World

• Large performance optimization to terrain material
  
• Fixed some holes in terrain
  

AI

• Fixed a bug causing AI to go outside their radius when depositing items
  

Structures

• Added a "Base Shield" which will absorb a projectile shot from outside its boundary once every 8/6/4 seconds
  
• Added a pipeline system which will funnel resources placed inside along connected pipes
  
• Added a scrapper machine which can be used to reclaim resources from equipment you no longer need
  
• Can no longer place turrets within 10 meters of other turrets
  
• Fixed powered states for miners and command center tier 5+
  
• Doors are no longer usable by non-corporation members
  
• Reduce the incidence of "unowned" structure bug
  

Game

• Jetbike and HoverSled vehicles are now available on the vehicle pad
  
• Implemented Offline Raid Protection on PvP and PvPLite Servers
  
• PvP Servers - ORP kicks in for 48 hours, 30 min after last logout. ORP reduces damage taken by all structures in CC radius by 80%
  
• PvP-Lite Servers - ORP kicks in for 48 hours, 30 min after last logout. ORP reduces damage taken by all claimed structures by 80%
  
• Fixed a bug allowing players to damage enemy claimed territory structures in PvE mode
  
• Fixed a bug where pirates couldn't damage player buildings
  
• Players can now see which corporation a bot/building belongs to
  
• Added proximity voice chat - left ctrl can be used as push to talk
  
• Fix a bug with weapon animations
  
• Added throwable grenade to Tier2 weapons shop
  
• Added throwable C4 pack to Tier3 weapons shop
  

World

• Adjusted cloud shadow values, disabled far distant cascades
  
• Fixed water pool interaction near volcano
  

Structures

• Fix for command center placement count to use the same system as turrets and etc
  
• Added vehicle pad in preparation for vehicles next week (currently nothing can be crafted there)
  
• Auto-door setting should now be properly saved
  
• Fix for drill animation
  
• Removed vehicle recipes from robotics factory
  
• Fix for certain cases where solar panels would appear blocked even though they weren't
  

AI

• Will now only build/repair friendly structures
  
• Fix some issues where bots couldn't get close enough to charge
  
• Stuck bots will now try to auto-unstuck themselves
  
• Bots also have an "Unstuck" button that players can hit to teleport them to their location when within 10 horizontal meters
  
• AI will now prioritize containers nearest to their job center when depositing items, and won't deposit outside their job radius
  
• Friendly AI can now path through automatic doors
  
• When idle, will now only wander within 3m of their job origin instead of 20m
  
• Drones will no longer attempt to equip weapons that they cannot use
  
• GUARD bots will actually equip weapons into their hand slots when using them
  
• Pirates will now attack buildings near your home location, and only track down the player if there's no other structural targets (or if they see the player while raiding)
  

Game

• Fix for environment events ceasing to work after some time
  
• Fix for lightning storm not spawning lightning bolts
  
• Increased time between pirate raids to 50-60 min for casual mode
  
• Greatly reduce amount of energy drained by energy weapons
  
• Rebalanced ammo costs to make T2 slightly cheaper and T3 much cheaper
  
• Current weapon's ammo in clip is now being saved and loaded between sessions
  
• Weapon FireRate and Reload Speed are now displayed in "shots per second" and "seconds" respectively
  
• Weapon sound FX now work properly with sound settings
  
• Crashed ships will spawn far less often
  
• Fix for a possible crash
  
• Fix for structures and bots sometimes not spawning in successfully when being loaded from save file
  

World

• Adjusted cloud shadow values, disabled far distant cascades
  
• Fixed water pool interaction near volcano
  

Structures

• Fix for command center placement count to use the same system as turrets and etc
  
• Added vehicle pad in preparation for vehicles next week (currently nothing can be crafted there)
  
• Auto-door setting should now be properly saved
  
• Fix for drill animation
  
• Removed vehicle recipes from robotics factory
  
• Fix for certain cases where solar panels would appear blocked even though they weren't
  

AI

• Will now only build/repair friendly structures
  
• Fix some issues where bots couldn't get close enough to charge
  
• Stuck bots will now try to auto-unstuck themselves
  
• Bots also have an "Unstuck" button that players can hit to teleport them to their location when within 10 horizontal meters
  
• AI will now prioritize containers nearest to their job center when depositing items, and won't deposit outside their job radius
  
• Friendly AI can now path through automatic doors
  
• When idle, will now only wander within 3m of their job origin instead of 20m
  
• Drones will no longer attempt to equip weapons that they cannot use
  
• GUARD bots will actually equip weapons into their hand slots when using them
  
• Pirates will now attack buildings near your home location, and only track down the player if there's no other structural targets (or if they see the player while raiding)
  

