Screw Drivers news & patch notes

Goood morning beloved Screw Drivers,

This one is a long one, so here is a TL;DR. Only one thing to note, before you dive into all the new stuff: Since Marc and me are currently busy working another project we had to accept to pay the bills, we won't be able to work much on Screw Drivers a few months. This is why we decided to make this huge update releasing everything we've worked on so far, for you to play around with and enjoy. This means, things might still be even more bugged than usual, and some things are not finished or balanced. But we wanted you to experience all of those things, instead of having to wait a couple of months for them to be properly finished.

That being said, here is the TL;DR, and below the detailed patchnotes. Enjoy!

TL;DR

- Every new feature of this update is still in beta, so if you find bugs, let us know and I'll fix them asap!

- Multiplayer is back, including the server files to host your own servers

- New parts: gears, gear shifter and chains

- Two new maps (Offroad and Pulo Pangripta)

- Character editor, drivers license, experience points, player level

- Six new suspensions, four new wheels

- Suspensions can be configured (Spring, damper etc.)

And now all of the above, but in great detail

Multiplayer

Multiplayer is finally back! I will try to host a server as often as I can myself, but you can now also host your own servers through the main menu. Keep in mind this is still very early and beta, so things might still be bugged causing connection issues, lags etc.

New maps

We have been working on two new maps! The first one is the Offroad island. A big island with lots of gravel roads, and also steep hills, bumpy terrain etc. There are also a bunch of races and challenges for the island, although the ghosts are still missing, they will come later ;)

The second map is Pulo Pangripta. This map is an older map from two years ago, which we first left out of the game. But I took it, placed new roads onto it and made it drivable. This map is highly focussed on asphalt roads with smooth transitions, nicely thoughtout corners for fun and high speed racing. There are already a handfull of races there, but we will add even more later!

New building parts

There are also a bunch of new building parts to play around with. No new engines yet, but those will come soon as well ;)

First there are two new gears, and two new gear holder parts to go along with them. The new gears have round holes in the middle, so if you build them onto axles, they won't spin. But how do you make them spin then? That's where the so called "gear holder" comes into play. This part can be attached right beside the gear to drive it through the axle.

These new gears allow for a brand new gear shifter, the "gear holder dynamic". With this parts, you can slide pins in and out of adjacent gears. This then either drives the left gear, or the right gear.

And to top that off, we also added a chain! This chain can be wrapped around as many gears as you want to drive them easily, especially if gears are difficult to connect due to their placement, or because they are far apart from each other.

Then there are three new offroad suspensions, and three new racing suspensions. These are also in a very early and unfinished state, because you will immediately notice, they are preeeetty big :D

They have different attachement points from the previous suspensions, and also different travel length. Other than that, they work similarly to the other suspensions.

Talking about suspensions, you can now configure all suspensions. Now you can adjust the spring strenght, the damper strength and also the progessiveness of the spring. This should give even more ways to perfectionize each vehicle.

And theeeen we also have four new wheels. These are:

- Oldie Wheel

- Racer Wheel

- Buggy Wheel

- Dirt Wheel 4

The first three of those wheels have similar grip and weights to the other street wheels in the game, while the dirt wheel is kinda similar to the other offroad wheels.

The exact weight, grip and radius values I haven't had time to enter yet, so they are wrong if you look at the information in the parts menu ;)

Character editor

We finally added the character editor! From the garage you can click on "Profile" and then edit your beautiful monarch character! On top of that you can also choose between three different building platform skins now.

Drivers license

Along with the character editor, we also added an experience points system. You can gain XP through building and driving in both singleplayer and multiplayer. There are around ~50 levels you can gain through the XP. And on your new drivers license you can inspect a handfull of stats, as well as a beautiful picture of your georgous monarch character.

I think this might actually be it. Make sure to keep in mind, that all of this update is pretty beta. But we wanted to release all of that and give it into your hands, since there won't be as many updates coming in the next few months, and I really really wanted you to show you all the new things we've worked on already.

I really hope you enjoy the update, let us know about what you think, throw all your feedback at us as usual, and thank you so much for being part of our journey and for player Screw Drivers!

Simon & Marc

Good morning to the best community,

Simon here. Some of you probably already wondered why there haven’t been many updates lately, both of the game and from us devs. Don’t panic, we’re still here and alive.

The reason why things went unusually slowly in the last couple of weeks is, that Marc and me had to take on another temporary project on the side, since Screw Drivers unfortunately hasn’t been performing as well as we’d hoped, and we needed to keep being able to pay our rent and feed the bugs living under our beds. I really really tried to find the time and energy to put some work into Screw Drivers as well, but it was just too much for me, and I noticed that this took a toll of my mental health.

I’m getting by now, but my heart is broken since I’m currently not able to work on my most loved project in the world. And on top of that I really miss my Screw Drivers community, I’m sorry I haven’t been as active as usual on Steam and discord, I just needed some time to cope with everything, and I’ll be back soon I promise!

Come to the light at the end of the tunnel now, I will be back at full speed on the project in a couple of months. Until then I thought that we just release all the new stuff Marc, Lucas and me have prepared and worked on over the last couple of weeks and months. These things aren’t properly balanced and polished or even finished yet. But I want you to be able to play around with all of that, and by the time I’m back full speed on Screw Drivers, I can take all your feedback on all the new things we did, take the million bugs you’ve found and make Screw Drivers the absolute best game in the world.

