changelog.txt

0.7.1 (bugfix point release)

Vehicle bed sleepiness fix.
Made coughing from smoke wake you up.
Update version for MSVC project builds.
Remove coverage property from wristwatch to prevent ensumberance.
Supress pickup from vehicle when doing autopickup.
Fix typo in spawn list.
Don't draw item glyphs on top of furniture glyphs.
Strip out references to a removed ammunition in spawn lists.
Change in how Vehicle Examination window is displayed so it works in 12x12 View Screens
Fix for weapon mods with no ammo types.

0.7

Highlights:
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Use ncursesw and gettext for i18n support and expanded character palette.
Configurable Autopickup feature.
Configurable item spawning lists, now with more configurable spawn frequencies.
New advanced bionics.

Features:
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Use ncursesw and gettext for i18n support and expanded character palette.
Configurable Autopickup feature.
Configurable item spawning lists, now with more configurable spawn frequencies.
Probability Travel Bionic (walk through walls!)
Railgun Bionic (throw metal items at the speed of electricity!)
Flashbang bionic.
Shockwave Generator bionic.
Chain Lightning bionic.
Artificial Night bionic.
Streamlined lumberjacking tasks.
Splints are now craftable and (slowly!) heal broken limbs.
Recover CBMs from butchered player corpses
Small game arrow.
Spoiled (rotten) items will now be removed from the map after twice the time it takes to spoil.
Lit torches set enemies on fire.
Toggled Metabolic Interchange bionic, active power sources.
Changed Optimist to be more thematic and balanced.
Morale effects have more flexible durations.
Extensively reworked fire handling, e.g. campfires should last a more reasonable duration.
Preserve martial art style selection across wielding/unwielding weapons.
Simulate alt+number input for SDL version.
Quicksave command.
Added basic sludge crawler monster
More crafting recipes.
Stash knives in your boots.
Folding bicycle you can stash in a trunk.
New improvised guns.
More survival-ish foods.
Added some more heavy pistols and ammunition.
New Improvised lockpick!
Floatation Vest.
Added wine and a new shirt.
Towels.
Fuzzy time display, and precise time with wristwatch item.

Bugfixes:
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Multiple gates near one handle work correctly.
Made wild Jabberwocks much more rare.
Fix turrets shuffing around when off map.
Prevent gibbing from low-damage sources.
House generation fixes.
Allow deconstruction of refrigerators.
More consistent road placement.
Make mongroups die propperly, even if the queen dies at a distance
Monsters killed by wide attacks drop corpses/loot
Fix solar panel power production on vehicles.
Cleanup tire changing activity.
Fix stunlock caused by counterattacks.
Keep Jabberwocks from spawning in classic mode.
Fix turret drops.
Extensive text handling fixes.
Menu beautification.
Allow saving while in a vehicle.
Fix div0 on bad option setting.

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0.6

Highlights:
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* Zombies will revive after a time, if not butchered (or otherwise dealt with).
* The Android trait now behaves the way that the description indicates.
* Gasoline can be siphoned from vehicles. Requires a rubber hose for now - these are easier to acquire.
* Sewing requires materials other than thread - rags for cloth, leather patches for leather, kevlar bricks, plastic chunks.
* Leather/Kevlar/plastic/fur repair/reinforcement actually possible!
* Inventory management UI improvements, and a new screen to organize worn items.
* NPCs continue to be less buggy, but are still prone to crashes.
* Weapon firing code reworked a bit. UI improvements, and you should now be able to fire at anything within range.
* Reworked the armor/protection code.
* Reworked the learning system: replaced XP with Focus. See the relevant help text.
* Added a *bunch* of new multi-stage missions, for those who play with the shelter NPC turned on.
* Many new buildings (See full changelong list)
* Vehicle collision physics are now based on *actual* physics! Reduces collision insanity.
* Option to use triginometric distance instead of roguelike distance. In other words light, line of sight are circular instead of square.
* Zombie density in towns is based on nearby buildings instead of distance from town center.
* Higher-performance (on windows) SDL-based rendering as an optional build type.
* Movement on and around vehicles greatly streamlined.
* Sound indicator lets you know how much noise you're making.
* Turn cost indicator lets you know how long actions take.
* Overkilled monsters now spray gibs around instead of disapearing.
* Mostly remove limits on how many items fit in a tile of ground.
* As usual, many bugfixes.

