Hi everyone,

A special Winter update of The Colonists is available! Here is all the info for V1.4.0:

Give your colony a festive feel with Christmas trees (plant them near monuments), snowbots (created by the Foresterbot) as well as presents and candy canes!

The enemy AI has been reworked and improved and now includes a new Hard mode which also gives enemies a 25% bot boost. There's also a new military mission in the campaign with more to come in the future.

• Fixed an issue in some instances with resources that are waiting at harbour not getting rerouted
  
• Fixed storage yards not showing in storage panel for resource categories (food etc)
  
• Fixed an error related to rerouting a boat that is currently queueing to same harbourissues not being able to set export whitelists from/to buildings under construction

Help And Bug Reporting: https://www.notion.so/The-Colonists-Help-0f8b20f71a96426490fbfbff5511e3bb

Discord: https://discord.gg/thecolonists

Thanks for all the continued feedback and happy holidays!

Hi everyone,

A small update for the weekend, here what's new in 1.3.6.4 patch for The Colonists:

• Added VSync option
  
• Linked mouse button 4 and mouse button 5 linked to rotate/flip
  
• Improved height collision detection for rocks on steep slopes (principally affecting Mission 11)
  
• F12 should now work again for directly capturing Steam screenshots. F10 is the hotkey for Postcard Mode.
  
• Fixed bug with loading a game and if a train was queuing at a station it would not move
  
• Fixed being able to incorrectly select small harbours for lugger routes
  
• Fixed issue when losing territory tile with a path and it potentially not recalculating connections for affected buildings
  
• Fixed incorrect message for when trying to place watchtower too close to other military buildings
  
• Fixed bug allowing you to place watchtower anywhere in tutorial
  
• Fixed quality settings panel not behaving correctly from V1.3.6.3

The AI updates are still available to preview on our development branch: https://www.notion.so/Development-Branch-d73d417d8c944d8c98a19be0a9d7d929

Help And Bug Reporting: https://www.notion.so/The-Colonists-Help-0f8b20f71a96426490fbfbff5511e3bb

Discord: https://discord.gg/thecolonists

Thanks for all the continued feedback!

Hi everyone,

The 1.3.6.3 patch for The Colonists is now available - here are the changes:

• Added ability to pause building upgrades
  
• Added track buffers to indicate end of track
  
• Added skippable warnings for cancelling upgrades and research
  
• All resources waiting for assignment are now rechecked immediately when an export rule is added
  
• Upgrading buildings can now be added to export whitelist
  
• Fixed Printing Press II research not affecting Printing Press production time correctly and changed to 50% increase
  
• Fixed mining rates on Shaft Mine construction panel not increasing with relevant research boosts
  
• Fixed export whitelist filtering for buildings under construction or upgrading
  
• Fixed incorrect storage counts for Food, Alcohol and Fuel
  
• Fixed Residence upgrades not updating previous Energy storage count correctly
  
• Fixed idle workshop check not being trigger when using 'free construction'
  
• Fixed idle workshop check not being trigger when research was cancelled
  
• Fixed resources bought at Space Port showing creation building as 'unknown building'
  
• Fixed graph not clearing when switching from multiple output resource buildings
  
• Fixed two random crash bugs
  
• Tweaked Glassmaking, Scaffolding III and Construction III, Wheat Farming, Breadmaking and Brewing requirements

If you'd like to preview the AI updates that will be coming soon then head over to our development branch! https://www.notion.so/Development-Branch-d73d417d8c944d8c98a19be0a9d7d929

Help And Bug Reporting: https://www.notion.so/The-Colonists-Help-0f8b20f71a96426490fbfbff5511e3bb

Discord: https://discord.gg/thecolonists

Hi everyone,

An update to The Colonists has just gone live! Here's what's new:


Get more control over your train routes with the new one way signal. You can place this signal on any piece of track, making it easy to create circular train routes!

Create enormous unsupported bridges, go over the top of mountains or build track spirals with the new option for Sandbox Mode!

• NEW - one way train signals allow you to create circular train routes
  
• NEW - defy physics with the new unrestricted elevated rail option in the sandbox
  
• Fixed train sometimes getting stuck if route was not found and then track was modified
  
• Fixed upgrade costs not taking into account reused resources when starting an upgrade
  
• Fixed occasional instance where an invalid transport connection was created when a watchtower was captured, causing further bugs
  
• Fixed surface mines and shaft mines showing up in building lists on storage panels for resources they don't mine
  
• Stopped auto setting building name if already set by player
  
• Hotkey [H] in map editor now goes to centre of map
  
• Fixed missing help text for road post transport connections panel
  
• Fixed incorrect icon on road layer upgrade panel
  
• The pumpkin harvest has finished, but The Colonists still like their vegetables!

