s&box

V1.18.0

2 July 2026

v1.18.0 — Change Notes (2026-07-02)
+5 tools — same-week support for s&box's brand-new LipSync component, plus the four remaining Tier-1 community-demand scaffolds. 206 tools / 197 handlers (was 201/192). Additive — no existing tool contract changed. All five live-verified (handlers compiled first try; every scaffold's generated code compile-verified in the game assembly + TypeLibrary-load-confirmed; add_lipsync wiring property-verified on a live citizen).
Added — new engine feature support
- add_lipsync — wire up Sandbox.LipSync, the component Facepunch shipped 2026-07-01 (the lipsync/viseme Sound Editor update): drives a SkinnedModelRenderer's facial morphs from a playing sound. One call adds LipSync, wires the renderer (same GameObject or rendererId), and optionally binds audio — an existing sound component, or a new SoundPointComponent loaded from a .sound path — plus morphScale / morphSmoothTime tuning. Morphs animate at runtime while the sound plays (verify in play mode via capture_view).
Added — community-demand scaffolds (the Tier-1 backlog, complete)
Mined demand from the 51-game corpus; with these four, every Tier-1 item has shipped.
- create_round_state_machine (5× demand — the top ask) — the full state-machine beyond create_round_phase_machine: a sealed manager singleton ([Sync(SyncFlags.FromHost)] StateIndex, index-wrap advancing, CanEnter() skip) driving an abstract RoundState base (Begin/Tick/OnTimeUp/Finish lifecycle, per-state [Sync] TimeUntil) plus N sealed named-state stubs that auto-attach on start. Transitions announce via a static event + [Rpc.Broadcast] mirror with per-index dedupe (never double-fires; the [Sync] index is the late-joiner reconcile).
- add_interaction_station — a one-occupant IPressable station (crafting bench / shop till / arcade cabinet): occupancy held as a [Sync(FromHost)] Guid (GameObjects aren't [Sync]-able), client Press() routed host-side via [Rpc.Host], a reservation grace window for the last user, an optional unlock-level gate via a static ResolveUserLevel hook, and a static OnStationOpened event to open your overlay UI.
- create_event_director — a generalized L4D-style pacing director: interval roll (host-only), cumulative-weight pick over EventPrefabs + parallel Weights, active-set dedupe, MaxActive cap, and a generated *TimedEvent companion so every spawned event self-destructs after EventLifetime. RollInterval() is the documented adaptive-pacing extension point.
- create_save_slots — the multi-slot companion to create_save_system: a saveslots.json manifest (per-slot Used/Name/SavedAtUnix/PlaytimeSeconds — the slot-picker read) + per-slot payload files over FileSystem.Data, versioned POCO with delete-on-version-mismatch, and optional GUID scene reconciliation (tombstone destroyed objects, reposition survivors).
Docs
- .claude-plugin/marketplace.json brought current — it had drifted to v1.16.0 / stale counts (it sat outside the parity script's version-lock set; now locked 6-way so it can't recur).
- Doc-hygiene sweep: INSTALL.md no longer claims the dock must stay open (static frame loop since v1.3.0) or hardcodes a stale handler count; CLAUDE.md's contradictory v1.10.0 handler line removed; stale plan-status notes marked shipped; count style unified on "200+"; npm README tools table backfilled v1.10–v1.17.
- Engine-watch (researched this release, queued in the backlog): Facepunch merged a local loopback socket for multi-instance testing (2026-07-02 — not in the shipping build yet; a future bridge multiplayer-test harness), and the MovieMaker/sequencer system remains an uncovered tool-family candidate. Upstream reliability fixes relevant to existing tools: nested-prefab apply no longer wipes instances, painted-instance collision fixed, terrain binary data survives copy/paste/undo, malformed-packet server-brick fixed.