Hello everyone!

We've just released a second hotfix to address issues in the Blood in the Water update. Find the list of changes below, and be sure to update your game to the latest version.

Please note: We are aware of localization issues in certain talent descriptions, but unfortunately these could not be addressed in today's hotfix. We will release a third hotfix for the localization issues specifically a bit later, most likely next week.


v1.4.6.0

- Fixed monsters sometimes spawning immediately after the round starts (Often happened between levels, when there was no outpost between them).
- The 'Art of Submarine Warfare' book granted by the 'War Stories' talent is now a separate item and the original book has been reverted to its original state.
- Fixed Thalamus' fleshgun ropes not being able to stick to a submarine anymore.
- Fixed Thalamus' flesh spike crashing the game in the multiplayer game mode.
- Added a scrollbar to the submarine warning list. Fixes the list not fitting on the screen, when there were multiple, long errors.
- Fixed server list filters not saving properly.
- Fixed marking a stack of items to be ignored or deconstructed only taking into account the first item of the stack, instead applying to all items of the stack.
- Removed duplicate localization lines that caused old versions of text to show up in some places.
- Fixes to the Chinese localization.
- Fixed the inability to edit tags that contained the same word as one of the predefined tags.
- Fixed a crash on opening the contextual order menu for an item of another character's inventory while the health interface is open.
- Fixed a crash when editing and resizing the circuit box label texts.

Hello everyone!

We've just released a hotfix to address a few commonly occurring issues in this week's update.


v1.4.5.0

- Fixed crew remaining dead, mission remaining completed/failed, etc when you return to the lobby an restart the round. The issue was that the server did not properly load the previous save when opting to continue the ongoing campaign.
- Added a button to the server lobby which opens the server description in a popup to make it easier for players to find. We are still thinking of the best way to handle the description/MOTD, this is more of a quick band-aid solution for the description being too easy to miss / difficult to find at the moment.
- Fixed descriptions being outdated on some of the modified XP talents. Currently only fixed in English, the descriptions in other languages are still outdated.
- Fixed "command not found" error when trying to use the new "converttowreck" console command.
- Fixed items in a container in the submarine not being counted in the "owned items" count in the store interface.
- Fixed bots being unable to properly clean up some items, just taking them into their inventory and leaving them there.
- Fixed drinkable items (such as ethanol) giving the full effect with just a tiny sip.
- Fixed effect from the "revenge squad" talent only lasting 60 seconds.
- Fixed combat diving suit being slower than intended when using an underwater scooter.

Hello everyone!

The Blood in the Water update has just been released, with two new monsters, a medical system mini-overhaul, extra difficulty settings for campaign mode, and new wrecks and beacons for you to explore, to name only a few things.

Read more about the update in last weeks preview post, see the full list of changes at the end of this post, and be sure to update your game to the latest version to be able to host and join multiplayer servers. We hope you enjoy Blood in the Water!


v1.4.4.1

Changes and additions:
- Added new lost cargo missions, in which you must recover cargo from a sunken sub.
- Added six new beacon stations, and updated existing beacon stations.
- Added seven new wrecks.
- Chat messages and NPC dialog is shown in speech bubbles above the character's head. Can be disabled in the game settings.
- Improved the particle effects when the sub hits a level wall, and when cutting/destroying level walls.
- Certain afflictions and talents change the character's walking/running animations (e.g. drunkenness, the "musical talents", vigor, hyperactivity, concussion).
- Removed the randomization of quality from fabricated stackable items. The randomization made them annoying to fabricate, because the items of different quality couldn't be stacked in the fabricator's output slot.
- Motion sensor ranges are visualized when wearing engineer's goggles.
- Made fabricators and deconstructors faster in outposts (it's not fun to force everyone to wait while someone is working a fabricator in an outpost).
- Fire no longer damages husk eggs, fruit and explosives over time. Allowing them to be partially damaged made them really difficult to handle when they happened to be in a stack. Now husk eggs are immune to fire, and the rest get destroyed completely after being in fire for a moment.
- Improvements to the visual effects of lava vents and hydrothermal vents.
- Pets leave behind a corpse when they die. Having them just "pop" often meant you couldn't be sure if the pet had gone missing or died.
- Added a hotkey for dropping the held item. Not bound to any key by default.
- Added a hotkey (by default Alt) that displays a label on all nearby interactable items. The label can be clicked on to interact with the item. Should make it easier to e.g. find loose items on the floor or pick up a specific item when there's many close to each other.
- Tons of changes and improvements to outpost events: the main goal has been to make the things described by the event popups "actually happen", as opposed to just describing them in text. There's now more visual and audio effects in the events, and the things described by the texts tend to actually exist in the game world. There's also been lots of changes to the outcomes of the events: the choices you make should now generally be more meaningful.
- Most outpost events can now be started by another player if the first player who encounters them chooses to ignore them.
- Made the bilge pump circuits non-interactable and the bilge pumps non-wireable in outposts. It was too easy to abuse them to drown the outpost.
- All the pathways from the location you start at in the campaign lead to an outpost. Choosing a new destination at an uninhabited location seems confusing to new players, who haven't yet seen how transitions between levels work.
- Improvements and fixes to harpoons and ropes: the user can now pull towards the target by pressing space (but only when diving), added sounds to reeling and the rope snapping, adjusted the forces and changed how the forces were applied to both the user and the target.
- Added ON_DOCK and ON_UNDOCK outputs to docking ports.
- New automatic docking hatch assembly (much simpler than the old one, now built using a circuit box with labels that explain how it works).
- Added an option to add labels inside circuit boxes (can be used to e.g. explain parts of the circuit).
- Added a menu to the submarine editor that lists all the container tags used in the submarine, explains which tags are available and how they're used, and allows adding them to containers more easily. There's also now a warning on saving if the submarine is missing any common/recommended tags.
- Clown crates now have pressure immunity, making them potentially useful for more than just fooling around.

Monsters:
- Added Viperling, a venomous variant of Spinelings.
- Reintroduced the legacy monster Mantis. Keep an eye out for anything unusual on the walls when exploring caves!
- Changes to make big monsters more of a threat to characters inside the sub, not just the submarine itself:
- Charybdis can poke its head inside the sub, bite and pull characters out.
- Made monsters better at targeting positions on the hull with a character on the other side (meaning they're more likely to be able to cause shrapnel damage).
- Made the shrapnel particles more noticeable.
- Endworm can poke its mandibles inside the sub and damage characters inside.
- Heavy impacts can launch off very high-velocity shrapnel that can penetrate a couple of inner walls, similar to spineling spikes.
- Added some weaknesses to abyss monsters: Endworm has a weak spot in its mouth, Charybdis flees for a moment if it takes heavy damage to the head or mouth (a feature that initially was there but had been bugged for a while).
- Updated husk's ragdoll, textures and animations.
- Husks can now go unconscious and eventually get back up if not "properly" killed, the same way as huskified humans.
- Adjustments to the loot dropped by Latcher and Charybdis.

Diving suit changes:
- Several changes to to make it less obvious choice to wear diving suits indoors all the time:
- Hull breaches flood the sub more slowly now, giving you more time to find a suit.
- Reduced walking speed when wearing a suit (with adjustments to the animation to make the suits feel more "tanky", as opposed to just making the character look like it's walking in slow-motion).
- Reduced the damage protection of suits - it was previously so high it encouraged wearing the suits in all situations just for the damage protection they offer.
- Wearing a suit obstructs your vision more now.
- Reduced the crush depths of diving suits to make them match the maximum crush depth of a fully upgraded sub. Allowing players to survive below the sub's crush depth didn't make that much sense: it was practically impossible to recover the sub, so it's better to treat as a "game over" state and kill the players, as opposed to leaving the game in an unrecoverable "soft-locked" state.
- Decreased the armor ratings (damage modifiers) of the (early-game) diving suits.
- Added Explosion Damage resistance to diving suits and protective gear (and clown outfits, ka-honk).
- Made the exosuit more powerful by giving it more damage resistance, a chance to ignore stuns and increasing its speed

Balance:
- Minor adjustments to the turret balance (most noticeably, made explosive ammo less OP, armor piercing ammo more effective against structures).
- Removed threshers from Cold Caverns. Thresher bites can now cause infected wounds, which can be treated with antibiotic glue, broad-spectrum antibiotics or by applying ethanol or rum to the wound.
- Acid grenades have a slightly longer duration.
- Increased the amount of hyperactivity given by energy drinks. It's still pretty weak, but the previous effect was practically meaningless (making the item more harmful than useful due to the nausea it can cause).
- Dual-wielding ranged weapons reduces reload times and accuracy.

Medical system:
- Made opiates less of a "solution for everything": they have a much higher risk of causing addiction and overdoses, and morphine heals much more slowly, making it less viable for combat-heavy situations.
- Added "infection" affliction type to add some variety to afflictions. Thresher bites and, on high world hostility campaigns, bleeding wounds and untreated burns have a chance of becoming infected.
- Added "alcohol sensitivity" as a side-effect of antibiotics. This causes drunkenness to build up much faster, so avoid using antibiotics and alcohol together!
- Stabilozine's effects no longer stack: it stops the progress of poisons, but doesn't cure poisonings.
- Added "adrenaline rush" as an effect for adrenaline. "Adrenaline rush" keeps the patient conscious for its duration, removes all active stun when inflicted and applies short-term stun resistance.
- Husk infections can be treated with sufforin and cyanide (but you must be careful to have a cure at hand!).
- Antibiotic glue can be used multiple times.
- Made Pomegrenade Extract a bit more useful: gives the "slow metabolism" buff.
- Ethanol and rum can be poured on limbs to treat infections and burns.
- Removed skill requirements from tonic liquid.
- Alien blood causes organ damage, making it less viable as a risk-free cheap alternative for blood packs.
- Saline can be used to treat infections.
- Resting in bunks heals injuries a little faster now.
- Europabrew can now act as a universal poison cure, but also speeds up husk infection in addition to vulnerability to acid burns.
- Rum can now also be made from pomegrenade.

Submarines:
- Fixed Azimuth's periscope being too high up, causing the characters to float when using it.
- Fixed hulls being set up strangely in Camel's humps (not extending all the way up to the ceiling, making it possible for there to be holes in the walls without water getting in).
- Various fixes and improvements to the shuttles.
- Fixed too low oxygen output in Typhon's brig, causing characters inside to eventually suffocate without an additional oxygen supply.
- Fixed Azimuth's cargo and engine rooms not draining full due to the hulls extending below the floor and the bilge pumps.
- Fixed sloped wall piece making it difficult to move from Remora to its drone.
- Fixed grenades sometimes going through certain walls (one common spot was Camel's bow).
- Adjusted the hulls in Orca's lower airlock. The small in-between hull with the pump prevented the sub from flooding, because water couldn't flow out from that small hull fast enough to counter the rate of the pump.

Additional campaign difficulty settings:
- Oxygen tank duration.
- Reactor fuel duration.
- Crew vitality.
- Non-crew NPC vitality.
- Shop purchase prices.
- Shipyard purchase prices (buying new subs and upgrades).
- Severity of injuries from failed repairs.
- Mission income.
- Option to disable the husk infection warning messages.
- Renamed the generic "difficulty" setting as "world hostility", since it only affects things such as monster spawns and environmental hazards.

Wrecks:
- Added wrecked variants of chaingun, pulse laser, flak cannon, double coilgun and their loaders.
- New wrecks: Barsuk, Camel, Humpback, Typhon 2, Remora, R-29 and Venture.
- Fixes to the wreck spawning logic: linked submarines and non-hulled spaces are taken into account in the placement, preventing them from ending up inside walls.
- Various improvements and fixes to the existing wrecks.
- Added new, higher-res wrecked versions of the shuttle sprites. Marked the old ones as legacy structures.
- Fixed wrecked hatches' broken sprite rendering in front of characters.
- Added console command converttowreck to convert submarines to wrecks more easily.

AI:
- Bots can now be ordered to deconstruct items. There's a separate contextual order for marking items to be deconstructed and a regular order that makes the bots start deconstructing those marked items.
- Improvements to medic AI: they're now better at taking the negative effects of drugs into account, meaning they should be less eager to cause opiate overdoses.
- Made bots better at choosing suits adequate for the current depth.
- Fixed escaped prisoners being unable to seek for weapons in the prisoner transport missions.
- Fixed inability to order bots to turrets that are connected to the periscope via wifi components inside circuit boxes.
- Fixed bots cleaning up active glow sticks and flares.
- Fixed bots sometimes deciding to idle inside docking ports.
- Fixed bots being unable to put two-handed items on their back when trying to use an underwater scooter.
- Fixed medic bots sometimes taking meds from inside their autoinjector headset even if they have suitable meds in a toolbelt or some other container in their inventory.
- Fixed escorted characters (e.g. separatists) attacking you if you steal items from bandits.

Multiplayer:
- Added player-specific voice chat volume sliders (i.e. if a specific player is very loud in the voice chat, you can reduce their volume or vice versa).
- Fixed inability to remove invisible symbols (= special symbols not included in the fonts the game uses) from your name using the name text box in the server lobby. This seemed to be the cause for the mysterious "name contains symbols disallowed by the server host" errors: if your Steam name contained special symbols the game can't render, you couldn't remove them by editing the name in the server lobby.
- Fixed an exploit that allowed getting free items from stores.
- Replaced Reaper's Tax with optional extra skill loss when respawning mid-round.
- Fixed clients' wallets appearing empty when spawning mid-round.
- Reworked the server lobby layout. The goal was to reorganize the UI to group things in a more logical way and to make things easier to find.
- Adjusted the local voice chat range significantly shorter (comparable to the range of the local text chat now).
- Fixed VOIP breaking after changing the resolution.
- Fixed characters sometimes getting assigned different personality traits between clients and the server.
- Fixed inability to hire more crew if you've reached the maximum crew size, and then fire some to make room for more characters.
- Fixed clients not getting notified in any way when a server has disabled downloading mods directly from the server, causing them to just get stuck in the mod download screen.
- Fixed servers without an active host or anyone else managing the rounds getting stuck if the settings were configured in a specific way: if the respawn transport time was set to infinite (shuttle will spawn once, but will never leave the level and allow a 2nd respawn), the shuttle had spawned and all the players left, and someone new joined the server, they wouldn't be able to end the round because they've never spawned, and could also never respawn.

Talents:
- Reworked most of the XP-giving talents to make them more meaningful and balanced.
- Fixed "Fireman's Carry" talent not working on stunned characters.
- Fixed tinkerer talent (which allows repairing items above 100%) causing some oddities with repair thresholds: the item would show up as repairable when the condition percentage (relative to the above-normal maximum condition) was below the threshold, but the repair UI wouldn't show up until it was "actually" below the condition where it should become repairable.
- Fixed talent options displaying as locked (gray frame and a lock icon in the corner) even if you've unlocked them if another sub tree is incomplete.
- Residual Waste" can no longer be exploited for duplicating FPGA circuits.

Improvements to sub editor's grouping:
- Groups are now called "layers", which reflects their common uses better than "groups".
- Layer options are more easily available in the right-click context menus.
- When a layer is selected, all new entities you place are automatically placed into that layer, so you don't need to manually move every new item you place.
- Added LayerAction as a way for ScriptedEvents to enable or disable layers, useful for modders.

Fixes:
- Fixed some items sometimes falling through holes on the submarine's floor (and sometimes also getting stuck partially inside the floor).
- Fixed campaign saves getting bricked if you save the game during the brief moment when your crew has died, but the "game over" popup hasn't appeared yet.
- Fixed campaign saves getting bricked if you save the game after you've fired some of your crewmates through the HR manager and the remaining characters have died (or vice versa).
- Fixed (traitor) events that require you to fabricate a specific item complete regardless of what you fabricated.
- Fixed being able to fabricate items from just one ingredient, when the one ingredient matches multiple 'variable' ingredients (ingredients where multiple materials are valid, such as assault rifle magazines which require a munition tip, core and jacket).
- Fixed thalamus organs sometimes spawning in dry hulls, making them die without the player having to do anything.
- Fixed diving suits emitting light when placed in cabinets in the sub editor.
- Fixed waytoascension2 event getting stuck if you choose the "I'll need to think about this" dialog option, end the round, and start a new one.
- Fixed being able to switch submarines using the submarine switch terminals in abandoned outposts or the "dummy outposts" inside normal levels.
- Fixed piezo crystals sometimes spawning close enough to wrecks and beacon stations to zap them.
- Fixed character hover texts (e.g. "[G] grab") not refreshing when you change keybinds.
- Fixed CPR pump animation often causing impact damage to the patient.
- Fixed sonar sometimes not showing parts of the mountain on the ocean floor.
- Fixed beacon stations you've restored during the round not displaying as active on the campaign map until you start a new round.
- Fixed inability to pick up dropped stun batons.
- Wire nodes are placed at the center of the grid cells instead of the corners to get them to align with signal components placed on walls.
- Fixed being able to quickly swap the suit you are currently wearing with a broken suit, by just clicking the broken suit.
- Fixed status effects on certain monster's limbs not working: Charybdis had one that should've made it retreat when it takes heavy damage to the head or mouth, and Fractal Guardian, Moloch and Latcher should've emitted special particles when hit on the weak spots.
- Fixed genetic materials not getting destroyed when a gene splicer gets moved to a duffel bag when a character despawns.
- Fixed language of the units (km/h, m) not changing on the nav terminal when you change the language mid-round.
- Fixed crosshair being mispositioned for a split-second when the character turns around while aiming.
- Fixed leaks sometimes being impossible to repair on "Tail Fin E P2".
- Fixed freezing when you press tab in the sub editor's wiring mode.
- Fixed duct blocks sometimes casting shadows strangely (leaving a see-through gap between the duct block and the adjacent walls).
- Fixed deconstructing a nuclear depth decoy fabricated with the cheap recipe outputting incendium (even though it's not included in the recipe).
- Characters that have thresher genes or who don't need oxygen for some reason (husk infection/symbiosis) don't consume oxygen from tanks.
- Fixed a rare level generation issue that sometimes prevented certain levels from loading, kicking the game back to the main menu or server lobby with the error message "maximum amount of entities exceeded".
- Fixed door's sound muffling effect behaving inconsistently in MP (sometimes muffling sounds even though the door open).
- Fixed certain keys on an AZERTY keyboard not being recognized as keybinds.
- Fixed steep but short wall pieces launching characters downwards too aggressively.
- Fixed buoyancy still affecting docked subs differently than other subs. A sub with docked subs/shuttles would ascend and descend slightly slower than one where the hulls are all part of the same sub.
- Fixed gaps' and waypoints' groups resetting in the sub editor when saving and loading.
- Fixed monsters in the idle (or observing) state moving at too slow speed and changing the direction in which they were heading too rapidly when they wander around.
- Fixed enemy subs' and respawn shuttle's crush depths not being set correctly, sometimes causing them to get crushed in late-campaign levels.
- Fixed items in a character's inventory, who's in the main sub, being counted twice in the "owned item" count displayed in the store interface.
- Fixed purchased items spawning attached to a wall if there's no room in your inventory.
- Fixed characters spawned using console commands not getting ID card tags for the sub they spawn in.

Modding:
- Fixed inability to publish mods when the language is set to Japanese.
- Added support for defining the ragdoll by a content path, instead of having to define it by a folder. Allows decoupling a ragdoll from a character.
- Added support for (temporarily) overriding character animations using status effects. Allows, for example, wearable items and afflictions to change the character's walking and running animations (see divinggear.xml and afflictions.xml for usage examples). Note that the vanilla animations are configured using the file name, which makes the game search for the animation file from the folder the rest of the character's animations are in. If you want to make your mod add a custom animation to a vanilla character, you need to configure the animation using a file path instead (e.g. path="%ModDir%/CustomWalkAnimation.xml").
- Fixed variants of character variants not working.
- Added an option to force location types to be owned by a specific faction by adding faction="somefaction" or secondaryfaction="somefaction" to the location type config.
- Fixed inability to drag and drop items into hidden inventories. That can't be done with any vanilla items, but turns out some mods had functionality that relied on this behavior, and we broke it in the latest update.
- Sub editor now warns about rooms with insufficient oxygen output (= if the vents output too little oxygen to support one character).
- Made the joint limit widgets in the character editor (hopefully) a bit more intuitive and easy to use. There's now a gray line that indicates the angle of the limb, and that gray line is what gets clamped between the joint limits.
- Fixed widgets and indicators jittering in the character editor when the character moves.
- The "pitch slide" of turret and ranged weapon charge sounds (used in the vanilla chaingun and rapid fissile accelerator) is now editable using the ChargeSoundWindupPitchSlide attribute.
- The deattach speed of repair tools can be edited ("DeattachSpeed" attribute).
- Fixed events that are not allowed at start not triggering if you're in the abyss (or somewhere else a long way away from the destination).
- Fixed PerCave/PerRuin/PerWreck event settings not working correctly in event child sets (the game created the correct number of events, e.g. 3 if there's 3 caves, but each event happened in a random cave).
- Added an option to make TagAction require the target to be in a module with specific tags
- Fixed NPCOperateItemAction being hard-coded to select Controller components, meaning you could only use it to make the character interact with an item that has a Controller component.
- EventManager now works also in the editor test modes.
- Fixed the interval attribute of status effects not working when the effect was defined in limbs.
- Added an option to select a specific wreck and a beacon station in the level editor (simplifying testing when you want to test a specific one).
- Fixed room name selection (accessible in the sub editor when editing a hull) being empty if any text file in a mod includes overrides.
- Fixed reputation bars always showing -100 and 100 as the minimum and maximum, even if a custom faction has a different min/max value.
- Fixed crashing when spawning a humanoid character that doesn't have any head sprite configured for it.
- Fixed crashing when placing a door item that's set to be open by default.
- Fixed OnOpen and OnClose action types only working for playing sounds when a door opens or closes, but not for actual status effects.
- Fixed "custom skills" the character's gained during the round (skills levels the character/job originally doesn't have) disappearing between rounds, and only reappearing when the character gains some skill level.
- Fixed MissionActions that are set to choose from a pool of missions always choosing the same mission.
- Fixed inability to take specific kinds of items from a container that requires holding some item. For example, if you needed to hold a crowbar to access a cabinet, and took an item from the cabinet in a way that forces that crowbar item to be unequipped.
- Fixed WeldedSprites not appearing in the sprite editor.
- Fixed connection panel interface's borders overlapping with the connector sprites on certain resolutions if the panel is very tall.
- Fixed OnImpact effects not working on broken items even if AllowWhenBroken is set true.
- Fixed TriggerComponents no longer applying forces or other effects to characters when they ragdoll.
- Made OnSuccess and OnUse effects usable in Repairables (previously only OnFailure effects worked).
- Fixed event editor crashing if you tried to load an event that had action with attributes set to incorrect types of values (e.g. with a CheckMoneyAction with amount set to a string).
- Fixed "Collider" spawn rotation type when spawning items via a status effect not taking the flipping of the parent item into account, causing e.g. projectiles to launch to the right when aiming to the left.
- Fixed tracer particles not showing up when a projectile is spawned using a status effect indoors.
- Fixed crash if a non-attachable item is made attachable mid-round (e.g. via status effects or console commands) and the submarine then saved.
- Fixed monsters always aiming ranged attacks at the position of the target character regardless of which limb they're targeting. Was not noticeable in the vanilla game, because none of the vanilla enemies tried to aim at a specific limb.
- RequireAimToUse is no longer forcibly enabled on ranged weapons (i.e. it's possible to create a ranged weapon you can fire just by left clicking).

Hello everyone!

The Blood in the Water update is finally ready and coming next week. It introduces a lot of new dangers and customization options to offer suitable challenges for veteran submariners and new players alike. The update also adds new content, even a surprise monster some players may remember from early, pre-Steam builds of the game. Lets take a final look at everything thats coming next week!

[h3]Medicine and monsters[/h3]

• Medical system mini-rework. Rebalanced medical items, a couple of new afflictions, and new use cases for a few items.
  
• Two new monsters. Were adding two monsters that employ poisons in their attacks: the Viperling, a new Spineling variant and the cave-dwelling Mantis, a monster that used to exist in early Barotrauma builds!
  
• New attacks for Abyss monsters. The largest monsters in the game are better at targeting characters inside the submarine for added danger.
  

• Diving suit rebalance. Weve rebalanced all suit types for clearer use cases and made changes to reduce the usefulness of a diving suit as round-the-clock equipment. Flooding speed has been reduced slightly to give you more time to react during a hull breach.
  
• Conditional animations. We added a new animation for walking in a diving suit, as well as a handful of other new special animations. Modders can use this new conditional animation system to create their own custom animations.
  

• New campaign difficulty settings. Adjust campaign difficulty to your liking using one of four presets or by fine-tuning various parameters yourself.
  
• Improvements to the respawning system in multiplayer: Were removing Reapers Tax and replacing it with customizable respawning skill loss, making the skill loss penalties of respawning fully customizable.
  

• Event system overhaul. Scripted events now play out visually, thanks to volunteer codework submitted by one of our long-time players. Weve also made some additional improvements to events.
  
• New wrecks and beacon stations, and a new kind of wreck mission.
  

• Option to make messages in the text chat show in a speech bubble above the character who is speaking.
  
• A new order for bot crew members to deconstruct items.
  
• A highlight system for interacting with loose items on the floor more easily.
  
• A drop item hotkey to quickly drop any item youre holding.
  

Hello everyone, we've just released a second hotfix to address the multiplayer server crashes ongoing since last week. We are very sorry for the trouble and will continue to monitor the situation, but we are hopeful this fix should complete our countermeasures against these exploits being used to crash servers.

Please make sure to update your game to the latest version the fix may take some time to apply as both clients and servers need to restart and update, so if you are still experiencing the server issue immediately after the update, please restart Barotrauma and Steam, and request that the server host do the same.

Please note that some source code mods, for example the very popular Lua for Barotrauma mod, need to be updated following this update. Servers using these mods will have some additional delay in the fix taking effect.

We wish everyone smooth sailing and thank you for your patience!


v1.3.0.4

- Fixed another exploit that allowed crashing servers by sending them specifically crafted malformed data.

Hello everyone, we've just released a single-change hotfix to address an exploit that was discovered recently:

v1.3.0.3
- Fixed an exploit that allowed crashing servers by sending them specifically crafted malformed data.

We're sorry for the trouble this exploit has caused to some multiplayer servers in recent days. This fix should allow you to get back to playing normally!

Hello everyone!

The next update is just a few weeks away now, and we have more new features to sneak peek at. We also wanted to give a little update on the development of the Permadeath mode that we polled you about earlier this year. Lets take a look!

[h3]Respawning changes and Permadeath[/h3]
As we wrote before, Reapers Tax gets replaced with customizable respawning skill loss. This makes skill loss on respawning entirely customizable, via two separate sliders in the server settings.

The Permadeath mode unfortunately had to be postponed, as it took more time to develop than we thought. Thus it will not be included in the next update, but you will still get to try it out soon: we are aiming to have Permadeath, as well as the related Ironman mode, available for testing in the Unstable version soon after the update goes live.

Thank you everyone who took our poll and participated in the early feedback discussion about Permadeath! We selected the design alternative which allows you to take control of a bot when your character dies. Heres a quick recap of what these upcoming, optional high-difficulty multiplayer modes will mean:

• Permadeath: any character death is permanent, and you can only respawn by acquiring a new character either one of your bots, or a new character hired at an outpost.
  
• Ironman: any death is permanent, and there is no respawning at all. You can only spectate after you die. Intended for crews who want to try no-death runs.
  

• New difficulty parameters: adjust common item consumption rates, world hostility, character vitality, and a couple of other hazards for added or diminished gameplay challenge
  
• ...Or choose from a list of presets for balanced difficulty levels.
  
• Added a new Abyssal difficulty preset.
  
• New server lobby layout to make these and all the other settings easier to find and use.
  

Hello everyone!

Something that we have been working on for a long time alongside developing updates has been making Barotrauma available outside Steam as well. As we have seen unexpected successes with our little submarine simulator, year after year, weve been looking into ways to take it to other platforms eventually. Now were ready to make the game available through Epic Games Store in addition to Steam!

The Epic launch will not change anything for players who want to stick to Steam: When you launch Barotrauma for the first time following our EGS release, you will see a prompt asking you to enable crossplay between Steam and Epic. If you do not wish to do so, you can decline, and that will be all. You can also update your preferences at any time in the game settings.

If you enable crossplay, and if we find a lot of new users through Epic, you can look forward to playing with a lot of new people. Hosting and joining servers works seamlessly across these two platforms, so it doesnt matter which platform your friends are on you can play with them just the same, without needing to create a separate account on the other store.

Were excited to be entering a second platform and hope that you are excited too! In the future, updates will be released on both platforms, but due to some technical differences between the two systems, more in-depth involvement such as Unstable testing will only happen in the Steam version.

Check out Barotrauma on Epic Games Store now, and let your friends on Epic know too!

Hello everyone!

Lets have another sneak peek at our upcoming spring update.

[h3]Diving suit rebalance[/h3]
We always intended diving suits to be used only for acute pressure protection: during hull breaches and while swimming. However, there are not many actual downsides to wearing a suit all the time, so a lot of people do just that which has effectively eliminated water pressure as a threat. We wanted to change that by encouraging you to take your suit off when you dont need it. Heres what were changing:

• Slowed flooding speed to give the crew more time to suit up during a hull breach. Hulls will fill with water more slowly, so the pressure will not become lethal as quickly.
  
• Added new animations to diving suits and made walking and running in a suit slower. Swimming speed has not been reduced.
  
• Obstructed vision while wearing a diving suit slightly more.
  
• Reduced the armor effects of diving suits, particularly the Regular Diving Suit.
  
• Rebalanced all the different suit types and level generation to create stronger progression and clearer use cases for different suits in different environments.
  
• Capped the crush depth resistance of the strongest suits to the same depth as a fully upgraded submarine hull. (Before, the Abyss suit could handle more pressure than a fully upgraded submarine.)
  

Hello everyone!

The next Barotrauma update is in the works, to be released in the late spring, and it will include some improvements to the medical system. This wont be a complete overhaul, but we have reworked medical items to give each a clearer use case and stronger progression in the campaign, as well as added a few new afflictions to create additional late-game challenges.

Here are some highlights:

• Opiates have been rebalanced to give each a clearer use case. They also cause addiction and overdose much more easily than before, making them high-risk, high-reward treatments.
  
