Nomad 0.999.1 Released

Hello Survivors!

Nomad 0.999.1 is officially released. This major patch release aims for increased content, cleaner player experience and bug fixes. There's a lot to go through, so let's start.


The Variety Skin Pack is available. This DLC contains 10 new skins for you to flex with inside of the game. Simply change your skin in the customize tab in the main menu.

Buy it here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/508800/


The settings window has been completely rewritten and now can be accessed on the main menu. The new settings menu gives you complete full control over the graphics, audio levels and gameplay elements of Nomad. It even comes with ready to use presets to save time going through the many options.

The new settings screen will allow you to control everything in Nomad. It will also help very low end spec PC's to play with a decent frame rate. Below are some comparisons:

Screenshot taken in game on Ultra settings

Screenshot taken in game on Potato settings


Legendary Weapons for the Storm, Flamer, Thor, Heckler and Bullpup have been added. These weapons are golden and typically have better stats than the standard counter parts.

Bullet trails for all weapons have been added but Legendary weapons have a different color bullet trail.


Saleh is a brand new NPC that if you exchange Gold Bars or Safe Zone Tokens, you get to randomly roll on any weapon or armor item.

There is a small chance of getting legendaries from him, and the only way to get legendary items from the game.

Safe Zone Tokens are acquired by completing quests at Hamood, the quest giver.

Some accessories will be exclusively obtained via Saleh.




The bag slot has been replaced with an accessory slot. Accessories give your character increased stats, buffs and cool visual effects and features. Many have been added to the game, so make sure you are on the lookout for them.

Some of the accessories that have been added include, Riot Shield, Backpacks, Cigar, loads of Jewelry including rings and necklaces, and many more!


Zombies are more active at night, they will spawn around you every hour. Take shelter, make sure you are ready for the night.

With this change, there are less zombies spawning around major POI's in the day. This gives you time to loot valuable gear outside of your base so you are prepared for the night.


The loading screen has also been completely overhauled. Tips are displayed at the bottom giving new players a chance to know a bit about the game before they load in. General loading text is now displayed at the top of the loading screen.


We've added a new variant of the SUV for Free To Play players, this SUV is the same as the Premium SUV, just without the armor. It can be used by both Premium and non Premium players.


The old vehicle handling was pretty terrible, it was like driving on ice. In this patch, you will find vehicles to handle a lot better.

Vehicles now read from the keybinds, which is a huge plus for anyone who isn't using qwerty keyboards.


Clay Soil and Clay has been added to the game. Get Clay Soil by using either an axe, pickaxe or a shovel on the ground. Smelt Clay Soil in a furnace to get Clay. Clay is used to smelt Metal and Improved Metal, among others.

Oil Shale and Oil Bottle have also been added. Find Oil Shale by hitting mining nodes around the world, smelt them in a furnace to create Oil Bottle. Oil Bottles can be used to create to Fuel, which is ammo for the Flamer and refuels all vehicles.

Bone Fragments can be found when digging for Clay Soil. Bone Fragments can be crafted into Bone Meal, which helps in the creation of seeds.


This isn't the complete inventory overhaul people wanted but resources can now be stacked by having 5x which combines into a . This will help free up a lot of your storage chests and giving you more space to hold other valuable things.


Treasure items have been added to the game. Collect these items around the world and sell them at the trader in the Safe Zone. Works exactly like the Diamond found in mining nodes.


Player inventory size has been increased to 30 slots. Furnace and small storage chest size has been increased to 16 slots and the large storage chest has been increased to 32 slots.


Nomad now uses the latest Unity Physics technology to help increase your performance and ensures stuff interacts properly.


God Rays, Atmospheric Scattering, better resolution star mapping and cleaning looking nights are just a few things added to ramp up the visuals on Nomad's skybox.

In addition to the visual changes, total day length has been increased to 60 minutes (up from 45 minutes) and night progresses at 1.5x speed.




World fog has been added and gets thicker the lower you are in the world. Fog will blend to the color of the sky.


Bullets and explosions now have reverb. Interaction sounds have been added. In addition, music will now play when loading into a server and in-game.


Due to the increased popularity of Nomad we've seen a number of cases involving people abusing the game. With this, we've tightened our anti cheat, obfuscated our code and added server side authentication. We will keep an eye on things from here, ensuring you are free to play without annoying abusers.


Nomad Month is officially over, thanks for celebrating 5 years of Nomad with us!


Nomad has been updated to the latest Unity 2019.4.4f1 LTS to ensure better performance and stability.


There are a lot of changes, fixes and new stuff that can't possibly fit all here. Below is the entire changelog for this update.

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed a floating tree
  
• Players logging off inside of a vehicle no longer keeps the player in that vehicle
  
• Added more fall backs to getting external addresses when connecting to a server
  
• Fixed the size of deer blood particle effect
  
• Fixed texture filter on urban body armor icon
  
• Fixed interaction when in map
  
• Flamer bullets will now properly delete and destroy
  
• Fixed a bug that caused servers to not properly spawn vehicles after a certain time
  
• You can no longer access the inventory when chatting in the chat box
  
• Fixed the tooltip on Makeshift Backpack
  
• Fixed missing scripts in the Skin Viewer
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the Skin Viewer not to export its default skin texture
  
• Fixed a bug that caused settings in vehicles not to apply instantly
  
• Fixed a bug that caused settings on players to set every frame instead of on change
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the player not to load into a server after a second time
  
• Fixed a rare bug that caused the logging into admin overlay to stay active if logging into admin failed
  

[h2]Features[/h2]

• Brand new overhauled graphics settings window
  
• Music added
  
• Interaction sounds added
  
• Added reverb to all bullets and explosions
  
• Better anti cheat protection with obfuscation and server side authentication
  
• New vehicle added, the standard SUV. this vehicle is a FTP vehicle and is the same as the Premium SUV without the added armor
  
• New vehicle handling. Vehicles will now be more snappy and grippy when driving
  
• New NPC, Saleh. Located at the Safe Zone and is used to roll for random weapons and armor
  
• Bag slot replaced with Accessory slot. These items enhance player stats and add cool features
  
• Zombies are more active during the night. Zombies spawn everywhere.
  

