The team was much lighter on the ground this week, so we took the opportunity to slow down on the content releases and do some house-keeping with optimization and hardening work being done in various parts of the game. This will likely continue into next week, as the majority of the team will be away attending the national game developers conference.

Explosion Mechanics

To immediately put your mind at ease, we didn't change anything that makes things more likely to explode. We did however, make it so that when explosions happen (whether via Canister explosion or Grenade) they'll properly apply damage to everything around them. If that happens to be a Stationeer, they'll receive impact damage but also stun damage and may be knocked unconcious.

Expanded Auto-Rotate

Auto-rotate has proven to be one of the most popular quality-of-life improvements we've made in the past couple of weeks, so we've expanded it to include many face-mount devices. The full list is included in the detailed patch notes below.

Trigger Plate

During last weeks dev stream, Rocket modeled and implemented a trigger plate that can be used to activate logic whenever an object is on top of it. This can be used for tasks like automating doors, or only powering devices when someone is standing in front of them.

Flowers & Paint Mixing

To provide more base reagents to the game, and provide paint colours in a slightly less magical fashion, Stationeers can now grow a range of colourful flowers. These can be harvested and processed in the reagent grinder to make dye. This can then be combined with oil (and minerals for some colors) in the new Paint Mixer appliance.

New Filters

To build on last weeks introduction of filter consumption, we've added two new size variants of each filter type. These can be manufactured in the hydraulic pipe bender.

Hotfix Version 0.1.1567.7381

• Fixed not being able to climb on ladders if they were placed below 0 on the Y axis.
• Fixed a bug where if you clear a item blueprint aligned to a mothership then bring another blueprint up without moving the new one won't be aligned to the mothership axes but otherwise acts as though it is.
• Fixed Autorotate not finding all options on Mothership Grid
• Fixed Autorotate not adjusting rotations for Mothership Grid
• Fixed Holding or tapping the autorotate key while moving between world grid and mothership grid would sometimes cause the placement to not align with the grid
• Updated Localization entries for French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Suomi and Spanish.
• Changed ratio of Carbon obtained from putting Coal into the Reagent Grinder from 5:1 to 1:10.
• Fixed NullReferenceException on jetpacks not belonging to players, or players not wearing jetpacks.

Version 0.1.1564.7373

• Added First pass on new exploding mechanics. Explosions now apply brute and stun damage.
• Added player will automatically take off when turn jetpack on
• Added Mission Event trigger for plant growth states.
• Added ability to use logic to read Quantity value from Pipe Analyzer which will return TotalMoles for the attached pipe network. [Thanks JeepGuy]
• Added Trigger Plate. Activates a value or activates logic when something is within the trigger zone. Constructable from Kit (Trigger Plate) manufactured on the Electronics Printer.
• Added Logic values for tanks and battery to Suit Storage.
• Added kit for Portable Tank creation in the pipe bender, rather than making the tank itself as it tended to clip out and fly around.
• Added Smart-Rotation support for FaceMounted objects.
• Added Smart-Rotation to WallLight, WallHeater, WallCooler, Transformers, RTG, FlashingLight, All logic chips, buttons and dials, sensors, consoles and pipe/cable mounted objects.
• Added Colored Flowers. Grow these and then grind them up in the Reagent Processor to produce dyes for making paints.
• Added lateral movement even when height efficiency is low.
• Added Medium and Heavy variants of gas filters. Medium filters last five times as long as the normal filters. Heavy filters last 20 times as long as the normal filters. They can be constructed on the Atmos Printer (Pipe Bender).
• Added additional organics crate to default starting conditions. Includes flowers, and more food.
• Replaced set of Road Flares in Construction Crate in default start with an Advanced Airlock Circuitboard.
• Fixed Custom key assignments not saving correctly.
• Fixed Elevator placement erroring when placed in same voxel as a wall by adding Z-Axis padding on the Elevator Shaft prefab so that it correctly registered as occupying 2 voxels.
• Fixed Issue with new world screen entries being duplicated if coming from the workshop screen.
• Fixed Issue with drag-and-drop thumbnails and drag-to-slot.
• Fixed Top placement bug for FaceMountable objects.
• Fixed Missing shake effect on ores caused by terrain refactor.
• Fixed Jetpack Caution notification not occurring, only jetpack critical.
• Fixed Not able to crowbar elevator open and closed.
• Fixed Cereal bar using 150g of flour instead of 50g.
• Fixed Constant drain of propellant when in zero gravity environments.
• Fixed Switching hand to an empty slot while using the mining drill resulting in a null error requiring a restart to resolve.
• Fixed Inability to launch tutorial due to corrupt translation file.
• Fixed Ore orientation randomly changing while being mined by changing the shake effecting position to rotation
• Fixed bug causing jetpack stabilization not working while using the labeller.
• Fixed jetpacks sending many more network messages than it needed to.
• Fixed Attempted to reduce instances of NaN batteries in cold environments. Should also clear their broken state on save load.
• Added Suomi (Finnish) translation.
• Updated Localization files for German, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Spanish.