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Bringing a new vibe to the factory-building automation genre, Techtonica's neon alien caverns and synthwave soundtrack are a lot of fun to explore and excavate in. Releasing just this week on Steam and Game Pass, Fire Hose Games' debut release is a first-person factory game that follows in the footsteps of Factorio or Satisfactory, but adds literal depth to the formula by setting everything inside a network of subterranean caves on a strange, rogue exoplanet...
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We are thrilled to announce that Techtonica is in Simfest–the Steam festival celebrating all things related to simulation games.

Here's a link to the festival!



Through the 24th of July, 10am PDT 2023, you can save 15% off of Techtonica. In addition to that, you will also be able to check out some of the latest and greatest simulation titles and see what the future holds for the simulation genre with coming soon games. From simulators that cover hobbies you would love to experience to job simulators that revolve around your dream career (even out-of-this-world ones), Simfest will feature a wide variety of titles in the genre.

Simfest is a Steam festival co-hosted by Auroch Digital and Stray Fawn Studio. This year’s event will be the second Simfest, after Simfest: Hobby Edition took place in 2022. Join Techtonica and many other incredible simulation games in Simfest 2023. We hope to see you there!

Hello, Groundbreakers. We've pushed Patch v0.1.0e.

Patch v0.1.0e contains a fix for the broken settings problem that has been causing some users in international territories to experience issues like the following:

• Volume settings defaulting to 0% or 1000%
  
• Gamma settings defaulting to 0
  
• FOV settings defaulting to values greater than the implemented minimum or maximum
  
• Display area settings defaulting to values other than 100%
  

After updating Techtonica to v0.1.0e, new players shouldn't experience the above problems.

Existing players who have had some or all of the above settings-related issues should update to v0.1.0e.

When you do, your Techtonica settings should be restored to normal defaults when you start up the game. From there, you can customize those settings as desired. Save game progress should not be impacted.

If anyone continues to experience problems with extreme settings after updating to v0.1.0e, using the Restore Defaults in Techtonica > Main Menu > Settings should fix the problem.

This will fix many of the FOV problems described by some users where FOV feels extreme or broken out of the box. It will not change how our FOV works for users who have manually adjusted their FOV values, though.

This will fix the problem users in some regions are experiencing where volume is set to 0% or 1000%. It will not change volume levels for people who were not experiencing these problems related to volume settings sliders being set by default to extreme values.

For now, these changes will be to Steam only.

Welcome to Calyx, Groundbreakers! Techtonica has officially entered Early Access.

If you haven't noticed, there's a launch discount available for the game, too. Techtonica will normally sell for $29.99, but there's a 15% launch discount that will run for the first week.

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From us at Fire Hose to you, our growing community of Groundbreakers, thanks for being here.

We hope you have a blast with Techtonica. v0.1 marks the beginning of our journey. We leave you with a link to our Discord if you want to chat directly with the devs and other community members and our upcoming Road Map.

Let's get to work.

Sort of unreal to say it, but we’re officially launching Techtonica into Early Access tomorrow, July 18th, 2023.

Thanks for being here. Thanks for reading, commenting, sharing, Wishlisting, and watching. It’s meant so much to our entire team through the development process, and your presence in our community drives this game forward.

So! What’s happening with our team and Techtonica at and right after launch? Let’s dig in.

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[h3]Launch time?[/h3]

We’re launching Techtonica on July 18th, 2023, at 1pm EST. That’s when we push the big green button, anyways. It should be live within a minute or two.

Fun fact, we’re actually doing this as a team, I believe. So the plan is to watch as one of our Leads pushes the button and we launch the game into Early Access. v0.1 should be fun!

[h3]Don’t forget the Discord hangout[/h3]

Lauren will go live in the Discord three hours before launch. You can join at discord.gg/techtonica. She’ll be live at 10am ET, which could be right now if you’re reading this on the 18th.

The plan is to host several members of the Fire Hose team throughout the morning, so get ready to see faces old and new, ask questions, and experience first-hand launch nerves.

[h3]Ah, the Reddit AMA![/h3]

At 2pm ET, five Fire Hose team members will be live in the r/Games subreddit with an official AMA. If you’re already a Redditor, join us. We’ll be ready to answer lots of questions, but no leaks. Please no leaks.



[h3]What’s the deal with v0.1.1?[/h3]

v0.1.1 is billed as the Quality of Life update, and it will largely serve stabilization and immediate community feedback. We won’t be able to address everything! But we are looking to gather your feedback in the opening weeks and will implement changes in the v0.1.1 patch by mid-August-ish.

You can submit your feedback and discuss/rank other feedback at feedback.techtonicagame.com.




The aforementioned timeline could change! We’re responding to your thoughts and issues in real time, and priorities or scale and scope could shift our work, so don’t let a schedule change surprise you.

Thanks for hanging out! We can’t wait for tomorrow. See you on Calyx!