Devlog #11: Defense & Upgrades (v0.0.31)
Major Updates
- Spike pit: Neighbouring pits merge into one big pit, 1x2, 2x3 and so on. The dead fall in, take damage and slowly crawl out.
- Siren: Steel horns and a lamp on top that shows the alarm level. No siren, no alarm.
- Tank trap: Brutes tear it down, but only slowly, and they go for tank traps first. All other dead crawl through between the beams and break nothing.
- Mine: Craft it at the reloading bench, then bury it. The first dead to step on it sets it off: area damage. Your residents walk over it safely.
- Searchlight for watch towers: Mounted like the machine gun, a tower carries either a machine gun or a searchlight. The guard lights up the dark with it, it needs power, and it follows the nearest dead. The dead in the beam are easier to hit.
- Watch tower redrawn: With steel plate and sandbag upgrades through the work list.
Minor Updates
- Machine gun ammunition: MG rounds are now their own item, made at the reloading bench. Every machine gun on a truck, tower or nest has a belt of 60 rounds and goes silent when it is empty.
- The tower’s range ring shows the machine gun’s reach while the belt has rounds
- All ammunition icons redrawn
- The bed window shows who sleeps there, with a picker window; new pillow upgrade
- Rules menu as drop-down lists, every rule is a drop-down
- Temperatures can be shown in °F
- When quitting or returning to the main menu, the game asks whether to save first
- Auto pause now defaults to “Danger”
- Campfires and burning pyres give off light smoke, campfire and truck smoke is denser and darker, campfires always crackle
- Decoy and floodlight redrawn
- Shelves redrawn: empty, with boxes that fill up per shelf
Bugfixes
- A parked truck’s machine gun no longer fires on its own
- German texts now say “Brecher” everywhere (the tank trap tooltip still said “Brutes”)
- The bucket can now be turned with R
- Barricades and barbed wire are built turned the way the drag preview showed
- Fair job search: whoever has waited longest searches first, and a resident who just became free searches at once
- Residents with mood below 15 no longer refuse work, they work at half speed
- A body that is picked up and put down again keeps what the rats ate
- World tooltips close while the pause menu is open
- The camp gate can be turned with R and gets metal plates
- The forge only counts as a light source while somebody is working at it