Hey everyone,
First of all, sorry for the lack of updates/communication in the past month or so - things have been pretty crazy on this end, and I've struggled quite a lot to find the time to work on Mechanica. Fortunately, things are settling down now and I'll be able to get back into a frequent update cycle. Thanks so much for your patience and apologies again.

This is the second part of the defense update - as the name suggests, three more defensive objects have been added. In addition to this, following a lot of personal playtesting, I've made a lot of small adjustments that I believe will improve Mechanica's gameplay experience. See below for specifics.

Additions

• Added primitive suspension trap.

• Added advanced suspension trap

• Added spinning laser trap

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused inventory items to temporarily disappear.

• Fixed the furnace being unable to detect ores.

• Fixed various connection issues.

• Fixed a bug that caused interactable objects to stay outlined when they shouldn't be.

• Fixed hover detection issues associated with the programming tool.

• Fixed a bug in the 'Joe' robot loading process.

• Fixed inventory storage units failing to load correctly,

• Fixed a loading issue with the furnace.

• Fixed beds not correctly acting as a spawn point.

• Fixed ores not regenerating when using a bed to skip the night.

• Fixed some audio glitches.

• Fixed 'Joe' robots not returning to their factory after killing the player.

• Fixed being able to use the 'enter' key to craft items whilst typing in the chat window.

Changes/Improvements

• Reduced material cost of various objects.

• Reduced vitals drain rate (25% slower now).

• Made minor adjustments to the robot spawning algorithm.

• Reduced volume of programming menu noises.

• Optimized code to reduce unnecessary network traffic.

• Objects links can now be completed by just hovering over the object itself.

• Reduced power requirement of spinning blade trap (50 -> 20).

• Increased range of the baseball bats(2 -> 2.25m)

• Increased average tree regrow time.

• Increased campfire lifetime (300->480s).

• Added a small radius light to the flashlight which illuminates the immediately surrounding area.

• Increased flashlight angle (75->110 degrees).

• Increased the amount of health provided by the health shot (35->50).

• Picked-up objects now prioritize moving to the hotbar rather than the inventory. Please note this only applies to 'built' objects (those picked up by holding the right mouse button).

• Inceased furnace smelt time (3.5->4.5s).

• Relocated the furnaces 'on/off' buttons.

• Increased default ore regeneration per day rate (5->10%)

• Adjusted the spawning schedule of F.R.A.N.K so that he first appears a bit later.

• Changed the description of glass and sand.

• Increased the collision tolerance of the vacuum.

• Reduced volume of 'Joe' robots.

• Changed the message displayed by the furnace.

• If a powerline can't be created, a reason for this is now displayed.

Thanks for reading, have a great day!