People Playground News

[h2]1.21.3 - August 23 2021[/h2]

[h2]Added[/h2]

• Cable. An indestructible non-conductive wire.
  

[h2]Changed[/h2]

• Renamed a few items
  
• Made destructible propagation wires less fragile
  
• Slightly faster contraption spawning / pasting
  
• Shards and crossbow bolts fired from their respective launchers no longer collide with each other
  
• Explosives heat up objects less intensily
  

[h2]Fixed[/h2]

• Steam warning appearing too often
  
• Out of bounds hover height for hover thrusters
  
• The game now falls back to the object center when calculating the center of mass for frozen objects
  
• Crate debris not being removed correctly
  
• More consistent contraption mod detection
  
• Propagation wire destructibility issues (is that a word?)
  
• Activation transformer only outputting a green signal
  
• Minor bug fixes
  
• Center of mass gizmo being all jittery
  
• Frozen organisms not experiencing some things
  
• Tool shortcut subtool order
  

[h2]1.21.2 - August 19 2021[/h2]

[h2]Added[/h2]

• Hover thrusters can now change height using signals. Red increases hover height by 10 cm every use (or 5 meters per second when used continuously), blue decreases by the same amount.
  

[h2]Changed[/h2]

• Falling animation
  
• Dismemberment is now painful
  
• LED Bulbs can now break
  
• G1 SMG sounds
  

[h2]Fixed[/h2]

• Humans no longer die immediately if their arms are ripped off
  
• Older outlines being all warped
  
• Some effects not being removed when "Clear everything" is pressed
  
• Laser not scaling correctly
  

[h2]1.21.1 - August 18 2021[/h2]

[h2]Changed[/h2]

• Hover thrusters now have an editable hover height (context menu). Energy only makes it more powerful.
  
• Water splashes are no longer created if the object is moving too slowly
  

[h2]Fixed[/h2]

• The camera going insane when following disintegrated things
  
• Underwater sound starting too early
  
• Memory leak
  
• Much faster map switching and contraption saving
  
• Activation toggle still working when broken
  
• Resize action in context menu not closing the menu
  
• Other small bugs
  
• Outline (de)serialisation issues
  

Hello! Sorry!

There was a small (major) bug that may have caused some issues with loading modded contraptions. The issue has been fixed.

[h2]1.21 - August 17 2021[/h2]

[h2]Added[/h2]

• Liquid pressuriser
  
• Liquid pressure valve
  
• Destructible activation propagation wires
  
• Hover thruster
  
• Activation toggle
  
• Accumulator battery
  
• Automatic spike gun
  
• You can now change the range of a detector using the context menu
  
• Red LED, Blue LED, Green LED, White LED
  
• More mystery liquids
  
• Lava pools now work nicely with ambient temperature
  
• All contraptions saved from now on will include a list of required mods. When selecting a modded contraption, the game will display a list of required mods if you don't have them installed or enabled.
  
• Scrollbar to the mod menu and toybox
  
• More ambient sounds
  
• Gate now has a double trigger mode
  
• Some UI sounds
  
• A clear "Steam uninitialised" warning dialog box
  

[h2]Changed[/h2]

• Simplified some object colliders
  
• Bone breaking sounds
  
• Minor texture changes
  
• Missile launcher missile is now disarmed until its fins are deployed
  
• Made the phase link smaller
  
• Ceiling turret moves less smoothly and more robotically
  
• Laser performance improvements
  
• Detector performance improvements
  
• Detector rays are a little brighter
  
• Dialog boxes are clearer now
  
• Other major performance improvements
  
• Hovercars now hover over water
  
• Increased mouse scrolling speed in menus
  
• Some UI sounds
  
• Bone breaking poison is less instant
  
• Decreased the chance for damage to the upper body to do damage to the heart
  
• Changes to the internal map system. Note to custom map creators and users: your maps will inevitably break in the upcoming updates. They may work to an extent but you should consider them obsolete.
  

[h2]Fixed[/h2]

• A broken plate being heavier than a normal one
  
• Display text change dialog not being pre-filled with the current text being displayed
  
• Stuff being rendered outside of map bounds
  
• Some items going haywire inside lava
  
• Context menu closing when the scrollwheel is clicked
  
• Valves still transferring pressure when closed
  
• Channel-related bug with the gate
  
• Liquid related bugs
  
• Detectors, lasers, and the missile launcher detecting themselves when moving fast
  
• Lasers blocking their own beam
  
• Minor disintegration & crushing bugs and also performance improvements
  
• Item persistence bug
  
• A memory leak
  
• Metal detector not considering some items metal
  
• Small buttons going haywire in water and lava
  
• Heartrate Monitor issues
  
• UI lock when attempting to publish a contraption to the Workshop before Steam is initialised
  
• Debris not being scaled with the destroyed object correctly
  
• Camera trying to follow disintegrated/crushed objects
  
• Other minor bugs