7 August

The 16.7.3 Patch is Now Live

The 16.7.3 patch introduces batch crafting to the crafting stations available in Fragmented. Before you had to stand near a station to be able to use certain recipes. This functionality still exists (and please note is required still for campfires, they do not use this new functionality), but all other stations now have their own UI for crafting.

When interacting with the stations you can put anywhere from 2-6 recipes into the station and return to the station (or wait if you want) to get the results. Mortar and Pestles, Industrial Stations, Crafting Stations, Forges, and Stoves now have 3 stations qualities (Basic, "Regular", and Advanced). The "Regular" stations are the original ones (such as Crafting Station) and most have been moved up a few points in requirements (see the notes below for a full breakdown). The Basic stations (besides the Basic Mortar and Pestle as it kept its previous requirement) have no requirements, but the regular and advanced one will require at least a Basic Industrial Station to craft. The Genetic Station and Compost Bin stayed as a "regular" station for the time being as they are higher end stations.

As mentioned there are 3 qualities of stations. Each increase in quality increases the queue slots in the station (2 to 4 to 6). Increases the crafting time (1 to 2 to 3) and also increases the number of storage slots (8, to 14, to 20).

We have a few smaller changes included in the notes below. We are working on some larger scale projects for the next patch or two and some work went into that during this patch cycle as well. We should have more information available on that soon once we figure out the timeline when they will introduced.

Housing

• Modified the housing placement collision message to include the name of the object causing the collision.

• Speed enhancements will now cancel any previously active movement speed penalties and have had the self damaging component on them removed.
  
• Improved the description for Lesapen Seeds, so it is easier to identify how to keep their carbon/nitrogen/water levels.
  
• Picks now take up 1x2 slots, rather than 2x2, making them the same size as axes.

• Vultures are somewhat more common than was previously the case. They are still less common than setlang, however.
  
• Calprates Chargers can now be found in more areas.
  
• Decreased the spawn rate of some of the more common rare NPCs.

• Crafting stations have been improved to support batch crafting. They now have their own storage that can be used to store crafting materials and the results of the crafting from the stations. You choose a recipe much like you would from the crafting window and then you choose the quantity. Once submitted you can walk away from the crafting station and return to it later to pickup your results. Stations also have a speed and queue length variable as higher end stations will craft larger batches quicker and support adding more batches to the queue.
  
• Players with 8+ Subsistence skill can now create Fruit Punch. This is the most effective drink in the game currently, but it does expire somewhat more quickly than other drinks.
  
• Reduced the Refining skill required to create Rubber from 7 to 5. This is intended to make it easier for solo players to create reclining beds at an earlier stage in their character's development.
  
• Gypsum is now required as a component in the Water Tower and Silo recipes.
  
• Added new Basic and Advanced Crafting Stations. They require 4 and 10 points in Electronics respectively. The basic is your entry level batch unit. The advanced unit is faster and has more queue slots and storage slots.
  
• Crafting Stations can now be used to batch any recipe that doesn't require a specific crafting station.
  
• We are now able to do more fine tuning on the amount of experience rewarded from crafting recipes. Previously it was automatically adjusting based on recipe level, but now it can be customized per recipe. This allows us to give higher weighting to recipes with uncommon or rare components. In general crafting experience gain rate was increased by a small amount.
  
• Usage Note: Campfires are not crafting stations. They work like before (have to be near to use them).
  
• Added Basic and Advanced Industrial Stations at 4 and 10 points in Electronics. The "Standard" Industrial Station is now at 7.
  
• Added Basic and Advanced Forges at 4 and 10 points in Construction. The standard Forge is now at 7.
  
• Added Basic and Advanced Stoves at 3 and 9 points in Construction. The standard Stove is now at 6.
  
• Added Basic and Advanced Mortar and Pestle at 2 and 9 points in Subsistence. The standard Mortar and Pestle is now at 6.
  
• Genetically Engineered Lurkers can now be crafted with a 9 Subsistence skill, rather than 10.

• Inventory Window and Crafting window received a slight visual change to break up the window up visually.
  
• Loot and harvest messages will no longer appear in or pop up the chat window. They will instead be displayed in the larger text based event messages only.

• The housing placement collision status should now properly update, as players or mobs move in or out of the proposed location for the item.
  
• The Gypsum description should now be more accurate.
  
