Notes
Another round of fixes, thank you all for being patient. There was more breakage from the 1.6 update than anticipated but progress has been moving along at a steady pace. As usual, please drop by the discord and report any bugs you encounter.

Changes
- Added setting to adjust settlements toward rivers during world generation.
- Added experience gain for construction skill when repairing vehicles.
- Added additional restrictions to mechanoids when assigning them to vehicles.

Bug Fixes
- Caravans and Aerial Vehicles were unable to trade without first dismounting the colonists.
- Aerial Vehicles failed to resume the flight path post load, or would teleport halfway across the world.
- Certain upgrades would cause the vehicle to break when loading from the save file. (eg. Highwayman)
- Stashed vehicles didn't re-add the pawns to the world in some situations, resulting in the caravan being lost.
- Refuel from inventory gizmo was still enabled despite the vehicle having no fuel in the inventory.
- Deployment gizmo would permanently disable after construction.
- Vehicle turrets stopped the vehicle before shooting.
- Launch targeter showed discounted fuel cost.
- Aerial Vehicles in-transit on local maps would be ticked multiple times, resulting in rapid needs depletion.
- Aerial Vehicles were unable to enter defeated settlements and camps.
- Aerial Vehicles with rotors would continue to spin when creating a new camp or settlement.
- Fully loaded aerial vehicle would warn the player about leaving pawns behind.
- Game Over would trigger when entering a map via aerial vehicle with no pawns outside the vehicle.
- Aerial vehicles in-transit and on the world map would not show colonists in the colonist bar.
- Missing translation keys
- Translation error with launch targeter and settlements.

Compatibility
- Aerial vehicles were unable to travel to any Odyssey space objects.
- Update Log will show after Character Editor freezes the game for 3 seconds, meaning no more lag when closing this popup if you have character editor.

Final Notes
Please report any issues you find on either discord[discord.gg] or github[github.com].

Notes
This is round 2 of critical bugfixes for the 1.6 release.

Thank you to everyone that took the time to report bugs in the discord server! It makes it so much easier to fix things when I have all of the relevant information.

Changes
- Form Caravan dialog will start at 'Pawns' tab if player has no vehicles present on the map.

Bug Fixes
- ComponentCache would misalign after the player generated and then unloaded multiple maps in a row. This occurred frequently with grav ships.
- Aerial vehicles were unable to land at any site on the world map.
- Reforming caravan would prompt user to leave vehicles behind.
- Confirming reform would dismount all pawns, leaving the caravan immobile until the player moved all pawns back into vehicles.
- Recovering stashed vehicles wouldn't recache available pawns correctly, resulting in immobile caravans upon arrival.
- Stashed vehicles double saving vehicles, resulting in save load errors.
- Vehicle turret upgrades with child attachments would double register renderers.
- 'Refuel From Inventory' icon was Odyssey exclusive, replaced with temporary icon for now.
- Vehicle Caravans would double or triple tick pawns inside vehicles, resulting in rapid needs depletion.
- Aerial Vehicles would double tick pawns inside the vehicle, resulting in rapid needs depletion while flying.
- Health upgrades wouldn't reset vehicle health, resulting in loss of health or health that exceeded max hp upon finalizing an upgrade.
- Beach multiplier at 0% would override coast size to 0.
- Unspawned vehicles would fail to trigger explosion when taking damage.
- Turrets with no graphics would still try to generate UI icon.
- Turret shootline would use raw offset as position, resulting in miscalculated accuracy.
- Missing translation key for 'Signal Jamming'

Compatibility
- Fixed issue where "Useful Marks" would patch over vehicle icons, preventing players from accessing the color painter for vehicle patterns.

Final Notes
Please report any issues you find on either discord[discord.gg] or github[github.com].

Notes
Just a small patch for major bugs and some small QoL improvements.

Changes
- Added line draw between resource and vehicle it's being loaded into when using 'Transfer to vehicle' command.
- Added 'refuel from inventory' button to fuel gizmo.
- Added job for colonists to remove excess fuel when target fuel level is below the current fuel amount.
- Colorized vehicle world objects, matching their RimWorld equivalents.
- Added Misc2 hotkey for 'Load Cargo' gizmo on vehicles.

Bug Fixes
- Immobile aerial vehicles such as helicopters were not able to launch even with all seats filled.
- Rivers would be set to 0 width during map generation by default.
- Attached turrets would spin rapidly under certain circumstances, being unable to target.
- Static turrets would break during post resolve.
- Aerial vehicles still performing checks on movement for launch capabilities.
- Added missing 1.4 localization files
- Visual bug where turret ammo would be added to the total cargo mass.

Final Notes
Please report any issues you find on either discord[discord.gg] or github[github.com].

Notes
This is a 1.6 pre-release. There is still a lot of internal testing that must go on so expect weekly to biweekly updates over the next few months.

