7.TOOLS
Patch notes

Alpha 6

Released 2014-01-15. The official release notes, with 30 changes linked into the database.

Alpha 6.0

General

Added brand new Metal Forging system for making ingots, gun-parts and bullet parts

Added weapon breakdown system and crafting for the pistol, shotgun, sawed off shotgun, sniper rifle and bullets

Added 3 new snow biome zombies including the Frigid Hunter, the Frozen Lumberjack and the Frostbitten Worker

Added dynamically sized loot containers and UI

Added mouse key bind support

Added new server info panel for the server browser window showing all game options

Added game options to Disable/Enable NAT for player hosted games

Added a new “suck nearby items” function: when you press E all items on the ground in a 4m radius get moved towards the player and auto-collected

Added new Take All loot container hot key which shares the players reload binding

Added new DaysToRespawnIfPlayerLeft option to spawners so zombies won’t spawn inside locations that have been cleared unless abandoned by players for several days cities are excluded

Added tooltip line sound and gui that shows help for some special recipes, weapon repair, weapon breakdown and new forge functions

Added paging for game options panels to accommodate the growing number of game options

Added Forge GUI backdrop, animation and Forge particle system

Added new tooltip hints when placing items in the forge

Added weight to tools so all sensible items can be melted down or turned to scrap for forging

Added text entries for new enemies, items and molds

Weapons and Items

Added Scrap Iron, Scrap Brass and Scrap Lead special Wildcard Recipes to the top of the recipe list.

Added new weapon breakdown special wildcard recipe to the top of the recipe list with a special yellow color

Added new primitive Stone Axe and Sharp Stone weapons

Added Iron Bars model and crafting recipe

Added new Tungsten Door & Recipe

Added recipe to break Scrap Iron Walls down into Scrap Iron

Added forge and Iron Wall block and recipe

Added Army Awning Tents blocks, sandbags and Camo Netting for army camps

Added Lump of Clay recipe from Corn Meal and Water

Added Bullet Casing items

Added Bullet Tip item

Added Brass Door Knob item for scrap material

Added Lead Fishing Weight item for scrap material

Added broken down Gun Parts for all weapons except the RL and Hunting Rifle

Added Mold Objects for all gun components

Added Lead Car Battery loot item

Added Rocks to plains and desert biomes

Added Sniper Rifle recipe

Added ingot mold recipes for Brass Ingot and Lead Ingot

Added recipe for Concrete from Cinder Blocks

Added Pump Shotgun Short Barrel Mold recipe

Added brass Brass Candlestick item and icon and made it useable as a club weapon

Locations

Added new Snowy Forest into Navezgane

Added 2 new Gas Station points of interest to the snow biome

Added a large Ghost Town point of interest in the southeast desert biome

Added a huge Ski Lodge and Sawmill in the north east corner of the snowy biome

Added 3 new different Army Recon Campsites with Sandbags and foxhole trenches and military loot at various biomes to Navezgane

Added a new business to the plains and 4 new campsites at various biomes to Navezgane

Added car wrecks in the world with static crawler and dogs spawners in the areas

Added new gravel and asphalt roads and ponds and lakes to the new larger Navezgane

Added more cars, road signs and light poles to the new larger Navezgame

Added many new player starts spawn locations to Navezgane

Loot

Added medicine cabinets, televisions and paintings to the buildings and houses in Navezgane

Added military loot to new military munitions chest

Added medicine cabinet as a new type of loot list

Added corn meal loot to cupboards

Added Bullet Casings, 9mm Bullets, 10mm Bullets, 7.62mm Bullets, Candlestick, Trophy, Car Batteries, Brass Car Radiators, Venison Stew, Blueberry Pie to loot

Added Clay drop chance to desert ground and forest

Models and Icons

Added icons for bullet casings

Added icon for bullet tip item

Added icons for trophies

Added mold icons for lead, iron, brass, aluminum and copper ingots

Added icons for bullet casings, bullet tip, 9mm, 10mm and 7.62mm bullets

Added icon for stone axe, sharp stone and iron bars

Added new scrap iron, brass and lead models and icons

Sound

Added full sound sets for crafting, forging, map and build menus

Changes

Changed the size of Navezgane increasing it by 33%

Changed client inventory is now saved every 30s to the server or when the client quits.

