Come on over and see what'll be new and improved:

http://www.twitch.tv/djarcas/

Uh... new OR improved. You can't have both.

Come on over and see what'll be new and improved:

http://www.twitch.tv/djarcas/

Uh... new OR improved. You can't have both.

Trust me, this hiatus is killing me as much as it's boring you. So, a quick status report is in order I think!

This, overall, has gone swimmingly. Framerate has increase about 40% across the board, and there are preparations in place to move to Unity 5.4 and GPU Instanced rendering as fast as possible.

If you're interested in having a look, then please be aware of the high risk factor, back up your world, and opt into the BETA_TEST branch!

This has been a scary, scary set of changes. The entire disk system has been overhauled and made consistent. This should mean no more lost inventories, no need for player backups, and whilst we can't do anything about corrupted worlds (to massively re-re-re-re-iterate, those are 100% down to Windows' horrific disk system screwing up big time on hard crashes), we CAN now detect them 100% of the time and roll back to backups.

Testing is still on-going on this.

This is implemented in the latest version, but isn't ready yet. Hopefully next week or so. This is low risk to un-modded versions of the game, so I'll be happier about pushing bleeding edge builds out with them implemented.

We've FINALLY gotten an AppID through from Valve, so I'll be able to upload and link against this, once the art has been finished. Totally planned on being available for Patch 5.

See above!

Work's been progressing on this still. I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and say it's about 25% complete. Most of the major machines are in and working, about 10% of those have models, and 1% of them have final textures.

Is still going amazingly Go check it out!

Moving to Unity5 has allowed me to implement the 'generic' Virtual Reality support, meaning that all major headsets 'should just work'. It's a very long way from finished, but you can look around an existing base happily.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/254200/discussions/0/412446890546103596/

If you're interested in having a look, then please be aware of the high risk factor, back up your world, and opt into the VR_TEST branch!

A brief rundown on what's changed:

• You can ctrl-click items into storage crates. This took like half a day.
  
• The OET can be used to call in Orbital Strikes on the surface wasp spawns, knocking them out permanently.
  
• Improvements to the fluid rendering and performance.
  
• Added a new type of tunnelling boss.
  
• Added a new, static, super-boss.
  
• Loads of new visual improvements; new grappling hook, moving gun, sunshafts, minecart pieces.

Trust me, this hiatus is killing me as much as it's boring you. So, a quick status report is in order I think!

This, overall, has gone swimmingly. Framerate has increase about 40% across the board, and there are preparations in place to move to Unity 5.4 and GPU Instanced rendering as fast as possible.

If you're interested in having a look, then please be aware of the high risk factor, back up your world, and opt into the BETA_TEST branch!

This has been a scary, scary set of changes. The entire disk system has been overhauled and made consistent. This should mean no more lost inventories, no need for player backups, and whilst we can't do anything about corrupted worlds (to massively re-re-re-re-iterate, those are 100% down to Windows' horrific disk system screwing up big time on hard crashes), we CAN now detect them 100% of the time and roll back to backups.

Testing is still on-going on this.

This is implemented in the latest version, but isn't ready yet. Hopefully next week or so. This is low risk to un-modded versions of the game, so I'll be happier about pushing bleeding edge builds out with them implemented.

We've FINALLY gotten an AppID through from Valve, so I'll be able to upload and link against this, once the art has been finished. Totally planned on being available for Patch 5.

See above!

Work's been progressing on this still. I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and say it's about 25% complete. Most of the major machines are in and working, about 10% of those have models, and 1% of them have final textures.

Is still going amazingly Go check it out!

Moving to Unity5 has allowed me to implement the 'generic' Virtual Reality support, meaning that all major headsets 'should just work'. It's a very long way from finished, but you can look around an existing base happily.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/254200/discussions/0/412446890546103596/

If you're interested in having a look, then please be aware of the high risk factor, back up your world, and opt into the VR_TEST branch!

A brief rundown on what's changed:

• You can ctrl-click items into storage crates. This took like half a day.
  
• The OET can be used to call in Orbital Strikes on the surface wasp spawns, knocking them out permanently.
  
• Improvements to the fluid rendering and performance.
  
• Added a new type of tunnelling boss.
  
• Added a new, static, super-boss.
  
• Loads of new visual improvements; new grappling hook, moving gun, sunshafts, minecart pieces.

http://www.twitch.tv/djarcas/

Well, 2 out of 3 of those.

Not me, no, I have guests over next week and my house needs a serious tidy, but there's always someone streaming FortressCraft - always great if you want to learn some of the more complex parts of the game:

http://www.twitch.tv/stormsforce

Come and see what's cooking for future patches here : http://www.twitch.tv/djarcas/

Come see how well/badly Unity 5 is going, say hi, and watch me waste all my missiles.

http://www.twitch.tv/djarcas/

PS someone remind me to delete this tomorrow!

It's the 29th of January - boy, a lot has changed since the 27th of December!

So, just to get this out of the way - Here's my Patreon. If you're lovin' the new features and patches, please consider donating. It helps out massively, and means I

can continue to produce content for the game. ON WITH THE PATCH NOTES!

Ok, first off, here's the stuff you REALLY need to know:

• Research Pods now requires 6 plates and 2 PCBs, making automation dead-easy. You HAVE to automate them now, no more hand-crafting.
  
