Welcome to Week 205.

This week, we're adding a new Stone Brick Fireplace to match your Stone Brick houses, giving your builds a bit more charm and detail.

We're also sharing a first look at a new biome on an upcoming map: the Geothermal Biome. It brings some unique landscapes and features that we think you'll enjoy exploring.

Next week, we'll be introducing a new Grenade Variant, adding another combat option for surviving on Icarus

Notable Improvements:

• Fixed issue where Stalkers would drastically increase in size when shot with projectiles while fighting.
  
• Fixing issues where tooltips in the tech tree where not showing the resources required for the recipe (such as milk, biofuel and water).
  
• Increased Fur drop on Tusker to match the amount it should be dropping, giving its position within the biomes and spawn group.

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This Week: New Stone Brick Fireplace

This week, we're introducing a new Tier 3 unlockable item: the Stone Brick Fireplace. Crafted at the Advanced Masonry Bench, it’s designed to perfectly match your Stone Brick building pieces, adding both function and style to your builds.

The Stone Brick Fireplace is a wood-burning counterpart to the Biofuel Fireplace. It provides the same cooking speed bonus, while offering a different aesthetic for those who prefer a more classic or rustic look. Whether you're furnishing a cozy home or upgrading your settlement, this fireplace gives you another way to make your spaces feel lived-in and unique.

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Upcoming Biome: Geothermal

As we mentioned last week, we are working hard on our next major expansion alongside our usual weekly updates, but we wanted to show you some backstage content as we work on it.



This week, we’re excited to give you a closer look at one of the major new features: the Geothermal Biome. This unique environment features large sulfur pools, treacherous crevasses, and a steam filled atmosphere, offering new challenges and gameplay opportunities.



The biome also introduces a variety of new resources and a host of creatures adapted to this extreme environment, providing fresh encounters and challenges for explorers.

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Next Week: Impact Frag Grenade

We are adding something small but deadly next week - the impact frag grenade. This is a new grenade that explodes on impact instead of after a set amount of time providing a new way damage your foes. Be sure to check it out next week.

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Changelog 2.3.16.144156

New Content

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• Setting up Stonebrick Fireplace Recipes and Blueprints
  
• Adding Descriptions and Falour Text to Stonebrick Fireplace
  
• Adjusting processing speed of stonebrick fireplace to be on par with biofuel fireplace
  
• Adding proxy meshes for the stone brick fireplace

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Fixed

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• Add new 'Harvest Vegetable' effect for Carrots
  
• Fixed issue where shooting Stalkers could cause their mesh to glitch out

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Future Content

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• Dialogue timing adjustments
  
• Adding missing notifys for irradiated prospector. Lots of footsteps and movements
  
• Fix light position/rotation on Eden Station Landing Pads
  
• Validate Head Socket define. Fix Ape Juvi setup
  
• Update Bat capsule setup to be representative once airborne rotations are applied. Fix Head Socket defines
  
• Remove redundant AI scaling MoveSpeed Curves which have single value. Replaced as singular value in base stats
  
• Slinker: Lowered head blocker. Disabled GFur physics. Decreased Sound perception radius and character mass. Decreased min health, increased max health. Increased melee damage
  
• Misc Ely nav fixes
  
• Add DT Validation for ammo that hasn't been added to ValidAmmoTypes DT
  
• Dialogue quest adjustments and various drone balances to help reduce audio clutter of many spawning at once
  
• Adding correct dialogue quest line for when you open the security doors in mission 3
  
• Removing irradiated prospector audio from abominations as its not at all close to the vibe so dont want feedback on that until Ive done audio for it
  
• Reduction to how many mange wolves aggros can play at once. Also reducing spacializer distance slightly
  
• Ghost croc's movement no longer snaps to zero velocity when reaching target location
  
• Ghost croc's idle no longer attempts to play idle montages and now spends more time stationary
  
• Ghost croc no longer tries to navigate into water
  
• Tweak placement of Lithium tools on charging device
  
• Adding new dialogue lines into missions
  
• Ely - fixed various floating cliff and grasses, shifted macro blocking cave in Tundra, green quad
  
• Adding Stats for Converting Collision Damage to Electric / Frost / Poison / Fire
  
• Adding new Attachments for the Laser Pistol Only that allow conversion of damage types
  
