A large island of small mountain towns, secrets, and spooks. The Turned are tough and certain animals don't like it when you get too close. A mix of Russia, PEI, and Arid, but with its own unique twist on many aspects of gameplay. The island contains multiple forest biomes, no military presence, and rare to find guns and supplies. Buak is heavily aimed towards singleplayer, co-op, and PVE playstyles and contains over 2,000 items to discover and use. Some of these are items that redefine the conventional vanilla systems of building with extra room to decorate, and much more. There’s a blueprint system, learn item recipes permanently to be able to craft them in the future!

Buak takes inspiration from Unturned Classic (2.0), the many scrapped ideas and designs of 3.0, as well as the concepts of Unturned II (4.0).

A lot of conventional things in Vanilla Unturned may have been abandoned on Buak, from freeform buildables to building on vehicles; You'll have to seek out the alternatives provided. All items, animals, resources, and objects are also entirely custom and may not work as intended when mixed with other mods/maps.

Some suggestions for gameplay: The map is best played without any other mods and in Normal mode or above, as Easy mode removes many mechanics.


Watch the Buak Trailer Here

Note: Buak is significantly more dense with detail than prior curated maps. Instead of compromising on this detail level, the Level Batching Update earlier this year was originally developed to help optimize Buak. That being said, lowering the max draw distance and landmarks when playing Buak will raise the performance quite a bit because the game can then cull more details.

To host a server running the map add its workshop file ID (3000549606) to the File_IDs list in WorkshopDownloadConfig.json, and set the map to "Buak" (without quotes) in Commands.dat.





For the first time rather than playtime drops, you can craft a random new limited item from Menu > Survivors > Inventory > Crafting. The items are permanent, but the ability to craft them will only be available for two weeks during the release event.



This project was created by Toothy Deerryte, staswalle, Paulfest, and Witness Protection. If you enjoy the map and would like to support them, consider checking out the box or bundles on the Stockpile:

Buak Map Mystery Box
Buak Map Bundle
Buak Friendship Bundle

Other links:

Starter Guide
ID List
Cosmetics Showcase Video


Today marks nine years since Unturned 2.0 first launched into Early Access on Steam. Thank you to everyone in the Unturned community for your support and creativity through another great year! With each individual update it can be hard to see how the game is changing and improving, but looking back over the years it's wild to realize how much has happened.


We reached the minimum order quantity, many thanks to the early backers! Makeship has extended the campaign to the 15th, so if you're interested there is still time to pick one up.

View Unturned Firefighter Zombie Plush on Makeship
View Makeship FAQ


Changed

• Improved how zombies with multiple special attacks randomize their choices.

Fixed

• Germany civilian ammo spawning 1911 magazines rather than Ace magazines. [Thanks Naamell8!]
  
• Reloading vanilla assets with /reload command failing due to legacy IDs in reserved range.

Added

• GrantDelaySeconds option for NPC rewards.
  
• PlayerKnowsNameFlagID option to replace NPC name with ??? until introduced.

Changed

• Load asset bundles with same name and redirect if loading fails.
  
• Removed bone influences setting, default is now four.

Fixed

• Shoulder and elbow bone blend weights. [Thanks many animators in the community!]
  
• Typo in Feather Hoodie description. [Thanks Bautobrodo!]
  
• Grenade assuming box collider is present. [Thanks Spebby!]
  
• Airplane propeller partial transparency while not driven. [Thanks Toothy Deerryte!]
  
• Shirt/pants metallic texture Smoothness missing from combined clothing shader. [Thanks Renaxon!]
  
• Several item rarity colors in crafting list. [Thanks MoltonMontro!]
  
• Different behavior of GC cleanup and unloading unused assets after loading rewrite. [Thanks Wyvernaed and CyberAndrii!]
  
• Potentially fixed using numpad enter in text fields. [Thanks Strilyx and MoltonMontro!]
  
• Picking up items from ground into storage bypassing max item count. [Thanks Lyhme!]
  
• Zombie special attacks damaging barricades, structures, and vehicles when targeting is disabled. [Thanks P9nda!]
  
• Loading error if a script on an effect threw an exception while pre-populating effect pool.

