Pioneers!
Come try out our recent set of January-ish updates!
And try out the Demo until January 30th right now
Farworld Pioneers Alpha1-6c
- Fixed issue that caused excessive network and memory usage in multiplayer as more players joined a game
Farworld Pioneers Alpha1-6b
- Demo build only – this build is for the next public Steam demo of the game; some features, such as space travel, are disabled
- Replaced placeholder graphic for F1 button
- Replaced placeholder UI and fixed gamepad navigation + blank square button hints in Lobby / Game Setup dialog
- Ammo balance change: Recipe yields 100 instead of 1000
- Added saltpeter and niter for ammo crafting
- Fixed corpse looting dialog not sending stacks to your inventory when Ctrl+Clicking
- Fixed gamepad cursor and block descriptions showing when Toggle All UI button is pressed
- Fixed F1 button showing when UI is disabled in trailer mode
- Fixed F1 button flashing while tutorial is shown
- Fixed Buddypedia text not updating when the player locates the facility during the main quest
- Fixed Bat, Boar sprite issues
- Fixed issue with Clear All Save Data button not refreshing save file lists, allowing players to launch save files that no longer exist, causing an infinite loading screen
- Fixed Next arrow offset in Multiplayer Host menu
- Fixed issue that could break Resume Last Game in Multiplayer > Host Game menu and cause an infinite loading screen
- Fixed issue that could cause character creator interface to be skipped when connecting to a game
Farworld Pioneers Alpha1-6a
- Demo build only – this build is for the next public Steam demo of the game; some features, such as space travel, are disabled
- Updated Game Setup / Lobby Dialog to be in two steps: World Setup, followed by Character Customization
- Multiplayer Character Customization now available in lobby
- Improved parallax height calculation to reduce wild offsets from the baseline
- Tweaked altitude of subsurface sounds
- Added various furniture (armchairs, couches, seats, desks, dressers, shelves…)
- Added various food (fried vegetables, fried fish, fish and chips, honey)
- Updated gamepad support; now extended to facility/inventory dialogs
- Updated temperature scaling below ground to prevent extreme/non-viable temperatures at depth
- Added visible F1 button on hud that flashes when Buddypedia has new information available
- Buddypedia “Objectives” section hidden in demo (displayed the same objective throughout)
- Buddypedia advice now explicitly instructs you to build the Research Bench
- Added confirmation prompt before clearing all saves in Options
- Turret now becomes researchable after unlocking Advanced Gunsmithing (instead of Heavy Ordnance)
- Removed formal rules from mining drill; the drill bit can now be oriented in any direction. Also improved handling of range and improved visuals when drilling a block larger than 1x1.
- Custom block breaking sounds now play on clients
- Pressing tab in succession now switches between Blueprint menu and the Order list if either one is already open
- Fixed file access issues that could cause hangs when traveling or entering a door
- Fixed issue that caused hangs or graphical glitches when hauling objects between Z-levels
- Fixed issue that could cause characters to remain downed forever or to spawn incorrectly downed when traveling
- Fixed issue that prevented pistols/carbines from spawning in underground factory loot
- Fixed chainlink fence not letting light through
- Fixed issues with the mining drill sound not attenuating and not stopping when players move out of range
- Fixed issues that could prevent certain looping sounds from ever stopping, such as ladder sliding sounds
- Fixed issue that could cause NPCs to drift past the valid position for a mining order and fail to fulfill it
- Fixed issue that could cause NPCs not to fulfill a mining/chopping order after reaching the destination
- Fixed issue that could cause interior scenes such as the underground factory to break after reloading the game
- Fixed looping fuse sound issue on flare and dynamite items
- Fixed issue that prevented throwable items like grenades and flares from disappearing after closing and restoring the game
- Fixed issue that caused sliding to interrupt reloading
- Fixed issue that prevented task descriptions from showing when a NPC is selected in multiplayer
Farworld Pioneers Alpha1-5i
- Spacesuit added (accessible thru debug)
- Changed buddy text color to golden
- Slight improvements to parallax height calculations depending on altitude changes
- F1 is now shown in the tabbed menu
- Ensured that gamepad input does not override trailer controls
- Hid cursor and selection info when UI is toggled off by trailer controls
- Fixed issue that could cause certain items not to be hauled, and certain build orders not to be constructed, if they’re within hauling range but not within loading range
- Fixed issue with yurt placement sending “Cannot place here” messages to everyone instead of just the client player placing it
- Fixed bluebird glowmap being offset
- Fixed hydrocarbons showing up in the butcher table
- Fixed issue that allowed tutorial highlights to stay if they were displayed when the tutorial is dismissed
- Fixed bats going invisible when killed instead of leaving a corpse
- Fixed hauling offsets for scoon, snake, ice boar, manseal
- Fixed font size on several UI elements
Farworld Pioneers Alpha1-5h
- Updated Steam Generator art
- Campfire can now be crafted at the workbench
- Improved pistol range
- Removed annoying gravel from factory outdoor area
