VEIN 0.023

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• More efficient server heartbeat code
• Save games are now located in %localappdata%/Vein
• Maps, records, video discs can now go in document shelves
• Zombie limbs are now skeletal and will flop around
• Add direct connect button to server browser
• Add `POST /notification` endpoint to HTTP API
• Add whitelist for dedicated servers
• Add 24-hour time setting
• Cut XP gain from dismantling in half
• Server racks are now movable
• Add Tired Multiplier setting
• Add convars: `vein.ResourceHunk.QuantityMultiplier`, `vein.ResourceHunk.QuantityMultiplier.Tree`
• Increase default actor partition batch size on dedicated servers (vehicles load in faster)
• Server browser now displays total playercount
• Add notification if you try to open the admin menu but are not admin
• Add UI for stat boosts, addictions in the character menu
• Partial work on gamepad support; key icons for gamepad
• Many localization fixes
• Compress save games that are sent in via the feedback reporter
• Zombies will no longer spawn in buildings you have recently visited
• Tweak zombie spawning parameters
• List XP boosts on cooked food
• Add new foliage
• New music
• Add dd-mm-yyyy date setting
• Add keybind icon to usable menu
• Add double doors to the world to replace two single-doors; they share the same lock between the two
• Add artichoke, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, eggplant, garlic, and watermelon seeds
• Rugs are now moveable
• MREs now take 50 years to decay
• Lockpick keys are rebindable
• Ability to give other players items via the admin menu
• Add -autotrace command line option
• Add ability to place weapon cases on walls
• Add ability to fill fluid containers from gas tanks, etc.
• Add AFK pause timer support
• Hazmat suit and rebreather now block smells
• Gas pumps require power
• Add Always Show Hotbar setting
• Add UI settings section to settings menu
• Church pianos now have MIDI controller support
• Fix plants not growing when you're not around
• Fix Furniture Respawns category
• Pause the game if a controller disconnects
• Add "Invert Horizontal" setting
• Gas pumps are wireable
• Rewrite how persistent decals, persistent corpses are handled; should improve networking and performance
• Prompt dismantling when you try dismantling keys or hydraulic tools
• Add Items Crafted, Basketballs Sunk stats
• Add some new vehicle sounds
• You can now fill oxygen tanks, gas canisters, etc. from car tire pumps
• It costs $1 to use air pumps
• Zombies can have glasses or backpacks on
• Add ability to hitch vehicles to each other
• Add permission zone system for server admins
• Sky and lighting changes
• Add dismantling tool requirements to many items that didn't have them before
• Item dismantling adjustments for most items
• Unique glove box and trunk spawns for vehicles
• Add buildable camera
• Add crystal resource nodes for mining, crystal related recipes
• Modify how built furniture refunds you when you destroy it
• Add `POST /save` to the HTTP API
• Landscape grass changes
• Add 'quantity to craft' slider to workbenches and stoves
• New hunting system: skinning, butchering, limb processing etc. added to dead corpses
• Upgraded textures on some fortifications
• Add baked fish recipe
• Add time elapsing system behind the scenes: things that change over time like plant growth or wells filling should update properly when players sleep
• Nerf scavenging stat, but remove the cooldown on it
• Add oxygen detector item
• New skill magazine art
• Add underwater caves located in both large lakes currently available in the game
• Update a lot of low-res textures to be properly detailed
• Hazmat suits now block sunburns
• Update main menu text and credits
• Add ability to commit suicide with firearms
• Add `-UseGameSaveDir` launch option to preserve the 0.022 save directory
• New soda meshes and vending machine materials
• Explosives do 6x more damage to scrap metal fortifications
• Strength and vitality XP are now modulated by the mass of the thing you move when moving furniture
• Some underwater points of interest added, such as sunken ships
• Hydraulic tools are now waterproof
• Add animations to some UI (timed use, conditions, etc)
• Icon added for disc items
• Only show inventory search clear button if there is a search present
• Trophies are equippable
• Force third-person view when exercising
• Vending machine buttons now dispense specific sodas
• Add walk speed, run speed, crouch walk speed, swim speed settings
• Increase FOV slider max. to 120
• Add DiscoverEveryWildlifeEntry cheat
• Increase text sizes by default
• Add text scale setting
• Add projector which works like a TV but projects on walls
• Drinks and foods now have condition bonuses based on their temperatures
• New hunting related items
• You can dismantle birds you've shot out of the sky to get bird parts and meat
• Bloodmeal and bonemeal functionality as fertilizer
• Fix some strange building temperature behavior via a new algorithm
• Add peristaltic pump to pump blood out of a dead animal into a container
