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- Added an Extended Placement UI.
- RMC on a 3D item on the ground to move it precisely.
- Added raccoons, though currently there are issues with their fence-climbing.
- Added 5 new flyers

- Build Window and HandCraft Window are now usable with a controller. To navigate between the different panes in these windows, press and hold the right shoulder button
and use the D-pad.
- Added controller support to crafting stations that use ISCraftBenchPanel.
- Added controller support to ISFluidInfoUI.lua and ISFluidTransferUI.lua.
- Added using the right joystick to quickly change the value of ISSliderPanel.
- Chicken coop. This is now a tabbed window separating the egg-laying nests from the roosts.
- D-pad up radial menu displays the animal radial menu (with pet, pick up etc).
- D-pad right radial menu displays the "Designated Zones" option.
- Animal designated zones can be created by selecting start and end squares with the D-pad.
- Animal-info windows allowing renaming etc.
- Butcher hook ui.
- Livestock trailer ui.
- Added controller support to the Flyer/Newspaper windows.
The X button toggles the text view.
The Y button reveals the location on the world map.
- Don't save and restore inventory-window and loot-window layout when using a controller.
These are always positioned automatically at the bottom of the screen.
- Fixed inventory-window and loot-window column layout after resizing the screen, when using a controller.

- Added research progression for metal armor, both scrap welded and proper blacksmithed.

- The Debug Item List Viewer will now have columns displaying whether items can be: Crafted, Foraged or Found as Loot

- Added new sounds for resting on chairs, Old Fashioned Generator, Wood Log Gate
- Added missing recipe Forge Spade Head, this item had no recipe to create it.
- Added specific sprint to aim anims for weapon types.
- Added and repointed transition anims to use correct anims for sprint stops
- Added two new biomes depending if close to a lake or river

- Added tracking of Carbohydrates, Lipids and Proteins to the Body window, in General Debuggers option.
- Added scaleable sidebar icons

- Added vehicle.sound.alarm script property to allow a different sound for car alarms than the horn. If the alarm sound isn't specified, the horn sound is used, if any.
- Added new Chickens foley sounds
- Add FluidContainer meta-entity system, and push fluidContainer components to meta, so rain collectors will be filled with water when player is away.

Changes to the Lua debugger:
- Added small / medium / large monospaced fonts.
This is the "Noto Sans Mono" font. We use "Noto Sans" for Thai, and "Noto Sans Mono" has the same license (which I included).
- Added a combobox to the Lua debugger that allows switching between small / medium / large font sizes.
- Source-window line numbers are right justified.
- Source-window background color was changed from white to gray.
- AngelCodeFont no longer compresses font textures, this is already the case for most ui textures.

- Added "read" checkmarks to print media (brochures and fliers).
IsoGameCharacter gained these methods:
void addReadPrintMedia(String media_id);
boolean isPrintMediaRead(String media_id);
HashSet<String> getReadPrintMedia();

Animals now recognize rivers:
- If the zone includes some waters tiles (lake, river..) it'll be shown in the zone UI.
- Animals will try to drink from river they can access before anything else.

Changed some behavior to eat grass.
- Animal will now look around him instead of purely under his feet.
- made other changes to try and make their behavior more consistent & smart.

- Updated a couple of rifle aim anims
- Added "Play Music When Paused" audio option.


- The ShopLooted story will no longer occur in single-room buildings. Some utility buildings used "electronicstore" or similar roomdefs for their single room, which means that police and bandit zombies could spawn inside them as a looted shop story.
- Added missing craftRecipe allowance for making nailed broken planks.
- Rebalanced Tableleg weapons.
- Chopping Logs and Large Branches into Firewood will produce Splinters; this is so chopping Firewood always produces a tinder item.
- Nails can be used to research the Forge Heading Tool craftRecipe.
- Added the following items: Improvised Screwdriver; Firewood; Firewood Bundle;Firewood with Nails.
- Added recipes to make an Improvised Screwdriver; Chop Firewood from Logs and Large Branches; Bundle Firewood; Unbundle Firewood; Firewood with Nails can be made using the general nails weapon craftRecipe.
- Firewood burns for longer than other wooden items by weight; by chopping Logs and Large Branches into Firewood you increase the length of time that they can be used as fuel for campfires, etc.
- Firewood and Firewood Bundles were added to some loot and story clutter tables.
- Added a wooden clay tool item and a craftRecipe to carve one; the icon and model already existed.
- Make Jar of Produce can also use Seasoning Salt.
- Nerfed Wooden Spade stats, it is supposed to be an improvised, primitive tool and stats were still too close to a standard spade for how easy it can be crafted.
- Updated Smash Watermelon recipe to use its own timed action, so sound and animation issues can be solved.
- Updated recipes that use crucibles so that they need to be empty.
- Updated Melt Sand and Melt Glass recipes to need a lighter or other way to start the fire.
- The MakeScrewdriver craftRecipe can be learned from melee weapon schematics and the Escaping Captivity recipe magazine.
- Added a wooden clay tool item and a craftRecipe to carve one; the icon and model already existed.
- Limited some actions such as drinking and cleaning bandages to fluid sources that contain only water or tainted water
- Updated drinking from IsoObjects (sinks/barrels) to use IsoGameCharacter:DrinkFluid() to ensure correct health effects with all fluid types.
- Characters will no longer autodrink from a bottle that is being filled, the action has to be completed first.
- Added a craftRecipe to carve wooden goblets.
- Reorganized the carving craftRecipe file to order recipes by skill level requirements.
- Added recipe research allowances for Forging Spade Heads to relevant items.
- Added a craftRecipe for sewing a Leather Tool Roll.
- Added a Crafted Baseball Bat item and the craftRecipe to make it. It requires Carving 9, and has to be learned. But also you can research it from wooden Baseball Bats, Large Branches, and Short Bats.
- Increased Campfire capacity to allow use of Buckets for water purification/cooking

- The looted/trashed buildings should have more broken and open doors, and more broken windows, to better signpost their status as looted & trashed.
- Ground floor locked windows in looted/trashed buildings will be unlocked.
- Corpses will now sometimes spawn outside of Trashed & Looted buildings; this is RNG dependant, and also "buildings" don't really have much of a outside footprint, it's basically a row a squares surrounding the building in most cases, so there's not much real estate to work with.
- Trash will also spawn outside of Trashed & Looted buildings on ground squares. Again, not much real estate to work with here.
- Any ground floor locked doors will be destroyed.
- The basements of trashed & looted buildings will be less trashed and looted, proportional to how deep below ground level the individual basement floors may be.
- Halved the maximum size of buildings that can be trashed & looted.
- Reworked the corpse spawning in trashed buildings to use the new corpse spawning code.
- Additionally sometimes trashed buildings will have one or more zombies or corpses of bandits/survivalists/militia in them; this is rare, but as those outfits can have good loot, it will serve as "finding some of the missing loot.
- Reworked how a bunch of trashed build code works; checks to prevent story content occurring in kids rooms was preventing stuff from occurring in areas w/o rooms; in addition to some other checks were being too aggressive in preventing content occurring in some squares.
- Additionally more attention is paid to doors and windows, and locked closed garage doors should be broken.

