Crafting Dead
Version 0.6.0 - Did you hear that?
For starters, zombies have been enhanced. The sound system and visual aspects when locating a player are more realistic. A player can now crouch around zombies without having them notice or trigger them. Heck, you can fire off a gun to redirect zombies' attention to yourself.
Oh, and I buffed them... increased damage, movement speed, and decreased health.
A big change was to the item icons, you may not notice this but performance will. They've all been changed from 3d objects to sprites. Should have done this a while ago.
Break a leg! Players can now break legs if they jump from too high. This is fixed/cured by consuming morphine or makeshift splints. The splint can be crafted!
Crafting menu tabs were added. Now you can pick a tab and filter down all the recipes into categories!
Changelog
- Added Player Sound Levels
- Added Player Broken Leg (can't run when broken)
- Added Bottled Morphine, Cure, RBI Items (craft with an empty syringe)
- Added Map Item (when in inventory, press M to open map)
- Added Splint Item (craftable, fix broken legs)
- Added Zombie FOV when locating players
- Added Crafting Menu Tabs (filter craftables)
- Added Toggle for HUD (defaults to key P)
- Updated NavMesh for Zombies on Fellvern
- Updated Zombies (increased speed, damage, decreased health)
- Updated Morphine Syringe (fix broken legs)
- Updated ALL Items UI visual (3D object -> icons)
Version 0.5.2 - Character Depth, Minor Fixes
Added more depth to the character's customization! Skins, shirts, pants, and shoes include multiple options.
Official servers will be back up in the coming week.
Changelog
- Added Character Skin Options
- Added Character Pants Options
- Added Character Shoe Options
- Updated Entity Server-Client Sending Range
- Fixed Hitmarker on Dead Zombies
- Fixed Trees Instantiating Twice for Server-Client networking
Version 0.5.0 - KABOOM! Explosives, Base Repair, Zombie Buffs
Right off the bat, explosives!
You can now find propane tanks that can be lit with a matchbox and explode in ~4 seconds. The explosion will deal damage to all entities within a short radius. This includes players, zombies, base walls, foundations, and doors.
For a larger explosion, dynamite can be crafted from gun powder! This also needs to be lit by a matchbox and explodes in ~8 seconds. This explosion deals more damage in a larger radius.
Base Enhancements
Base Building parts such as walls and floors will decay over time. This period should be around ~4 days. Parts will not decay to destruction, only 25% health. Parts can be repaired for a fraction of the cost to place a new one with specific tools.
- Hand saw repairs wooden parts or deployables (ie Wooden Doors).
- Chisel repairs stone and upgrades wooden parts to stone.
- Blow Torch repairs iron/metal deployables (ie Base Flag)
Tree Changes
Less exciting but necessary, trees will now fall after being harvested. Different items harvest at different rates but trees will always drop saplings. These saplings can be planted. Once planted, they will grow over time or bones can be used to accelerate the growth!
Zombie Buffs
Nothing too much to explain here. Zombie spawn rates are increased at night by 1.5x. Zombies' health was increased from 75 to 100. Furthermore, their pathfinding was updated to reflect the map better.
Going Forward
The next few patches will be to tweak, balance, and polish the game. In the next few weeks, I will be marketing. This will include creating YouTube guides and reaching out to influencers about covering the game!
Changelog
- Added Gun Powder, Container, and Barrel Items
- Added Explosive Propane Tank and Dynamite Items
- Added Match Box Item to Lite Explosives
- Added Recipes for Ammo and Explosives
- Added Plantable Tree (Forest, Pine) Saplings
- Added Base Decay (Will decay to 25% health over ~4 day period)
- Added Tools to Repair Base Components (ie Walls, Base Flag)
- Added World Debris and Details
- Added Animated Main Menu
- Added Event Tracking for Metrics (ie Zombie Kills)
- Added Map, Chest Opening Sounds
- Added Camera Shake
- Updated Trees to be Chopped Down
- Updated Trees to Drop Saplings
- Updated Bone Item to Grow Saplings Faster
- Updated Zombies Stats (Buffed)
- Updated Zombies Path Finding Meshes
- Updated Zombies Spawn Rates at Night (Buffed)
- Updated Base Components with NavMesh Obstacles
- Updated Base Components to be Destructible and Repairable (ie Doors, Chests)
- Updated Guns to Spawn with Random Ammo Amounts
- Fixed Blue Bloom Effect at Night
Version 0.4.0 - Wow, its getting dark early huh?
The night is now darker with a few new objects to help light up the world.
Also, Zombies will be a tad stronger at night now! Dealing more damage (1.5x) and moving faster (1.2x).
Changelog
Version 0.4.0
- Added Torch Item
- Added Crafting Recipe for Torch
- Added Street Lamps
- Added Player List Command
- Updated Lighting and Materials at Night (Enhanced)
- Updated Night (Darker)
- Updated Zombies speed and damage at night (Increased)
- Updated Lighting Falloff
- Updated Furnace Model, Sounds, Lighting, Balancing
- Updated Base Destruction (Reclusive)
- Updated Chunk Loading Order (Closest to Furthest)
- Fixed Item Attachment Rendering when Switching between the Same Gun
Multiple Patches Summary - 0.3.7
These patches have been rolled out silently over the past few weeks (other than the Discord channel).
The following patch 0.4.0 will continue content expansion and improve on base building!
