Some good news and lots of fixes!
🤯 10,000 Dwarves! 🤯
Thank you all for your support. 10,000 people playing before we've launched is crazy and we continue to get all the feedback you are sending our way. We've been hard at fixing issues being reported, sorting out balance and preparing our road map that we will soon reveal! 🙌
Also we hope you had a good weekend, huge update coming to the demo branch we are rapidly catching up with all the reports and the game is headed to a much better state thanks to everyones help! 🙏
Lastly, we will be entering this years Nextfest starting 14th October and we will be asking for you help to all jump on the game during nextfest and create some hype! We will try and organise a time during the nextfest soon! 🎉
Another update incoming Live on the demo_test branch
- Animation optimizations.
- Performance optimizations that should drastically improve frame rate when building large factories and bases.
- Boiler and Water pump coal consumption rate reduced. A stack of coal will last for much longer.
- Containers that allow custom names (Chests, Belt Containers) now display the name in the hover UI at the top.
- Removed the barrel maker from being unlocked initially, it's unlocked through research.
- Fixed a bug where moving items from and into machines would use a different machine than the one you interacted with.
- Removed pickaxe hit sound when equipping pickaxe
- Fixed Cauldron and smelter not loading correctly
- Tethers now add themselves to hotbar first
- Tethers no longer picked up and destroyed if player inventory is full
- Research UI now refreshes unlock button on being opened
- Research UI now remembers what tree you were on when being closed and opened
- Research station no longer allows you to try and research a tech without having all requirements, then taking items anyway
- Added additional fail safes to ladder to try and prevent invisible tools
- Upgrade station can now look and take items from both hotbar and inventory
This is currently on the demo_test branch and we will put this live later or tomorrow for everyone if everything is all good.
STEP 1 Right click the demo in steam and go to properties.
STEP 2 Go to the betas tab and input the password. demotest123456
STEP 3 Steam will say Success! Beta Unlocked.
STEP 4 Your game should have demo_test in Steam.
Thank you all and back soon!