Version/0.7.581

0.7.581

Alpha 7 - 0.7.581 was released on October 1, 2014 - Alpha 7 Release

Changes

• Stuff system allows you to build walls, furniture, and other structures out of arbitrary materials.

• New stats system for calculating and reporting thing stats from skill, race, stuff, and other factors.

• There are now multiple types of stone: sandstone, granite, marble, slate, and limestone.

• There are now multiple mineable minerals: metal, silver, gold, plasteel.

• Leather harvesting from animals, and cloth harvesting from cotton crops.

• Special space-tech cloth types.

• Make clothing from arbitrary fabrics or leathers.

• Reworked damage deflection chance per-damagetype armor system.

• Some animals and mechanoids have natural armor.

• New biome: tropical rainforest. A choking, disease-infested jungle.

• Disease rates are linked to biomes.

• Prosthetic limbs, from simple to complex: peg legs, wood dentures, simple prosthetics, enhanced bionic limbs and eyes.

• Organ harvesting and transplanting.

• Diseases: flu, plague, malaria, sleeping sickness.

• Chronic conditions (age-related): Cataracts, bad back

• A bunch of new traits. Brawler, prosthophile, and more

• New trade system and interface.

• Traders carry and buy any item, including prosthetics, neurotrainers, organs, slaves, weapons, apparel, commodities.

• Neutrotrainers: Matrix-style instant training devices.

• Lockable doors

• Melee weapons: Club, knife, spear, shiv, short sword

• New animals: cobra, monkey, camel, tortoise, boar, rhino.

• Storyteller redesigned and rebalanced.

• Visitors carry their own food and hopefully won’t raid your food supplies.

• Translations can be set to avoid using tiny text (useful for Asian languages where tiny characters are unreadable).

• Rewritten credits system integrates translator credits from each translation automatically.

• Piles of other additions, fixes, and tunings.