Unturned News

Additions:

• Added Zero Kelvin Weapon Kit craftable with 50 salvaged materials.
  

Tweaks:

• Tweaked farms to be plantable anywhere when Ignore_Soil_Restrictions is flagged.
  
• Tweaked XZ border movement restrictions to only apply within terrain bounds.
  
• Tweaked vehicle entry to check line-of-sight between player and their seat.
  
• Tweaked vanilla teleport command to prevent teleporting to a player inside a vehicle.
  
• Tweaked teleport helper functions to check for available space.
  

Fixes:

• Fixed makeshift vehicles disrespecting the buildable request event.
  
• Fixed a particular tree on Hawaii using incorrect shader.
  
• Fixed France Heavy Crossbow rope shader.
  
• Fixed highlight outlines on Mac.
  
• Fixed running devkit upgrade tool on devkit objects.
  
• Fixed farm updateState if asset type was changed.
  
• Fixed setting terrain textures on headless Linux server.
  

Was surprised at the number of questions about using the ragdoll effects following the last update (particularly for freezing), so I implemented the Zero Kelvin kit right away. The bronze, silver and gold effects will still be used for contests, and if you're planning on running an Unturned community contest let me know and maybe we can use them as rewards too!

Additions:

• Added LOD_Bias to Preferences.json.
  
• Added plugin events for buildable deploy requests.
  
• Added Kills_Player condition by popular request.
  
• Added support for clothes that replace your body mesh for mods.
  
• Added support for weapon skins that turn corpse into metal. Will be used as rewards for future contests.
  

Improvements:

• Updated to .NET 4.6, this time hopefully without floating water.
  

Tweaks:

• Tweaked recoil recovery to be more consistent.
  
• Disabled legacy objects position clamp.
  
• Tweaked incompatible content to show warning but still allow downloading.
  
• Tweaked claim flags to prevent building on nearby vehicles.
  

Fixes:

• Fixed calculating structure bounds now that transforms are synced at end of tick.
  
• Fixed stance change overlap test.
  
• Fixed suspected cause of surfing along wall edge issue.
  
• Fixed abusing clip plane corner with log walls.
  
• Fixed the magical floating decal that existed on all maps.
  
• Fixed potential cause preventing building structures related to pending build check.
  
• Fixed using water to cancel reloads.
  

The latest and greatest arena map from Danaby2, Renaxon and SirAdy Unleashed, Canyon Arena, is now available in-game! It features an entirely new setting with era-appropriate items and weapons.

Watch Gameplay Trailer

If you'd like to support this team in their creation of future maps you can check out the new bundles on the Stockpile here:
Cowboy Bundle Bounty-Hunter Bundle





Additions:

• Added Canyon Arena map.
  
• Added support for guns jamming. More details below.
  
• Added support for battery-only vehicles. [Battery_Powered flag]
  
• Added config options to disable individual UI elements. See Destruction map for an example.
  
• Added ability for serverside plugins to set visibility of UI elements. [sendUIEffectVisibility]
  
• Added ability for serverside plugins to assign workzone and spectator overlay permissions.
  

Improvements:

• Improved vehicle exit logic to fallback to a safe spawnpoint when the vehicle's doors and roof are obstructed, rather than trying to find a nearby empty location which was often abused to teleport through walls.
  
• Improved cosmetics/skins menu to show how many crafting materials you get from scrapping an item.
  

Tweaks:

• Tweaked Matamorez scoped recoil to require more skill hitting repeated shots.
  
• Renamed "Can" to "Metal Can" to make it easier to search for.
  
• Tweaked plate glass to be unsalvageable.
  

Fixes:

• Fixed majority of physics-overlap-pushing-player issues.
  
• Fixed loading multiple root
• .content files with the same name.
  
• Fixed handling unexpected number of terrain textures when loading.
  
• Fixed an edge case when writing large savedata files.
  
• Fixed loading options file after disabling gold upgrade.
  
• Fixed a few cases where ammo was not deleted during crafting.
  
• Fixed accessing storage after being teleported away.
  
• Fixed Ace bullets not aligned with barrel.
  
• Fixed small number of France objects using incorrect shaders.
  
• Fixed incorrect anti-aliasing in menu inspect camera.
  
• Fixed devkit viewport in forward rendering mode.
  
• Fixed minor details on RULA Maplestrike and Mime's Knife.
  
• Fixed reassociating barricades mounted to vehicles after vehicle asset is deleted.
  

Gun assets can include the "Can_Ever_Jam" flag to enable jamming. Guns start to have a chance of jamming once their quality % drops below "Jam_Quality_Threshold" which is a value between zero and one. Once they reach 0% quality they will have a "Jam_Max_Chance" chance of jamming on each shot. Chances of jamming are blended between 0% and "Jam_Max_Chance" based on the gun's quality percentage. The "ChamberJammed" AudioClip is played when a jam occurs, as well as the animation "UnjamChamber" if present. Cobra_Jam [1521] is included as an example.

TL;DR Workshop items will need some time to update, but the game should be more stable.



