# People Playground People Playground 1.21

- Product: People Playground (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/people-playground)
- Vendor: mestiez
- Date: 2021-08-17
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1118200/view/5331685684573137547
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/people-playground/releases/2021-08-17-people-playground-1.21

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- **added** — Liquid pressuriser
- **added** — Liquid pressure valve
- **added** — Destructible activation propagation wires
- **added** — Hover thruster
- **added** — Activation toggle
- **added** — Accumulator battery
- **added** — Automatic spike gun
- **added** — Change the range of a detector using the context menu
- **added** — Red LED, Blue LED, Green LED, White LED
- **added** — More mystery liquids
- **added** — Lava pools now work nicely with ambient temperature
- **added** — Contraptions saved from now on will include a list of required mods, with the game displaying required mods when selecting a modded contraption
- **added** — Scrollbar to the mod menu and toybox
- **added** — More ambient sounds
- **added** — Gate now has a double trigger mode
- **added** — UI sounds
- **added** — Steam uninitialised warning dialog box
- **changed** — Simplified some object colliders
- **changed** — Bone breaking sounds
- **changed** — Minor texture changes
- **changed** — Missile launcher missile is now disarmed until its fins are deployed

##### 1.21 - August 17 2021

##### Added

- Liquid pressuriser

- Liquid pressure valve

- Destructible activation propagation wires

- Hover thruster

- Activation toggle

- Accumulator battery

- Automatic spike gun

- You can now change the range of a detector using the context menu

- Red LED, Blue LED, Green LED, White LED

- More mystery liquids

- Lava pools now work nicely with ambient temperature

- All contraptions saved from now on will include a list of required mods. When selecting a modded contraption, the game will display a list of required mods if you don't have them installed or enabled.

- Scrollbar to the mod menu and toybox

- More ambient sounds

- Gate now has a double trigger mode

- Some UI sounds

- A clear "Steam uninitialised" warning dialog box

##### Changed

- Simplified some object colliders

- Bone breaking sounds

- Minor texture changes

- Missile launcher missile is now disarmed until its fins are deployed

- Made the phase link smaller

- Ceiling turret moves less smoothly and more robotically

- Laser performance improvements

- Detector performance improvements

- Detector rays are a little brighter

- Dialog boxes are clearer now

- Other major performance improvements

- Hovercars now hover over water

- Increased mouse scrolling speed in menus

- Some UI sounds

- Bone breaking poison is less instant

- Decreased the chance for damage to the upper body to do damage to the heart

- Changes to the internal map system. Note to custom map creators and users: your maps will inevitably break in the upcoming updates. They may work to an extent but you should consider them obsolete.

##### Fixed

- A broken plate being heavier than a normal one

- Display text change dialog not being pre-filled with the current text being displayed

- Stuff being rendered outside of map bounds

- Some items going haywire inside lava

- Context menu closing when the scrollwheel is clicked

- Valves still transferring pressure when closed

- Channel-related bug with the gate

- Liquid related bugs

- Detectors, lasers, and the missile launcher detecting themselves when moving fast

- Lasers blocking their own beam

- Minor disintegration & crushing bugs and also performance improvements

- Item persistence bug

- A memory leak

- Metal detector not considering some items metal

- Small buttons going haywire in water and lava

- Heartrate Monitor issues

- UI lock when attempting to publish a contraption to the Workshop before Steam is initialised

- Debris not being scaled with the destroyed object correctly

- Camera trying to follow disintegrated/crushed objects

- Other minor bugs