Overhaul Gnamod

[Cernwn]

Realized that stone ammo only works with the primitive weapons, which makes some sense - my bad. Opening ammo to obtain components is pretty awesome. It is too bad you didn't do that across the board, to include opening gun ammo to obtain components - bullets, gunpowder and cartridge/casing. May also want to check the localization.txt for the Hunting Rifle description, since you updated it to use .44 magnum instead of 7.62.

 

Is there some sort of newbie buff/debuff effect that causes player to consume food+water MUCH faster when at a trader outpost? Kept repeatedly starving to death at Trader Hugh's, even when chain-gorging MREs. On the thought of outposts, if you are going to make trader outposts destructible and build heatmap so quickly, may want to redo the trader POIs and add active defenses, such as traps/turrets/guards. Replace all those wood walls and spikes with (at minimum) T2 cobble/scrap, but preferably concrete or steel.

 

Love the mob randomization, bigger hordes, customized zombie loot by type, and variety of reskins. However, zombie detection range/FOV (hello stealth), heatmap and respawn rate felt like they were overtuned. These could be dialed down and still maintain increased challenge from vanilla. Clearing an area of zeds SHOULD mean it stays clear for at least a day or two.

 

Anyways, you are doing a fantastic job and I look forward to revisiting your work after A19 hits. Currently playing around with True Survival by SpiderJZMOD. The above is just my personal two cents, take it or leave it. Have a good one!

[Haidrgna]

20 hours ago, Cernwn said:

Realized that stone ammo only works with the primitive weapons, which makes some sense - my bad. Opening ammo to obtain components is pretty awesome. It is too bad you didn't do that across the board, to include opening gun ammo to obtain components - bullets, gunpowder and cartridge/casing. May also want to check the localization.txt for the Hunting Rifle description, since you updated it to use .44 magnum instead of 7.62.

 

Is there some sort of newbie buff/debuff effect that causes player to consume food+water MUCH faster when at a trader outpost? Kept repeatedly starving to death at Trader Hugh's, even when chain-gorging MREs. On the thought of outposts, if you are going to make trader outposts destructible and build heatmap so quickly, may want to redo the trader POIs and add active defenses, such as traps/turrets/guards. Replace all those wood walls and spikes with (at minimum) T2 cobble/scrap, but preferably concrete or steel.

 

Love the mob randomization, bigger hordes, customized zombie loot by type, and variety of reskins. However, zombie detection range/FOV (hello stealth), heatmap and respawn rate felt like they were overtuned. These could be dialed down and still maintain increased challenge from vanilla. Clearing an area of zeds SHOULD mean it stays clear for at least a day or two.

 

Anyways, you are doing a fantastic job and I look forward to revisiting your work after A19 hits. Currently playing around with True Survival by SpiderJZMOD. The above is just my personal two cents, take it or leave it. Have a good one!

Thanks for your feedback, it is always good to hear how people playing the mod think about features.

 

The traders are designed in such a way you cannot really camp out there, if you do you will be punished for it severely. The camps are destructible and cause additional heat if you camp out there to prevent exploits. The game would be to easy if you could live in the same box as the trader that is not killable or needs some other form of maintenance, or has the ability to kick you out (removing the protection breaks the default teleport). The protection causes people to just camp near traders and go inside, shoot of wack zombies from its invincible walls.

 

As for redoing the trader outpost, I did that already, I added extra defenses. Active defenses do not work in POIs, player would need to set those up and repair the walls or clear the area around the trader first before shopping.

The trader is there to get a mission, buy some goods and then you leave again. If you do that there is no problem. Once trader name appears in your HUD you are in their influence.

 

As for the zombie detection, noted, it is not for everyone that they can see almost as far as the player can during the day. Daytime zombies can be cleared, they do not return for a week or longer, but staying in one place for long will draw them to that location by heat, wandering hordes etc. If you settle in a place you either defend it or spend as little time there as you can during the day. Zombies initially spawn staggered when they start spawning after 14:00 or if you leave the safe zone, this means it will take a while before all of them are spawn and making sounds like shooting a gun draws them in from far. So clearing an area by force is harder than using more quiet tactics.

