Release 0.9 Thread - Violent Sol Worlds

Greetings Settlers,

Release 0.9 is now live to our current closed alpha group. Here is the change log for all you rustlers that want a peak under the hood.

• Items likes logs and crystals stack in inventory
• player death is a lot better, it doesn't crash the game
• got particle effects working again
• made modding items easier with a single .xml file instead of a bevy of them
• fixed bugs reported by our alpha testers
• mouse is no longer captured outside of the game if it is not the active window
• crystals were all displaying as red, that has been fixed
• player was not shooting
• miner wasn't spitting out crystals, it now spits them out again
• rfixed a few player ghosting issues
• inventory was not being saved properly when you saved from inside the car
• logs would crash the game if you tried to equip them, so you can't do that now
• mod file validation has been added to the load of each mod file
• added a bush that produces cotton-like blossoms that can be interacted with to gather them periodically
• When you put on equipment and save your game, then continue your equipment is shown properly.
• Buffalpugs drop rare oil item
• Buffalpugs drop rare horn item
• Buffalpugs drop hide item
• all active creatures and car could paick up items on the ground, now they cant
• Miner can be dropped
• Trees when chopped down drop rare fiber item
• The station drop box now has a warning as to what it does with your stuff
• The laser chainsaw is in the game, it can be held and dropped, attacks currently do nothing at this time
• When you hit a tree with a car there is a butt of particles to indicate you are damaging it
• fixed zooming to lock in at specific level to not let the player see the magic behind the world loading.
• The particle system has been fixed, let there be blood
• Fixed deploy-able pickups after death and save
• Can Mine 3 types of crystals from the ground
• Can Mine 3 types of metal from the ground
• AI code clean up
• Abandoned crates can be found in the world
• Cave turtles now live in caves
• Caves now have walls
• our GUI screens now run based on gametime not on CPU/GPU speed making each machine run the same
• Removed the sound for laser flying noise, working on a new sound that will not invock memories of a vacum cleaner
• Fixed installer to not place random folder on your desktop