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Rekindling Revamped! 1.0 Release coming soon!

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435d ago

Hey guys HUGE NEWS. We have been hard at work totally revamping the entire game to finally get us out of early access and into the full release world! A lot has gone into this from redrawing over 2,000+ individual art assets, Overhauling the whole AI system for Survivors, Zims and animals, and so much more. Lets take a sneak peek at some of it!

New Graphics

We have brought an artist onto the team to help us totally reimagine what Rekindling could look like. No longer do we just have bobbling around creatures with floating heads, we now have fully animated dynamic survivors! We have taken this whole redesign very seriously and replaced pretty much every single asset currently in the game with an updated new one! Survivor with their cow Chilling' on the ice

New Survivor, Zim and Animal logic

Survivors and Zims used to do some pretty silly things when it came to their internal logic without going into a lot of super nerdy things here we have totally rewritten a lot of how they make decisions to be more intelligent and feel more "alive" New survivors! LOOK BEHIND YOU!!!

Just so much more

Leading up to launch in the next few months we will do more posts with deep dives into some of the new features!

Revamped Research progression.
Full controller support for 'Control' mode with a revamped control mode.
New Zims.
More ways to control your settlement and survivors.
Totally rethought UI.

So when is it happening!?!?

I am notorious at giving specific dates on things and missing them so what I will say is we are aiming to release this update along with a bump from early access into full release in summer of this 2026! So stay tuned. Feel free to let us know any questions you have or just share you excitment here on the steam forums or on our Discord

Extra things

Here's some more pictures from our journey of 'rekindling' the spark of Rekindling over the last few years! Excited for you guys all to experience it. Early character designs Hanging out in the bushes Some of the new items New Animals Some of the new buildings New cover art

Update .80. Farming re-work and tons of improvements!

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1288d ago

Hey guys!! Long time without an update. Hope it was worth the wait. We changed a ton of big and little things behind the scenes in this update. Lets get into some of the bigger changes.

Farming rework

One of larger changes this update is how farming is treated. previously you would start the game with ALL of the farming options already unlocked. This would be very confusing as you don't know what you should or shouldn't be growing. Farming plots now must be researched per crop you are trying to grow! Lots of crops have been sprinkled through the tech tree, as well we have added a new category of 'Farming' to the bottom of the tech tree. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/8a1650a199a0eca266ea2b2149bd7266507ff544.png

Ease of use improvements

The biggest complaint about Rekindling has always been its hard for new players to figure out what is going on. As such we have put a lot of effort into trying to streamline some things such as help tooltips and guiding the user to show them when something is happening in their colony. On top of that we have added new sections to the help menu for new players to learn more of the game! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/3fbfde4e5b89796511983f5fced4cbed5880910d.png

Supply drops

A new random event of 'supply drops' have been added! This is another way for your settlement to get some much needed supplies before you have researched things. Supply crates and luggage will now fall from the sky occasionally grant you a multitude of fresh equipment. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/77a12401049e52e6f5a8a5fb5a83295b9ff555b2.png

More complex survivors

We have added a ton more random traits, professions and backstories for survivors to help give more variety when deciding to accept survivors into your settlement or not. From Pet lover to Frail your survivors will have some more uniqueness to them. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/58dbd7b337fcf7a468d89884113d280e927cff22.png

Behind the scenes fanciness

As always we have been working on our game engine powering Rekindling FreakingSweet almost non stop. Rekindling is now only our second game to be upgraded to be using FreakingSweet 2.0 with only our other newest release Goo Gladiators using it, this opens a ton of potential for thing in the future such as better online interactions and even cross platform play!

Final Thoughts

Thank you guys for showing support for Rekindling for all these years! This was a nice size update, but we had to delay a lot of the features we had planned for it. A lot of framework things are now firmly in place to get the the 'end game'. My goal is to start to button up a few more features (multiplayer, survivor control, ect..) to get us ready for a 'full release' sometime hopefully in the near future. As always please feel free to let me know what you would like to see next or what you think of the game either in a Steam Review, the Steam Forums or over on our Discord!

0.80.0

Updated game engine from FreakingSweet 1.7 -> FreakingSweet 2.0
Added new farming research tier
Added new random event: Supply drops
Added a ton of new backstories for new survivors
Added a ton of new survivors traits
Added new sections to the help menu
Changed some researches to now include farming rewards
Changed hunger amounts for most of the foods
Fixed bug where clicking on settlement name shuffled too much
Fixed bug where waste/storage notifications wouldn't open the correct tab.
Fixed some typos across the game.

Update .79. Blood Moons, new Zim Types & more.

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1592d ago

Lots of new features and fixes in this one! So strap in. Also In the effort of trying to be fancier I also made a video summary here: For those of you who prefer to read....

Blood moons

Every 15 days in game now there will be a BLOOD MOON. The BLOOD MOON, has a significantly increased Zim spawn rate and you need to prepare in order to survive the night!!

New Zim variant: Oozers

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/28057d910bb085bfd3ce89df0a77bdaae7bf7939.gif A new type of zim is on the prowl! Oozers are slightly weaker and slower than normal Zims however they drop a toxic purple ooze on death. This ooze will taint the ground and slowly spawn zims on that tile, Even during the day!

Lightning rods

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/0e151865e96911b2e0b1365486f7d5e86dfca77c.gif A few things have been added to help reduce the devastation of forest fires. Firstly we have added a new building, Lightning rods! They cover a large area and will direct lightning to them instead of nearby forests and structures. As well ash that is left in a burnt forest will slowly replant trees in the surrounding areas.

Combat AI reworks

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/4de9b242a502fecd8fbb176bb03d8ffacbce2180.gif Lots of little things have been added to tweak the survivor AI. One of these is survivors will now be more directly responsive when a friend is being attacked by a zim. As well survivors will give up on impossible jobs much more quickly than they used to.

Leaderboard reset!!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/cc5b8f63e3a24958cfa97cd34792e7facd22ecff.png Breaking Mastergamings commanding grip on the top leaderboard scores. We have reset the leaderboard and put a new champion! The difficulty has changed with blood moons and the new Zim type hence the change. The next champion spot is up for grabs!

Final Thoughts

As always thank you guys so much for the continued support! More updates are still in store for Rekindling as the game grows. As always feel free to leave us a review on Steam or hop in the discord to let us know what you want to see next or even just your thoughts on the update.

