Wipe-day is here! Rocket factory, Hapis changes and many more…

Facepunch has been hyping this one for some weeks now. With every forced wipe comes some forced major change. This month we see the rocket factory ready, changes to Hapis, a new barrel, changes to node and junkpile spawns and more. Let’s get deeper!

Rocket Factory
Finally here it is. This massive piece of land will amaze your eyes. Spread out over 10 buildings and one main launch pad, we see loot, hiding places and many more. The devs really gave this one a go. It’s almost a map in a map.

We will see this one after the update tonight.

Hapis Island
Another hyped object within the devs comments was Hapis Island. Several weeks ago they decided to bring back the active development on Hapis map. With good results, because the last weeks we saw some small changes, but tonights one will bring even more: a new grand canyon valley, desert area, south road and more topology changes.

What else?
Across the map and at every lighthouse we’ll find a new barrel: the hobo barrel. The hobo barrel does not give loot, but it can be used like a campfire to cook food.

Driftwood can be gather now: each piece yields about 200 wood with a metal hatchet.

There has been some changed on node and junkpile spawns. They will not spawn randomly all over the map anymore. Last week we saw a huge change in how nodes were gathered. They are not giving every ore anymore. Ore node spawns have been adjusted now so they really only spawn near rock formations. In addition, there will now be a higher concentration of stone in the temperate biome as ore distribution has been adjusted.
Also junkpiles will not spawn randomly everywhere. We will only see them next to roads and powerlines.

Furthermore, we can now see a full list of what’s for sale and current inventory on map view for all vending machine locations currently broadcasting. Craft a paper map to access this list.
And, picking up items will play a sound instead of moving to inventory silently.

We’ll see you tonight. And as always after a big update/forced wipe, some modded server plugins may be overacting or not working, so bear with us for the first hour into the update. See you later!