Release Notes for Kenshi

Update 1.0.59 (February 4th, 2022)

• Fixed a bug that messed up dialogue events for a few NPCs
• Minor bugfixes for FCS

Update 1.0.58 (February 1st, 2022)

• Fixed a bug that caused items to use old names

Update 1.0.57 (January 31st, 2022)

• Added documentation for FCS

  • Adapted from our own in-house documentation
  • Non-comprehensive, but it's a start!

• Added improved item search functionality

  • Recursive property and reference searching
    • E.g.
    • find squads with more than 10 skeletons
    • (In Squads section) squad.v0 > 10; squad.race = skeleton
    • find research items with ingredients with values over 1000 cats
    • (In Research section) cost.value > 1000
    • Building shells requiring construction materials with ingredients that have a value over 100 cats
    • (In Building Shell section) construction.ingredients.value > 100
  • Added ability to search using Regex
    • e.g.
    • Find all dialogue lines with numbers in text
    • (In _lines section) text ? (\b[0-9]+\b)
  • Significantly improved performance of item filtering

• Added an "Everything" section to search through all items at once

• Added a new panel when translating conversations

  • Now displays what dialogue package references the conversation being translated as well as what event trigger can start this conversation

• Added additional functionality to the "Set field" window

  • Can now remove references in addition to adding them
  • Can bulk modify values with addition, subtraction, division and multiplication
    • e.g.
    • Can now select all research items and halve the amount of items required to complete
    • Can select any number of weapons and multiply bleed damage multipliers by 1.5
  • Added spell check feature
  • Works for any multi line item property
    • e.g.
    • Descriptions for items, races, and buildings
    • Dialogue lines

• Added option in merge window to show previously skipped changes

• Added multi line display on single lines for change list and merge mod windows

• Added ability to open items from the merge window

• Added tree view for notes

  • Dialogue lines now parented to conversations

• Added ability to more easily navigate merge and todo trees with arrows keys (left and right now expand and collapse nodes)

• Added categories and filtering options to errors window

• Added error reporting on more problems loading def files

• Added number of errors to the errors window title

• Added error to be displayed if fcs.def has invalid FCSEnum value

• Added lots more error types as well

• Added derived score to dialogue lines display

• Added additional UI for Todo window, added delete option

• Added ability to use Ctrl-A to select all items in a list

• Added a reset columns function to turn off all custom columns at once

• Added dialogue keyboard shortcuts

  • Ctrl+1-5 : change speaker
  • Ctrl+L : add line
  • Ctrl+I : add interjector

• Added ability to restore backups when loading mods

• Added modified dialogue lines under owning dialogue in change list

• Added ability for TripleInt properties to be displayed with % signs

• Added ability to show % symbols when displaying values in custom columns

• Added copy dialogue line stringID action to dialogue editor

• Added MODIFIED_MISSING item state

• Added a warning when deleting an item with locked propertiesAdded check to stop accidentally trying to open hundreds of items at once

• Added combined description panels in dialogue package editor

• Added 'Expand Link' to dialogue context menu

• Added warnings to a dialogue line translation when original text is changed

• Added ability to change mod folder location in fcs_settings.def

• Added ability for events to display descriptions from FCS_enums.def

• Added assets folder path to fcs_settings.def

• Added GameData.saveSafely() function that doesn't corrupt the existing file if it fails.

• Added restore option if a dialogue line was deleted by the active mod

• Added additional checks to avoid creating invalid links when merging mods

• Updated translation mode with new features/fixes

  • When updating duplicated text, a new option is given to update just the text in this conversation vs everywhere else
  • Opening a conversation no longer always opens a new form, if one is already open it is brought to the front
  • Updating duplicate text now refreshes all nodes/forms with updated text

• Renamed ToDo toolstrip button to Notes and added an icon

• Improved resizing behaviour of Errors window

• Improved resizing behaviour of Notes window

• Pressing down arrow key in 'add reference' window switches focus to item list

• List References window opens all selected items when OK pressed

• Clear changes command in error list resolves 'Modified item undefined error'

• Listing references now shows what field item is referenced by

• Added a bit more info when displaying what dialogue lines have effects that reference an item

