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Patch 17 is here, after 10 long months!

Main Features

The floaty-orange-button on some machine interfaces has been fixed.

YOU ARE WELCOME

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Major Features

95%+ complete internal support for multiple languages
Complete replacement of UI API, giving support for double-byte characters, ie Arabic, Chinese, Indian, etc
Network bandwidth now as low as 5% of previous network usage. This should reduce 'packet loss' issues to a hopefully distant memory.
MK1, MK2 and MK3 Mass Storage StockPilers added (Allows you to limit the maximum number of an item in Mass Storage - thanks to SteveMan0 for this!)
To celebrate the HUGE PERFORMANCE INCREASE in Multiplayer, there's a http://store.steampowered.com/app/637130/FortressCraft_Evolved_Skin_Pack_2
This includes Santa (Yes, I missed the date on this a bit), Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, USA, Canada, Australia, The Nettherland and my favourite, the rainbow-themed Proud skin :
I plan to get translation support into the game for these languages over the next few patches - if you'd like to help out, head over to the Translation section on the forum!

Unreleased ('Patreon Only') Features

Orbital RailGun now buildable. Patreons only (until release of the Adventures Pack)
Orbital Railguns that save out at the Firing state no longer end up completely broken on reload
Fixed a really derpy code derp in the Orbital Railgun
Orbital RailGun Rings now cool at a rate of 1 degree per 30 seconds. (approx 120 minutes). A Freezon Canister will reduce this by another degree.
Orbital RailGun Rings currently require 100 resin per shot, per ring. (20,000 total Refined Resin) (TBD)
Orbital RailGun Controller needs 9 million power to fire. (TBD)
Destroyed CPH using Mutator Important CPH now causes all HiveMinds to grow. Yes. All.
Happy Feet Pandora's Box effect prototyped - need a name for the 'unhappy feet' equivalent.
Patreons will no longer be bugged to purchase the Frozen Factory expansion!

Networking optimisation details

Added SegmentEntity.Base.MaxNetworkSendDist - allows mod authors (and me) to not bother syncing specific machine types with distant network players. Defaults to -1 for no culling.
Conveyors now use this to aggressively cull unnecessary send data, further reducing the load on networked servers.
Improved server CPU readout to include machines, items and 'other'
Improved server disk CPU time monitoring
Item Updates have gone from ~600 megs/hour to ~20 megs/hour
Conveyors have gone from ~600megs/hour to ~1.3megs/hour
Servers will now consume approximately 1 gig per hour per 3 clients, depending on MANY factors. However, this is approximately 1/20th of the network bandwith of P16.
Server Network CPU time massively reduced; the server should now use approximately 30 minutes of a single thread CPU time per 24 hours of simulation.
TechAxe exclusive Patreon reward should now show up reliably for network players
Fixed overload of Build orders on large instanced entities on network servers
Saved approx 300 megs/hour by smartly discard dropped item data
Reduced item update footprint from to 320 bytes to 248 bytes
Collated total network usage of machines
Deeper introspection into UPDATE_CHANNEL usage
Massive optimisation to Minecarts' network efficiency (from upwards of 2500 bytes/update to 60 bytes/update)
Added deep and details /report to dedicated servers. This covers networking usage to the byte, and I'm gladly accepting reports from interesting and end-game and long-term servers!
removed 260 bytes/sec/player from SpiderBot updates
removed 100 bytes/sec/player from LOIC update
Knocked several seconds off of dedicated server loading time
Fixed issue where corrupted server information would break all public server accesses
Added per-machine network usage readout
Added PlayerData network usage calc

Quality of life improvements

Community fixes from SteveMan0, MadVandal and AgentMinty!

"Clearing Excavator" mission now supports Extractor naming (via Signs)

Build2Me orientation support for minecart track

Mad Vandal's fix for falling through lifts. Widens window for recognizing being on the lift to prevent spurious idling and keeps the feet out of the lift to prevent sliding through it.

Added Funelling. If you don't know what that is, it doesn't matter. If you do, you'll be all like 'oh wow that's clever, and I hope Dj shares some cool funelling analytics with me' - and you'd be right!

