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We just uploaded 0.9.0 to the main Colony Survival branch! It should be available to download and play right now. If it isn’t, you might want to verify the integrity of game files.

We've released this update a couple of hours before a discount, so if you're here very quickly and you still need to purchase the game, it's in your best interest to wait a moment :) We're planning to give a similar discount somewhere in January. Afterwards, we're probably going to raise the price of the game.

This is the largest update we’ve ever released. It totally overhauls the game. The tech tree has been rebuilt from scratch, and the terrain generation has been drastically enhanced and changed. This means that you will have to start a new savegame. Pre-0.9.0 worlds are incompatible with 0.9.0. This does not mean your pre-0.9.0 worlds are lost though. Right-click Colony Survival in the Steam Library, click properties and go to the “betas” tab. Here, you will be able to select older versions of the game, suited to the older world you’d like to revisit.

0.9.0 contains a gigantic amount of new content. New features, new jobs, new weapons, new monsters, new building blocks and new science. Grenade launchers, steel gliders that are launched into the sky with explosives, glassblowers, threat banners, elevators, tools, traps. We’ve adopted new design philosophies which change some of the fundamentals of how the game is played. All old achievements have been removed and replaced with 50 new ones - and these ones shouldn’t be unlockable with cheats! We’d like to explain the biggest changes one by one.

Before we go into details, I'd like to give one piece of advice to people who are going to jump right into the update: Colony Survival is not an idle game. When certain things feel slow, that's an incentive to expand and recruit more colonists, not an incentive to wait. We've done our best to ensure that all jobs are valuable 'to the end' - we hope you won't ever regret scaling up and setting up a big new production chain.





Back in 2018-2019, we worked on 0.7.0 for over a year. The core of the update was “multiple colonies”: one player could start multiple colonies in the same world. It was probably the most badly implemented feature in the entire game.

• Second colonies had some unique benefits, but they were only available if you travelled a massive distance to “other biomes”, like the Tropics and the Far East.
  
• The only ways to get there were by foot, which was very tedious, or by glider, which required players to launch themselves in some kind of strange and confusing VTOL way
  
• If players wanted to share items between their colonies, they had to use a complicated and slow trading interface
  
• The only unique benefits of second colonies were new luxury items, which you didn’t really need and didn’t give access to special or interesting new content

This had the consequence that the vast majority of the playerbase never used the multiple-colonies-feature. It’s just too confusing, too boring, and not rewarding enough.

We think we fixed all of these issues with the new “outposts” feature.

• The unique biomes now have semi-randomized locations in the “main” world. You don’t need to leave a big ‘spawn-biome’ to find them - they are much closer and all around you.
  
• Gliders have been changed a lot to make them more convenient and fun to use.
  
• Outposts automatically share their stockpile and science with the main colony and other outposts. No more tedious trading interface.
  
• Outposts are required to gather unique resources that can only be grown or mined in heaths, swamps, on top of mountains and below mammoth trees. These resources are required to get access to a lot of the mid- to late-game features and technology, making outposts an integral part of the game.

Now, multiple colonies(/outposts) can finally be used practically. Do you spot a fertile, flat field on the other side of the river? Build an outpost there, put down some farms and your main colony instantly has a much-needed boost of food. The world around you has become much more useful, and there is so much more to build than in 0.8.





In all previous versions of CS, the amount of colonists determined the amount of monsters that assaults your fortress. This has been changed radically; it’s now one of the least important things. The amount of monsters is now linked to your “Threat Level”. Some scientific unlocks in the tech tree add large amounts of Threat. Certain blocks, like lockboxes that increase the storage of Colony Points, also add to your Threat Level.

Colonists do add some Threat, but it’s relatively low compared to these others. We believe this makes the game much more fun to play. It has become less important to optimise the efficiency of every individual colonist, and more important to just… grow. There is no more risk of a vicious cycle where guards and ammo-crafters are a main cause of the very monsters they are fighting.

When you build an outpost, Threat Level is assigned to it proportional to the amount of colonists there. When you’ve got 90 colonists in your main colony and 10 in the outpost, the outpost ought to receive roughly 10% of the Threat Level. It’s possible to change this distribution though. You can unlock Threat Banners, and placing them in your colony basically makes them act like “fake colonists”, increasing the share of Threat that is assigned to that colony (or outpost). This allows you to build dedicated ‘superfortresses’ that lure monsters away from other colonies.





