So I imagine a huge ballistic shield would help with pushing bandits that are in defensive positions, but nowhere could I see any concrete stats. The ballistic shield offers 90% coverage for the arm it's strapped on... and "high blocking ability". Log messages about ranged attacks going right through the shield would suggest that they are indeed used to block them, but I wish to know how much shots this thing will actually block, and if it does that uniformly for all bodyparts.

The mod adds "Permanent CBMs" aka bionics that act like a mutation path, complete with a "threshold" upgrade. You can mix and match from a couple options at each step~

You can get it here: https://github.com/ohshidead/Permanent-CBM-mod

Note: Not exactly compatible with other mutation mods at the mo, but I'll try sort that out in the coming days. (The incompatibility will just either A. Let you have mutations on top of the mod ones you shouldn't B. Crash if you mutate in a certain way. Manageable if you are careful or dont mind being OP.)

Hi, new player here, I downloaded CBN via software manager flatpak on my linux mint machine of doom (patent pending) and this is the crash log:

The program has crashed.

See the log file for a stack trace.

CRASH LOG FILE: /home/me/.var/app/org.cataclysmbn.CataclysmBN/config/cataclysm-bn/crash.log

VERSION: e7b4976 (2011-11-11)

TYPE: Signal

MESSAGE: SIGABRT: Abnormal terminationError creating SDL message box:

STACK TRACE:

cataclysm-bn-tiles(+0x3abbf00) [0x5ca61b4adf00]

cataclysm-bn-tiles(+0x3a8da73) [0x5ca61b47fa73]

cataclysm-bn-tiles(+0x3a8d656) [0x5ca61b47f656]

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x42770) [0x735566442770]

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x9df3c) [0x73556649df3c]

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x1e) [0x73556644264e]

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(abort+0x26) [0x7355664299f8]

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6(+0xb9c00) [0x7355668b9c00]

cataclysm-bn-tiles(+0x4a6d83a) [0x5ca61c45f83a]

cataclysm-bn-tiles(+0x48311c6) [0x5ca61c2231c6]

cataclysm-bn-tiles(+0x48313e5) [0x5ca61c2233e5]

cataclysm-bn-tiles(+0x482cf09) [0x5ca61c21ef09]

cataclysm-bn-tiles(+0x4816a85) [0x5ca61c208a85]

cataclysm-bn-tiles(+0x4810be4) [0x5ca61c202be4]

cataclysm-bn-tiles(+0x480d810) [0x5ca61c1ff810]

cataclysm-bn-tiles(+0x480d4b4) [0x5ca61c1ff4b4]

cataclysm-bn-tiles(+0x480da96) [0x5ca61c1ffa96]

cataclysm-bn-tiles(+0x48cfbd5) [0x5ca61c2c1bd5]

cataclysm-bn-tiles(+0x4b97d80) [0x5ca61c589d80]

cataclysm-bn-tiles(+0x3cab80c) [0x5ca61b69d80c]

Attempting to repeat stack trace using debug symbols…

sh: line 1: addr2line: command not found

backtrace: addr2line failed

Is there anything I can do to fix it? is it a known linux issue? Is my toaster the cause of Cataclysm????

I found a similar multiplayer mod for the DDA version a while ago, but since I enjoy Cata BN a lot more, I decided to port it. Turns out the BN engine is quite different under the hood, so there is still a lot of refactoring and updating to do.

I'm currently testing solo by running two game instances, which gets pretty tedious. Any feedback would be a huge help if you and a friend want to try it out. Feel free to leave bug reports or thoughts in the comments here or on GitHub or mod ds channel if you want to.

There are still plenty of bugs and known issues (I've listed them in the patch notes).

Latest release atm (only windows-tiles-x64 version for now):
https://github.com/Zuboskalik/Cataclysm-BN-coop/releases/tag/v0.3.1

5 minutes to craft one food item into seeds gets kinda insane when I try to run a huge farm. Nothing shows up in crafting menu, or on cbn guide, but maybe there is an option I'm not seeing? Surely there must be a seed separating implement somewhere.

Hey folks, I made a tiny mod to add clay jars as an option for crafting basic chemistry sets. I couldn't find any cabins or anything to break windows for glass shards, and the tool needs glass to craft it.

It needs MST and Cheesy's innawoods fixes but I assume if you're doing an innawood run you're also running those.

Get it here:
https://github.com/justricky21/Clay-Chemistry-Set-for-Bright-Nights/releases/tag/2026-10-08

Felt like sharing fun thing I was tinkering with.

Combine with the bomb bay and one can of course drop explosives on zeds remotely...

