• Changed Reduced the amount of heat tank structures radiate by 50x. A tank now radiates heat in the same order of magnitude as a pipe network of the same volume.
  
• Changed Reduced the amount of heat tanks convect by 2x.
  
• Fixed Atmospherics Threads race condition that caused Thermal Radiation calculation to return incorrect results in certain scenarios. This caused a bug where Pipe atmospheres would sometimes rapidly radiate down to absolute zero (-273.1C) on the moon OR thermal radiation would stop working altogether. Thanks @Windsinger & @zkxs for helping us reproduce and solve this quickly.
  
• Changed Atmospheres in vacuums can no longer radiate to 0DegreesK.
  
• Fixed Hunger and Hydration not decreasing in single-player when not hosting.
  
• Fixed CleanUpPlayers Command deleting yourself if not hosting.
  
• Fixed LocalPlayer not showing up in scoreboard when in single-player.

The general speed of thermal transfer of atmospherics has been decreased, to allow players more time to experience the effects of heat moving throughout their stations. The internal atmospheres of devices and items now radiate energy down toward the planet's global atmosphere temperature. This effect is most pronounced in vacuum and is dampened when in a pressurized environment. Structures built into frames are also no longer fully insulated and will radiate heat down to the global atmosphere temperature.

We’ve listened to feedback and increased the Air Conditioner's operational temperature efficiency by roughly 20%(nearly doubling) around 600K-800K to allow it to work significantly better during the first stages of cooling the hot planets' atmospheres.



We’ve branched the radiator tech tree into Flat Panel Radiators and Convection Radiators. Convection radiators exchange heat energy with the surrounding atmosphere. The new flat panel variants of the pipe radiator and medium radiator utilize black body radiation to radiate energy in vacuums and low pressure environments.

The Heat energy convected and radiated by internal atmospheres has been added to the atmosAnalyser Cartridge so you can see how your radiators are performing in their current environment. Negative convection values imply the internal atmosphere is being heated by the surrounding cell atmosphere and negative radiation values imply it is being heated by sunlight.

These changes come with a lot of implications but make thermodynamics more intuitive, allowing players to address the challenges of heating and cooling in multiple ways. With the main changes also come a range of balancing and tweaking other parts of the game to make them work nicely together.

We’ve improved not only how you select what difficulty you want to play on but we’ve also made a load of changes to make that choice more meaningful.



You used to select your difficulty level from the settings menu from a dropdown that gave no explanation as to what each setting meant. You’re now presented with this choice when you start a new world, there’s a description of what each option means, and this choice is serialized into the save instead of being a global setting.

Note: When loading an old save that does not have a difficulty setting serialized into it you will be asked to select one before you can play.

While using Stationeers difficulty has been left mostly untouched, Easy and Normal have been tweaked a little to give you more chance of recovering from sticky situations. Likewise, when a player is offline their requirements such as nutrition and oxygen usage are decreased on Easy and Normal.

Finally, over the last few weeks, we’ve made some changes to the Cryotube. We’ve fixed a few issues with it but have also added functionality to allow you to revive deceased Stationeers(as long as they haven’t already respawned). These changes are still a work in progress, next week you’ll see a replacement Cryotube that offers more information about what’s going on inside the tank, as well as a few other nice to haves.

With a focus on the Cryotube we had to address the awful state of the ragdoll. The ragdoll had always been a bit weird, resulting in some strange behavior. However after the network refactor it had almost completely broken. We’ve redone how unconscious characters behave, especially when you’re dragging them. Now they behave much more like a dynamic create or draggable gas canister. The end result means that you should have much more confidence to drag your fellow Stationeers to safety and revive them if need be.


The major refactor has been a huge milestone for us and we think you can already see the tremendous success. Your support through bug reporting, suggestions, and direct involvement with our team on discord makes a tremendous difference.

If you like the progress we have made, please consider taking a moment to leave a positive review. This makes a great deal of difference to the project. We have worked hard on this project now for five years, and we feel confident the game is substantially improved from when we started. Many projects steer clear of the hard tasks, and we are proud to have taken them on.

Additionally, you can support us by purchasing the DLC we made to allow those whole like the game to support us, and in return get something a little fun to continue to use in the game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2089290/Stationeers_Human_Cosmetics_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038400/Stationeers_Zrilian_Species_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038500/Stationeers_HEM_Droid_Species_Pack/

• Added Solar heating data to Thermal Radiation value on Atmos Analyser. Solar heating will show as negative thermal radiation as the sun is heating the internal Atmosphere.
  
• Changed Greatly Increased the amount of solar heating received by LargeExtendableRadiator. In direct sunlight the radiator will be able to quickly heat its internal Atmosphere to around 300degress above the global temperature before thermal radiation/convection brings it into a state of equilibrium.
  
• Changed Doubled the ThermalRadiation and halved the thermal convection of LargeExtendableRadiator.
  
• Restrict difficulty setting command to host only
  
• Adding picking up human from torso instead of just limbs
  
• Cryo tube will now only revive dead players when filled with an atmosphere of super cold N2O (~80kPa at < -160C).
  
• Fixed Some edge cases where internal atmospheres of items could thermally radiate to below the Temperature of the room they are in.
  
• Fixed Internal atmospheres not using the centre position of the bounds for atmospheric calculations.
  
• Fixed Atmos analyser not showing negative values for convection (i.e. when an internal atmosphere is being heated by its surrounding atmosphere).
  
• Changed improved performance of panel small and medium panel radiators in vacuums.
  
• Changed MediumRadiator mix function: order is now Mix with Input, Radiate heat, mix with output.
  
• Changed increased large gas canister insulation value x4.
  
• Changed increase small gas canister insulation value x2.
  
• Fixed dropping human crazy offset
  
• Fixed backpack not showing on controlled human after death
  
• Fixed not being able to pick up ragdolls
  
• Fixed player popping up after dying from an unconscious state
  
• Fixed Helmet not visible when controlled player dies and you respawn with new character
  
• Fixed ragdolls slightly jittering for clients caused by interpolation fighting network position
  
• Fixed ragdolls only working in multiplayer
  
• Fixed player sliding off in random direction when unconscious
  
• Fixed error when sending messages. Message factory needed to be regenerated after last change
  
• Added popup on load world to select difficulty if the difficulty settings are not loaded correctly or non existent
  
• Increased sleeper internal volume from 20 to 800
  
• Fixed dropping error being thrown while trying to drop draggable things
  
• Fixed not being able to pick up draggables
  
• Fixed drop position of draggables
  
• Fixed small pressure atmospheres radiating too much.
  
• Clamped max radiation possible in a single tick to ensure more consistent thermal radiation.
  
• Adjusted Radiation target energy to zero out at 10 degrees.
  
• Fixed camera does not lock when you enter cryotube
  
• Removed HumanMessage (not used)
  
• Code clean up in DynamicThing.cs and Entity.cs
  
• Deprecated PipeRadiator, ItemPipeRadiator & LargePassiveRadiator.
  
• Added Kit(PipeRadiator) to Pipe Bender. This constructs the new pipe radiators.
  
• Added Pipe Radiator and Pipe Convection Radiator & liquid variants. Pipe Radiators are optimised for vacuum environments. Pipe Convection Radiators are optimised for pressurised environments.
  
• Added Kit(MediumRadiator) to PipeBender MK2. This constructs the new medium stand alone radiators.
  
• Added MediumRadiator and Medium ConvectionFactor & Liquid variants. These larger stand-alone radiator units radiate heat at the equivalent level of 10 pipe radiators. Medium Radiators are optimised for vacuum environments. Medium Convection Radiators are optimised for pressurised environments.
  
• Fixed ragdoll not being draggable
  
• Fixed entity breathing tick not being called inside sleeper or cryotube (sleeper/cryo occupants were not breathing the internal atmosphere)
  
• Fixed player damage indicator not showing if your organs are damaged but your body is not
  
• Sleeper will now mix with world atmos when opened
  
• Added new behaviour to logged out/offline players(based on difficulty) on servers that are still running. Players life functions are now 1%/10%/100% on easy/normal/stationeers respectively. This includes amount of breathing, nutrition, hydration, as well as the robots battery usage.
  
• Increased the Air Conditioner's operational temperature efficiency by roughly 20%(nearly doubling) around 600-800K to allow it to work significantly better during the first stages of cooling the hot planets' atmospheres.
  
• Fixed Potential /0 error in pipe radiation logic.
  
• Fixed Error when building new pipe-networks with tablet in hand.
  
• Added boxcollider to human when in ragdoll and removed rotation constraints
  
• Removed a a few overriding methods that weren't needed in entity to help with ragdoll issues
  
• Changed to only grabbing pelvis when any ragdoll limb is moved to slot
  
• Changed human network positions update ragdolled humans
  
• Added AddGas console Command. "AddGas [GasType] [Thing or Atmosphere ID] [QuantityMoles] [TemperatureKelvin]".
  
• Changed Renamed H2 to VOL and N2O to NOS in Atmospherics Cartridge screen.
  
• Removed Shatter Temperature Values from Stationpedia.
  
• Added Thermal Convection and Radiation Values to stationpedia for items/structures that can exchange heat with world atmospheres.
  
• Added Heat transfer information to the atmospherics tablet. It will now show the amount of energy convected and/or radiated by the device or pipe-network.
  
• Added Networking hooks to sync thermal values to clients.
  
• Ad IThermal interface for things that exchange/radiate heat.
  
