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0.6.532
See upcoming features for future updates. Known bugs in the latest versions are listed here.
  • Public versions were announced on the Developer Blog
  • Quiet versions were recorded on the Changelog
  • Silent versions were released without record
  • Internal versions were not released to the public

Current version (Alpha 9)

Previous Version: [[Version/1.5.4063"" contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.]]
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Alpha 9 is out! This time we’ve added alcohol, drunkenness, binges, hangovers, multiple sculpture types with generated art based on historical events, personal shields for melee fighters, and dozens of smaller improvements. A full change list is at the end of this post.

If you own the game, you can get Alpha 9 by re-downloading from the link you used before (it is a permanent link and always has the newest version). You should also get an update email from us. Anyone still having trouble should start at this thread.

Also note that this build will not load old savegames or old worlds, so please don’t try to load these in the new version. They’ll probably just crash the game.

4:21 EST: I fixed a bug with forbidding and sculptures just two hours after initial release and hotfixed the build to Alpha9b. If you already got it, please re-download. Alpha 9 saves won’t be affected.

Release Trailer

Core Release

Alcohol

Tales and Art

  • There are now three tiers of sculpture: small, large, and grand. Grand sculptures are 2×2 cells.
  • Sculptures now have generated descriptions of what they depict.
  • Sculptures will depict events that happened earlier in a colony’s life, include: killings, drunkenness,vomiting, landing in drop pods, artwork created, struck ore, person captured, person recruited, animal hunted, surgery done, someone was on fire, someone went psychotic, someone gave up
  • High-quality weapons have art engraved into them.
  • All weapons now have quality levels, including guns and bows.

Age

  • Old characters have gray hair and more fleshed-out old age illnesses.
  • Old characters tend to spawn with higher skills.
  • Since people don’t age in cryptosleep, characters now have both chronolotical age and biological age. Even animals and mechanoids have ages.
  • Dates are now relative to specific years. The game starts in 5500.

New Stuff

  • Personal shields added. These one-person shields block a certain amount of damage from ranged attacks and also prevent shooting out. Great for melee fighters.
  • Artillery shells are now needed by artillery cannons. Shells on the ground can explode. Siegers will come with shells to use to bombard you. Shells can be crafted at the machining table.
  • Added deterioration: items left outside for a very long time will deteriorate and eventually crumble away.
  • Surgery can fail now, sometimes catastrophically. Failure chance is related to the surgeon’s medical skill and the quality of the medicine.
  • You can now rescue incapacitated neutral people and heal them. Their faction will be appreciative.
  • Guns now have quality levels which affect accuracy.
  • Added Heavy SMG
  • Added psychic foil helmet
  • Added corn and rice crops.
  • Vomiting: Some diseases, drunkenness, cryptosleep sickness, and hangovers now cause people to vomit.
  • People can now get food poisoning. Bad cooks are more likely to accidentally poison meals.
  • Game now records total real playtime per colony.
  • Added ‘pause on load game’ option.
  • Many new sound effects from Alistair Lindsay for UI, work, and combat.

Misc Improvements

  • Deep optimization on various systems – especially AI. This should make big colonies run much more smoothly.
  • Added bad thought for wearing tattered clothes.
  • Apparel becomes damaged when owner dies from violence.
  • Apparel actually takes the damage it absorbs as armor.
  • Apparel wears out over very long periods of use.
  • Uranium ore now appears as a minable natural rock.
  • Colonists will now go to extinguish nearby fires even if someone else is already coming to do it.
  • Cryptosleep caskets are now sealed, come with warnings, and can contain deadly ancient defenders.
  • Reworked the ‘do until you have X’ option on bills; it now works for more bills and shows the number you currently have.
  • Eating now takes priority even over emergency work (doctoring, firefighting) if a colonist is starving.
  • Colonists, when hauling to stockpiles, always haul the max amount they can carry, and drop the extra nearby if the target cell can’t hold it all.
  • Reworked ship takeoff sequence into a proper whiteout with nice credits.
  • Player can no longer magically toggle power on any item. Rather, you designate power to be toggled and the colonists go do it.
  • Temperature now equalizes through both walls and roof/floor.
  • Lengthened day from 20,000 to 24,000 ticks. Shortened month to 12 days.
  • Reworked auto-tutor to rely more on passive alerts and less on in-your-face interrupting modal dialogs.
  • Colonists are now bothered by people walking around inside the room while they sleep.
  • People newly woken from cryptosleep have cryptosleep sickness for a while.
  • Wind varies over time (not just with weather changes), and so will the power output of wind turbines.
  • Fonts are now nicely antialiased.
  • Tons of other refinements, rebalancings, and bugfixes.

