[Game Update] - 290148

Change List:

New Features:

• New rocket modules: Steam Engine, Hydrogen Engine, Oxidizer Tank, Research Module, Solid Boosters.
• New Space research: Interstellar Research points, Telescopes now analyze space destinations.
• New space materials: Niobium, Isoresin, and Fullerene
• New composites: Supercoolant, Superconductor, Superinsulator, and Visco Gel
• New Jet Suits and Jet Suit infrastructure.
• New building : Robo-Miner.
• New critter: The Shove Vole.
• Neural Vacillator art update and recharging pods
   

Full Changelist:

• "No Room" tooltips specifies current and required room size.
• Added Gas Bottler sound effects.
• Added a unique icon for colony lacks job status.
• Added additional space destinations.
• Added alternate cheek colours for Duplicants.
• Added background music to Starmap.
• Added command module sound effects.
• Added conveyor In/Out sound effects.
• Added damaged state for rockets.
• Added filter to Research screen to make it easier to find specific category or building research.
• Added fish relocator sounds.
• Added Gassy Moo sound effects.
• Added highest expectation value to minion widget tooltip in role screen.
• Added Hydrogen and Steam Rocket engines.
• Added space tourists Duplicants.
• Added unknown space destinations.
• Starmap UI updates.
• Space destinations are saved rather than regenerated from seed every load.
• Telescope or debug mode are required to unlock Starmap and destinations.
• Adjusted tuning of Solid Conductor so that it is actually the best conductor.
• Building hit point bars are visible again.
• Building status items are now centered.
• Bunker doors no longer need to be unsealed before deconstruction.
• Can now prioritize creature lures.
• Cargo bay uses solid conduit.
• Moved conduit outputs to Rocket module centers.
• Comet detector can optionally detect specific rockets through new side screen.
• Rocket launch is automatable through command module.
• Rocket thrust/fuel balance adjusted to take oxidizer into account.
• Building mass is now the sum of all construction materials types, not just the first.
• Comet detectors no longer have a 'none' option.
• Comets no longer destroy bunker tiles.
• Command module will send an output signal when the checklist is all green to support automated launch of Rockets.
• Conduit bridges should no longer overheat.
• Contents of Rocket fuel tanks can be dumped using the side screen.
• Cycling the autorepair button in debug mode will now repair the building.
• Deconstruct drops all the materials used in construction, rather than just the first.
• Comets leave trails of hot gas.
• Decor effect range now also accounts for building rotation.
• Dig effects render on top of the world.
• Disable status effects reactions when Duplicates are in transit tubes.
• Discovering new items automatically adds them to tree filterable lists.
• Diseases can no longer grow in vacuums.
• Display Night Owl bonus correctly.
• Duplicants will remember conversations about completed buildings.
• Duplicants with bladders fuller than 60% will not immediately use toilets after red alerts are complete.
• Duplicants are now required to remove their helmets while using transit tubes.
• Duplicants wearing suits will always drop their suit when passing a checkpoint whose clearance is set to ‘Always’ regardless of suit type.
• Duplicants now walk a reasonable distance when idle.
• Element converter no longer over consumes if multiple inputs match a tag.
• Fixed crash in Custom game settings editor window.
• Fixed crash when Duplicants fall out of world.
• Fixed crash when hovering the assignable screen during Rocket launch.
• Fixed crash when selecting Duplicants while displaying attributes.
• Fixed crash when trying to free an astronaut from Rockets.
• Fixed crashes in the debug build menu when low on resources .
• Fixed element tag string resolution issue.
• Fixed navigation grids wrapping around the world.
• Fixed Slickster codex title.
• Fixed tiling on atmo suit marker when it is flipped.
• Fixed a crash in comets.
• Fixed a layer issue with the sink.
• Fixed crash when comets emit smoke.
• Fixed crash when Transfer arm picks up a piece of Ore.
• Fixed Duplicants not going to eat at a table on auto assignment.
• Fixed Liquid Storage tanks meters displaying full when only 2/3 full.
• Fixed logic wire layering so that it's always in front of regular wires.
• Fixed out of date tooltip referencing level increase causing expectation increase.
• Fixed Pacu eggs being laid outside of the world if the tile at the origin was magma.
• Fixed some animation popping that was occurring when Duplicants finished doing a task.
• Fixed the placebo pill description not being fully translatable.