• Removed OnAssignedReference Networking flag as it was being used to sync unnecessary data.
  
• Omptimized Some stationpedia string generation.
  
• Removed logging of adapter count
  
• Cleaned up game info window code after solving dedicated server issue
  
• Wrapped entire game info window class in def symbol to stop it from being compiled for dedicated server
  
• Fixed game info window causing errors on dedicated server build by removing all calls to it from dedicated server
  
• Increased Air Conditioner temperature target limits to be from -270C to 999C. Operational Temperature Limter curve still applies, and functionality has not changed.
  
• Changed Air Conditioner to activate when temperature target delta from input is greater or equal to 1. AC doesnt shoot for an exact temperature goal, to prevent flip flopping between heating and cooling in normal use cases and AC still will not pass gas unless it is pumping heat.
  
• Fixed issue with unconcious player pinging between two positions
  
• Fixed spaghetti man when ragdoll is interacted with
  
• Removed stack trace from console window print error
  
• Fixed difficulty settings not initialized correctly when starting dedicated server
  
• Added console command to change difficulty settings. If you are experiencing any strange behaviour around difficulty you can run this then save your world and it should clear up any issues
  
• Fixed issue with custom setting.xml throwing exception on first load (dedicated)
  
• Added stacktrace to error logs in console window
  
• Fix out of range exception on dedicated server in game info window
  
• Remove difficulty settings from custom world panel as they no longer have any effect
  
• Fixed respawn conditions not working correctly for custom worlds
  
• Added suit AC to waste relationship. Suits now proportionally move gas into waste, when moving energy out of the suit and into waste. Suits no longer needlessly move gas into waste when not cooling. Suit heating is still done via a heater, and will not require extra gas movement, just the standard increased power usage. IC10 Chips which try to prevent the suit from moving gas, may now prevent proper suit cooling.
  
• Clamped max possible lung damage per tick based on difficulty settings. On easy, your lungs wont die so fast opening your helmet on worlds such as venus. On stationeer there should be no noticeable difference.
  
• Reduced the amount of N2O exhaled by Zrilians. (The changes to difficulty meant that the increased N2O present when playing Zrilian was causing things to explode.
  
• Fixed H2Combustor being able to run without a valid gas output network.
  
• Added first pass of network debug window. You can access this window via the "networkdebug" command. It displays information about incoming and outgoing traffic. It is not yet complete and the data may not yet be reliable.
  
• Commented out timestamp for message send
  
• Lengthened AC temperature delta curve to cool down up to 200 degrees difference now. Increased the efficiency point at -100 from 5% to 10%, so overall efficiency of many setups is higher.
  
• Fixed plants can be eaten through the helmet when other foods can not
  
• Added ability to set difficulty button images in streaming assets
  
• Increased the base amount of gas consumed when taking a breath. This amount is scaled by the difficulty setting. Overall it should feel like your air tank is consumed more quickly. Zrilian resistance to N2O stun has been increased to compensate for the increased breathing rate
  
• Removed FragmentHandler logging
  
• Added Operation Mode state data to green info panel tooltip for all atmospherics devices.
  
• Fixed Stacker Lever not showing correct quantity of ingots in stacker.
  
• Increased fragment size
  
• Changed to better epoch time method
  
• Change to only send owner message when gamestate running
  
• Added Thermal Conductivity values to Stationpedia.
  
• Fixed Error thrown by fire tick when items are destroyed by fire.
  
• Changed Increased GasFuelGenerator ConvectionFactor from 0.01 to 0.2.
  
• Added New thermodynamics logic to pipe radiator.
  
• Commented out message timestamp ping as not to flood server log
  
• Removed timestamp from fragment handler
  
• Added better timestamp logging for messages
  
• Removed unused difficulty settings in settings menu.
  
• Difficulty tweaks - tutorials will now default to a much easier difficulty. Custom worlds will default to 'Normal' difficulty
  
• Changed Structures built into frames will now no longer be fully insulated. They will instead radiate heat to the global atmosphere temperature. This energy transfer is uni-directional (i.e cold pipes in frames will not heat up towards the global atmosphere).
  
• Fixed Pipes radiating heat inversely proportionally to the number of pipes in the network. This resulted in a PipeNetwork with 100 pipes radiating the same amount of heat as a pipe network with one pipe. Pipes will now radiate heat without regard to pipe length. The thermal radiation values of standard pipes have been reduced significantly to moderate the impact of this change on existing bases.
  
• Added timestamp to client/server messages
  
• Changed epoch time to int seconds
  
• Added temp epoch time stamp to network message
  
• Fixed difficulty button text alignment and updated descriptions
  
• Fixed hydration and nutrition rates being too fast after difficulty changes
  
• updated furnace radiationCurve.
  
• Fixed difficulty setting null ref exception on join game
  
• Added Radiation Scale curve to furnace.
  
• Added new way to select difficulty (first pass). Old saves will default to 'Normal' but can be changed in the worldsettings.xml once a new save is created.
  
• Changed Hard-suit to be more insulated. The time on Venus for the hardSuit to fill its waste-tank vent on default suit settings increases from 3 to 5 minutes.
  
• Fixed Math error in earlier commit that was preventing cold things in hot environments from convecting correctly.
  
• reverted suit radiation scale to default.
  
• Added Work in Progress Thermodynamics Rebalance.
  
• Fixed Very small amounts of very hot gas would heat up suit very fast causing instant damage/death to player.
  
• Changed Convection now takes into account the pressure of the surrounding atmosphere as well as the pressure of the internal Atmosphere.
  
• Changed Vacuum rooms are no longer fully insulating.
  
• Changed Internal atmospheres will now radiate down to the global atmosphere temperature. This effect will dampened in pressurised rooms.
  
• Changed Heat transfer rate at high Temperatures to be less aggressive.

Fixed On bases with more than 1024 atmospheres servers could stop sending atmospherics updates to clients.

As we adapt to our new weekly content cadence, you'll see that some new features get spread over multiple updates. This change in pace has some big benefits. It allows us to make smaller iterations, get feedback faster, spread out balancing, and end up with a more refined final outcome. At the same time we're still chipping away at a lot of bugs, but you'll see updates containing more content again soon.

You may have noticed that we didn't release a patch last week. It was getting too close to the weekend and we wouldn't have been available to publish any hotfixes. Therefore, this patch includes all those changes and has given us extra time to spend on some rather large work for the next patch.

While our target is weekly updates, we're keeping it flexible for moments like this.

Continuing with the theme of recent updates, this week we’ve focused on more atmospherics changes.
Firstly we’ve upgraded the Air Conditioner, Electrolyzer, Filtration, and H2 Combustor with IC slots to bring them in line with the new Nitrolyzer. We’ve also added the ability to read information about the input and output networks directly from the internal IC without the need to hook up additional analyzers.



Air Conditioners now start by wanting to move a fixed amount of energy to-or-from their input gas, with the equal and opposite transferring to the waste network.

The Air Conditioner speed is dependent on two main relationships. The first speed modifier is if the waste temperature is in the temperature direction the gas wants to be, with a slight increase in speed for greater deltas. If the waste temperature is counterproductive to the energy transfer process(i.e hot waste while cooling), then the machine will lose efficiency, going roughly at only 5% speed when the waste temperature is 150 degrees in the counter-productive direction. The second speed modifier is when the input or waste gas temperature is out of preferred ranges, with 100 K being a cold limit, -50 C to 100 C being optimal gas working temperatures, 400 C being about 33%, 600 C being 10%, and 1000 C bottoming out at 0%.

Along the way we’ve fixed a bunch of other bugs, many of them related to atmospherics. You might notice in the change logs that we’ve been playing with the ragdoll a lot and have added new reviving functionality to the Cryotube. This is ongoing work to bring more importance to the different difficulty settings and provide more ways to deal with problems. Again, this is still a work in progress!




Next weeks patch sees work started on more changes to atmospherics that we’ve been thinking about for a long time. A lot of these changes will be available on the beta branch soon. We’re also revisiting the difficulty settings, and while there won’t be any big changes right away, we’re simplifying these settings, making them more robust, and clarifying what each of the options means.


The major refactor has been a huge milestone for us and we think you can already see the tremendous success. Your support through bug reporting, suggestions, and direct involvement with our team on discord makes a tremendous difference.

If you like the progress we have made, please consider taking a moment to leave a positive review. This makes a great deal of difference to the project. We have worked hard on this project now for five years, and we feel confident the game is substantially improved from when we started. Many projects steer clear of the hard tasks, and we are proud to have taken them on.

Additionally, you can support us by purchasing the DLC we made to allow those whole like the game to support us, and in return get something a little fun to continue to use in the game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2089290/Stationeers_Human_Cosmetics_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038400/Stationeers_Zrilian_Species_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038500/Stationeers_HEM_Droid_Species_Pack/

• * Fixed ragdolls getting stuck and positions not being synced to clients
  
• - Reverted some changes to ragdolls
  
• * Cryo tubes can now resurrect dead players - as long as they haven't respawned already
  
• * Cryo tubes will mix their internal atmosphere with the world atmosphere when open
  
• + Added support to read Air Conditioner efficiency values using logic i/o.
  
• * Fixed client player positions not updating on the server
  
• * Fixed Error thrown by stacker on load.
  
• * Fixed Render distance on basic packaging machine.
  
• * Fixed Error Spam from Autolathe "This recipe doesn't exist! Defaulting to Unknown".
  
