s&box

Particle effects while healing from the health station

Hold poses and attack animations for the crowbar, magneto stick and DNA scanner
Hold poses and attack animations for the jihad, c4, health station and knife
Hold poses and attack animations for the spas-12 and HUGE
Hold poses and attack animations for all pistols
Hold poses and attack animations for all grenades

Corpses not ragdoll-ing after yesterday's s&box update
Disconnected player corpses occasionally displaying in T-pose across rounds
Full body clothing not displaying properly
Overly aggressive jump prevention while bunny hopping is disabled
Health station floating when dropped
Audio reverb on rat maps which are one large room should be fixed or improved
Absurd war cry volume on the jihad
Jihad blowing up when picked back up off of the ground after being armed

6/12/26 Weapons and Players 12 June 2026

Full-body player cosmetics lobby/server setting + opt-out local user setting
New "Loot" lobby/server settings control amount and type of random weapon spawns on maps by player count
New death camera transitions and effects depending on the cause of death
Additional knife throwing animation, sounds & small tweaks
Alternate scene when returning to the main menu from a lobby/server that skips opening cutscene
https://sbox.game/ice/terminal/ added to the Official map pool
https://sbox.game/thieves/gothic/ added to the Official map pool
https://sbox.game/thieves/ttt_cluedo added to the Official map pool

Weapons, ammo and equipment had a large-scale refactor internally to optimize performance and prepare for the eventual addon framework
Weapon, grenade and ammo spawns are pooled and reused on maps to optimize round reset behavior
Weapons, grenade and ammo spawns will now spawn based on the current player count
Pickups and props that were mistakenly placed out of bounds by mappers and fall infinitely are destroyed
Several weapon world models had their physics hulls reworked to improve performance and physics reactivity
Corpses had a major refactor internally to optimize for performance; much smoother ragdoll behavior on death
Quite a bit of networked VFX (Muzzle flashes, tracers, explosions and so on) were optimized for performance
XMovement networking expenses like synced fields for proxy animation have been reduced and optimized
Animation state of proxy players was introduced to optimize network performance
The player's physics colliders have been optimized for performance
The world visibility of the player's body and held weaponry were optimized for network performance
Dying and entering spectator mode visual transitions are more fluid
C4 and barrel explosions were optimized for network performance, as well as their interaction with nearby props and gibs
Trigger volumes and other map tools were optimized for network performance
Network visibility culling for props, weapons and corpses to reduce network traffic

Hotfix #3: Fix weapons sometimes not being visible in other player's hands
Hotfix #2: Fix prop-killing and cosmetics being overridden
Hotfix #1:
Fix spectators being sent back to their corpse repeatedly when pressing space
Fix old weapon references on maps spawning broken guns via replacement at runtime
Likely fix on round starting and ending sounds not playing consistently
Original changelogs:
Being sent a stale or inaccurate reason for server disconnect as a client
Teleporting resulting in players not taking damage from certain sources, or taking damage from sources they are not near
Preparation timer for the first round after switching maps not being 60 seconds
Icons on the map vote not choosing the 1:1 thumbnail if available
First person viewmodels having incorrect FOV for spectators before spawning for the first time after joining mid-round
Thrown grenades and explosions right before reset persisting into the next round
C4 being able to be moved while armed in certain situations
C4 UI panel overlapping with hover hint on clients

First person spectators no longer see ammo for the spectated player

Directly-placed weapon prefabs on maps will send warnings to the console about missing components on initial join
A few more unknown object warnings in console that don't impact gameplay

6/1/26 Knife throwing & Performance 1 June 2026

Players can now throw the knife with right click to 'charge', release to throw
New animations for throwing, holding and swinging the knife

Out of bounds detection and clipping
Prop damage safety, balance and network expense
Cleaner input key titles in keybinds
User settings page visual and behavioral tweaks
Numerous cosmetic weapon-related effects are safer, more efficient and less prone to causing network churn
Disconnect message is more clear when a player is votekicked or auto-kicked for low karma
corpse ragdoll performance, behavior & responsiveness
Volume mixers and internal sound pathing, in anticipation of a larger audio overhaul

Dedicated server host can trigger player logic
Rare crash from invalid player directional/animation data
guard related magneto stick, movement and animation inputs
Guard an assortment of rare NREs from cosmetic effects
Haste mode no longer increments twice from one death
Certain exploits, including a number of spam-dropping & damage vulnerabilities
Body armor no longer protects against jihad explosion
After last week's explosion refactor, explosions stopped hitting players twice. We doubled the jihad's range to match its prior effectiveness
...and many more!

