Build 0.75 is live!

Art assets

• New Animals: Added Meat Slugs and Flying Jellyfish (with variations).
  
• Gym Equipment: Introduced a basic workout gear set.
  
• Colonist Dishware: Added basic tableware to the game’s assets.
  
• New Characters: Included a full Meat Slug set (larvae, juvenile, ripe).
  
• Crystals: Converted all crystals to a palette-based system.
  
• Bugfix: Fixed visual glitches tied to the huge 3D model of the Leviathan spaceship.
  
• Ship Design: Reworked glass panels on the ship’s bridge and other areas.
  
• Clothing: Completed the first pass on female NPC outfits.
  
• Gamepad Icons: Added new icons for controllers.
  

Sound design

• Environmental Sounds: Added new audio—various winds, rustling plants, small animal noises, and insects.
  
• Asset Rework: Updated some older sound assets.
  
• Sound Zones: Increased unique audio zones (10+ new ones added).
  
• Wind Sync: Synchronized sound with wind gusts in certain level areas.
  
• Spatial Audio: Improved audio processing in caves and the mine.
  

Level Design

• New Creatures: Introduced Meat Slugs to the world—scarce for now, found in caves and underground spots.
  
• Cave Adjustments: Made minor tweaks to Pimple’s and Knuckles’ cave (not final yet).
  
• Cemetery Update: Added urns and pots to the ancient aboriginal cemetery and enhanced its lighting.
  
• Hornhogs: Paired up lonely Hornhogs in a few spots; slightly adjusted spawner positions.
  
• Quarry Revamp: Updated the Mad Outcasts’ small quarry with a new dungeon and encounter.
  
• Mine Expansion: Added a new branch to the mine’s open section—Bim’s workplace, featuring a beetle encounter.
  
• Lucky Hole Lighting: Slightly updated lighting with a precise nighttime schedule and extra workshop light sources.
  

• Colonist Details: Added new tableware and interior touches to Lucky Hole houses.
  
• Crystals Update: Refreshed all map crystals with a color-changing material.
  
• Workbenches: Placed crafting workbenches (non-functional for now) at Rusty Nails’ place, Scalphunters’ camp, and Lucky Hole.
  
• Scout Camp: Added a quest-related training camp in the lush southwestern area.
  
• Jellyfish Encounters: Introduced new Flying Jellyfish encounters.
  
• Paths of the Ancients: Enhanced visuals for the Paths of the Ancients and its tower.
  
• Scalphunters’ Camp: Reworked the camp and its lighting.
  
• Varlynx Lair: Added a new cave—the quest-related Varlynx hideout.
  
• Visual Polish: Applied tons of small tweaks to rocks, grass, and terrain.
  

Animations

• Combat Animations: Added some combat sets for Abori children.
  
• Meat Slugs: Created animation sets for Meat Slugs.
  
• Character Update: Expanded and updated animations for all characters.
  
• Daily Routines: Added new animations for NPC routines.
  
• Finishers: Introduced new finisher and backstab animations for humanoids and creatures.
  

GUI and input devices

• Controller Support: Made massive improvements to controller functionality and the input system.
  
• Button Hints: Added more and refined existing hints.
  
• UI Upgrade: Replaced the old terminal hologram UI with a computer UI.
  
• Scan Highlights: Updated materials—interactables are yellow, scannable info is cyan, and destroyables/enemies are red.
  
• Crafting UI: Slightly reworked the modification UI for modular items.
  

AI and scripting

• New NPCs: Added a couple of new characters at the Outpost—quest roles to be revealed soon!
  
• Outpost Routines: Updated daily schedules for named characters and background NPCs.
  
• Watchtower: Refreshed routines for watchers at the Outcasts’ Watchtower.
  
• Scalphunters’ Camp: Gave each NPC a unique schedule (all renamed to Kson Kahar, by the way).
  
• Quest Fix: Corrected broken or uncompletable quests.
  
• Quest Rework: Temporarily disabled some quests for future updates—they’ll return revamped!
  
• Animal Abilities: Added new skills, like a spit attack for Crucas.
  
• Routine Features: Included new animations and features, such as wall leaning.
  
• Reactions: Added startle events—NPCs twitch at gunshots and stagger when players sneak up.
  
• Bark System: Refactored to support prefab/guild variations and future voice-overs.
  
• Takedowns: Revamped takedowns and backstabs for a more cinematic feel.
  
• Stealth: Lighting now impacts player detectability, with a new UI indicator.
  

Other

• Weather Effect: Added a dust storm effect.
  
• Desert Storm: Refactored death triggers—rescaled damage and added wind howling.
  
• Save Files: Included screenshot previews for save files.
  
• Fixes: Implemented a multitude of bug fixes, adjustments, and improvements.