Chocolate Factory & Cocoa Farm

November Frontier

Release Notes

• NEW Chocolate Factory and Cocoa Farm! Supply your Level 3 Residences with chocolate
  
• Fixed some issues with tooltips not showing up when hovering over farm fields
  
• Fixed watchtower not resetting priority target after being captured
  
• Added help section to research panel
  
• Fixed tooltip staying open when right-clicking to close window whilst hovering over 'all resource' rule on a vehicle transport stop
  
• Fixed right-clicking to close window whilst hovering over resource still opening the resource panel
  
• Added tech icons to construction and upgrade panels
  
• Better messages when farmbot is idle and waiting for something to grow
  
• Steam achievements are reapplied on opening game, in case they didn't didn't register with Steam at time of achievement
  

Modding

Next Month

Pumpkin Farms

October Frontier

Release Notes

• It's Harvest Time - Pumpkins and the Pumpkin Farm are back!
  
• Players now can replay old Frontiers but times won't be recorded
  
• Added tracking information for Challenges in the mission info panel
  
• Increased max train speed by 25%
  
• Added skippable warning to deleting savegame in load game window
  
• Added beer to alcohol category preset
  
• Fixed saved SFX volume not being applied on opening the game
  
• Fixed deconstructing workshops counting as idle
  
• Fixed an instance of possible space port ship freeze
  
• Fixed visual ui bug with resource rules overflowing on boat/station stops
  
• Fixed bug with being able to place train tracks below sea level
  
• Fixed import building selection sometimes including irrelevant building types
  

• Enabled deconstruction for buildings under construction
  
• Added 'Tiny' option to random map generation options
  
• Fixed shaft mines on random maps occasionally blocking each other
  
• Additional tweaks to proc gen to reduce chances of getting inaccessible shaft mines
  
• Fixed storage yard still demanding resources after dismantling has started
  
• Added overlay to watchtowers under construction to indicate territory gain
  
• Fixed surface mine construction storage only being 4 resources instead of usual 8
  
• Fixed incorrect mission names showing for some campaign missions in info panel
  

Modding

Next Month

Frontiers

Dismantling Buildings

Release Notes

• NEW! Frontiers Mode - Compete against each players on a new map each month!
  
• NEW! Dismantle Ability - Dismantle any building and recover construction resources
  
• Adjusted market prices for resources to better reflect production costs
  
• Added Continue Game option to main menu
  
• Minor optimisations to rocks and carrybot animations - large colonies may see a small performance boost
  
• Fixed new trains not have upgraded storage after Steam Engines II is researched
  
• Added warning when upgrading a building with import rules
  
• Fixed shaft mine deposits placed precisely at sea level not being usable
  
• Fixed counts of adjacent natural resource surface deposits of different types displaying incorrectly on the map
  

Release Notes

• Improved Key Bindings window usability
  
• Random map generation tweaks: a little more space around colony ship; fixed bug where mountain mine could be located in invalid position in the sea; a little more landing space on shorelines generally.
  
• Fixed sandbox games not being recognised as sandbox games
  
• Fixed not being able to create a road over a flat section of train track
  
• Fixed monument boost not applying to workshops
  
• Fixed bug where placing a building right next to a shaft mine could incorrectly adjust a tile on the mine track
  
• Fixed expedition resources not showing on a harbour's 'en route' panels
  
• Fixed bug related to destroying a road post at a expedition-created harbour and it not calculating path directions correctly
  
• Fixed input resource rates for buildings not being displayed correctly when building has a monument boost
  
• Fixed incorrect idle message for road layer when they're waiting for resources
  
• Fixed bakery, flour mill and harbour not having correct destruction models and effects
  
• Game no longer lets you draw paths over broken terrain that it can't autoadjust
  
• Tweaked large harbour footprint so it can't be placed where there's no room for the queueing location
  
• Source and destination buildings are now clickable on an individual resource's journey panel
  
• Bots will now (mostly) return to a printer when their building or road is destroyed
  
• Made some fish more accessible on campaign map 8
  
• Tweaks to some steep shoreline in campaign map 5
  

Random Map Generator

• Map Size: Small (160), Normal (200), Large (240) or Huge (300)
  
• Biome: Default, snow or desert
  
• Water: Little, some or lots
  
• Natural Resources: Few, some or lots
  

Release Notes

• Random Map Generator! Procedurally generate maps with various settings in either main random map mode or in sandbox mode
  
• New mission info panel - better contextual information about the mission or map you're playing, including an option to edit sandbox settings mid-game
  
