Plan B: Terraform News

[p]Update 0.9.4 is here! This update brings two major improvements that will enhance both gameplay and visuals.[/p][p]Transport systems have been overhauled — drones and vehicles are now much more efficient. Drones waste less time and prioritize unloading vehicles. Trucks have been significantly improved to remain useful longer.[/p][p]Going green! Grass now spreads naturally from trees, covering large areas — including under roads, rails, and factories — giving your cities a more organic look. It will keep spreading as long as the soil retains enough humidity and the temperature is favorable. In drier or colder regions, it takes on a more yellowish hue. Trees have also been rebalanced, and cities will no longer require oxygen once there’s enough of it in the atmosphere![/p][p]This update also includes a variety of other tweaks and improvements — check out the full list below![/p][p][/p][h3]Plan B - v0.9.4 build 1039 [/h3][p]
Major improvements:[/p]

• [p]Major rework of transports and drones behavior, to move containers faster and smarter. Trucks buffed a lot (cf. Balance changes). [/p]
• [p]Add grass and rebalance other plants (cf. Balance changes). Grass automatically spread (including below rails, roads and factories) when planting trees, and gives a bit of oxygen (20% of a forest hexagon)[/p]

[p]Improvements:[/p]

• [p]Drones take off to unload stacks earlier, load and unload faster, give priority to transports, search for new task earlier, optimize performances[/p]
• [p]Drones movement smoothed, move at the exact position (no more drones & containers teleports).[/p]
• [p]Show actual vehicles stats (number of containers transported per year)[/p]
• [p]Trees replace more easily other types of trees, if they are better suited for the local conditions [/p]
• [p]Reduced O2 city need when enough of it[/p]
• [p]Add a history of camera positions (with mouse buttons 4/5)[/p]
• [p]Update localisation from/to Crowdin (help very appreciated! especially for Italian, Japanese, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Thai.[/p]
• [p]Added an option to pause music between each tracks[/p]

[p]Balance:[/p]

• [p]Depots MK3 drones move 2 containers at once.[/p]
• [p]Trucks number of containers 1 => 2, speed 1 => 2[/p]
• [p]Trains speed 2 => 3, acceleration 0.3 => 0.16[/p]
• [p]Ship: speed 0.8 => 1.5, unlock level 20 => 19[/p]
• [p]Trains wait to be fully unloaded[/p]
• [p]Do not reroute vehicles if their path is flooded[/p]
• [p]Tropical trees give +50% oxygen[/p]
• [p]Palm trees are now the only trees growing on beaches[/p]
• [p]Cacti grow on no-water areas, are more distant to each others, give less oxygen (same quantity as visible cacti number)[/p]
• [p]Modify tree movements so they are more synchronised with the wind direction[/p]

[p]Bugs fix:[/p]

• [p]Fixed bug with history not reset at reload[/p]
• [p]Fixed soft lock if we set mouse left button on cancel[/p]
• [p]Fixed bug if we close input window while waiting for input[/p]
• [p]Fixed selection error at north pole[/p]
• [p]Fixed wrong selection infos when selected item change by itself[/p]
• [p]Fixed rare case of depots that skip some neighbors[/p]
• [p]Fixed very bad estimation of containers transported by a line when saturated[/p]
• [p]Console does not block mouse clicks[/p]

[p]Minor:[/p]

• [p]Allow landmarks to be placed underwater[/p]
• [p]When removing a vehicle, remove empty ones in priority[/p]
• [p]Use 2 containers stacks for spacelift build recipe (faster)[/p]
• [p]Info : farm image changed & text improved[/p]
• [p]Optimisation of vehicles CPU performances[/p]
• [p]Optimisation of dynamic items perfs [/p]
• [p]Do not display "city need changed" too often[/p]
• [p]Space elevator hidden from unlocked items[/p]
• [p]Detects if bepinex installed (displayed in home screen) [/p]

[p][/p][p][/p][h3]Plan B - v0.9.4 build 1044 HOTFIX (2025-06-25)[/h3]

• [p]reverted rocks created by terrain tool & bombs to small rocks instead of normal big rocks (reverted to same as before v0.9.4)[/p]
• [p]fixed an issue when closing the selection panel with the button while duplicating an item[/p]
• [p]added grass under city lower tech districts[/p]

[p][/p][h3]Plan B - v0.9.4 build 1045 HOTFIX 2 (2025-06-29)[/h3]

• [p]Fixed a bug that sometimes prevent city to grow when oxygen need is 100% reduced[/p]

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Check out our new trailer showcasing all the progress we've made since the Early Access launch!

