Update Information:
Hello friends,
We're udderly excited to be releasing our Song of the Moo update!
This update is packed with new elements (including a frothy green substance that technically counts as milk), new buildings, two new food recipes, critter ranching improvements and a brand-new behavior for the mighty Gassy Moo. There are new cosmetic skins too.
There's also a new ONI short out!
Join us on Twitch where we'll be discussing the new update this afternoon!
Got Brackene? (aka New Elements)
Tame, well-fed Gassy Moos now produce a new milky element called Brackene. Ranchers can call a Moo over to the new Milking Station building to milk them when the time comes. If your colony doesn't have Gassy Moos yet, don't worry: you can also get Brackene by smashing up certain crops in the new Plant Pulverizer!
Duplicants can drink Brackene at the Water Cooler, while critters get it from the new Critter Fountain. In both cases, it's a nutrient-free mood booster.
Alternatively, Brackene can be refined into a strange polymer called Brackwax at the new Brackwax Gleaner building. The Brackwax can be used in the production of a highly heat-resistant super plastic called Plastium, or as a lubricant for faster travel in transit tubes.
New Moo-lody
Gassy Moos can now reproduce—sort of. Once a domesticated Moo has consumed enough Gas Grass, they belt out operatic moos that echo across the galaxy, which attracts a new member to that asteroid's herd via the infamous Gassy Mooteor.
Other Cool Stuff
The new Bleach Stone Hopper building can turn out a steady supply of Bleach Stone from Salt and Gold inputs, though you should expect some Sand as a byproduct.
Meteors will now drop some resources when you blow them out of the sky with the Meteor Blaster.
We’ve added an automation port to the Egg Cracker and given Duplicants the ability to eat raw eggs. If you’re feeling fancy you can cook the eggs into Soufflé Pancakes at the Electric Grill, or into a delectable Mushroom Quiche at the Gas Range.
All critter traps and lures are now made from raw metal, and can be rearmed after use.
Finally, we’ve made some UI improvements to the Supply Closet and added over 50 new cosmetic skins.
Summary
We’ve made lots of improvements relating to the Gassy Moo, including making them milkable. Their strange brackish milk has a variety of uses for colonies both small and large.
If your mods are breaking or you need a little extra time before switching over, you can opt in to the temporary, unsupported Previous Update branch.
Let us know what you think. Bug reports can be submitted here and feedback right here. We read it all, and appreciate it more than you know.
Full patch notes below.
Features
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All versions
- Gassy Moos can now call friends from space when well fed.
- Added new elements Brackene, Frozen Brackene, Brackwax, Plastium.
- Added Milking Station building.
- Added Brackwax Gleaner building.
- Added Bleach Stone Hopper building.
- Added Plant Pulverizer building.
- Added Critter Fountain building.
- Added recipe for Soufflé Pancakes to Electric Grill.
- Added recipe for Mushroom Quiche to Gas Range.
- Added recipe for Plastium to the Molecular Forge.
Changes and Improvements
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All versions
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Traps
- Newly constructed Critter Traps, Fish Traps, and Airborne Critter Traps are now rearmable and have new artwork.
- Existing traps in saves have been deprecated but still function.
- Critter Trap can now also catch Pacus flopping on the ground.
- Critter Trap is now 2 tiles tall.
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Gas Grass
- No longer requires an atmosphere to grow.
- Now requires 10,000 lux to grow, instead of 20,000 lux.
- Gas Grass now wilts instead of sleeps when its illumination requirement isn’t met.
- Gas Grass now requires 25 kg dirt per cycle in addition to its liquid chlorine requirement.
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Gassy Moos
- Will call a new Gassy Moo to join them on the asteroid when they reach 100% “Accu-moo-lation.”
- Produce Brackene when fed.
- Improved the responsiveness of critters being called for grooming.
- Improved the responsiveness of critters to all tasks by increasing the frequency of brain updates.
- Flying critters now avoid idling on space exposed locations that are significantly elevated above the asteroid’s surface.
- Raw Egg is now edible.
- Egg Cracker building now has an input logic port to disable the building
- The overcrowded effect on critter happiness now scales with the number of excess critters in the space.
- Water Coolers can be configured to dispense Brackene instead of plain water, providing an additional +2 Morale boost and -15%/cycle stress reduction effect.
- Transit Tube Access can now be configured to use Brackwax to boost Duplicant travel speed in tubes.
- Puftlet Prince now affects egg chances of other critters in the same room in the same way the adult Puft Prince already did.
- Increased the length of the Ate From Feeder effect to 2 cycles to improve the rate at which Pacu are tamed when fed seeds.
- Logic Bridges and Logic Gates can overlap where there are no overlapping ports.
- Duplicants can no longer manually deliver petroleum to the Blastshot Maker.
- Reordered list view of Materials subcategory in the Refinement category build menu.
- Pips can now plant seeds in a vacuum.
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Meteors
- Added Meteor Shower diagnostic for active bombardment.
- Meteors are now spawned higher above the buildable area, which allows Meteor Blasters to target them earlier.
- It is now possible to configure the types of meteors that the Meteor Blaster targets.
- Improved meteor shower sound mixing.
- Meteors destroyed by Blast Shots now return 25% of the resources they would have dropped on collision with a tile.
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Supply Closet
- Default clothing and atmosuit outfit items now have icons representing what they will look like.
- Default outfits for Duplicants should now show a mannequin wearing that outfit in the Wardrobe screen.
