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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 12)

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Animal taming is here! You can now tame animals, milk them, eat them, and train them into whirling furry/scaly death machines! We’ve also added codified room roles and statistics (like room wealth and room impressiveness), new traits, animals, threats, items, bonuses, bugfixes, and bugs. A full change list is at the end of this post.

How to upgrade: If you own the game, you can get the new version 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 the support page which includes an automatic link sender tool and our support email. There may be a delay of some hours before your download count resets or your email arrives.

Compatibility

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.

Release Trailer

Changes

Animals

Animal taming

  • Colonists with the Animal Handler work type will now interact with animals.
  • Animal handling success rates are governed by the new Animals skill.
  • Handlers can tame animals. They approach designated wild animals with food and attempt to tame them to make them part of the colony.
  • Handlers can train animals as designated in tame animals’ Training tab. Animal training looks like taming, requires food, and trains one “trainable skill” at a time. Not all animals can learn anything; they need sufficient trainable intelligence.
  • Trainable skills:
    • Obedience: has master, follows master while master is drafted and defends him.
    • Release: master can release animal during combat to attack distant enemies, and call animal back.
    • Rescue: animal will rescue wounded colonists and take them to bed. Animal must be smart and large enough to do this.
    • Haul: animal will intermittently haul items like a colonist would. Animal must be smart enough to do this, and will haul an amount related to its body size.
  • Added Animals main tab, which lists all colony animals and provides interfaces to set their master and area restriction.
  • Each animal has a ‘wildness’ indicating how difficult it is to tame.
  • Animals have a minimum handling skill. Player is warned if they designate taming an animal that no handler can actually tame.
  • Tame animals can be assigned animal areas in which they will try to remain.
  • Tame animals can be bought and sold. Bulk traders carry normal animals, while exotic goods traders can buy and sell any weird animal, pre-tamed.
  • Tame animals can be designated for slaughter and animal handlers will slaughter them.

New animal behaviors and mechanics

  • Some animals (alpaca, muffalo, camel) can be shorn for wool that can be crafted into apparel.
  • Some animals (muffalo, cow, camel) can be milked.
  • Some animals (chicken, cobra, iguana, tortoise, etc) can now lay eggs. Fertilized eggs will hatch. All eggs can be eaten or cooked.
  • Animals can be pregnant and give birth. Animals are made pregnant when a male approaches and mates with a female. Birth is accompanied by amniotic fluid spray.
  • You can now build animal beds and animal boxes and place animal sleeping spots.
  • Animals all sleep.
  • Animals can have different graphics per gender.
  • Animals have “life stages” related to their ages. Baby animals are tiny and weak, juveniles somewhat larger, and adults are full size.
  • Colony starts with a random pet.
  • Animals can nuzzle colonists, improving their mood.
  • Animals can be named when tamed or when nuzzling. Names are drawn from a large bank of animal names.
  • All organisms including animals have life expectancies and will develop chronic conditions like frailty or cataracts in old age.
  • New incident: Farm Animals Wander In (some tame farm animals wander to and join the colony)
  • New incident: Self Tame (random wild animal on map becomes tame).
  • Doctors will treat animals’ wounds if the animal is in a colony bed.
  • Some animals may attack on a failed taming attempt.
  • Animals produce animal filth, proportional to body size, inversely proportional to petness.
  • Tons of new animal graphics and sounds for new animals.

New animals

Room roles and stats

  • Rooms now have ‘roles’ and stats based on what is inside them. These are automatically-defined values that, in turn, passively affect thoughts and events in the room.
  • Room roles and stats can be inspected with a new inspection tool (bottom right of screen).

Room roles

  • Bedroom
  • Barracks
  • Prison bedroom
  • Prison barracks
  • Dining room
  • Hospital
  • Laboratory
  • Kitchen
  • Rec room
  • Tomb

Room Stats

  • Impressiveness (most important stat; an aggregate of other stats, mostly for pride psychology)
  • Wealth
  • Space
  • Beauty
  • Cleanliness (has a direct effect on medical outcomes)
Room Stat Effects
Traits Related To Room Stats
  • Greedy: Unhappy without a very impressive room.
  • Jealous: Unhappy if anyone has a room noticeably better than him.
  • Ascetic: Unhappy unless he has a very crappy room.

Facilities

  • Added ‘facilities’ – passive buildings that give bonuses to nearby buildings:
  • Vitals monitor (improves healing in adjacent medical bed)
  • Tool cabinet (improves production at nearby work table)
  • Multi-analyzer (speeds research at nearby research bench)

Ancient artifacts

  • Ancient artifacts with psychic powers can be bought, sold, and found in ancient crypts.
  • Psychic powers work at any range through obstacles.
  • Artifacts are one-use.

Artifacts

Graves and sarcophagi

  • Graves are no longer just glorified storage slots; colonists must actually ‘bury’ corpses.
  • Can now build sarcophagi out of solid materials. High-quality sarcophagi are art items.
  • Colonists will visit graves of dead colonists for a joy activity.

