General changes in Project Zomboid

Extinction mode doubles its wound infection setting, so wounds are a bigger infection risk.

Fixed hypothermia applying damage incorrectly and killing players too fast

Fixed cases where point-blank shots could miss due to muzzle position being inside the target

Fixed sensor bombs ignoring timers and immediately exploding after placement

Fixed multi-tile feeding troughs becoming unusable after being picked up and placed

Fixed being unable to start the drying process if the drying rack is installed on a player built floor

Fixed various tile property issues such as vaulting through unopenable windows

Fixed a crash on the MacOS build

Weaving a fabric roll now takes four times as much thread, so fabric costs much more to make.

Railroad Track and Railroad Track Piece are gone from the game for now, until they work as crafting ingredients.

Fixed being unable to hop over low concrete road blocks

Fixed changing resolution in game causing crashes

Fixed being unable to drink directly from player constructed sinks

Remote trigger bombs now go off in basements and on high floors, where they would not trigger before.

Fixed remote trigger bombs failing to trigger below z=0 or above z=7

Fixed Small Crucibles of Iron & Steel returning Large Crucibles on deplete

Fixed being unable to disassemble log gates

Lamps that take up more than one tile now work as a single object.

Fixed multi-tile lamps not working as a single object

Fixed padlocked crates losing their locked status, and being unable to be locked again when being picked up and put down

Vegetable oil now takes 30 uses of seed paste instead of 30 whole seed pastes, so it costs much less to make.

Fixed vegetable oil requiring 30 whole seed pastes instead of 30 uses

The Improvised Gas Mask has been rebalanced, so it may not work quite the way you remember.

You can now use clean rags as Rag Filters in the Improvised Gas Mask.

The Improvised Gas Mask protects less than a commercial gas mask or respirator but more than a bandana.

Not as powerful as commercial gas masks / respirators, but more powerful than wearing a bandana

If you take a Rag Filter out of an Improvised Gas Mask when it is 30% used or less, you get it back as a dirty rag.

The jerry can now holds twice as much fluid, so you can carry more in one can.

• base.JerryCan - 10L -> 20L

The canteen and military canteen hold nearly twice as much, so they last longer between refills.

• base.Canteen, base.CanteenMilitary - 500ml -> 900mL

The cowboy canteen holds more, so it lasts longer between refills.

• base.CanteenCowboy - 1L -> 1.8L

The hydration backpack holds twice as much, so it lasts longer between refills.

• base.HydrationBackpack - 1L -> 2L

The camo hydration backpack holds three times as much, so it lasts much longer between refills.

• base.HydrationBackpack_Camo - 1L -> 3L

Empty beer bottles hold much less fluid now, so each one carries far less.

• base.BeerEmpty - 1L -> 300mL

Fixed being unable to place heavy items that are in the character's hand

Fixed an issue where the player would get burned when lighting pre-placed campfires

Holding the right mouse button during Walk-To now lets you strafe instead of leaving you standing still.

Fixed holding RMB during Walk-To makes player stand still, instead of strafing

The default settings for the game modes have been changed.

Chef now gives a starting point in Short Blade instead of Short Blunt, fixing a bug.

Doctor now costs no points to pick, leaving you more to spend on traits.

Electrician now costs fewer points to pick, leaving you more to spend on traits.

Nurse now costs no points to pick, leaving you more to spend on traits.

Rancher now costs no points to pick, leaving you more to spend on traits.

Nutritionist now costs fewer points, so it is cheaper to take at character creation.

Coffins and gym mats now count for a different amount of weight when you carry them.

Several map tiles have had their properties changed.

The toggle crouch option now works properly.

Fixed an issue with toggleCrouch not working properly

Fixed infected player characters not zombifying on death

Fixed not being able to disassemble player-constructed fence posts

Fixed not being able to disassemble log gates

Fixed being able to read obsolete skillbooks

Fixed an issue where the character would always move east after standing up, regardless of input direction

Doing physical actions while eating, then another physical action, no longer breaks your view cone and many character stats.

Fixed viewcone and many character stats becoming NaN after performing physical actions while eating, then performing another physical action

The Toggle to Aim option now works properly with melee weapons and when fighting unarmed.

ToggleToAim no longer breaks for melee/unarmed.

Game modes have been rebalanced.

Both versions of the Sawed-Off Shotgun no longer have a stock.

Echo Creek can no longer be picked as a spawn location when starting a game.

The occupation rebalance touches fifteen jobs, including Police Officer, Carpenter, Doctor, Mechanic and Farmer, so check yours if you play one of them.

Occ Affected: Police Officer, Park Ranger, Construction Worker, Security Guard, Carpenter, Chef, Rancher, Farmer, Electrician, Fishing Guide, Doctor, Nurse, Welder, Blacksmith, Mechanic

Cat's Eyes and Wakeful now cost more trait points, so taking them leaves fewer points for other traits.

First Aider and Iron Gut now cost fewer trait points, so they are easier to fit into a character build.

Illiterate and Reluctant Fighter now give more trait points, so taking these drawbacks frees up more points for positive traits.

Weak Stomach now gives fewer trait points, so taking it frees up less for positive traits.

Extinction no longer changes zombie speed between day and night, so sprinters can now run during the day as well.

The MSR700 and MSR788 now hold more rounds, so you reload them less often.

Scopes can no longer be attached to the JS-2000.

The controller cursor no longer feels sluggish when you are unarmed or holding a melee weapon.

Fixed sluggish cursor when unarmed or using melee

Digging furrows with a spade causes less muscle strain, so farming wears your body out less.

Fixed being unable to add escape ropes/sheet ropes/ropes to fences and windowframes

Leather gloves can now be cut into fingerless gloves.

Fixed not being able to cut Base.Gloves_LeatherGloves into fingerless gloves

Your character should no longer end up drinking toxic fluids when drinking from objects in the world.

Fixed Players drinking toxic fluids from entities

Crafting now keeps the available ingredients selected after a craft, so you no longer have to pick them again by hand for the next one.

Fixed After performing a craft, available ingredients need to be manually selected for subsequent crafts

The Barbed Wire from Wire recipe now correctly says it uses up a full coil of wire, not just a single use.

Fixed Barbed Wire from Wire stating "will consume 1 use", as it consumes a full coil

The L92 Carbine is a new .357 Magnum firearm, with matching magazines, repair recipes and its own spots in the loot tables.

