Much of the work for the last few weeks has continued towards our Mars scenario. This has included a lot of fixes to the previous content as well as fixes to the mothership system - which allows you to build rockets and ships to get around in future. These will form the end of the Mars scenario.
Mars Awakes
We've enabled Mars as a world type on the main menu, but it's functionality is still pretty basic. What this means is that you have a world that has the atmosphere like the real mars, but we haven't finished adding content to help with the unique tasks of running Martian base. A good example is that the airlock controller assumes a vacuum on the outside for the moment.
Portable Solar
As shown in the gif above, you can now make a portable solar for charging batteries in those really rough situations! It is constructed on the Electronics printer, with a recipe similar to that of the Solar Panels themselves.
Improved Art
Petr has slowly been improving the art, including now the Active and Passive Vents, as well as the heavy cables. There is even a few new heavy cable variants in there that the community has been requesting. More of this will continue!
Version 0.1.1203.6028
Fixed another couple of instances where sounds had incorrect MaxDistance values set and as a result could be heard much further away than intended.
Fixed a bug with room data was not cleaned up when session ended.
Fixed an issue atmosphere would exit when deleting Sleeper.
Fixed bug with Scrubber not venting air when set to Open due to exceeded pressure error state. Now will vent even when completely full, if the lever is open.
Added Portable Solar. When placed outside of inventory, the panels will open. A battery can be placed inside, and available sunlight will be used to slowly charge the battery. Can be constructed using the Electronics Printer, using similar resources to the large solar panel.
Added Heavy Cable variant for 4-way corner piece. Constructable from Heavy Cable Coil.
Changed heavy cable to models which were more distinct and fitting with aesthetic of the game.
Added 3-way corner heavy cable model, in line with normal cable coil corner.
Fixed out of focus main menu
Added DOF to be removed when enabling menu lite option
Fix construction cursor flickering when building walls and windows.
Added Soy Oil that can be produced in the Reagent Processor from Soy Beans.
Added Fries that can be made in the microwave using a Potato and a small quantity of Soy Oil. Provides a lot of calories.
Added Baked Potato recipe. One potato can now be turned into a baked potato in the microwave, for more nutrition.
Changed Portable Scrubber. Now will suck in all atmosphere when no filter is installed. Also added a level, when open, the internal atmosphere of the scrubber will be ejected into the world. This makes the scrubber more useful for different functions, such as clearing all of an atmosphere from a room on a planet.
Added an option in misc settings to enable a bare bones menu with no particles
Fixed issue with on/off sounds on Wall Heaters/Coolers MaxDistance setting, meaning they were always playing at full volume no matter where the player was in relation to them. Let us know if you notice any other objects behaving in a similar way.
Fixed Clients joining servers with custom global atmosphere. Client now receives the global gas mix during the joining phase
Fixed items and structures occluding when moving too fast. Things no longer flicker on and off when moving quickly on a mothership.
Fixed self collision for all things in thing Awake
Fixed construction tooltip while building on moving mothership
Fixed motherships velocity is now correctly clamped. This value will probably change but it's set to the same as the player for now.
Fixed motherships constantly pitching/yawing before snapping back to upright after collision.
Fixed being unable to build on mothership while it's moving. Still some problems when the ship is rotating that need fixing.
Fixed tooltips jittering on motherships.
Fixed Active Vent missing box collider so could not be deconstructed. Now has correct collider.
Fixed dynamic scrubbers not working in global atmospheres. Dynamic Scrubbers should now be able filter and trap gasses from global (e.g. Martian) atmospheres.
Reverted global atmosphere per AtmosphericsController back to a single global atmosphere
Fixed most interactions on moving motherships - Now using the interpolated RigidBody position with the camera offset added. Camera position wont work properly while the player is moving
Added sun fading out at night time to reduce the occurrences of seeing the sun through the terrain and the terrain not casting shadows on objects
Fixed HandleCollision doing excessive work - HandleCollisionsWith was being called multiple times on each structure and was doing it for each other structure. Removed pointless checks and added a magnitude distance check using the bounds of both objects to see if they could potentially be touching.
Fixed items jittering when being pushed by a mothership. When their grid controller is changed to a mothership interpolation is enabled.
Fixed issue where Asteroids in space were not visible after loading from save.
Changed Active Vent model to new model, in line with other atmospheric item changes.
Added first pass of new New World Menu including custom world settings screen. Customizing some settings not yet supported, so consider it a work-in-progress for now.
Fixed motherships using the main global atmosphere to using their own copy - still more work to be done on the mothership AtmosControl
Fixed Tanks dynamic tanks in tank connectors colliding with motherships affecting the motherships movement
Made Mothership be affected by Gravity
Fixed NRE when fail to join server.
Added new localization strings for Workshop page
Fixed creative mode setting not applying correctly from map presets.
Fixed broken scene reference to Speech Recognizer.
Changed Mars temperature to -60
Fixed issue where world settings were not being properly initialized if you started a second game without restarting the client.
Fixed issue where world name was not being set correctly when loading a game.
Disabled custom world parameters temporarily while a couple of server issues get resolved.
Changed automatically assigned tags for workshop saved game submissions.
Fixed stuttering introduced in 5919 by reverting some bad logic in WorldManager
Fixed error when pressing the create world button without selecting an option. It now defaults to the moon world if no button was selected
Fixed hunger no longer applies to characters inside a sleeper.
