Hello spacefriends!

We're keeping the improvements train rolling today with the release of our latest Quality of Life Upgrade, QoL MK II! Our team has continued to scour their bug lists and review all the feedback you've given us here in the forums, and we've been working hard to improve our game systems and overall game performance.

A high level of focus in QoL Mk II has been directed toward adding tools to communicate how Duplicants are choosing jobs or moving around your base, giving you better, more efficient control of your colony. We've also added a whole batch of unusual Space Artifacts for you to display on your Pedestals, and some exciting new upgrades to the Printing Pod's capabilities. And we've knocked out all kinds of bugs and crashes thanks to your reports!

Throughout the rest of the QoL Upgrades we will be continuing to monitor your feedback for more information on how we can improve the game. We've made some serious progress on bugs and polish this update, but there's still lots more to come! We've got even more systems to balance and optimization to perform.

As of the QoL MK II release, Oxygen Not Included is now also available on the Epic Game Store. The game is still in Early Access, and we plan to follow the same Testing/Release schedule on Epic that we currently do on Steam. We're supporting both platforms that the Epic Game Store supports, currently PC and Mac.

A big thank you to everyone who participated in our open testing branch, we hope you enjoy QoL MK II!

• Printing Pod can now print objects other than Duplicants, to give your colony that little extra boost
  
• Added a new priority to the Priority tool, "!!". This will make a highest-priority errand and put the base into Red Alert mode until the errand is complete
  
• Added a new side screen for Duplicants which shows all the chores they can perform, and what order they will perform them in
  
• Added a new "Errands" tab for buildings (other objects coming soon!) which shows what chores are available there and which Duplicants can work on those chores
  
• Reports Menu now shows a more accurate and better categorized breakdown of where Duplicants are spending their time
  
• Reports Menu now shows how many errands have been created and completed each day
  
• "Long Commute Times" notification if Duplicants have a high percentage of travel time in a day
  
• New Artifacts can be returned from space missions, either by astronauts or space tourists -- display them on Pedestals for high decor!
  
• Eggs can now also be placed on Pedestals
  
• Rocket modules now have a "Launch Tower" background that shows where the rocket will land even after it has taken off
  
• There have also been many bug fixes and minor improvements.

Check out the full changelist for all the details!

• Once again able to build Pitcher Pump in front of back wall buildings
  
• Fix gas leaking if Airflow Tiles or Mesh Tiles are built as replacement tiles
  
• Fix priority on Neural Vascillator so Dupes with raised priorities will actually use it
  
• Fix crash when building wires and pipes
  
• Fix crash when destroying a Geyser in sandbox mode
  
• Fix crash when Dupes are Rummaging
  
• Increase the priority of Rummage errands
  
• Wrangle Tool now correctly sets priority
  
• Fix crash when one of the Dupes in a conversation disappears for some reason

• Fix crash when changing Dupe names with Chinese input
  
• Fix crash when building plumbing/vents on single-core computers
  
• Fix Duplicants getting stuck in a delivery loop if a locker set set to !! priority

• Red alert no longer prevents Duplicants from catching their breath (They will however, hold it for longer than usual)
  
• Dupes in Red Alert will get the correct "holding breath" face when holding their breath
  
• Can now set emergency priority with the '0' key the same way the other number keys set normal priorities.
  
• Fix Filtered Output Pipe icon on the plumbing overlay
  
• Fix liquid/gas input incorrectly updating liquid flow if the entire mass was consumed
  
• Fix crashed caused by Errand time reporting
  
• Cleaned up which systems were responsible for Red Alert from Emergency
• Priority errands. Now it's controlled directly from the building's priority, so setting the building priority will immediately toggle Red Alert on or off, regardless of whether there is an active chore. This makes it more consistent in all cases and improves the feedback of toggling the building's priority.
  
• Buildings and other objects with emergency priority now have a "!!" status item visible in the main game view
  
• If a building was only temporarily prioritizable (e.g. because of a Repair errand), it will stop causing Red Alert when that errand is finished.
  
• Several temperature and mass related crashes were actually recoverable, so just put a warning in the output log and keep running the game.
  
• Fix a crash then the Med Bed is set to emergency priority
  
• Duplicants are allowed to remain in a med bed during Red Alert
  
• Fix the priority numbers on the Minion Todo List being off by one.

• Fix for Sweeper Arm sometimes not being able to reach any storages even when they're in plain sight
  
• Add some additional checks to try and track down invalid Errand crashes
  
• Fix another crash with input with IMEs such as Chinese
  
• Updated Korean and Chinese translations
  
• Fix a crash when setting Dupe priority to "disabled"

Originally posted on the official forums by Ipsquiggle

Hello astro-friends!

The Quality of Life Upgrades continue to roll out as our team scours their bug lists and reviews all the feedback you've given us here in the forums! We're also still working hard to improve game performance and systems.

A high level of focus in QoL Mk 2 has been directed toward adding tools to help you understand what work your Duplicants are doing around the base and how they're moving through it. We've also added in Space Artifacts for you to display on your Pedestals, and some exciting new upgrades to the Printing Pod's capabilities. And of course, we've knocked out all kinds of bugs and crashes thanks to your reports!

For those who missed it in the previous Upgrade: A public Testing Branch for this Upgrade will once again be available as they have been in the past, with the change that testing periods will now run for 3 weeks instead of the regular 2. Our intention is to provide additional time for your feedback to be heard before these changes go out to the world. (Please note that the Testing Branch will continue to have additional crash reporting enabled and will impact your game’s running performance. Finalized performance improvements won't be noticeable until the Upgrade releases to everyone.)

We look forward to reading your thoughts and opinions on the Suggestions Forum.

Thank-you!

This update is absolutely massive - for more details and update notes, head on over to the official forums.

• Deconstructing toilets and other assignables no longer crashes
  
• Fix door access controls not being loaded correctly or modifying the pathfinding correctly.
  
