Content & Gameplay
- Content: Added the automated metal workplace.
- Content: Added building frames for a couple of buildings.
- Content: Added the metal mixing furnace.
- Content: Added the automatic basic workplace.
- Content: Added the copper vein.
- Content: Added some more building icons.
- Content: Added the copper quarry (copper vein will come later).
- Content: Added the advanced tool workshop where you can now produce iron tools. You can build it directly or upgrade an existing tool workshop. Thank you to Screech for providing the model!
- Content: Replaced the model for the iron quarry.
- Content: Added tea shrubs and leaves.
- Content: Added trees for the dark biome.
- Content: Added sorghum and harvested sorghum.
- Content: Added icons for some buildings.
- Audio: Added combat sound.
- Gameplay / Content: Added power poles that form power grids.
- Gameplay: Treadmills now generate energy. Also, they will not be used when the network can store no more energy. (Energy is not used yet. More energy generation options will come in the future.)
- Gameplay: Vision and borders now extend around your starting ship. This prevents awkward situations at the start of the game. :)
- Gameplay: When upgrading a workshop like the tool workshop, it will now keep its active jobs.
- Gameplay: In order to transport something to a depot, the target must now accept the item. It is no longer sufficient to have an exit hopper that does. The tutorials have been changed accordingly.
- Gameplay: Inserters can now pickup items from ending downward conveyor ramps.
- Gameplay: Shipping ports now have an automation mode for export. When active, you will no longer get a warning when you have no connected export stockpiles. Instead, you will get a warning if you have no entry hopper.
- Tutorial: Added a dummy stage to the ore crushing tutorial that waits until an iron block is produced.
UI
- UI: Added overlay for power poles.
- UI: Added info panel for buildings that connect to the power grid.
- UI: Added some tooltips for power poles and generators.
- UI: The build menu is now focussed on icons. Some buildings have been assigned to different categories.
- UI: You can now collapse the recommendation panel.
- UI: The shipping port panel now also has the tool for adding hoppers.
- UI: Added a panel with shortcuts to place depot exits and entries including some updated tooltips.
- UI: Wild animals that can be domesticated are now easier to spot. :)
- UI: When selecting an enemy camp, you now get a simple estimation of the enemies' strength compared to yours.
- UI: When placing conveyor belts, the last belt is now oriented like the previous one (and no longer uses the mouse bias method).
- UI: When placing a water sprinkler, the game now highlights the tiles that will be sprinkled.
Misc & Engine
- Engine: Upgraded from 2018.4.14 → 2018.4.24f1
- Misc: Added EnemyCampInfo→SpawnClusterExtent.
- Misc/Modding: Changed the cluster spawning algorithm to favor closer spawns. Double SpawnerInfo→SpawnClusterExtent to get back to the previous behaviour.
- Misc: Removed one layer of high frequency noise from terrain generation. Smoother terrain and lower probability of generating messy pockets.
- Misc: Auto saves are now disabled for tutorials.
- Misc: Replaced the model for the combat robot. Thank you to Screech for providing it!
- Misc: Removed clay quarry and clay veins.
- Misc: Oil wells can now also spawn on main land (not just the coast area).
- Modding: Renamed FogColor1&2 → ParticleColor1&2, because it can be used for more particle systems.
- Modding: You can now add new task groups.
- Modding: The vertex count check now looks at the last frame, not the first one. So you might now get some warnings for models that were not there previously. If you get a warning, consider making a shadow mesh for the animation frames. The building frames usually don't need shadow meshes.
Fixes, Balance & Performance
- Balance: Doubled the garbage dump decomposition speed.
- Balance (combat): Moved spiders to tier 3 and made them much stronger - so there are now enemies in tier 3. (more enemies will get added later). If you have spiders on your tier 1 island, please use the debug remove function (activate debug mode in settings, hold alt+click on the remove/deconstruct tool, then drag a box around the spiders) to get rid of them. :)
- Balance (combat): Made big slime weaker so that it will actually spawn.
- Balance (combat): Moved zombies/mummies to tier 2 and made them slightly stronger.
- Balance: Enemies are now a bit further away from your spawn.
- Balance: Building train tracks is now free! You only need track parts to build stations. (test)
- Fixed: Bug caused by the recent optimization round causing objects on conveyor belts to be teleported to the origin of the map, freezing them. To fix existing saves, go to the origin corner of the map. There should be a bunch of items in the water. Remove them using the debug functions. Your belts should now function normally again.
