Hydroneer News

Hey everyone, Max here.
If you do not know, I'm the solo developer of Hydroneer. I've worked on Hydroneer now for a year and a half, and have loved every minute of it! I've got a MAJOR update coming in January, as well as a new developer vlog coming out on the 5th (as they do each month), link below.

I'm writing this news post to let you folks know that Hydroneer is in the running for indie of the year through IndieDB! If you're enjoying Hydroneer please vote for it, you do not have to register an account, just click the link below and then click 'vote'.

VOTE HERE

Thanks for reading :)
- grandmaMax

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoulballHangover
Discord: https://discord.gg/hgYBTGP
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaxHayon
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Hydroneer/

This update is mostly packed with QoL additions!
- Hydroneer is now on GeForceNow! Don't meet the minimum specs? Don't worry! You can now play via Nvidia's streaming service.
-Splitters now check for CLOUTIUM instead of DIRT.
-Excavator and the UI have had an overhaul.
-Hand miners will be delighted to know that they can now shovel DIRECTLY onto the conveyor belts, also making early game a lot easier when you can only afford a harvester.
-Screenshot camera is now here! Take cool images and share them on discord/reddit!
-Hitting 'B' will now open up the Bridgepour Wiki on whatever you're looking at!
-And of course, I can't legally call it the 'Hydroween' update if I don't actually do anything remotely spooky, so for a limited time you can purchase Jack-O-Lanterns and light up your base.

Thanks so much for your support, happy Halloween.
Max :)


Full Patch Notes:
--- New features
- Screenshot camera accessible from the ESC menu.
- Vehicles now have stronger 4 wheel drive strength.
- Interactive wiki integration. Hit B while looking at an item to see the item in the wiki.
- Dirt can now be directly placed on a conveyor belt from a shovel.
- Steam Cloud Saving
- GeForce Now integration!
- Jack-O-Lanterns available to purchase for a limited time. Happy Halloween!

--- Fixes
- Excavator major overhaul.
- Various map collision fixes.
- DAVID/Pressure Tanks no longer resize the bar visual incorrectly.
- Misc. optimisations.

--- Changes
- Splitter will now sort Cloutium instead of dirt.
- Various UI reworks.
- Large Angled Wall can now be rotated by all axis.

This update is mostly packed with QoL additions!
- Hydroneer is now on GeForceNow! Don't meet the minimum specs? Don't worry! You can now play via Nvidia's streaming service.
-Splitters now check for CLOUTIUM instead of DIRT.
-Excavator and the UI have had an overhaul.
-Hand miners will be delighted to know that they can now shovel DIRECTLY onto the conveyor belts, also making early game a lot easier when you can only afford a harvester.
-Screenshot camera is now here! Take cool images and share them on discord/reddit!
-Hitting 'B' will now open up the Bridgepour Wiki on whatever you're looking at!
-And of course, I can't legally call it the 'Hydroween' update if I don't actually do anything remotely spooky, so for a limited time you can purchase Jack-O-Lanterns and light up your base.

Thanks so much for your support, happy Halloween.
Max :)


Full Patch Notes:
--- New features
- Screenshot camera accessible from the ESC menu.
- Vehicles now have stronger 4 wheel drive strength.
- Interactive wiki integration. Hit B while looking at an item to see the item in the wiki.
- Dirt can now be directly placed on a conveyor belt from a shovel.
- Steam Cloud Saving
- GeForce Now integration!
- Jack-O-Lanterns available to purchase for a limited time. Happy Halloween!

--- Fixes
- Excavator major overhaul.
- Various map collision fixes.
- DAVID/Pressure Tanks no longer resize the bar visual incorrectly.
- Misc. optimisations.

--- Changes
- Splitter will now sort Cloutium instead of dirt.
- Various UI reworks.
- Large Angled Wall can now be rotated by all axis.

Today's 1.4 mini-update is now live!

This update includes a few cool new features as well as fixes and changes. The highlight of the update is the Gem Compressor - a water powered machine which can compress any gem into a compressed gem. These compressed gems can be used in crafting just like regular gems!

Another addition is the player sprinting ability - a highly requested feature.

Steam Workshop is now implemented for Hydroneer! Now you no longer have to visit github to download mods. Please be patient with the quantity of mods listed on the Workshop, more mods will be added over time by the community. This is completely out of my control. The old mods are still available on their respective sites: https://bridgepour.com/mods
If you're interested in making mods, there's a great channel to discuss with other mod devs in the discord: https://discord.gg/hgYBTGP

Finally another new addition in this update is the new community created wiki. We've got rid of the Fandom wiki and a new one has been created from the community: https://bridgepour.com

You can find more info about this update and more on my YouTube channel - I upload weekly development videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoulballHangover

Thanks everyone, hope you enjoy 1.4!
- Max :)



Patch Notes:
1.4.0 Update
11 September 2020

--- New Features
- Compressed Gems.
- Compressor object to combine multiple uncut, gems, or compressed gems.
- Mod support via Steam Workshop.
- Player sprinting.
- New fansite wiki: Bridgepour.com. Created by ItchyBeard.
- Necklaces can now be placed on golden head statues.
- Player jumping sounds.

--- Fixes
- Shard has a better collision box to improve movement on conveyor belts.
- Chinese localisation fixes.
- Improvements to collisions for Conveyor Shredders to reduce items clipping through.
- Fixed issue where the pallet was breaking the fishing rod.
- Enter vehicle key tool tip now changes with the keybinding.
- Player can no longer crouch in main menu.
- Turkish localisation no longer displays Spanish.

--- Changes
- Conveyor belt visual speeds changed to represent pressure and physical speed better.
- Removed dynamic light on Goliath Drill to improve performance.
- Increased visual minimum resource size by 25%
- Battleaxe, Axe, Dagger, and Swords no longer rotate when being dropped, and are held higher to avoid collision issues when placing on sale table.
- Lowered centre of gravity for resources to reduce rolling on conveyor belts and improve performance.

The 1.4 Hydroneer update will be out on September 11th!

This will include some very useful and highly requested features for Hydroneer. Full patch notes will be available on the day, but here's some highlights:

- Gem Compressor. A useful buildable item which compresses all uncut/regular gems into Composite gems.
- Mod support via Steam workshop
- Player sprinting
- New fansite wiki: Bridgepour.com
- Lots of fixes/balances!

You can find more info about this update and more on my YouTube channel - I upload weekly development videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoulballHangover

Thanks everyone for the kind feedback so far with Hydroneer, I really appreciate all the Steam reviews, it really helps out!

Enjoy!
-Max :)