Space Architect News

Hi,
"This is one small patch for a game, one giant change for gaming-kind."
Or so one of the crewmates said

Anyway, here are today's patch changes:

• Change: Transport pipes speed increased x2
  
• 20+ new background tracks
  
• Change: add temperature info to tooltip
  
• Prevent metal spawning by the storage metal-not-allowed loophole
  
• Fixes for French translations - thanks to Yalemon
  
• Added a tooltip about using Shift when building to build multiple
  
• Changed translation for a button to build a copy of a device
  
• Attempt at solving a bug: game lag after a long pause can cause the crew to die
  

Hi

This is a quick one - a few tweaks for 1.1 Open Beta in form of v1.1.1

• Storage - repositioned visual representation of filtered item
  
• All devices can have custom names (it was meant to be used for Storage, so I don't guarantee it'll look good for other device types)
  
• Storage fill bar updated continuously (instead of in 5 steps)
  
• Pipes overlay - polished switching between actions
  
• Ability to connect neighbouring pipe nodes from pipe building interaction
  

Custom name will be displayed over the device


And can be set by pressing pencil in the Device panel

Hi there!
After all these months (3 to be exact), I'm proud to present to you the Open Beta release of v1.1

To participate, go to Space Architect properties, and under Beta, choose 1.1_beta_ - 1.1 Open Beta




But be warned, this version may contain an above average amount of bugs!

Warned you was, now, what's new in 1.1 Beta

Redone temperature system
Instead of the station having a single temperature, each grid cell will have its own, thus allowing for hotspots to appear in mid to late game. This will make overheating devices more common.


Cooling pipes
Introduced as a way to combat hotspots and possibly do other shenanigans (like making hot rooms?).
Also, cooling lines need a place to transfer heat to, so an Active Cooler was added to the game, with the ability to reach chilly -50C (wear warm gloves when operating).


Refreshed pipe laying
The most common negative feedback was about the pipe-laying system being unintuitive. For a long time, I had no idea how to improve it - until a few weeks back. Now you can lay the whole pipeline in one quick step - choosing the starting point and end point, and laid pipes will connect to form a pipeline.

The old way of interacting with pipes will still work to allow fine control over them.


Game load/save time
The second most often mentioned thing was sluggish saving/loading. So, finally, I've taken some time and rewritten it completely.
How did it go, you ask? Well, doing some tests with a save of chonky base, the old system took an average of 26s to load it, while the new one took only 2.9s.
Making the new save system 9x quicker.

Also, don't you worry, old saves will still work (will be loaded with the old save system)

And some other, less important changes

• Overlays separated from panels (so you could open device panel while in temperature overlay, without closing temperature overlay)
  
• Knowledgebase has a few sections with scrollable images
  
• Filter selection interaction (in pipes and devices) got tweaked - items in UI list don't change position when interacted with
  
• Job system bug has been solved (I hope), which caused the dock to be unable to export items contained within.
  
• Job priorities got missing Station Export priority added
  
• Storage sprite got updated
  

What's next?
Some devices/interactions might be added during beta, like ice melting in hot rooms, cooling it a bit down, or crew sweating/shivering, giving them debuffs. But the main focus for now is to make sure it's balanced properly and get rid of some bugs.

(A large part of this post got copied from the last post. I'm lazy like that, sorry :) )

See you soon, and enjoy 1.1 Beta :)

Hi All,

The game is still being worked on, no worries :)
v1.1 is almost ready, and while I'm planning to release it at the beginning of May, before that I'd like to get some feedback from You.

Soo... in a day or two v1.1 will be available as a public beta, if you're not scared of a few bugs here and there - I'd like to invite you to participate :)

What will be there you ask?

Redone temperature system
Instead of the station having a single temperature, each grid cell will have its own, thus allowing for hotspots to appear in mid to late game. This will make overheating devices more common.
Some devices/interactions might be added during beta, like ice melting in hot rooms cooling it a bit down, or crew sweating/shivering giving them debuffs.


Cooling pipes
Introduced as a way to combat hotspots, and possibly do other shenanigans (like making hot rooms?)


Refreshed pipe laying
The most common negative feedback was about the pipe-laying system being unintuitive, for long time I had no idea on how to improve it - until now. Now you're laying whole pipeline in one quick step - choosing the starting point and end point, and laid pipes will connect to form a pipeline.

The old way of interacting with pipes will still work, to allow fine control over them.


Game load/save time
The second most often mentioned thing was sluggish saving/loading. So, finally, I've taken some time and rewritten it completely.
How did it go, you ask? Well, doing some tests with a save of chonky base, the old system took an average of 26s to load it, while the new one took only 2.9s.
Making the new save system 9x quicker.

Also, don't you worry, old saves will still work (will be loaded with the old save system)



Now, I'm getting back to work, and I'll see you again in a few days!
Cheers,
Albert

Hi All!

With this update, you will be able to (finally) demolish those pesky Modules and Trusses, and remodel the station to your changing needs :)

• Module/Truss deconstruction
  
• Added shortcut (H) to center camera on the station
  
• Dropped items got updated sprites (temporary ones)
  
• Dropped items piles near each other merge into one (up to a limit)
  
• Dropped items that won't merge will change position if on top of other dropped items
  
• [Fix] Pointer in scrap removal quest now hides when it should
  
• [Change] After Storage filters change, if not-allowed items can't be exported due to limited space, they still can be used for other jobs
  
• Defense towers - allow to put the same amount of ammo via pipes vs via crew
  
• Storage filter export is more robust
  
• Added crewmate names proposed by players
  
• Added translations for Zoom In and Zoom Out shortcuts
  
• [Fix] fixes to French translations - user suggested - thanks!
  
• [Fix] Fix translation for 'You can't borrow anymore'
  
• [Fix] Solved dropped items staying with yellow outline (occurred when clicking through multiple dropped items piles)
  
• Added sounds - on button hover, and on panel closing
  
• Update device and dropped items panel avatar background
  

Look at that changelog, it got too long, I could have released part of it sooner, sorry for that :D