• Showing Collision Damage in the Item Popup as Damage
  
• Setting up Laser Pistol Item, Recipe, Blueprint, Ammo and Firing behaviour
  
• Adding Uranium Ammo Icons
  
• Adding Lithium Ammo Icons
  
• Adding Item Icons for the Containment Armor and Talent Setup
  
• Adding Mining Laser Icon
  
• Adding Chainsaw Icon
  
• Fixing Issue where Blueprints Set Element Tooltips on the Tech Tree would not show Resources as part of their recipe inputs
  
• Fixing Issue where Blueprints Tooltips on the Tech Tree would not show Resources as part of their recipe inputs
  
• Setting up Tundra Atmosphere
  
• Setting up Crop growth in the Tundra and Geothermal Areas
  
• Adding modifiers for unsuitable plant growth in Tundra and Geothermal
  
• Quick Pass on all T5 Recipes
  
• Adding Composites are a requirement for the manufacturer instead of carbon fiber
  
• Storca: Fixed 30MB worth of SSS textures on wrong presets. Fixed duplicated mat slots on carcass
  
• Bounder: Decreased sight range, increased sound range (big ears). Add Desert themed resistance stats. Tweaked GFur to not artifact when moving. Fixed Experience event. Tweaked carcass loot. Suffixed RowNames with Desert for consistency. Add Leather to Slinker loot
  
• ELY Story 5 - Added difficulty scaling to worm amount. Tried to fix jitters in the circling movement of the sandwyrm/quest sandwyrm
  
• First pass non projectile Lithium tool set charging and electrical damage (axe, pickaxe, knife, spear, sickle, sledgehammer)
  
• Slightly decrease Oxite spawn weight for Elysium tundra. Incremented numbers 10 fold for more granularity
  
• ELY Story 5 - Removed theo as the ship takes off. Fixed notes not being in correct positions after mo's room remodel
  
• Fixed issue where Ghost Croc could get stuck standing still during combat
  
• Improved blending on Ghost Croc's loco BS
  
• Fixed ricocheted projectiles not showing damage number indicators
  
• Fix missing 'carcass' suffix for Broodling and Kiwi. Fix DNT on Orka carcass. Fix DNT placeholder description on Juvenile Ubis Carcass
  
• Fix Orka not giving meat. Fix Tusker not giving Leather. Increase Fur output from Tusker to suit
  
• Storca: reduce melee damage substantially to match creature size. Reduce sight/hearing range. Reduce mass and melee radius. Remove chance to cause Deep Wound
  
• Switched feature flag of limestone fertiliser, crushed limestone to DH from Dev
  
• Dean feedback, more blue quad work
  
• Added local player checks to prevent some crash landing VFX from playing on all players during sequence
  
• Fixed issue in ELY Story 1 where drones wouldn't engage players from long distance
  
• Added a new BT key to drones to allow forced aggression and targetactor override
  
• Shifted one of the drone spawner locations in Story1 to reduce instances of drones getting stuck on large cliff
  
• Added new Flare Gun item BP
  
• Flare Gun item now uses the update loaded anim sequence
  
• Removed old Flare Gun assets
  
• Hooking up Radiation Needle up to the Environmental Levels as opposed to the player levels
  
• Setting up Stone Fortifications, Items, Blueprints, Recipes, Icons etc
  
• Fixing Concrete Gate Interact Projection
  
• Setting up Concrete Fortifications, Items, Blueprints, Recipes, Icons etc
  
• Added Stone Fortification assets, with animations
  
• ELY2 - Updating Epsilon Station to include some ladders and structure at the bottom of the tree
  
• ELY2 - Updating Epsilon Station to have some grenades, flares and sledgehammers
  
• ELY2 - Clearing new quest Flag when mission abandoned or complete
  
• ELY2 - Fixing Iris Dialogue and adding appropriate delay after her dialogue so it doens't instantly complete the quest
  
• ELY2 - Adding new session flag for post talking with Iris
  
• Fixing Meshable to use correct SK and BP, removing references which are not committed
  
• Added Concrete Fortification assets, with gate animations
  
• TundraDeer: Tweaked physics asset fixed preview mesh. Decreased speed slightly to fix foot sliding. Fix Experience event. Tweaked GFur lods and capsule setup
  
• Ghost crocodile now spends most of it's idle time underground, only emerging to attack targets
  
• Ghost Croc's spine bones now riccochet bullets
  
• Set feature level of Ghost Croc to DH
  
• Increased Ghost Croc's base damage (to make it more than standard croc)
  