The Trapper Carbine is a new .45 ACP firearm, with matching magazines, repair recipes and its own spots in the loot tables.

Gas Masks and Respirators no longer give full corpse sickness protection after their filters are removed.

Fixed Gas Masks / Respirators still providing 100% corpseSicknessDefense after filters have been removed

Places that were missing loot entries or using the wrong room type now get the loot they should.

SWAT rooms, prison lockers and SWAT lockers now have their own loot, and police storage and gun storage rooms are no longer forced to share one loot table.

Added 'policeswat', 'prisonlocker' and 'swatlocker' roomdefs.

• Added 'policeswat', 'prisonlocker' and 'swatlocker' roomdefs.
• Removed forced merge for 'policestorage' and 'policegunstorage'

Shoving can no longer be repeated endlessly.

Fixed infinite shoves

Fixed chicks only dropping heads when butchered, they now drop meat as well

Soap now gets used up properly in several cases where it did not.

Fixed multiple issues with Soap consumption

Some pianos that could not be taken apart can now be disassembled.

Fixed not being disassemble some pianos

Forged Buckets can now be used to make Bucket Mauls.

Fixed Forged Buckets not being available for Bucket Mauls due to missing "METAL_BUCKET" tag

Fishing line now works like thread for crafting, patching and stitching, and premium fishing line can also replace sinew or aramid thread in crafts.

Base.FishingLine can be also now be used for crafts, patching and stitching alongside thread. base.PremiumFishingLine can be used for the previous usages as well as being used for crafts that require sinew thread or aramid thread.

• base.FishingLine can be also now be used for crafts, patching and stitching alongside thread. base.PremiumFishingLine can be used for the previous usages as well as being used for crafts that require sinew thread or aramid thread.

Agricultural worker, camp worker and hunter storage rooms now have their own loot lists.

Added agriworker, campworker, and hunterstorage rooms to Distributions.

Fixed invisible obstacle blocking player from driving along the pier

Bags and car trunks are no longer stuck at a maximum capacity of 100.

Fixed bug with max bag/trunk capacity (locked at 100)

Stomps now land on zombies that have fallen as ragdolls, so you can finish them off on the ground.

Fixed Ragdolls ignoring stomps!

• Fixed Ragdolls ignoring stomps! ZombieIdleState was resetting bOnFloor to FALSE before RagdollController was resetting to TRUE again.

Fixed plant tile updating only after revisiting chunk or relog

Fixed not being able to remove seeded furrows

Fixed microwave/Stove timers resetting to 0

Fixed wrong items being selected and captured from stack of items

The Iron Gut trait makes this progression 30% slower, which works in your favour.

IRON_GUT reduces progression by 30%.

Foraging no longer has a Discard Item option.

Discard Item option has been removed.

• discard Item option has been removed.

The Jawbone War Axe can now hit 2 targets in one swing when multi hit is enabled, the same as the Fire Axe.

The Jawbone War Axe, when multi hit is enabled, can strike 2 targets similar to the Fire Axe.

Removed crushed copper and iron ore from the game.

The list of items you can equip or unequip while walking has been updated.

Candles and Hurricane Lanterns do not use the flashlight double-click behaviour, since they work differently.

Candles and Hurricane Lanterns aren't included with this, as they don't work like Flashlights.

Items like Flashlights will now turn off when not equipped.

Shift-clicking an input or output item now searches for that exact item type, and you can now search for fluids as well.

Skids and sharp turns now double these effects, so they hit harder when you skid or turn sharply.

Effects are doubled during skids or sharp turns.

The Weak Stomach trait makes this progression 30% faster, which works against you.

WEAK_STOMACH increases progression by 30%.

Many natural items and products now have set times for how long they stay fresh and when they become fully rotten.

Added daysFresh and daysTotallyRotten property to many natural items and products.

The foraging distance bonus stops growing once items are 20 squares apart.

The bonus is capped at 20 squares.

The foraging distance bonus is locked in the moment an item starts to be revealed.

This bonus is snapshot the instant an item begins to be revealed.

Force Find in foraging now checks whether to place a new item whenever your longest distance travelled without a find grows.

Updated "Force Find".

• updated "Force Find". Now checks to place a new item when the maximum 2D distance travelled without a find increases.

Adding Chamomile, Honey or Mint to a hot drink now helps you recover from the flu faster.

Chamomile, Honey and Mint boost flu recovery when added to a hot beverage.

Building a forge now uses up the Large Bucket, so you need a new bucket for each forge you build.

Large Buckets will be consumed when building forges.

Characters with the Short Sighted trait start with proper glasses again.

Characters with short sighted will again spawn with proper glasses.

Dropping a held item or transferring an item from the ground to the player's hands is much faster.

Opened canned vegetables no longer count as metal items.

Opened Canned vegetables no long have the hasMetal tag.

Lighters and disposable lighters get their higher number of uses back, so they last longer before they run out.

Restored Lighter and LighterDisposable having more than 5 uses.

The Large Bucket no longer counts as a heavy item.

The Large Bucket item no longer has the Heavy Item tag.

Lighting a candle or hurricane lantern once again puts it in your secondary hand.

Restored lighting candles and hurricane lanterns also equipping them in the players secondary hand.

Cutting up small and medium leather now gives a yield in line with what large leather gives.

Rebalanced the yield from cutting up medium and small leather to be consistent with the yield from large leather.

The two items from the change above can now be made with a crafting recipe.

Added craftRecipe functionality for making the above two items.

The survivor in hordes chance can no longer be set higher than 15.

A boxed mac and cheese now gives enough pasta for one pot or pan instead of six, so each box goes much less far.

The yield of pasta provided by opening a boxed mac and cheese will be enough to create only one pot/pan of pasta instead of six.

Sparklers now turn up as clutter at house parties, kids' bedrooms and beach parties, so pipe bomb ingredients are easier to find.

Added Sparklers to the pools of items that can spawn as clutter for the House Party, Kid's Bedroom, and Beach Party stories so that they are less bottlenecked as Pipebomb ingredients.

Closed umbrellas have the same maximum condition value as open umbrellas.

The Handiknife and Multitool now have a sharpness value and can be sharpened, like other blades.

