Space Haven Alpha 15 - Now In The Experimental Branch!
Space Haven Alpha 15 is now available to play in the experimental branch. As a reminder, the update process is as follows: [olist] A new Update is first available in the Experimental Branch.
Players, who do not mind playing a more unstable version, will first want to test the new update.
Once the experimental game build looks solid and stable enough we will push it out officially to all players!
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NOTE! Joining experimental is completely optional, and you should only do it if you are willing to risk that some new bugs are introduced, which could affect your game play and potentially break your save.
Please do not join the experimental branch if you don't want to risk breaking your save or have the game break on you in midst of play! If you want to play a more stable version please wait for the official release of the update.
Here is how you join The Experimental Starfarer crew:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/979110/discussions/5/ Let us know what you think of the new features and if something should be altered or tweaked in your mind. Perhaps something makes the game too hard or something is too annoying, let us know so we can get a feel for how the new features feel! =)
We believe it is possible to continue your old saved game from Alpha 14. However, we cannot guarantee it is completely without issues at this point, as the experimental branch might reveal something we did not anticipate. Relationships will be reset for your crew members, but since they previously did not mean anything besides being a number, it does not have an impact on gameplay.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/979110/discussions/5/ Join Space Haven Discord: http://discord.gg/spacehaven Space Haven subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceHaven/ We will gather feedback for Alpha 15 in the experimental branch and tweak as needed. Once everything is looking solid enough we will publish the update to the main branch. Thanks for reading and see you again in the next update!
[ 2022-05-25 13:05:07 CET ] [ Original post ]
Greetings, Spacefarer!
Space Haven Alpha 15 is now available to play in the experimental branch. As a reminder, the update process is as follows: [olist]
- Open Steam Library
- Right click Space Haven
- Select Properties
- Go to tab 'Betas' at the top.
- Select 'Experimental' in the drop-down.
Giving Feedback
Please give your feedback in the experimental branch forum. Link below:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/979110/discussions/5/ Let us know what you think of the new features and if something should be altered or tweaked in your mind. Perhaps something makes the game too hard or something is too annoying, let us know so we can get a feel for how the new features feel! =)
Space Haven Alpha 15 Experimental Branch Patch Notes
Continuing a Saved Game from Alpha 14
We believe it is possible to continue your old saved game from Alpha 14. However, we cannot guarantee it is completely without issues at this point, as the experimental branch might reveal something we did not anticipate. Relationships will be reset for your crew members, but since they previously did not mean anything besides being a number, it does not have an impact on gameplay.
Crew Combat
- New look for the crew inventory.
- The crew inventory has been added with a loadout section, which allows the player to easily choose which weapon, armor and other gear the crew member should seek out.
- New crew combat weapons have been added to the game. Laser Pistol, Laser Rifle, Plasma Clustergun and Plasma Rifle. Added to the Research Tree.
- Crew armor has been added to the game. Added to the Research Tree.
- Deployable Sentry Gun have been added to the game. A remote control is needed to control them. Added to the Research Tree.
- Deployable Oxygen Generator has been added to the game.
Surgical Enhancement & Augmentations
- Surgical Enhancement Facility along with crew augmentations added to the game. Enhance your crew members with technology.
- Augmentations include: Subcutaneous nanoweave, Intramuscular mesh, Cerebellar halo, Cerebral cap, Hippocampal booster, Synthetic platelets, Prefrontal microcontroller, Ocular Implant, Implanted Rebreather, Synthetic stomach lining.
- New Resource: Augmentation Parts.
- New conditions related to surgery/augmentation: Post-surgery fatigue and Post-surgery rest.
- Changed how medical tasks are created when a crew member is resting in a medical bed. Intention is to increase the overall amount of medical tasks and make it possible for crew members to learn a higher skill level.
Deep Characterization
- The character mood status and condition effects have been streamlined. Conditions now affect the overall mood more directly, making it easy to list them under overall mood and allowing the player to see what is going on with the character.
- Removed Safety and Social subcategories from the character mood. Conditions affecting these are now shown directly under overall mood, to make it easier to see what is going on with the character.
- Poor conditions on the ship will eventually lead to mental breaks. The need to have a comfortable ship and environment for the crew is now much more important.
- Traits and backstories now have an effect on the likes and dislikes of a crew member. These are things like the want/need to talk, play games, listen to music,
- go on the toilet, eat nice food and so on.
- Good conditions on the ship will give mood buffs to the crew, making them happy and capable to endure more hardships in other areas of life in space.
- Mental break conditions include: Drinking binges, gaming binges, refusing to work, starting fights, starting fires, destroying facilities, mental shutdown and in extreme cases attempting to take their own life.
- Added new character conditions, related to the sleeping environment and leisure time environment. The goal is to make crew members react to discomfort more and make it more important to build comfortable spaces for the crew.
- When long-term overall mood is over certain thresholds, the crew member will experience buffs to things like work speed, surrender rate and accident rate.
- When long-term comfort levels are over certain thresholds, the crew member will experience buffs to their overall mood.