Misc new incidents

  • New incident: Poison ship. A variation on the psychic drone ship that kills plants in an expanding circle.
  • New Flashstorm. A localized, intense lightning storm in one area of the map. Causes big fires.

Interface rework

  • Main tabs like Work, Outfits, World, Factions, etc are now tabs permanently displayed along the bottom of the screen instead of being buried in an Overview window.
  • Some tabs, like Work, will not take more space than they need to given the number of entries (colonists) to display.

Misc

  • Added heart attacks. People or animals approaching or past their life expectancy will have a chance of heart attack, which will progress and resolve in a random way. Heart attack is emergency-treatable to improve outcomes.
  • Added hay (animal food only, for getting through winter). Added haygrass (long growing, high yield of hay).
  • Added way to enable/deny medicine in different qualities to any colonist, prisoner, or tame animal, from a the health tab.
  • All furniture is now ‘minifiable’ like televisions and telescopes. This means beds, chairs, etc can be moved without being rebuilt, bought, and sold.
  • New trait: Night owl. Happy when awake at night, sad if awake around midday.
  • New thought: Crowded – In a space with too many people.
  • New installable implant: Painstopper. Prevents all pain, but reduces consciousness permanently.
  • New installable implant: Joywire. Large permanent happiness boost, but reduces consciousness permanently.
  • Furniture can now be art engraved.
  • New floors: gold tile, sterile tile, cream carpet, dark gray carpet.
  • Game start now has a “select random landing site” button if you don’t want to choose.
  • Improvements to trade interface: better layout, expands vertically to use all screen space, increment/decrement buttons and launch/drop all buttons added.
  • Added ‘open’ designator for opening cryptosleep caskets, graves, sarcophagi, and other containers.
  • Manhunter pack incident can use animals besides wargs.
  • Commands are shown if there is at least 1 selected object with this command, instead of requiring all selected things be able to accept the command.
  • Dazed broken pawns will now randomly strip off clothes and drop things.
  • New graphics for squirrel and warg.
  • New graphics for research bench and other buildings.
  • Unskilled or injured growers can fail at harvesting, destroying the harvest for one plant
  • A bunch of new music from Alistair Lindsay.
  • Carrying capacity is now a stat that can change for body size and manipulation capacity.
  • Siegers will never be sent with only melee weapons (too exploitable).
  • Sappers now avoid mining through high-health ores and barriers.
  • Rebalanced crop yields and harvesting challenges so crops require a bit more space.
  • Game will auto-reset mods config on startup crash to try to recover.
  • Tons and tons of bugfixes and other adjustments, refactorings, balancings and tunings.

Recent version (Alpha 11C/11D)

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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It’s here! This update includes clever new AI strategies including sappers who blast and dig around your defences and raiders who burn crops. I’ve also added a number of incidents, including several long-term atmospheric conditions like volcanic winter and toxic fallout. There is also an array of new traps for players to use, dozens of other new features and hundreds of fixes and small improvements. A full change list is at the end of this post. If you wish, you can also read my day-to-day work log here.

If you own the game, you can get the new version 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.

Compatibility

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.

Release Trailer

Versions

Core Release

Changes

AI
  • Added new raid type: sappers.
  • Sappers attempt to dig or blast their way around your hardest defensive point. The circumvent ‘killbox’-like strategies.
  • Enemies now flee things that are about to explode
  • Enemies remember trap positions that their faction has encountered before, and avoid them.
  • Raiders opportunistically ignite crops on fire.
  • Pawns can now do ‘job override’ checks to see if a new job should start before ending their current job. These are now used liberally to have pawns respond faster and more intelligently to changing conditions (especially in combat).
  • Pawns check for job override when taking damage. It will no longer be possible to bug out the centipede enemy and kill him at close range while he tries to take a firing position.
  • Enemies no longer take unpowered player turrets as primary targets.
  • Pawns choose sky-gaze, wander, eating and other positions by traversing the region graphic instead of by random coordinate scattering, which solves problems with them taking long paths around long walls.
Traps
  • Added deadfall trap: A simple rearmable trap that falls on enemies and damages them.
  • Added IED trap: An artillery shell connected to a trigger that detonates after a short delay.
  • Added incendiary IED trap: Like IED, but sets fires.
New incidents
  • New incident: Toxic fallout. A toxic cloud that lasts for days or weeks. It kills plants, rots food, and slowly poisons people outside. Toxic buildup in characters leads to vomiting, dementia, and eventually death.
  • New incident: Volcanic winter. Lasts weeks or months and significantly reduces temperatures and light levels, leading to poorer harvests.
  • New incident: Manhunter pack. A pack of deadly wargs arrives and stalks the local area for a while before moving on. Fight them or hide inside from them.
  • New incident: Chased refugee. A refugee radios and offers to join the colony if you’ll fight the raiders on his tail.
  • New incident: Psychic sooth. The opposite of a psychic drone.
Allowed areas
  • Assign colonists to allowed areas.
  • Every item and location outside the allowed area is considered forbidden.
Storyteller changes
  • Storytellers will never entirely disallow events because of population.
  • Randy’s event chances are affected by population (somewhat).
  • Re-tuned storyteller population intent based on new output tables for smoother population gain with higher maximum and better recovery at small populations
Ice sheet
  • Ice sheet biome is now playable (though perhaps not survivable).
Misc
  • Added strip designator to reduce stripping micromanagement.
  • You can toggle allowing sowing in a growing zone.
  • Doors can be held open.
  • Door locking is now door forbidding (it’s clearer).
  • Added copy/paste functionality for storage zone/building settings.
  • World data now saves into map file to prevent game state confusion with multiple saves on one world.
  • Added new joy activity: build snowman.
  • You can now remove floors to reveal the terrain underneath.
  • You can now perform surgery on guests. Violating surgery will anger their faction.
  • Guests are smarter and no longer walk out of the colony bleeding.
  • Added new hairs donated by Shinzy.
  • Slave trader changed to pirate merchant, can still show up to buy slaves even when your population is high (though they may not carry any).
  • Hundreds more bugfixes, tuning changes, optimizations, and other small improvements.

