The 16.12.1 patch wraps up most of the gamepad support adding in a new configuration window that is gamepad friendly (you can switch between the new mode and the old mode for finer control, but it requires a keyboard/mouse to change the values) and housing controls are now fully gamepad supported. A few other adjustments were made to handle reload/use being on the same input so you wouldn't reload your firearm when interact with a container. There might be a few smaller bits left (some input options for putting in player name), but most of the game is gamepad friendly now.

One of the requests we have received was improve durability on armor. Body armor now has more durability and should last a lot longer now. Legs and Head pieces also have more durability than arms and feet. Each tier of armor also has more durability than the last. In general the higher end armor lines should last a bit longer than before, but lower end armor might have less durability on the feet and arms due to the change (for example cloth in general is a bit under what it was if you add all 5 pieces together, but Mubark has quite a bit more than before).

Another request added is repair kits for weapons and armor. They are added to the skill lines that make the weapons or armor. Armor repair kits will repair all 5 pieces of equipped armor, weapon repair kits (melee and ranged) will repair the equipped weapon. Repair kits comes in 4 qualities and will also reduce the maximum durability when used. Higher quality repair kits repair more damage and reduce maximum durability at a slower rate. You can choose to use the lowest quality repair kit on the higher end armor if you choose, but you will have to replace it sooner.

The patch included a few bug fixes including some snapping issues with some ramps and fixed an annoying issue when editing text in the chat box where the caret would move to the end if you inserted some text. Full notes for the patch are below.

Audio

• Music and weather sounds will now pause anytime the game is paused.
  
• Introduced new sounds effects which will play as structures break into pieces in a siege. The sound effects vary by the structure itself.
  

• Adjusted geometry used in determining housing platform pieces so that smaller pieces are more likely to test as supported by larger (e.g. a medium platform on top of a large support).
  
• Added new snap locations to all the ramps, so you can more easily align ramps edge to edge of each other.
  

• Slightly reduced the amount of hunger restored by Warm Phosphori Meat.
  
• Increased Exceptional Calibrite Sword Durability to 450.
  
• Master Crafted Calibrite Sword now has a durability of 500.
  
• Sharp Setlang Claw durability was reduced down to 400. Razorsharp Axe up to 425, Helltyr Hammer up to 450.
  
• Exceptional Steel Sword was properly named and durability increased to 550.
  
• Mastercrafted Steel Sword durability increased to 600.
  
• Charged Sword and Axe changed Durability to 550. Heated Sword and Axe to 600, Exceptional Heated Sword to 700.
  
• More Durability changes. Jabber-Coated Club up to 400, Rhino-Horn Spear up to 500, Warlord's Hammer up to 600, Drosera-Thorn Spear up to 700 (doubled that, oops), Phossphori Sword and Axe to 800.
  
• Adjusted all the durability values on armor in the game. They now have a progressive increase in durability with higher quality armor (so more durability on lurker armor vs cloth). There is more durability on chest pieces vs head/legs and vs arms/feet. Some lower tier armor might have less durability as a result, but all chest pieces now have more. Higher tier armor has a lot more total now compared to before. You will need to create new armor to get the new durability.
  
• Added 4 tiers of armor repair kits. They repair armor, but also reduce the maximum durability. Each improved repair kit increases repair % and reduces damage %. Repair kits repair all worn armor and will stop working once you have damaged the max durability by 75% or more.
  
• Added repair kits for melee and ranged weapons. They will repair the equipped weapon.
  
• Reduced the amount of equipment damage on death by 25%.
  
• Improved the description of Respec Kits to make it more clear that they will reset your glyph bonus points.
  

• Calprates can now be skinned for Fiber.
  

• Twigs will no longer be harvested from Cacti. In their place you will receive Fiber.
  

• The key press hint, shown with the housing crosshair, will now reflect the current key bound to the "Use (Secondary)" action, i nstead of always showing "F", no matter which key was bound. If you are using an XBox gamepad, and a gamepad key is assigned to that action, then an icon for the gamepad key will be shown instead.
  
• Added full gamepad support for placement and moving of structures. If you attempt to place or move a structure with the gamepad it should display tips for how it all works (manual movement and rotation require holding down buttons and using the analog sticks (left stick moves faster, right slower).
  
• Selection Wheel when using gamepad will only work if the UI windows are not up. Having it work all the time was breaking some usage of the button in other windows (such as inventory, where Y was used to move stuff).
  
• When using a gamepad you will no longer reload if you interface with a structure or storage container as both use the same button. When using a keyboard/mouse it doesn't care as it typically is not on the same key as the use functionality (E or F).
  
• The structure dialog now had gamepad support. If you interact with a storage container or crafting station with a gamepad it will no longer just open up, but prompt the structure dialog window now. For quick ease of use the open routine is the same as the use button (X) so you can double tap it open it quickly. The rest of the functionality (move, pickup, destroy) also has gamepad inputs.
  
• Added a border to the ingame menu. Just a visual change.
  

• Updated destroyed versions of wood support structures to use the new wood look.
  
• Fixed a typo in the Experience Modifier text on the Server Configuration window.
  
• Corrected the platform snap locations on many platforms and ramps, so they will now align correctly when snapping together.
  
• Adjusted the trimming function on character name in character creation so it would only fire if there was a change or it was at the limit. This was causing it to move the caret to the end if you make an edit inline.
  
• Fixed the trimming function on the chat box. If you made a change inline it would place the caret at the end due to the trimming routine. It will now only attempt to trim if it is over length fixing that issue.
  
• Fixed a bug which allowed players to craft while dead if they were next to an appropriate crafting station.
  
• Fixed an issue with some code failing when saving settings in the options window the 1st time. It was causing a pause and also was causing a crash on xbox.