Full(ish) patch notes

0.79.0

Reset leaderboard!
Added New event: Blood moons.
Added New Zim Variant: Oozers.
Added Ground Ooze the spawns Zims even during the day!
Added name shuffler on start menu.
Added new building: Lightning Rod.
Added Lightning rod to the 'fire protection' research category.
Added the ability for ash to turn into trees on Charred ground.
Added new Patreon Supporter names to the game.
Changed survivors to be more responsive to helping friends when they are in combat.
Changed day/night indicator to be more inline with the new UI.
Changed early access screen to be up to date.
Fixed survivors trying to do some jobs when they are impossible
Fixed impossible jobs getting queued as often.
Fixed sound bug when clicking some things in the start menu
Fixed bug where Zim variant types didn't load properly.
Fixed bug where Zim variant type didn't send to clients in multiplayer

0.79.1

Fixed bug where some name input fields would auto close.

Update .78 Fixing, Fixing, Fixing

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1657d ago

Hey guys! As some of you may have seen we have been really busy launching our third game Operation Zeta. Wanted to give you guys something for Rekindling as well to let you know we haven't stopped work on it! We have a ton of bug fixes and performance improvements in this update. We are also laying some groundwork for a massive overhaul of the start of the game/ ease of use. (We have been taking a deep dive on everything currently on the HUD & UI to see what we want to fix/improve). As well some fun new features such as Boss wave nights and "Blood Moon" days are in the works for the next update! Overall long story short we fixed a lot of bugs :) Let us know what you think and thanks for the continued support, Sorry for the long time between updates the next update will not be that far away, Read the full(ish) patch notes below!

0.78.0

Updated to latest version of our game engine (FreakingSweet)
Added warning when you don't have the proper building for a queued crafting job
Added ability to name your settlements with randomly generated names.
Changed low food icon
Changed low bed, food and toilet warnings to properly scale with base size.
Changed character menus to hold last menu open when switching between characters
Changed jobs to update better when there are large queues of jobs.
Improved the readability of a lot of the main menu screens.
Fixed bug where jobs would display the warning "Outside safe zone" During the day.
Fixed crash with VBay
Fixed Stored power not saving on save game
Fixed Stored power not showing on client games in multiplayer
Fixed bug where you could resist ZTD if you took control of a survivor while infected.
Fixed Rare crash with out of bounds jobs
Fixed rancher not costing anything.
Fixed bug where new power nodes didn't update properly
Fixed offset for some job placements (again)
Fixed bug that would consume mech suit when a survivor starved to death in one.

Update 0.77 Mech suits & performance Improvements

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1761d ago

Hey guys! New update is out. Tons of new stuff from new equipable mech suits to things falling from the sky! Lets go over some of the highlights.

Mech Suits

We have added a new way to protect your survivors and improve their work output! Rideable mechs. Mechs are crafted at the new building the V-Bay. In future you will be able to craft other vehicles at this station. After they are crafted you can assign a survivor to one and they will enter it. Once inside the vehicle will enhance their work output as well as serve as a protective barrier from enemies! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/7ac0b8aeb53f61bb4da0b662c1615a26df0ca6ad.png

Item textures revamp

As the game grows older some of the old textures for items looked not up to standard with the rest of the game. As such we went through all of the items in the game and re-drew and touched up the majority of them. Some of the changes can be spotted just from the start! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/3c62437c111fdda6ba1290142caf09c5df68e39d.png

Objects from space!

New random events have been added. Space debris will now fall from the sky. This will be yet another source of renewable metal. However be careful as it will destroy structures and start fires on impact! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/d605709a648b500c051c0f23b5499e8a23db4996.gif

Performance improvements

A deep dive on things that would cause the game to drop below 60 FPS was done and a ton of improvements have been made. The power network had a massive backend overhaul and now runs significantly better. As well the power view mode would cause lag on large bases in previous updates, It now runs at a crisp 60 FPS! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/860e79aa2f8f7fec50470375980852e9880a3b23.png

Final thoughts

The update finally got here! Sorry for the delays lots of things have been coming up recently that have made it harder to get things done on Rekindling. Plenty more is planned for Rekindling that didn't make the cut this update, but is already half done, such as transport belts and automated buildings! Thank you guys for your continued support as always let us know what you think of the game and the update via the Steam forums, Discord or with a Steam Review (those help us out a ton :) ) and of course if you are feeling extra generous to support our projects check us out on Patreon

Patch notes

0.77.0

Added Mech suits
Added Vbay
Added new Research for mech suits
Added new random events, Meteor showers and satellite crashes
Changed textures for a ton of items to look nicer
Fixed bug where items held by survivors would not persist through saves.
Fixed Text placement on some object hovers
Fixed lag with tic updates with some power setups
Fixed massive lag with large power setups
Fixed bug where update countdown would look bad when update was late
Fixed a ton of texture issues with large objects not being placed correctly (Creature vat/ table ect)
Removed dev scores from leaderboards.

0.77.1

Fix crash when trying to equip some items

Update 0.76 Power and Security.

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1844d ago

Lots of fun reworks and better ways to control your settlement this update!

Security

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/c4865d05f77a0fa6a626699d17bdebee1629c423.png We have made it easier to make your survivors be safe at night! Survivors will only do jobs at night that are designated in the 'safe areas'. To aid in this we have added an new 'safe area' view mode that shows safe areas, as well we have added a new 'Security tab' in the bottom right. In future this tab with also contain survivor patrols and other fun things revolving around safety.

Power Reworks

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/df109d131931d0df7f45633ac361e3720ffc6a6d.png The way power works has also been changed. We have completely removed wires and now have a new item called "Power node" Power nodes are automatically connected to your power grid and give an aura nearby of what they are also connecting to the network. All powered items need to be connected to the grid in order to function. We have also reworked the power view mode to help you see at a glance what is on the grid and how much power your power items have.

Spiffing up of menus

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/c70490aef4f63bb430c27379041af80c614d8a58.png We have started to overhaul the look and feel of a lot of the menus. as you can see the main menu looks completely different. Many of the icons for menus and such have changed in the main menu as well as in game. We have more we want to do with it, but its off to a good start.

Final thoughts

As always guys keep the feedback coming. Tons of more content is in the works for Rekindling and we prioritize what to work on first based on user feedback! Thanks for all the continued support, make sure to let us know what you think on our Discord or here on steam in a Steam review, or in the forums.

0.76.0

Added New security tab
Added 'Safe Areas'
Added New hairs for male and female survivors
Added new 'Safety' View
Changed power view mode is completely re-done
Changed power distribution system completely see above for details
Changed main menu
Changed a lot of other menus/icons
Changed: solar panels and batteries can no longer be turned off
Changed: You can now right click on any world object
Changed: You can now queue destroy jobs from the right click menu.
Fixed clicks overlapping with some of the right hud clicks
Fixed jobs not updating 'doable' ness in a good amount of time
Fixed bug where batteries would say no power but would still be connected to power
Fixed bug where planning would not send between users in multiplayer games
Fixed leaderboards/saves are reset properly now!
Removed Wires
Removed show wire option

0.76.1

Fixed bug where you could accidentally spawn mech suits
Fixed bug where you could not scroll all the way down on leaderboard on lower resolutions.

