Livestock Update

Both animals can also be harvested for meat, bones and leather like other animals, giving new Beef and Mutton meat. Grown animals can be sold to an NPC at the Ranch. Facepunch says there are several ways to capture wild livestock, some more efficient than others.

Like plants, livestock have genetics and needs, and can be bred towards a 'god clone'. Facepunch notes that genes do not behave exactly like plant genes, so existing plant breeding techniques may not carry over. With the new navmesh enabled, NPCs can enter player structures and respect doors opening and closing.

Lead a grown animal to the Stables and speak to the vendor to receive an offer based on the animal's gene quality. You can reject an offer and get a new one two more times; after the third rejection the vendor will not buy that animal for 15 minutes.

Wool works the same way, with up to three offers. Rewards scale with how much wool you bring in one trip, up to a maximum of 400.

Fill it, stir it and let it process. It needs stirring again roughly every 30 minutes, and an IO output can signal when stirring is needed. Foods with a higher calorific value produce more low grade.

Repairs work like siege weapon construction: hit the helipad with a hammer to transfer resources from your inventory. The repair requires 30,000 wood, 10,000 metal fragments and 100 rope. Once repaired, the pad stays repaired for the rest of the wipe and the vendor is open to everyone on the server.

Facepunch's stated aim is to stop air vehicles from this vendor appearing too early in a wipe. Server admins can revert the change with vehicle.padrepairsrequired, or force the pad into a disrepaired or repaired state with vehicle.setrepairablepads (0 or 1).

The rooms build on the Power Plant loot room from the Power Trip update. The number of Heavy Fuses needed varies by room, with harder monuments requiring more. Facepunch has not given exact room locations.

Almost every effect in the game was remade for the new pipeline. Facepunch plans further optimisation and graphics quality improvements once the transition is complete.

A setting under the experimental tab lets players switch between pipelines in case of issues. Facepunch says the toggle will only stay for the first month, with the aim of making RRP the default after the next patch.

Milk can be drunk as is. After 4 hours in a refrigerated container a skim option appears, producing Skimmed Milk and Cream; Cream is the more powerful consumable. Milky versions of most pure teas extend the duration of tea effects, while Creamy versions increase their potency.

New Beef Pie and Shepherds Pie recipes are also added. Rich versions of existing pies, which require cream, are part of the same recipe work.

The fence and gate are unlocked in the Tier 1 tech tree. The animal fence gate has 100 HP.

Facepunch describes the critters as mostly set dressing for now. They are heavily budgeted with dedicated behaviours to limit server and client performance cost.

Each stage is taller than the last, and all Sandbag skins work across every variation. The crafting cost has been reduced to account for needing more of them: 50 stone (was 100), 5 cloth (was 10) and 10 seconds craft time (was 30). Sandbags found in loot now come as a stack of 4, and the maximum stack size rises from 10 to 20.

Stage health is 150, 200, 250 and 300 HP for stages 1 to 4.

Facepunch says low population servers often had power offline for long periods, which also locked out the marketplace. The small heavy fuse box at the Power Plant has also been moved so it is reachable from outside the building through a broken window, allowing up to 5 fuses without a green keycard.

Admins can adjust the scaling with powergrid.fusedecaylowpop, fusedecayhighpop and fusedecaylowpopscale.

Previously the client had to wait for the server to spawn the thrown item. The client now simulates the throw immediately and is corrected by the server if there is a discrepancy, which Facepunch expects to be infrequent.

A duplicated hands mesh was removed from 133 viewmodels, saving roughly 100MB. Store assets are no longer loaded by default (about 250MB saved at launch) and unload after the store has been closed for around a minute (about 450MB). LOD texture size optimisations save around 100 to 300MB in some cases.

Inverse kinematics now runs multithreaded, saving around 1ms of frame time with 100 players in view; Facepunch notes the gain will be smaller on low population servers.