We have collaborated with Makeship to bring the Firefighter Zombie to life in the form of a limited-edition collectible plush toy!



You can order this lovable monster from the Makeship campaign here:

View Unturned Firefighter Zombie Plush on Makeship

Edit: the funding goal of 200 orders required for production was met! Thank you to all the early customers for your interest and support. For anyone still interested, the campaign will remain open to orders until the 8th of July. More details here:

View Makeship FAQ

Fixed

• Stopped audio cutting off after original timer expired. [Thanks Toothy Deerryte and Jarshoowa!]
  
• Docs link in workshop menu not pointing at new docs site. [Thanks Kopfstroh!]
  
• Festive Toque overly aggressive culling distance. [Thanks Matqyou!]
  
• Exception if gun properties were specified for non-gun NPC item reward. [Thanks P9nda!]
  
• Incorrect write permission denied error for workshop submission on Mac and Linux. [Thanks CyberAndrii!]
  
• Inconsistent labeling in Options menu. [Thanks ItsRodrigoAl!]
  
• Near-zero and near-one bone blend weights on a few vertices of character model. [Thanks FJleKSS!]

Added

• New animated hitmarkers and option to use non-animated style.
  
• Accurate range markers on vanilla scopes.
  
• Craftable Progress Pride flag jersey and pin available during Pride Month event.
  
• Transparency option for crosshair, hitmarker, and critical hitmarker colors.
  
• Accepted Artist, Hooligan, and Lime Tracksuit bundles into Stockpile.
  
• Multi-threaded asset loading with additional information on the loading screen.
  
• SpotLight_Enabled option for melee, tactical, and headlamp items.
  
• Allow_Lobby_Groups server config option.

Changed

• Windows dedicated server intercepts quit handler to save+shutdown when closed.
  
• Replaced Ballistic_Drop gun property with Bullet_Gravity_Multiplier.
  
• Removed Recoil_Aim gun property.
  
• Searching crafting list by name can show results without any available items.
  
• Redact certain hate speech regardless of profanity filter setting.
  
• Stop inspect and equip audio clips when the item is dequipped.
  
• Removed peripheral integrations. (e.g. long-disabled Discord integration and RGB keyboard integration)
  
• Replaced 2D cosmetic icons with 3D preview icons.
  
• Your own bullet impact audio is slightly audible regardless of distance to provide more hit feedback.

Fixed

• Track kills on weapons with Shared_Skin_Lookup_ID. [Thanks NickSkunk!]
  
• Phantox Timberwolf albedo and emission textures flipped. [Thanks Semidvista!]
  
• Prevent resetting gun's fire delay by clicking again. [Thanks DerEnte!]
  
• Enable HUD during red flinch overlay similar to flashbangs. [Thanks Renaxon!]
  
• Miscolored roll bar on colored offroaders. [Thanks Alex!]
  
• Sentry gun spread/misses not properly using aim direction. [Thanks PiggySvK!]
  
• Clamp terrain cut brush radius to work around an engine crash. [Thanks DanielWillett!]
  
• Terrain material brush pixel average mode not working. [Thanks DanielWillett!]
  
• NPC passive pose resetting when unloaded. [Thanks Toothy Deerryte!]
  
• Items in nearby inventory incorrectly removed when a non-visible item is removed. [Thanks Joko!]
  
• Using lobby to bypass group member limit. [Thanks Semidvista!]
  
• Potential exploit to load assemblies from assets. [Thanks CyberAndrii!]
  
• Sync pending visibility changes when baking navmesh. [Thanks Toothy Deerryte!]
  
• Arrow tracers getting immediately destroyed. [Thanks Toothy Deerryte!]
  
• Ignore asset paths less than 2 characters as a workaround for material palette assets missing closing list bracket.
  
• Not applying framerate and vsync limits at startup.
  
• Fail loading of animal assets missing required game objects.

This doesn't make sniping easier, rather it raises the skill ceiling by giving distance estimation more use and removing scoped recoil reduction.



Before this update the markings on scopes were arbitrary whereas now they are adjusted to account for your field of view, the gun's muzzle velocity, the level's gravity, and your unit system preference.

Modders can update custom scopes to use these new features, for more details:

Sight Distance Marker Documentation


The real meat and potatoes of this update: startup loading should now be faster for most players. On average it's about twice as fast.



