Nugget Doom 6.0.0

Nugget Doom 6.0.0, released September 8th, 2026.

New Features

• Dithered Lighting setting
• Sky Projection setting, featuring Cylindrical projection
  • Replaces Linear Sky Scrolling setting ¹
• Hold Use to Pick up Items setting
• FPS-counter update time setting
• Customizable pronouns for obituaries

Changes

• Merged changes from Woof! 16.0.0, note:
  • Maintained Nugget's implementation of Custom Skill
    • Due to UDMF support, changed values of custom_skill_things ²
  • Maintained Pistol Start menu item
  • Replaced pitch_bend_range with pitched_sounds_range ²
  • Changed Fake Contrast default to Vanilla, and changed the order of its values ²
  • Removed comp_switchsource (now default behavior)
  • Removed no_page_ticking in favor of Woof!'s menu_pause_demos
  • Removed quick_quitgame in favor of Woof!'s quit_prompt
• Improved sky stretching
• Improved Radial Fog for planes
  • As a result, it no longer overrides the lighting fidelity of planes as set by the Lighting Mode setting,
    so it ought to look rougher with lesser modes, especially with Vanilla lighting
• Made message shadows fade out when Message Fadeout is enabled
• Vertical Target Lock-on improvements:
  • Made speed configurable through the vertical_lockon_speed_pct CVAR
  • Improved support for modded weapons, and made it respect Smart Autoaim
  • Improved easing
• Optimized initialization of generic tranmaps by caching them in files
• Made the Tag Finder not search for tagged lines when holding Shift
• Made Tag Finder/Highlight P.O.I.'s cross marks have a fixed scale
• Added support for an optional DSMILEST sound for Milestone-Completion Announcements
• Made the weapon carousel partially customizable through NUGHUD
• Improved palettization of true-color PNG graphics
• Made initialization of Radial Fog not trigger dynamic resolution changes
• Changed the default values of the following settings: ³
  • Set Auto Save Interval to 300s, enabling periodic auto-saves
  • Enabled Extra Gibbing
  • Enabled HUD/Menu Shadows
  • Enabled Message Fadeout
  • Enabled Blink Missing Keys [on Status Bar]
  • Disabled comp_manualdoor (Manually toggled moving doors are silent)
  • Disabled comp_cgundblsnd (Chaingun makes two sounds with one bullet)
  • Enabled comp_powerrunout (Use improved powerup run-out effect)
  • Enabled comp_unusedpals (Use unused pain/bonus palettes)
  • Enabled inter_entering_delay (Increased duration of the "Entering" state in Doom 2's intermission screen)

Bug Fixes

• Voxels overriding sprites regardless of load order
• High-resolution sprites overriding normal sprites regardless of load order
• Pain/Pickup/Powerup Flashes setting not disabling invulnerability effect and light-amp flashing
• Invulnerability Colormap setting affecting light-amp flashing and disabling Night-Vision Visor Effect
• Lowercase characters not working if they came before uppercase characters in the same WAD
• Wrong player controls when using freecam during netgames
• Extra Gibbing for fist and chainsaw not respecting the player's melee range in complevel MBF21
• Quick-double-press actions being affected by game speed
• Weapon-translucency menu items not generating tranmaps immediately
• Key-binding menu items not working when backing from a submenu
• Weapon-switch interruption allowing to switch to an already-raising weapon
• Freecam making Alt. Intermission Background jitter
• Quick-save/load prompts not playing a sound when brought up
• Quick-save/load prompts not being replaced by DeHackEd
• Quick-save/load prompts sometimes showing the wrong savegame name
• Made increased intermission "Entering" delay not apply when the intermission becomes blank
• Chaingun not firing when out of ammo while the Infinite Ammo cheat were enabled
• Fancy Cast:
  • Gibbing state not being flippable
  • Monster disappearing when trying to display its gibbing state if it didn't have one
• Fixed setup desktop action exiting immediately when run from the AppImage (by @electricbrass, from Woof! post-16.0.0)
• UI/HUD updating before game world when changing gamma and color settings
• Tag Finder memory leak

1. This might affect existing config files. ↩

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3. This will only affect new config files. ↩