v1.6 RC5

• Fixed natural armor on non-Mechanoids not applying deflection properly
• Increased Thrumbo natural armor to be equal to composite vest
• Fixed quadruped bodies not having armor coverage on legs
• Fixed secondary damage not applying after killing something
• Secondary damage, electrical burns no longer merge into single hediffs
• Fixed secondary damage hitting internals being affected by outer armor

v1.6 RC3

• Fixed power claw AP
• Fixed various stat nullrefs
• Added bulk back to Devilstrand
• Wind strength now integrated with vanilla wind turbines
• Fixed HE ammo having incorrect secondary
• Nerfed Scyther/Lancer armor
• Fixed melee damage stat display not accounting for stuff and quality
• Fixed Centipede armor
• Fixed gas mask clipping
• Added several apparel layers to head for use by apparel mods
• Tuque now worn on middle layer
• Gas masks apply hediff when worn
• Refactored carrying gear rendering, now displays as normal apparel
• Updated Apparello patch to utilize new layers
• Rebalanced charge ammo AP values
• Updated fragmentation effects to use spreadsheet values
• Stuff offsets for armor display proper units
• Fixed rare error involving incapable of violent pawns punching things
• Beanbag effects scale with pawn health scale
• Increased Thrumbo heat armor
• Fixed bug causing parry chances on low-tier weapons to skyrocket
• Adjusted stats for various melee weapons
• Added improvised gas mask

v1.6 RC2

• Rebalanced fire spread
• Punching fire for more damage
• Fixed bug causing fire to spread way too fast
• Changed kPa -> MPa
• Fixed missing megaspider stab
• Fixed incorrect wildness on wolf/warg/bear
• Fixed unarmed damage bonus being a multiplier instead of additive
• Fixed rhino hide having too much sharp protection

1.6 Public Beta

Balance

• Adjusted animal combat power values
• Firefoam grenades now extinguish all fires in blast radius
• Flammability of pawns depends on equipped apparel
• Explosion damage falloff is now quadratic instead of linear
• Rebalanced all damage and armor to fit new armor model
• Elephant tusk and Thrumbo horn no longer valid melee weapons, as they would be too heavy to use
• Moved molotov, javelin crafting to crafting spot
• Recurve bow now uses same ammo as short bow
• Machine guns now use point target range instead of area target (600m instead of 800)
• Reduced binoculars range to 700m
• Sieging raiders will spread out more, engage targets further away
• Incendiary launcher and mortar no longer deal direct damage, spawn random fires in large area instead
• Megaspiders and scythers have greatly improved penetration on melee attacks
• Sappers will put reduced priority on pathing around turrets
• Changed wildness of wargs 60 => 30, wolves 85 => 65, bears 80 => 60

Features

• Manned turrets can be reloaded via haul job
• Untreated cobra bites now induce venom buildup
• Gun recipes display ammo-related stats in info menu
• Turrets display weapon-related stats in info menu
• Ammo displays damage stats in info menu (again)
• FSX and Prometheum can explode when damaged
• Ammo can be smelted
• Fire spreads according to wind direction and strength
• Plant flammability depends on precipitation
• Indoor fire produces black smoke, traveling around and causing smoke inhalation hediff
• Unlocked draw sizes for equipped weapons
• Replaced vanilla sprites with more realistically proportioned version to utilize unlocked draw size
• Armor is now measured in millimeters of RHA equivalent for sharp and Kilopascal for blunt
• Various size measurements now display in meters instead of cells
• Unarmed damage now scales with melee skill
• Rifle calibers now have API, HE and sabot ammo types
• Fragments now spawned over 10 ticks to improve performance
• Added letter to warn player a month before mechanoids can start raiding
• Added more combat taunts
• Vanilla machine pistol stats changed to MAC-10
• Predators attack immobile targets will always hit the neck
• Mechanoids now use sapper AI

