Planet Nomads v1.0.7.2

Significantly increased speed of terrain generation - it shouldn't be possible to move faster than the terrain generates
Removed holes from the terrain for better driving
Caves removed from terrain generation to speed the generation up
Added brand new biome, Temperate Plains
Animal AI reworked so animals behave more naturally now
Added various specimen of each species (alpha male, female, younglings)
Added climate-based animal textures
Animals bleed and show wounds when attacked
Animals often live in packs, each one taking a different role (hunter, guardian, etc.)
Wrecks, old bases and other man-made structures are scattered across the planet
Added Datapad with information on Blocks, Items and Animals
Added two story lines from astronauts previously present on the very same planet you are on
Added intro when starting a new game, right before the crash landing
Added new music track
Added experimental localizations (German and Dutch) Dutch is nearly finished, big thanks to Ben and Coen!
Added Hazard plants - they are able to attack and harm you if you don't pay attention
Fixed assault rifle tutorial that could sometimes stay hanging
Added old saved games conversions into new ones. This was neccessary with the planet generation change, this way at least materials from old saves is preserved for you
Added wreck beacons that show on the compass when you are near wrecks
Fixed a lighting bug where water behaved incorrectly when lit by flashlight and lights
Stasis Chamber now regenerates more food and water
Increased damage of the rifle
Decreased size of the planet to make biome changes more dynamic
Purified water now requires carbon instead of herb

Another patch is here with the first steps improving the readability of extended BuildVision - you'll always find the radial menu on top now and distant icons will fade out to make way for what's in front of you. There are more changes going to happen in this department.

On another note, just today we merged all the individual branches people have been working on for the past two months - the terrain, the animals, the new biome, the crash-sites - together into a single development branch. These features change the game at its core. Making sure everything works together as expected before the 17th August will consume all our time until the launch. There are several days of testing and changing things and rinsing and repeating ahead of us. For this reason, we need to break the usual weekly update cycle. There will (most likely) not be an udpate next Thursday.

Finally, considering the need for wipe - it is still a necessity happening. The upcoming crash-sites feature is closely connected to blueprints and although we could have spent considerable time to salvage your current constructions, in the end we decided against it. We wouldn't be able to guarantee it worked in every scenario and for everyone, potentially causing more damage than good. So we decided to spend the time elsewhere and do a trade-in for more long-term benefits. That said, we will be able to salvage the materials, components and items from your old saves and you will get them in a container on the new planet if you decide to continue those saves.

List of changes today:

Improving readability of Extended BuildVision by adding transparency to Icons by distance
Radial Menu is now always displayed on top of other GUI elements
Removed the clicking sound when 3D Printer crafts an Item
Fixed the bug in Key Bindings where the key was changed without user confirmation
Optimized animal path-checking for dynamic obstacles (potential FPS improvements)

Added three new round-shaped blocks
Rebalanced costs of basic blocks
Optimized saving time of additional block types. If you still experience long saving times, please send your saves for analysis
Fixed generators remaining energy not displaying correctly over 24 hours
Rocks with metallic veins now have small crystals on them to stand out from non-metallic rocks
Winch rope length increased from 20 to 40 meters
Winch now comes sooner in Tech Tree
Turned off autosaving on Sleeping Bag
Improved exiting from the like of Stasis Chambers and Cockpits - should be way less deadly now, let us know

Added Winch and Shackle blocks to pull vehicles out of holes using rope. Attachable to any blocks. Use with care. (Rope graphics WIP)
Significantly decreased night length - night is now almost four times faster than before while the day speed stays the same
Decreased length of sleep from twelve to eight hours to correspond with the change above
Rain and Heavy rain particles are denser than ever before
Extended tutorial with tips about equipping weapons (It?s the Q button.)
Equip weapon is now custom-key bindable in Options
Slightly decreased rate of Attributes degeneration
Increased multitool power - it now drills rocks, cuts trees and welds blocks faster, resulting in less grindy crafting and building
Soundtrack update - no longer one track for each biome. Instead music tracks have been divided into tiers corresponding with biome difficulty levels. In other words - a richer music experience

Added Medium Armory - bigger, more effective than Compact Armory equipped with two Conveyor slots
Added Oxygen Tank for underwater breathing - can be created in Armories
Fixed a problem which could sometimes place a wrong texture on Medium FAD Machine
Leveled out sound volumes on some blocks

Today's hotfix addresses the most itching bug since latest version:

Fixed spawning in space, dense fog, instant attributes drops, unable to mine with multitool and escape pod buried in ground by forcing the game to start in English localization.

Why yes, you read that right. Fixed by switching to English localization.

We are starting to localize the game and so we have implemented scripts that allow us to change language on the fly. No translations in yet, but the background is there. And for some reason, Planet Nomads switched the language to the OS native language. Okay, fair enough. We had a fail switch that reverts language back to English if something like this happens.

But, what we didn't account for... some languages uses comma instead of dot in decimal numbers. When the languages switched back and forth, it also screwed with our internal numbers and this is where you get all the bugs - like instant attributes drops or spawning million kilometers from the planet, unable to dig or really dense fog.

Game development - magical land where languages breaks whole game. For Nomads sake, even the Pi number got hit by this issue like a train! That's why some people started spawning in space.

Well, this was just a little insight why some bugs are easier to spot and fix than others. Thank you for your patience and see you Thursday with more update goodies.

Petr

PS: In case you miss Dan, he is on a well deserved vacation and will be back in a couple of days. He miss ya all.