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Fixed on beta now, sorry about that. We have rolled a lot more fixes in today.

Sublimation[en.wikipedia.org] will occur when ice is exposed directly to solar radiation, in addition to any thermodynamic induced melting.

Originally posted by RainmakerLTU: Oh dear, it was working system, when you press Enter - chat line opens. Type in and press Enter to send. Done.

This is planned to be mapped to that yes, but it is not in yet

Press F3 to bring up console
Type "Say "
Press enter
Hide console with F3

We added speech bubbles above players with last update.
Will improve this with better shortcuts soon!

Thanks for the reports and encouragement. We have a new version deploying now, and we're fixing additional bugs for another hotfix later today as well.

The new build is v0.2.3419.16755

Which also contains speech bubbles above heads, when people type in multiplayer (previously, was only in chat).

NOTE a few more bugs fixes, will deploy in ~40mins and I will post here when ready, with version number. Sorry again!

Note: more bugs have been fixed, we will deploy another hotfix as well

We had serious issues affecting many users (but weirdly, not all - due to different computers initializing differently) that made the tutorials completely unplayable.

We are deploying a hotfix for this now.

It is understandable that new players would be very annoyed with trying to play, and the tutorials being broken for them. it's a regretable error and we're very sorry for it. So we came in on the weekend to fix the issue, which is now depolying as v0.2.3418.16750 (check steam has actually downloaded this version)

Again, very sorry to those new users we let down.

Originally posted by argenex: instantly evaporates in my 100kpa, 21 degree Celsius pressurized cabin

Ice will always melt in a 100kPa environment if it is above freezing, and not in a container that prevents atmos access (like a mining belt)

Apologies, a hotfix is deploying shortly as v0.2.3418.16750

Apologies, a hotfix is deploying. Will be v0.2.3418.16750 once it is live.

I will update this post once it is live.

Some of the bugs related a nasty bug that only affected about 50% of users. One of two of them affected everyone.

Apologies folks.

Originally posted by Bracht: Thank you Rocket. Do you mind telling me the function i'm looking for in the settings.xml? I checked that file and I didn't see anything that was obvious

Im having trouble finding myself! I'll double check, I believe it should be on by default. It is supposed to be toggleable.

We are in the process of migrating a number of things, so I will check this and confirm.

Originally posted by DigitizedSoul: Spot on!

After 5 years, the only real way to play being using a VPN is a joke.

You do not need to play via VPN.

However, you need to either:
* Port forward your router; or
* Enable UPnP

You also need to:
* allow the application through your firewall

I am not sure how VPN would help at all, in fact I think it would likely make things much worse.

THank you- I think ive found the issue will get it fixed.

This a setting in the settings.xml file, sorry should have mentioned that. I'll get it added to the guide.

Originally posted by penza_58(RUS): after the release of oxygen in the room, the temperature is below zero, but still it is impossible to separate the oxide in the room, it continues to evaporate

Once the ice sublimates, it can often be very very cold.

Ice melt to temperature
Ice melting occurs due to temperature, but the gas must be above the armstrong limit (6.3kPa) for most thermodynamics to occur in the game (if below that, particles are considered too far apart). This isn't *quite* how it is, the armstrong limit is a real thing... but we moved a lot of numbers around it to make the simulation more predictable.

... Read more

More info on this process, which we try model in stationeers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(phase_transition)

Ice will sublimate in a vaccum, as it gets heated due to solar radiation, if it is in direct sunlight.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103521002785

Yep - there is a dedicated server for either linux or windows.

A guide is available: https://github.com/rocket2guns/StationeersDedicatedServerGuide

Note that it has recently been updated with entirely new netcode. Much better than before, but many guides will be outdated and based on the old system.

There is a setting for "pause when empty".

Note players need to be in an oxygenated (and CO2 scrubbed) sleeper to keep living.