November update preview

Bonding is now only needed to lead an animal, and nobody can take a lead from the owner. Animals with no owner cannot breed, and the UI shows the owner or tells you to feed the animal at a trough to claim it. Crowding is the only cause of death. Starved animals lie down at 1 HP and get up again once food is available.

To stop wild herds growing out of control, a full bond now takes 15 minutes instead of 5 before breeding is possible, calves born in the wild cannot reproduce, and the server caps the livestock population. Free-range herds stop breeding at a size cap, which the latest change sets at 5 within 40m. Penned animals measure their actual floor area, and eat less trough food when there is grass in the pen.

Potential starts at 0 and only changes while an animal is young. It takes 10 minutes to rise from 0 to 100 at full happiness and 15 minutes to fall from 100 to 0 at zero happiness. The value is locked in when the animal becomes an adult.

Animals that were found in the wild or bought from the vendor have their potential capped, so only their offspring can be sold. An animal with 0 potential cannot be sold. Recessive genes now affect the price as well, and the buyer comments on hidden bad genes and inbreeding.

The multiplier is set by server.sprintmetabolismscale, which defaults to 2. Servers can set it to 1 to keep the old behaviour.

These parts are locked in place and can only be removed once the car is put on a Modular Car Lift. Because the count rounds up, a five-slot engine gets three parts.

Fire and aim are now button actions on the triggers' soft pull, so they can be rebound to any button. Crafting has moved to d-pad down, sensitivity can be set separately for each axis, and the sprint toggle now works when standing still. Stick input is ignored while you play on mouse and keyboard, which stops stick drift from interfering. Vehicle haptics have been retuned.

In softcore the TC limit works like the sleeping bag limit, with a count on the icon and a message when you reach it. When the limit is active, your TCs appear on the map grouped with sleeping bags, and a button toggles them. The convar is max_tool_cupboards.

Hardcore upkeep rates for the 15, 50, 125 and unlimited block brackets go from 0.2/0.3/0.4/0.66 to 0.1/0.15/0.25/0.4 (vanilla is 0.1/0.15/0.2/0.33). Bases over about 65 blocks pay more than in vanilla, but less than under the old hardcore rates.

The building privilege check in a large base drops from about 4.6ms to about 0.5ms, and a vitals bug that called it around 24 times a second is fixed. Deep sea content now loads only when you enter it, which saves about 260MB of RAM and 270MB of VRAM elsewhere. Gunfire effects, sound occlusion and font and skin memory use have also been optimised.

On the network side, idle turrets send far less data (about 105 KB/s less outbound on a 122-player server). Animals send fewer updates, and the tree data sent when you join is halved to about 0.9MB. Server startup time falls from about 254s to about 138s.

The refresh adds a magazine mesh with a drop effect and updated textures. The Nailgun is now in the skin viewer. A missing muzzle point that caused errors when the gun was placed in a turret has been fixed.

It uses the same repair system as the existing repairable helipad. The work is marked as in progress, and the repair cost and requirements are not stated.

The average reductions are about 11% for Advanced teas, about 18% for Pure and Milky teas, and about 20% for Creamy teas. This affects teas such as Advanced Ore Tea and Pure Wood Tea. Healing, Crafting Quality and Rad Removal teas are unchanged.

Recent work has adjusted its magazine capacity and fire rate, but no figures are given. It has also added dry-fire animations, effects and an item icon. Crafting and loot details are not known.