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SCUM - Patch 0.8.040.62876

[h3] Hello everyone, happy Wednesday! You've been patient so let's get to the update! [/h3]





First of all we have a return of another vehicle, bicycles are back. Both the city bike and the mountain bike.





Adjusted to the modular vehicles model, the bicycles work similarly to motorbikes with an obvious difference. The bicycle engine is you. So get ready, stretch those hamstrings, and pedal away. But don't think you will just be able to go on forever, for another feature was born. A sneaky one.



Accumulated fatigue has started to creep in to all prisoners. So what is it? How does it work? Well curious little friend read on.

To start we will start with MSI which stands for maximum (initial) stamina value. Till now things that influenced MSI were many things like diseases, wounds etc. but now it is also influenced by the accumulated fatigue. We call this MSR or Maximum stamina reduction.

Ok we have those terms nailed down, those will be important.

Accumulated fatigue represents gradual wearing off the character while exposed to strenuous actions. The rate depends on CON attribute.

Accumulated fatigue can be seen as a counter of spent Stamina Units. With a full stamina bar spent MSR will increase by 1 SU.

The accumulated fatigue can never reduce the stamina below RS, or Stamina Reserve.



So how do you rest the fatigue? Well there are a couple of methods:
  • Eating food: Depending on food and food state you will be able to regain some of the MSI.
    The quality of food counts as well, so if the food is so bad that it gives you food repulsion you get nothing.
  • Consuming energy drinks can temporarily remove accumulated fatigue, but it will return once drink effect wears off.
  • Drinking a hot beverage like coffee can recover some SU per hour. Drinking more than 1 per hour will not increase SU gain.
  • Sleeping: will restore 0.2SU per minute game time. Sleeping will only count when sleeping in beds. Resting outside of beds example lying down on the floor will regain some fatigue but at a reduced state. If players log out while lying down in beds(or anywhere it will count as sleeping as well, logging out outside of beds will not count towards resting.




Now counting the sleeping mechanic what happens if you want to logout in the middle of nowhere, without a bed and no time to craft one? Well happy campers that is where this new item comes into play.



Yep you read that right, you can now carry your bed with you!



You can carry it around on your back (uses the same slot as quiver so you can have both your backpack and bedroll on you) and when it's time to rest you just plop it down and rest.



Wait a minute Patch notes guy? What happens if I want to log out with it? Will it disappear?

Well curious friends don't think we haven't thought of that as well. When you want to do that there is a timer that starts after the logout timer ends. When that timer expires the bedroll will disappear with you and will appear again with you. On officials the default is 0 so it disappears immediately with you, but private servers can set that as you want. Be careful with it tho. If someone takes the bedroll in the meanwhile your character will not count towards sleeping state while logged out.



And another important item is here as well. The dial lock. Another way to protect your base, vehicle, chest you name it.



So how does it work? Well it's pretty simple. It is a lock that works on combination of 3 dials. To set it somewhere first you need to take it in your hands and select the set combination action.



After that it will give you an option to set your combination.



Then you just place it on whatever you wish and have a new layer of protection. The person trying to get in will need to guess the combination if he has enough fame points for each wrong guess, and enough health when the lock is combined with zappers.



Some new changes to Samobor as well. We added some new atmospheric effects to bring that apocalyptic feel to it and help with the streaming/optimization options on the city. Here are some pictures but it is best felt live.







  • Fixed the bug where new TNT/Pipe bomb would detonate inside vehicle inventory.
  • Fixed the bug where weapon attachments would disappear on relog.
  • Fixed the bug where backpacks in hands would not fill up when adding items into them.
  • Fixed the bug where you lost fame points when committing suicide while in event.
  • Fixed the bug where arrows in quivers would stay visible when the quiver would be hidden.
  • Fixed the issue where players would be stuck on bikes after relog.
  • Fixed the issue where deleting vehicles on car jacks would cause a crash.
  • Fixed the bug where garden hoes would cause no melee damage.
  • Fixed various sound issues.
  • Fixed the bug where car jacks could stack on top of each other.
  • Fixed the bug where Aim PRO red dot was not spawning.
  • Fixed the bug where wheel armor would change type when installed.
  • Fixed the bug where gloves would rapidly deteriorate when crawling and reloading weapons.
  • Fixed the bug where players could interrupt vehicle entry by running into them mid animation.
  • Fixed the bug where incorrect unmount position would be chosen when running out of stamina during vehicle push.
  • Fixed the issue where sometimes you were not able to service dirt bikes on mechanic lifts.
  • Fixed the issue where players would get connection lost error while loading into a server.
  • Fixed the bug where certain items would drop bellow the terrain when base building elements under them would get destroyed


  • All weapons will now be detectable by metal detector.
  • Adjusted item descriptions.
  • Reduced time needed to destroy plants.
  • Adjusted recipe descriptions on some BB elements.
  • Pilot hat will now provide warmth.
  • Adjusted item availability on traders.
  • Chopping fish into fillets and steaks will now produce same durability of the whole fish.
  • Implemented better push start function.
  • Adjusted medical gloves torn gain.
  • More items can now be thrown.
  • Adjusted some item spawn rates.
  • Puppets will now properly hit players in an open mount slot.