Full list:
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Purifier no longer removes traits available at chargen.
Fix some calculations that wanted floating-point math, and were using integer math.
Fix some vehicle collision craziness related to skids.
Added zombie revival. Chance of unbutchered zombie corpses rezzing, once 6 hours have passed.
Advanced inventory UI improvements/fixes.
Dropping count-by-charge items (batteries, meds, etc.) into vehicles will cause restacking.
Android trait always gives a power system bionic.
Fix torso encumbrance display (it's smart about sign use now).
Bitmask-based item flags no longer exist! Instead, we have string-based tags, that have no upper limit.
Tweaked glowstick behavior - can no longer deactivate, and they have a dead state.
Android trait should no longer give the player faulty bionics.
Bolts moved to ammo category, like arrows.
Added bone broth, and recipe.
Adjust how Climate Control bionic works, make vehicles have functioning (magic!) AC.
Added fuel siphoning using rubber hose.
Appearance-improving mutations are now flagged as being good mutations.
Welder charges are actually used during vehicle construction.
Items will no longer become erroneously fitted, and item tags should not spread during map loading.
Weather accounts for starting time properly.
Containers can be unloaded again (they were bugged).
Optimized scentmap updates, hopefully this speeds up certain activities.
Pit-requiring constructions have pit digging as their first two stages, to make it more obvious what the prereqs are.
Some menus (notably, inventory) can be navigated with arrow keys and enter.
Allowing sewing of leather items, make sewing require rags/patches.
Cooking rotten food does not make it magically fresh any more.
Resolves an issue where destroying an item while tailoring would crash the game.
New UI to sort clothing and automatically assign special characters to clothing (accessed via +)
Footwear warmth values tweaked to be more flexible.
Wool warmth is not reduced by rain.
Sofas and armchairs help with sleeping.
Temperature is less of an issue while sleeping.
Warning messages for when the player is cold/hot while sleeping.
Oversized clothing can be worn over anything (blankets, cloaks, etc).
Sound interruptions can be categorically ignored while crafting, reading, etc.
More improvements to the advanced inventory UI.
Shrubs less difficult to smash.
Upgraded versions of Fast Healer still give you bonuses while sleeping.
Soldering iron recipe learnable via disassembly.
Integrated toolset power usage normalized on a few recipes.
Vehicle speed is now taken into account when throwing a character that exits a moving vehicle.
Gasoline lanterns added to the game.
Bifocal glasses added to the game.
Tweak Windows (catacurse) colors.
Correct window border color behavior under Windows.
Add glass jars, make sauces spawn in them instead of in tin cans.
Removed a couple NPC crash bugs.
You can safely exit a vehicle moving less than 1 MPH.
Fix a pair of drawing glitches related to the item pickup window.
Remove the artificial delay when animating vehicle movement.
Out-of-range enemies are still drawn when firing a weapon.
Make it so that anything within range can be targeted with a ranged weapon.
Disassembly recipe for vacuum sealer.
Backspace no longer causes junk to be input during string entry.
The overmap screen now lets you use "<" and ">" to view different z-levels.
Reworked the armor/protection code.
Fridges drop rubber hose instead of pipe when destroyed.
Reworked the learning system: replaced XP with Focus. See the relevant help text.
Autosave should save everything now, rather than a subset.
Fix artifact saving/loading... again.
Added new missions.
Added cathedral to mapgen.
Fixed flamethrowers.
Add 40mm acid bomb shells.
Moving furniture causes noise.
Clothing damage descriptions now depend on the item's material.
Gunmods now show "%" properly in the magazine size line.
Add bicycle seats: low-mass seats that can't take a seatbelt.
Vehicle collision physics are now based on *actual* physics! Reduces collision insanity.
Foraging gives survival experience, even on failure.
Disassembling ammo gives firearms experience.
Ball bearings should hopefully drop now.
Added headlights to a few more default vehicles.
Lab coats can be fitted.
Items in adjacent containers (fridges, lockers, etc.) visible with 'V' screen.
Players can no longer examine sealed crates to see their contents.
Funnels give acid water during acid rain :).
Acid water (after refinement) now an alternate ingredient for acid bombs.
Corrected a few item name typos.
Cleaned up generation of a particular (spiral-y) underground room.
More temperature tweaks.
Being hot makes you MORE thirsty, not less.
Reworked item unloading and reloading a bit to remove bugs.
Flatbed trucks now have rear windows.
Electric cars added as potential vehicle spawns.
Fix some bugs related to known overmap data and leaking the state to other characters.
Effects of current stats are shown on the '@' screen.
Materials obtained from clothing depend on the clothing's damage level.
Fixed some lab mapgen bugs.
Mansions got a little love.
Having too little intelligence for a book is more of a penalty.
Vehicle headlight state is persistent after save-load.
Being hot no longer increases thirst by an unreasonable amount
Minor : temp_conv and dis.intensity are saved, fixing strange on-load inconsistencies
Minor : Diseases that affect speed no longer overwrite eachother in the @ menu
Clothing with pockets provides a bonus to hand warmth when not wielding a weapon.
New large building with basement: Prison
Basement level for hazardous waste sarcophagus.
New building with basement: musterious cabin.
Display recent log messages on player death.
Radiation exposure is now more dangerous
Mutations from radiation can be disabled.
Mutation categories now more dominant.
Added themed mutagens with recipes.
New medical items.
Bundle of plastic bags item for stowing bags.
Rebalance chance of cutting weapons getting stuck, much less likely now.
Smashing corpses prevents them from reviving.
Burning corpses prevents them from reviving.
Stopped players from leaving slime trails or webs while in a vehicle.
Made vitamins have an effect again.
Made multiple gasoline tanks drain properly.
Added tiny pain effect to Acid Drizzle, raincoats now offer a bit of protection to acid rain/drizzle.
Advanced inv: "e" pulls up inventory item menu. Help window displays feedback messages for actions taken. "?" toggles between help and msg viewer.
Eliminate radiation dosage saturation, halving dosage rate to compensate. (radiation is slower, but more implacable)
Fitting screen now shows storage and encumbrance in item columns.
Added leather vest item and crafting recipe.
avoid use of pow() in distance calculation, speeding them up an order of magnitude.
Make blood filter remove all other drug based diseases.
Make blood analysis detect all drugs.
Behold, sharpie markers.
Display actual keymapping instead of default one in most help text.
Stopped bleeding, bites, and poison from applying when stopped by armor.
Safely hop from slow-moving vehicles, get hurt from quick ones.
Multidrop screen now shows a summary of what is about to be dropped.
Sort inventory by item charges, use low-charge items first.
Option to auto-save before sleep.
Lava burns things and can be used for crafting.
Multiple fixes to burst-fire targeting.
Prevent turrets from shooting themselves.
Prevent friendly turrets from trying to shoot through the player.
Brasas catcher item to catch your brass for recrafting.
More power armor variants.
Make movement take half the cost of both the beginning and end tiles, instead of just taking the cost of the end tile.
Made shooting interactions more realistic.
Add radiation badge item and associated infrastructure.
Automagically add new keybindings, so long as they don't conflict.
Significantly reduces the number of giant worms.
Adds strawberry bushes.
Advanced inventory: Add [c]ategory sort.
Large number of added archery items: Wide range of bows crossbows, and arrows, and a multitude of crafting recipes.
Stop unnecessaraly saving adjacent overmaps every time they are potentially dirtied. (prevents periodic pauses!)
Hard Leg Guards and Metal Leg guards.
Picking berry bushes trains survival (at low levels).
Added skill support into professions.


