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Steam News18 June 20262mo ago

Patch 0.4.01

Hello Fellow Penal Colony Workers, So after Bitsummit and watching players for 3 days straight I had some clarity around some issues with the game I wanted to address as well as noticed some smaller stuff I wanted to ta

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Hello Fellow Penal Colony Workers,

What changed

3 fixes5 additions7 changes1 removal
  • Balance
  • Gameplay
  • UI and audio
  • Fixes
  • Performance
changedBalance
addedAdded an extra ammo box to starting weapon locker
changedIncreased player run speed from 3.5 > 3.6
changedLocalisation
changedI tried to tackle the worst offenders here, there are obviously still places where localisation is missing (ie. hopper sorting decal) but I wanted to get this gameplay critical ones fully translated rather than the half baked solution I had in 0.4.00
changedContract localisation now imbedded directly and updates for each language rather than being only updated on mouse over

Crabmeat changes

changedBalance
addedAdded an extra ammo box to starting weapon locker
changedIncreased player run speed from 3.5 > 3.6
changedLocalisation
changedI tried to tackle the worst offenders here, there are obviously still places where localisation is missing (ie. hopper sorting decal) but I wanted to get this gameplay critical ones fully translated rather than the half baked solution I had in 0.4.00

So after Bitsummit and watching players for 3 days straight I had some clarity around some issues with the game I wanted to address as well as noticed some smaller stuff I wanted to tackle.

Navigation/Input Change

Thanks to our discord community for helping find a bunch of edge cases and provide feedback to refine this.

  • Allow the player to click on a significantly larger area to move including walls up to a certain height from the ground, hotspots still take priority if they are selected

  • The true destination will be previewed as a low opacity footstep

  • Hotspot navigation reuses this and also shows the destination preview

  • Footstep marker now changes to a slightly animated icon when player is running and will be marginally brighter, hopefully this makes the state distinction clearer

*This change could still use fine tuning, so please report any funnyness you notice with this

Balance

  • Added an extra ammo box to starting weapon locker

  • Increased player run speed from 3.5 > 3.6

  • Enemies now move slightly slower when giving chase to a fleeing player

Localisation

I tried to tackle the worst offenders here, there are obviously still places where localisation is missing (ie. hopper sorting decal) but I wanted to get this gameplay critical ones fully translated rather than the half baked solution I had in 0.4.00

  • Contract localisation now imbedded directly and updates for each language rather than being only updated on mouse over

  • Large direction signs now have custom decals for each language rather than requiring mouse over to translate

General Improvements

  • More steamdeck text size increases (We've got the steam deck green tick now!)

  • Added another clock to the ship

  • Added "hold {Interact} to sign} text next to contract signing

  • Bulkhead switch light now blinks while active

  • Prepare to use item and use item tutorials now SHOULD only appear once per item and will appear once for every item so they can act as a reminder each time you pick up a new item for the first time

  • Lowered priority of open inventory tutorial so it's likely to appear after you've experimented with the blowtorch not before

  • Fixed gamepad item highlighting in inventory overlapping with item descriptions

  • Railing around the ship now uses simpler colliders and the thin top rails will no longer block line of sight for movement and rendering

  • Ship damage nodes placement tweaked to prevent them spawning inside things making them hard to see and repair

  • Fixed tiny hole on ship railing

  • Fixed traps slightly visually overlapping on trap loader

Source

Steam News / 18 June 2026

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