BETA 51F BETA 51F: STEAM KNIGHTS AND GENERAL FLAILING

Another crash while manually saving. Not while under construction.

 

Steam Knight doing work!


lol

 

Holy crap, aurochs have some kind of turbo boost now. One of them just killed one of my soldiers while hunting! :O

 

I had a fairly long game without a crash, but this one definitely happened right when the game autosaved as I was laying out the foundation for my metal works. The save is unloadable.

Side note: I think there may still be an issue with the commodities menu. It shows I have a few boxed small clothes lines when in fact I have none.

 

lol

 

Crash while saving to menu

 

Do you really only need 20 diplomacy points to get one, or is there some other thing required after that? Game keeps crashing before I get there.

 

There's a starting loadout that gives you one from the start.

 

Wow, can't believe I didn't notice that. That is one seriously OP loadout!

I mean, why would anyone NOT choose that loadout?

 

Crash while saving. Still have inventory bug meaning that checking inventory at top shows I have inventory I can't use or it's already been used but not removed. Weird bug with a dead beetle that won't be butchered. Maize to booze - first time ever for me. Yay.

 

BTW, on Mac, where the heck are the .dmp files.

 

After playing around with it, Steam Knights don't seem that useful.

1. They don't provide security happiness
2. They are slow to respond to threats
3. Their grenade launchers have a tendency to light my inventory on fire (lmao)


As far as I can tell, the "instant colony" loadout where you start with 4 additional workers is the best for a quick start. You can build a 5-workbench carpentry workshop on day one, and start pumping out planks, bricabrac, decor, practical beds, etc at a speedy pace. The very early game is severely bottlenecked by plank output, so the faster you can generate planks, the faster you can get going.

 

Love the extra workers myself. Planks away. Didn't occur to me to make bricabrac immediately.
Your take, mid grade housing or low quality housing first?

 

Going to try the new build. Please let me know where on the macs the .dmp file ends up.

 

I never build any housing. All my beds go in my barracks, which I spruce up with rugs or clotheslines.

 

More crashes. Crashed on startup twice. Crashed unrelated to save. Not sure if I'm missing alerts.
I'll find Berkstin and ask.

 

Yeah, bricabrac is important to get at least one of your early buildings to max quality. Even if you don't have any beds, if a colonist sleeps on the floor of an excellent building, they will be slightly happy.

At this stage in the game development, the grade of housing doesn't matter (I think. Someone correct me if I'm wrong). What matters is the decor you put in it so that it has an "excellent" quality rating (+6 or more). That's why I don't even bother with housing. For my dorms, I just use barracks, since I'm going to need those buildings anyway for military purposes.