This big update with lots of unfinished beta content will come in 3 days, on the 30th of October! I’ll try to make a little video showcasing everything that’s in it, and multiplayer is one of those things, finally! :)

Until then, from the bottom of my heart I’m sorry for not being here as much as I wanted to, and I really cannot wait to be back as soon as possible!

Simon

Hey friends,

We want to let you know about an important update.

A recently identified security vulnerability within Unity has been spotted, and while there is currently no evidence of impact on users, we’re taking all relevant steps to ensure you’re on the latest and safest version of the game.

To keep you safe, we’ve released a new patch that addresses the issue. Please update your game as soon as possible to stay protected.

You can read more about it here:

https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01

As always, our priority will be on keeping our games as safe and enjoyable for everyone.

Your Headup Team

Gooood morning fellow Screw Drivers,

we have brought several small updates over the last couple of weeks, and we gotta admit that we were just a little bit too lazy to post the patchnotes for every one of them. But now it's time to fill you in on all the things that happened in the last couple of weeks leading up to the current version of v0.5.4.25:

Minor changes

• In the general settings you can now enable or disable whether engines and gearboxes should provide or be provided with power through mounting holes.

• We moved all spawn points of challenges slightly up again, so that hopefully, cars don't spawn inside the terrain or road anymore.

• We also increased the time between the countdown numbers again. This way, the cars should have enough time to properly spawn and stand still, before the race starts.

• We changed the power of the V engine from 78HP to 82HP.

• You can directly jump from building to driving on the supersonic map again, by holding down the 'Return' key.

• The start/finish checkpoint now has a beautiful checkered texture on the ground.

• We tried to add the old dynamic camera mode again. Let us know if we did a good job. I did just copy over the code, but due to the changes in the camera system in general, it might still behave slightly different.

• Added a new seat, the passenger seat. This way you can bulid busses or multiple seats in general, but still decide where the driver should sit. (In a later update, the passenger seats will be filled with passengers ;) )

• The first person seat camera now moves a little, depending on the acceleration of the car.

• You can now configure dead zones for controllers. This should help to counter stick drift. You can also see previews of the driving controls in the controls settings now.

• You can switch back to the old menu layout in the general settings.

• We added two new platformer challenges to Pulau Mahkota

• You can now show the gear ratios on axles by pressing 'G' in the building editor.

Stunt Showdown (DLC)

• The remaining time of stunt challenges has been missing in general. It should be shown again now.

• Fixed a bug in Skate Park Heat, where the car always spawned under the map.

• In Salto Bowl, the stunt area has been missing, and is now shown correctly again.

• In the results panel, there was a missing translation that was visible for a short time before the animation started.

Pretty Fly (DLC)

• There have been two challenges, where the order of checkpoints was wrong, where the last landing checkpoint was falsely the first checkpoint. This should now be in correct order again.

Bug fixes

• There was a bug which prevented hinge joints directly mounted onto planetary gears to rotate. This should be fixed now.

• The shadow quality settings are now applied when the game starts. You don't have to go to the settings menu and re-apply them anymore.

• In the free camera mode, the scroll wheel was inverted. It should now work in the correct direction.

• The unlock conditions in the tec tree sometimes weren't turning green, although they should be. This was due to rounding errors. Should now be fixed.

• The camera in the building editor wasn't rotating correctly, especially when moving the mouse really fast. This should now be correct and feel a lot smoother.

• Ignore steering angle did not have any effect. It should now.

• Fixed the road in Trophy Run not having an underside.

• Sometimes after playing a tutorial, the 'R' key stopped working to delete parts in the buliding editor. This is now fixed.

• Sometimes when creating a new car, the game opened a rename panel, and got stuck there.

• Fixed an exception when trying to rename the Favorites or All tab in the car categories.

• Fixed, that the FPS limit was not applied.

• We moved all spawn points closer to the ground in races. So when starting races, you shouldn't fall down from that far up anymore.

• When gaining gems at the end of a challenge, the animation has shown the wrong amount of gems. This is now fixed.

• The chroma/sensa settings should now also automaticall be applied when the game starts.

• Fixed some more water that clipped through the ground on Pulau Mahkota (probably haven't fixed every spot yet tho :D )

• The Go Kart 2 wheels weren't included in the tec tree. Now they are.

• It was possible to unlock parts by just satisfying the conditions, and then driving the challenge once. Now you actually have to beat the bronze time to unlock the parts.

• When unlocking the racing wheels, they were colored weirdly. Now they keep their black rubber color.

• Fixed a bug, where uploading vehicles to the workshop did not work, if the vehicle contained any DLC parts.

• Fixed the UI in the building menu, since some texts were barely readable.

• Fixed some environment in Tornanti Turbolenti

• Fixed the depth of field in the first person seat camera

• We forgot to merge both the tec tree and ranklist career progress with the last update. This should be fixed now. All your gems, unlocked parts and challenges should now be restored.

• Anti aliasing didn't work properly. This should now work, and you can configure it in the graphics settings.

• The tec tree did show some parts to be locked, although they were already unlocked. Should be fixed.

• Center of mass did not display for some vehicles.

• Fixed the elo panels causing extreme lags.

• Fixed acceleration bug, where you could increase acceleration by both using keyboard and controller simultaneously to accelerate.

• Fixed a bug, where some cars spawned below the map.

• We adjusted some environment objects of races on Pulau Mahkota.

Multiplayer

• Fixed resetting to checkpoint not working in multiplayer.

