InfraSpace News

Hello everyone!

As promised in last week's Friday Dev News, we're now showing our first 3D concepts for the new biomes. For now these are just artist test scenes and not procedurally generated. That comes later!

We tried to make the landscape look both interesting and alien, but still familiar enough that it doesn't look "off". Also, we added some slight fog effects for visual variety, but not so dense that they get in the way of gameplay or make the scene too dark.






While the dried river contains no flowing water, it's geology makes it a lot easier to reach underground water and methane deposits. The steep rock walls protect the area from both sun and wind and gives opportunity for mushroom-like alien plants to grow on the sides.



The petrified crater is a very different biome: It seems like a large asteroid impact long ago has compressed the soil can't hold much liquid resources at all and neither man nor nature can reach through the ground very easily. Any plants that grow here risk drying out and getting petrified in seasons with a lot of sun. On the other hand, the leftover asteroid material provides for some rich aluminum deposits.







I hope you like the scenes so far, let us know what you think! The art team would be happy to hear any comments.
We'll be able to show some of the other new biomes next week.

In other news, after 2 years of pandemic, I finally got covid myself. Luckily I'm already well on the road to recovery and the rest of the (remote) team has been doing a great job of continuing work on the game in the meantime, so it all turned out fine :)

See you next week and happy playing!

Hello everyone!

first of all, tiny update today:

• Fixed a bug where 2 players couldn't load their saves
  
• Added Japanese translation (thanks to the community translators!)
  

That's right , in the next major update you'll be getting a complete planet overhaul to play with!

(Note: we will try to keep your old maps playable. the next major update will also take 2 months or so)

It's still a work in progress, so today I'd like to show you some of our concepts and ideas.

Our first attempts started by modifying the terrain we already had - what if we added a couple more interesting biomes? How about a volcano? An ancient dried up river?

This thought process got us to the following sketches:



Still looks familar, for sure... but also with some interesting twists.

Then we thought what if we expanded on the idea. Made the dried river an actual deep geological feature that you could even build part of your city in?



Looks pretty good for a quick sketch, but we have this featuer on our roadmap called "cargo gondolas". How about we not only use them in the river, but make an entire feature out of it where you need to traverse height to access resources?



That's nice! But we also need some big open a
reas for players to build their city in - lot's of people just want space to build freely. How about a big crater?



Ok, cool, but I mentioned volancoes earlier. What about them, are they just for decoration? Or do they hold precious resources at the top that you could maybe gather with a mining outpost and transport to your main city?



Interesting, so that's a lot of new ideas, but what *could* they look like put together? Just a quick sketch?



The sketches you see here are still far from the final result, but they should give you an overview of the kinds of ideas we are working on and what might be coming to InfraSpace in the next major update.

Next week, you can look forward to seeing the first 3D scenes of the new terrain and I can tell you, you can look forward to them because they look good :D

Also, the terrain is not the only thing we're working on - but you'll have to wait a little longer for that to be revealed...

Until next week and happy playing!

Hello everyone!

Last week we saw the release of the pipes update and in the last 7 days you've already seen 3 small bugfix updates. Today, you're getting another one:

• Added messages for completed spaceship parts to let you know which bonus you unlocked or which technology got boosted
  
• Improved pipes building so they more easily merge with neighboring pipes
  
• Improved pipes building so that unconnected pipes in the same location collide and let you know something's wrong
  
• Improved pipes handling so you can't click on roads and buildings in pipe mode and can't click on pipes in any other mode
  
• Fixed an issue where bonus immigrants from completing part of your spaceship would vanish instantly
  
• Fixed an issue where methane pipes wouldn't connect to the Adamantine Drill
  
• Fixed a bug where a save was stuck in pipe edit mode
  
• Fixed a bug where you could keep building some spaceship parts infinitely
  
• Fixed a bug where spaceship efficiency bonuses wouldn't be applied
  

Even before the latest update release, some of us have already been working on and preparing for the next update after pipes. You'll find out the details next week - one hint: it's going to involve the planet.

Until then, happy playing!

Hello everyone,

I just uploaded Patch 10.2.216 with a handful more fixes:

• Methane Pipes now connect to Yellow Science Pack Factories and High Tech Workshops
  
• Fixed an issue where a player could not load their save
  
• Fixed an issue where players were unable to delete saves in game
  
• Rebalanced pipeline operation efficiency impact: From now on, only producers of liquid / gas resources connected to a pipe system pay the operation costs of 33%. Consumers operate at full efficiency
  

Happy playing!

Hello everyone!

The Pipe Update seems to have been received quite well, but a number of bugs have been reported.
I've taken some time to provide you with a quick Sunday evening hotfix update for the possibly game breaking issues I've seen:

• Fixed a bug where loading maps from previous versions would generate methane once, but then skip the methane generation on subsequent loads. Now you should always have methane patches in your saves.
  
• Fixed a bug with the new round trip cars feature, where they would generate infinite cars and not drive back to the proper source.
  

I'm making a list of all the other bugs and will deal with them in the coming week during normal working hours.
I want to thank everyone for the concise reports, any saves you send to me for reproduction ([email protected]) and for your patience.

Happy playing!