This new patch is mostly about technical improvements and application stability.

• The 64 bits version will avoid memory issues leading to a crash (and the reported by community VC++ error message).

• Now you can also listen to your own music while playing Project Aura by adding your favorite songs to: (your docs folder)/Project Aura/MyMusic/

*By default your music will play randomly merged with the game soundtrack, but it is possible to enable or disable it through the options menu-audio. You will find 3 new checkboxes to activate or deactivate the different soundtracks:
-Game's default soundtrack.
-Stellardrone composer's default soundtrack.
-Your own music.

• Investigation and Computing labs have been redone with a new sci fi look :).
• Buttons for buildings, in the search window, has been redone to help identify the building they correspond.

• Steam stats are working and a first achievement is available, you will obtain it after completing the 4 tutorials. Many more to come.

• Setup files were not being saved properly in some cases for Russian players so all the user options configuration was reseted after game loading.
• Sometimes hovering mouse over info elements were not triggering their contextual help.
• Medicine Q3 - Core crafting was wrongly set to cost maintenance.
• Some typos corrected.

Thank you for reading and interest in Project Aura ;)

This new patch is mostly about technical improvements and application stability.

• The 64 bits version will avoid memory issues leading to a crash (and the reported by community VC++ error message).

• Now you can also listen to your own music while playing Project Aura by adding your favorite songs to: (your docs folder)/Project Aura/MyMusic/

*By default your music will play randomly merged with the game soundtrack, but it is possible to enable or disable it through the options menu-audio. You will find 3 new checkboxes to activate or deactivate the different soundtracks:
-Game's default soundtrack.
-Stellardrone composer's default soundtrack.
-Your own music.

• Investigation and Computing labs have been redone with a new sci fi look :).
• Buttons for buildings, in the search window, has been redone to help identify the building they correspond.

• Steam stats are working and a first achievement is available, you will obtain it after completing the 4 tutorials. Many more to come.

• Setup files were not being saved properly in some cases for Russian players so all the user options configuration was reseted after game loading.
• Sometimes hovering mouse over info elements were not triggering their contextual help.
• Medicine Q3 - Core crafting was wrongly set to cost maintenance.
• Some typos corrected.

Thank you for reading and interest in Project Aura ;)

2.75 version is mostly about performance tweaks and Steam features we need to test before adding the next 2.8 version.

•Improved launcher speed.
•We have worked deep on performance improvements and, after 2.75 version, there is a reasonable fps increase. Still more to come!

We have added Steam stats, achievements and communication with Steam Workshop to work in the background still for testing. They will be open soon.

•Added new floors and decals to buildings.
•Added lights to Corporation buildings to show activity inside.
•Residential buildings windows lightning improved to be more realistic.

•Residential Panel has been tweaked to make it more intuitive (this window is used to assign residences to colonists). For more info, just click on it and press F1.

•Delta Ship wasn't doing its light effect on landing/taking-off.
•Solved an issue where mouse pointer disappeared after accessing Org Chart in some cases.
•Tomato concentrate recipe was missing in the Juicer blueprint.
•Awakening a citizen won't ask for confirmation any longer.
*Remember it is possible to avoid most message confirmations by holding shift key while performing the operation.

2.75 version is mostly about performance tweaks and Steam features we need to test before adding the next 2.8 version.

•Improved launcher speed.
•We have worked deep on performance improvements and, after 2.75 version, there is a reasonable fps increase. Still more to come!

We have added Steam stats, achievements and communication with Steam Workshop to work in the background still for testing. They will be open soon.

•Added new floors and decals to buildings.
•Added lights to Corporation buildings to show activity inside.
•Residential buildings windows lightning improved to be more realistic.

•Residential Panel has been tweaked to make it more intuitive (this window is used to assign residences to colonists). For more info, just click on it and press F1.

•Delta Ship wasn't doing its light effect on landing/taking-off.
•Solved an issue where mouse pointer disappeared after accessing Org Chart in some cases.
•Tomato concentrate recipe was missing in the Juicer blueprint.
•Awakening a citizen won't ask for confirmation any longer.
*Remember it is possible to avoid most message confirmations by holding shift key while performing the operation.

For each major update, a news panel will appear displaying information about the main features included and updated info about our roadmap.
*While the panel will be shown once, you can recheck it again in-game at Options menu ->News.

Check Autosave at the Setup menu and your game will be automatically saved each 5 days.

• Service-level morale factor has been removed, so their blueprints will just produce now fertilizer, keeping all buildings the basic morale gain (as if services would be 100%) but still allowing you to gain extra morale via comfort items.
• Added visual effect to help identifying level of occupancy.

• Texture Quality
Before this update, textures were being displayed always in high res. Selecting between low and high (in setup menu) will work properly now.
*Note you will need to restart game in order to changes take effect.

• Morale calculations in the char sheet:
Full info about how it is calculated the new morale in the char context help added.

• Other minor fixes.

For each major update, a news panel will appear displaying information about the main features included and updated info about our roadmap.
*While the panel will be shown once, you can recheck it again in-game at Options menu ->News.

Check Autosave at the Setup menu and your game will be automatically saved each 5 days.

