Most servers hold one or two people at a time, so the survivors (the AI players) are often the only company you get. This update is about giving each wipe a start, a story and an end: something to aim for, someone to hate, and a board that remembers who did what.
Everything below stays inside Legacy rules: no new items, no new island.
A server can now wipe itself on a monthly cycle, on Thursdays at 19:00 UTC (18:00 UTC in summer):
First Thursday of the month: full wipe, blueprints included.
Two weeks later: map wipe. Bases, objects and the map go, your blueprints stay.
If a game update needs it, the time may move a little. The server browser shows the countdown next to each server, how long ago it was wiped, how many bases stand on it and when the last raid happened. On the last day before a wipe, the survivors go wild: four times more raids, twice the charges. Offline bases are still spared, raiding sleeping players' houses stays a human job.
When the official servers went up I said there would be no wipe until you asked for one. You asked. EU #1 and EU #2 (the sandbox) are wiped today with 2.0, blueprints included, and both follow the Thursday cycle from now on:
Every wipe gets its own board, in the pause menu: play time, player and bot kills, raids, airdrops, biggest base, longest life, achievements.
The wipe "firsts" sit on top: who held the first M4, who placed the first metal door, who did the first raid and opened the first airdrop, and how long after the wipe. The longest life of the wipe is there too, next to yours.
At the wipe, the board is archived and a new one starts.
Hold G for a map of the whole island, turned like the community maps we all used back in Legacy, sea at the bottom left. A 16 x 16 grid of 350 m cells, so "H8" means something again in voice chat.
Zoom with the wheel, drag it around, or center it on yourself.
The corner tells you where you are: your cell and the nearest place ("NEAR Resource Valley").
Monuments, your sleeping bags and the spot where you last died are marked.
SHOW ZONES draws the 50 community zones of the 2014 map, from Big Civilian to Zombie Hill, with their shapes.
Right-click to drop your own marker. One per server, and it's still there next time.
New players get 8 short steps in the top-right corner: open the map, gather wood, hunt, collect cloth, then place a Wood Shelter, a door, a Sleeping Bag and a storage box. A step ticks as soon as you do it, in any order, and your progress is kept on your PC for every server.
Tips show up once, when they matter: cold at night, hunger, bleeding, radiation, your first death.
Already know Legacy? Esc > skip tutorial, and you still get the new First Lessons achievement. Want it again? restart tutorial.
Party: create one from the main menu, invite friends, and everyone follows the leader into a lobby or a server.
Host lobby has 3 save slots, each with its own wipe button and its own game settings, sorted in tabs, with the Legacy values one click away. A Cheats tab turns the admin menu on for you, or for everyone.
Whispers: /w name, /r to reply, /help for the rest.
The pause menu lists who's online and which bots are alive, and has an invite a friend button.
The C130 now flies the Legacy route and opens its ramp for the drop. The Supply Signal is a real smoke grenade with a green column you can see from afar. Bullets hit per bone. Every weapon has its own model in third person. Gunshots, explosions and animals use the Legacy sound falloff. Stairs and floors are smooth to walk on. Picking something up shows "3 x Wood" like in Legacy, crafting has icons and a have/need tooltip, footsteps use the Legacy range and trees give 1 wood per hit. The full list is in the changelist below.
Bug reports, raid stories and screenshots of your nemesis are all welcome on the Discord. That's also where I'll ask what the next wipe should look like.
Monthly wipe cycle - with `rl_wipe_cycle 1` a server wipes itself on the first Thursday of the month (everything, blueprints too) and two weeks later (map, objects and bases), at 19:00 UTC (18:00 UTC in summer)
Wipe countdown - the next wipe is shown in the pause menu and the server browser, `rl_next_wipe` moves it
Server life - the server browser shows how long ago a server was wiped, how many bases stand and when the last raid happened ("Wiped 2 days ago · 9 bases · last raid 12m ago")
Outdated servers - servers running another revision of the game are marked "outdated" and can't be joined by mistake
s&box party - create a party from the main menu, invite friends, and the party follows its leader into a lobby or a server
Lobby saves - host lobby has 3 save slots, each with its world age, your play time and its own wipe button
Game settings - each lobby save keeps its own rules, in tabs, with Legacy values and a "reset all to Legacy" button
Cheats tab - the admin menu can be turned on for the host, then for everyone (off by default)
Bot kit levels - Fresh, Legacy mix or Well armed, with on/off and the share of each kit
Server announcements - official servers can show a message to every player
Inventory & UI
Hall of Fame - a board per wipe: play time, player and bot kills, raids, airdrops, biggest base, longest life and achievements, archived at each wipe (pause menu > hall of fame)
Wipe firsts - the first M4, the first metal door, the first raid and the first airdrop of the wipe, with the time it took
Survival record - the longest life of the wipe sits at the top of the Hall of Fame, next to your current life
Players list - the pause menu lists online players then living bots, with kit and time online; click a player to open their s&box profile
Achievements panel - achievements to earn on top, sorted by progress, earned ones below
Invite a friend - opens your friends list from the pause menu
Whispers - /w name message (or /whisper, /msg), /r to reply, Tab completes the name
Chat commands - /help lists them, and typing / suggests commands (arrows to pick, Tab or Enter to accept)
Bot icon - a 🤖 sits before every bot name in chat and lists
AI & Wildlife
Bot personalities - farmers never shoot first, hunters spot you from farther and don't flee, campers hold the Legacy buildings; each one talks its own way
Bot taunts - bots trash-talk in chat after a kill and when a player shows up
Raider callout - the raider calls out the base owners by @name, with an alarm, before blowing the door
Friendly? - say "friendly?" near a bot or whisper it; depending on its personality, and on whether you're aiming at it, it may agree to a pact; betray it and the whole server knows
Wounded bots beg - under 25% health a bot flees, begs in chat and drops a sack with everything but its weapon; spare it and it thanks you with a pact
Nemesis - "Killed by X (3rd time)": the bot that keeps killing you loots your bag and wears your armor while taunting you
Sleeping bots - a bot sometimes sleeps 20 to 45 minutes in its base, blind and deaf; raid it while it sleeps, a hit or an attack on its base wakes it
Lit bases - bots light the camp fire and furnace of their base most nights, and sometimes by day, with their own wood
Airdrop race - bots within 600 m run to a supply crate and loot it; 3 to 5 per drop, and armed ones fight on the way
Rare blueprint - a bot base's box holds a rare blueprint on top of its stock
Naked protection - a fresh, unarmored player who hasn't hurt a bot is left alone for 10 minutes; a bot whispers a warning at 15 m and only shoots if you stay close
Bot gifts - now and then a bot walks up to a naked player, whispers and drops a spare tool or some resources
Distant explosions - a raid between bots far from any player is still heard across the island, up to 2 km
Last day of the wipe - in the last 24 hours bots raid 4 times as often, with 4 charges instead of 2, and spot players 1.5 times farther; offline bases stay safe
World & Lighting
C130 - Legacy flight path (5 km approach at 400 m, drop at 300 m, then climb), spinning propellers, ramp and door that open for the drop, navigation lights and beacons
Gameplay & Building
Opening arrows - placing a door, a furnace or a shelter shows which side opens
Item health - the health of a building piece or deployable shows under the Repair action
Admin
[ ADMIN ] button - top left of the pause menu and the inventory
Wipe now - `rl_wipe_now full` (blueprints too) or `rl_wipe_now map` wipes a server right away, from the server console or as an admin
Base list - the BUILD tab lists every base, with a teleport onto a foundation
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