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6 October 2026

21 changes in this update

Bats and Moose are now enemies, if they meet in front of you they fight to the death and the winner stays wounded
Sorry there’s no new content yet. I decided to relax a bit after the jam, but I’ll get back to full-scale work soon :-)

Bats and Moose are now rarer, together they make up at most a third of street monsters and no more than 6 per map, a paid map used to be swarmed by them
Bats and Moose now stay off the map until 11:00 and only 2 of them guard the truck, the rest roam the map
Banes hunt in packs again but now attack one at a time, one bites and backs off while the rest circle and wait their turn
Monsters no longer move in a crowd, they spread out over the map and take different sides of the truck, and only half of them head to the truck in the evening
Days now start calmer, 1-3 weak monsters on arrival and a quiet first hour, then stronger ones come out gradually, on hard maps like Handcar and Impulse they keep coming until 16:00-17:00 instead of 13:00
Undertow now needs to see you for 3 seconds to reach full pull and can only kill after that, opening a door straight into it is no longer instant death
Undertow now has 3x more health
Monsters now hear a shout only when your voice stays loud, a single sharp sound in quiet talk used to count as a shout
Photo rewards now depend on how deadly the monster is, 100 for instant killers (Bat, Moose, Undertow, Kekoba), 50 for Beekeeper and Winch, 25 for the rest
Bolts are now twice as loud for monsters and steady noise like the truck charger now fades into the background, a Bat drawn by the charger used to ignore every bolt
The handcar lever now moves noticeably slower, W and S need pressing about 1.3 times a second instead of 2.2, top speed is unchanged

Photos taken by connected players now count again, the camera price used to grow only for the host
The physgun now works for connected players again, grabbing, throwing and the beam others see
Dungeon doors now protect you from the first frame of the fade, monsters could still hit you while the screen went dark, both going in and coming out
Bodies thrown by a Bat or other monster no longer land under the truck, tables or beds where nobody could reach them
Dungeon furniture no longer narrows the way between doors to a slit, big items like the wooden cable reel now always leave at least 1.15 m
Item prices now show above 999, a camera full of photos used to be stuck at 999
The handcar no longer rolls backwards when starting off, the lever used to get stuck at the top and pressing S there sent you the wrong way
The camera now stops working once the truck starts moving, photographing monsters from the ramp of a leaving truck is no longer possible

Some balance and Improves