Hello Creators,

Today, we released a new patch with some improvements and fixes. This patch addresses several localization issues as well as crashes that were reported to us. We are also happy to announce that Macs with M chips should no longer see a broken main menu. The issue was related to a Unity bug and our system not cooperating well with each other.

As we move forward, we are encountering more edge case issues and fewer bugs that affect everyone. With this in mind, we are moving towards improvements and balance for the game based on the feedback we received on Steam and in our Discord channels. As we progress with this update, we will keep you informed about the estimated release dates. Currently, it is a bit early to provide specific dates.

We will continue to iron out bugs and address any issues that arise as quickly as possible.
Now, let's review what was fixed in this patch:

• Fixed an issue where nuggets created by the simulation system do not trigger believer news messages in some cases.
  
• Fixed an issue where trading shuttles without valid resource count maps caused crashes.
  
• Fixed incorrect localization for Resource Management.
  
• Fixed missing localization for the Planet Cracker Laser and Stomp.
  
• Added localization to the Cosmodrome Panel and Evo Tower Rocket Panel.
  
• Fixed collapsed Planet Cracker Relaunch Localization.
  
• Fixed localization for the Sent Planet Cracker "Yes / No" buttons.
  
• Fixed localization for the Oil Extractor Panel.
  
• Fixed localization for the Space Box Research Progress.
  
• Fixed localization for Warehouse Storage.
  
• Fixed duplicated planet names by implementing a system for generating unique planet names based on their coordinates.
  
• Fixed an issue where the road system was not correctly created on the planet where the Planet Cracker was sent.
  
• Fixed a bug that occurred when tanks would shoot the Planet Cracker, causing explosion effects to break and be displayed in the incorrect position.
  
• Drastically improved the performance of tanks, helicopters, and combat, achieving a 30+ fps gain during encounters.
  
• Fixed an issue with Mac's M chips at game start.
  
• Added a warning for when trying to assign all available workers.
  
• Adjusted logic to ensure that the Cracker arrival message doesn't appear on unrelated planet panels.
  
• Added notification when the settlement has no free workers to assign to general buildings.
  
• Added functionality to rename planets through the Star Map Panel.
  

Hello Creators!

We hope you're all having a fantastic weekend. We rolled out another update yesterday, and we're excited to share the details with you. Below, you'll find a list of what we've been working on and all the fixes we've implemented. Every week, we strive to address as many issues as we can, and we're incredibly thankful to all of you for helping us by reporting those issues. With each passing week, we're receiving fewer reports of critical issues, which makes us even happier. Our goal is to resolve as many issues as possible as we move towards the next update. We had hoped to begin work on it this coming week, but unfortunately, there are still a few issues that need our attention. Once the majority of these issues are resolved and only low-level ones remain, we'll dive right into the update.


Heres whats been worked on:

• The cancel button on the Space Object Panel was not correctly applying its disabled status, appearing as always active.
  
• Fixed destroyed planets being showcased at the bottom side of the panel of the star map in some cases.
  
• Fixed an issue with disappearing electronic components when flying from one planet to another due to lack of storage space on a planet.
  
• Implemented the number of observatories counter on the Star Map UI.
  
• Fixed stuck clouds produced by the cloud generator.
  
• Fixed an issue where buildings on fire would trigger a temperature warning for the planet.
  
• Fixed an issue where a colonization rocket could have been sent to the same planet as a planet cracker while it was still traveling there, producing an error.
  
• Fixed an issue where the camera would move towards the final planet after the planet was destroyed.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused saving issues for the game due to nuggets killed within the UFO.
  
• Fixed an issue where unfinished buildings within the building panel were considered as having 100% health, therefore not correctly displaying the buildings when they were sorted based on health.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented the loading of save files due to resources on the planets not being correctly calculated during loading in some cases.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused an error due to the evolution tower being constructed on the foreign planet. Despite having an evolution tower, the simulation system still assumed that the planet is not colonized, therefore producing an error.
  
• Fixed an issue where underground resources were added to the planet for the 2nd time (therefore doubling the amount of resources) and causing confusion with increased planet cracker gather time.
  
• Fixed an issue related to the Alien Resource Miner harvesters.
  
• Added a message to the Alien Resource Miner Panel for when there are no available resources.
  
• Added the possibility to start Space Object exploration from the simulated planets.
  
• Added extra functionality to the Abduction Quest "eye". Now pressing the button will cycle between UFOs and Hopkings, allowing to find all the targets easier.
  

Hey Creators!

Happy Friday! Were back with a new update and new patch notes! Thanks to the community, weve been able to squash more bugs and make the game a better experience!

Heres what we worked on this week and what weve fixed!

• Weve had a heart to heart with the ministers, and told them to no longer place Hunter Huts if the planet does not have any animals
  
• Universities and Movie Theaters will now correctly calculate Discovery Points
  
• You will no longer receive notifications about buildings being destroyed and built, or about new Nugget believers when immediately arriving on the planet due to the Simulation System.
  
• The Planet Cracker Extractor will no longer extract an endless amount of parts
  
• The time it takes for the Planet Cracker to gather regular resources has been reduced
  
• The Planet Cracker will no longer show a duplicated amount of resources in the selection panel
  
• Fixed an issue related to sending The Planet Cracker to another planet. The issue would prevent loading a planet.
  
• Firefighters will no longer ignore buildings that have been set on fire by the Planet Cracker and/or Firestorm
  
• The Planet Crackers landing platform can no longer be set on fire.
  
• The Planet Cracker will no longer spawn underground after being rebuilt
  
• The Tesla Quest will now accept the parts required to complete the quest.
  
• Tesla Parts will now spawn appropriately after the game is loaded from a save file
  
• Fixed an issue related to Twitch Chat, which caused an NRE during certain conditions when chat members were sending messages
  
• Interplanetary Trade Achievement is now achievable
  
• Ice and Lava Terraforming Achievements are now working correctly.
  
• The No food warning now takes cooked food into account and will only trigger when there is no cooked or raw food
  
• The timer formatting is now correct upon Alien Arrival
  
• Exile Settlements will now appear on other planets. Deal with them as you see fit, Creator
  
• Alien Settlements now have the opportunity to spawn on Alien Planets (though, to them, its their Mother Planet, and your Nuggets are the aliens)
  
• Voidspawns that appear on other planets can now be killed. Hooray!
  
• Space Objects that cannot be explored will no longer have the option to explore them
  

Hey Creators!

Hard to believe weve been in 1.0 for over a week now! Weve been busy working on bugs, and were back with more hotfixes thanks to your valuable feedback.

Heres a quick list of whats been fixed:

• Temperature notifications will no longer be displayed on Lava/Ice planets while flying over the Volcano or Fire. The temperature notification now has a cooldown per planet, appearing for critical and pre-critical levels once every 30 minutes. With the update, the temperature notification will no longer trigger news messages and warnings on the left side of the screen
  
• Now, the Planet Cracker requires the correct amount of parts in order to work
  
• The game will no longer crash when the Foreign Planet Simulation system attempts to add dead Nuggets to the cosmodrome for transfer to another planet or trading
  
• Colonization rockets will no longer be mistakenly sent to the final planet to cause more issues
  
• Meteor strikes will now accurately calculate collisions with mountains
  
• A new workaround has been created for a Unity Physics system bug that causes the game to crash due to the objects position being set to a non number
  
• The Foreign Simulation system will no longer reset crops on the farm while the player is away on another planet and returns later on. The system now only selects the crop when nothing is selected, otherwise it will maintain the player selected crop
  
• Fish will now spawn when they have water
  
• The final Nugget in the barn event has been successfully persuaded to join the cult, and will now complete the event, taking the barn with them
  
• The Foreign Planet simulation system will no longer attempt to remove non-existent builder bots and crash the game
  
• The Planet Cracker timer is now fixed
  
• Resources during the Planet Cracker collection will now no longer constantly increase
  
• Planet Cracker will now only show existing resources on the planet
  
• Planet Cracker will now continue to collect resources as expected
  
• The FPS on the Star Map is now improved and will no longer drop drastically
  
• Foreign Planet simulation system will now only take available builder bots
  
• Fixed a typo in the Big Bird quest and corrected an inaccurate description for the Planet Cracker in the Spanish language.
  
• Resolved multiple localization issues for the French language within the Mystical Box panel and Expedition quest
  
• The Landing Platform for the Planet Cracker will now be unloaded by the nuggets, and resources will be transferred to the warehouses (if there is available space).
  
• The simulation system on other planets did not produce any newborn nuggets in the first 10 minutes after the transition from one planet to another, leading to a rapid decline in the population due to the aging of existing nuggets.
  

Hey Creators!


It's Friday, and as the sun sets on yet another exhilarating week, we can't help but feel the excitement in the air! The Universim team extends its heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you for your unwavering support throughout this incredible journey. It's almost been a full week since the launch, and your valuable feedback has been instrumental in refining The Universim. We've been hard at work addressing your suggestions and enhancing the overall gameplay experience. As we approach the weekend, we're thrilled to share some exciting updates with you in our latest patch notes. Thank you for being an essential part of The Universim community, and we can't wait to see you in the game with these exciting new improvements!

Heres whats been worked on:

• Invisible Fire ( A proper fix ). The roads under nuggets were getting too hot, burning poor nuggets.
  
• Warning notifications for the Hot / Cold temperatures before it becomes critical and when it is already critical.
  
• Hyperlube speed was extremely slow due to bug. Now it is fixed and nuggets can zoom from one end to the other with an extreme speed. Time to optimize the city.
  
• Fixed Planet Cracker Gather timer
  
• Air filters were not working properly with the Simulation system, causing the increased pollution when the player was away from the planet where it was built.
  
• Crash that appeared due to Alien Resource Miner building due to harvesters missing their reference in the world.
  
• Most of the narrator tracks were stabilized to have the same voice volume.
  
• Game tip controller was crashing the game when it tried to showcase the tips while simulation the planet
  
• During the Planet Cracker attack, the Planet Cracker position had some minor issues causing a rare error, preventing the load of the save file.
  
• The ForeignSim system tried to apply simulation and was failing to do it properly while trying to find a partner nugget. It was trying to grab an exile nugget as a partner for the citizen nugget, producing an error.
  

Hey Creators,

Wow, it's already been a full two days since The Universim 1.0 launched, and we're super excited to see so many of you having a blast with it. Just so you know, we've been on our toes squashing bugs and smoothing out the wrinkles before and after the release. I'm here to give you the scoop on what we've tackled in these first 48 hours.

Heres whats been fixed

• The Big Bird Quest is now able to complete after opening or scraping the box and finishing the research progress
  
• The Rotating Stabilizer perk no longer locks Research
  
• Trading Rockets will no longer freeze mid travel
  
• The Tesla Quest now works as intended. Nuggola Tesla is very grateful to have someone working on his battery
  
• Save files will now load properly during the Abduction Nugget Quest
  
• Exile Event timer is no longer stuck during the invasion
  
• Planets on the starmap are now able to be located and are now able to be traveled to
  
• Upgrading all buildings all at once no longer spawns random resources from higher era tiers and preventing buildings from receiving their upgrades
  
• Buildings that do not belong to players will no longer show up in the buildings list
  
• Exploring Satellites will now provide rewards
  
• Engineers will no longer be arrested when trying to fix the Rehabilitation Center or Prison
  
• Exiting the main menu and starting a new save file will no longer crash the game
  
• Ministers will no longer place Oxygen Stations on planets that have enough oxygen
  
• The warning for not researching anything has now been tweaked, and it will only appear once every 30 minutes if the player continues not researching anything
  
• The missing Minister of Environment Localization string has been found
  
• Tips and Tutorials will now show up if they are activated
  
• Nuggets are now free to move about the planet and will no longer stand still until they die
  
• Animals will no longer walk in a straight line and vanish
  
• Interplanetary travel has been fixed
  
• Introduction and final scenes correctly showcase the selected language
  

Hey Creators,

What a ride it's been since The Universim 1.0 hit the shelves! We're over the moon seeing you all dive into the game and enjoy it. Before anything else, a huge shout-out for your incredible support it means the world to us.

We've been burning the midnight oil, fixing bugs and ironing out the kinks before and after the launch. Here's a quick update on what we've fixed in the first 24 hours and what we're looking at next.

Whats Been Fixed

• The cinematic shot during the rocket launch in the Barn Event is no longer getting stuck. The Nugget that refused to go in the rocket has now been gently persuaded to go along with their cohorts
  
• The big ships in the Alien Invasion Event are no longer stuck due to UFOs trying their hardest to target Exiles
  
• Alien Invasion Ships spawning inside the HUGE planet is now fixed. If issue happened to you, all you need to do is reload your game.
  
• Pollution is now in the correct language
  
• Twin possibility was not showcasing the value but a tag
  
• Subtitles are now present for all languages
  
• Placing an Epicenter at the start of the game will no longer spawn multiple messages on the left side of the screen
  
• The Nugget Display Actor error that was causing your Nuggets to die of hunger and thirst has now been resolved, and they should work normally after reloading the save file
  
• Linux and Mac issue that states user32.dll not found is most likely fixed. Were relying on your feedback to let us know if this is still a reoccurring issue, as we have a limited number of machines with those OSs available to test.
  
• We told the Narrator to stop repeating, This is quite a beautiful planet. Try not to ruin it, though we have seen reports of it still happening, so we are still investigating the issue
  
• The fly to button is not active when trying to return from the moon.
  
• Fixing This is quite a beautiful planet. Try not to ruin it repeating line of dialogue.
  
• When flying to the moon, the roads are not being generated correctly, causing the game to crash.
  
• A dead Nugget appeared in a shot-down UFO, causing an issue for players.
  

• Performance Optimization.
  
• The Rotating Stabilizer perk locks a portion of Research.
  
• An additional indication for The Red Barn and Red Hooded Nuggets is that because of the lack of interaction with them, some fans think that theyre bugged out.
  
• And all other game-breaking issues are going to take priority.
  
• Floating in air Red Barn
  
• Trade Ships getting stuck in the middle of the trade and adding time
  
• Big Bird quest not completing
  
• Tesla Quest ( Battery parts do not have smoke )
  
• Mac / Linux visual issues
  

Hey Creators,

We're super excited to let you know that The Universim 1.0 is finally up and running on Steam! A massive shoutout to all of you for joining us on this incredible ride. This game is a product of your feedback and support, made especially for you. We started this journey a decade ago, just a bunch of newbies in game development, fueled by a dream and a burning passion to create something awesome. Your excitement and support for our ideas have been the driving force behind this project.

https://youtu.be/lyWUUHzGyJE

It's been a wild ride, to say the least. Tackling The Universim as our debut game was a massive challenge. We've had to rethink and redo stuff along the way, working hand-in-hand with you, our amazing community. It's your input that has really shaped The Universim. Sure, there have been tough times and nail-biting moments, but we never lost sight of what we set out to do.

We're proud to say that we've not only met our original goals but went above and beyond, adding more cool features and elements than we first imagined all thanks to the buzz and energy from you guys. Some things changed along the way to make the game even better, and we're standing firm and proud of what we've achieved. We really hope you'll love playing The Universim as much as we loved making it and appreciate all the hard work our team has poured into it.



Also, a note about languages. When you start the game, you'll notice the game is available in English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean. These are the languages that have been professionally translated and localized. Languages like Turkish, Latin American Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Italian, and Japanese have been removed for the time being due to additional text added in 1.0. We are considering adding them back in the future if the translations can be achieved and the need for them is there.


IMPORTANT:

Due to the complexity and size of The Universim, extensive efforts have been made to fix bugs and enhance the user experience. Nevertheless, it's likely that some issues may still arise. We've been working overtime and through weekends, right up until the last moment, to address these concerns. Despite our diligent efforts, we acknowledge that some issues may have slipped through the cracks. Rest assured. We are fully committed to promptly addressing these through hotfixes to improve your gameplay experience continually. Your patience and understanding in this matter are greatly appreciated.

Due to recent architecture changes in Mac hardware, some MacBook players might experience issues. Please report them to us; our team is investigating and actively working on fixing them.

For bug reports or issues, please visit: https://crytivo.io/tu-bug

Grab your Nuggets and get ready to research your way to the full Space Age!

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With the expansion of space in the game, there have been a LOT of major changes that you can expect to see, and we're so excited to show you what we've been up to! Since our last update, our team has made around 4,552 commitments to the game, addressing various issues, making improvements, and introducing new content. Here are some key bug fixes, enhancements, and new (spoiler-free) content updates for you to check out.

Keep in mind, though, this isn't the full list. We've put a lot of work into the game, and there's a lot more that you'll discover as you play. So while we're highlighting the big changes here, be prepared to find many more adjustments and surprises as you explore the game's expanded universe.



Bug Fixes:

UFOs

• We told UFOs that Nuggets dislike heights, so now they will no longer be dropped on mountains
  
• UFOs are now more than happy to leave planets instead of hanging around forever
  
• UFOs will now only target existing buildings instead of focusing on already destroyed buildings
  
• Nuggets not walk around inside UFOs or live underground if that UFO is destroyed
  
• UFOs are not allowed to drain Nuggets health and stats when abducted
  
• Laser beams from UFOs will no longer get stuck during a save/load
  
• Pressing ESC while opening a mystery box will no longer crash the game
  

• Ministers are now forbidden to assign Nuggets when the Nugget list is open
  
• Frozen Nuggets will no longer be assigned to buildings by ministers
  
• Ministers will no longer crash the game by attempting to put dead Nuggets to work
  

• Using Telekinesis will no longer cause military unit drivers to get stuck in the air when you pick them up
  
• Nuggets will no longer fall underground when Telekinesis is used from the Nugget UI panel
  
• Creator Powers no longer work through the Nugget list on Nuggets picked off the ground?
  
• Creator Powers menu will no longer trigger before the game loads
  

• The narrator will no longer constantly tell you not to ruin a beautiful planet
  
• A number of misspelled words are now spelled correctly
  

• Imprisoned Nuggets are immune to your Creator Powers through the building panels and Nugget list icons
  
• Nuggets will no longer hide in buildings when being arrested
  
• Nuggets will no longer leave the planet when being arrested on their way to the Cosmodrome
  
• Important quest Nuggets will no longer be auto assigned to work in different buildings
  
• Nuggets will now dress a little more appropriately
  
• Nuggets will now look like their portraits
  
• Nuggets will be on the correct path after being removed from the bridge or hyperlube
  
• Nuggets will only appear once on the Nugget list
  
• Dead Nuggets will not appear on the Nugget list when loading the game
  
• Believer count will now be updated when loading a planet
  
• Dead Nuggets will no longer be eligible to win elections
  
• Citizens will still believe in you regardless of what planet youre on
  
• Nugget list will display the correct planet name
  
• Infection areas will no longer crash the game
  
• Nugget names are now displayed properly
  

• Defense Towers now require Nuggets in order to work properly
  
• Garages now need Nuggets to operate it
  
• Vehicles will no longer spawn if there is no garage
  
• Buttons on the radar inside the military buildings are now interactable
  
• Game will no longer crash when an upgrade is performed from the all buildings panel
  
• Garages will now only provide the correct number of vehicles
  
• Building near an Exile Village will now only decrease the relationship one time
  
• Headstones will no longer clip through the Cemetery
  
• Paused buildings are now recognized and will not be built until unpaused
  
• Rehabilitation Centers and Prisons now have their effectiveness capped at 100%
  
• Destroyed helicopters will be cleared from the Heliport
  
• Combat vehicles will no longer attempt to access removed hangars
  
• Exile barracks will no longer contribute to the happiness and crime levels of your civilization
  
• Recreation buildings, such as Parks and Local businesses, will now work as intended
  

• During Autumn, the leaves will actually change colors
  
• Breaking camera effect while hitting objects is fixed
  
• Biomes will no longer be blurry
  

• The Recall button is looking better than ever
  
• Expedition Camp will no longer ghost underground when placed above the Sarlaccs hole
  
• Food notifications will now disappear when recalling the expedition
  

• Droughts will now add or remove lakes depending on the circumstances
  
• Events now have the correct messages
  
• Mmamazon is now only able to deliver locally, meaning Exiles will no longer be receiving packages
  
• Quests will now succeed or fail appropriately based on whether youve succeeded or failed
  

• Removed gamepad related icon from the Nugget creation menu
  
• All hyperlinks are now highlighted
  
• 4k resolution is now available
  
• Shortcut keys now properly match the category position of each God Power category
  
• Nonexistent tutorials will truly no longer exist and will not crash the game
  
• Correct icons will now show up in tutorials
  
• Opening the buildings or Nuggets list will now ensure that building panels Nugget icons Creator Powers wheel are closed
  
• Opening the resource statistics panel now ensures that the building panels Nugget icons Creator Power wheel are closed
  

• Fixed the Twitch connectivity issue
  
• Twitch viewers may now take away Creator Points
  

• Roads will now be restored when youve removed an obstructing building
  
• Resource piles will now be pickable
  

• Now you can use Telekinesis on combat vehicle drivers through the Nugget list
  
• Creator Powers will no longer highlight builder bots, as they are immune
  

• Exile military vehicles will no longer attack nearby player buildings unless they are hostile
  
• Player defense towers and military vehicles will no longer attack nearby exiles unless the exiles are hostile
  
• Added a confirmation message when player places a building too close to exiles and made their relationship decrease if player confirms placing the building
  
• Exiles will now make better decisions on which settlements to attack based on the relationship system rather than proximity
  

• Nuggets will now change clothes during Era changes
  
• Nuggets now lose their jobs when entering prison
  
• Sick and injured Nuggets can now be thrown into hospitals
  
• Nuggets lose their jobs when thrown into a hospital
  
• Frozen Nuggets will be automatically unassigned from a job
  

• Allowed the additional color applied to the seasons fog colors of the sky haze shader to be set through the atmosphere
  
• Additional color applied to the seasons fog colors is the color of the currently loaded planets sky
  
• Increased the effect of the planets sky color on the fog color
  
• Set up the logic for mixing the sky, the hot and cold colors in the sky haze shader
  
• Made the season transition visual effects based on temperature smoother
  
• Dead animals will no longer pollute lakes
  
• Improved the influence of pollution and atmosphere on the temperatures of the planet
  

• Clicking on the wolf attack icon now brings you to the wolves
  
• Improved rewards for certain quests
  

• Narration tracks will now behave properly
  
• Narration has a better subtitle system
  

• Improved Legendary building panels
  
• Added Assign All Nuggets to all panels that have more than two Nuggets
  
• Newly built residential buildings will switch their era when the era is changed
  
• Nuggets can now use tables and chairs in the Modern Eatery building
  
• Removed Plastic requirements for the Modern Defense Towers
  
• Stone and Wood Refineries and Engineer buildings no longer require education
  
• Defense Tower range increased significantly
  

• Space Boxes now take higher priority than other tasks, except necessary priorities, ensuring for quicker research on the Space Box
  

• Very old files will now be automatically deleted in the Steam cloud storage
  
• Added missing icons to expedition panel and exile trading panel
  
• Added tooltip descriptions
  
• The not researching anything message will display the exact perks that are still not researched
  
• Improved Emissive and Bloom effects
  
• Updated shadow settings
  
• Improved optimization of shadows
  
• Improved optimization of higher gameplay speed
  
• Improved optimization related to status icons
  
• Reworked UI associated with the building placement to include the Crime and Happiness factors
  
• Added an efficiency indicator for placing reservoirs
  
• Added Tooltip for the disaster icon in the forecast tower panel
  
• Camera inertia has a new setting that allows a secondary option to the controls
  
• Improved the news message system order, ensuring that news messages no longer cover up other UI elements and are now rendered properly
  
• The UI Controller has new logic implemented that will remember the order of panels that were opened/gained focus, and ensures that pressing the ESC key will close the last panel that was opened/gained focus
  
• Improved Full Screen setting mode
  
• Added an option to the size of subtitles
  
• Reworked research panel layout
  

• Improved balance for Tanks and Helicopters
  
• Improved combat panel performance
  
• Refactored infected area and related code to prevent further errors
  
• Optimized performance for Nuggets and animals
  
• Improved optimization of the game for lower end machines
  
• Improved optimization of the animations in the game
  
• Rewrote all descriptions for research perks to make them more consistent and clear
  
• Added a pulsating warning to the water resource icon when water is getting too low for Nuggets to drink
  
• Extended the atmosphere system to improve the overall look and feel of the atmosphere on different alien planets and temperatures
  
• Improve balance for hunters and animal farming
  
• Rebalanced the Crime and Happiness system
  
• Rebalanced the Discovery Point cost for Research perks
  

• New Twitch command: attack. This allows the audience to specify a Nugget to attack
  
• Added a Warning pop up (one per session) when the user sets Creation Nugget Twitch command to more than 0 points
  
• Twitch command FillReservoir and FillBattery commands are now working correctly
  
• Added missing logic for the #SpawnMeteors command
  
• Added Earthquake command to the list of Twitch commands
  

• Builder bot can now be sent through the space port
  
• Ensured the planets radius is taken into account when setting flying creatures orbital heights so they do not fly underground
  

• A brand new questline featuring a new type of Nugget, a new type of building, and new cutscenes
  
• A new Easter Egg
  
• Aliens
  
• Planet Cracker
  
• New buildings
  
• New planets
  
• 30 new Research perks, bringing the total amount to 210
  
• 80 new perk icons
  
• New Ministers
  
• Improved Localizations
  
• New models and textures for the Modern Eatery, Modern Fishing Hut, Modern University
  
• New Quests
  
• New Alien animals
  
• New Alient planet Trees
  
• New stone types
  
• New narration lines
  
• Credits Screen
  
• New Modern, Space Age Soundtracks
  

The Universim is Now Available on Steam!

