Developer posts and news about this game.
Today we come to you with a rather sad but unfortunately inevitable message. The company behind our game is out of money and we cannot afford to upkeep the running costs. Sales have been miserable across the last 2 years and Pantropy was making low 3-digit numbers per month, whic
Pantropy V.0.6.724 Warning when your mech is being attacked Incomplete item description in crafting panel Not being able to click on recipie items in crafting panel Mobs disappering Androids became inactive after some time Camera alignment when entering a hover bike after destroy
Singleplayer Androids Android Bases Android Raids Artillery Toggle sprinting (double tap shift to enable/disable) Sounds to forest warden Sounds to nest hatchling New animation to nest hatchling Creatures finding their way back home T1 Scout Mininglaser T2 Scout Mininglaser T3 Sc
Hello, the time has finally come to push our countless fixes, additions and improvements to the public branch. We have been actively working on the staging branch since sebtember of 2020 and tested 492 internal patches since the last public patch. We are now at a point where the
Hello, it is finally ready – the androids are now live on our staging branch. In this post I want to go into detail on how the system works and the thinking behind it. The initial idea was it to have an AI controlled opposition that is a little smarter than the forest warden. We
Hello, I have been reworking our pathfinding system in the past week. The old system was quite slow and resulted in mobs freezing in place because they had to wait a long time for a path to be found. Handeling pathfinding on large maps is generally quite difficult but i found a w
Issues with the Base System We have been experiencing various issues with our base system ever since i re-coded it back in late 2018. We had serious performance issues before the re-code because a lot of our base parts used to have a component called „BoltEntity“ on them. The Bol
Hello, two months have past since the last update and we fixed a ton of bugs, added some new content and improved the game overall. In fact we made so much progress that i can‘t possibly address it all here so i will just go over the most important changes. Mining: Our miningtool
We have been quite busy during the past Month; we got our first implementation of the androids done, have launched the staging branch to our discord community and fixed some long time bugs like the shadow flickering. Lets talk androids first. Our androids are still quite simple:
We made a lot of progress since the last update and we want to show you what we have been up to for the last couple of months: The first thing I did was to test the androids on our development-server.I quickly found out that the way we handle these androids was not very efficient
Hello, maybe you have already noticed that the development of Pantropy has been quite slow during the past year. First i want to mention that we did not run off with any money or discard the project. We are still determined to finish developing Pantropy. Second if you want to kno
Miningstations could be placed on foundations even though they were only ment to be placeable on the terrain - so miningstations that were placed ontop of foundations were at a high risk of vanishing Miningstations would keep mining even though they were full - so they still used
You might have noticed that we were kinda slow at publishing patches lately and there is a good reason for it: Previously we had to cut down on testing and development time to get a patch out ASAP. This resulted in not only worsening the overall state of the game but often the pa
Hi guys! We have just released the latest devblog. It can be found as always on IndieDB: Sebastian
With this patch we fixed a bug that caused a lot of issues with the equipment of player-bases, like generators not producing energy, furnaces not smelting ores or doors not opening. However this fix was so fundamental that a forced wipe is necessary. We are not taking it lightly
I possibly found the root of all of our server-sided perfomance issues. It seems to be a combination of: a lot of Mechs + a lot of players Now, i alrady have a solution for this in mind but i still have to test it. I will keep you guys updated. Furthermore some players have repor
We have identified the main cause of the low frame rate on servers - it is caused by some huge memory leaks which lead to the Garbage collector running overtime and drawing more and more performane the longer the server runs. The last patches fixed some major performance issues o
Players falling through Rocks and Buildings
This is an important patch for our mech system: The most important thing to fix was that the game crashed when one left a mech. Also when servers unexpectedly rebooted, all of the mechs got teleported back to the position where they were during the last world save. Now that the m
This patch mainly addresses crucial bugs regarding performance, doors and jobs. Some balancing tweaks to resources have been implemented to smooth out the advance through the different tiers. As well as various fixes and tweaks, there is now an in-game guide to help you get start