Fixes

• Fix error on non-violent pawn reloading turret
• Embrasure terrain affordance matches walls
• Fixed instant turret construction
• Prevent fuel puddles spawning inside closed doors
• Fixed error on updating loadout from pack animal
• Fixed shotgun partial reloads transmuting ammo
• Fixed pawns not being able to shoot over one-another's shoulder
• Fixed projectiles colliding with shooter's own cover
• Fixed pawns trying to shoot an empty gun
• Fixed rare error on new game start
• Fixed Napalm applying Prometheum-soaked hediff
• Shield belts deactivate when operating manned turrets
• Bullets will no longer remain stuck in the air on encountering errors
• Fixed recoil applying on first shot of burst
• Shields now equipped on shoulder in separate apparel layer to work around vanilla bionic hand bug
• Fixed surgery and new game injuries being deflected by armor
• Fixed suppression not being affected by armor
• Fixed move penalty on incapacitated pawn displaying bad values
• Fixed mechanoids being unable to raid

Combatibility

• Added patches for: Spartan Foundry, Dragons, Better Infestations, Cupro's alloys, RoM - Bones, Orassans, Thrumkin, Black Widows, Vanilla Armor Expanded, courtesy of Almantuxas
• Added patch for Asari, Gas Shells & Traps, updated GouRIMet, by N7Huntsman
• Updated patches for: Apparello, Weapons+, More Mechanoids to new armor system

v1.6 RC4

• Lowered commonality of gas masks on raiders
• Fixed fabrics having excessive heat armor
• Rebalanced Blazebulb:
  • Yield 5 => 3
  • Grow days 5 => 6
  • Minimum skill to plant => 6
  • Work to harvest => 800
• Increased damage of EMP weapons
• Centipedes now have aim delay equivalent to careful shooter trait
• Grenades now target the ground underneath the target to fix accuracy issues
• Fixed wander radius related issue
• Increased health of Mechanoid corpses to stop them disappearing from explosions
• Fixed smoke not dissipating properly
• Increased visual size of smoke
• Rebalanced smoke generation and dissipation

Weapons+ Fix

Added missing tags to Weapons+ patch

Death and Decay

Balance

• Internal wounds tended outside have same base infection chance as untreated
• Infection chances increased
• Tend quality effect on infection chances increased
• Bleed rates increased by 50%
• Raids above 300 points will never use direct attack, only sappers/drop-ins
• Brought shooting XP gains in line with vanilla, especially hunting gives much higher rewards now

Fixes

• Fixed beanbags affecting mechanoids
• Fixed turrets not being able to fire when immediately adjacent to another turret
• Fixed some occurrences where pawns would try to fire a weapon with no ammo
• Fixed error when manned turret is destroyed mid-burst
• Fixed charge shot bullets not having proper names
• Fixed some ammo types having fragmenting secondary damage
• Fixed manned turrets resetting forced targets on reload

Compatibility

• Fixed More Mechanoids flamebot, Mammoth armor
• Added Weapons+ patch by Zeni

Improvements

• Autonomous equipment behavior improvements by HCSK team
• Suppressed vanilla error spam by JonnyNova

QoL and Fixes

Balance

• Combat suppliers and war merchants stock boom animals
• Explosive projectiles center explosion on impacted pawn instead of edge of hitbox

Improvements

• New rocket projectile textures by sumghai
• Removed unused vanilla stats from weapon descriptions
• Ammo recipe step count decreased 500 -> 20
• Aimed shot now default aim mode
• Changed stat cover effectiveness -> cover collision height
• Added display for body part density to pawn description
• Added one-off popup on first launch, prompting users to enable learning helper

Fixes

• Inferno cannon missing minimum range
• Orbital targeters not working
• Player-built walls not blocking line of sight properly
• Incendiary weapons not recognized for pyromaniac thought
• Disabled ammo appearing as quest rewards (for real this time)
• Mechanoid armor not applying deflection properly, causing their armor to be weaker than it should be

Compatibility

• Updated RBSE patch (credit to CombinedAutism)
• Compatibility with mods that allow storing multiple weapons/apparel in one tile (credit to lilwhitemouse)

LoS overhaul

• Various fixes and improvements to line of sight system and leaning
• Improvements to loadout UI
• Tree collision chance now scales with overall accuracy
• Flak gun rebalanced: sway factor reduced, sights efficiency increased, warmup and cooldown increased
• Fixed issues with crouching and human collision sizes being affected by their body types
• Flak jacket/pants now provide thermal insulation equal to regular jacket/pants
• CE turrets now use TurretTopDrawSize variable from vanilla
• Loadbearing gear now has quality to fix issue where it would fall through vanilla filters

Melee Hotfix

Fixes broken melee armor penetration values