Added missing Sharpness quality and Sharpenable tag to Handiknife and Multitool.

Kitchen knives now have a sharpness value like other blades.

Added missing Sharpness Quality for Kitchen Knives.

An angled head flashlight on ALICE gear no longer lets you craft and read no matter which way you are facing.

Fixed an angled headed flashlight attached to alice gear allowing crafting and reading when facing any direction.

Stomps now land on ragdolled bodies instead of being ignored.

Fixed ragdolls ignoring stomps.

Fluid containers lying on the ground are no longer wrongly treated as sealed when used in crafting.

Fixed undesired behaviour with IsoWorldInventoryItem FluidContainer items being falsely evaluated as "Sealed" for craftRecipe interactions.

You can now hang sheet ropes down into open-air areas below ground level.

Fixed not being able to add sheet ropes that extend into open-air below-ground levels

Jarred produce no longer rots after only 10 days.

Fixed jarred produce rotting in 10 days.

Fixed lit Candles and Hurricane Lanterns not providing light.

Fixed not being able to split soup in a forged pot into bowls.

The Brazier tile now works.

Fixed The Brazier tile is non functional.

Fixed not being able to re-attach Respirator Filters to half-mask respirators

Fixed Hazmat Suits can't be activated in order to protect player from dangerous fumes

Fixed SCBA can't be activated after removing & re-attaching the oxygen tank.

Stones, twigs and boulders can be found in the world again now that the missing biomes are back.

Fixed missing biomes (e.g stones, twigs, boulders can be found in the world again)

Blades can now be sharpened past their handle's condition.

Fixed not being able to sharpen blades beyond Handle Condition.

More fixes, including one for the shoving bug, are coming in a 42.12.2 release.

Additional fixes, including a fix to the Shoving bug, will be provided in a 42.12.2 release.

Rooms you cannot see are mostly no longer blacked out, as the system has been shelved for future work.

Disabled most aspects of the visual system that blacked out unseen rooms.

• Disabled most aspects of the visual system that blacked out unseen rooms. This has been taken back into the shop for future work, however the system and the power to fade out rooms remains in the code.

Shotguns should play and feel different after this update.

These changes should impact on how shotguns play and feel.

The vision cone outdoors now uses streetlights and other light sources when they are brighter than daylight, so you can see better near lights at dusk, dawn and night.

Updated vision cone to use square lighting outside when it is brighter than the current daylight value, so that players can benefit from streetlights and other light sources at dusk, dawn and night.

Double clicking on beverage fluid items will get the player to drink the beverage, opening it beforehand if required.

Double-click drinking is turned off for fluids you can see are tainted or poisoned.

Added evaluation for player-visible taint/poison to disable double-click drinking on fluid items if they are player visibly tainted/poisoned.

Crafting and build menus now close when your character moves, and a new lock button on the Handcraft and Build windows keeps them open while you walk.

Crafting/build menus close when character moves.

• Crafting/build menus close when character moves.
• Added lock button to Handcraft and Build windows to prevent window autoclosing on walk.

Baking Pan can now hold fluids.

Making things with bricks, including the low version, now has updated effects on exertion and muscle strain.

Updated "Make with Brick" and "Make with Brick Low" timed actions' metabolics and muscle strain effects.

Cleaning blood or graffiti now uses less fluid.

Lowered the fluid amount needed for cleaning blood or graffiti.

Broken metal pipes can be used alongside metal pipes to make pipebombs.

Farming now counts months correctly.

Fixed the agriculture system calculating months inaccurately

Fixed being unable to remove stumps with a pickaxe

Spears made with a blade that can be sharpened can now be sharpened right away, without first taking more damage.

Fixed Spears created with blades eligible for sharpening cannot be sharpened until they're damaged further

Fixed barrel ovens not working properly when first built.

Fixed being unable to build campfires in the darkness.

Firing a spear now makes it more durable, instead of just rolling its random value again.

Fixed firing a spear not making it more durable but doing the random again.

The Extract Iron from Iron Ore recipe now gives you iron instead of steel.

Carving Wooden Cutting Boards now gives you items instead of nothing.

The recipe for casting a steel ingot from iron works again.

Fixed CastSteelIngotFromIron not working.

The recipe for casting a steel bar from iron works again.

Fixed CastSteelBarFromIron not working.

The tarp dress recipe now has to be learned before you can craft it.

Fixed MakeTarpDress needToBeLearn from truealse to true

Building no longer auto-rotates pieces in places where it should not.

Fixed issue where build autorotation was still happening where it should not.

A broken leg or spine raises fall damage more than any other injury.

Broken legs and spine multiply the incurred damage the most.

Zombies that fall from the 20th floor now almost always die from the drop.

Zombies that fall from the 10th floor now die at most about half the time, so many of them will survive the drop.

Falling from the 10th floor causes 40-50% fatalities.

It is now possible to take bricks or gold bars from pallets.

Magnesium shavings now work as tinder and the magnesium firestarter can light tinder, so you have another way to start a fire.

Magnesium shavings can be used as tinder, and the magnesium firestarter can be used to ignite tinder.

Torches now give off brighter light.

Increased torch lighting by 20%.

Herbs now take 1 in-game day to dry.

Changed Herb drying to take 1 in-game day.

Leather now takes 7 in-game days to dry.

Changed Leather drying to take 7 in game days.

Fall damage has been rebalanced.

Fine-tuning fall damage values.

Fall damage now scales more closely with the injuries the fall causes.

Fall damage now more proportional to associated injuries.

If a fatal fall rolls the unscratched chance, it is still not fatal but now deals a small amount of damage instead of none.

Fatal falls no longer completely remove all damage if unscratched chance is hit.

• Fatal falls no longer completely remove all damage if unscratched chance is hit. Now it's still not fatal, but still deals 5% of total calculated damage.

Falling while already injured now does more damage, so drops are riskier when you are hurt.

Fall damage hurts more when already injured.

Broken arms raise fall damage almost as much as broken legs or a broken spine.

Broken arms cause almost as much.

Deep injuries and minor injuries also add some extra fall damage.

Other injuries such as deep injuries and minor injuries also append some damage.

Reeling in now works properly when fishing.

Fixed reeling not working as intended

Fixed not being able to use Garden Forks to dig for worms.

Consolidate All now merges all your Thread or Wire instead of stopping after only a couple of units.