For a while Unturned has been using version 5.5 of the Unity engine (from 2016), but it's come time to upgrade. In recent years Unity has made stability a higher priority, and have been updating a "long term support" LTS version. The game is now upgraded to this 2017.4 LTS version.

While not particularly glamorous, some of the primary motivations are:

• Taking advantage of newer optimizations in the engine.
  
• Removing workarounds for old unity bugs which will help improve performance.
  
• Supporting the Metal graphics API for Macs now that Apple has deprecated OpenGL.
  
• Fixing many longstanding issues and crashes, and continuing to get the LTS fixes going forward.
  

The downside is that workshop content will need to be upgraded to this new Unity version as well. I don't take this lightly, this engine transition has been in the works on and off since early 2018 and I don't want it to be painful for devs, so I've worked to make is as easy as possible detailed below.

If you want to continue playing some workshop mods that haven't been updated yet, you can opt-into the previous version (3.27.2.1) from Unturned > Properties > Betas > unity-5.5. This older version will remain available indefinitely similar to the antique and classic branches.



For mappers:

Maps with a /Bundles folder will be detected by the game as requiring an engine update, but other maps without custom content are unaffected.

For translators:

Translations and localization are not affected by the engine update.

For content creators:

Good news: there's a new tool to make bulk-exporting the .unity3d asset bundles much faster. I've updated all of the vanilla content to use this new system so I had to go through it as well, and Vilespring was kind enough to update all of the France bundles.

I've written up a guide which explains in-depth how to transition your content from 5.5 to 2017.4 LTS. Feel free to post questions and I'll update it accordingly!

Unity Upgrade Guide

For programmers:

The LTS version experimentally supports .NET 4.6 which seems to be working correctly in vanilla and rocketmod plugins, but this may be rolled back if unfixable issues related to it pop up.



Incredibly, the majority of issues in the initial update were caused by the use of decimal points vs commas. Due to a change in how .NET read fractional numbers, all of them were set to 0 for players in cultures that use commas! Reverting this should have fixed the water, icons, gun stats, etc.

Holiday cheer is in the air! Everyone aboard the Liberator has dressed up for the occasion and put up their decorations. Snow has built up in a few locations were you can now make snowballs.



Across PEI, Washington and Russia, someone (maybe the zombies?) has put up ornamental trees with presents underneath. They may have gifted you some high-tier weaponry! Holiday gift presents are now dropping as well, so you may find yourself with a few festive outfits in your inbox soon.



There may be subsequent passes based on your feedback to these changes, but the goals for this update were:

• Horde beacons were an incredibly effective source of endgame items for large groups, but now have diminishing returns. By requiring a detonator, detonators now have an economy sink.
  
• Machine guns that damaged bases with low caliber ammunition were too powerful, and in general damage against bases is lower.
  
• Metal elements are significantly more worthwhile to build, while charges still feel effective against wooden bases. Requiring multiple charges to destroy a single wooden wall felt frustrating, but that may be adjusted later.
  
• By reducing the availability of raiding equipment the default base armor multipliers hopefully can stay similar, but if needed the default values will be further tuned.
  

Additions:

• Accepted several new time-limited skins to the stockpile from the curated workshop.
  
• Added separate low and high-tier armor multipliers for buildables. Metal and bricks qualify as high-tier, and now have 2x effective health.
  
• Added freeform glass plates craftable from glass windows. [IDs 892-894]
  
• Added support for explanation message to server shutdown notice.
  
• Added compatibility warnings for future workshop items using 2017.4 LTS.
  
• Added weak grenade throw to secondary attack, and Strong_Throw_Force [1100], Weak_Throw_Force [600] and Boost_Throw_Force_Multiplier [1.4] to per-throwable configs. Previous throw force was 750 with a 2x boost multiplier.
  

Tweaks:

• Tweaked Nykorev, Hell's Fury and Dragonfang to only take highcal ammo, and their buildable damage slightly lower.
  
• Tweaked Ekho, Matamorez, Grizzly and Timberwolf buildable damage slightly lower.
  
• Tweaked horde beacon drops to scale by the square root of number of participants, rather than linearly. For example 2 players get ~1.41x, 3 players get ~1.73x.
  
• Tweaked horde beacon blueprint to require sacrificing a detonator.
  
• Tweaked to require text confirmation when salvaging items unless CTRL is held. Previously only Mythical items required confirmation.
  
• Tweaked rich text chat to not fade out.
  
• Disabled movement clamps in editor.
  
• Defaulted workshop server filter to on.
  

Fixes:

• Fixed checking buildables you were already overlapping when mounting ladder.
  
• Fixed climbing on explosive charges.
  
• Fixed one-sided cliffs in PEI pirate caves.
  
• Fixed snowdrift collision desync.
  
• Fixed placing multiple structures at the same location at the same time.
  

Edit: BattlEye released an update shortly after 3.27.2.0, so Unturned included it in an 8mb patch for 64-bit Windows. This patch is optional and did not increase the version number.