- Updated tutorial to make you both build walls with blueprints and craft torches
- Buddypedia now has an entry on crafting
- Combat Bolt Action Rifle added
- Miscellaneous weenie improvements; restored Weenie’s follow behavior
- Recipe lines no longer need to be popped out to reveal “Add Bill” – bill gets added immediately
- Significant updates to basic Bluebird behavior/animation – WIP of new AI
- Player crafting at facilities will now also pull materials from the player inventory
- Re-enabled mood display on colonist UIs (Note: may not sync fully across network for off-screen characters)
- Block coordinates are no longer shown when using the select tool on a block unless Debug is enabled
- Flashlight now has a slightly longer range
- Potatoes are now slower to grow and yield less
- Improved consistency of light strength on fire and electricity based lights
- NPCs will now attempt to jump and swing if they hold a melee weapon and their current combat target is flying or elevated
- Updated gamepad navigation in Title screen Single Player menu and in-game Quit menu
- Bees have been temporarily removed
- Added a safeguard to prevent too many mobs of the same type from generating in the same area
- Made friendly birds (chicken, cockatoo, duck) fly lower
- Fixed issues with incorrect scaling and jitter on the tutorial button highlighter
- Fixed issue that caused power indicators to linger after using the blueprint menu
- Fixed issue that caused jump inputs to register every frame, sometimes causing a super jump; most noticeable on computers with high refresh rate monitors
- Fixed an issue with lighting that would prevent lights from attenuating with distance; increased range of lights as well
- Fixed an issue that could cause certain plants to disappear partially in multiplayer, leading to glitches
- Fixed issues that could prevent certain trees from generating (ice trees, etc)
- Fixed issue that could cause certain plants to hang over a ledge incorrectly, supported mostly by air instead of dirt
- Fixed issue that could cause display errors with different equippable tools when players transition between zones/planets
- Fixed issue that caused NPCs to sometimes lock up and wait for a few seconds after completing an order
- Fixed issue that could cause an order deadlock when a stockpile is full
- Fixed issue that allowed a failed haul to give the NPC experience
- Fixed issue that could cause loading errors when restoring a game specifically from the Load Game screen (not the “Resume last game” button)
- Fixed issue that could potentially cause hauled corpses to disappear or fall out of players’ hands while walking around
Farworld Pioneers Alpha1-5g
- 10 ores now yield 1 ingot again
- Increased bluebird speed slightly
- Fixed issue that prevented the research tree from showing in Multiplayer even after constructing the research bench
Farworld Pioneers Alpha1-5e
- Fixed issues with backwards flying birds
- Fixed igloo setpiece getting cut off
Farworld Pioneers Alpha1-5e
- DEMO Build available on Steam in “Demo” beta branch; other branches have “Full” versions with demo restrictions removed
- Updated buddypedia demo text
- Lowered construction times on walls
- Reduced delay between deposits when hauling materials to structures
- NPCs will now react faster to work becoming available nearby
- Updated bee sprite sheet
- Disabled combat music
- Various adjustments to parallax
- Tutorial now has a Next button shown
- Tutorial button highlight is now gold and more obvious
- Skill name is now shown in the level up animation
- Tutorial now makes sounds
- Polished various icons and UI elements
- First raid will be conducted by a single raider wielding a melee weapon
- Updated raid ramp up to draw from different tiered raider pools
- Tutorial will now enable Peaceful Mode on start and disable it if dismissed or completed
- Ensure tiered stone is classified as a Mineral
- Fixed issue that caused underground ambient sounds to play at low altitudes
- Fixed tutorial checkboxes starting out checked if you already completed similar steps in a previous part of the tutorial
- Fixed issue that caused certain raiders with some of the newer jobs (Horticulturist) to generate with no weapon
- Fixed Satellite Tower setpiece generation issues
- Fixed disappearing doors, lights and chests in the multi-level shacks on either side of certain setpieces
Farworld Pioneers Alpha1-5d
- DEMO Build available on Steam in “Demo” beta branch; other branches have “Full” versions with demo restrictions removed
- Single Player New Game button now takes you to the game directly; wrench button takes you to the old game setup / character editor screen (to be updated)
- Updated Buddypedia music
- Updated mystery display and lines in research tree
- Spawns are now actively blocked by the tutorial
- Spawn tables have been adjusted so that no hostiles spawn during the day
- Added “Coming Soon” to some research items
- Tundra is now extremely mild all year long
- Increased forbidden area around player spawn to prevent raiders from attacking
- Research tree now warns when the Research Bench is not constructed
- All research is now shown in the tree in creative mode
- Pause menu now has a Peaceful Mode toggle
- Added cooldown for H key in multiplayer
- Users now have access to the /die and /reset commands in multiplayer
- Fixed issues with player arms sometimes not visually holding the hauled item overhead
- Fixed issue that would cause players to respawn without clothes in multiplayer
- Fixed issue that prevented light from coming in through holes in the background when surface was generated very low