Fixed holes in terrain caused by registering with incorrect neighbours
Fixed incorrect mars atmosphere composition
Fixed items falling through terrain when loading a saved game caused by terrain not loading in properly around things
Added World Settings are now saved out when the world is in worldsettings.xml. When loading a game, if this file is not found it will fall back to the old method/presets.
Moved world settings to XML. All world settings are now exposed in XML. This allows for adding custom world types and exposing the settings in game
Added custom world generation parameters. It is now possible to define your own world terrain generation via XML
Improved speed of terrain generation significantly through micro optimisations and removing unnecessary bounds checking when setting voxel.
Fixed NRE by checking that CurrentBuildState is set before attempting to access its renderer.
Fixed will now display default image if no mod preview image is provided.
Replaced Passive Vent model with new model.
Fixed cast bar getting stuck when consuming cereal bars too quickly.
Fixed airlocks leaking atmosphere when internal doors are open. 1x1 rooms should no longer leak atmosphere.
Missing material for baked potatoes.
Fixed ore smelting gas always being output into world atmosphere. Now smelting gases in furnaces should output into connected pipe network again instead of world atmosphere.
Added egg carton recipe for the fabricator
Added Baked Potato.
Hotfix Patch Notes v0.1.1178.5891
Due to the scope of the changes we pushed yesterday, a couple of significant bugs were found and have been addressed today in this hotfix.
A change to how gas mixtures were being calculated from smelted ore meant that smelting stacks caused incredibly large quantities of gas to be produced. They should now be back to producing their expected amounts.
Another unexpected side-effect of the atmospherics changes was that Ice would no longer melt in a vacuum, even when under direct sunlight. Ice should now be back to its default behaviour.
A couple of other less impactful bugs were resolved as well and will be detailed below.
Thanks everyone for your patience, and a massive shout-out to everyone who submitted bug reports today. It really helps us get to the bottom of these things quickly.
Version 0.1.1178.5891
Fixed ice not melting in vacuum. Ice now melts either if it is in a warm enough atmosphere, or if it's in sunlight and not in a cold atmosphere - including vacuum.
Fixed Open Workshop button on Workshop page to correctly take you to the page for the currently selected mod rather than the Stationeers workshop.
Fixed bug where smelting would calculate the resulting gas mixture cumulatively for stacks of ore, resulting in huge quantities of gas being produced. [credit: Risu]
Fixed water spreading. Water was not spreading after the global atmos update but has now been reintroduced and made to work with the global atmosphere system.
Fixed labeller cancel button not doing anything.
Fixed Stairs being able to be built on top of eachother/other things - Stairs was overriding a wrapper method that wasn't being called wrapper method removed and override corrected.
Added an egg carton to the starting crate.
Added egg carton recipe for the fabricator.
Added Baked Potato. Can be spawned in creative mode, but no recipe yet.
Added Potatoes to starter crate.
Fixed DynamicGPR colliding with player when in an inventory slot - The item was tagged as "CollidersAlwaysVisible", should have been untagged.
Fixed some incorrect or missing localized text values.
Consolidated Patch Notes v0.1.1176.5874
It's been four weeks now since our last main branch push, so it is a pretty big update. A key focus for this period has been the ground work towards our "Martian Scenario" update. This will see the first true scenario for players to tackle. You will be stranded on Mars, and need to survive and build a rocket to escape. In preparing for this, we'll be forced to fix a lot of bugs and work on the "why" in the game, as well as the UI to support this kind of content.
Perhaps most importantly, the long awaited Ore Scanner is now in the game! Read about this and more in detail below.
Planetary Atmospheres
To bring Mars, and other, planets to life we needed to be able to allow them to have world atmospheres, instead of just vacuum like it is currently. This was a pretty major piece of work, refactoring how our atmospheric system worked, and also allowed us to find and fix a number of other bugs in the process.
Other than bugfixing, this doesn't have a major impact on the game at the moment but will have a profound effect on the game later with scenarios.
Hunger
We finally have our first new survival mechanics in, getting ready for that Mars survival scenario we talked about earlier. You need to eat to survive, and to eat you will need food, and to make food you will need to grow. We now have a new hydroponics tray, new plants (such as the potato), and new recipes. Much more will come with hydroponics in the next few weeks.
Gas Generator / Large Tanks
A gas generator has been added, allowing you to generate power from gas that you combust. This is a fixed device that functions in a similar way to the portable generator. It's still a work in progress, so expect some changes and new features, functions, and bugfixes for it in the coming weeks.
Ore Scanner
As shown in the gif at the top, you can use a ground penetrating radar device to scan areas. The ore below will then show up on an Ore Scanner Cartridge loaded into a tablet. Build both of these on the Electronics Printer.
Expanded Workshop Support
We're excited to take our first proper steps with mod support. Much of our core game data is already stored in XML, so we have started here for mod support. This means you can change and add things like recipes, ore generation settings, and some basic world data - but you can't add new objects to the game... yet! We have focused on the core mod architecture now, how they are loaded and how you can reorder them. We'll be continuing to expand modding to cover as much of the game as we can over the coming months.
Check out the #modding channel on our official Discord for up to date information about the progress of our mod support.
Version 0.1.1176.5874
Fixed bug where status icons would not refresh properly when loading into a game where they should be visible.
Removed buggy bedrock texture - the bedrock level is not making it's way to the shader correctly. This data is already being reworked in a coming update.
Added decay state for chickens. Chicken corpses now disappear after a minute.
Added new Hydroponics Tray model.
