Description
Echoes from the Afterlife is the official continuation of Redbeards Afterlife and a full overhaul for 7 Days to Die that slows everything down and puts survival first.
No traders, no quest hand-holding, no rushing to end-game loot. Your character grows through action skills, not XP bars, so progression is slow but continuous and always earned.
Key features:
- Survival focus – Vitality system, permanent infections, and lots of zombies (provided by Walkersim).
- New progression – New ores, extra weapon tiers, and the Izayo weapon pack integrated into the loot and crafting balance.
- Action Skills – Get better by doing things.
- Starter classes – Begin with a role and toolkit that shape how you survive the early game.
- Reworked UI – Cleaner, more informative interface that makes managing your survival smoother.
- Atmospheric biomes – Dense, dark forests, bright harsh deserts, and other moody environments that feel very different from vanilla.
- Loot and exploration – Many more lootable items and boxes, encouraging constant scavenging instead of living off traders.
- New workstations – Expanded crafting chains that support the new tiers, ores, and survival systems.
- New zombie types – More variety and danger in every POI and horde night.
- Xmas event – new decorations, loot
If vanilla feels too fast or too easy, AFTERLIFE turns the apocalypse into a long, dangerous journey where every small upgrade matters.
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Changelogs
Changelog for the version 2.18.2:
Fixes:
- Xmas event compatibility with vanilla 1.4. It starts automatically in mid-December.
- POI door trigger bug
- Guidebook scrapping exploit
- Vanilla iron and steel ingots found in loot
- Requirements for seeds
- Damage done to ore by axes, pickaxes, shovels
- Small adjustments to the raincatcher
- second toolbelt UI broke when reloading UI
Previous Updates
Changelog for the version 2.18.1:
Fixes:
- unlimited mushrooms
- 556 ammo in every trash container
- huge gore blocks push loot bags out of map
- BM spawns stop in the middle of the night
- enable workbench scrapping for all scrappable items
- localization adjustments for Chinese players
- removed sneak training exploit
- fix zombie POI spawns (they disappeared if you walked around the POI and left the area)
- fix weight for storage chests
Improvements
- buff resting to not “force” players to go afk during night
- new early game food recipe
Changelog for the version 2.18.0:
Fixes
- Add support for Vanilla 1.4
- All changes from the Hotfix (screamers instantly screaming, too many weapon parts from scrapping …)
- Rain catcher doesn’t collect water if no player is nearby
- Remove .44 ammo from loot and replace it with .45
- Rewrite .44 perk book to be used for .45 revolvers
- Prevent endless vulture bloodmoons for higher game stages
- 1 quality crafting bug in the workbench in MP (when opening the workbench while items from another person are crafting)
- Meticulous now works properly for (hopefully) all items which have quality
- Scrapping primitive items doesn’t give XP anymore
- Jerrycan cannot be filled with dirty water anymore to get fuel
Improvements
- It should now be easier to lose zombies that are chasing you.
- More linear increase in damage/stamina for melee tools and weapons to close the huge gap between bronze and iron
- Unified mod slots: Higher tier = more slots
- Unified gun scrapping for XP and parts
- Reworked gun recipes (higher unlock level = higher costs)
- Adjust XP gained for kills to harmonize progression between low damaga/fast attack weapons like knuckles and high damage weapons like rifles
- Farming yield is bound to farming skill
- Bonus from headgear mods is displayed correctly
- Nerf outcome of radiators as it was way too easy to get tons of brass
- Nerf spikes as they were too strong
- Chungus drops a bag now
- Double chance for bags during bloodmoon to encourage players to not skip them
- Costs for crafting skills are rising more slowly to make Insight more useful for mid and late game.
- Removed screamers from screamer hordes to avoid endless screamer spawns. Added something else instead.
- Reworked gun descriptions
- Unlock the kiln at lvl 35 instead of 50 for faster briggs crafting
- a few more things to find out…
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Credits: Kugi, Redbeard, OcbMaurice, Laydor, ZehMatt
If you have any questions or have any problems/bugs, please use the support link (Discord, Forum Topic, GitHub Issues, etc.) in the post. If there is no support link in the post, please use the comments section.
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1[ListEntry]:CurrentSelectedEntry assembly:D:\ Steam\steamapps\common\7 Days To Die\7DaysToDie_Data\Managed\Assembly-CSharp.dll type:XUiC_List1 member:(null)Unable to play
It looks like it’s for verison 1.4 not 2.4, so it’s still a whole build behind. Try reverting to 1.4 in order to get it to work.
Please join the discord. There we can figure out what’s wrong with your installation.