• When one player doesn't load the vehicles of other players, the challenge then starts anyways. The player who hasn't loaded all vehicles then becomes a ghost for everybody, so there aren't any fault collisions.

• In the graphics settings, you can now turn off the particles and VFX of other players.

• Fixed the loading percentage in the multiplayer race loading screen always showing a non-changing number.

• You can now disable the physics and colliders of other players in the general settings in multiplayer for better performance.

• Fixed a problem, where you sometimes could not drive at the start of a race until going into reverse gear once. This should be fixed now.

• Added small little white arrows at the bottom of the screen for other player cars that are right behind you.

• Added meta information to multiplayer player list. Whenever a player crashes, repairs or resets, a little notification pops up.

• When repairing or resetting, you now become a ghost for 6 seconds, so others can't crash into you.

• You can now see the player names of other players above their cars.

This should cover all that has happened in July :D

Next up, we will finalize the multiplayer so you can also host your own servers. Give us a couple of weeks, and it should be ready!

And also, I hosted a test multiplayer server for the last couple of days or so. But I probably will have to shut it down over the next two weeks, since the server was running on my own PC, and I'm gonna go on some small vacation soon ;)

Until then, happy and safe drive!

Marc & Simon

Happy Friday and welcome to the biggest performance optimization we ever did! With this update, we reprogrammed and restructured the whole project from the ground up. We took our core systems like the building editor, the driving physics and the vehicle calculation, and reassembled them freshly. We also deleted all ancient assets that were still in the project, and we reimported all the assets that are actually included in the game. All in all, we managed to reduce the RAM usage, increased FPS and reduced loading times by some margin. And most importantly, if the game did not start for you at all, now it might actually work! We hope you enjoy this sleek new version of Screw Drivers. Now that we got performance figured out, you can expect a lot of cool new features and content coming up next 🙂 And here are all the changes (hopefully, if I haven't forgotten any):

General

• We completely reworked all menus and UI. The menus are now separate from each other, which means that the game sometimes has to load for some short time, but this reduces the total RAM usage of the game.

Building

• We completely reworked the X-menu. It now actually spawns your vehicle, which you can then actually test a little bit. This feature is still not finished, we plan to add more live telemetry data like suspension travel, live wind resistance, live downforce and so on.

Driving

• You can now view the minimap in fullscreen by pressing 'M'.

• We reprogrammed all camera modes. They aren't perfect yet, so feel free to try them out and let us know, which one you like most so we can improve those even more.

Bug fixes

• When changing the keybinding of headlights, the car would not calculate. This should be fixed.

• The green-gears bug should now finally be gone, but who knows, maybe it comes back some day?

And we fixed many many more bugs. I can't list them all, because some bugs just will be fixed because of the whole restructuring of the project. Any new bugs you encounter, please report them to us on discord, steam or by carrier pigeon. Thank you all for playing Screw Drivers and for being part of the best community! Simon & Marc

Rennpisten Insel (German for “Island of great and big race tracks suited for high speeds and excellently engineered race cars“)

• The new island is finally here! With the Rennpisten Insel we added a huge new island with a million kilometers of roads. There is a lot to discover, all roads have dedicated and special names, the roads are wide and open with lots of space to reach high speeds.
• The island also comes with a bunch of new challenges ruled by our three new monarchs: The Turbo Knight, Nitro Princess and the Tarmac Tyrant. As you probably guessed because of the name of the Nitro Princess, we added some new building blocks as well: Correct, we added super chargers and a brand new V-engine!
• The super charger consists of two building blocks, the base and the extension. You can attach the supercharger base to the PW-Blaze engine, or to the new V-engine. Then you can attach the supercharger extension to the base, to increase the power gain even more.
• The V-engine weighs a lot due to the size and its two cylinders. It has a lower RPM range than the other combustion engines, but a lot of power in return.
• On Rennpisten Insel there is also a new gems system. Instead of having to beat bronze in every race to challenge a monarch, you now have to collect a certain amount of gems.

Gauge Blocks

• Speed Gauge This is the normal speed gauge. It shows RPM, the current gear and speed.
• Power Curve Gauge This gauge is also not new, but you can place it now wherever you want. It displays the current power curve of your powertrain.
• Car Status Gauge This gauge was also already in the game. It shows your current weight, how much damage your car has taken and whether you’re missing some wheels or downforce.
• Gyro Gauge This gauge is new. It shows the current lateral and longitudinal forces on your car. It also shows the maximum forces that affected the car since you last repaired it. This could be used to evaluate your cars’ performance in terms of acceleration, brake speed and how fast you can go around corners.

New Building Blocks

• V-Engine: A strong and heavy combustion engine with a low RPM range.
• Supercharger Base: A supercharger base to slot onto the PW-Blaze or the V-engine. It increases the power in low RPM ranges.
• Supercharger Extension: Looks damn cool, and also increases the power in low RPM ranges even more.
• Smoll Suspension: An extremely small and compact suspension. In comparison to all other suspension, it doesn’t have a hole for axles, so it can just be used as a wheel to steer and roll.
• Keybindings Panel: A small panel you can attach anywhere to your vehicle. Then you can configure it and describe all the keybindings of your vehicle. This will then be displayed while driving if you press F1 to open the controls hints. This helps with vehicles having many or complicated keybindings.
• Star Connector: Similar to the ??? connector, but with four pins sticking out.
• Gauges and Seat Extension: We added four gauges and a seat extension block where you can attach them to your seat.
• 3-states Piston: We added a piston having three states. This piston starts in a half extended state, and can be contracted with one key, and extended with another one.