- Adjusted Supply Closet item categorization for better organization.
- Improved UI feedback in the item drop screen when the app is having difficulty communicating with the item server.
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Traps
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Base game only.
- Added turning sounds to the Telescope animation.
- Organic Mass space destination now yields more Gas Grass and Gassy Moos.
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Spaced Out! only.
- Added Mellow Mallow and Bliss Burst to care packages.
- Adjusted Telescope animation.
- Added turning sounds to both Telescopes.
- Added Grubfruit Plant Seed care package.
- Care packages for seeds, food, critters, and eggs which require you to first discover them are now available after cycle 500.
Fixes
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All versions
- Fixed issue with the Spice Grinder causing duplicants to occasionally freeze.
- Improved Conduction Panel heat transfer algorithm for stronger and more consistent conductivity.
- When a Space Scanner detects an object or meteor shower in advance, it will stay green until the object has arrived or the meteor shower ends.
- Fixed issue causing Space Scanners to briefly output the wrong automation signal when a save is loaded.
- Fixed issue causing overlay legend scrolling UI to unexpectedly jump to the top when the game was unpaused.
- It is now possible to cancel a single move object chore when multiple objects are queued to move to the same location.
- Critter animations no longer freeze after eating or pooping.
- Plant illumination requirement no longer fails if it's an exact lux match.
- Added option to forbid mutant seeds on the Spice Grinder.
- Fixed a bug where the Pitcher Pump straw visual was left behind in place when moving the cursor while trying to place it.
- Fixed diagnostics tooltips sometimes missing information.
- Fixed issue causing "No Researcher Assigned" notification to linger after a researcher was assigned.
- Fixed crash that could happen when a Space Scanner is placed near the edge of a world.
- Added a status item to Shearing station to show its skill requirement.
- Fixed issue causing research tasks to sometimes be researched twice.
- Fixed event popup images not correctly displaying a Duplicant’s outfit when the activating Duplicant is wearing a Primo Garb or an Atmo Suit.
- Fixed issue causing some stored items to disappear when Fish Feeder storage filters were changed.
- Fixed Super Focused icon layering issue.
- Fixed outfit item tooltips sometimes incorrectly saying "My colony doesn't have any of these yet."
- Fixed door on the Telescope shifting over in the rotation animation.
- Fixed missing Duplicant mouths in ladder and Firepole sleeping animations.
- Fixed missing Duplicant mouth in Atmosuit Dock’s equip suit animation.
- Skill Scrubber animation handles Duplicants wearing suits better, so they don’t stick out when being scrubbed.
- Fixed missing hair when a Duplicant is triggering a Banshee Wail stress response.
- Fixed a hair issue when a Duplicant wearing a hat wakes up while sleeping on the floor.
- Fixed an issue where food could briefly appear on a Duplicant's back after they finished eating.
- Fixed issues with the Ancient Specimen story trait popups.
- Fixed issue where Duplicants working the Fossil Quarry were missing some parts of the chisel.
- Added art for 2 hats that had missing upward angled hat view.
- A Duplicant using the Virtual Planetarium now displays their name label in the correct location.
- Fixed a crash on startup that can happen if a custom outfit is made with the same name as a predefined outfit.
- The lesser morale "Park" effect no longer stomps the "Nature Reserve" effect when a Duplicant passes through a Park.
- Fixed Park and Nature Reserves not applying their effects when multiple Duplicants enter the room at the same time.
- Fixed mannequins sometimes disappearing in Wardrobe screen.
- Fixed some artwork in the critter Flux-o-Matic story trait pop up displaying incorrectly.
- Fixed visual issue in the Mysterious Hermit story trait pop up.
- Rovers and critters are no longer launched into the air by meteor collisions.
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Base game only.
- Critters now stay wrangled when leaving the Biological Cargo Bay.
- Space Scanners should now once again detect rockets while they are launching.
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Spaced Out! only.
- Fixed issue causing radiation intensity to increase after being blocked by radiation shielding materials
- Fixed crash that could occur when a Rover attempted to rescue incapacitated Duplicants or Sweepys.
- Fixed planter sidescreen button sometimes being grayed out erroneously .
- Fixed an issue where a Duplicant’s eyes disappeared while using the Telescope.
- Buckets of Conveyor Rails are no longer sometimes visible in the red zone above the buildable area.
- Supply Teleporter Input can no longer be damaged by meteors like the other teleporters.
- Fixed issue causing Duplicant name labels to occasionally appear across the boundaries of an asteroid or rocket interior.
- Fixed rare crash when an interplanetary payload gets into a bad state when saving the game.
- Fixed a bug where sometimes a crash would occur whenever a meteor is destroyed by a Blast Shot.
- Fixed Duplicant hair in the Cryotank 3000 defrost popup when wearing a hat.
- Space Scanners should no longer signal detection of departing rockets until they reach their distant destination, and instead only detect imminently inbound and outbound rockets from the scanner’s planet.
Changes since last public testing build
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All Versions
- Added premade outfits for new cosmetic clothing items to Wardrobe screen.
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Base game only
- Space Scanners should now once again detect rockets while they are launching.
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Spaced Out! only
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Space Scanners should no longer signal detection of departing rockets until they reach their distant destination, and instead only detect imminently inbound and outbound rockets from the scanner’s planet.
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Space Scanners should no longer signal detection of departing rockets until they reach their distant destination, and instead only detect imminently inbound and outbound rockets from the scanner’s planet.
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