Fixed "Add to > Consolidate All" timed action only combining 2 units of Thread / Wire.

Fixed Saw into Pieces returning more items than it is supposed to.

Fixed not being possible to attach a recoil pad to assault rifles.

Respirator Filters that are already full can no longer be recharged.

Fixed full Respirator Filters being rechargeable.

Fixed recharging Filters not consuming the filter properly.

New games on the default Apocalypse settings now run on 90 minute days.

New Default Apocalypse will have 90 minute days.

Extended placement now has on-screen gizmo controls for rotating and moving items.

Added gizmo controls for rotating and moving items during extended placement.

The M-14 now fires piercing bullets.

Players can now sneak with heavily damaged feet, albeit much more slowly.

Fixed Crawlers being difficult to target.

Fixed pancakes consuming the whole Pancake Mix pack instead of 1 unit.

The zombie spawn map is now generated from a seed, so each new game gets a different zombie layout unless you choose a specific seed.

Noise is seed-based so each new game will return a different configuration, unless a specific seed chosen.

Pipe Bombs, Aerosol Bombs and other explosives now do much more damage to zombies and kill them far more reliably.

Explosives such as Pipe Bombs and Aerosol Bombs are now much more effective at damaging and killing zombies.

Explosions now throw ragdoll bodies around with physics.

Implemented Ragdolls vs Explosives physics.

Explosives now knock targets around with physics-based hit reactions when those are turned on.

Explosives now use physic hit reactions when enabled.

The new Aramid Thread item can be used alongside Sinew Thread in several armor and leather crafts.

Added Aramid Thread item, which can be used alongside Sinew Thread for several armor/leather type crafts.

Bodies hit by gunfire now react with physics that better match the bullet's caliber, and ragdoll knockback is more consistent across ammo types.

Tuned physics hit reactions to closer match caliber impact classification.

Equipping a tissue now muffles your coughs.

Equipped tissues will now muffle coughs.

Industrial Dye spawns have been adjusted, so it may turn up in different amounts or places than before.

Adjusted "IndustrialDye" spawns.

Destroying a construction that covers several tiles now drops one set of items instead of a full set for every tile.

Fixed issue where multi-tile constructions drop a full set of items for every tile that is destroyed

Shooting a room's light switch no longer disables it.

Fixed room light switches being disabled by shooting them.

Fixed missing armor effect for the right gaiters.

Some rods and bars now correctly give you both halves of the broken item when they break.

Fixed issues with OnBreak functions for some rods and bar items not producing both halves of the broken item.

Fixed being unable to prepare beverages.

The Build button in the Build Panel no longer stays disabled if you cancel the walk to a build spot or cannot reach it.

Fixed issue where not being able to walk to build location, or cancelling mid walk, leaves BuildPanel "Build" button disabled.

Ragdoll physics are now in the game.

Introducing ragdoll physics.

Biomes have been improved.

The animal now becomes domesticated as soon as you pick it up.

Now it becomes domesticated when picked up.

The Block Mace is lighter and has a higher critical chance and max damage, so it hits harder for less weight.

Decreased the weight and increased the critical chance and max damage of the Block Mace.

The Long Mace is lighter and has a higher critical multiplier and max damage, so it hits harder for less weight.

Decreased the weight and increased the critical multiplier and max damage of the Long Mace.

Blending is now more advanced.

Blending is more advanced now.

The new setting starts at a 20-tile range and 3 vertical power by default.

Default values are a 20-tile range and 3 vertical power.

Several metal armor pieces can now be smelted into Steel, which gives you another way to get steel and to recycle broken metal armor.

Several metal armor items can now be smelted for Steel; aside from handling sourcing steel, it also serves as a means of recycling/"repairing" broken metal armor.

Players can now craft Copper, Gold, and Silver Hurricane Lanterns.

Sinew Thread is a new tailoring item.

Added Sinew Thread item.

Sinew Thread is one of the materials that can be used to make Twine.

More items can now be smelted, and the smelting results of some items have been adjusted to be more consistent.

Added smelting properties to several items and adjusted the smelting properties of some items for consistency.

Flax, Rye and Wheat grow faster, so you can harvest them sooner.

Reduced growth times of Flax, Rye, and Wheat.

Stone hammers, axes and mauls need more binding or strips to craft, but Duct Tape now counts as binding for them.

Crafting stone hammers, axes, and mauls requires more binding/strips than previously, but Duct Tape can be used.

Shivs can now be crafted with adhesive tape as well as the other bindings.

Adhesive tape can be used alongside other bindings to craft shivs.

Chopping firewood takes less time.

Reduced the time required to Chop Firewood.

You can now weave Burlap from Dogbane.

Burlap can be woven from Dogbane.

Splinters now weigh less, the same as Twigs.

Reduced weight of Splinter to match Twigs.

Ovens made of several parts now turn on and off together.

Fixed multi-sprite ovens not turning on/off with each other.

Fixed being unable to pick up Flatstones.

You can now smelt Fire Axe heads but not whole Fire Axes.

• Fixed being able to smelt whole fire axes and not fire axe heads
• now fire axe heads can be smelted and not whole fire axes.

Drainable items saved with exactly one use left now load with the right number of uses.

Fixed Drainable items having the incorrect number of uses after loading, if they were saved with exactly 1 use remaining.

The game now correctly checks for hoppable objects on squares to the south and east.

Fixed IsoGridSquare.isAdjacentToHoppable() incorrectly checking for hoppable objects on squares to the south and east.

If you stop eating partway through, the food is now partly used up where that applies.

Fixed interrupting the Eating timed action not consuming items partially where applicable.

Fixed player being able to reach sinks/toilets/bathtubs through floor.

Some items that gave the wrong results when smelted now smelt properly.

Fixed inappropriate smelting qualities from some items.

Camouflage trucks no longer spawn in Louisville, because the rule meant to keep them out was letting them in.

Fixed an error with what was supposed to prevent camoflage trucks from spawning in Louisville having the opposite effect.

Fixed not being able to sharpen normal Shivs.

Crafted baseball bats can now be reinforced with cans.

Fixed being unable to can-reinforce crafted baseball bats.

Lighters now spawn full and can be refilled all the way.

Fixed Lighters spawning with amount missing and can't be refilled to the fullest.

Fixed not being able to slice or smash pumpkins.

