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11 Oct

In World Water

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Stationeers now has in world liquid simulations. Because of the phase change update, liquids became a major part of the game. They were allowed to exist in the world, but they were represented by a foggy steam effect, and they moved around in all dimensions just like a gas. The motivation behind adding realistic fluid movement is an expectation that the game created for itself. Stationeers has the best atmospheric simulation in gaming, and the game deserves to have fluid simulations accompanying it.




Flowing Water
Liquids now flow horizontally and preferentially pool downwards. Lower areas of your base will be prone to flooding when liquid pipes unexpectedly break, or conditions for phase change causes gas to condense around you. Fluids in world have an exaggerated volume, to allow for meaningful interactions with in world liquids to ha... Read more

22 Aug

Defining Success: Steam Achievements

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Stationeers is a challenging game due to the depth of many of its mechanics. Much of this depth can be overlooked, as players just intuit what the complex simulation is doing as a natural expectation of real life. As you play more and more, and reach into the hundreds of hours, you start to understand the systems as they exist in game. You eventually master how to interact with the simulation and how the game systems interact with each other.

Achievements


So we've added achievements to Stationeers to highlight player accomplishments. The achievements generally represent large milestones players pass as they start or finish projects in their bases. However there are many which are more abstract milestones, or rights of passages, players encounter while playing the game; such as bursting a pipe, or cancelling an airlock cycle. We've avoided silly/goofy on... Read more

22 Jul

Walls, Doors, and Valves

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We have multiple smaller additions to the game this week, while we polish the larger upcoming work we've done on tutorials and additional LArRE mechanics.

Reinforced Walls
Joining the reinforced window, there is now a reinforced wall, and both now exist on the reinforced wall kit. To make them more practical in dangerous areas, such as rocket silos and furnace rooms, the pressure they can withstand has been increased significantly. The new reinforced wall can withstand a pressure of 10 MPa, and the reinforced window has been increased from 1 MPa to 8 MPa. The wall damage rate is not just a linear interpolation of the over pressure amount, but instead it is related to the percentage of over pressure. This means these walls should give you a fair amount of (literal) extra breathing room while your based explodes around it.





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08 Jul

LARrE: The Linear Articulated Rail Entity

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A New System
The Stationeers team often plans updates around polishing and iterating on features and systems that either need the most amount of work to be fun, or conversely, the most fun systems that can be expanded to have even more gameplay. Well, today is an example of us adding a cool new feature, that wasn't explicitly required, but fits the game well by allowing cool new structure system that can interact with other aspects of the game.



LARrE, the Linear Articulated Rail Entity is a track mounted robotic arm. The arm moves from its dock along placed tracks towards station track pieces, which are addressable by their index. When activated, it behaves just like a Harvie, picking up, or putting down an item, or for plants, harvesting fruit, or seeds, and clearing the crop if it's not harvest able. Other than planter trays, LARrE is currently onl... Read more

13 Jun

Brutal Starts: New Challenges, and Better Window Shutters

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Starting Gear Selection
Continuing off the work of the last few patches that have updated the basic survival and starting aspects of Stationeers, we've created a new flow to world creation, where you get to select and see what starting conditions your new world will have. We see this as a distinctly different choice over the general difficulty, that largely influences the first dozen hours of your gameplay.



This new screen not only lets you choose, but also shows the gear in a straight forward and not overwhelming manner. Hovering over the lander crates will show you all nested information as a tool tip, but for more complex containers, you can expand them to better investigate their contents.

Mod-ability and steam workshop support was a focus from the start. Any workshop starting conditions subscribed to will automatically appear in the sele... Read more

28 May

Hotfix v0.2.4945.22690

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This hotfix includes Several fixes for starting gear, items exiting boxes correctly, plant and recipe configurations, and more.

Changlog v0.2.4945.22690
  • Fixed The final item removed from a disposable packaging object would not have its interactions enabled due to the script mono-behaviour being disabled.
  • Fixed bug with the plant life requirements for SeedBag_Cocoa and SeedBag_SugarCane not matching the life requirements of ItemSugarCane and ItemCocoaTree
  • Fixed cooking requirements for cooked rice and cooked soybeans so that the recipe requirements match for both the automated oven and the microwave
  • Fixed a bug where portable atmospherics would produce infinite free nitrogen when deconstructed
  • Fixed water bottle pack had the incorrect blueprint
  • Changed hydroponics supplies crates on vulcan and venus were to mkII crates
  • Removed s on water bottle box (art asset...
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27 May

New beginnings: Gear improvements, Vulcan and Mimas Changes

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New crate equipment
The team has spent the last two weeks playing the first few hours of the game over and over. To new players who had their hands held in the tutorials, the reality of Stationeer's scope really sets in when you finally spawn alone on a world with no instructions, and a full lander waiting in front of you.

The crates serve as a means of encouraging the player to focus on one task. Throughout the years of development, as we added new content, or found an issue players needed more help on, we used up all the free slots in the crates, and sometimes put items in the 'wrong' crate just because it could fit.

We've made sure to split out the crates into more tidy packages to inspire you to use all of them to build different solutions to the problems in your base. To aid in still keeping the options and content straightforward, we've added some single use cardboard boxes which contain multiple items for a task. For example, the portable gas fueled g... Read more

13 May

Printer Instructions: Sugar, Cocoa, and Cake

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More Stuff, Faster
In the near future we'll revisit kitchens and cooking, but currently we are working on several other aspects of the larger survival updates including new suits, jetpacks, and starting equipment. Instead of hoarding all of the new content for one massive cooking update, we’ve decided to add some of it into the current system, so players can grow some new plants, and craft some new foods in the meantime.

New Plants: Sugarcane and Cocoa

Cocoa plants like a warm environment, and while a dedicated room isn't necessary, the ideal growth temperatures of some normal plants may conflict, leading to some plants growing slower depending on your grow room temperature. Cocoa plants harvest into cocoa pods, which can be used in the reagent processor to create cocoa powder.

Sugarcane plants grows much like wheat and harvests into sugarca... Read more

12 Dec

Water bottle filling station not working anymore?!?!?! (ON THE MOON)

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    Timberfox on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Originally posted by ViciousVicensius: It says nothing, its like the pipe is empty! But the ice crusher is showing 2.5L (140 mol) of water at a temperature of 10c and rising for 417 kPa, but the pipe show NOTHING?
The ice crusher is warming up the water, before releasing it. This is to prevent water from refreezing due to phase change in a variety of situations. If you dont have the energy/time to have the ice crusher warm up the water, you can always melt it in a furnace, or in a warm world grid, and collect the melted water. You can also set the logic value "setting" on the ice crusher to control what temperature it wants to target. By default the water will flow out at 20C.

13 Nov

Fitted-Out HardSuit - Sell?

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    Timberfox on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
You can find the specific requirements in the tradeables.xml. This suit acted as a test for us to see what more complicated buy requests could be like, and what we might want to improve before we do more requests like this.


It should be requesting a 'functioning' hard suit. The Oxygen tank(printed empty tank, then filled to 100 or greater) should be in the suits tank slot, and an empty tank in the waste slot, and the charged large battery in the battery slot. The filter request actually wants just 1x filter, meaning any of the 3 filters can fulfil the request. I dont see what the 240 mole tank... Read more