Hi all

This is our second Major Update of the year! Can I ask all playtesters to start a new game, and play it as if you are coming to the game afresh, and attempt to complete the game as far as sector 3 where you encounter the new environments. Then feedback to me using f1 in game, and/or through discord. Thanks kindly!

This build has a bunch of new stuff I'm really excited to add, that really help flesh out the backbone of the game and set the stage for some interesting things to come. The most notable changes are a set of new farming outposts, and associated trash and elements, a stock market, with dynamic prices that fluctuate and are affected by your trading actions, plus three factory style product machines which you can use to make and sell products. We added the Holo-Map which you can use in space to get your bearings and find key locations such as entity bases and unidentified signals. We also have our first (of many) NPC quests, which we're testing in the first sector, and finally the Galactic Map, which you can access via your suit menu to plot your route through your designated salvage sector.

We also have some cool new sound effects, and some new visual effects in the form of ambient occlusion which round off the look of the game nicely, and a bunch of other balance, tweaks and fixes. We'll shortly be expanding products and items and tech you can build alongside other interesting things, so keep an eye out!

Build 0.199610

• Updated order of space rig items in crafting menu

• Updated roof square corner curved icon

• Updated jump drive fuel to be red

• Save sleep pop up, copy changes, cannot sleep twice, added new death sound, audio doesn’t shuffle on map one, sector goals 2dp, new track

• Add talk to actor at complete build flag for actors

• Atomiser now accesses storage so one does not stop when you use another

• Added audio volume slider option in audio library

• Remove interplacement mode after placement to remove glitch

• Added zinc and phosphorus models and updated data

• Updated zinc, phosphorus and nitrogen cubit data to new icons and have recipes

• Fix base attacks

• Added new song

• Fix fire spam

• Made products stackable and updated microchip and motherboard factory prefabs

• Trash values and sector goal targets valuations corrected

• Switch microchip and motherboard factories around

• Added original atlas texture back to reinstate missing materials from crops and comms unit and made wreckage trash scale 2

• Do not show NPC alert on last quest. Correct space rig holder to save load rig position and not place erratically far away or in planet after save load cycle and jump

• Mines only spawn gold or plutonium

• Opening crate makes sound and disables emission

• Update loot crate contents

• Update microchip needs copper and steel incubation time

• Updated wreckage text, enemy base attacks use normal distribution for more regular waves and numbers

• Solar cubes correctly show red drainage pips after save load cycle

• Update tutorial

• Updated geoDome doors and made planters on ground layer

• Added new SFX audio files

• Updated farm outpost prefabs to not float

• World UI NaN error. Update starting goal tutorial copy. Update get enemy type is throttled by tech level

• Recipe balance to use farming ingredients, add level 2 mods balance factories

• Coral emission

• Update farming trash and mining trash ingredients, add new ingredients, lacuna trash only in lacuna, removed lithium

• Sector danger levels affect enemy respawn target level of a sector

• Corrected enemy removal on jump, and base generation numbers

• Correct placement issue getting stuck in interplacement on last item after placement toggle. For placement helper, have camera ray source start above the player as high as it can go, or just under a ceiling

• Improve end consume build action in primary fire to help ensure not getting stuck in interplacement, ending prior action correctly if another is started

• Fixed read write mesh for NPC mesh

• Initial balance sector formation

• Trailer mode on, can build free placement items on floor

• Implement sector progress throttles asteroids numbers and type per sector on map and in generation

• Update farming outposts

• Update farm out posts to spawn correctly and also implement single trash spawner

• Update farming lacuna

• Initial farm outpost with doors added to all exterior items

• Implement map top field correspondence with progress int

• Sector field details available on map screen

• Updated farming asteroid

• Toggled off outline on coral and mushrooms

• Added farming lacuna prefab

• Added rigged, animating doors for geoDome, polytunnel and greenhouse, and made multiple geoDome and greenhouse planters

• Updated poly tunnel and greenhouse attachment points and poly tunnel LPM

• Added farming lacuna panel and updated irrigator to have panel point

• Added farming asteroid a

• Initial define parameters to use seed

• Gal map only generate forward lines in range

• Galactic map only jump forward

• Remove enemies in sector jump and clear lists

• NPC controller removes quest data object to remove ui element on destroy on jump

• Update missing ok string in tutorial

• Galactic map functions with jumping player and updating asteroid field seed accordingly

• Jump drive is working via galactic map, hooked in between using incubation

• Jump drive uses jump fuel and opens galactic map to set coordinates with inital new buttons and prompt text for jump, not implemented yet

• Update gas giants to draw on sector map

• Fix bug when crops grew larger than array size

• Update galactic map

• Galactic map functioning

• Galactic map visually functional

• Galactic map work

• initial gal map toggle button and UI prefab

• update scene

• Update space rig sector map pivot so does not overlay player

• Added greenhouse

• Wreckage can be scanned and visited sand that is saved via trash cloud. NPC asteroid scanned and named distinctly

• Update sector map and materials

• Added more asteroid map meshes

• Update sector map

• map asteroid with correct mesh names

• Added single material M and XL asteroid

• Added irrigator and more ox colliders to water tower

• Map stuff

• New sector map component draws asteroids and ship hologram centred on player

• Some farm outpost stuff - poly tunnel and coral and mushroom trash

• Update quest marker to use TMP and change control

• Add ambient occlusion to forward renderer

• Add dead Scav NPC functioning on outpost. Outpost gravity is functioning outside of interior for objects. Motherboard price balance.

• Added geoDome, great tree1 and planters x2 - models, materials and prefabs. Need to add colliders

• Added Low Poly Nature Pack

• Added water tower