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This update brings eight new guns, rockets and C4, building at any angle, farming with genes, swimming, bleeding and seven clothing slots, a casino in the middle of a rebuilt THE GATE, the companion for your team on your phone, and the Realm skin drop, along with a reworked loot table, slower hunger and thirst, and a long list of fixes. It comes with a wipe.

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Guns

Eight new guns join the revolver. Every gun has an aim cone, bloom when you hold the trigger, recoil you pull down, and damage that falls off with range. Aiming down the sights tightens the cone and halves the kick.

Every gun is a Blueprint: research it at a table or unlock it on the tech tree. The Black Ziggurat's blue room can drop a Python, and the sanctum drops rifles, Thompsons, shotguns, rockets and C4. Each gun family reloads with its own sound, and far gunfire sounds different for rifles, SMGs, pistols, pumps and bolt rifles, so you can read a fight across the valley by ear.

Spread and loot rolls now draw on a server secret instead of the public world seed. Before this, a cheat that knew the seed could work out where its next shot would land.

Raiding

The Barbed Wooden Barricade (400 hp) and Floor Spikes cut anyone who touches them.

You can now only plant a charge on what you can see: the first wall on your line of sight, or a box or cupboard in clear view. A raider standing at the outer wall could plant straight onto the cupboard behind it and skip the base, and that's gone.

Build at any angle

A foundation placed on open ground starts its own building, turned to face wherever you're looking. Walls, floors, stairs, doors, windows, deployables and upkeep all work on a turned building the same as a square one, and triangles are equilateral now.

The placement ghost asks the server the same question the server asks, so green means it will place, and a placed piece shows up at once instead of a moment later. The build wheel is new too: the chosen shape in green, its name, a line on what it is, its price, and 21 new shape icons.

Farming

A planter box has six beds and each seed is one plant. Plants grow through stages, ripen, and wither if you leave them, and a plant's health is the worst of its water, its soil and the air. You can also sow straight into open meadow or forest, where the soil sets how fast it grows.

Seeds carry genes. Plants in a bed crossbreed once, and C cuts a clone that keeps its parent's genes. Potatoes, pumpkins and berry bushes join corn, and eating a cob, a potato or a pumpkin leaves you its seed. The Water Catcher (100 wood, 1 tarp) banks rain, fills a skin, and waters whatever grows within 3 m.

Water

Water deeper than 1.15 m floats you. Crouch dives, jump rises, and you steer where you look. You hold your breath for 10 seconds, then drown. No guns, bows, charges or building while you swim, but foundations now stand in up to 2 m of water.

Right mouse pours a full skin or jug: fresh water puts out fires and waters planters, salt water dries them out. The Salt Waterskin fills at the sea and boils fresh on a camp fire in 30 seconds. The sea itself is new: a swell that moves under you, breakers, rain rings, wakes behind swimmers, and the sky through a window above you when you're under.

Clothing, bleeding and teas

There are seven clothing slots now (head, face, shirt, body, legs, hands and feet) and fourteen new clothes to fill them. The Snow Jacket keeps out 90% of the cold.

A hit opens a wound worth a fifth of its damage, which bleeds 20 hp a minute until it has taken that much. Bandages are held: click to wrap one on over 4 seconds, and switch away to cancel. A bandage stops 50 bleeding and a medkit 100.

Every tea is also worth 30 water.

THE GATE

THE GATE is a city now. A 92 m sandstone gate with a 41 m ring stands over the plaza, and the containers around it became the ancient city's blocks. Vending machines stand at the six stalls, run by shopkeepers who greet you and thank you after a sale, and guards walk the streets with revolvers.

The casino sits under a timber roof that keeps the rain off. The wheel has 25 segments (twelve 1s, six 3s, four 5s, two 10s and one 20) and a win pays your stake times the number, plus your stake back. Bets are open for 45 seconds, then it spins for 15, up to 100 JUNK a colour. Slots cost 2 JUNK a line, one to five lines, and pay on three of a kind.

A test holds every return under 100%. We'll watch how much JUNK the casino takes and adjust.

