inZOI hotfix v0.9.4 pulls auto meal prep and fixes Zoi behavior bugs

Krafton dropped hotfix v0.9.4 for inZOI on July 9th, bringing a handful of gameplay fixes and one notable temporary removal. The update is live now on both Windows Steam (20260708.13735.W) and Mac Steam (20260708.13729.M).

The biggest change is the temporary removal of the feature where Zois automatically started preparing meals at mealtime. The team says meals were being cooked in unintended ways and pulled the feature rather than leave it broken — it's coming back once it's been reworked. Alongside that, the autonomous behavior system got a tuning pass: Zois were chatting too much and not reading the room, so they now pick interactions that actually match the situation, especially when their needs are running low. On the bug fix side, Zois occasionally freezing and skipping autonomous behavior is partially resolved, a glitch that showed non-graduates as high school graduates is fixed, and incorrectly completed milestones no longer get falsely marked as achieved — though any milestones already wrongly flagged before this patch will stay that way. Infinite loading when switching families in a multi-member household is also gone, and Mac players get a fix for the Create a Zoi window going overly bright with flickering lighting.

inZOI launched into Steam Early Access in March 2025 and has been steadily patching since, with Krafton leaning heavily on community feedback to shape the roadmap. The life-sim genre is notoriously tricky to balance around autonomous AI behavior — getting NPCs to act naturally without doing weird or broken things is one of the core ongoing challenges, and the meal prep rollback is a transparent acknowledgment of that.

As always, mods are automatically disabled when a patch applies, so players will need to re-enable them manually after updating. Known issues are tracked on the official forum, and the team is accepting bug reports through the inZOI Forums, Support Page, Discord, and Steam Discussions.