- Eating great meals give a mood buff (A meal consisting of at least 3 of the following ingredients: fruits, root vegetables, artificial meat, nuts and seeds)
- Sleeping in an uncomfortable space will give a mood debuff, while sleeping in a comfortable space will give a mood buff.
- Spending leisure time in an uncomfortable space will give a mood debuff, while spending time in a comfortable leisure time space gives a mood buff.
- Interrupted sleep or lack of privacy will give a mood debuff, while a good nights rest will give a mood buff.
- Crew having no entertainment will give a mood debuff, while a good leisure time space will increase mood through comfort.
- No hull windows will make crew members feel a little claustrophobic. Building hull windows will give the crew members a chance to admire the stars, they will seek out a window
- and look out every once in a while.
- High long-term energy level (Free day) will give a crew member a mood buff.
- Crew members not getting enough uninterrupted sleep will get a sleep deprived condition.
Relationships
- Crew member relationships have been developed further. Crew members can now become friends, lovers or enemies.
- Crew members will develop relationships towards each other with time, based on multiple factors like compatibility, romantic attractiveness and the overall average mood.
- Crew members can experience missing their friends or lovers.
- Crew members will morn losing a friend or a lover.
- Crew members will secretly be happy when their enemy goes missing or dies.
- Conversations between crew members have been developed further and are no longer purely random. Conversations are now based on character conditions, meaning crew members will talk about things they are experiencing.
- Crew members listening to someone share something painful can offer comfort and give a mood buff.
- Crew members can get mood buffs from having great conversations with friends, allowing them to connect and share their feelings.
- Crew members can sometimes get in fights with their enemies.
- Crew members, who dislike each other, are less likely to sit down at the same table and eat if there are many tables to choose from nearby.
- Lovers sleeping together (close enough to each other) will get a mood buff.
- Added many new topic emojis/icons crew members show in speech bubbles when they talk. As the topics are often linked to what they are experiencing (Conditions) they will hint at what may be wrong with the environment they live in.
- Added a way to customize relationships forming in the game customization tool. It is possible to toggle becoming enemies, friends or lovers on/off.
Game Customization
- The base mood of a crew member is linked to the difficulty level. Easier difficulty levels will mean crew members can tolerate more before risking a mental break.
- The base mood of a crew member can be customized with the game customization tool (Same menu where difficulty is chosen). The scale is in the format of easy-normal-hard.
- Added also the AI ship-to-ship battle strategy in the game customization tool, using the same easy-normal-hard difficulty scale.
Captain & Leaders of NPC Faction Ships
- Added leaders to the game. Captains of ships. Losing the leader will affect the morale of the crew, adding more to surrender rate for a period of time.
- Leaders of ships/stations sometimes greet, taunt or announce their intentions through short messages, which are shown in the log part of the UI.
- New large NPC ships added for: Merchants, Civilians, The Military Alliance, Cult of New Haven and Androids.
- All NPC ship designs have been slightly improved with decorations and other polish.
Starmap and General Improvements
- Modified how NPC factions and their ships spawn in the starmap. Factions can now move around in small fleets.
- New space backgrounds added to the game.
- Removed some build restrictions from various objects like couches and wall mounts.
- Storage settings can be copied and pasted to other storages.
Better Blueprint & Ship Editing Tools
- Added a mirror mode tool to the hull sketching/building menu.
- Added a way to move the ship within its canvas (In the hyperspace Deploy phase).
- Added a way to change the ship canvas size if the actual ship size permits it (In the hyperspace Deploy phase).
Decoratives and Beer
- Decorative items added: Potted plants, nightstand, Green Wall.
- Added more decorative roof elements. Storages, Shuttle hangar and pod hangars now also have a roof element.
- Added a beer vending machine. Crew members will now occasionally drink a beverage on their leisure time.
- Grains & Hops as a plant to grow has been added to the game.
New Language Translation
- Space Haven is now available also in Turkish!
Other Improvements
- Emoticons have been updated.
- Flipped the arrow pointer in the mood status to show where the meter is going to and will end up with time.
- Fixed bugs.
Please give your feedback in the experimental branch forum. Link below:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/979110/discussions/5/ Join Space Haven Discord: http://discord.gg/spacehaven Space Haven subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceHaven/ We will gather feedback for Alpha 15 in the experimental branch and tweak as needed. Once everything is looking solid enough we will publish the update to the main branch. Thanks for reading and see you again in the next update!
Space Haven
Bugbyte Ltd.
Bugbyte Ltd.
2020-05-21
Strategy RPG Simulation Singleplayer
Game News Posts 84
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Very Positive
(7795 reviews)
http://bugbyte.fi/spacehaven/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/979110
Space Haven linux64 [208.09 M]
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony sim.
- Customize - Complete freedom to build a spaceship or station of your own desire. Place every piece of ship hull, wall, door and facility wherever you want.
- Functional - All facilities serve a purpose. Crew members will sleep in beds, use toilets, be disturbed by a noisy room and praise you for an arcade machine.