- Added recipe research progression for several "tool" category items: masonry trowels; masonry chisels; (more) fleshing tool; (more) sickles; tweezers; forceps; files; whetstones; nails and heading tools from nail-spiked weapons; buckets; crowbars; trowels; etc.
- The CarveBat recipe was added to the pool of recipes that can be on a melee weapon schematic.
- Added the Improvised Screwdriver items to some attached weapon definitions. Bandits, Survivalist, and later game zombies may have them attached to or impaled within them.
- Iron and Steel Bars, Bar Halves, Rods and Rod Halves will break into halves when they break, like many other melee weapons.
- It's possible that people may exploit this as a "materials processing" exploit; you should still be able to saw/forge/etc. broken rods/bars into halves as is, and it is arguable that

- Added research progression for pots, cutlery, pans, and saucepans and kettles (although their craft recipes are commented out).
- Rebalanced the skill level requirements for the welded weapons as they were too "bottom heavy".
- Changed MakeSmallScrapWeapon to MakeSawbladeHatchet; it was a multi-recipe that could also make a scrap cleaver, but also there was already a scrap cleaver recipe.
- Halved the time required for the recipe research action.
- Having a Magnifying Glass or Loupe in either hand will further slightly reduce item research time.

- Added research progression for pots, cutlery and pans

- Increased the burn time of the firewood bundle to match unbundled firewood.
- Added an addCorpse function to IsoGridSquare; the code generates and drops corpses in multiple places so having a utility function to use instead will simplify matters.

- A players relevant highest skill level can reduce how long craftRecipes can take to perform; for every level the highest skill level is higher than the highest recipe skill requirement the time required to perform the craftRecipe will be reduced by 5%.
- Fixed times repaired not transferring from the weapon to the blade when dismantling blades. The times repaired inheritance for weapon parts is probably going to have more gremlins to flush out.
- Reorganized welded weapons recipe file by skill level.
- Rebalanced the weapons that can be produced by welding, generally strong reductions in durability, and lesser reductions in damage and criticals.
- The intent of these weapons is to be "crappier" crude versions of "properly crafted" weapons; under ideal circumstances a skilled blacksmith would produce properly crafted real weapons instead of the crude welded weapons.
- Rebalanced some weapons produced by knapping in regards to durability and damage output.
- Fixed several recipes having duplicate condition fields.
- Reorganized the knapping recipe file by skill levels requirements.
- Changed the category of some knapping-related weapon and tool assembly recipes from "Survival" to "Assembly" as almost all weapon and tool assembly recipes are in that category, especially ones involving sticking heads onto sticks like these ones.
- Minor tweaks/simplifications/consistency-ing to some knapping recipes.
- The knapp stone awl craftRecipe requires no skill level to perform.
- Rebalanced several Cudgel type weapons in regards to their damage and criticals.
- Rebalanced the skill level requirements of several improvised weapon recipes involving Carpentry or Maintenance. This is to make the weapon recipes, less bottom heavy, skill level requirement wise, with a more drawn out progression, and providing more room for blacksmithing to be a superior option (assuming materials and workstations).
- Some minor rebalancing of mace and morningstar type weapons.
- Consolidated some code for spawning corpses into IsoGridSquare.

- Added Coffee to the items that can spawn as kitchen countertop clutter.
- Added craftRecipe for making an improvised knife from a machete blade.
- Changed text display strings for Crude Sword/Shortswords and their blades to "Simple" Swords/Shortswords and Blades to be consistent with how most every other crude weapon and tool have had their display name string changed to "Simple".
- Changed display text strings for Crude Whetstone to Improvised Whetstone, as above.
- Spiked bone clubs can be crafted.

- Applied placeholder values to crafted metal armor for Bullet Defense; this isn't very realistic as-is, and is subject to change, but despite being quite low ranging from 5% to 20, ; ideally we will have better handling of armor types versus specific calibers of ammunition at some point, so this is to acknowledge that we aren't ignoring the matter in the meantime.
- The Baseball trait teaches the Carve Baseball Bat craftRecipe.
- Added new display string for WeaponMag7 "Magazine: The Louisville Bruiser", which teaches the Cave Baseball Bat craftRecipe.
- Added some checks to the other looted two building/store stories so that if the looted building option is disabled, those other similar-but-different stories from the "trashed and looted buildings" shouldn't occur. They will also use the same limit on room numbers that the trashed and looted building story uses.
- Modified some general purpose crafting lua code used for Knapping and Carving to be more flexible/robust.
- Added craftRecipes for sawing Wooden Rods from Long Sticks, Tree BRanches from Saplings, and Small Handles from wooden rods. If you have a saw, and a source of Long Sticks/Saplings/Brooms/Mops/Hockey Sticks/etc, you will be able to produce Wooden Rods and Small Handles without any carving beyond carving Saplings and Hockey Sticks into Long Sticks, which doesn't have any skill level requirement.

- Allow players to use liquids from different containers in craft recipes
- Added the item and craftRecipe for a Flint Saw and Scraper.
- This functions as a "crude saw" for some, but not all, craftRecipes (it can so simple/crude work but not fine work), as well as a fleshing tool.
- Saws and Crude Saws can be used to make Log Furniture in addition to Axes that can chop down trees.
- Added the item and craftRecipe for a Twig Broom.
- This does the things that a normal Broom does in regards to cleaning and being able to be used to make spears.
- Made the recipe for making rope from dogbane the recipe for making it from hemp, and the recipes for making twine from dogbane and the recipe for making it from hemp or flax consistent in regards to their tools, durations, etc.

- Added animals skeleton with no heads.
- Balanced butchering meat given.

