Unturned News

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.

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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.

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.