Thanks for every suggestion, bug report and bit of feedback. Look out for more updates next month!

Help And Bug Reporting: https://www.notion.so/The-Colonists-Help-0f8b20f71a96426490fbfbff5511e3bb

Discord: https://discord.gg/thecolonists

Hi everyone,

A small patch is out with the following fixes and improvements:

• Fixed bug which caused an expedition boat to become stuck if it had to queue at the harbour it needed to load expedition resources from
  
• Fixed tooltips for Orchard Plots and Cobbled Roads icons being the wrong way around
  
• Boats now go over underwater rocks
  
• Boats no longer sail through rocks
  
• Tweaked rock height detection numbers to be more accurate when using elevated rail
  
• Fixed crash bug caused by creating parallel roads between the same two road posts
  
• Fixed boundaries of brewery and wheat farm footprints

Again, thanks for all the feedback, keep it coming!

Help And Bug Reporting: https://www.notion.so/The-Colonists-Help-0f8b20f71a96426490fbfbff5511e3bb

Discord: https://discord.gg/thecolonists

Hi everyone,

V1.3.5.4 is now available with a few improvements and bug fixes:

• - Hold [Ctrl] when placing the end road post of a new road to continue building a new road from that tile
  
• - Improved visuals and tooltip messages for setting road waypoints
  
• - Added build mode hotkey to key bindings
  
• - Tweaked brewery production numbers
  
• - Fixed bug where changing the route or clearing a route of a boat whilst its queueing at a harbour could potentially cause it to behave unexpectedly or become stuck at a harbour
  
• - Fixed resource exports not being checked immediately after a boat or train route is modified or added
  
• - Fixed being able to create one tile length paths as destroying them sometimes created a resource routing bug
  
• - Fixed bots printed at Large Harbour sometimes going to wrong flag and not going to their destination in certain circumstances
  
• - Bots printed at Large Harbour no longer walk through bot printer
  
• - Fixed resources being attempted to be routed through invalid buildings if both resource supplier building and invalid building were connected to a harbour or train station by path but supplier building's path was too long to be a direct connection (over 20 tiles).
  
• - Fixed pumpkins resource not selectable
  
• - Field placement mode is now automatically entered when clicking on the farm fields tab
  
• - Fixed pumpkin farmer harvest animation sometimes not matching pumpkin field
  
• - Fixed closing add vehicle stop side panel not adding add transport button
  
• - Fixed incorrect value and overflow of cash victory graphic bar
  
• - Fixed padlock icon not showing on level 1 tab for locked buildings
  
• - Fixed trader reputation display sometimes stopping working on market panel

Thanks to everyone's suggestions and feedback and remember you can join us on Discord to hear about and test out the latest new features!

Help And Bug Reporting: https://www.notion.so/The-Colonists-Help-0f8b20f71a96426490fbfbff5511e3bb

Discord: https://discord.gg/thecolonists

Hi everyone,

A special Halloween update of The Colonists is now available! Here is all the info for V1.3.5:

Give your colonists a seasonal treat with the new Pumpkin Farm! Providing another source of food for Level 1 Residences, Pumpkin Farms take up less space but have long pumpkin patches so you'll need to plan your layouts!

• Italian and Brazilian Portuguese localization
  
• Space Port no longer needs any resources to construct
  
• Harbours no longer require pier tiles to be inside territory
  
• Building upgrade costs now take into account previous level
  
• Added Boat Building II research which is needed to build Luggers
  
• Luggers now a bit faster and have more capacity
  
• Implemented acceleration on boats
  
• Fixed 'all resources' on whitelists causing problems (also removed that option as it's the default behaviour)
  
• Fixed workshop import whitelist not accepting all possible research resources
  
• Fixed some issues not being able to set export whitelists from/to buildings under construction
  
• Fixed destroying import building not auto removing it from another building's import whitelist
  
• Fixed track breaking if placing a high train station
  
• Reduced adjustable height a little of train stations to avoid some entrance issues
  
• Fixed mislabelled resource categories on flag rules panel
  
• Fixed rules tab count for boats and trains for item categories
  
• Fixed close button on boat selection panel
  
• Fixed notification icons on newly unlocked buildings not being reset on game load
  
