May Quality of Life Patch is now available!

Hello everyone!

New patch with various Quality of Life improvements is here! Read the full patch notes below:

Changes:

• batteries can now be connected to each other using power lines

• allow for longer belt dragging

• added new task that requires the player to insert science packs into the science server

• added "invalid connection" indicator when placing conveyors next to a building to help players understand that they need to use loaders

• added steam deck keyboard support

• added ability to skip intro tutorial when starting a new game

• mining debris will now despawn much faster if you use your drill/laser on it

• dialogue lines are now skippable

• Carl's dialogue no longer blocks mouse clicks

• allowed hotkeys to be bound to mouse buttons.

• made actions that were previously locked to mouse buttons rebindable

• accessibility: Made previously unrebindable keys like Alt, Ctrl, Shift rebindable

• added tooltip to explosives to make it clearer that they need to be turned into explosive charges before they can be used to blow stuff up

• new pipe intake model/texture to make it more obvious where to attach the pipe

• you can now exit out of building/demolition/tablet modes by pressing escape

• increased flashlight range by 45% and increased intensity by 30%

• initial ore patches now have a higher chance of spawning near the spawn point

• initial ore patches now have a higher chance of spawning near each other

• added more information to helper tooltip at the inventory frame and added error messages if an item cannot be equipped using instant mode

• updated some of the tutorial tasks to help guide players on how to use loaders

Fixes:

• fixed a crash that could occur when deconstructing buildings

• fixed a bug/crash that could occur when using transport ships

• fixed crash that could occur when making a funny looking conveyor loop that looped back into a loader

• fixed an issue that could cause the player to fall through the world

• fixed an issue that could cause the loader text to appear as black on certain graphics cards

• fixed streaming issue that could cause significant delay in buildings appearing when standing near a significant amount of flowing pipes

• fixed issue where you could fall off a downward facing escalator while running

• fixed issue where quest to produce robots was not possible to complete

• fixed a crash that could occur when building solar panels too high up

• fixed issue where some some of the modding system attributes such as [AddSystemToGameSimulation] were being incorrectly stripped from the game

• fixed issue where the gamepad cursor was drawing behind the keybind screen

• fixed performance issue that could occur when looking at several research panels while research was ongoing and your power was strained

• fixed black lighting artifacts that would appear under building blocks

• fixed space station storage being bigger than it's supposed to be

• drilling marble now returns marble instead of concrete

• fixed issue where smoke would sometimes not collide with ceilings correctly

• fixed a crash that could occur when interacting with inventories

• fixed a bug where ore patches were not being properly removed from the map when depleted

• dedicated servers should no longer create a new world every time they are started if they do not have an app.cfg setup

• added new version of the camera tools(opened by pressing ALT+U)

• fixed an issue where the power consumption and scan speed were incorrectly displayed on the Long Range Scanner building

• made the button on the back of the emergency beacon more obvious

• particles should now properly have fog applied to them in the distance

• fixed an issue where fog was not being properly applied to the dark areas on buildings where items enter/exit such as the drone miner and the assembly line producer

• fixed an issue where the localized version of the "show details" would not be visible

• prevent tablet quick actions from triggering when you have a ui window open

• fixed an issue with missing characters in the chinese/japanese/korean fonts

• fixed a crash that could occur when deconstructing buildings

• fixed a crash that could occur when placing landing pads at max world height

• fixed pumpjack efficiency research to behave as described

• fixed an issue where you could be disconnected from a multiplayer game if it was taking a long time to load the save file

To submit feedback or report a bug, you can press F9 in game or make a thread on our Forum. This is the best way to let us know that something is broken!

Have a nice day!

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