One of the great things about getting in on the FortressCraft Evolved's Early Access is your ability to access upcoming builds as they are in development. While these builds are not as stable as the ones pushed live for everyone, they allow you to get hands on and see the progress being made!
Below is just a small example of some of the updates that are in the Steampipe which will be pushed to the main branch in a later update. Click HERE for the full and evolving list of updates.
Available in Current MULTIPLAYER Steampipe Beta (V1.13c)
- Complete item overhaul, especially WRT multiplayer
- Fixed client-side power transfer not working
- Survival entities now network synced (Server->Client ONLY)
- Fixed performance collapse!
- Further improved CPU usage when looking at blocks a long way away
- Power Transfer now timestepped (Getting power from batteries at low framerate is not longer slow)
- Improvements to MP Survival - ore smelters and extractors should now work
- Ore Ping rendering rewritten (Will give you colourised Ore Pings TEMPORARILY)
- Hypothermia rendering rewritten
- Hyperthermia added.
- Heat from torches tweaked; no longer an infinitely small source
- Added Macerator to Research and Manufacturing systems.
- Improved UI performance substantially.
- Fix for crash in Creative servers
- HotBar now lists '0' items, when you don't have any.
- SpiderBot body no longer falls when all its feet are embedded! (doh)
To access the various Beta Branches such as the aforementioned MULTIPLAYER branch or the Linux and Mac Beta Test branches simply Right Click on FortressCraft Evolved in your game's Library list, Select Properties, then click on the BETAS tab in the window that pops up. Once on the BETAS tab you will see a dropdown menu that will let you select a Beta branch to access.
PLEASE NOTE:Builds on the Beta branch are not going to be as stable the official updates that have been pushed live. Also note that the PC is the leading platform so if you go in and test the Linux and Mac builds they will be behind the development of the PC. Beta branches are also constantly updating and are not fully tested. Access at your own risk.