• Cleaned up tooltips for chores on the Duplicant ToDo list
  
• "Sleeping" status is properly bolded and first in the status screen
  
• Big change to the Duplicant Time reports on the reports screen: Shows as percentage of the day, time categories have been revised, a few new categories, and the whole screen has been better organized.
  
• Fix several overlapping or badly wrapping text problems -- thanks for pointing these out!
  
• Updated description for Smooth Hatch
  
• Clicking a Dupe on the building Errands tab will jump to that dupe
  
• Fix text styles being broken when game language is changed
  
• Added in "not existing" dupe time reporting for more accurate daily totals when a dupe is printed or dies
  
• Reduce the boldness of bolded text
  
• Add missing compostable string
  
• Correct Water Geyser typo
  
• More accurate Telescope description

Hey friends! Wanted to get out a fix for the med beds before the weekend. Have a good one! :)

• Fixed med bed errand priority to Personal Needs so bedridden dupes will actually get out of bed to pee.
  
• Some balance changes to the portal Care Packages
  
• Some portal Care Packages are now gated by discovery, others have had their minimum cycle altered

• Duplicants should no longer get stuck in place if they have to hop down on to a horizontal door
  
• Text alignment/spacing fixes to the Pedestal screen, Jobs Screen dropdowns,
  
• Fix crash when spawning a new Care Package
  
• Pedestals correctly set decor on load
  
• Fix crash when Duplicants are thinking about their next errand
  
• Fix crash when clicking a care package and then a Duplicant on the Printer Pod screen
  
• Building errand list and Duplicant ToDo list now show available errands in realtime, along with better messages for why a dupe can't perform the errand at a building (instead of just being blank).
  
• Current errand on the ToDo list is shown at the top
  
• Fix cases where a Dupe would incorrectly pathfind or get stuck at a access controled door if they approached it from a diagonal.
  
• Ladders can now directly replace other ladders

• Fixed issue where pre-printing and post-death time logs were inaccurate
  
• Liquid Fuel Tank background now shows up
  
• Report Screen headers are now translatable
  
• Airflow Tiles and Mesh Tiles now block gasses and liquids from escaping into space
  
• All doors now prevent gasses and liquids from escaping into space (art coming soon!)
  
• Gasses render in front of background buildings like Drywall
  
• All doors can be walked on top of, in either orientation, open or closed.
  
• Hotkeys are explicitly inserted into many strings now instead of appended at the end (for Translators)
  
• Puzzle Cube artifact displays properly
  
• Conduits placed across multiple Hydroponic Farms should no longer block liquids from flowing down the pipe
  
• Emergency priority creates notifications to make it easier to find those Errands
  
• Games there were saved while a Care Package was in the process of being printed will no longer crash
  
• Fix several cases of Duplicants repeatedly picking up micrograms of ore
  
• Duplicants will prefer to run across the tops of ladders rather than climbing across them
  
• Bunker Doors should no longer animate while the game is paused
  
• Anti Entropy Thermal Nullifier no longer incorrectly gets "Too Cold"
  
• Fix a crash when trying to save invalid temperatures
  
• Updated artwork for many of the rocket module backgrounds
  
• Improved some logging for Errand errors to help us track down bugs

• Added background art to all doors to indicate that they prevent gasses from leaking into space
  
• Fixed layering on gas rendering. Now all pipes and other background objects are partially covered by gasses, drywall and world background are fully covered.
  
• Fix for Dupes incorrectly binge-eating tiny amounts of food
  
• Duplicant Errand list correctly hides errands the Dupe would be unable to perform
  
• Clicking certain notifications no longer moves the camera to the top left of the world
  
• Remove redundant hotkeys in some tooltips
  
• Revised artwork for rocket towers
  
• Made several previously-untranslatable strings translatable
  
• Fetches for micro-amounts are forced to complete
  
• "Errands" tab shows on more than just buildings, e.g. digs, critters. Let us know if it's missing from anything still!
  
• Fixed more text layout/wrapping bugs
  
• Fix a crash when deleting a Duplicant or Critter with sandbox tools
  
• Adjust height of the Critter Lure so that it has room for the bait
  
• Proper fuel meter shows on the Liquid Fuel Tank
  
• Liquid Oxidizer tank meter no longer stays behind when the rocket launches
  
• Liquid/Gas/Solid cargo bay meters are hooked up.
  
• Adjusted wordings on Rocket checklist to make it more clear when there are problems
  
• Red Alert no longer prevents Emergency chores from being completed
  
• Fixed priority of Find Somewhere Safer chore
  
• Added tooltip for Emergency priority
  
• Added priority values into tooltips on the Priorities screen

Hello intrepid colony managers!

Today we're happy to bring you the first edition of our new "Quality of Life" Upgrade series! This series will differ slightly from Upgrades we've released in the past, as we shift our focus toward a new stage of development dedicated to evaluating all game content to date. This means looking at improving performance, filling in remaining holes in content, and rebalancing existing systems (hooray!).

The intent of QoL Mk 1 is to begin working through the important issues that have been brought up by users on our forums (thank-you for your feedback and reports!), as well as eliminating major game-impacting bugs, and improving the quality of Oxygen Not Included's early game for new users. As a result, QoL Mk 1 introduces new recipe queuing UI options, more building copy settings, and a bunch of new content expanding the decor system such as varieties on existing paintings, sculptures and flower pots (plus a whole assortment of crash fixes and performance tweaks).

Throughout the rest of the QoL Upgrades, we will be continuing to monitor the forums and your reports for more feedback on how we can improve the game. We've made some serious progress on bugs and polish this update, but there's still more to come! We've still got even more systems to balance and optimization to perform.

In addition, the team will be taking a two week break over the holidays and getting back to it in the New Year. The next update will be on schedule in 8 weeks, coming out February 7th.

