Want to know what’s new in the zombie-infested West? Dead Rails has hit Roblox like… well… a train. Seems like everyone’s playing. The frequent content updates help. There’s often something new and exciting to try. So that’s why we’re putting together a Dead Rails update guide. Here we’ll put details of the latest content changes, and renew it when a new update drops.
You can play Dead Rails for yourself over on Roblox. If you’d like to learn the basics of the game, take a look at our guide on how to play Dead Rails.
Dead Rails Update Guide
We split our update guides into three main sections. The first section will cover major content changes. The second will discuss balance changes. The third will go over bug fixes and general QoL improvements.
Note: According to the official Discord, updates for Dead Rails are likely to switch to a bi-weekly schedule in order to give more substantive updates, with fewer bugs on launch. We’ll be tweaking our update guide schedule to reflect this, but we’ll keep and eye out to ensure this is the case, first.
Content Changes
Here are the main content additions in the update.
Trains Update – May 3rd
- New Train Types
- Gold Rush
- Cattle Car
- Armored
- Class gifting.
- Sterling Bank structure.
- Find the secret vault code!
- Players can now drop money.
- Forts now have soldiers manning them.
- Zombies and outlaws will fight.
- Visual upgrade for Outlaws and Vampires.
Easter Update
- The Easter Event is here!
- Find helpful Easter Eggs around the map that hatch into minions that will fight for you.
- Find six golden eggs at special locations to complete the Easter Challenge.
- Defeat the Easter Bunny boss to unlock a new class. The Bunny replaces Nikola Tesla, and is able to fling eggs that hatch into enemies.
- New Class: The Eggslinger
- Drops eggs that hatch into friendly minions.
- Secret Easter Eggs
- There are two special Easter Eggs hidden around the map, with clues on how to find them. Try and track them down if you’re feeling extra smart.
New For April 11th
A slightly smaller update ahead of an Easter event next week.
- Four New Classes
- The Musician
- The Necromancer
- The Packmaster
- The Werewolf
- Three New Challenges
- Dances With Wolves
- Electric Remains
- A Fistful Of Dollars
- Shop Rehaul
- Shops now have limited stocks in Nightmare Mode.
- Zombie AI Rehaul
New For April 1st
This event kicked off April 1.
- New Game Modes
- Fools Gold. Gold nuggets are all over the place… but are they really what they seem? Fools Gold sees you redeeming gold nuggets with random values and effects in search of a special key to open a building at the end of the run. What excitement awaits inside?
- Horsing Around. You are one of the many poor unfortunate horses abandoned by the humans escaping to Mexico. It’s time to take your fate into your own hands… or uh… hooves. Take up weapons and forge your own path to the border, alone or with a herd of your horse brethren.
- New Class
- Horse. BE the horse as you get the boosted speed of an equine avenger. Can you still ride horses AS a horse? You bet. Complete the Horsing Around game mode to unlock this class for normal play.
Balance Changes
Buffs, nerfs, reworks to usable items or enemies, all of them go in this section.
- Bullets pierce wood and paper now. (RIP newspaper armor.)
- Fort turret ammo is 100 again.
Fixes
Here are some important fixes included in the update.
