0.6 (Samedi)

0.6 (Samedi) is a version of Cataclysm that was released on 2013 June 22.

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Change Log

Highlights

• Zombies will revive after a time, if not butchered (or otherwise dealt with).
• The Android trait now behaves the way that the description indicates.
• Gasoline can be siphoned from vehicles. Requires a rubber hose for now - these are easier to acquire.
• Sewing requires materials other than thread - rags for cloth, leather patches for leather, kevlar bricks, plastic chunks.
• Leather/Kevlar/plastic/fur repair/reinforcement actually possible!
• Inventory management UI improvements, and a new screen to organize worn items.
• NPCs continue to be less buggy, but are still prone to crashes.
• Weapon firing code reworked a bit. UI improvements, and you should now be able to fire at anything within range.
• Reworked the armor/protection code.
• Reworked the learning system: replaced XP with Focus. See the relevant help text.
• Added a *bunch* of new multi-stage missions, for those who play with the shelter NPC turned on.
• Many new buildings (See full changelong list)
• Vehicle collision physics are now based on *actual* physics! Reduces collision insanity.
• Option to use triginometric distance instead of roguelike distance. In other words light, line of sight are circular instead of square.
• Zombie density in towns is based on nearby buildings instead of distance from town center.
• Higher-performance (on windows) SDL-based rendering as an optional build type.
• Movement on and around vehicles greatly streamlined.
• Sound indicator lets you know how much noise you're making.
• Turn cost indicator lets you know how long actions take.
• Overkilled monsters now spray gibs around instead of disapearing.
• Mostly remove limits on how many items fit in a tile of ground.
• As usual, many bugfixes.