• Infected Wounds, a new dangerous affliction caused by Thresher attacks.
  
• Antibiotic Glue now has multiple uses, so one tube can be used to treat multiple limbs. It can also treat Infected Wounds.
  
• Deusizine has been buffed into a powerful end-game item, with added Stun reduction and Vigor.
  
• Adrenaline gets a treatment use: it causes Adrenaline Rush, removing any active stun and keeping the patient conscious for a short duration.
  
• Sufforin and Cyanide can be used to cure Husk Infection as a last resort. (Be ready to cure the resulting poisoning if you do this.)
  

Hello everyone!

We have just released a second hotfix for the Winter Update. Please be sure to update your game to the latest version to be able to host and join multiplayer servers, and see the full list of changes below.


v1.2.8.0

Changes:
- Allow scaling most items below 0.1 in the submarine editor again. We set 0.1 as a hard limit because smaller scales caused issues with tiling items (such as labels), without realizing some sub builders have found some creative uses for heavily downscaled items (such as tiny turrets used as "dials").

Fixes:
- Fixed escorted characters trying to leave the sub if they can't find a safe hull to get to (e.g. when the sub is flooded).
- Fixed rotated structures not appearing rotated on the status monitor.
- Fixed wires getting misaligned when saving them in an item assembly.
- Fixed security NPCs being unable to swap batteries in stun batons.
- Fixed inability to edit the false output of a switch in multiplayer.
- (Finally) fixed texture offsets on tiled sprites such as background walls behaving erratically on non-default texture scales and mirrored entities.

Modding:
- Fixed crashing if an affliction prefab contains stat values with a duplicate type, or multiple stat values whose type can't be parsed.

Hello everyone!

The year 2024 has officially started in Barotrauma development, and wed like to kick it off with a brief development poll.

Were planning a new, optional challenge mode for multiplayer campaigns where respawning is limited and character death is permanent, and we have a few competing designs for how we might implement this Permadeath mode.

If you are interested, read more about the Permadeath mode on our blog, and give your feedback via the poll attached to the blog! You will find directions to discussion threads, where you can share your thoughts in more detail, in the same blog post.

The next update, including the Permadeath mode, revisions to multiplayer respawning rules and additional difficulty settings, will be coming later in the spring. The update will also include various kinds of new content, which we will start sneak peeking at in the coming weeks and months. Stay tuned!

Hello everyone!

We've just released a hotfix to address issues in last week's Winter Patch. See the list of changes below, and enjoy the holiday season!


v1.2.7.0

- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the game to crash without generating a crash report (which would lead to a "pipe was broken" error if the issue happened server-side). The issue had to do with a stack overflow when throwing specific kinds of console errors: one common case was when the game failed to connect to our server to check the GameAnalytics consent, which lead to a crash on startup.
- Fixed piezo crystals sometimes spawning right at the start of the level.
- Fixed assistants not being able to pick all tier 1 and 2 talents.
- Fixed location names disappearing when locations change their type in saves started in pre-1.2 versions.
- Fixed selection rectangle disappearing from items when zoomed in by more than x2 in the sub editor.
- Fixed "killcrawlerswarmlarge2" mission not having a description.
- Fixed bots sometimes choosing to wear broken diving suits.
- Fixed currently visible particles freezing when lowering the particle limit.
- Fixed dragged characters always colliding with stairs, making it impossible to drag them past the stairs.
- Fixed "drunken sailor" talent not nullifying the negative effects of drunkenness.
- Fixed stun from the "lightning wizard" talent activating if you cause damage to yourself (e.g. by breaking a wall and taking damage from the shrapnel).
- Fixed escorted security officers sometimes inspecting the crew for stolen items during escort missions.
- Fixed basics tutorial sometimes getting stuck in the "weld leak" objective.
- Fixed ancient weapon not flipping horizontally when aiming it to the left.

Hello everyone!

The Winter Patch 2023 has just been released, with quality-of-life changes, balancing, optimizations, bugfixes, and a bit of new content sprinkled in as well. You can find the full list of changes at the end of this post, and a more comprehensive preview of the update in our previous post about it.

Make sure to update your game to the latest version to be able to host and join servers, and have a great holiday season, everyone! We will be taking a couple of weeks off for Christmas, so well see you again next year.

v1.2.6.0

- Added some more logging to diagnose the mysterious "pipe was broken" crashes. These seem to happen when the server crashes in some way that prevents it from generating a crash report or communicating the reason of the crash to the clients. Now the "pipe is broken" crash report should include the exit code of the server process, giving us more clues for diagnosing the issue, and the server should create simplified crash report if there's some kind of an issue with creating the normal crash report.

Changes:
- Structures can now be rotated in the sub editor!
- Outpost security is now better at catching thieves: they can do random inspections to check for stolen items (more frequently if your reputation is low or if they've caught someone in your crew stealing), and notice if you're visibly carrying or wearing any stolen items.
- Option to get the items you're buying from an outpost store in your inventory immediately, as opposed to them being delivered to the sub at the start of the round. There's also now an anti-griefing setting for disabling this, in case you want to make sure a griefer can't easily gain access to dangerous items in the outposts. Players with campaign management permissions aren't affected by the setting.
- Added new variants of the Monsters Nearby and Submarine Flooded tracks.
- Minor adjustments to level layouts: all the levels now slope down a bit to give the impression you're actually heading deeper.
- Clicking on a door that's set to not toggle when clicked (= door that just send out an activate_out signal when clicked) doesn't activate the door's "toggle cooldown".
- Bots operating turrets can now lead targets (i.e. aim ahead of a moving target). Bots with a higher weapon skill are better at estimating the future position of the target.
- Minor balance change to sub vs sub combat. AI-controlled subs get at least 2 security instead of 1, so more turrets will be manned.
- Bots can see through windowed walls (also making it easier for them to spot stealing).
- Added bilge pumps and duct blocks throughout outposts. Otherwise the outposts can never drain if the player causes a flood.
- Removed karma restrictions from jobs. This feature wasn't communicated anywhere, and it often just seemed like a bug when someone didn't get assign the job they wanted due to their karma being too low.
- Added bullet casing particles to firearms.
- Adjusted default throwing pose a bit: characters don't extend their arm as high up, because it could cause the throwable item to hit the ceiling in roughly door-height rooms.
- Most message boxes can be closed by pressing enter (more specifically, all boxes that are created with just the "ok" button).
- ID cards left in a duffel bag are automatically removed at the end of the round.
- Added a light to handheld sonar to indicate when it's on + made the ping a bit higher in pitch to differentiate it from the sub's sonar.
- Reduced the forces applied on characters by fractal guardian's melee attacks. The previous values were so high they often lead to characters getting stunlocked when the attacks threw them against the walls of the ruin.

Traitors:
- Three new Danger Level 1 traitor events: Exhibitionism, Firing Blanks, The Original Honkero.
- Five new multi-traitor events: Gnawing Cold, The Clobbery Robbery, Husk Roulette, Duck Side of the Moon, Powered by Faith.
- Fixed "Insurgency" achievement not unlocking when completing a traitor event.
- Fixed traitor-specific items sometimes being requested by stores.
- Fixed visibility checks in some traitor events having infinite range.
- Don't allow the victim's body to despawn in the "dead or alive" event because it'd interfere with completing the event (others finding the body).

Optimization:
- Significant optimization to situations where a bot is idling and has trouble finding a path to another hull. Caused performance issues in colonies in particular.
- Fixed a memory leak that caused the memory usage to increase every round.
- Fixed firing turrets (or doing any other action that spawns lots of new entities) causing an enormous performance drop in some situations. Had to do with specific scripted events re-checking their targets whenever a new entity spawned, which was needlessly heavy and was done unnecessarily often.
- Miscellaneous small optimizations.
- Optimized labels (large labels with a scaled down texture in particular were unnecessarily heavy).
- Optimized Watcher's status effects.

Multiplayer:
- Option to hide servers from the server list.
- Option to report inappropriate servers on the server list.
- Added "MinimumMidRoundSyncTimeout" server setting. Determines how long the server waits for a mid-round joining client to get in sync before disconnecting them.
- Fixed workshop item downloads sometimes getting stuck when opting to install server mods from the workshop. Happened if the mod had already been installed, was in the process of being installed, or if it couldn't be installed for some reason.
- Fixed dedicated servers with lots of mods enabled not showing up in the server browser.
- Fixed Text and NPCConversation files being required to be in sync between clients and the server, meaning if you were using a mod that changes the game to a different language, it'd get disabled when you joined a server that's not using the mod.
- Fixed lack of unban option in the "manage client" menu and the client context menu.

Talents:
- Five new assistant talents: Starter Quest, Mule, Jenga Master, Indentured Servitude, Tasty Target.
- Fixed "junction junkie" not working on sonar monitors.
- Fixed a couple of inaccurate talent and mission descriptions in Russian.

Skill gain balancing:
- Now takes longer to reach max skill level, the Helm skill especially was leveling way too fast.
- Helm skill levels up based on the submarine's speed.
- Added an exponent factor to the skill increases for diminishing returns at higher skill level.
- Increased skill gains at lower levels to compensate.
- Welding gives more skill.
- Fabricating items gives less skill.

Fixes:
- Fixed "camera zoom effect" taking a very long time to appear when pressure is increasing inside the sub, giving you very little time to react when the pressure gets to a lethal level.
- Fixed turret lights always being forced on at the start of the round.
- Fixed lighting artifacts that looked like thin slivers of light and strange jagged lighting that sometimes occurred in corners of rooms or places where multiple walls meet.
- Fixed lights shining through obstacles in some very specific situations (one common spot was the windowed door at the left side of Dugong's command room).
- Fixed turret lights sometimes disappearing from view when you're far from the turret (but still close enough to see the light).
- Fixed "bad vibrations 2" event getting stuck if you choose the option to sleep.
- Fixed components disappearing from a circuit box if you delete one in the sub editor and undo the deletion.
- Fixed a rare crash when you'd selected text in a textbox and changed the language of the game to one where the word in the textbox is shorter than in the previous language.
- Fixed handcuffs appearing to continuously drop from characters in certain situations in multiplayer (more specifically, if the character has been disabled and re-enabled during the round).
- Workaround to a rare mystery issue that seems to sometimes cause save files to get corrupted. It seems in some situations the submarine doesn't get included in the save: now the game checks whether the submarine is included before attempting to save the file, and refuses to save if it isn't. This does not solve the underlying issue, but should make it easier for us to diagnose why the submarine gets left out, and prevent corrupting the save when it occurs.
- Fixed "operate turret" orders showing the order marker on the turret instead of the periscope.
- Fixed respawn shuttle lights shining through the top of the level.
- Fixed flares (or other "provocative" items) not attracting monsters when you're wearing a diving suit, because the diving suit was also considered a "provocative" item.
- Fixed ability to put items into circuit boxes by dragging and dropping and with the inventory hotkeys. This caused the components to end up in an invalid state, leading to errors when loading the next round.
- Fixed custom ID card tags not getting applied to ID cards when switching subs.
- Fixed subinventories constantly opening and closing when you're hovering the cursor over the inventory slot with 2 different containers equipped (e.g. 2 storage containers).
- Fixed bots being able to take ammo out from non-interactable items or items whose inventory is set to be inaccessible.
- Fixed progress bars being visible through walls when someone uses a repair tool, damages an item with a projectile or a melee weapon, or crowbars a door open.
- Fixed crashing if you're in an outpost level with no outpost. Should normally never happen, but can occur with e.g. outdated save files or mods.
- Fixed ballast flora spores (or any other level object with no actual sprite) not being visible.
- Fixed bots "cleaning up" items from inside artifact transport cases.
- Fixed ability to sell components from inside circuit boxes in outposts.
- Fixed outpost NPCs not caring about the players starting fires.
- Fixed purchased items sometimes spawning in the cargo crates when you've got a cargo mission active, making them potentially very hard to find.
- Fixed inability to select a component you've just placed in the circuit box until you move the component for the first time.
- Fixed health scanner HUD texts overlapping on high resolutions.
- Fixed "maintain position" marker being misplaced on the navigation terminal on some resolutions.
- Fixed chance of tainting the genetic material when refining sometimes being displayed incorrectly on research stations.
- Disable the health interface of the patient in the "good samaritan" event. Prevents being able to heal the opiate overdose "normally" before triggering the event.
- Fixed item hover texts (e.g. "[E] Repair") not refreshing when changing keybinds.
- Fixed fabricator listbox scroll always resetting to the top when someone selects the fabricator.
- Fixed bandoliers not affecting pulse laser fire rate.

Modding:
- When running an outdated executable (i.e. a mod that overrides the game executable, but hasn't been updated yet after a new vanilla update has been released), there's a notification in the main menu and the "host server" menu warning you about the potential issues caused by running an outdated executable with the other up-to-date vanilla files.
- Console errors and warnings caused by modded content include the name of the mod to make it easier to diagnose which mod is causing some issue or whether it's an issue in the vanilla game.
- Support for overriding texts. Works using elements, the same way as overriding any other content.
- Fixed decorative sprites not being visible on items placed in a container. Did not affect any vanilla content (there were no decorative sprites on any item that can be visible in a container).
- Fixed characters with no AI defined causing crashes.
- Fixed inability to make StatusEffectAction modify the properties of an ItemComponent (only worked on the actual Item).
- Option to have multiple conditionals in CheckConditionalAction.
- Option to limit how many times a GoTo action can be executed (i.e. to create loops that only repeat a given number of times).
- TutorialHighlightAction can now be used in multiplayer too, renamed it as HighlightAction.
- Fixed first matching Containable definition of an ItemContainer determining the hiding, position and rotation of a contained item, disregarding which subcontainer the item is actually in. E.g. if a weapon had 2 subcontainers for magazines, both with a different ItemPos, the ItemPos defined in the first subcontainer would be used for both magazines.
- Fixed stun batons not accepting modded batteries because the RequiredItem s were configured using identifiers instead of tags.
- Fixed Character.CameraShake setting the camera shake regardless if the character the effect is being applied on is the controlled one or not.
- Location names can now be translated. In the vanilla game the names are only translated if you're playing in Chinese.
- Fixed some ConversationAction options going outside the bounds of the dialog if there's a very large number of them.
- Fixed inability to use %ModDir% in LevelGenerationParams.ForceBeaconStation.
- Fixed status effects configured to spawn an item in ContainedInventory not spawning the item if it can't go inside the first item in the contained inventory.

Hello everyone!

The year is almost at its end, and weve one more update left to release before that. This Winter Patch will be focusing more on quality-of-life changes, balancing, bugfixes and optimizations, with a sprinkling of new content as well. See some of the highlights below, and read more on our blog.

Rotatable structures in the sub editor, opening up a whole world of possibilities for all of you mad scientist sub editors out there.

Option to buy items straight to your inventory. No more need to wait for the next round to get your items, or rush to the cargo bay to beat your crewmates to the goods.

Outpost security is better at catching thieves. Security will perform random checks for stolen items in your inventory, and they will do a better job noticing acts of thievery aboard stations.

Revised skill EXP gains. Weve made gaining skills faster towards the beginning and more intuitive on the whole: for instance, practical jobs like welding will give more experience, while fabricating items now increases skills less than before.

A bunch of other additions, changes and improvements, such as:

• Five new talents for the Assistant.
  
• More traitor events, including new multi-traitor events.
  
• Options for hiding and/or reporting inappropriate servers from the server list.
  
• Multiple fixes to lighting, such as lights shining through obstacles, turret lights disappearing, and lighting artifacts in rooms with intersecting walls.
  
• Adjustments to level layouts.
  
• A long list of optimizations, and a large assortment of bugfixes.
  

Hello submariners!

The Steam Autumn Sale starts today, and with that, the Steam Awards nomination period also begins: its time to nominate your favorite games for awards. If youd like to nominate Barotrauma for an award, read on!

Barotrauma is eligible in a number of categories since we reached 1.0 this year. Which one do you think is the best fit? You can nominate us for Better With Friends right through this post the part about needing someone to watch your back, or someone who you can stab in the back, really resonated with us, particularly following last months traitor update. You can also pick another category, if you feel a different one is a better match.

Either way, we hope youve enjoyed this year, with our long-awaited 1.0 release and the subsequent 1.1 update. Its been a momentous year for us, and were still going to round it off with a smaller update before Christmas. More about that a bit later; for now, enjoy the Autumn Sale, and remember to nominate all your favorite games for awards!

Hello everyone!

We've just released a second hotfix for the Treacherous Tides update, now with a longer list of changes to address issues discovered since the update's release. Please be sure to update your game to the latest version, and see the full list of changes just below.


v1.1.19.3

- Fixed shrapnel from flak cannon ammo always launching upwards.
- Fixed wall damage shrapnel going through walls and being a little excessive overall.
- Fixes to pressure distribution logic: fixes pressure sometimes being lethal in breached rooms that weren't full of water.
- Fixed clients not regaining control of their braindead character after rejoining if the character's taken any amount of damage while braindead.
- Fixes to inconsistent stack sizes (e.g. certain ammo types stacking up to 12 in character inventories, but only 8 holdable/wearable items like backpacks and toolbelts.
- Fixed console errors when switching subs with circuit boxes on board.
- Fixed items that are inside a container that doesn't get transferred getting duplicated during item transfer when switching subs.
- Fixed bots not cleaning up circuit boxes from the floor.
- Fixed stack size being displayed incorrectly in the tooltip when dragging a stack of items to an already-occupied slot.
- Fixed nav terminal's docking button not working if the signal is routed from the terminal to the docking port through a circuit box.
- Fixed double-clicking a component while a circuit box is equipped making the component vanish inside the circuit box.
- Fixed chat messages sent when accusing someone as a traitor not triggering the spam filter.
- Fixed connection names not being translated in circuit boxes (always showed up in English).
- Fixed right-side crew panel overlapping with the mission panel in the PvP mode round summary.
- Fixed depleted and fulgurium fuel rods stacking up to 32 (should be 8 like all other fuel rods).

Modding:
- Added "UseHumanAI" property to characters (can be used to enable the human AI on characters other than humans). While using the human AI on non-humans isn't a fully supported or tested feature, it was previously possible to do that by creating a human prefab using a different species than human, but that no longer worked as of the Treacherous Tides update.
- Attachable holdable items don't count as "HoldableOrWearableInventories". Fixes e.g. tanks only stacking up to 1 in things like movable cabinets and shelves. Does not affect any vanilla content.
- Fixed fabricator reducing the condition of all the available ingredients if the crafting recipe reduces condition instead of consuming the whole item.
- Fixed TagAction continuing in some situations when it can't find targets, even if it's been configured not to with the "ContinueIfNoTargetsFound" attribute.

Hello everyone!

We've released a small fix for yesterday's update:

v1.1.18.1
- Fixed opening the "load game" menu crashing the game if you have any corrupted/unloadable saves in the save folder. In multiplayer, this would just prevent opening the campaign setup menu without any error messages.

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Hello everyone!

The Treacherous Tides update has just been released. Find the full list of changes at the end of this post and a more detailed description of the update in this post from last week.

Be sure to update your game to the latest version to be able to host and join servers. Dive in for a new and expanded traitor gameplay system, along with a long list of other additions and improvements!


v1.1.18.0

Traitor overhaul:
- Completely redesigned traitor system, which also now works in the campaign mode.
- The traitor missions (now called "events") have been implemented using the scripted event system, and can be created in the event editor. We unfortunately had to drop support for the old system; even though we aim to not do any backwards-compatibility breaking changes now that we're past 1.0, after evaluating the number of mods that include custom traitor missions and seeing how few there are, we felt that it's better to depreciate the old system instead of maintaining two separate systems. We're sorry for the inconvenience, but we're hopeful the move to the scripted event system will allow modders to create more complex traitor events much more easily!
- A total of 27 completely new traitor events.
- Multi-traitor events and code words are back!
- Instead of the yes/no/maybe traitor setting, you can choose the probability of a traitor event per round (e.g. 50% = a traitor event happens on half the rounds on average).
- Each event has a "danger level" that describes how destructive/dangerous the event is. You can choose how dangerous events can get chosen in the server lobby, for example if you don't want very destructive traitor objectives in the campaign mode.
- If a traitor completes their objective successfully, they may get assigned a more dangerous objective on future rounds (up until the maximum defined danger level is reached).
- Players who haven't been traitors before/recently have a higher chance of getting selected as traitors.
- In the campaign mode, completing a traitor objective gives the traitors rewards such as getting to "steal" a portion of the mission experience.
- The players can vote which player they suspect as the traitor. At the end of the round, if at least half of the players have voted for the same player, that player will be accused as a traitor. If the accusation is correct, the traitor's objective will fail and they will receive no rewards. If the accusation is incorrect, the crew will receive a monetary penalty.
- Added various new traitor items, perhaps most notably the Radio Jammer, a handheld battery-powered device that temporarily disables radio communications (both text and voice chat).

Stacking and storage changes:
- Added Backpack, essentially a larger variant of the toolbelt with a small speed debuff. Can be obtained through the new assistant talent "Bag It Up", and purchased in stores around mid-way through the campaign.
- Oxygen and fuel tanks no longer stack in player inventories, but their capacity has been increased to compensate. A stack of oxygen tanks would last nearly 45 minutes (and that's not even accounting for high-quality tanks), which meant you could easily carry so much oxygen that running out is practically never a risk.
- Increased stack sizes of most items (such as materials, ammo, meds) to 32.
- Increased cabinet capacities.
- Storage containers can no longer be put in normal cabinet slots. The intention is to prevent being able to use storage containers as a way to significantly increase cabinet capacity (all the way up to 2880!). The larger stack sizes and increased cabinet capacities still allow storing a very large number of items, without having to resort to storage containers which make managing the items in the cabinet more inconvenient.
- Cabinets now have a handful of special "extra slots" specifically for storage containers. Storage containers have other uses besides just increasing storage capacity, and these extra slots are intended to keep them a viable option for those other uses.
- Added buttons for merging stacks and alphabetical sorting to all cabinets.
- Dropped stacks of items behave as one physical object and can be picked up by clicking once, instead of the stack becoming a bunch of individual items that need to be picked up one-by-one.
- Restricted the maximum stack sizes of character inventories and holdable/wearable containers to 8. Meaning you can carry 8 items per slot, but cabinets and crates can fit the "full" x32 stacks.

Talents:
- Fixed "By the Book" giving you the bonuses regardless if you complete a mission or not.
- Changed how Scavenger talent works: previously it had a chance of doubling the loot in a container, which often led to excessive amounts of loot (and other times, no extra loot at all). Now the chance works per-item instead.
- Fixed nuclear shells and depth charges fabricated with the "Nuclear Option" talent providing incendium when deconstructed, even though it's not used in the fabrication recipe.
- Fixed having one captain with the "Leading by Example" talent and another with "Family" messing up the afflictions applied by them (one trying to apply "Excellent Morale" and the other trying to remove it).

Misc changes and additions:
- Added Circuit Box, an item that allows creating circuits without having to fabricate and place each component individually on the sub's walls.
- Added lights that indicate the ammo status to turret loaders.
- Characters "grab" the device/item they're interacting with, making it easier to see e.g. whether a character is taking something from a cabinet or just standing next to it.
- Allowed any type of ammo box to be used in the turret ammo box recycling recipes.
- Improved explosion particle effects.
- Added a new abandoned outpost mission variant (relating to one of the shadier factions).
- Pets become unhappy faster. Previously the happiness decrease rate was so low the pets were more likely to starve to death than to become unhappy.
- Pets no longer regenerate health when they're well-fed. This was a leftover from the 1st implementation of the pets, and is no longer necessary, because they now regenerate health while eating.
- Repositioned item interfaces retain their positions between rounds.
- Killing/handcuffing the terrorists during escort missions is no longer required to complete the mission. Fixes other means of detaining them (such as brigging, stunning or paralyzing) not being considered valid before.
- It's now possible to access the gene splicer slot of dead/incapacitated characters.
- Increased fruits' impact tolerances to prevent them from breaking when falling.
- Tweaks to the sound effects when under high pressure.
- Underwater scooter's light turns on when aiming (not just when actually using the scooter).
- Captain's pipe and cigar are used by holding RMB (not LMB+RMB) to make their usage consistent with other "consumables".
- Added broken state sprites for Thalamus' fleshspike and fleshgun. Adjusted the fleshgun particle effect.
- Made characters only flip from one side of a ladder to another when aiming. Makes it easier to interact with things next to the ladder, when the character doesn't automatically flip to the "wrong side" when you try to highlight something.
- Beacon station and cave markers are removed from the sonar once the beacon/cave mission is completed.
- The Output and FalseOutput of switches and periscopes are editable.
- Added a "disable_output" pin to supercapacitors and batteries. Particularly useful for auto-operated turrets, as it can be used to power them down.
- Made auto-operated turrets much better at using pulse lasers, chainguns and other turrets that need to wind up before firing. Previously the AI was too eager to switch between targets, as opposed to waiting for the turret to wind up and actually fire.
- Added "activate_out" output to doors (outputs a signal when someone toggles the door) + an option to make the door NOT open/close when someone tries to toggle it. Can be used to run a signal through some external circuit when someone tries to open a door with integrated buttons.

Balance:
- Adjusted ammo fabrication recipes to fix lead being too scarce (considering it's needed for almost all ammo types). Now ammunition can be fabricated from different materials, not just lead.
- Revisited the contents, the difficulty, and the rewards of monster missions.
- Balanced reputation gains from missions: it should now be less easy to maintain a positive reputation with all factions.
- Slightly increased character impact damage (i.e. damage taken when you fall or get thrown against something).
- Being under high pressure causes organ damage. Without this, it's possible to basically ignore high pressure as long as you're quick (e.g. you can briefly go outside or to a breached ballast to fix walls).
- Made gravity sphere, guardiansteamcannon and guardianbeamweapon cause a bit of radiation sickness. Afflictions that can't be treated with morphine + bandages should be more common, so here's some!
- Piezo crystals cause a bit of stun and burns on characters.
- Nerfed fractalguardian_emp a bit: longer attack cooldown, shorted EMP range. The previous values made it too easy to get softlocked.
- Added 50% flow resistance to makeshift armor to make it more effective in indoors combat.
- Revisited the effects of liquid oxygenite and the oxygen related effects of deusizine to keep them balanced. Reduced the required skill for applying liquid oxygenite to compensate for the failure effects.
- Reduced Mudraptor's priority of eating dead bodies with the intention of making it not as easy to distract them killing one in a pack.
- Improved the monster nest mission progression by introducing harder variants of all the missions. Adjusted the existing nest missions a bit.
- Buffed the ancient weapon: increase the burn damage from 40 to 50, make them ignore 50% of armor protection, allow them to cut off limbs and break (some) armor. Add stun for stopping power.
- Defined fire damage (on ballast flora) and AI combat priority for the ancient weapon.
- Set the treatmentthreshold for oxygen loss to 100, so that the bots won't try to treat patients so eagerly. Now they should react only slightly before the target faints. Note that this also affects when the suitable treatments are shown in the health interface.

Optimization:
- Optimizations to situations when there's lots of NPCs nearby. Particularly noticeable in very crowded outposts.
- Optimized the Load Game menu in both singleplayer and multiplayer, dramatically reducing the time the game freezes when opening it.
- Optimized flashlights and other directional lights.
- Loading optimizations (loading screens should now be noticeably quicker).
- Thalamus: spawn the initial cells when the AI is loaded (at the round start) instead of doing that when the player is close by. Gets rid of the notable lag spike when approaching a Thalamus infested wreck.
- Miscellaneous smaller optimizations.

Submarines:
- Reworked Berilia.
- Reworked R-29.
- Linked fabricators to the cabinets next to them in all vanilla subs.
- Various fixes and improvements to Orca.
- Fixed waypoints outside the submarine not being disabled as obstructed when the connection doesn't overlap a wall.
- Waypoint fixes to most player subs.
- Fixes to transferring items between subs: some items that didn't fit into cabinets weren't put into crates even if they could've been, and some items spawned unnecessary crates because they were configured to spawn in a crate despite being too big to put in one.
- Fixed incorrect "low on fuel" warning when switching to a new sub with no fuel, even if you have fuel in your current sub and opted to transfer them to the new one.

Multiplayer:
- The skill loss on death can be adjusted in the server settings. Defaults to 50% (previously 75%).
- Fixed characters keeping all the injuries they've received while being "braindead" (killed due to disconnecting), meaning if you for example hack the character to pieces while braindead, and the character respawns next round, they'll spawn dead.
- If a client joins when their character is "braindead" (killed due to disconnection), the character is now revived and the client immediately regains control of it. But only if the character's vitality is above 0 - if they have received other lethal injuries or despawned, they'll have to wait for a "normal" respawn.
- Fixed icon in server details panel in the server list saying that every server is modded.
- Fixed clients spawning as characters even if they've opted to spectate if the game mode is switched from campaign to some other mode and back.
- Fixed fabricator sometimes starting to fabricate an incorrect amount if you click the "start" button quickly after adjusting the amount.
- Fixed occasional "received invalid SetAttackTarget message" errors in multiplayer. Happened when some attack caused the target to be killed and despawned immediately (e.g. when a pet was instakilled by a monster).
- Fixed inability to attach items to walls outside the sub in MP.
- The outpost manager is always killable in the Tormsdale report event even if the killing outpost NPCs is disallowed on the server.
- Fixed certain kinds of network messages being sent using an unreliable delivery method (potentially causing occasional issues with file transfers and traitor messages).
- Fixed inability to choose or vote for a sub if you don't have all the content packages required for the sub.
- Fixed clients not seeing the votes of anyone who voted before them on the ready check.
- Fixed dropping off ladders when you open your own health interface in multiplayer.
- Fixed changing character appearance triggering the "wait X seconds until you can rename again" warning.
- Fixed replaced shuttles not getting repaired client-side when you purchase the replacement, making it look like you can't repair them (because they're already repaired server-side).
- Fixed handheld sonar beacon's textbox becoming empty when you enter something in it in multiplayer.
- Fixed "Attempted to create a network event for an item That hasn't been fully initialized yet" console error when spawning a sonar beacon mid-round.
- Fixed characters getting removed at the end of the round if they've died and then been revived with the "revive" console command.

