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Hi folks! It's been a wee while! I'm really excited to announce my second title - Tidy Up the Town! View game page It's a cozy, no-pressure sorting/tidy-up game set in a medieval market town. You're an apprentice wizard whose early morning practice in the market square has had di
Version 1.036 - 23/06/26 - 16:35 BST Fixes - Fixed some comically large drill bits. - Disabled the ability to queue up Stub Memories to avoid them double playing accidentally. - Added a fail-safe check for the Reactor Fuel Rod pickup dialogue. - Increased size of the trigger for
Hello, Pioneers! Patch 1.035 is live now, bringing official gamepad support to AETHUS ! With the game going on sale for the next two weeks as of tomorrow 6PM BST (10AM PST) , there's never been a better time to pick up a copy and begin your adventure! For clarity, this also i ncl
Version 1.029 - 08/05/26 - 14:50 BST New Features - Added a new 'Resources' Game Modifier to the New Game screen and the Settings menu, which allows for adjusting resource drop rates higher or lower than standard. Improvements - Dialogues that trigger when the player returns to t
Version 1.028 - 01/05/26 - 15:00 BST I had a nasty hardware failure last weekend so a lot of this week was lost to getting that sorted... I think we're all good now, though! New Features - Objects in the world that are colliding with what you're constructing in Build Mode will no
Version 1.027 - 24/04/26 - 15:45 BST New Features - Added a new panel to the Settings menu to enable/disable seasonal events and reset their progress. The Spring Event can now be enabled at any time (once the player has progressed sufficiently in the story) and repeated if desire
Version 1.026 - 22/04/26 - 11:55 BST More building improvements! Storage snapping has been requested for a while, so I'm very pleased to get it to you! Keep the suggestions and feedback coming :) New Features - Storage facilities now snap together so you can easily stack and line
Hello, Pioneers! Patch 1.025 is live now, bringing improvements to the snapping system in Build Mode, which should make things smoother and allow you to create more flexible Outpost designs! Full patch notes and details below. In addition, AETHUS is featured in the Earth Apprecia
Version 1.022 - 11/04/26 - 18:00 GMT I hope you all had a nice Easter break! Some nice fixes in this one alongside a much-requested new QOL option and a significant balancing-related feature that should help anyone who's feeling a bit 'grindy' in the midgame. I'll be moving to on
Version 1.021 - 31/03/26 - 15:15 GMT Final wee set of fixes and improvements before I head off for some downtime! As mentioned, from tomorrow I'll be travelling to spend some time with family and rest a bit for the first time post-launch - I'll be back to more improvements about
Hello, Pioneers! Spring is here, the weather is improving, and we're now three weeks from launch! Spring Fling Event I wanted to do a little something fun to celebrate the arrival of the spring season (finally!), so I've added a new tiny little questline... a three-task Easter Eg
Version 1.019 - 24/03/26 - 09:20 GMT I'm a bit under the weather so I'm pushing the latest bugfixes and will be back to more significant changes tomorrow for later in the week! Improvements - Added the ability to move the Cliffside Ramp after placing, in case you misplaced it. -
Version 1.018 - 20/03/26 - 16:00 GMT New Features - Added a count of how many of an item the player has in storage within their Outpost, in the item's tooltip when hovered. - Added a new Settings option to auto-open the crafting UI when interacting with a crafting/cooking facilit
Version 1.017 - 17/03/26 - 16:45 GMT Ok, sorry, I lied... Another patch for you. But it has some good stuff! The next one really should be on Thursday or Friday now! New Features - Constructions will no longer snap onto others that they are not designed to work with, e.g. Door Se
Version 1.016 - 16/03/26 - 17:40 GMT This is the first of the new-cadence patches! Expect the next one on Wednesday, and then probably another on Friday! New Features - Added a DX12 launch option to Steam when the game is launched, which should provide much higher framerates and
Hello, Pioneers! 7 Days post-launch, how are things going, you ask? (Spoiler alert: Very Well) Future Secured Folks. I can barely put into words how the last week has been. It's been the most unbelievable, exhausting, exhilarating, terrifying week of my life. 15,000+ players. 500
Hotfix #15 - 12/03/26 - 17:40 GMT Bit of a smaller one today, the backup save system rework took a fair time, but you will see a much smaller saves folder going forward so I wanted to prioritise this one! Improvements - Reworked backup save system. The ten latest backup saves are
Hotfix #14 - 11/03/26 - 17:30 GMT Improvements - Alt and Tab keys no longer trigger skip cutscene behaviour. - Removed extra debug logging in save game files required to fix earlier issues (now resolved) in order to lower their size. - Added a reference to the prologue skip funct
Patching Moving Forward Now that all critical bugs are seemingly resolved (🙏) I'm moving forward with a daily hotfix cadence! Some particularly big changes are bolded. Improvements - Significantly reduced the threshold time for culling dropped or unharvested resources, before th
Improvements - Roland is now more considerate and won't yap at you or sing non-copyrighted songs while you're browsing the market, journal entries, etc. - Added a custom error message when trying to place the Crater Climber in a place that isn't the crater. - Added the ability to