- Added the Trait "Mason" which provides 2 levels in the Masonry skill.
- Characters with the Mason trait know several workstation building recipes that involve bricks or stone and concrete.
- Adjusted the Masonry skill bonus provided by the Construction Worker profession from +3 to +2; it's probably still too much for the point cost of the profession, but it should at least be consistent with the Mason trait, which is consistent with other Skill traits.
- The Masonry craftRecipe for making Stones from Large Stones provides more XP.
- The Masonry craftRecipe for making Stone Blocks from Stones now requires Masonry 1 and provides XP equivalent with it's level requirement.
- Similarly the recipe for making Small Stone Wheels, Large Stone Wheels and Stone Anvils requires Masonry 2. Some of these arguably should be greater, to provide progression and more XP, but this is the initial rebalancing pass.
- Added stonemasonry recipes for making Stone Maul and Large Axe Heads using a Club Hammer and Masonry Chisel. These have a much higher skill level requirement than the knapping versions, and also don't need to be learned. This is to provide some high level options for the stonemasonry skill, and it doesn't seem unreasonable as well when using proper tools.
- These craftRecipes should eventually require a suitable workstation, such as using a flat boulder, versus being an AnySurfaceCraft.
- Changed how the learned recipe/granted xp messages are presented to the player. Although there is no control available over the duration of the message, the formatting has been changed to hopefully be easier and faster to read.
- Added the DontRecordInput inputFlag to the clay and concrete inputs used to build tiles and workstations.
- Added the item and craftRecipe for a Flint Saw.
- This functions as a "crude saw" for some, but not all, craftRecipes (it can so simple/crude work but not fine work).
- Saws and Crude Saws can be used to make Log Furniture in addition to Axes that can chop down trees..
- Added the item and craftRecipe for a Twig Broom.
- This does the things that a normal Broom does in regards to cleaning and being able to be used to make spears.
- Made the recipe for making rope from dogbane the recipe for making it from hemp, and the recipes for making twine from dogbane and the recipe for making it from hemp or flax consistent in regards to their tools, durations, etc.
- Boosted the durability of the spears made using proper forged spear heads.
- Made the CopyBuildingKey craftRecipe not-researchable; it was too easy for any player to learn it from building keys, and is supposed to be more of a "criminal"/heist type thing.
- Added crafted bone and wood knitting needle items.
- Added craftRecipe to carve bone and wood crafted Knitting Needles.
- Added recipe magazine "Pioneering Carvers" that teaches the Carve Knitting Needles recipe; the recipes for carving bone Awls and Sewing Needles were also moved to this magazine from another one.
- Extend rain fluid dilution mechanics to dilute all fluid types/work on barrels.
- Added the Trait "Inventive" which provides a benefit with learning recipes from items or the autoLearn mechanic by reducing the required level; it still needs an icon.
- Added the Trait "Artisan" which provides +1 to Pottery and Glassmaking; it also still needs an icon.
- Tweaked the math for the level requirement calculations for the research mechanic; it will now round the calculated level to the nearest whole number, instead of always rounding down.
- Added the Flint Saw as a valid input for several crafting and building recipes.
- Added a craftRecipe to saw wooden Baseball Bats and nail-spiked Baseball Bats into Short Bats, which will also reset their condition if damaged.
- Consolidated the second spear dismantling recipe, ReclaimFromSpear2, with DismantleLongerImplement, as both craftRecipes output a broken long stick; the spears this recipe dismantles involved spear heads that have been mechanically attached to the spear shaft and their removal breaks the shaft versus "taped on" spears.
- Added a craftedRecipe DismantleGardenImplement for cases where a broken garden tool handle should be produced, and not a long stick; this should be consolidated with DismantleLongerImplement, but I'm not certain that multiple output mappers currently works as desired.
- Added the input tag ResearchInput; if the input item has recipes that the player can research they will learn them.
- Added the ResearchInput tag to the electronic and radio dismantling recipes.
- Added researchable progression to radio type items.
- Rakes can be dismantled for a Rake Head and broken Long Stick.
- The Siberian Bear Hunting recipe magazine also teaches the recipes for forging spear heads.
- Filleting fish provides Butchering XP and not Cooking XP.
- Balanced butchering further.
- Added rotting stage for animals, currently i only have bloodied skeleton, but rotten corpse (before skeleton) is coming.
- Rebalanced several carving recipe time requirements; they should be more consistent and sensible, as well as more generous in many cases.
- The Wooden Bucket carving recipe requirement has been increased to 4 from 3.
- Several carving recipes, including forks, buckets, goblets and spades, require being learned.
- Appropriate traits teach these recipes and appropriate recipe magazines teach them.
- However, alongside generous autoLearns, there are ways to research all of these recipes.
- Wood Spoons can be used to carve Wood Forks and Boon Spoons and be used to carve Bone Forks. This just makes sense but also allows for cunning XP goblins to double down their gains when crafting carved tableware.
- The Wooden Trowel can now be used like a Hand Trowel alongside being able to be used as a Plaster Trowel and a Masons Trowel.
- Adjusted the autoLearn requirements for some carving recipes in that they were too generous; they are still generous.
- Tires and Tires Pieces both provides less Tire Armor research recipes, only teaching Shin and Forearm Armor; however crafting those and researching them will teach additional tire armor recipes.
- Consolidated the metal mask craftRecipes by material into one recipe.
- Ammo Straps, Double Holsters and Crafted Hide Holsters can be cut up for a leather strip and buckle alongside Belts.
- Fixed some errors with "Base.Base." in some craftRecipe scripts.
- The durability of stone, bone, and simple/crude metal spears was boosted; these all comprise "proper" spears, and as such are being slightly de-nerfed.
- Disabled some lua farming code for handling being damaged by vehicles; it was redundant as it is handled java-side.
- Several disassembly recipes for long and longer type implements were consolidated into one craftRecipe; it's outputMapper should produce the correct head and broken handle for the dismantled object.
- Rebalanced Animal Bone club-type weapons.
- Added craftRecipes for processing Copper, Gold and Silver scrap, sheets, and bars.
- Added craftRecipes for forging Goblets and metal Cups.
- Restored craftRecipes for forging copper Kettles and Saucepans.
- Added craftRecipes for processing copper items into Copper Scrap; Copper Scrap can be made into Copper Sheets to craft Copper Items.
- Added craftRecipes for forging Gold and Silver Spoons, Butter Knives, and Forks.
- Added craftRecipe for forging the Jawbone Morningstar weapon.
- Added craftRecipes for producing Gold and Silver scrap by processing Gold and Silver jewellery.
- Although this will produce any appropriate gemstones for the processed items, this uses procedural OnCreate code to generate them, and they will not be displayed in the crafting UI; this is a case where it's not practical to include that information in the crafting UI due to specificities of the craftRecipes in question.
- With this players should be able to generate Blacksmithing XP by producing Gold and Silver tableware, goblets, cups and masks, by scrapping Gold and Silver jewellery and producing Gold and Silver sheets from the scrap.
- Added recipe for rendering Metal Baseball Bat type weapons into Aluminum Scrap.
- Aluminum Scrap can be used for the Scrap Sheet Metal Weapon craftRecipes.
- Aluminum Scrap can be further rendered into Aluminum Fragments, which alongside Aluminum Foil, can be used for some Bomb and Radio recipes.
- Iron and Steel Scrap can be rendered into Iron and Steel Pieces and can be forged into chunks or bar quarters.
- Adjusted how the yields work for scrapping vehicles; a more useful spread of crafting materials should be produced.
- Adjusted the Carve Short Bat recipe to require a higher skill level, and to be learned, based on feedback; this is taught by appropriate professions, traits and magazines, and can be researched.
- Adjusted the Carve Wooden Spade recipe to require skill level 4 and not 3 also based on feedback.
- The Forge Buckle recipe needs to be learned; this is taught by appropriate professions, traits and magazines, and can be researched.
- Adjusted the weights of some metal scrap items for better consistency with crafting.

