Every update, patch and developer post we have logged for VEIN, newest first: the date, the headline, a one-line summary and a link to the original source. We file VEIN under Survival Horror.
| Date | Title | Summary | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-15 | VEIN News: In the Attic | Hotfix 3 fixes vehicles falling through unloaded roads, decay bugs, and crashes, raises storage capacity, and details food dehydration and vehicle networking… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-10-15 | VEIN 0.025 Hotfix 3 | Hotfix 3 fixes quest UI, ladders, fridge rot, and server zombie performance, and raises utility cabinet capacity to 2400 lbs. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-10-04 | VEIN 0.025 Hotfix 2 | VEIN's 0.025 Hotfix 2 fixes multiplayer vehicle desync and fall-through, an iron duplication exploit, everything decaying after 10 in-game weeks, and a long… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-10-01 | VEIN News: Above the Treeline | Dev blog recaps the VEIN 0.025 release and its first hotfix, and details 0.026 work: controller support, functional scopes, a new exposure system. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-09-28 | VEIN 0.025 Hotfix 1 | VEIN's 0.025 Hotfix 1 fixes door-lock desync, the admin menu and corpse looting, raises built storage capacity 50%, and adds CPU and networking performance… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-09-15 | VEIN News: Ragdoll Impact | VEIN's experimental 0.025 build adds ragdoll knockdowns for players and zombies, vehicle damage when hitting zombies, and multiplayer networking fixes. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-09-01 | VEIN News: Mountain View | The 0.025 map region is complete, adding Mountain View, Owl's Head and Duane; hotfixes 7 and 8 shipped and large weapons now require stats for full damage. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-08-31 | VEIN 0.024 Hotfix 7 | Hotfix 7 reduces multiplayer rubberbanding, improves dedicated server performance, fixes zombie pathing and VOIP, and adds screen reader support. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-08-15 | VEIN News: Stunlocks & Speedometers | VEIN's bimonthly devlog covers experimental-branch work: functional greenhouses, zombie pathfinding and stunlock changes, HLOD performance, and WIP vehicles. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-08-01 | VEIN News: Sokudo Commute | Bimonthly dev update covers Hotfix 5/6, halved content filesize, 0.025 load-bearing building, new vehicle art, and controller support work. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-07-28 | VEIN 0.024 Hotfix 6 | Hotfix 6 for VEIN 0.024 corrects medical menu HP-per-second display, multiplayer vehicle collision, group networking, and drying rack net errors, and… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-07-27 | VEIN 0.024 Hotfix 5 | VEIN's 0.024 Hotfix 5 patches a long list of bugs, including container and vehicle-part loss in older saves, gun attachment duplication, GPS battery life… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-07-15 | VEIN News: Vehicle Parts | July dev update fixes vanishing vehicle parts and a settings-save bug, adds ice packs and suture packs, and moves condition refactors to the beta branch. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-07-01 | VEIN News: Bows & Belltowers | Three hotfixes fix bugs, add admin tools, and tweak balance; 0.025 features are in progress and the game is 20% off until July 9. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-06-24 | VEIN 0.024 Hotfix 4 | VEIN patch 0.024 Hotfix 4 fixes a single crash that occurred when destroying corpses. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-06-24 | VEIN 0.024 Hotfix 3 | Hotfix 3 for VEIN 0.024 resolves dedicated-server issues with solar panels, sprays and a DiscoverEveryLocation crash, plus fixes to group invites, saving, and… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-06-20 | VEIN 0.024 Hotfix 2 | VEIN 0.024 Hotfix 2 fixes container and crafting exploits, improves corpse/group networking, makes sawmill buildable via schematic, and buffs Adrenaline Junkie. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-06-15 | VEIN News: Planks, Pylons, and Patches | Weekly dev post covers Hotfix 2 fixes, a from-scratch vehicle networking rewrite, and a 0.025 utility cabinet rework using placeable pylons and flags. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-06-03 | VEIN 0.024 Hotfix 1 | Hotfix 0.024.1 fixes vehicle detachment, medical item use, container locking, plant growth, and various multiplayer bugs. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-06-01 | VEIN News: Head Presets | Studio outlines Hotfix 1 bug fixes for update 0.024, confirms the next map update expands north of Franklin County, and shows work-in-progress head presets… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-05-15 | VEIN News: Loon Lake | Update 0.024 adds the Westwood/Loon Lake area, a faster save system, four new languages, and restricts console commands to admins. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-05-01 | VEIN News: Save Systems | Dev post details functional sub-inventories and waterproof zip bags, waterfall effects, extension ports for long-distance wiring, new art assets, and early… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-04-16 | VEIN Weekly: A-Frames | VEIN's weekly dev blog adds admin furniture spawning, bandages that soil and raise infection risk, perennial plants, and server priority queues; posts move to… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-04-09 | VEIN Weekly: Apple Seeds & Addictions | Weekly dev blog covers unified sleep systems, harder conditions with new medicines, the Westwood map region, plantable apple trees, and a fix for addictions. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-04-01 | VEIN Weekly: Stressful Conditions | Hotfix 4 fixes fluid, lighting, and UI bugs; the blog also details new Agoraphobia and Claustrophobia traits and reworked panic and tiredness penalties. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-03-31 | VEIN 0.023 – Hotfix 4 Released | Hotfix 4 for VEIN 0.023 addresses plant loading, upscaling and exposure settings saving, zombie appearance serialization, melee not alerting zombies, sink… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-03-25 | VEIN Weekly: Knitbone | VEIN's weekly post covers Hotfix 2 and 3, the addition of foraged wild plants with medicinal uses, and a planned 0.024 overhaul of conditions and medical… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-03-19 | VEIN 0.023 – Hotfix 3 Released | Hotfix 3 for VEIN 0.023 addresses a couple of small crashes, a crash caused by driving a vehicle into furniture after exiting it, and some font rendering… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-03-19 | VEIN 0.023 – Hotfix 2 Released | VEIN's 0.023 Hotfix 2 fixes grenades not exploding, AT4 explosion networking and sprinkler timing, and adds DLSS plus partial Russian, German and Japanese… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-03-18 | VEIN Weekly: Triage | Hotfix 2, on experimental beta, adds DLSS, fixes an infinite water exploit, enables item placement on furniture, and includes crash and bug fixes. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-03-11 | VEIN Weekly: Stump Removal | Weekly dev blog recaps 0.023 hotfixes and previews 0.024: increased fall damage, condition rebalancing, foraging for herbs, new localizations, and… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-03-07 | VEIN 0.023 – Hotfix 1 Released | Hotfix 1 for VEIN 0.023 fixes tree collision, stump and sapling axe destruction, oil cleanliness saving, and adds a -SaveDir option plus an enable self harm… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-02-25 | VEIN Weekly: 44,011 Points | VEIN's weekly devlog previews 0.023 with a fix for hunger and thirst doing nothing, lighting and shadow fixes, and a halved outdoor polygon load. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-02-18 | VEIN Weekly: Inspections | Dev blog: 0.023 fixes in testing, 0.022 saves verified compatible, a window refactor for performance, and controller support pushed to 0.024. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-02-11 | VEIN Weekly: Bone Hammer | VEIN's weekly dev blog says 0.023 is still a few weeks out, moves gamepad and Steam Deck support to 0.024, and confirms saves carry forward. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-02-04 | VEIN Weekly: Quality Assurance | VEIN's weekly dev blog covers 0.023 progress, Steam Deck testing, a mastery/prestige system in design, a base protection rework, and new freezer controls. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-01-28 | VEIN Weekly: Hunting Special | VEIN's weekly dev post covers the 0.023 hunting overhaul (butcher, gut, bloodlet, dismember, skin), building thermostats, and bloodmeal fertilizer. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-01-22 | 0.022 Hotfix 18 Released | Hotfix 18 for VEIN 0.022 adds an admin button to remove abandoned UCs, improves base performance, colors TV light projection, adds new weather effects, and… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-01-21 | VEIN Weekly: Bloodmeal | Weekly dev blog covers crash fixes, UI text scaling, localization progress, a reworked hunting system with bloodmeal crafting, and endgame design plans. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-01-14 | VEIN Weekly: Water Bodies | Weekly dev blog covers an upcoming fishing system with over 100 fish and amphibians, map expansion west of Redford, and gamepad support. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-01-11 | 0.022 Hotfix 17 Released | Hotfix 0.022.17 fixes dozens of bugs and rebalances explosive damage, strength and vitality XP scaling by object mass, and hazmat sunburn protection. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-01-07 | VEIN Weekly: Into 2026 | VEIN published its weekly community post titled "Into 2026" as a link-out to the game's news site, with no patch details included in the announcement body. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-31 | VEIN Weekly: Holiday Notes | VEIN's weekly community announcement covers holiday notes; the Steam entry contains only a link to the full post on the game's site. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-24 | VEIN Weekly: Underwater & Above Ground | VEIN's weekly community post bundles underwater and above-ground content news, with the full write-up hosted on the game's own news site rather than in the… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-17 | 0.022 Hotfix 16 Released | Hotfix 16 for VEIN 0.022 fixes the invisible music book, HAM radio location saving, dedicated server crashes from TVs, flashlight use with cell phones, and… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-17 | VEIN Weekly: Hotfix 15 | The VEIN weekly community post for Hotfix 15 links out to the studio site; the Steam announcement itself carries no patch notes or details. