Hope nobody minds me adding an update here as theres a lot of functionality recently that I had to search github and lurk to find out about.
(1)Frozen food is in, and now various bugs fixed. Food will freeze from ambient temperature, so will liquids, they can be defrosted but some food will lose quality after being defrosted.
A freezer vehicle part has been added to complement this mechanic
(2)to help with this a new system of heat propagation indoors from fires has been added aswell.
i.e your water will freeze outside on a winter day, but not indoors with a fire nearby
(3)Next up - inventory auto sorting via zone manager
Specify zones for loot types - via the “Y” key, then press shift+O and some time passes and the character will divert it all
This functionality was then used to reduce tedium in farming - the zone manager now has tilling and planting zones , specify zones, press shift+o , character will get his/her gardening on.
There was a farming update that went with this to add complexity of weeds, watering requirements etc, but that is currently being reworked.
(4)One that I’ve not used but have seen merged is automatic mining.
As someone who frequently goes months without playing CDDA and then returns, I quite liked this thread! With that in mind, here are some notable (to my mind, that I came across) experimental features since 0.D:
The amount of work that has gone into NPCs since 0.D is crazy. Not only can you shout more things at them, they investigate noises on their own, run away from overwhelming danger, try to avoid fires, and use holsters now.
Returning after some time (Last played an experimental during the 0.D release cycle a few months back), here’s some fun stuff I noticed that wasn’t mentioned.
New endgame challenges: The 3rd Hub01 mission should give even veteran players a really “fun” time.
New locations: Lumber mill (SO MUCH FREE WOOD ), Steel mill (Looks incomplete, found no loot or zombies, just 3 Hell Raiders floating in mid air on Z level 2 o.O), tons of variation to existing buildings (lots of new farm types comes to mind), new lab types, including the above ground research facility (so much loot!) and the new underground lab connection railway system, which leads to labs with no ground level access
NPCs have significantly improved
They can now perform work (farming, deconstructing vics, construction projects you started, sorting stuff, etc… ) without an NPC camp even if the player isn’t around looks like they stop working when you move the reality bubble away from their location, but still a nifty addition.
can be told to break contact and run in combat (among many other combat orders you can yell to override their default behaviors)
they can be ordered to do stuff remotely using 2-way radios, sent to locations (come to you or move between faction camps/hideouts) and a lot more.
NPC camps were also improved to add more options than glorified camping site, and promises more to come.
You no longer need 9 field tiles, can build on a single field and clear the surrounding tiles later
You can still build the “old camp”, but the new “field camp” main buildings can be made of tents, dirt, wood or even steel
This suggest more options in the future, I saw a “refugee center camp” mentioned somewhere on these forums that I understand is being worked on
Some new tools and fab chains:
Acetylene gas can now be produced through a complex chain involving cooking, construction (arc furnace building) and ??? (Still working on that furnace to complete the cycle )
tools with “filling quality” (still unsure of purpose… super-cheap metal sawing?) and a few other new similar additions, presumably in preparation for new content
Salvaged bionics must now be cleaned and sterilized before you stick em back into your own body using new machines
Mutagen now requires advanced lab equipment that cannot be substituted by survivor-made alternatives
You can deactivate “prototype cyborg” and get the (auto)doc to remove it’s personality override chip, creating an NPC with every bad bionic imaginable (and a handful of useful ones)
New vehicle variations, mostly military vehicles
New missions and NPCs at the refugee center, presumably other locations too
New factions and their bases (like Hub-01 and it’s crazy scientists)
Other factions now expand their bases! Hub01 will start attracting NPCs after mission 2, including some free merchants that setup shop in the parking lot, Found a Hell raider’s camp that was initially just a 1 tile house with 2 bandits, but returning a few months later had expanded to 2 tiles and 5 bandits and a tricked out technical
Faction-specific currencies
All sorts of new monsters and zombie types
And then some, that’s just the stuff that comes to mind. Looks like the contributors have been busy busy. Some of this new stuff is still buggy (The Hub-01 intercom guy teleporting outside after mission 2 and attacking me on sight comes to mind, along with the empty steel mill) but I assume that’s the “experimental” part of the experimental build
Honestly trying to figure out if I should just go back a few hundred versions to the stable, but don’t know what features or else has been added since .E
“Lockpicking Overhaul”, “nested container system”, and “make bugs more mutated”. I wouldn’t say explain very much.
well maybe that last one does, but then I wonder mutated as in new variants? Deadlier? just new descriptions? when a change isn’t all that self explanatory, I like to figure out what it means.
that said, most of it makes sense, and I did find the insect overhaul under projects.
More like it’s a pity they went into changelog with those descriptions. While NC could be viewed as more or less self-explanatory, the other two are most definitely not.
Those are perfectly reasonable changelog descriptions, they tell you the system that was changed. The log is enormous, it can’t fit much more than that level of detail.
Looking up the actual changes on GitHub or asking about it is fine too. Obviously the tagline in the log is pretty minimal.
I have no idea why everyone is talking past each other all snarky here.
), Steel mill (Looks incomplete, found no loot or zombies, just 3 Hell Raiders floating in mid air on Z level 2 o.O), tons of variation to existing buildings (lots of new farm types comes to mind), 
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