🛠️ QoL Update now live in Desynced!
👋 Greetings, Operators!
For the past few months, this update has been growing and improving on the Experimental branch thanks to your testing and feedback. We truly appreciate how many of you joined, shared ideas, and helped us polish every part of it.
Now all those changes arrive on the Main branch, bringing smoother logistics, new behavior options, and many quality-of-life upgrades across the board.
💾 Your existing save files will load without issues, but keep in mind that some production recipes now use different components (installed in buildings or bots), so you may need to adjust a few of your production chains before everything runs smoothly again.
Scroll down for the highlights and the full list of changes 👇
Custom Map Options. New map preview and sliders, global difficulty, bug evolution and new aggressive mode with new enemy types.
Improved Logistics. More control over base logistics with recurring requests, more construction site options, and flyers that can work outside your logistics grid.
New Tech & Production. Virus / Alien components and units and advanced production components. A suite of new foundations to help visualize base layouts.
More behavior instructions. A set of new and useful instructions to help with automation.
QoL upgrades. Tonnes of UI upgrades for a smoother experience as well as stability and performance fixes.
🧠 Behavior & Logic
New instruction: "Loop Repair Ingredients", allow access to all ingredient requirements (For example, the "Repair The mothership" mission)
Added bitwise op and check bit behavior instructions
Added "Set Logistics" behavior instruction
New instruction Wait Component that will pause execution of behavior until another component has finished working
Added "Up to amount/specific amount" option to Request Item instruction (Similar to Request Wait)
Number check filters added to "Loop Signal" instruction
Added and updated many help texts for various behavior instructions
Added a usage hint to the description of the Virus Teleporter component
Show an error message in the behavior editor when trying to connect a node from inside a loop to outside of it
In behavior editor, added a tooltip to an outgoing connection point indicating what happens ("Continue to X", "Advance loop Y" or "Restart behavior")
Simplify renaming and deleting of behavior parameters by adding a dedicated remove button and making a click on the name rename it
Improve tooltip of behavior parameters (clarify difference between "Behavior Initial Value" and "Inspected Current Value")
Make a right-click on the behavior parameter value box clear it
⚙️ Unit Editor & Control Center
Enable ctrl+drag in the unit/blueprint editor to copy a component
Support dragging between components, registers and item slots in the unit/blueprint editor to copy values, similar to the regular unit interface
Support copy and paste with C and V keys on item slots in the unit/blueprint editor to copy values, similar to the regular unit interface
Show the component progress circle in the link editor
Support "Max Range" filter on the filters of the Units tab in the Control Center (use range from faction home)
Make units clickable in Power tab of Control Center
Added power list sorting button to faction view
Support negating a radar filter (not supported by filters with number input "Set Number" and "Max Range")
Add option in behavior selection menu of an Integrated Behavior Controller to remove it
🧩 Components, Buildings & Technology
Added new Advanced Assembler component and moved some mid/late game recipes to it
Added Small AoE Repair Component
Added new alien power generator building, available in alien tech tree
Add Large Power Field component to human hybrid tech tree
Added Alien hybrid component equivalents to many Alien buildings
Added new virus components and units that can be unlocked via the virus tech trees
Added blight crystal power
Added new foundation sets and put them in tech tree
Added unique icon to deployment component of Command Center bot given at the start of the game
🪐 World & Exploration
Added new world event
Added map variation options to new game and updated some current options to sliders
Show a world preview of the generated map in the "New Game" screen
Added option to enable bug creep in hostile mode
Added new bugs
Added Difficulty setting
Added new setting to disable "Anomaly" notifications
🧱 Construction & Logistics
On construction sites, also show power button and logistics network options (to customize channels and set only item transporter/flying)
Optionally allow requesting items on a specific logistics channel (supports both Request Item button on unit user interface and Request Item behavior instructions)
Add recurring item requests (creates a request order to keep a unit filled up to the given amount)
Allow inputting of any value when holding Ctrl while clicking a register or behavior instruction argument