- Rebalanced nutrition values for alcoholic beverages.
- Removed XP for sub-dividing Fish Fillets; this was just so oversize Fish Fillets could be made to fit smaller containers, but players were using it as an XP generating exploit.
- Opening canned food with a knife or sharp stone is now AnySurfaceCraft and not InHandCraft; this is to make it less likely for players to unintentionally select this option when opening cans. Additionally with right-clicking you cannot both select the can and knife, and you can break a knife (or your hand) performing this craftRecipe. You should use a surface when stabbing a can open anyways.
- Based on community feedback, mildly nerfed Short Bat class weapons; their minimum damage value was reduced by 0.1, which means that damage, before additional calculations, will be 0.05 less on average.
- This doesn't affect Spiked clubs and Maces, both of which are made from Short Bats; these are endgame Blacksmithing weapons and as such should be meta weapons.
- Increased the Knapping skill level requirement by 1 for the Large Stone Axe Head and Stone Maul Head craftRecipes; looking over community feedback, they have acquired a meta-weapon reputation, their statistics have already been nerfed but as-is they also had remarkably low skill level requirements compared to weapon crafts in general, so this may need to be increased further.
- All bomb/bomb-type weapon items have a maximum condition of 1; this is to prevent them from ever spawning in a "Worn" state from having a condition of less than 1/3rd maximum.
- Added Survival Schematics; they are like other Schematics but teach wilderness and post apocalypse type survival craftRecipes.
- Leather Drying Racks can be built using the Flint Saw item.
- Slight buff to brake-disc type weapons; as heavy-type weapons they were under performing.

- Road kills will now yield way less meat and of poor quality.
- Moved Dig Furrow in the Shovel sub context menu.
- Animals can now be added to graves.
- Butchered meat numbers/value will be reduced with time passed since animal's death (start lowering at 12h).
- This meat can be rotten if the animal stayed dead for too long before butchering.
- Update the status of food for animal dead bodies (so it'll say Stale/Rotten if needed).
- Added animal bodies rotten version, it takes 50h by default (hours for corpse removal sandbox option) to change the animal rotting stage (fresh -> rotten -> bloody skel -> skel -> removed).

- The time until maximum Trashed & Looted buildings has been changed from 56 days to 90 days.
- The Maximum Rat Index sandbox value has been changed from a default value of 100 to 50 and is also hard capped to 50.
- Weapons that do not generate Maintenance XP now have a tooltip warning the player as such.

- Removed the ability to remove buckets from forges.
- Removed XP from researching items.
- Reverted calls for adjustMaxTime in timed actions added in commit 26957 as it led to the multipliers being applied twice.
- Adjusted values in ISBaseTimedAction.adjustMaxTime so that unhappyness and drunkeness have a stronger effect.

- Boosted the xp, in general, for constructing tiles.
- This should now be, minimum, 10xp/per level of skill requirement; 1-6 xp for 0 skill tiles.
- This is because previously, with tile dismantling enabled, xp-wise it was far more productive to destroy tiles than to make them, by a high degree. The xp awards for building stuff were remarkably low compared to dismantling mechanics.
- Sledgehammers can spawn as surface clutter in Farm Storage and Garage roomdefs.
- Restore skull tags in inventory pane for hazardous fluids placed in world.
- Packing eggs in a carton sets the carton's freeze time to the average freeze time of the 12 eggs.
- Restore reserve water to plumbed items when mains is off
- Fixed the "Discovered Recipes and Media" button possibly extending past the edge of the Info panel.
- Updated some buildings on the in-game map.

- Raised unhappiness and drunkenness effects so actions take two times longer to finish if you're at max moodle level in one of them.
- Mild reduction in the chance/amount of armor and weapons that spawn on Survivalist outfit zombies.
- Nerf to the amount and kind of loot in late-game Bandit outfit zombies backpacks.
- Mild nerf to the amount of loot in late-game Survivalist outfit zombies backpacks.
- Both Bandits and Survivalist outfit zombies will have good stuff, they were just nudged to have slightly less good stuff.
- Some appropriate vehicle types have the possibility of spawning a Sledgehammer as part of their trunk loot.
- Extend plumbing FindExternalWaterSource tests to find water sources within range of ALL sprites of a multi-sprite IsoObject (e.g. Bath)
- Slightly reduced Old and Cheap Generators sound radius and volume; they are still louder than the good ones.

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- Fixed NaN calorie error caused by characters starting auto-drinking before the Filling action is completed.

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- Finalized first draft of a system for reverse engineering recipes from items.

• If a player can learn any recipes from an item with this system, right-clicking on the item will provide a right-click option with a light bulb option to "Research Craft".
  
• Additionally, in debug mode, right-clicking will reveal all of the information regarding researchable recipes.
  
• Researching an item's craftRecipe will also grant the same amount of xp as performing that craftRecipe would provide.
  
• If an item has researchable recipe(s) for a player, the item's tooltip will include, in prominent good-color text, that information.
  
• Includes Tech-tree-progression via item recipe research for tongs (from pliers and vise grips); shears and scissors; and lower tier knife progression; many baseball bat, spiked club, and mace type weapon recipes; tree branch, wooden stick, large branch/cudgel, medium handle, baseball bat and short bat type weapons, axes, and fleshing tools.

- Improved Vertical Aiming.

• Added up and down aiming angles for weapons
  
• Added missing event back into HandgunDefault.xml to properly transition zombies to correct hit reaction

- Added HandWeapon.isSelectFire() and .cycleFireModes()
- Pressing shift + rack (default x) will now cycle through fire modes for select fire weapons
- Guns can now have a safety by adding "Safe" to the list of fire mode possibilities (none of the base guns currently have this)
- Added new Player Customisation Screen.
- Added 2 new animations for stopping a spear charge (holding a spear while Sprinting).
- Added 'Disable' choice to sandbox options for electric and water shutoff dates.
- Added/Restored some Annotated Stash Maps.
- Added six new flyers, fixed Wizard's Den flyer - AMZ Steel, Home Sweet Gnome, Roxy's Roller Rink, Spiffo's Hiring (West Point, Dixie, Louisville)
- Updated Blacksmith van texture.
- Added visible Clay Deposits. It is now possible to take clay from clay tiles (WIP).
- Added a Wooden Masons Trowel and a recipe for carving one.
- Added a Bone Fleshing Tool and a recipe for carving one.
- Added large and small plant drying racks made from sticks and rags; this is so players can build them without needing twine.

