Update 1.6: New Block Shapes
Hi Builders! Today we're happy to release a new update, v1.6 which some new block shapes: The new shapes include: Sphere parts Round corners Tilted slab New glass shapes This updates also fixes some minor bugs. Thanks again for your feedback, it will always be essential for us an
Hi Builders!
Today we're happy to release a new update, v1.6 which some new block shapes:
The new shapes include:
Original post
The new shapes include:
- Sphere parts
- Round corners
- Tilted slab
- New glass shapes
Build a harbour to unlock the new boats and connect your city to the seas!
Another item frequently suggested by the community is the elevator. Place it at the bottom of your building, set up the number of floors and your elevator will take you anywhere you need in the building!
Other new features include:
- New building types: "Gas Station", "Bank", and "Harbour"
- Custom pictures for billboards and other items can now be loaded from your computer instead of using an URL
- Fixed some bugs
Thanks again for your feedback, it will always be essential for us and if you didn't already join our Discord, feel free to come in and share your ideas and suggestions for the game!
Use the Road tool and select a type of railways in the tool option, and build a Train Station to unlock Trains.
Please note that the new Train feature is still experimental and there might be some bugs. Let us know what you think!
Here is the full changelog:
- Builing type "Power Plant", "Lumber Yard", "Recycling Center", "Mining Complex", "City Hall", "Scientific Area", "Movie Theatre" are now always available in the new terrain type UI after you unlock them. Press "Other..." to access these options.
- When you use the drone, you can now press E to get dropped from the current drone location
- When you place a road from the drone, your character will then move to the newly placed road. This makes it easier to trace long roads without any drone range issue.
- Fixed some bugs when placing roads
Technicity is currently part of the Steam Builders Fest with a 40% discount, this is the biggest discount since launch, so it's a great opportunity to try our game!
Cafe Owners is also on discount -20% off
A new update is coming very soon and will introduce Railways and Trains!
-> Select your starting location, 4 different biomes
-> Choose how many roads should already exist in the world
-> Option to reduce the amount of citizens that can come to your city (this can help performance on lower configs)
This feature is still a work in progress, and we would like to hear your feedback regarding the mapping we chose. This is also a first step towards full Steam Deck support.
Here is the full changelog for 1.2c:
- Controller support (still experimental)
- New custom item functions:
-- Teleport: Moves the player who activates this item.
-- Delay: Transmit activation/deactivation after a delay (included as a pre-made Part)
-- Pulse: When active, will alternate between OFF and ON (included as a pre-made Part)
-- Updated Seat function so that the camera follows the player properly
- When you create a new terrain from prefab with terrain type "Other" you now can choose prefabs for Recycle Center, Power Plant, City Hall etc.
- Press ALT to force a straight line when you are placing a road
- Fixed a block position bug when placing large custom construction blocks
Thanks again for your feedback, it will always be essential for us and if you didn't already join our Discord, feel free to come in and share your ideas and suggestions for the game!
You can also experience this in the city your created, this temporary game mode will be available only during the Steam Scream Fest!
Have fun ;)
- Improved multi-rows block placement: better control, bigger size allowed
- Option to show a grid that helps choose the right orientation of some shapes such as slab and stairs, and display of the size of what you're about to place
- New button to get more items from Workshop in the Items section of the Order tab
- Immediate installation of items you get from workshop
- More precise mouse sensitivity selection
- Now you can use all keys to remap controls, including arrows
Thanks again for your feedback, it will always be essential for us and if you didn't already join our Discord, feel free to come in and share your ideas and suggestions for the game!
- You can now press X to pick up an item, it will place it in your inventory
- Ctrl Z will undo last multi-row block placement, or last Cement Mixer action
- All trees and rocks now come in two different sizes that you can order from the inventory
- Shifting sound has been improved
- New activation mode for custom items: "ON during the night"
- Players can now share buildings prefabs for Power Plant, Lumber Yard, Recycling Center, Mining Complex, City Hall, Scientific Area and Movie Theatre: others players will now be able to use prefabs during the goals where you need to build these facilities.
- Several bug fixes
Thanks again for your support and if you have more ideas and suggestion, join our Discord community:
Here are some of the new features compared to the Prologue:
- Improved UI
- Improved co-op mode
- Create a shop and you'll be able to change your player skin using a fitting room
- Share your world to the Steam Workshop and see what other player’s city looks like!
- Various new goals and new types of building
- Interactions with citizens, they can give you a job
- Excavator: Use this new vehicle to quickly demolish large structures
- Build on different biomes of the huge 384 km² map
- Get access to police helicopters, firetrucks, planes and more!
I would like to thank every one of you who played the early demos, sent some great ideas and feedback and helped make this game come alive.
Now let's all push together to make the release as successful as possible: the bigger the community becomes, the better it will be for the game!
Here are some of the latest things we were working on, coming with the release of the game:
- Improved UI
- Various new goals
- Interactions with citizens, they can give you a job
- Excavator: Use this vehicle to quickly demolish large structures
- Block price now depends on the material and some goals give you the opportunity to reduce some prices (ex. build a Lumber Yard to reduce Wood price)
- New custom Part type "Music Box": MIDI sounds can be played
- Create a shop and you'll be able to change your player skin using a fitting room
- Share your world to the Steam Workshop and see what other players city looks like!
Add Technicity to wishlist now to make sure you are notified when the game is released!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/781180/Technicity/
Thanks again for your feedback, it will always be essential for us and if you didn't already join our Discord, feel free to come in and share your ideas and suggestions for the game!
But your main goal will still be to build! And some new objectives will encourage you to explore different parts of the map, for example to build a Mining Complex which will reduce the price of metal blocks.
The building contest ended, and there were some really great creations from the community! You can find them in the Steam Workshop.
To enter the contest, all you need to do is to play the free Prologue, create a building and share it in the Steam Workshop with an #contest in the description.
You can also send your proposal on discord on the Technicity channel - 
The Prologue includes:
- first-person city-building mechanics with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger
- online co-op mode: invite your Steam friends to your world
- Steam Workshop support: share your building prefabs and custom items, see what the community has created
- tasks and job: inhabitants come to your city and you can interact with them with jobs in various places like taxi station and warehouse
You can also add the full game to wishlist now to make sure you are notified when it's released:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/781180/Technicity/
Thanks again for your support and if you didn't already join our Discord, feel free to come in and share your ideas and suggestions for the game!
Jobs will send you on missions around the map and give you the opportunity to interact with citizens who moved to your city.
Of course, the main task will be to develop your city, and a new system let you see what's required to unlock the next milestone, and helps you progress from a tiny village to a huge metropolis.
The free Prologue is coming soon and will also come with other new features such as full Steam Workshop support, so remember to wishlist it to be notified when it's available!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1903510/Technicity_Prologue/
Thanks again for your support and if you have more ideas and suggestion, join our Discord community: