ALPHA 50E ALPHA 50E ON EXPERIMENTAL BRANCH: THERE IS A MAN OPERATING A BANDSAW IN THE OFFICE NEXT DOOR

oh how I wish my work laptop wouldn't die horribly if I tried to run CE on it. It's itching in my fingers to get back home and try these new things out !

 

Bug? When you open up the Work crew and get into the pop up windows showing their stats, the pop up windows remain open, no way to remove them. I am trying a restart right now. I tried the handy dandy escape button, didn't work.

Also, the foundations are still disappearing. Kitchen this time, last time (see post in 50D) it was the Ceramics...Reload didn't fix it. It did, however, fix the above bug.

 

So you can make wooden plinths, but you can't place them from the decor menu.

 

The new tutorial is awesome.

The stacking is also working pretty well. I think there should maybe be a limit to how much a single colonist can carry though, for a few reasons:
1. Malcolm Cogswatter is probably not physically capable of carrying 64 blocks of stone at once.
2. Construction of larger buildings (ie bunkhouses) is weird right now:
- A colonist won't start gathering items until you have enough prepared in stock
- Only one person starts each item, so a work crew of 3 people and an overseer has one gathering planks, one gathering stone, and 2 doing ???
- For some reason the person gathering stuff wanders all over the map, instead of picking up the "next closest X" (wood/stone/etc)
- A colonist will drop their stack of stuff on the floor to go eat or sleep. There's no guarantee that, tomorrow morning, they'll go to the huge stack of 50 wood first, or at all.
I think a lot of these could be mitigated if each person could carry a max of 5/10/15 items (depending on item size/weight). That way, multiple people in a work crew could be involved with building stuff, you wouldn't have to wait until you chopped/mined/planked everything before getting started on construction, etc.

 

There's an odd thing where people aren't intimidated by fishpeople trying to be intimidating. They'll continue to butcher/mine/etc (albeit very s l o w l y) while Missy Fishy throws a tantrum for hours.

 

Got the "build a barracks" tutorial message, except it says I already did when I haven't even started on one.
And the "tutorial finished" message popped up prematurely, as I hadn't finished my barracks or bunker house. Similarly, the "here are the controls" message seemed to show up much later than it should've.

 

I am laughing too hard at Malcolm the Swole stompign around my colony throwing stones around and calling the overseers jabronis, btw. Expect a strongly worded letter at some point in the future.

edit: But it is kind of a problem where if you're trying to, for example, make some planks n' cots (which take a little bit of wood), and also build a bunkhouse (which takes whole a lotta wood), where you never have quite enough resources to finish the big thing. This is easily solved by micromanagement, and the new "pause" system in the job menu is awesome for it. But it seems important enough to let people know it's a thing - maybe in the new shiny building tutorial? Personally it took me a good 10-15 minutes to work out why no one was constructing that building.

 

My brick kilns refuse to make glass. Stone kiln makes bricks though. Demolishing and rebuilding the workshop did nothing,

Also: Demolishing modules doesn't delete them from the workshop window.

 

Here is the file where the foundation has disappeared. It shows the blueprint in the module...but as soon as you get playing the game...my guys were walking, sleeping and even building the building in mid-air. I thought maybe after the actual building was built it'd show up, that didn't happen. Dunno...was happening in 50D as well.

 

Eventually my brewing vats and power saws crapped out too in a similar fashion.

 

Stalwart Supply: despite being assigned to the NCO's squad, the starting militia is ? marked; unassign and reassign makes it go away.

 

Military NCO replacement is still not working properly; when the Overseer of a Military squad dies a grisly death, the first colonist in his employ moves into the Overseer position, and the Crew retains its military name, BUT he does not become an NCO (militia or otherwise), and the remaining commoners do not remain soldiers. Furthermore, the resulting Crew cannot be assigned to any workshop at all, barracks or otherwise.

 

@devs I don't suppose you guys have a suspicion at what actions or chain of actions cause modules to stop working? So that I can try to avoid that if I want to play before the next experimental comes out.

 

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