Minor Changes

• We improved challenge loading times. The big loading time came from loading the ghosts (Bronze, silver, gold and personal bests). This should happen much faster now.
• The small wooden poles of the checkpoints don’t damage or slow down the car anymore. They’re like butter now.
• Engine extension gadgets now contribute to the overall horse power of the vehicle.
• You can now assign controller axis like left/right stick or the triggers to stepper motor and piston keybindings.
• When hovering over the car stats with the mouse cursor, the car used to do an explosion animation. This was bugged in the last update, and should now be fixed again.
• The dynamic camera is now a little higher and further away from the car. This should make it easier to see the track and road ahead.
• Added a leaderboard button to the career tab, where you can inspect the leaderboards directly in the menu.
• A couple of months ago we updated the whole damage system of the game. We reverted the changes, where light weight parts took significantly more damage. Now battle bots should be possible again.
• You can now look around when sitting in first person in your seat. You can also use the scroll wheel to adjust your eye height.
• You can now unsubscribe from Workshop vehicles by right clicking them in your garage. So you don’t have to search for it in the workshop tab.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the effect turbos and capacitors have on engines. Their added power curve is now scaled correctly, so they can be used properly with all types of engines now.
• Fixed that the “Loading” circle of challenges did not disappear, although the challenge was successfully loaded.
• Three cage parts weren’t configured to be unlocked in the ranklist career. This should be fixed now.
• I tried to fix the PS5 controller. You can now switch to PS5 controller input mapping in the controls settings. After that, the mapping will be changed and hopefully matches the PS5 controller properly.
• Fixed the leaderboards again.
• There was a problem with some cars, where their brakes would not work. That’s due to the ABS system I coded. I tried to adjust it, so it doesn’t prevent those cars from braking at all.
• Fixed a problem with the center of mass calculation. When repairing, the game sometimes recalculated the center of mass wrongly. This should now be fixed.
• When lowering the texture quality in graphic settings, the UI texture resolution got also reduced. Now most of the UI should be unaffected when reducing the overall texture resolution.

Physics Changes

• It wasn’t possible before to build an engine, which goes directly to a planetary gear and then powered a hinge joint. This should now work properly.
• The game now correctly calculates the rotation direction of gears and axles for everything that powers hinge joints. The game still doesn’t care about the rotation direction in the powertrain for wheels. But for everything else, you can now determine the rotation direction with the gearing. (There is a bug tho with worm gears still)
• We completely changed the forces and speed of hinge joints. Before, no matter which engine used, hinge joints sped up to insane speed almost instantly. Now the game actually uses the power curve of the attached engine and powertrain to determine the power and top speed of hinge joints. This means, that you can now use multiple engines and/or gearing to power hinge joints with the speed and power you want or need. This also means that hinge joints in general are now much weaker and slower. If you want to spin something heavy, it will probably take some time to accelerate to speed. Likewise if you try to spin something that doesn’t weigh much, it will spin up much faster. Hopefully this makes the whole game much more realistic and makes it much more fun to play around with hinges, since their physics and forces now also use the same forces that are used to power the wheels of cars.
• We changed the downforce physics. The wings now use a much more realistic force calculation. In general, they now produce less downforce than before, which should result in more realistic behavior. Due to those changes, we will reset all leaderboards of the game, so you can freshly start to conquer them.

• We improved and optimized the game overall, so memory usage, cpu and graphics usage should all improve with this
• update.
• If the game crashed when launching it before, try it! The chances are high that you are able to run the game now.
• We massively improved the memory usage of the game. Overall it should now use a lot less of your RAM.
• We also improved the FPS of the game, which should also now run much more smoothly both when you’re driving and in the building editor.
• The loading times of all menus and scenes should have also improved, especially if you have a lot of vehicles in your garage and you enter the career or creative mode.

• 3 states Stepper Motor: We updated the Stepper Motor so you can now switch between 3 states instead of just two. This means, you can configure a second keybinding and a second target angle. On top of that, you can also configure the resting angle, allowing for even more customization
• Bug & King Engine: We added two new engines to the game with a living powersource. There is the Bug Engine and the King Engine.
• New Building UI: We improved the Building UI by shrinking the size of the UI elements and rearranged them to the bottom of the screen so there is more space to see your vehicle
• We reduced the size of the king character, when he’s sitting in the seat of your vehicle. We made bro smaller.

• There are two new optional races on the Pulau Mahkota where you can win the two new engines we added to the game. The “Panorama Sling” and the “Microscope Match”. Good luck with driving gold there!
• We added more Screw Driver advertisement screens into the game which improve the race feeling to the game and islands.
• Before, you could only play the challenges you already unlocked in career mode. Now when you enter creative mode, you can play all challenges, regardless of how far you’ve progressed in career.
• The Crater Race on the Isola Tornanti was reworked so it is finally fun to play!

• Due to the work on the new Racetrack map and the slightly changes by the new Unity version we improved the light
• settings and some of the textures, objects and grass in the game so now you can enjoy the beautiful islands even more!

• There was a bug with the stunt challenges of the “Stunt Showdown” DLC. When using flying vehicles, you were sometimes able to lift off, then land again, and this would cause the points counter to infinitely increase. This should be fixed now.
• As always, we tried to fix the bug, that the game crashes when quitting. Perhaps it is fixed now…
• When leaving the building editor while the mirror mode was still active, it caused cars to be corrupted when re-entering the building editor the next time. This should now be fixed.

