Hello Creators!

This is the first post-Alpha patch for the game since the launch last month. We hope you’ve all been enjoying what’s on offer so far. A lot of time and love went into this patch, particularly when it comes to some much-needed project clean up. There’s a lot of internal restructuring going on. The project accumulated a lot of outdated assets that needed to be revisited- and oh boy, nobody is enjoying this process. We also lit the gasoline on localization, which means we're getting everything ready for translating The Universim into many different languages. This has been a highly-requested addition for quite some time, so we’re happy to announce that work is finally underway.
More than half of our team has been slaving away on a number of important features these past few months. This includes things like the AI update (which you can read all about in previous updates) and the road system, which will allow us to generate cities and villages in future updates. We’ll be talking a whole lot more about this in the coming weeks.

You’d better strap on your floaties for the remainder of this update, because we’ve got a lot of water updates to cover. Water sources on the planet are now dynamic, which means that they can be depleted by your civilization, Creator Powers, or weather conditions. Our devs were presented with quite the challenge when implementing this system, but we believe it’s going to pay off. This water system will eventually make its way onto alien planets as well. Water is no longer a fancy cosmetic item, it’s a vital planetary resource that will affect the global temperature, animal population, and, of course, your Nugget civilization. To test out the new system, we’re even adding fishing to the game. Welcome to water world!

Check full list of Patch Notes Here

BUG FIXES

Wells now have limited level of water and is divided by 8 Nugga Buckets. When a Nugget is thirsty he is going to use 1 full Nugga Bucket. The Nugga Buckets refill speed is based on the Water Refill Rate.

Water in Oceans now has a level, which can be depleted to zero.
We think that fresh water lakes didn’t feel like they were part of environments and we decided completely remove them and allow players place water pumps and other water buildings directly on the water pools that was procedurally generated at the beginning of the game. This was a challenging task mainly because oceans are different shapes. This task was in production for several months now and we’re finally happy to release it with this patch. Now we map Lake Edges procedurally. The system knows how deep and how wide the Lake is. Water Level/Points in the lake assigned at the time the lake was created based on the lake size. Lake Snap points placed around the lake procedurally for the buildings that will be constructed on the lakes in the future. Lake snap points now check depth and slope to avoid placement in super shallow areas or overly steep points. Fishing hut also requires that the lake have a minimum amount of fish, so you can't place around tiny ponds.

Fisherman. After Nugget assignment to the fishing Hut he will swim away on his boat and start fishing. Fisherman can catch max 15 fish at a time. Caught fish will be then delivered back to Fishing Hut where fisherman will gut Fish after which fish becomes raw food and Nuggets can use it for cooking. Fisherman can gut 5 fish at a time, it takes 10 second to gut those. (WIP: fisherman still go fishing when lakes are frozen, this will be addressed in the next patch. Fisherman will not go fishing during the winter.)