Fixed accessing WorldAtmospheres adding a lock to GetAtmosphereLocal when accessing from outside the manager thread and redirecting all reading of WorldAtmosphere through GetAtmosphereLocal
Added warning for waste tank when it is broken, and therefore will leak air.
Added warning indicators and voice notification for Waste Tank. Now will disable warning when caution and critical, for either no waste tank existing, or over pressure. This helps avoid embarrassing instances where you have too much pressure in your waste tank and it explodes.
Added Ore Scanning. An item can be made called a "Ground Penetrating Radar". When activated, it scans the surrounding area. Using a Ore Scanner Cartridge in your tablet will allow you to view the scanned data. These items can be built on the Electronics Printer. This will help you locate different kinds of ores without having to directly mine. Different types of ores have different colors on the scan results.
Added voice notifications for Helmet Closed, and Helmet Opened. This will help avoid those embarrassing situations where you die because you pressed I and vented your breathing atmosphere into space, but didn't realize it was because your helmet was open.
Added Global Atmosphere system.
Added Hunger Rate to settings screen (temporarily). Allows you to scale how fast your character gets hungry by 0-4x. Not yet available for dedicated servers.
Added first pass of gas generator. Provides power from the gas combusted inside.
Added large tank, requiring 5x regular tank kits. Takes up 8 grid squares (vs 1) and has a volume of 50000 (vs 6000).
Added first pass of Hunger and Nutrition. If nutrition drops too low, player starts taking Starvation damage. Eat muffins or cereal bars to increase nutrition.
Added milk, muffin, cereal bar, egg, and wheat as edible types. These can be eaten using secondary action, or force feed to another human using primary action.
Added Corn calorie value. Now corn will provide a small amount of calories when eaten.
Added cereal bars to your uniform slots in case you're starting a new multiplayer game with lots of players.
Added new status icons for Hunger and Heath. Full, low, and critical food and health indicators appear and also include their current values.
Added Potato as growable (and edible) plant. Currently same growth stats as the wheat.
Added Skeleton's Ragdoll.
Added new filter options in Join World menu. Incompatible versions are now hidden by default, along with options to hide password protected and empty servers. Other improvements have also been added to stop it from locking up while refreshing the server list.
Added Workshop Menu.
Added ExampleMod.zip to the StreamingAssets folder. See the readme.txt contained within for basic instructions on current mod support.
Added tag support for Steam Workshop mods.
Added Mods now reload whenever you leave the workshop menu, allowing changes to be applied without relaunching the game.
Fixed Chutes ejecting contents during load. When a world was loaded chute contents (and possibly manufacturing devices as well) would eject their contents. Now they will continue to loop correctly. Note: this will only work with saves from now on. Old saves with items in chutes will eject their contents until they are resaved.
Fixed sounds of nearby structures in vacuum popping in and out while you're in a pressured room. Should no longer hear phantom sounds from machines in vacuum.
Fixed radiators not working in vacuum. Radiators should now begin radiating heat again on the moon.
Tweaked some values for the quest panel in the tutorial. This should be a bit easier to read now.
Fixed power connector not able to have portable generator wrenched onto it. Now can correctly wrench a portable generator to a power connector, to get generated power from it. Credit to Risu on Discord for solution.
Fixed unable to change dynamic air conditioner's mode while wrenched onto tank connectors.
Fixed duplicate atmosphere error causing atmospheric controller to crash
Fixed null error on atmospheric things when entering rooms with no Atmosphere
Fixed Soybeans never maturing and becoming harvestable.
Fixed ScreenFilter not clearing when loading mod data, preventing loading data more than once per launch.
Fixed bug where large batteries in the mining drill were rotated in a way that meant you couldn't see their charge level.
Fixed NRE in dedicated server when stop server and press ESC button.
Fixed some duplicate initializations when starting a new world.
Removed some unused ore game objects from WorldManager Prefab.
Removed old code for changing material on ores that was no longer needed.
Fixed data disk slots incorrectly oriented on StructureComputer. DataDisks placed in a computer should now be rotated correctly. (Thanks Risu!)
Fixed bug with APCs drawing more power than needed if charging nearly-full batteries. APC power draw now takes into account battery charge.
Fixed NRE in tracker on dedicated server.
Fixed issue where client didn't play WeldingTorch and MiningDrill sound when they activated.
Fixed bug with some operating systems where the game couldn't determine voice control compatibility.
Fixed bug where starting condition selection dropdown box could get into an infinite loop.
Fixed sync problem in out of sight objects. Client caches things information within 60m. When a thing is interpolating while entering occlusion range, it can get stuck if there is an obstacle between positions.
Fixed non-latin languages not working on signs and pipe labels. Signs and labels should now show non-latin text correctly if the right game language is selected.
Fixed missing nutrition warning voice messages and missing heath icons.
Fixed issue where workshop mods would not be tagged as such if they were disabled.
Fixed Loading now skips items saved with invalid locations.
Fixed saves loaded with dead characters were not given the option to respawn. Now the respawn dialogue correctly loads when player loads their game.
Increased calorie storage for humans. A full stomach will last over one hour of playtime.
Increased Muffin calorie value. Only two bites of a muffin will provide full calorie storage for a player.
Fixed Damage states not being serialized. Now damage values for all things are included in save file and are correctly deserialized when loaded.
Fixed total damage for entities incorrectly using body oxygen damage state when should use the brains oxygen damage state.