Update 0.75: New desert biome. Tons of animals!

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1889d ago

Hey guys another new update for Rekindling is out. We have improved the game some more as well added a ton of new animals and a new desert starting biome! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/f9ccc59d03250cdd9e1f96d5031fe69b01adcec7.png

Desert Zombie Llving

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/35d300fb7249d875f4020f02dcd336fda1988070.png We have added another option for a starting environment: Desert. Deserts provide a new challenge of limited starting wood and a higher base temperature. It will be vital to setup tree farms right away to stand a chance!

More Animals

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/9dd2676f6f58ccea9914a0ff8d4bfb0c0b0ca738.png We have added 7 new animals this update! All with their own stats and traits. As well certain animals will now have a high chance to poison survivors (Snakes, scorpions) so be careful when fighting them. ZTD isn't the only illness to fear. As well we have rebalanced a lot of the existing animals for other biomes to make a more balanced experience.

Other fixes/changes

We have modified a tweaked a lot of smaller aspects of this game this update as well to make a more enjoyable and balanced experience. Such as turrets will now be more proactive in finding targets to attack, Bricks are cheaper and fire will spread less than it did before.

Final thoughts

As usual thank you for all of the support we have been given! We made a ton of the art for this update live over on Twitch if you want to see more behind the scenes stuff and come hang out! This update was going to be a lot larger with the addition of vehicles as well, but they do not function up to our standards for release yet so expect them next update with other fun things. Feel free to let us know what you would like to see next and how we are doing :)

0.75.0

Added new Desert starting Biome
Added new item Cactus fruit
Added new farm type: Cactus Farm
Added new plant: Cactus
Added new animal: Ostrich
Added new animal: Camel
Added new animal: Snake
Added new animal: Scorpion
Added new animal: Chinchilla
Added new animal: Lion
Added new animal: Giraffe
Added new status from animals: Poisoned.
Changed: fire spread is slightly reduced
Changed: Fires will go out slightly faster than they did before in rain and out of rain
Changed toilet texture to be less poopy.
Changed alligators to be better in fights
Changed some of the animal spawn pools for all biomes
Changed stone cost of bricks from 5 -> 2
Changed turrets to be more pro-active in finding and attacking zims.
Fixed bug where alligators, foxes and moose would all only give one meat when butchered.
Fixed bug where City biome wouldn't have the crash site display properly
Fixed bug where campfires would still produce heat when put out

Update 0.74 Smarter Survivors. New items, Leaderboard Reset!

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1936d ago

Hey guys! Another content update has come out! We have added some new items, we have improved the combat AI for survivors, added some more sound effects and even fixed some more bugs.

Survivor AI Reworks

One of the largest impacts that you will notice is survivors will be far less aggressive with chasing random Zims on the map. They will now be a lot more conservative in their fights. This will lead to it being easy to manage settlements without your survivors going off and dying all the time!!

Science balances

A large complaint was that science can be really hard to get started especially if you don't have a properly skilled and dedicated scientist. We have reworked a ton of the values for the first few starting science blobs. Some are cut more than 60% of what they were before!! As well we have added basic furniture on the science tab! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/e5802867276d3a795ff3b37dba77153ece03ebfe.png

New Items

We have also added some new items! Some tables, chairs, stools and a radio to help make your settlement feel more like an actual settlement! Survivors will be happier the more of these items they have around them. The tables and chairs will have more interactive uses in future updates as well so stay tuned ;) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/034086777ab1d45fd68ba12b75095eb63a6cf6e1.png

Leaderboard Reset

With all the changes listed we have reset the leaderboard and put the leader in the hall of fame!!! Here are the top 5 for this past group of updates. Someone needs to de-throne MasterGaming! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/8f9fc840f47fc37edc9b1f531d8b1d05001c052c.png

Other small improvements and fixes

As well this update we have gone and fixed a ton of bugs and added some more 'ease of use' things. More sound effects and music will play at points as well as things like the scheduler showing when day and night is! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/d9148bc58850222ac40daa80f870d989038f073b.png

Final thoughts

As always thanks for the support guys! Feel free to give us feedback in a review or on our Discord! We did some of the art for this update live on Twitch we are streaming at least twice a week doing gamedev things so if you haven't checked it out yet, come hang out! The focus of this update was decided partially by you guys on the Discord, We did a poll on what you would like to see us focus on! We will be doing more of these for each update so its worth coming to let yourself be heard!!

0.74.0

Added new Item: Bench
Added new Item: Stool
Added new Item: Table
Added new Item: Radio
Added new Research blob: Basic furniture
Added some new sound effects for things such as Science events. Lab results & skill level ups
Added new music that will play at certain times in-game.
Changed the coloring subtly on the scheduler to reflect day vs night
Changed The brains on survivors when looking to attack zims. They are smarter
Changed valid save version for leaderboard to be after this save.
Fixed crash in sandbox when all survivors died and a raid happened
Fixed rare crash with Steam Workshop loads
Fixed day count getting de-synced with host in multiplayer
Fixed game crash when a server or client fails to start up
Fixed multiplayer to run a lot smoother overall
Fixed Autopickup not sending over multiplayer
Fixed bug where the new science notification wouldn't show on a new unloaded game.
Updated to .NET framework 4.5.2

0.74.1

Fixed a very rare crash when removing or moving an object from the world.

0.74.2

Fixed crash when putting wrong characters into the orders display.

0.74.3

Fixed crash when trying to write characters the game can't write.
Fixed another rare crash involving people not exiting enterable objects properly.

Update 0.73 : Multiplayer improvements & dead bugs

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1965d ago

Hey guys! no big new features in this update but we made multiplayer and the game as a whole a lot more stable. Big thanks to the community for helping find issues with the multiplayer. Next update we will be getting back to content additions along with more bug fixes! The most noticeable and significant thing you will notice is multiplayer as a whole is cleaner and it will run smoother with no or fewer de-syncs on worse internet connections. Tons of other small improvements such as being able to paste in IP addresses into the IP address box have been also added. Full list of fixes/improvements below! As always please let us know how we are doing and what you would like to see!

