Community Feedback Update: Crafting Overhaul, Bug Fixes and New trailer

Here is a new update of polishing stuff and the new trailer:

• Added decay to central monoliths.

• Limited Fresa galaxy in closed beta. To focus on the game loop.

• Fixed monolith being disabled in the story.

• Fixed stats showing on top of loading screens.

• Fixed traveling to Fresa galaxy from planets console.

• Fixed Jack monolith puzzle position.

• Prevented pausing when landing on planet to avoid freezing.

• Fixed Hank not being able to talk to Max.

• Hunger message will now display a full meal instead.

• Improved boss fights.

• Fixed shade rotation of dragonflies on planet.

• Enemies now show hurt animation.

• Balanced boss health.

• Changed some story dialogues.

• Map uncovers when pacifying planet.

• Reduced amount of data pads found.

• Picked data pads now disappear from map.

• Fixed story chapters not being counted on books tab.

• Increased time before fading in the intro text.

• Avoided line breaks while typing words.

• Reduced talking bubble size.

• Increased hunger restored on many items.

• Load button is now selected by default.

• Sleep will increase energy at a higher rate when maintained.

• Added sounds when shooting enemy ships.

• Removed loud explosion sound when destroying ships.

• Decreased asteroid moving sound.

• You can now activate map from ship on planets.

• Darkened text background on death screens for easier reading.

• Loading screens now wait for player to press a key, allowing players to read lore text.

• Reduced prices for goods.

• Darkened dialogue background for easier reading.

• Increased text size on defeat screen.

• Fixed companion tab placement.

• Improved trailer recording setup and functionality.

• Reverted crafting many items at once for now.

• Fixed identifying correct recipe on crafting stations.

• To avoid money exploit, landing on planets will now cost energy.

• Boxes will likely be emptied if planet has been visited.

• Added 3 new recipes for workbench.

• Crafting starting recipes will show up in a simplified form.

• Increased Freighter health.

• Fixed crafting duplicating inventory when using mouse.

• Crafting now only filters crafting ingredients, not meals.

• Fixed crafting in space stations.

• Workbenches will give you a void meal when crafting something wrong.

• You can now craft many items at once.

• Fixed crafting error that would make you lose your item if pressing it twice.

• Fixed duplicated learned recipes.

• Added more crafting stations around statues.

• Added workstations in cities.

• Added bed as craftable item.

• Fixed campfire spawning on planets.

• Filtered workbench items.

• Visual and Audio Improvements

• Improved loading screen art and pause menu.

• Fixed bat shades display.

• Fixed dragon flies not showing.

• Removed taller plains from big props.

• Improved wall fans art.

• Improved side wall art.

• Added animations for campfire cooking.

• Gameplay Improvements

• Max will warn the player when there is no weapon left.

• Enemy settlements will only raise walls if you are close enough.

• Clearer animation when robot dies.

• Fixed an issue where leaders of NPC settlements would always talk.

• Clearer cave exit.

• Fixed a Larva dialogue bug that created an extra comment.

• Fixed loud dying sound from bugs.

• Stoves in houses are now cooking stations.

• Pacified planets will spawn more enemies to increase interaction on planets.

• Spawning more enemies in caves.

• NPCs now welcome you when entering their home, giving you nice advice if you are friendly to their faction.

• Removed particle systems randomly appearing in scenes.

• Caves have closer zoom.

• You can now use melee with zero energy.

• Very small props will be more varied on planets.

• Food stations will now appear close to freighters on planets.

• More small props will appear on all planet types.

• Adjusted Max's speed.

• Added food stations to some micro-cities.

• Fixed an error not showing all journals found on player pad.

• Fixed empty boxes not showing as empty.

• Fixed an issue where new player messages would disappear quickly.

• Fixed loud dying sound from enemies.

• Fixed giant tree collider.

• Fixed an issue where Max couldn't ride hoverbike after crafting.

• Changed buttons on main menu to keep style consistent.

• Increased footstep sound volume.

• Added camera snap to avoid shaking.

• Clearer companion comment colors.

• Reduced prices in shops.

• Light now reflects on elevations.

• Walls won't collide on snow planets.

• Hank is now found with a campfire.

• Weather changes on planets more frequently.

• Enabled fog in Linux.

• Factorized tileset creator to use weight tables for enemy walled settlements or big city props. Thank you for playing and providing feedback

Jejo