Patch 0.2.18: A Polish Patch

This is just a small polish patch. Good performance improvements in this one. We also added a radar dish, chainable explosives, searching items by name, new star systems, and more.

Chainable Explosives

Searching For Items

Job Descriptions in tooltip

Changes

• Reduced many instances of "stuttering". 3x speed is now more playable.

• Colonists will now talk with many lifeforms (but the lifeforms don't talk back)

• Those same lifeforms will now randomly display speech bubbles

• Corpses now emit germs, and they're ugly

• Added memory when colonists sleep in a noisy room

• Eyeball portal now stores 10k power, and is removed when all power is drained

• Chloropods now get aggressive when they see trees being chopped down.

• Added a text search filter in the item selection window.

• Added descriptions for all jobs in their tooltip.

• Added destroyed star system. It's a star system with only scrap, and destroyed planets. High chance of space whales

• Added "void star systems". It's a star system with nothing at all. No asteroids, etc.

• Added radar dish. It's used to scan nearby stars, revealing their contents, such as lifeforms and traders. (this information is now hidden until the star is scanned)

• Added many more attributes to items, such as "Human Edible", "Rotten", "Hot"

• Gas Giants now spawn Hydra Gas, an item that can be sold to traders for money.

• Explosives now chain react together

• Fuel, Star Fuel, and Sulfur are now explosive.

• Sanitizer can now be stocked with immune boosters. Doing so will provide immunity to any nearby colonists. (this invention is made possible by the Bloklander Corporation)

• Added more scrap to starting system and reduced number of asteroids.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where chefs would cook food without destroying the reagent if the reagent food was in their inventory.

• Thermal Regulator now correctly triggers its cooling animation.

• Colonists will no longer consume anti-virals if "use anti-virals" is turned off after the colonist is infected.

• Colonists no longer die instantly if their max health is under 1 (max health minimum is now 1).

• Food dishes are now longer "biomassable"

• The ship and solar panel now automatically place warp zone tiles so that they're not lost on warp.

• Fixed a bug where "seemingly-random" objects would be displayed as "lost on warp"

• Out of bounds message no longer references expansion permits.

• Ship requirements no longer say "purchase with credits and an upgrade module"

• Only the first 6 assigned colonists are now displayed in job task cards

• Fixed a bug where colonists wouldn't use items that were stored on asteroids.

• Fixed a bug where sometimes colonists wouldn't craft even when all items were available.

What's Next

• Tutorial

• Quests

• Faction System

• Throwable Biowaste (adding a system for colonists to throw items as weapons)

• Return of the gossip system?

• Remember to check out builds early on the "earlier_access" testing branch!