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0.5

Highlights:
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* Many new details added to mapgen! New buildings, ruined vehicles on roads, and so on.
* Much more modding-friendly: MANY bits of data have been moved into data files, rather than being hardcoded in the source.
* A handful of recipes can be learned from sources other than just leveling your skills.
* Artifacts should save/load properly now!
* Assorted UI tweaks and improvements.
* Weather radio and directional antenna.
* Rain funnels - first step towards proper rain barrels.
* Robust Genetics and dodging have both been significantly rebalanced, and should actually be useful.
* Zombies wear damaged clothing.
* Tailoring is more important, and string is easier to acquire.
* New content all around!
* Numerous bugfixes.


Full list:
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Matches usable anywhere lighters could be used previously.
Draw lit areas outside of LOS and normal sight radius the same as unlit areas
Tell the player when their gear is damaged in combat
Display player feat morale boosts
Pickling/canning
Only rust skill if X turns have passed since practice, not every x turns.
Halve rate of skill rust across the board.
Push crafting recipes out to JSON - now moddable without recompiling!
Acid rain causes pain not injury
Changed default viewmorale key to v
Learn crafting recipes from item disassembly or books.
New Hardcore trait
Other new traits: Skilled Liar, Pretty, Beautiful, Very Beautiful, Glorius (cancels truth-teller, ugly mutations)
Set minimum move to 25
Death by starvation or thirst
New professions: tailor, scoundrel
Adjusted conditions for cutting and stabbing skill practice (should be able to practice piercing now)
Code compiles with no warnings.  No user-visible change, but important stability milestone.
Added a craftable power armor power interface CBM, solar panels.
Continuous reading.
New mixed drinks
A new book; "To Serve Man"
Glowsticks, found in sporting goods stores and bedrooms.
Broken and Empty windows can no longer be taped up, alarmed windows can.
Palisade walls changed to require 2 6foot ropes rather than one thirty foot one.
Domestic Windows drop strings now (Those are the kind that can be opened)
String can be made from sinew and plant fibre.
Added blankets, fur blankets (craft only), emergency blankets, sleeping bags, fur sleeping bags (craft only).
Added house coat, snuggie, cloak, fur cloak (craft only), leather cloak (craft only).
Added fur scarf, fur gloves, fur trenchcoat, fur pants, fur boots (all craft only).
All tailoring items that use fur require survival as secondary skill.
Added crafting recipes for bandana, blanket, house coat, cloak.
Weather radio
Radios are tuneable, so you can receive from more than one station without moving.
New item that doubles battery capacity of tools, recipe learn from certain electronics books.
Bugfix: reduced chance of "Tried to kill monster" debug s	pam.
Bugfix: reduced chance of "Stopping out-of-map vehicle" spam.
Bugfix: can unload liquids into items wielded in hands (e.g., steel jerrycans).
Bionics screen shows current and maximum power.
Escape key usable to exit out of more menus.
Multidrop screen continually updates to show new potential weight/volume.
Bugfix: longbow should not end up loaded while in inventory, and can be fired if it does.
Backpacks, messenger bags, etc. can be repaired via sewing kits.
Add fire drill as a survivalcraft firestarter (trickier and slower than lighter/matches).
Furry mutation provides warmth, Bark mutation protects from fire.
Removed/reduced a lot of spam messages related to being hot or cold.
Sleeping should be easier in the cold (decreased chances of waking up).
Being too hot can now wake you up.
Inreased the amount fo heat generated by the player while awake.
Tweaked hunger and fatigue's contribution to body temperature.
More traits and mutations have body temperature effects.
Fix artifact saving and loading.
Multiple building additions in town and in the countryside.
Support for 2x2 and 3x3 buildings.
Temporary fix to decrease the number of large structures with roads running through them.
Items can only be set on fire if it would affect them (no more burning sheets infinitely).
