v0.2.0 Alpha

• Ignore input from game controllers and other hardware that was causing constant camera panning (issue #1).
• Fixed variable rain sound intensity caused by camera rotation (issue #2).
• Disallow saving game with empty name (issue #3).
• Add default value (timestamp) to new saves.
• Minor error fixes.

• Attempted fix of trucks getting stuck and not responding to anything.

• Fixed displaying and loading of saves when there is a file with empty name (issue #3).
• Allowed all alphanumeric characters in save files (previously only a-z, 0-9 were allowed) to support non-English saves.

Translations

• Added German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Czech, Swedish, Estonian, Polish translation done by our community

New features

• Players can now build multiple separate settlements and each one can be provided by services independently
• Cargo ship including cargo depot to automate crude oil transport
• Pirate battles & ship upgrades
• Captain office + edicts toggleable by the player (Kickstarter stretch goal)
• Advanced logistics
  • Assign storage and mine towers to each other to form custom supply routes for trucks
  • Added dumping filter into mine tower to enable fine-grained control for dumping and also to dump materials that were not dumpable by default like coal for instance
• Building priority system
  • Also vehicles prefer constructing entities that already got some materials delivered

New content

• New 2 tiers of research labs
• Vehicles bridge
• Flywheel
• Transports & pipes tier II
• Settlements
  • Housing tier II
  • Settlement transformer
  • Settlement household goods module
• Seawater processing
  • Evaporation pond
  • Desalination plant
  • Ocean pump I and II
• Metallurgy
  • Air separator
  • Industrial mixer
  • Oxygen furnace
• Other processing
  • Glassmaker
  • Assembly electric II
• Ecology
  • Exhaust filtration station
  • Wastewater treatment plant
• Farming
  • Fertilizer maker + Electrolyzer
  • Greenhouse
• Vehicles
  • Truck II
  • Excavator II
  • Tree harvester

New production chains

• Construction parts 3
• Glassmaking
• Steelmaking + more efficient maintenance from steel
• Seawater processing
• Wastewater & pollution processing
• Household goods
• Fertilizer

Major changes

• Transports improvements
  • Transports builder now has 100x faster path-finding
  • Massive speedup in transports rendering (400x) and simulation (benefit for larger factories)
  • Transport pillars are no longer underneath transports but around them. That enables a single pillar to support multiple transports instead of support one and blocking others. That enables to build in much more tight spaces and provides a great degree of freedom and flexibility.
  • Also, quality of life improvements like hold shift to build in a straight line, auto-snap to nearest port when hovering over a building or machine

Improved upgrades

• • Machines & transports stay fully operational until all the material required for an upgrade is delivered. That makes the upgrading process much smoother.
  • Upgrades now also preserve internal buffers of machines.
• Electricity changes
  • Turbine no longer stops when it reaches full utilization, instead, it wastes the steam. However, to prevent the waste, the player can build a flywheel. Turbine now also has start / stop penalty.
• Water management

Groundwater is now in deposits that are extracted individually (rain still replenishes them)

• • Added a fresh water source in the world map for the desperate ones :)
• Exhaust changes
  • Exhaust is no longer emitted every second like before but only once at the beginning. This means that exhaust quantities now match what is displayed in the recipes.
  • Smokestack throughput is significantly increased
  • Pollution from the exhaust is now reflected in population growth

Other changes

• Trucks can now refuel in fuel stations (can be turned off)
• Reduced ocean depth to make it easier to create new land by dumping
• Vehicle depot now gives materials for scrapped vehicles

Quality of life improvements

• New products display on the side of the screen. Can contains lots of products and players can also pin/unpin any products they like.
• New status display for research and ship to the top bar
• Transport inspector now shows the throughput of the selected transport
• Enabled closer zoom for regular game camera and even more camera flexibility in photo mode
• Mine tower now notifies player when it runs out of mineable designations
• Lots of improvements in tutorials. Significant reduction of text and repetitiveness. Several videos illustrating principles. Increased font size.
• Research node parents highlight
• Pause tool
• Performance improvements in terrain rendering

Graphical improvements

• New transports textures
• More particle effects
• Improved metal caster animation
• Improved weather visuals

Balancing

• The first village is now closer to the player
• Population no longer grows without player’s initiatives
• Diseases temporarily disabled
• Maintenance depot has 25% increased throughput
• Unity repairs are a bit cheaper
• Delayed dry weather and made it progress more granularly

Bug fixes

• Fixed broken upgrade cancelations
• Fixed broken window positioning
• Fixed elements scaling in product stats and product picker
• Fixed cropped tooltips on the right side of the screen
• Food market now reports stored products to the global state of stored products.
• Vehicles now also cost fuel so it can't be cheated by constructing new vehicles
• Vehicles no longer animated when paused
• Excavators that are assigned with a refueling truck will no longer ignore that they ran out of fuel
• Ocean no longer renders over dumping designations