You can no longer add bait to your fishing line after you have already cast it.

Fixed Bait being addable after casting.

Fixed issue with some fluid transfers being blocked.

Fixed being able to use empty Lighters to light campfires.

Fixed simple blades providing too much metal when smelted.

Cap guns now hold 8 shots instead of 6.

Fixed capguns having a capacity of 6 and not 8.

Fixed wooden stakes not being able to be burned.

A tent that was missing half of its pieces is now complete, and a wrong item property on another tent has been corrected.

Fixed missing half of a tent, and incorrect CustomItem=BaseImprovisedTent property on another.

Fixed characters not being able to look around while seated.

Fixed drinkable puddles not correlating with visual puddle on screen.

Many more items can now be smelted into iron or steel, and some other items smelt differently than before.

Many more items can be smelted into iron or steel; some other items had their smelting properties adjusted.

Lantern glass is now its own item with a crafting recipe, so you can make the glass part of a lantern yourself.

Added the item and craftRecipe for the glass part of a lantern.

You can now craft Frame Packs in a small and a large size.

Steel items now smelt into Steel Chunks and Iron items into Iron Chunks, and Steel items are common enough that you should find plenty to smelt.

Steel Chunks can be smelted from Steel Items; Iron Chunks can be smelted from Iron Items.

• Steel Chunks can be smelted from Steel Items; Iron Chunks can be smelted from Iron Items. Whether an item is Iron or Steel is arbitrary, but Steel items are plentiful enough that there should be enough to smelt.

Some higher tier blade recipes need Steel and will not accept Iron, so you will need steel to make them.

Some, higher tier, Blade type craftRecipes specifically require Steel and not Iron.

Improvised Flashlights and Lanterns can now be made with Small Steel Sheets as well as Tin Cans, so you have another way to make them.

Small Steel Sheets can be used to make Improvised Flashlights and Lanterns alongside Tin Cans.

Some items now need their heads removed before you can smelt them down for iron or steel, which adds a step to recycling them.

Some items will now require the heads to be removed before they can be smelted down for iron or steel.

Large Branches can now be turned into Crafted Charcoal.

Added craftRecipe for making Crafted Charcoal from Large Branches.

Small Iron items can now be crafted into Iron Chunks and small Steel items into Steel Chunks.

Added craftRecipes for making Iron Chunks from various small Iron items, and also making Steel Chunks from various small Steel items.

Bar and Ingot molds are back, so you can make them again and use them to cast Iron and Steel Bars and Ingots.

Restored crafts for making and using Bar and Ingot molds to cast Iron and Steel Bars and Ingots.

Fixed poultices disappearing after reloading a save.

Picking up Grills, BBQs, Mannequins and Old Stoves that still have items inside has been fixed.

Fixed picking up Grills/BBQs/Mannequins/Old Stoves with items inside.

You can now use "Walk to" while shouting or using emotes, instead of having to do one at a time.

Fixed player not being able to "Walk to" and "Shout", or use emotes, at the same time.

Corner poles that the game places automatically can now be plastered and painted.

Fixed automatically generated corner poles not being able to be plastered or painted.

Wood Axes now break like other axes, leaving a detached head and a broken handle.

Fixed Wood Axes not breaking procedurally, producing a detached head and a broken handle, like other axe items.

Wooden poles can now be built on the south and west sides above ground.

Fixed not being able to build wooden pole on south & west above ground.

Forged ball peen hammers are no longer faster than normal ones, so they now match them.

Fixed forged ball peen hammers being faster than normal ones.

Fixed player pathfinding getting stuck on some types of constructed objects.

Extractor hoods can now be placed above industrial stoves.

Fixed player being unable to place extractor hoods above industrial stoves.

You can now nail more than one sheet rope within a single tile.

Fixed players being unable to nail more than one sheet rope within a single tile.

Only microwaves now switch off when their timer is set to zero, and other stoves no longer do.

Exploits that used the so-called Magic Carpet Bridge no longer work.

Fixed exploits with 'the Magic Carpet Bridge'.

All biomes have been updated.

Handgun recoil is better when shooting at the floor and upward.

Firewood turns up less often when foraging in all common biomes, so other kinds of finds show up more often.

Adjusted chances for Firewood to appear less often across all common biomes which effectively makes all other categories appear more often.

Wild plants are now much more common to forage in every biome.

Adjusted WildPlants to be much more common across all biomes.

Dogbane is now much more common when foraging in every zone, and it is now the most common wild plant.

Adjusted DogBane specifically to be much more common, both in the category and in each zone.

• Adjusted DogBane specifically to be much more common, both in the category and in each zone. It is now the most common WildPlant.

Garbage Bag and Tarp Headsacks, Tank Tops and Short Skirts will require less Duct Tape to craft.

Increased the durability of Mace Heads.

Drinking poisoned fluids now has a stronger base poison effect, so tainted drinks are more dangerous.

Increased base poison effect from drinking fluids.

Trash finds are now more likely when foraging near matching objects and when focusing your search on trash.

Increased sprite affinity and focus chances for Trash category.

The more a fence is already bent, the fewer thumping zombies it takes to damage it further, so bent fences give way faster.

Changed ThumpersToDamage to be a scaling value which reduces as the fence is bent further.

Microwaves turned on with no time set now run for 1 minute instead of 1 hour.

Fixed bug in IsoStove::Activate.

• Fixed bug in IsoStove::Activate. Microwaves are now set to 1 minute rather than 1 hour if turned on with no time is set.

Setting a stove or microwave timer to zero now switches it off.

Setting timer to zero now turns off the device.

Taking apart floors, including ones below ground, no longer leaves black voids you can fall into.

Fixed Disassembling floors leads to black voids you can fall into (for floors below ground as well. (z <= 0)).

Hand Scythes now count as a plant-cutting tool, so you can use them to remove weeds.

Fixed Hand Scythes not having the CutPlant item tag; they should be useful for removing weeds etc.

Fixed Garden Forks being lighter than other spears.

Maces are now lighter and Long Maces are now heavier.

Fixed the weights of Maces (they were too heavy) and Long Maces (they were too light).

Stitched foot wounds now make your character limp.

Fixed foot stitches not making character limp.

You can no longer pour liquids out of Sealed Bottles.

