Changes:
- When crew is protected: officer becomes captain, if it joins a crew with no captain.
- If officer becomes captain, old captain gets demoted to officer, instead of member.
- When captain changes, officers don't reset anymore.
Changes:
- Elite biter health now scales additionally with leagues after 1000 leagues.
- Fixed an issue where player could get stranded on water when standing in front of ship as it departs.
Changes:
- Biter wave size now increases faster, the longer you stay on island.
- Increased wave size on harder difficulties (up to 50% on nightmare difficulty).
Changes:
- Fixed an issue where removing flamethrower when it's damaging spawner with virtual health would cause an error if it was killed.
- Shoresman class now grants 3 ore passively from 5.
- Shoresman and Quartermaster classes now give ore directly to inventory.
Changes:
- Biters around biter boats will now be sent to attack the ship every minute.
- Biters from biter boats now don't immediately attack the player ship upon arrival.
Changes:
- When players enter the game they are now placed at the lobby. If the player left the game and rejoined within few minutes, they will be auto placed in the crew they were before.
- Increased amount of worms you need to kill for a quest in Sandworm Caldera island.
- Worm quest now can sometimes appear in Mysterious Caves island.
- Fixed an issue where worm quest was sometimes incompletable due to not enough worms on the island.
- Slightly reduced the cost of extra hold and new class purchases in captain's cabin.
- When player joins protected run with no captain, he will get information in whisper, instead of parrot announcing it.
Changes:
- Quest structure rewards now scale with leagues.
- Coin amount from trees now scales with leagues.
- Coin amount from rocks now scales with leagues.
- Slightly nerfed item amount and rarity from chest loot in harder difficulties.
- Slightly nerfed amount of ore lumberjacks acquire from trees.
- Coin amount from rocks in Mysterious Caves island now scales with leagues.
- Increased amount of resources you can mine from rocks in Mysterious Caves by ~20%.
- Reduced amount of fish in Mysterious Caves island by 50%.
Changes:
- More nodes of oil now spawn in Mysterious Caves island, but amount of oil is reduced.
- Increased amount of extra damage that biters do at night from 10% to 50%.
- Reduced the rewards from GUI island quests by ~30% (slightly less for easier difficulties).
- Reduced the coal reward scaling with leagues from launching rocket.
- Reduced the coin reward from launching rocket, but now the amount scales with leagues.
- Kraken rewards now scale with leagues.
Changes:
- Nerfed flamethrower dmg by 15%.
- Increased evolution scaling from leagues by 15%.
- Doubled the chance for elite biters to spawn in hard and nightmare difficulties.
- Reduced amount of iron/copper plates found in chests, but the amount now scales with leagues.
- Reduced the chance to find speed modules from chests.
- Fixed an issue where players would require launching silo in Red desert and Mysterious caves island to escape.
Changes:
- Fixed an issue where if captain and all officers were afk (or captain would leave the game), some other crew member would get captain role.
- Fixed an issue where the crew would lose, if boat would leave the island when there was ~10 secs left until auto undock in >800 leagues on hard+ difficulty, even when requirements were fulfilled.
- Attempt to fix some desyncs.
Changes:
- Fixed an issue, where crew would lose when ship auto undock timer reached 0, but crew hadn't escaped from island by then, causing it to lose (in cases where resources are a must to escape from island).
- Fixed an issue, where boat wouldn't auto undock in radioactive island when auto undock timer reached 0.
- Adjusted some dock market prices (for converting one item to another).
- Decreased the amount of items needed for a gui island crafting quest for harder difficulties and decreased the scaling of item requirement. This should make these quests completable even in late game.
- Slightly decreased the reward for gui island crafting quest to accommodate the change above.
- Reduced amount of items needed for island market quests.
Changes:
- Disabled crafting of speed 2 and speed 3 modules.
- Items are saved for 5 minutes when player leaves and automatically given back when player joins instead of being sent to the crew.
- Increased captain /tax from 10% to 25% of good amount.