• Standardised descriptions in fcs.def when referencing val0/1/2

• Sometimes we had val1/2/3 for extra confusion

Bug Fixes

• Fixed custom column duplication
• Fixed potential duplication of global settings and artefacts lists
• Fixed todo list sometimes not filtering correctly
• Fixed mod version number being overwritten
• Fixed removed fields not appearing in misc section if there is a reference list of the same name
• Fixed cleanup if there is a reference list with the same name as a removed field
• Fixed system thinking a mod has changed if you just select a reference property
• Fixed merge dialogue showing extra DELETED items
• Fixed change list not displaying MODREF values correctly
• Fixed some other incorrect uses of GameData Desc flags
• Fixed custom column menu bug introduced by adding the reset command
• Fixed reverting items not reverting all subitems
• Fixed crash reverting subitems in change list
• Fixed crash deleting items that own subitems
• Fixed being able to modify locked dialogue packages
• Fixed crash when cloning items
• Fixed reverting MODIFIED_MISSING items
• Fixed merge changes with only NEWREF or NEWINST data being tagged as conflicts
• Fixed save file backups being deleted if save failed
• Fixed exception opening missing reference errors in translation mode
• Fixed bug deleting items that are deleted by a later mod
• Fixed being unable to delete broken dialogue lines
• Fixed being able to edit deleted line items
• Fixed some issues with forms owned by merge dialogue
• Fixed close all button making some windows unopenable

Update 1.0.55 (13 December 2021)

1.0.52

• Towns can now be seen from miles away instead of popping into view at close range.
• Disguise quality is now affected by your UNMODIFIED stealth skill. Before your disguise would be negatively affected by things like the armour you were wearing, but this was the disguise itself so wasn't quite as intended

1.0.53

• Generate distant towns is now an option, disabled by default.
• Bed recovery rate multiplier now displayed in tooltip
• Font loading deferred to when splash screen is displayed (to prevent long initial black screen for heavy languages)

1.0.54 - 1.0.55

• Hotfixes
• Update to Japanese translation

Update 1.0.50 (15 July 2020)

Features:

• Due to recent windows updates causing even more save issues when the game is installed in the C:/Program Files/ folder, Saves can now optionally be stored in the user directory instead of the install path. It can be set in the options. (Default save location is now: C:\Users\<YourUsername>\AppData\Local\kenshi\save)
• Added Stun Recovery Rate and Robot First Aid Speed constants to FCS

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed FCS 'xp rate athletics' constant doing nothing
• A crash fix for rare situations resulting from missing meshes

Update 1.0.45c (28 February 2020)

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed a file mix-up with the Korean translation, it should be much more accurate now.

Update 1.0.45b (28 February 2020)

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed dialogue interrupts not working on announcements when another NPC interjected. Could affect certain player base raids.
• Fixed crash dismantling cages with an unconscious occupant.
• Kidnapped pack beasts from wandering traders will no longer have their inventory automatically re-stocked.
• Fixed possible crash when dismantling a turret that is being used (which should be impossible)
• FCS/MODDING
• Fixed crash if modded character mesh has UVs outside 0-1 range (other than head)
• Fixed an issue with CHARACTER "stealth stats" property
• Fixed crash if character model failed to load due to missing skeleton file

Update 1.0.34 (19 August 2019)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a crash related to adjusting the font size.
• Fixed an issue with loading screen tips displaying incorrectly for some users.
• Fixed an issue with character and NPC names displaying incorrectly.

Update 1.0.33 (7 August 2019)

Translations:

• French translation updated to correct some errors
• Chinese translation updated to correct some errors
• Changed Chinese Language font - Following community feedback we have reviewed the Chinese language font with our translation partners and changed the font to one which is more legible.

Bug Fixes:

• Random crash fix
• Fixed dismantle button missing from turret info data panel if upgradeable
• Fixed crash in Escape Cannibal Cage tutorial
• Fixed clothing being chosen for characters before race limiter is set up
• Fixed boots spawning on characters with no legs
• Fixed boot slot not being disabled for characters spawned with no legs
• Fixed crash when making savegame names ending in '...'
• Fixed getting stealth XP when in a cage

Update 1.0.30 (19 June 2019)

• Fixed robot limbs spawned on characters not behaving as robot limbs
• Fixed removing an arm of carried characters causing them to be dropped
• Fixed crash in the FCS when creating new items

Update 1.0.27 (17 May 2019)

• Japanese language update

Update 1.0.26 (03 May 2019)

