Nomad News

Hello Survivors,

Patch 0.9.99 is going down well, a lot of people are enjoying it however it's not without its problems. This patch is made to solve those problems.

I've been playing a lot of Nomad recently and I've found a few core problems, not including server related stuff but related to the crafting system. Crafting needs to be sorted out, so this patch aims to address some of these core problems.

Here is what's new, changed and fixed.


A lot of core items are missing from the crafting tab, which makes people having to rely on going out in the world and finding it. This is pretty boring, especially when everything is totally random.

When you log in, you will now find more crafting options in the crafting tab in the inventory screen. New tools, new food, and more. Some of the older crafting recipes also changed too, for better balance.

Many new food recipes have been added to expand the farming portion of Nomad. These new farming crafted food items are some of the best value food in the game, so be sure to start growing plants!


A big source of lag came with how much data Nomad was sending and receiving to each client. I've done some big changes and compressed most data streams so it's not such an impact on the networking side. This should dramatically reduce lag, network spikes and increase client & server performance.



[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed a bug that sometimes kills you if the server rubberbands you back without finding a position
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Dew Catchers not collecting water outside
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the server to load (and save) keybindings
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the server to load (and save) game settings
  
• Fixed a bug that caused stacking calls on zombie functions
  

[h2]New Items[/h2]

• Potato Soup
  
• Tomato Soup
  
• Carrot Soup
  
• Vegetable Soup
  
• Baked Potato (put a Potato inside of the campfire to make this)
  
• Blood Bag
  
• Shepherds Pie
  
• Dirty Water (cook in a campfire to purify)
  
• Ghoulash
  

[h2]Engine[/h2]

• Updated Unity to 2019.4.5f1 LTS, should see some performance increases
  
• Mipmap streaming is now disabled on all presets and default settings. If you are running into GPU memory issues, enable this option (note that it will impact FPS and CPU Usage)
  

[h2]Server[/h2]

• Zombies that are spawned during the night now delete on sunrise the next day
  
• Significantly reduced network strain on player damage
  
• Significantly reduced network strain on structure damage
  
• Significantly reduced network packet size on zombie movement
  

[h2]Visuals[/h2]

• Tooltip for Small Storage Chest updated
  
• Tooltip for Large Storage Chest updated
  
• New loading tips added
  
• Tomato Soup renamed to Tinned Tomato Soup so it's not confused with the new food crafting items
  
• Zombie Poison Gas particle emission reduced to 40, down from 80
  

[h2]Balance[/h2]

• Spawning Zombies around players now have a 30% chance at night to happen every hour
  
• You can now craft Hammers
  
• You can now craft Pickaxes
  
• You can now craft Fire Axes
  
• Default tab for crafting is now the Building Tab
  
• Added friction to all items so they don't slide down terrain
  
• Dew Catcher health is now 200, up from 50
  
• Zombie Poison Gas is 80x80x10 in size, down from 100x100x10
  
• Zombie Poison Gas tick damage reduced to 3, down from 4
  
• Medical Pack crafting recipe changed to 1x Bandage & 1x Blood Bag
  
• Rebalanced all food and drink items. The best food items are craftable
  
• Refilling Empty Water Bottles at Dew Catchers now gives Dirty Water. Purify this by cooking inside of a campfire
  

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
  

Hello Survivors!


Today I would like to announce a brand new DLC pack for Nomad, The Variety Skin Pack. 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/



Meet Rachael, the free items NPC. Rachael is located at the Safe Zone and when you interact with her, she will give you free items.

You can claim 1 to 4 items every 12 hours.


Nomad turns 5 years old this month, Happy Birthday Nomad. We've come so far from the first release and we're super close to final 1.0 release.

Watch the firework display over the Safe Zone in celebration of Nomad Month.


Just like it's bigger counter part, the Riot Shield. The Iron Mask will negate bullets to the head but provides 0% armor. Find the mask in police, industrial or military areas.


More quests have been added. Quest rewards from previous quests have been rebalanced.



[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed a bug that caused players not to properly disconnect when failed to join the game server's correct channel
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the server to sometimes not properly connect to its correct game channel
  
• Safe Zone tree is no longer floating
  
• Fixed Stone Foundation health discrepancy
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the inventory to show the incorrect number of items in the inventory
  
• Bullets will no longer collide with clothing items that have colliders on them
  
• Fixed a duping exploit
  
• Fixed a bug that caused mining percentages to +1 on drop rates on mining nodes
  
• Completing a quest will no longer makes your item count exceed maximum inventory capacity
  
• Ground Control To Major Tom quest item tooltip updated to reflect the actual quest item.
  