AI:
- Fixed bots "cleaning up" (or stealing) batteries from portable pumps.
- Fixed bots never cleaning up detached wires.
- Fixed bots sometimes ignoring the leaks right next to doors/hatches.
- Fixed bots cleaning up items that are being eaten by a pet.
- Monsters not ignore provocative items in the inventories of characters they're configured to ignore (with the targeting state "Idle"). Fixes husks attacking characters that are wearing cultist robes with a diving suit.
- Autopilot now avoids the floating ice chunks using the same logic it uses to avoid ice spires.
- Defined AI combat priority for the alien pistol.
- Adjusted the combat priorities of flamer and steam prototype gun.
- Fixed bots sometimes drowning in the ballast because they didn't think they'd need diving gear if the ballast is not full (but still has enough water to drown).
- Fixed bots sometimes preferring to get a new weapon instead of reloading their current one, even if they had easy access to more ammo.
- Fixed bots accepting orders but not doing anything while handcuffed. The bots will now refuse to do things that they need hands when they are handcuffed.
- Fixed bots still sometimes getting stuck on corners around staircases.
- Bots don't attempt to repair or fix leaks in non-friendly subs (e.g. wrecks or ruins).
- Bots don't attempt to clean items in the main sub in outpost levels.
- Fixed bots sometimes just swimming around when they should be able to get back to the sub.
- Fixed orders persisting even if the target no longer exists after a sub switch (e.g. a bot might attempt to operate a turret that doesn't exist, resulting in them doing nothing).
- Fixed "follow" order not always persisting between rounds.
- Bots don't try to use stabilozine to treat deliriumine poisoning. It only slows down the progress of the poisoning, which is kind of pointless in the case of the non-lethal deliriumine poisoning.

Alien ruins and artifacts:
- The ruins now start smaller and grow bigger gradually, depending on the difficulty level.
- Ruins start to appear a little later in the campaign (in the second biome).
- Initially only "scan ruin" missions are given, "ruin salvage" and "clear ruin" missions don't appear until later.
- Adjusted the loot distribution in the ruins.
- Fixed guardians and defensebot(?) spawning the blood decal when they get dismembered.
- Fixed guardian pod damage sounds sometimes being inaudible.
- Artifact transport cases require batteries to nullify the effects of the artifacts. The batteries last a little over 8 minutes. Also added some animations and lights to the case when powered.
- Made Faraday Artifact's EMP effect a little stronger, and added a discharge coil effect out of water.
- Thermal Artifact now emits steam in water that burns and damages walls.
- Nasonov Artifact now also disrupts the sonar. Added particle effects.
- Psychosis Artifact now generates watcher's gaze periodically, causing psychosis/nausea and strengthening nearby monsters.
- Sky Artifact now drains water on top of draining oxygen, making them a little more tricky to deal with.
- Doubled the price of all artifacts.
- Fixed artifacts never spawning as random loot in ruins.

Fixes:
- Fixed 2nd end level being impossible to complete if you've already completed the campaign once, because the logbooks didn't respawn on the 2nd loop.
- Fixed inability to equip one-handed items when you're holding a one-handed container that item can go inside (e.g. trying to equip a revolver while holding a storage container would just put it in the container).
- Fixed an exploit that allowed giving your ID card access to places it shouldn't have access to (by placing it in the inventory of e.g. a bot captain and saving and reloading).
- Fixed mollusk and skitter genes giving much less vigor/hyperactivity than intended, making them practically useless.
- Fixed crashing if you change the language when there's scrolling texts (such as "your skills might be insufficient...") visible on the screen.
- Fixed an exploit that allowed using beds/chairs and crouching to trigger a sort of "noclip".
- Fixed particle "z-fighting" (particles flickering in front of each other). Was particularly noticeable with smoke particles.
- Fixed lighting and LOS behaving strangely on very long walls (not extruding far enough to cover the whole screen, allowing you to see through the wall).
- Fixed rifle reload sounds sometimes not playing if you fire in very rapid succession.
- Fixed files listed in file dialogs (such as when choosing a thumbnail for a mod) being in an inconsistent order on Linux.
- Fixed gaps generating strangely on "Shuttle Shell A Glass A".
- Fixed autoturrets being unable to fire inside hulls.
- Fixed badvibrations3 event (last part of the event chain where you're assigned to salvage a psychosis artifact) never triggering.
- Fixed "sleight of hand" event not giving you the trinket if you choose the 1st dialog option.
- Fixed husk symbiosis getting removed from characters after finishing the campaign.
- Fixed heavy wrench not stunning unskilled users like it should.
- Fixed Jovian radiation no longer causing any noticeable radiation sickness, because it healed faster than the Jovian radiation causes it.
- Fixed chaingun's "winding up" sound not following the sub.
- Only allow putting syringes in autoinjectors (autoinjecting bandages doesn't make much sense, and doesn't work properly).
- Fixed submarines getting stopped by the collider of the acid mist emitted by acid grenades.
- Fixed connection panel layout not working properly on very large resolutions (pins being excessively large and/or going below the borders of the panel's frame).
- Fixed an issue in the "toy hammer" task given by the Jestmaster. The event would never complete, and instead just endlessly increase your reputation when hitting the monster with the hammer.
- Fixed occasional "no suitable return target found" console errors when leaving a location.
- Fixed explosive slugs exploding in the barrel when shot into the void in the sub editor's test mode.
- Fixed attaching items in-game not aligning them with the grid the same way as in the sub editor (offsetting them by half the size of the grid).
- Fixed event trigger icon (the yellow exclamation mark) hiding the conversation icon when an event targets the outpost manager.
- Fixed husks sometimes moving at an unintendedly slow speed on land, making the walking animation look strange (sort of sliding while barely moving their feet).
- Fixed text display's light turning off when copying one in the sub editor.
- Fixed 40mm grenades not exploding in nuclear shells.
- Fixed bringing the cursor over the inventory interrupting using tools and weapons.
- Minerals can't be grabbed before they've been detached with a plasma cutter (it was confusing to be able to grab the item and have the "detaching" progress bar appear, despite it doing nothing).
- Fixed sonar not displaying markers for other subs in the sub editor test mode.
- Fixed fabricator UI not refreshing the skill/time requirements when selecting a linked cabinet instead of the fabricator itself.
- Fixed fabricator not being able to pull materials from the user's inventory if the user selected a linked cabinet instead of the fabricator itself.
- Fixed submarine preview highlighting hulls that have the same name even if they're not linked or near each other.
- Fixed rope pull force originating from the item's origin instead of the barrel.
- Improved how electrical discharge coils determine which walls are outer walls: use the actual position of the structure's body, and check if there's hulls at either side of it.
- Fixed submarine wall "shell a combo 1 1" being incorrectly configured as a horizontal wall. Caused EDC to behave strangely on these walls.
- Fixed monsters sometimes spawning within the player's sight in wrecks (or ruins).
- Fixed corpses carried to the sub from a wreck just disappearing at the end of the round along with the items in their inventory.
- Fixed infinite loop in Character.CanInteractWith if the target item is in a container it's linked to, and has been configured to be displayed side-by-side. For example, if you place a cabinet linked to a fabricator inside the fabricator.
- Fixed incorrect type of airlock module being sometimes used in levels between outposts (e.g. a colony airlock module even though the outpost is a normal one).
- Fixed 40mm acid grenades sometimes appearing to explode in the grenade launcher client-side.
- Fixed nuclear reactor's explosion effects sometimes not being visible client-side.
- Fixed holdable item's sprite origin not getting mirrored on the x-axis. There was a previous attempt at fixing this, but it didn't work correctly: it adjusted the position where the item is held, in a way that made the sprite appear at the correct position. The sprite origin shouldn't affect the position of the item's body though, just where the sprite is drawn relative to the body. The previous fix also didn't take flipping into account, causing the body to be "the wrong way around" when facing left.
- Turn the reactor auto temp on at round end, if the reactor is actively managed by a bot. Fixes reactor sometimes generating too much power at the beginning of the rounds. Only happens later in the game when the bot operating the reactor is skilled enough to manually manage the reactor.
- Fixed thalamus being allowed to load the cheap nuclear shells (talent item) when it loads the railgun.
- Fixed a rounding error making some hairs/attachments in mods impossible to select.
- Fixed some properties of wearable InheritLimbDepth, InheritScale, InheritSourceRect, InheritOrigin being forced to true, and ObscureOtherWearables being forced to None on all wearable sprites except items regardless of what's set in XML.
- Fixed repair tools hitting severed (or hidden) limbs, which sometimes caused the target to not take damage.
- Fixed ancient weapons not being able to cut minerals.
- Fixed "hidden in game" entities + propeller's damage area indicator being visible in images generated with "wikiimage_sub".
- Fixed gaps that aren't linked to anything (e.g. gaps fully inside a hull) counting as hull breaches on the status monitor.
- Fixed contained items in a held item (e.g. flashlight in a rifle, harpoons in a harpoon gun) rotating "choppily".
- Fixed particle "z-fighting" (flickering in front of each other). Was particularly noticeable with alpha-blended particles like smoke.
- Fixed damage from structure damage "shrapnel explosions" being very inconsistent. The explosion didn't ignore obstacles, meaning any structures between the explosion and the character (including the wall the shrapnel comes from) would drastically reduce the damage. This meant the damage was usually very low, but with specific kinds of wall configurations could be enough to instakill a character.
- Fixed characters letting go of the character they're dragging when moving out from or into a sub.
- Changed the formula that converts the rectangular steering vector on the nav terminal to circular. The previous formula caused the "steering arrow" to point at a slightly different direction than where the submarine was actually trying to head to. Most noticeable when controlling turrets using the nav terminal.
- Fixed diving masks reducing movement speed.
- Fixed water in docked shuttles/drones not affecting the buoyancy of the main submarine as much as it should.
- Fixed sub editor sometimes deleting previously selected entities when deleting something using the right-click context menu.
- Fixed monsters sometimes spawning inside the sub after you restore a beacon station.
- Fixed trying to return back from a "deadend location" with no outpost sometimes not working.
- Fixed fractal guardians damaging themselves with their steam cannons.
- Fixed a rare crash caused by an exception in Explosion.RangedStructureDamage. Happened when structure damage triggered an explosion, and said explosion caused another explosion that caused more structure damage. Could happen e.g. when the shrapnel from a breach kills a terminal cell, which explodes and causes more structure damage.
- Fixed auto-operated turrets being able to function without power.
- Fixed it being possible for the last location before the end levels to turn into an outpost if you manage to spread habitation all the way there.
- Changed sonar flora sprite depths to prevent them from being obscured by the edge chunk objects.
- Fixed some headgear (such as separatist captain hats) clipping through PUCS's helmet.
- Fixed lights shining through items characters are holding.
- Fixed ability to clip your turrets through enemy subs' hulls and launch projectiles inside the sub.
- Fixed "heal [H]" hint being visible when focusing on other characters while climbing ladders, and the health interface opening for one frame if you attempt to heal.
- Fixed inability to damage doors with melee weapons from outside the sub.
- Fixed riot shield rotating in a really strange way when swimming (in the wrong direction relative to the character's rotation).
- Fixed Electrical Discharge Coil behaving strangely (drawing huge amounts of power, but never discharging) when there's not enough power and power flowback through EDCs.
- Fixed "show hidden afflictions" button not scaling correctly when switching the resolution.
- Fixed the abandoned outpost you rescue Subra from never turning to a normal outpost.
- Fixed flashlight not being turned off when swapping the item to the belt slot, if there's something else in the slot (like a toolbelt).
- Fixed incorrect draw order of the diving suit's arms (the "shoulder pad" rendered behing the upper arm).
- Fixed "chem withdrawal" and "drunknodebuffs" (variant of drunkenness if you have a talent that nullifies the negative effects) not healing by itself, meaning it was impossible for them to fully heal except by using the medical clinic.
- Fixed captains spawning without tobacco in the pipe (literally unplayable).

Hello everyone!

The Treacherous Tides update will be releasing next week, so lets take one last look at what you will find in it.

Overhauled traitor system
We wrote about the overhaul in more detail in our previous post. In a nutshell, look forward to playing with traitors even in the campaign game mode! Other notable changes include:

• A new total of 27 traitor events, including multi-traitor events and event chains.
  
• Many new traitor-specific items.
  
• Traitor events will now use the scripted events system, making them more varied and easier to mod.
  

• Circuit boxes, a new and tidier way to create complex wiring systems with components.
  
• Improved alien ruins, adding a better sense of progression.
  
• Enhanced alien artifact effects which make them riskier to transport and store.
  
• Updated Berilia and R-29 submarines.
  
• Animations for using devices on the sub. No more just standing there, menacingly.
  
• Ammo indicator lights for turrets, making it easier to see when to reload.
  
• Addressed the scarcity of lead, allowing fabrication of ammo with additional materials.
  
• Skill loss on death can be adjusted or completely turned off in the server settings.
  
• Braindead characters joining the server will immediately get control of their character back.
  
• About 10 more pages of changelog, coming next week.
  

Hello everyone!

Weve already mentioned a few times that the next update will focus on overhauling the traitor mode of Barotrauma. Now its time to take a closer look.

With the traitor system overhaul, our goal has been to make traitor gameplay more engaging, offer more variety, and make it work with the campaign game mode. Traitors will be off in campaigns by default, but you can now invite treason to your travels in campaign mode as well.

Weve added two new settings for traitor gameplay in the server settings:

• Danger level: Controls the maximum danger level of the traitor events you may be assigned. You can use this setting either to limit how destructive traitors will be, or to add extra challenge.
  
• Traitor probability: The host can now fine-tune how likely it is that a traitor will be on board, from 0% to 100%.
  

• The radio jammer, for tasks requiring privacy and silence.
  
• Deepdiver ducks, for when you absolutely need something to throw.
  
• Different types of timed explosives, to promote a sense of urgency.
  
• The husk caller, for, well, we think you can figure it out.
  

Hello everyone!

Now that we have been back from our holidays for a while, we thought it would be a good idea to revisit our plans for the upcoming storage changes. As we wrote in June, we wanted to get feedback on the proposed changes to the storage system and that is definitely what we got, so thank you for all the comments! We have now had time to go through all the feedback and adjust our plans a bit.

Most importantly, the storage container item will not be removed. We read about the many inventive and novel ways in which this item is being used, beyond simply boosting raw storage space in cabinets. Such creative applications of game items are always interesting for us to see and we dont want to discourage them, so even after the update, you will still be able to use storage containers to store personal collections, or carry loot from a wreck, for example.

We are, however, still going to restrict storage container placement inside cabinets. Lets take a look at the currently planned storage changes in a nutshell:

• Material stacks in cabinets will go from 8 to 32. This includes items such as: minerals, medical items, ammo, consumables and genetic materials.
  
• Overall, cabinet storage slots have been increased by one full row.
  
• All cabinets will receive extra slots, which can be used to house storage containers. The number of these slots depends on the size of the cabinet. Storage containers can only be placed in these slots, not in the other slots of a cabinet.
  
• Cabinets will have two handy buttons, one for automatically merging incomplete stacks, and another to sort all the items alphabetically.
  
• Oxygen, welding fuel and oxygenite tanks no longer stack in character inventories. They have increased duration to compensate, so you dont need to swap them so often, and they stack normally inside cabinets.
  

Hello everyone!

Summer is here, and our team will be taking some time off. While we are away from our desks and slower to respond for a few weeks, you can already begin sneak peeking at the next update in the Unstable test version.

A notable change coming in the next update has to do with item stack sizes and storage containers. As you may know, storage containers can be placed inside cabinets to amass huge numbers of items on board a submarine. This results in a poor user experience, because its hard to find the items you need using this storage method. The large item counts also hurt game balance and performance.

This is why we are going to remove storage containers from the game, but to compensate for the loss, well increase stack sizes for materials and meds stored inside cabinets. You can find more details about the upcoming storage changes on our blog.

We believe this change should make inventory management much better on the whole, and help with balance and performance issues at the same time, but we understand some of you may still view the storage cutback negatively. To make sure we hear from you and can still adjust these changes before their public release, you can now test them in the Unstable version and give us feedback over the summer!

Another part of the next update which is already available for testing is the first iteration of the new traitor mode. Well write more about the traitor system changes later in the summer, and the update is planned to be released in the autumn.

Stay tuned for more news later, and have a great summer!

Hello everyone!

We've just released a hotfix to address a few issues in last week's Summer Patch. See the list of changes below:

v1.0.21.0

Fixes:
- Fixed LOS effect sometimes "lagging behind" when the sub is moving fast.
- Fixed some minor visual issues (occasional jitter/flickering) on the LOS effect.
- Fixed some issues in the bot AI that we're causing a large performance hit particularly in situations when there's lots of bots in a sub with leaks.
- Fixed bots abandoning their orders (such as operating a turret) if the room is unsafe (e.g. flooded).
- Fixed an issue in character syncing that occasionally caused disconnects with the error message "Exception thrown while reading segment EntityPosition, tried to read too much data from segment".
- Fixed wires set to be hidden in-game (e.g. invisible circuits built outside the sub) being visible on the Electrician's Goggles.
- Fixed an issue with level resources that caused crashes with certain mods (e.g. ones that include subs with piezo crystals).
- Fixed NPCs waiting on some outpost modules never reaching their targets, causing peculiar behavior.
- Fixed waypoints sometimes not getting connected between outpost modules if there's a very short hallway between them. Addresses some cities missing connections between waypoints, causing AI to be unable to navigate through the modules.
- Fixed some UI layout issues (most noticeably, ultra-wide crew list) on certain resolutions like 3440x1440.
- Fixed campaign saves occasionally failing to load with the error "an item with the same key has already been added". Seemed to only occur when using certain mods.
- Fixed crashing when you e.g. use a pet from some mod in the campaign, disable the mod and reload the save.
- Waypoint adjustments to most submarines, outposts, wrecks, and beacons. Especially on ladders. Should take care of the remaining AI issues on ladders (the old subs in the saves don't get updated, but the fixes apply to new subs that you don't yet own. And ofc all the subs in a new game!)

Hello everyone!

Our second post-1.0 patch has just been released, with an improved line-of-sight effect, a new item called the electricians goggles to improve the wiring system, optimizations, and various fixes and improvements like

• Fixed anaparalyzant not reducing paralysis.
  
• More fixes to bot AI and pathing.
  
• Made clown and husk events and missions more common.
  
• Added category buttons to the fabricator interface to make it easier to find items.
  
• Upgrades that require materials can be purchased with materials from the sub instead of having to carry the materials on you.
  

Hello everyone!

Our second post-1.0 patch is almost ready to be released, with various fixes and improvements as well as a few entirely new additions. Here are some highlights to look forward to:

• Electricians goggles, a completely new item for the Engineer which will visualize power and signals moving through the wires of your submarine and let you see the power and signal values on the connection panel interface. This should make the wiring system more approachable to new players and give veterans extra information to create more complex systems.
  
• The reworked line-of-sight effect gets rid of jagged edges and weird geometry while making the effect look smoother overall, especially near intersecting walls.
  
• Optimizations to the performance of the game, most notably in submarines with a large amount of items. We have also improved loading times and made some of the lighting effects less performance-intensive.
  
• Fixes to bugs such as anaparalyzant not reducing paralysis, further fixes to the bot AI and pathing, as well as all-round small tweaks and improvements, like new category buttons in the fabricator interface to make it easier to find items.
  

Hello everyone!

We have just released a hotfix to fix a couple of issues in yesterday's patch.
See the changes below.

v1.0.13.2

- Fixed "hash mismatch" errors when trying to enable a mod that's been updated in the most recent patch.
- Fixed "the submarine contains entities with duplicate IDs" error message when loading a submarine that contains multiple shuttles/drones.

Hello everyone!

We have just released the first larger patch since the 1.0 launch. The patch addresses many bot AI issues such as bots not changing oxygen tanks, getting stuck on ladders, and failing to get on turrets, to name a few.

Additionally, the patch introduces many other fixes, including several multiplayer fixes to reduce disconnections and network issues. Were also adding a reworked version of the Typhon vanilla sub and various smaller fixes to other submarines.

See the full list of changes below, and make sure to update your game to the latest version!


v1.0.13.1

Misc changes and improvements:
- NPCs who offer services don't get turned hostile regardless of your reputation. If you've got money, they'll be happy to serve!
- Attacking outpost NPCs can't decrease your reputation by more than 20 points per round. Works as a safeguard against enormous reputation losses e.g. in the case of a trigger-happy griefer or a nuclear mishap.
- Destroying outpost walls can't decrease your reputation by more than 10 points per round.
- Outpost NPCs don't allow players to grab them for longer than 10 seconds to prevent being able to drag them around the outpost.
- Minor visual improvements to biomes: biome-specific outpost levels (instead of all outpost levels looking like Cold Caverns), more level objects in Hydrothermal Wastes and the Great Sea.
- Spawn abyss and combat suits in enemy subs and wrecks instead of normal ones in later biomes.
- Fixed minerals still sometimes spawning on the wrong side of cave walls (when the other side of the wall is outside the boundaries of the level).
- Fixed pressure stabilizer only affecting the player for 100 seconds, instead of the intended 1000 seconds (16 mins).
- Fixed clients not getting assigned the "None" permission preset when using a language other than English (meaning it wasn't possible to customize what permissions clients have by default).
- Fixed enabling cheats not actually disabling Steam achievements for the rest of the campaign (it was possible to re-enable unlocking achievements by saving and reloading).
- Fixed Tormsdale mission not completing unless you bring the item to the sub. Now retrieving the item counts as "bringing it to the sub" in friendly outposts.
- Optimized/simplified exosuit and FB3000 status effects.
- Made huskified humans' items move to a duffel bag on death.
- Increased the priority of turret lights to prevent them from getting hidden when using a low light limit.
- Reduced the minimum mass required for a character to be visible with thermal goggles, always show at least the main limb regardless of the mass. Fixes thresher hatchlings being invisible to the goggles.
- Alien power cells can be deconstructed.

Bots:
- Fixed bots targeting crawler eggs when they are inside an inventory (also in the Broodmother's inventory).
- Fixed bots being allowed to shoot items from very long distances.
- Fixed bots wasting ammunition on crawler eggs that are not dangerously close to the sub.
- Fixed bots using an unintentionally long delay before shooting.
- Fixed bots targeting (but not shooting) enemies inside abandoned outposts.
- Adjusted the delays and the targeting ranges. Remove the "grace" distance modifier. Improves the bots' general usage of turrets.
- Fixed "fight intruders" order causing bots to attack enemies in abandoned outposts again.
- Bots are allowed to use meds from an unconscious patient's inventory.
- Fixed bots falling off the ledge in DockingModule_02_Colony (again).
- Fixed bots not prioritizing the leaks as they should when multiple bots are fixing leaks simultaneously.
- Fixed bots not preferring the items that lie on the ground.
- Fixed bots often not being able to reach small items like battery cells or rifle rounds that lie on the ground.
- Fixed bots sometimes holding the flashlight in their mouth.
- Fixed bots acting weird when picking up items and having their inventory full.
- Fixed bots not being able to find an alternative container for the items they are cleaning up, when the path to the preferred container is blocked. Didn't affect bots getting a specific item, like a diving suit when they need it.
- Bots are no longer allowed to wear the items (other than in hands) when they are cleaning them up.
- Improved bots' abilities to find items. They should be much quicker at it than previously.
- Possibly fixed bots sometimes ignoring targets that they shouldn't ignore.
- Fixed bots not being able to change the oxygen tanks when they are in a safe room with no enemies.
- Fixed bots using both diving mask and the suit simultaneously.
- Fixed bots holding to old paths that shouldn't be valid anymore (= not complying when you order them to follow outside of the submarine).
- Fixed bots not being able to use pathing when the player has just controlled them, leaving them in a ruin, wreck, or a beacon. Only happened when the bot hadn't been AI controlled before during the round.
- Fixed bots using the waypoints not linked to any sub when they should use the waypoints linked to a sub and vice versa.
- Fixed bots trying to use the gaps when they could just use a path to get to the target.
- Fixed missing links between doors and waypoints in Alien_Entrance3.
- Fixed bots sometimes not being able to release from the ladders when they were trying to exit a wreck or beacon to get back to their own submarine.
- Fixed bots sometimes still idling on ladders, which they shouldn't do (There are some unaddressed cases where it might seem like they'd do this, but actually don't. They just can't reach the buttons linked to the door.)
- Fixed bots sometimes failing to climb up the ladder all the way up and falling down just before reaching next floor. Happened only in the idle state.
- Fixed bots sometimes getting stuck on the long ladder in EngineeringModule_02_Colony.
- Fixed waypoints on ladders leading to a hatch on many subs (using old waypoints), which caused the bots to fail to reach the hatch while trying to fix it.
- Fixed bots not being able to operate properly in high pressure levels when they don't have a suit that protects from the pressure (e.g. a regular diving suit later in the campaign).
- Bots now prioritize suits that give a better pressure protection (there's a separate attribute for it in the item definition: called "botpriority", which can and should be taken into account with the modified items).
- Fixed bots not healing theirselves while swimming outside of the submarine (they only do that when the wounds are relatively severe).
- Fixed bots treating theirselves when there's a medic onboard, which is currently unable to treat them (if the medic is able to treat the bot, they should not try to heal theirselves).
- Fixed bots ignoring targets that are currently fixing leaks (which was intentional, but seems to have been a bad decision).
- Added new dialogue for the bots about the lethal pressure levels and insufficient protection for it.
- Fixed some minor buts regarding the dialogue.
- Fixed bots not being able to use harpoon coil rifles properly.
- Fixed bots accepting random items as weapons when they can't find any weapon. Note that many tools, like welding tools and wrenches, can intentionally be used as weapons.
- Fixed prepare for expedition order and another order, like clean items, possibly resulting in looping behavior where the bot can't decide which one to follow.
- Adjustments to how the bots prioritize combat targets under fight intruders objective.
- Fixed bots not reacting when they are non-intentionally damaged by friendly NPCs (e.g. security smashing a player character).

Multiplayer fixes:
- Changes to make starting a round more robust: fixes various equality check errors ("submarine/mission doesn't match") if starting a multiplayer round takes a long time.
- Fixed dedicated servers' content package info getting truncated to 255 bytes, causing the content package list to just display "unknown" if the server has lots of mods enabled.
- Fixed "input contains duplicate packages" error when trying to join a server that has certain types of mods enabled (more specifically, mods that only contain client-side content, identical content or files of the type "Other", which could result in the MD5 hashes of the mods to be identical).
- Fixed projectile spread not being as random as it should be in multiplayer (successive hitscan rounds usually launched in the same direction).
- Fixed spectators not hearing others if their character is dead before the character despawns.
- Campaign rounds aren't forced to end if there's only one client on the server using freecam.
- Fixed crashing when a traitor missions starts when the host isn't controlling a character.
- Fixed sonar beacon tickbox sometimes flickering on and off in multiplayer.
- Fixed clients not seeing wall damage in outposts if the server has made outpost walls damageable, and the client doesn't have permissions to manage server settings.
- Fixed arc emitter briefly stunning the user client-side.
- Unconscious players can't end the round.

Countermeasures against multiplayer exploits:
- Fixed an exploit that allowed you to equip 2-handed weapons in only one hand.
- Added protection against deliberately lagging the server.
- Added an option to enable "DoS Protection" in the server settings under "Anti-Griefing".
- Enabled by default.
- When enabled, the server will automatically kick players who are causing the server to perform poorly.
- Added a new "Max Packet Auto-Kick" in the server settings under "Anti-Griefing".
- Enabled and set to 3000 by default.
- Can be disabled by setting the limit to 1200 or below.
- When enabled, the server will automatically kick players who are sending a certain amount of network packets in a minute.
- Added "Spam Immunity" server permission.
- Gives immunity to getting kicked from DoS protection, chat spam and from sending too many packets.
- Added a rate limit to console commands in multiplayer.
- Added a rate limit to creating new characters in multiplayer.

Balance:
- Buffed Harpoon Coil Rifle a bit (shorter charge time).
- Reduced Focused Flak Shell penetration slightly.

Talents:
- Engine Engineer, Helmsman and Affiliation talents no longer stack (allowed gaining insane engine speed boosts and bonuses by having large numbers of crew with the same talent).
- Fixed makeshift shelves no longer being placeable in pre-1.0 saves.
- Fixed some incorrect talent icons.
- Fixed Networking talent only giving a discount for faction-specific items.
- Fixed Machine Maniac requiring 5 repaired items instead 3 like the description says.
- Gene harvester doesn't spawn genetic materials on pets.
- Dying due to a disconnect doesn't trigger talents (like "Revenge Squad") or get recorded as a kill.