The island

The desert is paler sand under golden grass, with cycads, sandstone and palms in three shapes. Cliffs are solid now: you can't walk up a rock face from any angle, and arrows and dropped items hit the rock you see. Every boulder is 1.4 times bigger.

Wolves outrun a sprint now, and pigs keep up with one. The attack helicopter only hunts armed players, meaning a gun on your hotbar or a full set of armour, so a fresh spawn on the beach is left alone. It also stays out of the rain.

Your base in your pocket

The companion is a web page for your team: sign in with the wallet you play with and you get your team on the map, team chat both ways, and raid alerts when your base takes hits. Signing in is pairing, because the wallet is the identity everywhere. TEAM APP in the main menu takes you there.

Elo Pros friends are in game too: a FRIENDS tab, friends on your nametags and in chat, and a profile card when you click a name. Contacts remember players you've met, with a mugshot, and you can mark them FRIENDLY or ENEMY.

The Realm drop

Twelve skins in three sets, each painted over the item's own model, and Verdigris glows. Every skin with a model now shows a picture of itself in the store, the inventory, the belt and the craft picker.

Notable changes

• Spawning hurt. You wake at 55 health, 75 food and 50 water.
• Slower hunger. Standing still, a full stomach lasts three hours (from one) and full water two (from 40 minutes).
• Loot. Trees give wood only. Barrels, crates and the Ziggurat give JUNK, parts and gear, with no cloth, fat, frags, sulfur, gunpowder or corn. THE GATE sells the frags they no longer pay.
• Melee timing. A swing lands 133 ms after the click, when the animation strikes, so you can read a swing coming and step out of it.
• Reach. Every melee weapon reaches as far as its model: a bat 1.35 m, a spear up to 1.9 m.
• Punching. An empty hand throws a 5-damage punch that costs you 2 hp.
• Vending machines. Craft one (300 wood, 75 frags) and sell from outside your base, priced in JUNK.
• Locks you can see. Keypads and padlocks sit on every locked door, box and hearth.
• Tool cupboard. E at the hearth opens upkeep, stock and FEED on the inventory page.
• Twig upkeep. Twig pays upkeep now, and a stocked cupboard keeps it standing.
• Tech tree. Full-screen, sixteen new items, and a node buys its whole path.
• Hazmat Suit. Waterproof, full-body, wards off half the Verdigris.
• Achievements. 81 in four sets, with an in-game popup.
• New HUD. A tape compass, a flat belt and paler vitals.
• POTATO graphics. Picked for you when frames drop on a weak machine.
• Streamer mode. Made-up names, hidden wallets and servers, door codes as dots.
• Voice. Push to talk is V, with a full VOICE CHAT settings section.
• Payouts. On servers that pay, JUNK carried out pays wallets that played 2 hours that wipe, counted from walking and doing things, not standing idle. We'll see how that sits and adjust.
• Blueprints wipe every fourth wipe, about once a month.
• A free copy of Gates for every player who joins, until 1 December.

For server owners

Everything new that a shard can change lives in shard.toml:

• companion_addr turns on the companion page.
• captions = true turns on voice subtitles and chat translation.
• extract_min_minutes sets how long a wallet must play before a payout (the public shard uses 120).
• blueprint_wipe_every sets how many wipes blueprints survive.
• agent_seats caps how many seats agents may take, and agents_only makes an agents-only world.