• * Reduced Air Conditioner power usage by 30%, to match previously reduced throughput and energy movement amounts.
  
• * Fixed Gas Ratio readings from inputs and outputs on new atmospherics devices incorrectly read -1.
  
• + Fixed Clients don't get updated efficiency ratios on tooltip new Air Conditioner.
  
• * Fixed Clients not updating the status of input and output connections of atmos devices.
  
• * Fixed ragdoll position not updating correctly
  
• * Fixed Air Conditioner input and output tooltips.
  
• * Changed Air Conditioner to use curves to map its efficiency.
  
• * Expanded negative temperature delta, to allow for slightly longer inefficient air conditioning.
  
• * Decreased base Air Conditioner throughput by 25%, and energy transfer by 30%.
  
• * Changed entities decay behaviour while being carried to prevent decaying while being dragged. Their decay will now pause while being carried and reset to 60 seconds if within 60 seconds of decaying.
  
• * Changed drag ragdoll body to force grabbing pelvis
  
• * Optimized MixInWorld bucketing system for threaded atmospherics calculations. Mixing large clumps of world atmospheres is now 3-4x faster.
  
• * Fixed Catastrophic atmospheric events creating excessive numbers of new world atmosphere grids (20,000+) causing the game thread to lag and creating periodic frame hitches on clients and 100% Cpu usage on servers.
  
• * Changed Values that determine world atmosphere mixing speed and new world atmosphere creation during mix to be dynamic. As the number of atmospheres increase atmospheres not in rooms will mix more quickly and creation of new world atmospheres will require a higher threshold.
  
• * Optimised World atmospheres only calculate has-sunlight if they are in a room. This means that plants in Hydroponics trays will require a room to grow. Has-sunlight calculation is expensive and does not scale well enough to run it on 1000s of atmospheres.
  
• * Fixed Can't build cables on rear side of new Filtration Machine.
  
• * Fixed mining drill not working when loading game if in hand slot
  
• * Changed player body decay time to 10 mins
  
• + Added the cleanupplayers console command to remove player bodies
  
• * An attempt at improving dragging a ragdoll human
  
• * Improved IsKinematic property setting
  
• * Fixed New AirConditioner model now defaults to off and idle when first built.
  
• * added Missing prefab change from previous commit, which increases the AC throughput.
  
• + Complete rework of Air Conditioner logic. Air conditioners start by wanting to move a fixed amount of energy to or from their input gas, with the equal and opposite transfer happening to the waste network.
  
• + The Air Conditioner speed is dependent on two main relationships. The first speed modifier is if the waste temperature is in the temperature direction the gas wants to be. With a slight increase in speed for greater deltas. If the waste temperature is in the opposite direction of where the input gas wants to go, then then machine will loose efficiency, going roughly at only 5% speed when waste temperature is 100 degrees in the counter productive direction. The second speed modifier is when the input gas temperature is out of preferred ranges, with 100 K being a cold limit, -50 C to 100 C being optimal gas working temperatures, 400 C being about 33%, 600 C being 10%, and 1000 C bottoming out at 0%.
  
• + The Air Conditioner now works less efficiently if waste or input air networks are low in pressure.
  
• + Added tool tips to the Air Conditioner info panel.
  
• * Air Conditioners no longer auto fills its waste network from its input gas.
  
• * Fixed pressure regulators inappropriately using static data.
  
• * Fixed Servers throw error spam when a large base explosion and decompression happens.
  
• + Added Servers now rate limit the amount of atmosphere data sent to clients. This will result in clients having less up-to-date values during extreme events but will prevent the server from erroring out while trying to send too much data.
  
• * Changed window mode dropdown to be populated using GameStrings
  
• + Added World atmosphere clean-up command (server only) "atmos cleanup". This will clean up all world atmospheres that are not in a room.
  
• + Added all loading screen text to GameStrings to allow for localization
  
• * Fixed A number of items not showing destroyed model when destroyed.
  
• + Added Destroyed buildState for updated atmospheric devices.
  
• * Fixed Can't deconstruct a Destroyed elevator level.
  
• * Fixed missing localization on custom world panel
  
• * Fixed missing localization on in game menu
  
• * Changed 'enter game name' prompt to use a static game string for localization
  
• + converted credits page and welcome screen to prefab instead of being serialized with the main scene
  
• * Fixed missing localization on in-game save menu
  
• * Fixed missing localization on password input popup
  
• * Fixed some workshop mod menu text not being localized
  
• * Fixed all join server menu text not being localized
  
• * Fixed all load world menu text not being localized
  
• * Fixed all tutorial menu text not being localized
  
• * Fixed all main menu text not being localized. All the localized text components had been set up in the scene instead of the prefab and the data had been wiped at some point.
  
• * Fixed New H2Combustor model not replacing old model when loading saves made on previous versions.
  
• * Fixed Active sound not playing on new H2Combustor.
  
• * Fixed New Air Conditioner not consuming power when IC slot cover is closed.
  
• * Fixed Filters rotated incorrectly on new Filtration Machine.
  
• * Fixed Cant interact with FilterSlot1 when IC slot cover is closed on FiltrationMachine.
  
• + Added Filtration thumbnails.
  
• + Added New FiltrationMachine prefab with IC slot. Mode 0 can be used to Set machine state to idle.
  
• * Reparented FiltrationMachine class to DeviceInputOutputCircuit.
  
• * Fixed small cell devices doubling up on same grid
  
• * Fixed adding pipe radiator step in gas mixture tutorial
  
• * Fixed New mining backpacks are hidden when placed in lockers.
  
• * Fixed GasFuel Generator continues to make power after its run out of fuel.
  
• * Fixed some authoring issues with new Electrolyzer prefab (Sound, animation and pipe connection settings)
  
• - Removed deprecated Electrolyzer prefab
  
• * Added new electrolyzer with IC slot to replace old version
  
• * Fixed Dis-allowed rotations on Nitrolyzer and AirConditioner.
  
• * Fixed plant decay time showing as ten times as long on tooltip
  
• * Fixed Parenting of Save data to reflect reparenting of devices that were children of machine.
  
• + Added IC slot to Air Conditioner.
  
• * Changed Air Conditioner now uses Mode variable to run or stop. Idle: 0, Active: 1.
  
• * Changed Air Conditioner now uses Setting variable for target temperature. While the setting is in degrees Kelvin the machine will continue to show the target Temperature in Celsius on the button screen.
  
• - Removed a number of deprecated scripts that were children of now defunct machine class.

It's been a hectic few months for us since our major refactor as we feel like we have finally been able to hit our old stride in the project. If you look back through our weekly updates you can see how spending that period to time to redo the project has paid huge dividends. We are now able to more robustly focus on the future of the game as well as add new content.

We've been a little slow at getting new content in over the last weeks, as we have been laser focused on fixing bugs - especially some very serious ones introduced (or highlighted) by our refactoring work. What really spurs us on is seeing all those amazing youtube videos of your content, the twitch streams, and the thoughts you share here and on discord.

Important fix for multiplayer

Fixed not being able to join servers unless they were being advertised. We don't normally highlight bug fixes but this was affecting a significant number of people over the last few days. Thanks to the community and game server providers for alerting this to us, and helping us work towards a solution quickly.

The welding torch now is 20% faster than the arc welder. Increasing the welder's burn atmosphere to be above 3000C (by using a N2O combustion mix) will increase this speed bonus to 50%.
Players now get additive tool speed increases of 20%, and a structure placement speed increase of 20% when not wearing a spacesuit. A friendly reminder that gas welding without a suit has been known to cause respiratory issues. Lastly, all MkII tools now have a 10% speed bonus over the regular tools.






We've added a new type of backpack to help with some of the awkwardness of long mining trips. There are two variants, the Mining Backpack and the Hard Mining Backpack. These have a large number of ore slots (24 and 28, respectively), and are available in the tools manufacturing machine alongside the existing mining belts.


Balanced atmospheric mixing rates no longer depend on room state, with room mixing being raised slightly, and roomless mixing being lowered more significantly. Atmospheric movement now has a greater effect on player movement.


As noted when we started the project we would slowly increase the price as the project matured, but in doing so would be as transparent as possible with the community. We will be adjusting the price slightly in the coming weeks. Obviously this will only be affecting new players, not those who already purchased the game. The exact amount will vary depending on the currency, and it is possible the game may become cheaper in some territories as it has been some time since we revisited the price to ensure it was fair in different currencies.




We are still experimenting with some pretty big changes, some of which could have some really profoundly positive impacts on the project. These areas cover everything from new content (such as the much requested Nuclear Reactors), changes to how multiplayer connections are made (to improve connectivity with those with network troubles), new approaches to terrain (to make the game feel more visually appealing like Space Engineers or Astroneer), and more.


The major refactor has been a huge milestone for us and we think you can already see the tremendous success. Your support through bug reporting, suggestions, and direct involvement with our team on discord makes a tremendous difference.

If you like the progress we have made, please consider taking a moment to leave a positive review. This makes a great deal of difference to the project. We have worked hard on this project now for five years, and we feel confident the game is substantially improved from when we started. Many projects steer clear of the hard tasks, and we are proud to have taken them on.

Additionally, you can support us by purchasing the DLC we made to allow those who like the game to support us, and in return get something a little fun to continue to use in the game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2089290/Stationeers_Human_Cosmetics_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038400/Stationeers_Zrilian_Species_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038500/Stationeers_HEM_Droid_Species_Pack/

• Tool speed multipliers are now correctly used during deconstruction.
  
