Hey drifters!
The Polluted Fishies are ready to be caught!
This patch updates the food pipeline with the new Polluted Fish and a Pollution Mechanic.
As the first step towards pollution, drifters can now get polluted by eating the various tiers of polluted fish; Bottle Fish, Oil Gobblers and Bloated Flounders. Eating too much will get them ill and bed-ridden for a short amount of time.
Thanks again to everyone who tested it in experimental! Your reports and feedback are always a great help <3
Enjoy everyone and sea you next patch!
Early Access 0.4.1: Polluted Fishies
New Pollution Mechanic
- Edible items now have a pollution amount.
- Drifters can get gradually polluted.
- Drifters that reach full pollution contract a disease.
- Added disease: Microbe-Plastics. Drifters that contracted Microbe-Plastics will be bedridden for a duration.
- Pollution is shown on drifter overview portraits.
- Items that are polluted will have a color that reflects how polluting they are.
- Added a survival guide page on Pollution & Disease.
New Polluted Fishies
- Added three new polluted fishes: Bottle Fish, Oil Gobbler & Bloated Flounder.
- Fishing now fishes up random fish. The odds of fishing better fish will increase as you clean up the ocean.
- Added Seaweed Sheet, which is used as an ingredient in certain food recipes.
- Added the Fishing Chair, where drifters can fish in the town. They'll fish up any fish in the swimming radius.
- Added the Unbottler, where bottled fish can be unbottled to reduce pollution. This building requires energy and has the following recipes:
- Unbottled Fish.
- The Chop Shop no longer has the Bird Chow recipe, but it did gain the following recipe:
- Seaweed Sheet.
- Added the Fishwasher, where polluted fish can be cleaned and prepped. It has the following recipes:
- Unbottled Filet.
- Gobbler Filet.
- Flounder Filet.
- Bird Chow.
- Re-introduced the Fish Sticks. It has the following recipes:
- Dried Bottle Fish.
- Dried Unbottled Fish.
- The recipes in the Fish Kabob have been changed to the following recipes:
- Grilled Gobbler.
- Grilled gobbler Filet.
- Grilled Flounder.
- The recipes in the Food Truck have been changed to the following recipes:
- Unbottled Roll.
- Gobbler Roll.
- Quarter Flounder.
- Temporarily removed the Fishing Hut.
- The amount of pollution on food can be found in the item tooltip.
Research
- Certain research is now locked behind other research.
- Slightly reduced cost of Research Station, as it comes into play sooner now.
- Empty categories no longer show in research panel.
- Chop Shop, Battery, Scrapsmith and Watchtower are now behind research.
- Added research images to more construction research projects.
Balance Tweaks
- Weight tiers now affect energy requirement more gradually then before.
- Energy mileage has been increased which means less energy needed for the same distances.
- Reduced amount of food you start with.
- Reduced cost of Energy Pole.
- Reduced metal cost of the Seaweed Grower.
Performance Optimizations
- Reduced memory allocation of certain UI elements. This should reduce stuttering.
- Reduced memory allocation of animations. This should reduce stuttering.
Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the drying rack would work at twice the speed it should.
- Fixed Captain's Log not showing the energy production and consumption correctly.
- Fixed error spam when a building with inventory visuals got deconstructed or upgraded.
- Fixed fuel requirement still showing in the research window.
- Fixed description of drifters producing energy.
- Fixed an issue where fish would show in salvage markers.
- Fixed an issue where the movement button on the map would not update when the set path became available.
- Fixed research panel not updating the next available research when research completed.
- Fixed research panel unlock button not updating when research was completed.
- Fixed warnings not disappearing when a drifter died.
- Fixed battery meters not updating on load.
- Fixed an issue where drifters would swap between electricty generators every 30 seconds.
- Fixed storages not being able to accept newly added items.
- Fixed an issue where the walkway segment status would throw an error and not update to the correct value.
- Fixed some Chinese characters showing as boxes.
Misc.
- Added generator storage visual.
- Changed item color backgrounds: Polluted items are now purple. Rare and Crafted items are now the same green.
- Updated the item tooltips improve color background visibility, and tweaked layouts to fit them.
- New icon backgrounds added to landmark, marker, production panels.
- The item tooltip now shows the weight of an item.
- Added movement cost back to the map.
- The movement button on the map now always shows, but will be disabled when you cannot move to a set point.
- Added warning for hunger / thirst.
- Drifters will now always prioritize the Manual-Powered Generator over the Townheart Crank.
- The salvaging attribute will now change the priority of landmark salvaging as well, instead of only changing the priority of the salvaging assignment.
Behind the Scenes
- Created a manual world editor to provide testing grounds for future patches.
- Added functionality to add images in text, which will be used for clarity in the future.
- Changed the way we store item information in the back-end, reducing the amount of bugs around drifters not eating.
Experimental Changes
For those who played the experimental build, here are the changes from the latest experimental build that are not mentioned in the full patch notes:
- Added remaining storage visuals for certain fishes.
- Fixed Unbottler missing an energy overlay.
- Fixed Unbottled Roll referencing a missing term.
- Fixed daily report not counting consumed water.
- Fixed old saves with Nibble Fish breaking workshops.
- Fixed Unbottled Fish & Unbottled Filet having swapped resource visuals.
- Fixed plastic counter not displaying the right amount of Plastic Waste.