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0.6.532
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  • 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 8)

Previous Version: [[Version/1.5.4241"" contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.]]
Released on: – 		Next Version: [[Version/0.0.232"" contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.]]
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Alpha 8 is out! This time we’ve added a seasonal cycle and temperature simulation, snow, two more biomes (boreal forest and tundra) with all the attached animals, art sculpting, crafted item quality, weapon and apparel crafting, homegrown medicine, wind turbines, and more.

If you own the game, you can get Alpha 8 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, so keep your old install separate if you want to finish an Alpha 7 colony.

Release Trailer

Core Release

Temperature and Seasons

  • A new temperature system tracks temperatures indoors and outdoors.
  • Characters can get hypothermia, frostbite, heatstroke, or burns from being in extreme-temperature areas.
  • Certain clothing can protect against temperature discomfort/harm.
  • Temperature changes daily and on a yearly cycle according to where you are on the planet. There are distinct seasons.
  • There are special heat wave/cold snap events.
  • Added heater and cooler buildings.
  • Food spoils. This can be slowed or prevented with refrigeration.
  • Snow falls and accumulates over winter. It slows down movement.
  • Snow can be cleared manually, and will melt if heated.
  • New apparel: Parka and tuque.
  • Added new biomes: boreal forest and tundra

Art and Crafting

  • Sculptor’s table added. Colonists can create abstract sculptures.
  • Sculptures and melee weapons have a quality. Quality is influenced by crafter skill and affects beauty and damage.
  • Apparel crafting now allows crafting any kind of apparel.
  • Can now craft any kind of melee weapon from appropriate materials.
  • Created ‘unfinished thing’ step to crafting. Crafting can now take several days per item (as in the case of advanced weapons or art).
  • Added art trading.

New Content

Alpha 8B

There was a bug in Alpha 8: If a colonist smoothed a terrain that wasn’t rough stone, the game would crash.

I thought this would be impossible, because you cannot designate a non-rough-stone terrain to be smoothed. But if you designate some rough stone for smoothing, then designate a floor to be built over it, and the floor is built, and then the smoother finally comes by, the game will die because the floor has no ‘terrain I should become if I’m smoothed’.

If you think you can just not build floors over smoothing designations, you can just avoid the crash that way. I’ve also uploaded a hotfixed version, Alpha8b, which you can download from your existing download links.

Sorry about this.

Alpha 8C

Note: This hotfix created it’s own new bug (colonists can’t use hydroponics). Sorry! I’m uploading a fix now.

I’ve released a hotfix to some further important issues discovered in Alpha 8. You can get the update by downloading from the download link we sent you before (this is your personal permanent link and will never change). There will be no email sent for this non-essential update.

Changes

  • Mostly fixed some hard performance hitching that occurred when there were a lot of blueprints that lacked resources (usually when laying large amounts of carpet without enough cloth).
  • Surgically removing bionic parts from living people will now yield the removed part for reinstallation or sale.
  • The binding between workers and bills will no longer time out. This should eliminate problems with workers starting the same bill several times and ending up with multiple unfinished versions of the same item.
  • The ‘was imprisoned’ thought now has a greater effect on mood.
  • Fixed growers just standing there when there was a nearby growing job that was not accessible (e.g. a plant pot in a locked room).
  • Plant not growing now text uses the word ‘resting’ to clarify that the problem isn’t a lack of light.

Alpha 8D & Alpha 8E

Alpha8c created a major bug where colonists would never plant in hydroponics basins. The fixed build, Alpha8d, is now uploaded.

As always, you can update with your existing download link.

Sorry about that. Hopefully not too many of you downloaded the game in the hours between 8c and 8d.

UPDATE: I just released a nonessential fix to reduce the mood impact of seeing rotting corpses from -14 to -4. You can patch as usual, or just go into RimWorld657/Mods/Core/Defs/ThoughtDefs/Thoughts_Memories.xml, search for ObservedLayingRottingCorpse, and change <baseMoodEffect>-14</baseMoodEffect> to <baseMoodEffect>-4</baseMoodEffect>.

