[Game Update] The Prehistoric Planet Pack DLC - 671500 & 671603

[JarrettM]

671500

Changes and Improvements

• All versions
  • Added Dasha Saltvine seed to care packages.
  • Added a new Medicines category and entries to the database.
  • Added new tile texture for Brine Ice.
• The Bionic Booster Pack
  • Bionic Duplicants will choose to breathe atmosphere rather than suffocate on a too-long journey to fetch an oxygen tank.
• The Prehistoric Planet Pack
  • Rhex and Lumb can now drink from the Critter Fountain and use the Critter Condo.
  • Jawbo can now use the Water Fort. Animation is not finalized.
  • Added max health on Demolior's notification tooltip when hovered.
  • Tender Brisket and Smoked Fish now contribute to fulfilling the Carnivore achievement.
  • Color adjustment of Rhex Baby.
  • Minor visual tweaks to Dartle & Rhex eggs.
  • Dewdrip art adjustment.
  • Added explosion effects in Demolior Impact sequence whenever it destroys cells or buildings.
  • Spiced up Demolior's impact: geysers will now erupt when the impactor asteroid collision occurs.
  • Some minor tweaks to a few mustache drawings on Higby's mouth.
  • Changed visual growth states for the Dew Dripper plant.
  • Hooked up new journal lore entries.
  • Ovagro
    • Added Buried Ovagro Node seeds to worldgen.
    • Ovagro vines now show "Growing Fruit %" when the vine body is fully grown and it’s growing fruits.
    • Adjusted the offset UI Bars in the Farming overlay for Ovagro Vines so that they are easier to associate with the correct vine.
    • The notification "Plants have died" will now only play on domesticated Ovagro Vines that die without being uprooted.
  • Disabled Spaced Out! map explosion animation for Intracosmic Blastshot to prevent crashes for now.

Fixes

• All versions
  • Fixed a crash caused by canceling a build with a previous pending uproot errand.
  • Fixed Shine Bugs not consuming anything.
  • Fixed large critters interacting with the Critter Condo from the correct location.
• The Bionic Booster Pack
  • The Lubrication Station's description now mentions Gear Oil as its input, rather than listing only Phyto Oil.
• The Frosty Planet Pack
  • Pikeapple substitution in the Berry Sludge recipe now takes comparable kcal input to Bristle Berry.
• The Prehistoric Planet Pack
  • Fixed an error where the Seakomb-to-Phyto Oil conversion rate was not 1:1 but 1:10.
  • Added missing Lumbs to the scrambled Garden biome and the Relica Fragment.
  • Fixed Complex Fabricators (e.g. Smoker, Electric Grill) not consuming edible ingredients.
  • Fixed a crash related to the background Demolior visual at the top of the world.
  • Fixed Oxygen Mask Docks requesting more than one oxygen mask.
  • Research Portal pop-up no longer shows text suggesting a new Database entry has been unlocked.
  • Fixed layering issue when spawning Blastshots and Intracosmic Blastshots.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when loading a save file in which Demolior had already been destroyed.
  • Slight adjustments to strings relating to Demolior, Seakomb, and Mimika.
  • “Blast Line of Defense” achievement is no longer shown on non-Prehistoric Planet Pack asteroids.
  • Fixed the Lumb and Lumblet's Critter Cargo Bay rocket module animations, which were not showing up in game.
  • Fixed a bug where fertilizing or pollinating Ovagro vines was increasing only the vine's growth, and not the growth of the fruit on that vine.
  • Fixed incorrect Ovagro Fig kcal in Effects panel when selecting the Ovagro Vine.
  • Fixed a bug in the Farming overlay where the progress bar representing growth for Ovagro vines was showing only the growth state of the vine’s body and not the growth state of the fruit on the vine.
  • Fixed a crash that occurred when deconstructing a building built on top of a plant in Sandbox Mode.
  • Fixed Mimikas not being wrangable or movable.
  • Fixed Gnits not being capturable at critter pick-ups.
  • Gnits can no longer be groomed.
  • Demolior's notification tooltip now refreshes while visible.
  • Fixed a visual glitch in the "Calculating Impact Zone" sequence.
  • Database
    • The Ovagro vine link in the Lumb's details panel now correctly links to the plant's database entry.
    • The Feather Biome description now correctly states that the Rhex's meat is too tough to be eaten raw, not the Dartle's.
    • The Ovagro database entry no longer implies that Ovagro could push out other plants.
    • The link to Feather Fiber in the Rhex's description now correctly links to the Feather Fiber database entry.
    • The Wetlands Biome's description now mentions only Polluted Water pools.
    • Added missing entry for Seakomb Leaf in the Industrial Ingredients category.

 

671603

• Fixed crash that could occur when launching the base game with PPP content.

