Hey Meeps! Dev here!
Once again it's our promised weekly patch with new additions to the game. Amongst many bug fixes and such, we've added three new and noticeable features which will be paving the way for some more complexity later on.
Doctors and Injuries
We've added in a new meeple job, Doctors! So long as they have basic medical supplies on hand, they'll search out wounded meeple and treat them. Wounds can be acquired from clumsily putting together equipment, getting into fights with other meeple, or the all time favourite... getting shot.
Once treated, wounds will require some time to heal and frequent redressing by doctors. We've also added in a feature for meeple to faint and collapse under too much pain if their wounds get the better of them. Not to mention, untreated injuries, like lacerations and cuts, can become infected, which can further injure your wounded meeple.
For now injuries are quite simple, a metric for viewing a Meeple's physical state, but we've left room for growth, and plan to extend it further by adding diseases and the possibility for prosthetic limbs or organ transplants (Borg!)
New Docking Structures
Another large change is the addition of Docking Gantries. Airlocks will no longer serve the purposes of trade, now you'll need to build a slightly larger and more costly docking structure to accomodate trade ships. You'll also notice that when clicking on the docking structure, there is a menu with some (currently) locked features we are working on, which will allow you to swap your trade dock into your own shipping dock, to construct and manage vessels of your own!
Job Affinities
The last major addition you'll see this week is the affinities tab. Above the meeple menu you'll notice two extra tabs, one for health and another for affinities. You'll now be able to view which meeple are good at what jobs. You can figure these things out on your own of course, but this quality of life feature should help fill in the gaps and get you micro managing your crew more efficiently.
We are constantly bringing in new changes, and are very excited for the future. We have a great deal of amazing people to thank, and and encouraging community of modders.
Everyone is welcome on our discord server! Don't be shy, stop by and say hi, let us know what you think of our game :)