• Fixed crash if combat is cleared in an EV_I_DEFEATED_SQUAD dialogue event
• Fixed characters having incorrect voice after changing race/gender in the character editor
• Fixed kidnap order on wild animals
• Added a new save logging system to help debug any save/load related problems
• Finally fixed the blood spider attack range

FCS

• Existing translations can be exported as gamedata.po
• Fixed exporting multi-line translated strings when exporting gamedata.po
• Added 'no longer used' description for deprecated values

Update 1.0.25 (18 April 2019)

• Fixed crash if missing save folder
• Fixed limb stumps causing crash when changing race in character editor
• Fixed a few minor town guards that didn't respond to attacks

Update 1.024 (18 April 2019)

• A rare crashfix
• Fixed crash added in last update, if character has no clothing
• Fixed possible towns having null faction
• Removed unplaceable towns from town list in ingame editor

Update 1.0.22 (15 April 2019)

• Changes to save file system to attempt to reduce saving errors caused by windows file locks
• Fixed NPC's hitting many times at once if you get in a cage during their attack, causing instant death
• Fixed player orders to bash gate
• Fixed override towns not updating public state, which could result in aggressive town AI after a faction takeover
• Fixed items in buildings being unowned if you import the game inside a building
• Fixed crash if modded skeleton files are missing
• Fixed a crash in character editor

  FCS

• Added a check all/active/none button to mod selection
• Characters can be spawned with robot limbs
• Fixed a crash exporting translations

  TRANSLATIONS

• Updated gamedata.pot
• Japanese update

Update 1.0.21

• Tweaked missing item mesh fallback again
• Fixed backpack contents not being imported for backpacks in containers
• Fixed overriding newland/land/textures path in mods
• Error message when game fails to detect a mouse
• Fixed mod crash if character model is missing
• Added error message for missing character model so you know why you are being attacked by something invisible

Update 1.0.20

• Fix for some cases where a base raid wouldn't leave
• Fix for some cases where the carrying/bed/cage states could get mixed up resulting in the wrong context menu commands showing on a character
• Fixed crash loading a physical item with non-existant mesh file
• Fixed crash when loading character in bed where the target is not a bed

Update 1.0.19

• Fixed dismantle button not showing on empty containers
• Fixed odd behaviour when switching to overlapped armour meshes
• Fixed crash in peeler machine when chracters dont have 7 body parts
• TRANSLATIONS
• Portugese tweaked to fit GUI, translated tips
• Russian update

1.0.18

• Fixed navmesh issues in spider factory and Bastion
• Fixed treasure not spawning in spider factory

1.0.17

• Pick lock task now displays 0% if below minimum lockpick threshold
• Stopped import recalculating player town on buildings that don't create towns
• 2 crash fixes

1.0.16

• Fixed crash when recruiting someone if leader is following unloaded character
• Town override states updated on import - fixes towns in map screen
• Tweak for previous fix in .15

1.0.15

• Fixed characters using low lod terrain height when jumping across the map (could cause characters to appear in weird places, like private buildings if they were in squin)
• Fixed characters moving super fast after colliding with sloped navmesh edge (could cause who know what kinda issues)
• Crossbow xp only increases if target is in range (exploit fix)

1.0.14

• Japanese translation updated (proof reading 70% complete)

1.0.10 (10 January 2019)

• Font scaling should be improved, increasing font size should no longer over-increase the line spacing
• The font scaling slider in the options should no longer crash probably
• Fixed animals sometimes replying to human speech
• Fixed the bridge in Rebirth (again)
• Doors use name of parent building in context menu
• AI fix for inacessible walled off towns with an internal gate

TRANSLATIONS

• Small updates for Spanish, German, Portugese

1.0.9

• Lots of AI fixes for police, so they shouldn't now forget to heal or release any prisoners

• Fixed animation modding crash

• Fixed gamedata modIndex value for modded animation load order

TRANSLATIONS

• Japanese update

1.0.8

• A fix that should solve the problem of buildings and walls sometimes getting assigned to the wrong town, which led to bugs like characters not getting food or not building things.

