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Posted by Crytivo on Jul 7th, 2017

NEW PATCH - ARCHIVED IS NOW LIVE

Hold on to your Nuggets! There’s quite a bit in store for you today. It’s been another amazing and super productive month. The team’s momentum never slows. They’ve been squashing bugs left and right, as well as improving the game’s performance and your overall experience in the game. So many things have been ironed out thanks to the help from all of you! Your support and feedback is outstanding and does more good than you could ever know. Please continue reporting bugs and issues via Discord, the Forums, or simply sending us Tweets or commenting on Facebook. Thank you for everything you do! Alright, let’s not make this all about you, shall we?

LOAD & SAVE (BETA)

We’re happy to announce the initial rollout of the Save and Load system \o/. We know, we’ve been keeping you waiting for quite some time, but this is a surprisingly complex system due to a few of the technical aspects of the game. This comes down to how we save procedurally-generated content. We needed to ensure 100% accuracy when you load your game back. We are releasing the system with a few limitations in somewhat of a beta mode. Right now, you’ll only be able to have a single save file, but remember that this is only for initial release. This will help us collect and identify bugs more easily.

How does it all work? We’re introducing unique saving mechanics to The Universim. Saving is going to be an actual part of the in-game experience, tied to a certain mechanic. In order to save your game, you’ll need to construct the Archive Building. This structure stores the entire history of the Nugget civilization (also known as save files). When the building is functioning properly, the game can be saved. If the building is destroyed, you’ll likely feel a slight build up of anxiety over the fact that progress will no longer be saved. There will also be anautosave option that will allow your Nuggets to write their history on their own. Of course, you can load your game back at any time from the Archive building or main menu.

As you probably already noticed, we want The Universim to be a challenging experience where every action can lead to a potential disaster for the Nugget civilization. As a result of the game being a work in progress, balancing might be an issue at times, but we work hard to fix issues as we go. At times, you might find yourself thinking that a particular feature is too aggressive or impossible to overcome. Please know that we are developing systems that will allow you to properly deal with negative situations and turn things around.

TORNADO

At this point, you’re going to have to choose to either hold onto your Nuggets or your buildings, because something is going to be blown away! Tornadoes have now been added to the game. They are the latest natural disaster to be implemented and will threaten your civilization whenever they appear on the planet. It’s an enormously destructive phenomenon that can potentially eradicate your entire civilization, but the good news is that it’s very rare and the chances of it hitting your village is very low. If it actually does decide to pay your civilization a visit however, we extend our condolences. In the future, you will be able to direct tornadoes using Creator Powers.

NUGGETS WITH BEARDS

Yes, you read that right! Now you can admire the glorious, shapely, and impeccably-groomed (well, maybe not always) facial hair found on certain Nuggets. What’s cooler than seeing a barbaric Nugget with a thick, red beard yelling unintelligibly about something in the middle of the village? It’s even better seeing them scream like an upset gerbil when picked up and thrown.

However, we didn’t just add beards to the game, we added the innovative Dynamic Beard System™ . With Research Perks, you’ll be able to alter how your civilization looks. Some perks will either reduce or increase the percentage of Nuggets that wear beards with pride. This can be something like the Stone Shaving Blades Perk. It has the unfortunate side effect of leaving Nuggets irreparably scarred, but they’ll feel so much fresher with a shaven face. On the bright side, the scarring will at least add something new to their usually emotionless appearance.

NEWS GROUPING

We feel that you might start getting overwhelmed with the amount of news being sent to you by your civilization. We decided to introduce the News Grouping System to remedy this. This system will combine a number of similar news stories that occur within a short time period together into a single event. Of course, we will allow you to choose the manner in which news is delivered to you from the News Archive panel. So far, there are 3 options: Full - will show you all news messages without grouping; Minimalistic - you’ll only see icons related to events; and Compact - similar news messages will be combined into groups. We hope you like it!

MOAR

Introducing a new Age: The Age of Enbrightenment (Previously known as Medieval). We will be adding new structures and upgrading existing structures when the player advances to this point. So far, the upgrades we have are:
Upgradable Farm - Increases available plots, and allows two farmers in each farm.

Upgradable Well - Increased maximum water capacity and refill rate.

Upgradable Reservoir - Doubled amount of water stored.

Upgradable Water Pump - Double water output.

Eatery and Hospital from previous patch.

HEAL POWER

To kick off the initial Creator Power implementation, we’re starting with the Heal Power. This Power allows you to heal Nuggets, repair buildings, or even regrow resources that have been harvested. It’s like a trusty multi-tool. You can select this Power from the Creator Power Menu and use it by holding the left CTRL button before clicking on the desired object. This feature is still in an incomplete state, so expect a few missing pieces here and there. The Heal Power will be improved in future patches. We rolled this Power out as quickly as possible in order to help combat the Engineer bug that could still potentially appear. This involves Engineers not performing tasks properly. We believe the bug to be fixed, but precautions are never a bad idea.

