Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls news & patch notes

I got really distracted by a series of projects and didn't make a blog post about new upcoming features. I plan more of those in the future because I'm not done talking about new things that are already in the engine. However, the projects that have kept me very distracted for the last few weeks are worthy of their own discussion so here's a breakdown of everything I've been doing recently. It all started with...

...So I got an art asset for the hangar bay.

Remapped every station

It's nice and big and looks like where you would land your ship in order to have it packed into an item so that you might go and do some shopping. That means I got to spend a good deal of time remapping EVERY SINGLE STATION IN THE ENTIRE GAME. Which was loads of fun. Also created some new stations while I was in there.

I've now got all the stations that need to be placed by world generation ready to go. That includes:

• Single corp item shops

• Mining stations

• tier 1 mega mall trade hub station

• tier 2 mega mall trade hub stations

• university stations

• libraries

• habitat stations

• farming stations

• hospitals

• factories

• military bases

• etc.

Made shop categories

Having recently remapped every single station asset in the entire game I started thinking about the shipyards and the shops that would sell items in the stations I was mapping, as well as the trade goods that you would buy and sell at the trade depots. This lead me to spend some time making a whole lot of different shipyard and item shop categories tied to various corporations in the game.

• Tier 1 ship venders

• start station sells specific ships

• tier 2 ship venders

• faction reputation reward military venders

• specialist shops that sell tweaked and tuned ships with remapped interiors

• shops that sell turrets

• shops that sell consumables

• shops that sell tools

• shops that sell crafting recipes

• etc.

These shop categories are defined in sqlite database tables with the goal being to make it as easy as possible for mod makers to define their own shops.

World-gen algorithm

I also started thinking about how these shops would be placed into the world and came up with a fancy new system for actually filling world engine with content. if World Engine is a framework for streaming content into the session that is generated by stories, what I needed to make was a system for building those stories. Specifically my system had to solve some as yet unsolved problems like..

• what trade items are produced and what trade items are needed?

• how many mining stations should exist in a system based on population?

• how will mod makers design their own procedural star civilizations using only database fields?

That last one was the most interesting to me. Basically, I had made some hard-coded stories that would just place shops and mining stations and other items into systems, but what I really wanted was for players to be able to provide the input parameters that would determine how a civilization procedurally generated its space.

The system I came up with uses internally a deck of cards and some weighted priorities for different star systems and it basically works like this:

First you define which stars will be occupied by your star empire. This means putting some X and Y coordinates into a sqlite database table representing the coordinates of star systems that are owned. At the same time, each star is assigned a priority which is just a number representing how "developed" that star system should be.

Next you define a deck of "population" cards. Each card represents a type of population that has a specific effect on a star system's development. For instance a retailer card creates a market district if one does not already exist, and then adds a shop selling specific items. A prospector card sets up a mining district and adds a mining station to it. A settler card colonizes a planet, or raises the population of a planet by 1.

The system then plays cards on the systems assigned to the star empire they are assigned to in order to build up those systems with populations and infastructure.

These cards also create and consume resources system-wide. So districts know that they have a local desire for certain item types, and star systems have a list of items they are short on or that they produce in abundance, and that allows for procedural trade routes to be created that will send NPC agent trade ships flying around the galaxy.

Also (and this is one of the most important point of all this) this system lets me set the prices of trade goods at trade good depots procedurally. I do NOT want to set every price in the galaxy by hand. However I do want you to be able to make a profit by buying trade goods for cheap in one location and selling them for more in another.

Mod support

The cards are defined in a database table as a bunch of string values that are super easy to modify, and the cool thing about cards is that each one defines a name field for their corporation, the asset that population should use, and the shop category it should create. When used by world generation these fields determine what art asset will be placed into the world, and those art assets are also defined in the database, meaning you can just insert your own custom ship and station art, give it a unique name, and assign it to any card.

The result is that star empires build up all of their stations and all of their npc agents using assets that come from the world parameters database, and mod makers can define an arbitrary number of world parameter database to be included in world generation.

That means that all you need to do is modify some tables in an sqlite database and you can build an entire star empire with custom art assets for every station and ship and the contents of every shop and the ships used by the military and the reputation rewards and the warlords etc.

These assets live in the world engine database, meaning the engine supports as much custom content as you can fit on your hard drive. Every asset that gets displayed in a session is loaded in real time from the database and the only constraint on memory or vram is the quantity of stuff spawned into a single session at any given moment. There should be no limit to how big or complex you can make a custom world generation aside from the amount of time world generation will take when building the world.

In the previous update that came out a long time ago at this point I added affixes to turrets and allowed them to drop as loot. The idea was to increase the amount of cool stuff that could drop as loot, while also broadening the surface for ship customizations. I also added module components and introduced some new tuning kits, all to accomplish the same.

Well I've been playing around with crafting for a while, and with the creation of world engine I realized I could do some pretty cool stuff with it. I wanted a system with a lot of depth where maxxing out a trade skill was really worthwhile, and I also wanted to extend the list of cool things I could drop as loot in order to continue the trend of more ship stat customization and more cool stuff to find.

How it works

Trade skills are named professions, and you have a level representing your skill at crafting in that trade skill. You level up your trade skill by crafting items from that trade which will grant exp depending on their difficulty. You also have a maximum skill at crafting in any particular trade, and this is the part where world engine makes things more interesting. Scattered across all of human civilized space are a series of universities, or trade schools, which offer your character increases to your maximum crafting level in the trade skill specialization of that university. Each university degree becomes subsequently more expensive, and the final one may even involve doing a quest.

Travelling the galaxy will now be necessary to become the best crafter, but you will also need to collect recipes. Recipes now drop as loot with procedural affixes on them that modify the difficulty of crafting the recipe. These affixes either increase or decrease the trade skill level required to perform the craft.

With this system, very high level recipes that create the best items may not be easy to craft unless you can get your maximum crafting level very high, or find the recipes with an affix on them that makes them easier to craft. However recipes that are easier to craft will also be more expensive requiring increased components required to craft them.

I'm really hoping that trade skill recipes make it feel more interesting to find random crafting materials in loot.

Trade Skills

So far I have created 4 trade skills. The beauty of procedural world generation based on stories is that when I make a new trade skill, the world generation automatically populates the galaxy with all of the universities you need to reach max level crafting in that profession. I've been sorting out the different recipes and crafting materials for each trade, and setting up university library stations to sell a set of basic recipes to get you started in a trade skill

Weaponsmithing

Weaponsmithing aims to solve the problem of "I found a cool turret but now I want a matching set" as it has recipes for crafting every turret in the game. Because recipes drop with affixes, I have made weaponsmithing recipes roll affixes that can cause the recipe to add affixes to your turrets when they are crafted. The most difficult to craft recipes will be the ones that produce a high tier turret with guaranteed specific affixes. If you find one of these recipes with affixes that you like, you unlock the ability to craft your favorite turret over and over.

Weaponsmithing recipes also include recipes for creating small arms for shooting crew, ammunition, and missiles, as well as some intermediary crafting components needed by other weaponsmithing recipes.

