ALPHA 47B now in Experimental Branch

I have a feeling we will regret releasing alpha 47B on Friday afternoon on a long weekend. But what the heck.

Major Changes

Building & module placement system has been completely rewritten. Disclaimer:

• "flatten terrain" has been temporarily deactivated
• various cosmetic issues are known, ie. doors not punching holes and things being generally ugly.
  
• There are some other known bugs with zones and things moving outside of the window.

Added Chapel doctrines that have different effects on your colonists
Bandits & related events have been overhauled

Full Changelog for Alpha 47B

performed complete rewrite of module and building placer
added chapel doctrines, along with accompanying UI. Players may now choose a chapel doctrine in the building's interface, which will influence what effect their vicars' sermons have.
re-enabled module animations and particle effects on a number of modules.
performed refactoring of Bandit events to fit revised faction code; you will notice that some events have slightly different options
added "Bandits Visit Town" event
added "Ministry Investigates Stolen Goods" event
added "Bandit Ties Investigated" event
added "Bandits Guard Town" foreign office missions & hook to foreign invasion event
trade missions now spawn with guards
rubbish left lying around may now spawn vermin
fixed up faction descriptions on Foreign Office buttons
removed old references to "Seminary Training"; it is generally replaced with "Spiritually Inclined" trait.
added first set of metallurgy/mining techs
re-enabled pickup_animation for modules. This may cause some visual oddness until a related bug is fixed.
all remaining jobs that allowed a worker to leave while they were in progress (i.e. smelting) have been changed to require worker presence.
added an event that recommends a player build a barracks if they haven't done so by day 4
added "?" box tutorials for the following windows: Foreign Office, Chapel, Laboratory, Mine, Trade Office.
FIXED: stained glass windows were not being built
FIXED: Iron scraps are now able to be smelted into bars like ore
FIXED: costs for a number of modules with incorrect costs
FIXED: various typos
FIXED: zones are designated per-vertex and not per-tile
FIXED: module placement crash when SHIFT-clicking multiple modules or placing modules rapidly and in succession
FIXED: various issues with snapping modules not working correctly at all
FIXED: extruded blueprint for an exterior model extends one unit behind the actual module (or more, depending on the interior height)
FIXED: ghost chalkboard is not longer valid too for performing research
FIXED: Iron Smelting Crucible consumed one too few bricks
FIXED: people no longer stick their heads into ovens/workbenches when dropping off materials. Usually.
FIXED: colonists will drop goods when retreating (fixes possible instances of objects attached to hands)
FIXED 47A: fishperson steak ownership incorrectly assigned
FIXED: civilians weren't correctly dropping firearms
FIXED: scripterror when attempting to do Foreign Office action on Bandits when none are on map
TEST: locked cabbage at start

 

Oh, well, that's not what I wanted to hear. Does it produce a crash dump?

EDIT: Actually, wait, no. I bet this is a shader issue. Can you find me the console.txt and upload it? Thanks!

 

Nothing to forgive. It's still a bit weird, though.

 

Is the game producing crash dumps or error messages? Any idea what you're doing to cause the crash?

 

(People actually *use* flatten terrain? Interesting. I don't know a single person in the office who starts their game with it.)

 

One crash seems to be if you create a building with more than one courtyard, but that's an easy enough fix.

 

Well, crap. The more you know. This also might explain some balance issues - we haven't been accounting for the fact that you're going to start playing the game with one less frikkin' work crew...