Fixed UnauthorizedAccessException when starting dedicated server in different path. It's caused by wrong initialization orders. You can run it in any path.
Fixed bug where resetting controls to defaults was not saving the new keys correctly.
Fixed wrong recipe index when server and client have different language settings. It's fixed in Autolathe, ElectronicsPrinter, HydraulicPipeBender, ToolManufactory, ScreenConstructionJob, ScreenFilter.
Fixed issue where new implementation of starting equipment did not include Duct Tape.
Fixed issue where any progress panel displayed after the first would have no background.
Updated upload progress prompt.
Fixed gas canisters disappearing when blown up. Canisters now remain in the world, in a blown up state.
Fixed Game Settings heading in settings page not having a localized key.
Changed StartingCrates definition to be generic for DynamicThings. Now includes definitions for AirConditioner and Scrubber.
Added support for custom name and custom color in InventoryData and DynamicThingData, used with the ConditionData custom starting condition systems.
Changed initial spawn items. Now air conditioner, scrubber, and beacon spawn with fully charged battery cells.
Changed Starting Inventory and Starting Crates to be combined as a Starting Condition type. Different Starting Conditions can be loaded and, for now, appear as options in the Gameplay settings menu. This will be expanded to affect only new worlds, but for now, will affect any world running on the host. These can be made as mods.
Updated Portuguese and Spanish localization files
Fixed Players now start with the correct number of Iron Frames.
Fixed Disconnecting from a game (or getting disconnected from a game) now closes any prompt that is up on screen.
Fixed NRE when respawning.
Fixed NRE when sending player state while disconnecting.
Fixed starting equipment now gives you the correct number of cables.
Reduced memory usages and connecting time. Client receives chunks data around own player when connecting. Explored chunks are cashed on client. It will be reset when you connecting. Server(host player, dedicated server) has all players' explored chunks.
Updated Simplified Chinese localization
Added XML game data for player starting inventory. The StartingInventory game data list from XML contains references for what all players will have as starting inventory. This allows servers to run custom starting inventories for players. This is currently a global value, but will be subject to change to support scenarios in future.
Fixed frames and other items spontaneously combusting when it shouldn't.
Added Starting Crate data to XML. Basic starting crate data will now be configurable based on data contained in the StreamingAssets/Data XML file contents. This might be shifted into scenario data XML classes in later updates however so is subject to change.
Added ReagentProcessor recipes to XML data format. Currently takes input prefab and output prefab. System to be extended to include quantity calculations in future.
Added duplicate recipe check to Autolathe, ElectronicsPrinter and PipeBender for recipe mod support.
Moved map upload progress bar to it's own window so more workshop functionality from map publishing can be used for mods.
Added Japanese localization files
Updated German, Spanish and Traditional Chinese localization files
Fixed Atmospherics error when picking atmosphere to emit visualizer particle from.
Fixed Large Gas Tank exceeding current maximum small grid allocation. Old max was 200 small grids, new max is 800 small grids.
Hotfix Patch Notes v0.1.1143.5721
A quick hotfix to address some major bugfixes. Our team worked closely with community reports to identify and solve a major atmospheric issue. Atmospheres were "disappearing" still, due to a threading issue. This has been fixed! Additionally, improvements were made to terrain generation and water visualization.
We're still working on the content update, which some great new stuff coming! But we wanted to get these important fixes into your hands as soon as possible.
[Quote]A big thank you to everyone in the community, without your support in the forums and on discord it would have been much harder for us to catch and solve this major atmospheric issue!
Version 0.1.1143.5721
Significantly improved terrain generation by splitting terrain features in to regions. Each voxel now only samples from close regions.
Fixed NullReferenceException in updating grid information.
Removed some unused calculations from the water shader
Fixed the water connectivity calculations for the water VisualizerExtents
Fixed water not dissipating in vacuum
Improved connecting time and added sync data progress. You might miss to progress it because small size of network messages are combined up to 100 messages.
Fixed Steam AuthTicket Exception. When it happens, game will proceed to join. You'd better to restart game. It already lost steam connection.
Updated New World menu thumbnails
Upgraded Gas Display Circuitboard to connect to Gas Tank Storage. Gas Display now shows temperature and pressure of gas canisters stored in Gas Tank Storage.
Added logic support to GasTankStorage. GasTankStorage now exposes it's held gas tank's atmosphere data (pressure, temperature etc) on the logic network.
Updated German, Spanish and Traditional Chinese localization files.
Fixed wall heaters not drawing enough power. Wall heaters now draw 1005w of power when working.
Fixed gas display displaying wrong values when it exceeded 999. Now updates the unity under the value to be correct.
Fixed Atmos leaking bug
Added support for localizing unmined mineral names.
Consolidated Patch Notes v0.1.1130.5676
Coming soon: Ore Scanner
Not enabled in this update but coming soon on Beta branch we have to show you it! A lot of feedback has highlighted the grind/boredom of mining. It's a challenging issue to solve as we don't want to unbalance the game. The approach we are trying now is to give players more options that they can gain to find different ores. The provided gif is "real" ingame view of how the ore scanner is working. It shows different ores as different colors, using some cool shader magic.
Fixed Beacon
A very common request in Discord, and on the Steam forums, has been a fixed beacon. This is a beacon that is buildable on the grid, as opposed to the existing dynamic beacon that is battery powered and in your inventory. We now have a working fixed beacon! While adding this, we also fixed up a number of bugs associated with tablets as well.
