Developer posts and news about this game.
New rate-based production system Can salvage buildings Building proximity system Auto conveyor placement while placing production buildings New refinery building Support Gates (wip) Objective help buttons Show unit and building stats in the UI New turret building New electronics
Logibay and Oil rig explosion fx Conveyors can be built on resource patches Oilrigs can be built in the middle of an oil patch (even if not in contact with dry ground) Many many bug fixes
UI Layout improvement (put building panel and building queue on the same side) Polish raw resources look New cargo truck model Tweak proportions of all units New unit icons Add cannon recoil to the mobile artillery Foot units exit from the quarters through a sliding door
Increase starting steel to 50 (TODO support building salvage to recoup steel) Functional health UI in the identity panel Fix machine gun turret attack Disable worker mining Disable water highlighting with the cursor Enable bloom (for uranium mainly, but also made most VFX look be
Major resource system redesign (thanks Alex) Removed water, coal, and wood as raw resources All costs are expressed in terms of combinations of processed resources Fixed set of processed resources, each matching a corresponding raw resource common ore -> steel oil -> fuel r
New worker character New recruit character New rocketeer character New building: The logistics bay Automated truck transport mechanic New wood extractor model New wall models Add minimap markers Add Inventory UI feedback (red and yellow pulses) when crafting Balancing: increase a
Improved logistics: buildings can automatically output into the global inventory New tanks Support walls Conveyors can take damage Support 8 channel terrain textures Add tree stumps around wood extractors Add "Connect" ability to buildings, that automatically create a conveyor +
Inserters can filter which resources they pick Can collect resources from conveyors to clear bottlenecks (todo: collect from the whole linked sequence not just individual conveyors) New pump building New mine building Refined uranium resource Terrain elevation fixes (todo: disall
Support 4 levels of elevation and ramps between levels Tanks have cannon attack instead of rockets New building: Oil derrick Shipyards polish Make trees and deadwoods sparser Make Corvettes and U-boats smaller
Mission 1 wip Added shipyard building, for spawning corvettes and uboats update UI icons Replace UI tutorial pointer with a UI highlight Much better unit spawning method, they automatically spawn on the nearest traversable location Fix camera pan crash
Mission 1 integration wip Fix minimap bugs Fix bug when saving a custom game
Mission 1 & 2 integration wip Depleted mines no longer lose their stored resources Add ability to input 5 resources using Shift key to Unit buildings Lower speeds of all units Worker: 6 Recruit: 5.5 Rocketeer: 4.5 Tank: 5 Truck 5 Shinooks show loaded units in the selection UI
Can change the map biome in edit mode (through map settings in top right) Help panel fixes Ground units can walk on shallow water and oil Fix units dying while harvesting Enemy air units are fog revealed correctly when attacking
Update all biomes to new textured terrain shader Make mineral resources walkable Auto-darken terrain tiles below buildings and resources Fix Help panel crash
New building models! Quarters Assembly Factory New help panel Conveyors now cost 1/5 iron and have 0.3s build time Introduce building dependency system, to guide the build order a bit Tweak building explosions and debris
The "New Game" map is easier to play, enemies are further away from the player starting pos QOL: Can input 5 units at a time in buildings by holding shift New terrain shader with texture painting (only desert biome for now) Fix pump auto-output setting now being saved
Bring back unlimited conveyors in Edit mode Fix conveyor items collision bug Inserter panel QOL update -> can manually pick (when auto-pick is off)
Ability to craft conveyors in-game (in addition to edit mode) Conveyors can be created using click-and-drag, but segments that aren't in inventory are highlighted in red and are not spawned Fix overlapping wood extractor bug Fix "New Game" map where all units have 0 healthpoints
Introduced inserters to move resources from/to buildings/conveyors (buildable in edit mode only) New conveyor system, they are no longer draggable from buildings and free, but craftable and buildable anywhere
This is a major update in how Powerplay RTS is played Global resource management via a Factorio-style inventory + crafting panel All players actions can be done manually Automation is necessary for scale