Unturned News

Throughout the winter holidays each level is sporting some seasonal decorations, from gifts of weaponry under trees to NPC outfits. Cosmetic present boxes are also dropping for a limited time.

Unlike past years where certain maps had a separate decorated version, PEI is using a new "redirector" feature that changes the map for the duration of the event. This allows saves to transfer, and for the map to be replayed in subsequent years.



Historically height fog and distance fog have been configured separately, and were optional. Creators can now enforce fog from a thin morning mist to a thick soup.


NPCs trading for experience does not exactly make a ton of sense.



Originally the idea with the Liberator was a somewhat socialist mix of "helping out the community builds experience" and redeeming favor for items. Starting with P.Riso however, NPCs can instead trade for arbitrary "currency" items whether that be the Canadian ones, or a custom set.

For more details: Read Docs


Upgrades for the in-game Steam inventory view.

• Boxes and bundles label ambiguous item types in the description.
  
• Skins list attachments and other details in their description.
  
• Descriptions of items can be searched in-game.
  
• Items can be sorted by factors such as rarity and name.
  
• Searches match multiple tokens e.g. "mask warloc" will find the "Warlock Mask".
  

Unturned has been unwittingly misusing the Red Cross symbol in-game, which has now been corrected. The Red Cross is a humanitarian organization, and preserving the meaning of the symbol is important to protecting their personnel and patients.

For more information: Read Here

Affected in-game assets include the healthbar, ambulances and medical tents which have been converted to hospital H's. If you find other uses in-game please let me know.


Pressing the Up and Down arrow keys in chat cycles through previously sent messages. This is intended to make it easier to send repeat commands.

Maps in the Singleplayer menu have links to browse internet servers running that level. For maps with complex names this should make it easier to find matching servers.

The minimum level of detail (LOD) screen size has been doubled, and player models maximum draw distance matches structures. Raising the minimum LOD seeks to prevent players from being seen before structures are drawn in. Likewise the maximum distance can no longer be raised separately.

Official proper documentation for server hosting has begun, and is linked from the Servers menu.

Resolution Overrides:

To help avoid miscellaneous issues that occasionally arrise related to resolution, several overrides have been added.

• If Unity command-line resolution is specified the game will not try to override it.
  
• In-game resolutions are overridden if -w #, -h #, -width # or -height # are specified on the command-line because those are often suggested.
  
• When UI scale is misconfigured it can be fixed up with -ui_scale # on the command-line, or in the Preferences.json file.
  

Allow_Per_Character_Saves is enabled by default, but can be disabled to prevent multiple characters per account from being used to store items offline.

Group_Player_List can be disabled to hide group alliances from the in-game player list.

Friendly_Fire allows groupmates to damage each other when enabled.

Vehicle Physics Profiles:

Increased control over vehicle settings can now be done in bulk with this new asset type. In particular most of the vanilla vehicles have been changed to front-wheel-drive for stability.

One of the goals introducing profiles is to improve the handling of vanilla wheeled vehicles. Feel free to experiment with the default profiles, and propose changes to them.

For more details: Read Docs

New Event Scripts:

Several new scripts have been added to the built-in package. These allow custom interactable objects to run extra commands now, and for chat messages to control objects similar to the Russia easter egg quest.

For more details: Read Docs

General Improvements:

• Custom interactable objects can use navmesh cuts. Refer to the aircraft carrier door in the example package.
  
• Body mesh replacements can hide hair and beard.
  
• Hair_Override option for hats, glasses or masks to use hair material.
  
• Maps on the workshop can specify the "Custom Game" category.
  
• Infinite_Ammo and Infinite_Quality options for sentry guns.
  
• Subdirectories of the Sandbox directory are treated as workshop folders for testing.
  
• Workshop menu links to the newer documentation site.
  
• Salvage_Duration_Multiplier for individual buildable items.
  
• Min_Spawn_Placement and Max_Spawn_Placement for trains.
  
• Hint message popup NPC reward type.
  
• Door and window slots are somewhat supported on vehicles.
  
• Kills_Tree NPC condition type.
  
• Guns support in-world Ammo_Counter text component.
  
• Allow_Collision_While_Animating option for doors to restore old behavior.
  

Reload Command:

When tuning assets in singleplayer the "/reload" chat command can be used to quickly reload changes to a single file. It accepts a GUID or a specific directory path to reload. For example /reload a gun asset and then equipping the gun will use the new values.

Consumeable Changes:

• Bleeding_Modifier can be set to None, Cut or Heal.
  
• Bones_Modifier can be set to None, Heal or Break.
  
• Oxygen is settable and can be positive or negative.
  
• Hallucination and stamina are replicated when using healing items on other players.
  