📋 Interface & Usability
Added stability in sidebar and tooltip descriptions
Add Individual resource deposit icons
Added unit type filtering to turret
Added bug type frames to register selection
Added all picked up items to register selection
Added plants and resources to default unit types in register selection
Show information in the tooltip of a docked/reserved unit (components/inventory)
Allow registers to show a warning message even if no value is specified
Add clicking middle mouse button to open System Index
Make "Researched at" units clickable when viewing tech in System Index
Show a yellow outline on selected item in the System Index
Show percentages on sliders for custom map settings
Show in the tooltip whether a unit or component has been Re-Simulated
Added checkbox to show or hide components that produce zero power
Show tooltips on icons inlined in text (for example in the codex or in the tutorial)
Added stability in sidebar and tooltip descriptions
🧭 Gameplay & Interaction
After picking up an alien key the player can see the values in the balance mini-game (on alien explorables)
Make a click (down and up without moving) on the middle mouse button do attack move
Added "Change Game Settings" button to in-game menu to change peaceful and minigame settings during the game
🧠 Behavior & Logic
Allow selection of only positive numbers on behavior arguments for slot or component index
Allow selection of only tech definitions on behavior arguments for a tech definition
Allow properly specifying a value input for the first input of math instructions
Added duration parameter to Notify instruction
Changed "Add Integrated Behavior" to "Set Integrated Behavior"
Allow setting reg remotely to units that are adjacent (autobase can still set it in the same logistics network)
In behavior editor, change undo/redo keyboard bindings from just Z/Y presses to CTRL+Z/CTRL+Y to avoid issues where these keys are used for scrolling (for example on AZERTY keyboard layout)
⚙️ Unit Editor & Interface
While using "Change Frame" in the Unit Editor, if storage inventory slots increase while the original frame had fixed slots, auto fix the new slots. (Useful for upgrading Storage Blocks)
Make "Show Unit Interface in Bottom Left Corner" option available directly in the unit user interface
Bring back square register line connections in the link editor
Update info text line at the bottom of the tooltip
Open System Index with a wider list before an item is selected
Apply same sorting to System Index as used in the register selection
Make listed things include resource deposits and flower types
Make listed things include known integrated components so these can be specified for example in behaviors
Make slider on numerical register input go up to 10000 instead of 9357
Always show queue when clicking on Goto register
In the Input options, improve titles and tooltips of actions bound to the three mouse buttons
Don't show grid around cursor when the mouse is hovering over a user interface element
Remove right click menu on units popup menu with multiple bots selected
🪐 World, Bugs & Virus
Refactored Aggressive Mode
Based off bug hive locations instead of spawning randomly
Evolution and spreading of bug hives
Changes to bug behaviors
Added Virus protection to hives
Added limits on the amount of bug evolution
Give bitlock an area of effect but don't affect units with virus protection/cure
Bitlock still affects units with virus protection, but not cure
Slow down virus spread
Changed how the virus affects units
Added new bug icons
🧩 Components, Crafting & Recipes
Added components as ingredients to many component recipes
Set metal plates back to take 2 metal bars, increased metal and crystal rich nodes to compensate for recent recipe changes
Adjusted foundation materials to stop blooming
Adjusted some foundation stats, unlock a few new foundation types in research
Reduced defense block to 5 reinforced plates and added %50 efficiency boost
Increased Defense Block Build time
Reduced Wall build times
Increase power usage of larger repairer
⚡ Power, Logistics & Construction
Allow components to be selected as filters in the Units tab of the Control Center to show all units equipped with a specific component
Don't take over an order from a carrier which is in another logistics grid (it might be a carrier that has temporarily left the grid for example due to use of a Unit Teleporter)
Allow placing relocation outside of power grid after flyers have been unlocked
Allow a production component to consume a reserved stack not yet assigned to a carrier which was ordered to be taken out via automation (i.e. via Shared Storage or Store register)
Consider dropped items to be on all channels when making an order from them (i.e. when dragging a dropped item onto a building)
Allow force attack for buildings
Improve construction sites detecting whether finishing would block off access to other construction sites