- Double-clicking an entry in the list of builds or handcraft panel will build it.
- Added Blacksmith, Butcher, Leather, MobileLibrary, and Glass Vans.

• The Blacksmith Van has smithing-related supplies and literature as well as most of the equipment found in the Metalworking van.
  
• The Butcher Van has tools required to hang/process meat as well as handle some of the mess.
  
• The Leather Van has tanned hides ready for use, as well as plenty of Awls.
  
• MobileLibrary has a high chance for Skill Books across the board; note, these should not spawn normally in Louisville or its airport, as these are generally used for rural areas/smaller communities.

- Added native support for Apple Silicon Macs (as well as Intel Macs, as before). Mac users: please let us know of any issues.

- Added SurvivorSwap.lua debugging tool.

• This adds a few functions to modify a survivor's appearance, skills, traits, profession, as well as completely change the inventory and worn gear based on data defined in a Lua table. These can be called mid-game.
  
• Definitions added to the SurvivorSwap.Survivors and SurvivorSwap.Loadouts tables will be automatically added to world context RMC > [Debug] > Survivor Swap (no definitions are currently added so this submenu will not appear)

- The Livestock Farmer profession will start the game knowing the MakeBarbedWire recipes.
- New characters that start the game with the carpenter or repairman profession, or the handy trait, will know appropriate improvised melee weapon recipes.
- New characters that start the game with the brawler trait will know the BoltBat recipe in addition to the other melee weapon recipes that they previously knew.
- The Skeleton Psycho randomized story will drop a Fleshing Tool in the same room as the skeletons.
- Molotovs can be crafted using Alcohol, Tequila, Vodka or Whiskey, and Denim Strips in place of rags.
- Fishing rods can also be crafted or repaired using a bone or forged fishing hook.
- Rain will slowly replace water with tainted water for items on the floor that can be filled.
- Adjusted the Wooden Spade item weapon values and removed/changed some inappropriate item tags and script fields.

- Rebalanced the craftRecipes for Bone, Bulletvest, Spiking Soft Armor, Tire, and Wood armor:
- Bulletvest armor and Spiking Soft Armor craftRecipes only had their xp awards increased, as did the other recipes.
- Generally, these armor craftRecipes will use autoLearnAll and not autoLearnAny if they have multiple autoLearn skills; i.e. they are harder to autoLearn than most recipes in general.

- The skill level requirements, and autoLearn level requirements, were adjusted to provide more of a sense of progression, generally following a, from low to high, forearms/shins -> shoulders/thighs -> body armor progression. Generally speaking, instead of being able to make most of an entire set of an armor type upon hitting a certain skill level(s) breakpoint, it will be paced out in a slower fashion.
- Adjusted the autoLearn requirements for several craftRecipes, mostly related to improvised type weapons and carving.

• This was done to provide a more gradual progression with the autoLearned recipe with these skills, some skills have lower requirements, some have higher, but the net effect should provide the players with more options in general as they progress in skill levels.
  
• In addition to a more gradual progression, it means less spammy learned recipe messages when gaining skill levels.

- The make firecracker recipe now produces a distinct crafted firework item instead of the string of red firecrackers.
- The fiberglass handled sledgehammer will break and be dismantled exactly like the wooden handled one, producing a broken long wood handle.
- Added HandAxes to the item clutter pools for a couple of campsite type stories; axes are more rare in general in b42 due to the broad loot spawn nerf.
- Updated Make Bowl of Oatmeal and Cereal recipes to require fluid in the bowl instead of a separate container, reduced amount from 0.4L to 0.3L as that's how much a bowl holds.
- Updated Create Brain Tan recipe to require water in the bowl, reduced amount from 0.5L to 0.3L since that's how much a bowl holds.
- Reduced the amount of milk, sugar, and baking fat needed to Prepare Muffins.
- Wild chickens/turkeys stop producing eggs/feathers unless being taken care of.

- Autodrink no longer uses its own math for thirst or poisoning, it calls IsoPlayer.DrinkFluid, so that results are consistent and we can keep balancing it.
- Changed how much thirst water fluids provide for 1L.
- We need feedback on this please, gang!

- Recipes for remote triggers and sensors, and traps that use electronic parts now grant Electrical xp, scaling with their skill level requirements.

- Small balance for fishing.



New and updated sounds (note, some are not confirmed as working, yet):
- New sounds for action ScytheGrass.
- New sounds for drinking hot drinks out of a mug/teacup.
- New sounds for Sharpening Blades.
- New sounds for making a coffee using a coffee machine.
- New sounds for shearing sheep.
- New sound for crafting sheet sling bag.
- New Garbage footstep sweeteners.
- Changed BulletHitBody to BulletImpact for firearm zombie-hit sound.
- Reworked Rip Clothing Event.
- Fixed Building campfire playing wrong sound.
- Fixed playing wrong sound when making burger patties.
- Fixed Wrong/Missing sfx when cleaning dirty rag/bandage.
- Fixed white mice not having sounds assigned.
- Fixed missing sound when killing an animal with a knife.