The previous world was designed to be “globally” interesting, to have very different locations somewhere. The new world is designed to be “locally” interesting, to have variety and unique features in the more practical distances that most players actually travel. We’ve added rivers and enhanced mountains. Places which host unique resources should be easily identifiable. Swamps are filled with tiny streams and ponds. Heaths have patches of sand and purple vegetation





Traps are static blocks that apply an effect to monsters either in front, on top or below them. Most traps do damage, but there are also traps that slow or completely freeze monster movement. Traps can only be reloaded during the day by a trapfixer, so you need to build them in a way that makes them accessible to colonists.

Sometimes, things go wrong. You run out of copper ingots, your ammo storage is depleted and monsters walk right into your colony. How do you save yourself? With the Sacred Failsafe! At Sacred Altars, colonists can turn regular meals into Sacred Meals. When they’re consumed, you earn Sacred Points. You’re supposed to gradually build them up in many days, and to use them at the Sacred Failsafe when monsters breach your defences. The Failsafe will then do large amounts of damage to all monsters in the world, starting with the monsters it’s physically closest to.





Since we added the tech tree in 0.3.0, we’ve mostly been building on top of it. This is the first time we’ve completely overhauled it. The intention is to make players feel like they are really starting in the Stone Age, with stone tools and mudbricks. You need to expand and improve to unlock metals and all kinds of other technologies. Via the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, players journey to more modern times, with unlocks like printing presses, muskets and tabulating machines. This journey adds all kinds of new jobs, like tanners, alchemists, glassblowers, composters, lathe operators and scribes.

At the end of the tech tree, there is “Prestige Science”. It doesn’t have a true functional benefit, but it demands you scale up your production massively. Unlocking tiers of Prestige Science also adds a large amount of Threat, requiring you to upgrade your defences. Of course, you are rewarded with achievements for completing these tiers. Achievement progress is tracked publicly and we are keeping a close eye on it!





0.7.0 added gliders. To fly the glider, you first had to make it go straight up in the air like a helicopter, and then you had to switch to flying forward. This was strange and not intuitive and required complicated controls. I didn’t use them a lot, and a lot of players needed external help to understand them.

They now work completely differently. You no longer place gliders, you place glider-launchers. Every time you click on the glider-launcher, you are launched forward from that position in a new glider. The glider is now truly a glider; it no longer has an ‘engine’. You’ll need to place the glider-launcher on top of a tower or mountain to make the best use of it. After you’ve unlocked steel & gunpowder, you can research steel gliders. These are launched explosively, allowing them to gain a lot of altitude on their own.

These aren’t the only form of player transport. We’ve also added elevators and horizontal elevators, allowing you to build shafts and rails in straight lines and to automatically travel from A to B.





In 0.7.0, you had to distribute luxury items to your colonists to ensure their happiness. This system contained complicated math and weird equilibriums, and we changed it in 0.8.0. There, you earned Colony Points by distributing those luxury items. It was less focused on punishment, and more on earning rewards. But the distribution happened automatically, making it feel quite out of control.

In 0.9.0, you earn Colony Points by deliberately selling items at the merchant. These Points can then be used in a myriad of ways. You can purchase items at the merchant as well. Resources from other biomes will be necessary before you can unlock Outposts, and in that period, their only source is the merchant. The Points are also deeply integrated into the tech tree, and you’ll often need a significant amount of them. Last but not least, we’ve still got the Point Upgrades from 0.8. Raising the colonist capacity limit and the banner safe zone range requires increasing amounts of Points.

The merchant offers a lot of flexibility to players. You are free to choose in what way you will earn Colony Points, and how to spend them. Will you be very self-reliant and immediately build outposts everywhere? Or will you exchange your own luxury goods for resources like tin and zinc?





In previous versions of CS, colonists couldn’t save their “crafting progress”. They had to finish the item they were making, or the ore they were mining, or start over completely. This meant practically that we were limited to ~15 second crafting times.

To make things more expensive in terms of labour time, we added lots of small parts like copper nails and iron rivets. To craft one advanced item, you’d need a lot of these smaller parts. This made it a lot harder to keep track of production chains.