Full Patch notes

0.73.0

Fixed crash when trying to host then join game without restarting.
Fixed bug where using MMB to pan wouldn't unfollow survivors
Fixed Typo for basic décor and basic training in the research menu.
Fixed the canceling of jobs and changing of priorities does so only in your selected box.
Fixed player jobs not being able to be removed my connected players in multiplayer
Fixed rain sound effect still playing on menu if you quit during rain
Fixed hair textures not matching for connected players in multiplayer
Fixed the UI will now show properly when trying to rejoin games without restarting
Fixed some formatting with the IP box
Fixed connected players will now see the correct Biome when joining a game
Fixed removing zones not working properly in Multiplayer
Fixed equipment not showing for connected players in multiplayer
Fixed rare crash where animal textures could be invalid
Fixed large world objects being duplicated in multiplayer for connected players
Changed: You can now paste text into all text boxes in the game
Changed: Sandbox mode no longer has a 'game over'
Changed: Network games should run a lot smoother now.
Made it so that connected players can no longer save and won't autosave
Numpad '.' will now work in text fields

Update 0.72 Multiplayer

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1975d ago

Finally it is here!! After a ton of work we finally have Rekindling playable in multiplayer. Updates will now resume their normal speed with our next one already less than 10 days away. Do keep in mind multiplayer is an early access feature in our early access game. So expect quite a few hiccups. We have an active channel on our Discord going at it to try and find bugs and bring them to us!

Multiplayer

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/ddbef417d481ab88c15b52035b2dfb54f56322ea.png When starting a game you are now given the option to start a 'Co-op' game. Doing so will open your game up for your friends to join! Make sure you have opened a port on your router as you are hosting the server locally. The default port for Rekindling is: 62345. Once you are in the game a friend can hit join game and help you build your settlement in tandem with you! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/6ae7f6343fa99113cab8558fc8713605927747e0.png

Technical rants

This update ended up taking a lot longer than indented. As many of you know, Rekindling runs off of our own custom game engine, as such we wanted to build a robust multiplayer framework we can use for all future games we make. We ended up restarting from scratch on the multiplayer part 3 times in the past 5 months. It has been an adventure, but the core framework there now is good and we now have a ton of room to grow and quickly add to it. There will most likely be a ton of small updates over the coming weeks finding bugs with multiplayer and getting it to a spot where we feel comfortable with it. So bear with us and report anything you find to us here on Steam or on our Discord

Final thoughts

Thank you guys for still having interest in Rekindling. I have a lot of big plans for this game that extend pretty far into the future. As always we welcome any and all feedback so keep it coming! See you guys soon.

Full(ish) patch notes

Added: Multiplayer
Added: New gamemode: co-op
Added: ability to type "." & ">" in inputs
Added: New multiplayer game alerts
Changed: Growth times on some farms
Changed: Animals will wander less
Fixed: Some of the clicking for back buttons in the main menu being off
Fixed: Farm tiles growth speed being wrong.
Fixed: A ton of other small bugs I forgot to document.. bc.. multiplayer

Update 0.71 Shockingly Fast.

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2117d ago

This weeks update brings some new electrical defensive items as well as some major performance fixes across the board.

Electric fences

There is a new type of defense! Electric fences. Zims attacking the fence will damage themselves if the fence is on and powered. This makes it easier to setup a perimeter that will help you hold back the zim hordes {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/290f9fad576112a5a45b836fdf7c459c144624b0.png

Tesla Towers

Another new turret that runs off of electricity has been added. It will zap any zims or raiders that come near to it as long as it has sufficient power! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/c7cec164a6515d0e5663a3a83e74188490af7ab2.png

Lighting changes

The lighting system has changed how it works a bit to allow for more variant sizes and colors based on the object glowing. For example Tesla towers and electric fences will have a small blue glow while a roaring bonfire will have a larger orange glow. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/3d4008bde188ef1474762c2b8b9e9d97257d5370.png

Performance fixes

We found & fixed a couple of major lag issues plaguing the game. Rekindling now handles having a large amount of jobs 3000% better (actual number). As well animal pathing was not using the fancy new pathing system added awhile back, with the addition of tamed animals that was causing issues when they had to go across the map to do jobs for the settlement. We fixed that. The animals are smarter now.

Other helpful things

More helpful tooltips to help players better understand what is going on and why have been added. Such as 'no power' icons and warnings on buildings that are not powered. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/dfbb72e07ca429e7987d225b6390b7570521cfca.png

Final Thoughts & next update

Rekindling is really starting to come together! We have some fun plans for the rest of the year for Rekindling. The next update (coming in January) will be one of the largest updates to the game ever. I look forward to sharing that with you guys! Keep the feedback coming here or in our Discord channel.

Patch notes

0.71.0

Added electric fences
Added Tesla towers
Added new defensive research: electric defenses
Added no power warning on unpowered electric objects
Added additional information to survivor wellbeing tooltip
Added new Patreon names
Changed lights to be dynamic depending on the object emitting them
Fixed bug with back button on science menu scrolling weirdly
Increased click size on back button for in game full screen menus
Fixed bug when placing electric buildings thinking they are powered at birth
Fixed a large lag issue associated with large amounts of tamed animals.
Fixed large lag issue when there are over 1k jobs in the job queue.

0.71.1

Upgraded to newest version of FreakingSweet.
Changed update time for next update..

Update 0.70. Mental and physical well-being

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2154d ago

This weeks update focuses on not only physical wellness but also mental wellness! We all know it is very important during a global virus to keep up with both of these!

New defensive buildings. Baits

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/6eed52fead7c8e15016ddc92a9e3bb5b556b7547.gif To help with your physical well-being we have added two new buildings: gut bait and meat bait. These buildings will attract Zims to them allowing you to setup traps turrets or just lure them away from your base to keep your survivors safe!

Flower pots!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/5d43d49d649d230b2ad178e6c1e83d4566a015a4.png To help with your mental well-being we have added flower pots. flower pots can help passively boost the happiness of survivors who are around them.

New attack mechanics

We have tweaked the combat mechanics slightly to make it easier for the survivors you want to fight to be the only ones fighting. Survivors who are not allowed to fight will now flee when engaged in combat and call for help from other survivors instead of just trying to fight back alone. As well survivors with low health will start to flee sooner than before.

The dead will rise

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/7f0cfffa7f0194cf50872dd0f096e3e05ce86dbe.gif You will want to be more careful with your dead survivors as if you do not dispose of them quickly they can come back as a zim and attack your still alive survivors!

Giving you all the foxes

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/8f0005dcfac64babdef7e2ec82655f92c0a3b479.png To go along with the theme of helping with the mental and physical wellness we have deiced to show you that we give a fox by adding foxes to in the game.

