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| − | {{Version | + | {{ VersionFrame | Version = 0.12.906 | Description = '''Alpha 12 - 0.12.906''' was released on August 21, 2015 - Alpha 12 Release + Hotfixes |
| − | + | | Body = <noinclude>{{Version}}</noinclude> | |
| − | Animal | + | | Installation = |
| − | + | | Changes = | |
| − | + | | NewContents = ====Animal Taming==== | |
| − | + | *Colonists with the Animal Handler work type will now interact with animals. | |
| − | === | + | *Animal handling success rates are governed by the new Animals skill. |
| − | + | *Handlers can tame animals. They approach designated wild animals with food and attempt to tame them to make them part of the colony. | |
| − | + | *Handlers can train animals as designated in tame animals’ Training tab. Animal training looks like taming, requires food, and trains one “trainable skill” at a time. Not all animals can learn anything; they need sufficient trainable intelligence. | |
| − | + | =====Trainable skills===== | |
| − | + | *Obedience: has master, follows master while master is drafted and defends him. | |
| − | + | *Release: master can release animal during combat to attack distant enemies, and call animal back. | |
| − | + | *Rescue: animal will rescue wounded colonists and take them to bed. Animal must be smart and large enough to do this. | |
| − | + | *Haul: animal will intermittently haul items like a colonist would. Animal must be smart enough to do this, and will haul an amount related to its body size. | |
| − | + | *Added Animals main tab, which lists all colony animals and provides interfaces to set their master and area restriction. | |
| − | + | *Each animal has a ‘wildness’ indicating how difficult it is to tame. | |
| − | + | *Animals have a minimum handling skill. Player is warned if they designate taming an animal that no handler can actually tame. | |
| − | + | *Tame animals can be assigned animal areas in which they will try to remain. | |
| − | + | *Tame animals can be bought and sold. Bulk traders carry normal animals, while exotic goods traders can buy and sell any weird animal, pre-tamed. | |
| − | * | + | *Tame animals can be designated for slaughter and animal handlers will slaughter them. |
| − | * | + | ====New Animal Mechanics + Behaviour==== |
| − | * | + | *Some animals (alpaca, muffalo, camel) can be shorn for wool that can be crafted into apparel. |
| − | * | + | *Some animals (muffalo, cow, camel) can be milked. |
| − | + | *Some animals (chicken, cobra, iguana, tortoise, etc) can now lay eggs. Fertilized eggs will hatch. All eggs can be eaten or cooked. | |
| − | * | + | *Animals can be pregnant and give birth. Animals are made pregnant when a male approaches and mates with a female. Birth is accompanied by amniotic fluid spray. |
| − | * | + | *You can now build animal beds and animal boxes and place animal sleeping spots. |
| − | ** | + | *Animals all sleep. |
| − | * | + | *Animals can have different graphics per gender. |
| − | * | + | *Animals have “life stages” related to their ages. Baby animals are tiny and weak, juveniles somewhat larger, and adults are full size. |
| − | * Animals have | + | *Colony starts with a random pet. |
| − | + | *Animals can nuzzle colonists, improving their mood. | |
| − | * | + | *Animals can be named when tamed or when nuzzling. Names are drawn from a large bank of animal names. |
| − | * | + | *All organisms including animals have life expectancies and will develop chronic conditions like frailty or cataracts in old age. |
| − | + | *New incident: Farm Animals Wander In (some tame farm animals wander to and join the colony) | |
| − | + | *New incident: Self Tame (random wild animal on map becomes tame). | |
| − | * | + | *Doctors will treat animals’ wounds if the animal is in a colony bed. |
| − | + | *Some animals may attack on a failed taming attempt. | |
| − | * | + | *Animals produce animal filth, proportional to body size, inversely proportional to petness. |
| − | * | + | *Tons of new animal graphics and sounds for new animals. |
| − | * | + | ====New Animals==== |