• NPC rewards can be triggered with Quest_Rewards # and Quest_Reward_#_X.
  
• Items can be granted with Item_Reward_Spawn_ID #, Min_Item_Rewards # and Max_Item_Rewards #.
  

Weapon Changes:

• Player_Damage_Bleeding can be set to Default, Always, Never or Heal.
  
• Player_Damage_Bones can be set to None, Always or Heal.
  
• Player_Damage_Food, Player_Damage_Water, Player_Damage_Virus and Player_Damage_Hallucination have been added.
  

Level Editor Searches:

• Search fields support multiple tokens, and masterbundle filter e.g. "mb:france".
  
• Reusable lists of objects from favorite searches.
  
• Resource placement tool has a search field.
  

For more details: Read Docs


Events and improvements for plugins.

• Vanilla death menu can be disabled by EPluginWidgetFlags.ShowDeathMenu.
  
• onAnyFlagUpdated event for quest progress tracking.
  
• onRelayVoice event for custom voice channels.
  
• sendUIEffectImageURL allows dynamic images to be loaded from a web address.
  
• sendPluginJumpMultiplier override jump height.
  
• onPlayerAllowedToDamagePlayer overrides friendly fire behavior.
  
• Admin base editor events for auditing or permissions.
  
• -NoDefaultLog command-line flag to prevent X.log file creation.
  
• setLogFilePath can replace log file location while running.
  
• Barricade and structure instance IDs are persisted after restart.
  
• Tire tool onModifyTireRequested event.
  

Editor:

• Fixed pasting scale not working properly when in global coordinate system.
  
• Fixed applying weights in spawn table editor.
  
• Fixed flying while GUI has focus. There is a related issue with right-clicking a button and dragging off, but that will be resolved in a future Unity update.
  
• Fixed reloading assets in-game loading the server versions of vehicles.
  

Exploits:

• Fixed peeking upward through ceilings while crouched. Now the camera gets pushed downward.
  
• Fixed using mannequin pose change to push self upward.
  
• Fixed rapidly swapping clothes to lag server. This is now rate-limited.
  
• Fixed walking on precision charges.
  
• Fixed deleting groups with multiple admins allowing max members to be bypassed.
  
• Fixed item pickup to respect line-of-sight test.
  
• Fixed landscape heightmaps to be included in level hash.
  
• Fixed teleporting while in vehicle to force out of vehicle.
  

Multiplayer:

• Fixed potential cause of losing connection after dieing in a vehicle crash discarding inputs.
  
• Fixed several potential mismatch issues when building RPC table.
  
• Fixed handling of integers over big endian connections.
  
• Fixed several potential causes of barricade and structure desync issues, and added related warnings.
  
• Fixed serverside movement pausing if teleported onto a ladder.
  

General:

• Fixed rest gesture not resetting upon entering a vehicle turret.
  
• Fixed hostile animals fleeing from noise alerts rather than investigating.
  
• Fixed exiting vehicle when exit distance was slightly too near a wall.
  
• Fixed vehicle exit ground test to consider vehicles, and allow up/down points.
  
• Fixed clicking suicide button while already dead not re-opening death menu.
  
• Fixed zombies falling out of the map to get teleported to a valid spawnpoint.
  
• Fixed zombies not being killed by death barriers built into objects.
  
• Fixed running GUI code during unused layout event.
  
• Fixed item and character UI previews on MacOS.
  
• Fixed Dragonfang and Hell's Fury ammo descriptions. [Thanks Jean]
  

We hope you enjoyed these postcards from the new map! California is now available in-game, and is the first return to the United States mainland since Washington in 2015.

Watch Release Trailer Video

To host a server running the map add its workshop ID (1905768396) to the File_IDs list in WorkshopDownloadConfig.json, and set the map to California in Commands.dat.

This project was created by clue and Renaxon with special thanks to Letgalian and Vilespring. If you'd like to support them consider checking out the Journalist and Mercenary bundles on the Stockpile:



Miscellaneous Changes:

• Added California Journalist and Mercenary bundles to Stockpile.
  
• Organized editor tools, mod hooks and project settings into Project package.
  
• Documented project setup and example assets: Getting Started
• Included berries, ambient audio and road textures in ExampleAssets package.
  
• Fixed drag-selecting multiple items in admin building editor.
  

Text Contrast Preferences: Settings for outlines vs shadows on text have been added to the Preferences.json file. They are split into text with colorful backdrops like the game world and map, and text with inconspicuous black/white backdrops. Values are "Default", "Outline" or "Shadow".

Door Collision: Animated colliders on doors, hatches, shutters, etc are now disabled while playing the animation until nobody is overlapping them. This is a more drastic approach aiming to prevent remaining physics exploits involving doors.

