Hey drifters,

On our road to the World Update II, we improved the placement of buildings and the walkways that lead you there.

We've added snapping functionality and a building grid to aid with the placement of buildings. For those who prefer the old type of building, both the grid and snapping can be disabled. This update comes with a couple of extra quality of life changes allowing you to smoothly build a nice little floating town.

Early Access 0.4.2

Building Grid

• Buildings where you can build at (such as the townheart and walkways) now generate a grid on each of their attachable edges where buildings snap to.
  
• Buildings will now show their grids when building around them.
  
• Grid visibility and Snapping functionality can both be disabled with 2 toggles found in the building menu.
  
• Walkways now display their boundaries.
  
• A visual is added for the propeller blocking buildings on the Townheart.
  

Building Improvements

• Added a collision tolerance. This will reduce edge cases where it looked like you could build somewhere, but couldn't due to a small overlap.
  
• While placing a construction, it will now align next to another construction.
  
• Walkways are now built one segment at a time. You can hold shift or set a shortcut to continuously place walkways.
  
• Walkways now show building buoys when they are placed and ready for construction.
  
• Walkway lines will now look for the closest intersecting building it can hook to. This makes for more natural snapping.
  
• Walkway integrity has been added, this means that walkways are no longer able to be deconstructed when it would cause a part of the town to become disconnected from the Townheart.
  
• Individual walking segments can now be deconstructed.
  
• Reduced the snapping distance when building.
  
• Buildings marked for deconstruction will now display building lines around them.
  
• Producers will no longer wait for their recipes to finish before being deconstructed. This means that drifters will immediately stop working and the construction will be marked for deconstruction.
  

Misc

• Producer recipes can now be cancelled, even if they are currently being produced.
  
• Overhauled the visual of the building radius.
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where a walkway could snap further than it's allowed angle if it snapped to another walkway.
  
• Fixed building buttons not starting a new construction when pressed.
  
• Fixed additional electricity grids being made when salvaging a building and cancelling it. This could cause certain buildings to never receive power, such as the research station, and thus not getting worked by drifters.
  
• Fixed floating worker position in the Unbottler.
  
• Fixed drifter name tags not updating correctly after reloading.
  
• Fixed bullet points not displaying in the update notes.
  

Behind the scenes

• We decentralized the building so we can more easily test it in a separate environment.