Engineering

Skilled engineers will be the best at stacking up the ship-wide stat multipliers they want by crafting modifications to their ships. All tuning kit types can now drop as recipes with affixes, and the affixes control how many times that tuning kit can be applied to the same ship. Better recipes will allow for better tuning kits which allow for bigger stat multipliers for the stats you want.

Engineering recipes also create module components, and tools such as better repair guns and fire extinguishers.

Artificing

Artifacts have been reworked and they are now gear for your character to equip. When you check out your character inventory you will notice you have 5 new item slots:

Of course if you can equip gear now, there has to be a trade skill for crafting gear. Artificing is all about recovering restoring and re-activating lost ancient alien technology so that it can be used to give combat bonuses to your ship. You can of course also find working artifacts as regular loot, but just as with turrets you are probably going to want loot with special stats and crafting your loot gives you more control over optimizing for exactly the stats that you want.

Smelting

Hey, just because trade skills exist doesn't mean they all have to be interesting right? Turning raw ore into ingots may not be exciting but it is vital skill because you can't build stuff out of rocks. Smelting creates the base metals needed as materials by all other professions, and just like the other professions smelting recipes with affixes can be a lot more efficient and profitable, if you have the skill to craft them.

So keep an eye out for that ultra rare gold smelting recipe that lets you run the most efficient forge in the galaxy. People are never going to stop needing gold.

Development status

I've recently finished up some changes I wanted to make to ship stats which will be discussed in an upcoming blog. Finishing that I have moved on to integration. I sat down and planned out my changes needed to create a single player sandbox mode with this, and it isn't too much work. I am going to have to design a new screen for world generation parameters so that you can configure your sandbox world, and I need to hook up world engine to a number of locations in the code that do things like generate the contents of sessions. I've also figured out how I want to do workshop support which was important because it will tie into the worldgen screen. I'm not sure I will actually do workshop support before the patch, but its good to have the plan up front so it doesn't require a code overhaul to implement later.

When I released the last update, I got some direct feedback which was honestly the feedback I was already expecting because I have known this was a problem with the game for a long time and wasn't sure how I wanted to resolve it. The game world was designed from the beginning to lean pretty heavily on procedural generation because I always knew we would have a small team, however I had not initially anticipated it would just be me working on this alone, and the game world doesn't feel sufficiently alive.

I want the world to have that "alive and busy" feeling of a space full of neat stuff that is going on all around the player. Without that feeling, exploration isn't interesting and players are trapped in a barren desert of fiddling with ship designs and not experiencing an infinite wayward terran frontier. I have always considered a number of different solutions for the problem, but they all were either too small to really solve the problem, or they were too big for a single developer to finish in a human life time.

After the last update it was clear this problem had to be solved next.

So after much consideration about my life choices I've decided it is either go big, or go home. I chose to go big. I needed to find a way to make an absolutely massive amount of world and story content, with the absolute minimum amount of developer time. I needed to solve some seriously tough engineering problems.

I'm pretty sure I'm at least a little autistic, so below you will find a technical explanation of what I've come up with because I like bullet points. However first a summary:

I've been grinding away hard at this problem trying to create procedural world generation that will fill an entire galaxy with stuff. I am planning to tack it onto the game as sandbox mode, i.e. open world mode. No main storyline, you aren't the hero or the protagonist, just gonna plop you down as a noobie space captain in a procedurally generated sandbox open world. The goal of all this is to make that world feel alive and interesting and deep, so that exploring the living dynamic open world can be part of the game. So that's the next content update I am working on (sandbox mode), and it is going to be a big one which is why it is taking a while.

In the coming weeks I'll try to do another post with more details about the comprehensive list of upcoming changes, because it isn't just procedural world generation.

So lets get on to the technical stuff.

Introducing World Engine

What do we do in computer programming when we have a small amount of time to process things, but there are an arbitrary number of them and they need to interact with each other? We build a tree! The solution I came up with is called world engine (Internally. I'm not making it a brand or anything) and it is a layer on top of the procedural galaxy generation in the form of a tree of stories. Lets be more specific.

This is what our galaxy looks like right now.

Every tile in that grid is procedural. An algorithm runs for each grid who's only input is the grid's coordinates. Based on those coordinates the following things are generated by the algorithm

• The position of the nearest star (and thus the light info)

• the type of that star (and thus some constraints on system generation)

• the distance to that star (and thus the temperature)

• then some noise samples are taken at the grid's coordinates

finally with all of that info, terrain such as asteroids and clouds can be placed, the backdrop is chosen, and ideally the content of the system (i.e. the ships and stations and badguys etc) can all be placed. However that last one, the actual content, is the sticking point. What good is it to place a station for the player to interact with if it has no connection to the rest of the world? This would have to be "generic station spawned by random number generation" every single time you find one, and the ships you interact with are no better. It gets worse: I can't begin to use random numbers or noise sampling to build stories here because the entire algorithm runs in a vacuum without any knowledge of what generates in the neighboring systems.

In the Zero Falls campaign I initially tried to solve this by just manually placing things at specific grids and coordinates...it was too much, there is too much space to fill...I needed a procedural solution.

So the solution is to have another layer on top of procedural terrain generation: the story layer. That's why World Engine primarily takes the form of a tree of stories. Something like this:

The nodes are represented here in a graph...however in the game each node has a physical location on the map, and a number of grids that it affects. Then each node can have stories added to it. Stories can do things like the following:

• place a station

• configure the contents of a shop

• place agents into a bar

• create ships that fly around and do things

• generate missions that show up in mission boards

• set the prices of trade goods

However the most important thing that stories (the artificial construct in my code) do, is that they tell their stories (the actual fiction of the game world) by procedurally creating world tree nodes and other stories (code constructs again.) The result is like a book that is trying to write itself by unfolding itself in smaller self-contained subdivisions like chapters, pages, paragraphs, sentences, and then finally words and letters.

When you place a star system story, it takes as a parameter how populated the star system is, and what the personalities of its inhabitants might be. Then it places stories one level below it: trade districts, mining operations, populated planets, corporate ventures, military bases warlords, etc. These stories then do the same, with for example a trade district picking vendors from corporations to occupy zones of that district and placing a story for each of their shops. The story for those shops then knows it will spawn a station, and it knows what should be in that station but it continues, creating stories of the jobs that various people need to work at that station, and what types of services are offered etc.

A story can be told how many people live in a star system and make procedural decisions about where they might live, and under what circumstances. It places their habitats, and their habitats are stories which then further create the stories of who lives in those habitats. The people who live in those habitats go looking for jobs, and they decide what ship they own, and they set about moving around the system going to work and buying groceries and living their lives inside of a tree of interconnected stories.

Hopefully you get the picture. If not, here's what a star system looks like right now:

Oh and by the way. The entire world generates based off of an sqlite parameters database. Literally everything is in that database (factions, assets, locations, generation rules, recipes etc.) and so my hope is that mod makers will have the option of creating their own parameters database allowing them to define nearly every aspect of the game world for mods. Multiple parameter databases can be loaded for a single world generation so the hope is that you should be able to add and remove mods to configure your world generation the way you want. You can add entire star empires this way.

