Community Blog #037

Workstations arrive in our next game update. Until then – grab your umbrella, and enjoy some community-made mods, screenshots, and more!

Introducing Workstations

Our next major update for Unturned is introducing workstations. As we're approaching this update's release, we want to share more information about how they work and why we're making this change to item crafting.

These new workstations were modelled by Dogfood. You may know them as the experienced modder behind content like the More Farming Mod! When we reached out to them about collaborating, helping us with this update was at the top of our list.

Crafting has always been quite simple, but we know players are interested in some additional depth. Workstations introduce another progression step and encourage building a base. This was also a good opportunity for us to make several improvements to the Crafting UI.

Craft and place a workstation, such as the Simple Workbench or Brick Oven, to gain access to additional crafting recipes while nearby. Use the redesigned Crafting UI to find the recipe you're looking for.

In a recent survey, we collected your feedback on workstations. While most participants expressed excitement, we know this is a big change. Survey feedback also showed players were less interested in certain recipes needing a workstation, with the least interest in:

• Structures (avg. ~ 3.1 rating out of 5)

• Salvaging items (avg. ~ 2.9 rating out of 5)

• Barricades (avg. ~ 2.8 rating out of 5)

• Low-end medicine (avg. ~ 1.7 rating out of 5)

With next update, some items will still be craftable without a workstation. For example, our current internal build lets players craft wooden structures and barricades, salvage items, and create some other basic items (like Rags, Bandages, Splints, or Bedrolls) from anywhere. Depending on future feedback, we are interested in either tying more recipes to workstations, or allowing more items to be crafted without one.

Surprisingly, survey feedback indicated many players supported the idea of Item Repairing requiring a workstation. As part of next update, you will need to use a Simple Workbench to repair most items, in addition to still needing tools or other ingredients like a Blowtorch and Metal Scrap.

You can expect several workstations, a redesigned Crafting UI, new loading screens from our recent Screenshot Contest, several performance improvements, and a few other gameplay tweaks in the next update.

We're looking forward to continuing this trend by introducing more new items, using survey feedback for some balance changes, and of course tweaking workstations/recipes further – in the future. We truly hope players will enjoy our next couple major updates, and we can't wait to see how modders will utilize some of the features we've been working on.

EULA

When discussing open sourcing and the new curated map program with our lawyers, they advised us to also introduce an End User License Agreement. So as early as next game update, we are adding an EULA to Unturned on Steam.

Ultimately, we want to keep it as fair and reasonable as possible—and we believe the current revision will closely match the status quo. To be clear: things like creating Steam Workshop mods, server plugins, fan-made animations, and other non-malicious content is still allowed.

Primarily as a legal protection against cheating/hacking, this agreement includes language against decompiling or reverse-engineering the game.

We're aware that some players have publicly datamined our game for other, more positive reasons. For example: creating helpful scripts for modders, and documenting version changes. These resources are beneficial to players, and we don't want