- Fixed being able to hit zombies from far away in melee combat.
- Fixed errors while picking up dead animals while foraging.
- Fixed game crashing near stashes from Annotated Maps.
- Fixed manpack radios on zombies not being in the corpse's inventory when killed.
- Fixed fertilized eggs showing unhappiness/boredom malus.
- Fixed eggs sometimes not hatching when on ground.
- Fixed duplication when spam-adding animals to trailers.
- Fixed generator duplication when grabbing eggs from a hutch.
- Fixed bucket duplication in recipes.
- Fixed unlabeled can duplication.
- Fixed issues with Refill Lighter recipe, it doesn't destroy the lighter, accepts any item with the RefillableLighter tag, and only uses lighter fluid once, no funky math involved, if your Lighter isn't full you can craft the recipe again.
- Fixed wrong texture being used when opening dented cans.
- Fixed duplication of Bowls for Make Bowl of Beans recipe.
- Fixed wooden chair becoming unavailable when carpentry is at level 5.
- Fixed not being able to wash clothes in rain collectors or other fluid container tiles.
- Fixed not being able to plumb rain collectors.
- Fixed unified fluid using/transferring data types to fix rounding errors.
- Fixed tainted water handling so tainted source always taints destination.
- Fixed updates to old water modData with FluidContainer calls.
- Fixed issues with FluidContainers and non-natural finite water sources on creation (sinks, baths, etc).
- Fixed not having a shear when a sheep had wool blocking the animal context menu.
- Fixed over-production of dung by Wild animals.
- Fixed issues with Added rat & mouse dung in definitions files.
- Fixed high levels of dung for vermin and farming animals.
- Fixed high levels of dung and vermin in IsoChunk.
- Fixed Frankenstein animals on butcher hook. Sorry.
- Fixed smoker characters accumulating stress when drinking milk, or other liquids. Milk is now 100% less stressful.
- Fixed chopping down Holly Trees sometimes producing rotten berries.
- Fixed players not keeping their momentum when vaulting over fences, either sprinting or running
- Fixed not being able to climb over a fence when the player character is standing inside furniture.
- Fixed Drinking animation using the wrong Pop Bottle model. Added attachment coords for drinking from Pop Bottles.
- Fixed odd anumation with Tongs in the Forge_Armored_Gloves recipe.
- Fixed WorldItemAtlas not using TINT textures on pop bottles etc.
- Fixed Armor, Melee Weapon and Explosives schematics having inconsistent names with Blacksmithing schematics.
- Fixed the name of the Spade Scrap Metal weapon.
- Fixed errors when trying to repair items.
- Fixed receiving Maintenance XP when repairing/sharpening undamaged Shears and Chisels.
- Fixed duplicated inputs for Awls in Forge Fingerless Metal Gloves recipe.
- Fixed missing Watermelon in the Collect Seed recipe.
- Fixed Primitive Forge not being buildable with any concrete or clay cement bucket.
- Fixed vermin dung items not being on the default list of items that are removed from the world after some time.
- Fixed Clay Mug not being usable to make hot beverages.
- Fixed some vehicle scripts having zombieType mechanic defined for them when they shouldn't.
- Fixed vehicle radial allowing infinite sleep. Popup dialog is now generated once, and has no effect outside vehicles.
- Fixed error when pressing E on Select Spawn Location screen.
- Fixed syncing the selected tile and tileset between views in the tile-geometry editor.
- Fixed radial menu option for siphoning gasoline picking the first empty fluid container instead of preferring gas cans.
- Fixed issue with craft menu showing all input fluids as water / not showing currently applied fluid correctly
- Fixed emergent issue with input items with IsEmpty flag not being fillable
- Fixed more cases of being still able to build shelves inside another.
- Fixed alarms not being triggered if the player set the time to a non-multiple of 10 (ie: 2:07). This does create an inconsistency as the clock UI and tooltips only display in multiples of 10 (an alarm ringing at 2:07 will still show 2:00 on the clock)
- Fixed an issue where if a character lacked extra resources for additional constructions, building would fail while still consuming the items.
- Fixed missing tile properties for player-made constructions.
- Fixed missing moddata for created items by craftRecipe, that saves used items.
- Fixed missing SurvGuide button for controllers.
- Fixed the RDSBleach story having Rat Poison in the hand of the corpse if Rat Poison is used by the story and not Bleach (the story name itself is really just a variable name).
- Fixed missing ground model for the stethoscope item.
- Fixed some lua code using getStress and not getBasicStress, which would apply extra stress to characters with the smoker trait.
- Fixed some issues with inappropriate vehicle key spawning.
- Fixed oversized crafted paint brush.
- Fixed issues with water sources displaying an empty context menu when the player isn't thirsty, dirty, and has nothing to fill. The 'drink' option will now always show regardless of thirst level as this was being interpreted as a bug.
- Fixed ISUnequipAction from not properly validating if the player actually has the item in question. In situations where a heavy item was equipped in both hands, this could lead to duplication if the timed action was called on both the primary and secondary hands as the player would drop it twice.
- Fixed missing canDetach Lua callback for WeaponParts, similar to the existing canAttach callback.
- Fixed masks not being unequipped and re-equipped when drinking.
- Fixed some nutritional values of fluids.
- Fixed world item removal not being able to remove items with underscores in their IDs, now they can both match their full IDs or the previous case used by items like glasses and vests.
- Fixed not being able to delete user-defined sandbox presets.
- Fixed vehicles being too bright inside buildings.
- Fixed Game controllers being activated by default when seen for the first time. This is to avoid issues with peripherals that appear to be game controllers but are not.
- Fixed harmless error message on MacOS when calling glfwSetWindowIcon().
- Fixed "compatibility mode" breaking rendering by forcing 1x tile size, which doesn't exist any longer.
- Fixed dismantling electrical items still testing for favourited.
- Fixed Wrench and Engine Parts not counting and not being moved to main inventory before repairing an engine.
- Fixed being able to sleep on "out of gas" signs.
- Fixed not being able to apply plaster to walls/window frames/door frames.
- Fixed not being able to lock doors built with matching keys and knobs.
- Fixed Paint/plaster action not being able to use any item with the Paintbrush tag instead of the specific Paintbrush item ID.
- Fixed Screwdrivers being a hard requirement for attaching/detaching WeaponParts. The `CanAttach` and `CanDetach` Lua callbacks are now exclusively used for validation. All current WeaponParts except AmmoStraps now use `Recipe.WeaponParts.hasScrewdriver`
- Fixed issues with cutaways. Interiors of cutaway buildings are blacked out when the player is more than 10 square away from the building (buildings still cut away when aiming from a distance, due to the need to see occluded areas on the north and west sides).
- Fixed issues with code for Locket names, to allow for better translation. Postcards will now use their own text entry for their name logic.
- Fixed obsolete lines and wrong corner sprits in log fence and stick fence scripts.
- Fixed HollowBook tag being used by both books that could be hollowed and books that had already been hollowed, allowing for infinite crafting. Books that are hollowed now use the IsHollowedBook tag.
- Fixed several recipes not accepting the crafted bowl, there are no separate resulting items for now, so once consumed these will return the standard bowl.
- Fixed not being able to prepare salad using the crafted bowl.
- Fixed an error when getting muffins from a tray.
- Fixed skill level requirement not matching the level that unlocks the last wooden chair tier in the menu.
- Fixed depth textures on two vegetation drying racks.
- Fixed an error that could occur when right-clicking multiple items, on account of new debug and item research information.
- Fixed being unable to craft long spiked clubs.
- Fixed survivor bags not having Butchering I-III.
- Fixed missing recipes for forging some axe head items.
- Fixed missing recipes (axe heads, fleshing tool) to characters with smithing professions or traits, and to smithing magazines.
- Fixed distorted savegame thumbnails.
- Fixed missing 2nd story outside wall of the house at 7116x9163
- Fixed "Converting world" text not displaying the correct number of files being copied.
- Fixed Tim the marching-zombie progress indicator overlapping the "Converting world" text.
- Fixed Table clipping through a wall from another room at 11945x6878.
- Fixed "Make Jar of Produce" not consuming the jar.
- Fixed American Homesteading Farming magazine teaching the separate jarring recipes.
- Fixed the Interact key (E) sometimes queuing up multiple actions when held down a bit too long.
- Fixed moving food into bowls not setting their cooked status.
- Fixed being unable to pick up medium drying racks.
- Fixed large comboboxes and other controls in CharacterCreationMain on small screens.
- Fixed missing areas on the in-game map.
- Fixed Moodle Size option not affecting the displayed moodle size immediately.
- Fixed building recipes referencing the MasonsTrowel item not referencing the MasonsTrowel tag instead.
- Fixed players being able to walk through large plant drying racks - they now occupy all four squares of their footprint without any ghost tiles.
- Fixed plant drying racks not being pick-up-able.
- Fixed characters failing to climb down ropes attached to a fence.
- Fixed modOptions not saving.
- Fixed animal and zombie corpses clipping with the ground tiles when dead.
- Fixed ISPaintMenu.lua from passing the wrong variable to getWallType()