• Nests can no longer spawn in inaccessible locations

• More NPC AI fallback for bad nest locations

• The point at which your health causes you to go into a coma, based on toughness, is now moddable in the FCS: ["max toughness ko point"]

TRANSLATIONS

• German update

1.0.7

• Fixed the City Hero gang waiting for you by the wrong gate in Heng.
• If you defend yourself from the City Heroes or similar bandits you should no longer get attacked by the guards
• Fixed carpets disappearing from your buildings on re-load
• 2 crash fixes, one caused by re-ordering the research list

1.0.6

• Truncated research data panel lines if name is too long
• AI fallback for bad nest locations
• Fixed game crashing if install path has non-ascii characters

TRANSLATIONS

• Changed the launcher saying spanish was incomplete, because it's not, it's finished
• Spanish tweaks for some stat names being too long to fit on their GUI lines

1.0.5

• Combat spark effects added
• "Entered new biome" notification sound
• Fixed a crash that could be caused by a bad mod

1.0.4

• Combat spark effects added
• "Entered new biome" notification sound
• Fixed being able to reorder research to skip prequisites
• Fixed multi-line datapanel text overlapping
• AI fix where a crippled character with un-healable legs would still keep trying to heal them
• Fixed some bugs with corpse disposal AI
• Slaves can no longer claim bounties on other slaves in a slave camp
• Fixed an AI bug in Okran's Shield where prisoners were all getting piled up by a bed
• Fixed a crash that could be caused by a bad mod

TRANSLATIONS

• Japanese, french, german, portugese, spanish updated

1.0.3

• A small number of people are getting an unexplained random crash, this is an experiment to see if something we did fixes it
• A bug sometimes gives player buildings the wrong town, not sure how but sypmtoms of this will be the AI not getting food or items or building things. With this update you should be able to fix any broken towns by importing.

1.0.2

• Fixed again that pesky bridge in Rebirth
• A fix for the AI constantly alternating between self preservation and another task
• Announcement dialogs shouldn't get repeated, but if they do it won't keep snapping the camera to the location anymore, only once per raid
• A fix for characters in crowds sometimes getting pushed through walls
• Buildings town reassigned when new player outpost created (for walls). If you built your town walls before anything else they would be assigned the wrong town and the AI builders would ignore them.

TRANSLATIONS

• Spanish tweaks
• French update

1.0.1

• French updated (99%)

1.0.0

• 390 updates later
• 1611 occurences of the word "fix"
• Number of years passed unknown
• Thankyou to all the supporters, forum moderators and bug reporters for all your hard work

TRANSLATIONS:

• Russian updated (100%, thanks Vlad!)
• French updated

0.99.99

• Fixed slavers stealing your prisoners
• NPCs have more money for buying from shop counters, especially caravans and anyone in the slave trade (Steam) No longer clears previous installed mod list file if steam failed to connect A navmesh freeze fix

TRANSLATIONS

• All languages have had updates except russian, because we can't find our translator

0.99.31

• Fixed the missing audio problem from last update
• More fog princes in the Fog Islands, to make sure people get eaten

0.99.30

• Stack now has a functioning police station
• Flotsam has a bakery
• Fixed characters getting fed an invisible meal when getting in a cage if tagged as escaping
• Fixed slaves picking their own shackles not counting as a crime because they were considered part of the enslaving faction
• Changed the over-aggressive skeletons in HN territory
• Fixed a crash

0.99.29

• Fixed newly built walls collision being passable so you couldn't walk on top until the game was re-loaded
• Gate guards in Mongrel should stay closer to the gate and not go off getting lost fighting in the foglands so much.
• Walls made 2.5 times tougher again, they should now be approx 25% as tough as their equivalent gates
• [Dismantle] button now asks if you are sure, except for walls because you might want to delete a lot of them some day
• Fixed the Machinists faction selling Hemp in UC towns
• a rare crash fix
• Fixed the collision
• Some other technical mumbo-jumbo

TRANSLATIONS

• Spanish update (99% complete)

0.99.28

• Fix for many of the ally aid campaigns not triggering
• Fixed prison sentence times not saving, so all prisoners got pardoned on reload

0.99.27

• Fix for Rebirth town size being too low, confusing the guards AI
• Fixed the bridge in Rebirth
• An AI fix where newly recruited characters were missing the "protect allies" job
• Prevent passing squads from stopping to relax in hostile towns if they pass by
• Fixed anti-slaver allied dialogue
• Possible fix for characters sometimes slowing to a walk when nearing their destination
• More nice loading screens

Update 0.99.26 (3 December 2018)