Gas Tank Storage
A very old model for gas tank storage has, thankfully, finally been replaced. It takes exactly the same amount of space as the previous model so it shouldn't cause issues for existing saves. It does, however, now contain a data port which will allow reading and writing of values to allow its control a bit easier using logic components.
Localization
We now have 12 languages in total supported in the game! This is almost entirely due to the really great community support in localizing these. As of this update, we now support simplified Chinese and Korean - using special fonts. A huge thank you to the diligent community who have really done a tremendous amount of work to make this happen.
Version 0.1.1130.5676
Fixed IndexOutOfRangeException when you create Moon and then create Space. One of necessary variable wasn't initialized when switch world.
Added Fixed Beacon. This is a placeable structure that requires 300W of power, but broadcasts its location. This can be accessed via the Tracker Cartridge, just like normal beacons. It can be built using the Electrical Printer.
Replaced Gas Tank Storage model. Same dimensions. Also has a data port, so you can read values from it using the logic system.
Fixed issue where Air Conditioner operation was flawed. Community provided new coded solution. Credit to Illiux who did math for heat-pump, Zaneo for providing advice and direction, and Dimitri for the actual code. Heat-pump calculates per tick power cost of energy transfer when heating and cooling. Additionally energy from pump work is added to waste or output, because of this heating cost a bit less then cooling. Cost of energy transfer and amount of additional energy added is calculated using Coefficient of Performance.
Fixed tablets not working when loading with them in player inventory. They were not being correctly initialized on player locality change. Now they will correctly reinitialize when a player takes control of a entity.
Fixed connection problem when there are hundreds of linked devices including Logic reader/writer, filter, Circuitboard, LogicMotherboard. It didn't check message buffers size when sending sync data. It usually stuck in applying chunks data 90%-100%. You can join server that it was fixed.
Added support for kick and ban messages for servers hosted via dedicated server or full client.
Improved player ragdoll behaviour. Bodies should move less erratically while unconscious or dead.
Fixed battery charger distributing power to charged batteries. Now the charger only adds charge to batteries that aren't full.
Fixed Join World button is disabled when player returns join menu from game.
Fixed Inactive ServerListItem Animators being called when disabled. causing lag on player load.
Fixed Eyes should now correctly close when you die.
Fixed Writing decimals to logic memory unit from logic computers.
Fixed Log spam issue that occured when infinite floating numbers were set for rotations in IK Solver.
Fixed Skeletons can no longer be set on fire.
Fixed issue with persistent player corpses on dedicated servers.
Fixed missing EntryTools for Chair, Turret and engines.
Fixed truncate chatting text when it's full. It will scroll properly.
Fixed items being invisible when viewing your own dead body after re-spawning
Fixed error when disabling shadows on re-spawn
Added skeleton despawning after 60 seconds.
Fixed re-spawn while in decayed State(wasn't working at all)
Fixed some dropped items being invisible(because they were still on the wrong layer)
Fixed bug where dead and despawned players would still cast shadows.
Avoided possible divide by zero in cell charger.
Fixed ores not appearing on load for non-dedicated hosts.
Fixed NRE in CameraCollisionHandler. It failed to join server on a certain pc configurations because of the time taken to initialize the camera.
Disabled water shader for OpenGL and DirectX 9 that was preventing compatability.
Added Simplified Chinese localization.
Added Traditional Chinese localization.
Added Korean localization.
Added support for Japanese localization.
Updated localization files for German, Russian, Spanish and French
Fixed dialog boxes showing squares in some languages.
Fixed unreadable tips on loading screen when using a CJK font.
Added more missing strings for localization including the Change Appearance screen.
Consolidated Patch Notes v0.1.1111.5605
The rest of the team is back at work now and have been looking at where priorities lay for the games continued development. Leading up to and immediately following the early access release the focus was very heavily on fixing bugs and implementing easy quality-of-life fixes, but we can now start looking at getting some of the planned and partially-implemented features into the game, while continuing to deal with the less-impactful bugs and things like missing localization or user interface issues.
Respawning
For those players who would like death to be a little less destructive, we've added the ability to respawn upon death. Once your old body decays, you'll be able to retrieve your inventory contents, assuming you can get to it.
Decay
Looking at server performance, one thing we noticed is having lots of dead player ragdolls floating around had a significant performance impact. To alleviate this players will now (after a short period of time) drop everything they had on them and decay into a Skeleton.
Translucent Ices
Added translucency to Ices and some Ores in the terrain.
Version 0.1.1111.5605
Improved collision handling to reduce instances of small items falling through terrain.
Fixed problem that could occasionally prevent saves with logic displays from loading completely a display tried to show a character it didn't have a mesh for.
Fixed bug where localized values were not being loaded correctly for some interaction buttons if the item was incorrectly configured.
Identified issue with terrain causing a lot more work when saving and loading and resulting in more memory usage than was required. Improved, but more work is planned for terrain optimization.
Disabled Main Menu Workshop button while the mod interface is implemented and tested.
Fixed issue where Nav Meshes were not being correctly cleaned up when leaving a game.
Added more visual feedback on the keybinding screen and added a prompt if people attempt to rebind mouse buttons.
Refactored many places where memory was being allocated around the project to optimize garbage collection, improving performance.
Disabled WaterVisualizer loading on dedicated servers as they're never rendered.
Death of any organ on a player now instantly kills the player.
Fixed issue with players occasionally spawning inside the terrain or outside the tutorial base on the tutorial level.
