Howdy Survivalists,

Alpha 8.1 is out with many new additions, improvements and fixes including: Memory reduction and leaks on dedicated servers, performance increase, friend connection issue fixes and much, much more.

Official Alpha 8.1 Release Notes

Added

Added repair wrench can now upgrade blocks like the stone axe can. It takes three hits instead of four. Also it repairs faster than a stone axe.

Added new holster and unholster sounds

Added all lights now have a self illumination texture when turned on

Added dirt under snow in snow biomes. Note you may need to start a new game to get this change

Added window tag to windows so in future builds Zombies target windows

Changes

Changed stone axe now takes 4 hits to upgrade ramps instead of three

Changed scrollwheel timeout is changed now 800ms (old: 300ms). Changed hotkey timeout to 0ms (old: 300ms) this helps with holster/unholstering problems

Changed river water so it adds 15 hydration instead of 10

Changed Entities are spawning now 0.5 to 1m higher to adjust to the smooth terrain fixes zombies and animals falling through the world on spawn

Changed updated window reflections to correctly change brightness at night

Changed updated window models to allow proper alignment

Changed stone axe to dig dirt with 9 hits

Changed shovel to dig dirt with 3 hits

Changed doubled land protection of dirt to reflect new easier digging of non-land protected dirt

Changed snow no longer drops dirt or clay, but just snow.

Changed chat log buffer size to 50 lines to fix chat breaking

Changed shotguns to do 120 damage instead of 96

Changed Stamina now it only uses 75% of the stamina it used to so you can run a little further

Changed street lights are turned on

Bug Fixes

Fixed a memory leak on dedicated servers

Fixed Skylight windows in known prefabs

Fixed connecting to friends directly from the steam friends list

Fixed block entities do not show up in the preview window so windows cannot be seen before you place them

Fixed players no longer get stuck in a 1×1 hole

Fixed equipped like items like hats now go into your backpack when you die

Fixed deprecated server issues. Should only show servers running the same version as client.

Fixed some servers showing A8 and PVP

Fixed resource rocks to drop resources every time you break them

Fixed broken doors in the school from not opening

Fix stamina so running uses stamina.

Known Issues