• AI shopping should now work, traders should buy stuff from your shop counters, NPCs will visit your town if it is set to public
• Fix for characters being magically freed from cages after healing
• Walls now twice as tough against smashing
• Rare fix for AI getting stuck when pathing back home to a locked up base
• Stopped captured NPCs disappearing on load when their town is destroyed
• Prisoners who escape from cages will now bash their way out of locked doors instead of getting confused

  TRANSLATIONS

• Japanese rolled back due to errors, will update again soon

Update 0.99.25 (3 December 2018)

• Fix for raid campaigns repeating their announcement dialog instead of leaving/attacking
• Floating damage numbers now include the cut-stun efficiency damage factor

  TRANSLATION

• Searching for text in FCS translation mode selects the line when dialog is opened
• Japanese updated

Update 0.99.24 (3 December 2018)

• Artifact items quantity assigned to locations is directly proportional to town value rather than random (rewards more consistent) (optional: requires import to see changes)
• AI fix for cases when a base had only one gate and the AI wouldn't go through
• When other factions take over a Holy Nation town they break all the emperor statues
• Fixed the city hero gangs not harassing players
• Fixed EV_I_SEE_ALLY
• Fixed indoor combat stat penalty
• The non-violent food raids go home rather than hang around your food barrels for 4 hours
• Fixed the Mongrel building in Black Scratch
• Fixed loading screen when window resized
• AI fix for guards that dont put the criminals in cages and just hold them while in shopkeeper mode
• Untestable fix for "give up chase" dialog event triggering when people are just fighting and not even chasing
• Road editor handles locked roads

Update 0.99.23 (26 November 2018)

• Terrain and navmesh updated, probably nothing noticeable, move along

Update 0.99.22 (26 November 2018)

• Escaping from an evil faction cage, like cannibals, no longer tags you as an escaped prisoner
• Fixed using strength or tools to break out of prisoner poles
• Fixed tooltips not showing for the "committing crime" and "escaped prisoner" panels
• Fixed name truncation on character portraits for multi-byte characters
• Update to the roads to fix NPCs getting stuck with long-range travel

Update 0.99.21 (26 November 2018)

• Fix for a suspected crash

Update 0.99.20

• You can now use tools or brute strength to unlock any lock, door, cage or container. Good for treasure hunters, not so good for thieves. Now non-thief characters won't feel forced to learn lockpicking
• Tools are more heavy and expensive than before
• Tools are single use, they break after opening the lock
• Using tools is really slow
• Brute strength only really works with very very strong characters on weak locks (strength needed = 3 x lock hardness)
• travel shops now sell tools
• Severed limbs are now properly bloody
• Fixed hive interiors not showing
• Fixed bandits not looting food from containers
• An AI fix for certain gate/wall configurations
• A fix for AI attacking freed slaves that should be no longer hostile after freeing
• Fixed the corrupted item icons on ATI cards
• Slightly more fishmen
• Slaver cages have better locks, ancient safes have slightly easier ones
• Fix for campaign data that got some values mixed up, resulting in traders being "war leader" for example
• Fixed the blurry item icons
• Tweaked GUI line spacing to try to fix main stats panel on some resolutions
• Fixed put-in-bed order overriding dismantle order if carrying someone
• Added sfx to NPCs buying stuff

Update 0.99.19 (21 November 2018)

• Added in some missing armour/clothing crafts
• Tweaked some bounty character's wanted factions
• A general AI fix that might have seen them running off to far away buildings
• Another fix for AI campaigns where they go home without raiding your base first
• Fix to prevent gaining stealth xp from the person you are carrying
• Prevented slavers from beating up obedient player slaves when another player in the same squad was getting beaten
• Fixed a crash when you kidnap a unique NPC and return to their town or something i dunno but i fixed it

Update 0.99.18 (20 November 2018)

• Fixes for the Slave escape AI
• Fixed the western path to Worlds end
• Fixed slavers taking player's prisoners
• Fixed stealth KO on prisoners setting them free
• Fixed stealth KO on prisoners providing massive easy XP harvesting
• Fixed broken navmesh in Tower of abuse, infested lab and far east tech lab
• Fixed a rare random crash in the engine code
• Fix for Hive hut doorways sometimes getting blocked

Update 0.99.17 (19 November 2018)

• Regenerated entire navmesh, should solve some of the passable obstacles that were being encountered
• A crash fix