A functional spaceship can be built tile-by tile, giving you the opportunity to shape a spaceship of your own desire. It can be symmetric and streamlined, or an asymmetrical whimsical looking thing. It does not have to look like a conventional spaceship depicted in sci-fi literature, you are free to design your own, the choice is yours!
- Oxygen and CO2 - Keep optimal Oxygen and CO2 levels by building life support modules for your crew members.
- Hazardous gases - Certain facilities and explosions can release hazardous gases. Build scrubbers to purify the air.
- Temperature and power - Build thermal regulators to maintain an ideal temperature for your crew. Build power nodes and set up power distribution throughout the ship.
- Comfort - Building a bed right next to the ship core will disturb sleep. Design your ship for crew comfort.
The isometric tile-based gas system simulates various gases, temperature and crew comfort on your spaceship. Humans, plants and facilities react to the conditions surrounding them, giving meaning to how you design your ship and the living conditions you create. Secure facilities, optimize crew survival and well-being, but also think of possible future accidents and chaos generated from crew combat or environmental hazards.
- Skills and traits - Every crew member has their own set of skills and traits. A wimp might get scared shooting a gun, while an iron-stomach can eat anything unaffected.
- Mood - A happy crew member needs food, sleep, comfort, safety and friends. Take something away and their mood will be affected.
- Conditions - Crew members might feel adventurous, suffer from starvation, feel unhygienic, or they simply ate too much. Various conditions affect how they feel.
- Mental breaks - When the stress is too much for a crew member they may suffer a mental break. Some will vent themselves out of the air lock, while others might start a fight.
In Space Haven characters aren't mere robots. The game simulates needs, moods, health and skills of your crew members and they develop relationships with each other. Their past life occupation and hobbies will affect their skills and know-how, and they have both positive and negative traits. Witness joyful moments, depression, and drama surrounding different crew members as you journey onward seeking a new home.
- Away missions - Equip your crew members and organize away teams to explore derelict ships or visit stations or spaceships of other factions.
- Draft - Draft and move your crew members to attack enemies and save their friends.
- Inventory - Each crew member has their own unique inventory. Equip them with pistols, rifles, grenades and more.
Equip your crew with space suits and weapons and organize away teams to explore derelict ships and stations. Explore and salvage resources and items; find activated cryopods with someone frozen inside. Visit spaceships or stations of other factions and find data logs telling stories of past spacefarers searching for a new home.
- Crew combat - Engage in combat with enemy factions or an alien species.
- Aliens - Watch aliens incapacitate your crew members and capture them alive. See them suffer in the alien lair and decide if you want to try to save them or not.
Aliens capture your crew members and cocoon them against walls in their base. See them suffer in the alien lair and decide if you want to save them or not. Explore derelict ships and discover someone from the original crew of the ship captured by the aliens. Events like these create interesting back stories to new arrivals to your crew.
- Battlestations - Watch your crew take battlestations as you engage the enemy in ship-to-ship battle. See your crew load turrets with projectiles, put out fires from explosions, patch hull breaches and repair vital facilities in the midst of battle.
- Tactical - Target the enemy ship engine and stop them from fleeing. See them do the same to you. Engage their turrets directly or try to focus on the enemy ship core and see their ship go pitch black. Build shields to protect your most vital segments of your ships.
- Cryopods - Protect your crew from side-effects of Inter-stellar travel. Place crew members into stasis to freeze the progression of a disease or to await rescue.
- Medical - Treat crew members for injuries, wounds and diseases. Medical conditions affect crew members in various ways.
Your crew members will become wounded in battles and might catch a serious disease. Set up a medical room, scan for diseases and foreign masses and have your best doctor tend to illnesses and perform surgeries. Hope that your doctor is not absent minded and leaves a surgical tool inside.
- Generated galaxy - Explore a new procedurally generated galaxy each playthrough, with planets, asteroids, stations and spaceships of other factions.
- Factions - Interact with various factions all trying to survive and establish dominance their own way. Meet pirates, merchants, slave traders, cultists and more and develop relationships with each.
- Resources - Mine for raw resources and refine them to building materials. Trade resources with other groups you meet.
Explore a new procedurally generated galaxy each new playthrough, with various factions all trying to survive and establish dominance their own way. You'll meet pirates, slavers, merchants, cults, androids and more. Jump into hyperspace, seek out resources and meet various groups and develop your relationship with them.
Cool things that can happen in Space Haven:
- Gain a new crew member by finding a activated cryo chamber aboard a derelict ship.
- Have a space burial for your fallen crew member to let other crew members say good bye.
- Grow plants with bio mass and water recycled from toilets.
- Eat the meat from a fallen crew member or an invader if desperation is high.
- Watch aliens capture your crew member and cocoon them to a wall in their lair. Will you go save them or leave them there?
Keywords: space, base building, simulation, strategy, sandbox, survival, management, crafting, open world, indie, build, city builder, sci-fi, procedural, sim.
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