# SCUM March QoL patch available now!

- Product: SCUM (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/scum)
- Vendor: Gamepires
- Date: 2026-03-19
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/513710/view/518615049848225926
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/scum/releases/2026-03-19-march-qol-patch-available-now

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- **added** — Add DespawnLifetime option for spawned puppets, armed NPCs, and animals via admin commands
- **added** — Add server setting to set puppets to permanently limp
- **added** — Add Building Proximity Restriction server setting to control the 'too close to building' restriction independently from map base building restrictions
- **fixed** — Fix mines and traps being listed as available for purchase on PvE servers when disabled, causing loss of currency without delivering items
- **changed** — Temporarily disable all vehicle-to-vehicle damage on PvE servers to prevent griefing
- **fixed** — Fix character's legs disappearing when Boxer Briefs, Stockings, and High Heel Boots are equipped simultaneously
- **fixed** — Fix shirts not being visible when equipped over Danny Trejo's Vest
- **fixed** — Fix skin detaching from male character and arms slightly detaching from female character body when wearing sleeveless shirt with buff physique
- **fixed** — Fix biceps shrinking when wearing undershirt on buff character
- **fixed** — Fix Breathing Tube and Christmas headband clipping through each other
- **fixed** — Fix Short pants and Leather mini skirt clipping through each other
- **fixed** — Fix motorbike battery not dropping lead plates when broken, now drops smaller quantity compared to car battery
- **fixed** — Fix big-boned male civilian puppet not dropping any loot
- **changed** — Increase character respawn distance on small airfield POIs in sectors A4 and Z0 from 15 meters to 150 meters
- **fixed** — Fix inability to place chest on Eastern Standing Storage Shelf element
- **fixed** — Fix Improvised and Metal Eastern chests allowing more items than weight capacity
- **fixed** — Make decay rate of Wooden Double and Single Seat Sofas consistent with other base building elements
- **fixed** — Fix ability to stack Storage shelves on top of each other
- **fixed** — Fix incorrect destruction and particle effects for Spiral staircase Lvl2 with wooden boards

Hey there prisoners,

Spring is the season of renewal, and we are more than happy to release another patch filled with a variety of quality of life improvements, bugfixes and other improvements!

Without further ado - let's get started:

##### SERVER SETTINGS AND ADMIN COMMANDS

- Let's start off strong with a big one - much requested by server owners! As they were creating custom events using spawned armed NPCs, they would despawn when there were no players within the relevancy range. With this patch, puppets, armed NPCs and animals now have a DespawnLifetime option when being spawned by an admin command.  From now on, for example, when you'll use the command **#SpawnArmedNPC BP_Drifter_Lvl_1  1 DespawnLifetime 20**, you will spawn a Lvl 1 Drifter that will not despawn if no players enter its relevancy range for 20 seconds.

- Per popular demand, we've created a server setting where you can **set puppets to permanently limp**! If you like slow zombies, this is the setting for you!

- We're introducing some much requested changes to the building restrictions! Until now, we only had the 'Use Map Base Building Restrictions' server setting, which would regulate building bases near POIs. However, even with the above setting turned off, you would still receive the dreaded ''Too close to building'' message.

Now, we've introduced a new server setting called ''**Building Proximity Restriction**'' which will influence that ''too close to building'' restriction, which, when disabled, will practically allow you to build your bases wherever you want!  It is important to note that the two settings are mutually dependent. This means that in order for the new setting to become available, you first need to set the original ''Use Map Base Building Restrictions'' to OFF.

- There's a setting for PvE servers for disabling mines and traps which wasn't working correctly as the Traders still listed them as available for purchase. If you attempted to purchase mines or traps, they'd take your money but would not deliver the purchased goods. That's pretty low, even by prison island standards so we can't have any of that, so the option for purchasing these items has been completely removed if the server setting has been set that way.

- We’ve received widespread reports from our PvE servers that some players are destroying other players’ vehicles by intentionally crashing into them with their own. This was possible regardless of the fact whether the vehicles were parked or in motion. To counteract this form of griefing, we will **temporarily disable all vehicle-to-vehicle damage on PvE servers** until we manage to implement specific server settings for this situations.

##### CLOTHING

- There was a bug where your character's legs would disappear when you had Boxer Briefs, Stockings and High Heel Boots equipped at the same time!

- Also, we had a bug where shirts equipped over Danny Trejo's Vest would not be visible. It is fixed now.

- We know of stretch marks that can happen when people build too much much muscle mass in a short period of time, but this is ridiculous! There was a bug where wearing the sleeveless shirt while having a buff character would result in skin detaching from the male character and arms slightly detaching from the body on female characters! That nightmare fuel bug is thankfully also fixed! Also, while on the topic of buff character bugs, there was a weird occurrence where the biceps would shrink while wearing the undershirt. Imagine the horror a gym bro would feel if they saw this! Rest assured, it is no longer present in the game!

- I don't know why anyone on this Earth would simultaneously equip a Breathing Tube and a Christmas headband, but these two items were clipping through each other and now they don't. The same more or less goes for the Short pants and Leather mini skirt items.

##### LOOT

- We found that breaking a motorbike battery does not drop lead plates the same way breaking a car battery does. Now, the lead

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