BETA 52D BETA 52D: CAN'T STOP, WON'T STOP

Are we supposed to be able to make iron ingots from scrap metal? Because we can't.

 

In relation to what happened in this playthrough, it might be necessary given some of the event arcs now being thrown at the player for there to be something normal colonists can do in threatening situations other than just flee from all such encounters and running the risk of a game degrading into nothing but a endless flee loop with nothing else possible.

Perhaps providing their fear is under a certain threshold and they don't have traits like craven, then they might weigh up a decision to confront the source rather than just flee simply because they're not flagged as a military unit like is currently the case.

They don't necessarily need to stand much chance of surviving if the thing they decide to face turns out to be hostile. Just something so if it's something that's potentially creepy but not directly a threat then regular colonists might tolerate it and carry on unless they're already on the verge of cracking or are naturally a coward.

Once it becomes clear it's a physical threat of course, then they'd run for it unless really forced to stand and fight in a last effort before death.

 

No matter what other issues may come up with this game, I will never tire of the responsiveness of the Gaslamp developers.

 

First game since the hotfix, started out with a few foxes and beetles near where I landed, so I enabled hunting for my NCO and went to nab them. When he went to butcher them, some of the beetle steaks and/or lacquer that dropped were immediately marked as Forbidden. I only noticed this happening with the beetles. He also ranged a lot farther than I remember in hunting down other animals (I left hunting enabled), but that may have been a case of a lot of animals near enough to one another that he just kinda bounced from one to the other for a pretty impressive distance.

 

It didn't happen with the foxes he killed though, only the beetles. I reloaded a few more maps to test something, and I'm seeing noticeably more animals consistently near my starting locations than before. Is this due to the map size decrease?

 

Don't know if this is an issue or not, but I thought I'd mention it:

From day 1 to about 20 I got event arcs at a fairly frequent rate. From 20 to 35 I got none at all. Is it possible to go 15 days with no arcs?

 

Airship crash event : script error on completion I think

 

Love it. You can make it even darker having a colonist permanently leave the colony and join bandits or start his or her own crazy cult instead of waiting for madness. The witch movie style...or a wendigo beast that comes back to hunt your colonists if you survive... sorry I'm gonna keep pushing for wendigos they fit the Frontier Lovecraftian feel for me

 

1: i like the upkeep system however can you pls do it so the workstatios remeber the order it had before maintenance
2: I Think the map has become to small may be it is just me

i real like the mining option and Hauling system

 

After the hotfix, this started happening:


The colonists end up with resources stuck to their hands. Forbidding and claiming doesn't seem to change this, they'll go about as if they weren't there (it doesn't seem to be just graphical either, it they count in commodities). If they pick up other items, they'll still keep their stuck item in their hand no matter what.

+1 on the map feeling cramped now. Especially with the hunting and the constant expansion for resources, a lot of stuff ends up happening near the edges and Weird Things happen at the edges (although even before there was a lot of action around the edges where traders/bandits/fishpeople often meet and make a mess)

 

At last! I've waited so long for this!

 

Here's the save.
Maybe it has something to do with cancelling constructions? I do tend to do that a lot while colonists are gathering materials.