v0.8 is a major update for the planet's environment. Enjoy the new world generation with vast oceans and container ships to cross them. Open paths with the new dynamite and terrain tools. Get a better overview of your industry with a new zoom that show the atmospheric currents and cloud simulation, and an enhanced and unified view. Visualize ground humidity and choose between the five available trees, each with their own temperature and humidity requirements.
Five musics have also been added, and the original soundtrack will be available in a few days (for $5).
I suggest to start a new world to enjoy the new generation, but you can continue your old save. However, it will add a lot of water. If you wish to avoid such change, you can activate the "v0.7.5" beta (in the "beta" menu of the steam properties of the game) to keep playing the old version.
Edit: if you have installed a bepinex mod, you might have to remove it, as it could make the loading freeze.
The game will have a 20% discount during the Summer Sale, and then its price will increase from $12 to $14. It was the same with v0.7 and will be the same with v0.9: the idea is that you pay only for what is already done, rather than for promises.
Here is the full changelog:
Plan B - v0.8.0 build 879
Major Improvements:
- New world generation with larger ocean, better mountains shapes, improved city and mineral fields locations and size. And faster to generate.
- Container ship! transport 336 containers.
- New terrain modification items: Dynamite, Pile of dirt, Level and Smooth.
- Dynamic clouds (fully visible in the new max zoom out view) that shows moving clouds, shows dark side of the planet with city and industry lights.
- Unified enhanced view (keep Alt or Tab pressed) to show terrain altitude, ground humidity, highligted minerals.
- Modding in Steam Workshop. Basic lua modding: add or modify items, recipes, levels. Change 3D models, textures, sounds and musics. Creative mod as mod example.
- Palm trees, cactus and tropical trees. New life condition, new infos in description & tooltip
- Five new musics.
Improvements:
- Water, rain and evaporation simulation improved. Water appears more progressively.
- Improved drag (dragging over forests, starting drag while building)
- move minerals when using terrain modification tools on them, instead of destroying them
Balance:
- if more than 0.5 water (50m), prevent building roads/rails and stop vehicles.
- Much more water than before (to fill the large oceans)
- Max minerals per hexagon increased from 450 to 800. Less minerals fields but biggest fields far away from cities (much more total minerals than before).
- Forests life conditions heavy rebalance.
- depot buildable when a bit of water (if not too deep)
- MK3 depot moved from level 16 to 15.
- landmark tower unlocked at level 3
Bugs fix:
- Fixed bug that was changing items of depots
- Fixed crash with depot & factories popup
- Fixed artefacts in zoomed out view
- Fixed some display issue with water in contact with dam walls.
- Drones/container position at vehicles loading fixed
Minor:
- Lot of tooltips or descriptions improved.
- modify status bar infos (water in ground, temperature)
- display info on viability when planting trees
- big translation update from and to crowdin. Don't hesitate to help improving the translations!
HOTFIX on 2024-07-01 :
Plan B - v0.8.0 build 881 HOT FIX
- Fixed loading freeze when a default mod was created, and fix issues when removing a mod
- Fixed freeze with some corrupted containers dump items
- Fixed some refresh of normal texture
