Shared Workload (0.7) Patch Notes

Here are all of the tasty changes for AutoForge's major update, Shared Workload. Read more about the update over at the main Shared Workload announcement. Enjoy!

Major Features

• Multiplayer - Play with your friends online!

• Cosmetics - Customize your character with 12 different skins (and additional palettes)

• Trinkets - New unique items that can be equipped for various bonuses

• Decorations - Decorate your base and factory to your hearts content

• Quest System - Track the progress of quests (right now there is only the Tutorial and Main quests)

• Guide System - Learn the finer details of how things work in AutoForge

• Energy System - Energy is now used when performing most actions

Content

• 60+ Decorations spread across 3 Themes, including new Wood and Brick Tile styles

• Three new Upgrades

  • Boost - Gain additional Trinket points.

  • Elevate - Gain an additional mid-air jump

  • Energize - Gain an increase to Energy reserves

• Behaviors for Foxolotl & Casclaw

• Echone - A new Plant found underground with unique properties...

• New environmental hazards & entities:

  • Toxic Gumvine - A toxic Plant hazard that emits spores

  • Bramble, Sharp Rocks & Ice Spikes - Environment garnish that can cause contact damage

  • Volatile Geode - A gem found in Terrain that explodes when disturbed

  • Lob Grommet - Anti-Gravity relics found in the sky that can be grappled from

  • Ice - New Terrain Block with reduced traction!

  • Frost - Terrain covering Foliage that makes Blocks tougher

Balance Changes

• Increased the player's starting health from 1 to 3 hearts

• Significantly reduced the cost to unlock regions

• Convert Ancient Tech and Void Matter to be global resources

• Reduce jump height from 7 to 5 blocks

• Moved double jump to be unlocked via Upgrade or Trinket (...or both!?)

• Introduced fall damage

• Removed ability to zoom in on anywhere in the map and be detached from your character

• Adjusted zoom levels for character and map views

• Removed several duplicate upgrades and improved the remaining ones

• Only allow Oil Slimes to appear on the starting region surface

Improvements

• Entities are now automatically targeted to be harvested when attempting to harvest a supporting tile (e.g. harvesting Soil that is supporting a Plant will clear the Plant first).

• Added connection visuals for Phase Stations and Porters to Tubes

• Added "Collect" to interact UI when the player can displace an item

• Prevent station from sending payloads when bundle quantity is set to zero

• Improved indicators when taking damage

• Improved spacing with input glyphs

• Added input glyphs for Mouse Button 4 and Mouse Button 5

• Improved starting area

• Improved several animations of Otto

• Improved HUD & layout

• Added Large Notifications to indicate major in-game events

• Unthreaded the Main Story and Tutorial into seperate Quests and made many minor improvements to the Tutorial.

• Warn the player with a prompt the first time they take damage from the Shroud

• Improving tooltip empty description handling

• Improved positioning of tooltips for centered UIs when using gamepad

• Add default inputs bindings for Toolbar cycling and exposed rebinding for them

• Structures can now collect items from Splitters

• Improved teleportation logic to place the player on the ground rather than above it

• Greatly reduced audio volume for Hover action

• Performance:

  • Greatly Optimized logic around monster pathing during invasions

  • Change tooltip handling so that once a tooltip is shown it won't continue checking other elements

  • Improved internal Tweening logic

Bug Fixes

• Resolved issue with structure dispensers not outputting aggressively enough resulting in them sometimes being continuously blocked from passing items

• Resolved issue with Item Transportation missing sometimes rounding off preciously milliseconds resulting in transport tubes not going at maximum speed

• Resolved issue with several Fauna Replication recipes missing

• Resolved issue with Mohki using invisible ink while marking the map

• Resolved issue with Research Queue not showing tooltip if it is over an element in the Research Tree

• Resolved issue with vines being destroyed during world generation (mostly)

• Resolved issue with playtime always updating on the current save file even without saving

• Resolved issue with playtime on a save not updating after saving to a different file

• Resolved issue with world playtime being displayed incorrectly (1/10th of actual playtime)

• Resolved issue with entity dispensers sometimes not dispensing properly

• Resolved issue with Mycosiph spores lingering on load

• Resolved issue with changing game resolution before using some UIs

• Resolved issue with large resource nodes not being discovered when the tile is further away from the resource indicator (sparkles)

• Resolved issue with Replicator having the wrong structure size (3x3 changed to 3x2)

• Resolved an issue with the fluid system

• Resolved a crash when trying to localize an empty string

• Resolved issue that could occur if invader is destroyed but not removed from a list

• Resolved crash when removing a power distributor

• Resolved issue with rotating phase stations that could lead to orphaned phase beams

• Resolved an issue with farming plants sometimes stop being harvested despite meeting all conditions

• Resolved crash caused by trying to kill an entity that has been destroyed already

• Resolved issue with some things such as Stalactites using the wrong visuals sometimes

• Improved dropped item physics so that they don't slide around as much

• Resolved issue with automatically displacing an item when placing it with the secondary input

• Resolved issue with audio being muted after loading another world

• Resolved issue with grabbed item being visible while on settings UI and when returning to main menu

• Resolved issue with Quaridin melee attacks not hitting players

• Resolved issue with Frost Crystace not becoming invincible while defending

• Resolved multiple issues preventing world generation seeds from working

Recent Experimental Bug Fixes

• Resolved issue with client input not working after host has loaded a second world

• Resolved issue with global world data such as void matter persisting not resetting with new saves after having a world loaded

• Resolved issue with duplicate maps being displayed for clients

• Resolved crash on client when host exits the game first

• Environmental hazards now only deal damage at most once every 500ms

• Resolved several issues with audio not playing correctly on clients

• Resolved issue with bottom of the world not being synced to clients properly

• Resolved issue with map markers disappearing on clients such as Mana Conduits

• Resolved issue with back button on credits not working

• Fix issue with client position getting out of sync after transporting (death/teleport)