• Added some underground particle effects to Ghost Croc
  
• Added DisableIK/DisableLookAt curves to Croc skeleton
  
• ELY Story 5 - Theo dropship leaves once boss has been killed
  
• Added Dragonfly, flightless tank, flying tank, sandwyrm queen carcass icons, added Orka head and trophy icons, added nail gun icon
  
• ELY Story 5 - Quest sandwyrm now flies to a new position in the air before trying to fly to the arena to avoid the cliff
  
• Adding laser tripwire explosion event and constant loop. replicating the trigger so it plays for clients so the audio also does
  
• Ely - added and placed new set dressing meshes for Mo's area
  
• Shifted positions of Eden crafting and logistics NPCs
  
• Fixed issue where Striker dodge animation was causing it's mesh to scale up dramatically
  
• Adding some more yeti idle vocalisation calls
  
• ELY Story 5 - Thumper now no longer spawns a landshark. Spawns caveworms and quests needs 10 per player to finish. Automatically stops thumper on mission complete. Fixed quest name to match #5
  
• Volume balance pass on the Yeti
  
• Added thicker border and moved pin layer underneath image layer on Environment Radiation HUD
  
• Add some more animations for Yeti. Split up Yeti attacks into light and heavy - heavy only performed when enraged
  
• Submitting missed animation files from my last commit for the Flare Gun
  
• Replaced SK_ITM_FlareGun with SK_GUN_FlareGun, which is now using the Skeleton from the One-Shot Pistol. The mesh, materials and textures have been moved to the WEP folder, in it's own subfolder. I also modified the One-Shot animations to work better with both the One-Shot pistol and the Flare gun, except for the Loaded animation, as I needed a custom one for the Flare Gun. Lastly, I replaced the old ITM_FlareGun with the new SK in BP_Dead_Researcher_IM
  
• Adding dragonfly fly replicated audio, hive out audio, attack audio etc
  
• Adding limits to how many rad prospectors spot sounds can play at once to stop it sounding stupid when multiple get aggro at once
  
• Raptor: Matched base stats between variatns. Add themed additional stats for Desert var. Increased sight range slightly. Increased mass from 75 to 450. Fixed 50% move speed on Desert var. Fix non-geothermal var spawning in desert and tweaked spawn weightings. Fixed Experience events. Delete MontageOverride function with Wolf anim defines. Capsule setup tweaks
  
• Yeti: Increase min health, make scaling curves linear. Remove Tummy/Date crit areas. Tighten up horn and eye crit areas. Fix head crit area (hidden properly). Fix other capsule setups. Fix HeadSocket define. Limit population to 1
  
• Massive pass over all DH dialogue to remove existing complicated 2d 3d spacializing and impliment a simpler more reliable solution
  
• Increased irradiated prospector crawl speed by 50%
  
• Fixed irradiated prospector crawl animation not playing at the correct rate
  
• Reduced play rate of Reaver dive montage by 25%
  
• Reduced minimum range at which Reaver will perform ranged/dive attacks from 10m to 9m
  
• Reaver should no longer play it's roar montage after emerging if health < 66%
  
• Small Tweaks to weather timeline sizing
  
• Adding and Hooking up Radiation Needle UI
  
• Adding Highlightable, Dialogue Speakers and Mission NPC Setup for new EDEN NPC's
  
• Setting up NPC's for EDEN (Crafting, Cook, Logistics)
  
• Adding Quest Markers & Queries for EDEN NPC Spawning
  
• Adding NPC Spawning to EDEN Function Library
  
• ELY1 - Fixing Functon Parameter hich was crashing the build
  
• ELY1 - Removing Debug Skip as part of the quest
  
• ELY1 - Fixing NPC Dialogue for this quest and between ELY1 -> ELY2
  
• ELY1 - Adding Delays to quest completion so you can hear all of the NPC's dialogue
  
• ELY1 - Added new Session Flag for Mission 1 complete, clearing at mission 2 for continunity
  
• ELY1 - Adding KillAllCreatures Function to the Advanced Animal Swarm
  
• ELY1 - Reparenting the Drone Scout to the Drone Base
  
• ELY1 - Adjusting Quest Step so that its not time based but now based on the number of drones killed
  
• ELY1 - Drones will now spawn in groups of 3 at 3 different locations on the outskirts of the the zone
  
