Ahoy, Mates!

As you might know, Craftomation 101's demo conent is now forzen, with no new updates expected before we hit Early Access.

With one exception!

Base Builder Fest is held on Steam on January 23-30, and our little game is part of it. What an honor! In fact, we felt so proud, we decided it deserves a big update, so here it is:

• Reworked graphics: new snow, new shadows, glowing effect from heated objects, and new looks for Trees and Mushrooms
  
• Functions (AT LAST) - design bits of code, save them and feel free to use them in any Craftomate's program. And should you update a function, all CraftoMates using it will be subject to these changes immediately
  
• Trashcan on the work field - for easier command removal. Simply click and hold your mouse on a Command and drag it to the trash bin icon on the right
  
• Heat map - displays the warmth level from all of your Bonfires, Furnaces, Heaters and the Command Center. Mesmerizing!

But there's more! This grand event deserves a new trailer, and here it is:



Also, check out some of our new screenshots:





Just update your demo and enjoy! And please, don't forget to share your impressions on our Discord server!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1724140/Craftomation_101_Programming__Craft/

And don't forget to add Craftomation to your wishlist:



This way, you'll never miss the big news of us going to Early Access later this year!

Greetings, magicians!

Dr.Kness and the dwarves are happy to announce Dwarven Skykeep participation in Base Builder Fest this year! From January 23rd to 30th a week of all things base building on sale!



Practice wizardry & improve your engineering skills and laugh at quirky dwarven humor with 25% off for next 7 days!


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1076120/Dwarven_Skykeep/

For more on Dwarven Skykeep, follow the game on social media on the following channels.

• News on the parchment of destiny: link.
  
• Latest town gossip and dwarven humor: link.
  
• A welcoming community of like-minded wizards: link.
  
• Most hilarious selfies from Dr.Kness: link.
  
• Send your letter to Dwarven City: link.

See you in Dwarven City!

Hey, survivors! 👋

Not long ago, we announced that Winter Survival: Prologue will be available on February 6th, 2023! There, you’ll have a unique opportunity to experience some of the things that happened before Winter Survival takes place. As you progress through the game, you’ll discover a variety of different shelters that will keep you warm, protect you from animals, and let you rest. In this devlog, we want to dive a little bit deeper into one of them, and share some more details, so you can get a better understading of what you might expect. This is also the shelter that you'll discover in the Winter Survival: Prologue. Without further ado, let's get the party started 🔥




The first shelter that you’ll discover at the very beginning of the game is Woodcutter’s Hut. It might not be the coziest place that you’ve ever visited, but it’ll get the job done, at least for a while. But first things first. As you can see in the screenshot above, there are some holes within the shelter, so to further increase the protection it can give, you’ll have to repair the damages ⚒️



However, that doesn’t solve your problems for a lifetime, because the shelter can suffer from the terrible weather conditions (such as blizzards ❄️) or wild animal attacks (wolves 🐺 or a bear 🐻). Please keep in mind that it's still work-in-progress, so some things that you see here, might change when the game or the prologue will be available.



Apart from the protection thing, the shelter is also a place where you can gather all your resources and craft some more complex items on the workbench. However, we’ll dive into more details regarding crafting in the future devlogs, so stay tuned for that.




And that’s it for today, survivors! ❄️ We hope that you’ve enjoyed our little shelters showcase. There’ll be more updates along our journey to the Early Access release, so stay tuned for more. Also, remember that you'll be able to put your hands on Winter Survival: Prologue on February 6th, 2023! Last but not least, don’t forget to follow us on social media, and if you haven’t done it yet, consider adding Winter Survival: Prologue to your wishlist 🙇

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2175210/Winter_Survival_Prologue/

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In front of you is the new content, which will be also available for the players during earlier announced Open Playtests, the Beta. Those are the first four missions. At least one of them you might already know very well. We have chosen this particular content in order to introduce you to some of the fundamental mechanics, which in the later stages of the game become more and more complex.

The most important - fourth mission - presents the first monument found in the game, the Mastaba. It is not as impressive structure as the Temple of Aton, but it should prepare you well for the larger pyramid you will be building during the upcoming Playtests.



Currently, we are still working on a lot of bugs, so we've decided to use Base Builder Fest as a great opportunity to show you some of the Playtests' content and to collect information on other bugs that we really want to fix before the Open Playtests launch.

We hope that your feedback will help us identify all of the bugs that are present in the current build and we can run Open Playtests without any major problems.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/818520?beta=0

Stay tuned and see you soon Egyptian Builders!

