What's New and Improved?

• Printing Pod can now print objects other than Duplicants, to give your colony that little extra boost
  
• Added a new priority to the Priority tool, "!!". This will make a highest-priority errand and put the base into Red Alert mode until the errand is complete
  
• Added a new side screen for Duplicants which shows all the chores they can perform, and what order they will perform them in
  
• Added a new "Errands" tab for buildings (other objects coming soon!) which shows what chores are available there and which Duplicants can work on those chores
  
• Reports Menu now shows a more accurate and better categorized breakdown of where Duplicants are spending their time
  
• Reports Menu now shows how many errands have been created and completed each day
  
• "Long Commute Times" notification if Duplicants have a high percentage of travel time in a day
  
• New Artifacts can be returned from space missions, either by astronauts or space tourists -- display them on Pedestals for high decor!
  
• Eggs can now also be placed on Pedestals
  
• Rocket modules now have a "Launch Tower" background that shows where the rocket will land even after it has taken off
  
• There have also been many bug fixes and minor improvements.

HOTFIX - 310952

• Once again able to build Pitcher Pump in front of back wall buildings
  
• Fix gas leaking if Airflow Tiles or Mesh Tiles are built as replacement tiles
  
• Fix priority on Neural Vascillator so Dupes with raised priorities will actually use it
  
• Fix crash when building wires and pipes
  
• Fix crash when destroying a Geyser in sandbox mode
  
• Fix crash when Dupes are Rummaging
  
• Increase the priority of Rummage errands
  
• Wrangle Tool now correctly sets priority
  
• Fix crash when one of the Dupes in a conversation disappears for some reason

HOTFIX - 311032

• Fix crash when changing Dupe names with Chinese input
  
• Fix crash when building plumbing/vents on single-core computers
  
• Fix Duplicants getting stuck in a delivery loop if a locker set set to !! priority

HOTFIX - 311694

• Red alert no longer prevents Duplicants from catching their breath (They will however, hold it for longer than usual)
  
• Dupes in Red Alert will get the correct "holding breath" face when holding their breath
  
• Can now set emergency priority with the '0' key the same way the other number keys set normal priorities.
  
• Fix Filtered Output Pipe icon on the plumbing overlay
  
• Fix liquid/gas input incorrectly updating liquid flow if the entire mass was consumed
  
• Fix crashed caused by Errand time reporting
  
• Cleaned up which systems were responsible for Red Alert from Emergency
• Priority errands. Now it's controlled directly from the building's priority, so setting the building priority will immediately toggle Red Alert on or off, regardless of whether there is an active chore. This makes it more consistent in all cases and improves the feedback of toggling the building's priority.
  
• Buildings and other objects with emergency priority now have a "!!" status item visible in the main game view
  
• If a building was only temporarily prioritizable (e.g. because of a Repair errand), it will stop causing Red Alert when that errand is finished.
  
• Several temperature and mass related crashes were actually recoverable, so just put a warning in the output log and keep running the game.
  
• Fix a crash then the Med Bed is set to emergency priority
  
• Duplicants are allowed to remain in a med bed during Red Alert
  
• Fix the priority numbers on the Minion Todo List being off by one.

HOTFIX - 312373

• Fix for Sweeper Arm sometimes not being able to reach any storages even when they're in plain sight
  
• Add some additional checks to try and track down invalid Errand crashes
  
• Fix another crash with input with IMEs such as Chinese
  
• Updated Korean and Chinese translations
  
• Fix a crash when setting Dupe priority to "disabled"

[Game Update] - 306581 - 2/1/2019

• Deconstructing toilets and other assignables no longer crashes
  
• Fix door access controls not being loaded correctly or modifying the pathfinding correctly.
  
• Cleaned up tooltips for chores on the Duplicant ToDo list
  
• "Sleeping" status is properly bolded and first in the status screen
  
• Big change to the Duplicant Time reports on the reports screen: Shows as percentage of the day, time categories have been revised, a few new categories, and the whole screen has been better organized.
  
• Fix several overlapping or badly wrapping text problems -- thanks for pointing these out!
  
• Updated description for Smooth Hatch
  
• Clicking a Dupe on the building Errands tab will jump to that dupe
  
• Fix text styles being broken when game language is changed
  
• Added in "not existing" dupe time reporting for more accurate daily totals when a dupe is printed or dies
  
• Reduce the boldness of bolded text
  
• Add missing compostable string
  
• Correct Water Geyser typo
  
• More accurate Telescope description

[Game Update] - 306670

• Fixed med bed errand priority to Personal Needs so bedridden dupes will actually get out of bed to pee.
  