Previously all of the asset loading was done on the main thread. Now the vanilla content and each installed mod is assigned two threads: one to search for files, and the other to read and parse them into memory (building on the asset parsing rewrite from the last update). This leaves the main thread to focus exclusively on pairing game data with the assets loaded from asset bundles.

The majority of the main thread time is spent loading from asset bundles now. This step has to be done on the main thread, and unfortunately synchronous vs asynchronous loading doesn't make a difference here. In the future deferring some of this loading to as-needed async loading will cut down on startup time at the cost of slight delays, for example async loading a hat only when it's equipped.


Kind of ridiculous to proclaim a minor change with fanfare and an image in the update notes, but as a PSA: clicking the Close button of the Windows dedicated server should no longer be a tragic mistake.

Previously this immediately terminated the server process without giving the game a chance to save, so misclicking the Close button could result in lost progress. Now the game intercepts this event and tries to save+shutdown while sleeping the Windows routine. Using the regular shutdown command is still recommended however because by default Windows only allows up to 5 seconds before the server will be closed regardless.




Fixed

• Unable to select repair item blueprint. [Thanks Rattle189 and Renaxon!]
  
• Per-server manual workshop folder not working due to extra '/' in path. [Thanks baranmod!]
  
• Holographic reticule not visible with transparent critical hitmarker.
  
• Some hardcoded audio references not working.
  
• Not loading hitmarker style preference (oops).

Added

• Blueprint_#_Searchable (bool) option for debug items to hide from search results.

Changed

• Server reorganizes assets after loading to keep ID override order consistent with client.

Fixed

• Incorrectly matching closest master bundle in file hierarchy when folders had same prefix.
  
• Parse unrecognized escape sequence as '\' and log message about '/' for file paths.

With the addition of multi-threading asset loading the server no longer loaded assets in a consistent order, so the ID override order used by clients wasn't matching the server anymore. To fix this the server now uses the same asset remapping system as the client. Note however that content manually installed on the server is inserted before all other assets to reduce conflicts because it is otherwise not loaded on the client.

File paths specified in modded assets using single backslashes broke in the update because there was a fix to parse escaped newlines in unquoted strings. As a workaround unrecognized escape sequences are now parsed as-before and logged. Converting them to forward slashes is recommended because paths starting with lowercase T or lowercase N are being parsed as tab and newline respectively.

Changed

• Rewrote .dat/.asset parsing and made distinction between "v1" and "v2" assets irrelevant.
  
• Removed April Fools' terrain materials because they were widely reported as annoying.
  
• Temporarily ban players kicked by BattlEye for 60 seconds. [Thanks Alex!]

Fixed

• Potential workaround for reaching audio channel limit while loading. [Thanks Animatic!]
  
• Infinite loop if animated NPC dialogue was missing a closing angle bracket. [Thanks NSTM and Dug!]
  
• Blowtorch LOD1 incorrect UVs. [Thanks ItsRodrigoAl!]
  
• Respawn button disabled label out of sync. [Thanks ItsRodrigoAl!]
  
• Outdoors skill description missing increased drops. [Thanks P9nda!]
  
• Shared_Skin_Lookup_ID not working with ragdoll effect or kill counter. [Thanks NickSkunk!]

Previously there were separate code paths and file formats for older and newer assets. This has been rewritten into a unified code path and unified file format. It doesn't sound particularly exciting, but there will be a variety of future benefits, and in the meantime:

• Modding is a bit easier without the separation between "v1" and "v2" assets, and now with better error messages.
  
• Parsing asset files is a bit faster. Rather than copying the entire file in memory multiple times it is parsed+hashed as it is read.
  
• Cleaned up significant "technical debt".
  
• All of the new code is unit-tested to help avoid accidental bugs.

View Merged v1/v2 Asset Documentation
View Data File Format Documentation


Molt has recently finished upgrading all of the documentation for a dedicated Unturned docs website. It is still a work-in-progress, but already has a much better UX / UI, built-in search functionality, offline downloads, and the option to switch between release (stable) and preview (latest) documentation. The new docs are written in reStructuredText, built with Sphinx, and hosted by Read the Docs.