• Fuel tank capacity should now be properly displayed in starmap screen when using multiple fuel tanks.
• Gantry can be connected by heavy-watt wires.
• Generators are only considered connected when a wire is fully constructed.
• Improved codex strings.
• Improved Duplicant eating mouth animations.
• Lower very hard calorie penalty.
• LowTemp/HighTemp ore transition states can be specified on all element states.
• Metal and Plastic tiles only add their mass to the world once.
• Non-wranglable critters no longer list Wrangle as a capture method.
• Only the first schedule has an alarm by default.
• Schedules say whether or not the alarm is on in their title bar.
• Refresh main menu.
• Remove repeating string in food/decor benefit tooltip.
• Rocket Cargo bay must be empty before launch.
• Rocket modules are not selectable during flight.
• Rocket modules have very limited thermal conductivity.
• Rocket research modules have a chance to return with a Neural Vacillator Recharge.
• Selected input boxes no longer respond to hot keys.
• Show a hat icon when a status item says "no one is assigned to a role".
• Solid tiles now melt.
• Rocket engines now require Oxidizer tanks for launch.
• Revised Rocket distance calculations.
• Side screens allow players to specific how full Rocket fuel tanks should be.
• Rocket command module requires an exo suit in storage for launch.
• Stored Duplicates display their proper name and preserve their schedule.
• Sulfur can now be stored.
• Supercoolant can go to almost zero before freezing.
• Switch order of Survival and No Sweat mode in select screen.
• Telescopes are used to research space destinations.
• The AC cools things to 1K.
• Toilets can be flipped horizontally.
• Fix the transition elements for superconductor.
• Updated credits.
• Updated Duplicants animations for Centrifuge.
• Updated hats for Astronaut jobs.
• Updated Russian strings.
• Updated save/load screens.
• Updated Steel icon art.
• Updated Title Theme.
• Upgrade to Unity 2018.2.7f1.
• Using sandbox tools or debug tools to cool an overheated building should no longer tell you the building is still overheated.
• Wash sink fills up.
• Space Scanners can be used to monitor incoming rockets.
• Telescopes produce Data Discs, which can be processed at Virtual Planetariums.
• Changed draw order of water material.
• Prevent flickering when transitioning between Molten steel and steel gas.
• Gantry is now made of steel.
• Gantry has much higher damage and melting temperatures
• Wheezeworts could sometimes emit gasses that were supposed to come from other objects, i.e. Rockets, which should no longer happen
• Fix water rendering over glass tiles and doors..
• Fix buildings claiming to be generating heat even after they had stopped.
• Fix dupes were picking up ore further away than is necessary.
• Fix crash in Rocket launch manager
• Fix crash in older saves with custom game settings
• Duplicants no longer cheer for an entire cycle when debug unlocking research
• Duplicants don't spend all day reacting to cells being dug out
• Gantry defaults to extended when no logic wire connected
• Fix crash when Duplicants have nothing to converse about
• Gantry can be manually controlled while not connected to an automation wire.
• Gantry status item updated to indicate extended state and manual vs. automation control.
• Thicker conductive wires so they are more visible behind automation wires
• Robo-Miner and auto-sweeper now function underwater.
• Fixed eating and conversation mouth flap.
• Abyssalite is categorized as other so it can still be stored in storage lockers
• Buildings should no longer look like they're running after a Duplicant walks away.
• Rockets no longer disappear when animating off and onto the world
• The deconstruct tool should only re-prioritize those things in active layers.
• Health bars are correctly flipped for flippable buildings
• Liquid Conditioner is no longer invincible
• New Database entries added
• High-end materials can now be used as Raw Metal as well as Refined Metal.
• Increased the Overheat temperatures for the new metallic elements
• More elements can be used on the Temp Shift Plate
• "Simple Tastes" and "Gourmet" modifiers are correctly applied now
• Pipes and Vents can now go all the way to the edge of the map
• Showers once again consume/produce water
• Dupes will no longer continually try to return a suit if chores on the other side of the dock have lower priority.
• Surface POI should no longer get destroyed by meteors
• Regolith Meteors now only stack regolith to a certain depth.
• Meteors do less ground damage overall, preventing premature surface destruction
• Reduced the mass of Regolith meteors by about half
• Fix pathfinding underwater when passing a suit checkpoint