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

The moment we've all been waiting for has finally arrived! We are beyond excited to officially announce the full release date of The Universim 1.0

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A Decade of Development Culminates


Our journey over the past ten years has been nothing short of extraordinary. With your unwavering support, evidenced by over 6,000 Very Positive reviews on Steam and more than half a million wishlists, we've crafted a universe that's rich, dynamic, and endlessly engaging. Now, we're ready to deliver the complete experience.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR

January 22, 2024


What Awaits in The Universim 1.0

The Universim 1.0 isn't just a game; it's a living, breathing universe at your fingertips. Prepare to immerse yourself in an experience where your choices shape the destiny of entire civilizations and the balance of entire planets. Youll be able to launch Nuggets into the space age! This update brings end-game content to life with more technology to unlock in the research tree, new planets to explore (or exploit for resources), and so much more! Along with these exciting features, we've focused on quality of life improvements:

Unlimited Space Exploration: Unlock the space map and colonize any number of planets you desire. Each planet, from Toxic and Ice to Lava or Terrestrial, presents unique conditions and challenges.

Resource-Rich Planets: Discover planets teeming with valuable resources essential for the expansion and prosperity of your Nugget civilization.

Enhanced Narration: More voice-over lines add fun and functionality, providing entertaining commentary and critical updates on your civilization's status. More than 600 new voiced lines by our favorite narrator.

Complete Storyline: Embark on a journey to discover your true self with a fully developed storyline, adding depth and context to your gameplay. Even after the story concludes, continue to expand and evolve in the endless universe.

Space Age and Advanced Technologies: Launch your Nuggets into the space age and unlock more technology in the research tree, expanding your reach across the cosmos.

Enhanced User Interface: Enjoy a more intuitive and user-friendly UI, making your journey through space and time smoother and more enjoyable.

Game Balance Changes: We've fine-tuned game mechanics for a balanced and rewarding experience, ensuring each decision has meaningful impact.

Bug Fixes and Optimizations: We've squashed bugs and optimized performance for a seamless gaming experience.

And more surprises await! We hope you are all as excited as we are!

Professionally Translated

In our commitment to bringing The Universim to a global audience, we're excited to announce that the game will launch with professional translations in several languages, ensuring a more immersive and accessible experience for players around the world. The launch languages include:

Simplified Chinese
German
French
Korean
Spanish
Portuguese
Russian

Additionally, we're considering expanding our linguistic horizons with more translations post-release, based on the game's success and community feedback.

INDIE TO THE CORE

At the heart of The Universim lies a story of passion and perseverance. As a small indie team, we have poured our hearts and souls into this massive game for a decade, never wavering in our commitment. This journey has been more than just developing a game; it's been a labor of love. We understand that, despite our best efforts, perfection is an ambitious goal, and there may still be unforeseen bugs during your playthrough. We ask for your patience and support as we navigate these challenges. Our promise to you is a steadfast dedication to fixing issues promptly and efficiently. The Universim is not just our first project; it's a dream that we've nurtured from concept to reality. It's crucial for us to get it right, and your understanding and support mean the world to us. We're excited to cross the finish line together with you, our incredible community. See you over the line!


- Crytivo Team

Hey everyone!

We might be fashionably late to the trailer reveal party, but hey, perfection takes time.

After 10 years in the making, we're finally gearing up to release The Universim V 1.0!

Release Trailer for The Universim drops on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15 at 10 AM PT

Hello everyone!

We're thrilled to invite you to join us for a live stream event tomorrow, November 9th, at the following times:

12pm CST | 1pm EST | 10 am PST

Catch the action live on Twitch as we dive into the fascinating world of The Universim, straight from the current public build on Steam.

What to Expect:

Raw Gameplay: No edits, no cuts just us playing The Universim, demonstrating the game in its purest form.

Q&A Session: Have burning questions about the game or our development process? We've got answers! Let's chat and share insights.

Storytime: Join us as we reminisce about the early days of development, sharing the highs and lows, laughter, and tears that shaped the game to what it is today.

What's Next: Curious about our future plans? Get an exclusive sneak peek at what we're working on for The Universim.

To ensure your questions get answered during the live stream, join our Discord community and post your queries in the #livestream-questions channel.

We can't wait to see you all there, ready with your questions and enthusiasm!

Sincerely,

Crytivo Crew

Hello everyone,

Today, were excited to update you on the progress of The Universim development. Our team is completely focused on the Full Game release - V 1.0. As we are getting closer to full release, were going to introduce less new, big features to the game. Instead were concentrating on Quality of Life improvements. This includes enhancements for old systems, balancing of new ones, new tutorials, and so on. A lot of our fans expressed their interest in learning more about our current progress and the work our team is doing.

We would like to honor that and provide you with a short update that will showcase some systems that our team has worked on and some things that are still in progress. If this short update finds your support, we will gladly share more of them on a frequent basis to keep you up to date.

Lets begin!

The very first exciting change that we added (and are currently finishing up) is our new Building placement UI. As you know, in the construction site, we do list all of the information about the building, but due to a large amount of it, we noticed that a lot of players simply ignore or miss certain important elements. Especially the ones that are related to Crime | Happiness | Pollution.

In order to improve the visibility and give an overhaul of our outdated UI, we created and expanded the functionality of it.



We hope that these changes are more functional and will help players to better understand the information while playing the game.

With those changes, we did some additional functionality work. The current name for it is Sample Building. This name might change upon the full release, but we are keeping it for now internally.

This new functionality allows you to sample the building and produce an identical one!
By pressing a combination of buttons (CTRL + Middle Mouse Button) and moving your cursor over any building structure that you currently have within the world, you can instantly bring the ghoster of this building and place it without having to open the Construction menu. We hope that a lot of people will find this functionality extremely useful, especially at later stages of the game.



Next, we tried to tackle the issue that a lot of players experienced while playing the game: Nuggets Drinking from Lakes. This is something that we were battling constantly for quite some time. Initially, there was a bug related to that functionality that was quickly fixed, but the issue stuck. After studying over a dozen different save files from players, we realized multiple common factors: 1) there were not enough wells 2) wells were not scattered throughout the city and 3) wells were concentrated in one place. In order to tackle this issue, we decided to use 2 different approaches. One per each issue.



Now, each well will have a radius that will define and show how efficient it is. If the well is closer to another well, the efficiency of the well will drop. The further wells are from one another, the higher the efficiency of those wells. This efficiency visibility functionality aimed to help new players to better place their wells across the city and avoid the issue where Nuggets would have to travel a very long distance to the opposite side of a city to get some water. You are still able to place wells next to each other, but their efficiency will be lower.

The second improvement added to tackle this problem provides a better indication on the amount of water that is left.

We added a subtle visual effect to the water icon and, if you move the mouse over the icon, a tooltip will now display the aggregated amount of water your wells have. This should help to keep track of water in the wells across the city and warn players earlier if more wells need to be placed.



Now let's move to tutorials.

Multiple different tutorials were added to the game, but the most important ones we believe are: Creator Power Tutorial and a Builder Bot Tutorial.



We received a lot of requests from the community and we heard a lot of people saying that they were struggling with using the creator powers or figuring out how to use the builder bot. Both of those systems will now be accompanied with a tutorial that will teach players how to utilize those features of the game.



Previously, we shared WIP Nugget clothing with you. Our talented artists were working pretty hard to make them stand out among other Nuggets and bring some more variety during later stages in the game. All of those Nuggets were finalized and now you can see them as their colorful selves in the game.


























Lastly, we would like to share some visual improvements to our new planets. These changes may not have a functional implication, but they create a completely different atmosphere for your planets. We expanded our initial orbital system to have many different objects such as multiple suns, asteroid belts, rings, other planets, etc. This should diversify the look of the planets and bring joy to your eyes. Here are some examples of these effects:




All of these changes are just one portion of what was added to the game. We do have more things to share and if this is something that you guys enjoy seeing, we will surely make these updates more frequent as we near the end. So please, let us know in the comments below if this is something that you would enjoy seeing or if you would rather be surprised!

Things that our team is working on currently:

3D Art Department:

• Additional variation for tanks and helicopters for another civilization
  
• Orbital objects for the planets
  
• Variation of clouds
  
• Space map objects
  

• Cinematics and final planet improvement scene
  
• New tutorials
  
• Reworking Space Trading
  
• Addition of all new Nugget clothing to the game
  
• Optimization
  
• Additional improvements to the game UI
  
• Credits screen
  

• New UI panels for new building
  
• Improved UI / UX experience for some old systems
  
• New Icons for the Research menu
  
• New Icons for the Construction Menu
  
• New Space Trading Panel UI / UX
  
• Final Encounter UI
  
• Credits
  

• Rebalance of the main planet
  
• Balance of new planets
  
• Rebalance of the crime / happiness system
  
• Localization improvements
  
• Addition of new sounds
  
• Balance of the final encounter and series of quests and tutorials
  

The last mile is always the longest.



Hello, The Universim game community! We're here to update you on our progress as we wrap up the game's final touches. It's been a while, and we want to communicate with our fans. Here's our message:

First and foremost, thank you so much for being a part of our journey. It's been hard, it's been challenging, but we've made changes, improvements, and we're thrilled with the results. The Universim has been an incredible journey for our team. We've learned so much about game development and game communities, and we're incredibly proud of our achievements we hope you are too.

The Universim is a truly unique game, unlike any other. It was an immensely challenging experience due to the complexity of the idea, technical limitations, and our rookie knowledge at that time. But no matter what, we kept pushing and pushing. We know it took us a while to get here, but if you ask us if we would do anything differently if we could start over, the answer would be no. We did what we could with an extremely limited budget. With a game like The Universim and its scope, you need a lot of financial support to make it happen. We managed to deliver almost all of our promises, but it took some time.

Today, we want to let you know that the game is almost complete. We're T minus 5 minutes from an epic gaming experience. Our development team has confirmed that all game systems are nearly a 'go' for launch. We've completed our final level checks, graphics are looking out-of-this-world, and the soundtrack is ready to blast off. Our game control check is complete, and player guidance is now internal. Communication channels between players and the game are crystal clear. The fun payload is secure, and we're ready to embark on this incredible gaming adventure. Strap in, gamers, and prepare for an exhilarating ride!

We're currently going through just a few final touches, addressing some areas that need balance checks, and then it's all in. The Universim will be FULLY COMPLETE. We estimate no more than 3 months of extra work before takeoff. So buckle up, Creators it's been an amazing adventure, and we love you all. Expect a game trailer with the release date soon'ish.

Meantime, we are releasing a small update to improve some game aspects.
This small update provides Bug Fixes and improvements to the game.

Improvements:

• Lightning Strike: It now deals more damage to the Combat Units (tanks and helicopters)
  
• Combat Distance and Relationship with the Exiles: Previously, Exiles would attack you regardless of their relationship with you. Now, the system will consider your relationship with the Exiles in order to determine if they can attack you or not. The detection distance of Exiles was also reduced in order to prevent attacks from across the map.
  
• Exile Warning: A warning was added to notify the player if they are building too close to Exiles. The player can still proceed with building, but this will reduce the relationship level with Exiles, which might lead to an armed confrontation.
  
• Added tooltip descriptions for resources needed for the traps in the hunters hut panel
  
• Forbid the use of God powers on imprisoned Nuggets through building panels and Nugget list icons
  
• Forbid the use of God powers through the Nuggets list and building icons on Nuggets picked off the ground by a UFO
  
• Auto assignment: Changed the auto assignment system so that the town hall won't assign a new Nugget while you are manually selecting to assign a new Nugget yourself
  
• Hospital Telekinesis: Added the ability to drop a Nugget into the hospital. Now, dropping a Nugget into the hospital will make the Nugget a patient.
  

• Twitch Integration Connection: Due to some major changes within Twitch itself, the Twitch integration stopped working for a period of time. We had to restructure some code within the game related to Twitch Integration in order to make it work for everyone.
  
• Exile Village Barracks and Hangars: They contributed to overall happiness and crime. This is fixed and no longer contributes or interferes with the player.
  
• Riots: An error was happening when rioting Nuggets were unable to find valid targets
  
• Sarlacc Error: Certain situations where the Nugget was being exiled or was dying and the Sarlacc grabbed this Nugget that exact second
  
• Mail Delivery Quest: Sometimes, mailboxes would spawn near Exiles.
  
• Cloud Saves: Some people experienced issues with cloud saves. This was due to the limited space provided by Steam for save files on the cloud. Now, the system will check for the oldest files on the cloud and overwrite them with the new ones. Therefore, the cloud will keep only relevant and the latest save files. All of your local save files will still be available.
  
• Collapsing certain buildings into builder bots would result in an error. This is no longer the case.
  
• Faith: In certain conditions, while traveling between planets, the Creator power generation was failing to update correctly
  
• Drones in Hangar and Barracks: Added a system that prevents drones from being assigned to military buildings
  
• Builder Bot Construction Site: Ensured that builder bots will cancel their building if their construction site was removed/destroyed
  

Hello, Creators!
Its almost time for the holidays!

This year was challenging and difficult for many people. From our entire team, we hope that everyone has a great holiday season. Let your close ones be next to you to share some amazing moments and create new, wonderful memories. We hope that next year will bring plenty of good times for you and your families. Thank you to everyone who stayed with us and supported us regardless of the circumstances. It means the world to us. We have the best community ever and we are happy to have you all with us. Happy holidays!



At this moment, we are relieved to say that we are at the finish line. We just finished with 4 main events that will lead to the ending of the game. We are left with the task of balancing a portion of those events as well as the main event taking place on another planet. After that, we will enter a polishing stage which will involve work such as fixing bugs, visual issues, localization issues, gameplay issues, and balance tweaks. This is the final update before we go live with 1.0. It is hard to believe that we are almost there. It was an amazing time and we are happy to see everyone who stayed with us through the years and helped us grow. Once again, thank you!

Now, let's talk a little bit about this update. This update brings some of the most requested content to The Universim. More military and combat. We reworked our exile system in order to support the combat along with our flying units system. It was a large scope addition and it took a bit longer than we expected, but it is finally here. You are now able to build your military Nuggets alongside Tanks and Helicopters. Exiles will do the same. Make sure you are staying on their good side. Not feeling friendly? Destroy the exiles before they can even get a chance to build and expand their forces. Up to you. This update also introduces new buildings to support new units along with bug fixes and some improvements.

Let's get to details now.

Tank Hangar & Heliport




Both buildings will help Nuggets to start the mass production of Tanks and Helicopters, respectively. Each building is able to contain a maximum of 5 units. More units can be built with the addition of extra Hangars and Heliports. You will be able to build up to 5 buildings, totaling the amount of Tanks and Helicopters to 25 each.

Bomber Building



Bombers have received their own building. Each Bomber building can contain up to 5 bombers, similar to the Hangar & Heliport. Previously, Bombers were unlocked along with regular soldier Nuggets. This time around, they were moved towards the Modern Age and will be unlocked along with Modern Age upgrades for the Soldiers.

Combat System





Overall, the combat system works similarly to the rock, paper, scissors approach. Tanks are quite strong against Soldiers and Buildings with their main power being the destruction of ground units. Helicopters, on the other hand, deal a great amount of damage to Tanks and other Helicopters but tend to be weaker against Soldiers. Soldiers can easily eliminate a squad of Helicopters, therefore punishing forces that have a limited amount of heavy military vehicles.

New UI Panel



Along with the new additions to combat, we also reworked the entire panel. Now, every military building can be placed within one panel, eliminating the tedious process of adding a new building via the construction panel. Along with this newfound functionality, you will be able to see all exiles on a radar, their creator, and their military power. Through this panel, it is also possible to send all units from the Barracks, Hangars, and Heliports to attack or send only a single squad to be selected for the attack.

Improvements:

• Looks like the button for upgrading all buildings in the building panel just got a brain transplant! Now, it not only tells you how many resources you'll need for the upgrade, but it also serves as a warning system to prevent any unintended consequences. For example, if you try to upgrade water pumps all at once, it will alert you if it will cause a shortage of water. If you try to upgrade all power generators, it will warn you if it will lead to an electricity blackout. Talk about a smart button! But I guess that's what happens when you upgrade your brain.
  

• The research panel received some restructuring, making it more versatile during the Modern Age and providing earlier unlocking to some perks.
  
  
• Health bar indicator for an animal. Now, when the animal is being attacked, you will see a health bar above it, indicating how much health it has left.
  
  
• Tooltip for the ministers. Each tooltip displays the list of buildings that particular minister is responsible for.
  
  
• Hunted animals will now have an icon above it indicating which animal in particular is being hunted.
  

• Fixed: Prevented Nuggets from being dropped on top of the Sarlacc hole and being stuck midair
  
  
• Fixed: Optimized clouds in order to provide better performance
  
  
• Fixed: Unobtanium Extractor on the other planet would continue extracting resources despite resources being completely depleted
  
  
• Fixed: Building icons and clouds jitter issue
  
  
• Fixed: Error that was breaking the game during Sitting On Powder quest
  
  
• Fixed: Sitting On Powder quest always selected the candidate with a green colored background
  
  
• Fixed: Missing localization for the Cattle Farm
  
  
• Fixed: Blowing up the Nuclear Plant during certain circumstances caused an error that was breaking the game
  

Happy Halloween, everyone!



We hope you have already prepared plenty of treats and costumes for Halloween. The spookiest time of year is almost upon us and, today, we would like to present you with some exciting changes. These changes are related to the Halloween holiday in addition to the actual game. With that said, this patch is a bit unusual regarding content.

This patch contains some things that were set to be released in one big combat patch (one that is happily on the way). We are finishing some things and are excited to enter the polishing stage within the next couple of weeks. For now, lets concentrate on the new thrills youll find in this newest patch.

First and foremost, as many of you have noticed, our Halloween event has returned to The Universim! In launching the game, you will be greeted by our Skull Moon. Once you have entered the game, you will have your choice of a regular planet (for players who wish to forgo the Halloween event and its various challenges) or the Halloween Planet by clicking the pumpkin checkbox. This action will switch all of the planet sizes to the Halloween Planet.

The Kraken
Playing on the Halloween Planet will allow you to encounter the Kraken. This evil creature can arise from deep waters and will spawn unusual zombies. These zombies will attack your civilization from time to time until you destroy the source of their creation.



Mysterious Portals
Demonic Nuggets will invade your world during Halloween! You may recall a mysterious portal being opened for brief periods of time. Well, now you will uncover the cause behind it as a protector of your civilization. Closing the portal will provide you (and your Nuggets) with a handsome reward. Close the portal by destroying it. Your military Nuggets may be able to assist you.



Witches
Witches will appear during nighttime! You may see them flying and cackling through the sky. After all, Halloween is their holiday as well!



Blood Rain
You may encounter a phenomenon of red clouds appearing over your planet. Hopefully, your Nuggets wont be frightened by some kind of red rain.



Ghosts
Theyre back! Ghosts are here to roam your planet but, this time, these are friendly spirits that will appear after the death of your Nuggets.



Halloween Planet
This time around, our Halloween Planet didnt change much from the previous year. However, weve added some new resources to the game as well as tree variations.

Now, let's talk about some of the content that is not related to Halloween but that youll be able to enjoy in this patch.


Snapping Tool
We have received plenty of feedback on implementing a snapping tool to The Universim. Well, we are pleased to tell you that the tool is finally here! You can now adjust and place your buildings as precisely as possible. The snapping tool will be available once you select a building that you would like to place.

You will see in the left hand corner some instructions on how to use them and what buttons will activate snapping buildings. This tool will have 3 different modes:

• Mixed. Buildings will attempt to snap to the road or a building based on the distance to them.
  
• Snapping to buildings. This mode will completely ignore roads and will snap a building as close as possible to another building, allowing you to align structures together.
  
• Snapping to roads. Perhaps you would like to align your buildings to the road, if so, switch to this mode.
  

• Family Messages (messages that indicate that Nuggets formed a new family)
  
• Believer Messages (messages that indicate any believer interaction)
  
• Seasons Messages (messages that indicate the change of seasons)
  

• When Discovery Points (DP) are used to discover a perk, the price of DP will be hidden afterwards for this perk
  
• Incorrect DP icon was changed to the correct one in order to be consistent with the rest of the games DP icon
  
• Minister of Space was missing a lock icon on the slot
  
• Added icon to the finishing hut when there is no fish to catch or gut
  
• Reworked the interaction of Nuggets with the Colonization Rocket and Trade Rocket Now, the prioritization system will be as follows: Nugget should be educated, adult, have no partner, and be between 2-12 years old. This Nugget will be prioritized for the Colonization or Trade Rocket. If none of these Nuggets are found, the system will instead prioritize Nuggets within the same category, but older until age 54-74. Once all Nuggets are exhausted, the system will prioritize Nuggets who are adults, have an education, have a partner, but are still young. After that, the system will continue checking for Nuggets within the same category but who are older. Following that category, the system will then begin to board Nuggets who are educated adults with no partner. Lastly, if none of the Nuggets are within the categories above, the system will select any Nugget that is left. This prioritization should ensure that you will get the best Nuggets that will be sent for the colonization of a new planet as well as for trading
  
• Nuclear Plant received assign all button
  
• Consistent Nugget interaction within any building. You can now interact with a Nugget inside the residential building or any other building. Previously, you were not able to use Creator Powers on a Nugget within certain buildings
  
• Cosmodrome resources were rearranged. This arrangement was according to the resources observed on the bottom panel (where all resources are located) for better readability and consistency
  
• Added a tooltip and a popup panel for the auto constructed buildings such as Temples and Black Markets
  
• Arrested/Imprisoned Nuggets will be immediately removed from their occupations
  
• Selecting Unobtanium Extractor building will highlight Unobtanium plates which should help to identify placement sites more easily
  
• Added deselected effect to the eras buttons located on the left hand side of the screen. Located above construction and the Creator Powers buttons in order to distinguish the era you are currently in
  
• Warehouse received a button to disable all
  

• Fixed an issue where the Spaceport didnt allow for adding up to max supply and only allowed increments of 10. In other words, if you had space for 2 more resources, clicking add 10, would not fill the rocket to the max. It would just ignore that interaction. Now, it will add those 2 missing resources that it can actually fit
  
• Fixed an issue where Tesla Parts could have been dragged outside the screen if the movement speed of the camera was too fast
  
• Fixed an issue where the Unobtanium extractor didnt function properly when the player was on another planet
  
• Fixed an issue where a shader for the raincloud didnt appear at certain angles
  
• Fixed an issue where sending food via Spaceport caused a rounding error and therefore displaying a very large number
  
• Town Hall didnt kick Nuggets out of the building when it was turned off
  
• Localization error was happening when Nuggets were returning from expedition
  
• Fixed an error within the Spaceport that was breaking the game when the player was sending resources
  
• Fixed a scaling issue with the button located within the vertical consumption layout which was increasing the on/off button scale but it was never returning to normal
  
• Fixed an issue where some sections of land didnt have roads. This system was tweaked quite a bit. Some issues might still happen, but they should be rare
  
• Fixed an issue where the simulation system was not correctly working with drones and allowed the creation of an unlimited amount of drones while being on the other planet
  
• Loading a planet could sometimes produce an error which was breaking the save file
  
• Fixed an issue where the player was not able to fly to the location of the Nugget who died due to the Sarlacc
  
• Fixed an issue where a mystery box could not be picked up from the crater
  
• Fixed an issue where the Unobtanium extractor would burn despite using rain cloud on it
  
• Fixed an issue where the Nugget creation screen was incorrectly displayed when UI Scaling was set to MAX
  

Hello, Creators!



