stable_04.md

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Stable 0.4

Content

• Add fireflies
• More things to please pyromaniacs
• Rebalanced crossbows, added in new crossbow weapon mod.
• Added in new item, electric lighter, as well as a recipe for it and updated itemgroups to include it
• Added in two new kinds of sandwiches.
• Add bronze options for basic cutting tool, hammering, and woodcutting
• Allow crafting the smaller engines, make components vary more, destroyed engines drop engine blocks
• Port jarless sourdoughs from DDA
• Add a bastion star fort to spawn cannons, use a more appealing layout
• Changes fermenting pickle jar, fermenting eggs jar weight, volume, bashing because they're wrong.
• Prettier ear/tail mutation graphics
• Mainlined Stone Chisel from Magiclysm
• Add a construction entry for converting street lights to use local grid power as a lighting option
• Allow deconstructing street lights for parts, use them in more locations
• Makes parking garage elevators work
• Add arming cap, iron and bronze face masks, and bronze version of arm guards
• Add a percussion cap shotgun to represent blackpowder hunting spawns and add more use of the underutilized 20 ga percussion ammo
• Working elevators for apartments and office towers, also garage doors
• Add variants to stockings, glove liners, fingerless gloves
• Add plated leather boots, gauntlets, and helm; rework set to fill autolearn iron-tier niche
• Made elevators work in aftershock reactors and hospitals
• Merchant price-fix for .223 magazines and two bionics.
• Rivtech ammo mainline and changes, followup from #3088 and #3082.
• Add pressure cooker recipe
• Making sulphuric acid from sulfur and water.
• Add Omelettes
• Finish up mapgen renovations for Urban Dev mod
• Removed dead obsolete mods

Balance

• Update Prove You're A Survivor mission to be more clear about time requirement, reduce from 10 days to 7 days
• Add growth scaling world option to control speed of crop growth instead of directly binding it to season length
• Rework EXP table of Stats Through Kills to scale more sanely relative to EXP values of slain monsters
• Removed molasses from sugar production and made it a byproduct of sugar"
• Made bionic claws as good as the monomolecular blade.
• Zombie dogs and zombie german shepherds now have hides
• Universally change chitin from bone to skin, and add specific harvest messages for chitinous animals.
• This PR changes the weight of tea leaves to be more inline with reality"
• Consistency updates for flintlock, 20ga, and blunderbuss rounds
• Gas turbine weight reduction according to real life equivalents
• Add street lights to city locations, H-P
• Rebalance power of steam turbine to a 1 MW turbine like the small gas turbine, lower weight
• Place street lights in areas previously updated to be more consistent
• Lower the warmth values for nomad gear and scavenger gear
• Consistency updates for explosive/flammable arrows/bolts, allow using impact fuses in recipes
• Give acid fired out of a water cannon acid trail effects instead of using emit_actor hackery
• Voltmeter & pH rebalancing
• Give shotshells baseline dispersion, consistency updates for scrap shells, paper shot, birdshot
• Some changes on certain comestible
• Prying nails correctly deconstructs reinforced boarded window
• Make clean water recipe using purification match efficiency of activating water purifiers
• Canned tomatoes should no longer appear half-full in their sealed containers and with the wrong amount of calories
• Add option to install other vehicle batteries as grid batteries
• Made animal ears and tail mutation considered beautiful
• Add the steel and superalloy armor mod option to more gear related to items already moddable
• Gave the new BIOPROOF flag to the robots
• Adds recipes for existing clothing items
• Copper, aluminum, and bronze ingots have more consistent densities; sanity-check production of bronze and how aluminum is used; add recipe for aluminum ingots
• Bring back deconstruction of pewter items, reimplement salvaging tin from cans via electroplating using new larger can sizes
• Set armored gauntlets and boots to be steel/leather, to be plate-tier instead of iron-tier
• Standardize draw costs of holsters and sheathes, make sheaths not faster than blink of an eye to draw, add wrist holster and sheath for fast handling of small items
• Flintlock ranges have been tweaked. Shot ammo removed from the rifle and rifle range doubled.
• Mining solid rock gives as much stone as mining large boulders, related stone surfaces give as much rock as medium boulders
• Increase soil yield from digging back up to an amount more in line with construction demand, belated sanity-checking for bashing rammed earth walls
• Ankle holsters, holsters, and XL holsters can now hold a wider range of guns
• More gunmods use integral volume to reduce bulk on weapons they're installed to
• Adjust hit_difficulty to that critical hits will target vital body parts more often than limbs
• More shotshell adjustments
• Buffed shotgun shells, nerfed feral biker shotgun.
• Lowered SPAM morale penalty
• Sewage pipes and pumps are deconstructable into their bash products
• Fixes the few normal guns I left out of the previous Nested Guns and Everyday Carry PRs
• Port the recipe to craft a body pillow from DDA
• Port over a version of the DDA itemgroups for guns being carried by monsters.
• Glass jars, flasks and bottles have weird convoluted ways of re-forging #### Describe the solution
• Simplify broken limb mending
• Port 'Spawn guns and related mags together' from DDA
• Remove angle grinder from wall_floor_glass_removal_standard, lower CHISEL and PRY requirements
• Tool quality and other time-saving factors now impact fatigue and other needs penalties from digging
• Expand options for tools that can press paper, neoprene, and glass sheets
• Increase the energy output so that you can go to the plus even when you turn on all possible bionics
• Feral survivors can no longer tame animals or become marloss vectors, some improvements to monster behavior with feral survivors
• Above-average strength steadily reduces stamina cost of melee attacks, rework how dexterity affects movecost of melee attacks to match
• Streamline book morale checks slightly, fix multiplier on spiritual books, add support for psychopaths liking morbid books

