9 New Languages, Faster Factories and Deep Oil

Nine new languages

• 简体中文 (Simplified Chinese)
  
• 日本語 (Japanese)
  
• 한국어 (Korean)
  
• Русский (Russian)
  
• Deutsch (German)
  
• Français (French)
  
• Español de España (Spanish, Spain)
  
• Português do Brasil (Portuguese, Brazil)
  
• Italiano (Italian)
  

New in this version (0.1.32)

Industry and oil

• Industrial Machinery Mk II (375,000 Terraform Index) adds Smelter and Fabricator Mk II upgrade packs: twice the processing speed for 1.5 times the power.
  
• Industrial Machinery Mk III (625,000 Terraform Index) adds the Mk III packs: four times the original speed for three times the original power.
  
• Advanced Oil Extraction (475,000 Terraform Index) adds the Oil Pump Mk II pack, which pumps 1.5 times its well's rate, and the Seismic Sonar.
  
• The Seismic Sonar finds three more oil reservoirs hidden under rock formations, including formations you already surveyed with an ordinary sonar.
  
• Upgrade packs are made in a Fabricator, and an upgraded machine keeps its recipe, connections, scripts and stored goods.
  
• The Heat Generator Mk II pack research now unlocks at 40 heat units instead of 80.
  

Battery Charger

• New research at 25 ppt oxygen: the Battery Charger charges loose Portable and Heavy Portable Batteries from the local grid, and a parked Pioneer swaps its drained batteries for charged ones.
  
• Its Mk II upgrade (5,500 t biomass) holds 8 batteries and charges two at once.
  

Automations and scripting

• New research, Automations (50,000 Terraform Index), adds a Computer tab for scripts that belong to no machine: they keep running whatever the power, and any Unassigned script can be copied into one.
  
• Scripts can show a short status message on their machine with set_status(message, level), clear it with clear_status(), and read any script's status with get_status_report().
  
• Mining sites and drills are linked for scripts through has_drill, drill_id and site.
  
• Scripts can now import the collections module.
  
• isinstance and issubclass accept game classes such as Smelter and Component once you import them from __builtins__.
  
• The Data Archive now holds 2,048 entries and the Signal Bus 512 channels, and both pages stay quick at those sizes.
  
• Pioneer, Rover and drone cargo loads now report slots_full when every cargo slot holds another item.
  

Editor

• All your scripts can open as tabs in one script editor window, which you can float, pop out into its own window or dock into the game.
  
• When a script really was changed both in the game and in an outside editor, the editor now shows both versions and lets you keep one, use the other, or merge them.
  
• The editor understands type tests: after isinstance, a type_id test, hasattr or match site.kind():, it offers the right methods and stops flagging code that is only valid for that type.
  
• Go to Definition now has Go Back, and jumping to code that is off screen centres it.
  
• The editor warns when a name you define hides a built-in or a game type.
  
• Tooltips show the return type on the signature line, and class hovers show the class docstring.
  
• Vim mode can run startup commands set in Settings.
  
• Playground tabs can be reordered, the Playground output can scroll on its own, and F5 runs or continues the script.
  
• Settings and Bio Orders can be searched, Find can be limited to a selection, and fleet rosters can be grouped.
  

External editors

• VS Code, PyCharm and Zed can Apply Library and Apply All Libraries, like the Computer's Library tab.
  
• VS Code language tooling is now optional for each scripts folder.
  
• Separate editor windows now use your user_stubs.py for suggestions and checks.
  

Interface

• The Computer tabs are arranged in two full width rows with icons, and the main menu has a Discord button.
  
• Notifications show the icon of the tech, contract, achievement or item they are about.
  
• Planet Map biomes have more contrast.
  
• Exotic deposit peak rates and Thermal Cap cycle timing appear only after the matching survey reveals them.
  

Fixes and improvements

Saves and performance

• Saves are much smaller and autosaves are faster: console history is now kept in its own file next to the save.
  
• Moving rovers, drones, storms and scans slow the Planet Map and the menus far less, most of all on Linux, and a building under construction no longer makes the map redraw every pipe and wire.
  
• Typing in the editor no longer lags on large saves, and suggestions update after construction, pipes, power lines or wildlife change.
  
• Control Room boards with many busy cards answer a click in well under a second instead of several seconds.
  
• A long save or world load on a slower PC no longer ends the session, and a full disk is now named in the save error.
  
• Saves with hundreds of open editor tabs load again: tabs you cannot see stay asleep until you open them.
  
• On Linux, changing a setting no longer makes every later save fail.
  
• Send Error Report now includes the game's log files and console history, and the "simulation stopped" notice has its own Send Error Report button.
  

Gameplay and scripts

• A script can no longer add its own names to a machine or replace a machine's methods, as the editor already warned: keep your own values in your own class, as DOCS shows.
  
• computer.deploy("pioneer", outpost) now places the vehicle at that outpost instead of outside it.
  
• unload_reagents() now moves whatever fits into the Bio Lab output instead of refusing until the output is empty.
  
• A Control Room card that calls any() or all() before its main loop no longer stops updating.
  
• Calling a method that only one kind of site has now tells you which kind has it and how to check for it first.
  
• The error for ~ on an unsupported value now reads as it does in Python.
  

Editor and interface

• The autocomplete documentation box no longer flickers between two positions, and editor popups follow their window when it moves.
  
• Fixed completion documentation shrinking to one line when the list opens near the bottom of the editor.
  
• Holding a movement key in the editor no longer makes the cursor keep moving after you let go.
  
• Editor tab switching and debugger step keys now work from every tab and panel of a script window.
  
• Separate windows: a minimized window no longer sits on screen as a blank grey bar, and Clear in a popped out console now sticks.
  
• Peek, Shop search inside a category, and each dashboard page's scroll position now behave as expected.
  
• A saved Signal Bus template can be sent from its own row.
  
• DOCS supports the mouse back and forward buttons, no longer shows a sell price for items the game will not buy, and says which machine settings reset when their script stops.
  
• Clicking Load Game again while saves are loading no longer restarts the list.
  
• The end screen console now scrolls instead of cutting off.
  
• Your own typing is no longer mistaken for an edit from an outside editor, so the game no longer fills a Library's Variants with "In-game edit" copies; copies already made this way are packed away inside the save, which makes the save much smaller.
  
• A separate Library editor no longer reloads over and over while you type in a large Library.
  
• Selected text in the editor stays selected when the file changes in an outside editor, and selected text in the console stays selected when its line repeats.
  
• On Linux, the graphics settings now describe what each choice allows instead of promising a faster mode.