Fixed being able to transfer liquids from Sealed Bottles

Crafting no longer skips valid items, so you can use items in more than one slot of a recipe.

Fix issue with InputItemNode rebuild where some valid nodes could be skipped, preventing players from using items in multiple slots

Shift + E opens the hutch info again.

Fixed shift + E not opening the hutch info anymore.

Fixed Flour having no nutrition values.

Fixed not being able to place tents sometimes.

Amethyst jewelry can now be scrapped for Amethysts.

Amethysts can be produced by scrapping Amethyst jewelry.

Head Sacks can now be crafted from Garbage Bags, Hide or Tarp.

Added craftRecipes for making Garbage Bag, Hide and Tarp Head Sacks.

Crafted items no longer store a record of the items used to make them.

Fixed not being able to build windows

Fixed being unable to pierce Steel Blocks.

Leg hit damage now applies its modifier on top of the normal damage split, instead of replacing it.

Fixed LegHit damage LegHitDamageSplitModifier was overwriting damageSplit opposed to being used as a modifier.

Fixed not being able to split rice or pasta from a copper saucepan into bowls.

Metal armor now has research progression, for both scrap welded and properly blacksmithed pieces.

Added research progression for metal armor, both scrap welded and proper blacksmithed.

The world has two new biomes, which appear depending on whether you are close to a lake or a river.

Drinking, cleaning bandages and some other actions now only work with fluid sources that hold plain or tainted water, not other liquids.

The new Crafted Baseball Bat needs Carving 9 and has to be learned, either from the recipe or by researching wooden baseball bats, large branches or short bats.

Added a Crafted Baseball Bat item and the craftRecipe to make it.

• Added a Crafted Baseball Bat item and the craftRecipe to make it. It requires Carving 9, and has to be learned. But also you can research it from wooden Baseball Bats, Large Branches, and Short Bats.

You can now craft spiked bone clubs.

Spiked bone clubs can be crafted.

Iron and Steel Scrap can now be turned into Iron and Steel Pieces, which can then be forged into chunks or bar quarters.

Iron and Steel Scrap can be rendered into Iron and Steel Pieces and can be forged into chunks or bar quarters.

You can now right-click a 3D item lying on the ground to move it precisely where you want it.

RMC on a 3D item on the ground to move it precisely.

Nailed broken planks can now be made, because the crafting recipe was missing the allowance it needed.

Added missing craftRecipe allowance for making nailed broken planks.

Chopping logs and large branches into firewood now also gives splinters, so chopping firewood always leaves you with something to use as tinder.

Chopping Logs and Large Branches into Firewood will produce Splinters; this is so chopping Firewood always produces a tinder item.

Your character no longer drinks automatically from a bottle while it is still being filled; the filling has to finish first.

Characters will no longer autodrink from a bottle that is being filled, the action has to be completed first.

Iron and steel bars and rods, including their halves, now break into halves when they break, like many other melee weapons.

Iron and Steel Bars, Bar Halves, Rods and Rod Halves will break into halves when they break, like many other melee weapons.

Pots, pans and cutlery now have research progression.

A firewood bundle now burns as long as the same firewood unbundled, so you lose no fuel time by bundling it.

Increased the burn time of the firewood bundle to match unbundled firewood.

You can now craft an improvised knife from a machete blade.

Added craftRecipe for making an improvised knife from a machete blade.

The Flint Saw works as a crude saw for some simple crafting recipes, but it cannot do fine work.

This functions as a "crude saw" for some, but not all, craftRecipes (it can so simple/crude work but not fine work).

Spears made with properly forged spear heads are now more durable, so they last longer before breaking.

Boosted the durability of the spears made using proper forged spear heads.

You can no longer learn the recipe for copying building keys by researching keys, so it is now much harder to get.

Made the CopyBuildingKey craftRecipe not-researchable; it was too easy for any player to learn it from building keys, and is supposed to be more of a "criminal"/heist type thing.

You can now craft knitting needles from bone or wood.

Added crafted bone and wood knitting needle items.

Wooden and nail-spiked Baseball Bats can now be sawn down into Short Bats, which also restores their condition if they were damaged.

Added a craftRecipe to saw wooden Baseball Bats and nail-spiked Baseball Bats into Short Bats, which will also reset their condition if damaged.

Rakes can now be taken apart into a Rake Head and a broken Long Stick.

Rakes can be dismantled for a Rake Head and broken Long Stick.

Stone, bone and simple or crude metal spears last longer before breaking, easing earlier nerfs to these proper spears.

The durability of stone, bone, and simple/crude metal spears was boosted; these all comprise "proper" spears, and as such are being slightly de-nerfed.

Copper, Gold and Silver scrap, sheets and bars now have crafting recipes for processing them.

Added craftRecipes for processing Copper, Gold and Silver scrap, sheets, and bars.

Copper items can now be broken down into Copper Scrap, which can be made into Copper Sheets to craft new copper items.

Added craftRecipes for processing copper items into Copper Scrap; Copper Scrap can be made into Copper Sheets to craft Copper Items.

Gold and Silver jewellery can now be processed into Gold and Silver scrap.

Added craftRecipes for producing Gold and Silver scrap by processing Gold and Silver jewellery.

Some metal scrap items weigh different amounts now, to line up better with how they are used in crafting.

Adjusted the weights of some metal scrap items for better consistency with crafting.

Alcoholic drinks have new nutrition values, so drinking them affects your nutrition differently.

Rebalanced nutrition values for alcoholic beverages.

Survival Schematics are a new schematic type that teaches wilderness and post-apocalypse survival recipes.

Added Survival Schematics; they are like other Schematics but teach wilderness and post apocalypse type survival craftRecipes.

Road kills now give far less meat, and it is of poor quality.

Road kills will now yield way less meat and of poor quality.

Buckets can no longer be taken out of forges once placed.

Removed the ability to remove buckets from forges.

Being unhappy or drunk now slows your actions down more.

Adjusted values in ISBaseTimedAction.adjustMaxTime so that unhappyness and drunkeness have a stronger effect.

Packing eggs into a carton now sets the carton's freeze time to the average of the 12 eggs inside.

Packing eggs in a carton sets the carton's freeze time to the average freeze time of the 12 eggs.

The crafting recipes for Bone, Bulletvest, Spiking Soft Armor, Tire and Wood armor have been rebalanced.