Alpha 9C & Alpha 9D

I’ve just updated the game to Alpha9c. (UPDATE: Now Alpha9d is up.)

Please delete your old installed game, download the new build from your existing download link, and install it to a clean empty folder.

All save games from Alpha 9 will still be playable and mod compatibility shouldn’t be affected.

Alpha 9C Changes

  • Fixed a black-screen-on-startup bug when playing with certain translations.
  • Fixed a bug that caused savegames to become unloadable.
  • Fixed a bug that caused binging people to never eat or sleep, leading to death.
  • Balance: Heaters and coolers are somewhat more powerful to match new heat loss mechanics.
  • Balance: Wind turbines are now much more powerful.
  • Balance: Adjusted frequency of tales so your statues aren’t all of people hunting and vomiting.
  • Updated translation content.

Alpha 9D Changes

  • Fixed probability calculations so the game won’t constantly spam insane animals any more.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Graphic_Collections loading mod content.
  • Raiders will no longer eat from players’ nutrient paste dispensers.

Alpha 9E

I’ve released a hotfix to Alpha 9, Alpha9e, that rebalances a few things and fixes a few issues. This is build 0.9.727.

You won’t receive an email for this hotfix as we don’t want to spam people. The download link is the same one you got all other versions of the game from. Your personal download link never changes and always gives the latest version.

You can update by deleting your old installed game, downloading the new build from your existing download link, and installing it to a clean empty folder.

If you need help with your download please email [email protected].

All save games from Alpha 9 will still be playable and mod compatibility shouldn’t be affected.

Changes

  • Reduced room temperature equalization rates.
  • Room walls that are two or more cells thick now equalize temperature slower.
  • Balanced sieges to be slightly weaker.
  • Various tuning adjustments to several thought mood effects.
  • Removed “buildings need power” alert as it is annoying to see it when a power switch is off.
  • Fixed a bug that corrupts savegames if you sell a statue that is marked to be installed.
  • While firefighting, colonists will now fight any fire they walk into.
  • Fixed a bug that caused non-prisoner beds to be set as prisoner beds on load.
  • Fixed a bug that froze wounded colonist prisoners if they were marked to get doctor care.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented prisoners from using nutrient paste dispensers in their cells.
  • Fixed a bug that caused temperatures indoors to sometimes become NaN (not a number).
  • Fixed a rare bug that prevented running a game that saved with some corrupted work priorities data.

Recent versions (Alpha 8)

Previous Version: [[Version/1.5.4063"" contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.]]
Released on: – 		Next Version: [[Version/0.0.232"" contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.]]
Released on: –

"Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.

Released on: –

Alpha 8 is out! This time we’ve added a seasonal cycle and temperature simulation, snow, two more biomes (boreal forest and tundra) with all the attached animals, art sculpting, crafted item quality, weapon and apparel crafting, homegrown medicine, wind turbines, and more.

If you own the game, you can get Alpha 8 by re-downloading from the link you used before (it is a permanent link and always has the newest version). You should also get an update email from us. Anyone still having trouble should start at this thread.

Also note that this build will not load old savegames, so keep your old install separate if you want to finish an Alpha 7 colony.

Release Trailer

Core Release

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

Alpha 8B

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

I thought this would be impossible, because you cannot designate a non-rough-stone terrain to be smoothed. But if you designate some rough stone for smoothing, then designate a floor to be built over it, and the floor is built, and then the smoother finally comes by, the game will die because the floor has no ‘terrain I should become if I’m smoothed’.

If you think you can just not build floors over smoothing designations, you can just avoid the crash that way. I’ve also uploaded a hotfixed version, Alpha8b, which you can download from your existing download links.

Sorry about this.

Alpha 8C

Note: This hotfix created it’s own new bug (colonists can’t use hydroponics). Sorry! I’m uploading a fix now.

