Version 0.48.0

6 November 2026New features

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The Dark Zone comes alive: sixteen kinds of weather and danger now cross its layers on a published schedule.
The map shows what is happening in the Dark Zone, where and until when, with a 24-hour forecast and a zone report.
The air looks like what it does: a flood tide, a sour surge or a silent wind each has its own colour, particles and sound.
A sign beside the hotbar names the event over your layer, and a note warns you before an ash front reaches you.
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All changes in this version

Events in the Dark Zone

Every event is drawn from the world's seed and published ahead: you can plan a trip around it.
Weather: sink, clearing, cold snap, heat haze, gusts, sour surge, brine rain, static storm and silent wind.
War and the dead: the rising, the blind battery and the lost drop - a crate with loot of your own.
Life and oil: herds stampede ahead of a front, and a seep can gush.
Rare: the Heart's fever in Xendar and the war's echo on the old front lines at night.
An event costs dose, wear, nerve or risk; it never closes a road. A room with clean air keeps you safe from all the weather.
No event touches the Safe Zone or the Heart's layer, and a Calm stills the Cascade's weather once it is announced.

The Dark Zone is drawn as seven named layers, with Wall Sina and the ruins of Rose and Maria.
A Zone group in the map's key shows weather, dangers, openings and hunts as bands, cells and marks.
The forecast strip at the bottom moves the map up to 24 hours ahead.
The zone report lists what runs now, in the next 12 hours, this week and recently; any row shows its place on the map.
Right-click an event for a card with what it does, how long it lasts and how to prepare.
A line on arrival says what is running, so nothing is lost if you missed the chat.

Flood and ebb now differ in colour, particles and the click rate of a new sulphur sensor.
A sour surge is seen as a yellow wall of gas coming from its bearing before it arrives.
A mask muffles the world and fogs up as the dose grows.
The tide and the time it turns stay on the air sign without holding J.
Client settings in polis_atmos-client.toml: fewer effects, softer flashes and no motion.

This version changes what the server sends: update the pack, or the server will ask you to.