Submarines:
- Reworked Typhon (kudos to uberpendragon): replaced legacy items and structures, got rid of double walls, layout adjustments, visual improvements, improvements to the power grid and many smaller changes.
- Fixed waypoint in Herja's airlock not being linked to the door.
- Fixed fabricators not being linked to the cabinet next to them in Azimuth, Berilia, Kastrull, Orca2, Typhon, Typhon2, Winterhalter.
- Fixed some unhulled spaces inside Kastrull, Azimuth and Berilia.
- Fixed improperly wired smoke detectors in Typhon 2.
- Replaced the wall between gunnery and engineering (that every sane person cuts a hole in) with a door in Kastrull.
- Fixed medic not being given proper ID card tags in R-29, preventing them from accessing the toxin cabinet.
- Fixed Venture's exterior airlock door being repairable with a welding tool instead of a wrench.
- Fixed water detector in Dugong's oxygen generator room not being connected to the flood alarm circuit.
- Added "Silent Running" to Azimuth, as well as 1 diving suit and exterior cameras to make it more worthy of tier 2 (despite a lack of guns)

Fixes:
- Fixed all shadow-casting lights going through the outpost walls when docked to one.
- Oxygen generator sprite and animation fixes.
- Fixed escorted characters being hostile to you if they belong to a hostile faction.
- Safeguard against getting pinned under flooded enemy subs. The sub can now be pushed off as long as the enemies inside it are dead/incapacitated.
- Fixed enemy subs not affecting monster spawns (meaning monsters could spawn very close to enemy subs, and fighting an enemy sub didn't decrease the probability of monster spawns as it should've).
- Fixed submarines sometimes getting stuck when trying to squeeze through a tight passage in the level.
- Fixed pets being considered hostile in hostile outposts (causing AI crew to report them as intruders).
- Fixed monsters sometimes spawning inside walls during nest missions.
- Fixed paths between biomes sometimes being unlocked from the start on certain map seeds.
- Fixed launching an alien turret (or any modded turret that spawns it's own ammo inside itself) causing a crash.
- Fixed crashing when you exit Steam while the Workshop menu is open.
- Fixed some of the fonts not working properly in Japanese (but using roughly similar Chinese symbols instead).
- Fixed campaign's end boss moving away from you if you attack it with melee weapons.
- Fixed enemy crews not being able to switch between turrets and being very reluctant to operate multiple turrets at the same time.
- Fixed reputation reward text sometimes overflowing in the round summary (e.g. when the mission modifies both the husk cult and clown rep).
- Fixed characters holding and eating bananas weirdly.
- Fixed all friendly characters using the "hostage" dialog and all hostile characters the "bandit" dialog in abandoned outposts.
- Fixed characters sometimes becoming briefly immobilized (as if stunned) when the surface of the water rises up to the character's chest.
- Fixed cultist hood overlapping with the exosuit.
- Fixed exosuit and FB3000 not being tagged as "provocative" (meaning enemies didn't care about the sounds they make or the lights on them).
- Adjusted FB3000 fabrication recipe (the previous required so many materials they don't fit in the fabricator's input slots).
- Fixed PUCS not having an AI target unlike all other diving suits.
- Fixed sonar monitor's "sonar circle" overlapping with the control panel on some resolutions / HUD scales.
- Fixed occasional invisible barriers around alien ruins.
- Fixed protein bars only healing 1/60 of the intended amount.
- Fixed "Engineers_are_special" event no longer appearing.
- Fixed characters sometimes being able pass through level walls by swimming down through the broken floor of a wreck.
- Fixed "acquire a wrench" popup appearing multiple times in the mechanic tutorial.
- Fixed black squares on docking ports and hatches.
- Fixed crashing when trying to increment the version number of a mod whose version number consists of only numbers (i.e. no periods) or is empty.
- Fixed hireable cultists and clowns being the wrong way around (i.e. high clown rep allowed you to hire cultists and vice versa).
- Fixed wikiimage_sub and wikiimage_character crashing the game if the file is being used by another process.
- Fixed wikiimage_sub not sorting the entities the same way as the sub editor and game screen.
- Fixed status monitor displaying very small amounts of water in linked hulls as 1%.
- Faction reputation is reset after finishing the campaign.
- Fixed colony docking modules spawning with a bit of water in them.
- Fixed minerals sometimes spawning in normal caves in abyss mining missions. Happened if no abyss islands with caves happened to generate - now we always generate a cave in at least one of the islands.
- Fixed lights on the items the character is wearing being visible when inside a clown crate.
- Fixed mudraptor eggs (or other items set to be damaged by repair tools) not being damaged by flamers.
- Fixed handheld sonars not working in the end levels.
- Fixed rebinding the Use key not working in the sub editor.
- Fixed Ctrl+A not selecting connected wires in the sub editor.
- Fixed ability to climb ladders while lying in bed.
- Fabricator input slot tooltips don't show duplicate item names when the item can be crafted from multiple different items with the same name (e.g. petraptor egg can be crafted from 3 different egg items, all called "mudraptor egg").
- Fixed attacking others with the husk appendage not healing the user.
- Fixed pet name tag getting stuck mid-air when equipped.
- Fixed next round's missions not being displayed in the round summary when leaving a location that has missions (e.g. outpost with a jailbreak mission).
- Fixed inability to hire Jacov Subra if you miss/ignore the event the first time you get it.
- Outpost generator only takes walls with a collider into account when determining the bounds of the modules. Fixes husk modules being placed unnecessarily far from the outpost due to the decorative structures outside the door, leaving a very short hallway between the modules.
- Fixed characters sometimes dying from barotrauma despite the pressure icon not being visible. Happened when the pressure was just above the lethal threshold, but not as high as outside the sub.
- Fixed character interact texts (like "[H] Heal") not changing when you change the language.
- Fixed treatment suggestion for husk infection being shown when wearing zealot robes.
- Fixed inability to fabricate high-quality nuclear depth charges.
- Fixed exosuits getting autofilled with batteries.
- Fixed exosuits' lights not turning off when the wearer dies.
- Fixed 0% grenades (stun grenade and fixfoam) detonating if a player has one in their inventory when a mission starts.
- Fixed pre-unlocked talents not being visible client-side on the special faction NPCs hired during the round.
- Fixed escort and cargo missions sometimes leading to an abandoned outpost even if there's an inhabited one available.
- Fixed characters (ragdolls) sometimes getting stuck to the corners near platforms.
- Fixes to Japanese and Russian translations.

Modding:
- Fixed thalamus items fading from the prefab color to a darker tint, disregarding the actual sprite color of the item.
- Fixed LevelTrigger statuseffects not doing anything when triggered by a submarine.
- Added a scrollbar to the campaign setup's crew tab to make it work properly when there's more than 3 initial crew members.
- Support for using OnWearing in Containable StatusEffects.
- Fixed ability to "relaunch" a projectile that has already been launched or that's stuck to some target using status effects, which lead to various strange results.
- Fixed ItemContainer StatusEffects working in a different way than other effects, applying the effect separately to each target. Prevents e.g. having an effect that does something to an item if a condition is met on the character wearing it.

Hello everyone!

First of all, we would like to thank you all for celebrating Barotrauma 1.0 with us. Seeing so many of you upon and after the release has warmed our hearts like nothing else could in the cold undersea of Europa! We hope youve had a pleasant stay so far.

Since our 1.0 release, weve released two hotfixes to tackle some of the more severe issues that slipped through the cracks on release, with more fixes and improvements in the works. Thank you for being diligent with bug reports (and patient while waiting for fixes)!

In a couple of weeks, we will be releasing a larger patch to fix issues with the AI of your bot crewmates, as well as various other issues. Notably, bots not changing oxygen tanks, getting stuck on ladders, wasting ammo on crawler eggs and not getting on turrets will be addressed in this patch.

After the next patch, were going to keep fixing issues and improving the game in various ways with a second patch, which will hopefully be released later this spring or in the early summer. After that, we turn our eyes to the future and the next content update were planning on reworking the traitor system later this year.

Read more about the upcoming patch and our plans on our blog now and stay tuned for the patch in the next couple of weeks!

Hello everyone!

We've just released a second hotfix to address a few of the most common issues. See the list of changes below, and stay tuned: we're working on more fixes, including bot AI improvements, to be released in a few weeks' time.


v1.0.9.0

- Fixed crashing when you move from one textbox to another using tab and go past the last available textbox.
- Fixed inability to enter the final levels on some subs that include shuttles/drones.
- Fixed autoinjectors (PUCS, autoinjector headset) wasting the syringe without any effects on the character.
- Fixed bots failing to operate turrets in Typhon 1 due to them being partially inside the ceiling.
- Fixed lights going through walls in outposts.
- Fixed language selection prompt not showing up when launching the game for the first time.
- Fixed bots doing objectives during the roles tutorial, e.g. repairing the leaks for you.

Hello everyone!

Thank you for a wonderful launch reception. We hope you are enjoying version 1.0! Since the launch, we've discovered and fixed a few issues, and we've just released the first hotfix; see the list of changes below and be sure to update your game to the latest version. More fixes will follow in the weeks to come as we are able to test them all!


v1.0.8.0

- Fixed loading screens sometimes getting stuck when playing in Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
- Fixed certain mods that override outpost generation parameters causing crashes due to missing outpost NPC prefabs.
- Fixed outpost NPCs never attacking you (just aiming their guns at you) if you attack them, but your reputation is not low enough to turn the outpost hostile.
- Fixed broken dialog line in the waytoascension1 event.
- Fixed healing your crewmates causing your karma to decrease.

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Submariners ahoy!

The time has finally come, and Barotrauma 1.0 has been released. The 1.0 update introduces the faction overhaul, replete with new missions and events, an improved reputation system, and lots of faction-specific items and perks. The update also unlocks the campaign ending, with a brand new endgame sequence to conclude your adventure. Find a more detailed summary of the update in this preview post, and see the full list of changes at the end of this post.

Wed like to say a big thank you to everyone who has joined us on our Early Access journey. While 1.0 will not be the last Barotrauma update, it is a momentous one, and we are grateful to be sharing it with you. Welcome to Europa, sailors old and new!



v1.0.7.0

Faction overhaul:
- Outposts are controlled by the Europa Coalition or Jovian Separatists, and some of them include a module belonging to the Church of Husk or Children of the Honkmother.
- Got rid of location-specific reputation. Now all the events/missions give faction reputation instead (excluding missions that aren't related to or given by a faction, e.g. abandoned outpost missions).
- Lots of new outpost events, and a longer "event chain" for the secondary factions.
- Lots of new faction-specific missions: some variants of existing missions, some new.
- Faction-specific hires: "generic" high-level characters with more experience points and better gear than normal hireable NPCs. Available for hiring when Coalition or Separatist reputation is high enough.
- Special, named characters who can be hired via scripted events after reaching a high enough reputation.
- Faction-specific vendors (separatists, husks, clowns) who sell special items (many of which are completely new) if your reputation is high enough.
- If your Coalition/Separatist reputation is low enough, you may get attacked by their vessel during missions.
- There's now always two paths from biome to another, one controlled by the Coalition and one by the Separatists.
- Improvements to the campaign map.
- Added a 3rd talent tree, "Politician", for the Captain. Focused around faction relations and reputation.

Endgame:
- Completely remade the ending of the campaign. Now you'll get to see what's beyond the Eye of Europa and perhaps uncover the cause for the increasing levels of radiation.
- New types of enemies/bosses.
- Some new events to foreshadow the ending during the course of the campaign.

Misc changes:
- New loading screen / location portraits.
- Four new music tracks.
- Items' skill requirements are shown in their tooltips (the same way as damage resistances).
- Tweaks to poisons.
- Adjusted Europan Handshake to work better with the overhauled morbusine poisoning.
- Acid Grenades and 40mm Acid Grenades are now properly affected by talents
- Acid Grenades and 40mm Acid Grenades deal more damage and slow enemies down, making them more viable against fast monsters.
- Made regular 40mm grenades penetrate armor more efficiently.
- Made Diving Suits resist Acid Burns a bit more.
- Europa Brew's Acid Vulnerability is now double as effective (200% damage taken instead of 100%).
- Adjustment to throwable items (shorter throw distance and reduced speed in water).
- Made flares float in place to make them more useful.
- Made high-quality stun guns more effective (stunning the target faster).
- The health scanner always shows poisons and paralysis on monsters to make it easier to determine whether the poisoning is progressing or wearing off.
- A pass on sound ranges: the ranges should now be more consistent and sensible.
- Made moloch shell fragment and riot shield medium items instead of small to fix them going inside e.g. toolbelts.
- Made husk eggs consumable.
- Made it more difficult to repeatedly enter an abandoned outpost and re-loot the bandits: now the bandits immediately attack you if you re-enter the outpost.
- Monsters you haven't encountered yet are now hidden by default in the character editor. Can be enabled using the command "showmonsters" and re-hidden using "hidemonsters". The value is saved in creaturemetrics.xml. Doesn't affect custom creatures.
- Fixed character crush depths behaving inconsistently (varying between levels, e.g. sometimes crushing the character at the depth of 2000 meters, sometimes 3000).
- Improvements to submarine crush depth effects: previously the breaches were easy to deal with because pressure did small amounts of damage to all walls, now it instead does heavier damage to some walls (and the amount of damage and walls to damage increases with depth).
- Added a round light component variant.
- Increased the hard-coded max mission count back from 3 to 10. It'd be preferable to not change the value above 3 in the vanilla game, but since campaign settings are not moddable, we shouldn't be too strict about it (because it can be useful for a mod that this value can be adjusted).
- Miscellaneous optimizations.
- New slot indicator icons (= the icons that show what can go inside some items, like tanks/ammo).
- Made outpost hull repair service cheaper.
- Doors can now be damaged by melee weapons and ranged (handheld) weapons. (They were already destructible by submarine mounted weapons and explosives)
- Adjusted and rebalanced item damage for most items, to take into account doors being destructible.
- Reduced time needed for a crowbar to open doors, 7.5s for regular doors, 6s for wrecked doors (down from 10 s).
- Boosted Plasma Cutter damage against doors and items (walls not touched).
- Made galena more common in order to make lead easier to get.
- Added Auto Operate option for all turrets. Can be enabled in the submarine editor. Not currently used on vanilla submarines. Auto operated turrets don't require a person to operate them, but they still require power and ammunition (-> someone needs to reload them).
- Exosuits are powered by fuel rods instead of batteries.
- Adjusted plant spawn rates in caves.
- Made lead more common in stores.

Multiplayer:
- Added a language filter to the server browser.
- Fixed reports given by dragging and dropping them on the status monitor always targeting the room the character is inside.
- Improvements to medical clinic syncing (should fix some of the afflictions a character has sometimes not being visible on the list).
- Fixed crashing if you close a server when mod downloads are disabled.
- Improved projectile syncing: spread now behaves the same client-side as it does server-side (as opposed to being completely random).
- Improvements/fixes to dialogs that are shown to multiple clients: disable the option buttons when another client chooses an option, and highlight the option that was chosen.
- Fixed server randomizing the game mode at the end of the round when playing a campaign with the game mode selection set to Random.
- Fixed inability to join servers with a submarine switch/purchase vote running.
- Fixed votes passing if the client who initiated them disconnects before anyone else votes.
- Fixed inability to gain more than 15 talent points in the multiplayer campaign.

AI:
- Fixed bots considering certain multi-hull rooms flooded when they are not.
- Fixed bots deciding prematurely that they can't fix an item when it's deteriorating (e.g. when it's submerged).
- Fixed bots removing battery cells from exosuits when ordered to charge batteries.
- Fixed bots sometimes getting stuck in automatic doors and/or double doors, because they didn't wait for the door to open entirely before pressing the button again.
- Improved bot extinguish fires behavior. Fixes bots sometimes not being able to extinguish larger fires, because they stopped too far and didn't keep advancing towards the target.
- Fixed bots claiming that they can't return back to the sub and then following the order anyway.
- Improved the find safety calculations so that the bots give more preference to the distance of the room.
- Fixed some remaining issues and edge cases in the logic over when the bot needs diving gear and when it can be taken off.
- Fixed captains (and some NPCs) idling in the airlock if they equip a diving suit.
- Bot can now target items (like projectiles) with turrets and have different targeting priorities on different monsters.
- Fixed bots being allowed to reach items that are too far to be interacted with.

Fixes:
- Fixes and improvements to translations (Japanese and Chinese in particular).
- Fixed light components with a range of 0 and a hidden sprite being invisible against dark backgrounds.
- Various fixes to Typhon 1: most notably, adjusting the hulls to prevent some rooms from being impossible to drain fully.
- Fixed "kill" command not killing characters under the influence of "Miracle Worker".
- Fixed some lights becoming invisible when their range is set to 0 and they're against a dark background.
- Fixed lights turning on without power when they receive a toggle or set_color input.
- Fixed changing the amount of items to fabricate inadvertently starting(or activating) fabrication in MP if you've previously started fabricating something
- Fixed campaign settings resetting in the campaign setup menu every time you relaunch the game (meaning you'd always need to e.g. remember to toggle the tutorial off if you want to play without it).
- Fixed inverted mouse buttons not working properly since the last update: the left mouse button was considered the primary mouse button regardless of your OS settings.
- Fixed status monitor not properly displaying condition on tinkered items.
- Fixed machines smoking when above 100% condition with tinkering.
- Fixed inventory overlapping with the chatbox on low aspect ratios (small width, large height).
- Fixed some layering issues in abandoned outposts.
- Fixed water-sensitive items sometimes spawning as loot in wrecks.
- Fixed radio static still playing even if you don't have a headset.
- Fixed rifle grenade sounds not working.
- Fixed crashing on startup if the MD5 hash cache file is empty.
- Fixed research stations and loaders not being visible on the status monitor's electrical view.
- Fixed artifact missions sometimes choosing the same artifact as a target if you happen to have multiple missions active at a time, which would lead to console errors when the round ends.
- Fixed exosuit playing the warning beep if there's empty or almost empty tanks in any of its slots.
- Fixed oxygen generators deteriorating in some of the outpost modules.
- Fixed reputation loss when a character other than the player (e.g. crawlers in the 'crawleroutbreak' event) damages the outpost walls.
- Fixed outpost modules sometimes being placed in a way that makes them overlap with the sub.
- Fixed characters trying to walk in flooded spaces that are too low to stand in (like some of the tight passages in alien ruins).
- Genetic material backwards compatibility to fix old unidentified genetic materials disappearing from saves prior to v0.21.6.0.
- Fixed genetic materials being too rare in outposts now.
- Fixed hunting grounds affecting outposts 2 steps away, not just ones in adjacent locations.
- Fixed "residual waste" talent duplicating genetic materials.
- Fixed monsters sometimes spawning inside destructible ice chunks in caves.
- Fixed respawn shuttle sometimes spawning inside floating ice chunks.
- Fixed equipping a ranged weapon setting its reload timer to 1, making it possible to reduce some weapons' loading times by unequipping and equipping them.
- Fixed partially consumed items not staying on top of the stack they're in.
- Fixed submarine tier and class affecting the prices of the submarine upgrades: e.g. a tier 2 upgrade would cost more on a submarine where tier 2 is the maximum than on a submarine with a higher maximum.
- Fixed reputation loss when you steal items from bandits in a beacon station.
- Fixed equipped flares igniting when you click on the inventory.
- Fixed "Quickdraw" talent not affecting Alien Pistols.
- Fixed toolbelts and other items worn on the torso getting hidden when wearing a safety harness.
- Fixed advanced syringe gun and slipsuit fabrication recipes.
- Fixed floating pumps and ladder layering issues in Herja.
- Limited the number of makeshift shelves per sub to 3 (similar to portable pumps). Otherwise you can use them to expand the sub's cargo capacity indefinitely.
- Fixed dementonite and hardened crowbars spawning in respawn containers (= respawn shuttle cabinets).
- Fixed alien blood no longer causing psychosis, + made it slightly less effective to make fabricating blood packs more worthwhile
- Fixed fire extinguisher spray getting blocked by characters.
- Venture: Fixed the battery room not flooding properly (again), fixed the two hulls in the airlock not being linked, adjusted the waypoints a bit.
- Selkie: Disconnect the outer nodes from the ladder/door nodes, because the docking ports can't be opened manually.
- Fixed Thalamus AI not running properly when there's no player characters or submarines around (e.g. when all the players are in the freecam mode).
- Fixed the ammo indicator not showing correctly on the advanced syringe gun.
- Fixed bots sometimes getting confused by outside waypoints while being inside an outpost.
- Fixed item relocation logic running also on NPCs that are not in the player team, which could cause diving suits dropped by NPCs to get spawned in the player sub.
- Fixed ranged weapons (most noticeably, scrap cannon) emitting particles in the wrong direction.
- Fixed acid burns not having a cause of death text.
- Fixed "skedaddle" not giving a 10% movement boost like the description says.
- Fixed odd fabrication list sorting: the items that require a recipe to fabricate were split into ones you have the skills to fabricate and ones you don't, even though that isn't visible in the UI, making the list just seem out of order.
- Fixed red glow around the light switch's green button.
- Fixed inability to hold a captain's pipe or cigar in your left hand.
- Fixed ready checks not working.
- Fixed affliction probabilities being evaluated twice, meaning that e.g. 50% probability of getting some affliction from an attack was actually a 25% probability.
- Fixed item highlights from the previous round remaining visible the next round.
- Fix the vitality modifiers on husk not working properly, because health indices on the limbs were not defined. Effectively husks always took 2x damage.
- Fixed basic depth charges being cheaper than intended (only 30 mk).
- Fixed inability to make lights blink at a high frequency by rapidly turning them on and off with e.g. oscillators.
- Fixed follow orders not being persistent between singleplayer rounds.
- Fixed bots being unable to move through Herja's airlock due to an unlinked waypoint.

Modding:
- Fixed crashing if a StatusEffect is configured to SpawnItemRandomly but doesn't configure anything to spawn.
- Improved the error handling of item/character variants. Previously if the parent prefab wasn't found, there was no error message, but the variant was still created, causing crashes in various situations.
- Added AITurretPriority and AISlowTurretPriority on items and characters. Setting the priority to 0 can be used for telling the bots to ignore the target entirely. Items also need to have IsAITurretTarget="True" enabled to make them a valid target.
- Added ItemDamageMultiplier on items. Can be used for increasing the damage caused by other items, like weapons. Works like the existing ExplosionDamageMultiplier.

Hello everyone!

Our long-awaited 1.0 update is coming on Monday next week, so its time for the final sneak peek. How will Europa change?

[h3]Faction overhaul[/h3]
Over the past weeks, weve written about the various factions of Europa: the Europa Coalition, the Jovian Separatists, and the Church of Husk and the Children of the Honkmother. These factions bring with them some new storytelling, and they are the backbone of our faction overhaul. Other key features of the faction overhaul include:

• Outposts are controlled by the Europa Coalition or the Jovian Separatists. The Church of Husk and the Children of the Honkmother also have their own enclaves in outposts.
  
• Reworked reputation system: Faction reputation now follows you wherever you go. Expect negative consequences when sailing in hostile waters, and positive ones when docking at friendly ports.
  
• Two routes between biomes: one controlled by the Coalition, one by the Separatists.
  
• New faction-specific missions and long event chains to learn more about each faction.
  
• The Captains third talent tree, Politician, with talents focused on the factions of Europa.
  
• Faction-specific hireable NPCs with special skills and equipment.
  
• New faction-specific items, such as 40mm nukes, molotov cocktails and bananas (caution: slippery).
  

Hello everyone!

Now that weve introduced the Coalition and the Separatists, its time to lift the veil on the two more mysterious groups present on Europa. Where the two main factions are political and military organizations, the Church of Husk and the Children of the Honkmother are more akin to religious sects.

The Church of Husk centers around the worship of the Velonaceps Calyx parasite. Members of the Church believe that the only way for humans to survive on Europa is to adapt to its hostile environment by forming a symbiotic relationship with the husk parasite. They believe that by combining with the husk, humans can transcend the limitations of their frail bodies and evolve into a human-husk hybrid more suited to life on Europa. Is it even possible to survive their communion? Many have died trying, but the Church of Husk has not lost faith.

The Children of the Honkmother are possibly even more esoteric. They dress up in clown apparel, red noses and all, and spread merriment and disorder in equal measures. There are many stories about how there came to be clowns on Europa, but ultimately no one knows the real answer. The clowns themselves simply say they heed the call of the bikehorn and toot it with regularity in the name of their mystical deity, the Honkmother. Are they the greatest philosophers of all, or the greatest pranksters?

While not in open conflict with one another, followers of the Church of Husk and the Children of the Honkmother do not see eye to eye. Their worldviews and methods of spreading their message put them at odds with each other, while the Separatists and the Coalition shun both cults equally.

Both the Church of Husk and the Children of the Honkmother will have their own enclaves in outposts in Barotrauma 1.0, as well as their own story, missions, events, items and reputation. For more information on the outcasts of Europa and new sneak peeks at the faction overhaul features, check out barotraumagame.com/announcements/outcasts-and-eccentrics-of-europa/]our blog!

Ahoy!

The time is almost here, and we can finally tell you that Barotrauma is coming out of Early Access on Monday, March 13, just two weeks from now.

Are you ready? We are shaking in our diving suits! Weve spent almost a year working on the upcoming 1.0 update, and we cant wait to hear what you think about it. It introduces the faction overhaul, which we have been teasing in recent weeks, and a proper ending to the campaign. Whats really down in the depths? Definitely not just a doomworm, but we dont want to spoil the surprise.

After almost four years in early access and closer to a decade in development, March 13 is going to be a huge day for us and Barotrauma. Four people from our team sat down in front of a camera to tell you a bit more about that journey. Take a look at this behind the scenes video for our story!

Thank you for sailing with us for so long. The end of Early Access is not the end of our development, and we still have more updates planned after 1.0, but now its time to say: Welcome to Europa.

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Hello everyone!

Last week, we wrote about the Europa Coalition and their history. Now its time to take a closer look at their rivals: the Jovian Separatists.

When the Europa Coalition was gathering influence, their main political rival was the Jovian Peoples Movement. In contrast to the Coalitions idea of an autocratic system, the JPM wanted to establish a democratic government on Europa through nonviolent means.

Following a tragic accident that claimed the lives of many JPM supporters, the Coalition was able to win the general election and become the main political power of Europa. This sparked suspicion, unrest and conflicts between the Coalition and JPM supporters, and the movement was eventually declared a terrorist organization. Thus, the Jovian Separatists came to be.

The Separatists aim is to overthrow the established regime and challenge the status quo. Over the years leading up to the start of Barotraumas events, they have splintered into smaller groups around Europa, some engaging in guerrilla warfare against the Coalition, some favoring more diplomatic methods.

Will you fight the good fight against the Coalition, and help the Separatists on their way towards a more democratic Europa?

For more detailed information on the Separatists and sneak peeks into a few upcoming features of Barotrauma 1.0, head over to our blog!

Hello everyone!

One of the big additions in Barotraumas 1.0 update will be an overhaul of the faction system, complete with new missions, events, and more. Lets take a look at all the different groups, one by one, starting with the Europa Coalition. Who are they and where did they come from?

A few decades before the events of Barotrauma, the Coalition started out as a trade agreement between two prominent settlements on Europa, with some help from private paramilitary groups. They expanded their reach rapidly and aggressively, seizing control of important trade routes and other settlements. This has led them to become the de facto Europan superpower, governing civil society, trade and manufacturing with an iron fist.

The Coalition strives to preserve humanity on Europa, and they work tirelessly to maintain some semblance of peace and stability on the moon. Known to resort to ruthless tactics, however, the Coalition is not without its enemies.

Will you choose to fight for the Coalition, dispose of dissidents and help keep Europa safe?

Head over to our blog to learn more about the Europa Coalition, and get a sneak peek at some of the upcoming faction overhaul features!

Hello everyone!

The pre-patch for Barotrauma 1.0 has just been released. It brings with it

• Additions and quality-of-life changes such as transparent diving suit visors, better support for playing multiplayer campaign without a host, and more.
  
• Reworked poison system: poisons can be applied to monsters, giving the medic more tools for combat.
  
• Changes to the targeting logic and skill and item requirements of status effects.
  

Hello everyone!

We are excited to tell you our 1.0 release is coming this spring. Before that, were releasing a pre-patch that includes some final fixes and changes that we wanted to release while still in Early Access.

For many players, the most noteworthy additions in this pre-patch are reworked poisons and status effects. Unfortunately, these changes mean that some mods will not function properly until the creator updates them. Were sorry for the inconvenience, but we hope that by releasing these changes in advance, we give all modders enough time to update their mods before our big release!

[h3]Poisons[/h3]

• Monsters can be infected with poisons, making poisons and the medic class more useful in combat.
  
• Poisons have been redesigned to provide more interesting and varying effects, and the overall strength of poisons has been adjusted.
  
• Applying poisons will increase the players medical skill.
  

• Changes to the overall targeting logic of status effects.
  
• Status effect skill and item requirement checks have also been changed.
  

• Transparent visors for diving suits.
  
• Modified clients are no longer able to pick up unpickable items.
  
• Some submarine upgrades now cost materials or items in addition to money.
  
• Better support for playing the multiplayer campaign without a host or someone with campaign management permissions on the server.
  

Hello everyone!

We've just released a few quick fixes to address issues found after the release of the Holiday Update last week. See the changes below and be sure to update your game to the latest version now. We wish you smooth sailing!


v0.20.16.1

- Fixed console errors when firing a Flak Cannon using spreader ammo in multiplayer.
- Fixed non-hitscan projectiles going through doors.
- Fixed electrical discharge coils hitting characters very unreliably, unless the character happens to be right next to a wall.
- Fixed makeshift shelves being containable in crates and cabinets, allowing for infinite recursive storage space.
- Fixed the effects of the "Grid Maintainer" and "Egghead" talents.
- Fixed incorrect "I Am That Guy" description (it gives a flat 20 skill bonus, not 20%).
- Fixed "Cruisin'" talent increasing fuel consumption by 10% instead of decreasing it by 20%.
- Optimized Steam Workshop queries done by the game (less bandwidth usage and stress on Steam's servers).

Ho ho ho everyone!

The holiday season is almost upon us, and Barotraumas Holiday Update 2022 has just been released. Please be sure to update your game to the latest version for

• New campaign tutorial to guide new players on their first mission
  
• Reworked talent system with 50 new talents and many improvements and additions
  
• Many kinds of smaller improvements, like new monster loot, new guns, and more.
  

Hello everyone!

The final Barotrauma update of 2022 is arriving next week, with a new campaign tutorial mode, a reworked talent system and lots of smaller fixes and improvements.

[h3]Campaign tutorial[/h3]
Were adding tutorial features integrated into the singleplayer campaign mode. The new campaign tutorial guides new sailors on their first mission with hints, tips and dialogue.

[h3]Reworked talents[/h3]
Thank you for all the comments on the talent rework announcement we made a few weeks ago! After further testing and reading all the feedback we got, weve made a few adjustments to our plans. Heres an updated preview of the upcoming talent overhaul:

• More talents. Were adding 50 new talents in total.
  
• New generic talents for all jobs. You must unlock a few of these generic talents before picking a specialization, and if you want to, you can even unlock them all.
  
• More streamlined specializations. You can still get talents from several different talent trees, but you must complete each tree before moving on to the next.
  
• All talents can now be unlocked and used by bots. Recipes unlocked by bots can be used by the entire crew.
  
• Brand new talent-related items, such as the new Scrap Cannon and Arc Emitter weapons.
  

• Hull breach shrapnel makes monsters that cant get inside your sub more dangerous to players.
  
• You can now fabricate multiple items at once with a convenient slider.
  
• More varied creature loot, including loot from big monsters.
  
• New weapons: the Rifle, Heavy Machine Gun, Machine Pistol and Harpoon Coil-Rifle.
  
• Flashlight attachment for rifles.
  
• VoIP improvements, including distance-based radio chat quality.
  
• Fixed the Chinese and Japanese typing method to display the candidate box properly while typing.
  

Hello everyone!

Another new addition coming in the next update is a new campaign tutorial. It complements the basic and job tutorials we added in the previous update to help new players get the hang of campaign gameplay, mission structure, and the lay of the Europa.

• Guiding new players through starting a campaign. The campaign tutorial places you at a simplified outpost and guides you to gear up and complete your first mission.
  