Thank you to everyone who participating in our open testing branch, we hope you enjoy the decor!

The majority of the work this Upgrade has been on a wide range of bugs and tuning, so rather than a list of high-level features like we usually do, here's a massive categorized list of the changes and improvements we've made.

• New Pedestal Building: Use it to increase the decor value of various objects while displaying them for your Duplicants
  
• New Artifact Objects: Bring them back from outer space for decorative display in your colony
  
• New Decor Items: Corner Decorations, Carpeted Tile, Trim Tile, new Painting and Statue variations, new Pot types for plants
  
• New Master Artist role: Allows the creation of the best forms of art (and the Astronaut role finally has its own hat too!)
  
• Increased Automation: Critter Sensor outputs a signal based on the number of critters and eggs in a room
  
• New Sight-Seeing Module: Send Duplicants to space for a huge morale and productivity bonus

For a full list of patch notes, please visit the official forums.

• Fix some formatting in the official Chinese and Russian translations
  
• Add some debug logging to help track down crashes
  
• Fix crash when Duplicants are trying to unequip items
  
• Fix crash if a building in fog-of-war gets damaged
  
• Fix crash when Auto Sweepers are looking for tasks
  
• Dupe navigation will be correctly affected by their custom access settings on doors.

• Fix a crash when a sink runs out of water while a dupe is washing their hands
  
• Fabricator screen now displays a helpful message when no recipes have been discovered
  
• Fabricator screen now displays a recipe when any ingredient has been discovered

After their first exciting foray into space the Duplicants have been eager to learn more about the universe in which they live. Their dedicated space research has brought on a wave of technological innovation, and using the rocketry advancements now at their disposal the Duplicants can fly further into the unknown than ever before. They might even bring some strange new things back for their trouble!

Introducing: Oxygen Not Included - Space Industry Upgrade!

An expanded starmap means Duplicants can venture even further out into space, reaching far off locations until now unseen where several powerful new materials are waiting to be collected.

New Rocketry options for more ways to get into space

• Steam Engine and Liquid Hydrogen Engine for increased rocket power
  
• Solid Fuel Thrusters to improve rocket thrust
  
• Research Modules to gather research data from space

Expanded Space Destinations with rare materials

• Larger space map
  
• New destination types
  
• Space research, which reveals artifacts and materials

New surface-dwelling creature

• Shove Vole can now be found on the surface, munching Regolith and waiting for your love!

Advanced material fabrication pushes the limits of physics

• New Molecular Forge converts rare materials into industrial supermaterials
  
• New Thermium, used as an industrial super conductor material
  
• New industrial-grade Insulation
  
• New Fullerene-based Super Coolant
  
• Gelatinous, kinetic energy-dampening Visco-Gel

Jet Suits enable extreme Duplicant mobility

• Duplicants take to the air in new Jet Suits!
  
• Jet Suit Checkpoints and Lockers added for Jet Suit management

Revised late-game research

• Telescopes can now analyze Starmap destinations
  
• Research Modules produce Data Banks during rocket missions
  
• New Virtual Planetarium turns Data Banks into research

Rocketry automation allows for larger, more dynamic spaceports

• Command Modules are now automatable
  
• Space Scanners can signal incoming rockets as well as detect meteor showers

And more!

• Neural Vacillator recharges
  
• Robo-Miner buildings for automatic digging

As mentioned in the previous update, we will be shifting gears for the next while. Please read the Updated Roadmap for full details and discussion!

Thank you to everyone who participating in our open testing branch, we hope you enjoy your improved journeys to space!

As always you can head over to the official forums for full update notes and info. https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/forum/137-oxygen-not-included-latest-content-update/

• Neural Vacillator can now be assigned after it has been recharged
  
• Various Spacemap strings are now localizable
  
• Update official Russian translation
  
• All important properties of Dupe returning from space should be restored when they leave the rocket
  
• Voles can no longer be Entombed
  
• Updated text for Spacemap
  
• Fix crash when Voles die
  
• Fix broken Database links on seeds
  
• Liquid Reservoir meter properly shows as empty when it is empty
  
• Fix crash that could occur when unlocking Database entries
  
• Updated Gas Bottler sound effects
  
• New sounds for Auto Miner
  
• Fix crash when Dupes tried to have a conversation about being an astronaut

• Update Space Research center art
  
• Shov Voles can no longer move through doors, mesh and airflow tiles made of refined metals
  
• Destroying a rotated door no longer allows digging tiles that shouldn't be dug
  
• Critters and Plants can once again be returned from Space Missions
  
• Fix crash when starting the game with a small render target size
  
• Add Liquid reservoir sounds
  
• Updated Shov Vole animation and art
  
• Pathfinding runs a little bit faster

• Fix for dupes continually digging tiny amounts of snow and other materials.
  
• Fix dupe animation frozen when eating medicine or changing the lock state of a door.
  
• Fix loss of mass when multiple stackable items stack together on the same frame.
  
• New research center animations.
  
• Rocket Modules can no longer be deconstructed while the rocket is away.
  
• Command module storage is sealed and insulated so the atmosuit can't melt while in flight.
  
• Make rocket fuel tanks insulated so steam etc. doesn't phase change during fueling.
  
• Fix starmap/telescope so new analysis targets can be selected after one is completed.
  
• Fix for flush toilet constantly becoming disabled if you run the output pipe directly across the output instead of connecting to a T junction.
  
• Shov Vole can no longer dig through nearly impenetrable materials.
  
• Updated baby Shov Vole animations.
  
• Updated Gassy Grass animations.
  
• Improved tooltip for when duplicants die from low health.
  
• Fixing drowning tooltip.

• Fix crash when building Rocket engines

• Fix crash while saving Unlocks if the json file is locked.
  
• Fix writing Unlocks.json when nothing has changed.
  
• Fix crashes when destroying Rocket Modules.
  
• Fix crash when destroying a Command Module containing a dupe.