Bugfixes

• Add missing id_suffix to nitric acid recipe.
• Fix bronze dagger recipe overriding steel dagger
• Fix ammonium nitrate recipe
• Allow using jacking tools from vehicle cargo
• bodypart layer ordering UI not displaying All first (again)
• Fixed search in crafting menu by description
• Add faction owner to Isherwood cabin and horse farm items
• Fixed the electric lighter's description saying you cannot craft it.
• Fix CTD after wearing power armor
• NPCs no longer phase through solid rock when climbing
• armor layer not showing all first
• Emit debugmessage on non-rigid armor capacity <= 0
• Fix blueprint construction zone functionality
• Add casings onto dissasembly recipie for M433, M576 and M651 grenades
• Prevent a rare UB in sounds
• Add s_electronics_2 to multitile city buildings
• Cost of starting fire with bionic should match activation cost
• Fixed generating power from Joint Torsion Ratchet in vehicles
• Fix failing tests due to inconsistent ordering of encumbrance display
• Item summoning spells should respect 'Keep hands free'
• Fix FPE on disassembly of very low volume books
• Set required intelligence for Playboy magazine to 0
• Only NPCs should be dropping items automatically when overencumbered
• NPCs drop items if overburdened instead of just overvolume, merchant restocking fix
• Fixed infinite loop in mine gen
• Fixed mission names misused as mission description
• Update use of REACH_ATTACK flag in sdltiles.cpp to fix check failure
• Use std::optional for best_mode_for_range()
• Prevent stepladders from player to sink down a floor
• Removed unused itype from character_functions.cpp
• Fixed flintlock long rifle not spawning anywhere
• Make unused 22lr casing stackable
• Fix bike shop street lights being placed on wrong sidewalk tiles, update No Hope version
• Strict JSON warnings when loading new mutation tileset
• Fixed odd mapgen in house basement
• Fixed some issues with displaying item's mods counter
• Port over fix for deconstructing furniture over carpet, time change
• Set it so resuming a partial construction can be resumed in the dark if it's marked as being doable in the dark
• Fix Typo in Faction Camp Workshop
• Fix Repair Nanobots
• Check mapextra ids for regions
• Revert one per minute frequency addition to npc::regen_ai_cache and fix cache invalidation
• Prevent monsters from wandering into an attack across zlevels when fov_3d is off.
• Fixed failing android build caused due to ndk version
• NPCs being immortal and crashing the game
• Reworked lake shore mapgen for better connection with rivers
• Missing tile on horse ranches give a wooden floor outside
• Fix NPCs eternally drowning after being thrown into deep water despite afterwards getting out of it
• Broken symlink breaking MSVC builds
• Fix No Hope palette override lacking terrain that caused the game to error on load
• Companion NPCs told to only attack what the player attacks no longer charge approaching enemies unless you've actually attacked the target first
• Made documentation page redirects relative to fix edge cases
• Set difficulty of new tailoring recipes to correctly be above the booklearn levels