Rebalanced the craftRecipes for Bone, Bulletvest, Spiking Soft Armor, Tire, and Wood armor:

Large and small plant drying racks can now be built from sticks and rags, so you no longer need twine to make one.

Added large and small plant drying racks made from sticks and rags; this is so players can build them without needing twine.

The Leather Van carries tanned hides you can use right away and plenty of Awls.

The Leather Van has tanned hides ready for use, as well as plenty of Awls.

The fiberglass-handled sledgehammer now breaks and is taken apart the same way as the wooden-handled one, giving you a broken long wood handle.

The fiberglass handled sledgehammer will break and be dismantled exactly like the wooden handled one, producing a broken long wood handle.

Fixed game crashing near stashes from Annotated Maps.

Fixed masks not being unequipped and re-equipped when drinking.

Fixed being unable to craft long spiked clubs.

Fixed "Make Jar of Produce" not consuming the jar.

Fixed the Interact key (E) sometimes queuing up multiple actions when held down a bit too long.

Fixed being unable to pick up medium drying racks.

Fixed plant drying racks not being pick-up-able.

The prison laundry room now has its own loot table, so washers and dryers there should contain uniforms.

Added PrisonLaundry to the prison's laundry room.

• Added PrisonLaundry to the prison's laundry room. Washers and dryers should spawn uniforms.

Torches now burn for a consistent amount of time whatever day length you set.

Torches (drainable that can be activated) are now consistent with any day length.

Fertilized eggs stop being fertilized if they get too cold, such as inside a fridge, so keep eggs you want to hatch out of the fridge.

Eggs will lose their fertilized status when too cold (inside a fridge).

Fixed not being able to attach a large stone axe to the back hotbar slot.

The Fire Axe now has a separate Fire Axe Head, so it can break, be taken apart and be put back together like other axes.

Added Fire Axe Head item and enabled all of the business with them breaking and being assembled and disassembled like other axe items.

Spears can now be crafted from proper spear heads, since the missing recipe for it has been added back.

Fixed missing craftRecipe for assembling spears from proper spear heads.

Making an Improvised Flashlight now uses up the tin can.

Fixed Make Improsived Flashlight not consuming the tin can.

A crash on some players' computers, caused by missing display information, has been fixed.

Fixed Null-ref Crashes on User Machines due to missing Display.capabilities

Firearms now use a new Chance-to-Damage system by default. Every properly aimed shot hits, and your hit chance decides whether it does damage. The old method is still available in Sandbox.

Chance-to-Damage: Each successfully aimed shot hits.

• Chance-to-Damage: Each successfully aimed shot hits. The previous chance-to-hit calculation then determines if damage is dealt. This change aims to eliminate the frustration of “missed shots” and attempts to make every ranged attack feel more rewarding.

Key rings now cut the weight of what they hold by 85% while fake equipped, so carrying lots of keys weighs much less.

KeyRing type items will provide 85% weight reduction for their contents while they are in their "fake equipped state".

Butter now needs 5L of milk instead of 0.5L, so it costs far more milk to make.

Butter now require 5L of milk instead of 0.5L.

New safeguards keep chickens from multiplying out of control.

You can now carve short bats, which you need to craft spiked clubs and maces.

Added a craftRecipe for carving short bats.

• Added a craftRecipe for carving short bats. Needed for spiked club and mace crafting.

You can now turn Brooms and Mops into Long Sticks.

Added a craftRecipe to get Long Sticks from Brooms and Mops.

Sharp items now go dull half as fast, so they need sharpening less often.

Items with sharpness will now lose sharpness at half the rate they did previously.

Chicken Nuggets and Fish Fingers are no longer dangerous to eat uncooked.

Removed DangerousUncooked from ChickenNuggets and FishFingers.

The Lady Delighter van now always comes with its special key ring.

The Lady Delighter van has a specialKeyRingChance of 100%.

The sheet sling bag now holds a little less than before.

Adjusted the sheetSlingBag capacity from 12 to 10 from feedback.

The foundation of a lean-to shelter now needs more long sticks or saplings, so it costs more to build.

Increased the amount of long sticks or saplings needed for a lean to shelter, for the foundation as per the tile sprites.

Several recipes with heavy ingredients, such as logs and large stones, can now use those ingredients straight from the floor.

Added the CanBeDoneFromFloor tag to several craftRecipe with heavy ingredients, such as logs are large stones.

Scissors now have different durability depending on their type, so some kinds last longer than others.

Different kinds of scissors are more or less durable than other kinds of scissors.

Harvesting limestone from mineral deposits now always gives at least one crushed limestone.

Similarly, Harvested Limestone from Mineral Deposits will have at least one Crushed Limestone in the yield.

Short revolvers can now sometimes be found in purses and handbags.

Short revolvers can sometimes spawn in purses and handbags.

Whetstones spawn more often and in more kinds of places, so they are easier to find.

Boosted the spawns of Whetstones and added them to several new distribution tables so they have more opportunities to spawn.

Rope belts you craft yourself now give only one left hotbar slot.

Rope belts that a character crafts should only provide one left hotbar slot.

The Multitool and Handiknife are sturdier, so they do not break as quickly.

Rebalanced the durability of the Multitool and Handiknife items; they were too fragile previously.

Stone2 and FlintNodule are now more likely to get damaged when you attack with them, so they wear out faster.

Both Stone2 and FlintNodule have a greater chance of being damaged when used for an attack.

Crafting a wooden toolbox is now slightly less strict about which ingredients it takes.

Made crafting a wooden toolbox slightly more relaxed regarding the ingredient requirements.

The Bucket Maul does more damage to doors, so it breaks them down faster.

Increased the DoorDamage of the Bucket Maul from 40 to 50.

More items can now be carved into medium and small handles, including several of the new broken items.

More items, including several of the new "Broken [ITEM]" items, can be used to carve medium and small handles.

Ice Hockey Sticks can now be carved into Long Sticks, giving you another source of them.

Ice Hockey Sticks can be carved into Long Sticks.

Taking apart shafted implements no longer needs any Maintenance level.

Removed the maintenance level requirements for disassembling shafted implements.

Broken bars can now be cut in half with a hacksaw or similar tool, giving two bar halves at full condition.

Added the AllowDestroyedItem to several craftRecipes for cutting bars in half so broken bars can cut in a half with a hacksaw etc. for 2 100% condition bar-halves.

