Surviving the Abyss News

Hi everyone! Today's patch is focused on Auto Save and Quality of Life Improvements! This covers a few issues people have had over the past few weeks as well as the implementation of an Autosave feature (currently set to 25 mins).
Please continue to submit bugs and feedback here & Discord.
[h3]Content:[/h3]

• Auto Save (every 25 minutes).
  

[h3]Bug fixes:[/h3]

• Fix for Oil Wells not being built.
  
• Exploration Subs no longer getting stuck during an expedition.
  
• Fix for tunnel connection causing crew not be assigned.
  
• Fix for light towers so they're not attacked when UV mode is active.
  

[h3]Misc:[/h3]

• Fix for Oil Well Animations.
  
• Updated Submarine Factory UI.
  
• Destroyed Lab Building Image.
  

Hi everyone! Today's patch is focused on Performance! This covers performance for FPS in game play as well as improved loading times on larger save files! Also covered were a range of Research Module Attachment improvements.
Please continue to submit bugs and feedback here & Discord.
[h3]Performance:[/h3]

• Improved light culling.
  
• Improved loading times for large save files.
  
• Improved performance with many placed/connected buildings.
  

[h3]Bug fixes:[/h3]

• Prevent Fauna efficiency module from removing power from the grid when deleted.
  
• Fix animation on fauna capture rate attachment.
  
• Fix broken material, animation on power efficiency attachment module.
  

[h3]Misc:[/h3]

• Improved Research Attachment Module construction animation.
  

Hi everyone! Today's patch has a focus on Stackable Genomes in the Cloning Inventory, first-pass functionality for the trench extractor, and a few smaller bug fixes!
Next up will be a major performance focused patch, hopefully later this week! Please continue to submit bugs and feedback here & Discord.

[h3]Quality of Life:[/h3]

• Genomes now stack in the cloning inventory - this prevents excessive lag in the cloning interface when many genomes are present.
  
• Cloning time is now listed in hours.
  

[h3]Features:[/h3]

• Trench extractor now gathers genetic material - this is an ongoing feature and subject to balancing and changes going forward.
  

[h3]Bug fixes:[/h3]

• Fixes for the mining rates of extractors on depleted resources.
  

[h3]Misc:[/h3]

• Constructed submarines now spawn with correct rotation.
  
• Changed timings on a number of emergent events so they appear later in the game.
  

Back again for another patch. This time the focus has been on crew housing bugs, UV mode changes and a handful of smaller problems reported by the community.
Looking forward to hear more community suggestions and feedback!

[h3]Quality of Life:[/h3]

• Can now toggle UV mode any time after tech tree item has been unlocked.
  

[h3]Content:[/h3]

• Tech Tree upgrade to make depleted resource be mined faster. 1/2 rate instead of 1/4 rate.
  

[h3]Bug Fixes:[/h3]
Crew Assignment:

• Damaged Docks no longer stop crew assignment which could cause low framerate.
  

Tunnels:

• Fix for short tunnels, created automatically between doorways, not being deleted when destroying a building in a loaded save file. Doesn't affect current save files.
  

Anomaly:

• Prevent anomaly damaging research modules as they cannot be selected and repaired.
  

Misc:

• Air purifiers can now be manually toggled off.
  
• Removed box collider from Creature Habitat - it was preventing clicks on nearby buildings.
  
• Missing Resources for building awaiting construction are now displayed on the building construction panel.
  
• Added a tooltip to the "Delete Submarine" button to make it clear that it will destroy the selected submarine.
  

Hey everyone, we're back today for another week of enhancements and bug fixing! Your suggestions, feedback and bug reports are being monitored and we're getting through the list of the most-critical bugs.
Soon we'll be able to share a Roadmap of the future plans for Surviving the Abyss, but for now we're focused on stability and quality of life enhancements.


[h2]Quality of Life[/h2]

• Destroying buildings during construction now returns 100% of the resources.
  
• Clickable status notifications - can now click certain status notifications which takes you to the location of the issue. (e.g. 5 crew are suffocating)
  

[h2]Bug Fixes:[/h2]

Crew Assignment:

• Prevent all instances of crew being reassigned while on a transport submarine.
  
• Ensure crew are placed within the docks when they arrive after being transported, then correctly walk to end destination building.
  

Power:

• Fix for coal generators outputting correct power when crew are reassigned.
  
• Fix for fuel consumption being double after loading some save files.
  

Anomaly:

• Loading a save file during attack now loads with the attack continuing.
  

Misc:

• Updated Habitat lens panel text & sprites.
  
• Added event outcome messages for a number of the emergent events.
  
• New UI for depleted resources displaying the reduced mining rate.