Hi everyone!

Please update your game. Whether you are on the default, beta, or alpha branch, ensure your game is updated to the latest version. You can do this by verifying game files[help.steampowered.com]. Keep your game updated as I publish more improvement constantly.

After some talking and reading, I can say with decent certainty that the mod spread by uploading itself onto the Steam Workshop by overwriting your own uploads. It also reset your preferences, deleted contraptions, and reset your achievements. It seems to have had no other effects or means of spreading.

I've been publishing patches that prevent this mod (and mods like it) from being loaded. If you are on the latest version of the game, it's safe to open (even with mods).

As for the Workshop, unless Steam responds to me soon, I still can't provide an estimate on when it'll be reopened. However, once a large enough percentage of you have updated the game, I can open the Workshop anyway, but modders will have to manually rollback their uploads. Still, this should be postponed for as long as possible in case Steam is able to mass-rollback the Workshop.

More resources:

• https://steamcommunity.com/app/1118200/discussions/0/732532498321528488/

Hello!

I have temporarily disabled the Workshop for People Playground. Nothing has been deleted.

A malicious addon has spread itself throughout the Workshop. For now, I can't say with absolute certainty what this mod has done, what it does, how it does it, or any other useful information.

• Update the game by verifying game files

• Go to your game directory and delete the "mods" folder.

• Go to "Steam\\steamapps\\workshop\\content\\1118200" and delete the folder.

• Unsubscribe from mods that were updated/uploaded after January 30th.

• If you have any uploaded mods, check if they were recently updated without your consent.

I'm going to talk to Steam about this and see what can be done. Ideally, the Workshop will be restored. I will work on a patch that should prevent this from happening ever again. It's unknown how long this will take.

I am very sorry for all of this. I'll post an update once I have more information.

A patch has been published that should keep you safe. The Workshop remains disabled until I get a response from Steam, though.

The mod does not destroy your computer. It removes your Contraptions folder, which is extremely sad, and a bunch of other PPG related files. Also, if you have created any mods, it replaces them with itself. This is how it spreads. If you have updated the game to the latest patch, all of this will be prevented. The Workshop remains disabled.

• Better gib physics SFX

• Improved dripping SFX

• Minor collision issues
  
• Excalibur issues

• Excalibur
  
• Blood splats on dismemberment
  
• Some new dismemberment sounds (new tear sfx and blood dripping sounds)
  
• New procedural shatter masks

• Increased visible damage on dismember
  
• Adhesive coupler no longer sticks to phase-linked objects

• Objects that were previously incorrectly unaffected by time scale or volume settings are now fixed
  
• Energy sword boiling effect underwater

• New map: Reactor A5
  
• Decoupler
  
• Adhesive Coupler
  
• Pointer
  
• Counter
  
• Office Chair
  
• Office Desk
  
• Office Computer
  
• Office Monitor
  
• Naval Mine
  
• Chain
  
• "Mute" context menu option to the Lagbox, Metronome, Missile Launcher, Timed Gate, and pistons
  
• Blunt impact can now emit blood particles
  
• Blunt impact have a chance to cut the skin open
  
• Sound effects for bullet cracks and whizzes.
  
• Grid and angle snap size settings with optional keybinds
  
• Bus window can shatter
  
• Some ambient sounds in the main menu
  
• "Artery sections", where cuts and shots will emit a larger, more focused bloodstream

• Bullet holes age more visibly and eventually cause larger bruises
  
• Casing ejection particles no longer scale with the weapon
  
• Closed suspicious mod rejection loophole
  
• Made tempered glass shatter quicker
  
• Changed map selection buttons
  
• The hand grenade now correctly loses its pin and lever when armed
  
• Increased default physics iterations to 32
  
• Increased maximum physics iteration count to 256
  
• Increased minimum physics iteration count to 8
  
• Made it easier to select objects inside other objects by prioritising the smallest object under the cursor
  
• Improved fragmentation explosion crushing behaviour
  
• Organisms can now fully restore their blood levels on their own
  
• Missile Launcher missile will now explode when shot with a sufficiently large round
  
• Increased headshot fatality rate
  
• Slightly increased bullet knockback force
  
• Made sentry turret AI more consistent
  
• Doubled the lethality of the landmine
  
• Changed water surface explosion SFX
  
• Lowered wood bullet impact volume
  
• Increased ricochet sfx spread
  
• Reduced blood impact mist
  
• The flamethrower and fire extinguisher now has slight recoil
  
• Updated several item descriptions to color code different types of signals
  
• Made detail view explosive killzone a vector image

• Mods occasionally failing to upload
  
• Rewrote significant parts of the control scheme system, fixing a few inconsistencies, bugs, and "what the hell" moments
  
