Changelog for 2023-08-15 to 2023-08-21

These are the new changes over the past week, collated by yours truly with this hacky script :P

Features

#67640 - add in new item category and zones: corpses
by Devengel
Summary: “Corpses are now their own separate category and have a zone”
#67384 - Vehicle improvements
by deepvelocity
Summary: “Vehicle improvements: togglable pre-collision system and foldable turrets”
#65125 - Drop items off ledges
by Leonkoithara
Summary: “Functionality to drop items off ledges/cliffs onto creatures below”
#67771 - Add a recipe filter for activity level
by mqrause
Summary: “Add a recipe filter for activity level”
#67754 - Add in a new item category & zone: TOOL_MAGAZINE, and various category shuffling of items
by Devengel
Summary: “magazine tools now have their own item category and zone”
#67772 - Allow free selection of cataclysm and game start dates in new character menu
by ZhilkinSerg
Summary: “Allow free selection of cataclysm and game start dates in new character menu”
#67713 - Add basic railroad network generation and mod to enable it
by ZhilkinSerg
Summary: “Railroads mod”
#67796 - Folding Seat belts and tweaks
by gadgetpatch
Summary: “Added BELTABLE to folding seat, tweaked folding seat and saddle properties, and adjusted related factory unfoldables.”

Content

#67644 - Revamp of s_gunstore mapgen
by Devengel
Summary: “Revamp one variant of gun stores”
#65194 - campus interiors and great library faction
by LyleSY
Summary: “campus interiors and great library faction”
#67747 - Allow Sonia to jam out
by MNG-cataclysm
Summary: “Sonia can now play her guitar.”
#67745 - Iced tea and iced coffee conditional variants of sweetened tea/sweetened milk coffee when cold
by ampersand55
Summary: “Add iced tea and iced coffee”
#67259 - Amphibian Additions - Phase 1 - Non-Monstrous Frogs, Toads, and Treefrogs
by TheSaddestGoomba
Summary: “Add diversity to amphibian species to reflect other animal varieties in game and set space to expand monstrous amphibian mutants (and their zombified remains).”
#67795 - Allow the NECC NPCs to say your name in dialogue.
by MNG-cataclysm
Summary: “The NECC NPCs can say your name sometimes.”

Mods

#67664 - Balance nether waves in Defense Mode
by MNG-cataclysm
Summary: “Make nether waves easier in Defense Mode.”
#67587 - [MoM] Snippetathon and reorganize itemgroups
by Standing-Storm
Summary: “Add many more snippets and reorganize itemgroups”
#67694 - [MoM] Revamp crystal fields and nether crystal map extra
by Standing-Storm
Summary: " Revamp crystal fields and nether crystal map extra"
#67656 - Add some mod compatibility to Defense Mode
by MNG-cataclysm
Summary: “Add some mod compatibility to Defense Mode.”
#67670 - Add Megafauna cross-compatibility to Defense Mode
by MNG-cataclysm
Summary: “Add Megafauna cross-compatibility to Defense Mode.”
#67753 - [MoM] Update lifting field description
by Standing-Storm
Summary: “Update lifting field description”
#67741 - [MoM] Remove PLASTIC flag from Eater
by Standing-Storm
Summary: “Remove PLASTIC flag from Eater”
#67740 - [MoM] Mathify and jmathify practice recipes
by Standing-Storm
Summary: “Mathify and jmathify practice recipes”
#67719 - [MoM] Add phavian scientists map extra
by Standing-Storm
Summary: “Add phavian scientists map extra”
#67698 - [MoM] Consolidate awakening EoCs and check for awakened status on game start
by Standing-Storm
Summary: “Consolidate awakening EoCs and check for awakened status on game start”
#65231 - [Xedra Evolved] Paraclesian
by Maleclypse
Summary: “XE Paraclesians”
#67735 - [MoM] Add more feral psion attacks and fix current bugged attacks
by Standing-Storm
Summary: “Add more feral psion attacks and fix current bugged attacks”

Balance

#67663 - New characters start with basic life skills
by Fris0uman
Summary: “Characters start with basic skills from their previous life”
#67696 - Stop assassins from spawning on top of you
by MNG-cataclysm
Summary: “Keep assassins from spawning on top of the player”
#67711 - Reduce some yields of seeds for pumpkin/hemp/sunflower
by anoobindisguise
Summary: “less calorie-dense seed availability”
#67658 - Arcade machine emits dim light
by chaohedgehogs
Summary: “Arcade machine appliance provides cloudy light”
#67730 - Increase spear strap max_contains_weight to be able to hold heavy crowbar
by ampersand55
Summary: “Adjust spear strap max weight to be able to hold heavy crowbar”