MK3 Workfloor Excavators now have DOUBLE (!) the range

Hooked up new IP query service

Signs should no longer be upside down

New loading screen! (remember, submit your amazing loading screens and I'll include them in the roster)

Added 'hint' when Mass Storage exceed 100 crates that perhaps, just maybe, you haven't designed your base quite right.

Stopped hinting and just telling that it's a bad idea when Mass Storage exceeds 1,000 crates.

Tunnel Nukers now spawn with much vigour during the start of the game, getting around a mistake in timing. This should mean Organic Rock is available to the exploratory player nearly instantly, and to regular players within the first hour.

Dead Overminds can no longer headbutt you.

Further support to 0.001% of my userbase - Linux should now accept chatline inputs, working around a Unity bug. Yup, FC supports Linux better than Unity does.

Hard Resin Detectors now show distance to resin AND distance of resin to base, as well as the last time the active Hive Mind gew.

Hard Resin Detector now shows encroaching Resin with audio and lights.

Made the Research Screen quite a bit less cluttered and more understandable.

25 conveyor mission disables on Peak. Fixes MP issues.

Added 'You really shouldn't be using low texture detail' warning, due to streamers continually misunderstanding the slider.

Added slope conveyor mynock spawning to HiveEntity as well. Sorry.

Fixed T4Grinder/CCCCC power exploit

Advanced Conveyor Filters are now available using T1 resources, meaning that you should be able to start sorting things much, much sooner into the game.

Fixed a dead-end in the tutorial (yes, really!)

Increased Research Assembler internal power storage from 1500 to 3500

SpiderBot Power Cores now give 2500 power, up from 1000

Public server entries that cause the game to fall onto the second page now correctly allow access to the second page

Deep network clients should no longer be pestered about making a PTG

MK1 Workfloor Excavators now available earlier, and cost significantly less to craft.

Freezon-Boosting Liquifiers now works

Performance boost to Ablators

Fixed issue where Hiveminds that were 'contained' by many Ablators and Liquifiers wouldn't flip from 'shell' to 'tentacle' mode. This might mean that they're a little better at breaking out of containment. Sorry. #notsorry

Reduced Particle Compressor from 1024 to 512 pps

Boosted Geothermal output by 50% across the board.

Refineries now use 500 power per item, down from 1,000. MaxPower is still at 3,000 per vat.

Fluid now capped at 250 block/tick (down from 500) to attempt to keep build orders clear

ARTHER Releases from current recharge station if asked to dock with another

Threat Scanner should now indicate when all surface attacks are cleared, and will give CryoPlasm readout instead

MK2 Trenchers now extract 2x as much ore as MK1 Trenchers

MK3 Trenchers now extract 4x as much ore as MK1 Trenchers

Performance Improvements

I'm listing these as I continually get told I should be optimising the game instead of adding new features.

Plants on busy worlds will sleep for 10 seconds if they receive an error when accessing segments.
Fixed Lifts not using Instanced rendering.
Substantial performance improvements to rendering and CPU usage of Organic Rock.
Substantial render performance gains all over, using new Vis system
Substantial render performance gains on FALCORs
Tweaked Low LOD of all PSBs
Added rendering optimisations and LODding to Signs

Known Isssues

Biomass Ore Pings don't always work
LPTs that are directly behind you may have missing lasers (visuals only)
Items in your Suit Inventory do not count on the crafting interface
Mass Storage Input ports don't correctly visually sync for clients
Mod Upload doesn't work

