Early Access 0.4.0p2

Fixes / Changes

• Fixed the inefficient grid warning not having a proper tooltip set.
  
• Fixed the gears in the Research Station panel not stopping when it is not researching.
  
• Fixed the upgrade button's arrow being greyed out even when the button could be pressed.
  
• Fixed the Seaweed visual growth not fully growing.
  
• Fixed inefficient energy grid warning not popping up when the gamespeed was paused.
  

Early Access 0.4.0p1

Fixes / Changes

• Energy producers in an energy grid will now only produce enough energy to match the energy consumption.
  
• Certain energy producers now get priority over others. This means if you have a lot of Solar Panels, your other energy buildings will not turn on until the energy grid requires more energy.
  
• Drifters will now try to prioritize the Manual-Powered Generator over the Townheart's crank.
  
• The path on the world map will display how far you can go with your current energy amount.
  
• Added a tooltip to the Next Region button to indicate that you need a certain amount of energy before you can move to the next region.
  
• Fixed passive energy generator overlay not correctly reflecting if it was working or not.
  
• The subjects in the survival guide are now scrollable.
  
• The gears around the research in the Research Station window will now reflect if the building is currently researching.
  

Change Notes

New Energy System

• Energy buildings can now be connected to energy grids.
  
  
  
  • Buildings that require energy will draw energy from their connected energy grid.
    
  • If an energy grid becomes overloaded, connected buildings will work at reduced efficiency.
    
  
  
• Certain buildings now require energy, instead of fuel:
  
  
  
  • Town Engine
    
  • Research Station
    
  • Desalinator
    
  • Food Truck
    
  • Electro Crafter
    
  • Electrified Scrapsmith
    
  • Electried Fish Kabob
    
  
  
• The townheart starts with a crank to produce energy which prevents players getting stuck when they didn't build an energy related building.
  
• Added an energy overlay that shows the energy consumption, production or storage of energy related buildings.
  
• Added an energy grid overview window which shows all your energy grids with their consumption, production and storage.
  
• Removed old fuel import system and replaced it with the fuel being part of the production recipe.
  
• Added a method to link energy grids together using click and drag energy wires.
  
• Moving to a new biome now costs 10.000 Eels, instead of 75% of your town's fuel.
  
• The athletics attribute now affects how much energy a drifter generates in a drifter powered generator.
  

Town Weight

• Your town now has a weight, which will affect the energy cost of town movement.
  
• The town weight is calculated by the total accumulation of all resource weights in construction costs, inventory and in storage.
  
• There are currently 6 different weight tiers:
  
  
  
  • Very Light: 0kg - 500kg
    
  • Light: 500g - 1000kg - Movement cost increased by 50%
    
  • Medium: 1000kg - 1500kg - Movement cost increased by 100%
    
  • Heavy - 1500kg - 2000kg Movement cost increased by 150%
    
  • Very Heavy: 2000kg - 2500kg - Movement cost increased by 200%
    

New Buildings

• Battery: Increases energy capacity.
  
• Wood-Powered Generator: This building can burn wood to generate energy.
  
• Oil-Powered Generator: This building can burn oil to generate energy.
  
• Energy Pole: A building that is used to connect buildings to the energy grid.
  
• Solar Panel: Generates energy from solar power.
  
• Electro Crafter: Turns Electric Scrap into various electric items.
  
• Electrified Scrapsmith: An upgrade for the Scrapsmith which uses energy instead of Firewood.
  
• Electrified Fish Kabob: An upgrade for the Fish Kabob which uses energy instead of Firewood.
  

New Items

• Battery: Used for energy storage.
  
• Generator: Used to build item based generators.
  
• Solar Panel: Used to generate energy from solar power.
  
• Electric Scrap: Can be made into energy related items.
  
• Temporarily removed Books.
  

Landmarks

• Drifters can now be rescued from landmarks without a boat.
  
• New Landmarks:
  
  
  
  • Polluted Woods
    
  • Car Battery Islands
    
  • Truck Generator Viaduct
    
  • Solar Panel Villages
    
  
  

Pacing Rebalance

• The research station comes into play much faster now, with many buildings being behind research.
  
• The research station no longer requires books. Instead, it requires plastic buoyants and energy.
  
• Dried wood can now be found more frequently on a new landmark: The Polluted Woods.
  
• Wood drying has been slowed down.
  
• Reduced Metal Scrap cost for Metal Plates.
  
• Increased amount of landmarks containing Metal Scrap.
  
• Overhauled each building's cost to take weight, time and energy in regard.
  