View Documentation Site




Fixed

• Lasers and night vision not parsing color blue channel. [Thanks DiFFoZ and DanielWillett!]

Minor important update. Released 2023-05-04.

Edit on April 2nd: although this map is real and playable, it was created as an April Fools' joke by Renaxon, danaby2, Animatic, clue, and Timo987 in only 4 days! All the thanks goes to them for this fun event. Who knows, perhaps the feedback from this project will be useful for an actual curated map in the future?



Antarctica- the newest map by Renaxon, danaby2, Animatic, clue and Timo987, has released.
... The final frontier in terms of tough, legitimately survival based mechanics is ready to be explored and conquered.
Featuring every single item in the game, every single crafting recipe, and all the hardcore classic methods of survival you've come to love.

A seriously harsh, desolate, and uncharacteristically detailed landmass, Antarctica is an Insane sized map- 4x bigger than the Russia map, and 16x bigger than the Yukon.

Included in Antarctica, is the most detailed depiction of wilderness Unturned has ever seen. You'll want to watch your back for packs of this fierce land's defenders.

Also included, is a revised radiation and immunity system. Due to a severely changed world, the air on Antarctica is toxic. Maybe a smarter survivor out there could help find a cure...

Now, stop reading, and get going.
It can't explore itself.


Watch the Antarctica Trailer Here

To host a server running the map add its workshop file ID (2954631626) to the File_IDs list in WorkshopDownloadConfig.json, and set the map to "Antarctica" (without quotes) in Commands.dat.

Added

• Compare workshop file timestamps when joining server instead of asset bundle hashes.
  
• LogMemoryUsage command for server owners to get a high-level view of what exists on the server.

Fixed

• Tracked quest title in HUD too short for some non-English characters. [Thanks nemukopic!]
  
• Pegasus Empire skin incorrect attachment color. [Thanks Yadaven!]

Added

• Gameplay config for third-person recoil and spread multipliers.

Changed

• Holding primary/secondary input will start item action as soon as possible.
  
• Allow bulk-reassigning material index/palette in editor.

Fixed

• Ambient audio never playing if audio channel limit was reached during load.
  
• Exception when loading culling volumes on dedicated server.
  
• Garbage generated on server when filtering relevant connections for RPCs.
  
• Placeholder partial fix for spamming shoot inputs, however rate of fire is still lower than full auto.
  
• Item drops falling through narrow gaps when using raycast rather than spherecast. [Thanks Ghosticollis!]
  
• Vertical alignment of Masterkey when aiming. [Thanks MediumPlayer!]
  
• Remove warning for objects with legacy ID now that it is unused. [Thanks LocoCZ!]
  
• Valentines quest condition was applied to wrong secret admirer note dialogue. [Thanks GG_Gabr!]
  
• Miscellaneous Washington visual fixes. [Thanks AdamDN and Firecynical!]
  
• Missing distance check for barricade/structure salvage. [Thanks Ghosticollis!]
  
• Zombie detection radius while prone was too low for the newer collision. [Thanks JimmyDeluxe0 and Ms.Yawhaw!]

When the third-person recoil and spread debuffs were added there was a lot of debate about making them configurable versus keeping the game experience more consistent between servers. The configurability argument is that the game should be as moddable as possible to encourage creativity and enable players to do whatever they find most fun, whereas the consistency argument is that it is confusing and disorienting to run into wildly different movement, gunplay, difficulty, etc. on every server.

2x recoil and spread in third-person is the intended vanilla experience. By requiring it for a while it became the consistent baseline, preventing reactionary servers from immediately disabling the change. (Unlike the movement changes which many servers immediately reverted.) Now that it has been the default, servers can choose to customize and raise and lower the multipliers as they see fit.

Was this a good approach? We will see where it might make sense with future gameplay changes.

Added

• Arid Scout and Tourist cosmetic bundles.
  
• Always_Spawn_Full [bool] option for fuel items.
  
• Affected_By_Agriculture_Skill [bool] option for farmable items.

Changed

• Teleporting causes a complete culling volume update immediately rather than time-slicing.
  
• Limit max horde beacon item drops to 256. Previously a misconfigured drops multiplier could overwhelm the game.
  