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This trailer was created for the Games Made in France event. If you speak French, be sure to check it out—there are plenty of amazing French games featured! The event will be streamed on Mister MV’s Twitch channel, and Plan B: Terraform will be featured on Friday night (May 15th, 10:30 PM, Paris time)!

We’ve also brought back the demo (for a week)!

The most suggested feature is here: select multiple unit with a selection box and copy-paste them anywhere with a Ctrl+C!
You can also undo and redo your previous action with (Shift+)Ctrl+Z.

Also, you now have ice on mountains tops and on forest grounds near poles.

Remark: For the selection, there might be some position offset when you copy or paste over pentagon/heptagons, but those are highlighted so you'll see if this is the case.

[h3]Plan B - v0.9.3 build 1014 [/h3]

Major improvements:

• Multiple selection, copy (Ctrl+C), cut (Ctrl+X), paste (Ctrl+V).
  Use selection box, double click, and modifier shift/ctrl to add/remove from selection.
  Use E/R to mirror or rotate selection.
  Export or import selection to windows clipboard (Shift+C, Shift+V)
  
• Undo (Ctrl+Z) or redo (Shift+Ctrl+Z)
  

Improvements:

• Drag system improved (ghost item while dragged). Need some time to trigger, to differenciate from selection box
  
• Display ice on mountains and under forests in poles, and in high mountains in lower latitudes
  
• Add mouse wheel sensitivity option
  
• Dynamite mountain models more discreet
  
• add info page for selection, copy-paste, ctrl-build, undo
  

Bugs fix:

• Fixed bug with space that toggle menu
  
• Fixed ship path over spacelift cable
  
• Fixed ship path flashing in green/yellow
  
• Fixed water flow line going crazy after a terrain level tool
  
• Fixed bug with info panel
  

Minor:

• Update loc from/to Crowdin
  

[h3]Plan B - v0.9.3 build 1015 - HOTFIX 2025-05-10[/h3]

• fix research center disappearing when they complete while player is doing a duplicate/drag with any other building
  

[h3]Plan B - v0.9.3 build 1016 - HOTFIX 2025-05-12[/h3]

• Delete key only sets the delete mode, Backspace to delete the current selection
  
• prevent the drag of spacelift (from its exterior hexagons)
  

[h3]Plan B - v0.9.3 build 1017 - HOTFIX 2025-05-13[/h3]

• Fixed freeze/bug sometimes when doing cut/drag of a group over itself
  

[h3]Plan B - v0.9.3 build 1019 - HOTFIX 2025-05-14[/h3]

• fixed inactive depots after drag
  

Here is more than 50 improvements for the game!
Nothing game-breaking, but we did a complete review and sorting of all the remaining tasks for the game, and we were able to complete a lot of old ones that had been reported/suggested a very long time ago! And now we know exactly what we have to do up to the v1.0 release (still planned for Q3 of this year).

And we are currently working on a very interesting and long awaited feature... So don't hesitate to join the discord and the Beta branch, to follow the development and help us by giving feedback on the new features!


[h3]Plan B - v0.9.2 build 987[/h3]

Improvements:

• Charts: show temperature for liquid water and oxygen for farms
  
• In zoomed out view, show vehicles, buildings and stops with the color of their containers. Vehicles as oriented rectangles.
  
• Update localisation from Crowdin. All help is most welcomed! Especially in Czech, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Thai, Ukrainian
  
• Update wiki with all automatic data from game (items, recipes, etc.) (all help is also welcomed !)
  
• 1st ship achievment
  
• Add warnings and messages when we try to build in an invalid position, or a non-looped train, or on a 3-way train stop, etc.
  

Balance:

• City can now change research center speciality
  
• [E] input as "main item action": to rotate left dam pump, and open depot/facotries item choice (displayed on button)
  
• [R] as "secondary item action" to rotate dam pumps right, or move to origin/end of transport lines.
  
• [Enter/numpad enter] return to validate popups with text inputs.
  