Development status

So I built this thing in an experimental environment that I've been toying around with for years (more on that later) and started playing around with it. I am proud to say it works great!

I wanted to make a big blog post bragging about how cool it was, but there was a problem. I immediately began having ideas of new things I wanted to build out of stories. I started playing with them, and I decided a proper announcement would carry more weight if I could show off the things this engine is capable of.

Here is a short list of things I have been mucking about with in world engine using stories:

• Proper trade skill professions for crafting

• data-driven warlords with proper difficulty and loot progression

• an entirely new category of loot in the form of a complete rework of artifacts

• proper exploration with exp and breadcrumbs and maps

• interstellar travel and fuel infrastructure

• dynamic faction wars

• interstellar economies based on supply chains

• living agents that have fully simulated lives

• faction reputation tracking and reputation rewards

• the entire story of humanity among the stars

Unfortunately, this post is already disastrously long and each of the above probably warrants an equally long exposition all on its own. That's why I am just going to have to promise to make another post in the future with more information.

The reason I have posted this today is because some of these new systems are sufficiently well developed that I am starting internal testing on them. (Internal testing means I'm starting to get some discord people involved)

I've got a lot of stories yet to write, and as I write them what I am learning is that this system makes it hilariously easy to come up with a new procedural story that has visible affects across the entire galaxy. I add a few lines to a database table and without further intervention the galaxy is populated with new content. Stations are placed, shops are populated, quests are generated, agents are put into bars. This is exactly the massive force multiplier for content generation that I so desperately needed, and I've been laser focused on building cool stuff in it.

Before this can be released onto Zero Falls early access, I need to integrate it properly. That means adding a button to the main menu to start a sandbox mode character, but it also means testing and debugging and tuning stories and making sure it can save and load your progress etc. So if you want an ETA I apologize. I'm 1 guy building a thing that's far too large for 1 guy to be building and the fastest way to build it is to ignore the rabble, avoid arguing with people in forums, keep my head down, slowly kill myself with caffeine, and get the damn thing finished so I can move on with my life.

- George

• fixed a bug with abandoning quests from the map screen that wasn't fully removing the quest
• fixed a bug where the gauntlet could recover from lost data by recreating the gauntlet but it wouldn't re-add all of its locations so it would be inaccessible
• the gauntlet will now generate a crash log if it fails to load correctly so I can hunt down the source of data corruption making gauntlets recover themselves
• world saving was made more robust with each individual stage being capable of logging exceptions and attempting to move on to the next stage, hopefully allowing me to catch sources of save game data corruption in the future
• added an extra safety check to world database finalization to make sure any async data items received after a shutdown was called can be collected and written before the database declares itself final and ready to close.
• fixed a bug with procedural quests that caused their description details to disappear after you accept the mission
• fixed a bug that could cause procedural quests to generate pirate's cove as their destination
• found and fixed a memory leak that was caused by switching back and forth from ship exterior view
• found and fixed a memory leak that was caused by switching back and forth from the universe map
• fixed a memory leak in the ship designer caused by resizing the screen
• fixed a possible memory leak in ship designer that might not have been happening at all but the code looked suspicious so I rewrote it
• the sinidal cascade active module can no longer be activated while in travel drive
• fixed a bug with procedural quests using duplicate quest id that could cause a crash depending on the order that you attempted to complete multiple procedural quests
• fixed a bug where procedural taxi quests were changing their destination after being saved and reloaded
• passenger mission bed requirements now correctly recognize when a bedroom has multiple beds

• fixed a bug when loading quests that could cause a crash when loading the game
• fixed a bug with the crew team that would allow any crew member to join the team widget and accept orders from the player
• friendly crew will no longer attempt to join the player's team if they are passengers
• passengers added by the manifest are added with the isPassive flag set to true so they behave like passengers and not crew
• upgraded procedural quests to include a "pick up" stage as the first stage so if you depart the source station with insufficient cargo/beds you can still return to the station later and complete the quest
• fixed a bug that was preventing failed procedural missions from being removed from the mission list potentially causing them to lag the game by constantly trying to complete
• fixed a bug that was causing economic nodes that consume resources over time to load their saved data wrong causing data corruption for the loaded consumption rate values. In most cases this was causing those stations to consume all of their supply instantly
• when hailing a repair station the repair station dialogue options will now remain available even if the station's crew are missing and only monsters are inside
• updated the crew inventory UI to ensure that you can not change your equipped ship while you are in a ship as it was always intended that you could only change equipped ships in a station.
• docking via hangar in a ship that is not your currently equipped ship now clears the cargo of your equipped ship
• revised the design of the start ship. It is meant to be a single person shuttle with minimal capabilities and it had too much cargo space and bedrooms at the cost of not having enough power for its thrusters
• fixed multiple instances where a quest completing could remove the waypoint marker for a different quest with the same name
• you can no longer use shipyard logistics rooms to build free ships using that shipyard's resources
• if you scrap a ship at an NPC shipyard, your resources will now be magically teleported to your home base instead of donated to the NPC shipyard for free
• updated the design of the junebug c to have the life support modules connected to the power grid
• when crew data is saved, any packed ships in their inventory now have all of their crew removed. Packed ships aren't supposed to be holding crew, and this fixes a very rare and strange bug where a player managed to get a packed ship with himself inside that caused an infinite save loop

