September 2025 Workshop Release Notes

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Another Wiremod Workshop update? In this economy? You bet it. There's been a lot of cool stuff since last release, so let's not waste any time!

Refreshing the Wire Map Interface

I know what you're thinking: "the what?" The Wire Map Interface (or WMI) is a special little feature of Wiremod that not many users may know about. It's a simple idea: let map makers put Wiremod into their maps. Want to open a door with a Wire Button? Use a Wire Map Interface. Want to use a Keypad instead? The Wire Map Interface makes that as plug-and-play as everything else in Wiremod! It's a very under-appreciated part of Wiremod, but that didn't stop Grocel from rewriting the entire thing.

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Bug fixes, safety, stability, and performance: Grocel's made this little niche feature more robust than most of the rest of Wiremod. Making a map and want to add an interesting twist? Give the WMI a try! Grocel's given our own devs (myself included) a run for their money with the abundance of documentation provided, so you won't be having too much trouble setting it up. Check out the documentation here if you're interested!

Artsy Additions

Uplifted from the depths of Wire Extras, Astralcircle has brought the Wire Painter and the Wire Materializer as the newest members of Wiremod's roster. The Painter, as the name may suggest, allows you to paint a decal onto any surface you want. Now, you can spray a trail of puke in an orderly,
Wire way, or print a cool design anywhere you want!

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The Materializer lets you change the material of entities using plain old Wire. No more needing to create an E2 chip to handle this, just point and shoot.

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These tools have been long overdue. While these may be rather humble additions on their own, they're part of newly deputized developer Astralcircle's effort to move more tools out from the depths of Wire Extras and back into the main addon. Stay tuned to see more Extras underdogs coming to Wire in the
future.

I wanted to focus on the meaty bits and keep it brief this release log, but that doesn't mean the changelog is as short! We've had tons of fixes and changes all over that you should check out down below! In closing, I'd like to acknlowedge the newest Wiremod developers, @Astralcircle and @sarahsturgeon!
We're grateful for your contributions this release cycle, and the generous volunteering of everyone else who might not be official.(.. yet?)

Full changelog:

Wiremod

Additions

• Added the Wire Materializer, an entity that lets you change materials with Wire
• Added the Wire Painter, an entity that lets you spray decals on demand
• Added Bullet [RANGER] output to Turrets, containing ranger info about the last bullet fired (community contribution from unknao)
• Added a gizmo to show Gimbal direction (community contribution from marchc1)
• Added Vehicles [ARRAY] inputs to EGP HUD and Pod Controller to allow linking multiple vehicles (community contribution from LengthenedGradient)
• Added MaxDistance input to Camera Controller to limit zoom distance
• Added flamethrower, exhaust, and exhaust_diy effects to thrusters (community contribution from unknao)

Changes

• Rewrote the Wire Map Interface (community contribution from Grocel)
• Fixed various, small issues with the sound browser (community contribution from Grocel)
• Improved the Laser Pointer and Remote Control's visuals and feedback (community contribution from thecraftianman)
• Reverted toolgun background to its former, decompressed original
• Diversified icons used in the Wire panel
• Cleaned up the Weight's code
• Slightly optimized instances where all players would be iterated over
• Optimized effects drawing
• Optimized Gates and Water Sensors by only updating their overlay data when a player wants to see it
• Changed Keypad to draw based on view position instead of player's shoot position (allowing it to draw when viewed through cameras)
• Updated the toolgun descriptions and information on the Interactive Prop, RT Camera, and RT Screen
• Decreased the dupe size of E2 chips
• Slightly optimized Wire gates
• Wire User doesn't activate if player is in a vehicle trying to enter another vehicle
• Limited string length of the string Explode gate
• Slightly optimized hologram drawing
• Slightly optimized entity and beam drawing (community contribution from StrawWagen)
• Cleaned up the Speedometer's code
• Cleaned up the Keypad's code
• Refactored and optimized the Laser Pointer

