[Could not retrieve server ID?]

Have you forwarded the correct ports on your router?

[Game crashing]

Once you paste your log and hit Create Paste, a green outlined box shows up saying ‘your guest paste has been posted.’ Copy the entire browser url at the top of your browser and paste that link here.

[My Kingdom for a stack of lockpicks!]

All you need is to spend one point to make lockpicks. Each lockpick requires one forged iron and one mechanical part and needs to be made at a workbench. It’s a point I spend early in the game and I carry about 40 with me.

[How to hook up with a friend?]

Once you both spawn in, hit “I” button and you should see both your names. Under her name, there should be 2 envelopes…one is for inviting her to be a friend, the other is inviting her to your party. Click on both and she should receive notifications. She should hit “I” and click on those envelopes and she will show up on the upper lefthand corner of your screen. To get together after spawning, hit F1 to bring up the console and type dm then hit Enter. Now type:  tele ‘her name’  ‘your name’ and hit enter. Obviously don’t use quotations.

[Unable to join game from a new machine]

What type of internet are you using while out of town?

Can you post a copy of your output log file? Go to pastebin.com paste a copy of your entire log there and post the link generated here.

[Just discovered this game - questions!]

For 2 people playing together, don't spend points on the same things. As others have said, do the tutorial first thing Day 1. Someone needs to put a point into Advanced Engineering so you can make a forge to make your cooking pot if you can't find one. Also someone put a point into Master Chef so you can start making bacon and eggs, the best food at the start. Both of you should put a point into Sexual Tyrannosaurus because it helps with stamina when swinging tools, melee weapons. To make a forge, you need 3 pipes, 3 duct tape, some clay and rocks and 10 leather. Pipes and duct tape(or glue which you can make duct tape with it with cloth). Leather can be tricky sometimes to get. In many poi's, you can find office chairs that scrape to either 3 or 4 leather, I forget which. Some benches in diners are leather, if you find boots they scrap to leather and you might be able to find leather at the trader. Those are some simple things. There are no functioning forges or workbenches in the game, you must make them. A second point in Advanced Engineering allows you to make a workbench. someone putting points into Better Barter lets you get more money from what you sell, things cost less and at the third point in Better Barter you get better options at the trader including weapons/armor and hopefully a crucible so you can make steel.

[Resolution issues]

Could it be that since it's a tv and not a monitor so you cannot change resolution??? Just a thought though I've never played on a tv before.

[I keep crashing]

Dancing bears plz!

[My friend can't see the games that I make]

Several players have had the same issue. Until a fix is found, if you create the game your friend will have to connect by typing in your ip address and joining that way.

[Anyone get "Could not fully initialize Epic Online Services" at start up?]

I don’t see any other issues so I hope the exclusion in your antivirus works. Something is blocking the connection to Epic Online Services and in other players with the same issue it turned out to be either the antivirus or other software that attempts to optimize your network. If you use any network-optimizing software, be sure to turn it off while playing 7 Days.

[Anyone get "Could not fully initialize Epic Online Services" at start up?]

Post your entire log file by going to pastebin.com, paste a copy of the log and post the link generated. Precise instructions are in the pinned topics at the top of the Support forum. That being said, off the top of my head, you might try and create an exclusion in your antivirus software for the game folder and the saves folder. Turning off antivirus is not enough since they still run some background processes. Short of that, we would need to see your logs.

[Alpha 20.5 Stable]

You are correct however I thought that included increased honey for stumps as I considered stumps as trees though, honestly, I do not know for sure.

[Alpha 20.5 Stable]

When I really need honey, I get one per 20 stumps. When I don’t need honey, I get one honey per stump./shrugs

 

Also there is a perk book that increases the chance of getting honey, I forget the name. You might look through the books that you’ve read and see if you found that book.

[Game can't run directly on Steam]

The log shows connection issues. Exclude your game and saves folder in your antivirus program. It isn’t enough to turn the software off as it still runs some processes even when off so you must create the exclusion.

 

A side note, the log states you are running Windows 10 but you said you are running Windows 11, I don’t know if that is an issue or not but we’ll see after you work with your antivirus.

[Non dedicated server connection issue]

This is an honest question, with a lan game, does their router need to have the ports forwarded in order for the game to show up on the master server? Networking for me is a weakness.

[A20.5 Server Performance Suggestions & Options]

If this is a passworded server with only friends playing (that you trust), turning off EAC will definitely improve performance. Don’t do this if it’s a public server.

[Zombies not spawning]

From the log that error doesn’t point to which mod it’s from and you have so many mods it would be difficult to know which one it came from. There are also a bunch of EOS connection problems. Be sure you have forwarded all the necessary ports on your router and check that thay are open with an online port scanner. Also be sure that you have set an exclusion for the game folder and saves folder in your antivirus software.

[[A20] NullReferenceException and Electric Fence Posts]

I never get errors. We have a square compound roughly 25 x 25 blocks and run one electric fence around the perimeter and never had any issues during horde night. We also run interior and exterior lights too. Oh and I have a single light bulb on the electric fence circuit mounted above the door. We know that when the light is on, so is the electric fence

[Voice chat starts transmitting by itself, even with voice chat disabled, without showing that its sending.]

We play every night and have had it happen only once, not during a blood moon, within about 5 minutes after logging in. We both exited the game and restarted and it was gone with nothing done besides quitting and restarting. It's frustrating not knowing what kicks it off. We never use game chat only Steam voip and always push-to-talk. I figured out it was happening when I heard my buddy eating chips and not talking lol.

[Remember when...]

I remember the heat maps where zombies were attracted to your heat. At the same time there were no weapons so you always avoided zombies. I remember the first town but we were afraid to explore it because we had no weapons and, uh, zombies. And I remember the first digging zombies that the ground beneath your base became swiss cheese.

[Alpha 21 Dev Diary]

As long as it’s only the forum floors you are flooding. I just replaced my sump pump after my floors were flooded and don’t wish to deal with more flooding.

[Просадка фпс \ FPS drawdown]

I believe that I read in the developer forum that the cpu not using all cores is a Unity (the game engine) not a 7 Days problem. The game will never use more cores unless Unity updates their game engine.

[Alpha 20.5 Stable]

9 hours ago, nayu said:

hello, i was running a dedicated server for me and my friends but ever since 20.4, i couldn't run the server again

the update says to add the two lines in the serverconfig.xml
specifically these two lines

<property name="Region" value="NorthAmericaEast" />

<property name="Language" value="English" />

i added them and saved it but when i tried to start up the server, it would only show a few lines then would forced close
do you guys have any fix for this? thanks

You should post this in General Support section. They will need your server log and use pastebin.com to post it. Instructions are in the pinned topic “Before you post……”.

[Updated Server to 20.4 Stable - On connect attempt "Could not retrieve server ID"]

Yes, that range of ports forwarded will work. If it still isn’t working, use an online port checker to check that those ports are open. If running A20.5, be sure the 2 new lines are added to the serverconfig.xml. Also, in either your command line or serverconfig.xml you need to point to your userdata folder.

[Player Profile help?]

Did you bring up the game launcher, select tools tab to clean data.Then check all boxes and hit clean? Once you do that, then uninstall the game. Go to Program86x->Steam->steamapps->Common and delete the the 7DaystoDie folder. Then go to %appdata(which is hidden)->Roaming and delete 7 Days folder. To be sure you get every piece of 7 Days, you can open regedit and search for 7 Days and TheFunPimps and delete any reference. Be sure to back up the registry before editing in case something goes wrong. Now install the game for A20.5. This should allow the game to work for you.