Its time to celebrate as were full swing into this haunted time of year. Our special Halloween spooktacular is back with some bewitching classics that you may recognize, but just wait until October 25, 2022 - we have all sorts of goodies in store for you. At the start of Steam Scream Fest, enjoy everything from blood rain to demonic portals and everything in between!

For now, be sure youre ready to fight the mysterious Kraken - a beast that possesses unusual powers - as it summons hordes of zombies hungry for your Nuggets.

A Surprise Encounter
This Halloween, alongside the Kraken, a demonic portal has been opened. We cant confirm if this portal will bring treats, but there are certainly tricks that this anomaly will offer you. Thats not to say, however, that closing this portal wont yield a reward

Witchly Sightings
Be sure to watch the skies as witches fly overhead! Its never a good idea to spook these broom riders, but you can admire them from afar. This is the only time of year where they dont mind being spotted.

Ghoulish Delights
Alongside the witches, the ghosts are once more taking up residence in your towns! Ever wonder what happens after Nuggets bite the dust? Well, perhaps you will now.

While you may recognize some familiar hauntings, theres plenty of new adventures in store this season. Find out what else awaits you on the Halloween Planet!

As always, thank you to everyone for your support and for your constant feedback on Discord, Twitter, and Steam. Every comment and suggestion helps us to define the mechanics and game systems our community most desires while we fine tune our content.

If youre enjoying the game, especially with our spooky additions, please feel free to leave your honest review on Steam. Want to see any changes to The Universim? Drop us your feedback on Discord.

Happy haunts to everyone!

Love,
The Crytivo Crew

https://store.steampowered.com/app/352720/The_Universim/

Hello dear creators,
We hope that you had a wonderful time this summer and that everyone is rested and prepared for the start of the new upcoming season.

As many of you probably know, we recently moved our headquarters from San Diego, California to Dallas, Texas. This relocation caused some disturbances to our progress within the game, but for the last 2 months, everyone on The Universim team was able to pick up the pace and move forward with extra speed. Recently, we added two additional programmers to our team along with an additional concept artist. This should help us to speed up our development progress quite a lot. Due to that addition, we decided to release one more patch after this one. We heard a lot of you loud and clear - that you would like to have some expansion on Exiles. Therefore, we dedicated a couple of people from our team to work specifically on military expansion.



This v57 patch will be a bit unusual for us and for you. In this patch, we put a lot of attention to bug fixes and improvements to the current systems. Since we are currently in the end phase of the game, we are heavily concentrating on end game content and polishing. Therefore, this patch is very important for us to see if we were able to resolve some of the major issues within the game.

We are constantly looking over the suggestions in our Discord as well as the bugs that are being reported. Certain bugs have a higher priority than others. We are still trying to track one bug that does not allow us to save the game correctly. In order to catch this bug, we implemented a system that will provide a warning message stating that, during the game save, the game was not saved correctly followed by the error that comes with this. Please, if you encounter that error, reach out to us via our Discord. With your help, we will be able to locate and track that error and fix it for good!



Now to the content of the patch! Here are some of the improvements and bug fixes that you will encounter.

Improvements:

- Increased size of the Pollution warning notification

- Incorrect description for the Garrison Building

- Missing text for the Lizard Candy and Massage Buildings

- Incorrect translation within the main menu of the Twitch Integration (German language)

- Bunker improvements:

Meteor strike does not kill Nuggets within the bunker anymore
Lightning Strike does not kill Nuggets within the bunker
Tornados
Fire
Volcano
Earthquake
UFO Crashing onto the bunker
Drone explosion
Planet Cracker stomp
Blizzard Storm
Firestorm

- Fierce enemy quest drop zone ground projection didnt look good when it was overlapped with the quest area projector

- Over 30 popup windows reworked in order to be closed by pressing ESC button

- Buildings without assigned Nuggets will have lower resource delivery priority compared to buildings that have Nuggets working in them

- Any Nugget within the building will have a consistent interaction throughout the game (in other words, you can pick them up, use certain creator powers on them, etc. while they are inside the building)

- Nuclear Plant received an assign all button

- Colonization rockets and Space Trade will now have a different Nugget priority when you are sending Nuggets to another planet. Young and educated Nuggets without a family will have the highest priority, next will be Medium/Old age Nuggets with an education, then Young uneducated Nuggets, followed lastly by Medium/Old uneducated Nuggets

- Finishing hut received an indication icon above the building showcasing when there is no more fish to catch

- All mines that extracted all resources beneath them will automatically remove Nuggets from the building and shut down the building

- System that will detect if the game is being saved incorrectly and will provide a notification to the player. That system was put in place in order to prevent broken save files and will allow us to track down certain game breaking bugs

Bug Fixes:


Fixed: Localization Error in the Overpacked quest

Fixed: Using switch Era functionality did not switch the Education requirements of the buildings back to corresponding building level education

Fixed: Certain quests didnt show the correct name for the Nuggets quest giver

Fixed: Fierce enemy quest drop zone was not always correctly displayed on the ground and disappeared if you moved the camera too close to it

Fixed: Objects in the world can no longer be clicked upon while the celebration dialog is active

Fixed: Research screen and other full screen UIs are no longer overlapped by the celebration dialog

Fixed: Pressing ESC Button while being in the load game screen removed Load panel completely

Fixed: While holding a Nugget via telekinesis, Nugget could have been dropped if any pop up or UI Screen would be opened

Fixed: Min/Max temperature was not updated correctly within the Reservoir panel

Fixed: Power Hour event didnt turn off electricity for the entire duration of the event

Fixed: Subtitles would overlap with Full Screen Menus

Fixed: Same Nugget could have been added to multiple different trades

Fixed: Missing localization within the spaceport

Fixed: Firestorm and Blizzard on screen effects were visible within different full screen menus (Loading Screen, Research, etc.)

Fixed: Error that was happening during the trade in space which was leading to corrupted save files

Fixed: Shadow from the raincloud disappeared at a certain angle providing no indication for the location of the raincloud

Fixed: Minister of Space was missing a lock icon on the slot

Since we are currently in a state of polishing and improving the game, we are planning to release bug fixes and overall improvements on a more constant basis.

We would also like to share some of the progress that has been made.

Currently Working On

Nuggets

We went through all the Nuggets and their jobs in order to update their clothing and accessories for the Modern and Space Ages. In total, over 20 different jobs will receive new outfits and over 20 new items as accessories will be added to them. Some of them you can check below:



























Defense Towers

Defense towers are currently going through multiple stages of rework and upgrades. We are adding machine gun mode that will primarily target ground units where rockets will shoot anything flying up in the sky as well as Planet Cracker.



Planet Cracker

We are putting a lot of effort and polish into Planet Cracker. Upon full release, you will be able to encounter that evil machinery that has been created to stomp out civilizations and destroy planets.




Snapping Tool

We received a lot of requests from the community to help with the arrangement of buildings and the addition of a snapping tool. One of our engineers is currently working hard on adding a snapping tool that will allow you to snap your buildings to the roads or other buildings, aligning them perfectly in a straight line.



New Planets

We had mentioned that we created a system that allows us to create different planets. Now it is finally time to start making them! Our design team is working on brand new planets that you will be able to encounter during your journey.



Star Map

The star map was created internally quite a few months ago, but it still required some polishing. Using a star map, you will be able to discover both planets and different space objects. Currently, our engineers are working on expanding star map functionality in addition to the new UI/UX elements that should help with navigation.

Final Battle Scene

Yes, you will have a proper finish of the game as well as some story line. Even now, certain narrator phrases, quests, and other subtle elements within the game have some connection to the main story. After the final scene, we hope that you will be able to connect all the dots and figure out the connection :). The final scene is currently ready from the technical side, but still requires some polishing and UI/UX elements.

Credit Screen

The credit screen is also already created, but currently has a placeholder UI which will be improved as we get closer to the actual end of the game.

Below you can see the overall progress that we have made and where we are currently standing.



We hope that this will give you some understanding where we are and what we are currently working on.

Thank you everyone for all of your support and for staying with us. This means a lot for the entire team and we are grateful for having such an amazing community. We are almost at a finish line and we cant wait to show you all the things that we have worked on.

Sincerely,
Crytivo Crew

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Hello everyone !
I hope you all have a wonderful summer and you enjoy the sun. We would like to conduct an AMA where you will be able to ask any questions about the game, company etc. Join our discord and feel free to drop your questions in the #AMA_Questions channel.

If you found an interesting question already asked, just vote for it. We will select a handful of questions ( voted ones will have priority ) and go over them on Tuesday at 11am PST | 1PM CEST | 2pm EST time. . The AMA will be conducted via Stage channel called #AMA. Just join the channel where we will be responding to any of your questions on the day of AMA.


Looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday!

Sincerely,
Crytivo Crew

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Hello Creators,

Each month, we strive to deliver something new for you to experience and to play. This time, our patch is a little bit different from the others. As we are only a few months away from full release 1.0, our team is working around the clock in order to prepare this exciting new content! Despite our busy schedule, we still wanted to showcase something new this month - just for you!

In this patch, we will introduce some new buildings and upgrades that weve been working on along with some balance changes and bug fixes. We hope that you will enjoy playing with these changes and we are looking forward to hearing your feedback!

Also, in the next few months, we were thinking about doing live AMA sessions where we will be able to casually chat with everyone and answer any questions that you might have. If this is something that you think would be cool, let us know and we will schedule something :)

Now, let's dive into the game and see what we have in this patch.


Key Features:

Rehabilitation Center & Prison Center




We already showcased the concept art for both buildings: the Prison and Rehabilitation Centers. Now, it is time to actually explore the way they look and work in the game. New upgrades for the buildings will drastically decrease the criminals who are walking among the Nuggets and will surely help to decrease criminal activity via rehabilitation or prison means, based on your choice.



Warehouse



This new upgrade for the Warehouse will offer even more space to store your resources. Who doesnt like extra space?

Power Battery



More juice, more power! With an increase in energy consumption in the Modern and Space Ages, Batteries required more capacity to store energy.



Gas Mine



Throughout the Ages, Nuggets were improving their technology and techniques with gas mining. Finally, they were able to push their technology to the next level. This Gas Mine upgrade will double the production of gas which should be more than sufficient for the Space Age.



Iron Mine & Stone Mine




Along with a Gas Mine, a Iron Mine & Stone Mine received its upgrades as well. Similar to the Gas Mine, the mines will increase their output. This will provide a surplus of iron and stones to construct more factories and to colonize more planets.




Lumberjack



Just a tiny island of greenery among the metal and concrete. This beautiful architecture will constantly produce fresh and renewable trees which will help your civilization save as much nature as possible. Pollution levels will also be reduced dramatically.



Gas Plant



Among all other sources that produce energy, the Gas Plant was one of the old ones and - compared to new energy sources - it was definitely underperforming. With the new upgrade, the Gas Plant will shine with new colors (it will shine extremely bright during nighttime). Increased output, even compared to other sources, will help to keep the lights on in every single building and home.



As you can see, quite a lot of buildings received their upgrade in this patch! Additionally, our team was working on multiple different systems such as the Planet Kraker interaction, 3 new quests, 2 new events, a star map system, new planets, and planet generation.

Since those systems are still in production, we will be able to show you some snippets with more to come.





Improvements and Balance Changes

• Localization changes and assets preparation. As we are approaching 1.0, we are reworking a lot of older panels that might still use older text components that are making text blurry and potentially hard to read. Currently, all the building's panels and research panel work is done. The overall work is still not finished, but we are halfway through.
  
• Improved performance for the Modern and Space Age eras. Based on the machine, you should see around 10% - 15% in improvements.
  
• Drinkable water by Nuggets is now displayed at the water tooltip. This should help new players, as well as veteran players, to keep an eye on the overall situation with drinkable water in their cities.
  
• More than 30 different audio sounds were added to the Stone Age and pre-Medieval buildings and panels.
  
• Improved planet simulation system in order to control the inflow and outflow of resources efficiently and precisely.
  
• Increased the refill rate of drinkable water in the wells.
  

Hello Creators,

We hope you all had an awesome weekend! For anyone who didnt get a chance to read our Space Blog #2, we are happy to announce that the new V55 patch is here! This patch will further introduce you to some improvements, tools, and new mechanics that will be used in space. Currently, our Universim team is split into two: one is working full speed ahead on new content for an upcoming patch and more people are being moved to the second team responsible for the development of space itself. We are planning to release a couple more patches prior to the full space expansion and, quite soon, we will be setting up an official release date for The Universim! 1.0! We are excited for that moment and event. We really hope that you are excited as well.

In the meantime, we would like to give one more shout out to our friends from Blue Meridian who are releasing their dinosaur tycoon building game Prehistoric Kingdom on April 27th! One of the most exciting things in store for this game is the narrator, Nigel Marven! For many people, Nigel was a childhood hero who always talked about dinos and educated the world on these magnificent creatures. Prehistoric Kingdom will be available in 2 days! If you are a fan of dinosaurs and would love to build your own prehistoric park, make sure to check out the game and the trailer below!



Now, let's get back to The Universim and explore what awaits us in this new patch!

Key Features:

Nuggetoid Drones



Deeper space exploration led to several discoveries, one of which was the inability to actually survive on the server condition planets such as Lava, Ice, Toxic and - in some circumstances - even barren planets. This would be the end of the space exploration for Nuggets if not for one pretty smart Nugget who came up with an idea. This idea suggested the use of AI whose code was integrated into an indestructible machine and powered by alien technology.

Please, meet drones.

Drones are powerful AI machines that will allow your civilization to get into places where a regular Nugget would not be able to survive. Besides that, with some additional research, Drones can be drastically improved, allowing you to use them as your workforce on a planet. They are efficient, fast, and do not require food, water, or sleep. Though, they do require energy. In order for a drone to operate, you need to make sure that your drone factory is working or you actually researched a new technology that will allow your drones to charge one another.




Droid Factory


This is the place where your AI receives life. This building will allow you to produce drones in exchange for Unobtanium and some electronic components. The results will be worth it.





Unobtanium



Unobtanium is a rare material that can be found throughout the universe. Many Nuggets believe that those monuments are not naturally created and it is the actual technology of an alien species. These monuments contain an enormous power within them - one that has allowed Nuggets to power up their machines and make them work. Those monuments wont be found on every planet, but finding one and extracting it would definitely help your civilization move forward.

Unobtanium Extractor



In order to extract the monument and actually use it for the drones and some other space technology, Nuggets had to come up with a proper solution. Their regular instruments were not working well with these hard materials so, as a result, the super drill was invented and led to the creation of the Unobtanium Extractor.

The Unobtanium Extractor is being built on top of the Unobtanium monuments and slowly and surely the monument will be extracted - even though this process will require some resources to be used in the process.



Burning Trees



With the addition of the lava planets, we were faced with a task to do something with the trees. It was either removing them or making them burn. Just removing them was a trivial task that would require less time but, since we love attention to details, we decided to take a harder route. Now, with increased temperature, either due to fire, the lava planet, or simply changes in temperature, your trees will slowly burn which will see the removal of their leaves.

Nugget Tools



As Nuggets advanced in space, old tools were no longer sufficient. New tools were implemented that would better suit the Space Era, allowing Nuggets to collect resources, build new buildings, and repair them more efficiently.




Nugget & Droid Weapons Weapons



What is a Space Age without any kind of blasters?! New weapons were added for both the Nuggets and new drones. These weapons are more powerful than regular weapons so keep them handy when you continue to explore space.



Improvements and balance changes

• Planet loading system. We are constantly working on improving the speed with which our planets load. This time we were able to cut off an extra 15 seconds from the loading time.
  
• Notification system. As we moved towards the colonization of other planets, we noticed that a lot of people were excited once they ended up on the moon. So much so, that some players were completely forgetting about their Mother Planet. As a result, in many cases, the civilization would collapse. In order to help with that issue, a notification system has been introduced. That system will notify you if something bad is happening on your other planet.
  
• Decreased building decay. Exactly what it says - on other planets (except where you are currently stationed) building decay is significantly reduced.
  
• Added pollution indicator to the tooltips of the lakes. Now you can see how much your lake is polluted and when it will reach a critical level.
  
• Space port arrival timer was added to the game. Now you will be able to see when exactly your package will arrive by simply clicking on the space port.
  
• Improved the Performance/Speed of Saves and AutoSaves, also lowered save size by 10-15%
  
• Made the visual area projectors more accurate to the actual radius size (cemetery/engineer/firefighter/etc.)
  
• Assign All button was added to multiple buildings
  

• Fixed: Minister building sometimes caused your Nuggets to become invisible
  
• Fixed: Infected areas would appear near the lakes causing the pollution of the lakes
  
• Fixed: Issue which allowed the launching of a rocket without electricity and water
  
• Fixed: A bug that caused nuggets to have incorrect/no animations on loading a save
  
• Fixed: A rare bug that could cause an exile settlement to be placed
  
• Fixed: A bug that was causing nuggets to clear an extra unit of area around residentials, often clearing trees/rocks far outside the range of the construction site
  

Hello Creators and Future Astronauts,

Its been awhile since the initial Space Blog came out and, during this time, we have been working full speed ahead on the upcoming patch. Weve also been continuing our development of the Space Age, meaning we are finally approaching the end of our Early Access cycle. The Universim for us is more than just a game, it is our baby and we would love to have it with us forever, but sometimes we have to realize that we need to let it go. This is why we are working nonstop on this last Age. We would like to make sure that you will have an amazing experience playing The Universim and that the Space Age will provide you something new and fresh with its gameplay and challenges. Internally, we are already discussing the release date and once we finalize it, you will be the first to find out!



Today, we would like to share with you what awaits you next. Read on to discover what space holds for The Universim and what new mechanics you can expect.

Before we start, we would like to give a shout out to our friends at Blue Meridian.
On April 27th, they are finally releasing their title Prehistoric Kingdom. If you like dinosaurs, ancient animals, and tycoons then make sure to check it out on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/666150/Prehistoric_Kingdom/

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Now, lets roll :)

UNOBTANIUM

Welcome to one of the most powerful sources of energy that Nuggets will learn how to mine. UNOBTANIUM is a very rare resource that you will be able to find across the galaxy and can be utilized to charge your drones and make them function. It will also be used to charge up something bigger. For example, Cracker.



In the upcoming patch, you will be able to find that resource on your Mother Planet and play with the drones but, as we get closer to the release date, this would be the content that you will be able to unlock as you go to space. In the meantime, please provide us with any thoughts on these drones :) We would love to hear your feedback.

RESOURCE EXTRACTOR



Unfortunately, Nuggets moved from an idea of hitting strange things with their pickaxe and hammers and learned how to use drills. In order to mine unobtanium, Nuggets will have to use a special building that wont require any Nuggets, but it will definitely require some of your previous resources. The extraction process of the unobtanium is not fast, but is definitely worth it.



OXYGEN REFILL STATION



Certain planets will have oxygen, while others wont. Based on the oxygen levels, your Nuggets will build residential areas - either with domes or the actual large city without them. If oxygen on the planet is required, your Nuggets will have to constantly return to the rocket or one of the residential buildings in order to refill their supply of oxygen. All this Nugget walking takes time and (obviously) slows down the progress of your colonization. Unless, of course, you will use the oxygen refill station. Oxygen refill stations will allow your Nuggets to resupply their oxygen without the need to travel long distances.

NUGGET TOOLS



Previously, Nuggets had to choose between the axe, hammer, or pickaxe. Now, they have been able to develop something far more exciting and energetic. A new Nugget tool will be introduced to the game that will provide a more futuristic approach to building things.



WEAPONS



Nobody knows what will await you on other planets, this is why it would be best to equip your Nuggets with some proper gear and weapons that would be a better fit for space.



Not only can your Nuggets receive new weapons, but so can your drones. These weapons will allow both Nuggets and drones to kill their targets faster and more effectively. Unless, of course, you try to pick a fight with someone bigger than you

PLANET GENERATION SYSTEM

In the last blog, we covered many things regarding planets and their variations. This time, we would like to share a little bit more on the actual planet generation system. What is it? How will it work? And what can you expect?

In The Universim, you will be able to colonize and travel throughout hundreds of different planets. Some of these planets will be handcrafted and some of them will be randomly generated. We have built our planet generation system to be as flexible as possible and have watched it provide good results so far!



Planet generation goes through multiple stages. In stage one, we define the size of the planet, cloud types, planet type, and temperature.

The next step defines the entire look of the planet, starting with the color. Here is where a lot of the magic happens! With a wide variety of configs with different color combinations, the system will select a specific config/color combination in order to apply it to the planet. In those configs, we are defining all the colors of the planet including: its atmosphere color, color during night time, day time, colors of different biomes, rocks, trees, etc.

Our next big list of configs is texture. In these configs, we define the overall look and feel for the planet and what each biome will look like. Will the land be rough or smooth? Will it have holes or not?

Lastly, to finish up the look of our planet, we have over 50 different mountain configs! Each config will generate a mountain that has a different look and feel. You will be able to encounter mountains that look like spikes, flat mountains, small mountains, zig zag mountains, mountains in which you can build things, and many more. Each mountain will influence your playstyle and how much space will ultimately be available on your planet.

After finishing with the actual planet generation, let's dive into all the details on the planets including vegetation, resources, animals, and biome distribution.



Starting with trees, each tree trunk has its own config that contains information about the tree (i.e. its model and what kind of leaves it can have). Leaves can either be unique to the tree or they can be in a general pool of leaves that can fit any tree. So, our system selects the proper config for the tree and leaves that would appear.

Stones are created in a similar manner to trees where each stone, model, level of durability, and what it yields are all being set up in their individual configs.

Additionally, we are setting up bushes, grass, animals, and sea life.

Lastly, our biome distribution and resource distribution system is how we specify how much water the planet can hold, and how much desert, grass, forest, or mountains can be on the planet. All these parameters will define the playground for the player and influence their playstyle. Some planets might have a lot of water, but they can be lacking vegetation. Other planets might have less water, but boast plenty of mountains and rocks.

Resource distribution works in conjunction with biome distribution; each resource knows on which biome it has to appear and how it should act on that biome.

Each of these systems will have different configs that will define future planets. Selecting and combining each config from different areas will allow us to create a variety of unique looks and experiences.

FLORA AND FAUNA



Each planet will have a handful of new vegetation and alien animals that will accompany it. Due to the nature of the planet and its specifics, you might not always see the planet and its beauty immediately. In fact, you may have to terraform the planet first in order to see everything. Think of it like an onion - you have to peel back the layers to get to the heart of it. Similarly, you will have to peel the layers of ice and lava in order to see the true colors of the planet and its nature.







FAUNA

We worked very hard on the system that will allow us to generate a good amount of alien animals in order for you to discover. Similar to the planet, our alien animals have randomization to them. Their strength, hp levels and their look will use our manually crafted configs in order to create a creature that will vary from the creature on the different planet. Dont always assume that the creature with the similar look, will be weak or strong on another planet. Before charging on with your hunters, make sure to check the animal yourself and assess if you can take it on. Maybe your new guns will help ?











Planet Cracker



In a lot of our trailers, youve probably noticed a big machine that is the size of a small planet. Well, without spoiling too much, you will have to face this beast at some point. Will you defeat it or it will destroy your world? It will be up to you and your civilization.

Planet Cracker is the world destroying machine responsible for the destruction of many different planets its encountered over time. Despite its huge size (and being able to step on anything), Planet Cracker also possesses hypnotic powers and laser beams. Come on, we couldn't go to space without them.

Its laser beams will easily be able to cut through buildings while its hypnotic powers can afflict any living creature.

Planet Cracker was initially created by an ancient alien race as a machine to mine resources but, throughout time, some modifications were added and it became the planet destroying machine.

PLANET CRACKER PART EXTRACTOR



Scattered throughout the universe, you will have a chance to collect certain Planet Cracker parts and, who knows, maybe at the end you will be able to build your own planet destroyer

MYSTERY



You might have guessed already, but Planet Cracker is not the only threat as someone is usually responsible for the creation and operation of such large and terrible machines. Throughout your journey in space, you will encounter alien ruins and alien ships that wont exactly be friendly (especially after you shot some of their smaller aircrafts). You will have to learn to whom those alien ships belong and what mystery space has prepared for you.

SPACE SOUNDTRACKS

We just recently finished our space soundtracks and they sound awesome! We cant wait to let you listen to them and hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

Building Upgrades

We finally got our hands on all the buildings and finished their upgrades up to the Space Age.

Rehabilitation Center



Our rehabilitation center received a modern overhaul on its architecture. Now, it finally looks like it will be able to treat any Nugget inside of it.

