I visited a big outsourcing company in Tokyo last week, looking to get a quote on these buildings pieces. Unfortunately they came back with an entirely ridiculous price for me, but honestly that makes sense. When big companies like Sony and Nintendo want something timely and done right, I could understand that asking for a ridiculous amount of money, even for small tasks, could become a normal thing.

Serendipitously, the first of two modelers that I contacted last year messaged me in the middle of last week. We both were poor at communicating with one another last year and ultimately I got frustrated and hadn't replied to his last message at the start of December. So I am partly to blame for our "falling out" and I'd like to openly apologize for saying he flaked out on me.



The 27 new building pieces are the pieces that he did for me last year and they still need a bit of work, but I'm going to go ahead and add them in now to let beta players try them out, and see what other shapes we need most. A lot of the textures don't align properly, and some of the models do not quite line up properly, but for the most part there are only small cosmetic issues that he is working to fix up. Now that I've added them into the game, I can replace/update the models very easily.

On a side note, I got pretty burnt out last week as the recent influx of players has created a lot of new discussions, private messages, e-mails, and so on. I've added some more channels to the Solace Crafting Discord to try and help keep better track of bug reports. I have also built a private Trello board to help me organize and prioritize the many and always changing things on my todo list(s), as pen and paper have not been enough lately, much as I enjoy them.

I'm still behind on messages, which I used to read pretty much every day, so my apologies if there are unanswered bug reports and the like on the Steam forums. I will do my best to get through them all in the morning.

v 0.6.2.5 2020.01.14
- Added 27 new wooden building pieces
- Relaxed building obstruction box checks from 2.9m cubed to 2.6m cubed
- Fixed Frog's Tongue not spawning
- Fixed some building pieces not going translucent when aiming where to build them

You may need to restart Steam for the update to begin.

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