Halloween update and special content pack

Happy Halloween, everyone! We have a couple of things for you today.


Rather than save everything for an upcoming major update, we fast-tracked a few things:

• Character Editor 1.0 – making your own monsters is now easier. Too many individual changes to list here!
  
• Modding improvements: Vanilla content can be replaced more easily and many things that weren’t previously editable have been exposed in XML. See the full changelog for more details.
  
• Two new monster variants and one monster remake
  
• Fixed the inability to change your name to something other than your Steam username, which prevented players from joining servers where the host has disallowed special symbols in names.
  
• Fixed an error with starting a campaign through the dedicated server console.
  
• Dozens of minor bugfixes
  

Find the changelog in full in our GitHub or in the game folder. As always, be sure to update your servers!


To bring the mood of the season to your subs, you can now access our Halloween mod via Steam Workshop. As it is a mod instead of an update, you can continue playing with the Halloween looks later, if you want to!

On the topic of modding, we recently published a reference guide for modding Barotrauma. So if you’re looking to make a mod of your own, check it out here along with our other guides (currently available only in English).

A bigger update is in the works and will be released in a few weeks. Look forward to new content and server improvements, to name a couple of things. Stay tuned!