v0.53 - Creatures and Rocketry Update

New Features

• More hostile creatures: Slug, Fire Slug, and Fire Crab.

• New Volcanic biomes that increase in frequency as you travel farther away from the Lander.

• To finish a mission, you now construct a Launch Pad and build a Rocket to blast-off in!

• The Rocket can also be used for fast-travel between distant Launch Pads.

• New Paintbrush tool: Customize the color of your habitat modules and vehicles.

• Recycler now breaks down most crafted items into their base ingredient parts. Removed ability to smelt Refined Scrap.

• More resources: Resin, Radioactive Rock tile, Purrtainium Ore, Shiny Crystal, Creature Guts.

• Even more items!: Pickaxe, Gasket, Cooked Creature Guts.

• More base modules: a new indoor version of the Workbench, Crystal Lamp, Advanced Fabricator, Fuel Refinery, and Fuel Tank.

• Added more habitat floor variations.

• More item-crafters now have a sound effect for when they finish making something.

• Wind turbines now can get damaged from high wind speeds -> easily repaired like solar panels etc.

• Dozer now drives more like a tank (can turn in place). Minor changes to its collision shape.

• Buggie and Dozer now show up on the HUD radar when nearby.

• Repair Drone now has a sleep animation to help distinguish being idle versus not having power.

• Cargo crates at the beginning of the game are now visible on the HUD radar.

• Wood Sign icons are now displayed on the map.

• Hovering mouse over a Base Stats meter now shows a tooltip showing the amount of that resource being generated and consumed by the base.

• Base Stats for stored Water and Rocket Fuel now only appear after researching those tech upgrades.

• Item stacks placed on the ground now have quantity labels on them.

Balance Updates

• Item stack limits! Sorry / not sorry :)

• Water Supply now holds 600 water (was 200).

• Bases now have a power prioritization order to make sure modules like the Air Cleaner stay on longer.

• Small rock piles are now able to be picked up without a shovel.

• Metal beams are now made from metal plates instead of ore, and are crafted faster.

• Limited Plants to only drop up to 2 of themselves instead of 3.

• Plants, Root Plants, and Blueshrooms now also have a chance to drop Resin.

• Reduced the hunger gained by eating Plant Slop.

• Plants in Garden Patch and Greenhouse now take about 2 days to grow from seed to harvest, and now have a chance to drop multiple/different bonus items.

• Updated way in which air leaks consume oxygen.

• Trees and Dead Trees now drop more wood when chopped down.

• Dozer can no longer tow a trailer, but its trunk now holds 9 item stacks instead of just 6.

• Dozer now recharges much faster when parked on top of a Garage.

• Adjusted some crafting recipes.

• Slightly longer mission lengths.

Misc Updates

• Renamed "Light" module to "Work Light".

• Added text info to the console log about how to close it.

Bug Fixes

• Major performance improvements for large worlds.

• Added more checks to prevent corrupted saved-game screenshots from causing crashes.

• Fixed an old but major bug with terrain generation and negative chunk/tile coordinates

• Fixed issue with multiple recipes showing up in Auto-Crafters when multiple crafting stations are next to them.

• Vehicle-repair notifications weren't setup to be localized.

• Rocket countdown text has been setup to be localized.

• Fixed bug where there was a chance of crash when starting new worlds.

• Fixed save/load bug where tool durability wasn't being preserved.

• Fixed visual bug with Water Spigot conduit art.

• Fixed issue with base disaster notifications.

• Fixed bug with HUD notifications cutting off last letter.

• Fixed issue with wood signs showing up with broken item icons on them.

Known Issues

• Erratic vehicle physics when v-sync is turned off.

• Player's harvest animation sometimes won't play.

Thanks to everyone that has helped report bugs, either by sending me crashlogs or posting them on the Discord server!