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The full changelist

Features

• Assault Rifle, Semi-Automatic Rifle, Bolt Action Rifle, Thompson, Custom SMG, Python Revolver, Semi-Automatic Pistol and Pump Shotgun
• 5.56 rifle ammo and 12 gauge buckshot
• Aim cones, bloom, recoil and damage falloff for every gun
• Rocket Launcher and rockets
• Timed Explosive Charge (C4)
• Beancan Grenade
• Barbed Wooden Barricade and Floor Spikes
• Freeform building: a foundation on open ground starts its own building, at any angle
• Equilateral triangles
• Q/E building skin picker on the hammer's Upgrade
• Planter beds: one seed, one plant, with growth stages, ripening and withering
• Sowing into open ground
• Plant genes, crossbreeding and clones (C)
• Water Catcher
• Potatoes, pumpkins and berry bushes as crops; seeds from eating them
• Wild corn and pumpkins by the lakes
• Swimming, diving, breath and drowning
• Pouring water with right mouse
• Salt Waterskin, boiling salt water, and the Water Jug
• Seven clothing slots: head, face, shirt, body, legs, hands, feet
• Burlap Trousers, Burlap Shoes, Burlap Gloves, Hide Pants, Hide Boots, Hide Vest, Leather Gloves, Hoodie, Pants, Jacket, Snow Jacket, Bandana, Improvised Balaclava and Beenie Hat
• Bleeding, the BLEEDING chip, and "you bled out"
• Warming, Strong Warming, Cooling, Warding and Healing Tea
• Salvaged Hammer, Salvaged Sword, Mace, Salvaged Cleaver, Longsword, Salvaged Axe and Salvaged Icepick
• Coffee Can Helmet, Tank Top, Boots and Hazmat Suit
• The full-screen tech tree, with LEVEL tabs and UNLOCK
• Punching with an empty hand
• The headshot crunch, for both players
• Animal pain and death cries
• THE GATE's casino: the Big Wheel and slot machines, with a roof, stools and a lounge
• Sitting (E)
• Vending machines and shopkeepers at THE GATE's stalls
• Armed guards at THE GATE and in the casino
• The player Vending Machine, with offers priced in JUNK
• A look of its own for each work; THE CRUCIBLE's furnace and THE EXCHANGE's gateway
• Shooting THE RING LOCK's dials with arrows
• Offer cards with CLAIM and BUY when you talk to THE GATE's people
• Visible locks on doors, boxes and hearths, and new lock and metal door models
• The key lock panel (L)
• The tool cupboard page at the hearth, with FEED
• Cacti, and Cactus Flesh
• Cycads, golden dry grass and sandstone in the desert
• Carved glyphs on the lore stones, glowing green once read
• Flower patches
• The helicopter on the map
• The companion: team map, team chat and raid alerts on the web, and TEAM APP
• Elo Pros friends in game, and profile cards with ADD FRIEND
• Contacts, with mugshots, FRIENDLY and ENEMY, and notes
• The item card in the inventory
• INVENTORY and ITEM STORE in the main menu
• POTATO graphics, picked automatically for weak machines
• Streamer mode
• Captions and chat translation, where a server turns them on, and /lang
• 81 achievements in four sets, the unlock popup and /ach
• VOICE CHAT settings: on/off, mic volume, hold, toggle or open mic, threshold and mic device
• Mute-my-mic and mute-all-voices binds, and MUTE IN BACKGROUND
• FOOTSTEPS and INTERFACE volume sliders
• Per-gun reload sounds, far gunfire per gun family, and an empty-trigger click
• Furnace, fire, recycler, metal door, garage door, repair and upgrade sounds
• Recorded footsteps on wood, stone and metal floors
• Intro music on the browser's main menu
• 16× anisotropic filtering on desktop
• FPS and worst frame on F4
• The Realm drop: twelve skins in the Verdigris, Lapis and Tidewrack sets
• A model for the Gilded Revolver
• Unlocks, and the Abyss Rug from THE OUTFITTER
• Skins priced in JUNK
• A free copy of Gates for every player who joins, until 1 December
• Agent-only worlds
• A CHOP STUMP prompt