  • Added server setting for bicycles:
    [SCUM.Vehicles]
    VehicleSpawnGroup.Bicycle.Max=20
    VehicleSpawnGroup.Bicycle.MaxFunctional=20
    VehicleSpawnGroup.Bicycle.MinPurchased=5
  • Added server setting for bedroll logout visibility timer in seconds:
    [SCUM]
    BedrollVisibilityTimer=0
  • Added server setting to enable/disable accumulated fatigue:
    [SCUM.Prisoner]
    DisableAccumulatedFatigue=0



SCUM - Development update #45

[h3] Happy Monday all! It's that time again, get that first coffee in or relax after a days work with another dev update and some news from the SCUM league! [/h3]



  • Working on the loot rework.
  • Upgrading the entity system.
  • Working on the heat source system.
  • Code review.
  • Bugfixing.
  • Working on the cooking rework.
  • Working on server settings.
  • Resolving issues with the vehicles.
  • Working on the hunting rework.
  • Working on the electricity system.
  • Working on the gas system.
  • Working on the BCU lock.
  • Working on the dial lock.
  • Working on the bedroll system.
  • Working on the accumulated fatigue system.
  • Working on the smoking feature.


  • Bugfixing.
  • Setting up biomes.
  • Inspecting item spawners.
  • Working on the abandoned city POI.
  • Working on the new radar location.
  • Working on the abandoned city platforms.
  • Working on the new police station.
  • Working on the new interior.


  • Working on the new trailer.
  • Bugfixing.
  • Working on new concept art.
  • Working on cooking rework assets.
  • Finished the new locks assets.
  • Working on smoking effects.
  • Working on the vehicles damage models.
  • Working on new clothing.


  • Working on the trailer sounds.
  • Working on new sentry sound design.
  • Working on new sound mixes


  • Hunting and banning cheaters.
  • Ban appeals.
  • Steam general discussion and bug reports.
  • Performance benchmarking and optimization testing.
  • Testing of upcoming features.
  • Various bug reports.


  • Touching up on new mechanics documents.
  • Tweaking the fuel consumption.




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SCUM - Development update #44

[h3] Happy gloomy Monday! The weather might be changing but the Monday dev update is a constant. Check it out! [/h3]



  • Working on the loot rework.
  • Working on the fire rework.
  • Code review.
  • Cooking rework.
  • Working on new server settings.
  • Adjusting bicycles to the modular vehicle system.
  • Bugfixing.
  • Working on the hunting rework.
  • Working on the electricity system.
  • Working on the BCU lock system.
  • Working on the dial lock system.
  • Working on the bedroll system.
  • Working on the accumulated fatigue system.


  • Profiling Samobor city.
  • Optimizing the Samobor city.
  • Optimizing asset memory usage.
  • Working on the abandoned city platforms.
  • Working on the Amusement park.
  • Working on the Amusement park residential area.
  • Bugfixing.
  • Further work on the radar location.
  • Working on the control building blueprint.
  • Optimizations.
  • Working on the residential building.
  • Working on garage buildings.
  • Working on the culture centre compound buildings.
  • Vertex painting the culture centre compound.
  • Working on the police station interior.
  • Finished the abandoned movie theatre building.
  • Optimizing the portable stove asset.


  • Working on the new trailer.
  • Working on the cooking rework assets.
  • Working on the UI re design.
  • Working on AT4 projectile model.
  • Finished the RPG model..
  • Working on the dial lock model.
  • Working on SCAR animations.
  • Finished textures for the new quad vehicle.
  • Working on new sentry animations.
  • Working on new clothing items.
  • Adjusting clothing items for new male models.
  • Working on SKS animations.


  • Working on the trailer sounds.
  • Working on new sentry sound design.
  • Working on new sound mixes


  • Hunting and banning cheaters.
  • Ban appeals.
  • Steam general discussion and bug reports.
  • Performance benchmarking and optimization testing.
  • Testing of upcoming features.
  • Various bug reports.


  • Adjusting trader prices.
  • Adjusting crafting recipes.
  • Working on new feature design documents.


SCUM - Development update #43

[h3]A couple of you requested an update so here you go, a good ol regular Dev update! [/h3]



  • Working on the loot rework.
  • Working on the connection lost issues.
  • Working on the cooking rework.
  • Working on new admin settings.
  • Working on the hunting rework.
  • Bugfixing.
  • Working on electricity system concept.
  • Working on the dial lock.
  • Working on fatigue system.


  • Optimizing Samobor city.
  • Working on new city platforms.
  • Bugfixing.
  • Finished textures for the control building.
  • Working on modular residential buildings for the new city.
  • Optimizing garage buildings in the new city.
  • Further work on the culture building.
  • Texturing the ruined parts of the new city.
  • Finished the city hall building.
  • Blocking out the police station.
  • Finished the movie theater building.
  • Finished the metal fence for the new city.
  • Separating the new city interior from the blueprint.
  • Finished the playground LODs.


  • Working on RPG animations.
  • Working on AT4 animations.
  • Working on new male models.
  • Optimizing vehicle textures.
  • Working on the SCAR animations.
  • Finished the quad vehicle mapping.
  • Finished the vehicle damage testing.
  • Working on new sentry animations.
  • New inmate clothing for new models.
  • Adjusting clothing for new male models.
  • Finished the cooking rework animations.
  • Working on the SKS animations.


  • Tweaking the audio mixing.


  • Hunting and banning cheaters.
  • Ban appeals.
  • Steam general discussion and bug reports.
  • Performance benchmarking and optimization testing.
  • Testing of upcoming features.
  • Various bug reports.


  • Adjusting trader prices.
  • Correcting some descriptions and captions.
  • Working on new feature documents.


SCUM - Hotfix 0.8.033.61444

[h3] Hey hey everyone, middle of the week a perfect time for a hotfix! [/h3]



  • Fixed the bug where you would not get foot abrasions when wearing destroyed footwear.
  • Fixed the bug where you would not get hand abrasions when wearing destroyed gloves.
  • Fixed the bug where it was possible to climb on bike riders.
  • Fixed the issue related with car jacks that caused crashes.
  • Possible fix for an issue that caused connection lost on slower network connections.


  • Hand abrasion gain lowered by 25%.