SpiffoCON 0.28.0

A black box for crashes

A server that crashes often leaves no word of why. Bridge v21 writes one line a minute in Zomboid/Lua/spiffocon_blackbox.txt: who is online and where, the zombies and vehicles loaded, the memory, the slowest update of that minute. The last 600 lines are kept, some 10 hours.

After a crash SpiffoCON shows the last ten minutes in the Console tab, next to the crash notice. Black box in the Bridge tab shows those of the run before at any time. It tells what was going on, not why the server died; compared over a few crashes it can show what they have in common.

More about the animals

The animals list in the Bridge tab now has:

• Expecting: pregnant or with fertilized eggs, and how far along;
• Milk / wool: what can be taken, in bold when it can be taken now;
• Age and Weight.

A new notification tells when an animal is close to giving birth (85% of the way). It looks every 15 minutes, among the animals near the players online, while the Bridge tab refreshes by itself; it can be switched off with the others.

The black box was tried on a dedicated server, across two starts. The animals' new columns and the notification were tried only on the tests' copy of the game: not yet on real animals.

Bridge v21 is needed for all of the above, and has everything of the earlier ones: one Workshop upload covers it all. Its black box starts with the first restart after the upload.

Downloads

• SpiffoCON-Setup-0.28.0-Full.exe: includes the .NET runtime.
• SpiffoCON-Setup-0.28.0-Light.exe: needs the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime (x64).

From 0.12.x or later: SpiffoCON offers this version by itself within a day, or right away with Check for updates in the status bar. From 0.11.x or earlier: install it by hand once. Your settings and caches are kept.