We’ve removed this limitation. Colonists can now work for 180 seconds on a 300-second recipe, go to bed, and finish the remaining 120 seconds of work in the morning. We’ve used this to remove pointless ingredients and streamline the production chain. It makes sense for certain items, like crossbow and printing presses, to take more than 15 seconds of work. Long crafting times can be annoying at the start, so we’ve kept them fairly short there. But in the late game, when you’re commanding many hundreds of colonists, it helps to keep recipes sensible and to keep a clear overview of your production. It’s also an extra incentive to expand.

Tools are a way to speed up these longer crafting times. Tool use is not universal though. Some colonists can’t use tools, others can’t craft without tools. Some jobs need special tools. The default tool type has tiers going from stone to steel. Each tier has a unique durability, cost and crafting speed. Some jobs can use all the tiers, some only use the first tiers, others only the final tiers. Colonists need to visit the tool shop to grab new tools. At this tool shop, you can set different limits determining how many tools colonists should leave in the stockpile.





We’ve added a new type of job. A “harvester” jobblock recruits the colonist, and that colonist has to visit nearby “sources” for his work. We’ve currently got a scribe visiting scrolls shelves, a researcher visiting bookcases, and a farmer visiting wisteria plants. Instead of rows of colonists working at rows of jobblocks, you’ll now have to build custom libraries! The sources automatically regenerate over time. A ratio of 1 harvester to 10 sources ensures a sustainable long term balance.



We’ve added and changed too much to describe all of it here. There are now monoculars which actually make you zoom in when you equip them in the hotbar. When you do the same with astrolabes, they point you to nearby biomes. 0.9.0 has guards that do poison damage, and weapons with area-of-effect damage. Try the game to encounter all new content and other differences!



Over three months ago, we started the beta of 0.9.0. Roughly 300 players volunteered. We've received enormous amounts of feedback and used it to shape 0.9.0 as best as we could. We're grateful to everybody who participated.
Thanks to Lady Kathleen who made the world which is the new main menu background.
Thanks to Kenovis, who has worked hard to update mods for 0.9.0 - I really recommend the chisel mod! Thanks to Aanze, Toran, Krydax and Cramm and all the others who left their detailed feedback in #test-long-impressions.
Thanks to Meowzers, who pushed 0.9.0 to its limits by building massive colonies with many thousands of colonists - he is single-handedly responsible for the 500-in-game-days achievement.
Thanks to Vobbert for his years of testing, advising and moderating.
Thanks to Boneidle, PatateNouille, Ardandal and Zeta-Primette for their longtime participation in the Discord.
Thanks to Chicago for all the encouragement he gave us, and thanks to Bog for keeping our egos in check!
Finally, thanks to the near 300 others that we sadly can't all name, but whose help has been very valuable.

This is a big moment for Colony Survival. We hope the update provides you with many hours of entertainment. We're looking forward to hearing from you - on Discord, here in the comments and on the Steam Forum. We'd love to see the worlds you've made.

Veel plezier in 0.9.0!

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Thanks to LadyKathleen for this beautiful castle inspired by the Mont-Saint-Michel!

Update 0.9.0 will probably be released publicly on December 22! We strive to combine that release with a minor discount. There will probably be another discount in January 2023. After those discounts, we’re strongly considering a price increase.

We’ve been hard at working adding a massive endgame to CS. A continuous problem in CS is the importance of the “next step”. If the endgame is outposts+gliders+the production of books of knowledge, then the “actual” end is a step before that. There needs to be something after outposts and gliders to actually make it worth producing and using them. Preferably, producing and using them at scale.

The first 0.9.0 beta release didn’t have that. So players unlocked these things, but didn’t really have an incentive to use them. The massive endgame that we’re currently adding to the beta aims to fix that. There should be plenty of in-game rewards that require setting up and expanding a big network of interconnected colonies and outposts. “Recruiting 1000 colonists” should no longer be a made up stretch goal for the intrinsically motivated player - the game should actually encourage and reward you all the way there.



We’ve tried to accomplish that by adding a bunch of early industrial content to the endgame. Complicated machines like printing presses, metal lathes and tabulating machines take a lot of colonists and unique resources to produce, and they are necessary to unlock the last in-game technologies, like grenade launchers and a steel glider which is launched into the air explosively.

More and stronger guards require strong monsters as opponents. It was noticeable during tests (and it’s obvious when you think about it) that, while the strongest types of monsters are always a small minority, they are the vast majority of monsters who survive deeper into your defences, making them the most likely target of traps. In the first beta, different types of monsters could only be distinguished by the colour of their eyes, which is hard to do and hard to remember. So, we’ve made unique models for different monster types. These models are much clearer at intuitively signalling different monster strengths.