• fixed many instances of the word yield being misspelled
• fixed a bug where picking up the item most recently placed into the trash slot would duplicate the item
• sped up world generation by skipping many noise samples in black empty space
• fixed rotation groups for tier 3 hallways
• tier 3 hallways are now structure adding modules. They add more structure than the default tile replaced when you place them, so they make your ship stronger when added
• removed duplicate entries for shield emitters in the design screen
• added a tier 3 shield emitter
• fixed turret offsets for T3 energy turrets
• fixed an extra pixel that was sticking out of the side of a T3 engine module
• tweaked the stats on some pulse beam weapons
• added many tier 3 bridge modules
• added missing visual power connection points to the largest size T3 energy turret
• fixed a bug that would cause AI ships to send repair drones to repair their current hostile target
• added a decorative conference room module what can be used to make space stations look more professional and business-like
• fixed a rare bug that could cause a crash when adding a crew member into a ship at an invalid position
• turret reload duration set to a default value other than zero to avoid divide by zero if somehow the value avoids being set
• added tier 3 ships to the list of all spawnable ships so the game will now spawn them when it wants to spawn a really scary ship
• tier 3 ships can now spawn as bosses and as escorts in the gauntlet
• boss battles in the gauntlet can now reward a data core with tier 3 research
• active system slot icons now have tooltips
• added tooltip info for many active systems, but maybe not all of them. Any we missed will say "An active system with an undefined tooltip."
• fixed an issue with active systems that made some of them stop working depending on the type of session you were in
• fixed an issue where a crafting station would never close after it was opened
• fixed single player crafting so that it would actually fail if you don't have the materials instead of removing what it can and giving you the output
• crafting will also fail now if you don't have sufficient inventory space for the output
• stat status that slows enemy forward movement on bullet hits changed into a debuff to acceleration similar to rotation accell debuff
• improved the layout of the crafting UI
• removed the old style UI button to open your character inventory
• fixed an inventory UI crash when attempting to sell items to a shop via right click from ship inventory
• fixed a bug that caused a quest to fail to load and delete itself
• tuning kits, this entire time, have required a resource that wasn't even in the game and nobody bothered to mention it in feedback. Their application cost has been heavily reworked so that you can actually use tuning kits now.
• significantly expanded the number of stats that status effects can modify
• added 14 new computer room modules, each of which provides a passive statistical increase to your ship which doesn't stack if you have multiple of the same module. They provide bonuses such as turret range, missile tracking, shield regeneration, point defense, etc
• added a new module type: point defense. It will passively shoot down incoming missiles using energy. They aren't perfect as their shots can miss so having many of them improves your odds of surviving large missile volleys
• fixed a very rare crash that could happen if a hellbore bullet despawns before establishing part of its animation
• fixed the same bug with 2 end game quests that prevented them from triggering
• corrupt quest rewards will now fail to load more gracefully
• if you somehow manage to type characters into the ship profile selection name entry field that can not be rendered by our sprite font, it will now remove the entered character and warn you instead of crashing at the screen's render pass
• fixed a UI bug with research tier progress bars that could fill beyond their max value
• module tooltips now indicate what installing upgraded components will do
• scrapping a packed ship in logistics will now remove the ship instead of allowing you to keep it
• tooltips can now dynamically scale their text to fit longer item names
• fixed a misplaced turret track slot for a large energy turret mount T3
• the trade screen now shows current credits without formatting to shorten the value so you can see all of your credits
• the trade screen now shows the exact price of the item under your mouse
• quests now save their progress a bit more frequently to prevent them getting broken if your game is abruptly quit without saving
• fixed a bug with initial loading of the game which was capable of breaking the loading sequence on some computers in a very rare thread timing issue
• added a timeout to randomized loot operations to make sure they don't run forever when testing an empty loot table
• fixed trade npc ships saying they lost their target when they undock from a station
• trade npc ships now say reasonable things when undocking from a station after conducting a trade
• fixed a bug that could sometimes cause the character to be placed wrong when entering a ship
• expanded the storage size for the trade screen because there were many shops that had more than 24 item types for sale
• exotic matter was removed from trade storage as it is meant to immediately convert to credits and there is no reason to buy it
• fixed a bug with tooltip image previews for large modules with square profiles that caused them not to render
• made a fundamental change to how crew are removed from ships to combat a common bug where you get kicked into EVA when transitioning between ships
• ship scrapping now rolls a dice to determine if you receive partial resource values instead of rounding. Before if scrapping would return 0.2 of a valuable resource you would always get the rounded integer value of 0, but now in the same scenario you will have a 20% chance of receiving 1 of that resource instead
• fixed one instance of dormitory being spelled wrong
• fixed a bug with a script that explains broken airlocks that could corrupt save files
• fixed: the labels "required" vs "stored" was reversed on the logistics screen
• fixed a crash in the research screen caused by an uninitialized string value
• removed a legacy UI element that was rendering in the bar screen
• fixed a bug where tuning kits would consume their component resources even if they could not be applied to the ship
• added mining laser to home station tool shop
• fixed an issue that caused some advanced turrets to lose their special properties when loaded from save data
• tuning kit tooltips now display how many kits are already applied as well as the maximum stack count
• fixed a rare crash when attempting to animate crew during a save/exit operation
• fixed a bug with artifact activator modules that could make certain artifact types cause the game to crash
• added a new craftable item: packey ball. It can be used to capture a ship into an inventory item
• added code to support station shops that sell ships as inventory items
• added a module for a new shop type that sells ships
• the cash bonus for destroying communications relays has been balanced to better reflect the new credits economy relative to procedural missions
• scrapping ships in logistics screen now only works on packed ships in your inventory
• added a mission board UI to the map screen when visiting the map via a cartography room in economic stations
• added a back-end for generating procedural missions to be listed at economic stations
• wrote a new quest type to handle procedural missions from mission boards
• added procedural pirate hunting bounty missions
• added procedural cargo delivery missions
• added procedural passenger delivery missions
• added a cargo manifest framework to handle mission cargo and passengers for ships departing and arriving via hangars
• created a new introductory tutorial quest sequence to introduce shipyards as a method of getting new ships
• cleaned up some events from existing introduction quests that no longer make sense with the new shipyard economy
• fire extinguishers removed from character creation as it is intended that the player should get one as part of the introduction quest sequence
• added a tiny variance to the reload timers of turrets so they don't all play their reload sounds at the same exact time
• doubled the energy capacity of all beam emitters
• added a hangar module for entry/egree into/out of stations without using airlocks
• added logic for crew placement into ships/stations when using a hangar module
• remapped nearly all stations to include hangar modules
• ships created from an owned packed ship in your inventory should no longer force hacking
• added a crafting station module for unlocking T3 items via the crafting menu
• added a number of T3 ship designs that can be unlocked
• added all T3 modules to loot tables so they can be unlocked via the new crafting room
• replaced the "journal" slot on character paper doll with a "ship" slot that holds your currently equipped packed ship
• lowered the hitpoints of many hostile monsters inside abandoned stations
• created detailed tooltips for packed ships with statistics about the ships capabilities
• fixed some critical bugs with the existing intro sequence that could cause your game to get stuck if you use the respawn function during the event
• added an inventory item type that holds a ship turret and displays its affixes in the tooltip
• upgraded the logistics screen to pull turret items from inventory and safe storage instead of creating turrets from a turret type
• added code to prevent the player using travel drive during the initial flight training tutorial
• added a new item type and associated crafting recipe that can "forge" a turret item adding a new turret affix
• added turret forge items to loot tables
• tuning kits can now randomly drop from killed NPC crew
• module components can now randomly drop from killed NPC crew
• turrets with affixes can now randomly drop from killed NPC crew
• removed module components tier 1 and 2 from research blueprint stores
• removed all turret type research from data cores dropped by ships
• removed all turret research that spawns in blueprint shops
• turret blueprints are effectively removed from the game now as their functionality has been replaced by turrets as inventory items
• basic turrets are now sold in blueprint shops
• significantly increased the number of items that appear in blueprint shops
• turret items added to ship cargo loot tables
• turrets can now sometimes fall off of NPC ships and gain an affix when you shoot them. These can be collected as loot.
• added random loot containers that sometimes appear in belts that can drop loot items
• integrated procedrual missions with the quest journal
• logistics screen now displays your equipped ship in a special location away from the packed ships in your regular inventory to indicate its importance
• revised the character database to create and load a unique character for each world save so that it is independent from the character used by the main menu
• the character build for use in main menu activities such as ship editor and testing arena now has more stuff unlocked so that you can do what you like in the sandbox
• added civilian shipyards to the list of stations that can spawn as economic stations
• added icons to civilian shipyards
• fixed an issue with the quest journal displaying quest distances
• fixed an issue with the "show on map" button in the quest journal
• removed a UI element (incoming notification button) that did nothing because it wasn't supposed to be there
• added code to prevent research shops from listing the same blueprint item multiple times
• shops that save their contents between visits now clear those contents when the player advances to the game stage where new loot needs to be added to shops
• added a new inventory item type: ammo box which turrets can use to reload. Unlike grey goo, turrets reloading from ammo boxes can pull ammo boxes directly from player inventory
• ammo boxes added to NPC shops
• player starting inventory now contains ammo boxes
• fixed a bug where player credits count would display as zero until the value changed
• fixed a number of inventory bugs relating to buying items from shops that allowed buying/selling to modify the contents of the shop
• tuning kit and module component application now updates the ship in your equipped ship slot to prevent tuning kits being lost if you lose the ship
• removed the tuning kit for travel drive speed from showing up in crew item shops
• fixed a bug with logistics screen which was causing the interior contents of a packed ship to be lost after that ship was modified
• fixed a bug with packed ships caused by the re-use of an important data structure that could cause damage to be saved in the packed ship item unexpectedly
• revised gauntlet boss spawning to use T3 ships for the higher tier bosses
• fixed a bug with scroll canvas UI elements that could cause them to scroll forever
• because it is no longer intended for you to construct your first ship, new characters will no longer spawn with blueprints or ship building resources
• rebalanced the cost of grey goo to more accurately reflect the economic price of creating it
• ships constructed in logistics from a player design are now placed into inventory as a packed ship instead of docking to your home station
• trading with station shops now allows you to move items to/from your equipped packed ship's storage
• the player's home base was upgraded with economic station logic so that items from packed ships and player inventory could be transferred to the home station using the same interface as trading with other economic stations
• a trade depot room was added to the home station
• ship building was upgraded to use the new resource storage system
• fixed a bug that caused the home station to sometimes spawn with hostile crew
• fixed a bug that caused stations in general to sometimes spawn hostile crew
• you can no longer use a packed ship from your inventory
• you can no longer pack ships from the logistics screen
• added logic to make your crew members follow you through hangar transitions into and out of stations
• legacy procedural taxi missions were disabled as they are replaced by the improved procedural passenger missions
• launching from a hangar reloads all ship weapons
• balanced the repair rates of some repair drones that were repairing way too fast
• docking at the home base with a stolen ship via a hangar should now pack that ship into an inventory item
• fixed a bug with ship shard breaking that was causing ship shards to use a ton of extra memory copying turrets too many times from the source ship
• added point defense module blueprints to blueprint shops
• added a large number of fully mapped ships for sale in all shipyard shops
• added flavor description text to ship hulls sold in shipyard shops
• created a new type of crew member that can join the player's team and appear at their home station bar: procedural crew members
• implemented a procedurally random talent tree generator for generating random talent trees for procedural crew
• added a new screen to display procedural talent trees
• wrote a dialogue for interacting with procedural crew members
• added a better UI element to the bar screen to make it more clear how you are supposed to inspect a crew member's talents
• upgraded the framework for displaying waypoints to fix issues caused by quest names being similar that could cause waypoints to not be displayed or to potentially become memory leaks
• all economy nodes had their storage capacity and initial trade good quantities drastically increased because they were running out leading to unexpected trade ship behaviors
• fixed a series of bugs that could cause ships to spawn with the incorrect number of crew
• fixed a bug that could cause empty ships to come back to life with added crew after a save/reload
• fixed some incorrectly placed text in the resources UI
• fixed a bug with a turret that was crashing the game
• upgraded the crew team UI widget to dynamically expand with crew slot unlocks
• upgraded the crew team UI widget to support more max crew slots
• fixed a bug with how tooltips display ship image previews
• added awareness of Ithacit Ore to economic stations and the home station
• fixed the text description in the tooltip for Ithacit Ore
• added new ore use ratios to T3 modules so that ships with T3 tech will require fancier ore to manufacture
• the bar screen panels can now be scrolled with the mouse wheel if there are more crew in your bar than can be displayed
• added a new score screen that displays after doing the gauntlet
• added a scoring system to the gauntlet which grants tokens for crafting T3 blueprints
• buying a blueprint and learning it should now update other instances of that same blueprint with "already known"
• fixed a bug that was preventing the ore node tracking world component from updating which caused a number of ore related bugs
• added all modules and all weapon types to the main menu ship editor sandbox environment
• fixed a bug with artifact activators that was crashing the game
• placed grey goo into player inventory when they enter survival mode from the main menu
• enclosed battle arenas in the gauntlet now block movement of all ships, not just the player's ship
• fixed a number of bugs with the binary save data format for ore nodes that was preventing them from saving correctly
• the quest to deliver food to the pirate's cove can now complete if you enter the station via its hangar
• fixed a bug with the SSC shipyard raid quest that was causing SSC ships to not turn hostile if you had saved and loaded the game at a certain stage of the quest

