Achievements

Storage Yard Mechanics

Storage Yard to Storage Yard

Patch Notes

• Hotkeys (default [C] & [V]) for copying and pasting settings of buildings (export & import) and road posts (blacklists and whitelists)
  
• Small Storage Yard now only requires logs to build
  
• Added multi-selection to resource selection panels
  
• Added resource group presets to blacklist resource selection panels
  
• Added expedition resources to demand panels
  
• Changed idle port and station stackbots to prioritise load and unloads of vehicles first
  
• Items waiting at harbour or train station are now rechecked for optimal routes when a new route is added
  
• Adding an import rule now forces an resource export check at the targeted building if source building already had an import rule
  
• Fixed issue with resources being incorrectly routed in and out of large harbours
  
• Fixed salt being able to mined with L2 surface mine
  
• Fixed bug which occurs when placing a watchtower when the logs demand panel is open
  
• Fixed export from space port bug when selling rule is removed and resource are waiting to be loaded
  
• Fixed bug when clearing a boat route and assigning to an expedition while boat is docked at harbour
  
• Fixed bug with vegetables in vegetable plots displaying weirdly after a little while
  
• Fixed bug with vegetables not showing up on game load
  
• Fixed hit box on vegetable resource
  
• Fixed issue where sometimes a train wasn't created due to miscalculation of train route limits
  
• Fixed lumberjack pathfinding not being completely accurate in finding the nearest tree
  
• Fixed bug where, when a building's panel is open, the green in-world highlight markers weren't being created when a new resource was assigned to the building
  
• Fixed issue where multiple top left panels could be overlaid after entering and leaving the research or map screen
  
• Fixed not being able to set fuel consumption buildings as export on storage yards
  
• AI enemy can now cancel research if project has been idle for too long
  
• AI enemy has smarter placement of fletchers
  
• AI enemy has smarter upgrading of watchtowers
  
• Fixed bug with en route resource highlighters not always showing up correctly
  
• Fixed order of medals in mission goals panel
  
• Fixed internal tree count when if lumberjack chops a tree which leaves your territory during the chopping process
  
• For export and import building lists, disabled already existing options
  
• Vegetable Farm construction time and resources now same as Sheep Farm
  
• You can now sculpt tiles with trees on
  
• You can now sell Logs at the Space Port for a small amount of money
  
• Small storage yard and steel mill have an extra stackbot
  
• Bots are now printed in the order of oldest first instead of most recent first
  
• Improved accuracy of distance sorting for priority layer buildings (lumberjacks, foresters, miners)
  
• Removed rogue underwater clay deposit on 'Island Hopping' mission
  
• Added option to show the game tick alongside the day
  

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Festive Decorations

Enemy AI Updates

Patch Notes

• Fixed an issue in some instances with resources that are waiting at harbour not getting rerouted
  
• Fixed storage yards not showing in storage panel for resource categories (food etc)
  
• Fixed an error related to rerouting a boat that is currently queueing to same harbourissues not being able to set export whitelists from/to buildings under construction
  

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Patch Notes

• Added VSync option
  
• Linked mouse button 4 and mouse button 5 linked to rotate/flip
  
• Improved height collision detection for rocks on steep slopes (principally affecting Mission 11)
  
• F12 should now work again for directly capturing Steam screenshots. F10 is the hotkey for Postcard Mode.
  
• Fixed bug with loading a game and if a train was queuing at a station it would not move
  
• Fixed being able to incorrectly select small harbours for lugger routes
  
• Fixed issue when losing territory tile with a path and it potentially not recalculating connections for affected buildings
  
• Fixed incorrect message for when trying to place watchtower too close to other military buildings
  
• Fixed bug allowing you to place watchtower anywhere in tutorial
  
• Fixed quality settings panel not behaving correctly from V1.3.6.3
  

Patch Notes

• Added ability to pause building upgrades
  
• Added track buffers to indicate end of track
  
• Added skippable warnings for cancelling upgrades and research
  
• All resources waiting for assignment are now rechecked immediately when an export rule is added
  
• Upgrading buildings can now be added to export whitelist
  
• Fixed Printing Press II research not affecting Printing Press production time correctly and changed to 50% increase
  
• Fixed mining rates on Shaft Mine construction panel not increasing with relevant research boosts
  
• Fixed export whitelist filtering for buildings under construction or upgrading
  
• Fixed incorrect storage counts for Food, Alcohol and Fuel
  
• Fixed Residence upgrades not updating previous Energy storage count correctly
  
• Fixed idle workshop check not being trigger when using 'free construction'
  
• Fixed idle workshop check not being trigger when research was cancelled
  
• Fixed resources bought at Space Port showing creation building as 'unknown building'
  
• Fixed graph not clearing when switching from multiple output resource buildings
  
• Fixed two random crash bugs
  
• Tweaked Glassmaking, Scaffolding III and Construction III, Wheat Farming, Breadmaking and Brewing requirements
  

One Way Train Signals

Unrestricted Elevated Rail Sandbox Option

Patch Notes

• NEW - one way train signals allow you to create circular train routes
  
• NEW - defy physics with the new unrestricted elevated rail option in the sandbox
  
• Fixed train sometimes getting stuck if route was not found and then track was modified
  
• Fixed upgrade costs not taking into account reused resources when starting an upgrade
  
• Fixed occasional instance where an invalid transport connection was created when a watchtower was captured, causing further bugs
  
• Fixed surface mines and shaft mines showing up in building lists on storage panels for resources they don't mine
  
• Stopped auto setting building name if already set by player
  
• Hotkey [H] in map editor now goes to centre of map
  
• Fixed missing help text for road post transport connections panel
  
• Fixed incorrect icon on road layer upgrade panel
  
• The pumpkin harvest has finished, but The Colonists still like their vegetables!
  

