Unturned News

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.

Danaby2, creator of several wildly different maps such as the wild-west Canyon Arena, has now released his latest creation: Dango

This map is set on a series of flying islands inspired by Japan, and intended to be played as a multiplayer deathmatch. It features a suite of insane new weapons like a fish launcher which fires backwards, and is definitely worth a visit in-game.



As you may well know, it's been about two years since the last mystery box was added. Given the controversy around random items we focused instead on individually purchasable item bundles, however the older mystery boxes are still in high demand. To try and offer the best of both worlds, the new Dango Map Mystery Box is different from past boxes:

• Collection of all items is available for purchase on the Stockpile, not just from the box.
  
• Each item has an equal probability of being unboxed, and can be hovered over to see the percent chance.
  
• Boxes have a 10% chance of dropping an additional bonus item e.g. kill counter.
  
• Dango box is available on the Stockpile, and does not require a key.
  

Going forward version numbers will follow a 3.{year}.{update}.{patch} pattern. In the past updates were split between "major" and "minor", but this lead to huge skips in version numbers when releasing several maps in a row. Unturned had been following the previous scheme for slightly more than 5 years, so this style was experimented with for map versions and Unturned II prior to commiting to it.

• Files used by a server can be subscribed or unsubscribed from the sever info screen. Subscribing will keep the files up-to-date and save time joining the server.
  
• Subscribed files can be enabled or disabled from in-game without uninstalling them. This menu is linked from the singleplayer workshop maps list, and the in-game workshop menu. Changes take effect the next time the game is started.
  

• Included example server scripts on Windows and Linux.
  
• Added ability to skip unboxing animation with Esc key.
  
• Mouse-over items in mystery boxes to see individual probability.
  
• Halloween and Festive menus, as well as promo menus as async loaded.
  
• Rainbow jersey item was added to playtime drops.
  
• Musical mythical effect minor adjustments.
  
• Adjusted trophy skin gold/silver appearance.
  
• Clarify refresh categories on server list.
  
• Threaded console is no longer the default on Linux.
  

• Has_Global_Electricity in level Config.json. All level config properties have now been documented in the U3-Docs repository.
  
• Strings with >255 length are now replicated for custom UIs.
  
• Level can override dropship model, see DefaultLevel.asset file.
  
• EffectUI command can be used from server console.
  
• All attachments can affect ballistic damage, not just magazines.
  
• Allow_Manual_Drop item option.
  
• Zombie difficulty assets can override stun values.
  
• Marker text can be overridden by plugins.
  

• Several issues with loading objects at the world border on "insane" map sizes were fixed.
  
• Discoloration on top of Metal Bench #1 has been corrected.
  
• Viewmodels and enemy models now properly work with >4 LODs, and game objects are found from the LODGroup renderers list.
  
• Yukon sea level is disabled.
  
• Beta invite is no longer marked as consumable.
  
• Client locally marks box as used when repeatedly opening boxes.
  
• Secondary weapon slot takes priority over primary when picking up items.
  
• Workshop update config accepts rich text and should not be clobbered.
  
• Case where kick/ban/shutdown might not have been sent was potentially fixed.
  

MoltonMontro, a friendly and helpful guy you may have met in the community over the past few years, is now working with SDG in an official capacity. He's going to be helping out with a variety of projects like curated map quality control and community blog posts, as well as behind-the-scenes work he's been helping with for some time like maintaining the wiki and forum servers.

Documentation for 3.0's modding features is now available from a main repository, and will be expanded over time for new features and write-ups on older features. This includes both plugins and assets. Most recently the level config properties have been documented. See Here

Edit: The .1 patch fixed an issue with LODs on a few items (e.g. dragonfang and bayonet) that was preventing them from being used due to the viewmodel changes. Canyon Arena has also been moved to the workshop, but is automatically subscribed in order to avoid breaking any dependent maps.