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- Sheet Curtains attached to animated doors are now rendered in 3D, attached to the animated doors.
- Added a craft recipe for Sawing a Plank from a Large Branch.
- Further development of an "InheritFood" inputFlag for craftRecipes.
- This is intended to automate translating all of the food qualities from the appropriate input to the appropriate product(s), such as properly splitting a pot of soup into bowls of soup, with all of the proper nutrition, cooked, poison, old, etc.
- Ideally, for most cases for food craftRecipes, having "InheritFood" on the proper input should produce the desired results without needing an OnCreate lua function.
- Added functionality for an "InheritCooked" craftRecipe input flag.
- If an input with that flag is Burnt, Cooked, or Frozen, according to the code the output should also be Burnt, Cooked or Frozen.
- Added Fire Axe Head item and enabled all of the business with them breaking and being assembled and disassembled like other axe items.
- Added Masonry business vehicles so more Masonry Chisels spawn.
- Added Craft Supply business vehicles so more Clay spawns.
- Added Florist business vehicles because we have pretty flowers.
- Holly trees can sometimes drop Holly Berries when chopped down.
- Updated crafting/clay van texture.
- Added Wooden Spade item and carving recipe.
- Added recipe for crafting Molotov.
- Added the Log tag to Log item, so that it can be used along with other tags in an input.



- Adjusted how trees are evaluated based on their tile definition properties to determine their size and whether they yield logs.
- A distinction was introduced within the smallest class of trees, differentiating between "really small" and "small" trees.
- The really small trees will now drop one Log and a Sapling, bigger trees drop more Logs.
- Revised tree health calculations to account for changes in log yield.
- Note: Players with existing savegames will need to travel to unexplored areas for the "small but not really small trees" to drop logs when chopped down.
- Adjusted weight of the broken branch item from 2 to 1.5.
- Adjusted weight of Money Bundle from 1 to 0.5.
- Large enough pine trees can sometimes drop pine cones when chopped down.
- Large enough oak trees can sometimes drop acorns when chopped down.
- Rebalanced tree chopping yields as excess Large Branches were dropping due to redundant code.
- Crayons can be used to make green marks on the map.
- Lowered base stress from the trailer crash story to avoid Ram/Bull killing players on sight.



- Fixed some broken animations when holding 1handed knives. We are aware that there are still issues with overtwisting animations and will fix it soon.
- Fixed Null-ref Crashes on User Machines due to missing Display.capabilities
- Fixed a floating sign at 11657x8375.
- Fixed the CarveShortBat craftRecipe producing a LongHandle.
- Fixed missing craftRecipe for assembling spears from proper spear heads.
- Fixed an error with the improvised flashlight recipe onCreate.
- Added a check to prevent car keys from spawning in explored containers.
- Fixed pathfinding failing going up or down carpentry stairs, as well as an issue with negative world coordinates.
- Fixed vehicles ceasing to operate on the edges of the world.
- Fixed off-by-one issue with which chunks are loaded around vehicles and ragdolls in negative world coordinates.
- Fixed line-of-sight issues in negative world coordinates.
- Fixed alarm clocks not waking up players in basements.
- Fixed dung/feather could spawn on water & other unreachable tiles.
- Limit the numbers of dung/feathers that can spawn according to the animal's zone size.
- Fixed rotten/stale text on fertilized eggs (they were still considered as fresh, but text was wrong). Hi, Dipper.
- Fixed unequipping animal corpse not dropping them on the ground.
- Added the functions shouldHaveCollision to IsoSprite to try and help prevent inappropriate thumpables from being instanced.
- Related to issues with both teleporting and basements, added safety checks to several functions that set the Z-level for game elements to ensure that they don't set their Z-level to be below the minimum or above the maximum Z-level of the game engine.
- Fixed error with DebugContextMenu.onTeleportValid.
- Replaced player:teleportTo with getPlayer():teleportTo for non-client teleportation logic in the DebugContextMenu.onTeleportValid function.
- Fixed bugs when teleporting while in a vehicle, which also caused duplications and sometimes trapping players inside cars. Players will now be removed from a vehicle before being teleported.
- Now any time a character in a vehicle teleports, it is funneled through one java function in IsoGameCharacter.java that will properly remove them from a vehicle.
- Fixed the vehicle dashboard remaining on screen when teleporting from within a vehicle.
- Pottery kiln recipes should now accept any charcoal type.
- Fixed Make Improsived Flashlight not consuming the tin can.
- Fixed zombies from ambulance stories not wearing masks. 10% of Ambulance Driver and Doctor outfit zombies will be wearing surgical masks.
- Note that in build 42 10% of Nurse outfit zombies are already wearing surgical masks.

HOTFIX 42.0.2

ADDITIONS
- Added sandbox multipliers for jamming, weather and moodle effects on hit chance
- Added boolean sandbox option to disable headgear vision penalties on hit chance
BALANCE
- Significantly reduced jamming rates
- Adjusted point blank distance to 3.5 tiles
- Some HitChance modifiers that were not properly impacted by point blank distance are now taken into account. These include moodles, weather, lighting and headgear.
- Reduced moodle hitChance penalties by half
- Set default sandbox jam multiplier to 0
FIXES
- Fixed weapons with 0 base rate from jamming on rack
- Fixed tutorial shotgun from potentially jamming.
- Fixed tutorial running to the outhouse step from being broken

- Fix for "no UI"/"black screen" at game start (helps with problematic screenresolution.ini file, but not with old AMD cards bug).
- Fixed game closing while shooting.
- Fixed texture compression being disabled.
- Removed placeholder UI sounds
- Fixed not being able to open doors when another timed action was being carried out.
- Reduced Melee Weapon Muscle strain. It is now 60% of the previous amount. Other sources of Muscle Strain are unaffected. The sandbox value hasn't changed and the reduced value is the new baseline.
- Fixed Chickenpocalypse.
- Fixed a butchering exploit.