Continued working on replacing placeholder text and button names with localized versions.
Fixed respawning beside old body instead of spawn point.
Improved UI flow when revived before respawning.
Fixed issue of being unable to be killed after having been revived once.
Fixed respawning from the respawn menu after someone revived you. You could respawn after getting revived, which meant that now your old body was alive again, but brainless and useless, since your brain got moved to your new body.
Added respawn prompt localized text values.
Fixed helmet not visible on old body after respawn.
HealPill should now correctly heal burn damage. It would heal brute and stun damage, but not burn damage. So if you got shot, or got burned, healpill would have done nothing.
Added bindip command which binds specific IP on dedicated server when it has multiple IPs. It's available only on IPv4. Usage : rocketstation_DedicatedServer .exe -bindip=192.168.1.78
Added more localized labels for server detail window and skeletons.
Tweaked the Join World menu server browser. Tweaked colors and icons in Join World server browser. Servers that can be joined are more obvious and updated linux server icon.
Added translucency to ice ores and silicon.
Fixed object reference error with chute bin.
Added some more localized versions of button and placeholder text fields on the save and join world menus.
Fixed Camera being moveable when Dead.
Decay Stage added to Human. 3 minutes after dying you will now drop all items and turn into Skeleton. Skeletons represent a dead player who has no chance of being revived.
Organ death now results in major Brute damage to player (Any organ failure will put you into Dead state).
Fixed bug with Brute damage not being able to decrease if it was at cap
Fixed spawning in wrong position (fixes wrong tutorial spawn position and fixes falling through terrain).
Fixed small items falling through terrain when moving fast.
Fixed respawn button disconnecting you instead.
Fixed airlocks not cycling properly on dedicated servers.
Hotfix v0.1.1115.5618
Fixed items being invisible when viewing your own dead body after re-spawning.
Fixed error when disabling shadows on re-spawn.
Added skeleton despawning after 60 seconds.
Fixed re-spawn while in decayed State (wasn't working at all).
Fixed some dropped items being invisible (because they were still on the wrong layer).
Removed all shadows of dead players.
Avoided possible divide by zero in cell charger. (Thanks Risu!)
Fixed ores not appearing on load for play host players.
Updated localization files for German, Russian, Spanish and French.
Fixed NRE in CameraCollisionHandler. It failed to join server on a certain PC because of delay to initial camera. It makes you join server properly.
Fixed battery charger distributing power to charged batteries. Now the charger only adds charge to batteries that aren't full. (Thanks Risu!)
Skeletons can no longer be set on fire. (thanks FlashDim!)
Fixed healpill not healing lung damage.
Respawn player on join if dead. Prevents situation where player disconnects while dead, and unable to respawn afterwards.
Fixed invisible favorite server list on join menu.
Notable Known Issues
Consolidated Patch Notes v0.1.1095.5529
Well we're nearly at the end of the break. It's largely been me at the office, and I've focused on some low risk new content, and fixes, over the past few weeks. Here's a last little bugfix update before everyone gets back! Again a big thank you to the awesome folks on Discord and the Steam Forums for reporting their bugs and issues. Sorry I couldn't get them all fixed, for now I'm only fixing pretty "low risk" bugs that I can safely and easily fix.
Additional Room Generation Fix
So my old room generation fix bought back the old problem of too many rooms, so I spent a fair bit of time and went through to refactor to deal with a weird edge case. What was happening was when you mined a voxel, it would ask "can I flood fill this as a room?" Basically, "is this an enclosed space?". And often for voxels the answer might be "yes! All my sides are an enclosed space!". But we didn't want that, they are junk rooms.
Room generation method has been changed again, but will only apply to new rooms. You don't need to do anything unless you are having issues with gravity or abnormally leaking atmospheres. If you do, if the square has voxels, briefly use the mining tool on the voxel to force a room generation reset. If it is a structure, remove the wall and replace, only one required per room.
Air Conditioneer Fixes
In the beta I fixed some issues. Well, my fix actually made the air conditioner entirely stop working. There is still an issue with power draw being too low, but it's better than it being too high. The AC is a very old device in the game, so it is going to be refactored in the future. It may be obsolesced and replaced with several devices that together achieve the same thing.
Low Pressure Combustion
Sometimes when depressurizing a room, the air or thing in the area could catch fire. This is because every electrical item in the game outputs a little heat, as energy. This energy being added to low pressure environments cause the temperature to get very high. So, for now, we are using the Armstrong Limit (6kPa) as a cutoff for nearly all world energy transfers that are device related.
For now, most devices (such as the wall heater/cooler, the portable air conditioner, etc... will no longer work below the Armstrong limit (6kPa). In future they will work, but less effectively
Version 0.1.1095.5529
Fixed LED Displays were displaying their values offset when they were placed in certain orientations. Now values will be correctly centered in all orientations.
Fixed some devices were adding energy from power usage to atmospheres that had only a small quantity of moles. For now, most devices will stop heating the atmosphere if it is below the Armstrong Limit (6kPa). In future, this will probably be lowered, as it is not realistic, but this will help with flash fires caused during decompression.
Fixed Air Conditioner not being able to be powered on. Now AC can be powered on correctly, it will not draw power through it's data network, and it will close itself when turned off or looses power.
Fixed bug with flood fill room generation generating junk values. Previous fix caused the junk rooms to return. When you would mine a voxel, this would cause an attempt at room generation. If all faces were closed, it would succeed and create a tiny one-grid room. Now this is checked for and prevented. Existing rooms will not be removed by this change, this only affects new rooms. Junk rooms are unlikely to have much ill effect but might cause gravity issues for the space world.