• Some balance changes to the portal Care Packages
  
• Some portal Care Packages are now gated by discovery, others have had their minimum cycle altered

[Game Update] - 306910

• Duplicants should no longer get stuck in place if they have to hop down on to a horizontal door
  
• Text alignment/spacing fixes to the Pedestal screen, Jobs Screen dropdowns,
  
• Fix crash when spawning a new Care Package
  
• Pedestals correctly set decor on load
  
• Fix crash when Duplicants are thinking about their next errand
  
• Fix crash when clicking a care package and then a Duplicant on the Printer Pod screen
  
• Building errand list and Duplicant ToDo list now show available errands in realtime, along with better messages for why a dupe can't perform the errand at a building (instead of just being blank).
  
• Current errand on the ToDo list is shown at the top
  
• Fix cases where a Dupe would incorrectly pathfind or get stuck at a access controled door if they approached it from a diagonal.
  
• Ladders can now directly replace other ladders

[Game Update] - 308684

• Fixed issue where pre-printing and post-death time logs were inaccurate
  
• Liquid Fuel Tank background now shows up
  
• Report Screen headers are now translatable
  
• Airflow Tiles and Mesh Tiles now block gasses and liquids from escaping into space
  
• All doors now prevent gasses and liquids from escaping into space (art coming soon!)
  
• Gasses render in front of background buildings like Drywall
  
• All doors can be walked on top of, in either orientation, open or closed.
  
• Hotkeys are explicitly inserted into many strings now instead of appended at the end (for Translators)
  
• Puzzle Cube artifact displays properly
  
• Conduits placed across multiple Hydroponic Farms should no longer block liquids from flowing down the pipe
  
• Emergency priority creates notifications to make it easier to find those Errands
  
• Games there were saved while a Care Package was in the process of being printed will no longer crash
  
• Fix several cases of Duplicants repeatedly picking up micrograms of ore
  
• Duplicants will prefer to run across the tops of ladders rather than climbing across them
  
• Bunker Doors should no longer animate while the game is paused
  
• Anti Entropy Thermal Nullifier no longer incorrectly gets "Too Cold"
  
• Fix a crash when trying to save invalid temperatures
  
• Updated artwork for many of the rocket module backgrounds
  
• Improved some logging for Errand errors to help us track down bugs

[Game Update] - 309354

• Added background art to all doors to indicate that they prevent gasses from leaking into space
  
• Fixed layering on gas rendering. Now all pipes and other background objects are partially covered by gasses, drywall and world background are fully covered.
  
• Fix for Dupes incorrectly binge-eating tiny amounts of food
  
• Duplicant Errand list correctly hides errands the Dupe would be unable to perform
  
• Clicking certain notifications no longer moves the camera to the top left of the world
  
• Remove redundant hotkeys in some tooltips
  
• Revised artwork for rocket towers
  
• Made several previously-untranslatable strings translatable
  
• Fetches for micro-amounts are forced to complete
  
• "Errands" tab shows on more than just buildings, e.g. digs, critters. Let us know if it's missing from anything still!
  
• Fixed more text layout/wrapping bugs
  
• Fix a crash when deleting a Duplicant or Critter with sandbox tools
  
• Adjust height of the Critter Lure so that it has room for the bait
  
• Proper fuel meter shows on the Liquid Fuel Tank
  
• Liquid Oxidizer tank meter no longer stays behind when the rocket launches
  
• Liquid/Gas/Solid cargo bay meters are hooked up.
  
• Adjusted wordings on Rocket checklist to make it more clear when there are problems
  
• Red Alert no longer prevents Emergency chores from being completed
  
• Fixed priority of Find Somewhere Safer chore
  
• Added tooltip for Emergency priority
  
• Added priority values into tooltips on the Priorities screen

What's New and Improved?

New Things

• New Pedestal Building: Use it to increase the decor value of various objects while displaying them for your Duplicants
  
• New Artifact Objects: Bring them back from outer space for decorative display in your colony
  
• New Decor Items: Corner Decorations, Carpeted Tile, Trim Tile, new Painting and Statue variations, new Pot types for plants
  
• New Master Artist role: Allows the creation of the best forms of art (and the Astronaut role finally has its own hat too!)
  