• Humans could live having all their blood replaced with a tasty beverage
  
• Zombies healing wounds
  
• Cardiopulmonary bypass machine collision serialisation working incorrectly
  
• Attachments detaching when weapon is activated using activator electrode
  
• Incorrect servo description
  
• Immobility field - sentry turret interaction weirdness
  
• Heart rate monitor showing 70 bpm when it shouldn't
  
• Broken plate debris not showing up when flipped
  
• Some more safety
  
• EscapeRichText loophole

Originally posted by Me:

I need to remind myself to never
make updates large and infrequent. It's a lot better for everyone involved to make them more frequent and not as large. Ideally focused on a theme or single feature implementation.

• New map: Reactor A5
  
• Decoupler
  
• Office Chair
  
• Office Desk
  
• Office Computer
  
• Office Monitor
  
• Naval Mine
  
• Chain
  
• "Mute" context menu option to the Lagbox, Metronome, Missile Launcher, and Timed Gate
  
• Blunt impact can now emit blood particles
  
• Blunt impact have a chance to cut the skin open
  
• Sound effects for bullet cracks and whizzes.
  
• Grid and angle snap size settings with optional keybinds
  
• Bus window can shatter

• Casing ejection particles no longer scale with the weapon
  
• Closed suspicious mod rejection loophole
  
• Made tempered glass shatter quicker
  
• Increased default physics iterations to 32
  
• Increased maximum physics iteration count to 256
  
• Increased minimum physics iteration count to 8
  
• Made it easier to select objects inside other objects by prioritising the smallest object under the cursor
  
• Improved fragmentation explosion crushing behaviour
  
• Organisms can now fully restore their blood levels on their own
  
• Missile Launcher missile will now explode when shot with a sufficiently large round
  
• Increased headshot fatality rate
  
• Slightly increased bullet knockback force
  
• Made sentry turret AI more consistent
  
• Doubled the lethality of the landmine
  
• Changed water surface explosion SFX

• Mods occasionally failing to upload
  
• Rewrote significant parts of the control scheme system, fixing a few inconsistencies, bugs, and "what the hell" moments
  
• Humans could live having all their blood replaced with a tasty beverage
  
• Zombies healing wounds
  
• Cardiopulmonary bypass machine collision serialisation working incorrectly
  
• Attachments detaching when weapon is activated using activator electrode
  
• Incorrect servo description
  
• Immobility field - sentry turret interaction weirdness
  
• Heartrate monitor showing 70 bpm when it shouldn't
  
• Broken plate debris not showing up when flipped
  
• EscapeRichText loophole

• Some extra checks when uploading items to the Workshop to prevent unclear failures
  
• When a mod is uploaded from within the game, it is modified slightly to make it harder to blatantly reupload
  
• Limb.StrengthMultipliers, a float array that is used to adjust the final motor strength of the limb. Empty by default.

• Renamed "Blood vessel wire" to "Liquid conduit"
  
• Objects held by humans (etc.) will no longer collide with the human until it is distant enough or 15 seconds have passed. This prevents, for example, dropped weapons from freaking out when its wielder is killed.

• Layer editor showing up when it shouldn't

• WaterBehaviour.Ignore, IgnoreObject(gm), and StopIgnoringObject(gm)
  
• You can now toggle the detector beam visibility in the context menu and added a enabled light

• Increased EMP chance for regular atom bomb

• That wire layering bug when editing layers
  
• Organism temperature response being way too abrupt
  
• EMP from nuclear weapons not passing through objects for some reason

• For modders: the Lasered message is now OnLasered and takes a Messages.ILasered.LaserArgs as a parameter. Please implement the Messages.ILasered interface.
  
• You can double click a mod to toggle it

• Map objects occasionally creating spawn particles
  
• Tank tank problems (Tank)
  
• Some UI problems

• Laser receiver double trigger
  
• Suspicious mods can now be "trusted". Observe.[i.imgur.com]
  
• Mods can now come with a README.txt, which can contain TMP rich text which will be displayed on the right side of the mod list screen. Think of it as an extended description. More information on the wiki[www.studiominus.nl].