• Depots can be build in water up to 50m (instead of 20m)
  
• Set a limit to farm silos transfert speed
  
• Improved space elevator position (not too far from main city)
  
• Balance vehicles along a line faster
  
• Increase delay before city population goes down
  
• Create mineral at loading, if a mineral is almost depleted (if
• Planet generation: prevent having world with oceans only on equator (little fertile area worlds)
  
• When city shrinks, keep city hexagons connected to supply centers, waste disposal, and research centers
  

Bugs fix:

• Fixed major issue with planet mineral option : scarse and very scarse had more minerals than normal (now 75% and 50% of normal quantity). Map names suffix changed to "f"
  
• Fixed magic increase of item count, related to the usage of the level tool
  
• Farms: prevent fields under water, fixed farm drones waiting, fixed a perf issue with farm drones
  
• Fixed bug with deletion and duplication of silos and farms
  
• Fixed ship "jumping" when ground altitude changed a lot, moved container up a bit
  
• Fixed rare crash with long rail/road building. Some little change to the pathfinding algorithm.
  
• Fixed case where space elevator final anim doesn't launch
  
• Fixed bug with assembly plants building icon spamming
  
• Fixed issue with more than 32k vehicles (now 262k)
  
• Fixed bug with info panel showed during dialog animation
  
• Fixed minimap error with F10
  
• Fixed hidden models with ultra wide screen
  
• Fixed bug when reopening the option screen after changing the resolution
  
• Fixed numpad 1 shortcut
  
• Fixed bug with space elevator built over existing item.
  
• Fixed dialog texts size for chinese/japanese fonts
  
• Fixed dialog not showing in very low framerate
  
• Fixed minimap max size in 32:9 format
  
• Fixed missing connexion with rails and trains on heptagons
  
• Fixed pile of dirt that cost nothing
  
• Fixed stop destruction in pause (line not destroyed while in pause)
  

Minor:

• Dynamite now create rocks of close mountain colors
  
• Underwater rail bridges are displayed a bit lower, to better see they cannot be used
  
• Supra Conductor renamed into Superconductor
  
• Quit save done when we actually load a game, not when we press load game button
  
• Added a "open folder" button in load screen
  
• Added some inputs localisation
  
• Removed fx in intermediary view
  
• Refreshed option/new planet text after language text
  
• Fixed chart page title bug
  
• Auto resize depots/factory items/recipe panel
  
• Added Refresh button to recompute a line
  
• Added warning if create a planet with same name of existing one, but different case
  
• Better manage corrupted saved games
  
• Planet generation: prevent 1-hex low point (that can make water ponds)
  
• Planet generation: planet with same name but different case make the same random seed
  

[h3]Plan B - v0.9.2 build 988 Hotfix (2025-04-12)[/h3]

• Fixed camera broken on north and south poles, on new worlds
  

[h3]Plan B - v0.9.2 build 989 Hotfix (2025-04-13)[/h3]

• Fixed duplicating on itself that was adding 1 to the item counter
  

Here is a small update, to fix some urgent issues from v0.9.0. We also optimised performances of large storage areas, and rebalanced the farms so you need 2x less food processing plants and harvest to transport, while still required as much land area.

[h3]Plan B - v0.9.1 build 970[/h3]

Improvements:

• Drones perfs improved (especially in pause and for large storage areas).
  
• Localisation updated from Crowdin (thank you all for your help!)
  

Balance:

• Quality Food requires only 1 Harvest, but farms produce and consume 2x less (same farm area, but 2x less food processing plants and 2x less harvest to transport).
  
• UI Info unlocked at level 1
  
• Show 1 level unlocked item in advance
  
• Prevent pile of dirt peaks. Add shift to make a nice hill
  

Bugs fix:

• Fixed new achievments
  
• Fixed water shader broken when ambiant occlusion was off
  
• Fixed level 23 thing search in case of a strange city shape, and another related bug
  
• Fixed an error when duplicating a cross road/rail
  
• Drones trail bug fixed
  
• Fixed bug with minimap labels with a high UI scale option
  

Minor:

• Added dialogs to remind player to rise temperature and plant trees
  
• Added a warning if too much deletion of waste (instead of recycling)
  
• Added Space Elevator name in minimap
  
• Changed UI destroy button separator
  
• Tooltip is hidden on click