• Proper river shores under bridges
• Fixed some issues with bridge\road generation on overmap edge
• Fix up abstract used by 20 gauge percussion shells so they don't drop shotgun hulls, standardize naming convention
• Fixed generation of disconnected bridges
• Hotfix made to fix deploying github pages
• Fix CTD on debugmsg with no Lua instance
• Prevent auto-eat code from selection items with use actions to avoid Y/N queries softlocking an auto-eat attempt
• Add UNSAFE_CONSUME to several foods that triggered query on eat, to prevent them from softlocking when placed in an auto-eat zone
• Fix misaligned elevator not working due to misalignment
• Fixed turrets aiming moving vehicle it cannot see
• Turn in cattail stalk first then the bag
• Smoother rivers connections on overmaps edges
• Fixed nested_aksemi in nested_guns.json by actually using aksemi
• Fix rural/farm houses having empty toilets and dressers
• Hotfix build failure do to missing vehicle_part.h inclusion
• Set burnt vegetation map extra to not leave deep pits hidden under ash piles
• Fixed 'Item canister_empty was loaded with charges' error
• Fixed segfault caused by attitude check when monster shooting vehicle
• Made 'Submit a bug report on Github debug' work correctly on windows
• Allowed speedloader capacity to be smaller than gun's capacity
• Made lua docs generator run in headless mod in tiles
• lua compilation warnings
• Fixed broken curses build caused by #3086
• Fix the Unknown Recipient mission
• debugmsg on invalid sfx path on game startup. add more info to sfx error debug log
• prefer renderers other than software for performance, fixed clang-tidy warning for font options
• Fix scan_new_items() and add tribute to infinite loop counter, various fixes to NPC AI.
• Port over cap to stim-induced asthma attacks and effect from inhaler use, additional rebalancing
• Prevent vehicle part installation on mountable terrain and furniture
• Port over DDA PR changing salvaging to go by weight instead of volume
• Security camera doesn't overlap vehicle doors anymore

Build

• Silence more lab type warnings
• Enable Lua in manual releases
• Silence lab type errors
• Fix tidy warnings
• Follow-up to #3258.
• Add helpful comment instruction on automated format
• Only deploy docs when needed
• Reverts cataclysmbnteam/Cataclysm-BN#3349
• Validate that template extraction works
• Trigger workflow check on merge queue (for this time, real)
• Always run build matrix test for merge queue
• Fixed clang-tidy warnings
• Fix merge queue ignoring status checks
• remove extra ';' to make compiler stop complaining
• Properly remove stale test user dir
• Fix compile error on MacOS curses
• Ported various ccache and build improvements from DDA
• Used merge queue to prevent build breakages
• deduplicate setting up library for w/wo tiles in CMake
• Remove obsoleted chkjson
• Removed obsolete github actions workflow
• Skip docs/script only changes in PRs and commits, but format them
• [DDA Port] Various improvements to CMake builds
• remove extra ';' to make compiler stop complaining

