From The Depths News

• Changed the warp gate visual effect
  

• Added a lot of customisation for the blueprint autosave feature (in the misc tab of the options menu)

• Area and block group erase now work with mirror
• Block group erase can now also delete a chunk of blocks of the same type if the selected block is not part of a multi-block system
• Option to show build marker coordinates on HUD

• It is now possible to automatically regulate the number of particles
• Multi-threaded the missile guidance, seeking and water level checking code
• Multi-threaded the munition warning code
• Removed many sources of excess 'garbage' creation (FTD should perform garbage collection less often (pause less often during play))

• L pistons got a second output port on the opposite side of the input, arrows not show port directions. L pistons renamed to Large serial pistons.
• L turbines added: generators 5x5x1, bodies 5x5x2, maximum throughput 30K steam/s. Efficiency stats match M turbines with the same blade count
• New L piston variant: parallel piston. Has an input-output pair on both sides, parallel pistons placed next to each other share their in- and outputs
• S and M pistons now have arrows marking their in- and outputs

• APS shell splash size reduced
• Muzzle flash size reduced to ~80%
• The time it takes for barrels to reach full length after firing is capped at 0.5s

• Fixed a low prio LWC and a high prio AMCC controlling the same weapon interfering with each other
• Fixed LWC causing AMCC controlling the same weapon to ignore maximum range restriction

• Laser cutter armor up from 10 to 40
• Laser cutters now damage CRAM shells

• Ballast tank now has the same free volume 1-turn does (so torpedos have a lower 'mandatory' part count)
• Interceptor damage slightly up (~7.6% for S, ~11% for M)
• Torpedo sonar and torpedo propeller health up to 50% of a reinforced body. A slight boost for torpedos since they can't use bodies well and are easy to fish for with CIWS

• Boilers can connect directly to pistons
• Boilers can connect directly to turbines
• Crank motor braking force doubled
• L crankshaft, wheel, transmission and axis shift armour up from 20 to 40
• L gearbox armour up from 20 to 40, health from 1200 to 2000
• L piston and crank generator armour up from 20 to 30
• Transmissions and propellers can connect directly to cranks and axis shift gears
• Turbine body costs up from 10 to 20 mat/volume. Means long turbines are ~10% more expensive for 10 minutes (not counting battle damage)

• Fixed an issue with cooling not being fully utilized at very high rates of fire

• Sea/land surface pathfinding and collision avoidance bug fixes and optimisations

• The crank generator adds and displays the correct flat kinetic loss
• Turbines do not keep the last minor fractions of the kinetic energy almost indefinitely

• Removed the 'more'/'less' complexity toggle from the inventory as the feedback has always suggested it's doing more harm than good

• Added an auto-save feature that runs in designer and multi-player designer. This will save many time-tagged versions of your vehicle.

• S and M pistons now have arrows marking their in- and outputs

• Better muzzle flash for the simple weapons

• Adjusted the UI so that tables are generally displayed with equally spaced columns
• Tweaked the names of some missile components to be more consistent with their use of capitalization, and a bit shorter

• Fixed a UI bug if you move beyond the usual limits of the Neter map in adventure mode

• Fixed an issue with cooling not being fully utilized at very high rates of fire

• Fixed various situations where the campaign AI would break if a fleet died at the wrong moment

• The 'thrust before locking' parameter is now saved/loaded correctly in missile's blueprints [BUGS-2583]

• Board section capture progress now properly loads in a multiplayer campaign
• The performance of the player in previous battles now correctly loads in a multiplayer campaign (helps to tune the difficulty)

• Crank generator adds and displays the correct flat kinetic loss
• Turbines do not keep the last minor fractions of the kinetic energy almost indefinitely

After 6 years in Early Access, the sandbox vehicle building game From the Depths has officially released.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/11/with-deep-sandbox-building-options-and-lots-of-content-from-the-depths-is-out-now

• New setting for gearboxes: RPM limit
  
• New setting for steam valves: close on breach. When enabled they shut down if either of their sides has a non-vent steam exhaust
  

• UI markers showing how to capture/defend territory is now only shown when a fleet is selected
  

• Missile trails are less colourful and more realistic
  

• Crank generator RPM-based kinetic loss reduced to 1/3. The crank generator gets a flat kinetic loss, crank wheel RPM-based kinetic loss increased. At low speeds, multiple generators do not increase e
  
• Gearbox flat kinetic loss reduced to half. Lower piston count engines are slightly better
  
• Large turbine kinetic loss down by 10%, small turbine loss up by 20%. Minor output change mostly affecting long turbines, large ones get a slightly bigger boost to compensate for being harder to fit
  
• Steam jet maximum thrust up to 10000, maximum steam use to 5000/s, cost to 1000
  
• Transmission motors renamed to crank motors
  

• The material-limitation preventing to fire when there’s not enough material/energy is now preventing to reload for APS, CRAM, missile and simple weapons (they can now fire despite the limitation if they are already reloaded)
  

• There is a limit on the maximum volume of enemy units that will spawn simultaneously in adventure mode.
  

• Engine crankshaft block can now be placed either way around
  
• It’s now a bit easier to see which way around the electric engine should be placed
  

• Fixed a very uncommon issue causing some old blueprints not to load
  

• The markers showing connection points no longer disappear when you zoom all the way in
  

• The smoke generator will not switch to ‘fire’ mode anymore when using Shift+P or being repaired [BUGS-2720]
  

• Fixed an inaccuracy causing multiple boilers attached to the same pipe section outputting more than 1000 steam for 1 material burned
  
• Fixed blocked steam propellers not getting their efficiency reduced accordingly
  
• Fixed gearbox max power display jumping around under variable load (calculation now runs on the same thread as power generation)
  
• Fixed some vent and valve setups causing steam usage to go down
  
• Fixed transmission outputs having a flat kinetic loss on top of the one scaling by their speed
  
• Propellers and transmissions only connect to matching sized cranks
  
• Steam jets can now connect anywhere pipes can
  
• The piston sounds of the steam engine are now at the correct Hz
  
• Valves now correctly show and track their output when they are connected to plain pipes with exhausts