• Changed mining backpacks column count to 4
  
• MKII tools now have 10% speed bonuses
  
• Fixed storms appearing inside
  
• Changed the number of slots on the mining backpacks. Basic is now 24 and hard is now 28
  
• Changed the recipes for the mining backpacks to reflect the difference in slot numbers
  
• Added mining backpack recipes
  
• Changed number of slots for mining backpack
  
• removed tool slots on mining backpack
  
• Fixed checking game version throwing exception on join when not advertising server
  
• Fixed Error spam on server when using FireExtinguisher.
  
• Fix for fire effects spawning an world origin.
  
• Fixed not being able to join hosted games unless they were advertised due to a game session(only created when advertised) being required to do the password check
  
• Updated prefabs with missing serialized property
  
• Fixed inventory windows don't remember their positions when reloading world
  
• Fixed inventory windows can sometimes be positioned half or fully off the screen when loading world
  
• Fixed a few issues around starting tutorials with a non-human character selected. Disallowed character customisation in tutorials
  
• Fixed main menu stack items not being cleared after exiting world
  
• Fixed emote command throwing exception in single player
  
• Added windowheight command to set the console window height
  
• Fixed An edge case that could cause fires to spawn at world origin.
  
• Fixed Hotspots or cold spots building up on Venus around devices. This could happen on other planets but the effect was less noticeable.
  
• Fixed Items in slots of structures sometimes interacting with the incorrect atmosphere.
  
• Fixed WorldAtmospheres Close to global pressure not mixing with neighbours.
  
• Fixed exception being thrown when using 'help' command if command not found
  
• Added first pass of mining backpack and hard mining backpack
  
• Fixed scenarios button was throwing an error so have disabled it for the time being
  
• Fixed issue where changing save folder name would cause autosaves to save to the old folder. New saves will now update the world_meta with the correct WorldFileName. Old saves which already have the old WorldFileName will not be changed
  
• Balanced IsCloseToGlobal atmospheric checks in large and small air leaks on multiple planets. This allows for small air leaks, like an open door or burst pipe, to still be noticeable in world, while preventing large pressure bursts from spreading too far.
  
• Tied atmosphere IsAlive to depend on a constant ratio of the new atmosphere creation threshold.
  
• With a unified IsCloseToGlobal standard, made atmospheric mixing rates to no longer depend on room state, with room mixing being raised slightly, and roomless mixing being lowered more significantly.
  
• Increased lower pressure clamp on IsCloseToGlobal, to give very low pressure environments a higher pressure to consider irrelevant.
  
• Fixed dynamic scrubber throwing invalid grid exception
  
• Fixed bug where navigating back with esc on main menu would lock up certain buttons
  
• Removed Thing.CurrentGrid. (old and deprecated way of keeping track of grid-position)
  
• Refactored a number of Grid3 localGrids to use WorldGrid.
  
• Changed Pipe.CurrentGrids to use WorldGrids rather than vector3.
  
• Refactored UpdateAirState() to take in a worldGrid instead of a Vector3.
  
• Fixed exception when cleaning up chunks on exiting world
  
• Added Atmosphere logic types for input and output pipe atmospheres. Devices that have an IC slot will be able to read atmosphere values from their input and/or output networks.
  
• Added "debugthreads terrain" command. This will display the number of currently queued Terrain Tasks and the total number of tasks created in the current play session.
  
• Added ability for tools to decrease structure build times.
  
• The welding torch now is 20% faster than the arc welder. Increasing the welder's burn atmosphere to be above 3000C (by using a N2O combustion mix) will increase this speed bonus to 50%.
  
• Players now get additive tool speed increases of 20%, and a structure placement speed increase of 20% when not wearing a spacesuit. A friendly reminder that gas welding without a suit has been known to cause respiratory issues.

We had to make a change to the data structure for the server list so your servers will no longer be visible in the server browser until you update to the latest stable version.

This hot fix resolves the duplicate entries in the server list as well as the error spam happening for some players.

* Fixed Error Spam from furnace audio caused by incorrectly clamped values when furnace got very hot during a NoS burn.
* Fixed "time parameter is not a valid number" Error caused by a NaN value in the CleanBurnRate of inflamed atmospheres.
* H2Combustor can now empty, if turned on, without an input atmosphere.
* Fixed master server ping not always respecting ServerVisible
* Added 'suntime' command to change time of day
* Fixed sessionID not updating with provided sessionID from the master server
* Fixed bug where plants would never decay unless they are planted and in their final growth stage
* removed unused INetTransport interface
* Changed network manager to work with new master server
* Fixed Splitting stacks of cables that are inside a toolbelt inside a backpack causes the split-item-stack to spawn at the position where the toolbelt was 1st put in the backpack.
* Fixed Clients unable to join game when their stationeer was in a cryo-tube.
* Fixed saves with signs could cause an editor crash on load.
* Fixed race condition in ReferenceID assignment when atmospheres were being registered on atmos thread while new things were being created on game thread.
* Changed game session CheckSum to follow project constants like prefabs, not session constants.
* Fixed a few issues with the 'regeneraterooms' command. Should now remove rooms if they are invalid and more accurately regenerate existing ones
* Fixed an issue where registered structures were not being cleared between world loads
* Fixed vending machine dial rotating the wrong way

As we head towards the atmospheric changes that we discussed previously there is new content we want that lays the groundwork. This week is an example of that. The Nitrolizer extends the ability to get nitrogen oxide, which you can be used to make even hotter fires.



We've also continued to work very closely with the community, both here in steam and on discord, to identify and fix serious issues both with the base game and particularly with dedicated servers. As always you will see these efforts continue front and center with each of our updates. Please do reach out to us via these channels. While we are not always able to get issues fixed immediately, we can always use your experiences to frame out how to fix them in future.




To continue to expand the atmospheric engineering challenges in the game, we're adding the Nitrolyzer. It takes in equal parts oxygen and nitrogen, and a lot of power, to create a dirty mix of N2O. Players will have to decide how they want use this mixed output gas. They can recycle it through the Nitrolyzer at lower production efficiencies, refilter it into pure gases, or just use the mixed output directly. This allows players to more easily access the high temperature combustion provided by N2O, increasing furnace temperatures, and gas generator power amounts.

This Nitrolyzer also comes equipped with an integrated IC10 slot. Players wanting to program their way around (or into) problems will be able to slot in a chip, and easily access the Nitrolyzer and two other devices, without out having to clutter their piping with extra housings and wires. Over the coming weeks, we'll be revisiting more beloved atmospheric devices, giving them IC10 slots, updating their models, and balancing some of their behaviours.


Many fixes and improvements have been made to the dedicated server most notable are constant master server advertising while server is paused. The server now saves before pausing to ensure no data loss. You can now run server command from any connected client. This makes it much easier to access the server without using a CLI. It also helps Linux servers as the input buffer is still quite buggy in the terminal. Click for instructions on how to set it up.


Following on from our work to add the German Language voice pack, we have added a Russian voice pack. Currently this will only be played while the language is set to Russian, but as noted last update we intend to add a separate setting for this in future. Our Stationeers community is an amazing global community of players, and we will continue to develop voice packs working on order of the largest users of the game.


The major refactor has been a huge milestone for us and we think you can already see the tremendous success. Your support through bug reporting, suggestions, and direct involvement with our team on discord makes a tremendous difference.

If you like the progress we have made, please consider taking a moment to leave a positive review. This makes a great deal of difference to the project. We have worked hard on this project now for five years, and we feel confident the game is substantially improved from when we started. Many projects steer clear of the hard tasks, and we are proud to have taken them on.

Additionally, you can support us by purchasing the DLC we made to allow those whole like the game to support us, and in return get something a little fun to continue to use in the game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2089290/Stationeers_Human_Cosmetics_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038400/Stationeers_Zrilian_Species_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038500/Stationeers_HEM_Droid_Species_Pack/

• Fixed Sounds not working on H2Combustor.
  
• Fixed Small collider on H2Combustor switch.
  
• Fixed issue where H2 Combuster could operate on a bad atmosphere.
  
• Fixed Electrolysis Machine producing twice as much Oxygen and Hydrogen as expected, and cut its power usage in half.
  
• Increased H2 Combustor water conversion rate to 66% from 33%.
  
• Normalized heat generated when producing water, to create temperature ranges similar to gas fires.
  
• Fixed issue with the incorrect amount of water being created when combusting for water.
  
• H2Combuster now produces a fixed 33% of water from its reaction, with the remaining amount creating traditional combustion products.
  
• Fixed Clients can't turn on Nitrolyzer.
  
• Fixed Clients can't set Integrated Circuit holder device assignments (beta only)
  
• Fixed Nitrolyzer not saving device Ids.
  
• Fixed Nitrolyzer activating when minimum conditions for processing not met.
  
• Fixed Unable to assign devices on some logic chips when the current device was set to none.
  
• Changes to nitrolyzer balance: pulls more gas per tick but maximum efficiency is reduced.
  
• Added Nitrolyzer tooltip.
  
• Fixed Invalid WorldGrid error when newly created items played impact sound. WorldGrid is now assigned when the item is registered.
  
• Fixed converted usage of local grid to world grid in a few places for dynamic things
  
• Fixed Logic Units show incorrect values when setting variable targets on a device (beta only).
  
• Fixed Error spam when Nitrolyzer input2 is not connected.
  