• Reunited a small fire on the ground with the escape pod that caused it.
  
• Since hunger and thirst aren't actually "restored" (e.g. increased) when eating/drinking, the health, hunger, and thirst messages were changed to the following: "Hunger (or Thirst) Reduced". "Health and Hunger (or Thirst) Improved". "Health Improved"
  
• Fixed an issue which could prevent achievements from being earned.

26 July

16.7.2 Build is Now Live

The next patch introduces even more housing improvements included snapping for bases and certain other objects (wood fences, walls, gates, force fields, and force gates). This should provide more ease of use and more UI/UX changes were made to give finer control over the process. See the notes below for the full details.

Along with the new housing adjustments, armored vehicles received another pass to fix issues that were reported after the 16.7.1 patch was released. They should now be a bit easier to move around and other bugs were fixed.

We also fixed a variety of issues with dropped bags and bags found in corpse containers. You should be able to trade/exchange bags a bit easier now.

Audio

• Armored Vehicles now feature new sound effects.

• Bases now have the ability to snap to each other. Bases have a larger threshold for snapping (500 cm away as opposed to 100cm for walls), and will adjust the item's rotation if needed.
  
• Added options for modifying the movement and rotation rate while placing/moving a housing item. (e.g. when using the mouse wheel to move or rotate).
  
• Housing items now have either the "Move xxx" or "Adjust Location" option in their secondary use menu, but not both. The dialogs used for both are identical, except the "Adjust Location" does not include the "Attach to Crosshairs" option for moving the item. This is also the same dialog used for placing new housing items. The title of the dialog will indicate which action is occurring (Place, Move, or Adjust).
  
• Introduced a new UI to accompany Housing Item placement, along with the same Axis Gizmo recently added to the housing "Adjust Location" feature. With the new UI and gizmo, you will have finer control of item placement, as well as the ability to move your character around the item to be placed, to get a better view, before committing.
  
• Modified the housing item axis gizmo, used during placement and moving of items, to show the rotation point more clearly.
  
• Fences and walls can now be sunk slightly further into the ground than before.
  
• Added an "Enable Snap" option to the Housing Placement dialog. The option will be available when placing or moving items that have snap points defined. At this time, the only items that are snappable are the wood fence, wood/stone/steel walls. wood/stone gates, force field, and force gate.
  
• Added a "Minimize Dialog" check box to bottom of "Place Housing Item" dialog. When checked, the dialog will collapse to very small, to free up some screen space while placing an item. The minimization status will be remembered within the same game session.

• Attempting to view a bag in a corpse will now give you a message telling you to loot it first (which will now work properly after being fixed).

• Corrected an issue with containers (e.g. crates) that was causing a server slow down when validating their position in the world.

• Reduced pet regeneration rates as they were not taking into account if the pet was in or out of combat and giving full regeneration at all times.
  
• Rocharus Pet damage, armor, and health should now scale up appropriately. There was an issue with their data previously.
  
• Introduced new Setlang-Mubark Hybrid pets. These hybrid setlangs are the toughest pets in game to date, and feature a special ability which can stun opponents.

• You can now create Setlang-Mubark Hybrid pets with a Genetic Engineering skill of 10.

• Reversed the placement of the Options and Quit buttons on the Main Menu.

• Vehicle keys can now be dropped on the ground and picked up by other players, similar to other items.
  
• Passengers will no longer be displayed as sitting on the top of Armored Vehicles. Their mesh will be hidden as they are now inside of the tank.
  
• Made a number of adjustments the movement of Armored Vehicles. They now have a higher maximum speed, and more traction.
  
• Armored Vehicles should find it easier to move up ramps.

• Altered the Hammer Stone description so it is easier to understand what it is used for.
  
• Bags looted from a corpse now will properly work after being looted (before a relog would fix). This is using either of the loot buttons or dragging/dropping item.
  
• Housing Structure Save is now created if found to be missing. This is to fix an issue with some clients that seem to get stuck loading into single player if the save is missing.
  
• Fixed a bug which caused Armored Vehicles to levitate slightly.
  
• Fixed a bug which could cause the front side passenger seat to indicate that it had no passenger when it actually did.
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause Vulture pets to not remember their guild status in some cases after a relog.
  
• Fixed an issue where you would drop a bag and the other player would have to relog to be able to see/use it.