Update Stream & final thoughts

We will be doing a short stream going over some of the features in this update. Feel free to drop by and ask any questions you would have about this update or future updates! Thank you for all the support you guys have been giving Rekindling. Feel free to leave us a review here or let us know what you think about the game over on our Discord

Patch notes

0.70.0

Added Foxes
Added new patreon names to game and credits.
Added new building: Gut bait & Meat bait
Added new building: flower pot
Added two new research tiers. basic decor & baits.
Changed people to come back as zims if not disposed of properly
Changed survivors under attack will flee when below 25% hp instead of 20%
Changed survivors disallowed to attack with now flee when attacked
Changed fleeing survivors will now call for help when being attacked
Changed some building tab names to better reflect what is in them
Fixed people to no longer age after death
Fixed bug with colors being very dark in the zone menu
Fixed bug with cure discover notification being very dark.
Fixed duplicate messages when traps damage zims

Update 0.68. Punching bags, Training & Fixes

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2196d ago

This weeks update has some more improvements to control mode as well as a new kinds of buildings!

Training Buildings

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/fd6169fc3bf3688100e28156f603885b505a9735.png We have added punching bags and studies. You can assign a survivor to one of these and have them work on their physical or mental skills in their freetime or if they don't have anything else to do.

More control mode things

You can now do most of the things a survivors can do when not being controlled while you are controlling a survivor. We have added the ability to do refueling, researching and uh... other important functions.. see the below picture. I think its self explanatory. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/532b3aeab2de863f8bf767247bf603b2ed4d11b5.gif

Other fun news

If you guys have been following us we have another game coming out next month on Steam! Don't worry this doesn't mean Rekindling will get any less love, as it has been in development alongside Rekindling for almost a year now. We have some fun things planned for people who own both games with exclusive in game items. As always thank you for the feedback and support you have given us! Tons more content and updates are on the way. Feel free to drop us a review or give us any feedback here or on our Discord. If you are feeling extra nice check out our Patreon Patreons will get Early Access to Operation Zeta in the next couple weeks

0.68.0

Added New Building: Punching bag
Added New Building: Study
Added New job type: Learning
Added New Research tier: Learning
Added option in the options menu to restart the tutorial
Added ability to do research & refuel jobs in control mode
Added ability to use outhouses in control mode
Added attack jobs to show up the priority menu
Added Credits screen with Patreon Supporters
Changed "Science" building tab to be "Science & Training"
Changed update timer to be a littler prettier
Fixed Bug where jobs menu could be interacted with even when its not shown
Fixed Bug where the scroll could stop working under certain circumstances
Fixed some UI bugs around mouse options
Fixed bug where refueled objects could easily be overfilled
Fixed bug where survivors could have negative amounts of an item in storage

Update 0.67 New gamemode & doctors

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2217d ago

This weeks update has two new major features, A new game mode and a doctoring system.

Doctoring

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/c605ee43fede4113670522aa78b57c84ab59a3fb.gif A new job type has been added, doctoring. Injured survivors will now find a medical zone and wait for another survivor to come heal them. They will slowly heal themselves when here as well but do much better when they have a doctor helping them. Medical beds have also been added, building these will speed up the healing process even more. All survivors now have a doctoring skill that dictates how good they are at doing doctoring jobs. Any survivors from old updates will get a random skill level in it when you next load them up.

New game mode: Control

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/0092665abd8b6742ff0720c270d328434622ef18.png As the past couple of updates have improved control mode significantly we have added a new gamemode to play: control only. In this mode everything functions as it does in survival mode except you are directly controlling one survivor. If your one survivor you are controlling dies its game over! Hopefully this helps create a more immersive way to play.

And of course....

This wouldn't be a Rekindling update if we didn't add a new animal! We have added raccons along with coonskin caps! Everyone knows you need one of thease bad boys if you are trying to survive in the wild. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/0bdc48d6956ef01f6b0502ccbe5468261c329298.png

Final thoughts

As always thank you for your feedback as a ton of the bugs fixed in this update were found by you guys! Keep the feedback coming, feel free to leave us a Review here on Steam or join the Discord. If not see you in a couple weeks with more fun things in the next update.

0.67.0

Added new gamemode: Control only mode
Added new survivor skill: Doctoring
Added two new traits: Caretaker and squimish
Added new zone: Medical
Added new building: Medical bed
Added ability to do crafting, cooking and butcher jobs in control mode
Added pause display to better show when time is paused
Added new research tier: Medical science
Added coonskin caps
Added Raccoons
Changed crafting, cooking and butcher jobs now have better descriptions
Changed survivors to go to medical zones when they are low on health
Changed update time on main menu
Fixed bug where other survivors would sometimes steal each others food/water/medicine
Fixed bug that wouldn't save quarantine status on save/load
Fixed bug where capture jobs would stay on creatures that are dead
Fixed bug where you could control multiple survivors at once
Fixed bug where people would get stuck in a fleeing loop
Fixed survivors getting stuck on certain jobs they couldn't do.
Fixed 'units' not displaying arrows in pause menu.

0.67.1

Fixed bug where other raiders could give survivors jobs
Fixed bug where survivors could be given jobs to attack other survivors
Added ability to sleep in beds when in control mode
Added ability to wake up when asleep in control mode
Changed game to go at 5x speed when you are asleep in control mode.

Update 0.66 Better control mode

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2238d ago

This is a update heavy on fixes. As well we made it a lot easier to stay in control mode for longer!

Control mode revamp

Something that makes Rekindling unique is the ability to play directly as any of your survivors. As such we spent a lot of time for this weeks update on making it so you can do a lot more while controlling your survivors. You can now manage your inventory, equip items and do building jobs while you are in control mode. As well we have reworked how a lot of the core of control mode works so there are significantly fewer bugs around using it. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/1ddeb7a263e5d20f1fb9ecca356f962bb0602433.gif

More help

One of the biggest complaints about Rekindling is it is hard to figure out how the controls work when you first start playing. As such we have added tooltips on what buttons you need to hit to do what. If there is something you think we missed that we should add please let us know!

Better item handling

Before this update if a item dropped on top of another item it would just delete the item that was trying to be placed. That is no fun! Now the item will find a nearby tile and drop it to that tile. As well when one of your survivors dies they will drop all of their equipment and items so your still alive survivors can reuse their loot! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/442a89b3cb0a00632a219fcf44e16a5fa121af08.png

Final thoughts/Next update

As always thank you all for the support and feedback!! This update, on top of the above new items, has a ton of bug fixes that are listed below, many of which were reported by you guys. In the next update we will be expanding the control mode even further with a 'control only mode' and the ability for the person you are controlling to do even more jobs, such as crafting. As always please keep the feedback coming on Discord or in a Review (those help us a ton). Thanks guys see you soon, full(ish) patch notes are below...