Prison



Throughout the Ages, most prisons looked the same: gray and square-shaped. Well, we did our own take on this building. The new prison will have increased efficiency but will require more resources to operate.

Stone Mine



A new stone mine with some gravitational technology will surely improve the workflow on-site.

Metal Mine



Extracting metal from the ground was never easier. With the new upgrade, you wont have any issues mining as much metal as you want. Unless, of course, the planet wont have any more metal to offer you.

Gas Mine



As space travel becomes a common thing for Nuggets, your civilization will require more and more resources in order to sustain itself across different planets. New gas mines will provide the most efficient way of gathering resources.

Gas Plant



This upgrade is probably the most exciting for us personally. In moving away from wood and bricks, the gas plant has received a complete cosmetic overhaul and has some extra improvements. Potentially, it can be one of the most effective ways of producing electricity for your civilization, but not without damage to the planet.

Lumber Mill



The new upgrade for the lumber mill will not only add a nice modern look to the building, but it will also increase the speed of growing trees and collecting them.

Power Battery



More capacity, more charge! As usual, you can zap the battery with your lightning strike in order to give it extra juice.

We hope you are enjoying the journey as much as we do. Next week, a new patch will be released and we are looking forward to your feedback. Thank you so much for all of your support and we are extremely grateful to have such an amazing community.

- Crytivo Crew

https://store.steampowered.com/app/352720/The_Universim/

Hello Creators,
Today we have some very exciting news for you! The time has come for the Nuggets to move further into space. The first step is to set your Nuggets foot on the moon!

Watch The Universim - Moon Gameplay Trailer
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Yes, we are happy to announce that this patch will finally bring plenty of new and exciting features to the game - but this is only the first step on your Nuggets path. In the future, you will have the opportunity to colonize and explore many other planets, each having its own negative and positive aspects. For now, let's concentrate on the things we can find in this patch.



First of All, MOON!

As mentioned before, the Moon is just the first planet that your Nuggets will be able to colonize. It is relatively safe and has a low difficulty curve in its colonization. This type of planet, as you all might have guessed, is considered to be a Barren Planet. The planet does have plenty of rocks and some underground resources, but it lacks oxygen. This celestial body also lacks water as well as any life on the planet; these issues are something that you will have to tackle in order to fully colonize the planet. Think carefully about what you want to bring to the Moon in terms of resources and what buildings you would like to construct there first. The first step is crucial to the survival of your civilization. If your first colonization wont be successful, you will have to utilize your interplanetary transportation system in order to deliver goods to the planet.





Cosmodrome

This is one of the first buildings that will set you on the path to colonization. The building was completely reworked from the ground up. You will be able to use the cosmodrome to build your colonization rockets. Only one rocket can be built per planet. Consider this rocket to be your epicenter; where your civilization will start anew on a planet. In this building, you can load your rocket with Nuggets and Robox (later on with drones) and resources. Loading the resources is done in two different ways: you can either load any amount of resources or you can select a tab that will display all kinds of buildings. From this tab, instead of calculating how many resources you need, you can simply select any buildings that you would like to be built on your newly colonized planet and Nuggets will deliver resources needed for those buildings.



Rockets have a limited amount of space on them. In the future, you will need to think carefully about what you would like to take with you on a planet based on the learned information about the planet and its condition.




Spaceport

This is the center of your transportation of goods. Each spaceport that is built provides you with 4 trading cargo ships on which you will be able to load different resources and help your Nuggets stay sustained. This building will allow you to set up any trading routes you would like to implement. Select both the resources you wish to deliver and the number of times you would like those resources to be delivered. You can select 1-10 or infinity. Later on, you will be allowed to constantly stream the specified amount of resources on the recipient planet.



Terraformer

This is one of the main buildings that will allow you to start terraforming the planet. The building constantly consumes resources and, in exchange, will restore flora within the radius this building can operate. Slowly and by utilizing resources, this building will be able to make any planet green as life is established.




Oxygen Generator

Since there is no oxygen on the Moon, this is one of the buildings that you will certainly need. Similar to the terraformer, this building will consume resources in order to provide oxygen to the planet, but there is one major thing to note about this building: if electricity is lost, then the generator will drop your oxygen to the previous level (the oxygen level present before the building was constructed). In other words, this building provides the planet with oxygen, as long as you have it working. In order to truly restore the oxygen on a planet, you will need to implement forests and lakes upon the planet. But, as a short term solution, oxygen generators will surely provide enough O2 for your Nuggets to prevent suffocationunless you forget to pay your electricity bill.



Hydro Collider

From the name of the building, you could probably guess the purpose of this structure. This building will create water on your planet. Place it similar to water pumps on a shoreline and let it run. Shortly thereafter, you will notice how the level of water increases, but be careful not to overwork it! The Hydro Collider does consume resources in order to craft water for your planet.




Cloud Generator

This is another solution to the water problem on a planet. Cloud generators will allow you to restore water on the planet by creating clouds! This building will produce clouds in exchange for resources, but the amount of resources is significantly less than the resources needed for the Hydro Collider. Even though this solution can be ideal for certain planets, there is one thing to note: cloud generators take time to create water. If you need to restore something quickly, consider using the Hydro Collider, otherwise a Cloud Generator will do a great job!




Robox

In unlocking space travel, your Nuggets also took some time to think about the best way to move their constructions to other planets or even across the same planet. This is how Robox was born! This little box with legs consists of highly transformable material and can inherit the functionality and shape of any building - but it does come with costs. In order to create a Robox, you can either order it for your colonization rocket or you can convert one of your buildings into this creation. Pressing the convert button on a building panel will pack the building into this little weird metallic creature that can be loaded onto the rocket and sent to another planet. You obviously can also use it to move your buildings around




Oxygen & Space Suits

Your Nuggets cant survive without oxygen. Upon landing, your Nuggets will have to constantly return to your colonization ship in order to restore the oxygen in their space suits. Once the oxygen on the planet is restored or you have enough to the point where your Nuggets wont need their suits anymore, they will perform faster and better. At the end of the day, they dont need to constantly replenish their oxygen from the rocket.

A low amount of oxygen on the planet also has a negative effect on the planet's condition and disasters. Without the oxygen restored, you wont have an atmosphere that can protect your planet from meteor strikes, therefore, frequent meteor showers are expected on a planet without oxygen. You will also be missing clouds that do provide essential water to the planet (your cloud generators do not care about oxygen due to chemicals being used to create those clouds).



Roads

The Space Age also will introduce a new type of road your Nuggets will utilize. Upon the initial landing on the Moon, your Nuggets will utilize rope roads. They will be moving along the ropes, holding it with their little hands in order to stay on track. Later on, as your civilization progresses forward, rope roads will be changed to advanced Space Age roads. Even though, at this point, roads wont be utilized as much due to flying cars, it still will provide a necessary movement boost to your Nuggets.



Flying Cars

Nuggets advanced quite far during this time. Since they learned how to fly, they also learned how to utilize all of their received knowledge in order to create flying cars! Those cars are highly effective and do not create any traffic, but they do come with upkeep costs.




Domes

Due to limited oxygen on the planets, your Nuggets will initially build houses with domes that will be a safe space for them to get oxygen. Slowly but surely, your Nuggets will build larger domes that contain more families inside of them, but this is not the best and long-term sustainable living your Nuggets will want. Once the oxygen is restored, your Nuggets will move towards rebuilding their houses and constructing new, highly advanced homes.




Space Age Houses

Space Age houses will take the place of domes and be built instead of the domes once the oxygen levels are restored. They can contain many families inside them at night thoughthis is something spectacular. We are really proud of our Nuggets and how advanced they have become :)



Background Planet Simulation System

A highly advanced simulation system was built for the Space Age. Since many planets will eventually be introduced, we wanted to allow players to explore those planets without worrying too much about other planets, as well as allowing interplanetary trading. The system that we built will do its best to simulate the current state of your planet based on how much time has passed. In order words, it will use all the reproduction rates that your planet has and create new Nuggets, age existing Nuggets, calculate produced resources, consumed resources by your civilization, etc. Creating a self-sustainable planet and leaving that planet will allow our simulation system to keep up with everything and continue simulating life on that planet. Who knows what you will find once you come back

Unfortunately, if you left your planet in distress, our simulation system will continue to simulate what would happen to it based on the time passed.

Bloom Effect

One of the exciting improvements weve made was changing our visuals, especially during night time. At night, youll see something called the bloom effect. This effect will make your city play with colorful colors during night time when all the lights are on, creating a magnificent effect across your planet.



Space Age and Modern Music

It is time to introduce some new tracks to the game! We worked with our composers in order to produce 10 new awesome tracks for this era, keeping you pumped and excited to play the game in the Modern Age and Space Era.

Space Age Construction Sites

Through the ages, Nuggets have advanced their technology and techniques. Thousands of construction sites were created and used to build gorgeous constructs, and the Space Age is no exception. We worked on new visual effects for the construction sites for the Space Age buildings.



Modern Age and Space Era Building Upgrades

Besides introducing tons of new content, we did not forget about the building upgrades to make your cities in space look stunning. As usual, each building upgrade will provide certain benefits, so make sure to build them all!

Space Age Cemetery

Welp, it's time to send your Nuggets to space. Literally. Instead of burning your Nuggets, Space Age cemetery workers will put your Nuggets in capsules and send them deeper into space.



Space Age Expedition Camp



Space Age Garage

Upgrade your garage to receive flying cars! Create your own futuristic cities and resolve all the issues of traffic. Your Nuggets will convert to flying cars in order to reach their destinations. The roads beneath them will still produce a boost to their movement speed, but make sure to have enough fuel for your cars to remain up in the air.



Space Age Bridge

Modern bridges got their upgrade to Space Age bridges. Even though the functionality of the bridges did not change, they definitely received an awesome new look!



Space Age Water Pump

Issue with the water? Dont worry, the Space Age water pumps will pump the water in no time. The increased amount of water that is being pumped will definitely resolve problems when expanding your city.



Space Age Reservoir

Increase the drinkable water generation speed and capacity by upgrading your reservoirs to the Space Age!



Modern Age Battery

Batteries didnt progress too much throughout this time, but they did indeed see an upgrade. Upgrade your medieval batteries into new and shiny modern batteries and increase their capacity along with it.



Space Age Eatery

Advanced technology allowed us to place plenty of machinery in the kitchen, which in return yielded faster cooking speeds.



Modern Age Warehouse

Wooden shacks were no longer suitable for Nuggets and their needs. Due to an increased output in resources, a bigger storage space was needed. Modern Age warehouses surely can help with the double output and provide enough storage space for any resources.



Space Age Farm

Farming is easy now! Experience completely automated factories with maximum production by upgrading your farms. This will drastically increase the output of food for your civilization.



Space Age Hospital

Even though the amount of beds did not increase, the efficiency with which Nuggets learned how to manipulate robotic arms allowed Nuggets to increase the speed of treating their patients.




Improvements and Balance Changes

• Minor performance enhancements
  
• Increased speed to fly to evolution tower when H button is pressed
  
• Increased camera speed over the planet
  
• Reduced the amount of green when the atmosphere is polluted
  
• Minor changes and tweaks to atmospheric effects
  
• Research tree changes due to new perks and buildings being added to the game
  
• Now it will take half the time from what it was initially to upgrade Modern Age residential buildings to their final form
  

• Fixed: Minister of Power was placing multiple Evolution Tower buildings
  
• Fixed: Fish quantity was not displayed correctly
  
• Fixed: An issue where Nugget from the Lost Child quest would fall under the ground
  
• Fixed: Issue where small lakes would constantly turn toxic and be polluted
  
• Fixed: Bug that caused news alerts to be very small
  
• Fixed: Issue with Nuggets not being able to upgrade their weapons when Barracks are upgraded
  
• Fixed: UI bug that was appearing when any mining building was placed
  
• Fixed: Issue with bloom effect on factories
  
• Fixed: Exiles could trigger a trade before their cities were completed
  
• Fixed: Cupidon light could have been struck on a screen if a Nugget became an exile
  
• Fixed: Issue when the research button would get locked out with an X symbol
  
• Fixed: Bug that caused firestorms/blizzards from never triggering
  
• Fixed: Defense tower Nuggets not facing their target
  
• Fixed: Bug that caused clouds to fill very small lakes more slowly than intended
  
• Fixed: Bug that caused the scroll to be too slow and sometimes not work on the save/load menu
  
• Fixed: Bug where exiles with no finished buildings can trigger events
  
• Fixed: Bug where picking up a Nugget while eating/drinking/resting would cause the stat to never fall
  
• Fixed: Bug where Nuggets in residentials, when collapsed, would be invisible
  
• Fixed: Some visual bugs with the Pyramid construction
  
• Fixed: Issue with road previews not rendering properly
  
• Fixed: Issue with buildings in the filter view not lighting up when their category is selected
  

Hello Creators and Future Astronauts,

We know its been a while since we last had a full-fledged blog post for The Universim, but todays going to be a special one - one youve eagerly been waiting for! In this blog, we will share more info about the Space Era in The Universim and what awaits us.

Before we jump into the details, we would like to ask you to be so kind and leave us an honest review on Steam if youre enjoying our work. Your reviews always put a smile on our faces and we love seeing our fans thoughts. Leave a review here.



PLANETS

The Universim will be filled with hundreds of different planets, all of which can be colonized. Each planet will have a specific type and, prior to colonization, may look similar to each other. The Universim will have the following planet types:

Terrestrial planet. These planets are filled with life and flora. They are ready to be immediately colonized and wont require much work on your side. Well, except for establishing a new colony. Theyre similar in condition to the Mother Planet youre used to playing on. These planets are rare and are rich in resources; finding one is definitely going to be an event!






Barren Planet. This will be the most common type of planet in The Universim. These planets are dead on the surface, but may contain a good amount of resources, including a very rare resource - Unobtanium. Unobtanium will be used in the manufacturing of Drones and other valuable items.



Lava Planet. Some planets will have extreme surface temperatures that will require special technology to colonize. These spicy planets, and Drones in particular, will play a significant role in such colonization. Lava planets are very challenging, but they might yield an obsessive amount of valuable resources.



Ice Planet. Similar to lava planets, ice planets are hard to manage with their frosty surface. Youll need to use plenty of resources to melt surface ice and stabilize temperatures to an acceptable level for your nuggets to survive. Though it may be difficult, going through these challenges will likely prove worthwhile.



Toxic Planet. Similar to the Lava and Ice Planets, Toxic Planet environments will be very hostile for nuggets and bring with them plenty of challenges.



We designed this system that will give us the ability to create planets with unique characteristics. Visually speaking, planets will have the aforementioned distinguished environments that will be revealed as you terraform them, making them sustainable for life. As you terraform planets, you will slowly see those changes around you. Clouds and fog will start appearing as your atmosphere recovers, toxic smog and clouds will be cleaned out, and your planet will start looking less grim.



Certain planets will be filled with resources of different types, but others will have a scarce amount of resources. Our complex system responds to visual changes and will adjust environmental lighting to match a planet's characteristics. Things are very connected on this side of the game, and well talk more about this detailed system later on.



Atmosphere and Oxygen

Two important planet characteristics are Atmosphere and Oxygen.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere drastically improves the lives of your Nuggets. The main contributor for the atmosphere is, obviously, Oxygen. Additionally, at a certain level of oxygen, your trees and lakes will contribute to both atmosphere and oxygen levels.



Without Atmosphere, your planet will often be bombarded by passing meteorites. Not having an atmosphere will also influence the birth rate of the Nuggets, animal population, clouds, natural disasters, and transportation.



Since Oxygen is directly connected to the Atmosphere, it will be one of the largest contributors to the overall state of the planet.

You have also probably noticed some updates to our Environment panel.



A planet will have scarce oxygen levels or none at all. Without any oxygen on the planet, your Nuggets will be forced to wear spacesuits in order to breathe. During this time, Nuggets will have very limited mobility as they will need to constantly refill their oxygen tanks to stay alive.



As you progress with restoring the plants oxygen, you will see the atmosphere shift in appearance. The planet will slowly start changing its colors. As oxygen levels improve, you will start seeing life on the planet. Natural disasters will return, but Meteor Strikes wont be as frequent.



Similar to how any planet can be terraformed and cleaned to sustain life, every planet can also be ruined by any reckless progress by the Nuggets.

Since the atmosphere is directly linked to water and trees, if youre being reckless with those resources and fail to replenish them, your planet will start to lose oxygen and its atmosphere. This loss can lead to a lack of breathable oxygen and the death of your population. Low atmosphere will also inflict temperature changes and see an increase in pollution. Remember, everything is connected in our game and there are a lot of calculations happening behind the scenes.

Pollution and Temperature

Temperature and Pollution are the secondary factors that will influence your planet look and define the hostility of the planets.



Certain planets will have a toxic environment and will therefore be considered polluted (your Mother Planet can be drastically affected by pollution as well). As your civilization progresses forward, more and more factories and machinery will be created, which will slowly lead to the decrease of the planet's quality and potential death. As you produce pollution, and without proper management, it will start affecting everything around you. Your nuggets will get sick, toxic clouds will appear on the planet, and your lakes will become polluted. Haze will also cover your planet and affect the temperature.
To fight rising pollution levels, youll need to build parks, research filters for your factories, and positively contribute to nature by planting trees and restoring lakes.



Temperature will influence the appearance of Blizzards and Firestorms. Trees will be especially affected by fluctuations in temperature, resulting in a decrease of oxygen when theyre burned down. In order to restore the temperature, you will have to utilize Temperature Generators as well as a Terraformer building.



When your planet is unbalanced, the temperature will fluctuate every year. Year by year, the planet will become colder or hotter until it ultimately becomes a lava or ice planet. Change will be gradual and youll have plenty of time to react by recovering the natural balance of the planet. You also can use Thermo Generators to keep temperature balanced. Like other thermoforming buildings, Thermo Generators are going to be pretty expensive to maintain, but they will give you the quickest results.

As youve probably noticed, a lot of those systems are interconnected so make sure to keep your planets healthy!

How to Colonize the Planet?

Alright Nugg Armstrongs, as many of you know, the colonization process of other planets consists of multiple steps.



Step 1. Locate the planet. Nuggets are curious creatures eager to explore. The Observatory will be a starting point for the Space Age and will ultimately unlock the Space Map to locate new planets. It will also help you receive certain signals and distress calls from space.




Step 2. Prepare for launch. In order to learn how to fly, you need to help your Nuggets to survive the Mother Planet and help them progress through the Modern Age. From this point, you should be able to build your first colonization rocket in the Cosmodrome.



The Cosmodrome is the true starting point for your adventure. In this building, you will be able to pack your Colonization rocket with useful space goodies that you will bring to other planets. Be sure to plan carefully! Each colonization rocket only has a certain amount of space. You will have a variety of things to bring on board (i.e. crew members, resources, and DRONES). At this point, you probably know enough about Nuggets and, if not, go back to God School by restarting the game.




Besides that, each rocket will have reservoirs, oxygen tanks, and batteries. This should allow you to survive for some time on another planet, but dont procrastinate for too long. Otherwise, you will most likely need to send another crew...



DRONES

Drones are designed to withstand the extreme conditions of alien planets. Theyre fast and effective, but building them will require spending a valuable resource - Unobtanium. Similar to Nuggets, Drones will possess certain characteristics.



Health - A drones health can be depleted in multiple ways, but they all require physical force. Certain external forces such as sarlaccs, alien attacks, exile village attacks, or your own creator powers will be able to destroy the drones. Once damaged, their health cannot be restored without specific perks that can be unlocked in the research tree.



Charge - Similar to a Nuggets stamina, charge is what makes the Drone go. Drones will have to return to their building in order to recharge. As you progress forward, you will get an opportunity to learn a perk that will allow your other drones to recharge each other which will improve your drones further.



Furthermore, drones are not only a great tool to use on hostile planets, but they can also be used on your Mother Planet. Certain buildings will allow the use of drones as workers. Each drone will be as efficient as 3 Nuggets, so make sure to use them to improve your infrastructure. Drones are quick and can carry a large amount of resources; advantages that should help you in your space exploration and colonization.



Step 3. Colonization. The colonization of the planet does not simply end by landing on the planet. Based on the planets conditions, you will need to build specific structures that will help improve quality of life. Some of those structures include:

• Terraformer
  
• Oxygen Generator
  
• Hydro Collider
  
• Cloud Generator
  
• Space Harvester
  

Hello Creators,

We are happy to introduce you to resized planets! This exciting addition was requested by the community for quite some time and, though we would have loved to have rolled it out earlier, we were waiting for the right time to pull the trigger. Creating resized planets was a monumental task that required plenty of game optimization and a reworking of the systems in place.

As many of you know, we are working full speed ahead on the Space Age (in addition to new planets). If you checked out our Halloween Patch, you not only were able to experience some holiday atmosphere, but you were one of the first players to test a couple planet customization systems for the upcoming Space Age and its alien planets!

Today, we are happy to present another part of our Space Age puzzle: resized planets. Please note that the size of the planet will require more resources from your at-home equipment. We tried to optimize the game and planet generation process to work as fast and efficiently as possible but, due to increased planet size, object amounts, etc., bigger planets will require more resources from your PCs. The biggest input on the performance will be your computer memory. As of now (and based on our internal tests), in order to comfortably play on the biggest planet, you will need at least 16bg RAM. This patch will allow us to experiment with sizing in the hopes of achieving comfortable gameplay experiences for you, our Creators.



Low Memory Warning



If you try to load the largest planet on a machine that does not have enough memory, we will warn you in order to ensure your understanding that the planet's performance may struggle. You still will be able to proceed forward and load the planet.

Pollution System



In further preparation for the Space Age, we are adjusting our pollution system to provide different conditions on foreign planets, ultimately influencing your approach to a planets colonization - in fact, even affecting your decision on whether or not you WANT to colonize it.

New pollution system UI was added to the game. We are still iterating different effects, but from that UI you will notice 3 main factors: toxicity, atmosphere, and temperature. All 3 factors will influence your planet in several different ways. As of now, the following changes are already in effect:

• Pollution is accumulative. In other words, your factories will constantly contribute to pollution and will subsequently increase each year if no other buildings that combat pollution are built.
  
• Increased pollution will influence your lakes. Nearby lakes to your civilization will become toxic which can lead to different negative effects.
  
• Based on the atmosphere and pollution factors, the temperature will take a hit as well. Each year, the temperature will either slowly increase or decrease, causing the vegetation to die out under the effect.
  
• Main contributions to the atmosphere will be trees and lakes. Decreasing either will have an effect on your environment and planet.
  

• Water usage was 100% removed from residential houses for the Stone and Medieval Eras. Modern Age residentials will still require water.
  
• Water usage was removed from the fishing huts across all eras.
  
• Reservoir capacity was decreased by 20-25% across all eras to adjust for changes to fishing huts and residential areas.
  
• Rain will cover a larger area underneath the clouds.
  
• The minister of water has had massive balance changes. It should respond better to your current civilization's demands.
  
• Eateries now cook and provide water 25% faster.
  
• Stone Age warehouse capacity adjusted from 100 to 150.
  
• Medieval Age warehouse capacity adjusted from 500 to 750.
  
• Rebalanced pollution on all buildings.
  
• Sick Nugget messages will disappear from the screen as soon as this Nugget is admitted to the hospital or healed using a creator power.
  
• Destroyed storage buildings now create resource piles of the items that they stored. 75% of all stored resources will be saved.
  
• Raised resource pile decay from 20 to 30 min.
  

Hello Creators,

Today, we are celebrating Halloween! For this special occasion, weve developed a seasonal patch for The Universim. This spine chilling update will introduce a variety of nightmarish aesthetics and spooky secrets, including a brand new Halloween planet. The Universim is also on SALE for a limited time this holiday season, so get it while its hot!

Be warned, this Halloween planet is an extremely dangerous place for your nuggets. With this newfound danger, you can expect to put in some extra work in protecting your civilization.

We dont want to give too much away, but weve implemented some truly spooktacular things to the game. Below are just a few highlights from this pumpkin-like patch. Minor SPOILERS beware.



New Planet

We all know how eager our community is to colonize a new planet. To sate that hunger, weve decided to give you something fresh to play with. New looks, new challenges, and frightening monsters await you. We hope you enjoy this planet and the secrets it carries...



Kraken Games

One of the challenges youll face on the Halloween planet is the Kraken! This ultimate squid wants to play games with your nuggets, but hes not your regular cephalopod. This monster holds mystical powers which pose a constant threat to your civilization.



Zombies

Zombies were in The Universim previously, but with this update, we decided to refresh their look and improve their abilities. A single zombie may be a low threat, but a group of zombies will be quite the challenge.



