Mercury Fallen News

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Hope everyone had a great weekend. As I recently posted on the Steam forum there was a big issue related to colonists not hauling to construction projects. I discovered an issue with how item reservation was being handled or, to be more exact, not being handled correctly.

In addition to fixing the construction issue there are some new performance tweaks. These performance improvements should be most noticeable in the later part of the game when you have several more colonists running around.

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• Performance increase when colonists are checking surrounding cells
  
• Performance increase when colonists are checking for available craft stations
  
• Fixed: Colonists not clearing reserved items for pickup if they become unavailable. This caused colonists to think items had been delivered that were not. Most noticeably this caused colonists to stop hauling items to construction projects.
  
• Fixed: Memory issue related to colonist action planning
  
• Fixed: Missing damage/death audio for deep driller bot
  

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Thanks for playing Mercury Fallen and for all the feedback and support. This update has a couple of fixes as well as an update to Storage Containers.


While not much has changed to the vertical storage crate, the wide storage crate now only stores raw materials, but it's capacity has been increased to 4000 items. The model, build requirements, name and description have been updated to reflect its new capacity.


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Release Notes

• Storage Crate (V) renamed to Storage Container
  
• Storage Crate renamed to Raw Storage Container.
  
• Update model and build requirements of Raw Storage Container.
  
• Raw Storage Container can only store raw materials, but stores up to 4000 items.
  
• Container storage amount now shows in build menu info
  
• Updated look of build menu info
  
• Power/Water consumption now shows at bottom of object info panel. Power/Water sections still show in info panel, but this will be removed later.
  
• Fixed: Colonists not hauling to construction if primary target is missing materials and second target is too far away
  
• Fixed: Colonists saving/loading incorrect instance id values. This can cause two colonists to use the same instance id and be treated as the same colonist. Note: Double check any machine rosters to ensure proper colonists are assigned.
  

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I hope everyone had a great weekend. Here are more tweaks and fixes for your Mercury Fallen experience. Thank you everyone for playing and supporting Mercury Fallen.

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• Vehicle Bay now states what job role is required for material deliver
  
• Robot Assembler now states what job role is required for material deliver
  
• Crop growers now state what job role is required if waiting for crops to be planted/added
  
• Fertilizer now shows in crop field/aeroponics farm fertilizer list if unlocked in research without having any available
  
• Crop Field/aeroponics farm will now show a warning if fertilizer has been set, but none of that fertilizer is available.
  
• Items in craft queue now have a job role icon next to output item
  
• Updated look of colonist hair
  
• Fixed: Aeroponics Farm requiring fertilizer item even if none was set
  
• Fixed: Colonists not bringing plant nutrient to crop field/aeroponics farm
  
• Fixed: Incorrect stance in colonist portrait picture
  

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Rapid fire updates this week. Update 21.0.7 is a tiny patch to address a soft lock that could occur related to the auto explore vehicle action. Thank you for playing Mercury Fallen and I hope everyone has a great weekend! :)

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• Further revisions to auto explore action to reduce vehicle getting stuck and improve performance
  
• Fixed: Soft lock if auto explore vehicle action takes too long to calculate a route
  

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Another day and another patch update. Patch update 21.0.6 addresses issues related to how colonists collect and deliver items. It also minimizes instances of colonists not aborting jobs to go do important things like not starving to death.

• Added additional checks to help ensure colonists abort work actions to fulfill critical needs such as eating.
  
• Colonists will now find closest table to eat at
  
• Colonists will now drop any items they are carrying on the floor when going to sleep
  
• Removed some debug code that caused a slow down during game load in some instances
  
• Added simple construction queue list to debug menu which shows top 5 objects in queue. Construction queue management coming in future update.
  
• Fixed: Colonists not finding a valid eating table to sit at in some instances
  
• Fixed: Colonist going to collect items from containers that don’t contain the items they need to pickup if items are spread over several different containers
  
• Fixed: Colonists not collecting available items to bring to construction in some instances
  
• Fixed: Highest priority construction project not highlighted in green after loading a saved game