0.B (Brin)

0.B (Brin) is a version of Cataclysm that was released on November 17, 2014.

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Change Log

Highlights

• You want speed? We brought the speed.
• You want more buildings? We have more buildings.
• More configurable difficulty? got it.
• Better menus? Way better menus.
• Mutation chains to explore? Tons of em.
• More guns? yep.
• More things to bolt on your deathmobile?
• All over the place.

Features

• Random characters have professions applied.
• Brewing.
• Wearable tools.
• Martial arts techniques can trigger when wielding appropriate weapons.
• Wing mirrors for vehicles.
• Prototype hordes.
• Adjust zombie speed with mods.
• Made butcher menu's first entry match the butcher hotkey, so you can just hold down the button to butcher all.
• You can dig down stairs with proper equipment.
• Scabbards, holsters and sheathable weapons.
• At high skills you can quick draw/attack with weapons.
• Fish spawn as distinct creatures, and they're used for fishing checks.
• Quivers for arrows.
• Furniture can act as a tool.
• Corpses rot and eventually disappear.
• Armor is assigned to a layer, and armor on different layers doesn't impose layering penalties.
• Destroyed vehicle parts get ripped off the vehicle.
• Player can start at various locations.
• Special support for mapsharing installs:
• lock down debug menu
• lock players to their username
• more configurable file placement
• locks around map files
• Language switch is dynamic now.
• Guns such as revolvers no longer eject casings when fired, they're instead ejected on reload.
• Internal furnace and Battery System CBMs are toggleable so you're less likely to eat random objects by accident.
• Spending more time near traps has incremental chance of finding them, spotted traps are remembered.
• Thrown items above a trap-defined threshold will trigger traps.
• You can now peek through curtains and some doors.
• Smashing a broken window again clears out the broken glass (relatively quietly).
• Autopickup can get at anything you can reach, i.e. adjacent tiles.
• Can set exclusion zones for autopickup, so you can avoid accidentally picking up all your stuff in your base.
• Contents of books are unknown until first read (which is faster than usual).
• Can craft recipes if you have a book in range that provides it.
• Can learn recipes by practicing them.
• Roof of the vehicle you're currently in is not drawn.
• Faction hostility is back.
• Kiln operates without player being nearby.
• Radio operated items.
• Switched to seed-based weather generation.
• Options are only displayed when they are applicable to your build.
• Can perform unspeakable acts upon zombies to turn them into your packmule slave thing.
• Messages give feedback on melee misses.
• Foraging is seasonal, fruits will grow each season, but once picked are gone until the next.
• Pet menu to interact with friendly monsters.
• Starting scenarios stitch together profession, traits, and starting location.
• Picking up and dropping multiple items is now an interruptable activity.
• Activatable mutations.
• Heavily moddable gun platform.
• Fire creates invisible hot air fields, which meander around in enclosed spaces and warm them up.
• Factored windchill and humidity into body temperature calculations.
• Vehicles smash items when they (wheels) run over them.
• Refined vehicle/terrain collisions.
• Hulks and Brutes now have a very damaging fling attack.
• Jumper cables can be used to link together electrical systems of vehicles, including vehicles outside the reality bubble.
• Crafting a large batch of items can apply a discount to the crafting time required.
• Overhaul of "cut up" system:
• Cannot cut up an item if it includes a material that can't be cut up (e.g. shotgun).
• Cutting up returns items from each material that makes up the item.
• Cuting up most items should respect the total volume of the item.
• Most terrain can be smashed now, if you can hit it hard enough.
• Can turn individual vehicle engines on and off.
• Filling an item with water from e.g. a river is now an interruptable action.