-ValidateAssets Improvements: More checks have been added, and miscellaneous core content has received fixes. Key warnings have been documented here: Read

Should_Delete_At_Zero_Quality: New option for useable items. Intended for disposable melee weapons that break after a certain amount of usage, but compatible with all equippable items. Can be set to true, defaults to false.

Misc:

• Mask, glasses, and hat mythical effects are horizontally centered.
  
• Target (yellow) arena circle is animated on map overlay.
  

Fixes:

• Projectiles like rockets and grenades no longer collide with world borders or collision volumes.
  
• Character mesh override restores 1st person mesh for viewmodel after dequipping.
  
• Grizzly magazine alignment was changed to match Zone Defender skin.
  
• Skin names which did not match the item name were synchronized e.g. Crusader Blade skin was changed to Crusader Katana.
  
• Carpat cosmetic texture compression was corrected.
  
• Vehicles with default rigidbody and wheel collider mass are slightly increased if Wheel_Collider_Mass_Override is not set.
  
• Zombie difficulty asset stun thresholds are saved from devkit.
  
• Teleporting to obstructed map markers uses the highest available position.
  
• Invalid quests without details or assets are excluded from quest list display.
  
• Monolith object uses gravel physical material like other boulders.
  
• Zeus hair normals are smoothed like the base hair.
  
• Doors can be placed in House_12 porch doorway.
  
• Attachments with missing models will not be spawned, and warnings are logged during loading.
  
• If individual asset version is higher than master bundle version it will be used instead.
  
• Materials with standard shader and transparent render mode have keywords set similar to fade mode. Previously only fade render mode had keywords adjusted.
  
• HWID includes several other factors, as a concern with deviceUniqueId was raised.
  
• Closing admin editor cancels drag.
  

Autumn leaves coat the ground, the smell of pumpkin spice lingers in the air, and literal green zombies are stampeding around breaking car physics, stacking on each others heads and eating solid objects... it must be Halloween!



Until November 1st the event is active:

• Decorations have been added to some towns on all of the official maps, and the Liberator dress-up party has returned.
  
• Halloween Gift Presents containing costumes and skins are dropping.
  
• Several community-created items have been accepted to the Stockpile. In particular the Warlock and Obsidian Knight bundles are quite appropriately themed!
  

Enjoy your Halloween, and happy trick-or-treating!

Edit: The 2019 Steam Halloween Sale is now live, and for the first time Unturned item bundles are discounted in the Stockpile! Browse Discounts Here


Unturned has upgraded from 2017.4 to 2018.4. This change should be mostly behind-the-scenes, but I'll be keeping two eyes out for the bug reports. Some of the direct benefits include:

• Nested prefabs for modders, significantly speeding up asset development
  
• Headless dedicated server optimizations and performance improvements.
  
• Significantly improved .NET / mono stability, and stability in general.
  
• Terrain rendering CPU optimizations via instancing.
  

For more details on the update: Read More Here
In the future this will allow us to update the outdated post-process effects, and take advantage of the scriptable render pipeline for superior performance.

• Added -ValidateAssets command-line option, and moved some of the slower asset checks behind this flag.
  
• Asset checks for missing meshes are now more thorough for more asset types.
  
• Multiple workshop maps can be specifically highlighted at a time now.
  
• Reworked logging systems, in particular benefiting servers. All information is in the Client.log or Server_XYZ.log files now.
  
• Fixed item drop exception for misconfigured animals.
  
• Lighting material values are cached before changing.
  
• Disabled unused Unity player loop subsystems.
  
• Object visibility updates are only checked while changing zones.
  
• Text outlines are only used on colorful backgrounds, and other text now has shadows instead.
  
• Fixed featured item labels to only show during new time window.
  
• Updated all vanilla terrain shaders to take advantage of instancing, and corrected some specular lighting issues.
  
• Fixed small values in some attachments being ignored.
  
• Sort-of workaround for GUI color problem on MacOS.
  
• Improved material and shader fixup process for older asset bundles.
  
• Stripped a variety of code that should not be in the game itself.
  
• Mute game volume on loading screen. There were some annoying noises depending where the loading camera was.
  
• Updated from SplatPrototypes to TerrainLayers API.
  
• Replaced usage of WWW with UnityWebRequest.
  
• Prevent duplicate asset bundle loading in the pending master bundle list.
  

Edit: 3.19.16.x Patch Notes

All items tradability and marketability have been temporarily restricted while an issue with the economy servers is investigated.

This is a precautionary measure to prevent items from moving between inventories, and should be lifted relatively soon. Valve have replied and are sorting the problem out, and it only affects old items. Any further news will be edited into this announcement.