Fixed Air Conditioner double used power when heating. Now AC applies its passive energy use, and retains its active energy use to apply during power tick. Reported by Zaneo via email/discord.
Lowered view distance for Wall Lights, as their increased lighting distance was causing signficant frame drop.
Fixed cannot spraypaint pipe analyser. Now can be painted just like other devices and objects. Reported by Lizza on steam.
Fixed ices would melt when in subzero temperature even when in direct sunlight. Now ices will not melt, even if direct sunlight, if they are below freezing point. Reported by [BS] Fridge Lord on steam forums.
Fixed painted LED not changing color variable. This meant if you manually painted an LED, it would not change its color variable and would load with the default color (0). Now the color state is changed.
Added support for localized text to most alert and prompt popups.
Consolidated Patch Notes v0.1.1089.5513
Fixes and logic changes
Some big atmospheric fixes (detailed below), more dedicated server improvements (in changelog below), and some new logic content with some changes to it as well.
Entirely new Logic Displays
Logic Displays were released not long ago as a bit of a test, to give more flexibility for displaying values, without the performance overhead of inworld UI. The displays are actually mesh based, and use existing game materials, so we get some great performance from them versus the worldspace UI of, say, the airlock consoles.
However the old implementation was a bit limited. They've been moved to a more "pixel" based LED type that easily allows special characters and alphanumeric.
Additionally, the old method of changing the color (changing the mode) of the text has been replaced with a special interactable: color.
The old mode is now used for three display methods (with more to follow):
Default (normal numbers)
Percent. Takes a ratio (0 is 0%, 1 is 100%) and displays with % symbol.
Power. Takes a number in Watts. Displays unit adjusted (i.e., in mW, cW kW, MW, or GW.
The medium and large LED prefabs have been removed. These now have new models, with a unified button and connection placement with the small variant. You will need to replace these as they will have disappeared in your save if you had them.
Atmospheric Loss Fix
With the assistance of the community I found a major bug with room generation. The game "flood fills" when you place large structures, to see if it can find an enclosed space. For performance reasons, the game applies generalized atmospheric loss to non-enclosed space atmospheres. Basically this means that when an atmosphere isn't in a room, it will be depleting fast.
There was an error with the code that meant walls weren't always reliably causing rooms to be generated. The issue was particularly noticable when placing floor grates over voxels, in an otherwise enclosed space.
This fix only works for "new" rooms, not existing ones. To trigger room generation, remove walls and replace them completely in each enclosed space. If you haven't noticed the bug before, then you shouldn't need to do anything
If you continue to have issues, use Iron/Steel frames with airlocks to enclose your base - they are totally effective and confirmed bug free. Walls and particularly composite floors can be problematic with voxels. More fixes to come!
Version 0.1.1089.5513
Fixed Logic Motherboard missing a lot of functionality that were added to the Logic Units. This has now been unified with the logic units, so assessments available on one should also be on the other.
Fixed Construction Kits were not displaying an error message when there was not enough in the kit to build the current cursor device. Now correctly states that not enough is in the kit, and shows the cursor as red.
Fixed some missing strings for other languages.
Removed old LED Medium and Large displays. These will no longer appear in your game, and you will need to place new ones. Small displays placements are unchanged.
Replaced Mode change for LED light and display color, instead of using "Mode" setting you now use "Color" setting.
Added functionality on LED Display for different display modes. Current number (default), percent (input a ratio, i.e. 1 == 100%, 0 == 0%), and power (in watts).
Added new LED Displays. They can handle alphanumeric and special characters much better than previously, and will be updated with new functionality in the coming weeks. New LED displays have a standardized button and input placement, for easier use.
Fixed bug with display formatting for units. Negative values were sometimes considered "micro" units and were formatted incorrectly.
Unified Logic Motherboard and Logic Unit value setting.
Changed wall light distance setting from 4m to 7m. Now will provide light across a larger area, as requested by the community.
Fixed Large Tank and other internal atmosphere devices (such as the sleeper) only mix to meet pressure, they dont mix the energy and contents states. Now they completely mix with connected atmospheres.
Fixed Light Occlusion and Atmosphere world position updates not occurring on dedicated servers. Caused light issues for dedicated server logic systems and growing plants and solar heating of atmospheres.
Updated community provided Russian translations.
Fixed atmospheric loss due to ungenerated room cells. Rooms were not being correctly generated in some instances, such as below floor grates when there was voxels below. This caused the atmospherics system to consider below the grates as a vacuum and ablate the atmosphere dramatically, causing loss. Note: this will only affect NEW room generation! To force new room generation, lift up wall tiles and room generation will be forced for the grids above and below that wall piece. This was also the cause of zero gravity bugs in creative stations.
Added Idle logic readable to Arc Furnace. Will report 1 when nothing imported, and nothing being exported. Useful for making automated arc furnace systems.
Added Logic Dial. A dial with a configurable min/max and when dial is moved changes the value. Reports both its raw value, or the ratio compared to its max. The maximum value on the dial is the Mode.
Consolidated Patch Notes v0.1.1082.5494
Dedicated Server Fixes
Pretty hefty fix for dedicated servers in this update. There was an initialization error that caused a lot of problems for devices on dedicated servers. Good example is that Logic Units didn't initialize correctly previously, whereas now they do. There are potentially a lot of device related fixes on the dedicated server associated with this fix.
