Alpha 3 is now out and ready to download. It’s only been 10 days since Alpha 2 but Alpha 3 has a lot packed in it including: A server browser fix so it now refreshes properly, the control panel can now kick and ban users, AI improvements and fixes, lots of new recipes including a new hard metal door recipe for extended zombie defenses, loot balancing, improved water logic reducing water misuse in PVP, god mode removed to reduce mp cheating and much more.

So why don’t you head on over to our Customer Portal and login to download it. We’ve also improved our server download speeds to better handle larger numbers of users.

Of special note the Fun Pimps have decided on a more frequent release schedule so F.Y.I. It could take several quick releases to accomplish all coming next features.

Previous versions of the game will be incompatible with newer versions so we strongly recommend updating now.

Read on for a complete list of new content, changes and features. So check it out now funk soul brother!

Official Alpha 3 Release Notes

Added

Added lead ingot recipe

Added new hard metal door made from ingots

Added recipe for wooden shingle cubes, wedges, wedged corners and wooden shingle pyramids so wooden shingle homes can be made

Added iron sights to M136 Rocket Launcher & Degradation

Added stack limits to Aloe cream, first aid bandages

Created hay bale recipe from brown grass which can be used to break your fall from a high places

Added Plant Fibers recipe from brown grass

Added torch recipe from sticks and brown grass

Added new player_ointment sound for applying aloe vera

Degradation now affects the damage all weapons do, to blocks as well to entities

Added full new female zombie sound set

Added some new male zombie sounds

Added recipe for planks from tree tips

Added recipe for planks from tree tips

Added aloe vera cream apply sound

Added new Auger sound set

Added new auger_empty and chainsaw empty sound when your out of gas

Added new auger_reload and chainsaw_reload sounds and animations

Added new bucketfill_water, bucketplace_water and bucketbail_water sounds for new bucket and water functions (Rick)

Added Left mouse button on an empty bucket bails 9 water blocks

Added Right mouse button on an empty bucket now uses 5 water blocks to fill the bucket

Added Game browser client refresh improvements with master server

Changes

Reduced probability of finding rocket launchers in safes

Changed it so falling blocks don’t spawn items any more

Changed desk to use nightstand loot instead of safe loot

Changed iron ingots so get 9 instead of 10 ingots

Changed metal trussing so you can shoot through it and zombies see through it

Changed scrap iron door to not be as strong

Changed pipe bombs to not destroy the world as much

Changed Wooden quarter stairs to place inverted

Changed Aloe cream recipe to require a jar

Changed Aloe cream so it heals the player when used

Changed all grass so it drops Brown Grass on destroy

Renamed Yucca Fibers to Plant Fibers

Changed animal dead bodies to stay for 60 seconds (Joel)

Changed algorithm for calculating explosion damage to blocks

Re-factored chunk generation

Blocks destroyed when falling on stability drop only items if the fall distance is less than 3 meters

Removed telnet support on a dedicated server. Control panel is the only choice now

Items dropped on death of a player now stay for 3 minutes instead of 1

Changed older couches to fit the old town theme

Changed algorithm how explosions damages blocks for tuning improvements

Changed it so the Rocket launcher doesn’t get removed it degradation is “empty” it jams now

Auto saving now random chunks that need to be saved

Placing water from a bucket now only spreads 2 blocks

Changed rotating death camera is now only 50% speed

Removed god mode when cheat menu is used

Did a rare loot container balance pass so most larger enterable structures have a least one rare type of loot container usually hard to find

Replaced ping with country code in game browser

Changed control panel disable/enable server options to default to disable

Bug Fixes

Fixed bug that hunting rifle zoom was scrollable

Fixed Auger is rendered smaller in players hands

Fixed Spanish, French and German translations

Fixed glass panes so they can be placed on any wall the correct angle

Fixed Hulk vomits at any angle out of the back of his head. Now if you happen to get behind the zombie when he started his vomit attack, his head isn’t rotated in an unnatural angle any more

Fixed control panel so that it also works when the next (and overnext, etc) round started

Fixed Fat Zombie cop vomits and attacks blocks at the same time sometimes

Fixed tree tips to drop tree tip blocks

Fixed lowered volume of overdriven chainsaw fire sound

Hopefully fixed the problem that sometimes polygons shown invisible

Fix crash when ending the game on server browser screen

Fixed NAT punchthrough sometimes doesn’t work as it should for some users

Zombie dogs and animals shouldn’t climb ladders any more

Fixed problem that when setting maxplayers to 4 only 3 players could connect on a server

Fixed Zombies don’t head for “not yet spawned” zombies any more

Made first floor in wasteland governors building set 3 blocks high for more jumping room and to prevent getting stuck

Continue game screen titles don’t update properly when re-entering game

Fixed problem when Multiplayer servers sometimes don’t show up on the game browser

Fixed Control Panel command errors form bad characters

Fixed zombies hoping on curbs

Fixed Zombies dancing zombies near 2 block high fences

Fixed Zombies over-running their target position

Fixed Animals sometimes run in circles

Fixed problem with master server list

Fixed Zombies jumping and dancing at spike traps

Fixed Control panel can now kick and ban users

Known Issues