• Service-level morale factor has been removed, so their blueprints will just produce now fertilizer, keeping all buildings the basic morale gain (as if services would be 100%) but still allowing you to gain extra morale via comfort items.
• Added visual effect to help identifying level of occupancy.

• Texture Quality
Before this update, textures were being displayed always in high res. Selecting between low and high (in setup menu) will work properly now.
*Note you will need to restart game in order to changes take effect.

• Morale calculations in the char sheet:
Full info about how it is calculated the new morale in the char context help added.

• Other minor fixes.

2.71 version is mostly about tweaks and fixes introduced with the previous major update 2.7.

• Improved the look of Greenhouses.
• Added visuals to Drug Manufacturing, Canteen and Botany Lab to help identifying their activity inside.
• Added a visual effect to indicate selected or mouse-over buildings.

• Added for laptop users: Hold right mouse button on an organization chart to drag it around. (same functionality than mid-button).

• Seaweed is again available at market: Eco/Organics.
• Circuitry is no longer available at market, instead you can find Memory Devices: Cosmos/Tech.

• We have worked mostly in memory optimization and stability to avoid VC++ crash (still in progress).
• Blocked residential modules were wrongly calculated not allowing new colonists to arrive.
• Organization Chart window now will update properly facility's name after clicking on different buildings while open.
• Lot of minor issues solved.

2.71 version is mostly about tweaks and fixes introduced with the previous major update 2.7.

• Improved the look of Greenhouses.
• Added visuals to Drug Manufacturing, Canteen and Botany Lab to help identifying their activity inside.
• Added a visual effect to indicate selected or mouse-over buildings.

• Added for laptop users: Hold right mouse button on an organization chart to drag it around. (same functionality than mid-button).

• Seaweed is again available at market: Eco/Organics.
• Circuitry is no longer available at market, instead you can find Memory Devices: Cosmos/Tech.

• We have worked mostly in memory optimization and stability to avoid VC++ crash (still in progress).
• Blocked residential modules were wrongly calculated not allowing new colonists to arrive.
• Organization Chart window now will update properly facility's name after clicking on different buildings while open.
• Lot of minor issues solved.

Project Aura 2.7 RC1 version.

While there are tons of new features and items, for the 2.7 version we keep focusing in the sandbox. Lore, quests, game goals and incentives... is something to expect in later versions, after we end with a robust and stable -bug free- core.
We want to remark the new residential, morale and maintenance systems and, in our path to open development to community, our first preinstalled "Colony Ranks" mod already functional.
Six new buildings are available and the amount of items has been almost doubled.

Continue reading for a detailed list of changes:

• New morale system
• New maintenance system
• New entertainment system
*While intuitive for experienced players, steam guides will be available ASAP.

Residential
• 3 new residential modules: Residential Block, Apartment Building and Estate. Each one with their respective blueprints and benefits for their tenants.
• Decide where your colonists will live.
• Service & Comfort residential levels.

Entertainment
• 1 new module Disco with effects on colony morale.

Care Center
Infirmary building has been renamed to Care Center and now includes an extra module:
• Drug Manufacturing
Process active ingredients to obtain supplements and improve your colony's health. Manufacture medicines from Q1 to Core levels.

Juice Squeezer
• A new module for the Industrial Kitchen building to produce Juices from fruit and concentrates from vegetables.

New Greenhouse version for fungi
• 1 new module Greenhouse for fungi farming.

*Corporation, Botany lab and Hostel buildings improved graphical look.

• Colony menu now allows up to 6 food and 6 diet supplements.
• Extra information about hydration/nutrition/morale/health benefits and consumption.

• Your colonists may die if any of their stats (hydration, nutrition, morale or health) reach a value of 0.
*The rest of your colonists won't like their colleagues dying...

• Raise your colony levels to become a Influential city! But beware, your colonists will demand better services as long as the colony progress.
* This feature comes as a preinstalled mod.

• More vegetables, juices and concentrate. Taste a delicious garlic juice :)
• Fruits
• Fruit juices
• Fungi for food or their medical properties.
• Comfort items to improve your residential buildings services.
• Diet supplements and medicines, and the active ingredients to craft them.

• New special items of type "vestige": XXI civilization remains, obtained in very rare cases after recycling processes.

• Char sheets will display residential information and its effect on colonist.
• An action bar with 4 options is available for colonists:
1. Open colonist's organization chart.
2. Open colonist's residence panel.
3. Assign a new type of residence target for a colonist.
4. Expel colonist.

• Char sheet window now will display a helmet with the char's profile (top left) to allow drag & drop operations. E.g.: Drag&drop a char from its char sheet on an Org. chart or a module in the residential panel to move his residence, etc.

Greenhouse and Botany lab have new productions for the new vegetables, fruits and fungi.
You can now send your ships for fungi extraction.
Organic Waste Recycling blueprint disappeared in favor of the new service blueprints for the residential buildings.