Dev Fix

The ‘saw corpse’ thought is stacking far too high because of a bug. In cases where there are lots of corpses, it can reach absurd levels and make it nearly impossible to keep colonists sane.

The fix is only one line in a single file. You can do it yourself:

  1. Go to the directory (RimWorldDirectory)/Mods/Core/Defs/ThoughtDefs
  2. Edit the file Thoughts_Memories.xml
  3. Go to the “ObservedLayingCorpse” mood effect (usually line 173 to 189). (Usually it’s easiest to do this by hitting Ctrl+F to search for ObservedLayingCorpse).
  4. Change the line “<stackedEffectMultiplier>1</stackedEffectMultiplier>” to “<stackedEffectMultiplier>0.5</stackedEffectMultiplier>”

I’ve also uploaded a fixed version. So, if you wish, you can also just re-download the game from your existing download link.

Saved games won’t be affected either way.

Recent versions (Alpha 7)

Previous Version: [[Version/1.5.4241"" contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.]]
Released on: – 		Next Version: [[Version/0.0.232"" contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.]]
Released on: –

"Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.

Released on: –

Alpha 7 is out! This time we’ve added artificial limbs and prosthetics, jungle biome, new trade system, organ harvesting and trading, and a whole ‘stuff and stats’ system where certain things can be made of other things.

If you own the game, you should get an update email from us. You can also get Alpha 7 by re-downloading from the link you used before (it is a permanent link and always has the newest version). Anyone still having trouble should start at this thread.


Compatibility

Also note that this build will not load old savegames, so keep your old install separate if you want to finish an Alpha 6 colony.

Release Trailer

Core Release

  • Stuff system allows you to build walls, furniture, and other structures out of arbitrary materials.
  • New stats system for calculating and reporting thing stats from skill, race, stuff, and other factors.
  • There are now multiple types of stone: sandstone, granite, marble, slate, and limestone.
  • There are now multiple mineable minerals: metal, silver, gold, plasteel.
  • Leather harvesting from animals, and cloth harvesting from cotton crops. Special space-tech cloth types.
  • Make clothing from arbitrary fabrics or leathers.
  • Reworked damage deflection chance per-damagetype armor system. Some animals and mechanoids have natural armor.
  • New biome: tropical rainforest. A choking, disease-infested jungle. Disease rates are linked to biomes.
  • Prosthetic limbs, from simple to complex: peg legs, wood dentures, simple prosthetics, enhanced bionic limbs and eyes.
  • Organ harvesting and transplanting.
  • Diseases: flu, plague, malaria, sleeping sickness.
  • Chronic conditions (age-related): Cataracts, bad back
  • A bunch of new traits. Brawler, prosthophile, and more
  • New trade system and interface.
  • Traders carry and buy any item, including prosthetics, neurotrainers, organs, slaves, weapons, apparel, commodities.
  • Neutrotrainers: Matrix-style instant training devices.
  • Lockable doors.
  • Melee weapons: Club, knife, spear, shiv, short sword
  • New animals: cobra, monkey, camel, tortoise, boar, rhino.
  • Storyteller redesigned and rebalanced.
  • Visitors carry their own food and hopefully won’t raid your food supplies.
  • Translations can be set to avoid using tiny text (useful for Asian languages where tiny characters are unreadable).
  • Rewritten credits system integrates translator credits from each translation automatically.
  • Piles of other additions, fixes, and tunings.

Alpha 7B & Alpha 7C

UPDATE: Alpha7b had a typo that made plague 10x too common in temperate biomes.

You can fix your game by re-downloading and reinstalling it, or by replacing Mods/Core/Defs/BiomeDefs/BiomesBase.xml with this corrected version of the file.

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I’m uploading a silent non-essential hotfixed version of Alpha7.

Alpha7b has reduced disease frequency, so diseases will appear less often.

To update, you can re-download from your old link.

Alternatively, you can just go into your game folder and look in Mods/Core/Defs/BiomeDefs/BiomesBase.xml, search for every instance of <chancePerDay>, and cut all the values in half. There are about 12 entries.

Complete Version List

Alpha

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)

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