• Tips and hints along the way. The new tutorial makes use of hints to highlight important NPCs, items, and submarine systems that are important for all jobs to understand.
  
• Integrated into the singleplayer campaign. The tutorial mode is enabled by default when you launch a singleplayer campaign and can be turned off in the settings.
  

Ahoy!

It's once again that time of year the Steam Autumn Sale is in full swing, and Barotrauma participates with a deep discount. The sale period also comes with its annual celebration of video games: The Steam Awards.

That's where you come in. During the Steam Awards nomination period, you can nominate games for awards in various categories. Barotrauma is eligible for the Labor of Love category, intended for games with a long development history.

Our Barotraumatic story spanning soon eight years, with over three years of it in Early Access here on Steam, we are proud to say we develop Barotrauma with all our hearts. If we have also captured yours, you can now nominate us for the Labor of Love award.

Thank you for sharing in our Early Access for another autumn season! Stay tuned for more news about the next update and everything that next year will have in store.

Hello to Chinese-speaking Barotrauma players!

It has recently come to our attention that typing in-game in Barotrauma has been inconvenient for Chinese versions for an extended time, with the candidate box to suggest Chinese characters not appearing as it should. We're very sorry for the the trouble and have prepared a fix to this issue, to be released in the next update.

While we are still developing the next update, you can already try this fix in the Unstable test version of Barotrauma. This allows you to get the fix early, and we will also work to accommodate your feedback in the public release. It would be very valuable for our development to get feedback from you, as we have no Chinese speakers in our development team, so we encourage all interested players to test the fix now!

[h3]How to get the Unstable beta[/h3]
Opt into "unstable", a free beta version available to everyone who owns Barotrauma on Steam:

• Head to your Steam Library and find Barotrauma in your list of games in the left sidebar.
  
• Right-click Barotrauma and choose Properties.
  
• Choose the "Betas" heading in the Properties window.
  
• Select "unstable" from the topmost dropdown. This initiates the download of the beta.
  
• When "unstable" is successfully opted into, the name of the beta is displayed in square brackets in Barotrauma's title in the left sidebar of your Steam Library.
  
• To return to the regular game version, simply repeat these steps and choose ""none"" in the beta selection dropdown.
  

Hello everyone!

For the last update of the year, we are balancing and polishing Barotraumas talent system. The talent rework will introduce lots of new talents, and almost all existing talents have been reworked to some extent. Weve focused on four aspects of the talent system in particular:

Additional talent levels and more talents. Were adding two levels of more generic talents for each job, and some of these early talents must be unlocked before picking more specialized talents. The overall number of talents increases, too: were adding 50 talents in total.

More powerful final talents. As the talent trees get larger and take a longer time to complete, the final talent of each tree must be extra valuable. The new talent trees will offer a powerful boost or item when you unlock the final talent.

Greater specialization. We want all the different jobs to stand out better, and to support this, the talents of each job have been streamlined into more thematic talent trees. As the talent trees are expanded and offer more specialized talents, each character can now only choose one specialization.

Talents for bots to support singleplayer. Until now, the use of talents has been effectively limited to multiplayer. To remedy that, were adding support for talents for bots in singleplayer. Many talents have been reworked slightly to make them usable by bots.

You can read more about the talent rework on our blog and try it out already in the Unstable test version! The talent rework will be released as part of our December update.

Hello everyone!

We've just released another small patch to address issues discovered since the launch of the Hoist the Sails update, including submarine upgrades being lost when you switch to a lower tier sub and back again, and a number of other small adjustments and fixes.

See the full list of changes below and be sure to update your game to the latest version!


v0.19.14.0

- Fixed submarine upgrades getting lost if you switch to a lower-tier sub that can't have as many levels of upgrades as the current sub, and then back again.
- Fixed "failed to find the end of the bit field after 100 reads" error when trying to join a server that has a large number of mods enabled.
- Fixed some monster events not being as common/uncommon as intended. In more technical terms (which may be of interest to modders): the commonness defined as an attribute of an EventSet did nothing, making the event default to a commonness of 1. The commonnesses defined for specific level types worked correctly.
- Fixed clients getting stuck in a non-functional lobby if they happen to disconnect or get kicked back to the lobby at a specific point when loading a new round.
- Fixed large turret hardpoint origin being off, causing turrets installed on a large hardpoint to be misaligned.
- Attempt to fix crashing when disconnecting from the server you're hosting.
- Fixed Ctrl+Shift+S shortcut (quicksave) not working in the sub editor.
- Fixed toolbelts and storage containers in old subs going inside toolbelts.
- Fixed submarine tier resetting to default when reopening the sub editor's save dialog.
- Fixed sub editor not taking filename case into account when saving an existing sub: if you'd try to save the file with a different filename case, it'd ask about overwriting the existing sub, but save it as a new file even if you opt to overwrite.
- Fixes to Herja room names (use Engineering, Gunnery compartment, etc. labels), add camera to the front, with a periscope for the captain.
- Fixed non-purchaseable talent items not being available as extra cargo.
- Sorted extra cargo alphabetically + added a filter box.
- Fixed taking items that spawned inside another item (e.g. tanks in a diving mask) from NPCs spawned by an event not counting as stealing.
- Fixed characters falling off ladders when using aimable tools.
- Fixed money gain/lose popups no longer showing in the campaign.
- Fixed inability to manage the campaign if there's no-one with permissions alive. Previously we allowed anyone to manage the campaign if there's no-one with permissions present in the server, but that's not enough, because the players with permissions can't end the round if they're dead. Now if there's no-one with permissions alive, anyone is allowed to manage the campaign.
- If Select and Deselect have been bound to the same key, the deselect input is ignored when interacting with another item than the selected one. Prevents e.g. falling off ladders when trying to open a hatch when both Select and Deselect have been bound to E.
- Made it possible to enter a hostname (e.g. someserver . com) in the direct join prompt.
- Adjusted the size of the submarine list elements in the server lobby to reduce the amount of empty space on large resolutions.
- Fixed event texts for the "scan ruin" mission being in an incorrect language.
- Attachable items cannot be attached inside walls.
- Fixed distance at which you can attach items being slightly longer than the interact distance, making it possible to attach items out of reach.
- Fixed inability to turn when you're dual wielding melee weapons and attacking continuously.
- Fixed inability to cancel deconstruction if there's non-deconstructible items in the queue.
- Fixed local copy of a mod you're publishing not using the version number you've entered in the publish menu.
- Fixed crashing when trying to open the tab menu's character tab with a character who has no personality trait (may happen e.g. if you use a mod that adds custom personality traits and try to play that save without the mod).
- Fixed sourcerect issue in alien generator + decorative sprite not disappearing when the fuel rod is taken out.
- Fixed corrupted mods causing a nullref exception when autodetecting required mods in the sub editor.
- Fixed minerals not disappearing from mineral scanner if they get detached by something else than a character picking them up (e.g. by the destructible ice wall they're on breaking).
- Fixed event-specific metal crate deconstructing to steel.
- Fixed inability to join servers that have enabled multiple mods with identical content.
- Fixed tandem fire not working if there's a character between you and the other character on a periscope.

Hello everyone!

To follow up on yesterday's Hoist the Sails update, we're having a play-for-free event starting now and until Monday, you can dive right into Europa's dangers for free!

If you like what you see this weekend and would like to continue your submarine journey even after the event ends, you can get Barotrauma for 75% off during the free trial period. For the lore-hungry new players, don't forget to check out the stories inside the "Barotrauma Supporter Pack", which is also discounted for the duration of the free event.

We look forward to seeing new sailors in great numbers and wish you the best of luck. Welcome to Europa!

Hello everyone!

We've just released a fix to address problems spotted following yesterday's release: mod downloading issues and some old campaigns becoming blocked by crush depth due to the addition of submarine tiers. We're sorry for the trouble and hope these fixes let you carry on with your old saves as usual!


v0.19.11.0

- Fixed some old campaign saves being impossible to continue due to the new submarine upgrade restricions.
- Fixed "update all mods" button doing nothing in the Workshop menu.
- Fixed inability to create mod lists that include Workshop mods.

Hello everyone!

Weve just released a new update for Barotrauma. Hoist the Sails brings

• Improvements to submarines and upgrades, and a new vanilla sub
  
• All-new game tutorials
  
• Improved performance and multiplayer stability
  
• Many quality of life changes and fixes.
  

• Find Barotrauma in the left sidebar of your Steam Library.
  
• Right-click Barotrauma and choose "Properties".
  
• Choose the "Betas" heading in the Properties window.
  
• Select "MacOS-Compatibility" from the topmost dropdown. This begins the download of the beta.
  
• When "MacOS-Compatibility" is successfully opted into, the name is displayed in square brackets alongside Barotrauma's title in the sidebar.
  
• This beta will not get any further updates but will remain available to ensure continued compatibility for the affected Mac players.
  

Hello everyone!

The Hoist the Sails update is almost here, with performance improvements, changes to submarines, an entirely new in-game tutorial, and more.

[h3]Performance update[/h3]
Were updating Barotraumas .NET runtime to a new version to improve overall performance, and weve also been working on a number of optimizations to address specific problem areas, such as large numbers of items, talents and physics.

[h3]Changes in the shipyard[/h3]
The update comes with many changes to submarines and submarine upgrades:

• A new early-game Transport submarine, the Camel.
  
• Improved submarine upgrades.
  
• The Deep Diver class is being removed, and Deep Divers become Scouts. Sub builders can choose a different class for their custom Deep Divers in the Submarine Editor.
  
• A submarine tier system to designate how advanced a sub is. Tier is automatically assigned based on a submarines price, but it can be adjusted in the Sub Editor.
  
• New and bigger guns!
  

• A separate basic tutorial to cover movement, inventory, and other fundamentals not related to jobs.
  
• More nuanced role tutorials for each job to teach their purpose and responsibilities in more depth.
  
• The new role tutorials can be done in any order, so you can focus on the ones you want to learn at any time.
  

• drag and reposition user interfaces for items in-game
  
• use devices while sitting in a chair or climbing a ladder
  
• go back to the legacy voice / radio chat keybinds if you so choose
  
• see what materials an item deconstructs to before breaking it down.
  

Hello everyone!

The next update will feature many submarine-related changes and additions, such as guns and upgrades as well as the introduction of submarine tiers, a new system of classifying submarines in terms of how advanced they are. Lets take a look!

• New guns! Were adding two new large turrets: the double coilgun and the flak cannon. These together with the railgun are the new large weapons, which can only be mounted onto the new large hardpoints.
  
• The Camel, a new Transport submarine, is being added. The other submarine classes have affordable starter options, and now the Transport class does too.
  
• The Deep Diver class of submarines is being removed, and all the submarines in this class will become Scouts instead. Only Deep Divers have been able to get through the last few levels of the campaign, because even the fully upgraded hull of a ship other than a Deep Diver did not offer enough pressure resistance. We want to change that and allow you to finish the campaign by upgrading the ship of your choice.
  
• The submarine upgrade system has got some adjustments to make individual upgrade levels count for more, and for all the different upgrades to stand out better. Different classes of subs also get slightly different upgrades, giving classes more purpose and identity.
  
• Submarine tier, a completely new classification system, is being added to designate submarines as high or low end. Tier and class together determine how much you can upgrade a submarine, adding depth and dimension to the submarine system as a whole. Tiers will be assigned automatically to all existing subs based on price.
  

Hello everyone!

The next Barotrauma update is coming in early October, and among other things, it will include a big change under the hood: were updating our .NET runtime to a new version, and this should yield significant performance gains. Combined with the ongoing optimization work, the .NET runtime update will help to make the game run considerably more smoothly for most players.

[h4]GeForce NOW[/h4]
Another exciting change is bringing Barotrauma to Nvidias cloud gaming platform GeForce NOW. While this will have no impact on those who can run Barotrauma on their systems currently, it will open possibilities for players on officially unsupported systems to get into playing. Weve received a number of requests about this over the years and are happy to be making it happen now youll find Barotrauma on GFN in the coming weeks.

[h4]To MacOS players[/h4]
Unfortunately the mentioned runtime update comes with a downside for players on older Mac systems: because the .NET 6 runtime does not support MacOS older than 10.15, Barotrauma will not be able to support versions 10.13 and 10.14 either, and we need to raise our official minimum technical requirements to match.

Were very sorry to be cutting support for systems we have previously supported, but this change is inevitable: as the runtime is a core technology that the game relies on, and it has already dropped support for these systems on its end, we will have to follow suit sooner or later. Weve decided to go through with the runtime update now, while still in early access, rather than later when it might affect a larger number of players.

[h5]Compatibility branch[/h5]
To help the affected Mac players continue having access to Barotrauma, were creating a compatibility branch which allows MacOS 10.13 and 10.14 users to keep playing the current version of the game. To our knowledge, 10.14 users should also be able to update their systems to stay compatible.

Additionally, the GeForce NOW access should help bridge the gap for players on the affected operating systems, and we hope these measures put together will take the worst of the edge off. MacOS 10.15 or newer, or other operating systems, should not experience any difficulties with the new runtime.


Well be back with more news about the update over the coming weeks. Stay tuned, and let us know in the comments if you have any questions!

Hello MacOS players!

We've released a fix to address issues you've been having since the previous hotfix.


v0.18.15.2 (MacOS only)

- Fixed crashes on MacOS 10.13 and 10.14. This seems to have happened because Microsoft quietly dropped support for these versions in .NET Core in late 2021, and we didn't realize until this hotfix when we deployed with a sufficiently new version of the technology.
- Fixed inability to use the voice chat on some MacOS versions, due to the game not having permissions to access the microphone as a result of the aforementioned .NET Core upgrade.

Hello everyone!

We've just released a small hotfix to address a couple of issues that were discovered while we were away on our summer holidays. Stay tuned for continued content updates a little later and see the changelog for today's fixes below!


v0.18.15.1

- Fixed frequent crashing in the submarine editor. The crashes were caused by modifying multiple entities at the same time, such as by selecting an entity of the same type as the last entity that was edited.
- Fixed dragged objects becoming invisible if you bring the cursor over a UI element in the submarine editor.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused radio voice chat to be muffled.

Hello everyone!

We've just released a bugfix patch to address issues in the latest update. Take a look below to see the full list of changes, and be sure to update your game to the latest version now.

Most of our team are on holidays until the end of July, but we will get back to reading the forums in earnest in August. Until then, we wish everyone a great summer!


v0.18.15.0

Changes:
- Show a warning when trying to switch to a submarine that's low on fuel or to a submarine that has no manually placed items to prevent softlocking the campaign if you switch to a sub that has no fuel. Whether a submarine is considered to have manually placed items can be set when saving it in the submarine editor (the checkbox "manually outfitted" in the saving dialog).
- Also show the low fuel warning when leaving an outpost without enough fuel.
- Handheld sonars can't detect minerals from inside the sub.
- Changed the plus and minus button in the campaign settings into arrows. The button on the right increases difficulty, which in the case of the starting balance and supplies means reducing them, making the plus and minus buttons misleading.
- Reduced costs of handheld weapon ammunition significantly.
- Slightly reduced effectiveness of harpoons and revolver round to compensate for the cheaper ammo.
- Changed recipes for Handcannon, Assault Rifle and Auto-Shotgun. Weapon crafting is more expensive, to compensate for cheaper ammo.
- Adjusted numerous other recipes and price costs of materials. Previously little used materials (like tin) are now used more.
- Partially reintroduced the "toggle inventory" keybind, now called "toggle entity list". Even though toggling the in-game inventory is no longer possible, the keybind can be used to change the hotkey for toggling the sub editor's entity list.

Fixes:
- Fixed shuttles getting misplaced when switching and transferring items to a new sub with shuttles.
- Fixed inability to damage items (such as monster eggs) with melee weapons or handheld weapons.
- Fixed "failed to parse the string 'COLOR.GUI.GREEN' to Color" errors when using the submarine upgrade interface in Spanish.
- Fixed items with a projectile component (e.g. bullets, harpoons, syringes) going through external walls when dropped.
- Fixed incorrect value in the "too many lights" error message in the sub editor.
- Fixed lightcomponent not getting refreshed when flipping a lightcomponent horizontally.
- Fixed extra cargo defined in the server settings spawning every round in multiplayer campaign.
- Fixes wreck corpses' damage visuals (bloodstains, burns) not showing client-side.
- Fixed wearables that are worn (or held) in multiple limbs applying skill bonuses multiple times (e.g. when holding a bandolier with both hands).
- Fixed console error when deselecting all target types from a motion sensor in the sub editor.
- Fixed crashing when multi-editing motion sensor targets in the sub editor.
- Fixed one of the path unlock event texts still using the old price (talking about 12,000 mk even though the price is 4,000 mk).
- Fixed money getting incorrectly deducted on the client side when buying items from the vending machine.
- Fixed item transfer taking items from non-interactable containers.
- Made depleted fuel sprite darker to match the rest of the "depleted" items.
- Fixed PUCS's autoinjection feature sometimes causing performance drops in multiplayer.
- Fixed "tried to overwrite a submarine that's not in a local package" error when you delete a sub that's in a local package and try to resave it.
- Fixed misaligned broken duffelbag sprite.
- Fixed full-white x-ray monitors.
- Fixed FPS drop when adjusting character appearance in the campaign setup menu or server lobby.
- Fixed tunnels at the beginning or end of the level sometimes being too narrow to pass through (especially with a small sub) when there's no outpost at that side of the level.
- Fixed missing background sprite in duct block.
- Fixed water particles not showing up when water is flowing down a duct block.
- Fixed changing the scale of resizeable structures (such as background doors) messing up the outline of linked subs in the sub editor.
- Fixed non-player-team interactable items getting transferred on sub switch.
- Fixed ballast flora root emitting particles when damaged client-side, even if it's already been destroyed.
- Fixed recycle recipes for Piercing Ammunition Box and Pulse Tri-Laser Fuel Box.
- Fixed friendly fire and karma always showing up as disabled on dedicated servers in the server list.
- Fixed some lights (e.g. vending machines, neon lights, holographics displays) looking different in the sub editor than they do in-game.
- Fixed undocked shuttles remaining undocked if you save and start a new game with the same submarine during the same session. Restarting the game fixed the issue though.
- Fixed sonar markers going crazy if the start and end locations have the same name + added some more variety to location names to prevent duplicate location names.
- Fixed multiediting an ItemComponent modifying all the components of that type in all the selected items (e.g. when editing the 1st light component of a switch, all lights in all switches would be edited).
- Fixed melee weapons not damaging structures from outside.

Modding:
- Fixed removing a door mid-round crashing the game. Does not affect the vanilla game, because doors are never removed mid-round.
- Fixed having a vending machine in your inventory crashing the game due to the 0-capacity input inventory of the machine.

Happy anniversary, everyone!

Barotrauma recently reached another anniversary on Steam. Weve been here for three years now and couldnt have done it without you thank you for sharing this long ride with us! Head over to our blog for more birthday greetings, with a stroll down memory lane as well as a look at what still lies ahead.

[h3]The anniversary update[/h3]
Today weve released an update with a variety of quality of life improvements, fixes and minor changes. Were hopeful it should help with the performance issues we know many players have been experiencing, and there are some exciting additions as well, such as

• Transferring items between submarines when purchasing a new sub
  
• New difficulty presets for campaigns
  
• Three new beacon stations
  
• Further modding improvements to wrap up the Modding Refactor we did before.
  

Hello everyone!

The summer approaches and so does our next update stay tuned for various quality of life improvements to coincide roughly with our 3rd Steam anniversary. Before that, though, weve one more thing to release in connection with the previous update: the official modding documentation.

[h3]Barotrauma modding documentation[/h3]
Along with the modding refactor included in the Urban Expanses update, we promised more comprehensive documentation about modding Barotrauma. This documentation is released only in English to keep our workload manageable, and it is semi-automatically generated and in places quite technical. Even then, were hopeful many of you, particularly the more ambitious modders, will find it helpful.

In addition to the more finicky details, the new documentation includes the pre-existing Character Editor and Submarine Editor guides, and the latter has also been updated and expanded a little bit. In other words, all our official modding guides will now be found in one place: here on GitHub.

Without further ado, take a look and let us know what you think should be added. The guide continues to be a work in progress and well be happy to improve it further!

Hello everyone!

We've just released a patch for the Urban Expanses update. It introduces wallet and money functionalities which did not make it into the update itself and adds proper wiring for colony fabricators, deconstructors and research stations where power was missing.

The patch should additionally address multiplayer networking issues that have been present since the update, as well as other issues. Please see the full list of changes below!


v0.17.15.0

Changes:
- Display both wallet and bank balance on campaign interfaces when the player has access to the bank funds.
- Players who are allowed to manage money in the multiplayer campaign can use money directly from the bank without having to transfer it to their wallet first.
- Managing money always requires permissions: unlike other campaign-related permissions, not having anyone with permissions on the server doesn't give everyone permissions.

Fixes:
- Fixed crashing if a custom language doesn't configure NPC personality traits or conversations.
- Fixed crashing when you try to disguise as someone else when using a mod that overrides the vanilla human config.
- Fixed characters getting instakilled if you dive too deep in the sub editor test mode.
- Hopefully fixed the frequent "SteamP2P connection timed out" errors during loading screens.
- Fixed "missing entity" error when a character who's stats have been modified by a talent gets removed (e.g. eaten by a monster, despawning).
- If starting a multiplayer round takes a long time, instead of throwing the "did not receive STARTGAMEFINALIZE message" error, you're asked whether you want to keep waiting or return to the lobby.
- Fixed "failed to parse the string 'COLOR.GUI.GREEN' to Color" errors when using the submarine upgrade interface in Spanish.
- Fixed junction boxes not deteriorating over time.
- Fixed turrets being able to fire without consuming power when the power is wired to some other connection than power_in.
- Fixed broken supercapacitors providing unlimited power to turrets.
- Fixed IsMale/IsFemale properties resetting when saving and reloading (not used by the vanilla game).
- Fixed haloperidol not healing psychosis.
- Fixed ballast flora sometimes becoming unkillable client-side when entering a new level.
- Fixed the Server Log button overlapping campaign interfaces by hiding it whenever a campaign interface is open.
- Fixed an inconsistency in the assault rifle mag recipe.
- Fixed job not showing up in ID card description.
- Fixed store interface not being updated when the player balance changes.
- Fixed deconstructors, fabricators and research stations not being powered in some colony modules.
- Fixed power connections not getting recalculated server-side when disconnecting and reconnecting a wire.
- Fixed client context menu not working in the tab menu if the client's not controlling a character.
- Fixed preview image disappearing when saving a sub.
- Fixed custom jobid tags not working on ID cards.
- Fixed crashing with the error "Coroutine Barotrauma.SinglePlayerCampaign+d__16 threw an exception" when trying to give items to a human prefab instance that has no item sets configured.
- Fixed installed mods list not refreshing when uninstalling an unsubscribed mod.
- Fixed outpost reactors using mechanical skill for repairs instead of electrical.
- Fixed outdated Dugong preview image.
- Fixed Deadeye Carbine firing an inconsistent number of rounds per burst in multiplayer.
- Fixed crashing when launching the server with a fresh config file due to the language being set to None.
- Fixed crashing on startup if the workshop mod directory doesn't exist.
- Fixed "Canned Heat" not having an effect on oxygenite tanks.
- Fixed entity list's search results being in a random order in the sub editor.
- Fixed crashing when trying to view an item assembly that contains entities that can't be found in the sub editor.
- Fixed bots not taking medical items' negative effects into account when determining which meds to use, often leading to overdoses/suffocation when using opiates.
- Fixed bots trying to clean up items into deconstructors.
- Fixed clients failing to spawn items with console commands when there's a structure prefab with the same identifier (e.g. ladders).
- Fixed characters being unable to gain skills added by a mod if the job doesn't initially have those skills defined.
- Automatically correct linked submarine paths in the submarine editor.
- Fixed electrical discharge coils sometimes working with insufficient power.
- Fixed crashing when creating a humanoid character in character editor.
- Fixed cargo missions putting cargo in non-interactable and hidden-in-game containers.
- Fixed only the first Powered component being considered when determining how much power an item is supplying to the grid. Prevented alien generators from working.
- Fixed textbox's text position breaking when there's overflow and you're editing in the middle of the string.

Hello everyone!

The Urban Expanses update has just been released. Please be sure to update your game to the latest version and read on for more details about the update.

[h3]Colony overhaul[/h3]
Weve reworked the appearance and available services of colonies, the biggest outposts, to make them look and feel like real cities.

• Complete visual overhaul.
  
• Bigger colonies with better layouts using less random generation.
  
• Multiple merchants with all possible outpost services.
  

• Spending money for everyone!
  
• The host and admins can set salaries for crew, transfer money from bank to wallets, and view a log of purchases the crew has made.
  
• All players can give money to each other, request more money from the bank, and loot money from corpses.
  

• New modding tab in the game settings all the mod settings in one place.
  
• Download all mods from the server, just like custom subs.
  
• Publishing and updating your own Workshop content is easier and less error-prone.
  
• Much more official modding documentation to be released through GitHub in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
  

Hello everyone!

A big part of the next update will focus on colonies, the biggest and most advanced kind of outposts that spawn in response to your actions in the world. Were also adding personal wallets for all crew members at the same time. Read more below!

[h3]Overhauled colonies[/h3]

• Bigger colonies, better layouts and completely new textures. Were making colonies look like real cities, visually and functionally different from regular outposts.
  
• Better services and multiple merchants. All the different specialized merchants will always spawn at every colony.
  
• No longer start new campaigns at a colony. This would make the early game too easy, with the increased accessibility of items and services at colonies.
  
• New outpost events, and interactable vending machines!
  

• Every crew member gets their own spending budget. This money can be used to buy all items and services at outposts.
  
• Hosts and admins can transfer money from the bank to crew wallets and set up salaries. Salaries divide mission rewards between players.
  
• All players can request money from the bank, give money to other players, and loot money from corpses.
  

Hello everyone!

We're busy at work on the next Barotrauma update again, and the first part of it that we wanted to write to you about has to do with modding. To put it simply, over the past year we have been quietly rewriting large chunks of Barotrauma's code where it relates to modding. This has been done to make things easier for everyone who makes mods, everyone who uses mods, and for ourselves as well.

While this overhaul should not break your existing mods, it will be of interest to anyone who creates or plays with non-vanilla content. With the modding refactor, we not only streamline mod-making and related settings but also address long-standing issues things like mod load order getting scrambled with new updates, and changes on your own custom subs being accidentally overwritten when you try to upload a new version to the Steam Workshop.

We've covered the modding refactor in some more detail on our blog, which you can read right away, and we're also working on a more detailed guide to be released later.

We hope you will find these changes useful! The modding refactor-related changes are now available for testing in the Unstable test version, and they are planned for release in the next update, in the latter half of April.

Hi everyone!

We've just released three fixes for issues in yesterday's update:

- Fixed excessive loading times when playing in Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
- Fixed certain logic components (and/or/xor with an empty output and non-empty false output) stopping to work altogether when they stop sending a signal.
- Fixes to crashes when trying to interact with certain elements in the server lobby while getting disconnected.

We hope these smooth out any problems you've been having and wish you a nice weekend!

Hello everyone!

The Rising Tide update has just been released, with new monsters, submarines, character visuals and more. Read more below and find the full list of changes at the end of this post.

New subs introducing Herja and Barsuk, two new attack subs, as well as Winterhalter, the new deep diver. These subs should fill gaps in the submarine roster for those interested in playing campaigns with vanilla subs.

New monster variants and other improvements the update brings the Giant Spineling, Veteran Mudraptor and Crawler Broodmother to make your creature encounters more interesting. We have also fixed monster AI issues and balanced monster spawns and behaviors throughout the game.

Outpost medical services you can now find medics on board stations and purchase healing services from them. Outpost healing works the same way as all outpost services, with healing purchased for each affliction separately.

Character improvements weve further improved character visuals with both polish and roughness. Hair and facial hair styles as well as job gear variants have been differentiated a little better, and well still continue adding more styles with later updates!

Performance improvements Barotrauma should run more smoothly on lower-end systems after the update, and as usual, there is a long list of other fixes and improvements too.

Be sure to update your game to the latest version to be able to host and join multiplayer games, and please be patient while modders update their mods to the most recent version. We hope you enjoy this update!


v0.16.6.1

Changes and additions:
- Added a medical clinic to outposts that allows you to heal your crew for a price.
- Added three new sub: Barsuk, Herja and Winterhalter.
- Improvements and polish to the human sprites.
- Improvements and polish to clothing and headgear sprites.
- Added the Submarine tab to the multiplayer campaign store to allow selling items on the submarine.
- Prevented selling items from submarine containers tagged with "donttakeitems", e.g. constructors, deconstructors.
- Added new campaign store related client permissions: use campaign store, buy items, sell inventory items, and sell submarine items.
- Entities can be grouped together and the groups selectively hidden in the submarine editor.
- Balanced mission rewards, commonness and difficulties.
- Added some new decorative items and structures.
- Adjusted medical items' effects on bleeding and burns. Bandages, plastiseal and antibiotic glue are now much more effective at treating them, and morphine & fentanyl only heal them by a negligible amount.
- Heavily increased supercapacitor's power consumption and made the recharge speed increase exponentially when the recharge rate is increased.
- Optimizations to signal logic, status effects and property conditionals.
- Item update optimizations.
- Optimizations to gap logic.
- Optimized multiplayer store interface.
- Added "separator" property to Concat Component.
- Added "power_value_out" and "load_value_out" connections to junction boxes.
- Added "set_output" connection to Greater Than Component, Equals Component and Regex Component.
- Made alien materials spawn in abyss islands.
- Exposed wall healths in the sub editor.
- Modified Orca 2 and R-29 reactor values so they're more in line with other subs.
- Made ballast flora toxins more visible and made them emit a sound.
- Made impacts toss items around less effectively, especially when the item is heavy.
- "Allow rewiring" server setting doesn't affect wrecks, pirate subs or ruins.
- Added an option to disable all in-game hints to the hint message box.
- Option to make sonar displays center on the connected sonar transducer.
- Made the sizes of signal components consistent (32x32px, they also align to the grid now).
- Don't allow fabricators to take items from linked containers the user doesn't have access to.
- Connected diving suit lockers to oxygen in vanilla subs.
- Pulse laser ammo can be bought from outposts and cities.
- Chaingun tweaks: doubled turning speed when firing, reduced charging up time, reduced ammo consumption and made the ammo boxes more expensive.
- Simplified Remora drone docking system.
- Show notifications about reputation changes mid-round.
- Escorted NPCs drop the items they took from the sub (like suits) at the end of the round.
- Added warnings when the game fails to run the physics at the desired 60 updates per second (which would cause rubberbanding in multiplayer). The warnings are shown below the FPS when the client is running slowly, and in the debug console of the host/moderators/admins when the server is.
- Made turret icons on the minimap gray instead of red when not manned (easy to think there's something wrong with the turret when it's red).
- Abandoned outpost's oxygen generators now consume power.
- Made characters crouch a little lower (enough to make it possible to shoot while standing behind a crouching character).
- Added a "sendchatmessage" console command with an option to configure the color of the message.
- Added button to align selected items and wire nodes to grid to the sub editor.
- Allow using cheats in editors.
- Don't show "hidden in-game" docking ports on the sonar, option to disable the docking port's particle and sound effects.
- The prompt about forbidden words in the server's name is only shown when trying to start a public server.
- Show prices in the submarine specs window (previously there was no way to see a sub's price in the server lobby).
- Allow wiring non-interactable items and accessing non-interactable containers in the sub editor.
- Chaingun projectiles and canister shells cause lacerations instead of gunshot wounds.
- Added recycle recipe to SMG magazines.
- Significantly reduced the speed at which welding tools fix walls.
- Changed the small arms max stack sizes to either 6 or 12 when the clip size is 6. Makes it less tedious to use the extra ammunition.
- Added damage sounds to doors when they take 10 or more damage.
- Made outpost containers' sprite depths more consistent with other containers.
- Added tags to outpost medical compartments and made them linkable.
- Mission completion and failure icons are now displayed mid-round in the tab menu.