New Improve Nugget Portraits in the Nuggets ID Cards. Now Nuggets have accessories and you can even rotate them.
Now Evolution Tower Research Panel can be open from the main UI

NEW EVOLUTION PERKS

Hide Bags - Increase Nugget carry capacity
Tinctures - Increase Hospital heal speed
Iron Stomachs - Decrease chance that Nuggets will get sick
Fertilization - Unlocks Farm upgrade
Artisanal Waterworks - Unlocks well, water pump & reservoir upgrades
Cooking Utensils - Decrease Eatery cooking time
Mortar & Pestle - Decrease hospital medicine preparation time
Molars - Decrease the time it takes Nuggets to eat

Some of these may seem familiar from the v16 Hotfix

BUG FIXES

Interaction with Nuggets was breaking AI
Building placement (Ghoster Effect) was highlighting resources which was not turned off after the building was placed
Nuggets no longer play Idle Animation if they died
Bug when Building Ghoster Effect won't go away from the cursor after the building was placed
Fixed bug that was preventing building placements in a wide open spaced on the planet
Minor Building Placement issues
We have intensively tested specific buildings AI to improve the nuggets AI behaviour and fix some situations where nuggets would get stuck. Following Structures were stress tested and their overall stability was improved. We found quite few bugs with your help!
- Fixed issue with Ai when Farmer was assigned to another job during the progress of crop planting
- Fixed bug when Nugget was assigned to something else during his "Observation Task"

Eatery Ai Bug Fixes and Ai logic improvement
Upgraded Eatery Ai Bug Fixes and Ai logic improvement
Engineers Hut Ai Bug Fixes and Ai logic improvement (these guys had a lot of issues that we fixed)
Farm Ai Bug Fixes and Ai logic improvement
Fishing Hut Ai Bug Fixes and Ai logic improvement
Forecast Tower Ai Bug Fixes and Ai logic improvement
Graveyard Ai Bug Fixes and Ai logic improvement
Hospital Ai Bug Fixes and Ai logic improvement
Upgraded Hospital Ai Bug Fixes and Ai logic improvement
Stone Refinery Ai Bug Fixes and Ai logic improvement
Wood Refinery Ai Bug Fixes and Ai logic improvement
Well/Thirst Ai Bug Fixes and Ai logic improvement

Corrected and balanced Farm penalties when a crop is planted in an inadequate Biome
Some Natural Resources were not fully cleared at the building contructions zones
Fixed bug when you pick up Nuggets with resources. Nuggets were dropping tons of resources around them.
Issue when Witchdoctors Backpacks were not cleared fully and Doctor wouldn't go collect more Herbs
Zzz Icons no longer appear above the Hut if the Nugget died during the rest
Pyre foliage were visable during the construction fixed
Fixed: News message bug when hitting ESC button.
Fixed: Issue when ESC is pressed when the Disease tutorial window is open.
Fixed: Visual bug during Water Well Construction Process
Fixed: Visual bug during Water Reservoir Construction Process
Fixed: Bug Report window breaking ESC Menu
Improved: Additional game engine information is now collected during the bug report.
Fixed: Building blueprint staying attached to cursor after placement.
Fixed: Cemetery building blueprint size.
Fixed: Issue when farm crop was destroyed, this was breaking Farmers Ai
Fixed: Issue that occurred during herb gathering, this was breaking Farmers Ai
Fixed: Issue when doctor was unassigned during the preparation of medication, this was breaking Doctors Ai.
Fixed: Fisherman Hut Model LOD
Fixed: Issue when Fisherman was unassigned during the fishing, this was breaking Fisherman Ai
Fixed: Issue when Fisherman Hut was destroyed Fisherman Nugget was becoming invisible.
Fixed: Boat will be visible only after Fishing Hut construction is complete.
Fixed: Fixed black planet / black shader issue with most machines. (if you’re still having issue please contact us and we will work with you closely) So far we fixed everything that our team was able to recreate on local machines. We expect this issue will persist in some rare cases.
Fixed: Issue when Nugget was waiting for the partner inside of the residential hut and second partner died before reaching it. This was breaking Ai
Fixed: Multiple issues with Engineers Jobs, this was breaking Ai
Fixed: Issue when Nuggets was getting stuck during the fish gutting if he was unassigned from the building.
Fixed: Several issues were fixed when player was picking up Nuggets from buildings or from the ground.
Fixed: Issue when Female Nugget died during the mating, Male nugget was continue mating until he died out of lack of water or food.
Fixed: Water shader sometimes was not showing on several Mac Versions.
Fixed a bug with Doctor healing dead nuggets
Fixed: Issue when Evolution Tower was continue moving main menu was open
Fixed: Issue during well placement if ESC key was pressed
Fixed: Visual lag with Trees being stretched across the planet
Fixed: Mass extinction bug
Fixed issue when sometimes stones were visualised as a boxes
Nuggets no longer can be picked up through UI Panels
Nuggets no longer can be picked up when you in In-Game ESC Menu
Nuggets Picking feature is no longer linked to the time (it takes the same amount of time to pick up Nugget if the game time is sped up)
Fixed bug when upgraded Eatery building was appearing on the wrong spot
Now world audio is muted when In-Game ESC menu open
Fixed Grave Diggers status updates, no longer showing "doing nothing" during the tasks
Fixed issue when Nuggets were confused after God was picking them out of hut during the mating (who wouldn't be)
Animation fixed when Nuggets were dropping resources on the ground
Water in eatery will no longer be refilled if Eatery building is turned off
Fixed game breaking bug when Herbs were removed buy contructed buildings (this was confusing Prometeus a lot)
Fixed issue when Nuggets with the similar name were borned
Residential Huts LODs were not displayed correctly, Fixed
Junks of rocks are no longer floating above the ground
Fixed black planet (knows as a disco ball) issue
Reservoir water level was not displayed properly