The Core mod is meant as a survival experience in a zombie apocalypse, there is always going to be more zombies and different tactics are required. Stealth works in the mod, but you may need to perk into it more for it to work on more of the zombies. Unless of course you loaded Horde Mode, this mode hardly has stealth, since it is you defending a stationairy object.

 

 

[Haidrgna]

Alright I pushed the final update for A18 to the stable branch. Mainly focuses on Horde Mode balance but there were also some bug fixes and localization fixes. Once experimental hits development will begin to porting over to A19 and once a running version is ready an Experimental download may appear on the mod launcher, but this will depend on how easy the porting will be and how much time I will be spending on it. My aim is to keep working on it until A19.0 is the new stable version, the A18 version of Gnamod will then move to Legacy and the A19 version will take it's place. I will then also take down the A17 version from the Mod Launcher. Older versions will still be available for manual download of course. I will be updating the manual download shortly to include the 0.8.1 versions for manual install.

 

===0.8.1===

This update mainly focused on Horde Mode balance, which was not there yet in the 0.8.0 version.

 

Fixed: Blocks in Horde Mode are properly see-through for zombies so no block will ever block line of sight to the Beacon for them.

 

Fixed: PetrolBomb Arrow/Bolt bundles now properly unpack.

 

Fixed: Multi-Use items (Rations and Aid Kits) now break on expending the final charge. An extra charge added to all quality levels since this large charge will not doing anything.

 

Added: Horde Mode now has access to unique groups for Animal spawns and scout/daytime spawns. These groups are specifically tuned for the new spawning.

 

Changed: Horde Mode has no heat build up from player actions besides workstations and other blocks that generate heat normally. This means the hordes can be tuned more predictably. Before very industrious players were punished a lot more with additional hordes being build up.

 

Changed: Added a Buff to control the spawning of Horde Mode waves. The buff will tell when the next wave will start to appear and during the day will tell the next one is coming at 22:00. This means each player in the team gets their own hordes added rather than it being fixed. Difficulty and player level factors in as well, higher difficulties have more frequent waves and higher player levels add more time to the spawning process (so more zombies per wave).

 

Changed: Waves are always 3 ‘Scouts’ and they will each call the actual wave, if these die quicker a wave will be less intense, but they are moving slower than their summoned friends. As days progress the ‘Scouts’ are called from tougher lists. What they summon is gamestaged.

 

Changed: Adjusted zombie AI and vision, World Zombies are now scouts and always favor the player over the Beacon and can see very far. Other zombies have limited vision when it comes to finding the player, they favor the Beacon over the player unless damaged by the player.

 

Changed: Arnold (Demolition zombies) has been removed for real now from the lowest stage groups and thus will not appear as often as he did before (which was a lot more than intended). They now always focus on the Beacon and will not follow them player around even if damaged.

 

Changed: Trader prices have gone up by 50%. The prices were to low and dropped to zero when using only a few items reducing prices. It is still possible at max skill + Cigar + Awesome Sauce, but that will take a while to get.

 

Changed: Availability of certain items has been rebalanced. Certain items such as full blocks, special arrows/bolts were to easy to obtain in large quantities. These items are very powerful and getting to much easily made certain things to easy.

 

Changed: Removed Secret Stash progression from the BB skill for Horde Mode and moved it to the player based on level. There are 6 stashes, 1 is default unlocked and the other 5 unlock as you gain levels (25/50/75/100/150). This means Horde Mode progresses more naturally and there is no need to put points in BB if you do not want to.  

 

Changed: Vultures always puke in Horde Mode to make them more annoying and dangerous.

 

Changed: First Aid Kits of higher quality will heal slightly more per charge used making the higher quality kits even more desirable, this means that a q6 kit will now heal double the amount compared to before.

 

Changed: Biome spawns in Horde Mode were adjusted to be in line with the new way of wave spawning. Most biomes have had their numbers during the night cut.

[Supertint]

Hey, I am looking for a hi rise...  I 'think' it was this mod.  It was like a business tower, square, fencing all around.  One side had a collapse, heavily secured building...  looked like a government location.  Does anyone know what I am referring too?  

[Haidrgna]

1 minute ago, Supertint said:

Hey, I am looking for a hi rise...  I 'think' it was this mod.  It was like a business tower, square, fencing all around.  One side had a collapse, heavily secured building...  looked like a government location.  Does anyone know what I am referring too?  