Bug fixes

• Removed the camber from offroad suspensions again. We will postpone the whole balancing of suspensions until we have time to look at all suspensions at the same time.
• There was a bug, where it was possible to access some DLC building parts when being in creative mode.
• Not ignoring the steering angle limit is now the default setting. Before it was the other way around.
• Added a new area on the supersonic map where you can try to drive upside down on the ceiling.
• Tried to fix the bug, where the game crashes when quitting (Task failed successfully).

Full Changelog of V0.3.15.9:

• We changed the shifting times of gear shifters in general. Before, the time it took to shift gears up and down was constant at around 150ms. Now, the game calculated all the weight attached to the tip of a gear shifter. The heavier the mechanical assembly attached to the gear shifter is, the slower it will shift gears using that gear shifter. So if you want to reduce the shift times, you have to reduce the weight attached to the tip of the shifter as much as possible by using short axles and few and small gears.
• We also introduce two new building parts: The spring loaded shifters. They work exactly like the normal gear shifters, but compared to the normal ones, these have a difference in shifting times when contracting or extending the shifter. Due to the spring, moving the tip of the shifter to the outside is extremely fast, while contracting the spring and moving the tip to the inside of the shifter takes slightly more time. On average, the spring loaded shifters have faster shift times than the normal shifters. And their shift times also depend on the attached weight.
• Shift times of normal shifters: Between 100ms and 300ms
• Shift times of spring loaded shifters (Moving tip outwards): Between 20ms and 80ms
• Shift times of spring loaded shifters (Moving tip inwards): Between 150ms and 350ms

• Exhaust: The exhaust is only decorative. It produces some light, environmental friendly smoke when accelerating. When when shifting gears, it sometimes spits a little bit of fire.
• Headlight and brake light: We added two light parts to the game. The headlights, which you can switch on and off with an assigned key. And the brake lights, which light up when you’re braking.
• Seat: You can now attach a Driving Seat to your car to access first person driving. The camera will then be a little above the seats position. For now only the Seat will be dropped but soon we will add some nice module expansions for the Seat!

• We added camber to the wheels in the game. Here we made the following changes to the dirt and the street suspensions:
• Street suspensions: If you enable the advanced building mode in the general settings menu, you can now configure camber for the street suspensions. This allows you to possibly increase grip in fast driven corners.
• Dirt suspensions: Since dirt suspensions were essentially better in all aspects compared to the street suspensions, we introduced a “natural” camber for the dirt suspensions. They now tilt the wheel when the spring is being compressed or relaxed. This should slightly worsen the general grip and handling of dirt suspensions, since the wheels aren’t planted flat to the surface all the time anymore. Our goal is to make them look funny because of the camber, but also to create a difference between street and dirt suspensions, so both have a field of application for different kinds of vehicle types.

• When calculating a vehicle in the building editor and closing the analysis window, unconnected parts of the vehicle will fly away for a couple of seconds, so you can see which parts of the vehicle are not connected to the rest of the vehicle.
• We updated the leaderboards graphic to show the player names and actual times of players around yourself.
• We added two new optional challenges to Isola tornanti.
• When calculating the strength and stiffness of suspensions, the game now looks at the weight of the attached rigidbody individually, instead of considering the total weight of a vehicle.
• To prevent abuse of the car classes system, the game now only considers the weight of the lightest rigidbody for the car classes, instead of using the total weight. (Catapult class is planned but we haven’t gotten to implement it yet)
• Moved all the ghost races data of bronze, silver and gold times to a separate folder, so it’s not loaded into the RAM when not needed.
• We updated the weights of all gears and axles. They are now much lighter than before, allowing for bigger and more complex gear transmissions without impacting the weight of the vehicle too much.
• Reworked the glass material

• Fixed and polished terrain on Isola tornanti
• Added outside map catcher to Isola tornanti to prevent cars from falling through the ground and not respawning.
• Optional challenges weren’t playable in creative mode, if you only play the tech tree career. Now they also appear, if you beat the Secret Queen in the tech tree career.

• Theme: "The Heart of Isola Tornanti" – We're looking for postcard designs that capture the new island's essence. (The postcard can be a photo/screenshot, drawn, or a video)
• Submission Deadline: Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
• Who Can Enter: Open for anyone above the age of 16 (You need a parent's approval under the age of 18)
• Prizes: Fifteen (15) winners split evenly between platforms. You are allowed to participate on all three (3) platforms for a higher chance of winning. The winners will have their designs highlighted on Steam, Discord, and social media, and each winner will receive a Supporter Pack DLC.

• Create an original postcard design inspired by Isola Tornanti.
• Submit your entry in ⁠contest-submissions forum on Screw Driver Discord Server, or use the hashtag #isolatornati on X and/or TikTok.

Isola Tornanti

New Challenges and Monarchs

• Go Kart Wheel
• Tractor Wheel
• Tornanti Badge (Deco)

New Part Colors

Small Changes

• Speed traps will no longer display the UI when you’re in a challenge.
• There is now a super nice sound for turbos on your vehicle.
• With huge thanks to our community member and genius Verkade, we improved the performance of spawning cars. This should reduce the lags that are happening, if other players spawn their vehicles in multiplayer.
• We added two small buttons to the stepper motor configuration window, where you can precisely configure the degree angle.
• In creative mode, you can now play all the challenges, you have unlocked in either of the two careers. Before, the game only considered your progress of the ranklist career.
• We adjusted the dynamic camera a little, so it does not automatically flip backwards when driving in reverse.

