Foraging changes in Project Zomboid

Fixed an exploit that allowed users to manipulate items spawned while foraging

Fixed the foraging info button not linking to the Survival Guide

The foraging darkness penalty now stays steady when you forage at night with a flashlight, instead of flickering on and off.

Fixed foraging Darkness Malus contunuously disappearing and reappearing when foraging at night with a flashlight

The L94 Rifle can now turn up while foraging.

Bath Towels can now be found while foraging in suitable places.

All Prescription Glasses now remove the foraging search radius penalty, including the ones that did not before.

Fixed some Prescription Glasses not removing the foraging search radius penalty

Fixed foraging zones not being created

Fixed Foraging XP gain being abnormally high

Foraging now gives a distance bonus when the items you find are further apart.

Added a distance bonus for finding items further apart in foraging.

Foraging affinity checks now have a minimum radius and give only one affinity find per chunk.

Added a minimum radius to Foraging affinity checks, it now only triggers an affinity find once per chunk.

Foraged trash and junk items are sorted into new categories, and every tier of the mixed junk and trash tables now uses the same rolls.

Re-categorised foraged trash and junk items and matched rolls for all junk/trash mixed table tiers.

Foraging no longer has a sprite affinity cooldown, but bonus and focus items turn up less often in some categories.

Removed sprite affinity cooldown and reduced forage bonus/focus item chances for some categories.

Foraging finds can now be tied to certain months of the year, with a bonus or a penalty depending on the season.

Added validMonths table to forage item and category definitions with bonus + malus added.

Foraging bonuses in rain and snow now scale with how heavy the rain or snow is, instead of being a flat percentage.

Added items foraging rain/snow bonuses scale with rain/snow levels instead of a flat percentage.

Foraging for fruits and vegetables got several fixes.

Fixes for foraging fruits and vegetables.

Foraged wild foods have a smaller maximum size, so you won't find ones as big as before.

Reduced the maximum size of all foraged foods prefixed with (wild).

Size can now affect the nutrition values of wild foods at any size.

Added wild foods can now have nutrition values affected at any size.

Some fruits can now be foraged in months that had been left out of their foraging seasons.

Fixed some fruit definitions that were missing months when they could be foraged.

Foraged fruits vary more with the seasons.

Adjusted foraged fruits for more seasonal variance.

Foraging affinity and bonus icons can no longer roll for focus items in months when those items should not be available.

Fixed affinity and bonus icons able to roll for focus items in invalid months.

Search Focus and sprite affinity now have a much bigger effect when you forage for a specific category.

Updated foraging for Search Focus and Sprite Affinity to have a much greater role and effect when searching for specific categories.

Fixed Poisonous berries and mushrooms missing the poisonous tag in foraging sometimes.

In search mode, dropped items you know are poisonous now show a poison icon, so poisonous berries and mushrooms are easier to spot.

Added showing a poison icon for ISWorldItemIcon, it now shows if a dropped item (or any item if a stack of identical items) is poisoned when detected via search mode if the player knows that it is poisonous.

Double clicking hidden forage icons, such as medicinal herbs or icons shown at lower skill levels, now starts the action properly.

Fixed action trigger issue with double click on hidden forage icons such as medicinal herbs or icons at lower skill levels.

Forage icons no longer disappear while you are foraging.

Fixed issue with disappearing forage icons due to clearing the activeZones when updating via the event.

Fixed Error when character finds some items through foraging.

Foraging now favours the Focus Category you set when it decides what kind of find a spot gives.

Updated foraging to prefer the Focus Category set when choosing an affinity category for a sprite.

Antlers can now turn up when foraging for Bones.

Added antlers to Bones forage loot.

Fixed error on interacting with forage icon from context menu with the search manager closed.

Mangoes are now listed under the Fruit forage category.

Fixed forage category for Mangoes to be Fruit.

The foraging "Put in" option now follows the same rules as the container you pick, so it only offers to put items where they are actually allowed.

"Put in" foraging context menu option now uses InventoryContainer.isItemAllowed for validation.

Foraging for clay now gives several pieces at once instead of one, so you need fewer trips to gather it.

Foraging: Clay will Spawn 2 to 4 items instead of just one.

The Whittler and Wilderness Knowledge traits now come with extra foraging benefits.

Added foraging stuff for Whittler and Wilderness Knowledge trait benefits.

Sheet metal snips can now turn up in random world clutter, in foraging and as attached weapons, so they are easier to find.

Added the sheet metal snips to some randomized world clutter item pools, foraging definitions, and attached weapon definitions to avoid bottlenecking them.

Some hard-to-find items now spawn in more places and can also be found by foraging.

Some bottleneck items have more spawn opportunities and were added to the foraging tables.

The old Male_Undies item is now correctly marked as obsolete and no longer turns up when foraging.

Fixed Male_Undies not having the "OBSOLETE = TRUE" parameter.

• Fixed Male_Undies not having the "OBSOLETE = TRUE" parameter. Also removed them from the foraging pool.

Fixed Foraging icons rerolling when a search focus was selected.

Double-clicking a search mode pin now puts the item into the inventory panel you have selected, if it can.

Changed double click behaviour of search mode pins to place items into the current selected player inventory panel if possible

The search mode snow cover penalty now has a different limit, because combinations of snowy weather could easily hit the penalty cap.

Spamming the search mode button no longer lets you force found items to change type.

Fixed an exploit with search focus when spamming the search mode button which could force items to change type

Foraging now works properly in zones that are not simple rectangles.

Fixed the foraging system not handling non-rectangular zones (i.e., polygon or thick polyline zones).

Foraging pin icons and direction arrows are placed better, so arrows for dropped items no longer all point at the northwest corner of a square.

Adjusted the position of foraging pin icons and direction arrows.

• Adjusted the position of foraging pin icons and direction arrows. The arrows always pointed to the northwest corner of a square, which didn't look right for dropped items.

Turn the player to face a forage item when picking it up.

Random square picking in zones now also works for polygon and thick polyline zones, so foraging can find spots inside zones of those shapes.

Zone.getRandomSquareInZone() now handles polygon and thick polyline zones.

Foraging now has new items you can find.

Fixed the Toggle Search Mode key getting in the way when the game is paused.

Foraging gets Search Focus, which lets you choose a category of item to look for so it turns up more often.

Search Focus is now checked before the found item's preview is placed while foraging.

Search Focus is now blocked for sprite affinity items, so focusing does not affect those finds.

Search Focus lets you pick an item category while foraging, so items from that category turn up more often.

• increases chance to find certain categories of item when searching

You can only focus your search on an item category once your character is skilled enough to identify it.

• player must be skilled enough to identify the item category to focus on it

The new foraging Search Focus is set in the investigate area window.

• focus is set in the investigate area window

The foraging Search Focus allows only one focus to be active at a time.

• only one focus may be active at a time

Search Focus will not reroll items from hidden categories, so rare finds are not swapped out for your focused category.

• hidden item categories will not be rerolled (rare find protection)

Foraging icons now have their missing per-player display setting.

Fixed missing per player render flag in ISBaseIcon

The foraging zone display now shows a tip on how to use Search Focus.

Foraging has been replaced with an entirely new system.

Entirely new foraging system.