Since breaking through the surface of the asteroid our Duplicants have developed a curiosity for the endless cosmos that exists outside their little space rock. That’s right, the Duplicants have begun developing their very own space program!

They’re now able to build massive rockets, train as astronauts, and journey on missions into space to bring back the resources they find.

A big thanks to everyone who participated in the testing branch. You’re helping to make the game better and we always appreciate that effort.


Key Features:

• Rockets: Several new “Rocket Module” buildings for spacecraft construction.
  
  • Command Module
  • Petroleum Rocket Engine
  • Liquid Fuel Tank
  • Solid, Liquid, Gas, and Biological cargo containers
• New buildings to support rocket-related research and development
  • Research Telescope
  • Space Cadet Centrifuge
  • Oxylite Refinery
• A new UI screen for interacting with your fleet of rockets and their missions
  
  • Five mission destinations
• A new critter and plant which can be brought back from space
  • Gassy Moo
  • Gas Grass
• Several new Codex entries to unlock over multiple playthroughs
• New elements which affect Steel and Natural Gas production
  • Sour Gas
  • Fossil
  • Sulfur
• Buildings for gas bottling and emptying
  • Canister Filler
  • Canister Emptier
• Buildings for storing gases and liquids
  
  • Liquid Reservoir
  • Gas Reservoir
• A couple new settings for custom games
  
  • Hunger rate setting
  • Morale stress setting
  • The "No Sweat" game mode preset has been added to help tailor your experience to your preferred playstyle.
    

What's Next?

We feel the rocketry upgrade content has opened the door to further space industry related content. We’re looking forward to expanding that stage of the game further. We intend to expand the space industry content and systems in the next update.

We’re also getting close to completing the pre-launch features we planned in last year’s roadmap. We feel it’s approaching time to shift our focus to polish, usability, and content backfill. There is plenty of work to be done in those categories.

You can read more about that in this announcement.
 
For full patch notes and more info, head over to the official forums: https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/95248-rocketry-upgrade-now-available-284571/


[GAME UPDATE] 285480 - 9/13/2018

• Updated Korean and Chinese translations.

[GAME UPDATE] 285039 - 9/10/2018

• Improve some of the framerate hitches introduced in the rocketry upgrade.
  
• Fixed an issue with translation preview images not appearing when subscribing to languages in the workshop.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur on load if you had an astronaut in space assigned to their own schedule.

[GAME UPDATE] 284634 - 9/6/2018

• Updated next update timer.
  
• Fix for dupes sometimes not delivering to storage lockers when using higher priority conveyor storage.
  
• Fixed duplicant centrifuge animation.
  
• New biological cargo bay art.
  
• Fix for fishes not being able to swim through tiles under construction.
  
• Gas bottler sound hookup.

Though originally thrown together by cruel cosmic circumstance, the Duplicants of the colony have weathered incredible hardships together and come out the other side as stronger friends for it. Armed with their new talents of self awareness, compassion and extreme friendliness, our intrepid Dupes are now fully committed to supporting each other through life in the colony - the good times, and the bad. 

But mostly they'll just chat about cute Hatches.

What's New in the Expressive Upgrade?

Duplicant Interactions

Duplicants have new powers of self expression and are now more aware of the colony, themselves, and even their peers. New animations, expressions, and interactions have been added to help the Duplicants convey what's happening to and around them.

Key Features

• Reaction Animations: Duplicants will now visibly react when they gain new status effects and notice when important things happen around them.
• Interactions: Duplicants will greet their friends in the halls, chat a bit while working, and compliment each other on a job well done. Turns out they're not alone on this asteroid!
• Conversations: Do you like Mushbars? I like Mushbars! Mushbars are pretty good. You're such a good listener, you know?

Scheduling and Personal Time

As part of their new self-awareness, Duplicants have become concerned about about their Morale. Just because they're buried under miles of rock and slime (and half of them have embarrassing GI problems) doesn't mean they can't be happy!

Key Features

• Scheduling: Colonywide schedules can now be adjusted, not only to give the Duplicants much needed Downtime at the end of the day to socialize and unwind, but also to ensure they empty their bladders before they run off to work!
• New Recreation Buildings: While the most basic of breaks can be accomplished by hanging out by the Water Cooler, Duplicants can really let loose at the local Jukebot or Arcade Cabinet!
• Morale Expectation: Job expectations have been unified into a single Morale rating, which encompasses Duplicants' food, lodgings, activities, and whatever else on the asteroid that they find fulfilling.

And More!

• New Mini Transformer: A new Mini Transformer has been introduced to improve technological progression through the Research Tree. Pick up the mini version for a quick start into Transformer usage, then build the full Transformer for a real challenge!
• Discoverable Lore Entries: What was "Gravitas", and what was their purpose? How did the Duplicants end up on the asteroid? Inspect buildings, critters, and more to fill your Database and start unraveling the mystery!
• Completed Animations and Sounds: The rest of the Critter animations, including babies, wrangling, and morphs have been completed, along with a number of buildings which previously had been silent.
• Tons of bug fixes, rebalances, QOL additions, and more!

We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the Expressive Upgrade Test Branch, submitted your crash and bug reports, and gave your feedback in our Suggestions Forum. We're always grateful to hear your thoughts and thank you for the time spent playing our game.

Now go take a break!

For more info, head over to the official forums:https://forums.kleientertainment.com/game-updates/oni-alpha/279457-r525/

[GAME HOTFIX] 280450 - 8/2/2018

• ArcadeMachine plays unique player one, player two, and co-op anims.
  
• Recreation buildings now list their morale effects.
  
• Water cooler and espresso machine now list their mass requirements.
  
• Roles Screen: Show expectations on unemployed dupes; make dupe tooltips pop from the dupe name as well.
  
• Rooms now explicitly mention the effects they have.
  