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-17 | 0.022 Hotfix 15 Released | Hotfix 15 for VEIN fixes multiplayer melee, rain collectors, vehicle collisions, and utility cabinet decay, and adds combat logging and server settings. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-10 | VEIN Weekly: Broken Hotfixes | Weekly community post links out to a VEIN blog entry titled 'Broken Hotfixes'; the announcement body itself carries no patch notes or specifics. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-05 | 0.022 Hotfix 14 Released | VEIN's 0.022 hotfix fixes vehicles, power grid wirings and similar objects disappearing, with a fuller explanation promised in the next VEIN Weekly. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-05 | 0.022 Hotfix 13 Released | Hotfix 13 fixes the admin menu in self-hosted multiplayer and corrects UE path names so Hotfix 10 saves load without lost items or respawning furniture. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-04 | 0.022 Hotfix 12 Released | Hotfix 12 for VEIN 0.022 fixes the singleplayer admin menu, a crash on loading an invalid item, and defaults furniture respawning to off in singleplayer. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-04 | 0.022 Hotfix 11 Released | Hotfix 11 moves VEIN to Unreal 5.6, fixes multiplayer desync and partial saves, lengthens fireplace burn time, and reduces farming XP. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-03 | VEIN Weekly: Hitching | VEIN's weekly community announcement links out to the studio blog entry titled "Hitching"; the Steam post body contains no further detail. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-26 | VEIN Weekly: Balancing & Bugfixes | VEIN's weekly developer post for 26 November 2025 covers balance changes and bug fixes, with the full write-up hosted on the game's news site. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-20 | 0.022 Hotfix 10 Released | Hotfix 10 for version 0.022 fixes non-working yes/no game settings options and the HP label on clothing armor resistances. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-20 | 0.022 Hotfix 9 Released | VEIN 0.022 Hotfix 9 fixes workbench fluid and queue networking, vehicle and base wiring bugs, save corruption and crashes, and extends MRE shelf life to 50… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-19 | VEIN Weekly: Vehicle Bases | VEIN's weekly community post links out to a dev blog entry on vehicle bases; no patch notes or version details are included in the announcement body. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-12 | VEIN Weekly: Corn, Cauliflowers, and Cabbages | The VEIN weekly community announcement covers corn, cauliflowers, and cabbages, with the full post hosted on the game's own news site. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-09 | 0.022 Hotfix 8 Released | Hotfix 8 for VEIN's 0.022 build fixes infinite fireplaces, water and lock exploits, softlocks in box trucks, and cuts multiplayer electrical CPU load while… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-05 | VEIN Weekly: Truck Surfing | VEIN's weekly community post, titled "Truck Surfing", is published on the developer's news site, with the Steam announcement carrying only a link out. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-04 | 0.022 Hotfix 7 Released | VEIN 0.022 Hotfix 7 fixes firearms not accepting ammo or attachments, fortification snap points, and crashes; firearms saved before the patch may be… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-04 | 0.022 Hotfix 6 Released | Hotfix 6 for VEIN's 0.022 update restores wiped car trunks in 0.022h4 saves, fixes several crashes, and multithreads the dedicated server by default. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-03 | 0.022 Hotfix 5 Released | VEIN 0.022 Hotfix 5 fixes saves not loading, cave collisions and vehicle physics, plus balance tweaks to hunger rate, Adrenaline Junkie and lockpicking. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-10-30 | 0.022 Hotfix 4 Released | Hotfix 4 for VEIN 0.022 repairs water pipe and sink behavior, sneaking XP, multiplayer exploits, card dismantling, barbed wire and gate snapping, plus Linux… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-10-29 | VEIN Weekly: Squishy People | The weekly VEIN community announcement contains only a link to the 'Squishy People' post on the game's news site, with no details in the announcement body. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-10-27 | 0.022 Hotfix 3 Released | Hotfix 0.022 resolves multiplayer desync, bed stretching, and lockpick exploits, and adds camera zoom and hunger/thirst rate settings. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-10-25 | 0.022 Hotfix 2 Released | Hotfix 0.022 fixes a multiplayer crash on failed code locks, adds key unbinding and a zombie walker percentage setting, plus zombie audio and door fixes. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-10-24 | VEIN Early Access Out Now! | VEIN is now in Steam Early Access; hotfix 0.021h1 adds the ChamplainValley map to dedicated servers and fixes melee, vehicle, and save bugs. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-10-22 | VEIN Weekly: The Upcoming Big Day | VEIN's weekly community post links out to a blog entry teasing an upcoming 'big day' for the game, with no further details in the announcement body. | store.steampowered.com |