BETA 51B HOTFIX NOW IN MAIN BRANCH AND EXPERIMENTAL BRANCHES

A second hotfix for Beta 51, entitled Beta 51B, has now been pushed to both branches of Steam. It should, hopefully, be backwards-compatible with old save games. This fixes a number of issues with Beta 51; future work at this point looks like it will break saves and will be more experimental in nature, and as such it will move to the experimental branch on Steam.

Changelog:

• blueprint design mode will now hide all assignment beacons; regular mode will now turn them back on again
• moved "Clear Terrain" jobs into the building construction job if they are automatically spawned by building construction
• assignment of workcrew to service job should adjust their work schedule appropriately
• optimized code from widget manager which greatly speeds up work crew menu
• balance: reduced sleep time
• balance: adjusted relationship of happiness to work shifts
• balance: adjusted output of stone from surface nodes
  
• balance: slightly increased nighttime sight radius
• FIXED: "Make stone smelting crucible" now moved over to new multistack system
• FIXED: picking up a multistack from the stockpile now correctly decrements the stockpile counter
• FIXED: more cleanup of phantom objects
• FIXED (OSX): crash on embark screen whenever you generate an ocean biome
• FIXED (OSX): crash in rendAssignmentBeacon handler
• FIXED (OSX): some other misc. crashes
• FIXED: talking to fishperson could freeze colonist (temp. removed this job)
• FIXED: long clothes line required 1 less bricabrac than advertised
• FIXED: tutorial would appear after game start; it no longer does
• FIXED: workers will no longer try to walk to be near their overseer if their overseer is in an underground mine and therefore technically off-map
• FIXED: fence icons
• FIXED: typo in work quality of life description
• FIXED: if you chopped down a burning tree, it would leave a fire in its place forever
• FIXED: mine products display is more readable
• FIXED: "make tin exotic caviar" job for workbenches, removed from ovens
• FIXED: players should not be attacked before they finish the tutorial
• FIXED: "make chemistry workbench" job
• FIXED: Moved brick kilns and iron smelting crucible to multiobject system (should fix build failure)
• FIXED: steel ingots looking for wrong object
• FIXED: Foreign office wasn't displaying building quality correctly
• FIXED: Public House crash
• FIXED: Pulque icon
• FIXED: in certain rare cases items given to player by events would not be set as owned by player
• FIXED: perennial crops would only output harvest once
• FIXED: characters would sometimes not work during the first shift of their workshift

 

There are still foundation issues in 51B, yes. I didn't touch the building code because I didn't want to run the risk of pushing a hotfix to the main branch which would break people's saves. Still, let me have a look at this...

 

Events are still missed too often, yes. I think Daniel is going to add a small flashing alert to the side that will go away once you mouse over it, and I don't think an audio cue would hurt either.

 

It IS possible to build but it builds really slowly (and there's no failure message if an ingredient is missing). Two things are being done here, 1. moving it to the multi-item stack ingredient system which will make assembly much faster and 2. failure messages will be added so that if ie. an ingredient can't be found, the workshop will tell you that this is the case rather than not.

If alerts aren't showing up at all for you, then there's a problem. Bandits spawning/attacking, fishpeople patrols, etc. DO generate visible alerts -- though they could be more visible and that's a polish item we have in mind -- ... on Windows, at least.
So are zero alerts appearing on the right under the minimap?

 

From saved game from 51A? If you build a new mine it should rebuild the UI correctly.