Fixed not being able to open some seed packet types.

Fixed drainable items losing uses after saving and loading.

Wooden stakes no longer block movement as if they were a wall.

Fixed WoodStake blocking movement like a west wall.

Fixed bottles of disinfectant only having one use.

Fixed Packing Rags turning all rags dirty.

The Occult Activity story now works properly and has more randomness and more items that can turn up in it.

Fixed an issue with the Occult Activity story and added some more randomization and potential items to it.

Firearms jam much less often.

Making a Stone Knife now needs only Maintenance level 1, so you can make one much earlier.

Fixed Make_Stone_Knife requiring Maintenance 5 instead of 1.

Fixed being unable to slice Cakes or Pies.

Fixing and repairing with a Propane Torch now uses less fuel, with every recipe reduced to 2 to match the torch's changed capacity.

Propane Torch usage rebalanced for Fixing and Repair scripts to accommodate the change in capacity; all reduced to 2.

Fixed infinite Propane Torch glitch when disassembling items.

The M14 can now land critical hits, where before it had no critical chance at all.

M14 CriticalChance changed from 0 to 30.

Added an option to bind "Walk To" to a key instead of having to go through the RMB menu.

Added a new Doctor's bag and military duffel bag.

The M16 and M14 critical hit values now line up more closely with other rifles.

Modified the M16 & M14 critical values to be more consistent with other rifles.

The M16 has a lower chance to land critical hits.

M16 CriticalChance changed from 30 to 25.

The Aiming perk critical modifier is now set to 15, as part of the rifle critical hit rebalance.

The M16 no longer slows down between shots in automatic fire, but each extra shot lowers its critical chance to represent recoil.

Disabled the cumulative slowdown until the next shot when firing the M16 in automatic mode.

• Disabled the cumulative slowdown until the next shot when firing the M16 in automatic mode.
• Firing the M16 in automatic mode will cumulatively reduce the chance of a critical with each additional shot. This is intended to represent the loss in accuracy due to recoil.

Propane Tanks now turn up more often in loot.

Increased the spawn rates for Propane Tanks in the distributions.

The Bowling Ball Bag can now carry much more.

Changed Bowling Ball Bag capacity from 2 to 8.

Canned Evaporated Milk has updated calories, carbs, lipids and proteins.

Updated the nutritional value for Canned Evaporated Milk.

• Updated the nutritional value for Canned Evaporated Milk. Calories 472; Carbs, Lipids, and Proteins at 23.6

Maple syrup can now be added to every kind of pancake, not just one of the pancake recipes.

Fixed only being able to add Maple syrup to "PancakesRecipe" and not to "PancakesCraft" or "Pancakes".

Fixed not being able to make 2 or 4 bowls of Rice or Pasta with a Saucepan anymore.

Fixed Machetes not losing condition when used to craft spears from branches/planks.

Fixed being able to fill a square over its capacity by using the Place Item interface.

Disassembling objects now properly uses the Propane Torch.

Fixed Propane Torch not being used for disassembling objects.

Walking and sprinting now burn more calories than standing still, so moving around makes you hungry faster.

Fixed Walking and sprinting not burning more calories than standing still.

Fixed not being able to pick items that were dropped to a removed seat slot.

Fixed being stuck on a seat when trying to change seat twice in different places.

Fixed being able to use the place item option to place infinite items in a floor square.

Fixed bugged interaction with building metal objects and the Propane Torch.

Fixed player able to walk away while equipping items to scrap or destroy an object to perform the actions from afar.

Disassembly now actually uses up Propane Torches, but each use takes far less fuel. Each Propane Tank gives many more refills, and you will find more Propane Tanks in the world.

Short summary of the various changes in this changelog that impact the Propane Torch and Propane Tanks.

• Short summary of the various changes in this changelog that impact the Propane Torch and Propane Tanks. There has been a pretty longstanding bug where Propane Torches were not used up for several Disassemblies.
• With the fix, usage of them was reduced from 100 to 10 but the number of refills per tank was adjusted from 2 to 16, along with changes that make sure players find more Propane Tanks in the world to offset the reduction.

Fixed Lighters draining completely when used with a Molotov.

Watermelons now have to be sliced or smashed before you can eat them.

Watermelon must be sliced or smashed before being able to eat it.

Only Bread Slices and Toast can be placed inside Toasters.

At character creation you can no longer pick Obese together with Light Eater, or Very Underweight together with Hearty Appetite.

Obese is now mutually exclusive with Light Eater and Very Underweight is mutually exclusive with Hearty Appetite at character creations.

Spears now have a different weight, so check how much they add to your load.

Fixed the composter becoming unusable after moving it.

You can no longer move a Composter while it has compost in it.

Fixed being able to move a composter if it has compost in it.

Holding SHIFT no longer makes your character lose weight faster.

Fixed holding SHIFT made weight decrease faster.

Fixed some desks that couldn't be picked up.

PiePrep now has the debuff it was missing.

Fixed PiePrep not having a debuff.

Baguettes can now be used to make sandwiches without an error.

Fixed error with Baguettes being unable to be used to make sandwiches.

Clicking and holding the left mouse button when placing items now locks the item to the clicked square.

Pouring gravel, sand and similar materials on the ground now automatically moves on to a new sack.

The files for evolved recipes and food items have been updated.

Updated evolvedrecipes.txt and items_food.txt.

Empty composters can now be moved.

Can now move empty composter.

Military crates can now be moved.

Can now move military crates.

Fixed the player not running when moving too slowly to sprint.

Fixed placing multiple items locking the items to the first square that is clicked.

Fixed not being able to attach sheet ropes at certain locations.

Fixed a spawned bowl of pasta or rice not being edible.

Wall frames are built from two planks, and taking one apart no longer gives back three.

Fixed building Wallframe using two planks but giving three when disassembled

Fixed exploit holding down the Escape key before starting certain actions.

The Axeman trait now correctly gives its swing speed bonus.

Fixed Axeman not applying bonus for swing speed

Levelling now works on a new system.

New levelling system.

Vision now uses a new cutaway system in the style of The Sims.

New Sims-style cutaway vision system.

Broken glass is now in the game, along with injuries that come from it.

Broken glass and related injuries.

Washing machines and driers now work.