Infrastructure

• Switched to SDL 2.0.
• Made paths configurable for packaging and installation support.
• Finished pushing martial art definitions out to json.
• JSONized multi-tile building generation, leading to huger buildings.
• Tilesets can provide a per-category fallback tile to handle new monsters/items/whatever.
• Silenced all the warnings, now it's easier to keep new ones from cropping up.
• Lots of string handling infrastructure, making translated string handling easier.
• Missing tiles in tilesets can fall back to ASCII.
• Saner glyph cache handling.
• Components used to craft an item are stored in the item.
• Debug overlay for hordes.
• Improved window handling.
• Generic iuse functors unify many types of iuse functions.
• JSONized bullet pulling recipes.
• Generic support for foldable vehicles, still need support for *crafting* them.
• Encapsulation applied to map accessors.
• JSONized monster drops.
• Damaged fuel tanks leak fuel on the ground.
• Most menus use input context now, and therefore have configurable keybindings.
• Switched build to c++11.
• Items can have a list of iuse methods instead of just one.
• Drug effects can mostly be defined in JSON.
• Scripts for querying json in tools_json_tools.
• Beefed up utf-8 input handling.
• JSONized NPC definitions.
• Unified recipe requirements across constructions and crafting.
• Better error handling when initializing SDL.
• Recipes can have byproducts.
• Added a standalone map layout utility.
• Monsters are saved to the overmap instead of per-submap, clearing the way for horde support.
• Hgamelaunch start script.
• Items can spawn with variable amounts of charge.
• Monster blacklists are applied consistently to all spawn code.
• Different ammunition-bearing monsters (turrets, robots) have customized loadouts of their various ammo types.
• Obsolete mods can be marked as such, preventing debug spam if a save containing them is loaded.

Balance

• Give most starting professions decent starting equipment.
• Nether spawns near corpse spawns.
• Capped skill gain from many activities, especially crafting.
• Melee weapons can take wear and tear damage based on their primary material.
• Categorized CBMs you can get from butchering things.
• BEES!
• Armor values nerfed.
• Mutagen spawn rates slashed.
• Overhauled mp3 player morale bonus to make micromanagement of it suboptimal.
• Amount of damage blocked by a block technique based on strength and skill of blocker.
• Removed acid rain until it can be made into a local event.
• Nerfed speed of many zombie animals.
• Starting professions supplied with cold-weather gear to match the expected climate.
• Standing in a fire less likely to ignite clothes.
• Lying in fire (when one or more legs is at 0HP) causes MUCH more damage.

Content

• New monster, Wraith.
• Hops, barley, and molasses as brewing ingredients.
• Yeast for fermenting brews and baking some bread foods.
• Sugar beet as a renewable source of sugar.
• Fruit wine and Brandy.
• Moonshine and home-brewed beer.
• Grappling hook.
• Many new house layouts.
• Wells and well digging.
• CQB CBM that provides martial art style.
• Warehouse building.
• Decorative terrain and furniture.
• Parasites and diseases from unsafe foods.
• Curtains for vehicle doors and windshields, privacy please!
• Foraging (in bushes, shrubs, trees).
• Towel usable for many handy things (still not at HHGttG level).
• hehe, honey.
• Wearable rx12 auto-injector.
• E-cigs
• Motel locations.
• Slime mutants can slip through tight spaces, spawn friendly slimes.
• Some insect-like mutants can sip nectar from flowers (but at a cost...)
• Mutagen gives you wings! (butterfly wings)
• Bird mutations.
• Zoose
• Killed bots drop (disassemblable) broken bot items instead of corpses.
• Bear mutations.
• Bio operator zombie.
• Spider nest basements.
• Nice looking road ends and roundabouts.
• Exploding gasbag zombies.
• Pizza parlor building.
• Wheelchairs.
• Notes left by other survivors scattered all over.
• Brain blob directs nearby blobs to move intelligently.
• Mall location.
• Several toolbox items to streamline carrying around your crafting needfulls.
• Cotton and many cotton-based recipes and items.
• Plant mutations.
• Audit of all item prices to try and get a sensical baseline for them.
• Supercharged military turrets.
• Make Fedora activatable, m'ilady.
• Road barricades.
• Necropolis.
• Rollerblades and skates.
• Evac center and piles of NPCs and missions.
• Bandit camps.
• RC car and remote-detonated bombs, and a remote controlled lamp.
• Automated gas stations.
• Boats.
• E-ink tablet and laptops can display recipes and act like books.
• Can take pictures of monsters and view them on laptops or tablets.
• Fish traps.
• A "Thrilling" monster easter egg.
• Riot control bot.
• Extensive mutation chain culminating with player effectively joining the Marloss faction.
• Extensive expansion of Marloss monsters/structures.
• Various power substations, with new monsters.
• Diesel added as a vehicle fuel.
• Added craftable pontoon bridges.
• Rat mutants can burrow, Cephalopod mutants can grow a large shell, lizards can regrow limbs.
• Many new starting locations.
• Curing hides and tanning leather.
• Full coverage of tiles in Retrodays and MShock's tilesets!