--- Your Team from Strategy Labs ---

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Hey Everyone,

Hope your staying warm during these cold winter days. It feels great to be back to work on Medieval Kingdom Wars, and today we have a major update 37 for you - improving things across the board. New new features, improvements, polish and balancing,

This update includes another layer of performance improvements, lots of GUI improvements, long-requested info popups with stats for the world map, a lot of balancing polish. On top of that we have redesigned the auto-resolve system, improve a lot of translations, and did a huge rebalance of both combat and world map gameplay and stats.

Also please let us know on the forums if your having any issues you would like for us to focus on, or have balancing or other suggestions.

And now lets take a look at what this Major Update 37 has in store. Please keep in mind we are doing final testing on 3 big features/improvements listed at the top of the list. They will be released tomorrow is a follow up update.

• New cinematic camera on the world map when entering towns or battles will zoom in on the action (disabled until tomorrow)
  
• Major visual GUI improvements to chancellor window – lord and king portraits will not flash (disabled until tomorrow)
  
• Visual GUI improvements to world map GUI – unit portraits will not flash when using town or army GUI (disabled until tomorrow)
  
• Fixed a number of rare crashes during combat
  
• Decreased loading time for entering towns or hamlets
  
• Major improvement to tutorial, fixed various places player could get stuck
  
• Reworked world map tutorial chapter 3 to make it a lot easier to get through
  
• Controlling allied or your kingdom armies can be activated with double left click on the world map
  
• Translated some of the newly added text to all 6 supported languages
  
• Improved Russian translation of the game
  
• Mouse over each resource on the world map counters now gives complete breakdown of various categories adding or consuming each resource
  
• Kingdoms name is now shown on the world map army and town interface – so player can easily figure out who certain army or town belongs to
  
• Towns now show text on wall control points – making them easy to find, especially for new players
  
• Full rebalance of the Auto-resolve to make it work a lot better and be a lot more realistic
  
• Auto-resolve will now often leave units wounded but not dead
  
• All in all a lot of performance and video card usage improvements
  
• Re-enabled used of cheat codes.
  
• To use cheats Press F7 or open chat window (Enter key does it as well), and type in /food or /wood or /stone or /silver to get 5000 of that resources added (up to the storage capacity)
  
• Using cheat codes adds cheater tag to the campaign they are used on
  
• Campaigns marked as cheaters will not earn Steam achievements
  
• Chill Mode check-mark stay checked on create new campaign screen when scrolling through kingdoms
  
• Fixed a big balancing issue where siege equipment would produce wood, instead of consuming it for upkeep
  
• Major rebalance of many world map stats and gameplay
  
• Major rebalance of combat and relations between units
  
• Fixed several translation bugs with unit and nation names
  
• Greater Worlds Portuguese translation now fully complete
  
• Fixed various bugs with camera controls not operating correctly
  
• Fix rare issue with camera jumping across the map
  
• Fix issue with loosing controls of units in some situations and having to reload scenario

Hey Space Travelers!

We’re happy to announce the first major Stardeus update since its launch to Early Access. Although it’s centered around Derelict Ships, there’s so much more to it that we’re going to dig into.

Existing saves will work but may feel off-balance. So if you haven't played for a while or got to the late game, it's a great time to start a brand new Wrecked scenario and experience the refreshed and rebalanced version of the gameplay.

If you want a quick (but incomplete) tour of the new features, check out this video:



Derelict ships were the most voted feature, and it was the main focus of development for the last couple of months. Here’s how it works.

Once you start a new game with the Wrecked scenario, you’ll notice a wrecked ship in the background.



Once you restore your ship to a point where it can move, you will be able to approach the derelict. A new quest will guide you through the procedure.

It will spawn in your game map once you do it. Then it’s up to you to choose what you want to do with it - reel it in and attach it to your ship, scrap it for raw materials, or just grab the valuables and abandon the rest.



You will encounter more derelicts during your adventure. Each derelict ship will be procedurally generated using one of a dozen templates, and it may or may not trigger various events.

As with almost anything in Stardeus, Derelict Ships are moddable, and new generation templates can be added through Steam Workshop.


You have been asking for an advanced winch, and for a way to recenter the ship on the map. Precision Thrusters will allow you to do both! It works like this:



Once you unlock Local Maneuvering in the Research Tree or perhaps scavenge a set of Precision Thrusters from a derelict ship, you will be able to plug them into a power source and let them recharge. Once the charge is full, select the thruster, go to the Engine UI, and use the controls to push the section (or the whole ship!) with high precision.



You can use this tool to attach derelict ships, recenter your ship, and even evade incoming asteroids or breach capsules. The thruster will have to recharge to be usable again.

Oh, and Precision Thruster devices also serve as conventional ship engines!


Finding the required resources was a bit of a hassle before. You would fly from planet to planet with hopes of finding that precious Oil or Uranium deposit. You could use Probes, but they are single use, and not available early on when you need certain resources the most. Now once you have a Radar, you can actively scan the surroundings for specific resources of your choice!

