This is the monthly update for November. Highlights - Colonists can now produce their favourite drink, kek. - Added another colonist - the programmer. Very good at operating labs, but can't do any other work. - Added hunger, thirst, tiredness and stress displays to the colonist UI. Stress replaces workload rating. - Replaced the colonist work hours control with a work policy setting. - Power stations now consume water. - Updated the main-menu artwork. - More hints to help new players get started.* * I understand that some new players may have struggled to get started with the game, in which case I apologise. I've added additional hints which should help, but this is a temporary solution. I'm working on designing something better.
The screenshot shows a colonist harvesting kekke. This is used to make kek, a relaxing beverage. Changes - New crop: Kekke - New building: Kek Factory - New building: Kek Dispenser - New project: Kek Production. Enables the above crop and buildings. Requires compost production. - New colonist type: Programmer - Updated main menu background and adjusted main menu text colours. - Generators, power stations and hydrogen burners now all consume water. - Increased the energy output of generators and power stations. - All crops grow approximately 20% quicker. - Controls: Right-click to cancel current tool. - Replaced "workload rating" with "stress". Simplified the mechanics for the way this works. - New colonist activity: Drinking kek. Requires a table, reduces stress by 15%. Added graphics for carrying kek, and kek on a table. - New project: Improved Kek. In addition to the stress relief, kek now provides a direct +2 happiness bonus as well. - Added work and kek drinking policies to give some control over how this works. Replaces the working hours setting. - Feeling hot or cold now causes colonist stress to increase, rather than directly impacting happiness. - Engineer will now repair buildings sooner depending on maintenance priority (previously this only detemined priority relative to other tasks) - Botanist can now still harvest crops and take them to a cooker if there is not enough water to cook right away. - Added more hints, mostly targeted at helping new players to get started. - Colonist UI: Removed awake / work hours text. Added hunger, thirst, tiredness and stress displays instead. - Colonist UI: Changed the lab work toggle button so that each lab type has a different icon. The programmer has all three. - Reduced the cost, energy use and production rate of the electric furnace. - Small update to the graphics for metal and stone tables. Also updated the descriptions. - Made some minor adjustments to blue bug, red bug and tortoise AIs to reduce main-thread CPU usage and make bugs less likely to get stuck. - Various code optimisations aimed at reducing CPU usage and improving framerate. Fixes - In the previous version ore scanners weren't actually using any energy (though they were reporting that they were). - Can no-longer un-pause the game when the mothership dialog is open at the start. - Fixed bug preventing water pump from being deconstructed when too cold. - Fix temporarily incorrect mouse cursor after dragging with a tool (recycle etc.) active. - Fixed a few other minor UI glitches. - Fixed a couple of unimportant exceptions that were being logged.