• The desalinator upgrade now only replaces the Firewood cost with energy, instead of a flat time / resource upgrade.
  
• Removed Cooked Fish from the Food Truck.
  

Render Pipeline Update

• Updated the render pipeline to the Unity Universal Render Pipeline.
  
• Reworked all shaders to increase overall performance and visuals.
  
• Reworked the ocean shader.
  
• Shadows can now be cast on the water.
  
• Reworked the underwater world, as you can now see it better.
  

Animations

• Added Manual-Powered Generator animation.
  
• Added Ropecrafter animation.
  
• Added Plastic Recycler animation.
  
• Added Reroll animations for the crew selection screen.
  
• Added Wood-Powered Generator building animation.
  
• Added Oil-Powered Generator building animation.
  
• Added Scrapsmith animation.
  

Misc

• Seagulls will now be scouted by drifters.
  
• Added LODs for walkways.
  
• Added LODs for flotsam.
  
• Changed names and descriptions for various buildings.
  
• The Captain's Log is now displayed above the notifications.
  
• Reworked some pages in the survival guide to reflect the current state of the game.
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the fog of war would not go away around the town when moving to the outer edges of the map.
  
• Fixed an issue where loading a save would make the day / night visuals appear out of sync.
  
• Fixed an issue where a drifter would get stuck on a mooring point after moving the town.
  
• Fixed an issue where the boat panel would sometimes show the wrong captain on a boat.
  
• Fixed an issue where a boat would get stuck at the wrong mooring point after moving the town.
  
• Fixed an issue where a drifter would not eat or drink if the game was saved in the night.
  
• Fixed a building being stuck upgrading when you upgraded without the proper items. This would happen when upgrading buildings that required the same items.
  
• Fixed selection outline of watchtower.
  
• Fixed issue where the salvaging attribute tooltip would display the construction tooltip instead in the drifter attribute window.
  
• Fixed outline of the Fish Kabob not highlighting the whole building.
  
• Fixed Desalinator biking animation being offset.
  
• Fixed not being able to salvage Research Station if researched finished when a drifter was on their way to the station.
  

Behind The Scenes

• Added a landmark generator to improve our workflow for the landmarks.
  

Experimental Changes

• Updated the Townheart visuals to reflect the 1 big battery it has.
  
• Updated the Wood-Powered Generator to have an electricity connector.
  
• Updated the Desalinator to have an electricity connector.
  
• Added build states for the Oil-Powered Generator.
  
• Added build states for the Solar Panel.
  
• Reduced the size of the selection collider for the Energy Pole.
  
• Removed decimal point for energy in the Captain's Log.
  
• Updated energy icon in the Captain's Log.
  
• Energy overlay now has paged per grid, instead of being a scrollable window.
  
• Fixed the line visuals of the swimming radius on the map view.
  
• Fixed Food Truck cable position.
  
• Fixed not being able to start linking by clicking the electricity connector of the Food Truck.
  
• Fixed not being able to start linking by clicking the electricity connector of the electrified Fish Kabob.
  
• Fixed Electro Crafter animation being the crank animation.
  
• Fixed buildings not always showing in the energy overlay.
  
• Fixed item-powered electricity generators not showing when they were on when you opened the energy overlay.
  
• Fixed an issue where you could not link to buildings when they finished building while you were linking.
  
• Added missing localization.
  

Change Notes

• Energy buildings can now be connected to energy grids.
  
• Buildings that require energy will draw energy from their connected energy grid.
  
• If an energy grid becomes overloaded, connected buildings will work at reduced efficiency.
  
• Certain buildings now require energy, instead of fuel
  
• Town Engine
  
• Research Station
  
• Desalinator
  
• Food Truck
  
• The townheart starts with a crank to produce energy which prevents players getting stuck when they didn't build an energy related building.
  
• Added an energy overlay that shows the energy consumption, production or storage of energy related buildings.
  
• Removed old fuel import system and replaced it with the fuel being part of the production recipe.
  
• Added a method to link energy grids together using click and drag energy wires.
  

• Your town now has a weight, which will affect the energy cost of town movement.
  
• The town weight is calculated by the total accumulation of all resource weights in construction costs, inventory and in storage.
  
• There are currently 6 different weight tiers:
  
• Very Light: 0kg - 400kg
  
• Light: 400kg - 800kg - Movement cost increased by 50%
  
• Medium: 800kg - 1200kg - Movement cost increased by 120%
  
• Heavy 1200kg - 1600kg - Movement cost increased by 230%
  
• Very Heavy: 1600kg - 2000kg - Movement cost increased by 400%
  
• Overloaded: 2000kg+ - Movement cost increased by 600%
  

• Certain buildings can now slot items in them as an upgrade.
  