And it gets better, when System Scanning is unlocked, you can also search for derelict ships and planets with anomalies.



Finally, Starmap will now display informational icons next to identified and visited space objects. You will no longer have to rename planets to mark them as fully harvested, that information will be available at a glance!




At its core, Stardeus is a base ship-building game. There were a bunch of improvements added since the launch to make this aspect more pleasant. Let’s take a look at some of it.




Yes, now when a meteor shower harms your grand design, the destroyed parts will automatically create tasks to rebuild anything that was destroyed. You may want to adjust the rebuild task priority afterward, so as to not interfere with other tasks too much, it will be the lowest by default (1 out of 9). TIP: Hold Shift and click+drag the priority adjustment tool to set the task priority to the maximum for multiple tasks. Holding Ctrl will set it to the minimum.




Sometimes starting with a nice ship design is all you need. You can now preview what ship you will get before starting a new game. The Wrecked scenario will deal significantly heavy damage to that ship, but it should still be recognizable.




Before the starting ship gets wrecked, the game will capture a detailed ship layout plan. You can choose to rebuild your ship the way it was before it got wrecked, or scrap the plan and make one of your own.


You were asking for Factorio-style templates (blueprints). This is a big task, but here’s a “poor man’s” version of it. You can select multiple objects and then move or copy the whole selection.

Choose “Relocate” or press O to relocate the whole selection:



Choose “Build a Copy” or press B to order building a copy of the selected objects:






There may be situations where you will want to abandon a few sections of your wreckage or leave a crawler-infested derelict ship behind. You can do it in Sections overlay with a click of a button.


Adding more types of devices, materials and species wasn’t the main focus, so it’s not much, but it’s honest work. This screenshot contains most of the items that were added within the last 3 months:

• Quantum Ship Computer - more powerful, and 3x3 for perfect symmetry
  
• Freezer - large version of the Refrigerator
  
• Small and Large Pantry - for storing raw ingredients
  
• Rubber Tree - for producing natural rubber
  
• Caoutchouc - natural rubber
  
• Leather - don’t ask where it comes from
  
• Leather Sofa and Armchair - for putting that Leather to use
  
• Orbotron - a powerful drone from the Virus faction
  
• System Scanner - an advanced version of the Radar
  
• Floor Vent - don’t open it when someone is walking above
  
• Auto Pilot Upgrade - because humans can’t be trusted
  
• Memory Compression Upgrade - for having less Memory Modules
  
• Jukebox - for your colonists to dance (and leave their Starcreds) at
  
• Reinforced Vent and Wall Socket - for more resilience and consistent looks

In addition to everything above, there were hundreds of small changes, QoL, UI, balance improvements, and bug fixes.

This is it! Keep an eye out for the new feature voting round, as it will be the time to recast your votes on the refreshed version of the roadmap!

The full changelog: https://stardeusgame.com/changelog
Search for v0.6.103 (2022.10.11) and scroll up to read through what exactly has been done since the game was released to Early Access. It will be a long scroll.

• Official Website: https://stardeusgame.com
  
• Join Stardeus Discord
  
• /r/stardeus on Reddit
  
• @StardeusGame on Twitter
  
• @dev_spajus on Twitter
  
• dev_spajus on Twitch (live development streams)

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• Added 2 more playable stations.
  
• You can now build more than one station.
  
• Each station has different stats and limitations.
  
• Every station is fully simulated even if you are not managing them.

• Reputation system has been reworked, now requiring more tasks to be completed to level up.
  
• The overview panel has been completely reworked to show a lot more information in a more neatly categorised way.
  
• Employee system has been reworked to work with multiple station support.
  
• Billboard system has been reworked. It is now much more intuitive with its own panel.
  
• Customer thought system has been reworked to provide more accurate feedback.
  
• Station policies have been partially changed to work with multiple station support.

• The galaxy map is no longer limited by a grid system.
  
• Added parallax effect and some neat shaders to make the galaxy look more beautiful than ever.
  
• Building jump gates are much easier and more understandable with the new drag-and-drop system.
  
• Ships moving across the jump gates are now visible.
  
• Removed the jump gate connection mode because it is no longer needed.

• Every customer is fully simulated across the galaxy, no matter which station you are managing at the moment.
  
• Every single event is fully simulated even if you are away.
  
• Every customer is trackable from the moment they leave their home system, to the moment they leave your station.

• Electricity can now be stored in batteries.
  
• Electricity now needs to be connected manually in the new electricity connection mode.
  
• New building: Simple Battery.
  
• New building: Advanced Battery.
  
• New building: Electricity Distributor.

• Customers now have gradually increasing needs.
  
• Customer types are determined by a complex system influenced by many things, such as the home system of the customers.

• The UI has been reworked.
  
• Widescreen support is here.
  
