Rekindling News

Hey guys this weeks update is out! and boy is it a big one.
The leaderboards will have to be reset as we fixed a major bug with the day/night cycle that makes the current entries invalid.

Thanks for helping us have a great launch last week we took a lot of your ideas and they made it into this update! Please keep the ideas coming. Anyways lets get to what is in the update....

• Added: New item, Soup
  
• Added: New item,Wheat & Bread
  
• Added: New item, Seeds
  
• Added: New Item, Rot
  
• Added: New Building: HandMill
  
• Added: Repair job
  
• Added: Global Auto Repair Toggle
  
• Added: Global Auto Harvest Toggle
  
• Added: New World object: Grass (drops seeds)
  
• Added: Dirt floor.
  
• Added: tool tips saying what the items in the crafting menu are
  
• Added: lots more sound effects when doing menu actions while building.
  
• Changed: Perishable items will now turn to rot if not used in time
  
• Changed: Farm plots now require seeds to grow
  
• Changed: zones to respect settings of a zone if you start it within another of the same type
  
• Changed: Zims damage to do less structures.
  
• Changed: Animals wandering logic so they don't clump in the bottom
  
• Changed: you can now build floors under walls
  
• Changed: Cooker, Well, Workbench and smelters are all solid objects now
  
• Changed: Enter key now saves on save screen
  
• Changed: Items are now only visible and when a survivor has seen them prior
  
• Changed: Your leader board entry will highlight yellow.
  
• Changed: Turrets now grant "vision" and will attack zombies when no one is around.
  
• Changed Logic around Peoples skill levels and ability to do things
  
• Changed day/night indicator to be better.
  
• Fixed: A lot of tile shading weirdness when pausing the game
  
• Fixed: bad bug that would stop people from crafting in general
  
• Fixed: A lot of lag generated when your colony gets to a larger size
  
• Fixed: People dying of thirst now know how to use a well.
  
• Fixed: Bad Chef trait stopping them from crafting
  
• Fixed: Zoom being weird when loading a game
  
• Fixed: non Rekindling files showing up on save list
  
• Fixed: spelling of Vegetables on the trait description.
  
• Fixed: bug that let you move farm plots
  
• Fixed: Scroll on the right menus not existing
  

Lots of other smaller things have been tweaked and fixed :) Overall the game should run a lot smoother as well. Hope you guys enjoy the update and please keep the feedback coming. Lets make Rekindling a great game.

Lots of polish and cleanup in this week's update to get us more ready for release into early access on Monday!

• Added Scraps, They are dropped by Zims and are used to craft metal plates
  
• Changed the amount you can zoom in/out.. You can zoom a lot more now
  
• Changed moving the camera is now dependent on your zoom amount
  
• Changed Zim spawn rates to increase as more days go by
  
• Changed how survivors react to being attacked. They should be more responsive to dying
  
• Changed Zims will not drop rotten meat when killed by the daylight
  
• Changed link to be clickable on early access menu
  
• Changed a bunch of the crafting numbers and drop rates of the base items(wood, stone, ore)
  
• Fixed People wanting to share beds and toilets
  
• Fixed world settings such as auto pickup and hide staying between games
  
• Fixed tons of crafting related bugs. People should be way better about crafting things.
  
• Fixed world objects being wonky after saves such as not being able to toggle on states
  
• Fixed Waste zone allowed types not persisting when changed in the menu
  
• Fixed a big lag issue with the crafting queue
  
• Fixed who made an object not displaying after a save
  
• Fixed Zims doing less damage than they should be to people
  
• Fixed old saves updating your leaderboard score when they are not longer valid
  

Join the community on Discord. A lot of the content in this update, as it is with all updates, was inspired by members there.
discord.gg/5jvaVQA

As Rekindling has been getting weekly updates for quite some time we are going to start posting the patch notes here as well. We are very excited to have all of you start playing in a week.


Saves will work from previous updates unlike last update! There is a bunch of balance changes in this one..

• Added SMGS
  
• Added Bats
  
• Added Ammo
  
• Added Early access splash screen on game load
  
• Changed the max amount of an item you can have queued to craft form 99 -> 999
  
• People now will pickup equipment and weapons if they see better ones that they want to use
  
• Barricades can now be dragged and placed like walls.
  
• Zims will now take damage if they are alive in the sun
  
• You can no longer stack more than one dead person in a square at a time
  
• Decreased the rate at which people get sick
  
• Survivors can now contract ZTD & Dysentery
  
• Q will now unpause the game if the game is paused and change the speed like it does when the game is not paused
  
• Pressing the K key will no longer kill people
  
• Pressing the F key will no longer light things on fire
  
• Reduced the size of the nameplates below survivors
  
• Decreased the rate at which new survivors join
  
• Fixed some bugs with loading multi part objects
  
• Fixed getting put back into a loaded game when clicking quit from a loaded game
  
• Fixed growth states on farm zones and zone presets not saving properly
  
• Fixed Dead people not saving properly
  
• Fixed crash when going to the stats page when Steam is not open
  
• Fixed lag caused by the autopickup button
  
• Fixed a lot of bugs with the daynight cycle getting out of wack from rain happing at dawn/dusk and loading/saving at weird points
  
• Fixed peoples currently held weapon not saving properly
  

Join the community on Discord. A lot of the content in this update was inspired by members there.
discord.gg/5jvaVQA

It has been a long road but Rekindling is finally coming to steam early access!
To catch you guys up we have been working on Rekindling for around 4 years now and recently went into a closed beta earlier this year in January.

We felt the game was at a spot where we could use more eyes on it so we are bring it to Steam. We have been doing weekly content updates with feedback and bug fixes from the beta group since then. We plan to continue doing weekly updates every Sunday/Monday for the foreseeable future.

I'm very excited to hear everyone's feedback and input on the game. Together we can make this a very fun game. Feel free to post questions here on Steam or check us out on our official Discord channel. We don't bite I promise!

Discord Invite
https://discord.gg/5jvaVQA