7.TOOLS
Patch notes

Alpha 5

Released 2013-12-13. The official release notes.

Alpha 5

General

Added new higher quality deferred lighting and checkbox in video options to switch it on and off for low and high end computers

Added new clouds, sun color and fog color spectrums so each biome is unique

Added biome transitions so they blend between colors smoothly

Added the ability for dogs to get through 1 meter holes

Added new zombie crawlerwho crawls on the ground and can get through 1 meter block holes

Added water specular highlights for sun/moon

Added empty tin cans to loot

Add 4th ultra shadow distance setting of 80-90 blocks

Added Allow friend invites from dedicated server

Added SteamID for banning and file saving

Added new game options for zombies running always, never and default run night walk day

Added new organic particle for destroying corpses

Added buckshot item which can be crafted from lead ingots

Added feathers & shotguns to zombie loot

Weapons and Items

Added Sandstone recipe

Added Scrap Metal recipe from Empty Cans

Added recipes for Gas Cans from Corn Meal and Bottled Water

Added recipes for Oil Barrels from Gas Cans

Sound

Added new destroy organic sound set so destroying corpses makes the right sounds

Added new footstep organic sound set so walking over corpses sounds squishy

Added new loot safe, loot stump, loot suitcase and loot corpse sounds and Integrated new loot sounds

Added new organic material so corpses play the correct impact sounds

Bugs

Some player hosted games still have incompatible NAT routers preventing other players from joining. A quick solution is try and let your friend host instead

Runaway console and browser join issues

Input string was not in correct format console hijacking bug

Password popup screen to hold proper game information to connect to upon entering password

Game Name and Game Host max length are both now 25 characters to stop dedicated servers from having too long of a gameinfo string