Alpha 47 Alpha 47 is now live! "What, These Shoddy Foreign Goods?"

Glass jars sure open up a lot of possibilities for new recipes. Sauerkraut might be a good one to motivate the growing of cabbage. Crimble might also be interesting (sand, sulphur, cabbage, and wheat?)

 

Um.... is it just me or do crops not actually grow past their initial stage in 47? Planted maize, assigned a full work crew, it never develops past initial 'immature' level. I plant 2 more fields, assign the same crew, they plant each field, each grows to first stage and then stops.

 

The magic of heat!

Don't set it on fire though.

 

You guys are awesome, what with the hotfixes and all.

 

Not sure if this is new to 47 or some lingering problem from 46, but carpentry make planks order tooltip shows a 1:1 ratio. But the job is actually producing at a 1:2 ratio.

 

Not sure what is causing it, but my militia keeps getting marked for frontier justice. First time it happened was right after they had killed a giant beetle. Assigned a new overseer and a worker to militia and they were marked right away.

Good news: food seems to be working a lot better this patch!

 

No more cabbage looping! Now when they go to do it, they only put it down and pick it back up one time. Then they eat it and go on with their lives. This pleases me greatly. First playthrough I was raided by a half dozen bandits on Day 7 and got wiped out. Trying again to see if I just got very poor RNG luck. Goodbye sleep, hello massive amounts of caffeine!

 

Hmm converting iron and raw fishperson steak into tin of meat that sells for a ton, huh..

 

if it helps at all, https://community.gaslampgames.com/threads/mob-justice-followed-by-civil-war.16763/

 

Misc issues:

Boxed pots and pans are useless right now. Colonists won't actually use it to construct the module, because the requirement is an iron bar.

Some kind of currency should really be available for trading. The setting this game takes place in should certainly feature ubiquitous legal tender, and even things like Dwarf Fortress had craftable coins.

When goods were marked for trade but are unmarked, the green highlight will persist and if you prompt them they'll still ask if you want to unmark them (colonists will use them though).

 

I'm playing with the trade post. How long does it take for traders to arrive? I've had it up for a couple of days with a couple of ledger desks and nothing new seems to be happening. Do I need it manned before merchants will show up or something?

 

You can't man it. I had merchants show up almost immediately from, interestingly, the Republique, who the empire was at war with. I am thinking it is random.

 

I was going to ask the same thing as Mailersmate On another note it would be good if the pop up windows were a bit offset from each other. I just declined a deserting bandit I wanted to join the colony when another window appeared as I pressed the ok the join button. I didn't get the bandit and did affirm shooting fishpeople. Neither was what I wanted to do. If that makes any sense?