Bug Fixes

• We’ve continued smoothing out some edges on the main island
• Fixed the delta time for the ghosts in the Pepper Sprint challenge.
• Corrected the incorrect display of tarmac/dirt in all optional races.
• Fixed the transport challenges, which didn’t start when ghosts were disabled.
• Fixed a bug, where personal best ghosts sometimes took damage at the start of a challenge.
• Fixed a bug, where when you assign the ‘A' or 'D’ key to a stepper motor, it is activated with either of those keys, although only one of them is configured.
• Fixed a bug, where you could disable the bronze ghost of destroy opponent challenges, resulting in a battle against thin air.
• Fixed a bug, where vehicles with negative center of mass could not be spawned.
• Fixed a bug, where the music of a challenge did not stop and continued playing even when the challenge ends. This sometimes resulted in the music playing without end, even in the main menu.

• 500,000 free licenses claimed (meaning players have added it to their library)
• Over 315,000 unique users have played the game so far
• It currently has an 87% positive user rating from about 2,500 reviews
• And what makes us most proud: The community has created and shared almost 13,000 (!) Workshop items for the game, ranging from cars and planes to really unique machinery. This is what we always dreamed of when we started the project - giving you the tools and watching the players go wild and create amazing things!

Full changelog of v0.3.10.12

• Before, the amount of damage taken increased when the vehicle was heavier. So a vehicle weighing 1000kg did take double the amount of damage when crashing compared to a 500kg vehicle. This is now changed, so the weight of the own vehicle doesn’t affect the amount of damage taken.
• Before, the amount of damage taken was linear to the velocity when crashing. Now, the amount of damage scales with the square of the velocity when crashing. This means, at lower speeds you will now take less damage than before, and when crashing with higher speeds vehicles now take more damage.
• Before, the damage has been propagated through the vehicle evenly. Now the damage is propagated more towards the upper parts of a vehicle, and a little less to the parts at the bottom. This is not realistic, but it helps to protect the wheels of vehicles. It also means, that you can how build some chassis construction towards the top of your vehicle to make it more resistant against crashes.
• If you lose engines your car will also lose power. The powertrain is not recalculated to correctly adjust the power curve, but depending on the power of the broken engine, your vehicle will lose an according percentage of total power. You can also see this in the new damage UI whenever an engine breaks apart.
• If you lose mechanical building blocks like gears, axles, wheels or engines, your top speed will be reduced slightly. You can also see this in the new damage UI as soon as you lose some mechanical building blocks.

• Acceleration
• Downforce
• Weight and Tip-Over

• We added a lot of big signs to most challenges. They should help to make it more visible and more clear where the track is going and where sharp curves are ahead.
• New calculation of acceleration statistic (again). Now the game only looks at the power curve between 0 and 100 km/h and calculates a weighted area of the curve. This weighted area makes acceleration in lower speeds more important than acceleration values of higher speeds close to 100km/h.
• Added new optional challenge: Pepper Sprint

• Added two entries to the general settings, where you can invert the mouse movement for the camera in driving mode.
• When you try to add a creative mode car or a workshop vehicle to your garage in career, the game now shows you how much money you are missing, in case you don’t have enough money to buy all the missing parts right now.
• We reduced the details resolution of the terrain, which reduces the amount of polygons being rendered.

• Fixed a bug which allowed you to instantly teleport to the finish line in acceleration challenges or in A-to-B challenges.
• Fixed tech tree unlock condition of the worm gear. Now it can be unlocked on the Double 8 challenge or the Rock and Drift challenge.
• The center of mass indicator isn’t tilted anymore.
• In the combustion engine tutorial, the red outline wasn’t showing to indicate the removal of the small electric engine. This should now be fixed.
• Fixed a bug where the center of mass of all rigidbodies was calculated wrongly when repairing the vehicle.
• When pressing the 'X' button on the controller in the building editor, the context menu of the garage opened and closed without being visible. This is now fixed.
• Fixed the calculation of the tip-over value, which sometimes was higher than it actually is when using multiple rigidbodies in one vehicle.
• Fixed a bug where the turbo and the big combustion engine weren’t unlockable anymore in the giant bridge challenge, since I screwed up something there accidentally. Should work again now.
• We fixed the destructable objects which weren’t working correctly: Barrel, small fence and the lantern.

• Fixed unlock conditions in the tech tree for all new gears. Now the correct part types should be displayed
• Smoothed terrain in some areas, where it had sharp edges that caused some cars to collide with
• Removed the secret and new SD coins on the prototype map again, since they yet have to have a purpose

BUILDING EDITOR

NEW BUILDING BLOCKS

• Worm Gear: A small typical worm gear. It can be used to create extreme gear ratios. Logically it has two gear teeth.
• Plate Gear: A flat plate of the size of the medium gear, but the teeth are angled in a 90 degree angle. With this you can both implement a gear transmission, but also transmit power around the corner.
• Small Corner Gear: Works pretty similar to the current corner gear to transmit power around the corner. But this is much smaller, so it uses less space. And it can not be used to transmit power sideways.
• Large Shark Fin: A bigger shark fin with a bigger area and thus bigger force in the wind.
• 1x1 building block: Like a beam, but only one hole in length.
• 2x2 building block: Like two beams x2 on top of each other and glued together.
• Axle x10: A 10 blocks long powertrain axle.