• ELY1 - Adding new Modifier for creatures running towards targets
  
• ELY1 - Adding Spawner Locations and Gameplay Tags and Queries for Drone Spawning
  
• Adding Hunter / Carrier Drone Variations
  
• Adding Scout Drone creature type so they drones have unique names and colours
  
• Adding Spawner tag to the drone spawner so sledgehammers deal more damage as intended
  
• ELY1 - Adding back EDEN Quest Marker as it was deleted unintentionally - fixes the mission so it can be completed
  
• ELY1 - Adjusting Eden Marker BP to be blue instead of black
  
• Removed map icon from Story_4_Rescue_Find step
  
• Map icon should no longer persist after completing Story_4_Outpost_Search step
  
• Shifted beacon from Story_4_Rescue_Find to Wounded NPC BP
  
• Fix SandScuttle max character movement speed
  
• Add cheat to toggle Ballistic Debugging
  
• Fixed issue where Iris was spawning mid air in Story_4 rescue step
  
• Adding all of theos redo lines and important new lines
  
• Stop a terrain anchor ensure that fires in Editor (only)
  
• Fix SandScuttle aren't stripping corpses. Make SandScuttle more hungry
  
• ELY Story 5 - Removed Mo as shes fled. Added a dropship flying down in the beginning waiting for theo. Changed quest name to be quest #5 not #4
  
• Ely - set dressing in Eden, refined Mo's area mesh, set override blocker state flag on mission 2 cave entrance in desert
  
• Adding all Victors pickup lines from session 2
  
• Added SK_GUN_MiningLaser with all meshes, materials and textures. I also added it to the Mining Laser BP and the Meshable Data Table
  
• DragonFly only attack when nest is damaged. Add loot for DragonFly nest. DragonFly corpse now disappears when looted (no bones)
  
• ELY Story 4 - Fixed mission blocker, mission used to be - Heal iris -> med ship drops down -> put in stasis bag -> med ship flies away -> wants you to deliver but theres no ship to deliver to
  
• Added option to set initial blocked state override on BP_CaveEntrance instances placed directly into developer levels
  
• DragonFly now do more poison damage and can inflict poison
  
• Make DragonFly on hit kills (like bats)
  
• Feature Locking new Mount Rows
  
• Setting up Chew Juvenile and Mount
  
• Setting up Juvenile Raptors (Desert & Regular) and Raptor Mounts (Desert & Regular)
  
• Fixing issue where Raptor Mounts didn't have the correct mount stats and could not move due to weight limits
  
• BTS_TryDodgeRaptor now uses correct raptor montages
  
• Fixed raptor dodge montage sequences not being additive
  
• Fixed issue where ricochet bullets could get stuck in an infinite collision loop, ricochets off crit areas are now limited to 2 bounces
  
• Setting up Sulfur worm stats and growth
  
• Setting up Sulfur Worm Bestiary Entry stats and traits
  
• Adjusting Sulfur worm loot so you don't need to skin with a knife for a vestige
  
• Setting up Sulfur worm heat item / icon
  
• Removing unique bestiary entry for the snow rabbit varient as it can be combined with the rabbit varient like the normal rabbit
  
• Setting up item and icon for the snow rabbit varient vestiage
  
• Setting up Vesitage icon for Chew creature
  
• Bestiary setup of the hopping creature and swamp variation stats and traits
  
• Slight Tweaks to hopping creatures stats, swamp variation is now weak against electric instead of fire
  
• Setting up of item icons for the hopping creature and its variation - vestiges
  
• Setup Tundra Deer Bestiary Stats and Traits
  
• Adding Tundra Deer Vesitage Icon
  
• Setting up Bestiary for the Bounder Traists and Stats
  
• Removing Posion Weakness from Bounder
  
• Setting up Bounder Vestiage item
  
• Setting up Bestiary and Traits for the Irradiated Prospector
  
• Adding AttacksCauseRadiationBurn to Irradiated Prospector
  
• Adding Loot to the Irradiated Prospector
  
• Adding Slinker Vestige Item and adding it to the slinker loot
  
• Adding Bestiary Stats and Traits for the Slinker
  
• Adding Poison & Frost Resistance and Fire Weakness to the Slinker, Also added scaling Attacks cause freeze stat to slinker
  
