"Space" just got bigger--literally. Miner Duplicants have broken through the crust of the asteroid, revealing the entire big ol' cosmos beyond! This stellar discovery has spurred new material innovations as the Duplicants rush to exploit the frontier while defending themselves from the uncaring vacuum (and unsightly freezer burn) of space.
The truth is out there!
What's New in the Cosmic Upgrade?
Space Biome
"Look at me, Liam! I'm on top of the world!" The surface of the asteroid is a source of abundant natural resources along with new hazards for your Duplicants to navigate.
Key Features
- Solar Light: The abundant energy of a nearby star can be harnessed for electricity with Solar Panels. Your poor cave-dwelling Duplicants will appreciate the warm natural light as well, provided they don't roast!
- Meteor Showers: The good news: free resources! The bad news: they're traveling at 16 kilometers per second. Protect your surface infrastructure with meteor-proof walls and shutters, along with the new Meteor Detector.
- New Elements: Improved material science has enabled the production of Steel, Ceramics, Glass, and other basic materials.
- Windows and Walls: Now your Duplicants can build a room with a view. Transparent windows allow light and decor to pass through, while keeping your precious gasses and liquids right where you want them. Back walls offer protection against the greedy vacuum of space for those who dare to build on the surface.
Critter Additions
Like a swarm of Shine Bugs, the ranching opportunities continue to expand with new buildings and improvements.
Key Features
- Updated Egg Economy: An Egg Cracker building makes planning your next omelet as easy as pie, which is a good thing because eggs have undergone some mass changes, as well as becoming unviable if left in storage for too long.
- Updated Critter Artwork: Completed eggs, babies, wrangled, and trapped artwork for all critters. Hooray!
- Automated Pen Management: Before, your Duplicants merely kept critters. Now, they're ranching them! Pen limits, as well as automatic wrangling and transfer, lets you build the coal-producing machine of your dreams.
And More!
Powered Door Finally Powered: It's nice and zippy when it's plugged in, but make sure you've got enough batteries charged to keep it working!
Power Production Rebalance: With the addition of solar power, numerous tweaks have been made to the electricity economy.
Performance Enhancements!
Tons of bug fixes, rebalances, QOL additions, and more!
We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the Cosmic Upgrade Test Branch, submitted your crash and bug reports, and gave your feedback in our Suggestions Forum. We're always grateful to hear your thoughts and thank you for the time spent playing our game.
Enjoy your time in space!
For more info, head over to the official forums: https://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/91887-game-update-273433/
[GAME HOTFIX] 275206 - 6/27/2018
- Ore no longer gets absorbed by the world when entombed. Instead we store ore in a much more efficient system which should imrpove the load times of worlds that have a significant amount of entombed ore.
- The warning to upgrade your audio driver should properly popup if the game starts without sound.
- Fixed a memory/performance leak that was also causing looping sounds to play quieter over time.
- Fix for portraits not showing up in the roles screen.
- Fixed a bug where liquid could leak through tiles on load.
- Fixed a bug where gas could leak through gas impermeable tiles when displaced.
[GAME HOTFIX] 274778 - 6/22/2018
- Improved load times.
- Fixed one of the issues with hatches not going to groom stations.
- Uprooting a plant will no longer cause a plant death notification.
- Ore that gets entombed into the same element will now add itself to the world.
[GAME HOTFIX] 274564 - 6/21/2018
- Slight increase to dust comet damage.
- Dust comet is now regolith.
- Tweak the comet dirt spawning rules to prevent the dirt from stacking up.
- Fixed a crash that could occur if a comet hit a building that didn't have an audio category setup for it.
- Fixed a crash that could occur if a liquid droplet fell outside the world.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when FMOD failed to initialize.
- Fixed a crash that could occur if you had more than the maximum autosave files by making your own copies.
- Fixed a crash that could occur on shutdown.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when placing gases using the sandbox tools.
[GAME HOTFIX] 274307 - 6/20/2018
- Fixed a crash that could occur when pressing backspace on an input text field that had localized text in it.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when hovering a light outside of the simulation grid.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when loading some old save files with some bad assignment data.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to play a missing sound.
- Sandbox tool temperature ranges are now clamped to the max temperature supported by the simulation.
[GAME HOTFIX] 274136 - 6/19/2018
- Fixed another temperature crash.
- Fixed crash that could occur if a piece of ore was emitting at the edge of the world.
- Added some more error info for a crash that is occuring when using input fields in a localized version of the game.
[GAME HOTFIX] 273961 - 6/18/2018
- Fixed a crash that could occur if a pipe's content's temperature was NaN.
[GAME HOTFIX] 273908 - 6/18/2018
- Fixed weird building temperature behaviour.
- Fixed showers overheating and destroying the whole world.
- Fixed sandbox tools spawning buildings with incorrect temperatures.
- Fixed deconstruction of Themal Plates/Wallpaper opening up wholes into space.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when Aggressive dupes tried to punch space.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when building doors at the edge of the world.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when FMOD failed to initialize using the default audio device. This is usually caused by third party software interfering with the audio device but instead of crashing, the game will start with no audio.
[GAME HOTFIX] 273742 - 6/15/2018
- Fixed for the loud humming sound.
- Potential fix for the black anim outlines showing up on certain older graphics cards.
[GAME HOTFIX] 273690 - 6/15/2018
- Fixed some mismatched POI strings.
- Fixed typo in "Invalid Location".
- Shearing station can only be built on the floor.
- Refinery was only fetching the first ingredient for multi-ingredient recipes. Now it fetches all of them.
- Space art tuning.
- Mesh and airflow tiles no longer invincible to comets, now take proper damage.
- Sneezing now actually plays the full sneeze animation.
- Valves now say that they're manually operated.
- Kiln/Shearing station sound effects.
- Fixed crash when attempting to build wires outside the simulation grid.
- Updated thermal block art.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when harvesting hatches as they are being groomed.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when deconstructing travel tubes.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when you decided to keep all your Pacus at the edge of space.
- Kiln recipes now require coal.
- New egg cracker art.
- Fixed crash when using the sandbox sample tool outside the simulation grid.
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