This update is mainly about labs. There are now three labs - one for each of the colonist skills - and a total of 20 projects to complete. There is also one other new building - the ore scanner. Once unlocked at the geology lab this can help your geologists by scanning a wide area automatically.
Changes - New biolab projects: Improved Hydroponics, Optimised Hydroponics, Compost Production, Faster Compost Production, Improved Compost. - New design for labs UI with icons for the projects. - New building: Engineering Lab. This is now needed to unlock the more advanced buildings. - Engineering Lab projects: Battery Cells, Lightweight Composites, Photovoltaics, Hydrogen Storage, Rocketry. - New building: Geology Lab. This is used to make mines work faster and to unlock and then improve the ore scanner. - Geology Lab projects: Faster Mining 1, Faster Mining 2, Resource Scanning, Ore Scanner Speed Upgrade, Ore Scanner Range Upgrade - New Building: Ore Scanner. Scans for nearby stone, coal and ore. - Added comments for colonists to make when they complete the new projects. - Biolab now costs 6 metal and 2 stone (previously 8 metal). - Labs now consume 1kW of energy (biolab was 2kW). - Reduced energy cost of hydroponics planter from 4 to 3. - Reduced the construction costs of various factories (but they now require research to unlock). - Adjusted base production rates for the mine - slightly slower on all densities except very low density, which is the same. - Clicking on a mine or ore scanner will automatically turn on the resource overlay. - Active tiles are shown in blue when a mine is selected. - When placing wind turbine, tiles are highlighted to show wind effect even when target location is outside buildable area. - Geologists will now survey prioritised tiles before doing low priority resource collection and lab work. - Added 20% work speed penalty if working at lab outdoors. - Lab UI has a speed icon like the one on the water pump UI with a tooltip to show work rate modifiers. - The UI for the planters also now use the speed display icon. - Most production buildings now have a tooltip on their UI to show time remaining when in progress. - The UI for red, yellow and bluefruit plants now have coloured text to help players realise they grow fruit. - Changing the temperature setting on an environment control unit won't automatically change the setting for other units in the same room. - Metal stack now casts a shadow. - Added three more hints. - Change comment "It's really cold now" to just "I feel cold" (since it might be early morning and actually getting warmer). - Optimisation: Reduced CPU usage of construction UI. - Optimisation: Fixed a framerate slowdown caused by inaccessible resource stacks. Fixes - Fixed some pathfinding issues that could lead to colonists getting stuck. - Fixed a bug that could prevent placement of batteries, solar panels or wind turbines if items silos were full. - Fixed a bug that made it possible to select a stack size target greater than the allowed maximum for coal, ore and stone. - Environment control min/max temperature settings were getting reset to default values when a game was loaded. - Lab work speed now correctly applied if >100% due to colonist happiness. - "[name] can't find food" should now be cleared more quickly. - Fixed incorrect lighting on the electric furnace graphic.