• Added checks around loading bad room data in saves which could cause rooms to contain the same grid multiple times
  
• Fixed batch mode framerate limit being overridden
  
• Added client protection to `save` command
  
• Removed extra logMessageReceived callback append in ConsoleWindow
  
• Fixed the frame rate being unlimited in the main menu when launching the game or returning to the main menu from a game
  
• Added frame limit while game is paused
  
• Added `serverrun` command for client authorised server commands
  
• Made `save` command with no args save current world save
  
• Added Nitrolyzer, a device which will convert oxygen and nitrogen into NO2. It has a power consumption of 20KW. The nitrolyzer is most efficient when operating on a 1:1 mix of oxygen to nitrogen. It will pull equally from its two inputs. An improper mix will result in less efficient operation and some of the power being lost as heat into the internal gas mix.
  
• Added IC slot to the Nitrolyzer with 2 device assignments. Db is the Nitrolyzer and d0 and d1 can be assigned to any device on the Nitrolyzer's logic network. The internal mode can be set to "idle" (0) to pause production. The unit will consume 50W of power in idle mode.
  
• Removed NetManager class double up with NetworkManager
  
• Refactored a number of logic functions to Logicable static class.
  
• Fixed master server ping stopping when server has paused
  
• Added potential fix for slotted objects being offset from their slot on clients
  
• Fixed Wireless Power Transmitters prevent clients joining game. (beta only)
  
• Fixed New Large Radiators had default flash point and autoignition temps. Changed values to match pipe radiator.
  
• Fixed Atmospheres with an invalid world grid will now be deregistered immediately.
  
• Changed Definition of Invalid World Grid to (0,0,0).
  
• Fixed Collection modified errors and energy set to NaN Atmospherics errors caused by bad room data in old saves causing atmospheres to be registered to more than one room.
  
• Fixed Chunk de-serialisation not handling bad minable data.
  
• Fixed weather effects/sound not persisting when active after loading game
  
• Added non paintable color swatches.
  
• Fixed slotted items in fridge not scaling or rotating correctly
  
• Fixed shelf not being able to be placed
  
• Fixed issue with -settingspath and custom savepath issues with dedicated server
  
• Added Nitrolyser script.
  
• Added auto save just before server auto pause
  
• Fixed World atmospheres not cleaning up fast enough when close to global atmosphere.
  
• Changed IsCloseToGlobal check to be relative based on GlobalAtmosphere pressure.
  
• Changed Mix in world function to no longer flag atmospheres that have mixed as being active, it was preventing large clumps of world atmospheres from being cleaned up.
  
• Removed debug print when moles Quantity was set to denormal or negative value.
  
• Improved atmos analyser tablet text alignment and overlapping
  
• Fixed build error caused by shader property id clashes
  
• Fixed atmospheric system was not gracefully handling invalid value detection. Now invalid values are reported but handled and atmospherics continues. Sometimes very large (or very small) values can result from extremely energetic explosions or fires, so they need to be noted but gracefully cleaned up and execution continues.
  
• Fixed client sync animators could be causing position issues.
  
• Fixed signs not being able to be placed
  
• Fixed join serialize and deserialize was not ordered, so objects had to wait for their parents. Now join thing data is sent ordered, so objects know their parents will exist. This optimizes, especially for large worlds, as things had to wait for their parent to exist. Additionally, it cuts down significantly on the data sent as physics data is stripped from objects that are not being physics updated. Possibly fixes desync on join where objects are at weird offsets.
  
• Fixed StationContents were being sync'd with index of int type, unnecessary, so now being sync with byte (max is 17)

• Added network manager will now attempt to make any available connection to a network adapter, and use all working ones, instead of using the first one it receives successfully, because that may not be the desired one.
  
• Fixed blue color boxes indicating where to construct something not showing in tutorials and causing an exception.
  
• Fixed tutorial can begin a hosted game, but causes exceptions. Now multiplayer is not activated for tutorials.
  
• Fixed for tool tip hot key container width
  
• Fixed clients would always send to one network adapter even if their connectionId to the server was on a different adapter.
  
• Refactored network message sending to be more optimized and support multiple network adapter addresses for different clients.
  
• Added Nitrous Oxide Canister to Trader.
  
• Changed Nitrous Oxide Canister to be pure N2O, players can mix their own livable sleeping gases when needed.
  
• Fixed issue with -loadlatest. CommandBase.ProcessOnLaunch() now called after WorldManager.Init phase
  
• Fixed ic information windows having error text in the description
  
• Removed reflection probe silent setting. It wasn't supposed to still be in game, but people who had old settings.
  
• Fixed port setting from settings was always being applied causing network connection issues.
  
• Fixed stationpedia showing up empty
  
• Fixed Pressing C to rotate passive vent throws error.
  
• Removed Tutorial stripping for dedi. Its causing issues loading games for some people
  
• Fixed UPnP Registration would be checked no matter what the person had their settings set to.
  
• Fixed a number of items not updating their positions on clients.
  
• Fixed Improved smoothness of movement of items on clients.
  
• Added Russian Suit Voice.

This week we have begun revisiting not just core systems but gameplay ones. Fire is the first of the gameplay systems we have revisited, as we see it as one of the central systems that Stationeers have to master. Additionally, we've been working very hard to provide some key fixes. We also have also been working on with some new art for future updates, working towards exciting things like nuclear reactors, satellites, and more.




Throughout most of the development dragging items has been dangerous, often resulting in a buggy experience that resulted in destruction of suits, development of leaks, even damaging the player severely. With the refactor this had become even worse, to the point where dragging crates or containers was almost impossible without risking catastrophic damage.



This has now been resolved. The issue was that while we were removing dangerous collisions with what you were (or were recently) carrying, often it wasn't what you were carrying that was damaging you - it was you being nudged by that thing into another structure. Extensive testing has been conducted, and it is now safe again to drag canisters, containers, and tanks.




This is probably one of the most requested features on the project, and it's now here. You can place wall devices on both the front and back of walls. The devices will default to facing towards you, so to place something on the other side of the wall you will need to be facing that side.


Fire is one of the oldest features of Stationeers. This week we've changed how fast fire burns, and the conditions that allow it to burn, as well as added a new oxidizer for even more firey explosions.
Fire between volatiles and oxygen has been slowed down significantly. Now atmospheric fire is more likely to spread around, instead of instantly exploding. This also effects fires burning inside of furnaces, so being able to inject, or pump out fuel, of an active furnace is a lot more achievable. The increase of regular fuel autoignition temperatures, combined with the removal of several other pressure limitations makes using regular fuels significantly safer, readable, and, in the event of an accident, recoverable.

But for the pyromaniacs out there, we've added N2O as a new oxidizer to use, which allows volatiles to burn significantly hotter, faster, and at a lower autoignition temperature. This new high temperature fire allows you to reach hotter temperatures than ever before. Furnaces with large quantities of gas can easily be reheated, and gas generators can produce even more power, all while using a lower ratio of volatiles to combust.



We've also improved our volumetric fire effects. Density, temperature, and pressure will all drive the new particle effects, and allow you to tell the difference between a small welder accident, and a suit melting furnace explosion.




A community request on the forums was made for a Logic Gate unit. This has been added. This allows you to take two inputs and perform a boolean operation on them. You could do this within our MIPS IC system, but there were no dedicated logic devices to perform them. Normal boolean operations are supported such as OR, XOR, NAND etc... Additionally, NOT has been added as a comparison operation to the Unary Math processors as well. You can build this device from the Logic I/O Kit.


Community content continues to be one of the best ways to explore Stationeers, and given the depth of the game this is probably never going to change. However, it is vital we do a better job of providing important specific information to the player inside the game wherever we can. As such, Stationpedia has been redeveloped.



The search functions were optimized and their operation parallelized. This means that it no longer causing performance issues while searching. Additionally the search itself is much more robust. You can type a sentence and the search will look for all the words contained, in any order. You can also search for multiple fuzzy phrases by separating them using a comma. So, for example, you could search for "canister water, travel" and any items containing the words "canister" and "water", OR "travel" would be shown. The search system will also return information as soon as it finds it, and keeps searching.

We will be continuing to expand this constantly through the future, to provide as much information as we can to help you play the game.


We removed the use of external SDKs that were bound to steam from our multiplayer to ensure the game would always be playable, even if our studio and steam ceased to exist. We believe this is an important way games should be made and so have committed to, as much as possible, not relying on external systems that don't fully support cross-play. We strongly believe that it is important that people can play our games together regardless of where the game was sourced from.

However, this has meant we have had to roll many systems into the game and matching players together through the rather complex world of the internet has not been easy. We put a lot of time into trying to clean this up, working through issues the community identified here and on the forums.

There were significant problems with how we were initializing connections with your network device for some users. Many had no trouble, but we had been relying on the OS to assign us the valid network device - but this wasn't always true. Now we loop through all available network devices and look for one that can support the external connection stationeers need. Additionally, Upnp is then registered for that specific device. In some cases, these ended up being different devices.

We do still have more work to do here, so please do let us know issues you are having. We may implement steam peer-to-peer again as an option later, but we need to finish all our refactor work first as this would be a major package of work and we wouldn't want to have to redo it again.


Some pretty nasty bugs remained around our atmosphere and room registration systems. Within discord I explained a metaphor - imagine a bank where only odd numbers are allowed for bank accounts. All companies then setup there systems to assume only odd numbers are used for accounts. But it turns out, the bank doesn't actually check if account numbers are odd. Imagine a few of the bank staff have a bad day, and occasionally even number accounts get through.