Big design overhaul

Procedural missions

Loot

Turrets

Tuning kits

Module components

Procedural Crew

Managing your ship collection

Hangars replacing airlocks

Not lost on death

More type roles

• t: transport - lots of passenger space
• c: cargo - lots of cargo space
• m: mining - mix of cargo space, defense, and comes with mining turrets
• b: balanced - balanced mix of passenger comfort, decent cargo space, decent defense and weapons
• a: assault - focused on fighting other ships

New modules and tech

• 7 tier 3 ship hulls that can be unlocked with fully T3 mapped interiors
• 5 unlockable tier 3 reactors with significantly better power output
• tier 3 versions of energy turret mounts covering the various turret sizes
• 3 new capacitors with better energy storage density
• a new tier 3 shield emitter that is small and convenient to add to your designs as well as being efficient. Event small ships can have shields!
• 5 new T3 turret types
• a new beam controller type for making even more powerful beam weapon designs
• 5 new tier 3 bridge modules with more active system slots than T2 bridges of similar size
• 3 new tier 3 engines with excellent thrust for their size

• a point defense missile interdiction laser module. Small and easy to place, it will periodically take pot shots at incoming missiles. They aren't perfect, so having more of them will protect you a lot better from missiles if you are looking to make a defensible ship.
• a tier 1 shield emitter allowing lower tier ships to have regenerating shields.
• multiple computer core modules that will offer various statistical enhancements to all point defense lasers on your ship.
• multiple computer core modules that will offer various statistical enhancements to all missile systems on your ship.
• multiple computer core modules that will offer various statistical enhancements to all turrets on your ship.
• multiple computer core modules that will offer various statistical enhancements to the defensive attributes of your ship.