I could write a lot more about all the new jobs, items, traps and weapons, but - the release is very close! We’ve still got a lot to do, and hopefully you’ll see everything with your own eyes in less than two weeks :)

Bedankt voor het lezen!

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The beta has been live for two months now. In the first month, we focused on polishing, fixing and streamlining the existing content of the beta. In the past month, we’ve worked hard to add a bunch of extra content. 0.9.0 is feeling a lot more complete now!

The most exciting new content, in my opinion, is gunpowder related. Gunpowder is now made at the alchemist, and requires sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal. Sulfur is mined in heaths and saltpeter can be made in composting bins. The first weapon that can be crafted with gunpowder is an explosive trap. It adds a new feature: area-of-effect damage. It’s triggered when a monster walks on top of it, and will hit all monsters who are within 2 blocks of distance. To make the explosion look more convincing, we decided to add force to the ragdolls of dying monsters. Other traps and guards now also apply force when they kill monsters, making the combat look more satisfying.

After Zun added support for area-of-effect weapons, he applied this effect to caltrop-traps as well. Further research leads to handcannons. These are primitive, handheld gunpowder weapons that do a lot of damage, but they can only hit monsters at a short range.



We’ve added another way to protect yourself from the monsters. It’s a “failsafe”. It has to be slowly charged over many days, and can then be used once to take out a lot of monsters simultaneously. It will also reduce the monster threat for the next night. It’s very useful as a way to save your colony when you make a mistake and monsters breach your defences.

The failsafe consumes “Sacred Points”, which are earned by distributing “Sacred Meals” to your colonists. These meals are made sacred when a colonist adds a candle to them at an altar. There are multiple tiers of meals, and we’ve reintroduced chickens and cabbages as a way to make advanced meals which earn more Sacred Points.

Another new item is the Astrolabe. Historically, it’s an astronomical instrument with many functions, one of which is determining your location. In Colony Survival, selecting an Astrolabe in your hotbar will display the location of nearby ‘unique biomes’: heaths, swamps and mountaintops with special ores. This makes it a lot easier to find and travel between them.



We’ve also introduced “alarm bells”. You can place them on any block, and if a monster steps on top of it, a loud bell starts ringing, indicating the presence of monsters in a location determined by you. They make it a lot easier to notice problems in your defences before they become a big problem - and they give you some time to run to the failsafe and trigger it, if necessary.

This new beta content patch also contains a glassblower, which requires silica sand found in the heath, and potash for the composting bin. Glass can be used to make eyeglasses, which can be used by researchers, writers and scribes to speed up their work. It can also be used to craft a monocular. Select it in your hotbar to use it!

That summarises the biggest changes, but the patch contains a lot of other tweaks. Science which adds threat to the colony is a lot more noticeable now. The furnace and splitting stump have lost their texture-designs and are now 3D vertex colored meshes. Tin and gold appear deeper in the world. There are new jobs that make Science Chests and advanced job blocks. We’ve added a lot of new audio effects to jobs and traps. The compass now requires science and can only be crafted by colonists.

We’ve done some internal testing for the new content, and just today it was finished enough for the testers to try it. So this Friday Blog is simultaneously an announcement for the beta testers: your beta should receive an automatic update adding all of the content above right now! We’d love to know how unlocking and using the new content and features goes for you, so keep us updated in the #test-channels on Discord. Thanks for all of your effort, help and encouragement!

Bedankt voor het lezen :D

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Three weeks ago, in the last Friday Blog, we were at 0.9.0.6v2. We’re still delivering frequent updates, and we made it all the way to 0.9.0.13! An example of the fixes contained in these updates is pictured below. The testers are finding numerous small problems and rough spots, and we’re dedicated to polishing 0.9.0 to a high standard. If you want to test 0.9.0 in a less polished state, feel free to join the beta following the instructions here.



Most of these updates contain a bunch of small tweaks and fixes, but no major changes to the content of the game. But last week, we released 0.9.0.10, which contained a lot of new building blocks.