• Fixed some instance of auto terrain adjustment not working correctly when placing road and paths over broken terrain
  
• Fixed placing harbours over existing roads causing issues
  
• Top left buttons now have a selected state
  
• Few more localisation fixes
  

Patch Notes

• Added Czech localisation
  
• Fixed en route counts (number in green circles) not always decreasing correctly when a resource arrives (from V1.4.3)
  
• Tweaked bakery production numbers up slightly and added another stackbot
  
• Fixed resource demand urgency not always being calculated correctly for boat construction
  
• Fixed list of residences not being filtered by level on Energy storage panel
  
• Fixed enemy AI bug when trying to upgrade road layer
  
• Fixed being able to place a harbour outside your territory
  
• Fixed constrained cursor setting not working correctly
  
• Fixed a few missing localisations
  
• Fixed rare instance of not being able to load a savegame on mission 4
  

Patch Notes

• Fixed bug when loading a savegame with user-generated map which had territory turned off and it removing some territory from around your colony ship
  
• You can now have a building's construction paused immediately if you place it while holding [Alt]
  
• Building overlay construction icon now displays paused state
  
• Priority layers at lumberjack hut, forestry and surface mine now auto clear if occupied by a road, path or building
  
• Fixed bug where road/path placement would highlight an invalid route using tiles that were partially under water
  
• Fixed small bug with priority tile settings where releasing Shift key and mouse button could set invalid tiles
  

Patch Notes

• New military campaign map - The Three Hills
  
• Game now auto-adjusts the land when you place roads and paths over steps in the terrain
  
• Watchtower Ownership Overlay - when you select the info panel on watchtowers it now shows you an graphic overlay indicating which tiles would be lost if you destroyed that watchtower
  
• Option for free resource creation at storage yards added to sandbox mode
  
• Various small improvements to enemy AI
  
• Fixed scores not being submitted for non-military custom maps from the Workshop
  
• Fixed bug where boat could leave early if only resources to unload were using harbour as a transitory stop
  
• Fixed resources sometimes going to storage yards that are under construction
  
• Fixed potential bug when road posts are modified that are connected to expedition harbours that are under construction
  
• Fixed shaft minerbot appearing out of the back of the mine
  
• Fixed watchtower damage smoke effects not clearing when upgrade completes
  
• Fixed a couple of inaccurate building descriptions
  
• Fixed bug where enemy bots would not appear correctly if they went into then came back out of fog of war
  
• Fixed leaderboard button incorrectly showing on military maps
  
• Added warning message for adding an import rule to a building under construction
  

Patch Notes

• Added challenges panel so you can keep track of your progress and a notification screen for when you complete a challenge
  
• Added option for x8 speed (use at your discrection, your framerate may suffer a bit)
  
• Added option to invert zoom
  
• Added extra sub-panel on boats and trains resource panel to show which resources are being unloaded and added details to harbour's boats panel to show a boat's status with that harbour
  
• Added visual to show upgrade range of a watchtower when on upgrade panel
  
• Improved performance a bit when rendering wheat fields
  
• Fixed bug when pressing Escape on the 'unsave progress' window
  
• Fixed error when storage yard sourced resources beyond capacity, caused by having a combination of rules which exceeded capacity
  
• Fixed bug where demand groups couldn't be reordered in resource category panels (e.g. fuel)
  
• Fixed edge case where enemy colony ship would self-destruct if entrance tile was captured but none of the main tiles
  
• Fixed an issue with very busy harbours where incoming resources could potentially get sent to the wrong storage pile and eventually bring everything to a halt
  
• Fixed bug where if a boat's transport route is cleared whilst it's heading from the queueing location to the dock then the next queued boat wouldn't be triggered
  
• Improved resource movement behaviour on very busy large harbours with multiple road posts
  
• Added extra stackbot for harbour
  
• Some small AI improvements
  
• Turned default ambient occlusion setting for linux to off
  

Patch Notes

• Fixed bug where, when a boat is docked, changing its route whilst a stackbot was fetching a resource to load onto it could cause the boat to become stuck at the harbour.
  
• Fixed bug where on a rare occasion resource might not be sent on from a storage yard
  
• Fixed issue where resources at a storage yard were not always correctly being sent to another storage yard
  
• Fixed rare instance when storage yards weren't requesting all the resources for their rules
  
• Fixed final determining factor of resource exports judged to be equal (same 'prioritised' destination building and same resource type) to use oldest assignment instead of newest
  
• Fixed bug where some tooltips, such as a boat status on the harbour panel, wouldn't clear if the panel was closed using right-click
  
• Fixed VSync settings not being saved between sessions