🚀 Flyers, Shuttles & Drones
Flyers don't take orders unless docked in a Landing Pad (similar to drones)
Flyers will do any order with a fixed source where either source or target (but not both) is in the Flyers power grid
Flyers will do any construction/relocation orders targeting outside its own power grid sourcing items from inside its own power grid
Make flyers also do orders from dropped item (anywhere in the world) to construction site (anywhere in the world), so it'll fulfill relocation requests anywhere
Rename flying unit which docks into a "Flyer" item slot from "Shuttle Bot" to "Flyer"
Rename flying units which dock into a "Garage" item slot from "Flyer Bot"/"Human Flyer" to "Shuttle Bot"/"Human Shuttle"
Rename technology "Shuttles" to "Flyers" to match the unit renaming
Added description for flyer usage
Removed Flyer packages
💥 Combat, Weapons & Balance
Adjustments to weapons, buildings and bug
standard turret line becomes move and fire
pulse weapons bonus vs air x1.5
beam weapons penalty vs air x0.5
increase in some building health
bug health and damage adjustments
A range of adjustments to weapons (damage, move/fire)
Changed beam weapons to have degraded damage the more it hits
Make beam weapons hit more tiles when shooting in non-cardinal direction (before two tiles on the hit line could be diagonally apart leaving a gap for a diagonally moving enemy)
Upped damage of missile turrets
Upped pulse laser effectiveness vs air
Added effectiveness vs air to all descriptions with vs. air modifier
Upped health of blight wall
Show modified damage and dps based on overclock boost
Weapon damage adjustments
🧭 Visuals, Icons & Presentation
Renamed some booster components for clarity: "Efficiency" to "Overclock", "Speed Module" to "Movement Speed Module"
Updated Re-Simulator Core icon
Added category for resource nodes, walls, foundations, bugs
Assign category to Drop Pod and Command Center
Readjusted position of boost modules in the robots tree
🖱️ Controls & Camera
Make camera zoom, rotate and pitch functions speed up by holding shift (3x) and/or ctrl (5x) to match camera panning with WASD
Make speed of camera rotate and pitch change via keyboard not be affected by the framerate
📚 Codex & System Index
Remove "Unlocked Items" codex page (has been superseded by System Index)
Added proper entity number for final talking head
🧠 Behavior System & Logic
Fix "Request Wait" instruction causing lines to following instructions to be colored like a loop body in the behavior editor
Don't hide Bit Set by default for checkbit instruction
Allow dragging of "Is Empty", "Get Season" and "Is Day/Night" behavior nodes between two other nodes
Add extra buffer spawn in behavior UI for comments when using auto-layout
Fix behavior description not showing in tooltip of loaded Behavior Controller
Fix behavior name not showing on Integrated Behavior Controller in unit/blueprint editor
Fixed description of "Is Unit A" behavior instruction
Try to recover when calling mine instruction when path is blocked
Abort behavior components on units changing ownership due to Hacking Tool component (fixes issues with behavior editor on hacked units not working and multiplayer potentially going out of sync)
⚙️ Blueprints, Components & Unit Editor
Fix component registers in blueprints showing wrong names/icons when swapping components
Fix blueprints involving a mix of integrated and regular components having unrelated links sometimes disappear when removing components
Fix blueprint preview not updating when switching a socket from "Laser Mining Tool" to "Miner"
Keep blueprint description when copying between library/favorites or pasting from clipboard
Fix logging Lua errors when switching from "Favorites" tab to "Library" tab while having unsaved changes in an open blueprint editor
Fix Save to Favorites/Copy to Library of an item that has had one of its dependencies (another blueprint or behavior) deleted
Fix Re-Simulator losing stored Data Cubes after relocating or acquiring into a Deployer component or performing an upgrade using the Unit Editor
When having both link editor and docked unit display enabled, show both views on the left side of the screen instead of just one of them
Store Target register add button, allow shift+clicking to add multiple units to the list
🏗️ Logistics, Orders & Construction
Fix multiple drones docked in a building larger than 1x1 sometimes fighting over carrying out the same order (and never actually fulfilling it)
Fix multiple drones docked in a building larger than 1x1 sometimes fighting over carrying out the same fixed source order (this was previously fixed but only for dynamically sourced orders)
Fix automatically assigned order source reserve becoming stuck if afterwards manually specifying a source (by dragging an item)
On a building, the "Can Serve Construction" option now appears on the "Logistic Settings" menu if an Item Transporting component has been equipped.
