Stormbridge News

I love achievements and this updates adds them. There are over 100 achievements in the full game, and a selection of them are obtainable in the demo.



I also worked on something new: Mounts! These will be rideable in the full game and give increased movement speed. Moreover, each mount you unlock will increase the speed of all mounts.

This way, you can choose to equip your favorite mount and get the highest speed bonus, regardless of which mount you unlock or prefer to equip.



-YYZ

Chickens have been officially added to the game!



Here is a preview of new pets being worked on! I will talk about them in a future post!



The mother chicken will also soon be accompanied by chicks!



With more pets being added to the game, better pet organization is required, so I added the ability to see all pets of a specific type, as well as level multiple pets without manually finding and selecting each one at the home island, saving tedious work.



The maximum pet count will now also increase if you equip different pet types - this is to encourage using different pets, rather than spamming the same one. I think the game is more interesting that way. The default maximum has been decreased to 3, but the new maximum will be a lot higher once you gain access to more pets.

Quality of Life improvements and fixes have also been added. You can now unlearn researches to get back 100% of spent cost. This allows you to experiment with different builds as you progress.



Please continue to leave me feedback either here, on Steam discussions or on discord!



Changelog:

• Add 'Fastest Victory' leaderboard
  
• Add Chickens
  
• Add 'unlearn' research btn
  
• Add Filter Pets Panel
  
• When pets of different types are equipped, max pets increase
  
• Default max pets reduced: 5 -> 3
  
• Faraday's Device now only rewarded when winning, instead of storm defeated
  
• Clarify sky dolphin Windsurfer description
  
• Remove lag when leveling pets and researching
  
• Fix expeditions not restarting
  
• Fix infinite hangar exploit
  
• Fix planes getting lesser with each save/reload
  
• Fix bridge style not saving and overriding Sea map instead
  

-YYZ

v0.74.2 is released

• Fix storm not advancing when pushed back via quarks before 0m
  
• Fix research panel broken in some languages
  
• Fix cyborgs able to be injured
  

[h2]Electric Cookhouse[/h2]

Introducing a new building, the Electric Cookhouse!



It is superior to the regular cookhouse. Not only is it faster, it does not require settlers or charcoal and consumes half water! It is sold as a premium blueprint by the trader.

[h2]New Trader research[/h2]



The trader research branch has been reorganized and now contains a new final research that grants the extraordinarily rare item: Circuits.

[h2]New Blueprints tab[/h2]



Traders now sell two types of blueprints - Epic and Regular blueprints. As more blueprints are added, I dumped them all under 'epic' tab, but as the list grows, better and more accurate categorization is needed, so I have grouped them at the trader.

Additionally, the Cookhouse, an essential building that can only be unlocked by cards, is now able to be bought at the trader if you do get unlucky. The Electric Cookhouse can also be bought here at a high price.

Changelog:

• New building: Electric Cookhouse
  
• Trader now sells Cookhouse
  
• Add new trader tab: Buildings
  
• Add population requirement marketplace's description
  
• Add illnesses to Sky map
  
• Add tundra and sky map food items to encylopedia
  
• New research: Trader Parcel VII
  
• Trader Parcel VI final level cost reduced by 25%
  
• Remove Sand Drill from sky map
  
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  Fixes:
• Clarify radar description to +5% per level, instead of +5% fixed
  
• Can no longer submit to leaderboard on relaxing
  
• Clean up resource gain text in plank/seed/alloy screen
  
• Fix radar duration not updating real-time
  
• Fix tornado sounds not affected by volume setting
  
• Improve circuit item description
  
• Optimizations (audio, buildings, settlers, UI)