• Smelters can now collection power through the attached Forced Induction Kits; there's also MK4 and MK5 induction kits for super-fast Ore loading.
  
• All new Ore Ping graphics for T2 materials; you can also craft Hardened Resin Pings.
  
• Turrets have got some tactical readouts; either press E when looking at them or left-ctrl on the HoloBase to view range.
  
• Added Motorised Conveyors for super-fast emptying of Storage Hoppers. Conveyor Filters and Advanced Filters have been improved substantially.
  
• Added Plasma-Imbued Cutter Heads. These give 100% resources for 2500 ore, at a 400% collection rate! To be clear : THIS cutter head DOES increase the ore rate, MASSIVELY, but only for a SHORT period of time.
  
• Remember you can automate the fitting of cutter heads by putting them in a Remove Only Hopper.
  
• Added Coal Enricher - Enriched Coal gives double Power Per Seconds to PTGs! (But not the CPH. Stop trying)
  
• Completely rewords the way Missiles work - they're at least a million times more awesome, and much easier to make, too!
  
• Added Plasma-Imbued warheads, doing TRIPLE damage!
  
• Added Armour-Piercing warheads, doing NINE-times damage!
  
• Organic Panels now collect at night!
  
• You can't break Multiblock machines by accident (well, unless you fell asleep on the keyboard)
  
• You can't select a torch when inside it!
  
• TONS AND TONS of multiplayer fixes, and a dedicated server too! (Windows 64 bit only for now)
  
• Added a Server Monitor machine to build and see what the server's up to!
  
• Scrolling Text everywhere! It's great!
  
• Loads of upcraft receipes! Get rid of those T0 Lasers!
  
• New textures! Models! Icons! Sound effects!
  
• Loads of skins! These give you a player skin AND an ARTHER skin AND a spiderbot skin! Type /skin <number> in the chat screen (Enter to chat)
  
• Rebalanced Research Points! No-one will ever run out again!
  
• Loads and LOADS of optimisation and clever-ass performance boosts!
  
• Loads of improvements and additions to the handbook!
  
• Added AFK mode! best for streamers, but cool for everyone! Type /AFK in the chat. Press B afterwards for the best effect, then WSAD to cancel
  
• All multiblock machines have had loads of visual improvements.
  
• LOADS of dynamically-loaded textures should reduce the memory footprint of the game loads!

BASICALLY IT'S BRILLIANT SO GO PLAY IT

Full patch notes here

No pictures. Go look at the last post for those.

It's the 29th of January - boy, a lot has changed since the 27th of December!

So, just to get this out of the way - Here's my Patreon. If you're lovin' the new features and patches, please consider donating. It helps out massively, and means I

can continue to produce content for the game. ON WITH THE PATCH NOTES!

Ok, first off, here's the stuff you REALLY need to know:

• Research Pods now requires 6 plates and 2 PCBs, making automation dead-easy. You HAVE to automate them now, no more hand-crafting.
  
• Smelters can now collection power through the attached Forced Induction Kits; there's also MK4 and MK5 induction kits for super-fast Ore loading.
  
• All new Ore Ping graphics for T2 materials; you can also craft Hardened Resin Pings.
  
• Turrets have got some tactical readouts; either press E when looking at them or left-ctrl on the HoloBase to view range.
  
• Added Motorised Conveyors for super-fast emptying of Storage Hoppers. Conveyor Filters and Advanced Filters have been improved substantially.
  
• Added Plasma-Imbued Cutter Heads. These give 100% resources for 2500 ore, at a 400% collection rate! To be clear : THIS cutter head DOES increase the ore rate, MASSIVELY, but only for a SHORT period of time.
  
• Remember you can automate the fitting of cutter heads by putting them in a Remove Only Hopper.
  
• Added Coal Enricher - Enriched Coal gives double Power Per Seconds to PTGs! (But not the CPH. Stop trying)
  
• Completely rewords the way Missiles work - they're at least a million times more awesome, and much easier to make, too!
  
• Added Plasma-Imbued warheads, doing TRIPLE damage!
  
• Added Armour-Piercing warheads, doing NINE-times damage!
  
• Organic Panels now collect at night!
  
• You can't break Multiblock machines by accident (well, unless you fell asleep on the keyboard)
  
• You can't select a torch when inside it!
  
• TONS AND TONS of multiplayer fixes, and a dedicated server too! (Windows 64 bit only for now)
  
• Added a Server Monitor machine to build and see what the server's up to!
  
• Scrolling Text everywhere! It's great!
  
• Loads of upcraft receipes! Get rid of those T0 Lasers!
  
• New textures! Models! Icons! Sound effects!
  
• Loads of skins! These give you a player skin AND an ARTHER skin AND a spiderbot skin! Type /skin <number> in the chat screen (Enter to chat)
  
• Rebalanced Research Points! No-one will ever run out again!
  
• Loads and LOADS of optimisation and clever-ass performance boosts!
  
• Loads of improvements and additions to the handbook!
  
• Added AFK mode! best for streamers, but cool for everyone! Type /AFK in the chat. Press B afterwards for the best effect, then WSAD to cancel
  
• All multiblock machines have had loads of visual improvements.
  
• LOADS of dynamically-loaded textures should reduce the memory footprint of the game loads!

BASICALLY IT'S BRILLIANT SO GO PLAY IT

Full patch notes here

No pictures. Go look at the last post for those.