5/20/26: Props & Maps 21 May 2026

Prop possession
Map I/O: Path looping
Map I/O: Explosive trap
More maps
Map tags
Map size descriptions

Performance (again!)
Loading times (again!)
Map voting configuration
More map pool options for server and lobby hosts
Prop pushing no longer hard-blocked by high weight, now scaled by effectiveness
Health station can be broken (200 HP, or 10 crowbar hits)

Map transitions: simpler and more performant
Joining or map-switching clients can't join the wrong map
The two issues above leading to physics-related crashes
Map teleporters applying at unexpected times
Explosive barrel VFX displaying on round reset
Health station working on client & host
Health station double-applying healing

5/10/26 Roles, Visuals & Chat 8 May 2026

Proximity chat (WIP)
New 'volumetric' smokes
Post-processing (Tonemapping, bloom)
More roles (Moderator, Admin etc.)
More role icons for the scoreboard
Hover tooltips for role icons on scoreboard
Moderation actions from scoreboard right-click
Karma banners (e.g. Reputable, Trigger-Happy)
Toggle Karma auto-kick on/off
Toggle RTV on/off

Performance
Physics
Joining load times
Map transition load times
Round reset and cleanup behavior
Servers not displaying map correctly or incorrect map
UI hints for Traitor/Detective controls (e.g. team chat, shop) and general tooltip visibility
Moderation tools
Server settings config
Incendiary grenades: OG damage values, small performance gains
More work on out-of-bounds logic
Water and air movement
Grenade physics (WIP, just a small touch here)

Loading screen display issues
Exacerbating known s&box-wide disconnection/crash issues with client acks
Explosive barrel VFX displays on clients
Votekick no longer works on lobby/server admins
Haste Mode time applying properly
Lobby max round count no longer (visually) capped at 64
Health bar resizing
Crowbar damage no longer impacted by karma
Spectator audio inconsistencies
Can now apply mod actions to yourself

Ping display (s&box)
While dead, hovering over role icons doesn't work
Rare poorly-timed joins can join the wrong map or experience desync if the host changes maps a few seconds afterwards
Explosion behavior needs improvement and rework
Create Lobby settings page needs further polish (Scroll to view all of the settings)
Features on certain maps being broken or missing (e.g. the Nether portal). Working on it ASAP!

5/2/26 Server Support, Maps & Fixes 3 May 2026

Added server/lobby info tab to the pause menu
Added confirm button for disconnect and quit to s&box actions in the pause menu
Full servers/lobbies will display in the in-game lobby list (This does not impact the s&box native menus)
Dedicated servers are distinct in the lobby list
Lobbies and servers now display ping
Scoreboard now displays the lobby/server name and current map
Spectators can inspect corpses
Added server/lobby info tab to the pause menu
Added confirm button for disconnect and quit to s&box actions in the pause menu

Ladder climb/drop speed increased
More blatant VSync performance/feel warnings
DNA scanner ping visibility and clarity
Pause menu size increased for legibility
Jihad: explosion triggers faster
Shotgun base damage increased; headshot damage multiplier decreased
Karma is slightly more punitive

Many fixes, performance improvements, and polish improvements across numerous maps
Stuck logic is no longer able to force you into a non-grounded area, which could result in falling out of the map
C4 radius is appropriately adjusted based on the timer
Fixed shotgun infinite reload issue
Fixed team voice chat displaying globally for a split second
Karma no longer triggers on self-inflicted deaths of any kind
Buy menu sorting cookies now save correctly
Resolve /votekick correctly
AFK not unset correctly on map switch

Temporarily removed Detective UMP
Hosts can noclip by default