Looking around at items (with "V") has a few improvements.
Soldering irons give heating elements when disassembled, tweak numbers for hotplates and water purifiers.
Advanced inventory management screen, default keymap "/". Lets you interact with adjacent tiles.
Roadmap is made of paper.
Removed RV kitchen units from some spawn locations.
Backend: made it much easier to define pre-built locations. Responsible for a lot of the new building types.
Increased the quench value of clean water.
Early-game survivalist stabbing weapon is now pointy stick. Wood spear is higher level.
You can now read using torches and other items.
Addictions can be configured explicitly in the professions file.
Tweak crossbow trap drops.
Made several UI screens smarter (resize to fit screen, esc can exit, etc.).
Show nearby map notes on the minimap.
Some item types can be defined from data files now! So far: misc/melee, armor, guns, ammo, tools, gun mods, books
Glasses can be worn with power armor.
Added several new constructions.
Power use of integrated toolset has been rebalanced.
Armor CBMs have had drawbacks removed.
Rain coats can be made from plastic bags.
Fursuits.
Work to make NPCs less buggy.
Nuclear missile fixes.
Tweaked steel recycler behavior.
Autosaves take into account the passage of real-world time.
Placable funnel that collects some water while raining.
Characters with the Android trait no longer get unimplemented bionics.
Added several new options.
NPC spawning is toggled with the in-game options menu rather than a text file hack.
Added more wildlife (coyotes, cats, etc.).
Robust Genetics trait heavily buffed.
Change how overmap tile data is saved, to allow for more terrain types and buildings.
Add high-capacity power storage CBM.
Add some new magazines and entertainment books.
Blisters no longer lower max HP (at least until the system is more fleshed out).
Cannibal trait has been rebalanced, as well as morale effects of eating human flesh.
Added cookbook for Italian recipes.
Sewing now requires an adequate source of light.
New health display for non-Self Aware characters, accurate to 1/10th max HP rather than 1/4th.
Targeting window (when throwing/firing weapons) has been reorganized.
Directional antennas!
Gas pumps have been rebalanced (less fragile when filling vehicles, more fragile when filling containers).
Added sling, slingshot, and associated ammunition.
Gas stations can spawn next to highways.
Large creatures are more likely to leave a corpse when taking high damage.
Add flavor items with variable descriptions to the game (fliers and such).
Some guns have range modifiers independent of their ammo. Buffed coilgun range.
Add limb torsion ratchet bionic, generates power when moving.
Desks don't spawn outside any more.
The option to delete your world on character death actually works now!
Tweaked projectile/glass interaction, stopped leaping monsters from phasing through windows.
Debug menu changes.
Made it possible to build indoor furniture in more situations.
Updated readme, added contributing guidelines.
Stopped small animals from suiciding, in many cases (e.g., broken windows and landmines).
Add a few hats. No, not TF2-style.
Artifacts will successfully save and load now!
Adjusted monster spawning mechanics to reduce the chance of swarms of difficult zombies.
Stop roads from going through buildings so often.
Pits less awkward to board over (can use nearby items).
Tweak glass bottle weight/volume.
Allow for reading/sewing in the dark through mutations/CBM's with a speed penalty.
Rewrote dodge abilities to have a noticeable impact.
Mansion pools are considered indoors now.
Tires can be changed with a wrench and a jack.
Add game logic to handle recipes that take the same item as a component and a tool, and add UI to alert the player.
Improve rendering in the main Windows port - animations should display better.
Cave-ins cause damaging rubble to fall.
Improve fuel guage display in the vehicle examination window.
Overmap notes blink again.
Space and tab should be available for keymaps.
Hitting the "pause"/"skip turn" button will let you cancel reading, crafting, and other long-term actions.
Special road spawns should not happen on bridges.
Ruined vehicles spawn on roads.
Zombies wear damaged clothing.
Nighttime lights are visible from reasonable distances now.