Bug Fixes

Fixed issue with available materials being reported as 2x
Fixed error in Overmind renderer
Plants on 'grassy' dedicated servers will now grow.
FIXED FLOATING MOVING RANDOM BUTTON ON DIALOGUES
Fixed a generic issue with UV scrolling; this should mean no more flicking mynocks
Mouse sensitivity now works in both directions
Further vis fixes
Stack Split dialogue fixed
Fixed LPT Max Power issue
Fixed missing string on SuperDig
Fixed graphics on Workfloor Excavators
Pause menu will now correctly show current world data.
Lifts no longer use the wrong texture.
Wheelmouse should correctly scroll in all circumstances
AutoExcavator area effect at least 83% less embarrassing.
Anything that shows the current number that you own of a thing will now take into account how many are fitted to your suit.
Inventory counts now displayed again
Craft x25 button works again
Fixed Z-fighting on Organic PSBs
Scaled up Floating Combat Text to be noticeable
Various UI alignment fixes
Mass Storage Output Port no longer destroys items when full
Mod support for overriding Mobs (Modding PDF updated to match)
Reduced some client MassStorage spam
Removed the red light while in Creative.
Changed Geothermal Recipe from 512 Crystal Ore to 100 Crystal Clocks (gives a small discount for crafting clocks)
BFLs can no longer be used to mine ore - it just get vapourised.
Mods can be disabled properly now
Fixed locally-hosted MP server UI
Fixed an order when loading up worlds with signs that are a long way away
Delete Server Entry button now works reliably
Fixed issue where Freezon Injectors continually rotated.
Reduced the crafting costs of signs.
Fixed MK1 and MK2 Workfloor Excavators issue with clearing the wrong layer.
Fixed MK1 and MK2 Workfloor Excavators rendering issues
Enabled Unity Performance Reporting (this allows future analytics, but also allows me to get summated crash reports)
Deorbit containers no longer drop if there's more than 16 live ones currently there for the player to pick up
Fixed error where setting the Rate parameter would give really confusing feedback
Fixed issue with Workfloor Excavator error when unloading
Added another column for injections debug to prevent clipping stuff off the bottom
Per Mad Vandal, fix for threat scanners losing their yellow alert state.
Corrected OBO error with toxic cavern plant value entries that misaligned them with respect to the orange glowpod used as a basis. This caused the last plant to always appear as unknown and the other entries to not appear by their correct name.
Safe casting PlantEntity to place nice with mod entity overriding
Organic thief popup text shows the correct name for the machine.
Prevents ConfirmationPanelScript Show spam that can make it appear translucent.
Quarry chevron placement now obeys HardnessLimit to prevent exploits and accidents
Laser borer obeys hardness limits to prevent exploiting but still bores hardened resin
The Freezon Injector now builds facing the machine it wants to inject into.
Abstracted the kill time to a const and corrected the popup text with this.
Removed duplicate tag in air for MadVandal's OCD :D
Updated AutoBuilder handbook to reflect fix of the old transport pipe bug.
ARTHER charging station typo correction
GACs now correctly check permissions of hoppers on offloading crafted items
Restructured FALCOR offloading to prevent floating combat text spam on failed insert
Loading hint typo/grammar corrections
Fix to allow dragging in chromium lenses
Implemented ItemSupplier/Consumer interface for MS output ports for mod compatibility
At Mad Vandal's request, track the current updating SegmentEntity so that machines accessing interfaces can be identified even if they don't get passed to the interface itself.
Mad Vandal identified this error > should be >= at resource check
Disabled "Hit sideways pipe!" log spam
Updated Chromium Bar(s) to list as Chromium and not Chrome for consistency
Stopped HODORs from wasting fuel by consuming it when it is needed.
More typo fixes from Agent Minty and self craft conversion recipes for pipes
Crystal are now marked as machines to protect against B2Me but still be buildable
jlp1528 aka Agent Minty provided several fixes to the TerrainData.xml
Included in these fixes is several category tags to fix Build2Me through machines
Filter shift+E category swap corrected to match the UI
Modified : /Project/Assets/Scripts/Entities/Survival/JetTurbineGenerator.cs
Releases ARTHER from current recharge station if asked to dock with another
Added Build2Me orientation support for minecart track
Put an NRE catch to solve the lock up of GenericMachinePanel on a race with the handbook
MS crates on network clients won't reconnect to their own center reducing log spam
Fixed debug spam due to inverted check on mass storage crate connected state
Crate mapping check out is cleared on delete if the StockPort owns it.
Excluded core multiblocks from stockport search to avoid confusion with placement blocks
Geothermal Generator no longer will blindly dig through machines when laying pipe
Merged Mad Vandal's fix for the Workfloor Excavator beams
Safely write null MachineInventory to prevent rare network crash read past end of stream
Marked grooved cement as reinforced to match it's cost and place as a patreon block
NRE catch to solve the lock up of GenericMachinePanel on a race with the handbook
MS crates on network clients won't reconnect to their own center reducing log spam
Fixed debug spam due to inverted check on mass storage crate connected state
Crate mapping check out is cleared on delete if the StockPort owns it.
Excluded core multiblocks from stockport search to avoid confusion with placement blocks
Huge amounts of changes and fixed to handbook translations, name, location, placement
Fix for _DESC searching in Translation.
Workshop Detail blocks now selectable in again
Creative Hotbar now works again
ServerOverride should now create custom-named worlds *and* load that world back in again.
Fixes to Mass Storage Output Ports
Zebra's 'big bag o' translation' community-submitted fixed and improvements.
Fixes for Mod Icons.
Thanks again to Zebra, SteveMan0 and MadVandal for your community-fixes, helping me towards getting the next patch public!
Ore Smelter missions now more sensitive to threat generation
Added None to available VR types.
Display Bug fixed in Particle Compress, Filter, Grinder, HODOR and Fuel Compressor.
Added MK1, MK2 and MK3 StockPilers. These allow you to limit the maximum amount of a certain items going into your Mass Storage. Thanks to SteveMan0 for porting his mod into the game! https://t.co/MX3GKWYowP