- Fixed issue that caused the incorrect name to be shown for recipes with an alternate display name
Farworld Pioneers Alpha1-5c
- Added Parka to outfits
- “Pistol” can now be crafted; it’s a simple pistol called Pistol, not a Revolver
- All exclusive spacing around facility and furniture blueprints (red highlight) has been removed so they can be placed directly next to each other once again
- Trapdoors can now be chained horizontally and will open together when activated
- Chemistry Lab and Refinery are now unlocked by separate research items
- Added more variability to starter equipment for raiders
- Research panel now has a Complete Now button in Creative Mode when a research is active
- Reorganized blueprint menu: Consolidated Decor and Storage categories into Furniture; moved Resource Stockpile to facilities, moved Radiator out of Structures into Furniture
- Power Generation research removed
- Fixed issue that caused skin and hair not to get specified on raiders or on players if not specified in the character editor
- Fixed issue that could cause the factory dungeon not to save if you left or quit the game too early after entering
- Fixed issue that prevented the landing pad from being activated by the player and depositing materials with E after starting the project
Farworld Pioneers Alpha1-5b
- Experimental Peaceful Mode (accessible through Debug Menu only for now) – this will pacify enemies, stop raids from happening, make you immune to cold weather
- Tutorial now highlights on-screen buttons for the current hint
- Improved buddypedia; Buddy eyes follow cursor; fixed punctuation and resolution issues
- Boss now respawns every ~27 minutes
- Various improvements to BlueBird animations
- Improve parallax getting misaligned depending on spawning position (WIP - still needs art update to hide horizontal seam)
- Boss damage is now scaled based on the number of players present
- Boss may drop more than one superconductor if several players are present
- Updated the landing pad construction stages to include crates for building materials
- Creative mode will now heal you and suppress frostbite and hunger for the player
- Enable Take All with E on chests
- Removed all double barrel shotguns from raiders; replaced with weaker guns
- Droppod now tills the dirt when it crashes
- Adjusted range/speed of shotgun and revolver projectiles
- Creative mode pickaxe now mines enemy blocks instead of damaging them normally
- Hydrocarbons research is now called “Fuel”
- Increased luminosity on flashlight
- Flying creatures like bee, bluebird and bat will now stop pursuing and disengage targets when out of range
- Hostile entities are now generally less aggressive unless provoked
- Bluebird no longer harms players on touch
- Bee will now wander during the day but patrol and attack during the night
- Fixed setpieces getting dug into the ground by 1 block
- Fixed issue with underground factory becoming mangled after resuming a game
- Fixed issue that caused the game not to load if you resume it before visiting the underground factory
- Fixed issue that caused foragers to come back from the dead as invincible ferrets
- Fixed issue that caused beam weapon effects to be visible outside the room/world they reside in
- Fixed instance where the factory would not generate due to player start generating too close to the edge of the world
- Fixed tool impact particle flickering
- Tentative fix for “Quit to DOS” causing savefile corruption
- Misc font fixes (crafting tooltips, etc)
- Fixed issue that prevented blueprints like walls from being dragged when placing
- Fixed pickaxe targeting air blocks in Creative mode
- Fixed issue that caused gap fillers under setpieces to redraw several times
- Fixed issue that could cause the cave entrances to get their top lopped off
- Fixed issue that caused certain containers (military chests, etc) not to fill with loot
- Fixed issues that would cause the Barracks setpiece to get cut off, lack NPCs and lack loot
- Fixed issue that made players aim the guns at themselves when they have a menu open
- Fixed issue that caused impact particles to be unlit and to by systematically white
- Fixed issue that caused impact particles to use only one palette color
- Fixed issue that hanged the main menu if you tried to Continue a game from the Load screen
- Fixed issue that caused the boss music to play as the main track for the dungeon
- Fixed issue that caused Bluebird to sit above the ground
- Fixed bluebird glowmap showing stray blue pixels
- Fixed issue that could cause block entities to break at world generation if they generated in the same area as a growing plant
- Fixed issue that could cause chests to fail to fill up with loot in rare cases
Farworld Pioneers Alpha1-5a
- Added experimental controller support (No rebind/explanation dialog yet)
- Vastly improved performance of terrain lighting
- F1 Menu is now Buddypedia – see for advice, objectives, lore
- Tutorial (single player) now has prompts that react to player actions
- Clearing the boss in the underground factory should now give you access to spaceflight research, the launchpad and dropship construction
- Updates to Bluebird animation (WIP); fixed issues with Bluebird sitting in the air
- Various performance improvements
- Fixed dirt in the background rendering extremely dark
- Fixed tilled dirt not matching the color of the dirt block
- Fixed various dirt/grass generation glitches
- Fixed issue that caused setpieces to be more scarce than expected
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