VEIN 0.024

VEIN 0.024 is now live on Steam.

The first major map expansion (with over 60 new locations), condition rebalancing, spawnable furniture and containers, sub-inventories and inventory management, work on addictions, buildable extension ports, plantable trees, foraging, and more are all included in this update!

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Changes:

• New major map update: Franklin County
• Increase fall damage
• Code quality improvements (blueprint -> C++)
• New music (ambient, radio) - thanks Remancer
• Couch Potato uniqueness rebalance
• Scent Volumes can now depend on environment cleanliness
• Add foraging system, new foragable plants, foraging recipes and medicines, Forager perk
• Add Copy Location to Clipboard in admin menu
• Add medium-skill .38 reload animation, thanks Ani
• Background mountains
• Fluid tanks will now prefer pulling from filled contents over the tap
• Sink fill time is proportional to the quantity already in the sink
• You can't sleep when panicked
• CreateExplosion console command
• Move all conditions into C++
• Add claustrophobia uniqueness
• Panic condition rebalance/difficulty balance
• Tired condition rebalance/difficulty balance
• Add agoraphobia uniqueness
• Stress condition rebalance/difficulty balance
• New golf-related items and weapons
• Many different asset placeholder replacements and texture upgrades, thanks Mood
• Pseudostacking/items are visually stacked in the inventory UI
• Unify singleplayer and multiplayer sleeping; can advance time in multiplayer if everyone sleeps at the same time on a locally hosted server
• Singleplayer beds/respawn points do not have a cooldown timer
• You can have nightmares from sleeping, causing stress and panic
• Add dreams
• Thirst condition rebalance/difficulty
• Antibiotics treat bacterial infections
• Add sawmill workbench
• Stimulated condition rebalance/difficulty
• Well Fed condition rebalance
• Add radio volume slider in settings menu for radio music
• HP readout in medical menu
• Selected item UI adjustments
• Poisoned condition rebalance
• Add anti-anxiety pills, caffeine pills, sleep gummies
• Add Retain Items On Death setting
• Add apple seeds, plantable trees, perennial plants
• Don't show zero-effect conditions in the medical menu
• Suture item grants medical XP on use
• Add the ability to gut fish
• Admins can now see all players on the map
• Add meth addiction
• Add uniquenesses to start addicted to stuff
• Add thumbnails to spawn regions in character creation
• Add unique post processing for weather
• Fish satisfies hunger relative to its weight
• Variant parcel meshes
• Add item container items. You can add items into backpacks, bags etc. by dragging and dropping items onto them.
• Furniture and containers spawnable from admin menu
• Bandages will get dirty over time and require replacement
• Add the ability to hide nameplates from dropped items
• Different sterilizers sterilize wounds to different degrees, e.g. ethanol is a worse quality sterilizer than rubbing alcohol
• The infection of cut wounds has a percentage severity
• Add extension port build objects (like an extension cable but for any resource)
• Add vein.Appearance.HideStrength setting
• Respirators block smells
• Screws now dismantle into one metal scrap
• Add Save ID to admin menu for debugging
• New vehicle sounds, vehicle sounds are muffled inside vehicles
• Preliminary bot characters
• Slightly improved vehicle networking
• Add Ignore Construction Restrictions setting
• Add Sleep Advances Time setting
• Move some settings to new Construction settings category
• Improve persistent corpse performance, networking
• You now keep bandages that you remove
• Add Energy Crash condition for after caffeine wears off
• Exerted condition rebalancing
• Lifetime stat performance improvements
• New save game system, thanks Cyn; your saves will automatically back up in the save directory just-in-case
• Add RemoveUniqueness cheat
• Add Chinese (simplified), Spanish (LatAm), French, Turkish translations
• Add Foliage Pop-In Scale setting
• De-hardcode radio stations; new radio music, thanks Remancer
• Add message to inventory screen if you have a search query that filters all items out
• Make chat window blurrier when displaying chat commands
• Street signs no longer block the third person camera
• Keys only dismantle into one scrap now
• Improve tree networking
• Reduce default clear-day fog amount
• Add vein.ItemActorSpawner.MinPlayerCloseness, vein.ItemActorSpawner.MaxPlayerCloseness

Fixes:

• Damage type fixes, fix damage forces not appearing on multiplayer clients
• Fix some food item heat changes on stoves swinging wildly out of range at low FPS
• Fix some tooltip and context menu (right click menu) bugs
• Fix pump shotgun check ammo animation lasting forever
• Fix not being able to punch people sitting in chairs
• Fix addictions not working at all :~)
• Fix chat filters not working correctly
• Fix incorrect model viewer rotations
• Fix objects (thrown cans, e.g.) not making noise to zombies
• Fix respirator thumbnail
• Fix bathroom stall doors all opening at the same time
• Fix flat tarps being unmovable
• Fix rain indoors at weather station
• Fix some overlapping fire alarms
• Fix go-kart gas tank location
• Fix collision on some buildings
• Fix item uses not refreshing in multiplayer on inventory change
• Corrected keybind icons displaying code text for nonstandard binds
• Fix crashes not being written to logs
• Fix being killed a lot from hitching vehicles in multiplayer
• Fix EBS not showing on TVs
• Fix Cyrillic titles not rendering
• Fix Werrenrath siding material in winter
• Fix firearm attachments highlighting firearms they can't be attached to when dragging
• Prevent infinite loop on tutorial if you manage to fill up your inventory
• Correct loading screen tip - "recently acquired" was reduced from 30 minutes to 5 minutes
• Fix some sleep positions for some cots/beds
• Fix radio messages vanishing when in a different chat tab
• Fix pet brush, pet leash descriptions and names
• Fix being able to open the map from a turned off phone
• Fix firehose glass material
• Fix some furniture not attaching to vehicles properly
• Fix bar soap smelling bad
• Fix mattress character sleep position as well as some other beds
• Fix inconsistent visual for worn book item
• Fix pharmacy cabinet door opening the wrong way
• Fix chat command prompt staying up when chat box is manually closed
• Fix bad wall physics in pizzeria
• Fix crash with fluid tanks
• Fix meat slicer not being marked placeholder
• Fix slider values in settings menu being incorrect
• Fix riot helmet label being way above it
• Fix fishing bait not being consumed
• Fix a bunch of improperly networked furniture
• Fix built stuff and small props (tent e.g.) not blocking rain
• Fix difficulty presets not setting start time selector properly
• Fix some items being stuck inside building walls when placed on walls
• Fix portable toilets not smelling like waste
• Fix performance for visuals for many things on the map
• Fix not being able to wear a shirt and winter jacket at the same time
• Item thumbnail fixes
• Fix some placeholder item art not being marked as placeholder
• Fix discarding settings sometimes not working properly
• Fix crash, exploit when merging item stacks
• Fix military cot collision underneath the bed
• Fix some lighting issues underground (e.g. basements)
• Fix fluorescent light hum sound popping
• More accurate collision for water tower
• Fix nature sounds not being attenuated indoors for some river/pond/lake sounds
• Fix Saranac courtroom chairs having really weird seat positions
• Corrected train speed readout
• Fix not being able to place things in certain dome warehouses
• Some minor controller fixes
• Typoes
• Performance fixes
• Crash fixes

Known priority bugs, to be fixed in hotfix:

• Things placed on vehicles will sometimes detach if you go away and come back
• Vehicles spawned from the admin menu may vanish if you go away in multiplayer