ALPHA 42 NOW RELEASED ON STEAM

Using R42, not much success with smaller farms. For 101 colonists, I've got 3 max sized farms cranking out wheat, and 1 max sized farm as either an extra farm for more wheat or when for when flax or opium is needed. I would like to expand the colony with more workshops/advanced modules, but my metal production is barely keeping up with the ovens breaking to do so even with adequate ores/charcoal, I believed there was a bottleneck in metal production. I thought that it was due to the fact that the workshops can only make one type of item at a time so I separated the metalworks into 3 separate workshops (one for making charcoal, one for making ingots, one for the pipes/plates/etc.) with multiple modules in each of them, the ingot workshop stubbornly only wants to make one ingot at a time for only one module while the other modules stand idle (see Capture.PNG). I've tried multiple restarts on this same game, but still just able to use one smelting module at a time. Is this limit of being able to use only one smelting module at a time an intended part of the game design, is it just me?

Image: It seems to be only one smelting module can be used at a time, even with multiple available smelting modules.

Sorry, I was not able to upload "gameReplay-042.CER," because I get a response that the file is too large.

 

101 colonists and only 20 workcrews? How does that even work? lol

 

Nicholas, the population seems to have an upper limit of 101. For example, I would get messages that 4 more labourers arrive, but the population size stays at 101. In terms of raw ore and charcoal, I've got enough. Please check the save game, if you can get to it. I know you are all busy with mountains of mysterious eldritch undertakings.


Performance is smooth and continuous for the most part. However, there seems to be a barracks bug where one or both of the NCO's stops being an NCO even though they still show as the overseer of the barracks. I have to unassign and reassign my overseer every few days, but this is a recurring issue. Not a game breaker, just annoying.


It is now back to 100. The population limit seems to change from 100 to 101, with 100 being the usual upper number I see.

 

Tikigod
Now the population shows a cap of 100 with 19 work crews. Not sure how it happens, but sometimes it goes from the usual 100 to 101. But when I look back later, it's 100. But each overseer starts out with a max limit of 4 labourers. But some of the overseers seem to be able to have an upgrade in that max limit (barracks seems to say at 4, though). For example, Mrs. Ironburn oversees a farm and has upgraded her max work crew limit to 6. I don't know what the conditions are for the overseers to upgrade the work crew limits are, though. Hope this helps.

 

Kitchen cook steak job appearing to grab meat from the black again...

 

Is Forrest/Forest one of the choices in colonist first names?

"Alas, poor Forest, I knew him well"


"Mmm . . . Forest Meat"

 

Is it just me or are they not only leaving meat out in the wilderness, but also anything harvested on the farm plots? it's all coming up in my commodities list, but not in my stockpile list, because it's all over the place, the only way to get the food collected is to put a cook order in for it like the meat in the last build, which is severely slowing down food production.

 

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The work around isn't ironclad though, but does get colonists to haul most wilderness meat you butcher and other problem goods.

 

How weird, never had the workcrew worker count upgrade itself like that. Not even in a colony with 80+.

Also noticed it seems to break the workcrew window cosmetically similar to how workcrews with a long enough name break the colonist information window.

Wonder if the upgraded workcrew capacity is a bug and somehow they're reverting to pre-capacity nerf values somehow.

 

So is there currently a cap to the number of overseers, lower class workers, and/or total colonists?

 

Nice update when I decided to start up my game again, was pleased to see them restock my cooked food! Did get a bunch of script errors on loading so I assumed it was due to last save not being in sync, but going to go play with latest build!