[Game Update] - Public Testing - 732169

[JarrettM]

Changes and Improvements

• All versions
  • Hydroponic Farm Tiles no longer require liquid conduits if the configured plant doesn’t require irrigation.
  • Illuminated Algae chunks will now produce Oxygen bubbles only in Brine, Polluted Brine, Salt Water, Polluted Water, and Water.
  • Duplicants exhaling underwater will now do so in the form of bubbles.
  • Buildings
    • Algae Terrariums will expel Oxygen in the form of bubbles if submerged
    • Fish Release is now sized 3x1 instead of 2x1 to match the Fish Feeder and Fish Pick-Up.
    • Fish Feeder and Aquatic Critter Fountain are now submergible.
    • Fish Release now works when submerged.
    • Fish Pick-Up now works when submerged.
  • Updated Plastic Gasket artwork.
  • Buildings that use Gaskets in their construction material will amass 50kg per used gasket, instead of 1kg.
  • Added art for Frozen Squid Ink.
• The Aquatic Planet Pack
  • Finding Minnow imperative
    • Updated popup artwork.
    • Printing Pod sidescreen now specifies what needs to be done for each quest.
  • Adjusted line thickness of new asteroids.
  • Added more swimming-specific versions of reaction animations.
  • Airflow Tiles now allow light to pass through them.
  • Moved the Rubber Gasket in the beach chair POI into the water.
  • Underwater Shearing Station now drops the ore chunk after shearing, instead of storing it.
  • Critters
    • Pokeshells and Oakshells now drop 1200kcal of Raw Shellfish on death.
    • Updated artwork on Pacu Treat.
    • Updated Rubber Boots visuals when worn.
    • Significantly reduced Mucin output for Slogo and Gildgo.
    • Added DLC materials to Hatch diets (Hatch: Siltstone, Coquina, Sage: Corallium, Polluted Mud, Stone: Basalt)
    • Pips can now eat Gum Palms.
    • Added Pokeshell and Slogo molts to Sandbox menu.
    • Changed the wilt states of the Clampum to be "shell open" rather than closed.
    • Jawbo can now eat Blowters and Beakons.
    • Reduced Beakon Egg mass and kcal yield.
    • Beakon Eggs no longer drop Egg Shells.
  • Plants
    • Aquatic plants that accepted Polluted Water atmosphere now also accept Polluted Brine. This affects Petta Pouf, Flue Coral, and Clampum.
    • Tublia can now be irrigated with Brine.
  • Hooked up Divemaster hat.
  • Added unique artwork for Rubber Gasket.
  • The Crop Tending Booster now grants the skill perk required to open Clampums.
  • Added Gum Palm Seed care package.
  • Minor revisions to Aquatic Shearing Station artwork.
  • Information
    • Beakon critter's description and database entry now include their habit of consuming oxygen for entertainment.
    • Basic Swimming skill now includes mention of increased resistance to Eye Irritation while in liquid.
    • Removed unnecessary spaces in some strings.
    • Fixed typos in the Slogo Baby strings.
    • Renamed Palm Seed to Gum Palm Seed.
    • The Desiccation status item for Slogos is now called Shriveling Up.
    • Renamed Frozen Ink to Frozen Squid Ink.
    • Changed the asteroid imperative side screen text.
    • Added info about Sulfur build-up to Thermal Gas Fissure's description and hovercard.

