The MANDIBLE update adds new locations, weapons, and special characters to the game, along with a new major feature that lets you very quickly change what character you're controlling! Now you can assign buttons your keyboard or controller to quickly swap your player controlled character in your team, without pausing. There's also a slew of other new tweaks and additions, including new zombie heads and buffs to old locations. Read on for full notes for all the changes!

Coming Up Next

Cannibal Crossing 1.0 Launch is coming next week! I'll do another cross-promo post when that happens. We're also continuing work on new projects, more news on those when they're closer to show off. The closest is definitely Dad by the Sword, starring MY DAD. Death Road to Canada updates will continue. I'll probably keep doing these until I run out of letters to name updates after! We didn't quite get further modding support to work for this update, but we're going to give it at least one more shot in a future update. Worst case, we'll do it from the ground up in another game. I'd also like to do a little something for the 6 year anniversary of Death Road to Canada in July. I'm not quite sure what yet!

Our Thanks

This game and its nearly SIX YEARS OF UPDATES is mostly thanks to the continued, super long lasting support of all our fans. Keep recommending us to your friends, family, press, streamers, whoever you'd like! If you want to stay in contact with us between updates, there's both the Twitter and Official Discord. Links to both of these and our Facebook page is in the game itself, but here's a couple handy links: Official Rocketcat Discord https://twitter.com/rocketcatgames

MANDIBLE Update: FULL LIST OF CHANGES

EDIT 4/28 - 7:40 PM PST: I forgot to mention in the patch notes that you can now counter the universally hated "Merciless Bandits" Event by simply eating the bandits.

Major System Changes

- You can now assign buttons to quickly swap to the previous/next character in your group, without having to pause the game! This is a big change, that should hopefully add some extra flexibility to your zombie plans - Duffle Bag added. This will show up in Trader Camps where you don't have a car, or in new indoor-only trader camps where you don't have access to your car. Interacting with this will let you access your "Trunk"! - Cleaned up the Zombie Head code, and added 12 new zombie heads - Zombotown's Info Shack now includes a section to give credit to Death Road to Canada mod makers that contribute to the game (More to come!) - New hairstyles for random and custom characters!

New Locations

Rare Trading Camp: Final Hospital Added - Cleaning Lady rare special character was moved here, with buffs! - Multiple +vitality, all-u-can eat - Cheap group healing - Source of medical training until you run out of food - The Golden Scalpel, and more Rare Trading Camp: Mechanical Fortress - Tool Shop where you can buy gas powered or electric tools, including the new jackhammers! - Special feature for Electric Tool Shop where the first purchase gets DOUBLE CHARGED - Used Car Lot, pick from 3 random cars. This includes cars you usually can't just find when on foot. - Expert Garage, where you could get full repairs or even get ALL CAR MODS at once! - Tool School for as much mechanical training as your food supply can handle - ROBO SHACK with two new and powerful robot special characters, designed by Professor Sycamore! Graveyard - Has two variations! One has a recruit, and the other has a guarantee of a random but nice ranged weapon Public Park - Has multiple variations and random bits! - You can find things like a recruit, new car, magazine, gas, and tools at random

New Characters and Weapons

[previewyoutube=-9xcTqnYPWA;full][/previewyoutube] - Jack Hamm added to the trader camp recruit pool. He's a construction worker with an electric jackhammer that recharges over time. - Punch Bot, from the Mechanical Fortress rare trading camp. A robot carefully designed for the perfect punching experience. Has a general strong uppercut, then two charge-based punching moves that hit in a big AOE. One of these moves also has a button-hold charging up component to it! - Speed Bot, also from the Mechanical Fortress. A robot designed for the perfect speedy experience. Has a charge-based move that makes it speed forward quickly, a recharging nailgun that fires faster the longer you continuously shoot it, and a slot open for equipped weapon use. - Obama added, probably - New Fireworks vendor added to the general trader rotation! She sells 4 new fireworks weapon types, all great for distracting zombies - Jackhammers added, in both electric and gas variants. A slower but stronger chainsaw, with a lot of knockback - Firecrackers added, they distract zombies as they pop and the final explosion will do damage and knockdown - Mount Dingus added, "the crappiest firework". Emits colored smoke that distracts zombies for a good amount of time, but doesn't do anything COOL - Roman Candle added, shoots multiple fireworks that knocks zombies down and distracts - KO BOOMER added, an overstuffed Roman Candle. Banned in most countries pre-apocalypse. You should probably drop it and run after awhile

Previous Location Tweaks

Starting Location "Quiet Factory Tweaks" - Two guaranteed drops of 20-30 gas - The worst Executive Office loot drops for the "execweapon" roll have been combined into one, reducing the possible options from 4 to 3. This means instead of getting "an extra golf club", you'll get that plus a grenade and medical - Same as above, but for the "execsupply" roll. This means you'l never get 5-20 bullets alone, instead you'll get that in addition to a grenade and a 50% chance for 20-30 extra gas General Tweaks - Factories will usually contain 6 different gas cans, with 15-25 gas each (90-150 gas total), hopefully making them a strong pick for refueling your car/chainsaw - Factories also get the execweapon and execsupply changes that the Quiet Factory got, except the "chance of extra golf club" now has a 50% chance of being replaced by an Uzi with 30-50 bullets. This was formerly a 10% chance - All standalone house and apartment locations, including the starting options for looting a House or Apartment, now give one extra commonranged drop. This means a guaranteed pistol, shotgun, or cowboy rifle with ammo, with a tiny chance of Uzi or AK47

Weapon Tweaks

- Ultramop power nerf, 1.2 -> 0.8 - Ultramop knockback buff, 1.5 -> 2 - Ultramop Cleave buff, 1 -> 4 extra hits - Debutante Umbrella power buff, 0.8 -> 1 - The best weapon, the Tire Iron, changed so that the AI don't favor it as much

Other Fixes/Minor Tweaks

- Fixed the Grain, Scratch, etc effects - Fixed an error with Broomy spawning, and it starts lying down - Changed traderarcade-fire's exit message if you avoided fire damage - Fixed incorrect numbering for the survival preptrader - Fixed camera not properly following new leader in a different map when switching characters - Magazine chance removed from farm locations, as this just bugged out if you got a rescue event on top of this. - Farm tractors can now be looted for gas - Weapondef conflict fix - Mysterious Past + Martial Artist no longer gives points in shooting

Modder Notes/Under the Hood Stuff

- Added warning case for accessing a NULL thing - Added pwn sound effect - MANDIBLE.df added to decks.df - Changed tnomey-spawn to support indoor and outdoor spawning - Removed cleaning lady's cleaner-test event from recruitdecks - CAR_BUS added as a stub - New word for generating a parked car but without the usual extra gas or tire iron, see the Park locations for implementation of this