- Doubled the chance to find smol vein or chest when mining trees.
- Increased amount of fish that can be caught at sea from 30 to 40.
- Decreased amount of coins granted from selling pistols in markets from 500 to 300 coins.
- Fixed protected run timer only decreasing when crew was empty instead of when captain wasn't in the crew.
- Shaman now passively absorbs small amount of energy from the sun.
Changes:
- Reverted 'artillery-targeting-remote' item being unobtainable for Hard and Nightmare difficulties.
- Increased the cost of 5x artillery shells in captain's cabin market from {400 coins, 10 coal, 20 iron plates} to {4000 coins, 20 coal, 20 iron plates}.
Changes:
- Removed "artillery-targetting-remote" item offer in dock market in Hard and Nightmare difficulties.
Update adjustments:
- Made biter boats arrive more often or harder difficulties.
- Fixed issue that allowed biter boats to arrive from 1st island instead of 5th island.
- Biter boats arrive more often in harder difficulties.
Update adjustments:
- Shaman biters despawn after 2 mins from 5.
- In protected crew captain role transfers to officers (if there are any).
- Elite biters have 6% chance to spawn up from 3%.
Changes:
- Some biters in hard and nightmare difficulties have a chance to become elite. Elite biters have 5x more health in hard difficulty and 10x more health in nightmare difficulty.
- Increased uranium-235 requirement for late game Radioactive islands. The amount required remains the same for the first occurrence of this island.
Changes:
- It's darker in the cabin and holds now.
- Slightly decreased amount of time you can stay in Maze island.
- Slightly decreased Nightmare difficulty index.
- Slightly increased amount of biters that spawn in Red Desert.
- Biters in Red Desert island now spawn every 5 mins instead of every 6 mins.
- Fixed an issue where some classes like Scout or Samurai would heal themselves when getting splashed by grenades instead of getting damaged.
- Fixed an issue where obstacle boxes in hold could spawn on top of substations.
- Fixed an issue where players could get teleported around for no reason when boat was undocking.
Changes:
- Fixed an issue where boxes around captain's cabin wouldn't get upgraded on harder difficulties.
- Fish now can spawn in Poisonous Fen island lakes.
Changes:
- Added protected run checkbox when creating new run proposal. This locks captain role when captain becomes afk or leaves the afk.
- Increased crew run limit from 2 to 3.
- Public crew will no longer have captain protection when captain goes afk.
- Fixed an exploit where player could join private run bypassing password protection.
- Fixed an issue where spectator could take a class.
- Adjusted some GUI elements to look nicer.
Changes:
- Fixed an issue that caused player items to disappear when player left the game. But now offline player's items immediately go to captain's cabin.
- Added additional tiles around furnace quest structure.
- Veteran class now has 100% chance to slow an enemy.
- An error is printed to player now, when he is trying to create crew proposal with max crew limit.
Changes:
- In hard and nightmare difficulties, spawners have a chance to become elite.
- Biter boats now can arrive at any time, instead of only arriving within few minutes of crew ship's landing.
- Fixed memory leak with healthbars.
Previous change update:
- Allowing ore to spawn on top of another in walkways.
- Disabled boat steering in Mysterious Caves island.
Changes:
- Captain cabin's market now sells random class.
- Disabled 3 classes: Gourmet, Deckhand, Boatswain.
- Added 3 new classes: Medic, Doctor and Shaman.
- More than one class of same type can be acquired now. Same classes now can be offered again every 5 class purchases.
Changes:
- Mining trees now have a chance to spawn smol ore vein and sometimes chest with loot.
- Oil/Ore patches from mining rocks now won't be created if another resource patch was created from other rock nearby.
- Mining rocks/trees in Maze island now gives you resources like in other islands.
- Killing worms in Maze island now gives you rewards like in other islands.
- The boat now requires 50 rail-signal to steer it each time, down from 100.
- Captain's market now sells 50 rail-signal per purchase down from 100 (but now at slightly more expensive price).