Expanded crew size

Quests and story

Character bound to world

Live now

• fixed a couple of screens that were responding to mouse wheel scrolling that had happened on other screens
• increased the number of system slots on many bridge modules so you can activate more things
• refactored a context variable in all ship active abilities to make it easier to debug in the future and so that I can make new stuff more easily
• fixed a bug with calculating the cursor position on the universe map where the outcome of the calculation depended on which quadrant of the map you were in
• fixed a possible crash related to the chat widget opening
• fixed a possible crash related to hitting the craft button when no crafting recipe is selected
• the respawn script has been rewritten to handle the situation where something triggers a screen transition after it sends you to the respawn screen
• and keys have been excluded from the list of valid keys that can be used in keybinds because some windows IME (Input method editors) declare these keys to always be pressed. If you happen to have something important bound to the key then we'd like you to know that we hate you.

• your crew will no longer follow you on the in-station fast transport network if they are set to hold position
• fixed a bug where logistics rooms would not rotate their animation to match the module animation
• you can no longer collide with asteroids while in travel drive. Realism be damned, I've never seen a new player pick up the game without immediately killing themselves in travel drive somehow.
• you can now use the scroll wheel to change mini-map scale in ship exterior view
• added tooltip description for tractor field modules
• tooltip base elements made to scale properly with UI scale
• tooltip resource mode made to scale properly with UI scale
• tooltip small stats made to scale properly with UI scale
• tooltip resource element made to scale properly with UI scale
• tooltip screen placement made to scale properly with UI scale so that tooltips do not render off of the screen
• AI crew will only search for tiles to repair if they have a repair gun
• AI crew will only search for fires to extinguish if they have a fire extinguisher
• all projectile turret magazine sizes increased by 300%
• all turret attack speeds reduced
• buffed the max energy use rate of shield emitters which means they can produce shields faster
• buffed the efficiency of shield emitter energy use so that they produce more shields for the energy that they consume
• doubled the lifespan of shards produced by flak shells
• significantly buffed the damage dealt by mining charges of all sizes
• fixed a bugged ore type that had a negative yield
• reduced the bullet velocity of all mining charges to make sure they still suck for damaging ships
• added a tier 1 shield emitter
• fixed a bug with mouse pointer location calculation on the universe map
• universe map biome tooltip no longer overlaps mouse coordinate output
• fixed a bug with a quest that could crash while loading the game
• fixed: quests were crashing the game because quest debugging was left on because last time I uploaded a patch I didn't give a fuck
• fixed a crash with conduit pathing on the ship design caused (most likely) by a ship with insufficient padding around the outside of the design
• the ships that kill you in the first tutorial now spawn faster
• changed how mouse scrolling and selection works in the station overview UI
• renamed the header for the station overview UI so people know they can teleport from it

• turrets now remember how much ammo was in them when they are saved and loaded from a save or stored in a packed ship
• fixed the tooltip for ammo boxes which nobody even uses so who cares? Well they are fixed now, so that's nice.
• made mod loading more durable so as to prevent the client crashing when attempting to load a mod that is missing files
• on loading a save game, missing factions which failed to save due to a crash will attempt to re-add themselves to the world
• identified and fixed a threading issue that could allow the database thread to try and access faction info (for saving) while that data was being modified potentially resulting in data corruption.
• fixed storage nook rotation mirroring
• not sure the exact situation that is causing monsters to sometimes be invisible, but I cleaned up their artwork code a lot to get rid of a lot of unknown edge cases that MIGHT be causing that and hopefully they will stop being invisible
• fixed a bug that was preventing killing monsters from granting experience
• fixed a bug that was preventing crew members from getting experience from things in most cases

• fixed a bug with some new modules in the design screen where their tooltip would display resource costs multiple times. The resource cost was correct only the tooltips were broken
• fixed a bug where anti-missile lightning charges from tuning kits in the gauntlet would target your own repair drones because repair drones are technically missiles which target your ship while repairing
• fixed a bug with scrapping ships at your home base where any item inside the ship was placed into storage inside your home station instead of the tabbed storage that you can access by going into the storage inside your home station. This made those items inaccessable to you. The items will now go into the correct (tabbed) storage and I have upgraded the function of "stash resources" on the home station to get those items out of where they were placed in station cargo bays and move them to the correct place.
• A new feature: Component salvaging. There is a new tool for you to use called a mechanic's kit. It opens ship modules and allows you access to their components. If you find high quality components you can swap them into your favorite modules to get a stat boost. The output increase can be fairly substantial for high tier components.
• you can no longer fire missiles while in travel drive
• automated undocking of abandoned ships from stations now takes a full minute to happen instead of happening as soon as they are considered abandoned
• fixed a bug with the ship editor power overlay where tiles that connected in multiple directions were only able to animate power connections in the mostly recently connected direction. This had no bearing on the actual power simulation it was only a visual bug with our power overlay
• fixed a bug with the first cloning vat exploration quest where the quest could fail to complete if you find multiple copies of the blueprint and transfer them all to your inventory at once
• fixed a crash when right clicking packed ships from your inventory in the logistics screen
• fixed changes to packed ships made via the logistics screen will now actually apply to those ships after leaving the screen
• fixed a bug with grey goo reloading of modules which could in some cases prevent the module from collecting enough goo from the inventories of npc crew
• fixed a bug that only matters to mod makers where an unavailable module that you can't unlock shared the same research id as another similar module preventing mod makers from messing with both of them
• fixed solid and liquid waste processors not blocking crew movement
• targeting space stations is now significantly faster
• fixed a mispelled word "palce" that should be "place"
• added the ability for a storage container to specify allowed item types that can be stored in there
• modules such as artifact activators which include a storage interface but are intended only for specific item types will now prevent you from placing other item types into them
• the create profile button now says "click here" so that it is extra extra obvious that this is a button
• unified tooltips for trade goods to indicate their base value which I think is more descriptive given that actual value scales with supply and demand
• fixed a bug where reactors were always behaving as if they had the High Q fields talent enabled

• fixed the resource cost of some new modules that were added
• assigned a default resource cost to modules that we have overlooked so that every module at least costs something to construct
• updated the ship design screen to support the new module types in the power connection overlay
• station interiors no longer build air maps. the maps are not needed because stations don't update air and the map takes a long time to build
• fixed magnetic ramscoop not being flagged as active. the module worked but you couldn't open storage to access its contents
• fixed an issue with some of the new quests not saving and loading correctly
• added the cargo capcity of ramscoops and algae tanks to cosm data so that their contents would not be lost when leaving and re-entering a ship

0.9.2.01

• fixed a broken link in one of the new dialogues that caused it to loop

0.9.2.02

• fixed module repair allowing tiles to be repaired in empty space
• upgraded quest diagnostics to at least try to output the name of quests that fail to load and also to produce a crash report when it happens