• Increased Automation: Critter Sensor outputs a signal based on the number of critters and eggs in a room
  
• New Sight-Seeing Module: Send Duplicants to space for a huge morale and productivity bonus

And A LOT more

HOTFIX - 299790

• Fix some formatting in the official Chinese and Russian translations
  
• Add some debug logging to help track down crashes
  
• Fix crash when Duplicants are trying to unequip items
  
• Fix crash if a building in fog-of-war gets damaged
  
• Fix crash when Auto Sweepers are looking for tasks
  
• Dupe navigation will be correctly affected by their custom access settings on doors.

HOTFIX - 302293

• Fix a crash when a sink runs out of water while a dupe is washing their hands
  
• Fabricator screen now displays a helpful message when no recipes have been discovered
  
• Fabricator screen now displays a recipe when any ingredient has been discovered

What's New?

Key Features

• Steam Engine and Liquid Hydrogen Engine for increased rocket power
  
• Solid Fuel Thrusters to improve rocket thrust
  
• Research Modules to gather research data from space

• Larger space map
  
• New destination types
  
• Space research, which reveals artifacts and materials

• Shove Vole can now be found on the surface, munching Regolith and waiting for your love!

• New Molecular Forge converts rare materials into industrial supermaterials
  
• New Thermium, used as an industrial super conductor material
  
• New industrial-grade Insulation
  
• New Fullerene-based Super Coolant
  
• Gelatinous, kinetic energy-dampening Visco-Gel

• Duplicants take to the air in new Jet Suits!
  
• Jet Suit Checkpoints and Lockers added for Jet Suit management

• Telescopes can now analyze Starmap destinations
  
• Research Modules produce Data Banks during rocket missions
  
• New Virtual Planetarium turns Data Banks into research

• Command Modules are now automatable
  
• Space Scanners can signal incoming rockets as well as detect meteor showers

• Neural Vacillator recharges
  
• Robo-Miner buildings for automatic digging

What's Next?

HOTFIX 290261

• Neural Vacillator can now be assigned after it has been recharged
  
• Various Spacemap strings are now localizable
  
• Update official Russian translation
  
• All important properties of Dupe returning from space should be restored when they leave the rocket
  
• Voles can no longer be Entombed
  
• Updated text for Spacemap
  
• Fix crash when Voles die
  
• Fix broken Database links on seeds
  
• Liquid Reservoir meter properly shows as empty when it is empty
  
• Fix crash that could occur when unlocking Database entries
  
• Updated Gas Bottler sound effects
  
• New sounds for Auto Miner
  
• Fix crash when Dupes tried to have a conversation about being an astronaut

HOTFIX 290443

• Update Space Research center art
  
• Shov Voles can no longer move through doors, mesh and airflow tiles made of refined metals
  
• Destroying a rotated door no longer allows digging tiles that shouldn't be dug
  
• Critters and Plants can once again be returned from Space Missions
  
• Fix crash when starting the game with a small render target size
  
• Add Liquid reservoir sounds
  
• Updated Shov Vole animation and art
  
• Pathfinding runs a little bit faster

HOTFIX 291185

• Fix for dupes continually digging tiny amounts of snow and other materials.
  
• Fix dupe animation frozen when eating medicine or changing the lock state of a door.
  
• Fix loss of mass when multiple stackable items stack together on the same frame.
  
• New research center animations.
  
• Rocket Modules can no longer be deconstructed while the rocket is away.
  
• Command module storage is sealed and insulated so the atmosuit can't melt while in flight.
  
• Make rocket fuel tanks insulated so steam etc. doesn't phase change during fueling.
  
• Fix starmap/telescope so new analysis targets can be selected after one is completed.
  
• Fix for flush toilet constantly becoming disabled if you run the output pipe directly across the output instead of connecting to a T junction.
  
• Shov Vole can no longer dig through nearly impenetrable materials.
  
• Updated baby Shov Vole animations.
  
• Updated Gassy Grass animations.
  
• Improved tooltip for when duplicants die from low health.
  
• Fixing drowning tooltip.

HOTFIX 291185

• Fix crash when building Rocket engines

HOTFIX - 291640

• Fix crash while saving Unlocks if the json file is locked.
  
• Fix writing Unlocks.json when nothing has changed.
  
• Fix crashes when destroying Rocket Modules.
  
• Fix crash when destroying a Command Module containing a dupe.

Rocketry Upgrade

What’s New in the Rocketry Upgrade?

What's New in the Cosmic Upgrade?