BALANCE

Slight change to windstorm duration.
Slight change to Nugget injury minimum timers
Changes to building upgrade resource costs (using more refined materials).
Farm - Raised all crop food & herb production by 20 to 50%
Water Well - Increased refill rate of wells by 100%
Fishing Hut - Increased food output by… A whole bunch.
Nuggets now will look for help if their health drops below 75% (Before it was 30%, which lead to mass dying during the second Windstorm on the planet)

ART

New building: Pre-Medieval Well
New building: Pre-Medieval Pump
New building: Pre-Medieval Reservoir
New building: Archive
New building: Pre-medieval Farm
Stoneage Well decal added
Stoneage Pump decal
Stoneage Funeral Pyre decal

UI UPDATES

New icons for new research perks
Updated all panels to hold Upgrade panel
Farm Panel - added notification for bad biome type
Added God powers menu
Warehouse panel update - added toggles instead of slider
Nuggets list panel update - added X button to close only that panel
Fixed missing localization for Crying Nugget Status
Upgrades panel visual update
News panel archive update
Main UI news grouping feature added
Updated construction menu. Added new building renders. Refreshed building info cloud a bit

Added save and load tutorial
Upgrades panel has now dynamic height
Added missing localization for Archive building
Added missing localization for eatery tier 2
Fixed tooltips in construction menu
Added tooltips to god powers menu

AUDIO

Now most of the keybuildings play ambient sounds when you open UI ID Panels

Evolution Tower Ambeince Sound
Stone Refinery Ambeince Sound
Wood Refinery Ambeince Sound
Farm Ambeince Sound
Fishing Pier Ambeince Sound
Reservoir Ambeince Sound
Warehouse Ambeince Sound
Water Pump Ambeince Sound
Forecaster Tower Ambeince Sound
Eatery Ambeince Sound
Cemetary Ambeince Sound
Engineers Ambeince Sound
Water Well Ambeince Sound
Hospital Ambeince Sound
Funeral Pyre Ambeince Sound
Residential Hut Ambeince Sound
Building Demolish Sounds
Nugget Pickup and Drop Sounds
New Natural Disaster Sounds
Added Soundtrack to In-Game ESC Menu

MISCELLANEOUS

Buildings Fit to surface improvements
Eatery Food and Beverage accessories
Nugget standing up animation
Perk name moved from main UI and moved to the tooltip above Perk Icon in the main UI
Players that are not running latest game version will no longer be able to use Bug Report Tool

KNOWN ISSUES

Save system is in BETA, please expect some bugs with it and help us hunt them down
Some elements are still not linked to save system, such as: Clouds, Temperatures (not seasons), Windstorm, Tornado, Camera Position
Nuggets standing to far from the resources they're mining
Black Planet (Disco Ball) still can appear with older Macs

OUR PLANS FOR THE NEXT PATCH

Coming up in the next patch, we would like to concentrate more on performance and overall game stability. This includes eliminating some nasty bugs that have been bothering you and performing a little rebalancing. Due to this, the next patch will be lighter in new content and features. During this time, we’ll also be pushing towards improving the load and save functionality. Please let us know (via Discord or the forums) which bugs should be highest on the hit list and we’ll get to squashing.

GAMESCOM 2017

Yes, we're going to Gamescom this year! If you’re planning on heading there, be sure to drop by our stall. We love meeting each and every one of you. Most of the team will be there to showcase The Universim to attendees. We’ll be there from August 22 to 26, and, you can find us at Hall 10.1 Aisle. Stop by to pick up some awesome swag. If you mention you’re already part of the family, we’ll treat you as a honored guest!

DEMO

Our demo has become super outdated on Steam, so we're planning to release a new version in the middle of the month. Demo content will be limited, meaning that certain buildings will be locked and the game itself will be several updates behind the live version. We're also not offering any additional support for the demo. We want to give newcomers the opportunity to try the game out before they buy it. It will also act as a great tool to test your computer’s performance before purchase.

Thank you all for your continued epicness! We’ll always be listening to what you have to say, which we hope you see reflected in each new update. Remaining as transparent, honest, and responsive as possible is what we’re all about. We have some very cool features lined up, so expect an updated Trello roadmap very soon. Please leave your thoughts and comments below. You never cease to leave a smile on our team’s faces.