0.9.0 was rebuilt from pretty much zero, and at first we were completely focused on testing new gameplay features. Tools; outposts; traps; the “glider-launcher”; elevators; currency & the merchant; the new world generation. All of the colonies we built were highly functional and not ‘decorative’. The testers rightfully complained that 0.9.0 lacked a varied selection of building materials.

So, I’ve spent some time developing a bunch of new textures and building blocks. Some are completely new, some are new textures for old blocks. Some of the textures we replaced were quickly made 5+ years ago, and we believe the new textures have a significantly higher quality.





After releasing 0.9.0.10, I did a full playthrough of the beta, in preparation for adding the last new content before publicly releasing 0.9.0. I really enjoyed myself, and one thing really stood out to me. It’s now guiding my plans for the final batch of content, and I’d like to share it with you.

For my main colony, I had chosen a spot right in between a tall mountain, a swamp and a heath. I later started outposts in all these areas. My network of little towns was growing smoothly, but I was consuming quite a lot of food. I had of course regularly expanded my food supply, but it seems I needed a big expansion - and I didn’t have a lot of convenient space for that.

Standing on top of my 100-block-tall gliderlauncher-tower, I surveyed the surroundings. I quickly noticed a large, flat spot of fertile land nearby. I filled my inventory with building materials, bought an Outpost Banner and glided to the new area. My other outposts were relatively small, but I wanted to build this one big. I started building an extensive castle with complex defenses, specifically designed to conveniently incorporate traps, and spaces for colonists to reload those traps. It was a lot stronger than necessary for the small number of farmers living there, but I used Threat Statues to lure more monsters that way.



The entire project of building my Farming Outpost felt engaging and rewarding. But it didn’t directly access any new content. Indirectly, it did support the expansion of my network of colonies, which was working towards new parts of the tech tree.

When did I quit my test? When I reached the end of the tech tree. I was still enjoying the process of growing my network of towns, but there was nothing left to grow for. And when that happens, the game quickly comes to an end.

And these were the forces I was wrestling with. How do we…
1.) Extend the tech tree in a way that keeps players engaged as long as possible
2.) Do that in a way which doesn’t feel like repetitive padding, as uninspired busywork
3.) Develop that relatively quickly, without extending the beta for many months

That’s quite hard to optimize for! Adding a late-game tech that requires players to recruit 10.000 new colonists is easy but no fun. Thinking of amazing features that would be loads of fun to explore, but that require many, many months of development time is easy as well. Finding a solution that combines the best of both worlds without the drawbacks is hard - but I think we did it.

So the last couple of days, I’ve started working on the last batch of 0.9.0 content. It will introduce new content and features, like a failsafe machine that gives you one last chance if your colony is overwhelmed by monsters. Handcannons and explosive traps. A glider launched with gunpowder, so it doesn’t need a 100 block tall tower. A “people mover” (the horizontal elevator from here).

We'll also reintroduce some old content, like beekeepers, chicken and cabbage farmers, and musket guards.



But unlocking these endgame techs will require you to scale up. To extend your main colony and to found new outposts. To coordinate many hundreds of colonists. 0.9.0 currently doesn’t have “science bags”, but I’m working on an updated version of that idea.

0.9.0 currently has a separate menu for “points upgrades”. This menu contains upgrades that can be boosted again and again, like the colonist cap and the banner range. We’ve got an idea to quickly convert that to full “repetitive science” - upgrades that cost more than mere currency, but that could also consume for example the enhanced science bags.

We’re planning to subtly and smoothly integrate these systems. At the start of the game, when you’ve got a very small colony, unlocking things in the tech tree is cheap and only requires a few relevant items. In the midgame, these costs expand and add requirements like medium amounts of colony points/currency. That’s roughly where the current content ends.

Unlocking tech in the endgame gradually becomes more and more expensive. It’ll require large amounts of currency and “science chests”. There’ll be multiple kinds of science chests, filled with more and more costly items. These same costs can also be used for the “repetitive science”, to purchase “perpetual upgrades” for your colony.

The goal is to offer a smooth transition into the “postgame”. At a certain moment, you’ll have unlocked the entire tech tree, and you’ve received access to all jobs, items and weapons. Currently, the only goal left at that moment is earning currency for the points upgrades. In the intended postgame, your entire colony will still be useful. All your copper miners, hemp farmers, writers, researchers, chicken farmers and blacksmiths should be necessary to produce massive amounts of science chests, and throughout the endgame you should’ve been subtly encouraged to focus on that kind of production. Expansion is still rewarding, encouraging you to actually produce and use the technology at the end of the tech tree, at scale.



