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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)