0.66.0

Added Alligators
Added ability to do building jobs in control mode
Added ability to switch and store inventory items in control mode
Added ability to equip items from control mode
Added a ton of tooltips for controls throughout the game
Added capture jobs to the job priority menu
Changed Items dropped on top of other items will find a nearby tile to land on
Changed Items to be centered on tiles
Changed people will drop all items and equipment upon death
Changed equipment equip menu to reflect if someone is currently trying to equip that item
Changed equipment equip menu to allow for cancellation of equip jobs.
Fixed having duplicate equip jobs for the same item
Fixed a ton of bugs relating to control mode with survivors being added/dying
Fixed control mode sticking even when you have died
Fixed bug where people would move slower after doing an empty job
Fixed empty jobs will now take their buildings priority
Fixed tamed animals can no longer accept jobs to kill themselves.
Fixed tamed animals can no longer capture and tame other animals
Fixed survivor menu sometimes defaulting to the animals tab
Fixed pickup jobs not saving the amount they are supposed to pickup between saves
Fixed tamed animals not wanting to empty buildings properly
Fixed control mode bug where consuming an item didn't remove it from their inventory fully
Fixed clicking the priority menu buttons will no longer also click the map.

Update 0.65 Animal Taming

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2259d ago

This weeks update has a heavy focus on animals. Three new animals have been added as well as a few new mechanics surrounding animals have been added.

Animal Taming

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/fbeaf74548dba5d2a2e2f319af9341c259b3ec8c.png You can now capture animals and have them do basic jobs for you! Such as attacking and moving items around. When you capture a creature and place them in your pasture they will then be your friend for a time! Overtime they will become more and more wild. You can keep them tamed by building a food trough for them to eat from. They will go to eat from there and regain 'tamedness'. But wait you say. The food trough was for animal breeding before!? We have added a new building 'rancher' that will function as the food trough did before for animal breeding. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/ceb867390b831bc7954a8d8683ecbd419614c2c1.gif an army of squirrels killing a cow

New Animals

In the sprit of new animal mechanics we have added three new animals. Bison, Moose and Squirrel. Bison Appear in the normal environment and moose will appear in the forest and snow environment. Squirrels are just everywhere.

UI tweaks

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/25558a02e5342ed6b40e71b6969dd4423f65bc5f.png with the addition of animal taming we have added an animal tab to the survivors view. You can track any animals you have tamed and your settlement and see what they are up to and how they are doing.

Final thoughts

As usual thanks for the support and feedback! Keep letting us know how we are doing so we can improve by joining our Discord, here on the steam forums or by leaving us a review. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/361488ebe691e14545af9f7d25e6b88a6e03b393.gif Thanks for Bearing with us

Patch Notes

0.65

Added ability to tame animals
Added Moose
Added Squirrels
Added Bison
Added new building 'Rancher'
Added tamed animals menu
Added Ice in snow environment
Changed Trough to work for taming
Changed a lot of the core logic behind how and where animals want to go and do.
Changed some of the survivor information UI to fit animals
Changed texture for Creatures in crafting menu to clearly show all creatures can be used
Fixed people going out of bounds to do certain jobs
Fixed bug where animals would not fight back if you hit them while in control mode

Update 0.64 Bows, Bears & Bugs

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2273d ago

This weeks update is packed full of community suggestions! Most of the new features/improvements in this update were suggested by someone from the community. Keep the feedback and ideas coming.

Science changes & new items

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/3623d0b4ed3bf6a4700d3f156e790082487011a6.png We have changed the science menu to make the early game less brutal. We moved defenses down into their own section and added crossbows. That means if you want you can research Basic Weapons right when the game starts and have a ranged weapon and melee weapon with your first research. As well we have added a Bear Hood that offers some protection and warmth without needing any research! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/626de4ddb7332f7c05d6c113d33f7dde789b57ab.png To accommodate all these new items we have made it so that grass is now an item and can be harvested for more than just seeds. As such many recipes have changed to include grass.

Farming Changes

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/9c894b67e6646214aad8c6014c051133e04b7aa9.png Prior to this update farm jobs were just special building jobs. As such it was hard to make a dedicated farmer for your settlement because they would also build. As such we have added the farming job so you can prioritize farming independent of building! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/ec5a0125c32be6505aac87f1783329ca25c5da34.png We have also added the ability to grow grass as it is now needed as a crafting resource and needs to be renewable.

Other fixes/Tweaks & PANDAS!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/6d585b6c717656f4603d4d5efb480e3d3c81b694.png Continuing our theme over the past couple of updates of adding new animals we have added pandas this update as an alternate skin for Bears. Expect more new animals and some fun animal features next update ;) We spent a lot of time this update getting rid of more bugs and making things run and look smoother. Such as making it so when you click on the controls in the top left it no long will accidentally place or select items on the world. You can read about all of these in the full patch notes below.

Final Thoughts

This was a fun update to do. A lot of what was added and fixed this update came from you guys. I appreciate all the community feedback we get on Rekindling so please keep it coming. Feel free to leave us a Steam review those help us out a ton. Let me know if you guys have any questions see you again with another update in two weeks!

0.64.0

Added Pandas
Added new building: Bowyers Bench
Added Crossbows
Added new Science: "Basic weapons" for Crossbows and Bats
Added new Item: Grass
Added new Equipment: Bear Hood
Added new Farm: Grass Farm
Added scheduling warnings if you don't give them a category
Changed Science menu to be scrollable and tweaked the categories
Changed farming to be its own job type instead of a building job
Changed grass to also drop the grass item and not just seeds
Changed a ton of recipes to now require grass
Changed the intro to allow it to be skipped
Changed added a more building descriptions
Changed so the start of the game has slightly fewer rations/water
Changed Cows to produce more leather when butchered
Fixed popup menu clicking alerts below it
Fixed Rare crash when trying to do a job outside the map
Fixed bug where control mode could allow you to get outside the map
Fixed rare bug where animals and zims could spawn on the map border and wander outside the map
Fixed bug where survivors with the simple trait could get stuck doing research forever
Fixed graphical bug that would make walls/stone connect to non walls/stone
Fixed menu clicking also clicking the world on the top left menus

Update 0.63 One year in Early Access!

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2293d ago

Hey guys a special update this week. Today marks one year of Rekindling being in Early access on Steam! As such we have a lot of fun things going on this week starting today with a large update. There is a lot in this one so bear with us.

Redone Tiles

We have reworked the ground tiles from scratch making them look a lot less ugly an repetitive. As well as added more blending between different tile types. A picture of the difference will say more than I can so view below! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/214ec3d7c6027cdd799d56a0e45b745b25008cf1.png

New Intro

A short intro Sequence has been added to explain why your survivors are in the middle of a field with a bunch of debris around them! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/5a51b621601cd8052724b058a5d812ca74689cae.png

New City Environment

We have added a new starting option: City. You will have significantly fewer trees and rocks but have a lot more abandoned buildings to explore!