[ 2018-01-03 16:27:15 CET ] [ Original post ]

FortressCraft Evolved!

ProjectorGames Developer

Digital Tribe Publisher

2015-11-09 Release

Indie Strategy Casual RPG Simulation Singleplayer Multiplayer Coop Tags

Game News Posts: 114

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🕹️ Partial Controller Support

Mostly Positive (2578 reviews)

http://fortresscraft.com

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

FortressCraft Evolved Linux Content [1.94 G]

Available DLCs:

FortressCraft Evolved Dapper Indie Supporters Pack
FortressCraft Evolved: Skin Pack #1
FortressCraft Evolved: Frozen Factory Expansion
FortressCraft Evolved: Adventures Pack
FortressCraft Evolved: Skin Pack #2

FortressCraft Evolved’s Survival Mode is a unique-blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines. Using hand-held scanners they must locate ore resources, place down Ore Extractors and Conveyors to automate the raw material back to the Smelter; take the fresh ingots through multi-machine assembly lines, followed by researching new technologies that help them explore thousands of meters below the planet's surface.

An advanced HoloBase allows players to keep an eye on their factory which they must defend against waves of alien attacks with multiple tiers of missile and energy turrets. To survive they must continue to develop new and unique power systems, from solar energy to Jet Turbines, culminating in crafting an Orbital Energy Transmitter thousands of cubic meters in size, to beam power off-planet, and start the next phase of the game.

And all this with an enormous draw-distance, scalable gameplay engine that is equally at home on high-end or low-end computers, and full multiplayer support! This does not even factor in all that you can do in the Creative Mode whose only limits are your time and imagination. With an array of Super Build Tools and a high-resolution Custom Detail Block Workshop players can build anything and on a massive scale unseen in other games.

Experience the largest worlds ever seen in any computer game - ever!
Create a futuristic mining operation consisting of thousands of huge machines.
Full Tower-Defense style combat in a voxel universe.
Use hi-tech machinery to locate and process resources from thousands of meters away.
Explore thousands of metres vertically, overcoming ever-more difficult challenges.
Official Texture Pack and Mod Pack support
State of the art lighting and shadowing, utilising high resolution maps for machinery and environment
Innovative“Build to Me” Feature to facilitate rapid, accurate building
Shareable Creative Schematics
Super Build Tools allowing instant creation of primitive shapes

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 14.04
Processor: Dual-Core 1.6ghz CPUMemory: 4096 MB RAM
Memory: 4096 MB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000/Nvidia G285/Radeon HD 5450 with 512mb of RAM
Storage: 5000 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Additional features are available with 8 or 16 GB of RAM

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