Landrus submission, one of the winners of the contest!

This morning, we reached the deadline of the contest for Artificial Extinction! Weve picked the 10 winners and sent them all a Steam Key for AE. A lot of the submissions were very creative and impressive, so thanks to all participants! Boneidle, a winner whose submission was already featured in last weeks blog, even put his huge and detailed world on the Steam Workshop, so all of us can explore his spaceship. Other winners might do the same this weekend, so keep an eye on the Workshop! Check an album of all the winners here. You can also still open #submissions-only on the Discord for more info.



We've also made decent progress on the update this week. The search bar from the stockpile has been refactored, improved and added to the statistics menu. And thats also how we added categories. The search bar is a bit smarter now: it accepts commands like cat:, < and >. Cat: searches for entire categories, so cat:food will return a list of all food items. The angle brackets can be used to search for items that are below or above a certain threshold. For example, >1000 will return all item stacks that are larger than 1000. As you can see in the screenshot, these commands can also be combined! And these commands work in both search bars, the one in the stockpile and the one in the statistics menu.

There are now three things left on our to-do-list:

• Theres quite a bit of empty space left next to the search bar in the stockpile. We want to put some buttons there that automatically put useful commands in the search bar, like cat:job. That should help to explain the new feature a bit.
  
• There should be a tab with non-stockpile data in the statistics menu, data like the amount of colonists, % idling of different jobs, and happiness.
  
• Wed like to add a drop-down menu where you can select other colonies and see their statistics