Astromine Demo Update 2

We're going to be showing at Day of the Devs at GDC this year, so if your there come talk to us about voxels and survival games.

We made a video showing how the procedural generation system works to make unique enemy bases:

We also have been working on a Acid system (similar to the 'Fire' system, only it spreads only downwards, drips to floors below it, and burns everything rather than just flammable materials).

Updates in this new build:

• A lot of changes to enemy bases (just Formic is found in demo). More parts, variations.

• There are now 'Reclaim Object' and 'Reclaim Materials' build tools. So you can reclaim a object to rebuild it, rather than it's materials

• CosmeticAdded a 'Acid Bomb' to Weapons station/uses new voxel acid system that burns all metal + flesh (this is a bit experimental, but we're updating with it anyway). Fire extinguisher also stops acid damage

• Added a 'Thermal Drill' to Advanced Tools. Can be turned on/off, and drills like the Thermal Processor (will be useful once we get more into automation/vehicles..)

• Added new 'Cyborg' robot model parts

• Added a 'Strafe Jump'. If you use 'Sprint' button in air, you'll now strafe in air (great for combat)

• Power and Fuel now use the same code - 'fuel' and 'power' are now just 'resource types' (in terms of code). We might add more 'resources' later on - but this shouldn't change much from player perspective. One benefit is you can now see fuel use with the build tool's 'power' tool

• Large changes to how we're meshing voxels for less graphic issues (like little light dots)

• Ship thrusters can now go in reverse direction

• Added a 'black hole grenade' to weapon station (unlocked with advanced weapons), makes a small temp black hole to suck enemies/stuff up

• Networking optimizations, especially when other players is far offscreen

• Third person camera now offset to right, to better see what your aiming at

• Changed the 'Bore Laser' to be a small attachment to add to structures/vehicles, rather than a structure pointing downwards (so it'll be useful on space ships / vehicles)

We set a 'max stack' amount for a bunch of item types: Pickup items have a max stack of 24, Building materials (Wood/Iron) have a max stack of 50K, Regrowing items and Crystals have 10K max, Ores and their refined counterparts have a max stack of 20K. Part of this was our plan to get into automation - we need to have inventory limits (but we don't want a complex 'weight' system)

Small fixes:

• Fixed issues with building on moving spaceships online causing the new parts to not be synced right

• Fixed issue with moving rocks/objects between planets

• Fixed UI issue where you could be soft locked with a window opening on editing something like a respawn pod while opening build settings

• Fixed invisible power cell

• Fixed power rely line not updating right

Let us know any feedback on the forums or Discord!

- Lee