Yesterday, we released update 0.6.3! We're used to releasing updates on Friday, simultaneous with these blogs. But we were expecting a large group of new players at the start of the Summer Sale, and we expect 0.6.3 to be very useful for new players. There are a couple of important changes.

Nearly every item shows where it is made in the tooltip now. Pretty useful when you're getting used to all the different job blocks. There is now a search bar in the stockpile, which can be used to find both individual items and categories of items like "food", "ammo", "weapon" and "job".

The loading screen has had a major makeover. It now has a random stylized background and a random hint. There's also a rotating gear, which will probably stutter when large files are loaded. The in-game UI has also been slightly tweaked. The statistics screens in the top left and top right corner look slightly different, but I believe it's a significant improvement.



Arrow trails have been added to both guards and weapons used by the player. There is a difference between them. Guards instantly kill a monster when they shoot, but players fire actual projectiles which travel through the air. So the arrow trails made by guards also form instantly, and look slightly like laser beams. The arrow trails of projectiles fired by the player do follow the projectile properly.

Nevertheless, the arrow trails are very useful. It's a lot more obvious which guard is doing what now. It also adds a bit of extra impact to the combat.

0.6.2 added the World Settings Menu, accessible by clicking on the gear symbol in the banner menu. Working together with mod developers, we've given them the ability to develop their own custom menu. They can now add extra options to the World Settings Menu. Together with other improvements to the mod support released in 0.6.3, this will lead to even better and larger mods in the future!


Yesterday, 10AM Pacific Time / 7PM Berlin Time the Steam Summer sale started. Today, from the same time onward, Colony Survival is on the frontpage for 24 hours! If you don't own the game yet, this is a great moment to purchase it. If you do own the game, now's the time to bother your friends about buying it ;)

Next week: the Looming Abyss

From October to March, we added a lot of content in 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6.0. We spent the time from April to now working on smaller quality of life issues. But now, our focus has shifted back to adding new content. Which is awesome. And slightly terrifying. 0.7.0 will be the biggest update in Colony Survival History. We were planning to add more 0.6.X updates with new features in preparation for the new world in 0.7.0, but we've discussed this idea some more this week and we're afraid it'll slow us down too much.

Splitting up the 0.7.0 update into smaller updates will result in lots of additional work, and the updates may not make much sense because they rely on future updates. We'd rather focus our efforts on one big, awesome update! :) We are planning to share the password of the dev branch in our Discord once we've developed a significant amount of new content and features.

Here's a rough, work-in-progress overview of the planned changes. Consider the 0.6.X features on the left to be "dev-branch-updates" instead of "full" releases.



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