• Prevent using single quote ' and double quote " when stricter built-in name filter is enabled.
  
• Support NPC hint reward in multiplayer.

Fixed

• Discard loaded barricades if type has changed to avoid savedata compatibility problems. [Thanks Jdance-Media and joeymisfit!]
  
• Exclude uninitialized objects from level save, for example volume components inside Unity prefabs.
  
• Rubble hit collider can be any depth, not just direct children.
  
• Exception/kick when walking into a just-destroyed vehicle. [Thanks warren39 and DiFFoZ!]
  
• Barricades on surface of vehicle not working with child explosion armor multiplier. [Thanks Molt!]
  
• Flickering textures on atlassed meshes with original UVs exactly at 0.0 or 1.0. [Thanks AdamDN!]

Fixed

• Slightly increased texture atlas UV padding for larger textures.

The developers of Arid have added two new locations, new items, vehicles, quests, and improvements to the progression, balance, performance, and more!



To host a server running the map add its workshop file ID (2683620106) to the File_IDs list in WorkshopDownloadConfig.json, and set the map to Arid in Commands.dat.

This project was created by Renaxon, dug, danaby2, and clue. If you enjoy the map and would like to support them, consider checking out the new Scout and Tourist bundles on the Stockpile:
Arid Scout Bundle
Arid Tourist Bundle

Added

• Option to use the classic crosshair shape.
  
• "Manual Object Culling" volume type which replaces/improves old per-object-asset LOD area settings.
  
• Instantiated_Item_Name_Override and Instantiated_Attachment_Name_Override options to simplify workarounds for animation component.
  
• Exclude_From_Culling_Volumes [bool] option for objects.
  
• Exclude_From_Level_Batching [bool] option for objects and trees.
  
• "-DisableCullingVolumes" command-line flag. Not recommended.
  
• "-UseLevelBatching=true/false" command-line option.
  
• Valentine's day holiday condition for secret admirer note quest on Liberator.
  
• Per-location option to hide from map UI.

Changed

• Improved and re-enabled batching of level objects and trees.
  
• Assets with duplicate guid are now skipped during registration rather than assigning a new guid.
  
• Use same collision height (2 meters) for all zombie types.
  
• Slightly increase zombie vertical attack range by 0.1 meter.
  
• Slide while standing on zombie's/animal's head.
  
• Allow masks to work as underwater breathing apparatus with backpack.
  
• Semi-auto repairing melee items play an impact sound.
  
• Terrain tool weight target option can be used with auto foundation option.

Fixed

• Stereo not *playing* the tracks not installed on the server, rendering the change in the previous update pointless. [Thanks Timmy!]
  
• Teleport animals that fall out of the map to a valid spawnpoint. [Thanks Toothy Deerryte!]
  
• Pooled effects getting prematurely destroyed. [Thanks Gamingtoday093!]
  
• Transparent pixels in supersampled screenshots. [Thanks Tiway!]
  
• Some inconsistent skin/cosmetic emissive intensity values. [Thanks diddlyono!]
  
• Animal collider not getting disabled on server. [Thanks surv0013!]
  
• Misaligned UVs on player/zombie ragdoll neck. [Thanks Toothy Deerryte!]
  
• Extremely small network positions off by one. [Thanks Gamingtoday093!]
  
• Some inconsistencies when enabling/disabling crosshair. [Thanks KarmaWSYD!]
  
• Interior culling size of several objects.
  
• Loading screen not appearing between clicking exit and reaching the main menu.
  
• Legacy airdrop/location node conversion not assigning instance ID.

Fixed

• Holiday object collision not disabled on server. [Thanks AdamDN!]

This update should bring a noticeable performance increase on vanilla maps, and curated/modded maps too if/when the map creators opt-in. There was a similar update several years ago, but it had to be disabled because it used too much memory (RAM) for some players - actually reducing performance and/or crashing. According to the Steam hardware survey ~96% of players have 8+ GB of RAM now, so with some useful improvements it has been re-enabled. As a precaution it can be disabled by default on the backend if the update goes poorly, and you can disable it with this command-line option if necessary: -UseLevelBatching=false

For more information there are two new articles intended for map developers:

Level Batching
Manual Object Culling