[h2]Features[/h2]

• Rachael NPC added, she gives gifts
  
• More quests added
  

[h2]Items[/h2]

• Iron Helmet (deflect bullets but provides 0% armor, like its counter part, the Riot Shield)
  
• Diamond. Low chance of getting these at mining nodes to sell for a high price at the Safe Zone
  

[h2]Engine[/h2]

• Enforced UTF8 encoding for all files within Nomad
  
• Player materials upgraded to the Standard shader
  

[h2]Server[/h2]

• Better and more secure Steam authentication when trying to log into admin
  

[h2]Visuals[/h2]

• Safe Zone fireworks added for the celebration of Nomad Month
  
• Updated the bleeding and blood particle effects
  
• Updated the explosion effect on C4 and Rockets
  

[h2]Balance[/h2]

• Wooden foundations decay rate decreased to 2 days, down from 4 days
  
• Stone foundations decay rate decreased to 4 days, down from 6 days
  
• Metal foundations decay rate decreased to 6 days, down from 8 days
  
• Improved foundations decay rate decreased to 8 days, down from 14 days
  
• Overall chance of rain reduced, this isn't the UK
  
• Regular zombies health reduced to 50, down from 90
  
• Zombie Brute health reduced to 200, down from 280
  
• Zombie Stalker health reduced to 30, down from 70
  
• Zombie Stalker run speed increased to 14, up from 13
  
• Completing a quest now outputs a message to the entire server, for flexing points
  
• Crossbow bullet speed increased to 250, up from 225
  
• Crossbow bullet damage increased to 60, up from 40
  
• Car spawns increased to 15, up from 10 (10 normal cars and 5 premium SUV's)
  
• Necessary Repairs quest rewards changed
  
• Explosives crafting materials are now 3x Metal & 5x gunpowder
  
• C4 crafting materials now only require 1x Explosives, down from 2x Explosives
  
• Mining for Metal Ore now has a 15% chance to be added to your inventory, down from 25%
  
• Mining for Improved Metal Ore now has a 6% chance to be added to your inventory, down from 10%
  
• Talented Improved Metal Ore now increases your chance to gain Improved Metal Ore to 8%, down from 12%
  
• Mining for Sulphur now has a 8% chance to be added to your inventory, down from 10%
  
• Talented Sulphur now increases your chance to gain Sulphur to 10%, down from 12%
  
• Storage chests can now be placed on top of each other
  
• RPG Rocket damage increased to 10k, up from 9k
  
• Total number of pallets decreased to 40, down from 75
  
• Total number of mining nodes increased to 200, up from 180
  
• Total number of barrels decreased to 100, down from 120
  
• Melee weapon damage enabled within the safe zone. This is due to mining nodes being spawned in the area and prevented mining them. Damage to sleepers can also be done, so don't sleep at the safe zone! Sleep at your base!
  
• Gold Your Horses quest rewards changed
  
• A Personal Quest quest rewards changed
  

Due to the exploit, all servers got wiped.

Hello Survivors!

Another day, another update to make the game more stable and bug free. Read below for the full changelog.



[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Tooltips on base structures fixed in inventory
  
• Tooltips on some items have been fixed
  
• Fixed an exploit with supply drops
  
• You can no longer spray your avatars on the npcs, they didn't like that
  
• Shooting from inside of the safezone no longer applies damage to players outside of the safezone
  
• You can no longer build on top of water
  
• Car horns sound effect no longer can stack on each other
  
• Nightvision effect no longer stays active when you drop Nightvision Goggles from equipment
  
• You can now cancel building of foundations when it fails to align with the ground
  
• Gold Your Horses quest rewards are now properly working
  

[h2]Server[/h2]

• Gifting via the admin panel now works correctly
  
• Fixed a bug that caused player data not to load properly sometimes
  

Balance

• All base structure health has been re-balanced. New health values set for all
  
• C4 damage reduced as health on bases were re-balanced
  
• C4 crafting materials increased, from 1 explosives to 2 explosives
  
• Farming plants will now stay for 12 hours, down from 24 hours
  

Official servers did not get wiped due to this update

Hello Survivors!

The new servers are doing well, no issues to report thus far. If you didn't know, when 0.998 got released first, the servers borked out. I have since updated our networking solution to the latest version and rewrote bits to make it compatible with Nomad.

I'm aiming to get this patch stable before moving on to adding more exciting things, such as more vehicles, safe zone features, more quests, more weapons etc. I have a lot planned for Nomad, so keep checking back regularly to see.




[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Doors no longer sometimes get destroyed instantly when upgrading
  
• Key bindings now register the Left and Right Shift key
  
• Cursor no longer shows when in the quest window
  
• Data checks to ensure player gets properly spawned when recipe and XP files cannot be loaded
  
• Shipwrecked Package quest item is now lootable
  
• Diabetic Daughter quest item is no longer behind a invisible wall
  
• Vehicle headlights are no longer shown on the map
  

[h2]Engine[/h2]

• Fixed weird shadows shaking
  

[h2]Server[/h2]

• Reduced the number of network messages player and vehicles give out per second
  
• Reduced Speex codex to 8K, down from 16K. You will experience lower quality voice samples but now is less strain on the server.
  

[h2]User Interface[/h2]

• You can now reset keybinds directly within the keybinds window
  

[h2]Balance[/h2]

• Zombie Brutes now have 280 hp, up from 300
  
• Zombie Stalkers health decreased to 70 hp, down from 80 hp
  
• Zombie Boomer explosion damage decreased to 60 hp, down from 70
  
• Zombie Boomer health decreased to 60 hp, down from 90 hp
  
• Zombie Fumer health decreased to 60 hp, down from 90 hp
  
• Zombie Fumer explosion damage decreased to 35 hp, down from 50
  
• Rebalanced all scrapping of items values
  

Official servers did not get wiped due to this update.