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0.4
Make the battery system bionic only consume as many batteries as necessary to fully power yourself
Knives can also cauterize wounds now. Requires a lighter.
Soldering irons (and hotplates, why not) can be used to cauterize wounds, causing pain and removing any bleeding or uninfected bite effects.
Fixed crash bug in Windows when attacks hit something off-screen?
Fixed precipitation animation with shifted viewport.
Can now disassemble items from the examination screen.
Added colored hinting to the item examination sidebar listing possible actions. e.g., "W" (for "wear") is grayed out if the item isn't wearable.
Added ability to craft a recipe continuously (until out of materials, etc.).
Reduce (maybe fully fix) wolf self-attacks.
Power armor.
More fitted gear, and a few more pieces made craftable.
Vehicle-mountable water tanks and kitchen units, implied storage-battery-charging generators.
Map tiles can now contain up to 64 items.
Beer has been made weaker, and now appears in kegs in liquor stores and bars.
Steel jerrycans.
Any gun can now be used one-handed if you are strong enough.
Hardcoded frostbite not to occur above freezing temperatures.
Improved fire's ability to warm the player. Also, standing on fire and being on fire warm up the player.
Fixed body temperature equalization.
Sunny and clear weather no longer warm the player underground.
Standing in water or sewage will increase the rate of heat loss (but not make the player colder)
The head and torso now lose heat faster than other body parts.
Body temperature drops as you lose HP.
Encumberance menu's listing of warmth has been made more colorful.
Mouth (face) now has appropriate cold and hot diseases.
The ability to cauterize wounds to heal bites and stop bleeding. (a)ctivate a knife, requires a lighter.
The ability to craft an item as many times as is possible. Defaults to the + key. (Linux and Mac users will need to assign a key)
Added M72-LAW. Makes a large explosion and penetrates armour well. One shot only.
Clothing can be made fitted by (a)pplying a sewing kit.
Some foods can be heated, hot food grants a larger morale bonus than cold food.
Ammunition explodes rather than burning.
Lightstrips, function as weak light providers. Craftable.
Bandages and First Aid kits no longer show uninjured bodyparts in the menu.
Some basic professions, more to be added later.