There have been many changes since 1.5. As I'm sure you're all aware, it's been nearly a year since the last update. I am still very much working on Vehicle Framework, however, I will be taking releases more slowly going forward so the steam version doesn't get sudden bugs introduced with no warning.
The idea behind this is to allow internal testers to play with new versions (and features) first before pushing it to the official release. If you want to help test new versions, join the discord for more information.

If you are a modder, there is a google doc[docs.google.com] with a list of all relevant changes you'll want to bookmark.

Note: There are far too many changes and bugfixes to list. Only the most impactful changes will be listed below.

Bug Fixes
- Vehicles can be 'stashed' on the world map, allowing your colonists to continue on foot and retrieve your vehicles at a later time.
- Vehicles can be temporarily disabled by EMPs. (configurable by modders)
- Vehicle turrets can now have range based shooting accuracy. This is the same as weapon accuracy and is primarily for bullet based turrets.
- Added auto-reloading feature to turrets. Colonists will now auto-reload the turret (if it is empty) upon entering the vehicle, or if cargo is added.

Changes
- Vehicle Caravans will ignore biome and road costs when traveling on roads.
- Vehicles will no longer run over friendly pawns by default, this setting can be re-enabled in the mod settings.
- Vehicles consume 50% less fuel while idle.
- Merged 'Form Caravan' dialog with 'Form Vehicle Caravan'

Performance
- Harmony patches are now ran in the background while the rest of the game is loaded, reducing startup time.
- All assets are now pre-packaged into asset bundles, reducing startup time and memory usage for textures.
- Vehicle regions are now pooled and 'lazy', only generating if you have a vehicle that needs the grid.
- Vehicle rendering is now multithreaded.
- Vehicles utilize Variable Tick Rate, a new 1.6 feature that will make vehicles even more performant while idle or out of view.
- Made significant changes and improvements to the multithreading capabilities of Vehicle Framework.
- Fixed various problematic patches that caused high tps spikes with larger mod lists.

Final Notes
Please report any issues you find on either discord[discord.gg] or github[github.com].

Bugfixes
- Graphic Overlays not rendering diagonally
- Refuel job floating point error, resulting in colonists attempting to refuel indefinitely if fuel was set to 99.99% full.
- VehicleCaravan would throw an exception when trying to satisfy pawn needs.
- Mlie's reupload of Rails and Roads of the Rim still being incompatible due to type name changes.

[Auto-generated text]: Update on 8/6/2024 11:50:34 PM.

Hotfix for Camera+ and Mark That Pawn patches on vehicle rendering breaking in 1.5.1700

Notes
This update includes many Quality of Life features such as designating roads, reorienting aerial vehicles upon landing, reorienting vehicles upon pathing to a destination, and more.

Be sure to take a look at the full list down below, and as always if you have feedback feel free to drop by the discord. Thanks!

Bug Fixes
- Upgrading FuelCapacity wouldn't update amount needed to refuel, causing pawns to attempt to refuel in a loop.

- Under specific circumstances a vehicle would become 'incapacitated'

- Overlays would attempt to initialize outside of the main thread when loading a save.

- Vehicle role removal upgrade refunding would add the role copied from the upgrade, rather than checking if it was originally from the vehicle def.

- Compatibility patch for Rails and Roads of the Rim

- AsyncRegionRegisterAction exception when loading a map, causing some regions to become malformed in the process.

- Concurrency issue when updating regions, resulting in invalid regions marked for dirtying not having their cells persist in the dirty set.

- Vehicle leaks would not reset their status when repaired once the fuel count had reached 0.

- CompUpgradeTree attempting to validate listers even if the vehicle is unspawned but being ticked elsewhere (such as in Save Our Ship 2 when traveling between ships).

Performance Optimization
- Parallelized Vehicle Region generation when loading a map. (This will make map generation much faster)

Additional Changes

Players
- Added Road zone to direct vehicles over paths, and to note which edges to try and exit from for caravans.

- Items dropped from cargo will be placed outside of the vehicle's hitbox.

- Vehicles can drag-to-rotate by holding right click when ordering to go to a location. This will rotate the vehicle to face this rotation after arriving at the destination.

- Aerial vehicles with forced rotations for animations can now be rotated during landing, which will rotate the vehicle to face this rotation after it has landed.

- Upgrades will refund % of cost if upgrade is reset or vehicle is deconstructed / destroyed.

- Only explosive mortar shells will have their explosion radius reduced when impacting water, as opposed to every shell.

- VehicleTurret aim pies hidden if vehicle is not selected.

Modders
- Added CompUpgrade for adding / removing comps from upgrades

Final Notes
Please report any issues you find on either discord[discord.gg] or github[github.com].

[Auto-generated text]: Update on 8/2/2024 3:04:02 PM.