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0.6.532

See upcoming features for future updates. Known bugs in the latest versions are listed here.

• Public versions were announced on the Developer Blog
• Quiet versions were recorded on the Changelog
• Silent versions were released without record
• Internal versions were not released to the public

Current version (Alpha 10)

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Alpha 10 has arrived! This time we’ve added a new “joy” need with a bunch of ways to fulfil it, new timetable, outfits, and thing filter management tools, and dozens of smaller improvements. A full change list is at the end of this post.

If you own the game, you can get Alpha 10 by re-downloading from the link you used before (it is a permanent link and always has the newest version). You should also get an update email from us. Anyone still having trouble should start at this thread. There may be a delay of some hours before your download count resets or your email arrives.

Also note that this build will not load old savegames or old worlds, so please don’t try to load these in the new version. They’ll probably just crash the game.

Core Release

Changes

Joy

• New joy need added. Colonists want to have “joy”, which means anything that lets the stop working and enjoy themselves for a while.
• Added joy sources
• Skygazing
• Meditating/praying
• Social relaxation around campfire or table, with or without beer
• Horseshoes game
• Chess
• Billiards
• Television (purchasable)
• Telescope for astronomy (purchasable)
• Added armchair and dining chair
• There are various kinds of joy. Repeated use of the same kind of joy builds up a tolerance, reducing its impact. Colonists will prefer joy sources they are not already tolerant to. Result: it’s beneficial to provide a variety of joy sources.

Outfits System

• New outfits manager system added. You can design ‘outfits’ (restrictions on what a colonist is allowed to a wear) and assign them to colonists in a central interface. Colonists will then independently work to find the best apparel possible given their outfit and the current season. They will automatically switch out damaged apparel for better apparel, or poor-quality apparel for high-quality apparel.
• If the player manually assigns apparel, the colonist will never remove it until the manual assignment is cleared.

Timetable System

• New timetable system added. You can assign each colonist a daily timetable which describes when they should sleep, work, have joy, or decide on their own.

Misc

• Colonists can fall unconscious on their own if over-exhausted.
• Reworked how melee verbs are selected so they’ll be selected with a bit more randomness. e.g. Someone with one scyther blade hand won’t use it exclusively; you’ll need to get them two if you want a true killing machine.
• Beer can now be wielded as a weapon (like wood).
• Passion flames are now displayed subtly on the work overview screen.
• New end credits song from Al!
• Reduced skill degradation rate.
• Day length extended from 24,000 to 30,000 ticks. Days per month reduced from 12 to 10.
• Hunters will now approach and execute downed animals at close range.
• Reworked food search so it smoothly integrates information about food distance, taste, and psychological preference to get the most optimal food source.
• Health tab now displays overall bleeding rate.
• Starvation and blood loss are now staged and affect consciousness as they worsen.
• Reworked how skills generate so there will be more initial skill variation and age affect starting skills more.
• Rebalanced and reformatted plant ecology tunings to lengthen crop cycles and slow wild plant spread. Reworked plant growth in relation to light levels so plants can still grow slowly in dim light (e.g. tundra summers).
• Pain now creates unhappiness.
• String lists are now part of language data and can be translated.
• Butcher table, sculptor’s table, and stonecutter’s table can now be made of various stuffs.
• Trees are no longer sowable. Traders carry wood.
• Characters will now sometimes resist arrest.
• You can now set a minimum skill level on bills.
• Visitors will now carry away wounded guests from their faction.
• Hunted animals will occasionally fight back. Some animals always fight back.
• Doctors now automatically rescue downed colonists.
• Generalized toggle power interaction to ‘switch flicking’ and applied it to power switch toggling and door locking as well as building power on/off.
• Many many other fixes, adjustments, and optimizations.

Alpha 10B

I’ve released a quick hotfix for Alpha 10 that should address some bugs, design mistakes and imbalances in the first released version.

You should get an update email some time today. Or, you can just download from your existing link (as it always gives the latest version).

Save games from Alpha 10 will still work. To install, delete your Alpha 10 install directory and unzip the Alpha 10b files to a clean empty folder (your save data is not stored in the install directory).

Changes

• Substantially increased the speed of joy gain.
• Door locking is really door forbidding, so it happens instantly again and does not require colonist interaction.
• Trees are sowable again.
• The first enemy raider will never flee (makes him easier to capture).
• Colonist names can now include numerals.
• Fixed colonist outfit apparel search so colonists with guns will not take personal shields.
• Improved colonist outfit apparel selection in general.
• Some other smaller fixes.

