ALPHA 43A NOW IN EXPERIMENTAL BRANCH

Oh god, finally, my buildings thank you.

 

that was what caused my buildings to explode?

finally fixed THANK YOU

 

Wow, that's a lot of content in a single update!

 

Did the fix for the single outcome to looking into genealogy/heritage make it into the build?

 

Noticing some occurrences of loading bay doors being constructed without the section of the wall being removed, plus parts of walls missing from the building even without moving any modules after their blueprints were first placed.



The loading bay door on the other side built fine



Carpentry workshop module layout



Module placement order when in blueprint state:

The various doors, first.
Carpentry Workbenches, second.
Standing desks last.

 

Also just noticed a tooltip bug for module blueprints after loading a save (New save of a colony started since 43A).

After loading the save I noticed all my pre-existing module blueprints that had no resources brought to the order yet didn't display any tooltip when I moved the cursor over them.

As soon as a colonist brought at least 1 resource to the blueprint the tooltip then displayed again to show required materials.


Edit:

What's with the new yellow overseer exclusive progress bar for job progress by the way? When a overseer assigned to a workshop (Artisans I guess they're now called) starts a job in the workshop their progress bar is larger and coloured differently to a workers progress bar.

Does this have any actual significance or deeper meaning? As I'm only noticing this change being applied to workshop jobs, not general jobs like construction, mining, farming etc.

Or is it just a "OMG! LOOK! The middle class guy is actually doing worker jobs!!!!ONEONEONE!!!!" indicator?

Example:

 

Since 43A the old problem with colonists not butchering after a hunting order seems to be back. I set a military squad to hunt, and they'll kill things no problem, but they will always leave the body just sat around.

As soon as I manually issue a butcher order they'll immediately respond and butcher the corpse, but unless the order is given they will never do it themselves.

Could it be somehow related to the change in ownership/forbidding things that 'drop' outside of the colony?

Automatic butchering was working fine in the initial Alpha 43 release, so seems to be a new change that has broken it again.


Edit:

When you rename a colonist, the game retains the old names for things like handling events which can make things very confusing.

 

If a fox starts attacking an aurochs, the aurochs becomes hostile to my people even though I didn't do anything. This just caused an aurochs to kill one of my colonists for no reason.

 

Shouldn't that have triggered the "Anything that attacks a colonist instantly gets flagged as hostile" rule added recently?

 

It might have. I toggled everyone to be able to hunt in the hopes that anyone would try to kill the aurochs, but they all got stuck in a loop of grabbing a gun, then running away in fear.

 

The additional tooltip everywhere are great. I'm currently fooling around with the barbershop, and I noticed some minor texture-related issues:

The interior wood panelling is inconsistent - it looks like the texture on the wall with the door, is misaligned, or the other walls are flipped:



The barber uniform appears in both the Work Crew and Colonist info portraits, glowing white:



On a minor note, the barber clothing in-game (you can see my barber sleeping on the ground) is really shiny. That seems weird.

 

A bandit died and their gun and stolen goods he was carrying is stuck floating in the air.

 

The texture offset mismatch happens in every building. Kitchen, Carpentry, Ceramics... they all have mismatched texture offsetting between the width and the length walls on all sides.

You tend to not notice it so much if you build square/rectangular buildings with just 4 walls, but as soon as you start doing more complex designs where the wall is changing direction more frequently it sticks out like a sore thumb. If you check my previous screenshots for other bugs in this thread you'll see various examples in those showing interiors.

I think it's simply a case that the textures are being mapped to the wall UVs with slightly different offsets on walls going length wise than they are width wise (or vice versa, which ever one is meant to be the correct mapping)

Edit: A few things with building walls have been broken since around 42E/43 or so. I'm noticing a frequent occurrence of things like single wall tiles missing, doors and windows not carving holes in the wall as they should do leading to doors and windows that open up into walls and so forth.

Figured the whole thing was being revised and a better approach was being implemented and so in the mean time various things got broken. As it doesn't seem to impact colonist path finding and they recognise it was non-solid even if it visually appears to be a solid wall, it wasn't really a big deal.

 

Also, ever since the lighting changes I've noticed the facial/body textures on a lot of colonists with darker skin tones are extremely hard to make out. For a good while I actually thought there was a rendering bug and the textures weren't even being applied until I tweaked my monitor contrast a bit and could see actual facial detail if I really looked hard.

Reusing a screenshot from another bug post to give an example:



This is one of the 'Not so bad' colonists. Other colonists with darker skin tones are next to impossible to make out their facial features from the colonist information window, and in the game world itself absolutely pointless to even try making out anything, which gives the impression that my colony is inhabited by Lord Anubis clones especially with colonists with dark hair as well, it just blends together to look like a non-detailed shape (See Solomon McDonald farming just behind the info window).

 

Neat event lol.

 

I can't speak to Gaslamp's current code, but when futzing around with stuff last year to make giant beetles fight back when attacked, that's actually the behavior I was looking for - injured animals freak out and attack whatever's closest.

 

Well, in my case, the fox that was attacking the aurochs would have been the closest. They just happened to get too close to my colonist, and the aurochs attacked him.