• Add thermostats to most buildings; building temperature is regulated by this
• You can use different types of bait with a fishing rod
• Sky tweaks and fixes
• Desync fixes for power and water in multiplayer
• Walk-in freezers now have switches
• Radiators are now wireable
• Fix getting cut on barbed wire when walking through fence gates
• Separate central heating and cooling; some buildings have central heat, some central air, some neither, some both
• Warehouse ladder cages should no longer block the camera
• Adjust tooltip for crafting recipe durations
• Fix some bad physics on carpets preventing stuff dropped on them from being used
• Major rework of how UI windows work in preparation for gamepad support
• Update tooltip for ore crusher fuel slot
• Update fish journal, journal text
• Fix physics for sedan, SUV2 being incorrect
• Log the build number in the server logfile so we can debug issues easier
• Undo vehicles getting stuck in ice until we have a solution that doesn't stick them to ice in winter
• Optimize foliage performance and streaming distance
• Fix fridge using the wrong destruction effect
• Add collision to lights in Mill No. 3
• Disallow stepping up on destroyed furniture bits
• Fix radiator sound restarting over and over again
• New .38 special custom animations, WIP
• Add first-person viewmodel rendering to prevent things you're holding from clipping into walls in front of you (only added to some things)
• Add bone hammer weapon/tool
• Turning on a headlamp in your inventory will turn on the flashlight
• Code locks now disallow non numeric characters
• Analog clock items no longer show seconds to be at parity with wall clocks
• Possible fix for fans disappearing
• Prevent rain from going through most buildings on low quality setting
• Fix workbench fluid text not wrapping
• Fix some soft locks in tutorial
• Teleporting while noclipping no longer makes you fall through the ground
• Fix zombies sometimes spawning underneath cliffs
• Fix rain going upwards at the bar and grill
• Fishing UI improvements (tells you what you caught, won't bob if you're not catching fish, etc)
• Fix any teleport locations that put you in the ground
• Fix round-by-round reloads of firearms being chaotic
• Add AMD FSR
• Fix some windows not closing when you walk away from what you're using e.g. workbenches
• Update utility vehicle gas tank location
• Fix floating backpack weapons
• Prevent skipping the search timer by closing and re-searching a container
• Glass sheet item is now opaque for usability reasons
• Fix strangeness with lantern light color, intensity, use options in inventory
• Fix vehicles flying away when you load a save game where something is on the vehicle
• Add item inspection menu: click an item's thumbnail to get a full screen preview
• Item icons/thumbnails now have a loading spinner
• Add ability to spawn specific photos & add a photo ID to photo items - get collecting
• Notarget no longer turns off after teleporting
• Some material upgrades for items
• Add new pet photos
• Fix death from being a passenger in a vehicle saying 'you were beaten to death'
• Only show watermark in experimental; move watermark to bottom left
• Improve water graphics slightly
• Third-person camera is now slightly smoothed
• Fix <code> appearing in news in the main menu
• If an item is locked in your inventory, you now receive a prompt to dismantle it
• Fix backwards fortified doors on American Legion
• Admin menu text entries are now clearable
• You can now clear bed spawnpoints from the sleep menu
• Show some crafting info on items (e.g. pork shows that it is 'searable meat')
• Fix invisible wall on railroad tracks in Russia
• Fix walls being splotchy and artifact-y in the dark
• Visual and lighting fixes
• Correct hunger and thirst conditions; they will now damage you
• Add overall health recovery per second to the medical menu
• Update HUD condition UI to fade in and out
• add FreezeConditions cheat
• Dead characters, zombies, animals will not be removed if there is a player nearby
• Control clicking on existing map points won't block creating new ones
• New stat book art; stat books now display which stat they boost
• Adjust interior lights for performance
• You can now place items on mousepads
• Add date/time readout to admin menu
• Add some music to the radio, finally - thanks Remancer
• Fix cut items displaying wrong hunger satiation
• Fix vehicle exploding away when loading into a save while sat in a vehicle
• Fix issue on dedicated servers with 'saved bad transform' (you will need to clear loot bags if you are an admin)
• Much faster load time to load into multiplayer games
• Fix falling through basements
• Fix numpad key binds not showing an icon
• Generators, vehicles will turn off when there's no fuel and won't auto restart
• Reduce amount of fog glow from lights
• Fix bug when a multiplayer player drives away and someone is following them leaving the first player's ghost standing there
• Misc. map fixes
• Exploit fixes
• Performance improvements
• Crash fixes