This is what was happening with World Grids - important for atmospheres and rooms. Our systems weren't actually checking if the values provided fitted on the small or large grids - and problems ensued. We've take a key step with atmosphere and rooms to do this, but we suspect there will be continued work to really solidify this. However, we've already seen a much more stable situation.

We've also made sure that the system is much less tolerant of bad data. This might mean the game refuses to load a save or fails to run properly without splitting out errors. Please do let us know when this happens and send us the saves, as we can use these saves to find and fix those issues. In many cases, we can fix the issues within days and post the updates to Beta, rolling them into main on the next weeks update.


The major refactor has been a huge milestone for us and we think you can already see the tremendous success. Your support through bug reporting, suggestions, and direct involvement with our team on discord makes a tremendous difference.

If you like the progress we have made, please consider taking a moment to leave a positive review. This makes a great deal of difference to the project. We have worked hard on this project now for five years, and we feel confident the game is substantially improved from when we started. Many projects steer clear of the hard tasks, and we are proud to have taken them on.

Additionally, you can support us by purchasing the DLC we made to allow those whole like the game to support us, and in return get something a little fun to continue to use in the game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2089290/Stationeers_Human_Cosmetics_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038400/Stationeers_Zrilian_Species_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038500/Stationeers_HEM_Droid_Species_Pack/

• Changed Atmospheres that are being destroyed have their Direction set to zero.
  
• Fixed DynamicThings (such as players) could have a registered world grid that was no longer the registered world atmosphere for the location. This possibly caused the hotspot and atmosphere locations what would throw players weirdly whenever they entered the square. Also optimized the atmosphere IsInvalidThing method to use cached values, reducing the overhead check for this method which could be significant.
  
• Fixed possible null ref if a game was unnaturally paused during chunk deserialization as a client. Split methods into two parts.
  
• Re-enabled toolbelt Foley sound
  
• Reverted jitter fix as this had large amount of side effects that need to be fixed (This will be in the next patch, there's to many issues for it to be included in this patch)
  
• Added network connection fallback to OS default when device check fails
  
• Adjusted game loading screens to handle all possible display resolutions gracefully.
  
• Fixed entity's not generating a new animation cancelation token when being revived causing an error which meant that each character could only ragdoll once
  
• An active welder will now spark the external atmosphere while ejecting its waste gases.
  
• Temporarily removed ToolBelt Foley until Character juddering issue resolved.
  
• Fixed input popup/labeler stops working after clicking search button on consoles. Was previously throwing exception but will now do nothing. Search functionality to be reimplemented at a later date.
  
• Fixed Error spam when clients are looking at dynamic hydroponics.
  
• Fixed Toolbelt Foley sound could get stuck at Maximum volume causing very jingly movement sounds.
  
• Fixed refresh rate not being applied when loading settings
  
• Fixed loading screens were not showing a black background behind them.
  
• Fixed airlocks were too vast at declaring a vacuum. Reduced their vacuum tolerance to require closer to an absolute vacuum, and they will continue to pull for 1 second longer than they have detected a vacuum. Recommend that you have one active vent per grid square for airlocks using airlock control.
  
• Fixed issue where cable junctions would not destroy after taking their max possible damage
  
• Fixed several cases where the welding torch could remain on, despite no combustible fuel being present.
  
• The welding torch now performs an internal combustion on its fuel, before mixing with the external atmosphere.
  
• Fixed Ignition sounds playing for very small atmospheric fires.
  
• Changed Scaled the volume of ignition sounds based on the size of the atmospheric fire.
  
• Fixed Error thrown by AtmosphericAudioHandler when multiple threads were adding stressed structures to the stressed structures collections.
  
• Optimizations to VolumetricLights on light sources.
  
• Fixed failed ping attempt to master server would mean server would not be advertised until manually reset using refresh command. Now will silently get a new session from master server.
  
• Fixed able to combine road flares when they are already activated and burning. Now cannot combine road flares that are burning.
  
• Fixed flashing motherboards for airlocks with a screwdriver was not correctly resetting their state. Now correctly flashes and clears all device elements.
  
• Added Robot will now try and use power out of it's hands, if the robot battery slot battery is null or empty.
  
• Fixed saving icon would sometimes be stuck on even though game was not saving
  
• Fixed logic gate model incorrectly showed its inputs in mesh
  
• Fixed character hair showing helmet variant on first loading character creation even if helmet is not on
  
• Tweaked animation timings for on off switches on fabricators
  
• Fixed chunk exception when exiting a game while chunks rendering is being changed.
  
• Fixed loading screen scaling is breaking for some resolutions
  
• Fixed main menu game scene background was mismatched for ultra-wide monitors.
  
• Added back all the loading screens to the game. Moved them into packaged folders, so they aren't taking up extra space.
  
• Fixed autolathe switch not fully rotation into position
  
• Fixed reinstated wave emote on keypress using new system
  
• Fixed sending atmospheres to clients during write was causing NaN exceptions. Now an atmosphere is skipped from synchronization if contains NaN data, usually during atmospheric worker changes.
  
• Fixed both gas generators possibly creating water during their forced combustion calls.
  
• Fixed placing wireless power transmitter causes error spam on clients.
  
• Added network device information to the "network" command to help debug network issues.
  
• Fixed network issues related to multiple ethernet devices. The game would attempt to bind to the first the OS gave it, Upnp would try bind to the first ipv4 it found. This meant that Upnp and the game would bind to different adapters sometimes. Now the game will assess all network devices to look for all addresses it can use. Then it goes through and attempts to bind to all those addresses. When successfully finding a network device that will commence, it will use that to register upnp. This should solve a fair number of hosting/connecting issues people are having.
  
• Added emote command for console and an easier way of triggering emotes for future use
  
• Added 1st pass on sounds for atmospheric fires.
  
• Changed Reduced particle spawn rate on thing fires to prevent puffing effect when particle system reached max number of particles.
  
• Fixed character jitter while moving (more noticeable at higher frame rates as the framerate and physics updates timings diverged)
  
• Added our own managed LateUpdate loop in the same way as our managed Update loop and implemented it on some managers
  
• Fixed N2O combustion not correctly adding nitrogen gas to the combustion gasses.
  
• Fixed loading images leaving borders when scaling on ultrawidescreens
  
• Fixed Atmospherics thread race condition error that could happen when multiple fires we're being registered or deregistered at the same time.
  
• Refactored Stationpedia search system. Words separated with spaces are searched for in text, in any order. Phrases groups can be made using commas, for example "water canister, travel" will search for records that contain "water" and "canister" (in any order), OR any page containing "travel".
  
• Added spawn menu filtering now will search for items using any typed word, but in any order. So you can type "canister water" or "water canister" and it will show results that contain those words.
  
• Fixed incomplete walls/windows would seal solars and extendable radiators from storm damage. Now damage checks not just for room, but for a global atmosphere. This means that solars will have to be in a fully enclosed atmosphere or vacuum to prevent storm damage.
  
• Added StormBegin and StormEnd commands for debug purposes to spawn or end storms. Note these will soon be locked behind an "enable cheats" system.
  
• Added LocalIpAddress setting. Not shown in game settings currently, but can be added to setting.xml file before load. This will use this IP address with network adapters while trying to register a client/server internet connection. This is useful when having MP issues, if you have multiple devices, as stationeers may be using the wrong one.
  
• Added animated leak/fire images for slot items.
  
• Added console font is a monospace font, same as for AotR.
  
• Fixed non-critical exceptions on exiting game to main menu due to old character trying to still blink after it was deleted.
  
• Fixed loading screen images stretch for variable aspect ratios.
  
• Added Solar Panels can be repaired using Glass Sheets, as well as duct tape. Uses between 1 and 2 sheets depending on damage amount.
  
• Balanced breaking force for joint when "dragging" something such as a container or large gas tank. Now twice as much breaking force is required to force it to drop, which should make it easier to drag things.
  
• Fixed dropping draggables (such as containers, and gas canisters) near structures tends to cause an extreme collision with the player, destroying their suit and yeeting them across space and time. Previous attempts to fix were removed as they did not work, as they focused on fixing collisions between the item and the player, however, the issue was collision not between the object and the player so much as the player being pushed by the dropped item into structures very quickly. Now this is handled and the collision allowed to occur, but damage not applied for it.
  
• Minor fix of missing scripts on prefabs.
  
• Added Stationpedia mouse locking now darkens the background and prevents you from clicking, dragging or targeting anything. This puts the stationpedia in "modal" mode so you can utilize it without worrying about affecting any backgrounds.
  
• Fixed localized strings could insert carraige returns if poorly configured. Now titles will strip whitespace if text accidentally includes it.
  
• Fixed color tags broken for statiopedia, affecting some stationpedia files like hash numbers for other worlds for rockets preventing copying them.
  
• Added toggle on Stationpedia window that will keep the mouse cursor free to move while Stationpedia window is open, instead of requiring you to hold the MouseCursor (left alt) button.
  
• Fixed input continued while console window, stationpedia, labeller, and editing windows were open. Now it is disabled at base level of key mappings.
  
• Fixed possible null ref exception when disposing of a player character at end of session.
  
• Added "regeneraterooms" command. This command will automatically attempt to generate rooms, it will lockup the game while doing so.
  
• Minor fixes for some english strings with inconsistent kit names
  
• Fixed Error that could occur when Atmospherics manager tied to clean up fires.
  
