Stationeers Dev Tracker

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

This hotfix addresses numerous atmospherics issues. There has been a wide range of atmosphere issues reported that all stemmed from the same issue. The most common, or at least the most noticeable, one was outside atmosphere contaminating rooms.

This will no longer happen but some saves may have devices with bugged atmospheres in them, this can be fixed by deconstructing the device completely and then rebuilding it.

This hotfix addresses further issues with a specific trader causing errors in multiplayer, as well as a number of other small fixes and improvements.

• Fixed food trader causing checksum error. This is a temporary fix by removing a specific problematic trade.
  
• Fixed error spam when editing prefabs if the GameManager not initialized. Have removed unused WorldGridController field on game manager which was being set when the world controller was initialized but never used.
  
• Changed Plant growthState materials to be GPU instanced.
  
• Fixed Plant planted at high altitudes would be offset inside the planter.
  
• Fixed client list not being cleared when leaving a game as a client and starting a new single player game. This would cause pause to stop working in the menu as well as make the game prepare data to send to clients unnecessarily.
  
• Fixed recipe search window layout breaking when changi...

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

This hotfix addresses two main issues: the new world artifacts sometimes being present in the skybox, and a checksum error related to traders, but also includes a number of other small fixes.

• Updated text on rocket info panels to be right aligned to make it consistent with other ui text in the game
  
• Reverted Changes to combining stacks of reagent-mixes as this was causing floating point errors in some cases that could cause furnace recipes to stop working.
  
• Changed moved reagent-mix Stacking changes to SpaceOre.cs. These still need to implement the new system as their contents add up to less than 1.
  
• Changed DirtyOre mined from space that is processed in the recycler will waste half of its contents.
  
• Changed the names of the space maps root nodes to be the 'planet orbit'
  
• Added Back button on NewWorldMenu now clears all preview scenes
  
• Fixed (dev) null reference wh...

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

This updated contains changes to data and prefabs that will break some saves. Old rockets have also been removed and will no longer be present in your saves. We have created a branch that will be frozen pre this rocket update: prerocket

Rockets
Rockets are often considered a final goal in Stationeers. However, instead of designing them as an end game necessity, we’ve instead treated them as another system that weaves itself into all the other systems of the game. Rockets support building stations, and stations support building rockets.

Previously, the rockets were simple yet unforgiving. It was hard to tell what was happening, unless you already knew everything about rockets. You functionally had to build the best rocket system from the start, else your rocket was likely to be lost. Lastly, the old rockets fl... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Our developer friends at Geometa who make Stormworks just announced a SPACE DLC! Many on our team (including myself, perhaps especially myself even), love Stormworks and play it a lot. They're a great team and they understand the difficulties around working on games of this nature. Considering checking our their page for the DLC and giving them a wishlist! I will absolutely be trying this out when it launches on 13 October.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2383250/Stormworks_Space/

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This hotfix addresses some issues with the new atmospheric mixing that was causing potential for infinite ices spawning in world atmospheres as well as atmospheres not equalizing correctly in some 2x1 rooms.

• Fixed bug where clients could accidentally exit sleepers when leaving a game
  
• Fixed a few visual issues with new bench cords
  
• Fixed unable to attach appliances to some bench variants
  
• Fixed Infinite Ice spawning in vacuums that could sometimes happen due to incorrect handling of NaN values when calculating mix ratios in MixInWorld.
  
• Fixed PureIce SpawnContents and melt Temperature not being serialized.
  
• Added IsValid check to spawngas.
  
• Fixed issue where two isolated atmospheres could remain unbalanced.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Atmospheric Simulation Today we’re going to go into detail about the atmospheric simulation in Stationeers. We’ll give a short walkthrough about how we identify issues, think of solutions, test and iterate until we’ve solved problems or added new features. Specifically World Atmospheres, and how they move gas throughout the game, and especially how fast vacuums form.

Of the many complex systems Stationeers models, the atmospherics simulation is the most defining. Two times per second; pumps move gas, filters split compositions, pipes check for bursting, and much much more. A lot of the gas the player interacts with comes from the world, or ends being vented there. Unfortunately, the speed to pull a vacuum in world has always been one of the largest bottlenecks for Stationeers.



Table of times of original vacuum times

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We had a couple of things that didn't make it in to the last update that we wanted to get finished off before moving. These mainly centered around pain points to do with slow process cycling larger airlocks, and a few oddities of the heat exchanger.

Powered Vents We’re introducing Powered Vents as a way to get around some of the limitations of speed in our atmospheric system. These powered vents can move a lot of gas by drawing from atmospheres beyond the grid that the device is actually in, and they can output a very large amount of gas as well. This can help with pulling a vacuum or filling a room fast.

These vents have a flow rate indicator to let you easily tell if the vent is being provided with enough gas to be working at full capacity. This feature has also been added to the active vent.

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

• Fixed Water filters don't filter steam.
  
• Fixed Tooltips on EvaporationChamber and CondensationChamber pipe connections.
  
• Fixed Pipe damaged/destroyed by freezing tooltip.
  
• Fixed Atmos-Analyser sometimes doesn't show the correct StateChange symbols.
  
• Changed CondensationChamber and EvaporationChamber will continue to exchange heat with the heat exchange connection when turned off.
  
• Fixed HeatExchangers not correctly applying save migration functionality.
  
• Changed Limited evaporation when Temperature of liquids has dropped below its freezing Temperature.
  
• Changed Increased the amount of damage freezing gasses and liquids cause to pipes.
  
• Fixed broken states of station batteries not rendering.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Stationeers has the bold aim of modelling many very complex systems, and trying to do so in a way that will run acceptably on most computers. For a long time we have wanted to better model phase change (movement of state between gases, liquids, and solids). This will allow us to make more interesting mechanics such as rocket fuels in future updates. The task has come with significant challenges, trying to maintain support for existing worlds and not make the game even more complex for new players than it already is. This is the first step in making our overhaul of Rockets, as it was necessary to do this work before continuing with the work on Rockets.

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Gasses now can phase change, when under different pressures/temperatures. Normal Atmospheric pipes break from the stress/weight of condensing liquids, so use a condenser valve to ensure liquids can drop safely into liquid pipes. You can reference a phase diagram in the Stationpedia to figure out what a gas or li... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.