I do not know what you are referring to, Gnamod does not come with any such POIs. All POIs the mod adds so far are small decorative ones to spice up the worlds and updated Traders. Maybe it was part of CompoPack or something?

[EpicSpire]

Will NitroGen world generation tool work with this mod?

 

[Haidrgna]

20 hours ago, EpicSpire said:

Will NitroGen world generation tool work with this mod?

 

As far as I know there should be no issue using a NitroGen map with Gnamod, or any other map designed to work with the vanilla game. Gnamod does a lot of alterations that happen post generation so to say, so POIs and the world are transformed but it does not really matter where the original world was generated. If it includes custom biomes or mod specific POIs then it will likely not work well. It should also not really have an issue with CompoPack or similar POI packs or worlds using those. The mod is designed to work over anything build with vanilla building blocks. I cannot say it will be balanced but it will work.

 

Gnamod does do some alterations of the RWGMixer if that is used, so its world output is different than the vanilla game, but it is by no means the only way to play the mod. Before A17 changed how worlds where made the Mixer played a much more important role for the mod, but when A18 took the ability to easily add custom biomes the mod focus had to change.

[EpicSpire]

3 hours ago, Haidrgna said:

As far as I know there should be no issue using a NitroGen map with Gnamod, or any other map designed to work with the vanilla game. Gnamod does a lot of alterations that happen post generation so to say, so POIs and the world are transformed but it does not really matter where the original world was generated. If it includes custom biomes or mod specific POIs then it will likely not work well. It should also not really have an issue with CompoPack or similar POI packs or worlds using those. The mod is designed to work over anything build with vanilla building blocks. I cannot say it will be balanced but it will work.

 

Gnamod does do some alterations of the RWGMixer if that is used, so its world output is different than the vanilla game, but it is by no means the only way to play the mod. Before A17 changed how worlds where made the Mixer played a much more important role for the mod, but when A18 took the ability to easily add custom biomes the mod focus had to change.

thanks

[Haidrgna]

Alright a small update from me while the A19 Experimental rages on.

 

I am proud to announce that Gnamod is fully ported to A19 and ready to be played via the Mod Launcher. Please note that while I say it can be played, does not mean it is ready nor that it will stay working when a next update to the EXP branch is released by TFP. 

You can find it under the A19 tab of the launcher and only has an Experimental version. This comes with all modlets, so it also includes an updated Horde Mode (with slightly changed maps), the UI and the Classic Toolbar.

 

I am still actively working on the 0.8.2 version that will be the next stable soon after A19.0 becomes stable. This is only a minor patch because it does not fundamentally alter gameplay. It might add new things but mainly does make sure all new elements from A19 are incorporated into Gnamod and all changes to core systems taken care of. My focus is mainly on the UI which had some changes under the hood since A18.3 that made things come out weird or a bit off. I want to use the remaining EXP time to finish this up, update or alter some more windows and clean up the XML code a bit. Once this is done the UI thread on the forums will get some updating as well with A19 screenshots to replace the no longer valid A17 screenshots there.

 

I have been enjoying the A19 experimental so far and I just played a bit of Gnamod A19 and it played very solid.

[slowleakage]

Love the modpack man.  Running the latest GNA mod for a19 off the launcher and the first object I attempt to loot throws error:
 

warning GUIWindowManager.remove: window "looting" unknown!
NulReferenceException. Object reference not set to an instance of an object

Any help would be appreciated. 

[Haidrgna]

9 hours ago, slowleakage said:

Love the modpack man.  Running the latest GNA mod for a19 off the launcher and the first object I attempt to loot throws error:
 

warning GUIWindowManager.remove: window "looting" unknown!
NulReferenceException. Object reference not set to an instance of an object

Any help would be appreciated. 

 

This error seems like its likely related to the changes done in B177 to the UI (for the addition of the stash buttons they made some changes to looting, backpack and vehicle storage windows. 

I updated the experimental version to that yesterday so you may have been running an older version when you started your game. I suggest allowing the Mod Launcher to re-download or pre-sync so it has the latest. I will also test myself to see if there are any issues in the Mod Launcher version to be sure.