Full list

• Purifier no longer removes traits available at chargen.
• Fix some calculations that wanted floating-point math, and were using integer math.
• Fix some vehicle collision craziness related to skids.
• Added zombie revival. Chance of unbutchered zombie corpses rezzing, once 6 hours have passed.
• Advanced inventory UI improvements/fixes.
• Dropping count-by-charge items (batteries, meds, etc.) into vehicles will cause restacking.
• Android trait always gives a power system bionic.
• Fix torso encumbrance display (it's smart about sign use now).
• Bitmask-based item flags no longer exist! Instead, we have string-based tags, that have no upper limit.
• Tweaked glowstick behavior - can no longer deactivate, and they have a dead state.
• Android trait should no longer give the player faulty bionics.
• Bolts moved to ammo category, like arrows.
• Added bone broth, and recipe.
• Adjust how Climate Control bionic works, make vehicles have functioning (magic!) AC.
• Added fuel siphoning using rubber hose.
• Appearance-improving mutations are now flagged as being good mutations.
• Welder charges are actually used during vehicle construction.
• Items will no longer become erroneously fitted, and item tags should not spread during map loading.
• Weather accounts for starting time properly.
• Containers can be unloaded again (they were bugged).
• Optimized scentmap updates, hopefully this speeds up certain activities.
• Pit-requiring constructions have pit digging as their first two stages, to make it more obvious what the prereqs are.
• Some menus (notably, inventory) can be navigated with arrow keys and enter.
• Allowing sewing of leather items, make sewing require rags/patches.
• Cooking rotten food does not make it magically fresh any more.
• Resolves an issue where destroying an item while tailoring would crash the game.
• New UI to sort clothing and automatically assign special characters to clothing (accessed via +)
• Footwear warmth values tweaked to be more flexible.
• Wool warmth is not reduced by rain.
• Sofas and armchairs help with sleeping.
• Temperature is less of an issue while sleeping.
• Warning messages for when the player is cold/hot while sleeping.
• Oversized clothing can be worn over anything (blankets, cloaks, etc).
• Sound interruptions can be categorically ignored while crafting, reading, etc.
• More improvements to the advanced inventory UI.
• Shrubs less difficult to smash.
• Upgraded versions of Fast Healer still give you bonuses while sleeping.
• Soldering iron recipe learnable via disassembly.
• Integrated toolset power usage normalized on a few recipes.
• Vehicle speed is now taken into account when throwing a character that exits a moving vehicle.
• Gasoline lanterns added to the game.
• Bifocal glasses added to the game.
• Tweak Windows (catacurse) colors.
• Correct window border color behavior under Windows.
• Add glass jars, make sauces spawn in them instead of in tin cans.
• Removed a couple NPC crash bugs.
• You can safely exit a vehicle moving less than 1 MPH.
• Fix a pair of drawing glitches related to the item pickup window.
• Remove the artificial delay when animating vehicle movement.
• Out-of-range enemies are still drawn when firing a weapon.
• Make it so that anything within range can be targeted with a ranged weapon.
• Disassembly recipe for vacuum sealer.
• Backspace no longer causes junk to be input during string entry.
• The overmap screen now lets you use "<" and ">" to view different z-levels.
• Reworked the armor/protection code.
• Fridges drop rubber hose instead of pipe when destroyed.
• Reworked the learning system: replaced XP with Focus. See the relevant help text.
• Autosave should save everything now, rather than a subset.
• Fix artifact saving/loading... again.
• Added new missions.
• Added cathedral to mapgen.
• Fixed flamethrowers.
• Add 40mm acid bomb shells.
• Moving furniture causes noise.
• Clothing damage descriptions now depend on the item's material.
• Gunmods now show "%" properly in the magazine size line.
• Add bicycle seats: low-mass seats that can't take a seatbelt.
• Vehicle collision physics are now based on *actual* physics! Reduces collision insanity.
• Foraging gives survival experience, even on failure.
• Disassembling ammo gives firearms experience.
• Ball bearings should hopefully drop now.
• Added headlights to a few more default vehicles.
• Lab coats can be fitted.
• Items in adjacent containers (fridges, lockers, etc.) visible with 'V' screen.
• Players can no longer examine sealed crates to see their contents.
• Funnels give acid water during acid rain :).
• Acid water (after refinement) now an alternate ingredient for acid bombs.
• Corrected a few item name typos.
• Cleaned up generation of a particular (spiral-y) underground room.
• More temperature tweaks.
• Being hot makes you MORE thirsty, not less.
• Reworked item unloading and reloading a bit to remove bugs.
• Flatbed trucks now have rear windows.
• Electric cars added as potential vehicle spawns.
• Fix some bugs related to known overmap data and leaking the state to other characters.
• Effects of current stats are shown on the '@' screen.
• Materials obtained from clothing depend on the clothing's damage level.
• Fixed some lab mapgen bugs.
• Mansions got a little love.
• Having too little intelligence for a book is more of a penalty.
• Vehicle headlight state is persistent after save-load.
• Being hot no longer increases thirst by an unreasonable amount
• Minor : temp_conv and dis.intensity are saved, fixing strange on-load inconsistencies
• Minor : Diseases that affect speed no longer overwrite eachother in the @ menu
• Clothing with pockets provides a bonus to hand warmth when not wielding a weapon.
• New large building with basement: Prison
• Basement level for hazardous waste sarcophagus.
• New building with basement: musterious cabin.
• Display recent log messages on player death.
• Radiation exposure is now more dangerous
• Mutations from radiation can be disabled.
• Mutation categories now more dominant.
• Added themed mutagens with recipes.
• New medical items.
• Bundle of plastic bags item for stowing bags.
• Rebalance chance of cutting weapons getting stuck, much less likely now.
• Smashing corpses prevents them from reviving.
• Burning corpses prevents them from reviving.
• Stopped players from leaving slime trails or webs while in a vehicle.
• Made vitamins have an effect again.
• Made multiple gasoline tanks drain properly.
• Added tiny pain effect to Acid Drizzle, raincoats now offer a bit of protection to acid rain/drizzle.
• Advanced inv: "e" pulls up inventory item menu. Help window displays feedback messages for actions taken. "?" toggles between help and msg viewer.
• Eliminate radiation dosage saturation, halving dosage rate to compensate. (radiation is slower, but more implacable)
• Fitting screen now shows storage and encumbrance in item columns.
• Added leather vest item and crafting recipe.
• avoid use of pow() in distance calculation, speeding them up an order of magnitude.
• Make blood filter remove all other drug based diseases.
• Make blood analysis detect all drugs.
• Behold, sharpie markers.
• Display actual keymapping instead of default one in most help text.
• Stopped bleeding, bites, and poison from applying when stopped by armor.
• Safely hop from slow-moving vehicles, get hurt from quick ones.
• Multidrop screen now shows a summary of what is about to be dropped.
• Sort inventory by item charges, use low-charge items first.
• Option to auto-save before sleep.
• Lava burns things and can be used for crafting.
• Multiple fixes to burst-fire targeting.
• Prevent turrets from shooting themselves.
• Prevent friendly turrets from trying to shoot through the player.
• Brasas catcher item to catch your brass for recrafting.
• More power armor variants.
• Make movement take half the cost of both the beginning and end tiles, instead of just taking the cost of the end tile.
• Made shooting interactions more realistic.
• Add radiation badge item and associated infrastructure.
• Automagically add new keybindings, so long as they don't conflict.
• Significantly reduces the number of giant worms.
• Adds strawberry bushes.
• Advanced inventory: Add [c]ategory sort.
• Large number of added archery items: Wide range of bows crossbows, and arrows, and a multitude of crafting recipes.
• Stop unnecessaraly saving adjacent overmaps every time they are potentially dirtied. (prevents periodic pauses!)
• Hard Leg Guards and Metal Leg guards.
• Picking berry bushes trains survival (at low levels).
• Added skill support into professions.