Game

• Fix for environment events ceasing to work after some time
  
• Fix for lightning storm not spawning lightning bolts
  
• Increased time between pirate raids to 50-60 min for casual mode
  
• Greatly reduce amount of energy drained by energy weapons
  
• Rebalanced ammo costs to make T2 slightly cheaper and T3 much cheaper
  
• Current weapon's ammo in clip is now being saved and loaded between sessions
  
• Weapon FireRate and Reload Speed are now displayed in "shots per second" and "seconds" respectively
  
• Weapon sound FX now work properly with sound settings
  
• Crashed ships will spawn far less often
  
• Fix for a possible crash
  
• Fix for structures and bots sometimes not spawning in successfully when being loaded from save file
  

World

• Fixed Clipping Rock in various locations
  
• Fixes for environment events not showing up on the server, and not damaging players or structures
  
• Made night time darker, time to use those flashlights!
  
• Fixed some stretched terrain and badly placed resources
  

AI

• Fix a stuck case with AI hauling/crafting when their inventory is full
  
• AI charging fixes for performance and for failing to find charging station
  
• Fix for recharging when on follow not aborting the follow
  
• Significant optimizations to AI on dedicated server
  
• Make bots more likely to follow foundation paths
  
• Bot AI aggressiveness can now be set to Aggressive, Defensive, Cowardly, Passive
  
• Bot AI will once again properly aggro things that they see in a proximity around them
  
• AI fix to some stuck cases with crafting and hauling.
  
• AI will be significantly more responsive in general, and will communicate more about what they're able to do
  
• Hopeful fix for a "stuck in fighting stance" bug
  

Structures

• Added new structure - large shielded bay door - 3 foundations wide by 2 walls tall
  
• Added new structure - Planter box - allowing you to harvest carbon in the safety of your base, and make pretty gardens
  
• Added new structure - Basic Cube - filling in a full 3x3x3 foundation cube
  
• Added new structure - Repair-o-Tron - consumes health packs to AOE heal over time all friendly bots in an area
  
• Fixed refraction issue on glass ceilings/corners
  
• Fixed window walls snapping at off angles
  
• Added custom collisions to command center T1-T3
  
• Fixed the door so that it has 3 toggle states - On/Off/Auto
  
• Cap number of turrets in a corporation to 5
• corporation rank
  
• Increased the building costs of the harvester, extractor, and the miner as well as all of their upgrades.
  
• Adjusted Turret Audio to be louder, and more distant
  
• Overhauled structural support system - should be much more performant and stable
  
• Significant optimizations to Turrets on dedicated server
  
• Significant optimizations to Structure networking on dedicated server
  
• Fix for pylons sometimes not hooking up power grids on reload
  

Gameplay

• Significantly improve weapon accuracy across the board
  
• Fixed an issue preventing pirate raids from being customizable on servers
  
• Territory claimers will now show up on your map
  
• Players will now properly take fall damage.
  
• Audio pass on various weapons
  
• Added implementation for Rocket Boots, which now grant lots of move speed and jump height.
  
• Fix industrial health pack regen to give 2000 health over 20 sec
  

Short Term Goals

Medium Term Goals

Cataclysm System and Server Wipes

New Patch Process

World

• Fix for some petroleum harvestable with a sword
  
• Major Performance improvements for terrain
  
• Fixed some disappearing/destroyed geothermal vents
  

AI

• Base drone, GUARD, and combat drone have all had their HP and Shields buffed
  
• Bots should path much better in deep water
  
• Fixed a case where pirates were stuck rolling forever
  
• Fixed a case where pirates in water would be stuck forever in combat
  

Structures

• Limit corporations to one Command Center per colony
  
• Increased damage of melee weapons vs buildings slightly
  
• Increased damage of turrets vs pirates
  
• Fixed positioning issues with triangle ceilings
  
• Fixed some collision issues on T2 and T3 walls
  
• Fixed collision issues on T2 and T3 Doorway
  
• Foundations can no longer be placed above other foundations
  
• Extended base of harvesters so they always sink down into the ground
  
• Collision fixes for T2 and T3 pillars
  
• Fixed some corner foundation snapping
  

Gameplay

• Major combat and weapons rebalanced, multiple changes throughout the system
  
• Renamed "Insulation" to "Deflection" which now reduces damage taken by shields
  
• Shotguns, Railguns, and Batons are now highly effective vs deflection but weak vs armor
  