[h2]Items[/h2]

• Wood Stacks added
  
• Stone Stacks added
  
• Metal Stacks added
  
• Improved Stacks added
  
• Gunpowder Stacks added
  
• Sulphur Stacks added
  
• Gem Stone added
  
• Clay Soil item added. Gather this with hatchets, axes or shovels by hitting the ground
  
• Clay item added. Smelt Clay Soil in a furnace to make this item.
  
• Safe Zone Token added. Collect these from completing quests or turning in cash/gold bars
  
• Cigar added
  
• Broken Gold Chain added
  
• Broken Silver Chain added
  
• Luxury Jewellery Box added
  
• Jewellery Box added
  
• Bernard's Watch added
  
• Lunar Amulet added
  
• Mr House's Pocket Watch added
  
• Death's Touch added
  
• Blood Amulet added
  
• Lucky Locket added
  
• Merchant Ring added
  
• Legendary Thor added
  
• Legendary Heckler added
  
• Legendary Storm added
  
• Legendary Flamer added
  
• Legendary Bullpup added
  
• Oil Shale added
  
• Oil Bottle added
  
• Bone Fragments added
  
• Bone Meal added
  

[h2]Engine[/h2]

• Updated to the latest Unity 2019.4.4.f1 LTS
  
• Updated physics to use the latest Unity technology
  
• Optimized item objects on the ground
  
• MSAA removed
  
• SMAA added
  
• Better and more efficient zombie culling
  

[h2]Server[/h2]

• Admin command /give is now removed, use the admin menu (F1)
  
• Admin command /heal is now removed, use the admin menu (F1)
  
• Admin command /god is now removed, use the admin menu (F1)
  
• Reduced the number of player network calls per player
  
• 25 vehicles will now spawn across the map over a long duration (20 FTP cars and 5 premium)
  
• Cleaned up server side looting of objects
  
• Better server protection against wall hacks, speed hacks and collision hacks
  
• Quest items are now added to the Admin Items menu under Crafting/Misc
  
• Better optimization with idle vehicles within the world
  
• New and improved player data saving
  
• Better network sync with world time, sky and clouds
  

[h2]Visuals[/h2]

• C4 is now listed under weapons in the crafting menu
  
• Crafting menu building tab now has title cards for each section
  
• Food section added to the Crafting menu
  
• Removed the Storage tab from the Crafting menu. All storage crafting items are now found in the Building tab, under Placeables
  
• Revamped the Premium alert box on menu
  
• Premium alert box can now be closed faster
  
• New sleeper screen for when you sleep in dangerous areas
  
• Main Menu UI touch ups
  
• New Loading UI with tips and in-game screenshots
  
• Bullets now have subtle trails attached to them
  
• Stars are less bright and smaller at night
  
• Flamer bullet visual effects no longer take the entire screen on the first frame
  
• When using a 2 or 3 hit gathering tool, a notification will now appear showing how many hits you have left to gather that resource
  
• When using the incorrect tool to gather a resource a notification will appear telling you that
  
• Added dust particles inside of the Safe Zone building
  
• Updated tree shader and added different colored variants of pine
  
• Safe Zone now has LODs
  
• Admin camera now has a light attached
  
• Updated the Skin Template on the Skin Viewer to better show the dimensions of the character
  
• Added God Rays when looking at the sun
  
• Added Atmospheric Scattering
  
• Server time is now displayed under the compass
  
• More items when being crafted will now output what you get when you craft them
  
• Welcome to the Safe Zone chat text now appears when you enter the Safe Zone
  
• Default server image updated to reflect new logo change
  

[h2]Balance[/h2]

• More medical items can now be scrapped
  
• Breath when running is less annoying
  
• Increased the Premium SUV health to 1750, up from 1500
  
• Stone Hatchet crafting items changed
  
• Stone Axe crafting items changed
  
• Alt F4'ing when in-game will now output a message in chat as to why Alt F4 is disabled
  
• Furnace inventory size increased to 16, up from 12
  
• Small Storage inventory size increased to 16, up from 12
  
• Large Storage chest and Storage Cupboard inventory size increased to 32, up from 24
  
• Player inventory size increased to 30, up from 24
  
• Vehicles now read from custom keybinds instead of being hardcoded to WASD
  
• Using ladders will now read from custom keybinds instead of being hardcoded to WASD
  
• Crossbows are now craftable
  
• Health regen on when above 85% food and drink will now heal you 1 health per 10 seconds
  
• Reduced total numbers of zombies to 40 in Pinewood and Airfield, down from 80 as zombies now spawn randomly anywhere throughout the world at night
  
• Days are now 60 minutes
  
• Expedited night time by 1.5x
  
• Arrows damage reduced to 40, down from 50
  
• Crossbow damage reduced to 45, down from 60
  
• You can now craft Fuel (requires 3x Oil Bottles, no recipe)
  
• Fuel now has a 40% chance of consuming when used as fuel in a Furnace
  
• Increased total Mining Nodes to 220, up from 200
  
• Scrapping Potato, Tomato and Carrots yield nothing now
  
• Crafting Potato, Tomato and Carrots seeds can now be found in the new crafting tab, food. Their respective recipes to craft seeds have also changed