ZombieRool 26.7 Beta 4

Minecraft 1.20.1 | Forge | Java 17

A melee combat overhaul, doubled ammo reserves, more reliable hordes, and fixes for world loading and the map catalogue.

Melee combat overhaul

• New attack animations in first and third person, with improved hand placement, including left-handed play.
• Chain light attacks into three-hit combos, with a stronger finishing strike.
• Hold Use to prepare a heavy attack, then release after the visual and sound cue.
• Melee hits push ordinary enemies back without launching them into the air.
• Swings hit enemies in front of you and respect walls. Successful crowd hits consume durability per swing rather than per enemy; misses consume none.
• Increased Old Sword and Energy Sword damage and durability.

Combat and enemies

• Doubled total finite ammo reserves for native weapons and TaCZ weapons managed by ZombieRool. Magazine sizes stay the same.
• Fixed cases where zombies stopped chasing players after electric stuns or bullet impacts.
• Improved horde navigation and enemy patrols, including enemies stopping just outside melee range.
• Wunderwaffe chains ignore lingering corpses when selecting their first target. Reduced the rendering cost of overlapping lightning effects.
• Abomination hooks pull players more reliably across uneven ground.
• Fixed custom boss health being capped below the map's configured value.

Fixes and multiplayer

• Fixed worlds getting stuck at 100% while loading armor stations.
• Fixed missing map catalogue thumbnails when creators uploaded larger screenshots.
• Fixed the red injury overlay hiding objective text or covering too much of the view.
• Objective bars return correctly after reconnecting.
• Fixed a source of client/server registry mismatches despite matching displayed mod versions.
• Improved custom armor station visuals and fixed crashes when refreshing custom enemy models.

Main menu

• Added an alternate main menu featuring Destroyed Earth and a different soundtrack, randomly selected at game launch.
• The destroyed planet has a detailed scorched surface, glowing magma, smoke, and a wider field of smaller orbiting rocks.

Map creation tools

• Texture Kit supports animated PNG sprite sheets with matching .png.mcmeta files, including multiplayer synchronization.
• Fixed dragging PNG files into Texture Kit from Windows Explorer in local worlds. Animation metadata stays with its texture.
• Added custom flowing water, item textures, and adjustable opacity. Custom water works with waterloggable blocks, and its underwater colors match the texture.
• Added Sun and Destroyed Earth sky objects, plus Keep Minecraft sky to use sky objects over the vanilla sky.
• Improved the reliability of custom objectives, placed components, and match resets.