• Removed ProcessFires function. This functionality is now handled by AtmosphericFire Register Deregister functions.
  
• Replaced Area Power Control (APC) mesh with one that has a power symbol on it to make it more obvious that it is a power device rather than an active vent.
  
• Added auto snapping of pipe and cable attached devices.
  
• Fixed able to place pipe and cable attachments without a valid cable or pipe below.
  
• Fixed able to place cable attachments on non-straight cables. Now only straight cables will allow cable attachments.
  
• Optimized light managers handling of DaylightSensor to remove creation of coroutines.
  
• Fixed issue with oxygen fires using double volatiles.
  
• Added better prompt explaining what deleting a save is doing
  
• Fixed issue with having same clientID with clones in editor
  
• Added mesh for LogicGate device. Says "Gate Unit". This device makes boolean operations available for logic processors.
  
• Added NOT comparison to LogicMathUnary.
  
• Fixed human eyes staying open when unconscious.
  
• Fixed Passive Vent (free grid placement) had inconsistent placement to Active vent (face mounted placement). Later update to include different variations for passive vent, but the current structure should be identical to active vent for placement.
  
• Fixed updated coroutine use on particle effect spawners to use unitask
  
• Fixed wall mounting for face mounting wouldn't allow orientation on rear side of walls. This was because facemount structures would lock their face orientation to the structure they were mounting on. Now facemount objects will use the closest face to the player regardless of wall direction.
  
• Changed Build tooltips on unfinished structures only show when tool is in hand.
  
• Fixed Health bar tooltip now shows when looking at damaged structures regardless of what is players active in hand.
  
• Fixed Can't place a number of devices. (beta only, introduced rev. 16953)
  
• Fixed highlight response when hovering over the "exit session" button
  
• Fixed Atmospherics error where explosions could stall the game tick.
  
• Re-enabled GameTick Exception Logging.
  
• Added respawn condition keys to english.xml
  
• Fixed Many items and devices being destroyed on Venus by greatly increased the energy threshold required for auto ignition.
  
• Fixed instances where things could be on fire but not show flame particle effects.
  
• Increased the threshold of combustion before flame FX are shown. Very small amounts of combustion will still happen but flames won't be visible.
  
• Fixed Welding torch setting atmosphere to sparked even when turned off.
  
• Inceased the amount of time a helmet takes to burn from 15 to 60 seconds.
  
• Added ability to place FaceMount objects onto the rear of walls. Previously, you could only place on the front of the wall. This makes placing things on walls far more intuitive than it was before. WorldGrid changes made this much easier to implement than previously.
  
• Added LogicGate device. This allows applying logical operations such as AND, OR, XOR, etc... to a single boolean output. Input values greater than near zero are considered true for operation purposes. Constructed from the Processor Kits. Note: model on beta still says Logic Select, to be replaced later.
  
• Fixed Rooms able to be registered with a key that is not a large grid. Non-large grid room registrations were found in some saved games. They have now been moved from using Grid3 to WorldGrid. This likely fixes a bunch of small issues related to room registrations, and various flow on effects.
  
• Fixed build error by removing unwanted imgui directive
  
• Fixed removing tutorial folder issues for build server
  
• Fixed alt dragging items would move them immediately to active hand
  
• Fixed alt hover indicator sometimes is the wrong color
  
• Added the ability to alt drag direct from world to slot
  
• Fixed issue where clients were closing master server game sessions stopping them from being advertised
  
• Refactored Atmospheric system to use a new enforced WorldGrid value, instead of generic Grid3. This fixes a number of Atmospheric issues that were caused by incorrect position values being sent to the Atmospheric system. Grid3 can be either small or large grid, but the atmospheric system expected only large grid. This should fix a number of atmospheric glitches, such as "hotspots" and burning cables when using the Autolathe on some worlds. Likely will fix a lot of other small atmospheric issues.
  
• Added atmospheric system will throw errors (and lots of them) if invalid values are passed to it, to highlight the issues so we can fix them.
  
• Changed Tutorial dir stripping for dedicated server to post-build process
  
• Fixed Devices and items catching fire in hot atmospheres when atmosphere is sparked.
  
• Fire will now use Nos as an oxidizer, in addition to oxygen.
  
• Increased AutoIgnition of Oxygen based fuel mixes to 300DegreesC. Nos based fuel-mixes remain at 50DegreesC.
  
• Nos Fires will introduce twice the amount of heat compared to oxygen fires, and will produce nitrogen and carbon dioxide by-products.
  
• Fire now uses less of the available fuel in a single combustion tick.
  
• Very hot fires will now allow more un-combusted fuel to transfer to neighbouring atmospheres, better representing fuel explosions.
  
• Changed style of Fire Particles.
  
• Fixed Fire particles on items and devices that are burning.
  
• Changed Devices and items only catch fire in hot atmospheres when the atmosphere is inflamed or the Temperature is above its auto-ignition threshold.
  
• Changed Walls will no longer catch fire.
  
• Removed partial pressure limitations of both volatiles and oxygen for combustion.
  
• Removed Combustion minimum pressure requirements.
  
• Changed pressure differential damage to curve near both minimum and maximum pressures.
  
• Walls at the pressure limit will roughly take 5x as long to fully burst, and walls at extreme pressures will burst roughly 10x faster.
  
• Fixed fire particles now move more accurately with atmosphere flow direction.
  
• Optimised The system that tracks burning items and atmospheres.
  
• Removed old fire marker prefabs.
  
• Fixed error spam when looking at some destroyed structures with a tool in hand.
  
• Changed Inflamed value on Atmosphere is only set inside the Atmosphere.React function. Devices that cause fires should set their atmosphere to sparked.
  
• Fixed Fire Extinguisher not working in single-player.
  
• Fixed incorrect tooltip on names of input/output ports on Heat exchanger.
  
• Changed Swapped location of input2 and output2 port on heat exchanger.
  
• Changed Heat exchangers now fully passive and will move gas through the unit in the direction of pressure, Maintaining a 10Kpa differential across the input and output will prevent back-flow.
  
• Fixed issue connecting client to server or host
  
• Added extra info for network status command
  
• Reverted change where I accidentally pushed removing await delay in master server ping
  
• Fixed NRE for player cookie clone editor
  
• Added game string for starting condition difficulties
  
• Fixed star skybox was rotating in space map. Now an XML world element is available (RotatingSky, default TRUE) that when set to false will stop the skybox rotation.
  
• Refactored game initialization system. Previously the game was initializing in a haphazard fashion, causing us issues with dedicated servers and errors with some clients. Now the game initialization is done in a very sequential fashion, in an atomic way so that the entire game can rely in the initialization state when they are ordered for execution.

The pace of our development has been able to substantially ramp up. The refactor work to redo much of the games foundations is now paying huge rewards in terms of our ability to iterate and produce content and fixes. Additionally, the new team members we added over time are now operating at full capacity with a much more robust codebase.



Through the week and the weekend we worked with the community on discord to continue to hit off some of the more problematic bugfixes, introduce a few community requests (such as exposing more logic variables), and fix bugs. A huge thank you, as always, to our amazing community for this hard work.


Many on our Discord have been asking for ways to support the project. Last year, we put together a cosmetic pack for the Human Species, but got distracted with our significant refactor. But here we go - a purely cosmetic pack for the Human species, adding hair and new faces.

This DLC offers players a way to support for our development. If you like the work we have been doing, please do consider purchasing

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2089290/Stationeers_Human_Cosmetics_Pack/?beta=0
We have added a note to all our DLC indicating their purpose. We continue to add new content (such as new worlds) without locking them behind DLC, instead opting to put packs out like this to offer ways for players to support the project.

Stationeers is quite a niche game with a limited market. Thanks to the support of the community so far, many of whom are purchasing the DLC simply to support the project, we have been able to expand our great team and delivered on a major refactor to the project. We look forward to a bright future from the base we have now established.




The German community continues to be incredibly strong for the game. We still have a long way to go with our localization, and we will continue to work hard at this. But in the meantime, we have a thank you to the German community by including our first voice pack in the game. Currently, German voice will only be used if your language is set to German as a temporary measure, in future we will allow you to set the voice pack language separate from the text language.

Additionally, we have redone the voice pack audio effects in line with community feedback to make them less "clean" sounding. As always, please let us know your thoughts about these changes and we will continue to adjust them.


As we work towards establishing what the "stationeers" survival experience will be, we want to make sure maximum scale is supported. We believe one of the defining characteristics of Stationeers is the sheer scale the game is able to simulate. This is possible due to extensive work to use the maximum cores on your computer, and for multiplayer provide a very efficient system to send data out to clients.

This week we include a lot more optimizations, many quite small in their own right, but together (especially with large bases) many users might notice some further improvement in their frame rates. We will continue to optimize the game more and more with every update.


One specific area players will notice is that Airlock Circuitboards now operate significantly faster. They're also more performant as well. If you have many airlocks running, you will notice improvement performance now.




As we head towards broader enhancements to our atmospherics system, we need to better provide resources for players to be ready.


This week we have nitrogen ice spawning in worlds (non hot ones). This can be used as an inert gas, which will become important as we introduce concepts such as O2/CO2 Toxicity. Additionally, it is useful to reduce the flammability of your atmosphere.


As noted above, balancing your air requirements is going to become much more important. Managing the atmosphere to balance all you need from it will gain increasing importance. You will need to start balancing the amount of O2, ensuring not too much CO2, and using inert gases (such as Nitrogen) to balance the difference.