 

This also means you need to delete the install of the game and update it to B177, since that could also be the issue that the mod is ahead of the game's version as the Mod Launcher does not update the game unless you reinstall.

Edited August 7, 2020 by Haidrgna (see edit history)

[Haidrgna]

I have uploaded a zip file to the A18 download link (currently the link you follow in the first post to Download) to contain a zip for the A19 Experimental version of Gnamod.

 

Since it's mostly ready to go and I am expecting A19 to go stable soon its time for more people (and people not using or having issue with the Mod Launcher) to have access to it.

 

Note that this is the exact same package you would be getting for the Mod Launcher, it comes with Horde Mode and Classic Toolbar disabled and you will need to manually enable them if you want to use them. Installing should be as simple as unzipping into the game's main folder (making a copy of the game to add mods to is preferred and the method used by the Mod Launcher).

 

If you run into any issues or bugs feel free to report them here or on the Gnamod Discord, I will add them to my list to look into for the stable version once A19 is stable. I will currently only patch mod-breaking issues from updates or changes I did not realize they negatively affected the mod.

[dan3000]

Seems like the chemistry station does not work. Clicking it causes null errors

Edited August 8, 2020 by dan3000 (see edit history)

[Haidrgna]

2 hours ago, dan3000 said:

Seems like the chemistry station does not work. Clicking it causes null errors

I have tested it both on B178 with Gnamod Core and only with Gnamod CoreUI and on either the chemistry station opened just fine without errors, showing recipes like it should.

 

You may need to provide with more information and make sure your game is at the latest build and the mod is the latest version uploaded (when in doubt let the Mod Launcher delete it all and reinstall).

If that does not fix the issue, please post your log files and other info like reproduction steps to the problem you are experiencing so I can track it down. Just stating something does not work is sadly not very helpful

[dan3000]

I did a delete complete about 8 hours ago when i seen the b178 update. I get a NullReferenceException when i try to select the chem station or oil from my personal crafting menu or the work bench(not clicking on chem station since I dont have it yet). Should i try another delete complete? I had to restore from a save, maybe the save files are old? Im only using the core and core Ui

Edited August 9, 2020 by dan3000 (see edit history)

[Haidrgna]

9 hours ago, dan3000 said:

I did a delete complete about 8 hours ago when i seen the b178 update. I get a NullReferenceException when i try to select the chem station or oil from my personal crafting menu or the work bench(not clicking on chem station since I dont have it yet). Should i try another delete complete? I had to restore from a save, maybe the save files are old? Im only using the core and core Ui

If you are loading a save from an older build that could have corrupted things or broken them. Have you tried it on a new save, it will likely work there.

 

It sadly is the nature of Experimental to break saves, even if the mod may not the updates the Pimps do to the game usually require a new game to be started.

 

I just tested clicking the recipe and it gives out an error, so I will look into this further and see if I can fix it.

 

Addition: I found it was caused by pointing to a no longer existing Yeah Science perk for unlocks on Oil and Chemistry station. It will be fixed in the next update.

Edited August 9, 2020 by Haidrgna (see edit history)

[dan3000]

Thank you for your help. This mod is the hardest I have tried and love it!

 

Got any tips to find "Niter" and coal? The journal says to just dig anywhere 

And the antibiotic sells for about 30k. Dunno if that's intended

 

Thanks again, it seems like you have put a TON of work into this!

[Haidrgna]

56 minutes ago, dan3000 said:

Thank you for your help. This mod is the hardest I have tried and love it!

 

Got any tips to find "Niter" and coal? The journal says to just dig anywhere 

And the antibiotic sells for about 30k. Dunno if that's intended

 

Thanks again, it seems like you have put a TON of work into this!

Thank you for taking the time to notify me of a bug  And yeah lot of work went into getting the mod to this level and a lot more will be needed polish out the rough edges

You can use the world map to find ores, niter will appear as grey/whitish and coal are dark/blackish spots. You will find coal in the snow biome (or some POIs have it, like the coal dump and SM factory). Niter is found in the wasteland biome. I am not sure what Journal entry says anywhere, I guess I need make one for mining in Gnamod specifically to overwrite the vanilla one.