Monsters:
- Added 3 new monster variants: Giant Spineling, Crawler Broodmother and Veteran Mudraptor.
- An overall balance and behavior fix pass on all monsters. Feedback is welcome.
- Monster mission reward and difficulty level adjustments.
- Adjustments to the random monster spawn events.
- Adjusted the loot dropped by Crawler Broodmother, Giant Spineling, and Bonethresher.
- Moloch Pupa and Hammerhead Matriarch now also drop some loot.
- Crawler Eggs now deconstruct into suplhuric acid (and adrenaline gland, if they are not the smallest variants).
- Fixed mudraptors being unable to hit the targets that are very near.
- Fixed monsters sometimes getting stuck near the Humpback's bottom railgun.
- Fixed monsters getting stuck on trying to reach open gaps that are on the other side of the sub.
- Fixed aggressive boarders not being aggressive enough inside the player sub, because they couldn't target things that were blocked by a wall.
- Fixed Molochs not doing anything when there's babies around.
- Fixed Mudraptors not staying together in swarms.
- Fixed monsters continuing to eat a characters who've been revived with console commands (leading to weird results, such as the character being able to run around after being dismembered)..
- Fixed some monsters, like crawlers, trying to target walls with lots of gaps even though there are better targets closer to them.
- Fixed monsters being unable to target inner walls when they are technically outside of the sub (= when there's no hull where they are). Such places, between the outer and the inner walls, can be found e.g. in Humpback.
- Tigerthreshers can now target doors.
- Monsters that try to get inside the sub, should now notice and priorize doors more overall. Affects e.g. Mudraptors, and to lesser extent Crawlers (and Tigerthreshers).
- Monsters' burns don't heal by themselves.
- Fixed hammerhead matriarchs sometimes spawning in low-difficulty levels.
- Fixed endworm not having a burn damage modifier in the right tooth.
- Changed Golden Hammerhead's behavior towards stronger monsters.

AI:
- The order of the crew list is saved between rounds in single player.
- Indicate when a bot is following someone else than you on the crew list's order icons.
- When quick-assigning orders, prioritize the characters with the same Operate order only when they are targeting the same item.
- When quick-assigning orders, don't prioritize characters with the same Maintenance order. Otherwise, Maintenance orders will always be quick-assigned to characters who already have the samer order. This will prevent giving out multiple Maintenance orders of the same type to multiple characters using the quick-assignment logic.
- Allow quick-assigning the same kind of Operate order to multiple characters. Previously, it would always be given to the character that already had the same kind of order.
- Added a new "Assault Enemy" order: bots with the order will seek out and attack any hostile characters in any connected submarines or outposts.
- Made the order quick-assigning logic prefer characters who don't have the order yet (among the characters with the appropriate job).
- Made it possible to use the order quick-assignment to give the Fix Leaks order to all character (although mechanics, engineers, and assistants are still preferred).
- Fixed bots sometimes getting stuck while trying to fix a leak that's not in the same sub (e.g. bot in Remora and the leak in the drone).
- Reduced the range where the bots can spot enemies outside of the sub.
- Improved bots' ability to return back to the submarine from caves.
- Fixed oxygen shards from old saves still being used as oxygen sources by bots.
- Fixed bots getting stuck in certain spots with ladders (e.g. Berilia's reactor room).
- Fixed contextual "clean up" order not being visible for weapons.
- Defined preferred containers for some items and added "locker" as the secondary preferred container for most items. Helps bots clean up things even when they can't find the primary container for the items.
- Fixed bots sometimes halting briefly next to a door when they shouldn't.
- "Fight intruders" order doesn't make the bots enter abandoned outposts to fight the enemies there.
- Disable aggressive behavior towards the player for the friendly crew members in single player (= accidental friendly fire never turns the security hostile in single player).
- Fixed bots saying they can't find items to load when someone takes an item they were targeting.
- Fixed bots saying they can't reach a leak when someone else fixes it before them.
- Fixed bots sometimes trying to adjust auto-controlled pumps when doing the autonomous Pump Water objective.
- Arrested pirate captains don't try to give orders to their crew.
- Change how captains (and theoretically other bots with an autonomous fight intruders order) behave: instead of idling around, they'll flee to the safety. And if there's no security officers around, they should fight the enemy aggressively.
- Fixed bots filling target containers with items that can't be refilled/recharged when given the Load Items order (e.g. putting welding fuel tanks in oxygen tank shelves).
- Made bots prefer the same fuel rods or ammo as already loaded when they're operating a reactor or a turret and need to find new ones.
- Bots that follow a character who's going inside/outside stick closer to the character they're following. Helps the bots to get back inside with you.
- Fixed pets becoming hostile towards the crew and other pets if a human attacks the character they're protecting.
- Fixed pirates not operating turrets when they have no power.
- Fixed bots not unequipping diving suits when they have an order but not actively following it (i.e. they are on idle).
- Fixed Operate orders not being dismissed automatically when another character is ordered to operate the same device.
- Fixed the dialogue reserved for rearranging character orders not being used in multiplayer.
- Fixed bots sometimes getting stuck on ladders while swimming.
- Fixed bots returning to the sub even when they have an active wait order. Happened when the order was given inside and then when e.g. the character is controlled by the player, and then when the player changes the character, the bot falls to the "find safety objective", because it's not allowed to stay outside.
- Bots can find buttons connected to a door using links made in the sub editor. Allows working around complex circuits that prevent the bots from figuring out which button controls a door.
- Fixed bots taking battery cells from portable pumps without considering their condition when acting on the Recharge Battery Cells order.
- Fixed bots not always reacting to monsters when they should be able to see them, while swimming outside.
- Fixed bots accidentally damaging friendly characters while trying to hit Swarmfeeders latched on to them.
- Fixed bots not using melee weapons when there's Swarmfeeders latched on to them.
- Fixed bots being able to shoot without any delay if they already have a weapon equipped.
- Fixed bots dropping the syringe inside PUCS when replacing the oxygen tank.
- Fixed bots sometimes failing to find a path to a docked shuttle or drone.
- Fixed NPCs reacting to combat between other characters when they shouldn't (e.g. when they don't witness it).
- Fixed bots not re-equipping body armor/ballistic helmet/something else when they drop the diving gear.
- Fixed bots having issues with some stairs. Note: these changes might require alterations on stair waypoints. Currently the generator doesn't do perfect job there. Look for the examples on how to fix them manually in the vanilla subs.
- Fixed bots sometimes trying to put items they're cleaning up into containers inside fabricators/deconstructors (e.g. an oxygen tank into a diving suit in a fabricator).
- Fixed bots equipping gene splicers when cleaning them up, causing the genetic material to get destroyed when the bot puts the splicer in a container.

Talents:
- Removed the special stat boosts from "Olympian" (now it only increases the skill cap to 200).
- Halved the amount of damage "Still Kicking" heals (100 -> 50)
- Reduced gunshot wounds inflicted by handcannon.
- "True Potential" only has a chance of instakilling things smaller than a moloch.
- Halved damage buff from "Quickdraw" (80% -> 40%).
- Reduced skill gain from "Field Medic" (7 -> 3).
- Nerfed "Warlord" (20% chance of doubling the damage -> 5% chance).
- Reduced damage buff from "Expert Commando" (40% -> 20%).
- Health scanner doesn't show buffs from talents.
- Fixed "unused talent points" indicator staying visible after all talents have been unlocked if the character's gained extra talent points from other talents.
- Fixed incorrect talents sometimes unlocking server-side when unlocking "All-Seeing Eye". Happened because the server checked how many talents the client can unlock before applying All-Seeing Eye, which meant that the 3 extra talents would not be available, and the server would leave the last 3 talents unlocked.
- Fixed "Inspired to Act" talent only giving a skill bonus of 9.98 instead of 10.
- Fixed "Atmos Machine" talent not spawning psychosis artifacts or alien pistols.
- Fixed "Hazardous Materials" considering any reactor outside the main sub (e.g. beacon station) a wreck reactor.
- Fixed ranged weapons (including turrets) triggering "Electrochemist" talent's stun.

Bugfixes:
- Fixes character resetting in MP campaign if you join mid-round and don't get to spawn in before the next round in a campaign you've previously played in.
- Fixed equipping two of the same genetic material and then unequipping one of them removing all the genetic effects.
- Fixed "novice seafarer", "experienced seafarer" and "naval architect" achievements being possible to unlock even if cheats are enabled.
- Fixed kills in multiplayer sessions not progressing the "xenocide" and "genocide" achievements, and kills being reported to Steam unreliably.
- Fixed clients not spawning the respawn shuttle if they join after the server had disabled the shuttle mid-round, leading to an "entity not found" kick.
- Fixed medical effects being different when the medical item is fired with a syringe gun.
- Fixed wall healths being half of what they should be on vanilla subs, increased structure damages to compensate.
- Fixed fabricator sometimes desyncing in MP when some of the ingredients are in the user's inventory.
- Fixed clients trying to reconnect to SteamP2P indefinitely if establishing the initial connection fails, eventually leading to a crash.
- Fixed "allow linking wifi to chat" server setting causing syncing problems with headsets. The setting wasn't synced with clients who don't have settings management permissions, which would cause them to get some of the wifi components' properties mixed up and sometimes prevent them from communicating using the headsets.
- Fixed motion detector requiring the target's velocity to be higher than the specified minimum velocity, instead of higher than or equal. As a result, a minimum velocity of 0 would not sometimes detect targets in range.
- Fixed an exploit that allowed combining genetic materials in deconstructors.
- Fixed "fixitems" command setting genetic materials' condition to 100.
- Fixed "reset to prefab" not resetting wall healths.
- Fixed certain logic components not passing forwards the character who sent the signal, preventing e.g. the character who undocked a drone from being logged or the character who killed something from being determined if the signal activates a weapon.
- Orca 2: Fixed missing power wires to a couple small pumps, neutral ballast level, gunnery marked as wet room. Added a duct block between upper and lower deck. Some minor visual fixes.
- Fixed voronoi sites sometimes getting placed outside the level's bounds, leading to messed up level geometry.
- Fixed turrets always starting at rotation 0 at the beginning of the round (instead of halfway between the min/max angles like in the editor).
- Fixed changing a delay component's delay using the editing hud not having an effect in-game when the component is receiving a continuous signal.
- Take structures/items with a collider into account when calculating a sub's dimensions (as opposed to just hulls). Fixes dimensions being incorrect in the submarine's info if the sub includes structures that extend far outside the hulls.
- Fixed crashing when swimming up from hull to another in a specific kind of hull configuration (two hulls side-by-side, with a gap leading up to another one).
- Fixed oxygen shards from old saves still being used as oxygen sources by bots.
- Fixed changes not being applied to all selected items when multi-editing a string field in the sub editor and deselecting the items without applying the changes by pressing enter.
- The game doesn't try to save a campaign if an exception occurs at any point during the saving process (should fix rare occurrences of campaign saves getting corrupted).
- Don't allow signals to deactivate ItemContainers. Fixes portable pumps' "toggle" input not working.
- Fixed removed items staying visible on the status monitor's electrical tab.
- Fixed plants still using the old values in old saves (i.e. dying too fast when not watered).
- Outposts can't request the "psychosisartifact_event" item (an event-specific special artifact that looks identical to the normal ones).
- Fixed size of a door's gap relative to the door changing when rescaling the door in the sub editor.
- Fixed fabricator consuming all the suitable ingredients when the ingredient is configured using a tag instead of an identifier (e.g. fabricating a stun gun dart would consume all the wires in the input slots).
- Fixed motion detector's detect offset getting mirrored when copying a mirrored detector.
- Fixed status monitor's submarine blueprint refreshing when initiating docking with a shuttle, instead of when the docking ports lock (sometimes causing the shuttle to appear slightly off from the docking port on the monito).
- Fixed fabricator failing to stack oxygenite tanks.
- Fixed items in the player's inventory not getting highlighted as valid ingredients when using a fabricator.
- Attempt to fix a rare crash caused by ScalableFont.DrawStringWithColors.
- Fixed freezing when trying to enable GameAnalytics from the settings menu on Mac.
- Fixed locked connection panel and non-interactable lights in R-29.
- Fixed Delay Component failing to parse set_delay inputs on systems that use comma as the decimal separator.
- Fixed charge rate not being displayed correctly on batteries in Chinese.
- Fixed junction box load not being displayed on status monitors in Russian.
- Fixed oxygen tanks being misaligned in oxygen generators.
- Fixed motion sensor not being able to detect subs in the sub editor test mode.
- Fixed recycled volatile fulgurium rods incorrectly using mechanical instead of electrical skill.
- Consider the character who severed a limb as the character who inflicted the afflictions caused by severing the limb. + Consider the character who caused bleeding as the character who caused the resulting bloodloss. Fixes achievements not unlocking and talents not triggering if you kill a target by cutting its limbs off or by making it bleed to death.
- Fixed characters sometimes becoming momentarily unresponsive when swimming out from a hull.
- Fixed speed penalty caused by the vegetation in caves sometimes not disappearing after passing through the vegetation.
- Fixed links from a docking port to a linked sub not being considered valid in the sub editor (only a link from linked sub to a docking port). Now the order of the link doesn't matter.
- Fixed repair window showing up if you use a periscope wired to a broken device.
- Fixed sonar getting misaligned when switching to the docking mode (the amount of misalignment being relative to the distance of the docking port from the sub's center).
- Fixed light textures not rotating with the lamps in the sub editor.
- Fixed elements in CustomInterface getting misaligned if the signal_out connections aren't used in sequential order (e.g. if you only connect a wire to outputs 2 and 3).
- Fixed server including lines multiple times in the saved server logs (e.g. the 2nd saved log file would include some lines that were already saved to the 1st log file).
- Fixed initial husk infection message being displayed immediately after getting infected, not after the infection advances.
- Fixed equip slots being misplaced if you open the health interface when the equip slots have been hidden.
- Fixed wrecks sometimes not spawning in levels despite a wreck mission being selected.
- Fixed characters moving slowly downwards when aiming underwater.
- Fixed moloch shell shields not protecting the user from non-hitscan weapons or melee weapons.
- Fixed messed up mining crane sprite.
- Fixed crashing when pirates try to operate the sub using a nav terminal that doesn't control any sub (doesn't affect vanilla subs because they don't contain that kind of nav terminals).
- Fixed fabricator showing the info of the selected item wrong when selecting the fabricator with another character (e.g. fabrication time still calculated based on the previous user's skills).
- Fixed characters reading skillbooks upside-down.
- Fixed personality traits changing after every round in mp campaign.
- Fixed monsters always eating the character they're grabbing, even when the monster is configured as not being able to eat (in practice only happened when a player controlled something like a fractal guardian and grabbed another character).
- Fixed characters sometimes using the "priorities have changed" dialogue when giving a new order.
- Fixed pumps' auto-controlled status not being updated correctly.
- Added some extra logging to diagnose the "did not receive STARTGAMEFINALIZE message from the server" errors.
- Misc localization fixes and improvements.
- Fixed tab menu's character tab not refreshing when switching to another character.
- Fixed ballast flora still being present when you replace an infested lost shuttle in an outpost.
- Fixed occasional crashes and entity ID errors when entering a new level with a ballast flora infested sub.
- Fixed inability to swap SMG magazines (or other items that go inside the held item) by double-clicking.
- Fixed "failed to parse the string to Vector2" when loading bot orders that have been saved on a system that uses comma as a decimal separator.
- Fixed rounding error in RespawnManager that caused it to require 1 extra dead player to trigger a respawn (e.g. 9 players and a minimum of 30% players to respawn required 3 players, but the client-side texts showed 2).
- Fixed "stairs left" appearing mirrored in the status monitor's sub blueprint and in the sub editor's entity selection menu.
- Fixed Wifi Component's "set_channel" input not working when sending signals to it via chat in multiplayer.
- Fixed autoshotgun not taking stacks into account in the ammo indicator below the inventory slot (= displaying it as being full when there's one shell in each slot, even though more could be stacked on the slots).
- Fixed hitscan turrets sometimes hitting targets inside your own sub when there's linked subs present.
- Fixed faraday and nasonov artifacts' periodic explosions stopping if the round is ended during their 0.5s "reset" period.
- Fixed oxygenite shards not exploding in depth charge shells.
- Fixed killer sometimes being determined incorrectly when a character gets killed by something else than another character: e.g. if a character got crushed by pressure, the character who last did damage to them was considered to be the killer, which could for example lead to achievements being unlocked in inappropriate situations.
- Fixed pumps not taking the volumes/shapes of the linked hulls into account when using "set_targetlevel", causing the neural level to be off in irregularly shaped multi-hull ballasts.
- Fixed artifacts sometimes spawning outside the level when there's no artifact holder to place them in (e.g. when having 2 artifact missions active at the same time).
- The electrical grid in beacon stations is turned indestructible after activating it. Should fix beacon missions sometimes failing for no apparent reason (if something happened to damage the beacon's walls during the round and flood it).
- Attempt to fix a null reference exception in Map.RemoveFogOfWar (suspecting it was caused by a mod that didn't configure the campaign map's sprite for some biome).
- Fixed nav terminal's docking button staying visible if the terminal is disconnected from the docking port by deactivating a relay between them.
- Fixed cursor position jittering when the sub is moving fast.
- Fixed discharge coils in Berilia and Orca 2 being connected to junction boxes instead of supercapacitors.
- Fixed wall colliders generating twice on abyss islands without caves, and the 1st generated wall not getting mirrored along with the level, leading to "invisible walls" in some areas of the abyss in mirrored levels.
- Pirates that are outside or unconscious count as being dead in the pirate missions. Fixes pirate missions failing if e.g. one of the pirates gets stranded outside their sub.
- Fixed some turrets being possible to power with batteries, even though the maximum power output of the batteries shouldn't be high enough.
- Fixed the drug dealer in the "heart of gold" event fleeing from the other bandits.
- Fixed decapitating not working as it should.
- Fixed being able to grab hostile NPCs.
- Fixed sound effects not playing when a monster hits the sub's inner wall.
- Fixed correct sprite not being used in the great sea on the campaign map.
- Fixed "settings" text overlapping in the settings menu when using a very large text size.
- EventManager doesn't consider monsters in a docked non-player sub (e.g. abandoned outpost) to be "inside the sub". Fixes intensity always being at 100% in monster-infested outposts.
- Fixed outpost cabinet's sprite having empty space above it.
- Fixed inability to put syringe guns, toy hammers, welding tools, plasma cutters and sprayers in weapon holders.
- Fixed escort missions giving huge rewards in higher difficulty levels.
- Fixed a nullref exception in CharacterHUD.Draw when an icon can't be found for a campaign interaction.

Modding:
- Added "HealCostMultiplier" attribute to AfflictionPrefabs that adjusts the heal cost in medical clinic.
- EntitySpawnerComponent treats positive y offset as up to make it more consistent with other components.
- Added an option to define a hard limit for how many entities EntitySpawnerComponent can spawn.
- Fixed "targetself" attack conditionals checking both the attacker and the target.
- Added "delaybetweenspawns" property to MonsterEvents (determines the delay between spawning the individual monsters of a given monster event).
- Don't allow setting an item's or limb's density to 0 (leads to "attempted to apply invalid force/torque" errors).
- Fixed shields blocking projectiles from the user's weapon. Didn't affect any vanilla items, because all the shields are 2-hand items that prevent using a weapon at the same time.
- Fixed ButtonTerminals without an ItemContainer component causing crashes.
- If a mod makes a vanilla item movable/detachable and sets it as being attached by default, attach it to a wall when loading a sub that already had those items placed. I.e. making static devices movable doesn't cause them to deattach in existing subs.
- Fixed monster AI's targeting priorities doing nothing if the threshold is 0 and the target hasn't done any damage.
- Fixed custom ID card tags not working in wrecks.
- Fixed Rope component not attaching to the limb it's fired from in multiplayer (doesn't affect any vanilla content).
- Fixed crashing in multiplayer when there are spectators in the server and someone reaches the final stage of a modded husk affliction that allows remaining in control of the final form.
- Fixed wearables that are equipped into multiple slots (e.g. InnerClothes+OuterClothes) not being visible when worn.

[h3]Welcome to testing Barotrauma[/h3]
Hello everyone!

The next update is not far now: all the new content is ready to be tested by our Unstable testers. Want to be one of them? Read more about testing Barotrauma here and get the test version today!

[h3]Coming up in the next update[/h3]
Heres a quick summary of the biggest upcoming changes. You can read more about all of them on our blog and see them for yourself in the Unstable test version.

Outpost medical services pay an NPC to heal your crew.
New subs three of them, to be exact.
New monsters three new monster variants, too.
Monster improvements quite a long list of fixes from monster AI to missions and random spawns as well as overall balance.
Character improvements continuing last years human character overhaul with polish and dirt in equal measures.
Performance improvements as well as a number of other fixes and improvements.

The update is planned to be released on the last week of February. Let us know what you think!

Hello everyone!

Before we write more about upcoming Barotrauma updates, we wanted to lend a hand to fellow indie developer Cogwheel Software and their debut Hidden Deep, which begins its Early Access journey today.

You may know already that Hidden Deep is published by Daedalic Entertainment just like Barotrauma and you may also know that our two games look uncannily similar at a glance! So whats the deal with that?

[h3]Are Hidden Deep and Barotrauma made by the same people, or inspired by each other?[/h3]
Short answer: no. Long answer: also no, mostly we have the same publisher, but both games are developed independently by people who are not in regular contact with each other. Weve said hi to each other on Discord (and our official servers are known to have many of the same people).

There are many similarities in our games lifespans, though: Where Barotrauma began as a one-man project, Hidden Deep has also largely remained a solo developers endeavor. Other things both games share are a custom engine, simulated physics, a development history spanning a number of years before being released on Steam and an ambitious roadmap ahead of them. As were further along on that road, we wish Hidden Deep tons of luck and cant wait to see how it will evolve following its release today!

[h3]So how come they look so similar? Are they set in the same world?[/h3]
The similar look is simple coincidence (and in large part probably also due to the constraints of both being third-person side-view two-dimensional horror-esque games set in an environment devoid of sunlight), and today not even quite as striking as it was when we first discovered Hidden Deep in 2018.

At that time we seriously worried wed stumbled on a direct competitor for the then-unreleased Barotrauma, but looking into it a little more, we discovered that the setting, premise and gameplay are hardly identical with ours but as you can guess if youre still reading, there are indeed many similarities. If you like Barotrauma, you should definitely give Hidden Deep a try!

[h3]Since you have the same publisher and are so alike, is there going to be a crossover?[/h3]
Considering that Barotrauma and Hidden Deep take place a couple of hundred years and approximately 628.3 million kilometers apart, a crossover might be tricky to arrange, but you never know.

[h3]Last but not least[/h3]
To celebrate Hidden Deep's release, we are offering a limited time bundle deal starting tomorrow, 25 January get the Supporter editions of both Barotrauma and Hidden Deep in one go. Without further ado, check out Hidden Deep's release trailer below, and get ready for a thrilling, sunless adventure on both Earth and Europa!

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Hello and happy new year, everyone!

We're back to business as usual and have just released a small fix patch to address four very commonly occurring issues that came up while we were away on our Christmas holidays:

v0.15.23.0

- Fixed inability to switch subs in multiplayer campaign, unless you opt to switch at the same time as you purchase the new sub.
- Fixed server not loading the previous save, but continuing from where you left off if you return to the server lobby without saving and try to continue.
- Fixed characters who've died and respawned during a round getting a penalty to their skills again on the following round.
- Attempt to fix clients sometimes gaining control of an incorrect character in the multiplayer campaign.


We hope that these fixes take care of the most pressing problems you have been facing and wish you a great beginning to the new year! More fixes and content additions coming again in the next update, planned for next month.

Hello everyone!

We've just released a small patch to address the most urgent issues in yesterday's update. Here is the list of changes:

- Fixed crashing on startup on some versions of macOS.
- Fixed GameAnalytics consent prompt going outside the window on small resolutions and/or large text sizes.
- Fixed Kastrull's drone sometimes spawning inside the sub client-side in multiplayer.
- Fixed opening the settings menu resetting the game window, which caused screen capture software to stop capturing the window.
- Fixed certain mods that don't configure the "you are here" circle sprite for the status monitors causing crashes.
- Fixed abilities that give simultaneous skill gain (minor in mechanics, once upon a time in europa, apprenticeship) not giving the extra skill points.
- Fixed deconstructor not being able to put the items into containers in the output slots.

Thank you for all the comments, feedback and well-wishes since yesterday! With these fixes, we hope you get to sail smoothly through Europa during the holidays.

Hello everyone!

The year is quickly nearing its end, and its time to release the final update of 2021. Here are the highlights, with the complete list of changes at the end of this post.

[h3]The holiday update[/h3]

• Several new bot orders: Prepare for Expedition, Find Weapon, and Load Items, which commands the bot to either recharge battery cells, refill oxygen tanks, or reload ammo.
  
• Other bot improvements: ability to access a bots inventory and changes to the medic bots behavior.
  
• Improved campaign submarine selection and sub visibility in the lobby.
  
• Multiplayer stability improvements and several related fixes.
  
• Talent fixes and improvements.
  
• Adjustments to gardening and monster spawns.
  
• Orca 2, a new sub.
  

Hello everyone!

It is the Steam Awards nomination season, and Barotrauma is eligible for the Labor of Love category, intended for games with a long history of development. As we are closing in on our 15th content update since we launched Barotrauma on Steam, we are proud to be competing for this award!

We hope you've enjoyed everything we have added to the game this year, from caves and ruins to pirates and talents. We have been overjoyed to see so many of you playing the game and joining discussions in our community hubs!

Without further ado, you can now nominate Barotrauma for the Labor of Love award and stay tuned for one more small update before the year is out.

Hello everyone!

To continue celebrating the release of Among the Ancients, one of the biggest content updates in Barotrauma's history, we're having a free weekend you can now download and play Barotrauma for free until Monday!

To continue playing after the free event, you can now also buy the game at a hefty discount of 75% off. For some extra Barotrauma lore, don't forget to check out the Supporter edition, which is also discounted for the duration of the free weekend.

We hope to see many of you this weekend and wish you a pleasant stay on Europa!

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Hello everyone!

We have just released a patch to fix issues in the latest update. Notably, character resetting between multiplayer campaign rounds and issues with job assignment have been addressed. See the full list of changes below and please be sure to update your game to be able to host and join servers!


v0.15.13.0

Changes:
- Remove spawnpoint-based job assignment logic. Previously, the number of job-specific spawnpoints in the sub affected how many players the server would try to assign to a given job, which would often lead to players not getting the job they wanted to.
- Made the captain job optional (i.e. if no-one has captain in their preferences, no-one gets forced to play as one).
- Improvements to the Korean localization.
- Added rewards to side objective missions (hunting grounds, beacon).
- Reduce Pyromaniac's burning damage increase from 40% to 25%.