Alpha 10C

I’ve released another hotfix addressing some bugs and balance issues. Thank you for being patient with these!

This is a silent hotfix; there will be no update email. Just re-download from your existing link.

Save games from Alpha 10 will still work. To install, delete your old install directory and unzip the new Alpha 10c files to a clean empty folder (your save data is not stored in the install directory).

Changes

• Changes to speed up pacing: reduced building costs, start with more steel, a colonist will join reasonably early (on Cassandra or Phoebe). Recruiting is slightly easier. Joy tolerance is gained slower.
• You’ll get a letter when an animal goes insane due to taking damage. Also, the chance of this happening is reduced.
• Colonists will stand away from boomrats while executing them.
• Joy-related thoughts are broken up more finely and balanced.
• Planning designation has dark outline for easy visibility.
• Trees are still sowable, but it takes a lot of time to sow them.
• Bugfix: Colonists will no longer get stuck if you put a blueprint under a hopper and they try to fill it.
• Bugfix: Colonists no longer relax socially in prisons.
• Bugfix: Cooks will no longer make more meals than requested in the “do until you have X” bill repeat mode.
• Bugfix: Unpowered lamps will no longer start glowing after being destroyed.

Alpha 10D

So I got to have that special moment where you’re looking at some game code and you realize that the game you shipped last week to 75,000 people is totally horribly broken in subtle but game-destroying ways. This is the hotfix to the problem I found and others. Up to now, Alpha 10 has been basically broken.

There were a number of issues but the biggest one was probably the broken enemy fleeing and recruitment code that made it way too hard to get new people.

Sorry about releasing a kind-of broken version. I’m thinking that for Alpha 11 I’ll start doing public unstable builds a week before the stable release. It’s getting really hard to catch all the bugs in the game as it becomes more complex and it takes longer to play.

To update, just use your existing download link; it always gives the latest version. Save games from Alpha 10 will still work. To install, delete your old install directory and unzip the new Alpha 10d files to a clean empty folder (your save data is not stored in the install directory).

Changes

• Fixed and rebalanced prisoner recruiting: Prisoners no longer get cabin fever and no longer have a joy need (until we get support for proper prison complexes). They can be recruited at any mood over 35% (though the chance may be very low).
• Fixed a units change bug that caused 40% of enemies to flee after taking one hit, and other enemies to never flee. Now the flee properly with individual health thresholds again.
• Fixed PawnName parsing so pawns with apostrophes in their names will work.
• Cleaned up and robustified the AI with regards to finding a space to stand next to medical beds. Abolished the “medical bed needs headspace” alert as it’s no longer needed.
• Fixed a bug that caused colonists to get stuck switching apparel over and over given certain weather conditions and combinations of apparel (they were considering the needed warmth in relation to their own current apparel instead of in relation to their absolute naked needs).
• Fixed a bug that would crash the UI if colonists hauled a sculpture or TV while the player was selecting an install location.
• Fixed bug that caused pawns to sometimes teleport to the bottom left corner of the map.
• Fixed the needs tab not displaying on animals if a human was never previously selected with the needs tab.
• Fixed a bug that caused colonists to spaz out around the billiards table when they reached full joy instead of just ending the job.
• Some minor storyteller tuning.
• Some minor typo fixes in game text.

Alpha 10E

This hotfix was broke for the first few hours of its release, when it was called Alpha10e. If you got it during that time, please re-download the fixed Alpha10f. The fix solves an issue in Alpha10e where rain would never put out fires, leading to the whole map burning down.

This small hotfix cleans up some minor issues that remained in Alpha10d.

To update, just use your existing download link from your last update email – it always gives the latest version. Save games from Alpha 10 will still work. To install, delete your old install directory and unzip the new Alpha 10f files to a clean empty folder (your save data is not stored in the install directory).

Changes

• Reworked apparel optimization AI. Now they very much prefer wearing anything over wearing nothing (so they don’t walk around naked with clothes on the floor), and have a lower threshold of quality difference to replace apparel.
• Optimized fire significantly so large fires won’t slow down your computer as much.
• Some very minor fixes.

Recent versions (Alpha 9)

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Alpha 9 is out! This time we’ve added alcohol, drunkenness, binges, hangovers, multiple sculpture types with generated art based on historical events, personal shields for melee fighters, and dozens of smaller improvements. A full change list is at the end of this post.