 

Journal tips and tutorials etc are on my list but likely going to happen once the game is stable enough and the mod is mostly feature complete. I want to have some kind of optional tutorial missions for people that have a rough time with the mod. It is so different to vanilla people often get stuck on what is changed.

[Haidrgna]

Update:

I just pushed a new version to the Experimental A19 on the Mod Launcher. This version 'may' break earlier savegames because I removed all the Wood blocks and upgrade items. Why? I felt that the wood blocks were to niche and to costly compared to what they offered. The palisade set will be improved in the future to fill the gap it leaves behind with some more square filling variants that are stronger and possibly frame/low level blueprints kind of shapes to fill in like the other blocks. The first materials are now Platedwood (metal) and Cobblestone (stone) that require blueprints but can still be worked on with the stone axe. The other materials all need hammer or better.

 

Building in Gnamod is supposed to be a mid-game activity, early on you can build with the blueprints and materials you find or buy from the trader but it will be hard to grind out your own for a proper base. This is because player build blocks are strong and especially higher end materials will last much longer than the vanilla blocks, while POI blocks are all very weak (old). 

So in the first week if you build it will likely be palisades if you are building at all and not using a pre-existing building. From then you should be able to manage building once you gather or unlock the proper tools. The worktable (low level workbench) is now unlocked by a Hammer held in the hand and no longer consumed in the building (before you needed 2 hammers because most wood stuff you also need the hammer as a tool. It should be possible to find at least 1 hammer solo in the first week of the game to get basic crafting set up (campfire, worktable, smelter and cement bucket). 

[Haidrgna]

I pushed a new update to Gnamod Experimental on the Mod Launcher only. It should make it fully compatible with B180 (only thing that really broke was the wine barrels not being lootable anymore change).

 

I have updated localizations of many starter items to match the changes in Gnamod so they properly tell you what you need to repair for example and that the Hunting Rifle uses .44 ammo. I have started updating perk descriptions as well but this is still ongoing. I added a new loading tip and plan to add more, added Gnamod specific loading images, 10 for each biome instead of the vanilla loading images.

On the UI I made the interaction dialogs better, they now go over 3 lines depending on the context, the button and action will be on the first, the interaction subject on the second and if its untouched or locked etc on the third. I also renamed Mouse Button 4 etc to MB4 since it took a lot of space when you bound these keys. Note this is only on the English localization, if you change to another language you will get the default again.

On the note of localization, if you want to help out make a localization available in your native language, please join the Gnamod Discord as I am still looking for people to help out with that. Currently there only is a Japanese localization made by Chiko, you can use this as an example.

[Haidrgna]

Gnamod 0.8.2 for A19 is leaving Experimental and going to stable after a long periods of updating, testing and balancing it is finally ready to become the first Stable version for A19.

 

The Mod Launcher download and Manual downloads have been updated and the A18 version of the mod has been moved to a Legacy branch. You may not see this change on the Mod Launcher right away and might take a bit before its updated by Sphereii's code. But the Experimental download currently there has the exact same version so you can play that in the mean time.

Changelog for 0.8.2 with all changes since the 0.8.1 version that was still A18.4. A lot of changes for a minor version but since it was pretty much all balancing and adapting to the new changes there was no reason to advance to a major version yet. Content updates to Gnamod are planned but not in the near future, likely first work will be on 0.8.3 where the focus will be on cleaning up the UI, localization and accesibility of the mod (by this I mean tutorials, hints, journal entries, item descriptions and a possible 'easy mode' modlet).

 

==Changelog 0.8.2==

Gnamod 0.8.2 is aimed to bring Gnamod to A19 and further improve all aspects of it, fix pre-existing bugs and improve overall playability and quality of the mod. There is no longer any distinction in downloads on the Mod Launcher or manual between Core/UI/Horde Mode. All available downloads will contain every part of Gnamod but certain stuff will always be disabled by default (Like Horde Mode and Classic toolbar). In the future more optional modlets will be added along side the Core download to allow easy customization. Most of these modlets will be small and needing an entire new copy of 7days just to get them seems to me a waste of space and effort.

Fixed: Knuckle parts could not be looted or traded.