Fixes:
- Fixed clients' characters getting reset in the multiplayer campaign if they're spectating at the end of the round.
- Fixed crashing when an event set fails to load any of its sub events. Caused certain mods to crash the game at 42% in the loading screen.
- Fixed crashing on startup when using mods that remove the small icons from job prefabs.
- Fixed bots being unable to find their way to the submarine if the switch to the "find safety" state outside the sub.
- Fixed bots often being unable to find a way to leaks they're trying to weld.
- Fixed crashing when a monster was just about to turn to a husk when the round ends.
- Fixed opened item disappearing when switching to the test mode from the sub editor.
- Fixed Artie Dolittle's ID card not working in the player's sub after he's hired.
- Fixed category labels (sufficient skills to fabricate, requires recipe, etc) disappearing from the fabricator's item list when searching.
- Fixed prisoner's uniform using a wrong texture file.
- Fixed inability to edit pulse laser's power consumption in the sub editor.
- Fixed an exploit in Pressure Stabilizer crafting recipe.
- Fixed an exploit in Fixfoam Grenade deconstruction recipe.
- Fixed crashing when selecting a gene splicer and hovering over its inventory slot in the sub editor.
- Fixed bots being unable to use hardened and dementonite tools.
- Fixed a typo in Tinkering cooldown reduction description.
- Fixed inactive reactors electrocuting low-skill characters when rewired.
- Fixed ignore orders carrying over when switching subs, causing them to target random items in the new sub.
- Fixed dementonite knives being sold in stores.
- Fixed contained items' impact sounds being played when the item they're inside hits the floor.
- Fixed True Potential instant kills not properly giving kill credit (achievements, other talents).
- Fixed Gene Harvester incorrectly checking the owner of the talent's submarine rather than the killer's.
- Fixed certain talents not appearing to have an effect client-side, causing e.g. the high-pressure effects to appear when swimming outside with the Water Prankster talent.
- Fix Scavenger's buff duration multiplier.
- Fixed Insurance Policy not triggering properly.
- Fixed issues with input going through interfaces drawn over inventory slots.
- Fixed bots trying to treat talent afflictions.
- Fixed player-controlled creature attacks sometimes not hitting characters when they should.
- Fixed "x in command room" spam when dragging and dropping orders in multiplayer.
- Fixed pirate missions not being considered completed if any of the pirates have been removed (e.g. eaten or despawned).
- Fixed high-quality items not stacking in the fabricator's output slot.
- Fixed ice shards' colliders taying active after the shard has shattered.
- Fixed bots following the controlled character instead of the order giver in singleplayer.
- Fixed purchased medals spawning on the floor.
- Fixed vision obstruction effect "flickering" when moving the cursor around when an item UI is open.
- Fixed some pumps in Dugong having 0 power consumption.
- Fixed pumps deteriorating when they don't have power.
- Fixed batteries/supercapacitors deteriorating when not charging/discharging.
- Fixed afflictions applying face/body tints on monsters.
- Fixed "select matching items" selecting all gaps if you've selected both a door and its gap in the sub editor.
- Fixed door gaps not being selected if you use "select matching items" on a door in the sub editor.
- Fixed biome ambience loop volume not being affected by the sound volume setting.
- Fixed players wearing a PUCS not using up hull oxygen when no tank is equipped.
- Fixed bots getting stuck on long outpost ladders.
- Restored the sounds for legacy fractal guardians. Fixes console errors when they are spawned/viewed in the editor.
- Fixed Reactor PDA showing hidden and non-interactable reactors.
- Fixed welding tool scale being forced to 0.5.
- Fix crew list content being repositioned when selected character was hovered.

Modding:
- Made deconstruction recipes' mincondition accept items whose condition equals to the mincondition, not just items whose condition is higher.
- Fixed color values being used incorrectly in explosion flashes.

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Hello everyone!

The Among the Ancients update has just been released. Take a look inside to find...

• Overhauled alien ruins. New art, layouts, monsters, traps, and missions.
  
• Overhauled human characters. Reworked visuals and improved character customization, now also for singleplayer.
  
• Talent system. Earn talent points in campaign mode to unlock skill specializations and even new items.
  
• Genetic enhancements. Discover alien items and research and refine them to upgrade your character.
  
• Improved health interface and submarine status monitor for easier use and more in-game information.
  
• A long list of fixes and other improvements! Find the full changelog further down.
  

Hello everyone!

Now that weve introduced the character overhaul and the talent system that are coming in the next update, its time to take a closer look at what the update is all about: alien ruins, the last remnants of a mysterious civilization that used to dwell on Europa before humanity arrived.

[h3]Alien ruins overhaul[/h3]
The appearance of the alien ruins has been unchanged for as long as Barotrauma has been in Early Access, and one of the highlights of this update will be a complete visual overhaul that brings the ruins up to par with the rest of the game. We're also improving ruin generation for larger and better layouts, and there are a number of other exciting things coming too:

• Remade Fractal Guardian with new appearance and behavior.
  
• New creature: the Swarm Feeder.
  
• New items: the Gravity Sphere and the Ruin Vent, both with new effects.
  
• New missions: Scan ruin and Clear ruin.
  
• Bot improvements: Return to submarine order and AI waypoints inside ruins.
  

Hello everyone!

One of the most frequently heard wishes from our players has been to make humanoid characters look nicer. As such, were very happy to introduce a complete character overhaul as part of the next update.

New ragdoll and animations
Weve revisited the proportions and movements of the bodies of human characters to achieve a more natural look. However, the basic ragdoll system remains the same, so expect some comical movements as always!

New faces, hairstyles and accessories
Were replacing all character faces in the game with new and improved ones. Hair and facial hair styles as well as accessories and costumes have also been remade to fit the new style.

New customization options
Were adding a skin shader system to allow you to customize your characters complexion. Hair and facial hair color also becomes customizable. Last but not least, were adding character customization options for singleplayer.

We think this overhaul is an important part of going towards a finished look and feel for Barotrauma, and we hope youll like it!

Read more about the character overhaul on our blog.

Hello everyone!

One of the most exciting additions in the next major update is going to be the brand new talent system. Talents are class-specific buffs and extra skills that you will be able to unlock with experience points gained from completing missions in the campaign.

Talents serve to make the roles of different classes stand out better while allowing you to shape your characters more to your liking. They also make characters more valuable to the crew because of their new, more specialized proficiencies in some cases, choosing the right talents can even allow you to craft previously uncraftable items!

• Engineers get talents to specialize in crafting, research and exploration, or the core engineer tasks aboard the sub.
  
• Mechanics can specialize in maintaining onboard machinery, boosting the performance of appliances, or exploration and prospecting.
  
• Doctor talents make you more skilled in keeping the crew alive, in crafting and genetics, or in supporting the rest of the group on away missions.
  
• Security officer specializations are geared towards protecting the ship and crew, survival outside the sub, and maximizing onboard weapons firepower.
  
• Captains can focus their talents on mastery of sidearms, efficient progression in campaigns, and commanding large co-operative crews.
  
• Assistants get their own talents, too, to make the most of the learning, dying, or clowning experience.
  

Hello everyone, its been a while we hope youve all had a great summer!

Were now back at work after our summer break, and today we have released a patch with a long list of fixes find out more on our blog and see the full list of changes below. Be sure to update your game to the latest version.

With these fixes released, we are already busy at work on the next major update. Stay tuned as we write more about the long-awaited alien ruins overhaul, coming later this year!


v0.14.9.0

Changes:
- If multiple turrets have been linked to the same loader, the turrets can't be swapped individually (both need to be swapped at the same time to prevent turrets from getting linked to an incorrect type of loader).
- Emergency lights don't cast shadows by default (they have such a short range that disabling the shadows usually doesn't make a difference visually, but improves the performance of the subs).
- Allow closing the submarine previews with esc.
- Made ballast pumps in Kastrull's drone indestructible (because they're impossible to access without breaking the walls/floors).
- Made exploding coilgun ammo more expensive and increased the capacity of the ammo boxes a bit.
- Made pirate subs immune to ballast flora.
- Security's stun guns spawn fully loaded.
- Reduced escort missions' base commonness. Doesn't have an effect in the campaign because the commonness is defined in the mission events, but fixes escort missions being much more common than other mission types in mission mode.
- Destroying a reactor with explosives depletes the fuel rods.
- Hide the equipment slots and character portait in wiring mode.
- Added platforms behind Remora Drone's hatches.

Fixes:
- Fixed enemies sometimes not spawning at all during a mission. Happened when the game selected the "stowaway" event to occur during the mission.
- Fixed pirate and escort missions not being available from late-game outposts.
- Fixed occasional "unauthorized multithreaded access to RandSync.Server" errors when starting a pirate mission in multiplayer.
- Fixed crashing with a "E_INVALIDARG" SharpDXException if an ice spire happens to generate on a very short level wall edge.
- Fixed crashing when trying to spawn inventory items for a character who left before respawning during the previous round.
- Fixed batteries always recharging at "full speed" when not full, regardless of how much power is being drawn from the battery. E.g. a battery that's only connected to a lamp drawing 5 kW of power would always recharge at the full 500 kWmin.
- Fixed traitor items sometimes spawning in non-interactable or hidden containers.
- Fixed turret rotation limit widgets working unreliably in the sub editor.
- Fixed barrels being misaligned on scaled turrets in the sub preview.
- Stores don't offer/request sealed supply crates as daily specials.
- Fixed campaign settings (radiation enabled, max missions) resetting when reopening the campaign settings menu.
- Fixed hitscan projectiles not hitting structures outside hulls when the turret itself is inside a hull.
- Fixed inability to swap items between the character's inventory and a container in some situations in multiplayer (when the container was right at the edge of the character's interaction range).
- Fixed bots being unable to repair the pump in Typhon's bottom airlock.
- Fixed crashing when repairing or fabricating something as a husk (or some other character with no CharacterInfo).
- Fixed crashing when reviving someone using CPR as a character with no CharacterInfo (e.g. husk).
- Fixed upgrades using the original value from a previous item when swapping to a new one (e.g. swapping a railgun to a coilgun sets the power consumption to the railgun's power consumption). More specifically, this happened when the campaign was saved and reloaded after purchasing the upgrade, and the item was swapped after that.
- Fixed wrecks sometimes being positioned right side of the exit position.
- Fixed characters not getting knocked down at the last stage of husk infection if they have the Vigor buff.
- Fixed discharge coil triggering when trying to rewire it.
- Fixed some ActionTypes having the same value (e.g. OnFire == OnDamaged). Caused wrong type of status effects triggering in some cases, for example OnDamage effects when an indestructible thalamus organ is on fire.
- Fixed items that are set to be hidden in-game being visible in the sub preview.
- Fixed bots being unable to weld leaks that are too high above them, even if they're actually in reach. Happened because the distance to the leak was calculated relative to the character's position, even though the range of the welding tool is relative to the character's shoulder.
- Fixed cargo mission rewards being displayed incorrectly when there's multiple cargo missions selected and not enough capacity for all the cargo.
- Fixed caret getting misplaced when clicking on a textbox with padding.
- Fixed headset only being able to send signals to each wifi component once.
- Fixed bots sometimes ignoring broken devices. Happened when another bot had selected the device as their repair target, even if the bot was currently repairing something else.
- Fixed nav terminal labels sometimes being draw under linked status monitor HUDs.
- Fixed bots sometimes not fixing airlock doors/hatches. More specifically, doors whose center point was outside a hull.
- Fixed medic bots grabbing the target and never letting go when there's no suitable treatments available anywhere in the sub, or when they're in an outpost and not carrying any suitable treatments.
- Fixed bots suffocating when they run out of oxygen tanks if ordered to wait wearing a suit.
- Fixed ability to select other items when operating periscopes. Didn't cause problems in vanilla subs, but in custom subs where the turret was placed close to the periscope and other interactable items, it was possible to accidentally select something else when trying to fire.
- Made nav terminal's "velocity_in" input change the target velocity, not just the steering input, making it possible to adjust the velocity with signals when using autopilot.
- Fixed text fields in a component's editing menu not refreshing until you've interacted with another component.
- Fixed ruins sometimes overlapping with level walls (when they happen to spawn next to a very large cell).
- Fixed ability to "partially open" the health interface in the sub editor, causing the inventory layout to get messed up when clicking on the character portrait even though the health interface isn't drawn.
- Fixed ability to keep dragging an item from a stunned/ragdolled character's inventory after they get back up.
- Fixed nuclear weapons not damaging ballast flora.
- Fixed normal uniforms deflecting projectiles even though they shouldn't.
- Fixed clients who've opted to spawn with reaper's tax getting a new character if the round ends before the client respawns.
- Fixed occasional crash with the error message "collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute" when loading mods on startup.
- Fixed ability to keep dragging the previously equipped wire in the sub editor after you equip another wire with the wire hotkeys.
- Fixed characters' sprite depth changing during the "autowalk" towards a bed or chair.
- Require the sub to move a bit faster to crush characters between the sub and a wall. Previously essentially any non-zero velocity was enough to crush a character, even if the sub didn't appear to move.
- Fixed nests sometimes getting placed outside caves. Happened when the game tried to position the nest above an opening at the bottom of the cave.
- Fixed inability to use the health interface on the escorted characters.
- Fixed 1st client (usually the host) always spawning at the same spawnpoint in multiplayer even if there's multiple suitable ones available.
- Fixed stacked partially used items (e.g. stacked explosives that have been damaged) dropping from character inventories at the start of a round.
- Fixed occasional freezing when replacing lost shuttles after purchasing submarine upgrades.
- Adjusted Endworm's colliders so that you can't hit the tail between the armor segments before first breaking the armor (making it less easy to cut the worm in half).
- Fixed hull properties not carrying over when copying hulls in the sub editor.
- Fixed occasional "collection was modified" exception in CargoMission.DetermineCargo. Happened if the client received an updated campaign save while trying to load the sub between rounds.
- Fixed a broken waypoint in Berilia's cargo bay.
- Fixed seeds sometimes vanishing when trying to plant them in MP.
- Fixed planter boxes displaying the "uproot" message when empty.
- Fixed depth charges going through doors and hatches.
- Fixed ability to dock docking hatches to ports and vice versa.
- Fixed camera being able to focus on a turret when a periscope's "position_out" connection is wired to a turret's "power_in" connection.
- Fixed water detectors not detecting very small (water depth < 1px) amounts of water in hulls.
- Fixed duffel bags not spawning at the end of a round if the character hasn't despawned/respawned yet (i.e. if the character's corpse is still present in the sub).
- Fixed wrecked Dugong's distress signal being impossible to receive due to "allow cross-team communication" being set to false on the wifi component sending the signal.
- Fixed fabricator being unable to stack empty items in the output slots, preventing empty tanks from being fabricated when the output slots are occupied even if additional tanks could be stacked on them.
- Fixed messed up "Shuttle Shell A Glass A" sprite.
- Fixed delay components not working if the delay is set to 0.
- Fixed loaders getting slightly misaligned when swapping an empty hardpoint with some weapon.
- Fixed pumps placed in the sub editor being off by default.
- Fixed weapon skill increases not being capped according to the max vitality of the target. Resulted in enormous weapon skill gains when doing massive amounts of damage (more than the target's max vitality), e.g. by shooting a hammerhead matriarch in the egg sack with a nuke.
- Fixed ability to delete vanilla beacon stations and pirate subs in the sub editor.
- Fixed pirate subs sometimes spawning in side paths that are too narrow for the sub to pass through.
- Fixed an exploit that allowed creating game-crashing infinite signal loops using wifi components.
- Fixed a typo in the abyss diving suit description (100,000 m -> 10,000 m).
- Fixed several vanilla sub docking hatches requiring a welding tool instead of a wrench to repair them.
- Fixed "Operate Weapons" order being available when interacting with a turret directly, leading to a crash when trying to do so.
- Fixed missions disappearing from abandoned outposts after finishing the campaign.
- Fixed canister shells refilling automatically between rounds.
- Fixed turrets working with incorrect loader types (e.g. coilgun being able to fire laser bolts when linked to a pulse laser loader).
- Fixed "exterior pressure exceeds diving suit capabilities" hint popping up when carrying a diving suit.
- Fixed biome noise loops still playing after the round ends.
- Fixed detonator rapidly draining condition from flash powder and incendium instead of exploding them immediately (potentially resulting in partially used items).
- Fixed exploit in plastiseal crafting recipe (plastiseal deconstructing to 1 bandage even though 1 bandage can be used to craft 2 plastiseal).
- Fixed RepairTools applying their effects multiple times to items whose bodies consist of multiple fixtures. Caused minerals to get deattached 3 times faster than they should.
- Fixed AFK kicks when staying in any of the campaign UIs (store, etc) or other input-blocking menus for too long.
- Fixed monsters sometimes targeting owners of targeted items although the owner is ignored.
- Fixed some items held in the left hand rendering in front of the character's thigh.
- Fixed characters being focusable through UI elements (e.g. item interfaces), causing accidental interactions when the NPC interaction key is bind to LMB.

Modding:
- Added support for "additive" event sets which get added on top of another normal event set, allowing mods to spawn additional types of monsters without having to touch the vanilla event sets. See the "transitevents" event set in OutpostEvents.xml for an usage example.
- Fixed subs appearing to disappear after being published in the Workshop, because the content package the sub gets moved to wasn't automatically selected.
- Fixed MaxTargetsToHit not working on hitscan projectiles.
- Fixed offsets not being taken into account when positioning contained items, causing status effects to happen at the position of the container instead of the position of the contained item. Didn't have a noticeable effect in the vanilla game because most contained items are positioned close to the container's origin.
- Fixed spawnpoint's job restrictions being ignored when spawning pirates and escortees.
- It's now possible to use multiple equipped WifiComponents at the same time: instead of finding the first equipped item and seeing if it can receive/transmit, the game now goes through the items until it finds one that can.
- Fixed crashing when trying to pick an item that can't be put in any type of inventory slot from a container. Doesn't happen in the vanilla game because there are no such items in any container.
- Fixed crashing during wreck generation if there's any thalamus organs outside hulls.
- Fixed crashing if a wall whose max health is set to 0 in the sub editor takes damage.
- Fixed crashing if a reactor's maximum output is set to 0 and it's set to be on by default.
- Fixed a crashing due to a null reference exception if a status effect uses "target" instead of "targets" or "targettypes" in the definition.
- Fixed shuttles docked to a wreck undocking during level generation.

Ahoy!

Thunder Under The Ice has just been released take a look and find more missions, more guns, more events and a number of other fixes and improvements!

See this earlier post for a summary of the update, and find the full changelog below for all the details. Be sure to update your game to the latest version to be able to host and join multiplayer servers.

We hope you enjoy this update and wish you a beautiful summer!


v0.14.6.0

Changes:
- Submarine weapons can be swapped in the outposts.
- Added Pulse Laser and Chaingun.
- Added Canister Shells (a reloadable burst-type munition for the railgun).
- Added escort missions.
- Added pirate missions.
- Option to choose multiple missions per level.
- Made it possible to sell items on the sub through a new store tab in singleplayer.
- Cargo now spawns in crate shelves and "Unit Load Devices" (large containers mostly used in cargo subs). The amount of cargo you can transport depends on the number of the shelves/ULDs, and the cargo mission rewards scale according to the cargo capacity. If there's no shelves or ULDs, you can still transport a small number of crates on the cargo room's floor like before.
- Made upgrades affect all submarines. Old purchased submarines will have their upgrades overridden by the currently loaded submarine's upgrades.
- The previous music track continues playing when the game switches back from the "intensity tracks" to normal music.
- Made it possible to carry diving suits and toolbelts in hands. We could use some feedback on the way this works: is it intuitive, should there be a separate key for picking them up...?
- The ice shards and exploding mushrooms in caves can be destroyed with weapons and explosives.
- Added tracer particles to raycast projectiles (hitscan).
- Increased sonar beacon range.
- Color character names according to the team when using the Health Scanner HUD.
- Allow combining elastin.
- Character orders and ignore orders now persist between rounds and saved sessions.
- Added indicators for the tasks the bots are currently doing when they are not following the orders.
- Revisited the random (monster) events: more Watchers and Tigerthreshers, less Crawlers. Fixed a number of issues. Feedback appreciated. (WIP)
- Numerous fixes and improvements on particle effects.
- Changed how autonomous steering objective works. Captains now idle near the helm instead of standing next to the nav terminal.
- Only show the "Save and Quit" button when the game can be saved. Renamed the button in the lobby to "Quit". Saving in multiplayer is done like in single player: on level transitions and on exit from an outpost.
- Updated sounds for Endworm and the electrical discharger.
- Increased the stun of smg rounds from 0.125 to 0.15 to give it a bit more stopping power.
- Lowered Husks' health regeneration and bleeding reduction. Crawler Husks now regenerate too. Lowered their health a bit to compensate it.
- Hammerhead and Golden Hammerhead: Increased health, added some protection on claws and the tail end. Slightly increase the slow swimming speed and animations. The claws don't break anymore when shot with coilgun.
- Hammerheads and Husks don't avoid gun fire anymore. Pets now avoid gun fire.
- Removed Endworm's weak point in the mouth.
- Most outpost events no longer trigger automatically, but require interacting with a specific item/character.
- Taking items that contain stolen items counts as stealing, so you can't for example put a toolbox inside an outpost cabinet, load it full of items and then take it.
- Added a button for resetting in-game hints to the settings.
- Mention diving suits' depth limits in their descriptions.
- Modified the locked path tooltips to mention the officer in the outpost.
- Reset reactor fission rate, turbine output and temperature to optimal levels at the start of a round. Prevents the reactor from catching fire at the start of a round if it was being operated at a high fission rate at the end of the previous round.
- Removed ability to drag and drop seeds into planters.
- Added ability to load .sub, .xml, .png and .jpeg files in sub editor by dragging and dropping them onto the game window.
- Added new biome-specific background noise tracks.
- Improved the command interface minimap view by adding connector lines between icons and item positions to better visualize which item each icon is linked to.
- Projectiles go through severed limbs.
- Docking ports can't be rewired in outpost levels because it can be abused to force to submarine to depart from the outpost.
- Allow clicking on the main menu buttons when the credits are open.
- Option to adjust motion sensor's update interval in the sub editor.

Fixes:
- Fixed clients timing out at the start of a multiplayer round if loading the campaign save takes more than 30 seconds.
- Fixed previous missions still being available in outposts that have become abandoned due to radiation.
- Fixed eggs sometimes spawning partially inside walls in abandoned outpost missions.
- Fixed thalamus walls' colliders still being present even if the wreck doesn't contain a thalamus, preventing entering the sub from places where thalamus walls used to be.
- Fixed minerals sometimes not being mineable in outposts.
- Fixed small characters being unable to avoid the edges of the hulls when idling.
- Save submarine and characters' inventories when saving and quitting an mp campaign round in an outpost.
- Marked "control" console command as a cheat.
- Fixed items sometimes disappearing client-side when the server corrects their position from outside to inside.
- The traitor mission to sabotage the engine doesn't require sabotaging shuttle engines.
- Stacks of seeds can't be put into planters.
- Fixed non-repeatable events (e.g. mission events) no longer appearing after completing the campaign.
- Fixed security officers using head set batteries when their stun batons are out of batteries, causing them to be unable to hear or receive orders (#5681).
- Fixed security officers often handcuffing you after one hit with stun baton (#5649).
- Fixed ignore orders not being properly synced when joining a multiplayer game mid-round.
- Fixed abyss monsters not spawning if there's any player sub (including the respawn shuttle) above the abyss.
- Fixed "are you sure you want to depart without a mission" prompt popping up even if there's no missions available.
- Fixed health bars showing up through walls.
- Fixed horizontal docking ports sometimes docking from the wrong side in mirrored subs.
- Fixed mouse wheel zooming the nav terminal view when the server log (or any other UI element) is blocking it.
- Fixed campaign's initial text popup getting stuck if the sub automatically undocks at the start of a round.
- Non-empty items (ammo boxes, fuel rods, etc) can't be recycled.
- Made airlock door assembly behave a bit more reliably. The circuit in the assembly simply toggles the state of both doors, meaning that one of the doors needs to always be closed and the other open for the logic to work correctly. If using the assembly in a respawn shuttle, it'd break when the shuttle leaves and it's doors are forced to close.
- Fixed inability to go through docking ports when the door/hatch at the other side is broken.
- Fixed other entities' sprites disappearing when reloading a sprite in the sub editor.
- Fixed Remora drone's docking hatch being repairable with a welding tool instead of a wrench.
- Fixed some of Remora drone's walls being transparent.
- Fixed rotation of mirrored items getting messed up when saving and reloading a sub.
- Fixed inability to detach items attached outside the sub.
- Fixed items that are inside a hull being difficult to target from outside the sub (docking ports/hatches in particular).
- Fixed crashing when trying to load a campaign save that contains pets that can't be found (e.g. if you've saved while using a mod that adds custom pets and try to load the save in the vanilla game).
- Fixed crashing when trying to change a location's type to a type that can't be found (e.g. if a mod includes custom location types which are configured incorrectly).
- Fixed "Ignore This" order affecting all NPCs. It should only affect the bots in a player team.
- Fixed "Ignore This" order restricting player access to doors.
- Fixed bots targeting same targets when fixing/repairing.
- Fixed monsters sometimes getting stuck "dancing" near the submarine because they try to avoid and target it at the same time.
- Monster events: Fixed many higher difficulty subsets spawning multiple monster events when they should spawn only one.
- Fixed items taken from abandoned outposts sometimes reappearing when returning to the outpost.
- Fixed highlighting items sometimes breaking after dropping a metal crate or some other container whose inventory is always visible when the item is equipped.
- Fixed bots putting minerals in the closest locker instead of preferring those that have been tagged with the "mineralcontainer" tag
- Fixed bots not respecting the access restrictions when choosing a where to put items into.
- Fixed bots being able to take items from secure cabinets if the item is inside another container inside the cabinet.
- Fixes to hull generation between docking ports. Should fix tiny gaps between the hulls that caused characters to briefly teleport outside the sub when passing through the port, and hulls generating incorrectly when the main submarine has hulls at both sides of the docking port.
- Fixed captain's pipe, harmonica and pipe tobacco not spawning in crates when purchased.
- Fixed console errors when trying to overwrite an existing item assembly in the sub editor.
- Fixed the margin calculations that in some cases made it impossible for Bonethreshers (and possibly other monsters) to reach a moving target.
- Fixed abyss monsters sometimes being unable to hit the sub and just keep pushing the sub.
- Define "tool", "weapon", and "provocative" targeting params to be ignored if the creature is not in the same sub as the target. Fixes some odd cases where the monsters e.g. target some item inside the sub when they are outside.
- Fixed occasional excessive camera shake when a large monster is lodged between the sub and the level.
- Fixed ballast flora not getting cleared from respawn shuttles when the shuttle despawns.
- Fixed ability to switch back to a sub you've left behind using the outpost terminals.
- Fixed doors without integrated buttons getting instantly opened by clicking on them when you have access to the button.
- Fixed ability to switch control to the hostages with Z and X keys during hostage missions.
- Fixed abyss and combat suits not getting autofilled with oxygen tanks when placing the initial supplies to a sub.
- Fixed inability to type in the "max players" field in the "host server" tab.
- Fixed item sell quantity sometimes appearing "maxed out" at a quantity less than what the player is actually selling.
- Fixed crashing when the team id argument for the "spawn" console command is formatted incorrectly, mention the argument in the command's help text.
- Fixed bots trying to clean up seeds and put items into bags that were moved to somewhere the bot can't access them, causing the bot to be stuck trying to reach the target.
- Fixed missions sometimes unlocking in paths leading to an irradiated location even if there's a more suitable path available.
- Fixed white rectangle around selected items in the sub editor being slightly off if the item's position/size is not a whole number.
- Fixed "incorrect password" text overlapping with the buttons in the password prompt.
- Fixed z-fighting in Medium Weapons Display Case.
- Fixed inability to drop through broken hatches.
- Fixed sprite bleed in IC-4 block's inventory icon.
- Fixed healthbar and affliction area being clickable even if there's an UI element in front of them, and even if there's no afflictions in the affliction area. Most noticeable when editing an electrical components properties.
- Fixed some incorrect room names in the beacon stations.
- Fixed propeller damage area triggering very inaccurately, particularly on shuttle engines.
- Fixed hull indicators fading in when loading a sub in the editor (they should only get hidden and fade in when editing the ambient light value).
- Fixed gaps sometimes getting linked incorrectly to the hulls between docking hatches, preventing water from flowing down from the lower hull in mirrored subs. Happened in mirrored Kastrull for example.
- Fixed fires in hulls between docking ports never going out client-side.
- Fixed nav terminal's, sonar monitor's and status monitor's selection rectangles being offset from the sprite in the sub editor.
- Fixed mirrored pumps emitting particles from the wrong side of the pump.
- Fixed atan components working unreliably when using the separate x/y inputs.
- Fixed limbs getting automatically deselected in the health interface when receiving a new affliction (most noticeable when trying to heal an affliction that's being continuously applied on the character, e.g. burns caused by radiation).
- Fixed an exploit that allowed crashing the game using certain looping circuits that involve trigonometric function components.
- Fixed ability to set the reactor's turbine output or fission rate outside the allowed range of 0-100 using the "set_fissionrate" and "set_turbineoutput" inputs.

Modding:
- Made it possible to use StatusHUD components in non-equippable items like turrets.
- Fixed scripted event's StatusEffectAction not being able to target ItemComponents.
- Added support for making missions trigger scripted events.
- Option to configure the color of an explosion's flash.
- Option to configure the number of gates between biomes (see MapGenerationParameters.xml).
- Turret's barrel and rail sprites are shown in the sprite editor.
- Made SecondaryUse status effects work with melee and ranged weapons.
- Renamed "Inflitrate" to "CanOpenDoors" and rewrote the tooltip.
- Added "scalemultiplier" (Vector2) for particle emitters so that the effects can be scaled just in one axis instead of both.
- Fixed overriding nav terminals with a mod resetting the changes to the custom interface buttons.
- Fixed status effect conditionals that check a parent container's tags checking the container's components, not just the item itself. Resulted in tag inequality checks always succeeding, because the components don't have any tags.
- Fixed crashing if a scripted event tries to spawn a human prefab that can't be found (i.e. if a mod uses a non-existent human prefab identifier).
- RemoveItemAction can be used to remove tagged items directly, not just items in a tagged character's inventory.
- Replaced "spawnprobability" attribute in monster events with a generic "probability" attribute that can be used for any type of event.
- Option to spawn particles across the ray cast from a hitscan projectile (see "pulselaserbolt").
- Fixed linked subs included in outpost modules being positioned incorrectly.
- Added "swapidentifier" to SwappableItem definitions. Can be used to restrict which items in a given category can be swapped with each other (e.g. if you want to add custom upgradeable turrets but not make them swappable with the vanilla turrets).
- Made SecondaryUse status effects work with ranged weapons.
- Added "equal" targeting tag to enemy AI. Makes it possible to define how monsters react to monsters with the same combat strength.
- TagAction can be used to tag characters based on the human prefab identifier.
- Fixed a crash in the character editor that happened when a humanoid character had an elbow joint but didn't (yet) have a wrist joint.
- The "avoid gun fire" parameter now defaults to false.
- Fixed crashing when trying to create a thalamus when there's no wreck AI configs available in the selected content packages.

Hello everyone!

The next Barotrauma update is on its way, to be released next week. Look forward to...

[h3]New missions[/h3]
Cargo missions have been overhauled so cargo now spawns on shelves and in special Unit Load Devices. If you have none of those on your sub, a small amount of cargo will spawn on the floor. The more you can carry, the more money you will make.

Escort missions of various kinds have been added: transport NPCs safely from one place to another, or move dangerous prisoners between outposts, or even pose as a transport vessel to flush out plotting terrorists.

Pirate missions pit you against an enemy submarine, manned by hostile NPCs, that you need to defeat.

Starting with this update, you can also have two missions per round to complete more objectives in one go.

[h3]Submarine improvements[/h3]
New weapons! The pulse laser and the chaingun, along with their own special ammo types, and a new kind of ammo for the railgun are being added to improve your submarines offensive capabilities.

