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Two-by-fours in Defense Mode are shown as having no weight, no volume, and having no attack damages.

• Improved messages section, with more colors, and stackable messages (i.e. "Whump! x 3" instead of "Whump!  Whump!  Whump!").
• Message buffer, which displays old messages (the 256 most-recent ones are displayed).
• New monster list, which is better in many ways.  It lights up specially for dangerous monsters, it's directionally-oriented to make it easier to glance at, and monsters are color-coded by difficulty.
• Player kills are tracked properly.  No longer will you get credit for monsters that die to acid rain.  You also won't get blamed for "killing" a hallucination of your mother.
• New item: NX-17 charge gun.  Works like the gauss gun from Half-Life.  It is craftable, and also can be found wherever military rifles are found.  It requires a UPS to be used.
• Emoticons indicate your morale.

• autosafemode defaults to off.
• You are never warned about sounds that come from you.
• Chances of spilling gas greatly reduced.
• You're prompted to pump fuel into your vehicle before you're prompted to pump it onto the ground.
• The way bows fire tweaked a bit
• Insects report their armor as "carapace."
• Triffid queens adjusted to have a higher difficulty rating (biggest impact is that it'll take them longer to show up).
• Throwing distance capped lower.
• Higher throwing penalty for very low dexterity.
• Higher ranged penalty for very low perception.
• Higher throwing penalty for very low skill.
• Flamethrowers greatly improved.

• Constructing status is cleared before the end of construction.  This way, you won't be warned of the sound of the tree of just chopped down crashing to the ground.
• Fixed a freeze during Amigara events.
• Hugely improved monster/NPC death tracking system.  Basically, they're all "cleaned up" between rounds, when nothing's happening.  This should remove many crashes, particularly the "killing an NPC who's given you a quest" bug.  It should also improve efficiency a bit.
• Pumping gas into a vehicle allows you to use any directional keys you please.
• Fixed a crash caused by using a defensive throw on an NPC (or an NPC using one on you).
• NPCs won't magically melee you (or monsters) from afar.
• NPCs will hunt for you if they want to kill you and you escaped.
• Item "gifts" from NPCs properly limited to 1 per 3 hours.
• No more spears as chopping items if you're wielding them

Donno if this is an old bug or not, but you know the little letter it gives you for convenience when you pick something up?  That appears to be a bit off, because I haven't gotten that giving me the correct letter yet.

Other than that, I set up shop in a cave.  Molotov'd a nearby bunch of webs and got owned by a trapdoor spider when I was going in to introduce my neighbors to my SKS before they introduced me to their fangs in the middle of the night or something.  My first experience with spiders.  Interesting.

• MOTD updated
• Picking up a piece of clothing while your inventory and your hands are full will prompt you to wear the clothing directly.  Less inventory shuffle dancing
• Using an item from a stack will bind the original inventory letter to the new activated item.  Hence, if you have a - grenade [3] then upon activating one, the active grenade will be bound to a.
• Drevlin's Random Name patch: You can now assign a random name to your character.
• Lots of efficiency improvements to vehicles, and the game at large.
• Scissors can cut rope into 6 pieces.
• Incendiary ammo, or flamethrowers, will burn down spider webs.
• Other bullets have a chance to tear spider webs.

• Fire now spreads to webs more readily.
• Lots of language improvements to vehicle-related messages.  Gremour seems to speak a language where articles are used differently
• The symbols for lots of car parts were changed to be more consistant, and to avoid overlap with terrain symbols (like 0 or #).
• Improved messages when NPCs attack using an unarmed style.
• Wished-for items are always fresh.

• Dropping the 27th item into a vehicle's trunk will not banish it to the void.
• Construction menu doesn't have weird text issues.
• NPC opinion is correctly modified in dialog.
• Training a skill and constructing a vehicle are correctly prompted when interrupted.
• NPC inventories load correctly.
• NPC locations save/load better.
• Bugfix for minimap while underground.
• The inventory letter for the style you're wielding is displayed properly.
• NPCs are smarter about wielding melee styles.
• Fixed inconsistant lab computer difficulties.
• Some NPC-related crashes fixed.
• NPCs' combat rules are saved with them.
• Improved display of NPC's worn item list.
• NPCs will train you in unarmed styles correctly.
• Road-by-river polishing works properly.
• Crash caused by removing mission-related items fixed.
• some others i forget leave me alone 

• Sick of NPCs?  You can turn them off by putting no_npc.txt into the data folder.  no_npc.txt can have stuff in it, or not, it doesn't matter.  I really recommend (and appreciate!) keeping them on, but I thought it'd be nice to have the option to turn them off.
• NPC spawn rates halved.  NPC spawn rate decreases faster than before (controlled by number of existing NPCs).
• NPCs will turn on debug mode less often.  This isn't a "bandaid fix;" the underlying bugs that caused them to put the game into "figure out what went wrong" mode have been fixed.
• NPCs are braver.
• NPCs are very likely to talk now, and not likely to instantly flee.
• NPCs value ammo for a gun they're carrying as much as they value ammo for a gun they're wielding.
• NPCs will fire from further away.
• NPCs, for now, will ignore other friendly NPCs when figuring out the chance of friendly fire--they only care about the player, now.
• Bug that caused chatting to have no effect fixed.
• Messages added when an NPC flees or turns hostile during dialogue.
• Removed "Unknown key" message for hitting spacebar, enter, and escape.
• Removed some debug messages when you load an existing world.
• Added a new debug function which allows you to check key values about a nearby NPC.
• NPCs spawned via the debug menu are spawned exactly the same as normal wandering NPCs.

• Fixed offensive disarms techniques getting listed as "A BUG"
• Fixed large vehicles colliding with dirt, pavement, etc.
• If you knew any styles, saves would be broken.  Fixed now.
• Fixed a crash caused by grabber and master zombies dying.
• NPC infinite skills bug fixed maybe?  Forgot to test it.
• NPCs are more likely to talk and less likely to flee.
• NPCs treat a player wielding a martial art as non-threatening as a player who is unarmed.  You look harmless, but you're quite deadly!
• "2346345 is fleeing you!" fixed; now it's "Whales is fleeing you!"  Ditto for "2346345 is hostile!"
• NPCs don't teach skills/techniques for free.