• Maintenance workshops will pause if the building to maintain is already at 100% level.
• Similar behavior for the Service & Comfort blueprints which will stop if their values are already at 100% level.
• Available colonists icon (left-screen panel) will appear yellow when there are new colonists available to awake that were not checked.
• Added day/cycle info for the Log notifications.
• Blueprint nodes will display now their current production instead of the blueprint name. E.g.: "Tomato Farming" instead of "Farming"
• Removed the limit of 999 for accumulated inno points.
• All Building Floating Menu buttons are now functional (this is the menu appearing when you hold left mouse on a building in the scenario). Residential buildings will display an extra button to access their Residential Panel.
*Right click on a building in scenario to display its Organization Chart.
*Right click on a residential building node to display its Residential Panel.
• Drop and item on the market icon to open the market at the page where that item is available to purchase.
• Market items available have been reduced.
• Blueprint nodes have been resized to display extra information.
• While profile "Director" keeps the same (the vocation to be a director), the profession of being in charge in a building has been renamed from Director to Supervisor.
• The amount introduced in the Food Management to refill your larder represents now the amount of days you want supplies to feed your colony instead of just the amount of items to refill your larder up to. This means, the amount of items in your larder will vary depending on your population.

*Translations are going to be disabled for some days until we re-enable them again via modding.

Project Aura 2.7 RC1 version.

While there are tons of new features and items, for the 2.7 version we keep focusing in the sandbox. Lore, quests, game goals and incentives... is something to expect in later versions, after we end with a robust and stable -bug free- core.
We want to remark the new residential, morale and maintenance systems and, in our path to open development to community, our first preinstalled "Colony Ranks" mod already functional.
Six new buildings are available and the amount of items has been almost doubled.

Continue reading for a detailed list of changes:

• New morale system
• New maintenance system
• New entertainment system
*While intuitive for experienced players, steam guides will be available ASAP.

Residential
• 3 new residential modules: Residential Block, Apartment Building and Estate. Each one with their respective blueprints and benefits for their tenants.
• Decide where your colonists will live.
• Service & Comfort residential levels.

Entertainment
• 1 new module Disco with effects on colony morale.

Care Center
Infirmary building has been renamed to Care Center and now includes an extra module:
• Drug Manufacturing
Process active ingredients to obtain supplements and improve your colony's health. Manufacture medicines from Q1 to Core levels.

Juice Squeezer
• A new module for the Industrial Kitchen building to produce Juices from fruit and concentrates from vegetables.

New Greenhouse version for fungi
• 1 new module Greenhouse for fungi farming.

*Corporation, Botany lab and Hostel buildings improved graphical look.

• Colony menu now allows up to 6 food and 6 diet supplements.
• Extra information about hydration/nutrition/morale/health benefits and consumption.

• Your colonists may die if any of their stats (hydration, nutrition, morale or health) reach a value of 0.
*The rest of your colonists won't like their colleagues dying...

• Raise your colony levels to become a Influential city! But beware, your colonists will demand better services as long as the colony progress.
* This feature comes as a preinstalled mod.

• More vegetables, juices and concentrate. Taste a delicious garlic juice :)
• Fruits
• Fruit juices
• Fungi for food or their medical properties.
• Comfort items to improve your residential buildings services.
• Diet supplements and medicines, and the active ingredients to craft them.

• New special items of type "vestige": XXI civilization remains, obtained in very rare cases after recycling processes.

• Char sheets will display residential information and its effect on colonist.
• An action bar with 4 options is available for colonists:
1. Open colonist's organization chart.
2. Open colonist's residence panel.
3. Assign a new type of residence target for a colonist.
4. Expel colonist.

• Char sheet window now will display a helmet with the char's profile (top left) to allow drag & drop operations. E.g.: Drag&drop a char from its char sheet on an Org. chart or a module in the residential panel to move his residence, etc.

Greenhouse and Botany lab have new productions for the new vegetables, fruits and fungi.
You can now send your ships for fungi extraction.
Organic Waste Recycling blueprint disappeared in favor of the new service blueprints for the residential buildings.

• Maintenance workshops will pause if the building to maintain is already at 100% level.
• Similar behavior for the Service & Comfort blueprints which will stop if their values are already at 100% level.
• Available colonists icon (left-screen panel) will appear yellow when there are new colonists available to awake that were not checked.
• Added day/cycle info for the Log notifications.
• Blueprint nodes will display now their current production instead of the blueprint name. E.g.: "Tomato Farming" instead of "Farming"
• Removed the limit of 999 for accumulated inno points.
• All Building Floating Menu buttons are now functional (this is the menu appearing when you hold left mouse on a building in the scenario). Residential buildings will display an extra button to access their Residential Panel.
*Right click on a building in scenario to display its Organization Chart.
*Right click on a residential building node to display its Residential Panel.
• Drop and item on the market icon to open the market at the page where that item is available to purchase.
• Market items available have been reduced.
• Blueprint nodes have been resized to display extra information.
• While profile "Director" keeps the same (the vocation to be a director), the profession of being in charge in a building has been renamed from Director to Supervisor.
• The amount introduced in the Food Management to refill your larder represents now the amount of days you want supplies to feed your colony instead of just the amount of items to refill your larder up to. This means, the amount of items in your larder will vary depending on your population.

*Translations are going to be disabled for some days until we re-enable them again via modding.