• Storage lockers are now considered full if they have less than 0.5kg of space left. This should prevent dupes from attempting to top off storage lockers with just a few grams.

[GAME HOTFIX] 280243 - 8/1/2018

• Fix for graphical corruption happening in the main menu on Linux.

[GAME HOTFIX] 280216 - 8/1/2018

• Fixed a crash that could occur when dupes walked through an area that previously contained suit lockers.
  
• The word "EggShell" should now be translatable.
  
• Moved Morale next to stress in the vitals panel.
  
• Added some Morale related tips.
  
• Fixed missing string reference: "Any".
  
• Fixed filter status item not showing the correct element.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur after a Dupe died.
  
• Updated Korean and Russian translations.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur on Linux when generating worlds and when loading previous save files.
  
• Fixed dupes getting stuck animating in place.
  
• Improved Morale display in consumables screen.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when using the sandbox stamp tools.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur if a creature fell off the map.
  
• Fix for the great hall room type sometimes not getting recognized until you reloaded your save file.
  
• "Neutral" morale gives a stress bonus
  
• The stress from low morale comes on more gently (but has the same maximum)
  
• Custom game settings for morale only apply to negative stress effects (and retuned a bit)

[GAME HOTFIX] 279899 - 7/30/2018

• Fixed an issue where certain objects such as doors were not loading properly if they were saved in the open state.

[GAME HOTFIX] 279738 - 7/27/2018

• Fixed an issue where ONI log files were getting flooded with warnings.

[GAME HOTFIX] 279674 - 7/27/2018

• Duplicants now choose a random dance each time they dance
  
• Repair various missing/inaccurate strings
  
• Duplicants now get disease from the water in a Water Cooler/Espresso Machine
  
• Sand should correctly fall through Bunker Doors
  
• Espresso machine is now 3 tiles wide
  
• Duplicants will no longer appear to drink water from the wash station if headed to the water cooler.
  
• Fix a crash when loading queued Refinery orders
  
• Fix a crash in generating the Database
  
• Fix a crash when loading some pipe networks
  
• New Custom Game Setting to tweak the amount of stress gained from insufficient morale
  
• Added a popup when loading an existing save game to help players transition to the new morale system

"Space" just got bigger--literally. Miner Duplicants have broken through the crust of the asteroid, revealing the entire big ol' cosmos beyond! This stellar discovery has spurred new material innovations as the Duplicants rush to exploit the frontier while defending themselves from the uncaring vacuum (and unsightly freezer burn) of space.

The truth is out there!



"Look at me, Liam! I'm on top of the world!" The surface of the asteroid is a source of abundant natural resources along with new hazards for your Duplicants to navigate.

Key Features

• Solar Light: The abundant energy of a nearby star can be harnessed for electricity with Solar Panels. Your poor cave-dwelling Duplicants will appreciate the warm natural light as well, provided they don't roast!
  
• Meteor Showers: The good news: free resources! The bad news: they're traveling at 16 kilometers per second. Protect your surface infrastructure with meteor-proof walls and shutters, along with the new Meteor Detector.
  
• New Elements: Improved material science has enabled the production of Steel, Ceramics, Glass, and other basic materials.
  
• Windows and Walls: Now your Duplicants can build a room with a view. Transparent windows allow light and decor to pass through, while keeping your precious gasses and liquids right where you want them. Back walls offer protection against the greedy vacuum of space for those who dare to build on the surface.

Like a swarm of Shine Bugs, the ranching opportunities continue to expand with new buildings and improvements.

Key Features

• Updated Egg Economy: An Egg Cracker building makes planning your next omelet as easy as pie, which is a good thing because eggs have undergone some mass changes, as well as becoming unviable if left in storage for too long.
  
• Updated Critter Artwork: Completed eggs, babies, wrangled, and trapped artwork for all critters. Hooray!
  
• Automated Pen Management: Before, your Duplicants merely kept critters. Now, they're ranching them! Pen limits, as well as automatic wrangling and transfer, lets you build the coal-producing machine of your dreams.

And More!

• Powered Door Finally Powered: It's nice and zippy when it's plugged in, but make sure you've got enough batteries charged to keep it working!
  
• Power Production Rebalance: With the addition of solar power, numerous tweaks have been made to the electricity economy.
  
• Performance Enhancements!
  
• Tons of bug fixes, rebalances, QOL additions, and more!

We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the Cosmic Upgrade Test Branch, submitted your crash and bug reports, and gave your feedback in our Suggestions Forum. We're always grateful to hear your thoughts and thank you for the time spent playing our game.

Enjoy your time in space!

For more info, head over to the official forums: https://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/91887-game-update-273433/

[GAME HOTFIX] 275206 - 6/27/2018

• Ore no longer gets absorbed by the world when entombed. Instead we store ore in a much more efficient system which should imrpove the load times of worlds that have a significant amount of entombed ore.
  
• The warning to upgrade your audio driver should properly popup if the game starts without sound.
  
• Fixed a memory/performance leak that was also causing looping sounds to play quieter over time.
  
• Fix for portraits not showing up in the roles screen.
  
• Fixed a bug where liquid could leak through tiles on load.
  
• Fixed a bug where gas could leak through gas impermeable tiles when displaced.

[GAME HOTFIX] 274778 - 6/22/2018

• Improved load times.
  
• Fixed one of the issues with hatches not going to groom stations.
  
• Uprooting a plant will no longer cause a plant death notification.
  
• Ore that gets entombed into the same element will now add itself to the world.

[GAME HOTFIX] 274564 - 6/21/2018

• Slight increase to dust comet damage.
  
• Dust comet is now regolith.
  
• Tweak the comet dirt spawning rules to prevent the dirt from stacking up.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur if a comet hit a building that didn't have an audio category setup for it.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur if a liquid droplet fell outside the world.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when FMOD failed to initialize.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur if you had more than the maximum autosave files by making your own copies.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur on shutdown.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when placing gases using the sandbox tools.

