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Friday Blog 268 - The Shape of the Next Update: QoL Improvements
[All of the changes mentioned in this blog concern the as of yet unreleased 0.16.1 build. None of this is live yet] The next update is 0.16.1, not 0.17. This means: no major changes to content, but a whole bunch of impr…
Event8 changesGameplayStore - Colony Survival
Friday Blog 267 - Oddity Press Update & Blueprint Builder’s Contest
Steam post imageUpdate 0.16 is live right now! It adds the Oddity Press, a new automatic crafter that produces mainly decorative items, and new beds. Its content largely matches the content of the Beta, so we’ll refer y…
Store4 changesCompatibility - Colony Survival
Friday Blog 266 - The 0.16 Beta is Available!
The Beta is live right now! Precise instructions on how to join it appear later in this blog. The main content addition is the Oddity Press. It’s an automated crafter, like the Mill. The Mill makes essential items for t…
Store11 changesCompatibilityGameplay - Colony Survival
Friday Blog 265 - Long Beds, Bunk Beds and the Oddity Press
All changes mentioned in this blog concern the internal dev build. Nothing has been released publicly yet. This month, work on the Oddity Press has continued. It works like the Mill: specific items will be produced ther…
Store8 changesGameplayBalance - Colony Survival
Friday Blog 264 - The Culling Update, 0.15.1, is Live!
Culling frozen right in front of Lagoon's castle - invisible terrain does not get rendered Colony Survival was a Daily Deal last Sunday. For an entire week, the game is 50% off! This is the moment to purchase the game f…
Announcement10 changesPerformanceGameplay - Colony Survival
Friday Blog 263 - Into the Future
Colony Survival is currently 25% off until 5 January! Welcome to the last blog of 2025! We want to start out with a heartfelt thank you to all our readers. To everybody who bought the game and has made it possible for u…
Store7 changesGameplayPerformance - Colony Survival
Friday Blog 262 - Update 0.15 Released - Top-Down View And Blueprints
https://youtu.be/QgYrI0gWX3g For a quick and clear overview of all new features, read Blog 261 Ladies and gentlemen - welcome to a new era. After more than a decade of development, this first-person strategy game finall…
Store14 changesGameplayMaps - Colony Survival
Friday Blog 261 - 0.15.0 Beta is Live!
Update 0.15 is available for a public test right now! The core new feature is the top-down perspective. Unlock the Overseer’s Desk in the tech tree, place it in your colony, and click on it to switch to this perspective…
Announcement7 changesGameplayWorkshop - Colony Survival
Friday Blog 260 - Movable World Slicing, Mesh Replacement, UI Refactor
All the progress talked about in this blog concerns the unreleased development branch and is not publicly available yet In the last blog we announced “world slicing”, the ability to “cut the roof off” and see inside of…
Announcement9 changesGameplayUI/audio - Colony Survival
Friday Blog 259 - World Slicing, Sharable Blueprints, New Look For Old Blocks
These new features are still in development and not yet released. The world in the screenshots was built by Lagoon. In the past month, we continued our work on the top-down view feature. We added a “worldslicing” featur…
Store12 changesFixGameplay - Colony Survival
Friday Blog 258 - First Video of the Top-Down View
We made good progress with the top-down view this month! This short video shows what it currently looks like in the internal development build. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/OCcjfFNz_ZM It's all work-in-progress, so i…
Announcement3 changesUI/audioGameplay - Colony Survival
Friday Blog 257 - Blueprint Builder, Top-down View and Eight Years of EA
Colony Survival is part of the Summer Sale and currently 30% off! For years, players have been asking for a blueprint builder or “copy-paste builder”. A way to select an area of the world - a building, a palace, a tower…
Store10 changesGameplayUI/audio - Colony Survival
Friday Blog 256 - 0.14.0 is Live Right Now! Off the Grid, on the Path
The newest update is live right now and contains a massive overhaul of NPC movement and pathfinding. In all previous versions, NPCs were rigidly constrained to the voxel grid. They could only move in straight lines to t…
Announcement5 changesGameplay - Colony Survival
Friday Blog 255 - The Explosive Update - 0.13.0 Is Live Right Now!
The new update is live on Steam! The biggest changes are “rubble” and bombs. When you or a colonist destroys a block, small chunks of rubble will appear and fall to the ground. Bombs take advantage of this new system by…
Store7 changesFixGameplay - Colony Survival
Friday Blog 254 - Explosives and Sale!
We’re participating in the City Builder & Colony Sim Fest which means Colony Survival is currently 30% off! This is a great moment to purchase the game if you don’t own it yet. As promised in the previous blog, we made…
Store3 changesGameplay - Colony Survival
Friday Blog 253 - Destruction, the Deal and the Future
At the end of 2024, when testing the addition of the mill, I did another cheat-free playthrough of the game. I made a mistake in my planning and had to remove a fairly large wall that I had accidentally placed two block…
Patch notes9 changesGameplay
