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Fantastic contraption above is the Walking tank MK 1 by debt



[h3]Added[/h3]
- A single extra firework variant
- A set of bells ranging from C4 to C5
- Structural metal pole thing
- Siren
- Propagation wire glows when an activation travels through it
- Tiny map
- Limbs can now explode when hit with overwhelming firepower
- Resizing
- Right click an object, select resize. Two handles will appear, one for each axis.
- Hold shift (or what you have assigned to "rotate faster") to resize in both axes simultaneously.
- Limited to uniform scaling when resizing many objects at the same time
- Risky expanded gore mode
- Adds a number of organs and reintroduces guts to the game. This option is disabled by default and should stay disabled considering the performance impact and limited support / attention. Enable at your own risk :)

[h3]Changed[/h3]
- The majority of all machinery is now destructable and will generally cease all function when destroyed
- Behaviour of aerodynamic objects
- General Purpose Bomb is now aerodynamic
- Atom Bomb is now aerodynamic
- Intensity of plate debris rotational force
- Firearms now have properties that better reflect their real life version
- Cathode lights will now shatter when hit with the Beam Rifle and explosions
- Piston textures
- Cathode light texture
- Car textures
- Barrel texture
- Sentry Turret texture
- Lagbox is now gray to indicate its actually made of metal
- Desaturated blood
- Context menu has a scrollbar
- Propagation wire is thinner and looks different
- Increased maximum double click time for map thumbnails
- Black hole sound
- Muzzle flash brightness and resolution
- New sounds for nearly all traditional firearms
- New tank shot sound
- New machine gun sound
- Disabled fake reverb
- Metronomes and detectors will no longer propagate direct activation signals (excludes context menu activation)
- Versioning will from now on go 1.3 -> 1.4 -> 1.5 and so on

[h3]Fixed[/h3]
- Infinite fireworks activation
- Incorrect cathode light weightlessness effect position
- Incorrect broken plate highlight
- Incorrect broken plate spawn position
- Giant wooden bowl not looking burnt after being burnt
- Disassembler muzzle flash is no longer gigantic when weightless
- Canceling saving a contraption is no longer broken
- You can once again pan while hovering over the toybox panel

[h3]Removed[/h3]
- Metronomes no longer burn when energy flows through
- Cathode tube lights don't make take mass away from their surroundings when shot anymore

[h2][1.2.7] - December 26 2019[/h2][h3]Added[/h3]

• Laser receiver
• Silver atom bomb texture alternative
• Text display item
• General purpose bomb
• Added plates
• Added a table
• And a chair too
• Stun weapon
• Fireworks
• Bowling pin
• Bowling ball
• Void map
• Snowy map
• Flat bit at the top of Slanted
• You can double click map thumbnails to load them
• Blaster bolts now push reflective objects away too

[h3]Changed[/h3]

• Replaced "pain" meter with an oxygen meter in the inspector
• Halved drown time (from 4 to 2 minutes)
• Decreased chance of losing consciousness on impact
• Halved water impact damage
• Abyss thumbnail
• Normal handgrenades are now less powerful
• Blaster impact
• Tank texture
• Wooden pole texture
• Button texture
• Made context menu a little bit smaller
• Certain UI colours
• Muzzle flash
• Generators make less noise
• Humanoids are now always of equal weight, no matter their height

[h3]Fixed[/h3]

• Drowning
• Bugs to do with crushing & decimation
• Elimination of tribulation animation synchronisation
• Rendering optimisation
• General optimisation
• Buttons are no longer made of plastic
• Laser turret serialisation

• Lagbox
• Cathode lights
• Laser sentry turret
• Limb status view
• Limb crush sensitivity setting
• F1 opens control screen
• Added an option for detectors to only trigger on detection, instead of triggering on undetection as well
• Limb status (toggle with S by default)
• Detailed inspection of limbs (right click a limb, select Inspect)
  • Attempts to combine all information of selected limbs (from different people as well) and display useful information regarding all of them.
• Some more ambience

• Tank fire sound
• Humans don't paint the floor with blood when they're drained
• Firearm damage is now affected by distance
• Firearms are more powerful at point blank range
• Increased global bullet speed
• Halved firearm impact force
• Decreased bullet speed and damage of the M1
• Clamped impact particle sizes
• Slight blue tint
• Increased health of certain limbs

• Major firearm ballistics model bugs (especially exit wounds registration)
• Minor crushed limb bugs
• Dismembered limbs reacting to fire
• Damaged androids not sparking anymore after 1.2.2
• A few spelling errors
• Scherbenwerfer launching point
• Zombie issues
• Fixed a bug to do with deleting an object while having the context menu open
• Fixed an activation propagation problem

• UI scale setting (it now resets to 100%)

• Glock 17
• Desert Eagle
• PPSH
• M1 Garand
• Vector
• Stielhandgranate
• Disassembler gun
• Decimator
• Total limb crushing (toggleable in settings)
• Physics iterations slider in the settings menu. Higher values for a more accurate simulation. Lower values for a better framerate.
• Adrenaline
  • Humans will get a slight increase in strength and consciousness in response to intense pain
• Changed default jukebox texture
• Added a new texture to the jukebox
• Added jukebox context menu options

• Updated sniper rifle sound
• Improved bruise look
• Smoothed out the slanted map
• Crystal sprite
• Scherbenwerfer sprite
• You can now hold wrenches
• Humans bleed out 1.5x as fast
• Humans and androids can now hold objects with both hands
• Objects held by humans and androids will now drop on death (of the arm)
  • This also means objects will immediately be dropped when you attempt to pick something up with an incapable arm
• Firearm performance improvements
• Increased head joint strength
• A little extra logging info

• Fixed the slanted map devouring sharp objects
• Animation override is now correctly preserved when saving/loading
• Zombies will no longer remain cowered forever
• Fixed minor ragdoll problems
• Fixed incorrect jukebox thumbnail