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Vein Hotfix 5 Fixes Save Files, Game Crashes, and Frozen Food

·November 3, 2025

You know, one of my biggest complaints when playing Vein was that the frozen food tends to smell weird. Even through the screen, it was like I could sniff out each microwave meal. Thankfully, Vein hotfix 5 fixes that and so many other issues, like save files failing to load, game crashes, and even a few typos!

Take a look at the complete patch notes for the latest hotfix below!

Vein Hotfix 5 Patch Notes

Fix glass piles etc. respawning when you load a save
Fix some font rendering issues
Fix incorrect lockpicking cooldown logic, reduced cooldown to 30 seconds
Fix a bunch of collision issues in caves
Log all admin actions on servers
Fix bad normal texture for sawblades
Fix saves sometimes not being loadable despite successfully saving
Fix dufflebags not being moveable
Fix car trunks having nothing in them
Fix interior rain in Lyon Mountain warehouse
Reduce ambient building volume
Add vein.Activity.AFKKickTimeSeconds cvar for servers
Log when a player builds something
Add vein.Placement.MaxUtilityCabinets setting
Buff Adrenaline Junkie perk
Boost brightness of some lamps ingame
“Stuck” menu option makes you exit your chair if you’re in one
Reduce the default rate of hunger increase
Add the ability to outright destroy loot bags without taking their contents
Fix fancy wardrobe movement in house interiors
Fix soil dismantling into plastic
Mobile toilet is no longer infinite
Fix UI scaling issues for exercise menu
Fix sometimes not being able to exit tractors properly
Fix falling through moving vehicles when they are going fast and you’re standing on them
When a character is deleted, they’re removed from UCs (e.g. prevent issue where you build a UC, delete the character, and now there’s no way to remove the UC)
Fix windmills not working when rotated 180 degrees from the wind direction
Add message to map screen if you have no GPS-able item equipped
Clearer wording on stove fluid output UI
Change units in wiring menu to watt-hours
Thai language rendering support (not language support, but in places like the chat box)
Frozen foods do not smell
Fix mausoleums having weird physics
Fix arms being way too bright
Fix incorrect Dannemora substation switch label
Fix tool ammo dismantling results sometimes being weird stuff like bones or screws
Fix some stuff not being dismantleable (fabric softener bottles, small milk cartons etc.)
Fix vitality XP exploit (put a live firework in your inventory to get 1.2 million XP)
Refilling containers now performs weight checks to prevent you from encumbering yourself with jerry cans
Fix disconnect from driving a vehicle very fast during a server autosave
Reduce Iron Arrow weight significantly
Rename Well Fed -> Ate Tasty Meal
Fix dart duplication when throwing and picking up with Grab and Equip
Increase initial server connection timeout duration
Fix not being able to exit motorcycles when the motorcycle is in a tight space
Typo fixes
Crash fixes