Features

• Ported & merged over fix https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/commit/7445cfe0db80d4f5d43d5f099c4ef5cd19cf99d0 to BN
• Add bastion fort as a starting location for Large Building, Ambush, and Next Summer
• Add flashlight functionality to the Shock Tonfa
• Addendum to https://github.com/cataclysmbnteam/Cataclysm-BN/pull/3275
• Removed checks for pushing or swapping friendly monster
• Adds BIOPROOF, a new monster immunity flag for biological damage
• Allow elevators to transport vehicles, and choose arbitrary floor
• Made ladders work like ramps and ledges auto-examinable
• Added debug command to export vehicle as its JSON representation
• Add an option to draw bullets as lines
• Uninstalling bionic complications yields burnt-out bionics instead of CBMs, replace spawns of useless bionic fault CBMs in cyborg harvest with bionic components
• Port - Decouple encumbrance, max_encumbrance and coverage in armor on a per bodypart_id basis

Interface

• Overhauled encumbrance UI
• Grey out incompatible ammo in reload menu
• Set small battery furniture to not look like lockers
• Using blood draw kit now asks what container to fill, only defaults to filling the item if you cancel
• Show monster immunity in extended description
• Update external tileset
• Change RPG-7 ammo to have organized names
• Vehicle speed is shown when cruise control is disabled.

Infrastructure

• Ported lockpicking migration and JSONification
• Ported items flags optimization from DDA
• Add docs for alternative_mutation_tileset.png
• Mark monster_speed_trig as mayfail
• Fix stale config remaining between test invocations.
• Add external tileset guide to doc page
• issue and pr template improvments
• Move lang/notes to docs site
• Fixed broken wiki links in documentation site
• Fixes Pull request template links
• Add two documents to the doc site
• License newly written typescript (and other) contributions under AGPL-3.0-only
• Lua mods can now use non-strings as keys in storage table
• Warn when running x32 game on x64 system
• json Move makeshift glaive from tools category to weapons category
• Create a new documentation page for better accessibility
• Improve behavior if on first game start SDL window creation fails
• Apply automated formatting commit to PRs using autofix.ci to improve PR formatting experience
• Simplified formatting doc/ path with deno
• Used f-strings for python scripts for readability
• Separate vehicle.h with vehicle_part.h
• Update vehicle tests
• Update experimental link in readme
• Fixed documentation typo on price_postapoc
• Allow preloading all variants of sfx
• Update stable release link for Korean readme
• Fix stable badge link
• Add a kill_tracker check for achievements. Allow newly added achievements to ongoing games.
• Replace fahrenheit usage to celsius in codebase, part 1
• Bring back Lua

I18n

• You forgot the s
• fix translation generator script ignoring JSONs
• fix SPECIES not in needs_plural breaking translation

Performance

• Remove unnecessary check for lifting equipment if unnecessary and store nontrivial calculations in variables
• Prevent lag caused by frequent sfx
• Fix dead state caching again
• Change frequency of NPC cached weapon value update
• Port character dead state caching from DDA
• port inlining of sm_to_ms_copy function for performance gain
• Speed up item::has_flag calls
• various debug.cpp improvements
• Ported performance PRs by Aivean from DDA
• DDA Port: Stop copying regional settings for every overmap
• Port Advanced Inventory Management UI update optimization from DDA
• Rework has_trait_flag to check mutation cache instead of all traits, overhaul with support for trait flag strings leading to IDs instead of using std::string

Mods

• Added Goblins, Dragonbone weapons, and armor mods
• Implement 'extend' for magazines
• Made Krabgeks and Black puddings use monster versions of spells, rather than the player versions. Nerfed Necrotic Gaze.
• Made 'Prevent Zombie Revivification' and 'Limit Fungal Growth' as default-enabled mod
• Rebalanced Magiclysm Spells, adjusted Lizardmen stats.
• Allow recipes to declare NUTRIENT_OVERRIDE flag to ignore components used
• Various Miscellaneous Magiclysm Balance Changes, primarily to Monsters
• Magiclysm dragon meat can be cooked
• Stop aftershock mapgen turning the world into ocean
• Porting equipment enchantment recipes from DDA version of Magiclysm