• F12 no longer trigger screenshot mode, now only dedicated hotkey does (default F10)
  
• Two fixes for games erroring when trying to load

Help And Bug Reporting: https://www.notion.so/The-Colonists-Help-0f8b20f71a96426490fbfbff5511e3bb

Discord: https://discord.gg/thecolonists

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

There's a new update available containing the following bug fixes and improvements:

• Fixed trains getting stuck if meeting at a station at the same time
  
• Fixed some instances where train and hopper sequence would get confused when reassigning a train route
  
• Fixed road cost calculations not working correctly in a loaded game
  
• Improved route recalculations for resources waiting at a road post of a blocked road
  
• Captured Colony Ships are now connectable and functional buildings
  
• Fixed bug where rubble of buildings could not always be removed
  
• Fixed stutter caused by resources arriving at buildings which were directly connected to the harbour from where they'd been delivered
  
• Fixed transport rules not always affecting resource demands correctly
  
• Fixed potential stutter affecting large colonies with full storage yards
  
• 'Blacklist' and 'Whitelist' can now contain individual resources whilst 'Blacklist Except Storage' and 'Whitelist Storage Only' contain 'All Resources' respectively
  
• Fixed import building selection list not showing Food producing buildings for residences
  
• Fixed import buildings not always being taken into account when a building sources a resource
  
• Sculpt modes now cycle when you press the Sculpt Mode hotkey
  
• Fixed pipette mode where level of copied building was being overridden by last selected building level
  
• Path drawing now lets you cross roads (path behaviour is the same but it's now more obvious when creating paths)
  
• Fixed incorrect 'loading' label in boat storage panel
  
• Made 'whitelist storage only' 'all resources' combined with individual 'whitelist' resources behave as expected
  
• Fixed error message not being parsed correctly when track placement blocked
  
• Fixed icon for train route selection and improved font spacing and resizing
  
• Fixed incorrect count on the resource transport rule tab
  
• Fixed and improved visuals on resource transport rules panel to show boats and trains
  
• Fixed formatting on resource destroy warning message
  
• Fixed mission complete camera angle
  
• Improved some German localization

Thanks to all the players providing feedback and bug reports and to our community translators.

Stay tuned for more content updates soon!

Help And Bug Reporting: https://www.notion.so/The-Colonists-Help-0f8b20f71a96426490fbfbff5511e3bb

Discord: https://discord.gg/thecolonists

Hi everyone,

A new patch has just gone live with a few small improvements and bug fixes:

• Change your colony colour at any time with a new panel on your Colony Ship!
  
• Harbours can now be an export target for buildings holding or producing expedition resources.
  
• Fixed one off selling rules not working.
  
• Fixed issue with printed bots sometimes going cross-country to their destination.
  
• Fixed game defaulting to languages still in development (Russian and Italian).
  
• Fixed bug in tutorial if you close the Lumberjack Hut construction panel.
  
• Fixed some font inconsistencies with accented characters.
  
• Fixed a few localization entries.
  
• Improved a couple of icons.

Thanks to everyone for their feedback! Follow the latest dev builds on our Discord: https://discord.gg/thecolonists

Hi everyone,

V1.3.4 of The Colonists live! Here's what's new:

The Colonists is now available in German, French, Chinese and Korean! A massive thanks to all the translators and if you'd like to be involved in a community translation for your language get in touch here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/677340/discussions/0/1735469327939468875/?ctp=3

Monuments now give a speed boost to all nearby bots increasing building productivity and road throughput, the power of the boost increasing with the size of the monument. Monuments are limited to one each (unless victory conditions state otherwise) so use them wisely!

Each building now lists all incoming and recently arrived resources and where they came from. You can select any of the resources and it will display the route to the building, their estimated arrival/journey times as well as the option to destroy that resource.

Check out our full patch notes, including an improved destroy mode and more sandbox options. https://www.notion.so/Patch-Notes-f0b271ceafc34a3a8330adf3034cb18f

Our next update is adding a new AI Hard mode, some new campaign maps as well as some new buildings and resources. If you'd like to test these new features out whilst they're in development then head over to our Discord: https://discord.gg/thecolonists

Help And Bug Reporting: https://www.notion.so/The-Colonists-Help-0f8b20f71a96426490fbfbff5511e3bb

Discord: https://discord.gg/thecolonists

Thanks!