• Minor tweaks to body temperature management (body is now less effective at resisting external heat than it is external cold)
  
• Being on fire causes skin damage and is less likely to cause someone to lose consciousness
  
• Organisms burn longer

• PPG modding wiki bug fix to do with rendering method overloads
  
• Thermal vision display not showing lava temperature
  
• Broken limbs incorrectly invoking damage functions (leading to a stopped heart not being lethal occasionally)
  
• Procedural fragments disappearing after every limb is crushed

• Thermal vision now also displays the temperature of the object under the cursor

• Weapon attachment undo
  
• Red barrel fire now takes no-collide into account
  
• Gore fragments are now always removed with the organism
  
• awdawdawdawd

• Explosive barrels will no longer ignite obstructed objects
  
• Wrench description is now more accurate

• Layering issues regarding objects with multiple sprites (lagboxes, ion cannons, etc.)
  
• Syringes behaving incorrectly if pasted/loaded while lodged into a liquid container
  
• Attachment point blob in detail mode being visible at the wrong time
  
• Flare showing spawn particles on use, sometimes
  
• Deflated tyre appearing inflated after deserialisation
  
• Organisms slowly descending if the surface they stood on is disintegrated or otherwise removed unexpectedly

• Wooden Binding
  
• Jet Engine
  
• Freezing limbs will now damage tissue
  
• Metal scraping sparks
  
• Activator Electrode
  
• You can now edit object rendering layers (context menu option & optional keybinds)
  
• Local fire propagation on large flammable objects
  
• Procedural gore fragments on crush (disabled by default, enable in settings)
  
• Functional weapon attachments (capacitor, explosive, scope, laser, flashlight)
  
• Tyres can pop/deflate
  
• Burnt leaves will now slowly disappear
  
• Brain damage can be disabled in settings
  
• "Toggle UI visibility" optional keybind
  
• ModAPI.SerialiseJSON, ModAPI.DeserialiseJSON, ModAPI.DeleteJSON
  
• Nitroglycerine will explode when the container is charged by something like a battery
  
• The optional OnUnload static method is now called when the application is closed for all loaded mods.
  
• Bullets can now dismember limbs in addition to them already crushing limbs
  
• Fire Extinguisher is a little more animated
  
• ModAPI.RegisterCategory
  
• Catalog now supports custom categories
  
• ModAPI.OnWireDestroyed, ModAPI.OnPinDestroyed, ModAPI.OnLinkDestroyed
  
• BallisticsEmitter.OnTracerCreation<LineRenderer> is a UnityEvent that can be used to customise a tracer round when it is created

• Minor changes to ragdoll animation system. Some animations had way too much force behind them and it's now possible for animations to specify a force multiplier.
  
• Bullet damage is now based on speed alongside distance and cartridge damage
  
• Servos no longer speed up when powered, they only become more powerful. Speed can be changed in the context menu.
  
• Life syringe stops seizures
  
• Drastically lowered chance of brain damage, it should be a rare occurrence
  
• Lowered chance of concrete rebar appearing in concrete debris. It's completely disabled when Fancy Effects is disabled.
  
• Slightly improved tesla coil arcs
  
• Increased water impact damage
  
• Bullet casings now shrink when despawning
  
• Deflated tyres slightly deform when in contact with an object
  
• Oxygen deficiency may cause brain damage
  
• Low blood pressure may cause brain damage
  
• Lowered brain damage posturing time
  
• Increased crush-by-gunshot chances a bit
  
• Seizures can stop the heart
  
• Slightly lowered entity impact damage
  
• Bleeding particles collide with the world when Fancy Effects is enabled
  
• Fire Extinguisher is a little heavier now
  
• Increased thermal pulse intensity from nuclear explosions
  
• Increased drag underwater
  
• Made androids less vulnerable to explosives
  
• Made many changes to the body heat system and responses to environment temperature. Humans are more resistant to cold environments. They won't freeze as quickly and will often pass out before dying if their body temperature is too low.
  
• Changed sharpness velocity threshold calculation. Lower softness values are now more effective
  
• Improved wood impact VFX
  
• Improved thruster SFX
  
• Improved propeller SFX
  
• Improved ricochet SFX variety
  
• Improved fire extinguisher particles
  
• Lowered audio range of mini thruster
  
• Improved pumpkin destruction effect
  
• Decreased cannon shockwave
  
• Falling embers now collide
  
• Made acid less effective on androids
  
• Laser colours can be much darker
  
• Explosions can now completely crush bodyparts if "procedural fragments" is enabled
  
• Increased G1 SMG, SMG, and Minigun spread
  
• Increased LMG heat up speed and added a little glowy bit at the end (will automatically be removed when overridden with a mod. Use ModAPI.KeepExtraObjects())

• Older contraptions having firearms with incorrect reflection sounds
  
• Stupid memory leak to do with custom human textures
  
• Ray cannon going insane on void & other maps occasionally
  
• Fragility slider not showing enough digits
  
• Crossbow bolts spinning forever
  
• Some energy sword problems
  
• Item persistence bugs (normal sized bug) (you may have to do the achievement again)
  