[GAME HOTFIX] 274307 - 6/20/2018

• Fixed a crash that could occur when pressing backspace on an input text field that had localized text in it.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when hovering a light outside of the simulation grid.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when loading some old save files with some bad assignment data.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to play a missing sound.
  
• Sandbox tool temperature ranges are now clamped to the max temperature supported by the simulation.

[GAME HOTFIX] 274136 - 6/19/2018

• Fixed another temperature crash.
  
• Fixed crash that could occur if a piece of ore was emitting at the edge of the world.
  
• Added some more error info for a crash that is occuring when using input fields in a localized version of the game.

[GAME HOTFIX] 273961 - 6/18/2018

• Fixed a crash that could occur if a pipe's content's temperature was NaN.

[GAME HOTFIX] 273908 - 6/18/2018

• Fixed weird building temperature behaviour.
  
• Fixed showers overheating and destroying the whole world.
  
• Fixed sandbox tools spawning buildings with incorrect temperatures.
  
• Fixed deconstruction of Themal Plates/Wallpaper opening up wholes into space.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when Aggressive dupes tried to punch space.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when building doors at the edge of the world.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when FMOD failed to initialize using the default audio device. This is usually caused by third party software interfering with the audio device but instead of crashing, the game will start with no audio.

[GAME HOTFIX] 273742 - 6/15/2018

• Fixed for the loud humming sound.
  
• Potential fix for the black anim outlines showing up on certain older graphics cards.

[GAME HOTFIX] 273690 - 6/15/2018

• Fixed some mismatched POI strings.
  
• Fixed typo in "Invalid Location".
  
• Shearing station can only be built on the floor.
  
• Refinery was only fetching the first ingredient for multi-ingredient recipes. Now it fetches all of them.
  
• Space art tuning.
  
• Mesh and airflow tiles no longer invincible to comets, now take proper damage.
  
• Sneezing now actually plays the full sneeze animation.
  
• Valves now say that they're manually operated.
  
• Kiln/Shearing station sound effects.
  
• Fixed crash when attempting to build wires outside the simulation grid.
  
• Updated thermal block art.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when harvesting hatches as they are being groomed.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when deconstructing travel tubes.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when you decided to keep all your Pacus at the edge of space.
  
• Kiln recipes now require coal.
  
• New egg cracker art.
  
• Fixed crash when using the sandbox sample tool outside the simulation grid.

Out in space there's an old saying; "happiness is a warm Hatchling". Well, today there's more than enough happiness to go around in a certain little asteroid!

Ranchers who have long enjoyed caring for the special critters of the colony have finally perfected breeding them in captivity, and they've been rewarded with the very best imaginable thing; baby critters! Bug-eyed Puftlings, tiny Slickster Larva, and chubby Shine Nymphs all await your care, plus some new critters that can't wait to meet you!


Each critter has latent genes that can be activated through specific conditions in diet, environment, and handsomeness. By giving special care to your critters, they will lay new varieties of eggs that hatch into morphs with new requirements and byproducts. Gotta ranch 'em all!

Key Features

• Critter Morphs: Each critter has one or more variations that can be hatched from special eggs, if conditions are right, enabling new means of production and bonus adorableness.
  
• New Critters: Some new wild specimens have been spotted around the asteroid!
  
  • Drecko: The lizard-like Drecko can be found in secluded corners and high ceilings of the Jungle Biome, nibbling on the local plants and basking in the warmth of the Hydrogen. Its woolly fur grows at an impressive rate and can be sheared off to gain new resources.
    
  • Pacu: The waters of the asteroid have become newly inhabited as well! Delicious Pacu will swim around, looking lovely and reproducing at a vigorous rate. Maybe you'll keep them around for their meat, or breed one of their morphs for their useful side effects.
• Baby Critters: Newly hatched critters need time to grow up and learn the ways of the world before they mature. Some Cycle soon, they'll grow up and really start pooping out coal for you!
  
• Additional Critter Care Buildings: To assist with the new critters, the Duplicants have developed some new ranching facilities.
  
  • Shearing Station: This station allows you to you relieve your Drecko of all that itchy fur! Works on scales, too.
    
  • Fish Trap, Fish Release: Get your little fishies out of the water and into your belly into a cozy new pond.
    
  • Fish Feeder: Pacu need to eat too! Use this feeder to automatically feed your fish each and every day. So long as you keep it stocked, anyway.

Become the master of space and physics! Use the new sandbox tools to create a world of your own making, or tweak your existing colonies to perfection in this all-new mode. Manipulate elements and temperatures, place buildings free of cost, or add any creature, plant, or geyser to the world whenever and wherever you like.

Key Features

• Create and Destroy Tiles: Dramatically alter the landscape of the asteroid by spawning or destroying any element of your choosing.
  
• Spawn Duplicants: Create as big or as little of a population as you want. See how many Duplicants you can sustain in a single colony!
  
• Save Compatibility: Enable sandbox mode in your existing save or start a new world. Note: You won't be able to reload your save in survival mode after it's been saved in Sandbox!

• New Automation Control: The new Gaseous Element Sensor lets you detect the composition of your surrounding atmosphere. In-pipe sensors now let you control you colony based on the element, temperature, or germs contained within your pipes. A memory bit makes building your own super computer easy*!
  
  • More Logic Ports: Even more buildings are now toggleable with a logic input.
• Radiant Pipes: First, there were pipes. Then, there were insulated pipes. Now... there are radiant pipes! Effectively move thermal energy into and out of your rooms with this high-conductivity plumbing.
  
• Performance Enhancements!
  
• Tons of bug fixes, rebalances, QOL additions, and more!

Finally, we'd like to say a big thank-you to everyone who played the Ranching Mark II Upgrade Preview, submitted your crash and bug reports, and gave your feedback in our Suggestions Forum. We're always grateful to hear your thoughts and thank you for the time spent playing our game.

