Plan B - v0.9.4: grass everywhere, improved transports!

Update 0.9.4 is here! This update brings two major improvements that will enhance both gameplay and visuals.

Transport systems have been overhauled — drones and vehicles are now much more efficient. Drones waste less time and prioritize unloading vehicles. Trucks have been significantly improved to remain useful longer.

Going green! Grass now spreads naturally from trees, covering large areas — including under roads, rails, and factories — giving your cities a more organic look. It will keep spreading as long as the soil retains enough humidity and the temperature is favorable. In drier or colder regions, it takes on a more yellowish hue. Trees have also been rebalanced, and cities will no longer require oxygen once there’s enough of it in the atmosphere!

This update also includes a variety of other tweaks and improvements — check out the full list below!

Plan B - v0.9.4 build 1039

Major improvements:

• Major rework of transports and drones behavior, to move containers faster and smarter. Trucks buffed a lot (cf. Balance changes).

• Add grass and rebalance other plants (cf. Balance changes). Grass automatically spread (including below rails, roads and factories) when planting trees, and gives a bit of oxygen (20% of a forest hexagon)

Improvements:

• Drones take off to unload stacks earlier, load and unload faster, give priority to transports, search for new task earlier, optimize performances

• Drones movement smoothed, move at the exact position (no more drones & containers teleports).

• Show actual vehicles stats (number of containers transported per year)

• Trees replace more easily other types of trees, if they are better suited for the local conditions

• Reduced O2 city need when enough of it

• Add a history of camera positions (with mouse buttons 4/5)

• Update localisation from/to Crowdin (help very appreciated! especially for Italian, Japanese, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Thai.

• Added an option to pause music between each tracks

Balance:

• Depots MK3 drones move 2 containers at once.

• Trucks number of containers 1 => 2, speed 1 => 2

• Trains speed 2 => 3, acceleration 0.3 => 0.16

• Ship: speed 0.8 => 1.5, unlock level 20 => 19

• Trains wait to be fully unloaded

• Do not reroute vehicles if their path is flooded

• Tropical trees give +50% oxygen

• Palm trees are now the only trees growing on beaches

• Cacti grow on no-water areas, are more distant to each others, give less oxygen (same quantity as visible cacti number)

• Modify tree movements so they are more synchronised with the wind direction

Bugs fix:

• Fixed bug with history not reset at reload

• Fixed soft lock if we set mouse left button on cancel

• Fixed bug if we close input window while waiting for input

• Fixed selection error at north pole

• Fixed wrong selection infos when selected item change by itself

• Fixed rare case of depots that skip some neighbors

• Fixed very bad estimation of containers transported by a line when saturated

• Console does not block mouse clicks

Minor:

• Allow landmarks to be placed underwater

• When removing a vehicle, remove empty ones in priority

• Use 2 containers stacks for spacelift build recipe (faster)

• AdjustedInfofarm image changed & text improved

• Optimisation of vehicles CPU performances

• Optimisation of dynamic items perfs

• Do not display "city need changed" too often

• Space elevator hidden from unlocked items

• Detects if bepinex installed (displayed in home screen)

Plan B - v0.9.4 build 1044 HOTFIX (2025-06-25)

• reverted rocks created by terrain tool & bombs to small rocks instead of normal big rocks (reverted to same as before v0.9.4)

• fixed an issue when closing the selection panel with the button while duplicating an item

• added grass under city lower tech districts

Plan B - v0.9.4 build 1045 HOTFIX 2 (2025-06-29)

• Fixed a bug that sometimes prevent city to grow when oxygen need is 100% reduced