Stormworks: Build and Rescue News

Dear Stormworkers,

It is minor update week!

This week, we are adding the ability to spawn some fuel type gasses using the fluid spawner block. This is to allow players to make custom gas storage tanks, which can be useful for submarines, space rockets, etc.



As well as this change, there are many fixes and improvements. Please see patch notes below for details.

We have another minor update in 2 weeks time with fixes including a fix for the notorious movement while jumping issue.



Catch us here next week for more details on the next major update!

Much love
The Stormworks Developers



Patch Notes

v1.10.9

Feature - #21752 Added air, oxygen and hydrogen spawning to fluid spawners
Fix - #24716 Remove ctrl+s opening save menu from vehicle editor
Fix - #23301 Fixed handheld gun inventory mesh issues
Fix - #23351 Fixed throttle lever clicking noise when no power
Fix - #23657 Fluid compartments default air is now spawned after resolving fluid spawners
Fix - #23419 Initialize vehicle positions with their physics position before triggering lua load callbacks
Fix - #23548 Fix setVehicleKeypad not working if input 1 is unchanged
Fix - #23432 Remove cross from none type map label
Fix - #23432 Fix handling of tile marker icons for deletion
Fix - #23432 Remove all map labels with the target map_id
Fix - #23418 Retain capitalization for notification titles
Rework - #23416 Prevent notifications of different types stacking

Dear Stormworkers,

This week is announcement week, where we talk about upcoming changes to Stormworks.

More fishing major updates are planned! Many players have given really valuable and detailed feedback, and we have been doing our best to plan out further expansions to fishing.

These updates are planned to be released in an incremental fashion - please do not expect all improvements and ideas to be implemented at once! These major updates will be a bit smaller than in the past (probably more similar in size to the Fishing Major Update) in order to better control quality and give players more chance to provide feedback as we go along.



As well as fishing updates, we have loads of other stuff in the works, including search and rescue content, new components and more!

Some players have been asking if the next DLC is fishing. We did discuss this in the last Q&A, and concluded that while there is loads of possibilities for what content we could create, we prefer to release the fishing updates as a series of free major updates, rather than a DLC. We have no DLC planned for this year.

We will release more info soon, including the exact features we have planned, as we get closer to the release of the next major update!



Much love
The Stormworks Developers

Dear Stormworkers,

It is minor update week! This weeks update includes a bunch of reworks, improvements, and quality-of-life fixes, as well as a bunch of bug fixes.

This update adds keyboard movement to some of the editor cameras that did not have them. It is a minor change, but is a player request that is great to add because it makes the various editors more consistent.



In response to player feedback, we have also reworked the oil spills, as well as adding the "clear oil spills" button, a change that will be supported by a great many players!

Several important issues have been resolved such as some of the dedicated files being missing from the main application (Steam adds these automatically to "dedicated server" applications). This change will help many dedicated servers.



Please see the patch notes for full details on this weeks changes and improvements.

We look forward to your thoughts and feedback on this update.



Much love
The Stormworks Developers



Patch Notes

v1.10.8

Feature - Added directional WASDEQ movement to vehicle editor and addon editor cameras
Feature - #20199 Clear oil spills button
Rework - #22954 #23920 Rescaled and rebalanced oil spills
Rework - #22954 #23920 Fixed oil spill cleaning issues
Rework - #22954 #23920 Fixed oil spill map edge coordinates wrapping crash
Fix - Fix issue with fluid level resolving not respecting a to b oil resolution as expected with pressure leveling
Fix - #22814 Handheld and vehicle mounted weapon projectile start positions at high speed
Fix - #23111 Aljon hospital name
Fix - #23258 Fix ocean water surface clipping for ultrawide aspect ratios
Fix - Fixed arecibo observatory microcontroller
Fix - #24422 Included missing Valve dedicated server files
Fix - #24574 Diesel burner air consumption values
Fix - #24552 Modular engines air consumption not reacting to pressure

Dear Stormworkers,

It's announcement week!

Next week we will release a minor update, with several important fixes and reworks.

In the coming months we have minor updates planned every other week as usual, as well as the next major update in development and testing, but still a couple of months away.

Over on the Stormworks Discord server, we have been working on the meta-gamification, and our Stormwoofs bot now gives a variety of roles automatically to players based on play time and workshop subscriber count.



Users who have associated their Steam account with their Discord account (by using the /verify command in our Discord server) can now check their playtime and subscriber count using the /stats command! The bot will update your stats every couple of weeks, and gives out the Stormworker role to players with 1000 hours play time. Other roles are available for 2K, 4K and 8K hours, and creators also get various creator roles for 25K, 100K, 500K, and 1M subscriptions on the workshop!

There are some huge numbers here, with Sebastiaz holding the top creator role, while several others are very close to hitting the 1M mark. The kinds of numbers that many creators are achieving is truly remarkable, with many having more subscriptions than copies sold of the game!



While we are enjoying rewarding players for their achievements, it is just a bit of fun, and a side project to the main focus of development. However, if you have ideas of how you would like to see us improve these meta-game elements, please do let us know!

Catch you next week for the update!

Much love
The Stormworks Developers

Fix - reduced requirement of air for coal firebox to increase heating
Fix - fixed issue where diesel air intake was not calculated correctly causing large air buffer