• fixed a bug where the image portion of the tooltip for a packed ship could get unloaded and fail to display
• rewrote the interior air simulation to use precomputed room geometry. This will slow down significantly the speed of spawning ships, but drastically increase the speed of simulating interior atmosphere which is one of the biggest factors causing large ship interiors to lag the game.
• Ships no longer reset their airlocks when performing a ship break update that splits the ship into multiple smaller shards unless one of the shards that broke off contains tiles from an airlock. This should fix the perceived flickering of airlocks when ships are taking damage
• fixed a bug with the code for repairing a module (used by nano repair auras and when pointing your repair gun at large multi-tile modules) that was not checking the correct tiles for adjacency info when checking to see if the repaired tile was attached to another healthy tile. This was causing single tiles to repair unattached and break off as shards while you repaired some modules (this is also why airlocks were flickering on some damaged ships)
• updated the tooltips for life support modules to make it a bit more clear how much air they produce and how much energy they consume at max operation
• fixed a bug where exp popup text was displaying the old exp values from before the exp value rebalance. The amount of exp rewarded was correct only the text was wrong.
• fixed a bug where the list of flotillas (ships added by steam workshop mods) which had been successfully spawned into the game world was not recorded, causing them to be respawned when you loaded a saved game
• fixed a bug with our customers which caused them to sit in the home station buying and selling items over and over again instead of playing the game. Root cause was an item shop that gave away free items that could be sold for a tiny insignificant profit, thus short circuiting the reward center of our customers' brains
• selecting your home base from logistics no longer attempts to set up turret selection for it
• fixed a bug that was causing some entities to not write their data to the database causing those ships and ore to stop existing
• ran a very long simulation of the in game economy to fine-tune station rations and fix some supply chain issues in longer games
• fixed a bug where many ships were drawing the incorrect speed info from their binary data which caused them to not move at all when on the world map
• increased the number of trade ships by around 25% on average
• changed the default speed for ships on the world map to be significantly slower to line up better with their real speed when inside the player's session
• output of farms increased by 50%
• snack storage space of farms increased from 6000 to 10000
• parts factories are now more common to account for the system wide shortage of assorted parts
• fixed a bug that was causing the logistics screen to not display tooltips for mounts
• added a magnetic ramscoop module which you can use to collect space dust that can later be crafted into grey goo
• added a primitive crafting system to the singleplayer game engine which allows you to open a crafting station and convert items into other items inside your inventory
• added a single crafting station: the goo forge. It allows you to craft grey goo inside your ship from the various components that can be used to make grey goo
• the goo forge and the magnetic ram scoop are tier 2 loot and can drop as loot from destroyed SSC ships
• added a cargo scanner module which can be purchased from pirate's bay
• added a new UI element to the targeting brackets which displays the cargo content of a targeted ship if you have a cargo scanner. default keybind is alt
• fixed some bugs with the quadtree code used to store terrain for collision testing
• went through the community bugfix mod (thanks blacktea) and stole, adapted, or addressed as many of the fixed in that mod as I could to incorporate them into the base game.
• fixed: After meeting tony, if you exit the game before fixing the ship, ship will disappear on loading. (from community bugfix)
• updated map extensions to include icons for goo factories
• added a catch which will guarantee that NPC ships that spawn from template will have as many crew as there are controllable consoles on that ship (adapted from community bugfix)
• (from community bugfix) ally crew will no longer assume control of the ship if Player orders the crew away from consoles and puts them on hold before leaving the ship.
• (from community bugfix) fixed a crash in logistics while assigning turrets when your crew is on a ship
• you can now hail ships piloted by your friendly crew and order them to return to your base
• fixed bard's portrait
• fixed a bug that could sometimes prevent crew from removing threats when ordered to stand down
• (from community bugfix) the pirate cove siege quest now properly counts kills without waiting for the ships to despawn, and also calms the friendly pirate faction at quest completion in case you accidentally shot them during the quest and made them angry
• added a new trigger event which explains the use of repair stations to new players with a brief dialogue
• improved the camera pan to a station on an early quest dialogue
• added character artwork for an angry bureaucrat/politician for the player to make angry
• removed the old quest which granted the player an artifact activator research after they found an artifact for the first time
• created a new quest which rewards the player for killing 3 SSC commanders with the artifact activator blueprint as well as advice on where to find artifacts
• added some new dialogues for the new end-game mission
• added many missing dialogues for the existing end-game missions
• updated the data-center questline to unlock a new conversation mode with One at your bar. You can visit One at your bar any time to ask stupid questions. I wrote answers for some initial questions relevant to the story line and would gladly include more answers in the future, maybe in response to community request
• added an "abandon" button to your quest log which will allow you to abandon your missions...you can only abandon missions that are obviously abandonable like missions to ferry passengers somewhere for a reward.
• Some core storyline quests which can not be abandoned, will instead auto-complete if you enter debug mode and click the abandon quest button. Hopefully this doesn't create more problems that it solves...use it with caution
• monsters inside of stations attempt to reposition randomly if they are near an airlock when you enter the station

• the game now remembers the last ship you have spawned and allows you to scrap that ship for a 100% return
• fixed a bug where shield emitters would be created with zero energy in them
• fixed a bug with AI where ships with beam weapons would fire their beam weapons but they didn't know they had them and so would not attempt any beam based tactics
• fixed module rotations for bulwark and restorer shields so that they can be mirrored horizontally in the design screen
• fixed a crash when destroying a reactor that doesn't have its explosion type configured correctly or which uses an explosion that doesn't exist
• added explosion configuration for some T3 reactors which were missing
• fixed a bug where gunnery consoles could crash the game instead of logging an error and shutting down AI like navigations consoles do (when encountering an ai bug)
• nerfed grey goo's ability to repair so that you use grey goo a bit faster while repairing. It is supposed to be a valuable resource that you use sparingly because it costs more than the modules you are repairing.
• buffed base repair range of the default repair gun from 175 to 225
• improved repair guns were re-added to the loot tables of ships...I don't even remember removing them, a git history investigation insists that this was my fault
• nerfed exp drop pods from 100 exp to 10 exp and adjusted some drops to drop more stacks. Mining is granting far too much exp because it drops in such big increments. This should be a nerf to mining exp while other sources remain the same
• you now get a little bit of exp for using your repair gun to repair
• fixed some missile talents which were not taking effect because they were applied before the missile set its default starting values.
• turrets will no longer reload if their mount module is broken
• increased the ammo capacity of tiny fixed machine guns so they need to reload less often
• some confusing colored bars on the UI were replaced with less confusing more informative colored bars that display the same information plus some new information
• changed the behavior of a damage edge case where your interior receives structure damage after the structure is already below inerta. In the past it dealt random damage to the entire ship equal to the amount, now it will just continue damaging structure tiles like before
• rewrote the exp formula to make levelling significantly faster and to fix some minor bugs with the old formula
• added ship packing to the logistics screen. A method for packing a docked ship into an inventory item in your bags for safe storage.