• Construction material is properly auto-selected in Sandbox/Debug
• Breath/Fuel bars will no longer turn on after viewing an overlay
• Add Steam Engine sound effects
• Ore is now merged into the world if it's buried under the same element, i.e. regolith ore getting buried in a regolith tile is absorbed into the tile
• Loose ore now exchanges heat with the tile beneath it, even if it's not in a vacuum
• Rockets will not launch if their path to space is obstructed
• Conduits no longer kill all disease inside them
• Revised art on Liquid Storage
• Gas and Liquid elements now have proper colours in the codex and recipes
• Fixed stretched side screen for refinery buildings
• New Gas Emptier art
• Command Module no longer fetches infinite suits
• Steam and Hydrogen engines are no longer stackable
• Attachable buildings (i.e. rocket parts) now show a proper warning if they can't be placed
• Research screen search filter updates in realtime, searches descriptions as well as names
• Telescope is no longer a research station; used to analyze space destinations
• Basic Rocketry no longer requires orange research points
• Ore from the Oxylite Refinery appears on the correct layer
• Objects such as Egg Shells will stack correctly if they are created on a tile already containing that object
• Duplicant chatter won't get stuck talking about the same thing
• Duplicants won't compliment each-other's work more than once per 100s
• Duplicants won't comment on Oxygen every time a tile is dug
• Fix a crash when opening the build menu in debug/sandbox mode
• Updated Solid Booster description to properly mention the use of iron
• Art revisions for most of the rocket modules
• Adjusted research tuning of space tech
• Adjusted space research speed
• Research Modules generate 10 Data Banks per trip even if the destination has no more research items
• Added another planet at the first distance (world gen required)
• Distant unanalyzed planets are hidden until closer ones are discovered
• Fix Solid Booster not actually generating thrust
• Reduce fuel amount of Solid Booster
• Solid Boosters are stackable for diminishing returns
• Fix crash when enqueueing a recipe at a refinery building
• Building exhaust temperature should no longer cause cooling to nearby cells
• Further pass on element colours
• Added meters to various rocket modules
• Dupes will no longer get stuck in an infinite yuck/ouch loop if they overheating while eating infected food
• Baby Drecko can no longer sneak through closed doors
• Solar Panel animations play correctly when there's no light
• Oil Refinery is now flippable
• Fix Ranchers getting stuck if they can't reach a drop point set to auto-wrangle
• Duplicant health bars will be always visible if they are below 80% health
• Fix selected object description not updating on select
• Fix crash when duplicant AI is searching for fetchable items
• Sleeping in any kind of bed slowly restores Dupe health
• Dupes will stop a recreational task immediately at night if they already have the bonus for that task
• Updated Auto Miner artwork
• Fix crash if an item is destroyed while a Duplicant is determining if they can move to it
• Dig Beam from Auto Miner correctly reaches the target cell
• Assignment screen loads just a little faster
• Fix crash when deconstructing a Command Module with a dupe still inside
• Rockets will now damage any gantries that have not been retracted
• Fix visual layering of Transfer Arm
• Dupes take off their hats when eating
• New art for Fossil, Sulfur elements
• Revised Gas Bottler sounds
• Fix Transfer Arms being "unable to reach" objects that the Dupes dropped
• Replacement wires no longer invisible after a save/load
• Fix crash if too large of an ore chunk gets buried
• Updated Neural Vacillator and Recharge artwork
• Updated Database entries

Final Testing Patch

These are the changes present in this release since the last update to the testing branch:

• Space Destinations are no longer generated with every rare element already discovered
• Fix visual layering of Transfer Arm
• Dupes take off their hats when eating
• New art for Fossil, Sulfur elements
• Revised Gas Bottler sounds
• Fix Transfer Arms being "unable to reach" objects that the Dupes dropped
• Replacement wires no longer invisible after a save/load
• Voles will hide during meteor showers
• Fix missing string on Liquid Fuel Tank
• Updated Vole animations
• Fix crash if too large of an ore chunk gets buried
• Updated Neural Vacillator and Recharge artwork
• Updated Database entries
• Voles can no longer pass through ground or tiles made of refined metals or abyssalite
• Fix Petroleum colour in pipes
• Updated Vole description
• Voles now appear as a buried object while burrowed