We’ve noticed a minor problem in the beta where people don’t actually use the tech at the end of the tech tree. They unlock elevators and gliders, but then the tech tree ends so they stop scaling up and don’t actually use those things. We think we’ve now got clear plans which can be developed relatively easily and that should fix this problem.

We’ll continue working on the endgame/postgame content and hope to be able to show and test a lot of it in a few weeks. When it’s tested and polished, 0.9.0 is ready for a full release!

In Dutch, we’ve got a saying de laatste loodjes wegen het zwaarst. It literally means “the last pieces of lead weigh the heaviest”, and apparently, English has a similar saying in “the last mile is the longest one”. It’s completely true, and we understand that some players are getting tired of waiting for the update. We’d like to remind them that they can join the beta, and we hope all of you will enjoy 0.9.0 when it’s completely done. We really believe it’s by far the best version of CS!

Bedankt voor het lezen :D

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Over the past two weeks, we’ve selected 122 people from the #beta-applications channel on Discord and gave them access to the beta branch of the game. On top of that, we also added the Testers-group which were selected in a similar process for the 0.7.0-test a while ago. We’ve received enormous amounts of feedback, from one-sentence descriptions notifying us of tiny errors in item descriptions, to long posts with deep analyses of what works and what doesn’t. Thanks a lot to everybody who applies, tests and shares feedback! It is very valuable.



This has already led to six (technically seven) new versions being released, ranging from 0.9.0.0 to 0.9.0.6v2. In the image above is a small sample of the improvements in these builds.

I was a bit scared that the beta would lead to quite a lot of negative responses. For example, people not liking certain changes, and people being confused by new mechanics. But in general, the response has been very positive! Most testers seem to like the changes and believe they are improvements.

Of course we are very happy with this - but, it has introduced a new problem. 0.7.0 and 0.8.0 both had the endgame including the distant biomes that require loads of travelling and complicated trading rules. Lots of players skipped this content because it wasn’t rewarding enough. 0.9.0 solves this problem, but it does mean loads of people now actually finish the game, or at least reach the end of the tech tree. And now these people are clamouring for more content!

The current 0.9.0 beta doesn’t contain matchlock guns or printing presses, and we would love to reintroduce these items. We already had rough plans on how to do that, but hadn’t implemented them yet. We’re calibrating our plans based on the beta feedback, and we’ll re-implement that content and other era-appropriate items. We hope this will result in a satisfying endgame for 0.9.0!

The beta will become more open once that content is finished. If you can’t wait, feel free to apply to the beta via the instructions in the previous blog! If your application is more than three days old and you haven’t been selected, and you very much want to participate, you’re allowed to send in a new application. Please check whether you followed the instructions carefully.



Two blogs ago, we revealed the very first pictures of the new terrain. One blog ago, we started the beta. In between, we made a lot of changes to the terrain generation, and we haven't shared that yet! So here is a overview of some of the major new features in the terrain.



Firstly, Zun got rivers to work, so the world will be crisscrossed by them. They allow players to build a colony next to water, but without being bound to the sea and certain lakes. They also make it much easier to explore the terrain without getting lost.



Randomly throughout the world, heaths will spawn. Technically, these are inspired by the anthropogenic heaths that are quite common in the Netherlands and nearby countries. These heaths offer access to unique resources. You’ll either have to purchase them manually using the new currency at the merchant, or gather them by building an outpost in a heath.



Another unique “mini-biome” scattered throughout the world are marshes. These wet areas offer access to unique resources in the same way as heaths.



Tall mountains topped with snow indicate the presence of ores like tin and gold, which can only be found in those locations - or again, at the merchant. Thus, gathering all of the jobs and items in 0.9.0 requires a main colony and three outposts. As explained in a previous blog, the outposts work quite different from the multiple-colonies-system added in 0.7.0. You don’t need to travel many kilometers of empty terrain to get to the unique biomes in 0.9.0, and the exchange of resources goes automatically, without requiring players to set up tedious trading rules in a primitive UI. This makes managing multiple colonies (/outposts) a much more intuitive and rewarding task.



Last but not least, the world now contains some rare mammoth trees! They help a lot, functioning as beacons that make it easier to orient yourself.

Bedankt voor het lezen :D

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