- Increased the amount of copper you can gather in Mysterious Caves and Isle of Buried Treasure islands.
- All spawners in Maze and Radioactive island are now destructible.
Changes:
- Disabled ever increasing productivity bonus from labs.
- Reduced base damage of flamethrowers by 10%.
- Slightly increased amount of ore in late game.
- Significantly reduced ore amount in radioactive island, but now the amount scales with leagues.
- Increased the minimum amount of ore gained from mining rocks in Mysterious Caves island. In addition minimum amount of ore gained there now scales with leagues.
- Increased requirements for Mysterious Caves island quests.
- Amount of resources gained from mining trees/rocks now scales with leagues.
- Biter boat spawner health now scales with leagues.
- Decreased kraken health scaling from player count.
Changes:
- Rebalanced quest structure item requirements (their amount and their chance to be required). Easier items won't appear as requirements in late game, and lesser amount is needed for harder items.
- Quest structures now have new items that can become required items.
- Market quest structure that only returns items when quest is completed, now doesn't appear after 600 leagues.
Changes:
- From 800 leagues, islands will now have mandatory resource cost to leave, which doesn't decrease. Failing to collect resources, will cause the crew to lose.
- Killing all spawners now won't remove undock cost.
- Mysterious Caves island now has undock cost on later leagues.
- You can't stay forever in radioactive island anymore.
Changes:
- Nerfed power upgrades by ~20%.
- Random upgrades will now sometimes demand hard to acquire items.
- Decreased maximum stay in islands for harder difficulties.
- Decreased maximum stay in islands for smaller crews to favor having more people.
Changes:
- Fixed power pole wire connection unnecessarily getting removed when teleporting boat between surfaces (for ex.: island -> sea).
- Added /fixpower command to connect poles between deck and holds.
CHANGES:
- Island now doesn't load, when there are active krakens, to reduce lag.
- Slightly increased biter swimming speed during kraken fight. This should reduce the chance for biters to get stuck on the ship edge.
- Fixed biters swimming faster with multiple active krakens.
- Fixed biters stopping swimming towards ship when kraken dies.
Changes:
- Slightly decreased spawner density in Bewildering Maze island.
- Made rocket silo spawn closer to ship in Bewildering Maze island, to give players a higher chance to find and get to it before biters do.
CHANGES:
- Prevented situation where biter wave could spawn immediately upon revealing it in Mysterious Caves island.
- Fixed "All biter bases destroyed — escape cost removed." message appearing when arriving at Mysterious Caves island.
- Fixed GUI showing resource cost to leave Mysterious Caves island. It won't need any resources to undock in late game.
- Fixed Mysterious Caves island letting you stay infinitely in late game.
- Sandworm Caldera island now has auto undock timer.
- Sandworm Caldera island now doesn't have launch rocket as resource requirement.
- Reduced maximum amount of time you can stay in Sandworm Caldera island by 20%.
- Reduced maximum amount of time you can stay in Mysterious Caves island by 20%.
- Revealing a spawner in Mysterious Caves island, reveals nearby area and spawners around it.
Changes:
- There is now a fixed amount of fish you can catch at sea, to prevent dull strategy being: stay long amount at sea and try to catch "infinite" amount of fish.
- Gourmet doesn't generate ore at sea now. This is also to discourage similar strategy: wait long intervals at sea to efficiently use fish for ore.
This bug has existed for almost a year now - earlier normal unit health did not receive their expected value, at wave 4K the normal unit health had only an applied health value of roughly 23% whereas they should have been up towards the double.
I'll keep an eye on this by the statistics that are exported.
Changes:
- Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause poles between surfaces not connect due to connection limit. Current solution is not ideal as power loss can still happen (since some poles will be forcefully disconnected), but poles between surfaces are now guaranteed to be connected.
Changes:
- Revamped cave island: more biter nests/worms, more narrow caves (mainly to ensure starting location connected with caves).
- Disabled default coal liquefaction research.
- Dock upgrades now repeat later on (like rockets/merchants) if people haven't bought them.
