Mindustry 6.0 Released

After more than 9 months of development, 6.0 is finally here. There have been far too many changes to reasonably list here, so I'll go over the highlights.

Units

• The unit system has been completely reworked

• All unit sprites have been re-drawn and cleaned up

• Many new unit types have been added

• Player-specific pads and unit-specific factories have been removed

• All units can now be created, commanded and controlled by players

• 3 different unit factories: ground, air, and naval

• Each unit factory can produce multiple types of units

• Units can be moved into special tiered Reconstructor blocks to upgrade them

• 6 unit branches: insect units, ground attack units, ground support units, air attack units, air support units, naval attack units

• Each branch has 5 tiers, making 5*6 = 30 buildable units

• Each core block has a special player-controlled flying unit type associated with it, resulting in a grand total of 33 total units

Campaign

• Complete rework of the 5.0 campaign system

• Everything takes place on a planet, where each hexagonal/pentagonal sector is a separate map that can be visited

• 260+ procedural sectors, with 16 special "landing zone" sectors

• Procedural sectors are optional for campaign completion, but landing zones are not

• Most sectors have a certain number of waves that need to be survived in order to capture them

• Other sectors may have enemy bases on them, which need to be destroyed for capture

• Each sector will produce resources in the background even when you play in other sectors

• Resources can be moved between sectors with Launch Pads

• Sectors near enemy bases will be periodically invaded unless the enemy base is destroyed

• "Global Resources" no longer exist - all research costs are taken directly from your pooled core resources

• More planets will be added in the future

New Blocks & Mechanics

• Added upgraded 3x3 versions of the Silicon Smelter, Separator and Overdrive Projector

• Cores can now be upgraded to higher tiers

• Added "Segment" point defense turret - targets and destroys incoming bullets

• Added "Parallax" electric anti-air turret - pulls in enemy aircraft with a tractor beam

• Added "Foreshadow" long-range railgun turret, for taking down bosses and armored units

• Added "Tsunami" liquid turret - acts as an upgraded version of the Wave

• Added Plastanium conveyors - stack items together, move them with high throughput

• Added mud & dirt decoration blocks

• Added slag liquid floor, can be pumped to obtain slag

• Added space floor

• Significant amounts of block balancing, bugfixes and tweaks

(Schematic above made by Highfire1)

Logic System

• Added Processor blocks that execute commands in a loop

• Processors use a very simple assembly-like language

• Code can be written in-game with a visual editor, or imported from text files

• Processors are capable of performing complex tasks, such as controlling units, reading block state, disabling/enabling buildings and outputting text to message blocks

• Added Display blocks - can be used for displaying vector images from processors

• Added Memory blocks - can be used to store numbers for internal processor use

• Added Button block - can be linked and used as an input devices for processors

• Examples of logic applications include automatic heat-sensing reactor controllers, unit transport systems, custom unit AI, visual power level displays, various types of games and more

Maps

• Added 4 new maps for custom games

• Added 5 types of weather: rain, fog, snow, sandstorm and sporestorm

• Each type of weather has a certain effect on blocks or units

• Added attack AI rule: when enabled, enemy cores will spawn units that build basic defense schematics

• Added map rules for fire, schematic use, enemy light visibility, unit ammo mechanics, explosion damage and more

• Added new filters in editor, to aid with procedural map generation

• Added new editor filter options

General Changes

• Added more music

• Added more sound effects

• Added community server groups

• Improved most sprites and icons

• Many small visual improvements

• Added button to pan camera around map

• New physics system

• Made schematics save power node connections & message contents when copying

• Many, many small QoL changes

• A lot more stuff that I've probably missed