| − | + | *Boomalope (large fragile animal that explodes and sets fires on death) | |
| − | * | + | *Thrumbo (giant peaceful powerful creature with amazing fur and horn) |
| − | * | + | *Chinchilla (very valuable fur) |
| − | * | + | *Capybara |
| − | * | + | *Cow |
| − | * | + | *Pig |
| − | * | + | *Chicken |
| − | * | + | *Yorkshire terrier |
| − | + | *Labrador retriever | |
| − | + | *Husky | |
| − | * | + | *Elephant |
| − | + | ====Room Roles and Stats==== | |
| − | + | *Rooms now have ‘roles’ and stats based on what is inside them. These are automatically-defined values that, in turn, passively affect thoughts and events in the room. | |
| − | + | *Room roles and stats can be inspected with a new inspection tool (bottom right of screen). | |
| − | = | + | =====Room roles are:===== |
| − | * | + | *Bedroom |
| − | * | + | *Barracks |
| − | * | + | *Prison bedroom |
| − | * | + | *Prison barracks |
| − | * | + | *Dining room |
| − | * | + | *Hospital |
| − | * | + | *Laboratory |
| − | * | + | *Kitchen |
| − | + | *Rec room | |
| − | + | *Tomb | |
| − | + | =====Room stats are:===== | |
| − | + | *Impressiveness (most important stat; an aggregate of other stats, mostly for pride psychology) | |
| − | ===Room | + | *Wealth |
| − | * | + | *Space |
| − | * | + | *Beauty |
| − | ==== | + | *Cleanliness (has a direct effect on medical outcomes) |
| − | * | + | =====Room stats affect things like:===== |
| − | * | + | *Immunity gain speed |
| − | * | + | *Medical treatment quality |
| − | + | *Room stats create many variants on thoughts like: | |
| − | * | + | *Ate in impressive dining room |
| − | * | + | *Own impressive bedroom |
| − | * | + | *Own bed in impressive barracks |
| − | * | + | *Did joy activity in impressive rec room |
| − | + | =====Added room traits:===== | |
| − | + | *Greedy: Unhappy without a very impressive room. | |
| − | + | *Jealous: Unhappy if anyone has a room noticeably better than him. | |
| − | ==== | + | *Ascetic: Unhappy unless he has a very crappy room. |
| − | * | + | ====Facilities==== |
| − | * | + | *Added ‘facilities’ – passive buildings that give bonuses to nearby buildings: |
| − | * | + | *Vitals monitor (improves healing in adjacent medical bed) |
| − | + | *Tool cabinet (improves production at nearby work table) | |
| − | + | *Multi-analyzer (speeds research at nearby research bench) | |
| − | ==== | + | ====Ancient artifacts==== |
| − | * | + | *Ancient artifacts with psychic powers can be bought, sold, and found in ancient crypts. |
| − | + | *Psychic powers work at any range through obstacles. | |
| − | + | *Artifacts are one-use. | |
| − | * | + | =====The artifacts are:===== |
| − | * | + | *Psychic insanity lance – drives a single target insane |
| − | * | + | *Psychic shock lance – drops a single target asleep |
| − | + | *Psychic animal pulser – drives animals berserk map-wide | |
| − | ==== | + | *Psychic soothe pulser – gives a temporary mood boost to everyone on the map |
| − | * | + | ====UI Reworked==== |
| − | * | + | *Main tabs like Work, Outfits, World, Factions, etc are now tabs permanently displayed along the bottom of the screen instead of being buried in an Overview window. |
| − | * | + | *Some tabs, like Work, will not take more space than they need to given the number of entries (colonists) to display. |
| − | + | ====Misc Changes==== | |
| − | === | + | *Graves are no longer just glorified storage slots; colonists must actually ‘bury’ corpses. |
| − | * | + | *Can now build sarcophagi out of solid materials. High-quality sarcophagi are art items. |
| − | * | + | *Colonists will visit graves of dead colonists for a joy activity. |
| − | * | + | *New incident: Poison ship. A variation on the psychic drone ship that kills plants in an expanding circle. |
| − | * | + | *New Flashstorm. A localized, intense lightning storm in one area of the map. Causes big fires. |
| − | + | *Added heart attacks. People or animals approaching or past their life expectancy will have a chance of heart attack, which will progress and resolve in a random way. Heart attack is emergency-treatable to improve outcomes. | |