• fixed: no longer change the faction of stations when entering them via an airlock. (found another method that was doing this)
• it is now possible to right click your home station in logistics
• removed the option to tractor your home station to dock
• fixed a crash in ship AI caused by a crew team being null
• zoey agent now correctly references her portrait artwork
• added a line that was missing from the dialogue code for both new agents
• fixed some T3 hallway modules which had overlapping module ids and were thus not working

Notable new features in this patch:

• adopt 3 crew members that you couldn't adopt before
• 3 new quests that might even work correctly

Full list of changes:

• scrapping a ship now once again stores all items in that ships cargo. The method had to be rewritten to account for both inventory items and resources
• scrapping ships now grants a little exp
• selling items to a trade station now grants some exp
• ore nodes sometimes drop exp when you are mining them
• reduced the base exp required to gain a level significantly
• modules that require grey goo to operate can now take that grey goo from the inventories of NPC crew on the ship (not players since they are smart enough to decide for themselves)
• the same protection which prevents EVA from immediately ejecting you after you enter a ship now also protects you from double-using airlocks which share the same orientation and ending up on your original ship by accident
• you can now use the "Unload cargo" command on you home base
• fixed many lines of data which were being missed by the delete character function and leaving junk in the character database
• crew is now aware of the range of their weapon when firing at enemies and will approach their target if needed
• fixed a rare crash on AI trying to use turret metrics even if the ship has no turrets.
• using consoles on stations no longer changes the faction of that station
• added an ugly hack to clean up duplicated crew
• fixed a bug where the game could try to add sample ship profiles before loading their assets resulting in a crash on load
• fixed a unit conversion error which could result in negative stored resources
• fixed an error in logistics where right clicking could create an unused popup menu that could later be applied to the wrong ship
• you can now recruit Vaal after your conversation with her
• chance of finding npc agents in a random bar increased from like 0.00001% to 33% each time you visit a station of the appropriate type. There i 1 additional crew member out there that I suspect nobody has ever found as a result of the unintentionally low chance
• another crew member that was not previously attainable can now be recruited
• ships no longer despawn if they are docked to your home base
• hailing ships in the wrong session type is disabled to prevent crashing
• fixed a bug where hailing ships with crew that didn't belong to any faction or any team would pause the game and then crash the hailing animation
• added a little grey goo to the cargo of most npc ships carrying loot
• fixed a crash on saving and loading gauntlet challenge in a boss battle where only 2 enemies are left
• fixed a crash in gauntlet challenge on saving a tuning kit reward.
• fixed a crash after loading save game in a gauntlet boss battle and saving again after killing the boss, caused by icons not loading properly.
• fixed planted crystals are not reproducing and spreading after a save/reload.
• fixed crystal seed tooltip is not updating if you select a crystal with 0% seed value after a crystal with more than 0% seed value.
• improved the initial spawning of trade ships to prevent the case where a ship could become entirely filled with grey goo that the trade captain can never sell
• added some new junk data items
• fixed a bug where crew being added to a ship before it spawns were attempting to use the id they were assigned instead of receiving a new one from the ship interior resulting in the second crew added replacing the first and so on. This was breaking quests which required killing specific crew.
• fixed a bug that prevented quest completion dialogue after killing Greg.
• added a trade depot module that was missing from one of 3 mining station templates
• added some quest logic for the main questline after killing Budd
• added exp rewards to the new quests that were just added
• fixed game setting the quest marker in the wrong place if you save and load the game before completing the repairing ship part in "First Life" quest resulting in quest triggers being broken.
• fixed a bug where monster animations could null out if you reload the game next to them
• fixed a rare crash while crew firing their weapon.
• fixed followers are not equipping their weapon and attacking a monster if they see one and have some other tool equiped.
• fixed a rare crash in AI code

• - killing budd's stations now spawns budd via the station death tracking quest instead of the gary quest script
• - pirate station killing quest tooltip should apply properly now
• - budd quest tooltip fixed
• - fixed a crash in the budd quest
• - gary quest tooltip fixed
• - removed code from the gary quest that could cause budd to spawn infinitely
• - fixed an issue where gary quest wasn't triggering initial dialogue because the trigger was referring to the old depricated version of the quest
• - fixed a visual bug with ship maximum integrity overflowing the tooltip bar
• - removed references to capacity from some screens that no longer use capacity
• - some visual improvements to ship damage effect
• - added exp rewards to all of the quests I debugged in this patch
• - disabled 2 rare event types in the end-game gauntlet which are under suspicion of causing the gauntlet to freeze

0.9.0.06 changes:

• improved sliding value selectors to guarantee they can't overflow their value selection based on mouse position
• fixed a bug that would allow you to sell items to a station beyond its capacity to hold those items
• fixed a bug with the hacking screen where it was going back to the previous screen instead of to the exterior in some cases which would lock you out of the console until you reloaded the game
• upgraded the screen transition logic to prevent overlays and screens from lingering on the screen stack when switching screens in a way that should clear the stack
• fixed a bug with saving power routes from the engineering screen that could cause a crash
• the game will now create a crash log if the game crashes while attempting to load initial content

0.9.0.01 + 0.9.0.02

0.9.0.03

todo

Here's a short summary of the changes:

Complete overhaul of save system

Resource system

Experience

End game dungeon

Overhauled damage model

New NPC behaviors

New home station

New Crew members

Sensors, clouds, and vision

Communication with NPCs

Modding

Cloud saves

Stability and bug fixes

Hailing

Structure Overhaul

• increased diversity of weapon types
• adding extra structure to your ship is no longer wasted space
• skill cap for ship design is reduced since no structure ships are now viable
• theorycrafting around structure is now much more interesting
  • low structure ships can now be viable glass-cannon ships
  • high structure ships can armor tank for much longer
  • structure can be added to make repairing easier and to protect modules
• damage dealt in combat will more often be on the interior of ships
  • this makes the job of repairing combat damage more interesting
  • this reduces the appearance of ships being "cut" by damage and flying around with big holes in them while being mostly healthy
• structure has a visible effect on the exterior simulation
  • better visual feedback for the damage you are dealing and receiving
  • more obvious to the player how damaged enemy ships are
  • interior repair progress can be seen by the pilot
• modules near the exterior of a ship are no longer overly penalized by excess vulnerability
  • armor tanks will not lose exterior module functionality as fast
• your valuable ship is now slightly less mortal
  • ships will sustain more damage before breaking into pieces and losing their components
  • ships can be made to feel very durable without simply being invincible

New crew

Home station redesign

• Cloning bay. You no longer magically appear in a random hallway but instead are 3d printed like a rational adult
• Docking ring. You now have lots more airlocks to work with at the home station so you can manage more than 2 ships docked at a time. The airlocks are located in a new section of the station dedicated to ship logistics.
• It's now much harder to accidentally walk into space at the start of a game.
• Safe storage. Storing items at your station now keeps them in the character database so they transfer between saves instead of physically existing in the map also there's more storage space.
• Construction animations. In addition to costing resources, ships will now actually construct over time. It looks real neat.
• Ship provisioning. Transfer items to and from your ship via the logistics screen
• Expanded effective area for right clicking ships and requesting they be tractored to docks
• Your station now has mining capabilities, since mining exists now and it was always that type of station

Mining operations

Control improvements

Damage model improvements

Visible comms chatter

More tuning kits