We hope you enjoy Ranching Mark II!

• Fixed an audio stuttering issue
  
• Fixed ui icons for fabricator queues
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when dupes pickup a piece of ore on the same frame it was destroyed
  
• Fixed an invalid temperature bug that could occur when a door melted

• Fixed a few crashes if a duplicant steps in water, breathes oxygen, or tries to idle near the edge of the world
  
• Updated Chinese localization
  
• Fix missing string in scale growth
  
• Added tame tag to baby slickster
  
• Fix missing Database icons
  
• Improve Database load times
  
• Added Database icons for liquid and gas categories
  
• Improve memory used by some debug logging

• New grid layout for creature diets in database.
  
• Fixed duplicate creature diet database listings.
  
• New baby puft art.
  
• Fertility modifier descriptions should now respect the player set temperature units.
  
• Memory Toggle is now in the same layer as the logic gates.
  
• Memory Toggle should now save load correctly.
  
• Fixed symbol popping on baby floaters.
  
• You can no longer build infinite Conveyor Bridges on top of each other.
  
• Shearing station is now prioritizable.
  
• Creature diet tooltip should no longer list 0kcal/cycle for all entries.
  
• Unspoilable food should now appear as unspoilable in the database.
  
• New fish relocator art.
  
• Added some logging info to get more details about a crash that is occuring when using localized text input boxes.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when using debug keys in the main menu.
  
• Tropical pacu should no longr have an extra red tint applied.
  
• Eggs in the incubator should now be in the proper layer.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when a fish flopped outside of the world.
  
• Few fish feeder art.
  
• Fish eggs are no longer halfway through the ground.
  
• Dreckos now grow scales more sloly when wild.
  
• Gas element sensor should now have a gas icon instead of a liquid drop.[/live]

Hello friends!

It's the start of the third trimester for Ranching Upgrade Mark II. Through extensive breeding, Duplicants have begun observing strange eggs... could this be a new species variation? Or a whole new creature? In addition, they've just finally noticed how cute those freshly-hatched critters are!

Meanwhile, some industrious plumber Duplicant has been busy in the lab to bring us new pipes and sensors, and it's a good thing too, because there's more ports to plug those sensors into.

All this new automation has given the Duplicants a power complex, and they've decided to make the whole world their sandbox. Mind that temperature tool!

If you're interested, you can help us test this new content for the next two weeks before it goes live. As always we appreciate your feedback, so please share your thoughts and opinions on the Suggestions Forum. Thank-you!

What does this preview contain so far?

The following content is available in the Ranching Upgrade Mark II preview:

• New Critter Morphs -- by breeding creatures new kinds of eggs might be laid
  
  • Hatch Morphs
    
  • Shine Bug Morphs
    
  • Slickster Morphs
    
  • Puft Morphs
• Baby critters added to the critter lifecycle
  
• New critters:
  
  • Drecko
    
  • Drecko Morphs
    
  • Pacu
    
  • Pacu Morphs
• Gaseous Element Sensor
  
• In-pipe sensors (liquid and gas)
  
  • Germ sensor
    
  • Element sensor
    
  • Temperature sensor
• Radiant pipes (liquid and gas)
  
• Memory Bit logic component
  
• Added logic ports to many more buildings
  
• Sandbox Tools
  
  • Sandbox mode can be enabled on new custom games, or from the pause menu

Check the patch notes for the most up-to-date changes!

That's it! We hope you'll enjoy this preview of what's to come, and thank-you for your help testing out the new Upgrade! For more details on joining the preview branch, check out the official post.

• Fix crash when pressing the "z" key
  
• Baby critters will now call out occasionally
  
• Creature's recent diet will properly load to become poop, no more mass loss
  
• Cleaned up which creatures are listed in which feeders
  
• Fix for missing scales in Drecko art
  
• Basic Drecko is now a fibre producing critter, plastic Drecko is a Morph.
  
• Updated Shine Bug egg and baby artwork
  
• Tweaks to sub-priority selector

• Tile hover text should now display correctly
  
• Cursor should not longer get stuck looking like a hand
  
• Sandbox UI should no longer appear offscreen
  
• Possible fix for bottom right buttons not being clickable

• Another potential fix for the bottom right buttons not being clickable
  
• Tooltips on character select screen should now work
  
• Baby creatures should no longer die of old age before they get a chance to grow up
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when cloning storage filter options
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when deconstructing switches
  
• Pacus will slowly get tame from eating from the fish feeder

• dupes should no longer sometimes appear to be invisible

• Sleeping status item should no longer flicker on and off.
  
• Sage Hatch babies should now turn into Sage Hatch adults.
  
• Lightbug babies should now look like their parents.
  
• Hatches should no longer disappear when laying an egg or being groomed.
  
• Deconstructing the logic memory bit should no longer cause a crash.
  
• Shearing station should now require power.
  
• Dupes should no longer slide through doors.
  
• Baby hatches should no longer try and burrow into the ground.
  
• Loading a save file with dupes who are low on breath should no longer cause the dupes to be invisible.
  
• Debug painting crushed rock should no longer cause a crash.

• Potentially fixed the remaining issues with Duplicants turning invisible.
  
• Pacus can no longer swim through two touching diagonal tiles.
  
• Pacus can no longer swim through mesh tiles.
  
• Pacus are slightly happy that they ate from a feeder.
  
• Ore should no longer fall/disappear on conveyors.
  
• Hat wearing Duplicant portraits should properly show their hat hair.
  
• Fixed an issue where a significant amount of translated strings were not properly loaded.
  
• Pipe overlays should render properly when using sandbox tools in an area covered by fog of war.
  
• Stone hatch eggs should now spawn Stone Hatchlings instead of adults.
  
• Layed eggs should now look like the creature that will hatch out of the egg instead of the creature that layed the egg.
  