- Fixed a missing floor in cell 16,24 causing the player to fall forever.

- Convert GLSL 330 syntax to 150 when the available OpenGL version is less than 3.3.
- This should allow the game to run on MacOS again, in theory.
- Replaced GL43.glDepthRangef() calls with GL11.glDepthRange().
- Fixed bink videos not playing when the working directory does not contain the "media" directory.
- Fixed glitchy model rendering affecting mods due to not-normalized bone weights.
- Fixed garbage creation in several spots.
AnimationPlayer.getSkinTransformData() was reallocating bone matrices every frame due to bone counts differing between player models and clothing models.
- Reduced memory usage a little.
- Radio data XML was kept in memory after parsing.
- LosUtil.cachedresults isn't used in singleplayer.
- Avoid allocating a few large buffers used only in multiplayer.
- Garbage-creation avoided in several places.
- Fixed rendering issues starting the game with zoom disabled.
- Fixed BallisticsTargets not being cleared.
- Fixed array indexing in PZBallistics::getCameraTargets
- ModelInstance::getAttachmentWorldPosition normalizes the direction vector
- Fixed Zeds playing wrong animation when shoved down.
- When bKnockedDown and !hasHitReaction and !bOnFloor and playerAttackPosition = FRONT/BACK, Zed now goes to staggerback-knockeddown.
- When playerAttackPosition is not FRONT/BACK, Zed goes to falldown.
- attack-network no longer goes to idle when bDead.
- staggerback-knockeddown AnimNodes no longer continously check bKnockedDown.
- Already in the knockeddown state, no need to keep checking.
- Modified the default sandbox options for animals a bit, made milk/wool on Fast by default, Egg hatch is fast, not very fast now tho (meaning it takes 14 days to hatch an egg instead of approx 8 days in the current very fast version)
- Fixed recipecode for pack of batteries that spawned in the world.
- Fixed multiple recipes in knapping.
- Removed the butchering & recipe code fixes since it wasn't wanted for hotfix.
- Fixed Make_Stone_Knife requiring Maintenance 5 instead of 1.
- Wooden Cudgel renamed to Large Branch.
- Added Workshop tags: Animals, Audio, Farming, Skills, QoL, WIP
- Traits renamed.
- Nervous to Cowardly
- Fear of Outdoors to Agoraphobic
- Fear of Indoors to Claustrophobic
- Outdoorsman to Outdoorsy
- Can't Read to Illiterate
- Repairer/Repairman to DIY Expert
- Fisher to Angler
- Adjusted Slow Reader, ThinSkinned, and Disorganized trait descriptions
- "Very Long Stick" renamed to "Long Stick". It's still way above average ok.
- "Breaded" foods renamed to "Fried"
- The libbink64.dylib was rebuilt.
- Rebuilt Linux pzbullet libraries.
- Updated PZBullet Win32/64 natives

Build 42 Unstable is now available to play!

Important

• Those who play Unstable must be aware that they’re playing a work in progress.
• This Unstable exists so we can collect player feedback to find bugs and improve our game. Some key features, primarily multiplayer, are initially disabled – they will be re-enabled later.
• Build 41 saves and mods are NOT compatible with Build 42.
• There will be bugs and annoyances, and game balance will likely be way from perfect, particularly with the zombie distribution and combat changes.
• Your saves may break after Unstable updates.

We’re aware people have built up a lot of anticipation for the first unstable release, and have done our best to make it an enjoyable experience out the gate. But as those who were present for the first b41 unstable release will attest, it’s in unstable for a reason and our unstable branches evolve a lot during the process, so please be understanding and constructive if you come across issues.

 
The Unstable branch is now accessible to anyone who plays Project Zomboid.

Right click Project Zomboid in your Steam library and hit “Properties”.

Then, navigate to the betas tab and select the “Unstable” branch from the dropdown menu.

If you find a bug, read this first[theindiestone.com], then post it on our forums[theindiestone.com].

If you put it anywhere else (including Discord) then your report will likely get lost.

• Due to some unavoidable last minute compatibility issues, unstable 42 for Mac will arrive in a subsequent update, very possibly falling in the New Year.
• SteamDeck / controller input is still WIP, and currently not recommended for play
• MP will be enabled during the Unstable beta process.
• Our GOG friends will get access to Unstable very soon too, we’ve just had a lot on our plate but will try and roll the unstable out to GOG asap.

The team is still hard at work improving aspects of the game that will be mixed in during the Unstable beta process.

Initial patching, alongside any major issues that arise from the player community, will concentrate on:

• Polishing of Craft and Building UIs
• Ingredients tuning
• XP gain adjustments
• More icons, better tooltips
• Various collision issues

None of these areas are finalized, and we welcome your thoughts on all of the above so we can prioritize our patching.

A focus for us during Unstable will be hunting. Currently deer migrate over the map along paths preordained at the game’s start, and they leave poop and broken twigs that those with the tracking skill can follow – which testers seem to have found cool and atmospheric.

These rudiments are fun enough, but to get more of a Call of the Wild feeling we’re going to have to give the deer, their deaths, and the tracking much more focus during Unstable as the animal husbandry side of animals is what has received more than the lion’s share of attention during dev.


Ballistics system:

• Shooting at crawlers / on stairs with the new aim system is problematic. This will be addressed in the new year.
• Rare game crash during heavy usage of the M16 (fixing this is a top priority)

Crafting:

• Search bar ignores selected categories
• Recipes can use Items instead of values (e.g. hunger values)
• Batteries can behave oddly

Build Menu:

• Tile properties for new player build constructions need to be set up, some moveables can’t be picked up etc
• Players can’t disassemble moveable objects and reclaim resources

GrappleTech:

• Clipping and minor animation issues while picking up or dropping corpses, dragging on stairs and throwing corpses over window frames and fences
• Improvements required for turning animation while grabbing, and arm overtwist while dragging and turning.
• Shoving animation currently plays after dropping corpses.

General:

• Some missing 3D models and icons for items
• Not currently able to look around while seated
• Some animal pathfinding bugs present (e.g. animals can walk through closed gates)
• Liquids UI improvements needed
• Some hitching while dragging/zooming the new spawn map.
• Further balance is required for sneaking in different weather and darkness conditions