[Change Log] Stable Branch Update to .54 today

As always, we will be watching server data, and the feedback tracker for any potential severe issues and will address them accordingly with a hot fix. For any bugs/issues you run into, please let us know by filing it on the feedback tracker: http://feedback.dayzgame.com

New items:
- Improvised suppressor.
- Water Pouch.
- Bone Hook.
- Bone Arrow.
- Pile of bones.
- Carrier plate with attachable holster and pouches.
- Blood bag now gives and takes twice as much blood.
- FN Trombone.
- New animals.
- V3S Cargo version.

New mechanics:
- You can craft improvised suppressor using water bottle and duct tape.
- You can craft bone hook out of pile of bones.
- You can craft bone arrow out of pile of bones and improvised arrow.
- Weight added to all items and clothes.
- Caliber of ammo affect suppressor degradation.
- Horticulture - Potato plant and its growing process.
- You can dismantle the FN Trombone.
- Continuous consumption and item use prototype.
- Items now shows only rough estimates about its weight and volume of containment.
- Cooking mechanics changes.
- Fireplace mechanics changes.
- Fluid mechanic tweaks.
- Blood mechanic tweaks.
- Weapon degradation.
- Suppressor degradation.

New animations + audio:
- Placeholder SFX for improvised suppressor (standard suppressor SFX).

Reworked locations:
- Devil's castle.
- Pik Kozlova.
- Black & Willow Lakes.
- Bor village.
- Quarry near Solnichny.

Map:
- All old rocks models have been removed and replaced with new ones.

Programming:
- New spawn tags added to all buildings.
- Degradation values set for pistols, rifles and silencers.
- Blood regeneration nerfed.

Fixed:
- Pouches for vest is now displayed properly in hands.
- Suppressor position on Longhorn while reloading.
- Message when loading ruined ammo.
- Spliting stone using pickaxe will give you smaller stone with correct damage state.
- You can no longer use mace for cutting raincoats into armbands.
- Mace can no longer be used for skinning.
- Force feeding guts text.
- Thermal mechanic fixes.
- Server stability fixes.
- Performance fixes (server).
- Bullet penetration fix.

Known issues:
- Animals spin in one place.
- Animals die randomly.
- Animal navigation.
- Animal animations are playing at a wrong resolution.
- You can drive v3s while knocked out.
- Only 1 person can get on back cargo of v3s.
- Random desync.
- Random client crashes.
- Random server crashes.

I have had 4 random client crashes this afternoon.

Jim wrote:

I have had 4 random client crashes this afternoon.

Need I say it???    It's Alpha.

Any graphic improvements or optimizations?

New video rendering. It might be worth it to see if it works better for you.

Or you could just come hangout with us for a bit maybe play till you pass out