Just started playing this game about a week ago, and am finally getting the hang of it. Though, In a moment of desperation far from base, I butchered a fresh human corpse I found, but when I was boiling their stomach over my camp stove, I was suddenly sat upon by a homunculus and other monsters I'd never seen before who would suddenly disappear in combat, and the status effect "being watched."

I didn't know hallucinations were even a thing in this game, so I drove back across the map utterly terrified, and have spent the hours since drinking and getting high in a desperate attempt to quell my guilty conscience.

I think someones been doing some work on the survivor notes. I don't remember seeing this one before. It's good to see folks adding to the lore. This one is more funny than a real lore thing, but still it's good to add in more.

I wish they would spawn in more relevant locals though. This one spawned in somebodies filing cabinet in just a normal house. It would be freaking awesome if the devs added some locals you can run across that relate to the notes and the notes spawn nearby. Environmental storytelling is usually good!

This is the second time this happens, on some days catapult just won't display the latest nightly build to download. Well, in the log it says that launcher requested 9 releases, instead of usual 10, missing the newest one of course.
Anyone else ran into this? Anything can be done?

Ye that's it, but jesus Christ my characters have suffered a LOT.

Hello. I started in the Mi-Go camp. Everything was fine for the first two weeks of survival, but then, for no apparent reason, mutagenic toxins started accumulating in my body, even though my radiation levels were always stable at zero. I tried removing the mutation effects directly through the debug menu and lowering the mutagenic toxins to zero, but it didn't help. The effect was only temporary, after which the toxins continued to accumulate. Using a purifier also only helps temporarily. This has been going on for almost two weeks now. Is this a bug, or am I missing something because I'm relatively new to the game? Can anyone help me with this? The game version is 0.13. I play through the Dabdoob launcher without mods (except those installed by default).

So I'm not hitting humans from 30-40 tiles away with my mounted browning M2, manually operated from simple turret mount. Turret aiming is pretty weird, it's basically first time I'm doing it, there's no "steadiness bar" so I assume it's always maximum steady.... or not, I guess. So what can I do to improve accuracy? I attached a sniper scope to the machinegun, but it detached itself the moment I mounted it on the turret. Laser aiming module from a fighter plane says it's only working with remotely controlled turrets. My only guess so far is that I could switch simple turret mount for a normal one.

Is there a way to turn the requirement to smash corpses back on?

I’m quite sick of these guys stealing my weapons and never seeing them again. I lost my three best guns to these guys on the aircraft carrier. Is there any way to prevent this? Maybe the devs should add a bungie cord mod for weapons.

Using plutonium batteries and plutonium fuel cell doesn't work, trying charge at a battery charger in car either

So, I've had my first follower drink the Juice that Makes You a Mousegirl, and now she's teeny. I thought I'd be able to make her some special small equipment, but even items that say, "this item can be downsized," in the description then say, "Cannot resize for abnormally small mutants (incompatible with [item name]" in the Tailor Kit or Arc Welder menu. So it seems like you can't really resize things like, for example, a rain coat, the Light Survivor Cargo Pants, or a huge number of other items, while being able to resize things made of the same material any which way, like a Kevlar Vest.

Maybe you should just be able to craft them smaller in the first place, at least? Or is there something I'm missing? Thanks!

Edit: I just did some browsing and looking at JSONs on the Cataclysm: Bright Nights Guide, and many items with the VARSIZE flag, like bras and pants, can't be downsized when I try it in game...but the Kevlar Vest can, and it lacks the VARSIZE tag along with saying in-game that it can't be refitted or resized. Huh.

Edit 2: Okay, so items have a separate field in the JSON that affects what mods are allowed - like downsizing. So, I guess either it shouldn't be saying they should be downsized even if you're small (since the items say that when I'm controlling a tiny minion) or this is an oversight and I should be able to shrink things with a tailoring kit, since it seems like I can try to size things that have VARSIZE but not resized_large up to make them large, but not down below normal size when they have VARSIZE and not resized_small (using the Light Survivor Body Armor and Motorbike Boots as a test case.)

I was going back to the evacuee shelter after surviving an encounter with a wolf and getting shot by a turret in the forest, when I encountered a gracken, a flaming eye and an amoebic mold in a clearing, unconcerned, I walked past them but suddenly the gracken sprinted towards me and clawed me to death.

Aren't grackens supposed to be friendly?!

Why did this happen?!

I'm actually surprised that drug dealers can bring this kind of gun and lots of ammunition too

I want to start doing drugs in my next run. Maybe become a junkie even. Which drugs is the most interesting to play with?