Adding weapons to subs is now possible when docked at a colony.

Submarine upgrades now apply to all your subs, not to individual boats. This way, changing to a new submarine wont set you back in the game, and you can safely switch to a new submarine even below crush depth.

[h3]Other additions[/h3]
Order persistence between campaign rounds means you will no longer have to assign the same order all over again at the start of every round. Crewmates bots and people will start a new campaign round with the same orders they had at the end of the previous one.

Singleplayer: Sell items directly from the sub without carrying them: simply walk to the outpost merchant and use the newly added tab in the store. If this works well, something similar will probably be added in multiplayer too!

Twelve new events that you can encounter aboard outposts for more story.

Read more about it on our blog, and stay tuned for the release of Thunder Under The Ice next week!

The next Barotrauma update is getting closer, but before we get into the upcoming new content, we wanted to write a bit about something else. Tomorrow marks the 2nd anniversary of our Steam release, and looking back at the past year, were once again both amazed and grateful to see how far weve gotten and how many new submariners have joined us on our journey. Thank you to everyone whos been with us and helped the game grow into what it is today!

We feel the game and the community have taken a big leap forwards since the last anniversary: weve introduced some big, long-awaited features such as the explorable outposts, caves, the Abyss monsters from the legacy version, and too many smaller improvements and additions to count. Our player base has also more than doubled in size since last June!

In our new blog post we talk a bit more about our journey so far, including some of the highlights and challenges weve faced during the games development and Early Access period. Take a look here, and have a great weekend!

Hello everyone!

We've just released a patch to address issues in the latest update. Notably, issues with submarine speed and maintain position, joining modded servers and voice chat quality should now be fixed. Please be sure to update your game, and see the full changelog below.

A note about updating mods: Unfortunately, there may still be some issues with mods. If a mod fails to update automatically, please head to the in-game Steam Workshop menu and click "reinstall" next to the mod in question. If players who try to join your server get errors about mismatching mods, then you as the host may also need to reinstall mods in this way to make sure they're up to date.

v0.13.3.11

Changes:
- Adjusted autopilot logic to make it better at keeping the sub afloat when there's extra water on board. The maximum velocity of the autopilot is limited, which previously prevented it from emptying the ballast fully. Now it's only limited if the submarine is heading in the correct direction with enough speed, so if the sub starts sinking due to extra water, the autopilot can compensate and fully empty the ballast.
- Made large monsters immune to sufforin.

Fixes:
- Fixes to issues that prevented mods installed from the Workshop from getting automatically updated and caused errors when trying to join modded servers.
- Fixed an issue in the voice chat that caused audio crackling when multiple people were speaking at the same time.
- Fixed inability to drag players who've ragdolled themselves with space bar.
- Fixed certain submarines spawning with a non-neutral ballast level (Kastrull seems to have been the only affected vanilla submarine). Happened because the game would determine the neutral ballast level from the first nav terminal it finds in the sub, without checking whether that terminal controls a shuttle or the sub itself.
- Fixed explosions using wall damage value instead of level wall damage when the explosion happens outside a level wall.
- Fixed inability to place oxygenite tanks in oxygen tank shelves.
- Fixed crashing when a bot tries to find a diving suit inside ruins.
- Fixed minor wall draw order issue in Orca's top deck.
- Fixed bots trying to treat nausea even though the only cure for it is to wait it out.
- Fixed status monitor being messed up on mirrored subs that contain shuttles.
- Fixed railgun payloads not exploding.
- Fixed server sometimes assigning players who haven't set any job preferences as the captain, even if someone else wants to be the captain.
- Fixed ancient weapon propelling the character in an incorrect direction when using it underwater.
- Fixed sonar beacons not appearing on the sonar in the sub editor's test mode.
- Fixed "easterbunny" traitor mission failing after the mudraptor hatches.
- Fixed "changes to your character will be applied after the round ends" texts getting drawn behind the tab menu elements.
- Fixed "IsToggle" setting not working on periscopes.
- Fixed "Praise the Honkmother" mission being impossible to complete because it required more items to be delivered than the crate contains.
- Fixed humanhusk's inventory not being visible while controlling one.
- Fixed sub editor's entity list getting cleared when changing the entity category while a container/cabinet is selected.
- Fixed items that have been edited in the sub editor (e.g. recolored clothing) reverting back to default when starting a new campaign round while the item is in a character's inventory.
- Fixed clicking on command interface nodes crashing the game if the key is rebound to primary mouse button.
- Fixed tiling issues in some of the legacy background wall sprites.
- Fixed Spinelings attacking Leucocytes. Spinelings should avoid Leucocytes if they get close.
- Fixed "beacon station" text and "generating preview..." in the submarine preview window not being translated when playing in a language other than English.

Modding:
- Fixed console errors when a character with no gender tries to wear clothing that only has separate male and female sprites.
- Fixed crashing if the current style doesn't define a saving indicator.
- Fixed inability to load ragdoll/animation definitions from mods that override a character.
- Fixed ClearTagAction not properly clearing all the tags assigned by a scripted event.

Hello everyone!

The Embrace the Abyss update has just been released. Please be sure to update your game to the latest version to be able to host and join multiplayer servers, and venture into the game now to find

• Abyss monsters.
  
• New campaign features side missions as world events, gate locations, optional radiation, and more!
  
• Abandoned outposts and related new missions.
  
• Numerous quality of life changes and player experience improvements.
  

Hello everyone!

The next update, Embrace the Abyss, is coming next week. Its a big update with a lot of additions to the campaign, new missions and monsters, as well as various changes to improve player experience; read more on our blog, and let us know what youre looking forward to the most!

[h3]Improving new player experience[/h3]
While Europa is unforgiving by its nature, we want to make Barotrauma a little less demanding to get the hang of. To this end, were adding

• Contextual hints about the game that are shown when you encounter certain things for the first time during a round.
  
• More information in the info tab menu, and a new button for it to make the info tab easier to find.
  
• Interactable, large submarine preview wherever you see a thumbnail image of a submarine in-game.
  
• Mission difficulty indicators and boss creature health bars to help you pick your battles and win them too.
  

Hello everyone!

Thank you for joining our free event last week. It was wonderful to see so many of you we had record numbers of people online playing Barotrauma!

This week, its time to look at some more upcoming content additions. Read more on our blog, and let us know what you think about

[h3]Endworm and Charybdis[/h3]
The time has finally come to reintroduce two of the most sorely missed deep sea creatures that were in the game as placeholders in our earlier days in development.

The endworm and the charybdis both dwell in the Abyss, the deep dark part of Europas ocean that is found underneath every level. Both creatures are faster than a regular submarine, tough, and very large. They also emit sound, which you can both hear and see on your sonar display use that to your advantage!

Besides these two creatures, were also adding abyss islands, floating land masses with caves and minerals, to make abyss exploration more interesting.

The endworm, charybdis and other abyss improvements will be included in the next update, coming later this month!

Hello everyone!

We are very excited to throw our first-ever play for free event. This is something weve seen a lot of interest in, so we hope many of those potential future Barotraumites who have been waiting for this opportunity notice: now and for the next 48 hours, you can download and play Barotrauma for free.

Together with the free event, weve also secured a discount period for our deepest discount yet. Thats to say, if you want to keep playing Barotrauma following your free trial, you can now get it for 55% off.

Without further ado, welcome to Europa! We hope you enjoy your stay.

P.S. Curious to see what you can look forward to with our game? Take a look at this feature sneak peek from last Friday for the latest glimpse into our development plans. The next major update is coming in about one month.

Hello everyone!

The next major update is getting closer, and its time to introduce some more new features that are coming. Take a look on our blog for some more details about the

[h3]Shrinking campaign map[/h3]
As the radiation from outside Europas icy crust reaches ever deeper into the ocean where we all sail, we must keep moving. The next update will introduce a slowly progressing wall of radiation that destroys everything in its path and pushes the player onwards, into new areas of the map.

While the shrinking map feature will be made optional, we are excited to bring this new expression of lore straight into the campaign map. We hope you will try it out and let us know if you like it!

[h3]Reputation and respawning in campaigns[/h3]
Were also making reputation a more significant factor in your campaigns: to be able to progress to a new part of the map, you will need to meet reputation requirements at certain points in your journey or be able to pay for your passage. Time to complete missions to make a name for yourself, or to earn some coin!

Finally, the next update will add the possibility of respawning mid-round even in the campaign game mode. There will be a slight temporary penalty to your stats when you do this, but it should make it a lot easier to get into an in-progress game and cut back on waiting times in campaign servers. We hope you like it!

Ahoy!

Were busy at work on the next major update, and one of the new features it will include is

[h3]Abandoned outposts[/h3]
The world of Barotrauma changes according to what you do or dont do in it, and a location that is next to monster hunting grounds may become abandoned by its usual inhabitants. Then it will be your job to find and enter the affected outpost and evict whatever has made itself at home inside:

• Hunt down monsters and destroy their nests, or
  
• Deal with squatting outlaws and dispose of their leader, or
  
• Deal with outlaws and make sure they dont come back later destroy the station reactor for good measure.
  
• Get out alive.
  

Fixed inability to permanently ban players who are currently in the server.
- Fixed scrap items failing to load in saves done prior to v0.12.
- Fixed bandage/plastiseal crafting exploit.
- Fixed crashing if a bot tries to operate a turret that's linked to some other item than a loader.

Hello everyone!

The first update of the year, a small update that focuses on more cave content and various improvements, has just been released. As always, please be sure to update your game to the latest version to be able to host and join servers. Find the full list of changes further below, and here are the highlights:

• More cave variety explore Forest caves, Mushroom caves, and Bioluminescent caves. These new cave types will be found in the later biomes, starting from the Europan Ridge.
  
• New cave hazards prepare to deal with vines, gas vents, ice shards and other such dangers as you venture into caves.
  
• Newborn hatchling variants of three monsters the mudraptor, the thresher and the crawler now have juvenile variants.
  
• The glowstick this new kind of flare will come in handy on cave exploration trips.
  
• Sleeping in beds this highly requested improvement isnt just cosmetic, it also heals injuries slowly over time.
  
• Item stacking now you can carry several of the same type of item in a single inventory slot to make inventory management, medical treatment and crafting more straightforward.
  
• Outpost store improvements more variety and better deals with Daily Specials and Requested Goods.
  
• Font scaling this has been requested time and again by those who play on bigger screens, and now youll be able to adjust text size to fit your needs better!
  
• New character variants enabled for modding make custom monsters more quickly in .xml, the same way we made the new hatchling variants.
  

Hello everyone!

The first Barotrauma update of 2021 is almost here were hoping to release it in less than two weeks. Its going to be a fairly small update that focuses on fixes, a few content additions and a handful of important improvements. Take a closer look on our blog now, and check the short summary below for a quick teaser.

[h3]The Cave Update[/h3]

• More cave variety: explore Forest caves & Mushroom caves
  
• New cave hazards to make cave exploration even more dangerous
  
• Newborn hatchling variants of three monsters
  
• Item stacking: carry several of the same type of item in a single inventory slot
  
• Outpost store improvements: more variety and better deals with Daily Specials and Requested Goods
  
• New character variants enabled for modding make custom monsters more quickly in .xml

Hello everyone, and happy new year!

Weve returned to our desks and are working on the next update. It will be a smallish one and focus on various improvements and also some new content (more cave content, notably!). Were going to write more about the update a little closer to its release.



Besides working on the game, were always working to read what you write on our Discord and on the Steam forums (and more recently, did you know we also have a discussion board on our GitHub? Take a look!), but we also have a number of more specific questions on our minds. Things like

Whats your favorite player class? Take this quick survey to tell us that and a couple of other things.

Thanks for your time! If we get a lot of answers, we may send another questionnaire your way, later. Have a nice weekend!

Hello everyone!

We hope youre enjoying the newly hotfixed Uncharted Depths update thank you for all the comments and reactions in recent weeks, what a way to wrap up this year in development!

https://youtu.be/KrfuGfolLZk

With the five big updates weve released this year, Barotrauma has grown by leaps and bounds, and weve been thrilled to see our community continue to grow with it. Now its time for us to take a little Christmas break before heading into the new year and new updates, and we wish you wonderful holidays too. Find some more greetings on our blog, and see you next year!

Hello everyone!

Thanks for playing the newest update and giving feedback. This time, we had the opportunity to make a hotfix to address some of the inconvenient issues in the update, and that fix has just been released. See the full list of changes below and please be sure to update your game!

v0.11.0.10
- Fixed monster missions causing a disconnect in multiplayer mission mode.
- Fixed bots getting removed from the crew when starting a multiplayer campaign, returning to the lobby during the first round and then reloading the campaign.
- Fixed crashing when entering a new level in the campaign when an inactive pump has been infected with ballast flora.
- Fixed ballast flora branches respawning instantly if they're destroyed while they're growing towards a target.
- Fixed crashing when attempting to place components outside of the submarine in test mode.
- Fixed inability to rewire beacon stations when rewiring is disabled on the server.
- Fixed repair tools that aren't held causing a crash upon use (only affects modded items).
- Fixed raycast weapons (revolvers, shotguns, SMGs) sometimes not hitting monsters in specific areas outside the sub.
- Fixed submarine's price field being difficult to edit in the sub editor due to the value getting clamped above the minimum price while typing in the box.
- Potential fix to certain projectiles (e.g. harpoons, spineling's spikes) sometimes causing erratic physics behavior and errors (ragdolls going crazy, submarine getting launched off at a high velocity...) when they stick to the submarine or to characters.
- Fixed occasional crashes when swapping to another character's ID card with a mask or diving suit on.

Hello sailors!

The Uncharted Depths update has just been released. Be sure to update your game to the latest version to be able to host and join multiplayer servers! You can find a summary of the update in this this earlier post, and scroll further below for the full list of changes.

Let us know what you think!


Feedback about the update? Drop us a line on the forums or in our official Discord server!

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v0.11.0.9

Environment overhaul:
- Remade textures.
- Branching level paths.
- More varied level layouts.
- Added small explorable caves alongside the main path.
- Made the floating ice chunks destructible.
- The areas outside the traversable path are solid instead of hollow, so it's no longer possible for monsters to spawn "outside the level" or for the sub to get lost at the wrong side of the level walls.
- Ice spires: tall, protrusions that cut holes in the submarine if you hit them.
- Piezo crystals: environmental objects that drain power from the submarine when you get too close to them.
- The biomes further on the campaign map are deeper down in the ocean, meaning that crush depth starts higher up in the level. The biomes near the end of the map require hull upgrades to traverse safely.
- Improved resource (minerals and plants) spawning: resources now spawn in clusters which can contain multiple instances of the same resource.
- Made thermal artifacts a bit more manageable: they now start a fires periodically, not continuously.

New missions:
- Nest missions where you need to enter a cave to destroy a monster nest.
- Beacon missions where you have to repair and power up a "beacon station".
- Mineral collection missions where you have to locate and mine a mineral cluster.

Additions and changes:
- Added ballast flora, a plant-like organism that can infect the submarine and leech power from junction boxes and batteries. A ballast flora infection may be contracted by passing through a colony of ballast flora spores (which are faintly visible on the sonar).
- Added a new monster, "Spineling".
- Adjustments and balancing to the way locations change to other types of locations: habitation now spreads faster as the player explores the campaign map further.
- Added new military outpost music track.
- Submarine hull upgrades increase the submarine's tolerance to pressure, allowing it to dive deeper without getting crushed by pressure.
- Deep Diver subs can dive 20% deeper than other subs without getting crushed.
- Added mineral scanning functionality for sonars: enabled by default for handheld sonars, can be enabled for other sonar devices in the Sub Editor with Sonar component's "HasMineralScanner" property
- Added concatenation component (a signal component that joins two inputs together).
- Added a ready check that can be used to check if everyone is ready to depart from an outpost in multiplayer.
- Added "ignore" order that can be used to prevent bots from using/repairing/taking specific items or devices.
- Discharge coil's range can be visualized by holding space while one is selected in the sub editor.
- Level difficulty affects the way outpost events are chosen (the more difficult events don't occur until later in the campaign).
- Non-wiring-related items become transparent in the sub editor's wiring mode.
- Improved turret range visualization in the sub editor.
- Made skill checks in outpost events probability-based: a low skill doesn't mean you'll always fail, just that you're less likely to succeed.
- Reworked bonethresher's behavior and attacks. Tigerthreshers now protect Bonethreshers with a low priority. Minor tweaks to the ragdolls and animations.
- Added water percentage output to water detector.
- Reduced scrap spawn rates in wrecks.
- Removed the explosive cargo mission variant where one of the explosives spontaneously explodes.
- Split combat missions into a separate game mode.
- Added a toggle for transparent wiring mode.
- The "Leaving Start Location" track isn't played at outposts.
- Increased default KillDisconnectTime to 5 minutes.
- Added pet food item.
- Added support for defining sonar icon colors in XML.
- Neutralize ballasts in submarine test level.
- Items can be attached to level walls.
- Fixed watcher's gaze causing severe effects inside the submarine.
- UI: Moved the navigation controls to the right side of the sonar view and readjusted the layout.
- Moved the cleanup order to the last in the maintenance category.
- Flagged certain parts of the nose and tail of the vanilla submarines as non-targetable, because the monsters tended to go inside the nose/tail parts too often.
- Increased the sound ranges for Tigerthresher, Leucocyte, Terminal cell, Mudraptor, and Crawler (should make them more audible).
- Crawlers, Tigerthershers, and Spinelings now avoid being killed by the engine (more or less).
- Adjusted the avoiding behavior for monsters.

Bots:
- Bots don't anymore clean up other diving suits when they have one equipped already.
- Bots don't anymore take diving suits off inside outposts (unless they have to).
- Fixed bots getting stuck on ladders when their body is near the floor.
- Fixed bots equipping diving gear too eagerly when the oxygen level drops in the room.
- Fixed all npcs and bots using the "Passive" idle behavior. Changed the guard idling so that they now more and prefer longer distances. Also other crew members should now move slightly more than previously.
- Increase combat priority of some tools so that the bots prefer those to toy hammer.
- More descriptive bot dialog when they can't find items they're looking for.
- Diving suits the bots have dropped in an outpost are automatically moved to the cargo bay when departing from the outpost.
- Outpost security allows "stealing" diving masks and suits if the outpost is flooding.
- Bots keep more distance to the player while following underwater and outside the sub.
- Fixed a rare crash in AIObjectiveIdle.Wander method.
- Bots now defend themselves (if possible) also when they are being attacked outside of the submarine.
- Bots should no longer hoard fuel rods.
- Fixed bots getting stuck while swimming near the submarine, because they kept switching between different steering modes.
- Fixed bots not avoiding other submarines connected to the submarine they are heading to while swimming around the submarine using waypoints.
- Fixed broken walls near hatches/doors sometimes preventing characters from entering the sub/outpost through the hatch/door.
- Fixed security or bots that have been ordered to fight enemies first fleeing from the enemies.
- Fixed bots sometimes failing to put out fires in multi-hull rooms.
- Fixed bots not being able to clean up items that occupy both hands (like the fire extinguisher).
- Fixed bots having issues with empty items while operating the reactor or the turrets, causing them e.g. to not knowing how to load the target item.
- Fixed outpost NPCs sometimes "cleaning up" the spawned toolbox in the event "clownrelations1".
- Fixed bots loading more rods to the reactor when the load is too high, even if the current amount of fuel is already enough to maximize the output.

Modding:
- Added "IgnoreWhileInside" and "IgnoreWhileOutside" parameters on character targeting parameters.
- Added ranged projectile attacks for monsters. See Spineling for an example. Note that there are five different rotation modes for the projectile aiming: Fixed, Target, Limb, MainLimb, and Collider.
- Added a "sweep attack", which makes the creature sinuate while closing to the target instead of moving straight towards it. Used on Spineling.
- Added limb hiding (permanent or temporary) with status effects. Used on Spineling.
- Added limb breaking with status effects.
- Allow characters to move full speed after attacking, when the cooldown is active. The property is found in the attack definition.
- Allow to use the idle behavior (wandering) after attacking, during the cooldown.
- Added "OnlyOutside" and "OnlyInside" attributes for status effects. Affects only the targets of the effect.
- Fixed particle's "LoopAnim" property doing nothing.

Bugfixes:
- Fixed occasional "missing entity" errors caused by the server failing to write an ID card's data in a network message.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused power to desync in multiplayer: when connecting the second end of a wire to a device other than a junction box, the server would sometimes not register the wire as being connected.
- Fixed previous messages disappearing from terminals and logbooks when transitioning to a new level in the campaign.
- Fixed sprite depths in dockingmodule 2, should prevent z-fighting.
- Fixed crashing when a bot abandons AIObjectiveCombat due to the target being in a different sub (e.g. if a character the outpost security is chasing moves from the outpost to the sub).
- Fixed undocking enabling all disabled nodes instead of just those that were connected to the docking port in question.
- Fixed EventManager to always choosing the same events from identical event sets in a given level. Meaning that if a level for example had 3 monster spawns that spawn either a crawler or a mudraptor, and the first event spawned a crawler, the rest would as well. In practice this lead to there being less variation in monster spawns than intended.
- Kastrull: Added more waypoints around the drone so that bots know how to get around it when it's docked to the main sub. Also fixed the airlock waypoints not being linked to the doors, causing the bots not being able to operate them.
- Fixed Health Scanner HUD showing a disguised character's true identity.
- Fixed health interface showing the original face and occupation of disguised characters.
- Fixed changelog layout getting messed up in the main menu after changing the resolution.
- Fixed some structures turning into wrecked versions when reloading the core content package with the "reloadcorepackage" console command.
- Fixed vent output being calculated incorrectly in multi-hull rooms.
- Fixed switch state being toggled when selecting them in the sub editor's wiring mode.
- Fixed engine not being affected by low power unless the voltage is low enough to turn it off completely (in practice meaning that there's not benefit to supplying the engine more than 50% of it's power consumption).
- Fixed characters getting healed between campaign rounds in single player.
- Fixed atan component output being inconsistent: the output was only correct if the y input was received after the x input during the same frame.
- Fixed crashing if a character's hands get severed while repairing something.
- Fixed stored non-shadow-casting lights being subtracted from the shadow-casting light count in the sub editor.
- Fixed autocalculated submarine price not being saved if the player doesn't touch the price field in the sub editor's save dialog.
- Fixed OnContained/OnNotContained StatusEffects not running if the itemcomponent is not active. In practice prevented oxygenite shards from supplying power until someone moves them. May have caused some other issues as well.
- Fixed console error when deconstruction Bufotoxin.
- Fixed reputation loss when "stealing" fire extinguishers from outposts when there's a fire.
- Fixed periscopes outputting rotation values incorrectly when connected to something else than a turret (e.g. camera).
- Fixed resetting game settings reloading content packages, causing items to disappear if the settings are reset when a round is running.
- Fixed pet's hunger/happiness values and inventories not getting saved between rounds.
- Fixed pet name tags disappearing client-side between rounds.
- Fixed empty oxygen tank not triggering the warning sound of a diving suit's oxygen supply.
- Fixed StatusEffects targeting "NearbyItems" only being able to target the Item instance, not the ItemComponents.
- Fixed "deceased" text wrapping in the health interface on small resolutions.
- Fixed open subinventories remaining visible on screen when using a railgun, coilgun or periscope.
- Fixed zoom getting stuck whenever exiting a railgun, coilgun or periscope and instantly hovering on an inventory slot.
- Fixed turret range upgrades not increasing the range of the turret's spotlight.
- Fixed all monsters spawned by the same monster event having the same sets of items.
- Fixed disconnected, hanging wires sometimes appearing at the wrong end of the wire.
- Fixed progress bar saying "welding" instead of "cutting" when cutting open a welded door.
- Fixed explosion damage to items not being diminished if there are obstacles between the explosion and the item.
- Fixes to flamer particles going through walls.
- Fixed items that are included in multiple categories (e.g. oxygen tanks, battery cells) not appearing in the sub editor's entity list unless using the search bar.
- Fixed psychosis sounds affecting all players.
- Fixed fabricators and deconstructors deteriorating even if they're not running.
- Fixed crashing when selecting a fabricator linked to a deconstructor or vice versa.
- Fixed "hide offensive server names" tickbox working the wrong way around in the server browser.
- Fixed console errors when setting an engine's max force to 0.
- Fixed in ability to damage huskified crew members if friendly fire is disabled.
- Fixed prototype steam cannon particles going through walls.
- Fixed "engineers are special" outpost event not giving XP when successfully helping the NPC.
- Fixed "propaganda" and "clown outbreak" outpost events not triggering.
- Fixed wires not appearing in some item assemblies placed in the sub editor until the sub is saved.
- Fixed decorative sprites being positioned incorrectly on mirrored items (such as pumps and fabricators).
- Fixed rotation limits being incorrect on turrets that have been mirrored before saving the sub.
- Fixed crashing when a bot is left to idle inside ruins.
- Fixed deconstructing an SMG magazine causing an SMG round to drop on the ground.
- Fixed empty SMG magazines not deconstructing to plastic.
- Fixed SMG magazines in character's inventories spawning SMG rounds at the start of a round (again).
- Fixed console errors in StatusEffect.GetPosition when applying a delayed status effect on a removed character.
- Fixed the latching behavior on Crawlers.
- Fixed latched creatures not releasing the sub when the submarine moves fast enough (defined in the latching behavior definition).
- Fixed outpost events sometimes triggering on dead/unconscious players.
- Fixed wifi component accepting input from chat regardless of the "link to chat" setting (the setting only determined if the component outputs the messages to the chat of the player holding the item, making it only useful for headsets).
- Fixed an issue that caused freezes when opening the server browser.
- Fixed "there is not enough room in the input inventory" error when placing a legacy medical fabricator in the sub editor.
- Fixed picking up a captain's pipe selecting it, preventing aiming until the item is deselected.
- Fixed hitscan projectiles briefly dropping out of the weapon client-side when fired.
- Fixed inability to play the campaign from the same local network when hosting with the dedicated server.
- Fixed crashing when clicking "spectate" in the server lobby after connection has been lost.
- Fixed occasional "too much data in network event" error messages.
- Fixed clients assigning different initial location reputations than the server, causing the round summary to display random reputation loss/gain when leaving the first outpost.
- Fixed "No AI Target" property not working properly.
- Fixed a rare crash when crawlers latch to a submarine.
- Fixed the vanilla submarines not always having any wrenches, which causes the bots not being able to fix mechanical items if they don't have a wrench in their inventory. Also made sure that all engineers have a wrench when they spawn.
- Fixed recovering and repairing a shuttle not removing the wall damage client-side.
- Fixed crashing when a hull smaller than 16x16px is painted or becomes dirty.
- Fixed characters not being visible when viewing an area far away from the player with a drone in multiplayer.

Ahoy!

The last Barotrauma update of the year, Uncharted Depths, is coming next week. It will feature a complete environment overhaul, new missions and new monsters that all add to the sense of progression and greater variety that weve been working towards this whole year. Heres what youll find in it:

New environments. From caves to level generation improvements and new environment art, there are big changes on the horizon. Read more about the environment overhaul in this earlier post!

New missions. In the next update, you get to go clear out a cave, scout for mineral deposits and repair and activate beacon stations to guide civilization further down into Europas ocean. Let us know which new mission you like the best! Well continue adding more mission variety with following updates.

New monsters. Were adding two new enemies with completely new behaviors. First, say hello to Europas first enemy with a ranged attack: the spineling shoots armor-piercing spikes that can impale both you and your submarine. And then, the ballast flora that weve been working on for so long is finally here, ready to infest your subs electrical grid enjoy.

Read more about the update on our blog, and stay tuned for its release next week!

Hello captains, clowns and submariners of all kinds!

Steam Awards are once more being bestowed on games soon and you can now nominate Barotrauma for an award.

We've chosen the Labor of Love category, made for games that have been out for a while and continue to be worked on as we're closing in on the fourth big update this year, we thought this category sounded like us. We hope more than anything that you've enjoyed the direction we've developed Barotrauma in, and that you'll continue to enjoy our future updates. If you'd like to nominate us for this award as well, we'd be doubly happy.

Best wishes from our team, and many honks!

Hello everyone!

The end of the year is getting closer, and so is our next update. Its all about the world outside your submarine from level generation to new environment art, many things are getting more variety and polish. Read a bit more below and check out this blog post on our website for more details!

Explore caves: This update adds caves that are too small to fit a submarine into, so youll have to go out for a swim to see what awaits inside. They come in many shapes and styles, and well be adding even more in the future!

Navigate more complex maps: Level generation has been improved in many ways, and in the next update, youll see branching paths, obstacles that youll have to destroy or go around to reach your destination, and multiple possible paths through a level.

Discover new areas: The environment itself has been overhauled and now consists of five areas, or biomes, that are distinct in appearance, environmental hazards and enemies. From the icy Cold Caverns through the temperate Europan Ridge and the mushroom gardens of the Aphotic Plateau, be ready for the crushing depths of the Great Sea and the fiery views of the Hydrothermal Wastes! Well see you on the other side.

Related to these new environments, the update will add a couple of new mission types, and there will be new enemies as well. Find out more about those when we release the update in the first half of December.

Happy Halloween, everyone!

To celebrate the spooky season, weve just released a game update and a DLC update for Barotrauma. Read on to find out more!

[h3]The Halloween update: Creepy Creature Feature[/h3]


This update brings a selection of creepy creatures, with a few other additions and improvements. Here are the highlights, and youll find the full changelog at the end of this post.

• Remade watcher, an old legacy creature born anew. While suitably spooky for Halloween, this one is a permanent addition. Avoid eye contact!
  
• Pets. Did you already try your hand at the downtime activities that the previous update added? Taking care of your onboard pet is the next level of things to keep you busy when its not too busy. Enjoy!
  
• As a temporary bonus, the pets come in Halloween costumes, and there is one pet that is Halloween-only. Can you guess which one?
  
• Undo/redo for the submarine editor for many, this is probably the real treat in the update, and were very happy to finally have this functionality!
  
• Server browser profanity filter. Tired of bad words in server names? You can now choose not to see those servers at all, and customize your list of unwanted words.
  
• AI gets new skills: bots can now be ordered to put items back into cabinets.
  
• New lights and animations to indicate device states, such as when a pump or a fabricator is running.
  
• Several new sounds and music tracks.