If you own the game, you can get Alpha 9 by re-downloading from the link you used before (it is a permanent link and always has the newest version). You should also get an update email from us. Anyone still having trouble should start at this thread.

Also note that this build will not load old savegames or old worlds, so please don’t try to load these in the new version. They’ll probably just crash the game.

4:21 EST: I fixed a bug with forbidding and sculptures just two hours after initial release and hotfixed the build to Alpha9b. If you already got it, please re-download. Alpha 9 saves won’t be affected.

Core Release

Alcohol

• Added hops growing, beer brewing, beer drinking, inebriated thoughts and ability impacts
• Added special ‘binge’ mental breaks
• Added teetotaler and chemical fascination traits
• Added hangovers

Tales and Art

• There are now three tiers of sculpture: small, large, and grand. Grand sculptures are 2×2 cells.
• Sculptures now have generated descriptions of what they depict.
• Sculptures will depict events that happened earlier in a colony’s life, include: killings, drunkenness,vomiting, landing in drop pods, artwork created, struck ore, person captured, person recruited, animal hunted, surgery done, someone was on fire, someone went psychotic, someone gave up
• High-quality weapons have art engraved into them.
• All weapons now have quality levels, including guns and bows.

Age

• Old characters have gray hair and more fleshed-out old age illnesses.
• Old characters tend to spawn with higher skills.
• Since people don’t age in cryptosleep, characters now have both chronolotical age and biological age. Even animals and mechanoids have ages.
• Dates are now relative to specific years. The game starts in 5500.

New Stuff

• Personal shields added. These one-person shields block a certain amount of damage from ranged attacks and also prevent shooting out. Great for melee fighters.
• Artillery shells are now needed by artillery cannons. Shells on the ground can explode. Siegers will come with shells to use to bombard you. Shells can be crafted at the machining table.
• Added deterioration: items left outside for a very long time will deteriorate and eventually crumble away.
• Surgery can fail now, sometimes catastrophically. Failure chance is related to the surgeon’s medical skill and the quality of the medicine.
• You can now rescue incapacitated neutral people and heal them. Their faction will be appreciative.
• Guns now have quality levels which affect accuracy.
• Added Heavy SMG
• Added psychic foil helmet
• Added corn and rice crops.
• Vomiting: Some diseases, drunkenness, cryptosleep sickness, and hangovers now cause people to vomit.
• People can now get food poisoning. Bad cooks are more likely to accidentally poison meals.
• Game now records total real playtime per colony.
• Added ‘pause on load game’ option.
• Many new sound effects from Alistair Lindsay for UI, work, and combat.

Misc Improvements

• Deep optimization on various systems – especially AI. This should make big colonies run much more smoothly.
• Added bad thought for wearing tattered clothes.
• Apparel becomes damaged when owner dies from violence.
• Apparel actually takes the damage it absorbs as armor.
• Apparel wears out over very long periods of use.
• Uranium ore now appears as a minable natural rock.
• Colonists will now go to extinguish nearby fires even if someone else is already coming to do it.
• Cryptosleep caskets are now sealed, come with warnings, and can contain deadly ancient defenders.
• Reworked the ‘do until you have X’ option on bills; it now works for more bills and shows the number you currently have.
• Eating now takes priority even over emergency work (doctoring, firefighting) if a colonist is starving.
• Colonists, when hauling to stockpiles, always haul the max amount they can carry, and drop the extra nearby if the target cell can’t hold it all.
• Reworked ship takeoff sequence into a proper whiteout with nice credits.
• Player can no longer magically toggle power on any item. Rather, you designate power to be toggled and the colonists go do it.
• Temperature now equalizes through both walls and roof/floor.
• Lengthened day from 20,000 to 24,000 ticks. Shortened month to 12 days.
• Reworked auto-tutor to rely more on passive alerts and less on in-your-face interrupting modal dialogs.
• Colonists are now bothered by people walking around inside the room while they sleep.
• People newly woken from cryptosleep have cryptosleep sickness for a while.
• Wind varies over time (not just with weather changes), and so will the power output of wind turbines.
• Fonts are now nicely antialiased.
• Tons of other refinements, rebalancings, and bugfixes.

Alpha 9C & Alpha 9D

I’ve just updated the game to Alpha9c. (UPDATE: Now Alpha9d is up.)

Please delete your old installed game, download the new build from your existing download link, and install it to a clean empty folder.

All save games from Alpha 9 will still be playable and mod compatibility shouldn’t be affected.

