# Release Candidate for 0.A
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [February 26, 2014, 5:35am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214 "2014-02-26T05:35:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2014, 5:35am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/1 "2014-02-26T05:35:30Z")
We ran out of release blockers, so here’s the release candidate for 0.A.
If we don’t find any show-stopping bugs by the weekend, this will be the release version.
[http://ci.narc.ro/job/Cataclysm-Matrix/Graphics=Curses,Platform=Linux/972/](http://ci.narc.ro/job/Cataclysm-Matrix/Graphics=Curses,Platform=Linux/972/)
[http://ci.narc.ro/job/Cataclysm-Matrix/Graphics=Tiles,Platform=Linux/972/](http://ci.narc.ro/job/Cataclysm-Matrix/Graphics=Tiles,Platform=Linux/972/)
[http://ci.narc.ro/job/Cataclysm-Matrix/Graphics=Curses,Platform=Windows/972/](http://ci.narc.ro/job/Cataclysm-Matrix/Graphics=Curses,Platform=Windows/972/)
[http://ci.narc.ro/job/Cataclysm-Matrix/Graphics=Tiles,Platform=Windows/972/](http://ci.narc.ro/job/Cataclysm-Matrix/Graphics=Tiles,Platform=Windows/972/)
Please report any major bugs you encounter.
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### Author:  [@AerialK7](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/AerialK7)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2014, 6:42am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/2 "2014-02-26T06:42:44Z")
_reads this_ _looks at my Japanese homework_ _looks back at this_
…
WHY KEVIN.
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### Author:  [@Zireael](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zireael)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2014, 7:42am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/3 "2014-02-26T07:42:57Z")
Great!
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### Author:  [@nikola](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/nikola)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2014, 12:52pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/4 "2014-02-26T12:52:35Z")
waiting for Mac build to test
good job on the massive amount of work on this release!
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### Author:  [@Drakasin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Drakasin)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/5 "2014-02-26T13:39:07Z")
[quote=“AerialK7, post:2, topic:5214”]_reads this_ _looks at my Japanese homework_ _looks back at this_
…
WHY KEVIN.[/quote]
I feel your pain.
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### Author:  [@Barzillai](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Barzillai)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/6 "2014-02-26T17:17:15Z")
YESH!
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### Author:  [@Krutches](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Krutches)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/7 "2014-02-26T21:30:27Z")
Works well. Enjoying it. Became a special operative, took over a public works, raided the fridge, made a bayonette, suited up, left, went to a gas station and did the same again, I found a dog on the way to the gas station and while I slept it died in the acid rain :c went to a farm, took out a few zeds stole their clothes, leveled up tailoring and made a duffel bag. Now I’m hallucinating dinosaurs in an evac shelter I found.
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### Author:  [@Bonevomit](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Bonevomit)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2014, 10:47pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/8 "2014-02-26T22:47:01Z")
Sweet. Anyone got a feature list?
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### Author:  [@StopSignal](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/StopSignal)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/9 "2014-02-26T22:55:20Z")
[me=StopSignal]puts Bugbuster suit.[/me]
To search for some bugs.
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### Author:  [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/10 "2014-02-27T00:40:56Z")
> [@Bonevomit](#):
>
> Sweet. Anyone got a feature list?
[spoiler]
> Here’s the changelog you slavedrivers. It’s a MONSTER.
> 0.A
>
> Features:
> View item on mouse hover in SDL.
> Mouse move.
> Basic LUA support.
> Vehicles disintegrate into their constituent parts on impact.
> Fuel tanks preserve their contents when removed/installed.
> Vehicle construction and repair using duct tape.
> More distinct mutation trees, including branch thresholds and post-threshold mutations.
> Interact with monsters on stairs.
> Guilt from killing monsters tapers off as you kill more of them.
> Can track vehicles with a GPS module.
> Allow filtering constructions by the ones you can do right now (can toggle).
> Idling for vehicles, can effectively run as generators.
> Minifridge that keeps food fresh longer.
> Clothing pockets and hoods only activate when needed. (for warmth)
> Inventory and crafting menus support listing items by category.
> Expanded underwater combat.
> Item spoilage rate varies based on temperature.
> More info in list monsters menu.