Space Biome

• Solar Light: The abundant energy of a nearby star can be harnessed for electricity with Solar Panels. Your poor cave-dwelling Duplicants will appreciate the warm natural light as well, provided they don't roast!
  
• Meteor Showers: The good news: free resources! The bad news: they're traveling at 16 kilometers per second. Protect your surface infrastructure with meteor-proof walls and shutters, along with the new Meteor Detector.
  
• New Elements: Improved material science has enabled the production of Steel, Ceramics, Glass, and other basic materials.
  
• Windows and Walls: Now your Duplicants can build a room with a view. Transparent windows allow light and decor to pass through, while keeping your precious gasses and liquids right where you want them. Back walls offer protection against the greedy vacuum of space for those who dare to build on the surface.

Critter Additions

• Updated Egg Economy: An Egg Cracker building makes planning your next omelet as easy as pie, which is a good thing because eggs have undergone some mass changes, as well as becoming unviable if left in storage for too long.
  
• Updated Critter Artwork: Completed eggs, babies, wrangled, and trapped artwork for all critters. Hooray!
  
• Automated Pen Management: Before, your Duplicants merely kept critters. Now, they're ranching them! Pen limits, as well as automatic wrangling and transfer, lets you build the coal-producing machine of your dreams.

• Ore no longer gets absorbed by the world when entombed. Instead we store ore in a much more efficient system which should imrpove the load times of worlds that have a significant amount of entombed ore.
  
• The warning to upgrade your audio driver should properly popup if the game starts without sound.
  
• Fixed a memory/performance leak that was also causing looping sounds to play quieter over time.
  
• Fix for portraits not showing up in the roles screen.
  
• Fixed a bug where liquid could leak through tiles on load.
  
• Fixed a bug where gas could leak through gas impermeable tiles when displaced.

• Improved load times.
  
• Fixed one of the issues with hatches not going to groom stations.
  
• Uprooting a plant will no longer cause a plant death notification.
  
• Ore that gets entombed into the same element will now add itself to the world.

• Slight increase to dust comet damage.
  
• Dust comet is now regolith.
  
• Tweak the comet dirt spawning rules to prevent the dirt from stacking up.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur if a comet hit a building that didn't have an audio category setup for it.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur if a liquid droplet fell outside the world.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when FMOD failed to initialize.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur if you had more than the maximum autosave files by making your own copies.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur on shutdown.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when placing gases using the sandbox tools.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when pressing backspace on an input text field that had localized text in it.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when hovering a light outside of the simulation grid.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when loading some old save files with some bad assignment data.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to play a missing sound.
  
• Sandbox tool temperature ranges are now clamped to the max temperature supported by the simulation.

• Fixed another temperature crash.
  
• Fixed crash that could occur if a piece of ore was emitting at the edge of the world.
  
• Added some more error info for a crash that is occuring when using input fields in a localized version of the game.

• Fixed a crash that could occur if a pipe's content's temperature was NaN.

• Fixed weird building temperature behaviour.
  
• Fixed showers overheating and destroying the whole world.
  
• Fixed sandbox tools spawning buildings with incorrect temperatures.
  
• Fixed deconstruction of Themal Plates/Wallpaper opening up wholes into space.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when Aggressive dupes tried to punch space.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when building doors at the edge of the world.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when FMOD failed to initialize using the default audio device. This is usually caused by third party software interfering with the audio device but instead of crashing, the game will start with no audio.

• Fixed for the loud humming sound.
  
• Potential fix for the black anim outlines showing up on certain older graphics cards.

• Fixed some mismatched POI strings.
  
• Fixed typo in "Invalid Location".
  
• Shearing station can only be built on the floor.
  
• Refinery was only fetching the first ingredient for multi-ingredient recipes. Now it fetches all of them.
  
• Space art tuning.
  
• Mesh and airflow tiles no longer invincible to comets, now take proper damage.
  
• Sneezing now actually plays the full sneeze animation.
  
• Valves now say that they're manually operated.
  
• Kiln/Shearing station sound effects.
  
• Fixed crash when attempting to build wires outside the simulation grid.
  
• Updated thermal block art.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when harvesting hatches as they are being groomed.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when deconstructing travel tubes.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when you decided to keep all your Pacus at the edge of space.
  
• Kiln recipes now require coal.
  
• New egg cracker art.
  
• Fixed crash when using the sandbox sample tool outside the simulation grid.

[Game Update] - 265752

• More audio optimization to try and fix audio stuttering issues

Hotfix 269773

• Fixed a crash that could occur on load of some save files.