Alpha 11b

I’ve just released RimWorld Alpha11b! This is a fix-and-adjust build without crazy new features. You can still load saves from Alpha 11 (though they will report some errors on loading and have a few minor issues around load time, they should play fine in the long term).

If you own the game, you can get the new version 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 the support page. A new email will not be sent for this update.

Compatibility

Mods might become incompatible. I’ve tried to keep the API the same as it was before, but a few places have necessarily changed. Also, since the DLL was recompiled, the ABI might not be identical. This means the functions and variable names are the same, but the compiler might have changed the way the bits and bytes are passed around, causing code compiled against the old DLL to not work properly when it tries to talk to the new DLL. This means:

  • Simple mods (especially those which are purely XML data, images, and sounds without any code) should still work without any changes.
  • Mods with code might work without changes, but there’s a good chance they’ll need to be recompiled against the new DLL.
  • A few mods will actually need to have code changed if they touch parts of the API that I changed.

Changes

  • Colonists will now try to avoid pathing outside their allowed area.
  • Open doors equalize temperature faster.
  • Much, much smarter sapper escort AI.
  • Sapper now avoid mining high-health ore while finding tunnelling paths.
  • Reorganized and clean up options menu and graphics settings.
  • Mods config page shows load order of mods.
  • Toxic fallout kills plants much more slowly.
  • Enemies (especially wargs) now ignore unpowered unmanned turrets and mortars.
  • We no longer allow buying back prisoners you just sold as a way to insta-recruit anyone.
  • Can no longer sell rotten items.
  • Treatment result is now indicated with a text mote, not a global message.
  • Adjusted a bunch of sound volumes.
  • Fixed pirate merchants only bringing slaves when population is high. This should be reversed.
  • Reworked how slave prices are calculated so they take injuries, capacities, and skills into account better.
  • Colonists now harvest planted trees on their own.
  • Optimizations to grower work scan algorithms.
  • Cleanup on main menu background image.
  • Smelt slag recipe can use do until you have X.
  • Siegers can never use melee weapons (too exploitable).
  • New sound: warg voices.
  • New sound: treatment.
  • New sound: medicine used successfully.
  • Player-created backstories and translations have been updated.
  • About 150-200 bugfixes – some big, some small.

Alpha 11c/d

Alpha11c is a very small hotfix to Alpha11b that fixes a few serious bugs. All save games and mods should still be compatible.

Update: Now to Alpha11d. This is the same as Alpha11c, but the save game location will be correct on Macs. (I originally built Alpha11c against a slightly old version of Unity from before they changed the save game path).

There will not be a new email sent. You can download using your previous link from your last email. Your personal download link is permanent and always has the latest version. If you need help getting your link, please go to ludeon.com/support.

Changes

  • Mitigated a game-killing bug caused by corrupted pawns. The corrupted pawn will now be destroyed instead of causing broken saves and game crashes. I’m still tracing the root cause of this so I can make the game not generate corrupted pawns in the first place.
  • Fixed a stuck-pawn bug caused by wardens trying to recruit downed prisoners and immediately ending their job, over and over.
  • Fixed prisoner config resetting at inappropriate times.
  • Fixed floor smoothing speed being determined by mining skill (it’s now construction).
  • Fixed repeated EMP damage canceling stuns in progress.

Recent version (Alpha 10)

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 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.

Release Trailer

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 version (Alpha 9)

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 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.

Release Trailer

Core Release

Alcohol

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

2015.08.21
0.12.906 (Alpha 12)
2015.08.xx
0.11.877 (Alpha 11C/11D)
2015.07.04
0.11.857 (Alpha 11B)
2015.06.10
0.11.834 (Alpha 11)
2015.04.15
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)

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