Changed spawn rules to be governed by the hosts Friendly Fire settings. With FF on new players will spawn away from each other at a random spawn point as this option supports PVP play with FF off new players will spawn near each other as this option supports cooperative play.

Changed sleeping bag rules so the game remembers your last placed sleeping bag or bed only and auto spawns you here without selecting it.

Changed fat zombie cop puke attack range 33% shorter and half damage to players

Changed all firearms to use bullets instead of magazines to work better with forging of bullets

Changed all metal objects now have weight so they can be scrapped into metal for the forge

Changed removed iron ingot recipes, they must be forged now

Changed zombie spawning in major cities during day to have more zombies and respawn faster

Changed biome spawning so that min distance is 16 was 32

Changed removed iron ingot recipes from Iron wall and iron ore now you must melt them

Changed metal_medium and metal_hard to have more durability

Changed Game Info to use key value pairs instead of a : separated list w/backwards compatibility

Changed paintings, modern couches, end tables and small televisions so they can be picked up

Changed removed Fat zombie cops from Diersville, they will be limited to night spawning

Changed City Biome to have more day walkers

Changed chance to find painkillers in garbage and other loot now that there are medicine cabinets

Changed key bind window to NGUI

Changed Sun movement is now from east (morning) to the west (evening)

Changed Snow zombies to use fat zombie hand attack

Changed removed m136 rocket launchers and rockets from wall safes

Changed removed old recipes for scrap metal from tin cans, candy tins, hub caps and air filters to prepare for the forging system

Changed garage loot to exclude painkillers and include shovels, pickaxes and fire axes

Changed spawn locations marked by stars are no longer shown on the map

Changed snow blocks now have a chance to drop dirt, snow and clay

Changed reduced shotgun ammo from loot

Changed camp fire recipe to use a log circled with small rocks

Changed bullets so they can be broken down to retrieve ingredients

Changed coming next load screen image for next release

Changed throworganichitstone1.wav to sound more like flesh hitting stone

Changed all ammo pieces and individual bullets to stack 500 per item

Changed recipe so you get more gunpowder from coal and potassium nitrate

Changed increased chance for clay drop on all top ground layers

Changed cinder blocks so they can be picked up

Changed ladders so they burn as fuel in the forge

Changed buckshot to get eight from one lead ingot

Changed corpses so they gib easier

Changed brass lights to drop scrap brass

Bugs

bug that would not pop up an error window upon finding out the server is not connected to NAT during connection.

bug when selecting a server in the server browser, ones with similar information would also be highlighted

bug when starting a private game, you were unable to invite friends to join via steam friend invite system

bug causing bottled water to show up too much in cupboards and not enough food

small business buildings that had light fixtures blocking the players path

black block in desert junkyard

looting nurse zombie sound to play looting corpse sound

mp5 reload scale problem

missing material on clay lump

coal ore blocks to burn & increased coal piece burn value

the zombie noise system that was broken

deer so they cannot climb ladders

chopped logs to drop pine trunks

bug where 2 players can now activate the forge at the same time

bug where clients can breakdown weapons in coop now

world “cut lines”

short metal pipes so they can be scrapped

pipe bomb throw animation stuck glitch

Crossbow now has a bolt when taking in the hand

pickaxe hold loop problem

+ Mac builds need to quit via the task manager

+ Rocket Launchers and Hunting Rifles cannot be broken down yet or crafted

+ Upgrading to Alpha 6 will sometimes cause players to lose their key bindings. If this happens go into options/controls/restore defaults and hit apply then close the game and start again to fix the problem

+ Alpha 6 has some unresolved animation issues caused from the Unity 4.3 upgrade including the cross bow animation and zoom

+ Male punch animation doesn’t play

+ Some items have only been translated to English