• Tree collision
  
• Human feet are no longer unnaturally resistant to being crushed
  
• Phase link slightly affecting center of mass
  
• Phase link being deletable without being visible
  
• Minor performance improvements to do with phase links and other tools
  
• Some deletion stuff
  
• Flamethrower wouldn't burn stuff up close sometimes
  
• Pin hover stuff
  
• The game will now delete older logs as to keep a maximum of 25 logs in the log directory
  
• Menu escape issue
  
• Bug where limbs would cool down when dead despite blood flowing through them
  
• Bug where cardiopulmonary bypass machine continues to provide oxygen even when turned off/broken
  
• Electricity particles not scaling with the object
  
• Some major liquid system problems
  
• Automatic firearms shooting two bullets as their first shot sometimes
  
• Weird deletion message stuff
  
• Things can no longer breathe when submerged in ice
  
• Humans unable to grab things after copy/pasting
  
• Other minor bugs

• Android instant death on dismemberment

• Many changes and improvements to the modding wiki.
  
• Aspa102
  
• You should read our weekly blog for updates on all our projects[www.studiominus.nl]
  
• I need to remind myself to never make updates large and infrequent. It's a lot better for everyone involved to make them more frequent and not as large. Ideally focused on a theme or single feature implementation.

• Wooden Binding
  
• Jet Engine
  
• Freezing limbs will now damage tissue
  
• Metal scraping sparks
  
• Tyres can pop/deflate
  
• "Toggle UI visibility" optional keybind
  
• ModAPI.SerialiseJSON and ModAPI.DeserialiseJSON
  
• The optional
  OnUnload
  static method is now called when the application is closed for all loaded mods.
  
• You can now edit object rendering layers (a little box will appear in detail view, but there are also optional keybinds)
  
• Bullets can now dismember limbs in addition to them already crushing limbs
  
• Fire Extinguisher is a little more animated

• Minor changes to ragdoll animation system. Some animations had way too much force behind them and it's now possible for animations to specify a force multiplier.
  
• Bullet damage is now based on speed alongside distance and cartridge damage
  
• Servos no longer speed up when powered, they only become more powerful. Speed can be changed in the context menu.
  
• Life syringe stops seizures
  
• Drastically lowered chance of brain damage, it should be a rare occurrence
  
• Lowered chance of concrete rebar appearing in concrete debris. It's completely disabled when Fancy Effects is disabled.
  
• Slightly improved tesla coil arcs
  
• Increased water impact damage
  
• Bullet casings now shrink when despawning
  
• Oxygen deficiency may cause brain damage
  
• Low blood pressure may cause brain damage
  
• Lowered brain damage posturing time
  
• Seizures can stop the heart
  
• Slightly lowered entity impact damage
  
• Bleeding particles collide with the world when Fancy Effects is enabled
  
• Fire Extinguisher is a little heavier now
  
• Increased thermal pulse intensity from nuclear explosions
  
• Increased drag underwater
  
• Made many changes to the body heat system and responses to environment temperature. Humans are more resistant to cold environments. They won't freeze as quickly and will often pass out before dying if their body temperature is too low.
  
• Changed sharpness velocity threshold calculation. Lower softness values are now more effective
  
• Improved thruster SFX
  
• Improved propeller SFX
  
• Improved ricochet SFX variety
  
• Lowered audio range of mini thruster
  
• Improved pumpkin destruction effect
  
• Decreased cannon shockwave
  
• Falling embers now collide
  
• Laser colours can be much darker
  
• Increased G1 SMG, SMG, and Minigun spread
  
• Increased LMG heat up speed and added a little glowy bit at the end

• Older contraptions having firearms with incorrect reflection sounds
  
• Ray cannon going insane on void & other maps occasionally
  
• Fragility slider not showing enough digits
  
• Crossbow bolts spinning forever
  
• Some energy sword problems
  
• Tree collision
  
• Human feet are no longer unnaturally resistant to being crushed
  
• Phase link slightly affecting center of mass
  
• Minor performance improvements to do with phase links and other tools
  
• Some deletion stuff
  
• Flamethrower wouldn't burn stuff up close sometimes
  
• Pin hover stuff
  
• The game will now delete older logs as to keep a maximum of 25 logs in the log directory
  
• Menu escape issue
  
• Bug where limbs would cool down when dead despite blood flowing through them
  
• Bug where cardiopulmonary bypass machine continues to provide oxygen even when turned off/broken
  
• Electricity particles not scaling with the object
  
• Some major liquid system problems
  
• Weird deletion message stuff
  
• Other minor bugs