Bugfixes

#67642 - fix smoking racks delete calories
by rtxyd
Summary: “Smoking racks delete calories of fishes and fruits”
#67690 - adjust spawns of sulfur powder and red phosphorous powder
by anoobindisguise
Summary: “correct two spawns of lab chemicals”
#67679 - [MoM] Fix everglow flashlight
by Standing-Storm
Summary: “Fix everglow flashlight”
#67716 - Fix some bugs with Defense Mode
by MNG-cataclysm
Summary: “Fix some new bugs with Defense Mode”
#67770 - Fix NPC craft on the table in vehicle
by lispcoc
Summary: “Fix NPC craft on the table in vehicle”
#67756 - Added profession age bounds for randomly generated characters
by venvenvenvenvenvenven
Summary: “Randomly generated characters are now aged appropriately to their profession”
#67738 - [Magiclysm] Update Metalworking recipes to use metalworking tongs
by AltairreAtsu
Summary: “Replaces the kitchen tongs with metalworking tongs in Magiclysm metalworking recipes.”
#67787 - Fix Zachary giving you his mission multiple times
by MNG-cataclysm
Summary: “Stop getting Zachary’s mission multiple times.”
#67786 - Felicity Powell isn’t fashionable anymore
by MNG-cataclysm
Summary: “Remove STYLISH from Felicity Powell”
#67792 - Fix PAGE/UP keys not scrolling text up
by alef
Summary: “Fix PAGE/UP keys not scrolling text up”

Interface

#67678 - Rearranged main menu to show Tutorial on top level
by ZhilkinSerg
Summary: “Show Tutorial on top level in main menu”
#67718 - Multiselector menu for selecting seeds for basecamp farm missions + fix for seed duplication
by mqrause
Summary: “Multiselector menu for selecting seeds for basecamp farm missions”

Performance

#67631 - Optimize pocket overflow function
by Kamayana
Summary: “Optimize pocket overflow function”
#67717 - Speed up new character screen, particularly when many recipes are known
by Kamayana
Summary: “Speed up new character screen, particularly when many recipes are known”

Build

#67691 - Optimize VS project defaults for local builds
by akrieger
Summary: “Faster local VS builds”
#67628 - Use llvm tools to cut windows build noop critical path by 85% or more
by akrieger
Summary: “Fast Windows iteration with llvm-lib and lld-link”
#67601 - Cross compile object creator from linux to Windows using Devcontainer
by snipercup
Summary: “Cross compile object creator from linux to Windows using Devcontainer”

Infrastructure

#60681 - Add ability to merge appliance into grid
by Fris0uman
Summary: “Add ability to merge appliance into grid”

None

#67661 - minor cleanup of item spawning code
by SurFlurer
#67657 - Obsolete RPG-7 and trim zombie survivor launchers item group
by kevingranade
#67693 - Consume comestible meds that aren’t count_by_charges
by mqrause
#67689 - Fix basecamp farm crash
by mqrause
#67684 - Cleanup autogenerated prefix.h
by reinerh
#67648 - Conditional nest predecessor check for subway and trail map unhardcoding
by Procyonae
#67737 - Fix bugs that cause eoc duplication
by akrieger
#67733 - FIx various clang warnings
by ZhilkinSerg
#67724 - Properly mark few strings for translation in vehicle_use.cpp
by AMurkin
#67715 - Make Windows build warning free.
by akrieger
#67714 - More easy eoc optimizations shaving another 20% out of npc heavy eoc checks
by akrieger
#67708 - Update conditional_names for fruit&veggy
by marimarigi
#67705 - Make Yrax Trifacet untameable
by Karol1223
#67697 - “om_terrain_match_type”: “SUBTYPE”
by Procyonae
#67673 - Makes rest stop/turnout/scenic area/layby vehicles considerably less common
by Procyonae
#67775 - Update the table of contents in doc/JSON_INFO.md
by kevingranade
#67766 - Defense mode CI fix
by Maleclypse
#67765 - Routine i18n updates on 19 August 2023
by kevingranade
#67764 - Removes unnecessary ammo charge definitions on empty guns
by Procyonae
#67763 - Unhardcode mx_mayhem
by Procyonae
#67655 - Weekly Changelog 2023-08-07 to 2023-08-14
by kevingranade
#67789 - Insecticide audit
by Karol1223
#67780 - Add note about running locally to compiling-devcontainer.md
by snipercup
#67779 - Erase invalid or blacklisted nested categories
by ZhilkinSerg
#67778 - Colourize confirm message in compare item screen
by jbytheway
#67773 - No duplicate linear predecessors
by Procyonae
#67768 - Add dogs barks
by marimarigi