October 30th Changelog

Pipe or Die Playtest · published · build 26338006

Added

  • Your first days now point the way like the tutorial does. An arrow, a dotted trail and the elevator box show where your next step is: the extractor, loose pipe, the port to pipe into, the macerator valve, the furnace buttons, the crate lever and the elevator.
  • New first day steps: PICK UP PIPE when you run out, PIPE THE FAB TO THE ELEVATOR so crates ride in by themselves, and KEEP THE CRATES COMING until the ore runs out.
  • The first time your air turns bad, the guide tells you to put your mask on with R.
  • Four more streamers on the Employee of the Month wall.

Changed

  • The guide’s arrow and trail stay up for as long as the step is current. Only the text fades.
  • Piping steps pass on your first working line. You no longer need to pipe every patch.
  • The guide only asks you to shut the fab down once the ore is out, not right after your first crate.
  • Guide steps now say how: wrench on 1, hold click, and pipe into the port of the same colour.
  • On macerator days the guide says the fab takes no raw ore, and on furnace days it sends the macerator’s output to the furnace.
  • The furnace step names both buttons, IGNITE and POWER. It fuses nothing until both are on.
  • If you set the extractor down, the guide sends you back for it.
  • Pressing the map key brings the current step back.
  • Monster subtitles are smaller and sit low on the screen, just above your tool’s key hints.
  • Holding the button while laying pipe lays only the next cell again. The gap filler is gone.
  • Holding a crate now says E: throw, since that is what E does.
  • On the rent screen, players who are not the host now see WAITING FOR THE HOST.

Fixed

  • Solo and duo furnace days had no furnace. They now build a furnace room and the fab takes alloy.
  • The guide could get stuck on the loading step and never reach shutdown.
  • LEVEL TAPPED could flash up while ore was still riding the pipes. It now only shows once no more crates can be made.
  • The guide could say the ore was tapped out after a single crate.