New animals & animal breeding

Again this update we have added new animals. Monkeys and Tigers. Tigers are the best fighting animals in the game they will easy be able to take down a couple Zims before going down. Tigers and monkeys will only appear in the Forest & City Environments. You can now also have sustainable meat without having to run out and hunt! This is because animals will now reproduce if they are adults, haven't reproduced in awhile and have access to the new building: Troughs. You will Troughs with wheat for the animals to eat. You can now and make a tiger/bear/cat pit around your base you have always wanted to fight the Zims with. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/e770907fe9bafa83aa10facd0a723dc6b6d0f062.png

Crafting Priority & Crafting Fixes

We have reworked a lot of the core 'behind the scenes action' with crafting. With this you can now set priority on your crafting jobs! Benches will now have a priority assigned to them and changing that will change the craft priority of any items made at that type of bench! Crafting also is now a lot more responsive and accurate. Queuing up 3 bats will ONLY make 3 bats instead of sometime more! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/cc0bada41461b43ed8fcd58fe2567c428b64a567.png

Tons of other 'ease of use' Items

We have a ton of smaller features this update as well. Such as being able to click on more notifications on the left bar and have it open the correct menus for that thing, and keeping orientation of a object will starting a move job on it. you can see all of the small things below in the full patch notes

Final Thoughts/ Fun Event

First I would like to say thank you so much for the journey you guys have joined me on in Rekindling's first year. It's been a wild ride from doing this as something I do in my free time to my full time career. I will be doing a Twitch Stream tomorrow at 5pm -8pm(EST) I'll be talking about the past present and future of Rekindling while showing you guys the ins and outs of playing the game. As always let us know what you think, Feel free to leave us feedback her on Steam by leaving a Review (They help us a lot) Or posting in the forums. Also feel free to join us on Discord for more instant conversations!

Full(ish) patch notes

0.63.0

Added: New buildings, Plane debris in the starting area
Added: New Intro sequence while the game is loading for the first time
Added: New ground tiles, Grass and Charred ground
Added: You can now change names on the new survivor screen
Added: Spinning icon on loading menus
Added: New buildings, Troughs to breed animals
Added: New Research blob,
Added: Ability to change priority on crafting jobs via the benches
Added: You can now click most notifications to open the 'Area of interest'
Added: Text to show when you are in control mode.
Added: Scroll buttons on popup menus that scrolled and didn't have the buttons
Added: New Environment, city
Added: New men's 'exotic' hair style
Added: New animals, Monkeys and Tigers
Changed: Barley and Wheat Textures
Changed: Fire will turn tiles into charred ground
Changed: Ground tile textures have been redrawn
Changed: Different ground tiles will do more blending between them
Changed: Select box on creatures are fancier
Changed: Fire texture to be a bit fancier
Changed: Research amounts have been balanced slightly more
Changed: Night 14 is even more less brutal
Changed: Rotation is now more clear on buildings that it are being rotated
Changed: Rotation is maintained when starting a move job
Fixed: Graphical issues with items and equipment fighting
Fixed: Being able to pan the camera off the right side of the map
Fixed: Lots of graphical bugs with tile borders
Fixed: A lot of bugs around crafting feeling wonky

0.63.1

Fixed rare Crash with crafting jobs
Fixed crafting jobs displaying (could not find bench) when it was on a bench.
Fixed lettuce not showing up on farming menu.

Update 0.62 Ducks eating bugs.

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2315d ago

Smaller update this week with a lot of little things including ducks and small improvements.

Ducks!

First addition is a suggestion we got during a stream recently. We have added ducks! Ducks are fast and can be aggressive if provoked. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/0aac86d2a36d21610e1501cb33859d2b5af36eb5.gif

Borderless fullscreen

A long suggested feature of being able to have the game run in borderless fullscreen mode has been added! This should make it easier to play the game in fullscreen when doing other things.

Tons of small improvements

We have a ton of other small improvements we have added. Such as adding icons to the notifications on the activity feed. We have done other ease of use things such as making it so you can queue jobs to place buildings over items. Survivors will now just pickup the items on the ground if it is in the way instead of not allowing the job to be queued. Also Sniper turrets have been added. They shoot slower, have more range and do a lot more damage than normal turrets. They are in a new research tier after turrets. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/0913c3245c3867c7250763c6e19b897cf932fef7.png

Next Update/ final thoughts

As we go into April we are nearing the one year anniversary of Rekindling in early access on Steam (4/22)! We have a large update planned as well as some community events around this time to celebrate, We will keep you posted. Check us out on Twitter or in the Discord to stay updated about these. As always please keep the feedback coming, feel free to leave us a review on Steam as well, they help us out a ton.

Full(ish) patch notes

0.62.0

Added Borderless fullscreen mode
Added Ducks
Added Alerts for when survivors have low health
Added Sniper Turrets
Added new science tier for improved turrets
Added icons for all alerts
Added Patreon link to main menu
Changed penguins to be slightly buffed
Changed animals killed by zims will no longer drop corpses
Changed so you can now place buildings over items
Fixed jobs not being cleaned up when the become impossible
Fixed some bugs around pickup jobs
Reduced Zim spawn amounts on some harder days (day 14/30/45)

Update 0.61 Find the cure

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2327d ago

Finding the cure

There is a now a way to cure the Zims and get fresh survivors! There is a three step approach to each cure trial. After researching and building a mixer and a creature vat you will unlock the cure menu. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/064be043157ca6e5a2e1086861477367106951e0.gif You first must capture and analyze a zim. After this you must then pick ingredients you want to use to test a potential cure. After creating a potential cure and loading it into the vat, you will get chances to cure the Zim inside! Be careful however as a wrong cure has the potential to spawn in a very strong zim out of your vat! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/393deabbddb6624cde02c0ce894c694d50dbd113.png

Zim changes

Animals can now contract ZTD!! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/93c6d45141aca42a476dd808b169473317c879f7.jpg Zims will now attack nearby animals that they hear. If the animals survive the encounter they have a chance to also turn into a Zim. Zims as well can now live during the day if they are inside a building. This also applies to Zim animals. Be careful with animal pens as you could very well have a horde waiting in your base!

Planning

You can now plan out things before you place them! Want to make sure a space near your base is kept free for a future building? Set down some planning! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/c20b7d53a77f5d28ce8f1371221822f71aeba6c4.png

Research balance

Research was way too easy in previous updates. Survivors could rapidly get science skill and research a late game research very quickly. This allowed people to get full research tree completion by day 14. We have significantly increased the time to research as well as reduced the amount of experience you get when researching.