Active Vent Loading Issues Fix
Active vents were not correctly being serialized. It meant to get them working on a reload you sometimes had to toggle them on and off. Now you will need to do this once more, but from the next load they will be saved properly with their settings.
Colorable LED displays
You can change the color of an LED display with Logic Writers. The display "mode" is the color, just like the LED light itself. Change the mode and the color will change.
Cable Analyzer
This little device can be placed on cables, and provides data about the Actual, Required, and Potential watts of the cable it is on. This is really useful to use with the logic system instead of having to read these values from the power controller.
Version 0.1.1082.5494
Added Logic Readers can read from other logic readers. Useful if you want to pass values simply between separated networks without extra writers.
Fixed atmospheric devices were able to be set to unlimited values using logic units. Now they will clamp assigned values to maximum and minimum.
Fixed Microwave not informing player that recipe not continuing due to no power. Now tells player in tooltip that the device does not have power.
Fixed Active Vents not serializing their Pressure settings. Now correctly serializes their internal and external safeties. Possible fix for needing to reset active vents on load, as they were not storing their settings. Note: this will probably only work from the next time you load your game. So you will need to load, save, and then reload to see if it works.
Fixed various dedicated server initialization issues. Initialization on dedicated server has been changed to be similar to that which clients do, which might fix the many initialization problems on dedicated servers, such as active vents not working or logic units needing to be powered on/off on server restart.
Fixed Airlock Control Circuitboard exceptions and failing to correctly remove assigned devices. Now when an assigned airlock is deselected, the airlock is correctly removed. This should fix another edge case where airlock controllers would switch door assignments.
Added Mode to LED Displays. When you change the mode, you change the color setting for the display. This can be used with the Logic Writer to change the current color of the text in the LED display.
Added cable analyzer recipe to the electronics printer.
Added Cable Analyzer. This device can be built from a Kit (Cable Analyzer). Display shows the Actual, Required, and Potential power (in Watts) for the network the cable sits on. It also exposes this to Logic Units, allowing you to much more easily use the logic units to manage your power.
Added tutorial translations for French and Spanish.
Fixed gameplay tips were not being cleared between language changes. Meant that english tips were being shown for other languages. Now will show tips only from the supplied language. No tip will be shown if there are no localized tips for the current language.
Fixed out of range exceptions when writing incompatible logic values to mode (such as setting LED mode to -99), and possibly other state values. Now the state values for OnOff, Lock, etc... are clamped to binary values. Mode is clamped to the number of ModeStrings the object has, so the number of valid mode states.
Fixed LEDs color changing on reload. When first placed it would be white, but on load it would be blue, even though the mode was correctly set. Now the color is correctly initialized on load.
Changed Wall light kit name to Kit (Lights) in english translation, to better indicated that it can make both wall lights and the LED.
Fixed Logic Min/Max unit was saying "Greater" mode when it was actually "Less" mode (and vice versa). Now correctly reports it's current mode.
Fixed when deconstructing or deconstructing locker while the door closed, all the items would be correctly ejected but would be invisible. Now they are correctly set to visible when the the locker is destroyed.
Fixed Logic Writers writing to Lock values did nothing for all devices (particularly Airlocks and Chute outlets). Was trying to write to powered state. Now correctly writes to Lock state, very useful for locking the doors and chutes.
Consolidated Patch Notes v0.1.1078.5476
Happy Holidays! No content in this update, just some much needed bug fixes. Most of these come from really good bug reports via the discord - so thank you to everyone for helping us find the bugs. There is still plenty to do, and we'll have more updates coming out over the holidays.
Focus over the next few weeks will continue to be bug fixes to get the game more stable, then we will look at some more content.
Version 0.1.1078.5476
Fixed solar panel seperate data variant also allowed power from the data cable, as well as data, effectively doubling the power output. Now power is only allowed through the power connection.
Fixed Jetpack not stabilizing when Text Input Panel was visible. Characters in Jetpack modes should now have their velocity slowed when Text Input Panel is visible.
Fixed ToggleInfo Keybind (F4 Default) sometimes breaking the GameMenu from appearing. Game Menu should now appear when ToggleInfo panel is displayed
Fixed issue with Character rotating 90* in slot when Chat panel was active
Fixed being able to jump while cursor is visible
Fixed airlock control circuitboard reassigns exterior and interior airlock doors when they loose connection, resulting in confusing setups when the wires have been cut. Circuitboard will continue to remember interior/exterior doors but release them if they are not usable.
Fixed stacker caused ingots passed through it to not be saved. Now correctly initializes new stacks so that they are saved (and then loaded) correctly.
Added recipe number to tutorial, so that places know which recipe they need to find as there are a lot of recipes.
Fixed reversed transformer variant doesnt change the input/output and is actually the same as the master variant. Now correctly swapped inputs and outputs.
Fixed bug with labeller causing out of range exception when dropped while entering input. Now if the labeller is dropped or the device being renamed is destroyed, the input window will be automatically closed.
Fixed possible bug with centrifuge when importing "bad" stacks. If the stack had an error, could result in massive stacks in the game.
Fixed game locks up when deconstructing device that has extremely high number of reagents in it. Devices will now drop a maximum of 200 stacks when being deconstructed. Some "bad" stacks were causing huge reagent mixes, and then these broke the centrifuge.
Fixed able to put items inside their own slots, causing the game to lock up. Now cannot put items inside other items.