Fixes

• All versions
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes liquids adjacent to solid tiles could cause some transparent shades to appear on doors adjacent to those tiles, even if the doors were not touching the liquids.
  • Fixed a bug where the Deconstruct tool filters were not being remembered after closing the tool.
  • Bubbles will no longer render in the germ overlay.
  • Fixed VYaml incorrectly loading yamls from mods.
  • Likely fix for a pathfinding crash.
  • 0kcal ingredients such as Caviar now display their unit amount in Printing Pod offers instead.
  • Fixed Sushi Bar audio issues.
• The Aquatic Planet Pack
  • The Waterlogged stamina penalty now correctly affects Duplicants in liquids.
  • Fixed crash hovering over Well Fed status item on Orehull.
  • Fixed constipation in Blowters, Squids, and Orehulls. They now poop on a more regular basis.
  • Improved aquatic asteroid mixing.
  • Slogo and Gildgo can now be fed using the Critter Feeder.
  • Fixed a bug where placing a Wide Hydroponic Farm overlapping two other yet-to-be-built Wide Hydroponic Farms was allowed, and caused a crash on completion.
  • The Tattered Beach Chair is no longer in the codex as a unique building; instead it points to the regular buildable Beach Chair.
  • Fixed Rubber Boots' primary element being Carbon Dioxide.
  • Sealed and insulated the Aquatic Milking Station to prevent Squid Ink from boiling out.
  • Fixed a broken link in the Tidal Turbine description.
  • Slogo shells are now stackable and compostable.
  • Fixed a crash when a Slogo was hatched in an Incubator.
  • Petta Pouf plants behave more consistently with other aquatic plant requirements.
  • Slogos can now use the critter fountains.
  • Husha Cups now count for the Great Hall requirement.
  • The elusive Slogo Molt is no longer invisible.
  • Polluted Brine is now a polluting atmosphere for food. Foods that are left in this atmosphere will now rot faster.
  • Removed red light from the Mining Lamp ceiling light cosmetic blueprint that was used to test the new colored lights skin option.
  • Calamari and Uni now count for the Carnivore colony achievement.
  • Sushi Bar recipes now count for the It's Not Raw colony achievement.
  • Hatching a Gildgo now counts for the Good Egg colony achievement.
  • Fixed Pips planting large-plant seeds in small farm tiles and planting small-plant seeds in large farm tiles.
  • Fixed a bug where the Marine Drill was able to mine the Thermal Gas Fissure with any amount of Diamond.
  • Fixed the Gildgo Molt recipe description at the Rock Crusher.
  • Fixed a bug where the Wall Planter was not able to be prioritized.
  • Vulcanizer building is now 3x3 and matches the art size.

Modding

• Added an obsolete overload of the old BuildingFacadeResource constructor, allowing mods to continue working that used it.

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[Tigin]

These wretched pips can still plant in flower pots! 

 

• Snail mucus rate reduced to 15kg+15kg (from 20kg+150kg)
• 1 domestic gum palm can support 2.5 pips
• Beakon egg is now 1200kcal raw egg (from 3200kcal)

Edited Tuesday at 11:17 PM by Tigin

[GuyPerfect]

27 minutes ago, JarrettM said:

• Sushi Bar recipes now count for the It's Not Raw colony achievement.

 

I think that you will find, it is in fact raw.

 

 

 

(Thanks to von_skeedle on Discord for noticing this)

[JRup]

27 minutes ago, Tigin said:

These wretched pips can still plant in flower pots! 

Don't ruin the fun for the rest of us, Stahp! 

[Sebastiangperez]

More Gum Wood plants on starting asteroid, nice for the care package, this will work with saved games? 

Nice that  AirFlow Tiles passes Light now. 

 

[StarvingAngler]

3 hours ago, JarrettM said:

Fixed constipation

 

[tHe_silent_H]

good fixes, but wonder what's the situation is with story traits still being disabled

[zergologist]

Would it be too much to ask to give the tublia "plants" negative decor alluding to

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their potent "rotten egg" stench [making] them an unpopular specimen for closer study

[sakura_sk]

7 hours ago, JarrettM said:

Added art for Frozen Squid Ink.

It seems the same to me, sharing same asset as solid crude oil as before

[Henlikuoth]

7 hours ago, Tigin said:

These wretched pips can still plant in flower pots! 

The fact that you have to put a pot "behind" an (artificially) created tile and then let a pip plant a seed into the tile, which in turn "plants" it somehow in the pot, and then you can copy it and apply it to any other pot, was always nonsensical and clearly originally not intended. It was most likely an oversight by the developers before. 

This absurdity becomes even more apparent now that the Aquatic Planet Pack adds 3-tile-wide plants, which makes that pot-planting even more ridiculous. 

[myxal]

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Adjusted line thickness of new asteroids.

