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Steam News17 July 20261mo ago

Patch 0.4.02

Hello Fellow Penal Colony Workers, I'm heading to Korea in August to exhibit Crabmeat at BIC so I wanted to get another round of improvements in before that and continue to improve whats already there.

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Hello Fellow Penal Colony Workers,

What changed

3 fixes1 addition5 changes0 removals
  • Gameplay
  • UI and audio
  • Performance
  • Fixes
  • Maps
changedI'm heading to Korea in August to exhibit Crabmeat at BIC so I wanted to get another round of improvements in before that and continue to improve whats already there.
changedMore Localisation Improvements
addedJournal entries now have fully integrated localisation, so instead of a baked texture in english i'm rendering it all in engine with localised text. This was hard to get looking good for all languages, especially those that aren't mutually intelligible with English so please notify me if anything looks odd or is hard to read.
changedCPU Rendering Improvements (Minor)
fixedThe game is CPU bound on most machines due to the high physics overhead which is hard to optimise any further. There was still some blood to squeeze out of the rendering stone however so I fixed that where I could.
fixedFixed some materials not batching together on the deck

Crabmeat changes

changedI'm heading to Korea in August to exhibit Crabmeat at BIC so I wanted to get another round of improvements in before that and continue to improve whats already there.
changedMore Localisation Improvements
addedJournal entries now have fully integrated localisation, so instead of a baked texture in english i'm rendering it all in engine with localised text. This was hard to get looking good for all languages, especially those that aren't mutually intelligible with English so please notify me if anything looks odd or is hard to read.
changedCPU Rendering Improvements (Minor)
fixedThe game is CPU bound on most machines due to the high physics overhead which is hard to optimise any further. There was still some blood to squeeze out of the rendering stone however so I fixed that where I could.

I'm heading to Korea in August to exhibit Crabmeat at BIC so I wanted to get another round of improvements in before that and continue to improve whats already there.

More Localisation Improvements

  • Journal entries now have fully integrated localisation, so instead of a baked texture in english i'm rendering it all in engine with localised text. This was hard to get looking good for all languages, especially those that aren't mutually intelligible with English so please notify me if anything looks odd or is hard to read.

  • The Patriotic/Not Patriotic text on the crab hopper is now localised

    • NOTE: This is using google translated copy as I wanted to turn this around quickly. Please notify me if it seems like it did a poor job. Don't blame my awesome localisers if it's bad, that's on me.

CPU Rendering Improvements (Minor)

The game is CPU bound on most machines due to the high physics overhead which is hard to optimise any further. There was still some blood to squeeze out of the rendering stone however so I fixed that where I could.

  • Fixed some materials not batching together on the deck

  • Reduced map rendering polycount by 3/4 of the prior total

  • Optimised rendering for wiring around ship

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed contract not updating after signing during opening cutscene (I think this got broken in the last update)

Source

Steam News / 17 July 2026

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