0.5

0.5 is a version of Cataclysm that was released on 2013 May 14.

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Change Log

Highlights

• 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

• 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.