Planetary Life
Steam News 16 May 20262d ago

Release notes v0.7.8.1 - Japanese added!

I know everyone was expecting Civilizations update to be the next, but as you can see, and unexpectedly, Planetary Life is on Steam's Daily Deal so an update was needed to follow this big day! Also, by popular demand Ja…

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Full Planetary Life update

The complete published notes, normalized for clean reading and source attribution.

Extracted changes

2 fixes11 additions2 changes0 removals
  • Gameplay
  • UI and audio
  • Fixes
addedAlso, by popular demand Japanese language is being added.
addedSoon, I will upload a new devlog about it.
addedFor now, enjoy this new update and welcome to all Japanese players :-)
addedNew features
addedAdded Japanese language.
addedAdded individual logs for creatures and plants.

I know everyone was expecting Civilizations update to be the next, but as you can see, and unexpectedly, Planetary Life is on Steam's Daily Deal so an update was needed to follow this big day!

Also, by popular demand Japanese language is being added.

About Civilizations update, don't worry, this was just a little break to do some changes and additions, but I keep working hard.

Soon, I will upload a new devlog about it.

For now, enjoy this new update and welcome to all Japanese players :-)

いらっしゃいませ!

New features

  • Added Japanese language.

  • Added individual logs for creatures and plants.

  • Added button to find creatures/plants/fungi from the encyclopedia.

  • Added new tooltips explaining gases and fertile land.

  • Added total population for plants and fungi in the encyclopedia.

  • Added new simplified time display system for some screens to avoid visually huge numbers breaking the UI.

Changes

  • Increased fungi reproduction rate.

  • Increased soil moisture propagation from coast.

  • Change some texts to provide a bit more information to the players.

  • Added falloff effect to temperature and humidity artifacts.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed bug showing elder creatures with the size of a child.

  • Fixed the fertile land calculation causing to throw smaller percentage than expected.

Source

Steam News / 16 May 2026

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