Changelog
Version 0.3.7
- Added Sound Profile System (Improved Sounds)
- Updated Player, Zombie Hitboxes
- Updated Player Movement Handling
- Updated Damage Handling (Sounds, Particles)
- Updated Sound(s) Rolloff
- Fixed Nodes Spawning Locally
- Fixed Player stuck on Edges Bug
Version 0.3.6
- Fixed Bullet Desync
- Fixed Player Collisions around Edges
Version 0.3.5
- Fixed Iron Ingot display name spelling
- Fixed Desync with Node Harvesting
- Fixed Main Menu Build Version displayed
Version 0.3.4
- Updated Cost of Foundations (Removed stone)
- Updated Base Banner Crafting Cost (Decreased)
- Updated Damage taken by Trees (Increased vood collect rate)
- Updated Loot Spawn Rates (Decreased avg number of items that spawn per crate)
- Updated Zombie Infection Rate (Decreased)
- Updated Loot Tables (Added Chisel)
- Updated Node Networking Handling
Version 0.3.3 - Furnace, Building Tools, Raiding!
This patch introduces a deployable furnace to smelt iron ore into ingots! Along with tools to manage your base and a few quality of life enhancements such as windy grass!
Changelog
- Added Furnace Deployable
- Added Recipe to Craft a Furnace
- Added Smelting Recipe or Iron Ore to Ingot
- Added Chisel to Upgrade Base Components to Stone
- Added Crowbar to Remove Base Components or Pickup Deployables
- Added Grass, Bush, Tree Leaves Wind Sway
- Updated Grass Rendering
- Updated Base Components to take Damage
- Fixed Gun Effects null exception
Version 0.3.0 - Base Building!
Ever since the mod days, base building has been on Crafting Dead's radar. I am excited and terrified to see what comes of this!
Please note, this patch INTRODUCES base building, it is not in a complete state. Far from it. There will be a lot of patches to tweak how base building will operate.
Building Overview
Important items include a Blueprint, Banner, Wooden (or Iron) Door. When placing building components, they will cost a specific amount of material from your inventory.
When holding a blueprint, you can place a component by right-clicking. The default is a foundation. This can be changed by right click and holding. An options menu will appear, options can be selected by hovering the mouse over the option you want and letting go of the right click.
Once a foundation is placed, you can place walls, short walls, or frames on top. These will snap in place. On top of walls or frames, you can place a floor (or roof, same same). Stairs can be placed in the center of a foundation letting you access a second floor.
Within a door frame, you can place a wooden or iron door. These doors can be accessed by any player unless a banner is placed.
At the center of your base, a Banner should be placed. Once placed, you can right-click it to authorize your player. Only people within the Banner's 20 unit radius can access doors to your base.
A full guide will be posted later, but things will change over time!
Any feedback is appreciated!
Best to reach the community on the discord!
https://discord.gg/MsV9cmvUTW
Changelog
- Added Blueprint for Base Building (Only wood, upgrades WIP)
- Added Deployable Banner for Claiming Areas
- Added Deployable Large Chest, Small Chest, Wooden Door, Iron Door
- Added Chisel Hammer (no function yet)
- Added Action to Collect Vood from Trees
- Added Coal Ore and Item
- Added Server List Favoriting Action and Official Servers List
- Added Remote Config (official list, game events)
- Added Gun Muzzle Flash, Bullet Casing Effects
- Added Command for Restoring Player Vitals
- Updated Player, Zombie Sizes (Increased ~15%)
- Updated Attachment Handling for Guns
- Updated Terrain Materials (Darkened, better alignment with cubes)
- Updated M4, AK47 Model
- Updated Fellvern Towns (Restricted building areas)
- Fixed Server Side Crashes
- Removed unsued Assets from Build
Version 0.2.7 - Happy Holidays!
The options wheel was added to the reload action and stash management.
- Added Option Ring Menu
- Fixed SP first-person item held rendering
- Fixed GUIs/Menus randomly closing in MP
- Fixed Crates spawning without loot
Version 0.2.6 - Bug Fixes
- Added Fog and Ambient Sounds back to Fellvern Map
- Added Door LODs
- Fixed Inventory Item Click Stutter
- Fixed Entity Information not Synced to Clients when Spawned/Despawned
- Fixed Crate UI Freezing when Despawned while Viewing
- Fixed Airdrop Loot not Synced to Clients
- Removed Player List Toggle (Disabled)
Version 0.2.5 - New Map!
The big-ticket item is the new map, Fellvern Island. This map is 4x the square area of the old map and will stick with the game as the official map for the next 6+ months.
- Added Fellvern Island Map
- Added Menu to Manage Singleplayer Worlds
- Added Stash Item
- Added Iron Ore, Iron Ingot, Wood Branch Material Items
- Added Katana, Golf Club, Pickaxe Melee Items
- Added Empty Syringe, Empty Can Misc Items
- Added Mouse Sensitivity and FoV setting sliders
- Added Stone and Iron Ore Nodes
- Added Zombie Knockback when Meleed
- Added Zombie Footstep Sounds
- Added Grid to Map UI
- Added Server Settings for World map and save location
- Added Sound Effects for Backpacks and Armor
- Added Network Entity Scoping (proxying information to each player)
- Updated Loot Tables (less random one-off items)
- Updated Item Inventory Rendering to 3D
- Updated File Save location (Moved to roaming folder)
- Updated URP Pipeline (Tweaks to shadows)
- Fixed CPU Usage bug (Maxed out)
- Removed Charland Map