Hey folks,
Today's update brings a couple of new features for the builders among us. We've introduced sandstone building parts, giving your creations a fresh, new look. Plus, we've added a basic pipe and plumbing system, so you can now connect water from the Waterhouse to your sinks.
Highlights of this update:
- New Sandstone Building Parts: Build your dream structures with our new sandstone materials. They’re sturdy and stylish.
- Basic Pipe/Plumbing System: You can now set up a functional plumbing system to bring water straight from the Waterhouse to your sinks.
Looking ahead:
We're still working on the following major updates:
- Unreal Engine 5 Upgrade: Chasing down issues and quirks related to upgrading to Unreal Engine 5. This is a massive task that has a fair amount of roadblocks.
- New Points of Interest and Environment Tweaks: Adjustments to enhance your exploration experience.
- AI Improvements: We’re working on changes to the look and behaviors of the AI to better suit the game and community feedback.
These updates are dragging on because they're incredibly time-consuming and difficult to get right, especially when things just don’t want to work.
On a side note, our developer has been busy with a move recently, which has sucked up a lot of time and energy. As that resolves, it'll allow us to refocus and ramp up development efforts.
We appreciate your patience and understanding. We'll keep you in the loop with our progress and share more details as soon as we can. Thanks for sticking with us!
Additions
- ADDED - Various sandstone building parts.
- ADDED - New item: Sandstone. Can be obtained by destroying large boulders in the desert or placing mineral extractors in the desert biome.
- ADDED - Piping system to connect the Waterhouse to sinks.
- ADDED - New placeable: Water Relay, used to connect water pipes.
- ADDED - New item: Water Pipe
- ADDED - New placeable storage: Sandstone Crate.
Changes and Bug Fixes
- CHANGE - Right click harvest and tooltip pop up now stays open.
- CHANGE - Mineral extractors will now extract sandstone and shale when placed in the desert biome.
- BUGFIX - Ghost barbed wire fences no longer damage AI.
- BUGFIX - Dirt Plot no longer shows Iron Ingot as a needed material when it should not.
- BUGFIX - Fixed conditions causing issues with tree re-spawns. Trees would sometimes re-spawn when they should not and vice versa. Trees may be reset on save files when loaded for the first time after the update.