What does this mean? What line?

BTW I haven't checked in this build yet, but in the last one, squid's status when it was using or going into the aquatic critter condo still used "water fort" in the status string.

[Parusoid]

11 hours ago, JarrettM said:

Reduced Beakon Egg mass and kcal yield.

oh no... 

[Henlikuoth]

11 hours ago, JarrettM said:

Airflow Tiles now allow light to pass through them.

I like this. However, I was thinking it might be better or more appropriate if the amount of light passing through it were somewhat reduced. After all, the airflow tiles consist of solid lines that obstruct light passing through them. Maybe the amount of light could be reduced by 50% (or any other meaningful percentage). Similarly, mesh tiles could reduce the amount of light by only 20% (less obstruction).

This would make it more distinctive and interesting than simply treating it as completely unobstructed glass tiles. 

11 hours ago, JarrettM said:

Added DLC materials to Hatch diets

What about Smooth Hatches? Are they not supposed to consume Zinc Ore and convert it into its refined form, Zinc?

[SkunkMaster]

14 hours ago, JarrettM said:

Removed red light from the Mining Lamp ceiling light cosmetic blueprint that was used to test the new colored lights skin option.

That was so cool.

Any chance we can get a coloring option for lamps? 

[tedward603]

I know this might be my own opinion , but is there any way we can change the artwork on some of the new critters, its kindof clear its not the same artist with the same design rules ,

Even just the seaquine. it looks like it doesn't belong.

I have to not be the only one. Im not saying they look bad, i think they look rather good. I think effort went into them.

i just don't think they look like they belong. the blowter is perfect, the beakon good too, but that seaquine just looks like something out of a different game.its too angular i think. 

Maybe thats just me. 

[Shinkarr]

@tedward603 You're not alone. To me, blowter also seems a bit off. Probably line thickness is different. But I just watched some youtube videos. Haven't played the beta.

Also I really really want natural background tiles to be on every other planetoids.

[thechase]

Food situation in the new expac feels too tight early on.

Several of the geyser descriptions don't really explain anything about how they work (Tidal Springs, Thermal Gas Fissure.) Doesn't seem to be any analyze function on these, which is fine. Knowing the tidal springs consume their liquid in time is very important information.

Cant seem to be able to remove backwalls (which are really awesome), without building over them. Not sure if there is a way to generate natural back wall tiles for the folks that want to pip plant onto them (like a mad lad) before flooding an area. Making big pip plant farms with my glass maker is definitely one of my favorite time killers in the mid game.

Unless you click at the bottom of a tower kelp, it will not tell you they use 40 kg/pdirt per cycle in the description. Encyclopedia log is fine.

Add some kind of texture to brine and salt water in materials overlay for liquids. Still very hard to visually resolve them.

There are enough metals and such in the game now where it would be nice to have large tables (like on the wiki) so a player can decide what metal to use for what purpose.

Iridium is such an important stepping stone until the late late game thermium, it would be nice to see a similar metal available rather rapidly. The prehistoric planet pack start location just feels  infinitely better compared to all others because of that. Being able to trigger the demoliar event on any start planet would be a cool map gen option to have.

Rubber boots in research panel incorrectly state they are made at the crafting station.

Suggestion: Decor item for dupes for even higher than private bedroom: Wardrobe - Scales up an extra morale based on how many different outfits are stored in it. I've always disliked the extra clothing laying around after everyone is equipped. Having somewhere to put them would be nice. Could give the dupe like 10% of the clothing's bonus if they slept in a room with that item in the wardrobe even though they aren't wearing it. Clothing just feels like its missing something! Heck make a critter that eats it to excrete coquina (since there is no regenerative source of it that i saw).

Those are my initial impressions.

This is the best expansion I've seen so far. Good job!

 

Edited 6 hours ago by thechase

[reedarabbit]

Thank you for being so receptive to community suggestions. Do you have plans for the insulated wire recipe that has an alternative to rubber? I feel that it's a great addition to the base game that does not have to be dlc-locked. 

[Maris]

Grew on ice. 🥶
(but it's impossible)