Mercury Fallen News

Howdy Folks!

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.
  

Howdy Folks!

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
  

Howdy Folks!

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
  

Thank you all for playing Mercury Fallen and for the great feedback. I’ve been listening to that feedback and here are some more tweaks and fixes.


Update 21 added a change to strictly adhere to the construction queue priority order. While this ensured that materials were used for the intended construction projects it meant that construction was halted until all required items were available. In this update I’ve made a few changes to how colonists deliver materials to construction projects.

Colonists will now bring any available materials to a construction project including partial amounts. They will also deliver available items to lower priority construction projects if the higher priority target already has what it needs of that required item.

Example

• Highest priority build target is a bed. Colonists have plenty of structure resin, but no cloth.
  
• Colonists will deliver the required structure resin to the bed.
  
• Colonists will now deliver available structure resin to other build targets that need it, based on the priority order.
  
• When cloth becomes available colonists will deliver it to the bed. Once the bed has all required items it will be constructed.
  
• This is the first step towards a better construction queue system. More player control will be added in a future update.
  

Check out the release notes below for all the tweaks and fixes added in this update.

• Improved vehicle auto exploration action to reduce instances of vehicle becoming stuck
  
• Resource Transport vehicle no longer drops off all items immediately, but now deposits one item at a time until empty the same way it picks up resources
  
• Colonists will deliver any available items to construction projects instead of waiting for all items to be available. This includes partial amounts of required items.
  
• Colonists will deliver items to lower priority construction projects if higher priority construction project has all of that required item.
  
• Improvements to pathfinding performance
  
• Improved look of items in inventory and build interface sections
  
• Paused items in craft queue now more obvious
  
• Fixed: Resource transport vehicles not collecting resources from mining platform in some instances
  
• Fixed: Resource transport vehicle wiggling in place if closest pickup and drop off tiles are the same tile
  
• Fixed: Vehicle Bay not receiving all construction materials in some instances
  
• Fixed: HUD inventory quantities not updating correctly when items are deposited into the receiving container inventory
  
• Fixed: Able to place objects on top of areas marked for deep mining