Alpha 9C Changes

• Fixed a black-screen-on-startup bug when playing with certain translations.
• Fixed a bug that caused savegames to become unloadable.
• Fixed a bug that caused binging people to never eat or sleep, leading to death.
• Balance: Heaters and coolers are somewhat more powerful to match new heat loss mechanics.
• Balance: Wind turbines are now much more powerful.
• Balance: Adjusted frequency of tales so your statues aren’t all of people hunting and vomiting.
• Updated translation content.

Alpha 9D Changes

• Fixed probability calculations so the game won’t constantly spam insane animals any more.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Graphic_Collections loading mod content.
• Raiders will no longer eat from players’ nutrient paste dispensers.

Alpha 9E

I’ve released a hotfix to Alpha 9, Alpha9e, that rebalances a few things and fixes a few issues. This is build 0.9.727.

You won’t receive an email for this hotfix as we don’t want to spam people. The download link is the same one you got all other versions of the game from. Your personal download link never changes and always gives the latest version.

You can update by deleting your old installed game, downloading the new build from your existing download link, and installing it to a clean empty folder.

If you need help with your download please email ludeonhelp@gmail.com.

All save games from Alpha 9 will still be playable and mod compatibility shouldn’t be affected.

Changes

• Reduced room temperature equalization rates.
• Room walls that are two or more cells thick now equalize temperature slower.
• Balanced sieges to be slightly weaker.
• Various tuning adjustments to several thought mood effects.
• Removed “buildings need power” alert as it is annoying to see it when a power switch is off.
• Fixed a bug that corrupts savegames if you sell a statue that is marked to be installed.
• While firefighting, colonists will now fight any fire they walk into.
• Fixed a bug that caused non-prisoner beds to be set as prisoner beds on load.
• Fixed a bug that froze wounded colonist prisoners if they were marked to get doctor care.
• Fixed a bug that prevented prisoners from using nutrient paste dispensers in their cells.
• Fixed a bug that caused temperatures indoors to sometimes become NaN (not a number).
• Fixed a rare bug that prevented running a game that saved with some corrupted work priorities data.

Complete Version List

Alpha

2014.04.15

0.10.785 (Alpha 10)

2015.02.18

0.9.722 (Alpha 9)

2014.12.15

0.8.657 (Alpha 8)

2014.10.01

0.7.581 (Alpha 7)

2014.08.13

0.6.532 (Alpha 6)

2014.07.14

0.5.496B (Alpha 5D)

2014.07.07

0.5.496 (Alpha 5C)

2014.07.06

0.5.492B (Alpha 5B)

2014.07.04

0.5.492 (Alpha 5)

2014.06.01

0.4.460 (Alpha 4)

2014.04.11

0.3.410 (Alpha 3)

2014.02.26

0.2.363 (Alpha 2)

2014.01.27

0.1.334 (Alpha 1)

2014.1.26

Internal 0.0.334

2014.1.25

Internal 0.0.333

2014.1.24

Internal 0.0.332

2014.1.23

Internal 0.0.331

Pre-Alpha

2014.1.22

Internal 0.0.330B

2014.1.22

Internal 0.0.330

2014.1.21

Internal 0.0.329

2014.1.20

Internal 0.0.328

2014.1.19

Internal 0.0.327

2014.1.17

Internal 0.0.325

2014.1.16

Internal 0.0.324

2014.1.15

Internal 0.0.323

2014.1.14

Internal 0.0.322

2014.1.13

Internal 0.0.321

2014.1.12

Internal 0.0.320

2014.1.10

Internal 0.0.318

2014.1.09

Internal 0.0.317B

2014.1.08

Internal 0.0.317

2014.1.06

Internal 0.0.314

2013.12.17

Internal 0.0.294

2013.11.07

0.0.254B (Pre-Alpha Backer 2)

2013.11.07

Internal 0.0.254

2013.11.06

Internal 0.0.253c

2013.11.06

Internal 0.0.253b

2013.11.06

Internal 0.0.253

2013.11.03

0.0.250 (Pre-Alpha Backer 1)

2013.11.03

Internal 0.0.250

2013.11.02

Internal 0.0.249a

2013.11.01

Internal 0.0.248

2013.10.31

Internal 0.0.247

2013.10.29

0.0.245 (Pre-Alpha Press Release 2)

2013.10.29

Internal 0.0.245

2013.10.27

Internal 0.0.243

2013.10.25

Internal 0.0.241

2013.10.24

Internal 0.0.240

2013.10.16

0.0.232 (Pre-Alpha Press Release 1)