• Fixed bug which caused an expedition boat to become stuck if it had to queue at the harbour it needed to load expedition resources from
  
• Fixed tooltips for Orchard Plots and Cobbled Roads icons being the wrong way around
  
• Boats now go over underwater rocks
  
• Boats no longer sail through rocks
  
• Tweaked rock height detection numbers to be more accurate when using elevated rail
  
• Fixed crash bug caused by creating parallel roads between the same two road posts
  
• Fixed boundaries of brewery and wheat farm footprints
  

• - Hold [Ctrl] when placing the end road post of a new road to continue building a new road from that tile
  
• - Improved visuals and tooltip messages for setting road waypoints
  
• - Added build mode hotkey to key bindings
  
• - Tweaked brewery production numbers
  
• - Fixed bug where changing the route or clearing a route of a boat whilst its queueing at a harbour could potentially cause it to behave unexpectedly or become stuck at a harbour
  
• - Fixed resource exports not being checked immediately after a boat or train route is modified or added
  
• - Fixed being able to create one tile length paths as destroying them sometimes created a resource routing bug
  
• - Fixed bots printed at Large Harbour sometimes going to wrong flag and not going to their destination in certain circumstances
  
• - Bots printed at Large Harbour no longer walk through bot printer
  
• - Fixed resources being attempted to be routed through invalid buildings if both resource supplier building and invalid building were connected to a harbour or train station by path but supplier building's path was too long to be a direct connection (over 20 tiles).
  
• - Fixed pumpkins resource not selectable
  
• - Field placement mode is now automatically entered when clicking on the farm fields tab
  
• - Fixed pumpkin farmer harvest animation sometimes not matching pumpkin field
  
• - Fixed closing add vehicle stop side panel not adding add transport button
  
• - Fixed incorrect value and overflow of cash victory graphic bar
  
• - Fixed padlock icon not showing on level 1 tab for locked buildings
  
• - Fixed trader reputation display sometimes stopping working on market panel
  

🎃 Pumpkin Farm 🎃

Patch Notes

• Italian and Brazilian Portuguese localization
  
• Space Port no longer needs any resources to construct
  
• Harbours no longer require pier tiles to be inside territory
  
• Building upgrade costs now take into account previous level
  
• Added Boat Building II research which is needed to build Luggers
  
• Luggers now a bit faster and have more capacity
  
• Implemented acceleration on boats
  
• Fixed 'all resources' on whitelists causing problems (also removed that option as it's the default behaviour)
  
• Fixed workshop import whitelist not accepting all possible research resources
  
• Fixed some issues not being able to set export whitelists from/to buildings under construction
  
• Fixed destroying import building not auto removing it from another building's import whitelist
  
• Fixed track breaking if placing a high train station
  
• Reduced adjustable height a little of train stations to avoid some entrance issues
  
• Fixed mislabelled resource categories on flag rules panel
  
• Fixed rules tab count for boats and trains for item categories
  
• Fixed close button on boat selection panel
  
• Fixed notification icons on newly unlocked buildings not being reset on game load
  
• F12 no longer trigger screenshot mode, now only dedicated hotkey does (default F10)
  
• Two fixes for games erroring when trying to load
  

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• Fixed trains getting stuck if meeting at a station at the same time
  
• Fixed some instances where train and hopper sequence would get confused when reassigning a train route
  
• Fixed road cost calculations not working correctly in a loaded game
  
• Improved route recalculations for resources waiting at a road post of a blocked road
  
• Captured Colony Ships are now connectable and functional buildings
  
• Fixed bug where rubble of buildings could not always be removed
  
• Fixed stutter caused by resources arriving at buildings which were directly connected to the harbour from where they'd been delivered
  
• Fixed transport rules not always affecting resource demands correctly
  
• Fixed potential stutter affecting large colonies with full storage yards
  
• 'Blacklist' and 'Whitelist' can now contain individual resources whilst 'Blacklist Except Storage' and 'Whitelist Storage Only' contain 'All Resources' respectively
  
• Fixed import building selection list not showing Food producing buildings for residences
  
• Fixed import buildings not always being taken into account when a building sources a resource
  
• Sculpt modes now cycle when you press the Sculpt Mode hotkey
  
• Fixed pipette mode where level of copied building was being overridden by last selected building level
  
• Path drawing now lets you cross roads (path behaviour is the same but it's now more obvious when creating paths)
  
• Fixed incorrect 'loading' label in boat storage panel
  
• Made 'whitelist storage only' 'all resources' combined with individual 'whitelist' resources behave as expected
  
• Fixed error message not being parsed correctly when track placement blocked
  
• Fixed icon for train route selection and improved font spacing and resizing
  
• Fixed incorrect count on the resource transport rule tab
  
• Fixed and improved visuals on resource transport rules panel to show boats and trains
  
• Fixed formatting on resource destroy warning message
  
• Fixed mission complete camera angle
  
• Improved some German localization
  

• Change your colony colour at any time with a new panel on your Colony Ship!
  
• Harbours can now be an export target for buildings holding or producing expedition resources.
  
• Fixed one off selling rules not working.
  
• Fixed issue with printed bots sometimes going cross-country to their destination.
  
• Fixed game defaulting to languages still in development (Russian and Italian).
  
• Fixed bug in tutorial if you close the Lumberjack Hut construction panel.
  
• Fixed some font inconsistencies with accented characters.
  
• Fixed a few localization entries.
  
• Improved a couple of icons.