MAJOR CHANGES

MINOR CHANGES

BUG FIXES

Cheers guys, and here are the patchnotes of v0.3.11.1:

• We created two game modes for multiplayer: Automatic races, and Speed Building
• In Automatic races, as the name suggests, the server will automatically start random races. Players can then participate in the races and gain points for beating the other players. After five rounds, a winner is crowned and a new cycle of five random races starts
• In Speed Building, the server selects a random race, and a random set of rules. Then all players have 20 minutes time to build a car that satisfies these rules to participate in the race
• Apart from the two new game modes, we also added the possibility to define your own set of rules. As the server host, you can define and configure custom rules for the vehicle weight, power, acceleration and so on. This way, you can create your very own rules for your server

• We added optional challenges to the game. These are challenges which are invisible, until you beat the secret queen. Then the optional challenges will appear and can be driven to climb the leaderboards, or to be driven in multiplayer
• We added three fighting arenas to the Supersonic map. These can be used to play some fighting PVP in multiplayer

• If you restart a challenge, the loading time should be greatly reduced, because the game now caches the ghost race data of the last driven challenge
• You can now color the carbon wings properly as well
• You can now switch back to the old camera movement in the building editor in the general settings (Instead of only being accessible through the F9 key)
• Engines now actually have colliders. Gears still have no colliders tho, so you don’t have to worry about them touching the ground
• Tech Tree can be toggled with the right stick on controller
• Reduced the hit box of the small dirt wheel, since it was bigger than the hit box of the wider dirt wheel. This is the hit box when building, so it should be possible to build closer to the small dirt wheel now.
• Added new building part: Beam x4
• Added two new experimental camera modes: Orbit, and free orbit
• Added an FPS limit of 100 to the graphics settings menu
• Reduced the weight of the corner gear from 6kg to 4kg
• We fixed the calculation of the center of mass for a lot of parts. In big combustion engines for example, the center of mass was offset to the side. This should now be fixed for most parts
• We further improved the performance of the game especially in multiplayer. Mainly we decreased the physics tick-rate, which has been pretty high so far.. With the new physics tick-rate, the physics behavior should not have changed by much, but at the same time the game should run more smoothly, especially with many cars in multiplayer.

• We re-simulated all destructible objects in the game. During our heavy optimization a month ago, we made some of the destructibles behave weirdly. Now most of them should behave correctly again when driven into
• Fixed a potential issue, where it wasn’t possible to navigate the garage menu with controller.
• Renaming a car category in the garage was assigned to the ‘A’ button on controller. This has been fixed, and it is now the left stick
• Fixed a rare bug, which caused the garage to crash and not show any cars anymore.
• When making wheels steerable, they sometimes rotated upside-down instead of left-right. This should now be fixed
• Fixed wrongly configured weight for unlocking the deco lasercut part in the tech tree career
• We fixed the mini map on the Supersonic map. The map there was only a placeholder and not an actual mini map. Now it should actually represent the map properly.

Full changelog of v0.3.10.12:

• It is now no longer possible for anybody to stop a multiplayer challenge, if it is running. Multiplayer challenges now end automatically, if all players reached the goal, or if 50% of the participating players reach the goal, and the timer of one minute finishes
• We changed the UI of joining a challenge in multiplayer, so it does not overlap with the playerslist anymore
• We added a new game mode to the multiplayer, called “Two blue engines”. It is a special game mode, which automatically starts random challenges, and allows only cars to join the challenge, which only have two TurboVolt-TX 200, and weigh at least 1000kg
• Added more spawn points to each challenge, so they support up to 16 players instead of just 8

• In the ‘X’ menu in the building editor, you can now see the amount of building blocks of your vehicle, as well as whether it can be spawned on a multiplayer server, due to the current file size limit of the .ccc files
• If you have unlocked all parts which are used in some of your creative mode cars, they will now show up in your career mode. You can then buy all missing building blocks of the car, to add it to your career, if you want
• The compass should now also point to part color books

• The helicopter spawn point on the Supersonic map was not clickable. This should now be fixed
• There was a bug, where your score or time of a race was not uploaded to any leaderboards, if it was no personal best time. This of course caused problems with the class specific leaderboards. Now the leaderboards get updated correctly
• The special colors of the Supporter Pack DLC are not needed anymore to reach 100% progress in the singleplayer careers. That was unintentional, and should be fixed now ;D
• The text below the minimap showed the left stick for toggling the minimap. This is now fixed, and the text correctly shows that the right stick is used to toggle the minimap
• It is no longer possible to change the island, while a challenge is running
• The road on Pulau Mahkota was floating in some places. This should now be fixed
• Fixed weird shadows on the Connector double
• Fixed a bug, where sometimes the creative mode would not unlock, even tho the player has beaten the Prince of Gears in one of both careers
• Fixed, that when starting a server from the main menu with no password, the password was accidentally set to “-port”
• The books containing new part colors did not properly disappear after you collected them. When restarting the game, they became visible again, although you already have found that color. This should now be fixed
• The compass is now ignored in the progression percentage of the tech tree career, since it cannot be unlocked there (At the moment 😉)

Full changelog of v0.3.10.1:

• We added a new testing area map. It is called Supersonic. There are some areas and ramps to test your vehicle. But mainly, the map consists of a very big and wide plane, where you can infinitely test the top speed of your vehicles. As soon as you reach the end of the map, the game will teleport you to the other end of the map, without resetting your velocity 🙂
• There are also two small race tracks in Supersonic. One is a three laps race in the oval, and the other is a wild course through the testing area