| − | === | + | *Added hay (animal food only, for getting through winter). Added haygrass (long growing, high yield of hay). |
| − | * | + | *Added way to enable/deny medicine in different qualities to any colonist, prisoner, or tame animal, from a the health tab. |
| − | * | + | *All furniture is now ‘minifiable’ like televisions and telescopes. This means beds, chairs, etc can be moved without being rebuilt, bought, and sold. |
| − | + | *New trait: Night owl. Happy when awake at night, sad if awake around midday. | |
| − | ==== | + | *New thought: Crowded – In a space with too many people. |
| − | * | + | *New installable implant: Painstopper. Prevents all pain, but reduces consciousness permanently. |
| − | * | + | *New installable implant: Joywire. Large permanent happiness boost, but reduces consciousness permanently. |
| − | + | *Furniture can now be art engraved. | |
| − | * | + | *New floors: gold tile, sterile tile, cream carpet, dark gray carpet. |
| − | + | *Game start now has a “select random landing site” button if you don’t want to choose. | |
| − | + | *Improvements to trade interface: better layout, expands vertically to use all screen space, increment/decrement buttons and launch/drop all buttons added. | |
| − | * | + | *Added ‘open’ designator for opening cryptosleep caskets, graves, sarcophagi, and other containers. |
| − | + | *Manhunter pack incident can use animals besides wargs. | |
| − | * | + | *Commands are shown if there is at least 1 selected object with this command, instead of requiring all selected things be able to accept the command. |
| − | + | *Dazed broken pawns will now randomly strip off clothes and drop things. | |
| − | + | *New graphics for squirrel and warg. | |
| − | * | + | *New graphics for research bench and other buildings. |
| − | * | + | *Unskilled or injured growers can fail at harvesting, destroying the harvest for one plant |
| − | + | *A bunch of new music from Alistair Lindsay. | |
| − | + | *Carrying capacity is now a stat that can change for body size and manipulation capacity. | |
| − | * | + | *Siegers will never be sent with only melee weapons (too exploitable). |
| − | * | + | *Sappers now avoid mining through high-health ores and barriers. |
| − | + | *Rebalanced crop yields and harvesting challenges so crops require a bit more space. | |
| − | + | *Game will auto-reset mods config on startup crash to try to recover. | |
| − | * | + | *Tons and tons of bugfixes and other adjustments, refactorings, balancings and tunings. |
| − | * | + | | Bugfixes = |
| − | * | + | | Hotfixes = *Rebalanced animal hauling, traps, charge rifle, assault rifle. (Alpha 12b) |
| − | * | + | *Rebalanced animal hunger rates and plant nutritions so animals need larger grass pastures to be sustainable. (Alpha 12b) |
| − | * | + | *Thrumbo is much more powerful in combat. (Alpha 12b) |
| − | * | + | *Sleeping pawns now wake up when harmed. (Alpha 12b) |
| − | + | *Float menu column is wider to avoid cut-off text. (Alpha 12b) | |
| − | * | + | *Ship part incidents won’t occur so early. (Alpha 12b) |
| − | * | + | *First raid comes a bit earlier on Cassandra and Phoebe. (Alpha 12b) |
| − | * New | + | *Fixed: Manual work priorities being used after switching to non-manual priorities. (Alpha 12b) |
| − | * | + | *Fixed: Colonists have ‘colonist left unburied’ thoughts when tame animals were left unburied. (Alpha 12b) |
| − | * | + | *Fixed: Eggs can only be used for simple meals (Alpha 12b) |
| − | * | + | *Fixed: Trade items dropping in weird places. (Alpha 12b) |
| − | * | + | *Fixed: Colonists incapable of violence can slaughter animals. (Alpha 12b) |
| − | * | + | *Fixed: Alphabeavers leave the map after they sleep because they get hungry. (Alpha 12b) |
| − | * | + | *Fixed: Date changes over at 6am, not midnight. (Alpha 12b) |
| − | * | + | *Misc other fixes and improvements. (Alpha 12b) |
| − | + | *Poison ship part event now only drops one ship part instead of 2-3. (Alpha 12c) | |
| − | + | *Flashstorms are much less intense (Alpha 12d) | |
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