> Rechargeable battery pack mod for tools.
> Gunmods are installed on rails now.
> Better gender handling at character creation.
> Expanded vehicle electrical system.
> Can pick up or drop partial stacks.
> Shove items out of the way when closing a door.
> Radioactive items.
> Mutation friendly clothing.
> Remove prompt to resume task, of course you want to.
> Vehicle facing indicator (option).
> Fullscreen mode.
> Show contents of grabbed vehicle (e.g. your shopping cart) in advanced inventory pane.
> Fishing, find a pole!
> Automatic view shifting when driving (option).
> Zoom mode that dynamically resizes tiles (pretty slow when zoomed unfortunately).
> Search known recipes by output, tool or component.
>
> Infrastructure:
> Overmap tiles moved to json.
> Lots of warning cleanup.
> More development of internal json library.
> Mod manager.
> Can define mapgen for tiles in json or LUA.
> Traps moved to json.
> Standalone json checker.
> Refactored monsters and players to have a common parent class.
> Retrieve items from inventory based on location instead of invlet.
> Ammo types moved to json.
> Blacklist and whitelist for including/excluding content.
>
> Balance:
> Sleep increases rate of fatigue recovery and healing over time.
> Remove automatic matches and poketknife from player spawn.
> Add skintight flag for underwear-type clothing to negate layering penalties.
> First Aid and bandages take time to apply now.
> Increased city size variability.
> Turrets have finite ammo.
> Reduce rate of damage for “real armor” as opposed to “clothes”.
> Zombies spawn at last stand locations.
> Burning ammo only throws shrapnel, no explosion.
> Increased crafting distance to 6 to enable large workshops.
> Progressive difficulty searching for lab notes.
> Large-scale vehicle rebalances.
> Improved code that determines what body part is hit by an attack.
> Water purification methods use one charge per unit of water.
> Buffed water resistant clothing.
> Removed acid puddles from acid rain. (no more melting items).
> Buffed most zombie HP.
> Large nerf to solar panels.
> Effectively remove cap to starting points option (set to 1,000).
> More interesting gun misfire/jam mechanics, guns can take damage now.
> Varied rate of projectile breakage with a flag, more differentiation between arrow types.
>
> Content:
> Atomic coffee, energy drink and hypospray, lawn darts, MOLLE pack, fingertip razors.
> Too many mutations to list, including mutagen types and recipes.
> Map types, ammo reloads, vehicle curtains, creepy doll, whiskey barrels.
> Hibernation mutation, lots of cop and fireman gear, IV mutagen, piles of new traits.
> Mutation-themed dreams, cowbell, atomic batteries, dojo and contents,
> vending machines and bank cards.
> Dinocataclysm added as a mod at long last!
> Lots more terrain and furniture is now bashable.
> Several new houses and other buildings.
> Variations of vehicle condition (damaged, blood-splattered, engine running, etc)
> Creatures fling around appropriate fluids and chunks when gibbed.
> Several content packs that allow enabling/disabling different categories of content.
> Shoggoth.
>
> Bugfixes:
> Prevent artifact swords from sticking all the time.
> Royal jelly and blood filter heal dermatik infections.
> Make active items (ticking bombs, rotting food) work in vehicle storage.
> Prevent teleportation and stairclimbing from erasing monsters.
> Lots of UI tweaks.
> Fix bug where items couldn’t be thrown over water.
> Erase scentmap when we move between floors.
> Handle adjacent overmaps better, including notes.
> Lots of recipes moved fro auto-learn on skill thresholds to being learned from books.
> Fixed vehicle rendering when dragging.
> Can craft from items in vehicle storage.
> Only count loudest vehicle engine for noise generation instead of adding them together.
> Fix weird bug where being too strong made you bad at throwing things.
> Fixed several related vehicle board/unboard bugs.
> Player displayed in correct position when peeking.
> Fixed lots of menu drawing glitches.
> Height/width options make more sense, total instead of based on view width.
> Limit indoor dimly lit areas to the same view distance as outside.
> Fix bug where vehicles and windows projected light at dawn and dusk.
> Targeting defaults to nearest enemy.
> Toggling between enemies includes hostile NPCs.
