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Updates 5-22-2026

Washing no longer requires a sponge or washboard, though these items now confer a bonus to time and water/soap requirements. Washing is done by activating soap or detergent.

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What changed

4 fixes0 additions4 changes2 removals
  • Gameplay
  • Fixes
  • Balance
removedWashing no longer requires a sponge or washboard, though these items now confer a bonus to time and water/soap requirements. Washing is done by activating soap or detergent. It takes a bit longer and is a bit more strenuous, based on personal experience. Hand washing sucks!
changedUpdated Makayla Sanchez's dialogue to better reflect TLG lore and fix some grammatical/factual errors.
fixedFixed bone skewers having an invalid milling recipe.
removedCarpet no longer bashes into cloth patches, instead making carpet scraps.
changedCarpet armor is now made from carpet scraps.
changedUpdated sling-ready grenades to use the same nomenclature as the regular kind.

Cataclysm: The Last Generation changes

removedWashing no longer requires a sponge or washboard, though these items now confer a bonus to time and water/soap requirements. Washing is done by activating soap or detergent. It takes a bit longer and is a bit more strenuous, based on personal experience. Hand washing sucks!
changedUpdated Makayla Sanchez's dialogue to better reflect TLG lore and fix some grammatical/factual errors.
fixedFixed bone skewers having an invalid milling recipe.
removedCarpet no longer bashes into cloth patches, instead making carpet scraps.
changedCarpet armor is now made from carpet scraps.
  • Washing no longer requires a sponge or washboard, though these items now confer a bonus to time and water/soap requirements. Washing is done by activating soap or detergent. It takes a bit longer and is a bit more strenuous, based on personal experience. Hand washing sucks!

  • The washing kit is gone. You can have a sponge and a washboard in your inventory if you need to wash hard and soft items with the bonus.

  • Updated Makayla Sanchez's dialogue to better reflect TLG lore and fix some grammatical/factual errors.

  • Made additional fixes to withdrawal timers, just in case.

  • Fixed bone skewers having an invalid milling recipe.

  • Carpet no longer bashes into cloth patches, instead making carpet scraps.

  • Carpet armor is now made from carpet scraps.

  • Rolls of carpet can be deconstructed into carpet scraps.

  • Mapgen used to place filthy cloth patches to signify that someone had discarded some bloody bandages. These have been replaced with filthy makeshift bandages, which you can wash and re-use if you're nasty.

  • Updated sling-ready grenades to use the same nomenclature as the regular kind.

DDA Backports:

  • Improved the way ice behaves, vehicles can now sink through thin ice and lose traction on thick ice.

  • Monsters should no longer be able to improperly dive/sink through walkways or ice, and the last issues with them being able to attack throgh these floors should be fixed.

  • Fixed an endless loop that could occur under specific circumstances while mutating.

  • Big stacks of e-devices should no longer cause as much slowdown.

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Steam News / 22 May 2026

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