Developer posts and news about this game.
Converting Visual Scripts to Text Scripts If you create a script with the block based editor you can now convert it to a text script. We've been working over the last few weeks adding new features to the text scripting to support a variety of edge cases and lesser used features i
Patch Notes Text Scripting add craft command. add random and chance functions. documentation pages for operators and functions. Documentation for broadcast command. Fix documentation for rest command. Bug Fixes Fix scrolling in the text script editor. Fix some cases of cursor mis
Patch Notes 1.0.4 Added in-game Documentation New icon to make it easier to find: Document the location property .biomass for the biomass available to trees at that location. That's been in the language but we missed the documentation page. More details and examples in the hover
Patch Notes We keep adding new documentation for the text scripting; there's now a section on loops. Delete published actions when setting the role on an entity. Fix some instability in the loop length slider. Don't validate destinations when the crane is moving. This fixes odd b
Patch Notes Import action in the editor now properly imports text scripts. Dismiss the export dialog when closing the role picker. Disable the rename button for the null role in the role picker. Properly handle errors when resolving a construction or deconstruction site tag with
Icaria 1.0 So, after 7 years, the game has finally achieved what we set out to do and more so. The game today is very much the game we imagined when we started while also being far more that we thought we could actually make. Thanks so much to everyone who's followed along on thi
Holding shift makes the camera move faster. Click on any slider to make it jump to a position. East and West were swapped in the goto position target editor. Re-orient them. Right click drag no longer rotates the camera while the mouse is over UI. In the script editor, for the Ac
Fix the broken ports on the large storage and large crane. Large storage and large crane can now be used for construction storage. Rotate beacon areas when rotating a blueprint. Some changes to reduce the amount of memory used by the game.
A fix to loading some save files when an saved entity is executing a command on the call stack. Rework the camera zoom to better handle a variety of different mice. Reset the loop counter on For Each when exiting by Break. Sort the entities in ForEach in ID order so that the beha
New Feature: Husk Clear the terrain of the invasive Husk; a fungus that drains power from your robots and uses it to grow. Attack the husk with Jackhammers, Chainsaws, and Dynamite. Husk is passive until you engage with it and only grows outside the starting area so you won't run
Add a two tile long conveyor bridge., Conditionals can now measure distances north and east (negative for south and west)., Distance to "self" for a crane is now the distance to the center of the foundation., Properly save the beacon "visible when empty" flag.
Update 1 Change Log Compatibility You can bring 0.4.x saves forward to 0.5.x. There are no known breaking changes. Version 0.4.53 will remain available on the prior branch. New Feature: Blueprints Duplicate anything from a single building to your whole factory and place directly
Blueprints Select and blueprint any part of your factory. Share factory designs between saves and export blueprint strings to share with your friends. Program your surveyor robots to place blueprints and fully automate construction. Sloped Conveyors Conveyors now can go up and do
Reworked script editor so you no longer need to edit a script to view it. ForEach block for iterating over entities by role or type. Break command to exit a loop. Best effort option for rover go to. With this selected the rover will go as close as it can get to the destination an
New Advanced tutorial for Rovers! Covers the basics of how rover docks work and has some sample scripts and other ideas for how you can use them. Balance Changes Add 2 gold to the cost of a leveler. Quality of Life More accurate hover text for signals. Heavy Drone can now place t
Roster now has a team/role filter and a "select" button you can select filtered entities. Fix the "relative to #/@" UI. Not sure what I was thinking when I wrote that. Fix expression UI for When statements. If you delete and recreate a signal, entities using that signal get recon
Prevent the game from getting to deconstruction and pipe placing state at the same time. That could get the game into a state where you would get an error while saving. If you've got a save that is broken like this, ping us on our Discord and we'll walk you through the process of
Back in the early heyday of Minecraft, what really kept me coming back were the mods that dramatically opened up the sandbox game's building potential. Tekkit, and later Feed the Beast, introduced me to a world of pipe networks and automation long before I ever got into the likes
Delete button now also can deconstruct. Can rename in-use roles. Small Bioreactors are programmable. Bring back the "special" tab for setting if condition items. Control-click now copies the conveyor requested/all state. Remove reference to "demo" from the tutorial. Fix the descr
- Add the discord link to the main screen. It got lost when I removed the link begging for wish lists. - Fix the display for Tier 5 when you've unlocked it. The UI wasn't properly displaying it as unlocked. - Beacon areas (for things like delete if empty and the "my area" query)