• Setting Up Raptor bestiary with correct geothermal stats after the last change
  
• Adding new Stats for both the new biomes (Geothermal & Tundra) {HealthRegen, StaminaRegen, ExposureResistance, ColdResistance, HeatResistance etc}
  
• Setting Up Raptor & Desert Raptor Bestiary stats and traits
  
• Giving Raptors frost and electric weakness, desert raptors have fire resistance, geothermal raptors have poison resistance
  
• Adding Bestiary Stats and Traits for the Orka
  
• Giving the Orka a slight fire and posion weakness and a frost resistance
  
• Assigning the correct loot and trophy rewards for the Ghost Crocodile in AISetup
  
• Setting up Drones Bestiary Entry, Stats and Traits
  
• Adding Eelctric Weakness to Drones
  
• Setting up Reaver Stats - adding ChanceAttacksCausePoison, adding Fire Weakness,
  
• Setting Up Reaver Bestiary Stats and Traits
  
• Setting up Unique Loot Enteries for the Ghost Crocodile to seperate it from the Crocodile
  
• Adding Poison Weakness to the Ghost Crocodile
  
• Setting up the Ghost Crocodile Bestiary Stats and Traits
  
• Finish Setting up of the Ghost Crocodile Vestiage
  
• Fixing Ghost Crocodile Player facing name is Creature Type
  
• Storcas now spawn in groups of 3, adding new storca follower AIsetup which is the same as the orgional except it doesn't trigger additional spawns
  
• Adding Frost Damage Weakness and Chance to inflict radiation burn to Mange Wolf stats
  
• Adding Radiation Bestiary Trait for use on Radioactive Creatures
  
• Setting up the mange wolf bestiary stats and traits
  
• Setting up Mange Wolf & Alpha various Loot
  
• Setting Up Mange Wolf & Alpha Vestiges item and icons
  
• Changing the new Drone Creature Types so they are feature locked to Dangerous Horizons and not Great Hunts
  
• Ajusting AI Creature Type to use the new creature stats
  
• Setting up Storca Vestiage Item, Icon, Loot, Etc
  
• Setting up Storca Bait Item, Icon, Recipes
  
• Setting up Storca Tame, AISetup, Growth, Stats etc
  
• Setting Up Orka Tame, Blueprint, AIGrowth and Animal Setup
  
• Setting Up Orka Tame Bait Item and Setting up the Snare with the ability to catch the Orka
  
• Fixing the Snare Trap Blueprint Talent to act as a group when viewing so all the baits can be seen on the tech tree
  
• The Juvenile Slinker can now Grow up into a Slinker Mount
  
• Adding Slinker Mount Setup & Corpse Setup
  
• Adding Juvenile Chews to Spawn with their parents
  
• Adding more backup Exits from Mount Seats to allow for exiting from the Chew
  
• Fixing up some collision on the Raptor and the Chew
  
• Adding Unknown Atmosphere for Drone and Radiation Creatures Location in the bestiary
  
• Fixing Bestiary Progressive Stats for the new creatures
  
• Fixing Virtual Stats, adding new stats and removing old ones
  
• Committed Missing AISetup Table
  
• Cleaning up Bestiary and AISetup Enteries
  
• Fixing Maps / Biomes etc for new bestiary enteries
  
• Adding Missing Bestiary Stats
  
• Adding new Besitary Traits
  
• Fixing Raptor / Desert Raptor Head Items and Trophies and Setting Up BP's and Recipes
  
• Fixing Desert Raptor Carcass so it uses the correct materials and variation
  
• Fixing Raptor mount Carcasses so they use their carcass and not the strikers
  
• Fixing Desert Mount Loot so it populates correctly
  
• Fixing Raptor Mount so it uses the correct carcass and can be skinned and looted
  
• Lithium projectile weapons first pass
  
• Lithium Throwing Spears and Throwing Knives now (again) do not require charging and deal electrical damage
  
• Lithium Bow and Crossbow require a charge to draw (fire projectiles) and require charging
  
• Lithum Shield requires charging and if charged, zaps when damage is blocked
  
• Lots of replacement dialogue lines for Iris and dialogue adjustments
  
• Ely - macro and cliff fixes to unblock cave in tundra quarry, green quad
  
• ELY Story 5 - Added prospector pod (transport pod looking like droppod). swapped out med pod for this new one
  
• Added first pass animations for TEI NPCs , still WIP
  
• Fix arrow socket name and rotation for Lithium Bow

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