• A generator can be slotted in workshops to remove the need for a drifter. Workshops with a Generator will need to be connected to an energy grid.
  
• Batteries can be slotted in the Battery Holder to increase their energy storage.
  

• Battery Holder: A holder where adding batteries will increase energy storage.
  
• Wood-Powered Generator: This building can burn wood to generate energy.
  
• Oil-Powered Generator: This building can burn oil to generate energy.
  
• Energy Pole: A building that is used to connect buildings to the energy grid.
  
• Solar Panel: Generates energy from solar power.
  
• Electro Crafter: Turns Electric Scrap into various electric items.
  

• Battery: Used for energy storage. Can be slotted in a Battery Holder
  
• Generator: Used to upgrade a workshop to no longer require a drifter. Can be slotted in any workshop.
  
• Solar Panel: Used to generate energy from solar power.
  
• Electric Scrap: Can be made into energy related items.
  
• Temporarily removed Books.
  

• Polluted Woods
  
• Car Battery Island
  

• The research station comes into play much faster now, with many buildings being behind research.
  
• The research station no longer requires books. Instead, it requires plastic buoyants and energy.
  
• Dried wood can now be found more frequently on a new landmark: The Polluted Woods.
  
• Wood drying has been slowed down.
  
• Reduced Metal Scrap cost for Metal Plates.
  
• Increased amount of landmarks containing Metal Scrap.
  
• Overhauled each building's cost to take weight, time and energy in regard.
  

• Updated the render pipeline to the Unity Universal Render Pipeline.
  
• Reworked all shaders to increase overall performance and visuals.
  
• Reworked the ocean shader.
  
• Shadows can now be cast on the water.
  
• Reworked the underwater world, as you can now see it better.
  

• Added Manual-Powered Generator animation.
  
• Added Ropecrafter animation.
  
• Added Plastic Recycler animation.
  
• Added Reroll animations for the crew selection screen.
  
• Added Wood-Powered Generator building animation.
  
• Added Oil-Powered Generator building animation.
  

• Seagulls will now be scouted by drifters.
  
• Added LODs for walkways.
  
• Added LODs for flotsam.
  
• Changed names and descriptions for various buildings.
  

• Fixed an issue where the fog of war would not go away around the town when moving to the outer edges of the map.
  
• Fixed an issue where loading a save would make the day / night visuals appear out of sync.
  
• Fixed an issue where a drifter would get stuck on a mooring point after moving the town.
  
• Fixed an issue where the boat panel would sometimes show the wrong captain on a boat.
  
• Fixed an issue where a boat would get stuck at the wrong mooring point after moving the town.
  
• Fixed an issue where a drifter would not eat or drink if the game was saved in the night.
  

• Added a landmark generator to improve our workflow for the landmarks.
  

Early Access 0.3.7: The Upgrade System

• First iteration of the upgrade system:
  
• Plastic drying rack is now Drying Rack
  
• Drying Rack upgrades into a large & huge drying rack.
  
• Distiller is now Desalinator.
  
• Desalinator upgrades to large Desalinator.
  
• Bed now upgrades to House.
  
• House now upgrades to Big House.
  
• Drifters will now temporarly stop their production, research and energy projects when it's bedtime.
  

• Reworked the size of distiller.
  
• Reworked the size of desalinator.
  
• New visual for Large and Huge Drying Rack
  

• Added FMOD to manage audio.
  
• Various new sounds have been added.
  
• Added effect for ambience when pausing the game speed.
  

• Reduced overhead of drifters requesting projects, increasing overall performance.
  
• Added LODs for all storage visuals, reducing rendering at further ranges.
  
• Added LODs for all flotsam / fish in water, reducing rendering dramatically when looking at the horizon.
  

• Metal plates now require 1 fuel to make.
  

• Fixed getting stuck in map view when going to the map while building.
  
• Fixed drifters getting stuck on the energy producer when disabling the building.
  
• Fixed bug where drifter would get stuck on landmark.
  

Change Notes

• First iteration of the upgrade system:
  
• Plastic drying rack is now Drying Rack
  
• Drying Rack upgrades into a large & huge drying rack.
  
• Distiller is now Desalinator.
  
• Desalinator upgrades to large Desalinator.
  
• Bed now upgrades to house.
  

• Metal plates now require 1 fuel to make.
  

• Reworked the size of distiller.
  