> Vehicle turrets no longer shoot player or their own vehicle.
> Fixed issue where exploding items could destroy themselves and cause a segfault.
> Check for errors when attempting to write files and take appropriate action.
> Fixed some lab finale features.
> Fixed vehicle workshops being usable as components in recipes.
>
> Performance:
> Many overmap generation performance improvements.
> Stop updating scent if player hasn’t moved for a while, makes waiting and sleeping go much faster.
> Optimized bitflag methods for very frequently used flags.
> Heavy refactor of crafting menu for more speed.
> Heavy optimization of scent diffusion.
> Declare strings as const to avoid reallocating them all the time.
> Lots of caching of vehicle parts.
> Vision calculation speedups.
> Refactored map loading to chunk up map data into tiny (1KB or so) files, so save/load is nearly instantaneous.
[/spoiler]
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### Author:  [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/11 "2014-02-27T00:53:24Z")
Could someone please put the link to 0.A on the wiki?
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### Author:  [@StopSignal](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/StopSignal)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/12 "2014-02-27T01:10:22Z")
I’d just say that those packs of zombie dogs are quite unfair. But no bugs so far.
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### Author:  [@LazyCat-rus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/LazyCat-rus)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2014, 7:47am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/13 "2014-02-27T07:47:12Z")
Will be branch of “0.A” created when it will be ready?
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### Author:  [@bugsniper](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/bugsniper)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2014, 9:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/14 "2014-02-27T09:27:36Z")
screenshot: [http://puu.sh/7ccVZ.png](http://puu.sh/7ccVZ.png)
savefile: [http://puu.sh/7cd9W.zip](http://puu.sh/7cd9W.zip)
This screenshot shows a toilet embedded inside the south wall of a bathroom, as was generated with the map. This might as well be the first problematic bug.
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### Author:  [@Soyweiser](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Soyweiser)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2014, 11:08am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/15 "2014-02-27T11:08:41Z")
[quote=“bugsniper, post:14, topic:5214”]screenshot: [http://puu.sh/7ccVZ.png](http://puu.sh/7ccVZ.png)
savefile: [http://puu.sh/7cd9W.zip](http://puu.sh/7cd9W.zip)
This screenshot shows a toilet embedded inside the south wall of a bathroom, as was generated with the map. This might as well be the first problematic bug.[/quote]
Well, it is ugly, I agree. But not a release stopper. Would be awesome if somebody fixed it of course ;).
> [@HunterAlpha1](#):
>
> Could someone please put the link to 0.A on the wiki?
[http://www.wiki.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?title=Download](http://www.wiki.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?title=Download)
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### Author:  [@MassiveEffectz](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/MassiveEffectz)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/16 "2014-02-27T17:15:50Z")
Flaming ammo makes shrapnel an no explosions. ( quote)
Damn there goes exploding batteries with lighters to break into cbms and walls.
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### Author:  [@John\_Candlebury](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/John_Candlebury)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/17 "2014-02-27T18:25:42Z")
[quote=“MassiveEffectz, post:16, topic:5214”]Flaming ammo makes shrapnel an no explosions. ( quote)
Damn there goes exploding batteries with lighters to break into cbms and walls.[/quote]
Related: the several types of Rockets and 40mm grenades do not explode when tossed into fire, I guess those two could. Is a tag for “explodes\_when\_heated” possible before 0.A?
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### Author:  [@MassiveEffectz](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/MassiveEffectz)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2014, 10:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/18 "2014-02-27T22:14:56Z")
Also is this candidate release, is it stable enough for transferring saves to the full 0.a release? ( if im understanding correct this version is the version before the alpha.)
Also turrets still headshot through power amour. ☹
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### Author:  [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2014, 11:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/19 "2014-02-27T23:32:54Z")
As I understand it a RC build is literally identical to the eventual release build unless an extremely bad bug shows up in it. That said saves should be compatible regardless.
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### Author:  [@pulsefrequency](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/pulsefrequency)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/release-candidate-for-0-a/5214/20 "2014-02-28T01:52:57Z")
you guys are awesome man, i showed the game to the guys in my engineering club today, the cars and guns is what got them after the initial zombies hehe god i love this game keep up the good work men
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