Unturned Dev Tracker

Looking back on the past year.

Thanks for another great year on Steam! It was three years ago today that Unturned 3.0 released from early access, and six years since Unturned 2.0 originally launched into early access. It has been about seven years since my initial work on Unturned 1.0 - yikes!

There were sixteen Unturned II devlogs, and fourteen Unturned updates (excluding minor ones) this past year, so the development focus was split about equally. Despite not many direct gameplay changes to Unturned I feel like there has been a lot of good work to improving the quality, and intend to continue e.g. eventually revamping the netcode. I also hope to continue shifting more dev time towards Unturned II, but think it is important to show that commitment to both games for the long haul.

Reviewing Announcements

Each update had its fair share of changes if you would like to read them. These are my thoughts looking ba...

The Community Blog returns! We answer a handful of questions, and take a brief look within a couple of the going-ons of the community.

With the Art Contest having wrapped up at the start of last month, we return to other community news, content, and questions.

Creator Spotlight: ...

4.20.9.0 update with sky and framework for admin commands.

Admin Commands

Support for chat commands has been added alongside several time-related utilities. Note that permissions and roles have not been added yet, so anyone can execute them temporarily.

I decided to loosely follow POSIX / GNU argument parsing so that it can be standardized between commands. Each command can define named parameters parsed from "-key=value" or "-key value", and other arguments are treated as operands. The commands should try to be smart about the operands, e.g. "/time 12:00" wants to change the time to noon, but named parameters ought to be useful for cases like "I want to ban a player with this steamid, not a player with a numeric name."

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4.20.8.0 update with trees.

Gameplay

Obviously certain elements like the magical downward swing insta-killing trees are temporary. Main changes compared to original Unturned:

• Felled trunk is permanent (rather than an effect) and will be harvested for sticks and logs.
• Stumps do not respawn.
• Trees can be planted.
• Art is manually designed somewhere between the early 3.0 trees and the later speedtrees, aiming for good performance with a distinct look.

Eventual features for future updates:

• Tools for uprooting stumps.
• Damage dealt by falling trunks.
• Heat the pine cones to release the seeds. Grow a sapling before transplanting into the forest.
• Melee direction left/right to cut vertical trees...

Ready, set, celebrate! You easily surpassed a hundred submissions, and the event's judges have selected from those fourteen winners for the Art Contest.

At the time of posting, the Shiny Art Contest Sweater may still be in the process of being distributed.

The categories below are purely for the sake of viewing convenience.

Drawn

These works represent a bulk of the submissions, and encompass a wide variety of art styles. Be it lineless art, digitally drawn, or inspired by pastels. Flat shading, or an emphasis on capturing light.

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