The Colonists is available on PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch right now!

• Xbox
  <*> PlayStation
  <*> Switch

Here's a reminder of what's new in The Colonists Console Edition?

• New Controls: Re-designed controls from the ground up to feel natural and fun on consoles
  
• Controller Optimized UI: Re-imagined user interface to be more accessible for players of all types
  
• New Robot Hats: Some little cute touches here and there including some snazzy new robot hats (TeaBot's hat is our favourite ☕)
  

April Frontier

Clearance Mode

Release Notes

• Added clearance mode for lumberjack huts and surface mines
  
• Added tree amount setting for random map generation
  
• Added option to destroy all resources at a storage yard
  
• Increased maximum edge panning speed
  
• Fixed shaft mine not stopping demand for Energy when production halted
  
• Fixed occasional crash on random map generation
  
• Fixed roads not get monument boost when placed after monument is complete
  
• Fixed bug with watchtowers firing on destroyed or lost watchtowers
  
• Fixed dismantling of watchtower not recalculating available watchtower tiles
  
• Fixed edge case with roads somehow having negative traffic costs
  
• Fixed water displaying slightly wrong after destroying boatyard
  
• Fixed boat captain bot sometimes disappearing if origin boatyard is destroyed
  
• Fixed guardbot not animating when reloading
  
• Fixed camera hotkeys not updating if changed mid-game
  

Console News

What's new in The Colonists Console Edition?

• New Controls: Re-designed controls from the ground up to feel natural and fun on consoles
  
• Controller Optimized UI: Re-imagined user interface to be more accessible for players of all types
  
• New Robot Hats: Some little cute touches here and there including some snazzy new robot hats (TeaBot's hat is our favourite ☕)
  

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March Frontier

Release Notes

• Fixed bugs with dismantling train stations and harbours esp. mid construction
  
• Made export rules available for all buildings when dismantling and takes into account construction materials
  
• Expedition resources can now be recovered from dismantling harbour
  
• Dismantling harbours and boatyards now don't disappear when dismantling complete
  
• Added cocoa beans to resources in bottom left
  
• Added fade to palm tree in lumberjack priority selection mode
  
• Improved map fit when at minimum zoom
  
• On map, added ability to click visibility header icon to toggle all resources on or off
  
• Can now place standalone road post with [Alt]
  
• Fixed bug where occasionally at workshops resources would be allocated when there wasn't room, causing an error
  
• Fixed issue with trade ship departure if space port rules removed and resources destroyed whilst a bot is fetching a resource for sale
  
• Fixed cow farm field contiguous verification not always working correctly
  
• Fixed bug with loading game at exactly one game tick
  
• Fixed some pathing issues related to flat tiles that are the exact same height as sea level
  
• Fixed issue when pressing return on name editing not immediately focusing back to game
  
• Added construction job progress percentage to builder bot tooltips
  

Release Notes

• Fixed lumberbots getting stuck and when trying to chop down a tree on a very steep slope (including one on the very edge of the February Frontier map)
  
• Fixed game freezing when loading a savegame in which the lumberbot had gotten stuck
  

Release Notes

• Fixed leaderboards not working from previous build
  

Release Notes

• Fixed starting height not being set correctly when creating flat custom maps
  
• Changed printing order of bots for watchtowers
  

February's Frontier

Release Notes

• Added the option to use procedural generation when creating a custom map
  
• Added in-game leaderboard button for campaign and custom maps
  
• Added warning about existing export rules when dismantling a building
  
• Export rules can now be changed during dismantling
  
• Export rules now apply to resources reclaimed from dismantling
  
• Fixed error and potential freeze when loading savegames where a bot printing queue contains a bot for a non-existent building
  
• Fixed surface deposits not being see-through when in priority selection mode on a surface mine
  
• Fixed the game placing an initial field tile when clicking on the no farm fields warning icon
  
• Fixed monument boosts not being removed during dismantling
  
• Fixed incorrect messaging on subpanel when placing non contiguous farm fields
  
• Fixed 'Flora_42_Name' showing up in certain places
  
• Fixed game time using plurals of month and day incorrectly
  
• Printer now doesn't go through animation for bots that no longer need to exist
  

Discord

Release Notes

• January's Frontier
  
• When setting lumberjack priority tiles different graphics are now shown depending on whether the tile is occupied by a tree or not
  
• Tweaked tree opacity values when setting priority tiles so it's easier to see through to tiles
  
• Fixed bug when stackbot direct building delivery was interrupted by road post placement
  
• Fixed bug on Screen Settings window with setting and saving 'Cursor Constrained'
  
• Fixed Screen Settings window 'applyable' state not always initiating correctly
  
• Fixed edge panning in Windowed mode
  
• Fixed being able to click through an alert window (e.g. closing game menu when showing save game warning)
  
• Fixed warning icon not showing up on fields tab for Vegetable Farm and Wheat Farm
  

Festive Decorations

December Frontier

Spanish Localization 🇪🇸

Release Notes

• Christmas trees, presents and snowbots are back!
  
• Added option to hold [Shift] when adding Whitelist/Blacklist buildings to keep panel open
  
• You can now remove the Colony Ship road post if you have 'free road post placement' setting active
  
• Fixed workshops being dismantled showing up as idle
  
• Fixed water-breaking bug when destroying a harbour or boatyard on water above sea level and game loading issue after that
  
• Recompleted Korean translation (thanks to interp)
  

• Game is now available in Spanish!
  
• Fixed some UI overlapping on blacklist/whitelist rules panels
  
• Fixed offset of chocolate factory rollover info
  
• Fixed one island entry not displaying beer count correctly on Beer Challenge
  
• Fixed medal times not showing for challenges
  

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