- Fixed: Robots are no longer counted towards the happiness targets. Also, they will no longer show their happiness in the colonist management screen.
- Fixed: Rocks/branches spawning in the middle of an oasis.
- Fixed: Multiple colonists equipping the same tool, leading to all kinds of weirdness.
- Fixed: Removed pitch variation from message sounds.
- Fixed/Gameplay: When a zeppelin factory is destroyed, the zeppelins now finish their current job before disappearing.
- Fixed: Enemy strength display when enemies or robots are dead.
- Fixed: Farm crops & trees appearing as fully grown upon placement.
- Fixed: Bug on picking up tools after reloading.
- Fixed: Small shrubs in desert not mineable.
- Fixed: (Possibly) colonists dropping tools on invalid tiles.
- Fixed: (Possibly) bug in carriage auto schedule generation when stations are removed.
- Fixed: Some smaller things.
- Fixed: (Probably) Tools appearing in the corner of the map upon unequipping.
- Fixed: Upgrading a building now shows the correct building type in the message.
- Fixed: Constructing something now shows more than 5 building frames (if a model supports it).
- Fixed: Shipping port placement overlay not updated upon rotation.
- Fixed: Items removed via modding still showing up in the encyclopedia in multiple places.
- Fixed: Placing conveyor crossings possibly resulting in conveyor parts "getting lost".
- Fixed: The automatic workshop inserter warning now considers if the selected recipes don't require all input boxes.
- Fixed: Items visually disappearing when saved/loaded while on high conveyor belt.
- Fixed: Items "falling down" when saved/loaded while on high conveyor belt.
- Fixed: Layout getting messed up when reopening recommendation panel.
- Fixed: Added hopper placement UI to the garbage dump.
- Fixed: Hoppers can now be placed on the garbage dump.
- Fixed: Construction items that are placed in water will now be moved to solid ground when the construction job is cancelled.
- Fixed: Items outside your territory should no longer be used for construction etc..
- Fixed: A series of cases where items could be stolen from belts, logistics jobs etc..
- Fixed: (Maybe) fixed the game freezing when leaving while paused on some systems.
- Fixed: Really small trees after reloading. :)
- Fixed: Depot filter not preserved after upgrading to HC depot.
- Fixed: Depot not selectable after upgrading to HC depot.
- Fixed: Wrong food preferences showing after resuming a saved game.
- Fixed: Added required money to the automated train tutorial.
- Fixed: When attacking, the actors now reconsider their targets more often.
- Fixed: Track parts still spawning when deconstructing tracks.
- Fixed: Terrain generation failing on huge maps.
- Fixed: Some smaller fixes.
- Fixed: Conveyor parts not unreserving subtiles on deconstruction.
- Fixed: Zone colors in UI.
- Fixed: Building icon positions in text.
- Fixed: Combat animation for combat robots.
- Fixed: Tool animation for tools that are equipped but not currently used.
- Fixed: Restarting a custom map should no longer give you extra resources.
- Fixed: Track elevated track curve model.
- Fixed: Semaphores not getting placed at the correct height when placed on bridges in certain cases.
- Fixed: Reservation issue when depots get destroyed while carrying something.
- Fixed: Boat not spawning after last patch.
- Fixed: Combat animation frames.
- Fixed: Bug that could cause unreachable terrain to form.
- Fixed: Revealed enemy camps should now remain revealed after reloading.
- Fixed: When a valid spawn position can not be found for a thing, it is no longer spawned.
- Fixed: Bug causing random objects or items to spawn in certain cases.
- Performance: Improved depot exit job generation.
- Performance: Improved bird movement.
- Performance: Improved equipment job generation.
- Performance: Zone center positions are now buffered.
- Performance: Checking for logistics jobs is now replaced by a dictionary.
- Performance: Increased the performance of the eating/drinking job generation for robots etc. when you have many items.
- Performance: Improved job generation performance when you have many inserters and automated workshops.
- Performance: Improved job generation performance for clearing automated workshop inputs.
- Performance: Improved job generation performance for stockpiling when you have many depots.
- Performance: Improved depot entry/exit job performance.
- Performance: Improved conveyor belt performance.