Uncover More

As we mentioned above, we would like to avoid major spoilers so you can discover things for yourself. We are extremely excited about this patch and we cant wait for you to experience it. Enjoy the holiday season and stay spooky!



Thank you to everyone for your support and the great feedback we receive on Discord, Twitter, and Steam. It helps us to define the mechanics and game systems that our community desires as we fine tune our content. As always, if you enjoy the game, please feel free to leave us a review on Steam.

If you would like to see any other changes to The Universim, drop us your feedback on Discord.

Happy haunts to everyone!

Love,
The Crytivo Crew

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Hello Creators,

Starting today, we will be releasing additional patch notes about our Space Age progress! While we are still hard at work on the overall game, we have moved the majority of our teams focus to beyond the stars.

Shortly following this patch, we will regularly be posting behind-the-scenes progress on the highly anticipated Space Age! For this particular patch, we worked heavily on exile expansion. We also added a new structure called hyperlube that will be extremely valuable on other planets. Let us know how you like it :)

As always, if you have any feedback or suggestions, please join our Discord and let us know! We do our best to read each of your messages, so dont be shy in letting us know your thoughts.

Now, lets explore the content of this patch.



Hyperlube

Heading to space means that nuggets will require a new means of transportation. Drumroll...meet hyperlube! The hyperlube is a fast and reliable way for your nuggets to move from point A to point B. The hyperlube will allow your nuggets to travel through mountains and lakes with ease, however, it does require quite a bit of energy to operate. Nuggets will largely prioritize the hyperlube when they need to reach the point where the end of the hyperlube is located.





Barracks

We have been receiving consistent feedback from our community regarding the addition of conflict elements to The Universim. Previously, exiles were the ones responsible for causing trouble. Now, with this patch, we are introducing barracks to address these troublemakers. Train your military and stop aggressors from the outside. Your trained military will defend your nuggets from any kind of trouble and can also be utilized to eliminate threats from exile villages. What kind of neighbour would you be?






Exile Temples



Nuggets can leave the city based on many different factors. Your nuggets might be unhappy or lose trust in you, their creator. Despite everything, each and every nugget needs something (or someone) to believe in. With this in mind, every exile will be protected by their own creator.

There are 5 creators who possess different powers:

Thunder Emperor Baal has the ability to manipulate lightning and will obliterate their enemies with thunderstorms about their heads.

Wind Emperor Enlil possesses the power to manipulate wind and create destructive tornadoes.

Fire Emperor Amaterasu has honed their powers to rain fire down on unsuspecting nuggets.

Death Emperor Mot oversees death itself. In raising the dead, he manipulates the souls of nuggets in order to wreak havoc upon the planet.

Nature Emperor Abu oversees living creatures. Abu uses the power of nature in order to awaken an ancient creature that lives underground.



Though these creators are not as powerful as you, they certainly can cause trouble while simultaneously protecting their loyal nuggets. Their powers can be used against you and your civilization in addition to other exile villages. If you are in a good relationship with an exiled group, the creator of that exile will be benevolent towards you and your civilization. If, however, you have caused some issues, you will become a foe rather than a friend.

Each exile also has their own clothing and colors associated with their creator. Therefore, you will always know who is attacking you and who you should be aware of.



Exile Dome

Once an exile is established, it will be encompassed by the temple-created protective dome. Destroying the temple will remove the protective dome. The dome can also be destroyed by using your Creator Powers - though this may not be as easy as it sounds. It will require a vast amount of Creator Powers to bring down the dome and destroy an exiles protection. Sometimes, it is easier to send your troops to deal with the exile.



Exile Attack

Utilize different military forces to attack an exile village if it poses a threat to you or your allies. Currently, there are two different in-game unit types: soldiers and bombers. Based on the Age, soldiers will use crossbows or military grade weapons. The bombers will carry the explosive to nearby exile structures and blow them up. You can start an attack via the barracks menu at any time.



Holy Ground

Bless the ground and indicate to your nuggets where they should build their next home. Using the Holy Ground Creator Power, you can indicate the area in which nuggets should build their residential houses. Once the area is fully built, nuggets will return to placing the buildings where they left off prior to the use of Holy Ground Creator Power.



Improvements and Balance Changes

Powder Quest

The format of the powder quest was quite unique in the sense that the quest was not fully finished when certain conditions were met and, in some cases, the quest was still active for multiple hours. This caused a lot of confusion. This quest was slightly reworked and adjusted to the same standard of other quests. In other words, when the task is completed, the quest is considered to be successfully finished.

Icons to Indicate That the Mine Is Depleted

Previously, the conditions for the icon that indicates that the mine has a low amount of resources appeared too early and, therefore, caused a lot of confusion among players. All values were readjusted. A warning indicator will appear when the amount of resources underneath the mine is 100 or less. A critical warning will appear when the amount of resources underneath the mine is 50 or less. Previously, the amount was set to be at 500 and 350.

Other Improvements:

• Performance improvements
  
• Planet loading time improvements (especially for other planet sizes)
  

• Fixed: Hunters attacked Cattle Farm animals.
  
• Fixed: Power hour event was turning off buildings that didnt require electricity, thus never turning them back on after the event.
  
• Fixed: Picking up animals with a vortex Creator Power from a cattle farm caused an error to happen.
  
• Fixed: Nuggets working in the buildings will collect herbs themselves if the building is out of herbs and there are no available nuggets who can bring herbs.
  
• Fixed: While on expedition, nuggets were taking damage from different area-based damage Creator Powers (lighting strike, meteor strike, etc.)
  
• Fixed: Nuggets were getting infected from different sources while being on expedition.
  
• Fixed: Stone Age expedition debris would turn into Modern Age debris if the Modern Age expedition camp research was upgraded before the rebuild option was selected.
  
• Fixed: Missing localization from the starting advice section.
  
• Fixed: Nuggets will now cancel their dating and mating AIs if the partner is on an expedition.
  
• Fixed: Wounded nuggets were not transferred correctly when the expedition camp was destroyed/upgraded during the expedition.
  
• Fixed: Using vortex to pick up the space box caused errors.
  
• Fixed: In the quests menu (menu where all the quests are being showcased), the animation was sometimes getting stuck and, therefore, it displayed the incorrect state of the quest.
  
• Fixed: Decorative trees were missing from the residential area.
  
• Fixed: Previously, you could throw exiles and dead bodies into rehab/prison/police stations.
  
• Fixed: Missing disaster icons.
  
• Fixed: Firefighters getting stuck in non-firefighter's hut buildings.
  
• Fixed: Farm windmills pointing in random directions.
  
• Fixed: Multiple hospital doctors would target the same patient, slowing down healing and causing double herb consumption.
  
• Fixed: An issue with nuggets having crazy rotations if pausing on one side of the planet and moving over to the other side while still paused.
  
• Fixed: Meteors were clipping through the ground in some situations.
  
• Fixed: Resource statistics panel had an issue where, in some cases, it didnt correctly indicate the amount of trees and stones that were collected.
  
• Fixed: Tornado dirt on screen issue.
  
• Fixed: Instances of the Black Market not being built.
  
• Fixed: Quest-giver nuggets could have become exiled.
  
• Fixed: Healing exile nugget construction sites would create an error.
  

Hello Creators,

Today, we are celebrating our 50th patch for The Universim! WOW! Looking back, the game has evolved quite a lot, especially when adding new content via patches. This particular patch is no exception as we hope it enhances your gameplay. While we are pretty proud of the content in this 50th patch, you can be rest assured that we have plenty more in store for you and your precious nuggets. One might even say that some features will carry over onto other planets...

As always, if you have any feedback or suggestions, please join our Discord and let us know! We do our best to read each of your messages, so dont be shy in letting us know the happenings of your worlds.

Now, lets explore the content of this patch.



Cattle Farm
One of the most requested features in our community has been cattle farms - to raise your own animals and receive food in return. The cattle farm will appear during the Medieval Age and will allow you to tame wild animals for the purpose of domestication. Please note that you will only be able to domesticate herbivorous animals. In order to tame an animal, you will be required to 1) build a cattle farm and 2) find the animal in the wild. Once located, you can click on the animal you wish to domesticate and you will have the option to tame it. After a few songs and dance numbers around the animal, they will be tamed. You will now be able to tend to them on your farm!







Mini Events System
Throughout The Universim, you will encounter events that require you to make a choice. You may not have the luxury of easy choices, for everything has a consequence. Our advice to you, dear Creator, is to choose carefully and aid your nuggets when they need it the most (even the ones who get themselves into trouble).



Volcano
Proper city planning is vital for a strong civilization, now more so than ever before. Be cautious where you place your buildings or you may end up with your very own Pompeii. With this 50th patch, you now have a chance to generate an active volcano with every new world! Volcanoes go through quite the process before erupting, which is why our own eruptions occur after multiple stages. Though you may have some time before your volcano erupts, you wont want to delay protecting your civilization! Volcanoes are rather rare events on a mother planet, but it can be quite devastating on others.





Earthquake
Earthquakes are another natural disaster that can now occur on your planet. While they may not be as devastating as other Universim disasters, you will have to ensure that you have adequate engineers near the earthquake's epicenter so they can immediately repair any damages. Certain planets may have an unfavorable terrain or difficult conditions; you will later have your choice of conquering these territories or skip them altogether.



Passive Discovery Points System
Discovery points will play an important role in The Universim. The players will have a choice to either actively generate points through expeditions or passively generate them via special building types (i.e. schools and theaters). Multiple schools and theaters wont contribute to the total number of discovery points being generated, so there wont be any need to place more than the reasonable amount. You will need 1 type of each building in order to start generating passive points.





Improvements and balance changes

Help menu for the expedition camp
The expedition camp received a tutorial window which explains the overall mechanics of the camp and provides clarity for players on what to do.



Residential blocks placement
Residential blocks will be placed closer together and will attempt to occupy empty spots if they can fit. This should allow players to have more condensed cities and ultimately provide more space for other buildings.



Discovery Points for Quests and Events
Certain quests and events will award players with discovery points that can be used to unlock new perks.

Warehouse Storage
We added another requested feature from our players! The total warehouse storage capacity can now be found on the bottom of the panel, next to all of your resources. Here you can see the storage you have available and how much is occupied.



Other Improvements

• Tornadoes can no longer be trapped inside of a dome
  
• Tornadoes will now pick up trees and nuggets
  
• Farms received a food production buff
  
• The cameras position will now save with the game and load where you left off
  
• Hunters killing animals near the edge of a lake will no longer cause a lake to go toxic
  
• Players are no longer blamed for exile deaths unless they directly caused them
  
• Minor improvements to lightning
  
• Minor performance improvements
  
• Space Box UI improved
  
• 
  

[h2]Build a world with The Universim creator Alex Koshelkov. [/h2]
He'll be answering questions and hanging out with chat. Hope to see ya there!

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Hello Creators,

We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. The Crytivo team was hard at work on this upcoming patch and we are happy to introduce you to a bunch of new additions and updates.

As we work on the Space Age certain systems that will be used in that era are slowly being introduced to the early game. We hope you will enjoy this new patch and will have fun with the new mechanics.

Now lets dig in and introduce you to some of the newest features.



Expedition Camp

Strange things always draw Nuggets attention and the hole created by Sarcalass wasnt an exception. The Nuggets, in all of their wisdom, immediately started jumping down into the darkness. After a few broken bones, Nuggets finally realized they might need to be a bit more selective with who they tossed into the hole. Those chosen Nuggets returned with new and helpful items that allowed them to advance their knowledge and boost their confidence. These elite Nuggets got the name Explorer and received their own building, the Expedition Camp.




Discovery Points

As we start to move into the space age, some old and a few new technologies will use Discovery Points to unlock them. For now these points can be earned through successful Expeditions. Later on we'll be adding other ways for you to earn these same points if expeditions arent your flavor of adventure.



Clouds

Puffy and fluffy. This is how we like them. New clouds are being introduced with this patch. We changed how our cloud generation system works. Alien planets will have other worldly shapes that will dazzle your imagination. Although Mother Planet received more standard looking clouds they have a pretty cool effect when you fly through them. We cant wait for you to try and tell us what you think!



Rain and Snowfall

The revamp of clouds required us to make some changes to the existing rain system, but we didnt just rework it. We also improved it. Rain will now splash when it hits the ground or water. During winter the clouds will also snow. We think its pretty cool.



Era Changes

We made another big change that a lot of you asked for. Now you can select buildings from different eras. Customize your cities the way you want and create a unique look. Certain structures that are built automatically, like roads or the black market will still progress according to the research tree, but for any other building you can select the era you want once its unlocked.



Improvements and balance changes

Town Hall UI

Town hall UI received was reworked. Previously numbers indicated in the Town Hall UI confused some players. We changed the system, so it will use the percentage value. This percentage will indicate your total adult population that can be assigned to jobs. By default this value will stay at 75%. Which means that 25% of your population will be reserved as laborers. The system will also stop players from setting the number above 90%. This should prevent the issue where players were left with no laborers and the game progression halted.



Perks Rebalance

A good number of perks were reworked to use the new Discovery Points system, like A Dash of Lightning that arent integral to progression. This way we will be able to test out the new system but also not force players into Expeditions if they dont want to.



Planet Seed Expansion
Previously the player would get a random planet from 128 different options. The number increased to 999,999. We cant wait to see what you find!

Save System Improvement
Previously the game was allowed to have only one autosave file that was constantly rewritten. Now the game allows you to have multiple. So say you encounter a bug (what? impossible!) or wish you placed a building a hair to the left you can backtrack further from your most recent auto save. The number of auto save files can be changed in Settings / Game.

Also, while being in the save menu, you can overwrite your existing saves without a need to create new ones. AND it's even faster now. We just really wanted to save the day here. (Ill show myself out)



New Death Filters
Now you can filter what death messages you would like to receive in the message system. In Settings / News you can select to have All Death Messages On, All Deaths Messages Off, First 100 Deaths by Old Age, and No Old Age Death notifications.



Water, Food and Defense Ministers
Ministers received slight rebalances which should provide a better experience and prevent situations where you end up with no food or water. Defense Ministers will more efficiently spread defense towers across the city.


Other Improvements

• Various Graphic System Additions & Enhancements
  
• Shadow Quality Settings
  
• Anti Aliasing Settings
  
• Graphics Enhancements
  
• Grass now has shadows
  
• Improved splash effects when a Vortex ball hits the water.
  
• Settings now has a new section: Input. Anything related has been moved there.
  
• Added Mouse look sensitivity and Zoom Sensitivity.
  
• Eatery crime generation reduced.
  
• Exiles can now use the player road system and generate roads themselves.
  
• Prisons, Rehab, and Police stations will now accept nuggets dropped into them.
  
• Various improvements to the Nugget AI
  
• Exiles can no longer build over player owned areas. Players can no longer build over exile owned areas.
  
• Hunters can no longer be quest givers. This was causing... issues.
  
• The settings screen, and all options and descriptions, are now fully localized.
  
• Added better 21:9 and 32:9 support to the UI systems.
  
• The UI can now be zoomed out (shrunk) a bit more using the settings slider.
  
• Subtitles are no longer hidden when the game is paused.
  

• Fixed: Bugs with full screen camera effects that prevented them from working (ice, dust, water, etc).
  
• Fixed: Bug that prevented the screen from darkening when close to a tornado.
  
• Fixed: Vine ( root ) / hole could spawn too close to the mountain causing multiple different issues upon quest completion
  
• Fixed: A bug preventing props from collapsing. They were just vanishing.
  
• Fixed: Orders in the black market could have been duplicated.
  
• Fixed: Creator light was not working properly with the grass in the game.
  
• Fixed: Bug that prevented a cursor to disappear in free look mode or panning the camera.
  
• Fixed: Bug that causes some planets to load for an extremely long time in some rare cases.
  
• Fixed: Several bugs with Tesla's battery quest. Including one that prevented the player from progressing in both the quest and the research screen.
  
• Fixed: Several bugs with the Creator Power wheel. Once of which could cause the powers to get stuck and not be able to select other powers.
  
• Fixed: Exile demand bugs. They can no longer demand 0 resources. If the demand is 0. It will not be shown on the screen. They can no longer demand an outrageous amount of resources.
  
• Fixed: A bug that allowed building ghosters to rotate too fast (on very powerful systems) when pressing Q or E.
  
• Fixed: Some bugs with Shadow Distancing not working properly after loading a planet.
  
• Fixed: Auto Reconnect to Twitch. If you are disconnected. The game will keep trying to reconnect to twitch for 30 seconds before timing out
  
• Fixed: A bug when TKing a nugget, from a boat, using the quick TK option.
  
• Fixed: Various bug fixes to TK/Vortex
  

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Hello Creators,

Our new patch is here. Since our last one, we've made huge strides in development. Some of it you will be able to see now, some are getting polished and will be ready in the next patch, and others we will tell you about in the future.

With this patch, we expanded our tutorial system, increased performance, and added building upgrades. We are also adding some additional life improvement features that hopefully will make everyones experience more pleasant. A lot of those systems in this patch were requested by you on our discord, steam, and social media. We are extremely grateful to have such a great community and well keep working with you in order to create the best possible experience for everyone.

Thank you for your ongoing support and we hope that you enjoy this patch and we'd appreciate it if you'd leave us a review on Steam.



Now let's dive in.



Expedition Quest
Nuggets have always been curious about the world around and above them, but it is time for them to finally meet the thing that lies below. This quest is a part of a major mechanic that will be expanded on in the next patch. Prepare to dive deep underground and help your nuggets during their journey.



Shortcut System
Who doesnt like taking a shortcut from time to time? By toggling on the shortcut menu with x the player can turn on a labeling system that will show them how to select menus and buildings with just a few keystrokes. For example, pressing B-1-1 will bring up an engineer hut ready to be placed.



Tutorials ( Part 2 )
We are continuing to expand our tutorial system. For the second part of this expansion, we added additional 6 different tutorials that will explain mechanics in the game such as:

• Reservoirs and how they operate
  
• Engineer Huts explanation
  
• Explanation for the radius around certain buildings and how they influence the gameplay
  
• Where to find the expanded building functionality
  
• How to assign nuggets to buildings
  
• How to get additional herbs to the hospital and why your hospitals might have an issue
  
• Infection and how to fight it
  

• Fixed: Main Menu planet had a wrong season
  
• Fixed: Issue when certain seeds of the planet will keep repeating despite starting a new game
  
• Fixed: Interaction with trees in certain cases produced an error, which was breaking save files
  
• Fixed: Incorrect tree textures on birch trees
  
• Fixed: Shader used for the main menu planet was breaking on certain PCs
  
• Fixed: An issue where not all objects were cleared up by nuggets when the building was placed on top of them
  
• Fixed: An issue when the dead animal was not removed from the pool of animals and nuggets would get stuck in an infinite hunting loop
  
• Fixed: After killing an animal, nuggets would not bring food back
  
• Fixed: In certain cases roads were able to stop the bridge placement
  
• Fixed: Bridge constructions sites now have a hover outline
  
• Fixed: Bridge and roads were not reconnecting when the road position was updated
  
• Fixed: Damage dealt to the nugget health was not calculated properly
  
• Fixed: Lens Flare effects were bleeding through the planet
  
• Fixed: Nuggets names were not updated in the residential tooltips
  
• Fixed: An issue that would prevent the completion of the Finish House quest.
  
• Fixed: Visual bug that was appearing when you try to enter the escape menu during a tutorial transition
  
• Fixed: Search in the nugget list panel was not working correctly
  
• Fixed: Building Status Icons were sometimes blinking
  
• Fixed: Saving the game while load screen was opened, caused a broken save file
  
• Fixed: Ecology panel sometimes caused an error that lead to a corrupt save file
  
• Fixed: Tornado creator power had a chance to spawn multiple Tornados if the creator power was used in quick succession.
  
• Fixed: Evolution tower could have been placed while being in the ESC menu
  
• Fixed: Localization in the garage display panel
  
• Fixed: Using the vortex creator power above the eatery to get cooked food and after that dropping them on the ground, caused an error that was breaking the game
  
• Fixed: Picking up a space box with a vortex and then dropping it while pressing Press F to fly to, caused the space box to get stuck
  
• Fixed: Using Vortex about the factory caused nuggets to get picked up as well
  
• Fixed: Using Vortex above the lake calculated the usage of creator points incorrectly
  
• Fixed: Picking up fruits from one bush sometimes caused other bushes to react as if the fruit was picked up from them as well
  
• Fixed: Telekinesis system was not cleared correctly after it was canceled and code kept the reference from the previous object causing Unable to pick up effect.
  
• Fixed: Extreme jittering in certain cases when the Vortex creator power was used
  
• Fixed: Bug that caused tooltips to stay open on the screen
  
• Fixed: Cupidon Rainbow effect was getting stuck on the screen
  
• Fixed: Bug where nuggets would get trapped in the bunker
  
• Fixed: Battery parts from the quest were not saved to the save file properly, causing the failure of the quest
  
• Fixed: Bug that prevented the Ministers of Water from placing pumps in the Stone Age
  
• Fixed: Bug that prevented the Minister of Agriculture from properly placing food production buildings
  

Hello Creators,

This is our first patch in 2021. Yay! We hope everyone was able to see The Universim special event during New Years day. If not, dont worry, you can see what you missed in the short gif below.



After everyone was done celebrating on January 2nd, we got back to work on a bunch of improvements and even some new systems.

We know a good number of you cant wait for Space age to be released, and honestly neither can we. But we ask you to bear with us a little bit longer. Every system and every bug fix brings us one step closer to that goal. We want to release Space when its ready, so that youll have a great time playing The Universim and exploring new planets endlessly. You may have noticed that our patches are a little bit smaller as of late. This is due to us shifting more forces to work on Space Age in order to release them in the shortest possible time, while still providing new features and life improvement changes to the game. We are extremely thankful for your support. As always, if you enjoy the game, make sure to leave us a review on Steam!



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Garages
We had roads, we had cars, but no parking space for them? Welp we had to fix this issue. Garages will provide a limited number of cars that your nuggets can use. Based on the era you are in, garages will consume either oil or fuel in order to function properly. If youre out of those resources, your nuggets will have to learn to walk again. But if you have amazing oil magnate skills, you wont have to worry about that issue! Each garage will display the total number of resources that are being consumed by all of your garages on the billboard. Individual garage stats can be seen by opening the garage panel itself.




Medieval Cars
Time to get rolling with Steam! Let us introduce you to our own interpretation of cars in the Medieval era! You heard it right. Your nuggets will be able to get a headstart with that technology and start driving in the Medieval era. Maybe those cars are not as efficient as Modern cars, but they definitely can beat pedestrians in a race.



Telekinesis (Vortex Power)
For a very long time we wanted to simplify the collection of resources via creator powers. Telekinesis provided great interactions with the world and individual objects, but it was far away from the best tool to use in order to bring all the materials to a construction site. For this patch we decided to change that and expand on our Telekinesis creator power. By pressing and holding telekinesis for a longer time, youll be able to create a vortex that is so strong, that it will suck everything nearby into a whirlwind. In addition to picking up Nuggets, stones, and trees, youll be able to grab whats made in buildings like, refined wood and stone, metal, glass, cement and etc. Then with those resources in your creator clutches, youll be able to supply a construction site or a building upgrade. Just be careful that no nuggets are being harmed during your use of your fancy new creator power! With great power comes great well, you get the idea.



Water System Improvement
As we are working on some new alien planets, we had a need to expand our functionality with water. Starting from this patch, you will be able to use the Vortex to pick up water in the oceans and move it wherever you need it.

Tutorials ( Part 1 )
New features and mechanics are always cool and exciting to work with, but we wanted to make sure that anyone who picks up our game will know what to do. Whats the best way to ensure that? Of course tutorials. Starting from this patch, we will be adding tutorials for the most confusing systems and mechanics in the game. This will be an ongoing task for us. For this patch, we created a backbone system for our tutorials and added some basic ones. Next patch will expand on that system and provide even more content for our new players. But if this isnt your first time ruling over Mother Planet, or if you're that kind of daredevil, youll have the option to turn them off when starting a new game.



Brightness Setting
We received a lot of feedback after we released our last patch about the brightness in the game. Since everyone has various monitors, the brightness is different for each player. For some our standard setting was perfect, but for others it was not so good. We decided to hand over that control to the player and added a Brightness Setting screen. We hope this improvement makes your day a little brighter, or darker, or somewhere in between. ;)



Improvements and balance changes

Snow Changes

Some players reported that winter was too bright and buildings were too hard to find. Our initial intent was to create a cold feeling for the player, but in the process we overshot it. The brightness of snow was reduced and it wont cover 100% of the buildings anymore making them more visible.