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[Tigin]

Blast Line of Defense on Imminent Extinction difficulty just got a lot tougher with the reduction to the Seakomb-to-Phyto Oil conversion ratio. It'll be hard to get the 80 or so harvests with just seaweed now.

But on a bright note, here's a picture of a lumb stuffed in a critter cargo bay

[Carib94]

57 minutes ago, JarrettM said:

Fixed an error where the Seakomb-to-Phyto Oil conversion rate was not 1:1 but 1:10.

Wait WHAT!!! daaaaaaammmmmmm that was a bug. Destroying Demolier within 100 cycles just got tough BAD!! That mean you gotta start planting seaweed as soon as possible and start making them shots right away with no Delay.  And the Wetlands Biome tend to be farther out, then you gonna need Pyrotechnics 3 skill points. Honestly Boops FTW....

Edited May 28, 2025 by Carib94

[Curry MAMA]

Well, if you think about it logically, it's unnatural for 10kg of oil to come out of 1kg of kelp...

[imazined]

More importantly about the changes to seaweed it makes Biodiesel outside of the Demolinor challenge mostly uninteresting for many potential applications. 

I thought it was supposed to be an petroleum power alternative like ethanol cut with this conversion rate it's simply not usable. 

I guess it's back to the usual old builds for colonies on the outer asteroids. 

[Carib94]

13 minutes ago, imazined said:

More importantly about the changes to seaweed it makes Biodiesel outside of the Demolinor challenge mostly uninteresting for many potential applications. 

I thought it was supposed to be an petroleum power alternative like ethanol cut with this conversion rate it's simply not usable. 

I guess it's back to the usual old builds for colonies on the outer asteroids. 

Agreed kinda sad about it too. Biodiesel had potential to be decent alternative for power and tbh it still can be with more effort LOL, BUT Seaweed takes Polluted Dirt. Altho the Wetlands Biome do have a good amount of Polluted Dirt, it is pain to get it renewably and only renewable source is ethanol distillers and at the point why even use Biodiesel for power(unless feeding ethanol to Nosh or Squash).

With this change Besides the Last Defense Challenge, the Biodiesel is now reduce to just being gear oil for Boops and a source of Tallow which isnt bad but still.

[theldo123]

Darn, that Seakomb fix really hurts. Now it's hard to justify using. If polluted dirt was easy to get renewably and that can scale I'd be fine with this, but the only way to get polluted dirt in the quantities needed really is just "make the better petroleum generator liquid" in ethanol. 

And biodiesel also costs bleach stone! I think that this will be an excessive nerf. I could see increasing the efficiency a little bit so biodiesel isn't a pain, something like 30-50kg of leaf to 100kg of phyto oil, but 100kg -> 100kg is way too little without making the seakomb much cheaper to grow.

[JarrettM]

Added 671603 to this thread, which fixes a crash in the base game.

[Primalflower]

Can there be some kind of compromise met with seakomb? I liked the state it was in before the change and i would be willing to maybe sacrifice some other element alongside seakomb to make phyto oil, it just kind of sucks that there was this interesting thing and now it is not as compelling.

[fullerfamily]

I suggest you tone down the sweetcorn/smoker. Food is way too easy.

[Electroely]

I think the output of the Seakomb plant needs to be increased significantly. 10kg/cycle of polluted dirt for 10kg/cycle of Phyto Oil is way too small of an amount, especially taking into consideration how hard it is to renew polluted dirt (and how you'd just be producing another combustible liquid through that process in the first place)

This is especially relevant for the Demolior - you need 9600kg of biodeisel, which takes 7680kg phyto oil. For a single plant to grow that much, it took 76.8 cycles before, but now it's 768 cycles. Even with 10 plants - and my planet did NOT generate with 10 seakomb plants - that would still be 77 cycles of sitting there and waiting for seakombs to grow. 
The 1:1 conversion rate for polluted dirt to phyto oil (on top of having to produce bleach stone using salt & chlorine or brine ice) makes using it as a power source very convoluted and not at all worthwhile to me.

Perhaps increasing the growth rate or amount produced so that it produces 50kg/cycle of seakomb for 10kg/cycle of polluted dirt would be good.

[PHG]

Hopefully they add Bristle Blossom seeds to the Printing Pod pools as well - currently it's the same as Mealwood as it doesn't shoe up after X cycles and only when you discover it - which is never in PPP!

[goboking]

3 hours ago, Tigin said:

But on a bright note, here's a picture of a lumb stuffed in a critter cargo bay

That ain’t right.  Klei, bring back the full sized critter cargo modules from vanilla. 

[kurosolo]

For now, the duration of Rhexes' "Well Ate" buff and the mass of brine ice they excrete is always related to the mass of the critter they prey on, not the amount of meat they swallow, or how hungry they are.

Example : When any Rhex preyed on a bammini (400 kg), it always gives 400 kg of brine ice, and gains a 32-cycle "Well Ate" buff.

Also the amount of meat they take in seems not accurate: A starving Rhex should take in 8000 kcal of meat, however it spit out 15400 kcal when preying on the bammini with 22400 kcal (in other words, only 7000 kcal of meat is swallowed).

Edited May 28, 2025 by kurosolo
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[BezKa]

9 hours ago, JarrettM said:

Added Dasha Saltvine seed to care packages.

THANK YOU!!!

5 hours ago, PHG said:

Hopefully they add Bristle Blossom seeds to the Printing Pod pools as well - currently it's the same as Mealwood as it doesn't shoe up after X cycles and only when you discover it - which is never in PPP!

All undiscovered stuff shows up in the printing pod after 500 cycles i believe- if you play long-term worlds, you'll get the seeds eventually

[PHG]

2 minutes ago, BezKa said:

THANK YOU!!!

All undiscovered stuff shows up in the printing pod after 500 cycles i believe- if you play long-term worlds, you'll get the seeds eventually

It doesn't. Mealwood and Blossom Seeds do not show up after 500 Cycles. This is exactly why they're adding Mealwood Seeds to the pool, but they seemingly forgot about Blossom Seeds.

[BezKa]

36 minutes ago, PHG said:

It doesn't. Mealwood and Blossom Seeds do not show up after 500 Cycles. This is exactly why they're adding Mealwood Seeds to the pool, but they seemingly forgot about Blossom Seeds.

They did show up for me on my Ceres playthrough, but I cannot 100% confirm if I had a way to discover them there so I'll leave that one to code diggers/devs

[kurosolo]

10 hours ago, JarrettM said:

Spiced up Demolior's impact: geysers will now erupt when the impactor asteroid collision occurs.

 

Guess the geysers are just set to be active but will not necessarily erupt at the moment. Here's the example.

UPDATE: Those geysers just forget the demolior thing and return to their normal period after reloading the game.

Edited May 28, 2025 by kurosolo

[PHG]

Would be nice if we got more higher-quality foods using the Tough equivalent of Meat and Fillets! They're accessible early on Relica so their simple cooked forms can't be that high, but since they're pretty hard to mass produce for multiple dupes...maybe a Tough Meat equivalent of Surf n' Turf with Quality 5?

 

Maybe even take this chance to expand on Saturn Critter Traps and make a new Quality 6 Food that requires both Tough meats + Plant Meat...the possibilities with food are endless!

[mitboy]

 

11 hours ago, Electroely said:

 

Perhaps increasing the growth rate or amount produced so that it produces 50kg/cycle of seakomb for 10kg/cycle of polluted dirt would be good.

Well, I hope in that case it also also require something like 40kg/cycle of polluted water. 

[imazined]

4 hours ago, kurosolo said:

Guess the geysers are just set to be active but will not necessarily erupt at the moment. Here's the example.

UPDATE: Those geysers just forget the demolior thing and return to their normal period after reloading the game.

Maybe Demolior could also uncap all geysers

[kurosolo]

30 minutes ago, imazined said:

Maybe Demolior could also uncap all geysers

yes, they seem to be uncapped one by one.

[ALCRD]

17 hours ago, Tigin said:

Blast Line of Defense on Imminent Extinction difficulty just got a lot tougher with the reduction to the Seakomb-to-Phyto Oil conversion ratio. It'll be hard to get the 80 or so harvests with just seaweed now.

But on a bright note, here's a picture of a lumb stuffed in a critter cargo bay

Same vibe:

[Gurgel]

18 hours ago, Carib94 said:

Wait WHAT!!! daaaaaaammmmmmm that was a bug. Destroying Demolier within 100 cycles just got tough BAD!! That mean you gotta start planting seaweed as soon as possible and start making them shots right away with no Delay.  And the Wetlands Biome tend to be farther out, then you gonna need Pyrotechnics 3 skill points. Honestly Boops FTW....

I pretty much had 10x the seaweed needed when I destroyed Demolier at cycle 175 or so. You just need to farm it and that is not hard to do. 

[purpleposeidon]

If a Jawbo Fillet is "edible, but just barely" why is its quality Good [+3]?

The "Blast Line of Defense" achievement didn't unlock.

There are still broken links & missing entries in the Database. You should scan it at startup and show a message of what's missing; it is a simple function to implement. The scan should include links from the contents of the properties menu in addition to the "View full entry in database" button, as well as recursively the entries themselves.

I tried a 100-cycle impact (admittedly pre-Seakomb fix) and found it more tedious than challenging. On this playthrough the asteroid spawned at the temporal tear. Lucky.

I've been trying to think of some way to have the asteroid have regenerating health, and for the blastshot to delay the thing, so that farming it could be possible. But I don't think it can be done.