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New features Colony Twenty new colony cards from the writing team: century events, a poisoned household, a contested grave, an adulterated ration, a homicide, a violent student, waste treatment and a child adapted to the planet. A thirteen-card expedition storyline. A story the c
v0.6.20 — Single-player and stability hotfix I mistakenly put the Council-only build on Steam's default branch. It blocked normal solo play and opened the separate Council profile, where existing solo saves and voyage archives did not appear. I'm sorry. This hotfix restores the n
v0.6.18 — Colony performance (experimental) v0.6.18 is now on Steam’s experimental branch, Build 25744958. To opt in: Library → right-click Dead Reckoning → Properties → Game Versions & Betas → experimental. The default branch is unchanged. New features No new features. This
New features Charter missions Eighteen optional missions across the nine charters. Choose an undertaking before launch and follow its requirements through the voyage and settlement. Some missions require a Chronicle. Research Twelve additional studies cover coolant, spare parts,
Hello again. Here is what October looks like from here: a big update next week, the charter commitments and the colony scenes later in the month, a lot of new writing, and a three-day experiment on a question many of you keep asking. 0.6.15 — next week Everything since 0.6.14 has
INTRO 0.6.14 is about records: who your colonists are, what the ship carries, and what earlier voyages left behind. TLDR: the ship is now a 3D cutaway, every colonist carries a real life history, regional maps match their worlds, and a later voyage can stop for food at a colony a
New features Settlements 0.6.6: Colonies with suitable land and supplies can grow. Population readouts separate births from losses to age, illness, accidents, hereditary disease and the environment. Shelter readouts identify buildings left without enough workers. 0.6.7: The gene
Two new kinds of world are coming to the survey, the ground is getting a new look, and two writers have joined the colony. New worlds Hycean. A world-sized ocean under a thick hydrogen sky. There is no shore. A colony here lives in sealed habitats hung below the surface, joined b
New features No new features in these patches. Bug fixes Colony Colonies can grow. The ground's birth rate sat below what age and illness take, and every settlement declined however well it was run. A colony with land and full stores now bears children at a settler's rate. The po
0.6.3–0.6.4 — Chronicles and records New features Chronicles Choose a named Chronicle to keep the same stars between voyages. Read each voyage's file at the station or from its ending screen. Chronicles are available in the full game. Bug fixes Population and resources Cryo purge
Promotion of the experimental branch to the main build. Includes everything since 0.5.26. Colony survival: salvage is now signposted Players reported colonies failing on worlds the survey rated green, with food and power in surplus. One run: 66% habitability, nobody left after ei
Mods The game reads mods. There is a MODS button on the title screen. Put a folder with a manifest.json in it into the mods directory. The game finds it, checks it, and says in plain words if something is wrong. A pack can change content, art and text. All seventy-one content poo
Russian A hundred and sixty-three more lines of the interface, corrected by hand by the player who did v0.5.22. The cryo bay, the charters, the tutorial, the status readouts and the faction registries move to the newer wording. The tutorial named the four gauges in the wrong orde
Everything since 0.5.15, gathered in one place. A number of these came from reports here and on Discord — thank you for writing them up. Six more tracks in the voyage soundtrack. Three by Scott Buckley — Phase Shift, Solace and Hiraeth — and three by Alexandr Zhelanov: Space Atmo
Коротко: русский текст в игре сейчас плохой. Претензии справедливые, спорить не буду. Русскоязычных игроков за последнее время стало заметно больше, поэтому переводом я занимаюсь в первую очередь. Сейчас присматриваюсь к Яндексу и другим вариантам — нужно то, что даст нормальное
Stable. Everything the experimental branch has been working on since v0.4.7, in one build. Landing used to be the end of the game. It isn't any more. The colony now has a century of its own — decisions, resources, its own way of failing, and endings that answer to what you actual
Experimental branch. Opt-in public beta. Landing used to be the end of the game. You spent a century and a half getting a ship somewhere, a closing paragraph told you what became of the people who stepped off it, and that was the run. 0.5 gives the colony a century of its own — d
Hey all! Just some updates. Colony work is going well and scope is expanding. As well, identity wiring has now begun as I have the scaffolding in place to start having impactful events. The biggest changes are to resource management in the colony; I don't want to explicitly decla
Devlog — The crew becomes a society A generation ship is a long argument about how to live. For the last stretch of development, everything we've built has served one idea: the crossing should change who the crew is , not just how much food is in the hold. That work is here. It h
A generation ship is a long argument about how to live. For the last stretch of development, everything we've built has served one idea: the crossing should change who the crew is , not just how much food is in the hold. That work is nearly ready to leave the experimental beta an