Leaderboard Reset

With the addition of new threats as well as changes to research we have reset the leaderboards. Congratulations to MastergamingVR (again) for getting the top spot! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/db07c1e54694ab6ea47c416e1ea48f97d6475ce6.png

Final thoughts

As always thank you for feedback and support! Tons of the ideas we had for this update game from talking to you guys. Keep the feedback coming. Feel free to leave us a Steam review as well those help us a ton :) This update was huge and has more than what I highlighted here, do let us know if you find any issues with it and we will get them fixed ASAP. Full(ish) patch notes are below

Patch notes

0.61.0

Added Creature Vat building
Added Cure menu
Added 4 new cure related Items. (cure, Red vial, Blue Vial, Green Vial)
Added Zim animals.
Added new research tier for cure things
Added Planning mode.
Added ability to do more things in the control mode
Added ability to capture Zims
Added some more survivor backstories
Changed Zims to take less damage in the sun
Changed Zims to not take sun damage when indoors
Changed Zims to now attack animals more aggressively
Changed Zim spawn rates a bit.
Changed Research to be a lot slower
Changed Research skill to level slower
Changed: Buffed Pigs & cows slightly
Changed some of the health values on buildings (fence nerf wood wall buff)
Changed give job to automatically create an attack job when clicking a zim
Fixed bug where clicking pause would not unpause the game.
Fixed give job text to not be garbage
Fixed massive lag that came with forest fires
Fixed scroll bug in the crafting menu when using the arrows.
Fixed bug that had zim brains go through their hats
Fixed some bugs around refueling.

Update 0.60 Equipment!

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2350d ago

Equipment Rework

Equipment such as weapons and warm hats in previous updates was really confusing as survivors would automatically equip them and there was no way to have control over who was wearing what. It was just whoever got to grab it first. We have redone how equipment works as well as added a ton of new things to equip. You can now right click items to tell your survivors to store or equip the item. As well in the equipment menu you can tell them to unequip the items. New equipment menus {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/915b4aa1a3e0025f6fbbe08578d81c4a2fb015a0.png

Lots of new Equipment

As Equipment is now more useful we have added a ton of new equipment. We have added a Tannery, a Loom, a Forge and even a workbench called 'the fun bench' (we will get to that later) as such there is now a new category for research with 4 tiers for new equipment! Research menu with the 5 new blobs and new section for equipment {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/c0d6142bf942e3314e5f1ad69483af629870e760.png

Equipment benefits

All equipment has different properties. Making warm winter clothing will keep your survivors warmer but will not offer much for defense. However having full metal armor will make you really hard to do damage to, but will slow you down significantly. As such we have added more to the status menu to show how the equipment is effecting them. New Status Items on the status menu {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/2e9ce11a69368dfc8dfb6bb2cd0d3ba43572dc7b.png

New way to find Happiness

Prior to this update the only effective way to actively make your survivors happier was to give them beer. As this is clearly not a good sole solution for happiness we have added fun clothing. Wearing this will make your survivors passively more happy over time. As well it will cheer up survivors who see people wearing fun outfits. fancy suit, and tie {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/f93e41427cb6e8c48d764f55e312be44564db8d9.png

Other new things

We have added some other small improvement and bug fixes such as allowing for infinite orders of items. New infinity counter on Items {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/c532a49c1e023731e0f3a7d1b4231d39fc4f997f.png

Next update Info (Leaderboard Reset)

It will be a bit longer than usual for the next update (3 weeks instead of 2) but that is because we plan on changing a lot of core things such as how research works and adding a ton more to the survivor direct control mode. As such, the .60 update will be the last update for this round of the leaderboards. The leaderboards will be reset when the 0.61 update comes out. At point and whoever is at the top will be immortalized in the records. This spot could be yours {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34823205/5aa7a9f5f5e80a40ada54bd7de517f82d369267d.png

Final thoughts

As always we couldn't do this with without you guys, Thank you for all of the feedback and support here on Steam and in our Discord Keep the feedback coming it helps us a ton.

Patch Notes

0.60

Added: New job type: Equip
Added: Ability to equip/unequip specific survivors
Added: Tannery building
Added: Leather hats/gloves/Vests
Added: Loom building
Added: Warm hats/gloves/vests
Added: Forge Building
Added: Metal Helmets/Gauntlets/Chestplate
Added: Fun Bench building
Added: Ties/Party hats/Fancy Suits
Added: new building: Floor Lights
Added: 5 new Research blobs (4 in equipment, 1 in power)
Added: Speed/warmth info on status page for survivors
Added: You can now say keep infinite amount of an item in the crafting menu.
Changed: Machetes are now made in a forge.
Changed: Some items/buildings are now in different blobs on research menu.
Changed: Zims will now sometimes spawn with Armor on.
Changed: Compactor is now in the food menu.
Changed: Survivors will put down items in their inventory more often when relaxing/Idle.
Changed: Contagious range has been increased when a survivors is infected or has a cold.
Fixed: Bug that made it cost 5 fish to get one cooked fish.
Fixed: Hair extending past hats
Fixed: Sprinklers did not have crafting requirements... They do now.
Fixed: Bug that made the first three control icons be slightly smaller than the rest
Fixed: Bug that had some item names incorrectly showing on science menu
Fixed: Bug that would remove weapons when equipping a new one.
Fixed: Some capitalization errors in the building descriptions
Removed: survivors with no longer autoequip items
Removed: old warm hats that were equipped to survivors. are now gone

Rekindling news & patch notes

Totally Redone Art

Totally Redone Multiplayer

40+ New Achievements

Tons of new Items and buildings

Improved Survivor Logic

Improved Tutorial

Simplified UI

Tons of Bug fixes

Bigger Maps

Improved Control Mode

Other fun secrets to discover

Rekindling news & patch notes

Totally Redone Art

Totally Redone Multiplayer

40+ New Achievements

Tons of new Items and buildings

Improved Survivor Logic

Improved Tutorial

Simplified UI

Tons of Bug fixes

Bigger Maps

Improved Control Mode

Other fun secrets to discover

New Graphics

New Survivor, Zim and Animal logic

Just so much more

So when is it happening!?!?

Extra things

0.80.1

Farming rework

Ease of use improvements

Supply drops

More complex survivors

Behind the scenes fanciness

Final Thoughts

0.80.0

Blood moons

New Zim variant: Oozers

Lightning rods

Combat AI reworks

Leaderboard reset!!

Final Thoughts

Full(ish) patch notes

0.79.0

0.79.1

0.78.0

What does this mean for Rekindling?

Mech Suits

Item textures revamp

Objects from space!

Performance improvements

Final thoughts

Patch notes

0.77.0

0.77.1

Security

Power Reworks

Spiffing up of menus

Final thoughts

0.76.0

0.76.1

Desert Zombie Llving

More Animals

Other fixes/changes

Final thoughts

0.75.0

Survivor AI Reworks

Science balances

New Items

Leaderboard Reset

Other small improvements and fixes

Final thoughts

0.74.0

0.74.1

0.74.2

0.74.3

Full Patch notes

0.73.0

Multiplayer