spawnpoints to be more random. The game is now more likely to spawn players in different areas of the map on repeated deaths.

FIXED

• Textures were not being freed which could manifest as client-side performance issues or missing textures (T195640, T195610)
• Position of moving vehicles could be severely desynchronized for a character not in the vehicle
• Incorrect collisions of deployed basebuilding objects and tents (T195674)
• Navmesh not updating on Fence gates when opened or closed
• Persistent contaminated areas only became visible after a player entered them
• UI indicator for leg pain was missing

MODDING

• Added: 'EntityAI.SetRequiredSimulation' for setting vehicle active state of custom Transport vehicles (T195712)

KNOWN ISSUES

• Some weapon animations will playback broken in some cases
• Spawn points can be offset from the previous logout spot (T195627)
• Sound source of some doors can be misplaced (T195614)
• Moving back and forth can result in an animation glitch
• Loading screens are displaying too brightly
• Exhaust smoke of vehicles doesn't stop after exiting them (T195665)