7.TOOLS
Patch notes

Alpha 3

Released 2013-11-19. The official release notes, with 18 changes linked into the database.

General

Added Game browser client refresh improvements with master server

Weapons and Items

Added Lead Ingot recipe

Added new Hard Metal Door made from ingots

Added recipe for Wooden Shingles, Wedges, Corners and Wooden Shingles Pyramid so wooden shingle homes can be made

Added iron sights to M-136 Rocket Launcher & Degradation

Added stack limits to Aloe Cream, First Aid Bandages

Created Hay Bale recipe from Brown Grass which can be used to break your fall from a high places

Added Plant Fibers recipe from brown grass

Added Torch recipe from Sticks and brown grass

Added recipe for Planks from Trunk Tips

Degradation now affects the damage all weapons do, to blocks as well to entities

Added Left mouse button on an empty Bucket bails 9 water blocks

Added Right mouse button on an empty bucket now uses 5 water blocks to fill the bucket

Sound

Added new player_ointment sound for applying aloe vera

Added full new female Zombie sound set

Added some new male zombie sounds

Added aloe vera cream apply sound

Added new Auger sound set

Added new auger_empty and Chainsaw empty sound when your out of gas

Added new auger_reload and chainsaw_reload sounds and animations

Added new bucketfill_water, bucketplace_water and bucketbail_water sounds for new bucket and water functions (Rick)

Changes

Reduced probability of finding Rocket Launchers in Safes

Changed it so falling blocks don’t spawn items any more

Changed Desk to use Night Stand loot instead of safe loot

Changed Iron Ingots so get 9 instead of 10 ingots

Changed Metal Trussing so you can shoot through it and zombies see through it

Changed Scrap Metal Door to not be as strong

Changed Pipe Bombs to not destroy the world as much

Changed Quarter Filled Stairs to place inverted

Changed Aloe cream recipe to require a Glass Jar

Changed Aloe cream so it heals the player when used

Changed all Grass so it drops Brown Grass on destroy

Renamed Plant Fibers to Plant Fibers

Changed Animal dead bodies to stay for 60 seconds (Joel)

Changed algorithm for calculating explosion damage to blocks

Re-factored chunk generation

Blocks destroyed when falling on stability drop only items if the fall distance is less than 3 meters

Removed telnet support on a dedicated server. Control panel is the only choice now

Items dropped on death of a player now stay for 3 minutes instead of 1

Changed older couches to fit the old town theme

Changed algorithm how explosions damages blocks for tuning improvements

Changed it so the Rocket launcher doesn’t get removed it degradation is “empty” it jams now

Auto saving now random chunks that need to be saved

Placing Water from a bucket now only spreads 2 blocks

Changed rotating death camera is now only 50% speed

Removed god mode when Creative Menu is used

Did a rare Loot Container balance pass so most larger enterable structures have a least one rare type of loot container usually hard to find

Replaced ping with country code in game browser

Changed control panel disable/enable server options to default to disable

Bugs

Made first floor in wasteland governors building set 3 blocks high for more jumping room and to prevent getting stuck

bug that Hunting Rifle zoom was scrollable

Auger is rendered smaller in players hands

Spanish, French and German translations

Glass Panes so they can be placed on any wall the correct angle

Hulk vomits at any angle out of the back of his head. Now if you happen to get behind the zombie when he started his vomit attack, his head isn’t rotated in an unnatural angle any more

control panel so that it also works when the next (and overnext, etc) round started

Fat Zombie cop vomits and attacks blocks at the same time sometimes

tree tips to drop tree tip blocks

lowered volume of overdriven chainsaw fire sound

Hopefully - the problem that sometimes polygons shown invisible

crash when ending the game on server browser screen

NAT punchthrough sometimes doesn’t work as it should for some users

Zombie Dogs and animals climb ladders

problem that when setting maxplayers to 4 only 3 players could connect on a server

Zombies don’t head for “not yet spawned” zombies any more

Continue game screen titles don’t update properly when re-entering game

problem when Multiplayer servers sometimes don’t show up on the game browser

Control Panel command errors form bad characters

zombies hoping on curbs

Zombies dancing zombies near 2 block high fences

Zombies over-running their target position

Animals sometimes run in circles

problem with master server list

Zombies jumping and dancing at Spike Traps

Control panel can now kick and ban users

+ Players can sometimes get stuck in small vertical spaces less than 2 blocks high like on top of a cinder block or trash pile

+ Sometimes there are missing polygons in the world