Fixes

• Fixed sentSpawn functions would never call the SpawnFunction hook when spawning entities
• Fixed wheels and thrusters that used models outside of Wire could have issues being spawned
• Mitigated issues with old dupes causing errors using nil data with the Turret
• Mitigated issues with calling string methods when creating ports (notably, caused issues with Starfall)
• Fixed the clear button in the Wire panel's search not working while the text entry is active
• Fixed a NULL error that could occur when linking a Holo Emitter that no longer exists
• Mitigated issues with inputs and outputs being created improperly on Gates
• Fixed small bug with deprecated wire_adv_unwire
• Fixed duping E2s that create holograms
• Mitigated a rare error with the Holo Emitter not being set up correctly
• Fixed Derivative gates could be triggered twice on a tick, creating garbage output (community contribution from LeoLongtail)
• Fixed error involving deleting entities marked by a non-existent Advanced Entity Marker
• Fixed an error with Explosives receiving malformed damage information
• Fixed Wire output ports becoming disordered (community contribution from LeoLongtail)
• Fixed Digital Screens not updating/marking changes when clearing rows and columns (community contribution from WallopingEwe)
• Fixed an error when creating a wire with an entity that gets deleted (community contribution from LeoLongtail)
• Fixed errors with invalid overlay data in the Colorer and HUD Indicator
• Fixed issues with CPPI breaking displaying owner name on overlays (community contribution from bjurd)
• Fixed Wire overlays not displaying properly if they didn't have overlay text
• Fixed problems with Text Screens finalizing the GPU on a full update (community contribution from StrawWagen)
• Fixed a memory leak involving E2 View Requests button (community contribution from bjurd)

Removals

• Removed modelplug as it was unused
• Removed wirelogo.vtf
• Removed deprecated spawnlist file
• Removed unnecessary font being added to server resources
• Removed references to COLOSSAL_SANDBOX
• Removed references to something called rt_antinoclip

Expression 2

Additions

• Added entity:propMakeBreakable(number) and related functions to allow users to make props unbreakable
• Added entity:setBloodColor(number) and related functions and constants to change entity blood colors
• Added bone:getBoneName(), and bone:toModelBone() and entity:fromModelBone(number) to convert between model and physical bones
• Added _NO_ENTITY constant to replace noentity()
• Added entity:getBodygroupName(number) to get the name of a bodygroup (j7gg)
• Added entity:podSetName(string) to change name of a vehicle (most prominently used in the killfeed)
• Added missing damage getters damage:getDamageType(), damage:getMaxAmount(), and damage:getWeapon()
• Added missing description for entity:getSubMaterial(number)
• Added entity:getModelRadius() and entity:getModelScale()
• Moved most of serverinfo extensions functions to constants
• Added event entityRemoved, runs when an entity is removed
• Added entities(), returns an array of all entities
• Added factorial(number), returns factorial of a number
• Added entity:propDissolve, lets you delete props with cool effects
• Added entity:getClass() to replace entity:type()
• Added events playerPhysgunPickup, playerPhysgunDrop, playerPhysicsPickup, playerPhysicsDrop to track when players pick up entities
• Added various entity getter functions entity:isAsleep(), entity:isNextBot(), entity:isRagdoll(), entity:isGravityEnabled(), entity:isPenetrating(), entity:isSpeaking(), and entity:isBot()
• Added tickRealInterval() to get the real time difference between ticks

Changes

• Added a few more file extensions to the whitelist for creating files (Update file.Write whitelist for E2 #3429)
• Moved E2 default files to data_static and added ability for these files to be synced when updated
• toString(entity) now distinguishes between world and NULL
• Improved guards against uploading to chips that the player doesn't own
• E2 now uses netstream for networking E2 scripts and function data
• Slightly optimized event execution
• Added exceptions to player extension and converted nil returns to NULL
• E2 editor no longer throws an error when failing to open a file
• Moved E2 prop spawn limit from global to per player
• Moved entity:isAlive() to entity extension and allow it to be used on more entities
• entityDamaged event now properly reports the final damage taken
• entity:use() doesn't activate if player is in a vehicle trying to enter another vehicle
• Added player limit of 50 fonts created in EGP
• Added 512 character limit to EGP text
• Slightly optimized hologram networking
• Optimized entity:weapons()
• Optimized the angle extension

