Version/0.8.657

0.8.657

Alpha 8 - 0.8.657 was released on December 15, 2014 - Alpha 8 Release + Hotfixes

Changes

• Temperature and seasons
• A new temperature system tracks temperatures indoors and outdoors.
• Characters can get hypothermia, frostbite, heatstroke, or burns from being in extreme-temperature areas.
• Certain clothing can protect against temperature discomfort/harm.
• Temperature changes daily and on a yearly cycle according to where you are on the planet. There are distinct seasons.
• There are special heat wave/cold snap events.
• Added heater and cooler buildings.
• Food spoils. This can be slowed or prevented with refrigeration.
• Snow falls and accumulates over winter. It slows down movement.
• Snow can be cleared manually, and will melt if heated.
• New apparel: Parka and tuque.
• Added new biomes: boreal forest and tundra
• Art and crafting
• Sculptor’s table added. Colonists can create abstract sculptures.
• Sculptures and melee weapons have a quality. Quality is influenced by crafter skill and affects beauty and damage.
• Apparel crafting now allows crafting any kind of apparel.
• Can now craft any kind of melee weapon from appropriate materials.
• Created ‘unfinished thing’ step to crafting. Crafting can now take several days per item (as in the case of advanced weapons or art).
• Added art trading.

New content

• New animals: elk, hare
• New plants: pine tree, birch tree, moss, xerigium
• Xerigium plants can be farmed and refined into herbal medicine.
• New power plant: wind turbine.
• New weapons: triple rocket launcher, doomsday rocket launcher.
• New items: Glitterworld medicine, herbal medicine.
• Alphabeaver event creates alphabeavers who will consume trees until stopped.
• Ancient cryptosleep shrines now generate on the map. Open the cryptosleep caskets if you dare – the occupants may not be friendly.
• Economy and trader stock generation reworked and rebalanced from the ground up.
• Stats inspector allows inspecting more things in more places, and provides more, clearer info.
• Several new songs from Alistair Lindsay.
• You can now release prisoners. This gains you goodwill from their faction.
• You can now configure your keyboard hotkeys.
• Dozens of other fixes and improvements.

Hotfixes

• There was a bug in Alpha 8: If a colonist smoothed a terrain that wasn’t rough stone, the game would crash (Alpha 8B)

• Mostly fixed some hard performance hitching that occurred when there were a lot of blueprints that lacked resources (usually when *laying large amounts of carpet without enough cloth).
• Surgically removing bionic parts from living people will now yield the removed part for reinstallation or sale.
• The binding between workers and bills will no longer time out. This should eliminate problems with workers starting the same bill *several times and ending up with multiple unfinished versions of the same item.
• The ‘was imprisoned’ thought now has a greater effect on mood.
• Fixed growers just standing there when there was a nearby growing job that was not accessible (e.g. a plant pot in a locked room).
• Plant not growing now text uses the word ‘resting’ to clarify that the problem isn’t a lack of light. (Alpha 8C)

• Alpha8c created a major bug where colonists would never plant in hydroponics basins. The fixed build, Alpha8d, is now uploaded. (Alpha 8 D/E)