• Rifle, Sniper Rifle, and Knife are now highly effective vs armor but weak vs deflection
  
• Pistols, SMGs, Swords, and Rockets do balanced damage vs armor and deflection
  
• Greatly reduced animal attack damage and HP scaling, but increased their armor
  
• Greatly reduced pirate attack damage and HP scaling, but increased their armor and deflection
  
• Added Shields to Crabs
  
• Reduced the gap between T1 and T3 equipment
  
• Crafted Weapons will have a random base damage stat within a range, based on crafting skill
  
• Crafted Armor will have a random set of stats depending on armor type
  
• T2 and T3 crafted equipment will have sensible bonus stats depending on the equipment type
  
• Multitool can no longer be thrown
  
• Fixed a bug preventing player and pirates from taking damage when out of power
  
• Increased base scan range
  
• Rocket range greatly reduced
  
• Fix a major possible server issue
  

UI

• Fix an issue where health and shield bars wouldn't update properly when connected to a server
  
• Damage popups on enemies now display actual damage dealt including mitigation
  
• Damage numbers <1 now show up as "<1" as opposed to fractional numbers
  
• Server list will continue to populate over time instead of clearing old servers with each refresh
  
• Invitations to join other players colonies will now appear in bright green all captialized text that starts with CLICK HERE TO...
  

World

• Added more potassium, magnetite, and titanium to x0y0,x0y1,x0y2,x1y0,x1y1
  
• Added some extra collision in x1y0 to prevent players from falling behind rocks.
  
• Terrain Triangulation fixes
  
• Fixed petroleum sprays to render properly
  

Structures

• Added Equilateral Triangle Shape foundations and ceilings
  
• Overhauled T1-T3 Ramps, created new T3 Ramp, adjusted previous ramps to snap properly.
  
• Reduced memory and improved realtime performance on all building pieces
  
• Make turrets higher priority for server replication, nerf their range a bit, make their damage not pierce armor or shields at all
  
• Set proper walls for T2 and T3, set interior wall set for light walls. T2 and T3 walls now have emissive lights.
  
• Added Glass Ceiling Corner piece
  
• Fix turret tracer FX so you can see where shots are coming from
  
• Attempt to fix power issue with structures on load in, not displaying their true powered state
  
• Fix cancelling crafting items, make sure they properly refund you
  
• Foundations can no longer be snapped to existing objects without being placed in the ground
  

AI

• Allow AI to mine their desired deposit while in the water
  
• Additional AI moving fixes for when AI aren't able to make it to their destination
  
• Bots let you know when crafting or refueling tasks are starting to get low on resources.
  
• The non-player bots have a voiced message when spawned or created now.
  
• Bots now say if the reason they can't do their job is lack of resources.
  
• Fixes for AI crafting behavior. will now work until they run out of mats or free inventory space and then go deposit.
  
• AI will now count free inventory space as including unfilled stacks of their current crafting type
  
• Fix for the Animal AI combat state vs turrets - Animals will properly kill turrets who shoot them
  
• When AI powers down due to power loss, it will say something and gives a correct radio message
  
• The server will now despawn Animals that are far from any players, so new animals can spawn near the players
  
• Fix to AI hauling behavior so they properly drop off resources
  
• The checkboxes for hauling jobs should work correctly now.
  

Game

• Pirates will be harder at low levels and easier at high levels
  
• Turrets will become less effective against pirates at high levels, but player weapons will continue to be pretty effective
  
• Fixed a bug that failed to visually abort melee weapon swing animation when player cancels click before hit
  
• Optimizations for dedicated servers, especially when there are no players on
  
• Add more config settings for claimed/unclaimed environment event damage, global gather rate and resource respawn
  
• Fix a bug on PvE servers where it allowed damage vs claimed structures on server reload
  
• Update bot hit FX so they aren't fleshy green stuff anymore
  

UI

• Updated description for Magnetite
  
• Fixed Bug that will now allow cheats in Single Player and Locally Hosted Games, and fixed on Servers
  
• Fix a bug in storage setting dropdown box when it was set to None
  

World

• Fixed water in x0y0
  
• Fix for some floating rocks and resources
  
• Added several more potassium, titanium, and magnetite nodes per zone
  
• Fixed some bad collision on some terrain pieces
  
• Modified the skull collision a bit
  

AI

• Fix an issue that was causing AI to jitter and become unresponsive
  
• Add a "lock" setting to AI bot inventory slots that prevents them from storing items placed in those slots
  
• Bots in follow mode should be much better at jumping off stuff and getting unstuck
  
