Alpha 50 "The Stars Are Quite Nearly Almost Right" | ||||||||||||
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Major changes[ | ]
- We added a variety of new biomes! Select your embarkation point on the map at the start of the game, then discover what challenges and Fun awaits you in your new settlement.
- REDACTED
- Enemies will now destroy your precious buildings. Protect them well!
- Various UI improvements have been improved, and will improve more.
Biomes[ | ]
- added different day/night lighting sets per-biome
- populated new biomes with terrain textures, game objects, biome transition definitions
- added Desert Fox, Snow Fox, various Tortoises, Wooly Aurochs, Arctic Dodo
- added wild grapevines that can foraged for grapes which can be made into wine
- balance: massive farm rebalance; nearly all crops changed
- added a bunch of new crops for new biomes
- all crops are now restricted to respective biome sets.
- added Pulque, Mezcal recipes
- added Grapevine crop
- added crops: Agave, Prickly Pear
- added Mezcal, Agave Syrup, Prickly Pear Bushel
- placed crops into proper climate zones
- FIXED: player no logner allowed to embark in 100% water
- FIXED: embarks that would dump you in 100% water will now place you on land
- FIXED: terrain side texture scaling now set to 100% universally
- FIXED: biome moisture/temp defs so all intended biomes appear on generated map
- FIXED: random crash starting new game in biome loader
- FIXED: Saguaro stumps ill-defined
Colonists[ | ]
- added ability for Vicar to perform last rites on bodies, buried or not. This comforts the living and ensures the dead rest peacefully.
- balance: improved emotional effect of food eating memories
- balance: colonists will wait until they are hungrier before resorting to eating trade food
- balance: colonists will get better memories from eating trade food
- FIXED: dead colonists will never try to set revolt icon on themselves
- FIXED: people thought they blamed themselves for the woes of the colony when someone else blamed them
- FIXED: all agents will now ignite correctly from environmental fire
- FIXED: military will no longer use invisible guns after training sessions
- FIXED: agents not correctly having their hostile bit set, or having hostile bits reset
- FIXED: people would be creeped out by their own creepy whispering
- FIXED: people whispering creepily wouldn’t animate
- FIXED: issue with the “get up from doing pushups” animation
- FIXED: gossip action was not creating meaningful emotional reactions
- FIXED: hostility state of newly arrived colonists now updates correctly vs. foreign factions
- FIXED: missing “Staunch Traditionalist” workcrew names added
- FIXED: sleeping people would appear to stand up if crew/assignment is changed while they’re sleeping
Events / Trade / Factions[ | ]
- streamlined the following events to work with the new mini-event system: Bandit Corpses, Bandit Wants to Join Colony, Fishpeople Caravan, Fishpeople Patrol Beach, Fishpeople Send Raiders, Organized Citizen Finds Supplies, Ravenous Herd, Research Family Tree, Scholar Report
- added code support for events that spawn items to list the items spawned in the text of the event.
- the “Hale & Hearty Recovery” event has been updated and is re-enabled
- significantly delayed the onset of the “Colonists want chapel” event.
- added Strange Meteor event
- added event and special benefit for reaching maximum reputation with the Republique Mechanique
- added event and special benefit for reaching maximum reputation with the Novorus Imperiya
- added event and special benefit for reaching maximum reputation with the Grossherzoginnentum von Stahlmark
- improved default placement of agent groups to account for new variation in map topography; moved logic to a central function for most cases
- balance: bandit camp site selection made to ignore very center of map
- simplified some over-complicated group mission events eg. fishpeople egg stuff, patrols
- FIXED: Colonists denounce cowardice event scripterror
- FIXED: Republique invalid trade item
- FIXED: animal_repopulate event fixed to work with new climate zones (and placement function)
- FIXED: fishpeople given explicit attack order could not be butchered
- FIXED: bandits couldnt be ordered buried after ordered shot
Engine[ | ]
- optimized save game saving and loading
- FIXED: crash starting new game or creating world on UNICODE systems or systems with weird write permissions
- FIXED: crash loading a save game under really weird, gross circumstances
- FIXED: “unable to find dependencyParentJob name MT: Shoot At Entity (first loop, reload)”
- FIXED: crazy weirdo crash in rendTradeGoodUIManager::Update (usually manifesting as either a random crash or a crash when changing workcrew)
Science[ | ]
- a number of crops will now require researching before they can be planted
- balance:increased cap on science points to 50
- balance: some agriculture tech now requires previous tech before it will become available
NPCs[ | ]
- enemies can now attack buildings; no more walling your town off with very long bunkhouses!
- FIXED: bandit combat w/ items in certain situations did not require dropping held commodity
- FIXED: ForceDropEverything error due to invalid trade item spawn
- FIXED: Bandit corpse scripterror
- FIXED: traders stealing guns
UI/UX[ | ]
- added first implementation of minimap
- added images for several “?” help screens that were missing them
- crops you can’t currently plant (due to biome or research) will not be visible on the crop menu
- FIXED: mineral beacon tooltip
Modules/Buildings[ | ]
- added building destruction
- added HP display on buildings
- added Fences
Combat[ | ]
- FIXED: blunderbuss wasn’t doing correct AoE damage
REDACTED[ | ]
- added REDACTED
- added infrastructure for REDACTED infestation mechanics
Assets[ | ]
- realigned all (30+) fence models to work nicely with the line placer, added rustic fences which were previously unused
- added new pipe-IO commodity model mashed together from old models
- updated REDACTED pounce animation
- added particles to stone charcoal kilns when in use
- fixed incorrect defs for all REDACTED animations