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12:00 am EST - With one week till the big industrial update, the team is trucking on tweaks, fixes, and functionality.

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Industrial System next week

In preparation for launch on February 2nd, the Industrial System is getting a bunch of finishing touches over on the main staging branch. If you’re not aware, the Industrial System is a group of new items which allow players and groups to automate a variety of tasks in their base including organization, crafting, smelting, and more!

This week we’ve seen a bunch of additional things added such as sounds, new researchable items, crafting cost adjustments, tech tree set up, and much more. Overall, it’s looking like Industrial is almost set for its big debut next week!

For more information on Industrial, check out our Industrial System Overview.

New flying vehicle

A new player-controlled flying vehicle is in the works! The attack helicopter, in progress on its own branch, appears to be a new upcoming air vehicle with some offensive capability. No visuals or specifics yet, but word on the street is it’ll be like an upgraded minicopter with ski’s instead of wheels, and some type of weaponry.

We’ll post visuals and more details as soon as we have them.

Misc. fixes

There are a number of miscellaneous fixes to the game set to go live next week. Here is a summary:

Updated deploy effect for trophy item to better match visual material
Added colliders on powerline tarps - prevents dropped items being hidden
Add item filter on quarry fuel storage to only accept diesel
Fix small sign deployment not working on all walls
Huge wooden sign will deploy on all sides of walls too
Fixed hold-to-dismount being active on blackjack.
Fixed Windmill IO connections not working when close up
Fix for dryfire sound looping on p17 & SAP
Fixed Fireplace cooking speed
Fixed kicking a player via the admin UI not sending the supplied kick reason
Fixed admin UI not working after being disconnected from a server while the UI was open

Other stuff

Redesign to compound in progress with cobblestone roads
Work on the new weapon rack continues
Some tweaks to pistol animations
More work on multithreaded networking (see note below)

Server owners note

If you run your own server, please note there is an important change required to ports as of the update next week: You must ensure your server has a dedicated game port and query port set.

server.port
server.queryport

These can no longer share the same port.

Example of a good config:
server.port 28015
server.queryport 28016

server.port 28016
server.queryport 28015

Example of a bad config

server.port 28015
server.queryport 28015

By default, if server.queryport is not set, the server will use the port above the game port as the query port. This is related to the upcoming network multithreading and not swnet.

This information may change between now and release, I’ll update this if it does.

The queryport and the rcon port should be able to share the same port.