Developer Ipsquiggle Posted April 29, 2021 Developer Share Posted April 29, 2021 Hi space friends! Temperatures are rising, baby Hatches are frolicking, and the musky smell of blossoming Dusk Caps is alight in the air… Either it's springtime, or the testing of Plant Mutations has begun! Plant Mutations are a brand new feature that integrates radiation with farming gameplay. There are now several strains of mutant seed that crop plants can drop when grown in radiation. Once analyzed at the new Botanical Analyzer, plants grown from these seeds will offer new trade-offs or efficiencies for your farms. Please let us know what you think and if you discover any issues as the system is still pretty rough and has plenty of room to grow! There's a notable change to the conduction model of the Research Reactor resulting from a bug fix, so keep an eye out for updated tuning. There's also updated Rocket Port artwork, more worldgen tweaks (though nothing that should require a restart), as well as new and updated Codex entries. We really appreciate your bug reports and love reading your thoughts, so thank you for taking the time to post in these forums and elsewhere. What does this testing branch contain so far? Here are the changes we've made so far in this update, loosely categorized: Spoiler Features Plant Mutation system allows specialized crop development Exposing plants to radiation causes them to drop mutant seeds Botanical Analyzer building will identify the traits of mutant seeds Plant mutant crops for new tradeoffs and optimizations Updated Codex entries, descriptions and lore New plants Cryotank Radiation biome Added Mud & Toxic Mud ambiences Added sounds for Mud falling, landing and Dupe movement on Mud New artwork for the Rocket Port Loaders Changes and Improvements Experimental: Allow temperature transfer of small ores less than 10 grams Updated the Gassy Moo meteor artwork and impact animation Added low coolant diagnostic criteria to Research Reactor Research Reactor Fixed issue with inconsistent coolant/reaction mass conduction Enriched Uranium mass target increased 20x Increased coolant/reaction mass conduction scale 5x Meltdown temperature increased to 3000k Added new meltdown animations Fixed issue with temperature meter Increased meltdown projectile mass Bug Fixes Fixed closing tag for Forest Moonlet string (for translations) Fixed a world gen issue where the Frozen Slush subworld was unable to generate the proper geysers in some forest starts Fixed failing to switch worlds after using dev debug Fix animations rendering outside of the world Plant sorting was broken on the planter box sidescreen, now the crops are consistently ordered Moved uranium materials further in the build materials list Fixed crash when dead Duplicant is hit by a Radbolt Fixed issue where buildings with solid parts like the Solar Panel and Fish Feeder would leave behind a "ghost floor." What is open testing? "Open testing" means players get to test-drive new content early and give us feedback and suggestions before it goes live. Because this is an unfinished and in active development version of the game, it's pretty likely you'll encounter bugs, crashes or balance issues while playing these builds. We'll try to fix any problems that crop up as quickly as we can, but it's possible you'll lose progress in your games while playing on the Testing branch. Regarding performance, the Testing branch has additional debugging tools enabled to help us track down crashes. This makes the game run more slowly than the live version of the game. Please also be aware that once a save is loaded in the Testing branch, it cannot be reopened again in the previous Live branch or previous builds. What do I do if I find a crash or a bug? Post it up on the Bug Tracker and we'll fix it as soon as we can. If you can attach a copy of your save file to your report, that helps us even more as we can pinpoint the source of problem more quickly. Do I have to play the open testing build? Nope! If you'd prefer to only play a stable build, you can continue to play in the current Default branch until the game launches in full. Playing the Open Testing build isn't necessary, but it helps us a lot to receive your feedback and reports - if you're interested, try it out! How do I become an open tester? There's no sign up or registration for becoming an open tester. If you own Oxygen Not Included plus the Spaced Out! DLC and want to join the Testing Branch, all you have to do is play the Open Testing build on Steam. How do I play the open testing build? You can switch your branch on Steam using the instructions below: Spoiler How to change branches in Oxygen Not Included (Steam) You must own the Spaced Out! DLC In Steam, click on Library > Games. Scroll down to Oxygen Not Included. Right-click and select Properties. Go to the BETAS tab. In the dropdown, select the name of the branch you want to play. In this case, the branch name is "public_testing" This branch does not require a password. In that same Properties window, go to the Local Files tab and press "Verify Integrity Of Game Cache." Your game will be updated to the the previous branch. Launch and play Oxygen Not Included View full update 11 4 1 1 1 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yunru Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 19 minutes ago, Ipsquiggle said: Please let us know what you think I think my laptop is going to hate you for how hard I'll be running it this next week. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marioespinho Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 Seriously, you guys do this on purpose right? everytime i tell myself i'm gonna take a couple of weeks off ONI, you release something that make me jump back in and restart a colony. Damn you KLEI !!! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crbd115 Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 27 minutes ago, Ipsquiggle said: There are now several strains of mutant seed that crop plants can drop when grown in radiation So what I'm thinking is shinebugs in all your farms now in addition to the sweetles and grubgrubs . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian.oni Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 31 minutes ago, Ipsquiggle said: plenty of room to grow 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SackMaggie Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 Alright here we go! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minespatch Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 @watermelen671, new lore. 48 minutes ago, Ipsquiggle said: Updated the Gassy Moo meteor artwork and impact animation Say what? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghkbrew Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 54 minutes ago, Ipsquiggle said: Research Reactor Fixed issue with inconsistent coolant/reaction mass conduction Enriched Uranium mass target increased 20x Increased coolant/reaction mass conduction scale 5x Meltdown temperature increased to 3000k Added new meltdown animations Fixed issue with temperature meter Increased meltdown projectile mass Nice. Time to test some new reactor designs. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magheat2009 Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Ipsquiggle said: Meltdown temperature increased to 3000k Wait a minute... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technoincubus Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonEmpire Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 2 hours ago, crbd115 said: So what I'm thinking is shinebugs in all your farms now in addition to the sweetles and grubgrubs . except for the plants that grow in the dark only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zach123b Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 are the mutant plants suppose to drop seeds? i haven't had one (licey thimble reed) drop any seeds after 10+ harvests with a 17 agriculture dupe and what's up with every variation requiring 25rads/cycle? some are OP and it makes sense but some variations are a lackluster with that 25 rads/cycle requirement. the chance of getting a strange seed is really low too, any chance for a little better chance? awesome update though! loving the mutant plants, just wish they were easier to use for the weaker variants 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_t_p Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 looks good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crbd115 Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, RonEmpire said: except for the plants that grow in the dark only True, probably why they show a wheeze wort next to the mushrooms. 37 minutes ago, zach123b said: are the mutant plants suppose to drop seeds? i haven't had one (licey thimble reed) drop any seeds after 10+ harvests with a 17 agriculture dupe and what's up with every variation requiring 25rads/cycle? some are OP and it makes sense but some variations are a lackluster with that 25 rads/cycle requirement. the chance of getting a strange seed is really low too, any chance for a little better chance? awesome update though! loving the mutant plants, just wish they were easier to use for the weaker variants Maybe eventually they make the blooming one release floral scent. Maybe they could remove the radiation need from blooming and replace it with just light? Since it doesn't do as much, or if they added the floral scent maybe it would be worth the radiation need for the stress reduction?As a side idea maybe mutations would change the temp requirements for plants, or even the atmosphere requirements? Edited April 29, 2021 by crbd115 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zach123b Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 20 minutes ago, crbd115 said: As a side idea maybe mutations would change the temp requirements for plants, or even the atmosphere requirements? some variations make the temp range smaller/larger like this one. i'm at 8 variations plus the original. 2 of them change the temp requirements 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasza22 Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 I wonder what would be the best way to keep the plants radiated. Does nuclear waste spread radiation around pipes when pumped around? If so i could see it as a system to keep the plants growing and doubling up as temperature control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nessumo Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 @zach123b can you please contribute your findings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pether Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 How often do you see mutated plants? I made several farms, have Wheezeworts everywhere, but I saw nothing so far... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crbd115 Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 This seems like a really cool feature so far. Can't wait to see what else is in store if this is day one of this update. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sakura_sk Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 7 minutes ago, pether said: How often do you see mutated plants? Not too often. I think the wheezewort is a must for the mutated plants, not the original ones (or maybe not...?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nessumo Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 23 minutes ago, sakura_sk said: Not too often. I think the wheezewort is a must for the mutated plants, not the original ones (or maybe not...?) I am using shine bugs, but... got two crashes, possibly at the moment strange seed is delivered to the research station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pether Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, nessumo said: I am using shine bugs, but... got two crashes, possibly at the moment strange seed is delivered to the research station. Please be awared that some mods my not work correctly with the changes. The one I am aware of is "Rooms Expanded" but they can be other as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nessumo Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 1 minute ago, pether said: Please be awared that some mods my not work correctly with the changes. The one I am aware of is "Rooms Expanded" but they can be other as well Yup, I guess that's the problem. I'll check if I can reproduce this without mods tomorrow maybe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pether Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 Spoiler Yay, I got easygoing Bog Bucket! However I don't see graphic changes, is that OK @Ipsquiggle ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sakura_sk Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 12 minutes ago, nessumo said: but... got two crashes I had a crash but I blame germs for that... probably.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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