BETA 53 BETA 53: A JUNCTURE MOST UNNATURAL

Apparently a juncture is in time, and a junction is in space. In case you were wondering what the difference is.

Changes since Beta 52f:

the Barbershop now notifies you in its UI when it is nonfunctional because of a lack of chairs
broken module UI elements should no longer permit mouse events
added confirmation windows on all exit without saving options
scaled the terrain generator parameters to altered map size
added a new biome generator for alpine forests
Ceramics skill is now Stoneworking. (In future builds its scope will be expanded to include mining)
the following jobs will now show progress bars: Finish Upkeep, Clear Object, Deconstruct Building, Deconstruct Module, Flatten Terrain
made graveyard stamp footprint smaller
non-player agents who get stuck on the map will self-despawn if they fail pathing too many times
added smarter abort case to carrying corpse job
balance: the area around the starting location is now guaranteed to be flat
balance: colonists must drink booze in a pub. They may not drink booze outside the pub. To do so would be Uncivilized.
balance: made drinking booze make colonists slightly happier
balance: made combat memories more fearful to civilians
balance: Immigration is more likely to give you lots of characters if you have significant excess capacity
FIXED: Master/W-tier upkeep trunks now show the actual number being produced in their recipe
FIXED: Pubs will now accept all forms of booze rather than just beer
FIXED: foreign-office triggered traders were not showing up
FIXED: "Suspicious Goods" event now uses the proper start position
FIXED: crash bug with the work crew selection widget
FIXED: attacking a quill would freeze character
FIXED: dormant obeliskian could attack people in very rare case
FIXED: could give orders to shoot bandits after they are dead and buried
FIXED: rare case where a door could not find a stair style now defaults to reasonable model
FIXED: various edge cases that would cause traders to be stuck in player's colony
FIXED: pubs, entirely
FIXED: barber job weighting
FIXED (52F): modules would not restart in building UI after getting upkeep after being broken
FIXED (52F): scripterror during scientist sampling job
FIXED (52F): crops could explode forever
FIXED: deleting null ptr when regenerating work crew selection box
FIXED: Do not allow player to click individual trees for harvesting

 

The generators are actually a little more flat in general now. We initially added height variation to artificially slow down the pacing to the game, but at this point now that the economy of the game is pretty good we can back off on that.

Edit: also scaling the generators for the map sizes should make them less weirdly noisy and therefore less punishing for flattening as well.

 

Right now all booze goes into the same vat.

 

(Ugh, the Have Naturalist Explore button is actually a WIP; it shouldn't have made it into the main build...)

 

Yeah, that kinda snuck in to the build and shouldn't have. It technically works, I think? But not really intended for use yet.