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DevBlog #88 | Foundry Fridays: Update 2.2 Release Date!

[p]Hello everyone!

I’m pleased to share that Update 2.2 will be released on Monday, 29th of September at 2pm CEST.[/p][p][/p][p]The update’s theme centers around excavation, and the main features will be:[/p][p][/p][p] New Terraforming Mechanics[/p]
  • [p] Drill Shapes (dig multiple blocks at once with your drill/laser)[/p]
  • [p] Shaped Charges (precision explosives)[/p]
  • [p] Excavation through personal mining drones & construction ships[/p]
  • [p] Drill Ships (A new tunnel boring machine) [/p]
[p]Quality of Life and Polish[/p]
  • [p] Powerline Quality of Life Improvements[/p]
  • [p] New Pipe Drag Mode[/p]
  • [p] Ability to regrow grass[/p]
  • [p] Improved Conveyor Drag Mode[/p]
  • [p] Various other QoL improvements[/p]
[p][/p][p]A more detailed changelog will be released shortly before the release. You can read about many of those features in detail by checking out the dev blogs of the past two months. We see this update as the “Terraforming, Part One” update, as we plan to expand on progression mechanics and unlockable improvements for many of those terraforming features in the upcoming update 3.0 - more details to be shared soon. [/p][p][/p][h3]Drill Ships[/h3][p]As the final piece of the puzzle I’m glad to be able to show off our version of the tunnel boring machine. I have briefly mentioned at the end of the past dev blog that we’re looking at adding a tunnel boring machine which is flexible and capable of players needs. And here it is:

[/p][p][/p][p]Model and Textures are work in progress...[/p][p]The drill ship is a vehicle (don’t expect too much, no action-style vehicle controls!) which is able to move around and excavate tunnels for you. You can walk inside and control it through several levers, valves and buttons. In short, you can set the direction (forward, up, down) and tell it how far it should excavate. [/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Once started you can walk away and come back when it is done. Drilled blocks will be stored in its internal inventory. Unless used in high quantities it isn’t suited for large scale excavation, but it’s tailor-made for tunnels, no matter the direction. [/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]Trains Preview[/h3][p]Since many of you asked for a progress update on trains I wanted to share some work in progress videos and pictures. I won’t be going into details today, I just wanted to show off some progress. Those videos are showing us testing internal systems, all the debug visualisation is just for the developers. Please keep in mind that trains will not be released with the upcoming update 2.2.
[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p] [/p][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]We’re excited to see our trains coming together and will share more details as soon as it makes sense. Also we’re still planning on releasing trains on a preview branch before the actual update to gather feedback.

Thank you for reading and I’m looking forward to seeing you play when the update is out!
-mrmcd[/p][p]


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