Brutal Nature releases version 0.36! news

Brutal Nature has released version 0.36! With new particle effects and melee weapons!

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Change Log:

• Fixed all known bugs
• Added 5 new materials.
• Added chemistry recipes at the table for the new materials.
• Added copper, iron, steel and HSS swords. Now 80 weapons total.
• Added melee weapon specs to help menus.
• Added 'tick' sound when console text appears.
• Added pickup sound when picking up object from smelter menu.
• Added sound for dropping objects.
• Added new 'Endurance' effect for food.
• Added a readout to tell you how much of each fuel a recipe would need.
• Added indicator when you can't use a fuel for a recipe due to fuel quality.
• Added encumbrance readout text to the inventory menu.
• Added Small beehive oven.
• Added map import scaling on server side so map files could be stored in a 0 to 1 scale on disk for ease of editing.
• Added new variables for explosive ammo to better control its range and damage.
• Added particle size randomness settings to particle system.
• Added explosive ammo stats to help menu.
• Added initial weapon hotkeys for new users.
• Added debris when you shoot rocks
• Added recipe to make coke and coal tar from bituminous coal at the beehive oven.
• Added feedback to Rainforge to tell you when its done eroding a landscape.
• Added 2 new shaders to Rainforge: Render preview and Color swap.
• Added resolution settings for Rainforge to generate other size maps.
• Added Beehive oven coke and charcoal recipes that are more efficient then using a bonfire.
• Added melee attack support. Now all the pickaxes can be used as melee weapons.
• Added dds texture exporter for Rainforge.
• Added cone particle systems.
• Changed the rock and soil and water impact effects. Now much higher quality.
• Changed Mushrooms to damage health but increase endurance for 50 seconds.
• Changed Beehive oven recipe to require more granite and use alumina instead of marble.
• Changed large forge to require less alumina and mortar.
• Changed the region distortion noise to load from a 256x256 8bit DDS file.
• Changed server to load .dds files for height map, sediment map and water map for world generation.
• Changed explosion particle effect to better respond to size the explosion.
• Changed Charcoal and coke recipes to require a small amount of fuel to heat the charge.
• Changed sound of 7.62x39mm weapons so that each shot was more distinctive and less of a drone.
• Changed sound of .44 magnum weapons to 48khz sample rate and removed short delay at start of sound.
• Changed the terrain generator algorithm to produce more interesting separations between regions.
• Changed Rainforge to stop processing once files have been exported.
• Increased the fuel value of coal in the game to 0.8 for bituminous and 0.9 for anthracite to better reflect real life fuel values.
• Increased the fuel needed to smelt Wolframite to Tungsten to 200%.
• Lowered terrain damage from non explosive weapons.
• Moved recipe Roast Covellite, Recover Sulfuric Acid from bonfire to beehive oven.
• Bound more of the internal game math classes to the script engine.
• Removed 2 materials.
• Fixed hud rendering while using sniper scope.
• Fixed crash when assigning hotkeys.
• Fixed smelter menu to act same when double clicking fuel and recipe items.
• Fixed a server crash bug relating to saving/loading of dropped objects.
• Fixed bug where client was using the wrong mining rate to figure out what sound to play on mining attempts.
• Fixed bug where MK108 would not fire.
• Fixed bug where stats and party menu was showing up before game was fully loaded.
• Fixed bug where in 'worms mode' invalid ammo would spawn with pickaxes.
• Fixed a bug where the client could attempt to reconnect to announce server after it had already partially initialized gameplay but timed out while doing so.
• Fixed bug that preventing other players weapons sounds from playing.
• Fixed DDS loader not closing files.
• Fixed where you would fall on login as the world had not generated yet.
• Fixed a bug in x64 builds where game content was not loading.
• Fixed sending of excess mining sound to other players when a player repeatedly mines zero material due to lag.