• Reworked the size of desalinator.
  
• New visual for Large and Huge Drying Rack
  

• Added FMOD to manage audio.
  
• Various new sounds have been added.
  

• Added upgrade UI.
  

• Reduced overhead of drifters requesting projects, increasing overall performance.
  

• Fixed getting stuck in map view when going to the map while building.
  

Patch notes

• Fixed issue where boats would get stuck when continuing a save from 0.3.5p3 or below.
  

Early Access 0.3.6: The Scouting Update

• First iteration of scouting feature:
  
• New Construction: Watch Tower
  
• Information regarding nearby landmarks can now be obtained by building the Watch Tower.
  
• Information regarding nearby landmarks can now be obtained through drifters that join your town.
  
• New Construction: Pedal-Powered Generator.
  
• Implemented the energy system.
  
• Town movement requires energy now.
  
• The Athletics Attribute now increases drifter energy creation speed.
  
• Added construction category: Energy.
  
• Temporarily removed the Oil Refinery Construction.
  
• New construction specific resources:
  
• Floaters
  
• Wooden Planks
  
• Metal Plate
  
• New Construction: Ropecrafter.
  
• New Construction: Small Drying Rack.
  
• Seaweed Patches now spawn in the water.
  
• Screw, Plastic Nets and the Pipe resources have been removed.
  
• World Generator Updated
  
• Fog of War added to the Overworld View.
  
• Zooming added to the Overworld View.
  
• Scouted landmarks clear Fog of War in a radius.
  
• Reworked Town Movement to be able to interrupt town movement with new path.
  
• Added double-click functionality for new town movement paths.
  
• Reworked map cursor.
  

• Added a planning line for planning town movement.
  
• Added Watchtower construction visuals.
  
• Added Ropemaker construction visuals.
  
• Added Pedal-Powered Generator construction visuals.
  
• Added Small Drying Rack construction visuals.
  
• Reworked Plastic Recycler construction visuals.
  

• Added Landmark cursor for the map.
  
• Reworked some of the HUD.
  

• Persistence management has been refactored to reduce lagspikes when the game is saved.
  
• Flotsam inventory has been factored out to avoid unnecessary memory allocations.
  

• Size of the world has been significantly increased.
  
• Pacing has been adjusted: Workshops are now more prominent in the early game.
  
• Increased starting energy amount.
  
• Altered start amounts of food and water.
  
• All building costs have been changed to reflect the changes.
  
• All production times have been scaled down to reflect the changes.
  
• Number of resources found on Landmarks has been reduced.
  
• Number of resources in flotsam patches has been reduced.
  
• Number of flotsam patches spawned has been increased.
  
• Factory landmark temporarily gives Metal Scrap and Books.
  
• Increased spawn rate of landmarks with Metal Scrap.
  
• Floaters now appear in Flotsam patches.
  
• Townheart Engine is repaired by default.
  
• Increased Fish Spawning around landmarks.
  

• Fixed issue where mooring point couldn't be deconstructed.
  
• Fixed issue where different language could empty all text in all windows.
  
• Fixed issue where save menu would not update after saving.
  
• Fixed issue where boats could get stuck on the "Long Island" landmark.
  

Change Notes

• First iteration of the scouting feature:
  
• New Construction: Watch Tower
  
• Information regarding landmarks can now be obtained by building the Watch Tower.
  
• Information regarding landmarks can now be obtained through drifters that join your town.
  
• New construction specific resources (names may change):
  
• Floaters
  
• Wooden Planks
  
• Metal Plate
  
• New Construction: Ropecrafter
  
• New Construction: Small Drying Rack (may be removed later)
  
• Seaweed Patches now spawn in the water.
  
• Screw, Plastic Nets and the Pipe resources have been removed. (may return later)
  
• World Generator Updated
  

• Size of the world has been significantly increased.
  
• Overhauled the pacing of the game:
  
• Workshops are now more prominent in the early game.
  
• Increased starting fuel amount.
  
• Altered start amounts of food and water.
  
• All building costs have been changed to reflect the changes.
  
• All production times have been scaled down to reflect the changes.
  
• Number of resources found on Landmarks has been reduced.
  
• Number of resources in flotsam patches has been reduced.
  
• Number of flotsam patches spawned has been increased.
  

• Persistence management has been refactored to reduce lagspikes when the game is saved.
  
• Flotsam inventory has been factored out to avoid unnecessary memory allocations.
  

• Experimental: Scouting is currently not persistent
  

Patch notes

• Fixed bug where untranslated phrases would show as blank instead of reverting to english.