The Gaslamp Games Development Special

• Cults do more interesting things (murder, farm sabotage, shrines)
• A new monster may appear (in very special circumstances)
• Added Tropical biome (new plants, new animals, new crops, new foods to cook, and lots of Fishpeople)
• Many improvements to farming and crops
• Militia conscription added and military control improved
• Fishpeople now have guns, feelings; may eat your colonists.
• First pass at almost-zero draw overhead (AZDO) pass (requires config file opt-in)
• Lots of texture cleanup to reduce memory footprint of game

And much more! Everything is basically better, details below.

Detailed Update Changelog

Engine/Rendering

• First pass at almost-zero draw overhead (AZDO) pass
• We did lots of texture resizing and texture cleanup to reduce memory footprint of game
• Save/load implemented
• Save/load stability improved
• unicode username support (for users with non-English characters in their windows username)
• performance improvements
• fixed many crashes
• FIXED: Save crash when saving a game after a character has been buried
• FIXED: Save crash when creating a job with a triple dependency
• fixed yet more crashes
• some really weird rendering errors fixed

Biomes/Terrain

• added new tropical embark position
• can select tropical embark position on embark map
• added a ton of new content for tropical biomes
• biome generators modified for tropical biome creation

Characters

• FIXED: crash when attempting to drop a body
• FIXED: corpse dropping errors
• FIXED: crash caused by going into infinite loop of trying to drop temporary tools
• FIXED: crash with overseer jobs being deleted
• fixed up some memory icons (incl. temp fix for frontier justice memory icon)
• added “Military Training” trait (and a couple others, for fun)
• FIXED: sleeping is not 10x as fast as intended
• immigration event pulls from a limited set of colonist types (rather than ANY valid)
• Colonists now given from 1-3 traits. (Lower classes get one only. Military characters always get “military training”.)
• Added a significant number of new memories for citizens to experience.
• Some traits now have physical effects
• Added militia footsoldier & NCO uniforms
• Soldiers now start with weapons
• FIXED: afflictions and damage assignment bugs
• Colonists can form friendships
• Making friends makes people happy
• FIXED: freezing in place when approached by fishpeople
• made eating raw food less desirable
• Can now form militias via militia button & assign civilians to military squads as militia
• “sacrificial dagger” is now a valid weapon
• Possessive pronouns now correctly added to character memory descriptions
• Axe murder re-added
• Cultists will now build creepy little shrines
• Cultists can turn into REDACTED
• a starving colony will receive one food bailout from the Colonial Ministry
• FIXED: workcrew job category filter toggles (though more categories need to be added; some jobs are awkwardly categorized eg. foraging/farming)
• combat tasks now prioritized over hunting /unless/ character is “Big Game Hunter”
• FIXED: memories not being removed

Combat/Military

• civilian workcrews can be conscripted to transform into a militia squad
• civilian labourers can be moved to a military squad to become militia soldiers
• militia soldiers are less good at combat, civilians w/o certain traits become upset when conscripted
• rally points can be set per military squad
• Military loadouts (as in, soldiers try to keep a gun handy)

Fishpeople

• Fishpeople now have morale & will run when they’ve had enough
• Fishpeople morale affected by combat & seeing death
• Fishpeople now have weapons, including guns
• Adjusted quality/quantity of fishpeople attacks slightly toward “quality”
• Fishpeople attack spawns slightly fewer fishpeople (now that they have weapons)
• FIXED: fishpeople now have gibs
• FIXED: various issues with attack_melee and fishpeople using melee weapons
• FIXED: fishpeople weapons not added to player commodity list on spawn
• fishpeople made more aggressive in tropical biome

REDACTED

• REDACTED now have “armoured” tag and more hitpoints

Animals

• FIXED herbivore run animations
• FIXED: people no longer think that killing animals is murder
• Aurochs is no longed tagged “dodo”
• Added “Giant Beetle” to tropical biome, can be hunted & butchered
• Added “Junglefowl” to tropical biome, can be hunted & butchered
• FIXED: “Junglefowl” no longer shoots out giant gibs
• FIXED: hunting animals should no longer trigger combat music

UI/UX

• Alerts can be put on job requirements when job requirements fail, with snooze timers.
• Click & drag rectangle performance improved
• Work Crew job filters fixed
• some sounds added to main menu
• some sounds added to click & drag order creation
• FIXED some missing commodity icons
• Icon displayed on receiving affliction should no longer stack if character receives lots of damage in a short period
• spoiled crops now generates alert
• lacking guns for military will generate alert
• character info window expanded slightly
• sounds added to some UI buttons
• sounds added when giving orders via click & drag

Buildings/Zones

• Gabions can be built and work! Build gabions!
• adjusted utility of gabion construction (no longer higher than basic military duties)
• Added fieldstone foundation textures to a bunch of low-tier buildings
• Turned off “make stone bricks” job (stone blocks will be treated separately from bricks)
• Short wander added to end of dropping item in stockpile (to stop people from stockpiling themselves)
• First pass on adding particle effects to modules (this is really cool – ovens make smoke, etc.)
• added low-end “stone oven” module
• balance: food cooking time halved
• FIXED: issues with graveyards
• improvements to chairs/table placement
• one work crew will now work together to construct all modules in the building
• improved minor trim textures on procedural buildings
• FIXED: workers no longer attempt to make coconut curry directly from coconut palm tree
• new food commodities added: preserved orange cup fungus, preserved white cup fungus, sugar loaf, molasses, rum, chicha, moonshine, maize, maize stew, coconuts, coconut curry, chillies, etc?

Natural Objects

• Clay and Sand are now mined with a shovel rather than a pickaxe
• Doubled berrybush exhaustion chance
• Stone outcrop spawning increased
• Made starting colony biome more consistently temperate (to distinguish from tropics)
• clearables now can require varying amounts of work to clear (grass is easy to clear, shrubs less easy)
• added foraegable Coconut Palm to tropical biomes
• added more fungus varieties for tropical biomes
• improvements to various textures to read better when zoomed out

Farming

• Crops planted/tended by mad cultists will occasionally be Evil
• Evil plants will be removed by non-mad non-cultists
• Removing evil crops is upsetting
• added sfx to “till soil” job
• People farming will now sow seeds in addition to hoeing the fields
• Added new agricultural crops: sugarcane, chilli peppers, redid maize
• Some more crops rescaled (I heard you like big cabbages.)
• improved maize models
• various balance adjustments to make farming more forgiving
• corruption particle effects added to corrupted crops
• FIXED: harvesting corrupted/spoiled crops no longer causes errors
• rebalanced priority of farming jobs
• crops can now be set per-biome, tropical crops only grow in tropical colonies, temperate crops in temperate colonies
• sounds added to tilling soil, for real!
• FIXED: nil index errors

Misc.

• made curry really good
• Removed some FSM console spam, made other parts actually say what was printing them (so they are now useful console spammers)
• This was a real commit message: “- made steak biome look more appetizing”