• Pleasing the customers from a city/system will increase your relationship with that authority.
  
• High relationship authorities will gradually send more customers.
  
• Space missions have been temporarily removed. Rework is still in progress.
  
• Stations now receive customers from time to time even when they're not connected to any city/system.
  
• Most buildings have been rebalanced.
  
• Research tree has been modified to work with the multiple stations.
  
• Less notification spam.
  
• Parks and temples now increase the attractiveness of the surrounding buildings.
  
• Language support has been temporarily removed due to increased development times. They will be reintroduced very very soon.
  
• Items have been removed.
  
• Stock trading has been removed.
  
• Marketing campaigns have been removed. Marketing now works through broadcast buildings.

Hello everyone! New content update is now live! It features:

Stairs between different terrain levels. More ways to build your castle!



Building ruins. Now you can restore destroyed parts of your city more conveniently.



UI improvements. Better looks and more functions. Now you can 1-click upgrade, repair or destroy buildings. Also it gives us more space to add a lot of new decorations.



New Tutorial. We reworked the tutorial from scratch. It now goes in detail on how to use different game mechanics and is generally more useful to learn from. We will expand it in the coming days.



Visual upgrades for all buildings. We added missing visual upgrades for already existing buildings.



Also some bugs were fixed and pathfinding speed was improved.

We still have some ideas that we did not have enough time to implement before base builder fest. So in the coming weeks we will gradually release small content updates.

Let us know what you think in the comments!

We are happy to announce that all the required systems created on the Midway Branch are ready to be transferred to the Main Branch. After 50 patches in the Midway Branch, the save system, AI navigation system, level streamable mission system, and all version adjustment systems are ready for the transfer.

With this patch, Main Branch will take over Midway Branch (Until heavy-duty testing is required Midway Branch won't be used anymore).

If everything will go as smoothly as we hope and patch merging won't provide any problems, in a week, we will be releasing another patch which will be 0.2.0.

All saved files made on Midway Branch will adjust themselves to the Main branch, restarting player progression is NOT required. (Old Main Branch saves should also adjust themselves for the new patch version, the player is required to load the save through the legacy system and just create a new save).



With this patch we are also adding a new game feature and item, P.G.E (Portable Geological Extraction) from now on players will be able to not only use Ore Extractors to extract ore or minerals from the underground veins but also find and extract a small ore/mineral clusters usually found in caves, close to ore veins and near rock formations.



This should help balance out the early game and provide a safer way for players to gather minerals without worrying about power consumption.

Although still not fully ready we can already show the Monotrain that will be used by the player to travel between the levels, the train is already in the game but until the release of 0.2.0, it's unusable.



We are also moving our Roadmap, to our main official website, this roadmap will be updated based on the player feedback and content priority, but it will represent what we want to achieve in different stages of Penkura development. Of course, any questions related to the roadmap can be asked here on Steam or in our official Discord Channel (we are always happy to answer any questions related to the future of the project).



Lastly, we want to inform you that with this patch we are introducing the last major improvement to the save system, from now on we the developers will be able to adjust items, NPC, and even structure positions that players already interacted with and saved data in.
In short, we can redesign entire bases and massive content locations without the need for players to start the game from scratch, this is a key feature that will allow us to release patches more frequently without worrying about breaking players' saves.

We want to thank each and every player that helped us find bugs and errors in the Midway Branch. Even though the community is not big, we are happy that it is of the highest quality.

And as always, for more information regarding the latest technical support, patches, and updates please join our Discord Community.

LINK ----> https://discord.gg/2ukYHQm

Till the next Dev-Com over and out.

Penkura Main Branch Adjustment
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⊞ Bugs/Errors ⊞
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◈ 50 patches worth of bug and error fixes.

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◈ Fix for player suit material not changing when taking over the bot.

◈ Doors UI didn't activate their visual effect on use.

◈ Temple Sphere didn't have a proper name.

◈ Player was able to see himself when using interactable objects very close to the screen.

◈ Fixed minor spelling errors.

◈ Player snapped back to the previous position after using the keypad.

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⊞ Improvements / changes / additions ⊞
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◈ 50 patches worth of Improvements changes and additions.

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◈ When activating Lazarus player will be kicked out of the screen rather than be forced to wait until the animation is finished.

◈ From now on, the player is able to use his keyboard to type on the Keypads.

◈ Added new item to the game (P.G.E)

◈ P.G.E added to blueprint materialization list.

◈ Player is now able to extract ore from caves, rock formations, and some parts of Ore Veins.

◈ Bot will now provide an additional signal when returning to the base or turning off.

◈ Improved camera field of view to minimize glitches related to player eyes seeing through some of the walls.

◈ Ore Clusters added to the game level.

◈ Mineral Clusters added to the game level.