nasKo Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Hello! It’s Monday. It’s Project Zomboid. So it must be… Mondoiddddd. Build 36 Released! This year we intend to keep the build release process fairly free-flowing, as opposed to leaving improvements on the brew in IWBUMS public beta for longer than is necessary. With this in mind, then, last Thursday we publicly released a fast-fire Build 36 to follow on from Build 35’s release just before Christmas. This has now found a home on survivor hard drives everywhere. The full changelist can be found here but the abbreviated highlights run as follows: Survivor Trading UI. The initial MP iteration of a trading system that will later be expanded on in SP modes. Players can drag and drop items from their main inventory, and faction-owned surroundings, so they can barter with other players, make offers and finalise deals. PZ builds now show changelogs on initial boot-up of new builds so survivors don’t have to hunt through Steam or the forums to find out what has changed. Player can now move two-tile furniture like signs and paintings around, and also (with the correct tools) deconstruct larger objects into several smaller kit parts that can later be reconstructed. Movable item icons also improved in the UI to make system clearer. MP Admin improvements. ‘Connected Players’ UI window and associated options. Item Editor options for special server events. Small stuff: Electrician starts with radio recipes. New tooltips. Recipes now overwritable to make life easier for modders. ‘Invite Friends UI’ made prettier and more user-friendly. Expanded respawn/forage zones. Trapping nutrition adjusted. Plentiful bug fixes n’ balance. GENERAL ARCADE After their amazing work integrating VOIP with the PZ mainframe our friends at General Arcade have been digging deep into our codebase to find out ways they can help with the integration of various features destined for roll-out in the lead-up to PZ going 1.0. Namely, but not exclusively, vehicles. The deep-dive is now complete, and GA are now gearing up to work on what they’ve discovered: initially map streaming improvements, net code optimization and an acceleration of the rate at which PZ (online or off) processes game objects. It won’t be an overnight job, to say the least, but they’re improvements we can feed into the game build-by-build (improving the whole game’s performance as they go) to help us ease EasyPickins’ ace work on cars out of the dev garage and onto the road. ANIMS AND COMBAT It should be underlined that the new animations, combat, outfits, weaponry and all that pizazz hasn’t fallen down a deep, dark well. We’re still going with it, and coming back to the coalface fresh from the Xmas and New Year break is proving fruitful. As we have done before, we apologise for the delay – but hope to have fresh news for you in the Mondoids to come. RJ’S KNOB The first thing on the menu for the first IWBUMS beta release for Build 37 is a UI feature to improve the life of chef survivors – an operational UI dial that will initially be used for alarm timers on ovens, and for microwave settings. Small thing, yes, but also one that Turbo can use when we update the radio and walkie-talkie system to have more analogue station-tracking (handy for scanning airwaves in MP, and for plans for SP survivor radio) and also for setting some timed explosive devices. OBEY GRAVITY MOD Blindcoder, custodian of the ‘Recently Updated With Build 35’ PZ map and author of several mods integrated in to the PZ mainframe, has released a cool new mod that deals with the tricksy and much debated happenstance of Sky Forts. The ‘Obey Gravity’ mod sees player-built structures fall down when supports are removed, and stops players being able to build floors more than three tiles away from supporting walls. Both ourselves and Ben would love to know what the wider PZ survivor populace thinks of his approach to sensible-shoes engineering. Featured image from НЕКОКУН. The Centralized Block of Italicised Text would like to direct your attention to the PZ Wiki should you feel like editing or amending something, and the PZ Mailing List that can send blogs like this and patch notes direct to your mailbox. We also live on Twitter right here! Our Discord is now open for chat and hijinks too. A general overview of the content of PZ builds past, in testing and upcoming can now be found here. And oh my GOODNESS GRACIOUS some graphical bugs are rude Keshash, joescore, ShuiYin and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miked79 Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 was hoping today was the day! Wompwomp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nasKo Posted January 9, 2017 Author Share Posted January 9, 2017 18 minutes ago, miked79 said: was hoping today was the day! Wompwomp. The day won't be for some weeks. There you go trombonaught 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miked79 Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 4 minutes ago, nasKo said: The day won't be for some weeks. There you go triple wompwomp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necromatic_Corgi Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 26 minutes ago, nasKo said: The day won't be for some weeks. There you go Weeks you say? That's not a year at least! But in all seriousness this was a great mondoid. I was getting very tired of no information. Keshash, Kuren and trombonaught 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuren Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Very excited to hear about the work General Arcade will be doing I was wondering what the progress/approach was since the loading issue had been mentioned in an older Mondoid a while back Keep up the great work Looking forward to seeing animations and the 5 step road map once they're ready Necromatic_Corgi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trombonaught Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Great Mondoid and great Blindcoder mod! I know people who stopped playing when they encountered their first skyforts. This mod has them interested again! I think the tile-size limits are reasonable but it would be great to see levels in carpentry or metalworking capable of expanding the range. Still need a way to build roofs though! Kuren and lucy the axe 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joescore Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 wow, Im famous trombonaught 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sick Boy Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 2 hours ago, nasKo said: The day won't be for some weeks. There you go Hahahahaha. Yeah. Right. Necromatic_Corgi and daMastaChef 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trombonaught Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 15 minutes ago, Sick Boy said: Hahahahaha. Yeah. Right. OMG THEY SAID WEEKS!!! Mock them if you want but that's gold right there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXxFANCYCAPYBARA36xXx Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Spoiler ^Me right now but I'm actually extremely excited cause atleast well have some fresh news about em so I guess you could say were having, NEW s about them If its another gameplay video im going to die and reincarnate as a much much happier person Geras 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nasKo Posted January 10, 2017 Author Share Posted January 10, 2017 1 hour ago, Sick Boy said: Hahahahaha. Yeah. Right. "There you go" in the sense of "Don't expect them for a while". Not "there you go" in the term of "weeks not months". All I am saying is just don't expect them every week, when there has been no real news on them in a Mondoid trombonaught and Necromatic_Corgi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aint easy Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 (edited) 8 hours ago, nasKo said: "There you go" in the sense of "Don't expect them for a while". Not "there you go" in the term of "weeks not months". All I am saying is just don't expect them every week, when there has been no real news on them in a Mondoid Edited January 10, 2017 by aint easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaGrey Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 aint easy, Zorak and dnk3912 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B33ware Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Oh gosh, they wrote "vehicles" first time for a two year, I'm excited! I wish to all of you a very productive and effective year, keep it good guys trombonaught 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Root Beer Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aint easy Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 (edited) 37 minutes ago, B33ware said: Oh gosh, they wrote "vehicles" first time for a two year, I'm excited! I wish to all of you a very productive and effective year, keep it good guys yeah you are right we have to read between the lines. they told us they will only talk about things near to release. HYPE TRAIN ALL ABOARD Edited January 10, 2017 by aint easy trombonaught 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorak Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 For once I have high hopes, we wont see them (vehicles) in months / years but General Arcade have good speed and im sure MP will be improverd by them soon. Less lagging, Less black borders. Just look how much they have done, Steam integration, EZ Co-op, VoiP !! Perhapse vehicles wont be another thing to add to "No ETA / when its Done Bag" Necromatic_Corgi, Geras and Kuren 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaGrey Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 No ETAs / when it's done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icy Motto Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Looking good. Awesome work guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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