We have extensive changes coming in the next few weeks that will make fire much more of a hazard. Already in this update, a few changes introduce more sources of ignition (such as fabrication machines, microwave, etc...). A complete refactor to fire will be released in the next few weeks which will really up the danger of fire in general as well as visually enhance it a great deal. Use these next few weeks to start preparing your bases with a view of safety.




We've been working to improve the preview scenes for the worlds, so you'll notice some beautiful new views before you head in! Additionally, Vulcan now has a new and improved Black Hole sun to really enhance the experience. A new world is planned to be added sometime soon as well, we're thinking how we could use this new world to enhance the game further so stay tuned.

The major refactor has been a huge milestone for us and we think you can already see the tremendous success. Your support through bug reporting, suggestions, and direct involvement with our team on discord makes a tremendous difference.

If you like the progress we have made, please consider taking a moment to leave a positive review. This makes a great deal of difference to the project. We have worked hard on this project now for five years, and we feel confident the game is substantially improved from when we started. Many projects steer clear of the hard tasks, and we are proud to have taken them on.

Additionally, you can support us by purchasing the DLC we made to allow those whole like the game to support us, and in return get something a little fun to continue to use in the game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038400/Stationeers_Zrilian_Species_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1038500/Stationeers_HEM_Droid_Species_Pack/

• Fixed in game hair variant not changing correctly when wearing hats or helmets
  
• Added Appliances (Microwave/ReagentMixer) and Fabricators (Autolathe etc...) are now ignition sources. They will also put out a small amount of extra heat when they are operating. Be careful using in environments that have volatiles etc...
  
• Added ability to ping ui slots for tutorials
  
• Fixed misc NREs when loading game on dedicated
  
• Fixed CommsMotherboard exception on dedicated when joining
  
• Fixed saving spinner being visible when you launch the game until a game is saved
  
• Minor optimizations to logic screw audio noises.
  
• Minor optimizations to audio, trading, and logicOnOff button.
  
• Optimized occlusion manager handling of dynamic things.
  
• Optimized batterycell flashing animation and helmet switch state animations.
  
• Optimized LogicDisplay render text changes, and roadflare burning.
  
• Optimized wheel rotation for stacker, vending machine refrigerator.
  
• Optimizing drilling animations for the Mining Drill.
  
• Optimized movement controller to reduce memory allocation for jumping and emotes.
  
• Fixed mission pings not showing up for things in slots
  
• Fixed Star settings were not being correctly applied to world. New Star class (may require a change by modded worlds) applied for the two star mappings. Also optimized the star rotation and material functionality.
  
• Removed obsolete methods. Pointing Checkfiles to new StationSaveUtils class
  
• Fixed NRE directory when starting new game
  
• Added German suit voice.
  
• Updated Audio processing on English suit voice.
  
• Added placeholders and migration methods for new save directory structure.
  
• Fixed broken seams between chunks. This is an exploratory fix, it may now allow seams to be better sealed. This allows chunks to make as many rebuild tasks as it likes.
  
• Fixed normal maps too heavy for new human cosmetic pack faces
  
• Added Large Passive Radiator. It is optimised for convective cooling/heating and will be most effective in environments with world atmosphere. The Device is fully passive and the liquid/Gas will flow throw the radiator in the direction of pressure.
  
• Added ItemKitPassiveLargeRadiator recipe to PipeBender Tier 2 printer.
  
• Updated Character Creation scene, using the same suit (hardsuit) for both masculine and feminine human species.
  
• Fixed helmet added in character creation scene doesn't match the suit.
  
• Added DLC cosmetic hair to all female and male DLC characters.
  
• Fixed facial expression not working for one of the new faces
  
• Optimized locker handling of making items visible/invisible when closing.
  
• Optimized render change assignments when being made off the main thread.
  
• Optimized off thread changes for Entities, Sensors, IC Writer Motherboard, and Logic Buttons.
  
• Optimized Status update (blinking notifications).
  
• Optimized player suit leak system and prepared context strings for localization.
  
• Fixed skybox prefabs would remain in scene when returning to main menu from a game.
  
• Updated all menu scene previews for world to be more interesting, with additional prefabs and more effects, new textures, and models.
  
• Replaced old UI planetary main menu Vulcan scene with an improved one.
  
• Replaced in-game Vulcan Black Hole Sun with an animated and visually improved model.
  
• Fixed plants were decaying when planted in a tray. Credit: Neouni
  
• Optimized item decay. Was being handled individually (!!). Now moved to a centralized tick, on the server and client, that handles decay on items. Currently being handled on the main thread but in future can be moved to a worker system. This could give significant memory and performance improvements for bases that have a lot of decayable items.
  
• Optimized Station Batteries so their flashing image was no longer generating coroutines and causing memory churn.
  
• Optimized Chunk Generation and item out of bounds despawning to reduce memory churn and CPU usage in cleaning up, especially when lots of chunks are being rendered at once or items are falling out of bounds.
  
• Optimized WaitThenInteract for all interactables. Now no longer uses coroutines that was causing memory turnover and wasted CPU cycles.
  
• Optimized WallLight shadow changes. Now no longer uses coroutines that was causing memory turnover and wasted CPU cycles. This was occuring as players walked around, so very often especially if you had a lot of lights. With large bases this will reduce some of the GC overhead for memory, helping slightly for CPU.
  
• Removed old LogicType.Idle functionality from ArcFurnace, as it was effectively useless.
  
• Added LogicType.Idle to ArcFurnace. While return 1 while the ArcFurnace is actively smelting, and 0 once it has finished.
  
• Added LogicType.Idle variable to door. Will return 1 while the door is animating, false while it is not 0.
  
• Pulled ArcFurnace tooltip strings out into GameString so they can be localized to other languages. This will be a long process where we pull out of a lot of these strings.
  
• Optimized ArcFurnace to not use coroutines for smelting. Changed from LocalGrid to GridPosition for source of smelting gas, possibly fixing arc furnace if it is the source of heat spot bug sometimes reported on forums.
  
• Fixed ReagentReader next mode was reversed, causing the wrong direction to be used when getting the next mode. Credit: Risu.
  
• Fixed possibility of an invalid cast of an enum for Programmable Chips for double and int. Credit: Risu.
  
• Added LogicType.EnvironmentEfficiency and LogicType.WorkingGasEfficiency values to be read on the StirlingEngine, at the request of Mordiaky from discord.
  
• Added action to motherboards and circuitboards for AttackWith a screwdriver. If you use a screwdriver on a motherboard or circuitboard, you can clear the motherboard. This will attempt to delete all references on the board, helping when they get bricked due to null devices containing a reference when deleted. Options to do this on the card will be dealt with later, but this is a temporary solution.
  
• Optimized AdvancedAirlockControl and AirlockControl to no longer use coroutines giving performance gains, especially where they are used often. Also increases the speed of the airlocks significantly. Reduces the GC can CPU usage for airlock controllers.
  
• Added IsBusy property to Doors to allow for faster operation of airlocks and associated systems.
  
• Fixed exceptions caused by missing cosmetics data on characters during load.
  
• Fixed handling of null character kit resulting in halted execution during load. Now will gracefully print an error in the console and continue loading.
  
• Added Nitrice (Ice) item and Nitrice voxel deposits. These will only appear in new worlds, as VoxelTypes are created for your save file, to preserve save functionality during balancing and changes. 'Nitrice' is a form of Solid Nitrogen found as deposits. It is an inert gas that can be useful for pressurizing atmospheres. It will become more useful once O2 and CO2 toxicity is introduced.
  
• Fixed a variety of strings in the Stationpedia were incorrectly using color tags.
  
• Added a lot of links in the stationpedia that were missing, to help people find information better.
  
• Fixed missing character kits getting stripped in build
  
• Fixed server pausing on hosted server.
  
• Fixed head meshes not showing up in character customization
  
• Fixed missing materials in character customization scene
  
• Added placeholders for improving steam cloud sync for saves
  
• Fixed port being parsed as an int32. Changed to uint16 all the way down the chain.
  
• removed blocked.txt in favour of new banning system
  
• Improved server banning. Now adds ID to blacklist regardless if client exists. File location now respects SaveData setting.
  
• Fixed LargeExtendableRadiator required a mkII angle grinder to deconstruct (now any angle grinder will deconstruct it).
  
• Added Script for Large Radiator.
  
• Fixed issues with player cookie being used on dedicated server
  
• Fixed character dlc missing script in player prefab again
  
• Moved devconfig to persistent folder and out of repo
  
• Fixed character hair choice being offset by one on loading character customisation
  
• Fixed missing character kits for DLC
  
• Fixed character changes reverting when opening character creation
  
• Fixed voice notification changes not saving
  
• Added new graphic for quick save button
  
• Added new human DLC pack
  
• Adjusted game string formatting for localization
  
• Added `AutoPauseServer` setting when no clients are connected. True by default.
  
• Added meta server game session refresh attempt after a failture happening.
  
• Added placeholder for nonsteam clientId system.
  
• Changed pinging meta server to every 30s. Now silently tries again if fails
  
• Fixed Localisation error for bottle slots on powered WaterBottleFiller.
  
• Fixed Powered WaterBottleFiller Throws error when using smart rotate.
  
• Removed Animator Component from Powered WaterBottleFiller.
  
• Fixed InvalidOperationException in ElectricityManager.SerialiseDeltaState() when player joins
  
• Changed RocketBinaryWriter.Position from method to property to add setter as well.