I’ve released a hotfix to some further important issues discovered in Alpha 8. You can get the update by downloading from the download link we sent you before (this is your personal permanent link and will never change). There will be no email sent for this non-essential update.

Changes

  • 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 8D & Alpha 8E

Alpha8c created a major bug where colonists would never plant in hydroponics basins. The fixed build, Alpha8d, is now uploaded.

As always, you can update with your existing download link.

Sorry about that. Hopefully not too many of you downloaded the game in the hours between 8c and 8d.

UPDATE: I just released a nonessential fix to reduce the mood impact of seeing rotting corpses from -14 to -4. You can patch as usual, or just go into RimWorld657/Mods/Core/Defs/ThoughtDefs/Thoughts_Memories.xml, search for ObservedLayingRottingCorpse, and change <baseMoodEffect>-14</baseMoodEffect> to <baseMoodEffect>-4</baseMoodEffect>.

Dev Fix

The ‘saw corpse’ thought is stacking far too high because of a bug. In cases where there are lots of corpses, it can reach absurd levels and make it nearly impossible to keep colonists sane.

The fix is only one line in a single file. You can do it yourself:

  1. Go to the directory (RimWorldDirectory)/Mods/Core/Defs/ThoughtDefs
  2. Edit the file Thoughts_Memories.xml
  3. Go to the “ObservedLayingCorpse” mood effect (usually line 173 to 189). (Usually it’s easiest to do this by hitting Ctrl+F to search for ObservedLayingCorpse).
  4. Change the line “<stackedEffectMultiplier>1</stackedEffectMultiplier>” to “<stackedEffectMultiplier>0.5</stackedEffectMultiplier>”

I’ve also uploaded a fixed version. So, if you wish, you can also just re-download the game from your existing download link.

Saved games won’t be affected either way.

Complete Version List

Alpha

2015.02.18
0.9.722 (Alpha 9)
2014.12.15
0.8.657 (Alpha 8)
2014.10.01
0.7.581 (Alpha 7)
2014.08.13
0.6.532 (Alpha 6)
2014.07.14
0.5.496B (Alpha 5D)
2014.07.07
0.5.496 (Alpha 5C)
2014.07.06
0.5.492B (Alpha 5B)
2014.07.04
0.5.492 (Alpha 5)
2014.06.01
0.4.460 (Alpha 4)
2014.04.11
0.3.410 (Alpha 3)
2014.02.26
0.2.363 (Alpha 2)
2014.01.27
0.1.334 (Alpha 1)
2014.1.26
Internal 0.0.334
2014.1.25
Internal 0.0.333
2014.1.24
Internal 0.0.332
2014.1.23
Internal 0.0.331

Pre-Alpha

2014.1.22
Internal 0.0.330B
2014.1.22
Internal 0.0.330
2014.1.21
Internal 0.0.329
2014.1.20
Internal 0.0.328
2014.1.19
Internal 0.0.327
2014.1.17
Internal 0.0.325
2014.1.16
Internal 0.0.324
2014.1.15
Internal 0.0.323
2014.1.14
Internal 0.0.322
2014.1.13
Internal 0.0.321
2014.1.12
Internal 0.0.320
2014.1.10
Internal 0.0.318
2014.1.09
Internal 0.0.317B
2014.1.08
Internal 0.0.317
2014.1.06
Internal 0.0.314
2013.12.17
Internal 0.0.294
2013.11.07
0.0.254B (Pre-Alpha Backer 2)
2013.11.07
Internal 0.0.254
2013.11.06
Internal 0.0.253c
2013.11.06
Internal 0.0.253b
2013.11.06
Internal 0.0.253
2013.11.03
0.0.250 (Pre-Alpha Backer 1)
2013.11.03
Internal 0.0.250
2013.11.02
Internal 0.0.249a
2013.11.01
Internal 0.0.248
2013.10.31
Internal 0.0.247
2013.10.29
0.0.245 (Pre-Alpha Press Release 2)
2013.10.29
Internal 0.0.245
2013.10.27
Internal 0.0.243
2013.10.25
Internal 0.0.241
2013.10.24
Internal 0.0.240
2013.10.16
0.0.232 (Pre-Alpha Press Release 1)

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