Fixed: Arrows/Bolts should proc a bleed effect again since they were referring to a non-existing buff.

Added: 50 new Loading Images for the loading tip screen, these replace the 4 A19 vanilla ones and there are 10 for each biome. They are all shot in Gnamod Core.

Added: New UI icons for Smelter, Worktable, Oven and Cement Bucket. Ported over some additional borrowed icons from A18 that were deprecated as items in A19 or expected to in the near future. Additional icons for new items added as well such as Murky Water and Clean Water.

Added: HUD now displays Food and Water since A19. The bars have been redone as well with a shadow effect for better readability.

Added: In Godmode an updated HP bar is shown for any entity the camera points at. It is possible to enable these all the time, high chance any modlets doing this work on Gnamod CoreUI if they load after it.

Added: Improved localization for all interaction prompts (picking up, looting etc). These have been improved and colored for readability. This applies to English only.

Added: Gnamod specific UI display entries for food, sealed food items and multi-use food items so their stats are always displayed properly. Sealed cans show the stats of the food item they are when opened so you know in advance what you get.

Added: Development only biome distribution plans to generate Horde Mode maps instead of doing manual painting.

Added: Recipes for A19 newly added items that fit with the rest of the items.

Added: Recipes for some of the doors and powered doors that were missing.

Changed: All prefabs are now using A19’s system where they can load from the Prefabs folder in the mods, so there is no need for them to be copied over anymore.

Changed: Horde Mode now has 4 Maps replacing the old maps. Normal, Expert, Hard and Extreme. Normal is like the Easy map before etc, while Extreme is only Wasteland and extremely tough.

Changed: Updated the Main Menu graphic for Gnamod Core and planned for the other modlets in 0.8.3. 

Changed: Updated the Mod’s Unity bundle to the latest version the game is using and Updated to Linear Lighting. Zombie skins did not come out to great from this but are usable still. They will be replaced in one of the upcoming versions of Gnamod, likely to integrate the new work on the HD zombies by Mumpfy when done. New HD zombies currently only have the default skin.

Changed: XP and Item notification moved to the bottom right of the screen and they will appear staggered after the action gaining them ends. This way its no longer possible to determine if a zombie is dead by the xp gain.

Changed: Nav objects (on screen icons) do not snow up within 10 meters of the player.

Changed: UI updated to incorporate changes and additions by A19. Some windows are still planned to be cleaned up after the merges in 0.8.3

Changed: Updated Traders to sell A19 items and name changes. Also rebalances to stock, stock refresh rates and items for sale. Trader stocks reset every 4 days while their vending machines restock daily.

Changed: Slightly increased zombie spawn rates in the world.

Changed: Slightly lowered the heat build up from sounds in the world.

Changed: RWG improved to create on average bigger cities with more space for bigger buildings. Changes to POIs make Skyscrapers appear in the map more often as well.

Changed: Rebalanced Crafting times for bundle items and certain other items to be less extreme than the auto-calculated recipe times. 

Changed: harvestWater item replaced by Clean and Dirty water variants. Toilets always have dirty water, but some containers can have clean water in them. Clean water can be drank safely or bottled. More containers dealing with drinks or water have a chance now to just drop these items.

Changed: Worktable recipe now requires you to hold a hammer to start crafting it. This replaces the recipe consuming the hammer.

Changed: Quests have been updated to the working of A19 and changed where needed to make this work.

Changed: Starter quest gives and opened can of emergency water and the trader advertisement will send you to the closest non-wasteland trader.

Changed: Progression updated to the removal of Yeah Science and the changed effects of the Advanced Engineering and Lucky Looter are updated to reflect the actual effect they have in Gnamod.

Changed: Doors have their own material now, making them heavier so they need support but not offering any support (no floating bases build on them). HP of doors have been adjusted so they are stronger than blocks in general.

Changed: Loot has been adjusted and rebalanced according to changes in A19. New entries added for new containers and new blocks made lootable. Certain shelve blocks will degrade to empty shelves on looting, eventually more containers will get this behavior.

Changed: Turned out Melee weapons were massively underrepresented in loot compared to guns and tools. All containers have been rebalanced to favor melee more and guns less, you will see them pop up at more places and especially the loot boxes at ends of POIs.