0.3
Many menus stretch with an enlarged viewport.
An action to repeat the last craft has been added, default keybinding of -
When crafting liquid items, the game asks you for a container first, then asks if you want to dump the item.
A large amount of survival craft has been added, allowing you to make most of the basic tools and necessities. Along with several new weapons, some storage items and a liquid container.
Smoker Zombies, belch clouds of smoke at players, slowing them and blocking LOS.
Robots now pull from separate drop lists when killed.
Alcohol cost for Torches and Bandages has been increased to 7, or one third of a bottle.
Alcohol cost for molotovs has been reduced to 14, gasoline cost increased to 400.
Chitinous boots and gauntlets added.
Picklock kits break when damaged 5 times.
Zombie spawn ratios have been rebalanced for static spawning.
Pocketknives are useable for all logical recipes.
Child zombies have had a small pool of item drops added.
HP Ignorant is now the player default, Self Aware can be purchased to display exact HP.
Lawnmower blades have been replaced with generic blades, most bladed items are made using blades instead of machetes/swords now.
Nail bat, nail board and makeshift halberd now all have weak block.
Wild veggies function as plant marrow for most recipes.
Meat soup added, more cooking to come.
The player now spawns with a pocket knife and lighter.
Sledge hammer is usable to board windows and doors up.
Heartless trait has been removed, replaced with the Cannibal trait, which allows you to eat human meat with no morale penalty.
Braziers are now craftable. They contain fire and can be set up indoors.
Bulletin Boards can be built to set an area as your home base. NPCs can 
be told to wait there and will defend the area.
Bear traps have been increased in weight and volume.
Carboys have been renamed to Gallon jugs.
You can now create a character without allocating all skill points.
Winter Boots and Raincoats now correctly display the reinforced tag.
Kills can now be accessed from in-game. Default key is ).
'Phew it's hot warm' message has been fixed.
The game now accepts wielded items when checking for containers.
Sunny and Clear weather now provide warmth.
Internal Climate Control bionic consumes power to cool or warm you.
Crash bug caused by the screen being larger than the loaded overmap has 
been fixed.
Crash bug when going down stairs near cities has been fixed.
Hunger now affects body temperature.
Added new crafting recipes: shorts, cargo shorts, balclava, long underwear,
glove liners, socks.
Added a digging stick. Can be used to dig shallow pits, and level construction enough to enable crafting of stone shovels.

Got angry at other developers for not updating changelog.

0.2
Reworked spawning option which places zombies at world generation 
rather than generating them dynamically in play.
Implementation of a context menu when examining inventory items.
Machine added to hospitals to regrow limbs.

0.1
Palisade Walls and Gates - Pretty tough to bash down, and can be fired throguh
Log Walls - Basically the same as wood walls, different construction methods.
The ability to disassemble tshirts and tank tops by hand. - Handy for bleeding.
Revolver Shotgun - NotTe much to say on this.