Fix for "Building does not have an Item Transporter equipped" message appearing by mistake
Properly use the crystal node for the ai base event
Improve construction site detection of blocked access (implicit from related bug fixes in pathfinding)
🐛 Bugs, AI & Pathfinding
Fix for bugs getting stuck to stop pathsearching and find a home
Fix for bugs turning on the spot repeatedly
Fix bug for overly spawning large hives near each other
Fix for how bugs react to path blocked and viruses
Trigger larva from further away so they don’t just stand there and get shot
Detect movement goal inside a blocked off area of any size (abort path finding before evaluating large parts of the world)
At end of path search, throw away data not used anymore (avoid bloating save files)
Enable collisions on bugs missing them
Fix bug collisions not being removed properly in some cases affecting mouse selection
Make bug units (bugs and hives) not drop silica sand when destroyed by a mean other than killed (i.e. deconstructing, upgrade or relocating)
Increase mining base silica amount so its actually a relevant amount for the effort
💥 Combat, Weapons & Effects
Fix for beam weapon not hitting specific target if not an enemy
Fix for beacon on minimap colored red like an enemy
Fix for player owned bugs on minimap colored red like an enemy
Fix the DOT effect (damage over time) to cause a killed unit to drop loot even if the unit that emitted the DOT effect is killed first
Fix calculation of "Movement Speed Increase" stat of foundation tooltip
Fix component boost not showing on tooltips of buildings in build menu
🧩 Game Systems, Tech Tree & Events
Fix for tech tree logging a Lua error when trying to render lines that are off screen
Fix for large tree event spawning when you spawn
Make clicking on an unlock of a technology in the tech tree show the details instead of doing nothing
Clarify in the first blight talking head that automated bots can still enter the blight but that you will not have direct control over them
Fix for missions not showing destroyed mission text
Properly use the crystal node for the ai base event
Fixed capitalization on Laterite Ore and Silica Sand
Added extra buffer spawn in behavior UI for comments when using auto-layout
Added clarification text for blight talking head
🧭 Interface & UX
Hide inaccessible menu button and construction site options from the user interface when viewing allied units
Make ingredient list in production selection wrap if there are more than 6 ingredients (for complex bot blueprints with many components)
Show explorable name (i.e. Factory) instead of generic name (i.e. Human Explorable)
Hide color and tech values from the register selection of a radar register
When holding one of WASD and then clicking into a text input box, fix the WASD-scrolling continuing even after releasing the key
Fix backwards slider in New Game customization for "Blight Corruption"
Fix faction home getting cleared when relocating the faction home building
Fix right-clicking on something in the world only applying to the very first equipped component
Show explorable name instead of generic one
Update layout to show both link and docked unit view simultaneously
🌐 Teleporters, Movement & Saving
Calculate a large network of unit teleporters over multiple game ticks to avoid the game slowing down if a unit teleporter is equipped on a moving bot
Fix for GoTo Register not being reset by teleporting using Right Clicking on a teleporter
Fix rare issue where a bot with its Goto register linked from a radar output won't go to a new target
Fix floating units (drones, flyers, shuttles) from raising infinitely upwards when on a high plateau
Fix game crash if a mod switches the faction of an entity not placed on the map
Fix loading a save, which had a mod corrupt the map settings table, overwrite the frontend (main menu) state
Ignore frontend (main menu) state if it was overwritten by a non-frontend state (avoid not being able to load the main menu)
🦠 Virus & Status Effects
Don’t infect units within range of a unit with a cure
Fix for how bugs react to path blocked and viruses
Fix Lua error getting logged on Blight components being active when docked in garage slots
Fix Lua error getting logged on units with repair components equipped and in use trying to spawn effects when docked
📜 Miscellaneous / Minor
Prevent popup about Robot Datacubes appearing when Versus game starts
Fix for radar resetting while it is working
Fix for large tree event spawning when you spawn
Fix for bugs getting stuck to stop pathsearching and find a home
Add ability for a mod to validate data definitions after loading with package:validate_data (only run in mod dev mode)
Add support for Lua callback string tags (with one tag implemented, gets replaced with the current map seed)
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