• Fixed some Light Bugs not hatching the correct babies.
  
• Fixed Slicksters hatching as adults instead of babies.
  
• Thermal conductivity for heat exchange is now based on the average conductivity of the two elements instead of the minimum. This should improve the temperature exhchange of many things including radiant pipes.

• Fixed another case of dupes going invisible
  
• Status items should work once again
  
• Misc crash fixes

• Fixed another case where dupes could become invisible
  
• Adult pufts should no longer try and sleep
  
• Insulated tiles/pipes use the minimum of their thermal conductivity and the
• Elements they are transferring with
  
• All eggs should now be selectable
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when painting toxic sand

• Using a translation file with nested or mismatched "<link>" tags should no longer cause random crashes. Instead the english text will be used and the problematic strings will be listed in the log similar to strings using mismatched parameters.
  
• When generating new worlds and when loading save files previous to this changelist, all Abyssalite will take on the temperature of their surrounding cells.

• Fix for crash that could occur when loading/generating a world with abyssalite surrounded by vacuum.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when using a translation that had unexpected <link> tags compared to the english version which could cause <link> tag nesting which is unsupported by Text Mesh Pro.
  
• Doors should properly melt instead of providing free resources.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when wearing a suit, a hat, an outfit, carrying a piece of ore and working at a building which had special effects as part of it's animation which would end up using too many texture atlases.

• Fix Drip Cooling. In liquid density settling code we should've been calculating average temperature, not average energy which caused a rapid loss of energy.
  
• Abyssalite should now ignore neutronium when averaging the temperature of nearby cells during world generation.
  
• Fixed a bug where elements with zero thermal conductivity were conducting.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when a helmet was destroyed.
  
• Fixed the chewing sound on the adult hatch and added a chewing sound to the hatch babies.
  
• Added some baby movement and inhale sounds to the Puft/Slickster.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when the contents of a pipe froze as the pipe was destroyed.
  
• Fixed an issue where the energy being passed from the conduit contents to the pipe was inverted.
  
• Creature Lure should no longer crash on deconstruct.
  
• Algae Habitats now have an empty chore which allows them to drop their bottles on the ground even if there is no bottle emptier.
  
• Algae habitat no longer allows removal directly from storage.
  
• Increased bottle emptier speed.
  
• Fish eating from a storage locker notify the locker that it's contents have been changed so that the feeder gets properly refilled and things like the transfer arms can detect that it needs refilling.
  
• Fish feeder should properly restore it's contents to the bottom of the feeder on load so that it's reachable by the fishes.
  
• Baby hatches should no longer attempt to make jumps they can't reach.
  
• Sandbox clear floor tool will not delete items in storage
  
• Sandbox mode now has toggleable instant build mode.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when using the 2147483646 world seed due to the Mono Random function crashing when using a value of int.Min.
  
• Creature wrangling now respects priority. You can also see the priority toolbar if you click on the creature.
  
• Thermal conductivity displayed on the properties panel for insulated/radiant buildings should now take into account those buildings modifiers.
  
• Eggs spawned from tame creatures should now be tame.
  
• Babies spawned from tame eggs should now be tame.
  
• Adults spawned from tame babies should now be tame.
  
• Duplicants can be spawned from the sandbox spawner menu.
  
• Added official Russian translation(beta).

• Scaled down the thermal conductivity multiplier of radiant pipes.
  
• Fixed a bug where bottles being dropped by wash basins would get stuck in the air.

• Pipe Empty jobs show the required role
  
• Fix crash when trying to empty pipes
  
• Sandbox "Instant Build Mode" defaults to checked
  
• Fix incorrect temperature changes caused by partial boiling
  
• Fix crash due to supercooling hydrogen
  
• Show a notification if there is food available but dupes can't find any due to consumables permissions
  
• Fix pop text when "cancelling" a non-wrangleable creature
  
• Fix crash when computing cell visibility
  
• Fix crash in sandbox brush tool
  
• Fix crash that could occur when using debug keys
  
• Shine Bugs now get groomed from the correct location
  
• Pacu will properly overcrowd
  
• Fix Drecko movement around corners
  
• Fix crash when destroying POI ladders
  
• Fix creatures not landing correctly after falling
  
• Morbs once again trigger the trap
  
• Updated Shearing Station animations
  
• Updated Pacu animations
  
• Fix Shine Bug egg UI art
  
• Thermal conductivity is now a log-average instead of an average
  
• Fix Shearing Station animation layering
  
• Updated Pacu UI art
  
• Critters now layer correctly when being ranched/sheared
  
• Incubator shows egg icons for each variant now
  
• Database entries for Critter Morphs should be linked correctly
  
• Updated Slickster morph animations
  
• Balance changes to Drecko diet
  
• Drecko now requires Hydrogen atmosphere instead of chlorine
  
• Glossy Drecko egg chances can now be improved by certain diets
  
• Dreckos have an info item to show their shearable growth

• Adults should now copy all their attributes from their babies.
  
• Selection is maintained when spawning egg > baby > adult.
  
• Fixed crash if Pacu lands on floor.
  
• Fixed layering issues when using the decor/farming overlays.

• Fixed an issue where dupes would deliver liquids stored in liquid bottlers even if auto bottling was disabled after loading a save file.
  
• Cleanup symbol override warnings in log files
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when entering world seeds in the custom game settings screen.
  
• Codex subentry links will drive scrollview to the correct part of the codex entry.
  
• Sandbox Destroy tool deletes POI objects.
  
• Dreckos should only attempt to eat plants that have grown to at least 25% of maturity.
  
• Dreckos now poop phosphorite.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when the sim send messages back to the game.
  
• Reduced some of the memory usage of the navigation system.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when ore fell outside the world when using sandbox tools.

• Fixed misc crashes that could occur when loading certain save files or generating certain worlds

• Shine bug navigation should be fixed
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur on load of certain save files