Mercury Fallen News

Howdy Folks!

The Phone Home update is now live! This update brings a bunch of new content to the game including new POIs, resources, items, missions, story content and more.

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[h2]Missions[/h2]

A new mission system has been added into the game. This new system replaces the existing getting started tutorial with new and improved starting missions.

Up to four missions can be tracked at a time and the missions section has been added to show all of your current and completed missions.

The first chapter of the story campaign has been added as well. This is a new series of missions with new POIs, stories and some new characters.

[h2]POI Management[/h2]

New mission specific POI locations have been added to the surface map as well as a new way to see what POIs you’ve uncovered. You can center the camera to a POI by clicking it’s icon in the list.

[h2]New Research, Resources and Items[/h2]

A new surface side resource has been added as well as several new recipes. This, of course, means more things to unlock via research as well as some interesting new discoveries.

[h2]Improvements To Eye Dropper Tool[/h2]

Shift + clicking a placed object will allow you to quickly place down more of that object for construction. While this functionality currently already exists it will now also copy the objects existing rotation. Additionally the object that was copied will no longer get selected during this process.

[h2]Patreon[/h2]
A huge thank you to everyone who has bought a copy of Mercury Fallen! If, for some crazy reason, you’re looking to support more then be sure to check out the Patreon page. Merch is available for some of the subscription tiers. Patreon will help to ensure great new content for Mercury Fallen and future game projects.

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Check out the release notes below for all the fine details of what’s been changed, added and fixed. Let me know what you think of the new content.

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[h2]Release Notes[/h2]

Missions

• Adding new mission system
  
• Added Mission Log to facility management sections
  
• Added new starting missions (replaces tutorial tasks)
  
• Added first campaign chapter of stories/pois/missions
  

Additions

• Added list of discovered POIs to the expedition tab on the planet map interface
  
• Added Fetid Knob item, crop, seed and discovery
  
• Added Ammonium item, recipe and research
  
• Added Bauxite surface resource, item and discovery
  
• Added Aluminium Sheets item, recipe and research
  
• Added Aluminium Powder item, recipe and research
  
• Added Launch Platform research and surface structure
  
• Added Comm Satellite item, research and recipe
  
• Added Solid Rocket Fuel item icon, recipe and research
  

Changes

• Increased chance of surface deposits containing additional depths
  
• Adjusted color of Blue Meadow biome so that it stands out better near water tiles
  
• Using the eyedropper mode (Shift+LMB) to duplicate an object for construction will now also keep the copied objects rotation. The object that was copied will no longer get selected during this operation.
  
• Item Order apply button now grayed out if valid options not set
  
• Tweaks and changes to game guide entries
  
• Key bind settings now show in red if there is an input key conflict
  

Fixes

• Fixed: Long load time before reaching the main menu when launching the game
  
• Fixed: Able to deconstruct an objective immediately in some instances by deselecting and reselecting the object for deconstruction while the game is paused.
  
• Fixed: Robot recharge action doesn’t trigger until after the robot slowness attribute debuff
  
• Fixed: Able to deconstruct an objective immediately in some instances by deselecting and reselecting the object for deconstruction while the game is paused.
  
• Fixed: Data server visuals not updating when object is enabled/disabled
  
• Fixed: Treadmill animation visual showing incorrectly when multiple treadmills are active
  
• Fixed: Info for vehicle bay in build info not showing the correct power requirement
  
• Fixed: Colonists continues to use resource scanner even if there are no available tiles to scan
  
• Fixed: Canceling construction on the vehicle bay not updating the visual interface state
  

Howdy Folks!

The Phone Home update is finally ready for it’s first viewing via the experimental branch. If you’re interested in helping to test that latest content then head on over and check it out. The Phone Home update adds missions, POIs, research and a bunch more.

Phone Home Update Experimental Info | What is the Experimental Branch and how do I access it?

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Howdy Folks!

I moved into my new place a couple of weeks ago and things are starting to settle a bit. The new place is great and I have a dedicated space for my office now instead of it being in my living room. Not a lot to go over this time, but I wanted to let you all know I’m mostly back on track development wise. Thank you all for the amazing support and patience. I’m super excited to get back to working on new content.

[h2]Window Sequence System[/h2]
A big part of the new content being added is the mission system. With this new system I also wanted a better way of having full screen notifications when a new mission is added. Given more than one mission can get added at a time, in some cases, I wanted a way of showing windows in sequence instead of everything showing all at once and being a jumbled mess.



After making some modifications to my window panel system I can now queue windows for display instead of having them appear immediately. As a window closes it will show the next in the queue and so on until there are no more left in the queue. This was a simple addition, but cleans things up and should help to provide more information to the player.

[h2]When Is The Next Update Coming?[/h2]
Great question. My goal is to have a version of the next update available on the Experimental branch in about two weeks. This should include the new mission system, story content and a few other user interface tweaks.

Thanks again for all the great support. What content are you most looking forward to?

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Howdy Folks!

We’ve made it through a whole month in a whole new year. Well done! I wanted to talk a bit about some of the new content I’m working on as well as why development will be slowed down for the rest of this month.

[h2]Mission System[/h2]
I had originally planned to implement the mission system in the last update, but combined with the rest of the content it just wasn’t feasible.



The mission system will be replacing and expanding upon the getting started objectives. When I first started working on the mission system I had planned on adding a lot more tutorial based objectives. I scrapped that idea as it felt like the game was holding your hand and overly directing how the player would progress through the content. Tutorial mission objectives will go over the same content as the current getting started guide.

The goal of the mission system is to provide some over all objectives/direction for the player. Aside from the starting tutorial, these objectives will provide story progression. The story progression will add new POI locations and unlock new content for mid to late game play. The next content update will focus on the first chapter of story content.

Missions will be trackable in addition to being visible in the mission section of the facility management interface.




[h2]POI Management[/h2]


A new POI section is being added in the planet map expeditions tab. This will list all discovered POI locations sorted by distance from the facility. Clicking the respective icon will move the camera to that POI location. This will make it easier to see what POIs are available as well as make it easier when planning expedition destinations.

[h2]Personal Note[/h2]
On a more personal note I wanted to mention that I’m moving this month. My girlfriend and I have been planning to move in together over the last year. We’ve found a place and will be moving in a couple of weeks.

As a solo developer my office is also where I live. This is the first time I’ve moved in over 20 years so stress and excitement are high. I’m super excited about the move, but there will be some development slow downs while I pack, move, unpack, move furniture, get setup and all that jazz. :)

So stay safe out there and be sure to follow for more news regarding Mercury Fallen.

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Howdy Folks!

Another day and another patch update. Thanks for the great feedback, suggestions and reports. This is another small patch to address a couple of reported issues.

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[h2]Release Notes[/h2]

• Added Item Storage section to game guide
  
• Updated Harvestable resources section of game guide
  
• Fixed: Some grammatical errors in the game guide
  
• Fixed: Some objects have incorrect selection collider when placed facing east or west