Improvements

• Melee lands on the swing's strike, 133 ms after the click
• Every melee weapon reaches as far as its model
• Lag compensation is exact and reaches 500 ms back
• The placement ghost asks the server's own rules, and placed pieces show at once
• The build wheel: a new layout and 21 new shape icons
• The hearth is as tall as a player
• Cliffs are solid: no walking up faces, and you slide down them
• Bodies, arrows and dropped items hit the rock that's drawn
• Falls land on every step and on faces
• Boulders and loose rocks are 1.4× bigger
• Rock blends at its seams; sand loses its speckle
• Desert palms are 12 m, in three shapes, with dead fronds
• A bluer sky, haze along the sightline, and brighter cloud tops
• The sea: swell, breakers, rain rings, wakes and the view from below
• Murkier lakes
• Thicker undergrowth, bigger bushes and barrels, and trees drawn further out
• Green cacti, and solid saguaro arms
• Bushier hemp, lower limbs on some trees, and fuller palms
• Felled trees sink away after they land
• Packs, carcasses and bodies flatten the grass
• Your shadow is your whole body and holds what you hold
• Wolves outrun a sprint, and pigs match one
• Animal hitboxes follow their bodies
• The helicopter only hunts armed players, and stays out of the rain
• You spawn at 55 health, 75 food and 50 water
• Food lasts three hours and water two, standing still
• Loot and gathering reworked: trees give wood only, and containers give JUNK, parts and gear
• Ore pickups give 50
• The first workbench costs 500 wood and 100 frags
• Bandages are held and wrap on over 4 seconds
• Benches and the research table stand on bare ground
• Unlocking a tech-tree node buys the whole path to it
• THE GATE is a 92 m sandstone gate in an ancient city
• THE GATE's stations are bigger
• The recycler hum plays only while a recycler runs
• The work terminal shows its steps, what it unlocks, and quota bars
• Slots pay only on three of a kind
• Doors fill their doorways, and open where you look
• Your eye height is 1.5 m
• Twig pays upkeep, and a stocked cupboard keeps it standing
• Doors, bags and boxes need you in reach, in sight and on your floor
• Building tools act only on the piece under the crosshair
• The deploy ghost aims where you look and slides out of walls
• The Abyss Rug lies under any deployable but another rug
• A new HUD: tape compass, flat belt, paler vitals, full-width chips
• The inventory's page strip and belt, and a darker panel backdrop
• The desktop main menu takes the browser's look
• Every modelled skin shows a picture of itself
• The Ember Hatchet, Obsidian Bat and Founder's Bat are reworked
• The metal hatchet's blade faces forward; the metal pickaxe's edge is thinner
• Push to talk is V and Mouse 4; pick up is the backtick key
• Voices behind you sound duller; footsteps carry 75 m on your floor
• Chat lines hold 120 characters, from 48
• A softer frost overlay
• Pickups and looting no longer swing your hand
• Walking into a trunk off-centre slides you round it
• Smoother frames: sky, ground cover and rocks build off the main thread
• The browser build loads and runs faster
• Blueprints wipe every fourth wipe
• On paying servers, payouts go to wallets that played 2 hours that wipe, counted from walking and doing things
• Agents: seats kept for people, global and team chat, cover from unseen shooters, smarter building and pathing, giving items and letting you in
• Up to 40 buddies at once

Fixed

• Lag compensation rewound one tick short of what you saw
• You could walk up a cliff face on a diagonal and stand inside the rock
• Charges could be planted through the outer wall onto what was behind it
• Deployables, hearth feeding and crew joins worked through walls
• Anyone could empty, inspect or pick up a turret
• Strangers could pick up your sleeping bag
• A lock's guest code reset the wrong-guess lockout
• A vending machine's owner could change an offer under a buyer
• Exploits with guns on downed players, broken melee weapons, the bow draw, rewinding onto corpses, carcass meat, turret boxes, loot timing and cancelled crafts
• Gun spread and loot rolls could be predicted from the public seed
• Team chat reached anyone spectating an agent
• A banned wallet could still use the companion
• One address could take many seats, or stall others from joining
• A link could pin a fake certificate for game.elopros.com in the browser
• A slot spin with no match paid out JUNK
• A locked door turned to sheet metal
• Every gun used the revolver's reload and far report
• Metal and garage doors creaked like wood
• Kenney sound effects clipped
• Tree flicker at distance, and the sun stepping
• A broken download in the browser ended the session; it now retries
• A failed sign-in joined you as a guest instead of saying why
• A twig foundation's upkeep was zero
• Stalled servers could hang the server list and faces
• Crash reports no longer include your home folder's name
• Bots quit when joining a busy island
• The desktop client and the server no longer trust the eMudhra and emSign root certificates, and QUIC and TLS libraries are patched

Removed

• Pain grunts when you're hurt
• Cloth, fat, frags, sulfur, gunpowder and corn from barrels and crates
• Mushrooms from trees
• The low grade bonus on slots
• The workshop plinths at THE GATE
• The kiosk counters; vending machines stand at the stalls instead
• the backtick key as the default talk key (it's pick up now)

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