• Added some new Bot lines that more clearly describe any issues they're having with their work
  

Structures

• Added a way to lock storage containers to specific item classes, which bots will use when storing items
  
• Turrets should be more responsive in targeting
  
• Rocket turrets no longer cause friendly fire
  
• Add hydraulic fluid to materials processor
  
• Fix higher tier CC crafting costs and HP
  
• Fix for infinitely crafting bots
  
• Add a glass ceiling to connect dome pieces
  
• Window wall collision adjusted so players can't get through
  

Game

• Significantly buff sniper rifle accuracy
  
• Melee weapons now wait till appropriate point in their swing animation to deal damage
  
• Buff sword damage at all tiers. Sword swings slower. Increased range slightly.
  
• Buff Knife damage at all tiers. Knives deal armor piercing damage
  
• Buff Baton damage at all tiers. Batons swing slower. Add a significant DOT debuff to baton strikes
  
• New calculation for armor piercing which makes it more effective vs high armor
  
• Sniper rifle now shoots a projectile with travel time. Increased reload time, decreased clip size, significantly increased damage, added a T4 ammo for T3 sniper rifle
  
• Added a new animation for Spade, reduced swing speed, greatly increased gather rate
  
• Nerfed building damage for all melee weapons
  
• Significantly buffed shotgun damage at short range, increased reload time
  
• Equipment should now be visible on relog
  
• Fixed stalker backpacks appearing as soldier backpacks
  
• Added "TheGathering" cheat which allows you to add any item type by name to your inventory
  
• Increased default battery capacity by 5x
  
• Melee weapons can now be thrown by holding right-click/aim and then firing
  
• Fixed an issue with saving while game is shutting down that may have led to lost data
  

UI

• Changed default fullscreen mode to fix a problem some players are having with significant FPS issues
  
• Players can now reset their tutorial with /resettutorial
  
• Fixed cheats working on local hosted games
  
• Added Main Menu options - Single Player, Locally Hosted Games, and Internet Hosted Games
  
• Fixed sound settings in options menu to properly mute/adjust sound types
  
• Fixed some duplicated item names (Robotic Assembly T2/T3)
  
• Crafting Structure UI changed from On/Off to "Auto/Manual"
  

World

• Fixed an unharvestable water
  
• Fixed some doubled up resources
  
• Fixes to various terrain rock clipping and underground resources
  
• Fixed Various holes in rocks.
  
• Fixed water at Andres hills, reduced number of sodium deposits.
  
• Adjusted various energy rocks scale for proper interact
  

AI

• AI will no longer miss the crafting table
  
• AI finding a storage container now uses job radius
  
• Toggling bot power will reset its AI state(have you tried turning it off and on again?)
  
• AI bots will defend allies being attacked in a radius of 20m
  
• Add a "retire bot" option to the bot frame menu
  
• Better feedback when issuing a bot orders it can't follow
  

UI

• Players can find Favorites, History, and Friends Servers from Steam in the In-Game Server List
  
• Locally Hosted Games will now appear in the Server List for players on the same LAN (check the "local" checkbox)
  
• Update to the stat widgets to fix some UI issues
  
• Fixed jump height description to not be empty
  
• Fix tutorial getting stuck at weapon swapping objective with logging in and out.
  
• Update some out of date item descriptions
  
• Add more info about what resource is needed to operate for generators in its Info UI
  
• Fixed Foliage options settings
  
• Better death message if the killer is not a player, should let you know when killed by turrets and etc
  
• Added Early Access disclaimer statement to the Loading Screen
  
• Add "Try updating" to the server list menu if no servers are found
  

Structures

• Implement a repeat crafting count, with an infinite checkbox for infinite repeat
  
• Fixed tier 6 and up command center
  
• Fix an issue causing turrets to fixate on blocked targets
  
• Add actual rocket projectile to rocket turrets, and nerf damage by half
  
• Increased heavy turret damage, but reduced its range
  

Game

• Change PVE rules so players can't be killed by turrets in unclaimed territory, but structures can.
  
• Remove repair pack from machine shop until it's useful
  
• Players should no longer be blocked from interacting with things in water
  
• Shield Boosts now Boost armor by a lot more, making them much more useful in combat
  
• Updated animations for various melee weapons
  
• Players will be less likely to spawn in range of enemy rocket turrets
  
• Cheat StayingAlive now sets shields to full as well.
  
• Players will take no damage and draw no aggro from mobs until 30 seconds after they finish their spawn sequence or until they attack anything.
  
• /EnableCheats enables cheats in SP