Inferface

• Expanded armor layering window.
• Added way to swap panes in AIM.
• Animation and duration for smoking activity.
• Action menu that displays all actions in a tree menu.
• Highlight things you can interact with when 'e'xamining.
• Many strings are properly pluralized and have support for doing so when translated as well.
• Standardized overmap building colors.
• Vehicle examine menu shows used/capacity of fuel tanks and cargo space.
• SDL builds can play music.
• Log messages colorized.
• Books colorized by category.
• Different weather types get their own animations.
• Save/load log messages.
• Fuzzy river borders.
• Scrolling text animations when things are damaged and on some effects triggering.
• Lots of menus now have sorting, categories, and search.
• Animation delay option.
• Player can write and read sign items.
• Added a menu displaying martial art style characteristics.
• Perishable and rotting items colorized.
• UPS no longer activatable, now act as passive batteries.
• Prompt to continue studying a book until all recipes learned.

Performance

• Greatly sped up construction menu.
• Overmap scrolling speed greatly improved.
• Turn number added to calendar since it's called a gajillion times.
• Switched a lot of large collections to use std::unordered_map() or std::unordered_set().
• SDL framebuffer cache.
• Extracted rain animation code from main drawing code.
• Tile lookup speedups.

Bugfixes

• No bleeding effect if your armor absorbs all the damage.
• Make game stop treating trees, walls, etc as hallucinatory with respect to vehicle collisions.
• Prevent dragging furniture from hoovering up items.
• Option to force software rendering to work around hardware support issues.
• Players are ejected from vehicles when their seats are destroyed.
• Contents of items destroyed by interacting with them are dumped instead of being deleted.
• Restored function of area melee attacks.
• Made various battery mods play nice together.
• Prevent segfault in the unlikely case that you miss so badly that you shoot yourself.
• Don't cause blood spatters when the attack does no damage.
• Avoid crashing when loading a corrupted submap.
• Avoid resetting creature speed to 100 when a creature is saved/loaded.
• Option to disable joystick input in case you have a broken joystick.
• Always practice at least one of the melee skill types when attacking.
• Fixed off-by-one error that made 100% coverage armor 99% coverage.
• Move critical multiplier calculaton after armor absorbs damage.
• Added move cost for interacting with computers.
• Use maximum heard sound for effects (such as deafness), not the sum.
• Player graveyard works as intended, most recent player save is moved to the graveyard folder.
• Factored weight of items in furniture into cost of dragging the furniture.
• Gunmods with firing modes finally make correct sounds when fired.
• Guns spawn with ammo when mapgen calls for it.
• Fixed longstanding bug where displayed warmth would fluctuate wildly if your body temperature was optimal.
• Prevent player from taking damage when driving over an acid puddle.
• Taught zombies how to pick the right stairs.
• Fixed bug where zombies can attack at range after a knockback.
• Lots of window refresh cleanup.
• Turrets and vehicle turrets now respect friendly status when burst firing.
• Fixed a bug where monsters could see further than they should in circular distance mode (they still used square dist).