It is working as intended. Learn to manage your base heat better, or learn to mitigate the screamers better. Literally a single ring of spike traps will kill 3/4 of them without you even noticing.
Here is what I have on how the mechanic functions.
Alpha 16 was one of the absolute easiest most basic versions.
There was zero survival to it. Practically zero progression. You got bored by the third week because you were maxed out and there was zero challenge.
Supposedly with "slightly better audio".
I'm not holding my breath. I'll watch it, but only because I was interested in hearing what they had to say about Blood Moons in the first video but couldn't because TFP apparently doesn't know how to do set prep before doing a video.
Also, for reference...
If anyone is having an issue obtaining the hat, the discussion for that is over here.
https://community.thefunpimps.com/threads/special-hat.44046/
WiFi is always going to be an issue for 7 Days due to the larger amount of data being sent back and forth, and the constant data flow that is required.
It doesn't matter one bit how "reputable" your WiFi provider is. Latency and data encapsulation are going to be an issue simply because it is...
After you exclude those folders, just validate your game client files a few times and then try playing again. You may need to start a new save if the software corrupted the data files in the old one.