Fixes

• Fixed wirelink:egpObjectTypes() would cause an error
• Fixed the ops bar in the overlay could go out of bounds
• Fixed error with the propcore extension if it was enabled mid-game
• Fixed damage extension not properly accounting for ownership in takeDamage functions
• Fixed issues with EGP doing operations with long strings or numerous vertices calling a nonexistent EditObject function
• Fixed prop protection preventing players from modifying holos using entity functions
• Fixed issues with EGP global vertices functions causing errors and giving garbage output
• Fixed issues with certain EGP objects breaking EGP and mitigated future EGP networking issues
• Fixed entity:aimbone() erroring from calling an undefined local
• Fixed vague error when trying to call an uninitialized lambda function (community contribution from Yamir)
• Fixed entity:tool() could return nil
• Mitigated performance issues with tables and arrays in the parser
• Fixed small issues with E2 test files
• Fixed issues with file extension writing empty files
• Fixed errors with toChar and toUnicodeChar when receiving NaN
• Fixed E2 collisions could still be processed after being disabled if multiple collisions happened on the same tick
• Fixed a memory leak involving cyclical tables when JSON and vON encoding
• Mitigate error involving E2 chip not having a RuntimeContext when wire_expression2_pause_on_disconnect is enabled
• Mitigate issues with unhandled exceptions causing errors involving traces (community contribution from bjurd)
• Mitigated net overflows from networking E2 function data
• Fixed entity:propStatic would un-static props if ran twice with a value of 1
• Fixed holoClip errors with invalid entities
• Fixed an oversight with modifyChat (community contribution from shroobloom)
• Fixed errors from table:maxIndex() and table:minIndex() (community contribution from vMajx)
• Fixed file extension downloads would break when reloading the file extension
• Fixed entity:weapon() returning nil on invalid entities
• Fixed timerSetDelay would create infinitely repeating timers (community contribution from unknao)
• Fixed deprecated array getter functions
• Fixed a bug involving errors in try/catch blocks

Removals

• Deprecated noentity(), use _NO_ENTITY
• Removed an unnecessary timer in the gametick extension
• Removed unused code left from before the compiler rewrite
• Deprecated entity:type(), aliases to entity:getClass()
• Removed unneeded polyfill in the vector extension

CPU

Fixes

• Fixed an error when trying to open ZCPU documentation (community contribution from VaporGame)
• Fixed issues with the debugger line highlighting not updating properly (community contribution from VaporGame)
• Fixed LEA would cause an error (community contribution from WallopingEwe)

API

Additions

• Added hook Wire_CanName to check if a player can use a certain name on an entity
• Added EGPLib.CreateFont to deduplicate font caching and creation
• Added hook Expression2_CanCompile to check if a chip should compile
• Added missing language keys max_wire_deployers, max_wire_dataplugs, max_wire_egps, max_wire_plugs (community contribution from RubisetCie)
• Added WireLib.NetQueue class to handle queued networking
• Added WireLib.SoundExists to check if a sound exists on the server

Changes

• Optimized Wire_GetWireRenderBounds
• E2 now allows entity constants
• Improved the error that appears when an E2 extension has an error during preprocessing (community contribution from stepa2)
• E2Lib.compileScript now handles errors like E2 chips do
• Rewrote Wire port networking to be safer and cleaner
• Optimized WireLib.clampForce and WireLib.clampPos

Fixes

• Mitigated net overflows when joining a server from networking ports
• Fixed error with von deserializing nan or inf numbers

Removals

• Deprecated global table EGP, use WireLib.EGPLib
• Removed redundant MAX_EDICT_BITS initialization