Static Combine

We added a very experimental setting to the game that can be found in the gameplay settings. The setting is called Static Combine. It basically allows the game to combine multiple similar objects into one, which increases the overall performance of the game. The biggest performance improvement we saw was on the lower end machines, but since this is still experimental and we can only test on so many computers, we wanted to make sure people could still play the game if something goes wrong.

Building Progress

Previously all the buildings that were built automatically (Black Market, Temple etc.) the player couldnt tell how long it would take to finish. Now clicking those buildings will show the construction progress.

Status Icons interaction

You can use creator powers on Status Icons in order to interact with its associated building. For example, you can use Healing creator power in order to restore the durability of the building. Regular clicking on an icon will still bring your camera to it.

Bug Fixes:

Fixed: Korean language had major issues with the characters display
Fixed: Removed outdated Narrator Dialogue regarding wells in the game
Fixed: UFOs caused nuggets to get stuck in the fearing state and caused UFO itself to get stuck in one place
Fixed: CP usage error when a very small amount of trees was created
Fixed: Bug that would cause the Camera to get stuck when LMB and RMB were pressed at once.
Fixed: Quest Givers sometimes would end up underground
Fixed: Bugs related to Tesla quest, which caused the disappearance of the parts and not being able to complete the quest
Fixed: Debris
Fixed: Visual bug fixes related to roads and bridges
Fixed: Visual / Shadow / snow issues on medieval bridges
Fixed: Name a nugget quest could have been completed by renaming the same nugget twice
Fixed: Planet filters incorrectly displayed information in certain cases
Fixed: Visual and performance issues related to the toxic lakes
Fixed: Bug that was crashing twitch integration system when invalid characters were used in OAuth field.
Fixed: Certain sounds in the game were extremely loud compared to other in game sounds.

Thank you guys a lot for all your feedback, positivity and support. It means a lot to us and we are working extremely hard to deliver the best possible experience while playing The Universim. Let us know how you feel about our improvements and if we nailed it. Your feedback means a lot to us and we take it seriously.



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Hello Creators,

From our entire team, we would like to wish you a Happy New Year and Happy Holidays!
We worked really hard this year and are eager to bring you even more amazing content next year!

Before saying goodbye to 2020, we prepared one last patch that brings with it some major life improvements and some changes that people were waiting for. Plus we left you a nice surprise that youll be able to see in the game during the night on the 31 of December & 1st of January.



Now let's dive in.



Filter System
We added a new filter system that allows you to easily see the current status of your city, nuggets, and buildings in the world space. For example this will help you identify areas with a high density of hunger or deteriorating buildings so that you can add another food source or Engineer hut.



Similar Buildings Location Filter



On top of the filter above, we added another one that will highlight the same type of building as the one you have selected to place. This should allow you to nicely spread your hospitals, eateries and other necessary buildings for your civilization across your planet.



Debris System



We added a Debris system. Previously when a building was destroyed, you were not able to identify which one it was unless you manually checked the news archive. Now, when the building is destroyed manually or by any unnatural cause (twitch #explode, lightning strike, meteor, exiles etc), it will leave debris. You will be able to click on them and select 3 different options as well as to see what building was destroyed:
- Clear
- Salvage
- Rebuild

Clear option will allow you to clear those debris.

Salvage option will allow you to receive partial cost of the building

Rebuild will allow you to rebuild the same building. In that case, resources that were supposed to be salvaged, would be automatically applied.

If debris is ignored, it will slowly disappear over time. If it does disappear, you wont receive any resources back. Once a building is destroyed the longer you wait the less resources you will receive from salvaging or to rebuilding it. In short, the longer you will wait the less resources you will be able to salvage.

Black Market
We added some additional visual improvements to the black market. You will now see what causes the black market to appear.

Improvements and balance changes

• Roads were polished a bit more and we fixed multiple issues connected to them.
  
• Minor performance fixes
  
• Minor memory usage optimization
  
• Props can no longer spawn on roads or other places where they dont belong
  
• New road shapes were added which allows more curvature for the roads
  

• Fixed: Kickstart creator power prevented nuggets from eating and drinking
  
• Fixed: Road segments were breaking due to large curvature angles
  
• Fixed: Fixed an issue that was causing an infinite save load
  
• Fixed: Minor visual issues related to the UFOs crashing
  
• Fixed: Redesigned Eatery drinking meter that was not displaying the amount of water correctly
  
• Fixed: Low environment level did not influence exile nuggets at all
  
• Fixed: The player was able to pick up rocks from inside the construction zones
  
• Fixed: Cemetery grave slots were cleared too fast
  
• Fixed: Residential Blocks were able to overlap each other and overlap with other buildings as well
  
• Fixed: Various UI windows had a chance to close unexpectedly without a player interacting with them
  
• Fixed: Gravediggers has a chance of losing bodies when they were switched back and forth between a car and a nugget
  
• Fixed: In certain situations, it was not possible to drop a nugget while being close to the ground
  

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Hello Creators,

We hope you are staying safe with all that is going on in the world. While were still working full speed on Space Age, we put a lot of effort into this patch enhancing performance during the late game as well as some life changing improvements that a lot of you were asking for.

And as you know, our developers are on a marathon, doing everything possible to win over you and your support. Every time you leave a review for us on steam we pop a mini champagne, and feed our pocket giraffes with skittles, everyone just gets so much happier. And if today you have a few minutes to spare and have been enjoying what we do, leave us a review on steam. Lets make our pocket giraffes happy!





Performance
We spend a lot of time trying to bring all things together and improve the performance as much as possible. There are still some bits and bobs that can be improved, but we worked our booties off with this patch and improved the performance by more than 120%. This should provide a better experience later in the game on top end machines and especially on lower end machines.

Black Market




Throughout time theres always been someone in a back alley willing to get the supplies you needed at a cost. In The Universim the Black Market will be auto constructed and upgraded at various points offering a variety of interesting resources for you to buy from 4 different traders. Each trader will be unlocked as you progress through the eras, selling wares that you might need to upgrade your buildings.

All the resources are traded for Nuggets, Ecology, Creator Powers or even disasters. But are you willing to pay the price ?

Kinetic Generator



Nuggets spent a lot of time practicing their running skills inside these wooden hamster wheels. Now it's time for a modern age upgrade. A new building will provide a safer and more efficient environment.

Roads are now connected to the bridges



As we introduced the roads, we had to iterate over them a couple of times in order to polish how theyre structured and improve the overall algorithm that is responsible for the road generation. During this month we worked on one of those improvements that allows roads to smoothly connect to bridges and resolve multiple potential problems with the roads and additional systems in the future.

Key Features:

• Outline buildings and objects. All the objects which you can interact with in the game will be highlighted when the moused over. These features will be ON by default, but it can be turned off in settings/game.
  

• Unlocking a new building now has an animation that plays when you first open the building menu. This should allow you to easily detect when a new building was unlocked.
  

• The Creator Points generation setting was added to the Game Customization screen when you start a new game. Now you will be able to choose to play either with a normal CP generation rate, increased CP generation rate (2x speed) or Unlimited CP generation rate.
  

• Shortcuts for creator powers now exist on each nugget info panel, population log and on building worker slots
  

• Kickstarter Creator Power received an improvement and can be used on an area
  

• Nuggets affected by the Kickstarter power will have Red Halo above their heads
  
• Kickstarter Creator power now will freeze all nuggets stats except their age status and health
  
• This power will constantly drain nuggets health. Make sure to not over use it.
  
• Kickstarter will improve nuggets movement speed, increase their strength and carry capacity
  

• Healing creator power received an improvement and can be used on an area
  

• Nuggets healed by the creator power will receive a white halo above their heads for a short period of time
  
• Creator power now allows you to heal all nuggets in the specified area.
  

• Each building received a hyperlink for its respective perk that unlocks it. Clicking on it will open Research panel and show where the perk is located
  
• Priority button added to the building upgrades which will allow you to prioritize the upgrades
  

• Nugget AI for delivery reworked and improved which will improve the timing on resource delivery
  
• CP generation will now be shown in CP per minute inside the temple
  
• CP granted for Sacrifices will be displayed in the Temple
  
• Added insects that will be flying during night time next to the street lights
  
• There is a chance that after cutting a tree stumps will stay on the ground
  
• Fly To event now can be interrupted by using scroll on your mouse
  
• Wind and Kinetic Generators received a shlight rebalance which improve their energy generation speed
  
• Modern Wind Generator is now available to be built in the early modern era
  
• Stone age engineering huts received an additional slot for the engineer
  
• Stone and Wood refineries output increased by 40%
  
• Adahy and Elus strength has been increased from the range 2-5 to 4-6 in order to provide a consistent start of the game as well as to increase the speed in the beginning of the game.
  
• Improved Food Production System that will send only a couple of nuggets at a time to gather food instead of sending all available nuggets to gather it
  
• Cook, Doctor / Shaman, Gravedigger will go and collect resources themselves if there are no laborers available to collect resources needed for them.
  
• Farms will display an icon above them if the crop was not selected
  
• Animals being hunted by Hunters will now have an icon above them
  
• If an animal is extinct, the Hunters hut will have an icon indicating this. Hunters wont do anything until a new animal type is selected.
  
• Resource tooltips now include materials for upgrades
  

• Fixed: Issue where nuggets should ignore the nearby resource and move to pickup the resources further on due to incorrect computation error.
  
• Fixed: Issue that would cause multiple errors in the game when the game was loaded with fire in it
  
• Fixed: In certain situations roads were generated incorrectly when the evolution tower was placed
  
• Fixed: Crytivo Club was not showing up when the game was loaded
  
• Fixed: Renaming the buildings was not working properly
  
• Fixed: Nuggets repeatedly were reentering roads
  
• Fixed: Wind was updated incorrectly, which was causing wind related buildings to work incorrectly
  
• Fixed: Killing an Alpha wolf during wolf attack would not kill the wolf actor and upon load it was causing major errors in the game
  
• Fixed: Upgrading a building would trigger the Building was destroyed message in the news channel.
  
• Fixed: Nugget thumbnail was not displayed correctly in the houses
  
• Fixed: Nuggets were stopping their movement when the new request was taken
  
• Fixed: Certain parts of the roads blueprint were incorrectly removed from the game upon placing a new construction zone on top of them
  
• Fixed: Oppress Health stat effect on nuggets was incorrectly working with Hospitals which caused nuggets to get stuck inside the hospital
  
• Fixed: Camera movement was not paused when different popup windows were on the screen, such as creator power carousel, quest log screen, research screen etc.
  
• Fixed: Picked nuggets in certain cases would go underground and they would continue walking underground
  
• Fixed: Following the nuggets and picking him up during the camera follow: event would break the camera and it would try to follow the cursor instead
  
• Fixed: Stuck matchmaking lines over Le Cupidon nuggets
  
• Fixed: Multiple panel sorting issues when the Research panel was opened
  
• Fixed: Missing nuggets status while being in Prison or Rehabilitation Center
  
• Fixed: Adahy and Elu appearance was different from the menu start screen upon loading the game
  
• Fixed: Farms without water would produce news messages that would never disappear from the screen causing news messages to stack and cover the majority of the screen space
  
• Fixed: Confetti upon landing the successful shot would spawn in the incorrect location
  
• Fixed: Some road nodes were duplicated causing errors upon loading the game
  
• Fixed: Relationships with exiles were not changed upon killing exile nuggets
  
• Fixed: Terrain deformation near the roads was causing nuggets to start waking up in the air
  
• Fixed: Le Cupidon matchmaking lines did not disappear upon partner sudden death
  
• Fixed: Overpacked quest would break if it was loaded from the saved game
  
• Fixed: Residential building panel was using upgrade panel instead of its own panel
  
• Fixed: In certain cases road nodes were created underground, which would cause nuggets to go underground
  
• Fixed: Some animals animations were incorrectly working when the game speed was increased
  
• Fixed: Incorrect birds animations
  
• Fixed: Kickstarter creator power was not adding bonus stats correctly
  
• Fixed: Planet nodes which are being used by nuggets were not always updated correctly, leading nuggets to wander around
  
• Fixed: Error that was happening when the roads were building during paused game
  
• Fixed: Electrical parts from Tesla Quest and Delivery packages from Overpacked quests could have been dropped through the ground, leading to the quest failure
  
• Fixed: Law was not always taking an effect when the candidate was selected during the election process.
  
• Fixed: Bug that was preventing various roads segments to not but built
  
• Fixed: Overpacked quests was not spawning packages if the building was placed too close to the roads
  
• Fixed: Nugget clothes not being set correctly when nuggets changed their jobs
  
• Fixed: Nuggets would not receive clothing when the research for clothing was complete
  
• Fixed: Issue where the roads could end up above or below the ground
  
• Fixed: Issue where very long roads were generated automatically without the players input
  
• Fixed: Issue where decoding a spacebox had the lowest priority and therefore it was taking a long time to do so.
  
• Fixed: Planet environment will always start at 100%
  
• Fixed: Nuggets will no longer wander the entire planet when the city is low on food. They will still try to search for food, but they wont go across the planet just .
  
• Fixed: Houses did not correctly display Nuggets status
  
• Fixed: Error that was appearing when Explosion of the nugget was caused by Twitch viewer
  
• Fixed: Animals will no longer be extremely stretched when thrown
  

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[h3]Hello Creators,[/h3]

We hope youve had fun watching your Nuggets truck along the roads and are ready to play with a new bunch of features. Plus a bunch of bugs was hunted down and squished. Our developers worked really hard to deliver the most stable and fun version of The Universim yet.

Below are some key features that were added or improved in the game. As usual, we ask you to leave us a review on Steam if you enjoy what we do. We have really exciting stuff coming your way very, very soon.


Alrighty, lets get to it:

[h3]New Main Menu Screen[/h3]

The entire Main Menu and Settings were redesigned and improved. Now its more clear and hopefully easier to navigate. We will continue improving your user experience as we develop, but at the same time let us know on a discord if there is something missing from our settings.



[h3]Game Customization Screen[/h3]

Natural Disasters

Youve been asking us to add the ability to play without natural disasters for a while and its finally here! Now you can choose how often youll have them. You can set it to Never, which pretty much means what it says - disasters will never happen on your planet. You can keep it on Occasional - this is what we recommend for a balanced experience, or Often - for the players who like it extra spicy.

Wild Animals Attacks

On top of choosing the frequency of the disasters, you can also choose how often Wild animals attack your village. It can also be Often, Occasional or set to Never happen.

Exile Attacks

And finally, you can also tweak Exile attacks with similar parameters.

We know you wanted these options for a while and we spent a good amount of time making the game fun and engaging no matter what you chose. We hope youll love it and of course were open for feedback. Let us know on discord.





Nugget Traits

We know a good number of you play The Universim a lot, replaying it over and over and over. To help you keep things fresh, were adding the ability for you to customize your Nuggets skin tones along with starting Nugget Traits. These Traits will alter your gameplay, check out what our internal QA Team had to say about them:

True Believer: This is an easy mode trait. This trait brings in a lot of extra CP when starting a new game. This can help the player in many different areas. The downside is that there will be more UFOs that can steal Nuggets away.

Arnold: A fun Easy Mode trait. It allows things to be delivered faster which speeds up the early part of the game. However, they also eat a lot of food and tire easily.

Matenator: A very fun trait. Also easy mode. This also speeds up the early part of the game by greatly increasing population for a few generations until it breeds/dies out. This is a great trait for those players who struggle with population early in the game. The downside is that these Nuggets will die from exhaustion before their time, and they also eat a lot of food!

Fugitive: Fun and Easy mode trait as Nuggets move fast for a few generations. However, Nuggets may steal some of your resources!

Nugg Norris: This is a hard mode trait. Nuggets start off very strong, and they can build things very fast. However, Nuggets severely damage other Nuggets for a few generations. This can cause many injuries and death. So be careful!

Greenlander: At a glance, this trait may seem easy to play, but it is not. While these Nuggets will create trees, they have shorter lifespans and consume a lot of water.

Highlander: This is an easy/normal mode trait as it boosts the population early in the game. It's REALLY fun when Elderly mating is active and all the old Highlander's breed. However, if one gets infected, it can RAPIDLY spread. The player must be vigilant to keep any potential infections from starting or spreading.

Coffin Dodger: This is the hardest trait in the game to play. Once zombies start to spread, it can be an incredible challenge to bring them under control and may burn a lot of CP. This is recommended for more hardcore players.

Each Trait will need to be unlocked by playing the game.

We will continue reviewing Traits, and potentially adding new ones, if you guys will like em. Please let us know on our Discord if you have any ideas what Traits we can add or change in the future.


[h3]Overpacked Quest [/h3]

An enterprising Nugget wants your help to open his business. In order to do so, you need to place a Couriers hut and deliver the boxes to appropriate mailboxes.


[h3]Sitting On Powder Quest[/h3]

Nuggets may not have arms, but that doesnt mean they cant be armed. One Nugget who is Pro Gun is asking for you to help elect the Pro Gun candidate.

[h3]Improvements and balance changes[/h3]
Merge of Wells and Reservoirs

Wells and Reservoirs are now merged into a single building. Previously, having two buildings would often confuse everyone. Since both buildings functionality is to preserve water, one building provided water purely for the buildings, while wells provided water only for Nuggets. We decided to simplify that aspect of the game and merged those two buildings into one. Now the well part of the building will take water from the reservoir that is being filled with water pumps.





Perk Finder

With each patch, the amount of perks was only increasing, and it got to the point where it was a chore to find it in the research tree. This is why we decided to add some extra help that allows a player to find and identify the needed perk. Each perk description now has a small eye icon next to the Perk Requirement. Clicking on that eye will bring you to the required perk.



Improved trait / skin color inheritance

Due to the addition of the customization screen before the game starts, we also reviewed how our traits and skin color were passed on, and we decided to improve that aspect of the game as well. Previously, your Nuggets would get the trait from their parents no matter what, and therefore, your civilization was always limited to a certain amount of traits. The current system provides a high chance of passing one of the parents traits, but it also has a chance to generate a new one or be left out without a trait.

Skin color of the Nuggets, similar to traits, was passed down based on the parents color skin. It was either from a father or a mother. We added some changes to the system, and now it will take a middle color between two colors of your parents. This way their kids can have slightly different shades of the colors based on their parents skin color.



Street lights Simulation

Previously, all street lights located on the modern roads were turned on all at once when night time was falling. It created an illusion of a lightbulb that would turn on immediately when you flip a switch. It was breaking the immersion of the game and didn't feel right. We added some randomization to it. Now certain lights might flikker on while others will turn on after a short delay.



Fish respawn in the lakes

To our surprise, this was one of the most asked for features to be added to the game. When the lake/ocean would dry out, all the fish would be destroyed and never replenished. This was causing a lot of players to constantly build and destroy their fishing piers. With the new system, the fish will regenerate back to its original state based on the amount of water in the lake. So if the lake does not have water, there wont be any fish, but as you add more and more water, the fish will start regenerating slowly, and based on the amount of water the regeneration, speed will be increased.

Construction pause button

This is another request that was asked for on multiple occasions. Sometimes, when a lot of buildings are placed all at once, Nuggets will do their best to build all the buildings in order they were placed. But if there were not enough resources for the first placed building, they would try to deliver resources that they have to other buildings. In some situations this caused a pretty long delay for that first building. The Pause button allows you to stop the construction, and any delivery of the resources. Now Nuggets will concentrate on the other buildings that are being constructed first.

Save Game option

The Save Game option was added to the ESC menu. It will be available immediately after the epicenter is placed. A lot of players, who were not familiar with the game, were struggling with our unique saving system. Quite often, it led to frustration and confusion. We reviewed that system and added a save game option to the ESC menu. The Archive is still being used to autosave the game, but you no longer need to place it in order to save the game.

Continue button was added to the Main Menu

Youll now find a new continue button that allows you to continue from your last saved game, getting players back to their game faster.

Save Filters

Buildings Menu and Nuggets Menu will save the filters now for 5 minutes before being reset to default settings. Previously, opening one of those windows, selecting certain filters, and then closing it would reset all the filters immediately and you had to go through this whole process once again. Not any more.

UI Scaling & Saving Settings

While completely reworking the settings screen, we also went through our current settings and made sure that they are all working properly. Besides that, we also tested our UI scaling on very high and low resolutions and adjusted our UI to work correctly.

Improved Nuggets speed on the road

Roads will provide an additional speed to Nuggets which will allow your Nuggets to zip around your sprawling world and transport materials more quickly.

Improved Couriers and General Transportation AI

We reviewed the efficiency of our Nuggets delivering resources to their destination and found some aspects that needed to be improved. Couriers and Nuggets that transport resources will choose the most efficient route to deliver resources to the destination based on a score system that evaluates distance, the amount of Nuggets that are delivering those resources as well as other Nugget needs.

Improved Engineers AI

With additions of the roads, instead of helping our engineer Nuggets, it actually increased the travel time for them due to incorrect building prioritization by engineers. We reviewed & improved AI in order to make sure that they will always select the most efficient path to the buildings, and they will make a better decision on which building they should be fixing next based on the distance, building health, and their needs.

Option to disable camera shake

Out settings received an additional setting for people who have motion sickness. Now you will be able to turn off camera shake when you bump into the buildings or when any explosions or rumblings are happening in the game.

[h3]Additional Improvements[/h3]

-Construction supporters are limited to 10
-Nuggets will be removed from the buildings if it is being turned off manually by the player
-If crop is not selected, farm will display an icon above it
-Nuggets drink twice as fast as before
-ars and Roads appear at the same time after industrialization perk is researched
-Building Boundary Changes
We heard you say that buildings were spread too far apart - especially on the shorelines. Pumps and Fishing Huts can now be placed much closer together. Regular buildings had the needed space between them reduced by 50%. This will also allow you to build a bit closer to roads as well.


[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed: The roads were not showing up properly for hardware supported mac users.
  
• Fixed: Dead Nugget quest did not trigger a second part of the quest which led to the quest failure.
  
• Fixed: Le Cupidon would cause connection lines between Nuggets to stay on the screen.
  
• Fixed: Nuggets in some cases would not select the best and optimal way to reach a resource
  
• Fixed: The game had a chance to crash if it was saved and loaded while buildings and ground were on fire.
  
• Fixed: Road would not be correctly built based on evolution tower placement
  
• Fixed: In some cases Crytivo Club on the main screen would not show up
  
• Fixed: Rename a Nugget quest could have been completed by utilizing Nuggets found in the space box
  
• Fixed: Nuggets sometimes would repeatedly reenter the road
  
• Fixed: Construction site supporters would not show up immediately when assigned to the construction site
  
• Fixed: Building area radius would blink when clicked at night time
  
• Fixed: Random Nuggets and hunters were getting stuck on the roads
  
• Fixed: Building ghosters would not scale correctly on certain resolutions
  
• Fixed: Multiple issues with culling system that would remove parts of the world objects from the screen
  
• Fixed: Nugget would get stuck if a building was shut off while he was heading to it
  
• Fixed: Added the correct Blizzard sound
  
• Fixed: Camera sometimes would flip over when Fly To button was clicked in order to move to an important location
  
• Fixed: Creator powers would not work consistently during pause menu
  
• Fixed: Nuggets tooltip staying up on a screen from the Nugget panel
  
• Fixed: Graveyards would keep slots reserved even after the grave disappeared, preventing new Nuggets to be added to the graveyard
  
• Fixed: Unable to cancel archive while it is being constructed
  
• Fixed: Quest icons did not show up consistently on the game load
  
• Fixed: Nuggets would proceed going to the hospital despite being healed before reaching it
  
• Fixed: Exile Airport had a status icon that indicated no water or electricity
  
• Fixed: Exile village orators and priest were constantly adding a negative effect which was breaking the game after some time
  
• Fixed: Incorrect Archive Icon
  
• Fixed: Pre-Medieval warehouse was missing the storage space for the glass
  
• Fixed: Firefighters modern building was unlockable without unlocking prior age building
  
• Fixed: Grass was not appearing in the game
  
• Fixed: Incorrect windows sporting while being in the construction menu
  
• Fixed: Connect Button to twitch would not always be clickable
  
• Fixed: Twitch Connection Issues
  
• Fixed: Drinking water in wells carries over between upgrades
  
• Fixed: Incorrect name handling during Twitch Integration
  
• Fixed: Nugget kids were able to wonder underground in some cases
  
• Fixed: Icon filter in the Nuggets menu
  

• Completely redesigned Main Menu
  
• Completely redesigned Settings Menu
  
• New Nugget customization screen that includes Nuggets Skin Color Tone Picker and disaster frequencies selections toggles.
  