• We added five new building blocks to the game. Most of the heavily inspired by our community
• Deco Winglet 1x2x3: A small, rounded decorative winglet. Has no aerodynamic properties
• Lasercut 3x5 Triangle: A triangular lasercut part
• Connector double: Like the connector, but with a pin on each side
• Part Beam Edge 3x5: A beam shaped like an ‘L’
• Part Beam H: A beam shaped like a ‘H’

• To welcome the summer we included 4 new summer colors for your car which you can find all across the island

• You can now see the torque curve of the previous calculation when pressing ‘X’ in the building editor. It always shows you the previous curve, and renders the current power curve on top. This way, you can compare the differences you make to your powertrain
• You can now also inspect and enable the power curve during driving. Just press ‘N’ to switch the speed gauge

• We adjusted the prices of the weight blocks. The small weight price changed from 205 to 15, the medium weight from 480 to 28 and the big weight from 1400 to 45
• We added a super sonic bang sound that happens, if you exceed the speed of sound
• We removed two collision boxes from the gear shift blocks. Now you are able to put pins through the holes properly, which should make it even easier to build gear shifting mechanisms
• You can now assign the WASD keys to a stepper motor again 😉

• In multiplayer you can send other players your cars by right clicking them. This was bugged and didn’t work. Now it should work properly again
• There has been a bug, where the back button in the settings menu stopped working, and one had to restart the game in order to get it working again. This should now also work again
• I tried to fix the problem of server hosts again. Maybe now the first person which joins a server will stay host of that server, no matter if that person disconnects
• There was a stone on the map which had no collider. That stone should be able to stop you now
• It was possible to attach a stepper motor to the powertrain of a vehicle. Since the stepper motor had an insanely high top speed, it could be used to create waaay too powerful cars. This is no longer possible

Full changelog of v0.3.9.14:

• Further improvement of vehicle position synchronization in multiplayer

• Sometimes the player did not have enough parts to complete one of the tutorials in the tech tree career. This should now not happen anymore
• Fixed a small bug that caused the garage window to be in a bugged state, when the game is unable to read some of the save game files. Only occurred in rare cases, but should be fixed now
• Fixed the small text not appearing, that says which challenges are needed to be driven, when hovering an unlockable part in the tech tree

Full changelog of v0.3.9.11:

• The Tech Tree is back! We heard your feedback, and we also love our sweet tech tree, so we thought hard and tried to fuse it with the challenges of our current island map. You can now play both career modes independently. Each career has its own progress, so you can always switch back and forth and play whichever you like more. Let us know what you think, we are always eager to hear your feedback on anything!
• We just could not hold ourselves back. The Mini Map was planned for much later in the early access, but we were hyped about it, so we added it xD The mini map should help you in the ranklist career to find missing chests easier now. And it looks cool 😄

• You can now adjust the engine sounds separately in the audio settings menu. This ensures that your ears won’t start bleeding
• The PW-Blaze 1000 now has a slight red tone to it, which makes it more distinguishable from the PW-Blaze 600. Same goes for IgnCore-250 and IgnCore-125

• Fixed the super blooming flowers by rooting them up. You should now no longer be blinded by our game. Oh well, the bloom in general is still pretty high, we are almost finished fixing that
• Fixed game lagging for a couple of seconds when it tries to show the radar trap leaderboard
• Some people had slight performance issues since the last update, where we added customizable graphics settings. This should now be fixed again
• Fixed the accidental removal of the Axle x6 and Axle x7. They also made a big comeback

Full changelog of v0.3.9.5:

• Fixed a bug, where the chat window got spammed with messages all the time
• Improved the synchronization. Maybe now the lagging is improved, when a lot of players are driving around at the same time

• You can now customize the graphics settings. We still have not added all the possible options there, but instead of the three presets “Low”, “Medium” and “High”, you can now customize some graphics options individually

• Fixed some more missing textures
• When playing the game with controller, the right DPad button triggered the undo action in the building editor, while the part shop was open. This now no longer happens

Full Changelog:

• We now optimized the destructible objects in the game. They now use much less memory.

• If you host and connect to your own server, you are now assigned to be the host of the server, and this does not change anymore if you disconnect. So even if the host leaves the server, he will be re-assigned to be the host when joining the server again.
• Added the arrows on the ground of the building editor again (Sorry they went missing)

• Air control should now be controlled with WASD as well, because I noticed, that not all keyboards have a numpad. Sorry for that. You can still switch back to numpad if you have one in the general settings.
• The server list in the main menu is now scrollable. We never thought that so many people start their own servers this quickly, and since we never tested this, I forgot.
• The game should no longer detect any controller input or drifting controller sticks when playing with a keyboard and mouse. To ensure this, you can force the game to use keyboard and mouse only in the general settings menu.
• Fixed some more missing textures. There are still not all of them fixed, but some more have been added to the game again.
• Fixed the undo button for controller being assigned to left DPad, which is the same button as opening the parts shop. Undo is now assigned to right DPad.
• Fixed transport challenge. When being too good and delivering all 12 crates, you did not receive any rewards. Now you do get rewards for being a master at this challenge.
• Fixed typo in the first tutorial.
• Fixed a bug, where you could instantly teleport to the goal of some challenges by playing them once, then restarting them and immediately pressing ‘DEL’ after the race started again.
• Fixed the spawn point of prince of gears challenge, which was a little too high in the air.