VEIN 0.024

VEIN 0.024 is now live on Steam.

The first major map expansion (with over 60 new locations), condition rebalancing, spawnable furniture and containers, sub-inventories and inventory management, work on addictions, buildable extension ports, plantable trees, foraging, and more are all included in this update!

Changes:

• New major map update: Franklin County

• Increase fall damage

• Code quality improvements (blueprint -> C++)

• New music (ambient, radio) - thanks Remancer

• Couch Potato uniqueness rebalance

• Scent Volumes can now depend on environment cleanliness

• Add foraging system, new foragable plants, foraging recipes and medicines, Forager perk

• Add Copy Location to Clipboard in admin menu

• Add medium-skill .38 reload animation, thanks Ani

• Background mountains

• Fluid tanks will now prefer pulling from filled contents over the tap

• Sink fill time is proportional to the quantity already in the sink

• You can't sleep when panicked

• CreateExplosion console command

• Move all conditions into C++

• Add claustrophobia uniqueness

• Panic condition rebalance/difficulty balance

• Tired condition rebalance/difficulty balance

• Add agoraphobia uniqueness

• Stress condition rebalance/difficulty balance

• New golf-related items and weapons

• Many different asset placeholder replacements and texture upgrades, thanks Mood

• Pseudostacking/items are visually stacked in the inventory UI

• Unify singleplayer and multiplayer sleeping; can advance time in multiplayer if everyone sleeps at the same time on a locally hosted server

• Singleplayer beds/respawn points do not have a cooldown timer

• You can have nightmares from sleeping, causing stress and panic

• Add dreams

• Thirst condition rebalance/difficulty

• Antibiotics treat bacterial infections

• Add sawmill workbench

• Stimulated condition rebalance/difficulty

• Well Fed condition rebalance

• Add radio volume slider in settings menu for radio music

• HP readout in medical menu

• Selected item UI adjustments

• Poisoned condition rebalance

• Add anti-anxiety pills, caffeine pills, sleep gummies

• Add Retain Items On Death setting

• Add apple seeds, plantable trees, perennial plants

• Don't show zero-effect conditions in the medical menu

• Suture item grants medical XP on use

• Add the ability to gut fish

• Admins can now see all players on the map

• Add meth addiction

• Add uniquenesses to start addicted to stuff

• Add thumbnails to spawn regions in character creation

• Add unique post processing for weather

• Fish satisfies hunger relative to its weight

• Variant parcel meshes

• Add item container items. You can add items into backpacks, bags etc. by dragging and dropping items onto them.

• Furniture and containers spawnable from admin menu

• Bandages will get dirty over time and require replacement

• Add the ability to hide nameplates from dropped items

• Different sterilizers sterilize wounds to different degrees, e.g. ethanol is a worse quality sterilizer than rubbing alcohol

• The infection of cut wounds has a percentage severity

• Add extension port build objects (like an extension cable but for any resource)

• Add vein.Appearance.HideStrength setting

• Respirators block smells

• Screws now dismantle into one metal scrap

• Add Save ID to admin menu for debugging

• New vehicle sounds, vehicle sounds are muffled inside vehicles

• Preliminary bot characters

• Slightly improved vehicle networking

• Add Ignore Construction Restrictions setting

• Add Sleep Advances Time setting

• Move some settings to new Construction settings category

• Improve persistent corpse performance, networking

• You now keep bandages that you remove

• Add Energy Crash condition for after caffeine wears off

• Exerted condition rebalancing

• Lifetime stat performance improvements

• New save game system, thanks Cyn; your saves will automatically back up in the save directory just-in-case

• Add RemoveUniqueness cheat

• Add Chinese (simplified), Spanish (LatAm), French, Turkish translations

• Add Foliage Pop-In Scale setting

• De-hardcode radio stations; new radio music, thanks Remancer

• Add message to inventory screen if you have a search query that filters all items out

• Make chat window blurrier when displaying chat commands

• Street signs no longer block the third person camera

• Keys only dismantle into one scrap now

• Improve tree networking

• Reduce default clear-day fog amount

• Add vein.ItemActorSpawner.MinPlayerCloseness, vein.ItemActorSpawner.MaxPlayerCloseness

Fixes:

• Damage type fixes, fix damage forces not appearing on multiplayer clients

• Fix some food item heat changes on stoves swinging wildly out of range at low FPS

• Fix some tooltip and context menu (right click menu) bugs

• Fix pump shotgun check ammo animation lasting forever

• Fix not being able to punch people sitting in chairs

• Fix addictions not working at all :~)

• Fix chat filters not working correctly

• Fix incorrect model viewer rotations

• Fix objects (thrown cans, e.g.) not making noise to zombies

• Fix respirator thumbnail

• Fix bathroom stall doors all opening at the same time

• Fix flat tarps being unmovable

• Fix rain indoors at weather station

• Fix some overlapping fire alarms

• Fix go-kart gas tank location

• Fix collision on some buildings

• Fix item uses not refreshing in multiplayer on inventory change

• Corrected keybind icons displaying code text for nonstandard binds

• Fix crashes not being written to logs

• Fix being killed a lot from hitching vehicles in multiplayer

• Fix EBS not showing on TVs

• Fix Cyrillic titles not rendering

• Fix Werrenrath siding material in winter

• Fix firearm attachments highlighting firearms they can't be attached to when dragging

• Prevent infinite loop on tutorial if you manage to fill up your inventory

• Correct loading screen tip - "recently acquired" was reduced from 30 minutes to 5 minutes

• Fix some sleep positions for some cots/beds

• Fix radio messages vanishing when in a different chat tab

• Fix pet brush, pet leash descriptions and names

• Fix being able to open the map from a turned off phone

• Fix firehose glass material

• Fix some furniture not attaching to vehicles properly

• Fix bar soap smelling bad

• Fix mattress character sleep position as well as some other beds

• Fix inconsistent visual for worn book item

• Fix pharmacy cabinet door opening the wrong way

• Fix chat command prompt staying up when chat box is manually closed

• Fix bad wall physics in pizzeria

• Fix crash with fluid tanks

• Fix meat slicer not being marked placeholder

• Fix slider values in settings menu being incorrect

• Fix riot helmet label being way above it

• Fix fishing bait not being consumed

• Fix a bunch of improperly networked furniture

• Fix built stuff and small props (tent e.g.) not blocking rain

• Fix difficulty presets not setting start time selector properly

• Fix some items being stuck inside building walls when placed on walls

• Fix portable toilets not smelling like waste

• Fix performance for visuals for many things on the map

• Fix not being able to wear a shirt and winter jacket at the same time

• Item thumbnail fixes

• Fix some placeholder item art not being marked as placeholder

• Fix discarding settings sometimes not working properly

• Fix crash, exploit when merging item stacks

• Fix military cot collision underneath the bed

• Fix some lighting issues underground (e.g. basements)

• Fix fluorescent light hum sound popping

• More accurate collision for water tower

• Fix nature sounds not being attenuated indoors for some river/pond/lake sounds

• Fix Saranac courtroom chairs having really weird seat positions

• Corrected train speed readout

• Fix not being able to place things in certain dome warehouses

• Some minor controller fixes

• Typoes

• Performance fixes

• Crash fixes

Known priority bugs, to be fixed in hotfix:

• Things placed on vehicles will sometimes detach if you go away and come back

• Vehicles spawned from the admin menu may vanish if you go away in multiplayer