• Unique Nugget Traits perks design
  
• Redesigned and merged water well with water reservoir UI Panel
  
• New - Farm No Crop Selected Icon
  
• Redesigned and Merged Water Well and Water Reservoir 3D models for Stone Age, Medieval and Modern Ages
  

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Hello Creators,

First of all we hope you, your family, and friends are doing alright during difficult times. We hope the new content update for The Universim helps make your days a tad brighter. Were excited to let you finally play with the Road system and the other features that made it into this patch.

Before you hop in reading about all the awesomeness we would like to ask our passionable fans to leave us a review on Steam if youre enjoying the game and didnt have time to review it, you can do it here.



Alrighty, lets get to it:

Roads

The wait is finally over. Our engineering team was hard at work adding a magnificent, extremely challenging, road system over the past few months. Were finally happy with our progress to let you play with the roads and let us know what you think. Keep in mind that this is going to be an initial (beta) release of this system so we expect that you may experience some bugs or issues, but hopefully not. If you do experience any issues, please make sure to let us know about them on our Discord Channel here.





In the future updates roads will be connected to the bridges and tunnels built by you or Nuggets. Were also planning to add smaller roads that will connect key structures to bigger roads.



The Nuggets Fierce Enemy Quest

A new quest has been added to the game. Youll come across Nuggets in need of your help to tear down some trees that they consider their mortal enemies (weird right?) Help them tear down those tall monsters of bark and leaves!



The Last Exhibitionist Quest

After the development of Clothing, a certain Nugget refuses to conform to society and adopt clothing. They say I came into this world naked, and Ill remain that way. However, its really getting awkward, and they arent exactly a sight to behold. You will need to convince this Nugget to learn the benefits of clothing and get them to join in on the clothing revolution.



Motorcycles!

Vroom, vroom! Youve been playing with trucks for a while, so we decided to spice things up and add motor bikes that Nuggets can use to cruise down the brand new roads. More variations in transportation are coming your way soonish that will add a bit of carbon monoxide into the fresh air of your future civilization, but hey your Nuggets will definitely look way cooler.



Nugget Stories

With an addition of the Nugget Stories window that allows you to track your progress, our art department knocked out an image for almost every single quest that we have. So now you'll be able to reflect on your awesomeness in style! Please, give some love to our art department.




Crytivo Club

For all those who love to unlock cool stuff, participate in our closed tests, and receive news before everyone, we added some improvements to the Crytivo Club system. Now you can finally restore your lost password with ease. We also added a way for you to resend the confirmation email in order to activate your Crytivo Club account.

If you're not in da Club yet cut the line while the bouncers arn't looking . Join now to unlock exclusive content in your favoritve Crytivo Games, receive Free Games, participate in a Giveaways and Incentives. Receive invites to test latest and sometimes secret Games that Crytivo or our Partners Develop.




Improvements and balance changes


Exile Villages

To make your life easier, we now marking Orators and Priests from exile villages to help you to spot them easily and take appropriate (or not so much) measures against them.




Global Temperature

While the world is concerned with global warming, we had a problem with global freezing in The Universim. We reviewed the global temperature system and fine tuned the numbers in order to make your seasons slightly more comfortable for a playthrough.



Energy

Based on our analytics, a lot of our creators are just in love with Wind Turbines. We wanted to review our energy system and improve certain electrical buildings. Almost all of the energy generators received substantial buffs which means you wont have to worry about your electricity as much as you did. But dont get fooled, there is still plenty of work to be done to help your civilization thrive.

• Medieval Wind Turbines wind resistance changed from 4 -> 4.2
  
• Modern Wind turbines received a slight bonus to the wind resistance 4 -> 4.6 points.
  
• Kinetic Generators no longer do any harm to the environment.
  
• Kinetic Generators output increased from 25 -> 35 points
  
• Gas plant received a debuff and its energy output was decreased from 300 -> 200
  

• Stone Age water pump production rate increased from 20 -> 30
  
• Pre-medieval water pump production rate increased from 60 -> 80
  
• Medieval water pump production rate increased from 90 -> 120
  
• Modern Water pump production rate increased from 150 -> 180
  

• Stone Age reservoir capacity increased from 30000 -> 40000
  
• Pre-Medieval reservoir capacity increased from 45000 -> 60000
  
• Medieval reservoir capacity increased from 60000 -> 100000
  
• Modern Reservoir capacity increased from 90000 -> 150000
  

• Added the ability to click on any icons above the buildings in order to Fly To those buildings.
  
• During disasters all Nuggets wont prioritize one bunker. Instead they will evaluate each available bunker and slots in the bunker and make a smart decision where they should go, reducing the time Nuggets need to reach the bunker during the disaster.
  
• Updated animals to use a new animation system in order to improve their movements and transition between them.
  
• Birds and whales can be picked up now.
  

• Fixed: Injured Doctor would take a patient spot and a new doctor wont be assigned to the hospital.
  
• Fixed: Sometimes when you would receive an error in the game, it might affect your Nugget panel and show different debug panels which were not working properly and they would further break the game.
  
• Fixed: Removed Wiki button from the oxygen panel .
  
• Fixed: Turtles spawned next to the residential area would create errors in the game.
  
• Fixed: Minister news messages were not correctly displayed when a Minister ordered a new creation of the building.
  
• Fixed: Issue when Animals would walk through the middle of the ocean.
  
• Fixed: Using the tornado creator power in a rapid sequence could have caused the appearance of 2-3 tornados in one spot causing the error and breaking the game.
  
• Fixed: Dropping Nuggets on top of the mountain would cause death for your Nugget. Welp, not anymore
  
• Fixed: Shore buildings were not placed on certain sports next to the store.
  
• Fixed: The wheel on the water pump ghoster model was offset incorrectly.
  
• Fixed: Buildings during winter time were completely submerged into snow leaving almost no indication to identify the building.
  
• Fixed: News messages were sorted incorrectly.
  
• Fixed: News messages log was never deleted causing all sorts of unpredictable issues.
  
• Fixed: Boats turned 90 degrees upwards after the water level was dropped.
  
• Fixed: Multiple animation issues related to boats.
  
• Fixed: Incorrect boats passing.
  
• Fixed: Players were able to trigger game pause during loading which was leading to infinite load.
  
• Fixed: Blur during No UI mode.
  
• Fixed: Population log was not sorted correctly.
  
• Fixed: Persisting Cupidon light on the screen.
  
• Fixed: Crashes on AMD cards.
  
• Fixed: Nuggets sometimes could appear without hair or clothes.
  
• Fixed: Baby Nuggets would appear on the edge of the house instead of walking from the house entrance.
  
• Fixed: Exile building wont be placed inside the player territory.
  

Greetings, Creators!

We hope youre all staying safe during these challenging times! It has been a while since weve posted a proper dev blog for The Universim, so its about time we caught you up on some cool behind-the-scenes stuff we've been cooking up. We used to post devlogs more frequently back in the day, but our team has been so busy working towards release that we kind of forgot about it. Lets try to fix that!

Todays blog post is going to be about the surprisingly most-requested feature by the community -- roads.



Background

When you think about it, basically every city builder has them, so why dont we? Surely its easy to just throw them in? Unfortunately, its a bit different with The Universim. Due to the direction we chose with spherical, procedurally-generated worlds (yup, weve mentioned this a few times) and dynamic city growth, adding roads is extremely difficult.

In contrast, most city building games have roads that are created in simple rectangular blocks on flat terrain on a plane. The environment is not as organic and chaotic as it is in The Universim.



Progress

It took us several months of intensive R&D just to determine the best approach for the system and how it interoperates with other systems. The road system has been in active development for a further several months now, which were happy to let you play with soon. If everything goes according to plan, we will release a content update on August 3rd that will include the first iteration of the road system!

As mentioned, this will be the first iteration of the roads system. This will be an opportunity to get your feedback, while we continue to improve the system and add new features for future releases.



The approach

We decided to go with a precomputed city blueprint approach. An invisible network of potential roads and residential blocks are calculated when you first place your Evolution Tower. As your city expands, roads are automatically built from new residential buildings and certain manually placed buildings, back to your city center.



These roads follow the hidden blueprint, which allows us to automatically adhere to a set of complicated rules that ensures a clean, valid road system.





These rules include forming only valid junctions in a known set (T-junctions variations, crossings, etc.), avoiding very sharp turns, keeping roads on flat ground and away from lakes and mountains, ensuring that roads leave enough space between them for the automatic placement of residential buildings and other automatic buildings placed by ministers, and so on.




But why the pre-computed blueprint? Why not simply let players draw roads anywhere? Well, this would be tricky to do in terms of conveying real-time information to the player about what is valid and what is not. It might feel very restrictive and annoying. You might not easily understand why the road segment you wish to place is not valid:

• Are you too close to water?
  
• Is the ground too uneven?
  
• Is the road you are trying to place connecting to a junction that has too many roads already that that junction?
  
• Is the road you are trying to place forming a junction for which no valid display mesh exists?
  
• Is the road too close to another road, not leaving enough room for residential block placement?
  
• Is the road touching nearby existing buildings?
  
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• Sometimes the terrain will go over small sections of road.
  
• A small number of junctions or road sections might look a little weird and deformed.
  
• No manual road-building.
  
• Road surfaces are cleared by Nuggets after the roads are built. So, for a short while, you might see trees and rocks sticking out of roads.
  

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Greetings, Creators!

Welcome to another exciting patch day with the latest release of v42! In this update, we poured some much-requested love into the earlier stages of the game (notably, the Stone Age), alongside other improvements that are essential to keeping the later stages in good standing. Lets run through the improvements to current systems, rebalanced AI, reworked mating, and some sneaky bugs we have stomped thanks to your feedback.

We also made this new short video explaining what The Universim is for new players and hey maybe you can find new footage that you never seen before.

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Stone Age Firefighters

With the introduction of crazier fire, we had to revisit our firefighters to make their crazy match the fires level of crazy. Fires pop up a lot, either as a result of mother nature or an unfortunate accident on your part. Its important to have competent (ok, somewhat competent) Nuggets running around with buckets of water from the early stages. Give a warm welcome to the new firefighters!



New Quest Panel

Ever wonder about the life trials and tribulations your Nuggets go through? We've added a Stories Panel where you can keep track and see the progress of your civilization's experiences! Think of it like a nice little scrapbook that you keep as your world grows up. Well be adding more quests in the future so keep an eye out for updates to the Stories.




Fire Quest
Now more than ever, firefighters will be doing their best to explain proper safety guidelines to the rest of the Nuggets. Despite their efforts, theres still going to be a lot of work for you to do. In extreme situations, like the imminent destruction of your city, it may be a good time to step in. In order to do so as effectively as possible, you will have to learn the proper approach to dealing with fire. Hopefully you get the instructions in time!

Toxic Lakes Quest
Before you enter space, you will have to learn how to smooth out the rougher features of planets along your journey to conquer the galaxy. As your civilization evolves, it produces more and more waste that pollutes the environment. This affects the overall health of your planet and your oceans. Oceans in return become toxic and make your Nuggets lives even harder than usual. It is your responsibility to ensure that your civilization stays in top health. In order to achieve that, you might want to learn some additional skills.

New Ocean Shader
The ocean always inspires the imagination and brings joy to the soul at least the real ones. We changed the look of the planet, vegetation, and animals, but we always kept our oceans the same. As the years went by, our water shader became less appealing and stood out against the higher fidelity assets. We took some time to make it shine. Take a look!



Blizzard & Heatwave
As we worked on all the climate stuff, we had to review our natural disasters. Sandstorms just werent cutting it anymore, so we had to add in something new. Introducing Blizzards and Heatwaves! These two disasters will replace Sandstorms and occur based on the current season. No more dust! Its way worse now. Better get those Forecast Towers and Bunkers built!







Nuggets Oxygen Suffocation
As we get closer to the Space Age, we are slowly reworking certain Nugget indicators. Its a little difficult for Nuggets to survive without oxygen, so its probably a good time to improve how those details are displayed. The Nugget Panel now shows the current oxygen level for the selected Nugget and all effects applied to the oxygen level. Just try keep it above 0 and there wont be too much trouble.



Not in the build but being worked on:

• Roads
  
• Organic simulation on planets
  
• Rovers
  
• Rockets
  
• Space Port
  
• Terraforming
  
• Space Trading
  
• Flying Vehicles
  

• UFO appearance rate decreased by 15%
  
• If nugget dies inside the building, his body would appear outside the building
  
• Optimized Research Tree performance
  
• Nuggets are able to break out of University and construction AI before completing that AI if needed.
  
• Improved auto building placement
  
• Infected nuggets are not being slowed anymore
  
• Nuggets that have a low stamina level will lose 30% of their speed
  
• Infection zones are not a clickable element in the news messages which upon clicking on them allows you to fly to those locations.
  
• The chance of getting sick from dead bodies was lowered by 50%
  
• Dead bodies take 1.5 times longer to decay
  
• Toxic lakes wont become toxic as fast as they were previously.
  
• Lightning strike could have spawned fire at the start of the game where player was not able to fight with it
  

• Stone age firefighter hut
  
• Stone age firefighters outfit
  
• Stone age firefighters new animations
  
• New Quest UI Panel
  
• Reworked Quest UI
  
• Ocean Shader
  
• Blizzard Shader
  
• Heatwave Shader
  

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This month we would like to present you with a set of features that will improve your overall gameplay experience and bring you more joy to the game. For this patch, we put more emphasis on environmental changes as well as some Exile Villages Improvements.

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MODERN EXILES CITIES


As your civilization develops, Exile Villages progress as well. Even if it doesnt look like much, Exile Nuggets are silently watching the progress of your civilization and borrowing some of the techniques used by your Nuggets in order to build their own little empire. It might not look as big as your city, but it definitely looks quite impressive for barbarians. Pretty soon, they will be at the gates! (Or not, if you decide to play nice with them!)




AIRPORT (EXILE NUGGETS TRAVELERS)


For some time, Airports were just empty lonely buildings without a purpose in your civilization. We revisited it and brought a new life to it. Airports will now be an essential bridge between your civilization and the Exiles. Tourism is an essential part of our lives and Nuggets should think the same way. It doesnt matter if they are Exile or not, they all dream about flying up to the sky and visiting new places. Based on your relationship with Exile villages, modern Nuggets from Exiles may fly over to your city and check them out for themselves. If they like it and they see a lot of happy faces, the chance that they will stay in your city will increase significantly. Make sure to keep your civilization happy and your relationship with Exile Village healthy. This will provide you with an additional boost to your population and some additional happy faces :)






NEW FIRE SYSTEM


The Fire System finally got its final touch with a brand new look. We had the old system to help with PC performance but we found a way to improve the system while keeping within scope. New fires are dangerous and will require quite some work to put them down, but that look of the fire in your city will at least be quite stunning. The spread of the fire will be influenced by wind and we finally have a reasonable burn rate for your buildings. Your Firefighters will have their work cut out for them.






TOXIC CLOUDS AND LAKES


Well who said that dropping Nuggets into the lakes wont lead to anything bad? Dead bodies rot you know and dropping them in bodies of water will cause them to release a dangerous toxin that will surely kill a mammoth, so be careful and watch out where you are dropping your Nuggets or your civilization might be doomed. Besides polluting your water, global changes will also influence the appearance of the dangerous toxins in the sky. Make sure to keep your oxygen levels reasonable or otherwise you can meet some acid rain that will poison other lakes. But dont worry, as a creator you can revert the changes, just make sure that you have enough creator power to fix what youve done. Overwhelm the toxic lakes with clean water from your clouds and save your civilization.




RESOURCE GRAPH


As we move forward, we would like to give you more information about the state of your civilization and its resources. This graph will help you clearly see and understand the usage of resources by your civilization and its production. This tool will also be your best friend in your Space Journey. Make sure to make full use of it and consider what resources are being used the most and what you need to produce more of.





Not in the build but being worked on:

• Roads
  
• Organic simulation on planets
  
• Alien planets
  
• Rovers
  
• Landing on an alien planet
  
• Rockets
  
• Space Port
  
• Terraforming
  

• New Modern Exile Village
  
• Exile Village Airport
  
• Resource Graph
  
• New Fire System
  
• Toxic Lakes and Rain Clouds
  
• Improved UI for resources
  

• Fixed: Certain biomes didnt have trees or they had a lot of empty space.
  
• Fixed: Mines were consuming a lot of resources despite displaying lower consumption rate inside the building panel.
  
• Fixed: Small light in the construction site was blinking even though there was no new building unlock.
  
• Fixed: Each time a new nugget was assigned to the building, the nugget panel was moved down slightly. After assigning a lot of nuggets, that panel could have ended up below the screen.
  
• Fixed: Nuggets that died inside the buildings will be spawned outside of it with an infection zone.
  
• Fixed: Believers were not updated correctly
  
• Fixed: Fire scared firefighters
  
• Fixed: Nuggets would not react to the fire at all
  
• Fixed: Twitch Integration would turn off randomly
  
• Fixed: Certain status icons would get stuck above nuggets
  
• Fixed: New soundtrack would not start at certain instances
  
• Fixed: When a thief steals any resources, notification would not appear
  
• Fixed: Arrest Nugget localization fixed
  
• Fixed: Pressing ESC button during Celebration would break UI, causing it to disappear
  
• Fixed: Adahy and Elu names were duplicated if the game was loaded, causing a lot of nuggets to be called with the same name
  
• Fixed: An error that would occur if two nuggets would get the same name
  
• Fixed: During an election, UI would get stuck on a screen
  
• Fixed: During an election if the game is paused, the election process would break
  
• Fixed: Duplicated names
  
• Fixed: Nugget that died on a boat would cause some performance issues
  
• Fixed: In certain cases Nuggets would not get auto assigned by minister
  

Hello, everyone!

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We have a smoking-hot new content update for you! However, we would first like to take this opportunity to ask that you please stay at home during these troubling times. We have compiled a list of guidelines from various health services to best protect yourself and others from COVID-19. Of course, the biggest help you can offer right now is staying at home as much as possible. To make your time at home a little brighter, were running a Rainy Day Sale across all games on the Crytivo Store. Everything is 30% off. This discount comes directly out of Crytivos pocket and will not affect the revenue of developers. Its a great time to support indie developers and get something for yourself to enjoy during the lockdown. Stay safe!

Now back to the topic at hand. Our team members who usually operate in the office have switched to remote work, but that hasnt stopped us from ironing out the experience and delivering awesome new content. Heres whats new:


Updated and Upgraded Residential Areas

Now thats how you renovate! These new residential areas are far prettier than before. Weve spent a tremendous amount of time improving how residential buildings are constructed and appear in the game. Every building now has a story to tell. Look closely and youll see just how different they are! We hope you love them as much as we do.











Roads

Woah, woah! Hold on! We havent implemented roads yet, but we wanted to drop you a small update on whats been going on behind the scenes. As you know, roads have been in heavy development for some time now. The fact that the planet is round and lacks a level construction grid for roadworks makes this system quite complicated. But, the good news is, after numerous sleepless nights and rapid hair loss, we figured it out!





Roads arent just going to be cosmetic, theyre going to play an important role in society. Theyll increase Nugget movement speeds across the board, which means we have to factor this into the pathfinding solution. Phew, this is some complex stuff! However, were making good progress and we hope to let you play with it soon. For now, heres a sneak peek:



Bridges

Okay, get excited again! Bridges are now available in the game, you can truss us. They will help connect Nugget nations together and create shorter paths across previously impassable terrain. The first bridges will be unlocked in the Medieval Era, giving you a useful pathway across water sources and offering Nuggets a speed boost.







Memory usage optimization

We reduced memory usage by a whopping 20%! Here, take it. It only took us 3 weeks to get it working :/.

Sound optimization and fixing

Unitys audio system is a mess, which means weve had to work hard to improve overall sound processing and overhaul our own in-game sound system. If all is well, you shouldnt get any more weird sounds or clipping issues during your playthrough.

Save system rework

We unfortunately still arent able to offer backwards compatibility with older saves, due in large part to the sheer amount of changes and new content that ships with every update (changing something like the position of a research item in the research tree can break the game if you already have it unlocked). Keeping track of so many procedural objects and systems while accounting for backwards compatibility will require a massive effort, which we feel is better placed in more exciting content. But, were still tinkering with the save system and making constant improvements. The new rework will enable us to save multiple planets thatll be coming in the full release. Get hyped!


Improved underground resources display when placing mines and wells

Key Features:

Camera Controls improvements


Not in the build but being worked on:

• HyperLoop
  
• Roads
  
• Organic simulation on planets
  
• Alien planets
  
• Rovers
  

Improvements and balance changes

• Rebalanced and slightly reworked Research Tree
  
• Rebalanced all the building costs
  
• Improved performance related to resource piles
  
• Amount of oxygen provided by parks was increased:
  
• Big Park 3 -> 10
  
• Medium Park 2 -> 7
  
• Small Park 1 -> 5
  
• Depleted resources icons for Mines were added
  
• Reworked blur shader used on pause, ESC menu, etc.
  
• Reworked audio system
  
• Boxes during trading received tooltips for each resource
  
• Trading can be initiated at any point of time by clicking on an Exile building
  
• Wolves will no longer attack every winter
  
• Fiber Factory and Carbon Factory were removed from the game
  
• Drastically improved all transportation requests and building prioritization
  
• Status icons for building upgrades above buildings will fade in / fade out instead of constantly staying on the screen
  
• When you place a building, a new hint will appear displaying the rotation buttons of the building
  
• Increased the cost of the Change Season Creator Power
  
• Stone Wells have additional slots unlocked at the start
  
• Increased Well refill speed
  
• Increased speed of water generation in Eatery
  
• Additional Police Slot is unlocked
  
• Additional Engineer slot is unlocked for the modern age
  
• Additional slots for the Prison and Rehabilitation unlocked
  
• Medium-sized park is unlocked via Research perk
  
• Decreased the amount of underground resources on the planet
  
• Rebalanced the amount of materials needed to produce cement, chemicals, fuel, steel
  
• Eateries received additional capacity for customers
  
• Unlocked additional capacity in Hospitals
  
• Fishing hut boat capacity now improved with each Fishing Hut level
  
• Engineers received an improved bonus to their strength that influences their repair speed
  
• Reworked the building decay mechanic. Currently all buildings across all ages will be decaying at the same speed.
  
• Improved Nugget response related to thirst. Nuggets will constantly check for available water in Wells and Eateries while moving towards the lake.
  
• Couriers Hut received additional slots
  
• Twitch option to grant PP points to viewers
  
• Twitch option for allowing viewers to get a job
  
• Increased the amount of water on the planet
  
• Added the ability to prioritize multiple construction sites
  
• Further improved pathfinding for Nuggets. Now pathfinding will correctly update with the changes in the world, such as blocked paths or raised terrain caused by a building.
  
• Police, hunters and guards will now protect your civilization from wolf attacks and Exile attacks.
  
• Added the ability to click on Nugget names in the News Panel.
  
• Improved outdated tooltips
  
• Improved clouds system
  
• Added shadows for the clouds (they can be turned off in the settings)
  
• Added an option to control Camera Speed when the Shift button is pressed.
  
• Archive is no longer destroyed by outside forces ( Tornado, Exile attack etc.), it still can be demolished manually.
  
• Improved Engineers. Now they fix everything faster
  
• Decay rate of the buildings is standardized across all ages. Buildings will decay with the same speed.
  

UI and Art:

• Amount of stars in the sky increased
  
• New Stone Age Residential blocks
  

• New Medieval Residential blocks
  

Modern Age Buildings - a lot

• Ground decals for stone age residential buildings.
  
• Advertising banners
  

New props for Residentials
Resource indication map tweaks.
Icons above buildings improved
Added settings for Camera movement speed.
Modern Age Liberal Nuggets Hair Colors
Added ice to the water when its cold.