Changed: All tools, weapons and melee weapons of T1 and higher will scrap into parts also used in their recipe. Some did this already but others did not, this is now all streamlined.

Changed: Updated localization for T0 tools and the hunting rifle to reflect changes done to them that were confusing new players. This is for English only.

Changed: A19 made crossbows and hunting rifles do not reload automatically, but Gnamod has them automatically reload. Only the blunderbuss will not do this.

Changed: Updated zombie and animal hands to work with the new critical system.

Changed: The Blimp now has a placeable item, but still limited to Dev creative.

Changed: The Fireworks block has been updated and works mostly without errors, but it should never be used in an active game. It is limited to Dev creative.

Changed: Gamestaging has been adjusted to work with the new settings where difficulty is no longer a factor. Wandering Hordes have been changed as the last system was not working as intended.

Changed: Boss zombies no longer explode when they die.

Changed: Arnold (demolition) zombies do not appear in Biome spawns anymore and are moved to higher gamestages for all other spawns. Multiplayer games will still see them earlier due to higher gamestage.

Changed: Zombie puke now has a chance to add a debuff on the player that drains some health over time. This buff also has a chance to ragdoll the player, be careful on roofs and edges.

Changed: Vultures now always have the ability to puke.

Changed: Updates to AI of animals that make them behave more consistent and make certain variants less aggressive by default. Before certain animals were standing still or going after the player/zombies like crazy. Most animals will still fight back if attacked.

Changed: Update the zombie pool to include the new Mechanic (Mel) into the mix. The new crawler currently does not exist in Gnamod until I figure out what to do with it as it does not fit my system of zombie generation at all.

Changed: Adjusted how the Trader opening and closing buffs work. You now get a notification when they are closed flashing red, staying there will mean more zombies will spawn and you will start suffering bad stuff if you keep doing it. During the day you can stay there shopping for hours without any bad effects. An icon indicates you are in range of a trader that is open.

Changed: Reworked the Lucky buff, it can appear from any action taken and lasts for a short while. In this period, you get a random boost to a couple of stats, including a loot bonus.

Changed: Updated the corrosive arrow effect to show up the same way as the corrosive effect from Puke. It is just as deadly to players as zombies, so do not hit yourself with it.

Changed: A lot of corrections have been done on blocks to conserve vanilla behavior, making it possible to repair them etc. Doors now all work according to the same rules and all of them can be build by the player from helper blocks. Doors downgrade through their path like vanilla and have additional HP based on the reinforcement. They can also be repaired and reinforced by the player.

Changed: Harvesting rocks now gives a small part of powered version (so either fine aggregate (sand blocks), coarse aggregate (stone blocks) and lime powder (limestone).
Changed: Incorporated new deco blocks into the placeholder mixes and added the newly added placeholders. Clothes and shoe piles will now appear in POIs and roads.

Changed: Number of mines has been halved in POIs and on roads.

Changed: Number of Big vehicles and full cars reduced compared to the amount of wrecks. So, the amount of them on roads is the same but more will be wrecks.

Changed: Biome file has been fully integrated since there will not likely be any new biomes added for a while with just xml.

Changed: Adjusted item prices for Core and Horde Mode in an ongoing balance effort.
 

[Ragsy 2145]

Wow impressive change log Haidr ...very detailed nice

[Laz Man]

Great job!!!  Definitely need to sit down and give GNAmod another spin in the near future.

 

Have any of those new loading screen images to share?  😀

[Haidrgna]

9 minutes ago, Laz Man said:

Great job!!!  Definitely need to sit down and give GNAmod another spin in the near future.

 

Have any of those new loading screen images to share?  😀

They would not make much sense outside of Gnamod I am afraid, they have a logo and feature a lot of Gnamod specific deco and scenes. But you can easily make your own from in-game screenshots and I can tell you how to load them as a modlet too if you wanted

[Laz Man]

Just now, Haidrgna said:

They would not make much sense outside of Gnamod I am afraid, they have a logo and feature a lot of Gnamod specific deco and scenes. But you can easily make your own from in-game screenshots and I can tell you how to load them as a modlet too if you wanted

I was just thinking it would be a nice way to officially welcome GNAmod into Alpha19.  😀