Bug Fixes:

• Fixed: Policeman kept their job after being unassigned
  
• Fixed: Nuggets were moving sideways while walking into the temple
  
• Fixed: %NaN% error fixed for Temples
  
• Fixed: Traps were not providing any food from dead animals
  
• Fixed: Twitch command Attack Nugget was not working properly
  
• Fixed: Twitch Commands Fill Reservoir & Fill Well were not taking any bits for an action
  
• Fixed: Nuggets would get stuck trying to deliver resources to the Warehouse
  
• Fixed: Huts were not being upgraded automatically
  
• Fixed: Indentations in the ground were not leveled up when a new building was placed, causing Nuggets to get stuck
  
• Fixed: Shadow quality settings were not working properly
  
• Fixed: Nuggets inside the Eatery had a white icon instead of a Nugget icon
  
• Fixed: Grass setting was not working properly
  
• Fixed: Nuggets that grew up inside the bunker were losing their ability to mate
  
• Fixed: Trading button was not appearing for Exiles
  
• Fixed: Nuggets that came from a Space Box were staying far away from their place of work
  
• Fixed: Picking up a Boomer as it was about to blow up would cause an error
  
• Fixed: Transportation request was not cleared when the object was picked up
  
• Fixed: Residential buildings were shaking without Nuggets inside them
  
• Fixed: Nuggets that were set on fire were unaffected by rain clouds
  
• Fixed: Nuggets shock and awe status was not working
  
• Fixed: The Creator Powers Panel and building panels would overlap if both panels were opened in a rapid sequence
  
• Fixed: Building a house quest was missing
  
• Fixed: Weird artifacts caused by a building ghost
  
• Fixed: Issues with the timers in the Cosmodrome
  
• Fixed: Saving and loading the game during the Tesla quest would make parts disappear, leading to failure of the quest
  
• Fixed: While the game is paused, the oxygen panel became stuck open
  
• Fixed: Issue where players were not able to click on buildings to open a building panel
  
• Fixed: Evolution tower was vulnerable to all damage sources (Lightning Strike, Meteor etc) during construction and if it was destroyed it would cause an error
  
• Fixed: During Save / Load, trading with Exile timers would reset
  
• Fixed: Missing Resource tooltips at the bottom of the screen
  
• Fixed: Police patrol would die of thirst while patrolling
  
• Fixed: Nugget panel list was displaying information incorrectly
  
• Fixed: Ministers will now place Fishing Huts beside lakes that actually have fish
  
• Fixed: Nuggets will proceed with gutting fish, even if the lake is drained. Previously they would stop working completely.
  
• Fixed: Lakes had incorrect height during save / load
  
• Fixed: Difficulty opening building panels along the shore
  
• Fixed: The game would be saved automatically whenever you simply click away from a text field
  
• Fixed: Orbit camera was below the planet radius at some points, causing different artifacts in the game
  
• Fixed: Imprisonment buildings were not consuming resources
  
• Fixed: An issue where nuggets wont deliver in certain cases rocks and wood to refineries, staggering the progress
  
• Fixed: Residentials upgrade button is removed and residentials do not show requirement of 650 resources
  
• Fixed: Locust Swarm was immune to creator powers in certain cases
  
• Fixed: Memory leak when Nugget Panel was opened
  
• Fixed: In certain cases camera could have been submerged underwater, breaking the visuals of the game
  
• Fixed: Lights during night time were dimmed
  

Thank you all for your continued love for The Universim! Its a joy to work on, and you all make it so much better. Please dont forget to leave us a review on Steam if youre enjoying the game, and be sure to join us on our new Crytivo Discord Server to participate in giveaways and stay up to date. Stay godly!

All the best,
The Crytivo Crew

Greetings, Creators!

Its been a while since we were last here together! You know, reading patch notes, braiding hair, listening to a few of your favorite playlists. However, our small break was for a good reason. Were officially moving into BETA! This means all the tools and features we need for full release are technically in the game, but were keeping a few things locked for now as we refine them and add content (theres still A LOT of new stuff to play with anyway). The good news is, were planning to release The Universim in its entirety this year! The big 1.0 launch will see all of the hard work spent on systems, simulations, AI, sound, art, and more over the years finally smooshed together in a wonderful package.



As you know, weve been working on improvements to our in-game simulation engine (Prometheus) for a very long time. Today, were happy to roll the new system out for everyone to enjoy. One thing youll immediately notice is how the entire planet generation system was completely redesigned, allowing for bigger and more vibrant planets than ever before. Lets not even mention how massive of an improvement it is over our piddly Kickstarter planet.





Before we dive into the gigantic list of changes below, we would like to ask you one small favor that helps us out tremendously -- if youre enjoying The Universim, please leave us a review on Steam. Every positive review we receive gives our developers precisely 10 seconds to play with puppies. They need that time to stay sane.

Below is the list of the most significant changes (which we mentioned in the previous update). If you would like to join the community and follow our development as we edge closer to full release, hop onto our Discord server and see our live changelog there. Every time one of our devs pushes new updates to the game, youll see their comments. Weve always done our best to be as transparent as possible, and now you get to see every little thing we do.


UPGRADED WORLD

The new planets are not only slightly bigger, they have been pumped up in many more ways. They are now wrapped up in a far superior pathfinding system that will help Nuggets find their way around easier (basically rewritten from the ground up to help prevent that silly lot from getting stuck). Mother Planet also has significantly more objects than before, moving from around 12,000 to around 57,000 objects. And the cherry on top: the planet actually loads faster, too! We even managed to optimize all of this to offer a performance boost. How about that?



NEW POLLUTION SYSTEM

A new pollution system is responsible for how often youll be bombarded with natural disasters. Its basically a way for Mother Planet to criticize your civilization. It also affects seasons and Nugget behavior. Certain buildings will increase pollution, while some may reduce it. Additionally, pollution will no longer change immediately upon placing a new building; it will slowly be increased or reduced until it reaches the final level introduced by any new buildings. Be sure to pay attention!





BUILDING ICONS

We have decided to ditch building status flags. Based on your feedback, we agree that they were difficult to see, especially when in between tall buildings as your civilization progressed. The new icon system should make things a lot clearer.



TWITCH INTEGRATION

New commands and updates

• #FillWell - Allows viewers to randomly fill 1 Well
  
• #FillReservoir - Allows viewers to randomly fill 1 Reservoir
  
• #AttackNugget *Nugget Name* - Allows viewers to attack whichever Nugget they specified
  
• We added a special toggle where you can disable new viewers from being able to join your game. You can use this toggle whenever you feel necessary, such as when you want to control the birth queue and prevent things from getting too chaotic.
  
• We also did a complete UI redesign to make everything look much snazzier
  

• Additional Slots were unlocked on refineries at level 0 (from 3 -> 6)
  
• Medieval Warehouse can now store modern resources
  
• Throwing rocks and trees can now damage trees
  
• Clothing is now unlocked via research perks instead of internal Era Change code
  
• Previously, flags would display if a building needed water or electricity. If the building needed both, it would still display only one requirement until it was satisfied. Now the new icons will display both requirements.
  

• Improved the lighthouse light effect -- it is now using real-time lighting
  
• The assign all button was added to each Factory and Mine. Pressing the button will assign all required Nuggets to the building.
  
• Meteor Strike, Fire and Lightning strike will cause animals to drop Piles of food. Previously, they were not dropping it.
  
• Guards, Police and Hunters will defend the city from wolf attacks or Exile attacks. They will also take reduced damage from enemy attacks compared to other Nuggets.
  
• Factories gathering resources restrictions were removed. Previously, only one Nugget was allowed to gather resources for Factories if all Nuggets were busy. Now all Nuggets will go and gather resources that are missing if other laborers are busy with other tasks.
  
• Auto-scrolling of a Nuggets status was added to the Nugget panel. Now the status will be scrolled if the status is too large to fit.
  
• Unborn Nugget icon was added to the Clone Center
  
• Adjusted volume / audio priority in our sound system
  
• Added the ability to drop dead Nuggets into the cemetery in a similar way to how resources are being dropped for the buildings
  
• Added the ability to drop crops into the farm in a similar manner to how resources are being dropped for the buildings
  
• Added lights to modern buildings to glow at night
  

• Amount of bushes on the planet was rebalanced and their appearance in specific biomes was changed.
  
• Bushes are dependent on local temperatures rather than seasons. Placing an Epicenter close to the mountains will decrease the amount of food that Nuggets will be able to collect due to low temperatures.
  
• Added Era Labels to the buildings deremoveion
  
• Improved Defense Towers AI, improved defense guard AI. Guards will attack animals that are in range.
  
• Modern Police got an additional slot unlocked
  
• Prison / Rehabilitation center got additional slots unlocked
  
• Mines got additional slots unlocked
  
• Reduced the number of rocks that are being thrown by rioters at Nuggets that are passing by
  
• Medium Park is unlocked via research and the restriction on the amount of parks of that specific type was removed
  
• Optimized Job Search System for Nuggets
  
• Reworked Oxygen System. Each building will add or subtract a certain amount of oxygen. Parks will improve the oxygen level on the planet, as well as trees.
  
• Water Level is now being changed visually as you drain oceans and lakes
  
• Added the ability to place buildings during the pause menu
  
• Improved water animal path finding.
  
• Improved the performance of the save / load menu. The delay that it took to display and load all the saved files has been reduced drastically.
  
• Reworked the Blur effect. In certain menus, the blur was not applied correctly and was affecting the performance.
  

• Factory / Mines automation. These structures will work as long as you have workers assigned there. Each additional worker will increase the output of the resources that the building produces.
  
• Reworked the temperature and weather systems. Snow will affect areas where temperature is low instead of using just a season as a variable for a snow.
  
• New Mountain Generation System (realistically shaped mountains)
  
• New Building Icons instead of Flags. Previously, we used a flag system that was displaying the status of the building, but as you progress forward and all the buildings were getting taller, that system was not sufficient anymore. It has been reworked completely. Instead, icons above the building will now display the status, which makes it extremely easy to see what needs to be done to keep buildings functioning.
  
• Improved particle spawning
  
• New Oxygen panel will display useful information about the issues that the player might have with the oxygen and it will indicate the consequences as your oxygen drops.
  
• Reworked News Messages system. Now, news messages will contain 2 types of messages. Important and unimportant. Important messages wont be closed automatically. You will have to close them by clicking on them or clicking an X button. Unimportant messages are messages that have a flavor text and contain information that is not so important or necessary for your civilization's survival. Those messages will be closed automatically after a couple of seconds.
  
• Additional Warning Messages that appear on the left side of the screen were added for: Tornado, Windstorm, Locust Swarm, Wolf Attack, Exile Village Attack.
  
• Forestation Creator Power got a tree amount adjustment. Now it will produce way more trees.
  
• Reworked the placement system for Residential houses. Previously, we were utilizing the Residential block system which was filling up with houses. In certain cases, that system led to the placement of the buildings across the ocean and was super prone to errors and bugs. This system was reworked. Currently, Nuggets will place the Houses based on the center of your city.
  
• Reworked how the Season Change Creator Power is triggered. Instead of pressing and selecting immediately to which season you would like to switch, you will be able to select it and trigger the selection of the season by pressing the ctrl button. This was added for consistency with other Creator Powers
  
• Added New Modern Decals to the Factories. Not all factories.
  
• Manual trade system. You are now able to trade with any Exile village at any time as long as they have at least 1 building. Simply clicking on the building will open a panel which will have a trade option.
  
• Improved Boomer (explosive Nugget) sounds
  
• Added Shock and Awe effect to UFOs, meteors and collapsing buildings
  
• Added Resource map for the resources. Now each building that can mine resources will have a resource map for the specific type of resources it uses. Once the building is selected, you will see a resource map of required resources for the building. Mines have a radius around them, which displays where the mine can reach and from where it can mine all the resources.
  
• Added a limit to how many houses can be upgraded at the same time in order to prevent the issue where other buildings would not be upgraded, because all resources would be delivered to the houses instead.
  
• During building placement, all objects that will be removed underneath a building will now be highlighted.
  
• New decal system (still in production)
  
• Improved seasonal temperature calculation, snow formation
  

• Improved main HUD. Everything is much cleaner and easier to understand.
  

• New Resource Icons: better represent the appearance of resources
  

• Kobe Clothes were added to the game and are available via the Clone Center
  

• Space Age clothing was added to the Clone Center
  

• Redesigned building information pop-up panel. Now it shows how it will affect oxygen levels.
  
• Added butterfly particles
  
• Reworked the snow accumulation shader, which creates a smoother transition into the winter season
  

• New UI displaying what Creator Power is currently being selected by pressing the Ctrl button
  
• New Oxygen Panel was added to the game
  
• New Factory Panels
  
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• New Mine Panels
  

• New Well Panel
  

• Monk Clothing and hats were added to the Clone Center and monk jobs
  

• Coral added to the game
  

• New Panel that displays information about the population, which includes: Total Nugget Population, Unemployed Nuggets, Educated Nuggets, Required amount of Nuggets that need education based on the buildings that require educated Nuggets, Injured or Sick Nuggets, Unmarried and Believers.
  

• New Twitch Settings Menu + Panel
  

• Fixed: All Nugget status icons were being drawn on top of the menu screen when the ESC button was clicked
  
• Fixed: Locust swarm was not killable via lightning strike
  
• Fixed: University learning points were not correctly distributed which stalled the progression of the students
  
• Fixed: In Anticity Alley park, Nuggets were not using benches and were instead sitting inside bushes (no more creepy hiding Nuggets)
  
• Fixed: House Props were not properly disappearing after medieval or stone age huts were destroyed. They stayed on the ground forever.
  
• Fixed: Memory leak caused by game loading. Every time the game was reloaded, it caused a spike in memory usage.
  
• Fixed: Memory leak caused by placing new trees. Trees were not removed properly when they were placed, causing the increased memory usage.
  
• Fixed: Previously you were able to place buildings on top of a space box
  
• Fixed: Missing strings and localization fixes
  
• Fixed: Incorrect tooltips were displayed when the mouse was moved over the building list button, population count and Nugget panel button
  
• Fixed: An error that was causing issues in the game after the Riot event
  
• Fixed: An issue when multiple Nuggets would go for the same resources, which stalled the overall progress
  
• Fixed: Nugget Juice settings were not affecting the temple crushing machine
  
• Fixed: The House Panel was not always correctly displayed and in certain cases it was covering the full screen length
  
• Fixed: Selecting Trickle Effect and clicking on an object would remove points, but the actual cloud was not appearing on the screen
  
• Fixed: Protection Dome sometimes would not work correctly if during the cast, it was clicked on another object
  
• Fixed: Sometimes tall buildings would disappear on the horizon if you are far away from them
  
• Fixed: Warning Messages / Quest messages on the left side of the screen had a gap between the message and the beginning of the warning stripe
  
• Fixed: Warning Messages / Quest Messages sometimes were not correctly displaying the messages and in certain cases it would not progress
  
• Fixed: In certain cases camera was clipping through the ground or hitting the mountains
  
• Fixed: An error was appearing with Cemetery building during its upgrade to Medieval which in some cases was breaking the game
  
• Fixed: An issue that was breaking the game during Manual Trade with exiles
  
• Fixed: An issue where Exile buildings were counted as your buildings, resulting in different messages that are not related to your civilization
  
• Fixed: An issue where trade messages where cancelled when the trade was manual
  
• Fixed: Missing icons for the Cemetery. New Icon was added for Dead Nuggets.
  
• Fixed: An issue where a UFO was landing on rocks or mountains and it was getting stuck
  
• Fixed: Lost Nugget quest issues, where Nugget or wolves were disappearing or the sound was missing during the quest
  
• Fixed: An issue with Exiles where after certain amount of events, new events would stop popping up
  
• Fixed: An issue where Exile Villages would not spawn
  
• Fixed: Nugget Stat Panel UI would not open properly causing weird artifacts on the screen to appear
  
• Fixed: an error that was produced by missing ocean config
  
• Fixed: Error that was appearing during House upgrades due to the modular structure of the buildings that in some cases caused crashes in the game
  
• Fixed: Temperature value getting stuck after save / load
  
• Fixed: Certain Warning / Quest Messages were not removed from the screen when they ran out of time
  
• Fixed: Issue when terrain height was different after loading the game
  
• Fixed: Exile Villages had water as a tradable resource which was causing the game to crash during trading, if they were about to trade water
  
• Fixed: Wolves during winter were immune to lightning strike
  
• Fixed: Quest Rewards were inconsistent with the rewards that they were unlocking
  
• Fixed: Missing Localization during Locust Swarm event
  
• Fixed: Nuggets were able to build a building without a resources
  
• Fixed: Dead Nugget icon was bound to multiple different buildings, which caused icons to turn white.
  
• Fixed: Building Panel button Move to building location was offset from the actual building
  
• Fixed: Guards would chase wolves indefinitely after the wolf attack
  
• Fixed: Perks that were adding buildings boost wont not be applying boost to buildings after save / load.
  
• Fixed: Incorrect status for a policeman, when they were patrolling the territory
  
• Fixed: Sometimes Nuggets would disappear upon entering / exiting the fishing hut
  
• Fixed: Students would get stuck and do nothing
  
• Fixed: Multiple buildings that could accept the resources did not have an indication of that around them when you have resources picked up with Telekinesis
  
• Fixed: Monks would get stuck on the side of the Temple
  
• Fixed: Monks would move sideways while climbing up to the Temple
  
• Fixed: Certain sounds were not playing properly due to low audiosource pool allowed
  
• Fixed: In certain cases, objects picked up with telekinesis would get stuck to the cursor
  
• Fixed: Batteries were not providing electricity to the buildings if they were charged with a lightning strike
  
• Fixed: UFO was getting stuck in one place upon arriving on the planet
  
• Fixed: An error when you hover over the building and it got destroyed while you had an object picked up
  
• Fixed: An error that would break the game when you destroyed the Wind Turbine, while it was still in the construction stage.
  
• Fixed: Multiple issues where main menu was breaking if ESC button was clicked during transitions in the menus
  
• Fixed: Happiness and Crime panels were stuck if the game was paused and then unpaused
  
• Fixed: Subtitles desync during the intro scene
  
• Fixed: In some cases, due to lack of space, some Exiles would stop expanding
  
• Fixed: Error during wolf attack that would cause the game to crash
  
• FIxed: Spots that were previously on fire would not receive a proper temperature and will never freeze
  
• Fixed: Missing Localization when Nuggets died due to Exile Village Attack
  
• Fixed: Animals unharmed by fire
  
• Fixed: Saving a game during a fire and loading that save file would cause an error to appear that would create different glitches later in the game
  
• Fixed: Nuggets would not attack wild animals immediately
  
• Fixed: Cosmodrome panel allowed you to click other panels behind that panel, due to sorting problem
  
• Fixed: Multiple issues with the Cosmodrome panel not working properly
  
• Fixed: Missing ghost arrow for the Cosmodrome building
  
• Fixed: Incorrect UI panel for Big Ben building
  
• Fixed: Nuggets would get frightened when a building is completed
  
• Fixed: Placing multiple Hunters Huts would prevent Hunters to hunt in the future
  
• Fixed: Clone Center displayed incorrect storage capacity
  
• Fixed: Previously, multiple Hunters Huts could choose the same animal to hunt, causing different types of issues. Now all Hunters Huts will select their own animal to hunt.
  
• Fixed: Missing Nugget accessories after load
  
• Fixed: Wrong Nuggets animations after load
  
• Fixed: An issue were partners would be waiting for each other in different locations
  
• FIxed: During the Heal Nugget quest, if the injured Nugget was healed via hospital, the quest would not be completed and therefore failed.
  
• Fixed: Hunters, Guards and Police were not using proper weapons despite the research
  
• Fixed: Local business displayed incorrect amount of resources needed for an upgrade
  
• Fixed: Colliders on all buildings
  
• Fixed: Twitch Criminals were lighting themselves on fire trying to burn down a building
  
• Fixed: Missing Riot icon
  
• Fixed: Inmates were dying in cells from hunger / thirst / injury
  
• Fixed: Incorrect Nugget orientation during attack animation
  
• Fixed: Policeman performing an arrest had a chance to die from thirst and hunger while waiting on a criminal that was sitting inside the building. Currently, policemen will go and eat / drink / heal if needed and after they are done with this task, they will continue pursuing their target.
  
• Fixed: Incorrect name was displayed during Broken heart quest, always asking to punish the wrong Nugget
  
• Fixed: Incorrect Animation for Couriers
  
• Fixed: Not researching anything message was appearing after all perks were researched
  
• FIxed: Turning off building and unassigning Nuggets wont release the Nuggets from the building
  
• Fixed: Wind turbine panel will show that it is working despite not having wind or generating any energy
  
• Fixed: Factories and Mines working animation was playing despite the building being turned off
  
• Fixed: Adjusted construction site collider area
  
• Fixed: An issue where saving the game during a meteor strike would cause an error
  
• Fixed: Skipping Intro during specific cutscene caused camera to break in the game
  

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Greetings, Creators!

Its been a while since we were last here together! You know, reading patch notes, braiding hair, listening to a few of your favorite playlists. However, our small break was for a good reason. Were officially moving into BETA! This means all the tools and features we need for full release are technically in the game, but were keeping a few things locked for now as we refine them and add content (theres still A LOT of new stuff to play with anyway). The good news is, were planning to release The Universim in its entirety this year! The big 1.0 launch will see all of the hard work spent on systems, simulations, AI, sound, art, and more over the years finally smooshed together in a wonderful package.



As you know, weve been working on improvements to our in-game simulation engine (Prometheus) for a very long time. Today, were happy to roll the new system out for everyone to enjoy. One thing youll immediately notice is how the entire planet generation system was completely redesigned, allowing for bigger and more vibrant planets than ever before. Lets not even mention how massive of an improvement it is over our piddly Kickstarter planet.





Before we dive into the gigantic list of changes below, we would like to ask you one small favor that helps us out tremendously -- if youre enjoying The Universim, please leave us a review on Steam. Every positive review we receive gives our developers precisely 10 seconds to play with puppies. They need that time to stay sane.

Below is the list of the most significant changes (which we mentioned in the previous update). If you would like to join the community and follow our development as we edge closer to full release, hop onto our Discord server and see our live changelog there. Every time one of our devs pushes new updates to the game, youll see their comments. Weve always done our best to be as transparent as possible, and now you get to see every little thing we do.


UPGRADED WORLD

The new planets are not only slightly bigger, they have been pumped up in many more ways. They are now wrapped up in a far superior pathfinding system that will help Nuggets find their way around easier (basically rewritten from the ground up to help prevent that silly lot from getting stuck). Mother Planet also has significantly more objects than before, moving from around 12,000 to around 57,000 objects. And the cherry on top: the planet actually loads faster, too! We even managed to optimize all of this to offer a performance boost. How about that?



NEW POLLUTION SYSTEM

A new pollution system is responsible for how often youll be bombarded with natural disasters. Its basically a way for Mother Planet to criticize your civilization. It also affects seasons and Nugget behavior. Certain buildings will increase pollution, while some may reduce it. Additionally, pollution will no longer change immediately upon placing a new building; it will slowly be increased or reduced until it reaches the final level introduced by any new buildings. Be sure to pay attention!





BUILDING ICONS

We have decided to ditch building status flags. Based on your feedback, we agree that they were difficult to see, especially when in between tall buildings as your civilization progressed. The new icon system should make things a lot clearer.



TWITCH INTEGRATION

New commands and updates

• #FillWell - Allows viewers to randomly fill 1 Well
  
• #FillReservoir - Allows viewers to randomly fill 1 Reservoir
  
• #AttackNugget *Nugget Name* - Allows viewers to attack whichever Nugget they specified
  
• We added a special toggle where you can disable new viewers from being able to join your game. You can use this toggle whenever you feel necessary, such as when you want to control the birth queue and prevent things from getting too chaotic.
  
• We also did a complete UI redesign to make everything look much snazzier
  

• Additional Slots were unlocked on refineries at level 0 (from 3 -> 6)
  
• Medieval Warehouse can now store modern resources
  
• Throwing rocks and trees can now damage trees
  
• Clothing is now unlocked via research perks instead of internal Era Change code
  
• Previously, flags would display if a building needed water or electricity. If the building needed both, it would still display only one requirement until it was satisfied. Now the new icons will display both requirements.
  

• Improved the lighthouse light effect -- it is now using real-time lighting
  
• The assign all button was added to each Factory and Mine. Pressing the button will assign all required Nuggets to the building.
  
• Meteor Strike, Fire and Lightning strike will cause animals to drop Piles of food. Previously, they were not dropping it.
  
• Guards, Police and Hunters will defend the city from wolf attacks or Exile attacks. They will also take reduced damage from enemy attacks compared to other Nuggets.
  
• Factories gathering resources restrictions were removed. Previously, only one Nugget was allowed to gather resources for Factories if all Nuggets were busy. Now all Nuggets will go and gather resources that are missing if other laborers are busy with other tasks.
  
• Auto-scrolling of a Nuggets status was added to the Nugget panel. Now the status will be scrolled if the status is too large to fit.
  
• Unborn Nugget icon was added to the Clone Center
  
• Adjusted volume / audio priority in our sound system
  
• Added the ability to drop dead Nuggets into the cemetery in a similar way to how resources are being dropped for the buildings
  
• Added the ability to drop crops into the farm in a similar manner to how resources are being dropped for the buildings
  
• Added lights to modern buildings to glow at night