It was a busy week again but here we are with another Iron Log. On a personal note I finally got around to reading ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ a book about two video game designers and their lives. I think the overall story was more about the interpersonal relationships between the characters than video games but it was nice to read a book that makes video game design more mainstream.

Anyway, I am planning on releasing the next update tomorrow afternoon or Monday at the latest. There is quite a lot in this update so please let me know if there are any issues.

Patch Notes - 0.0.4

🛠️ Game Changes

• New Technology Tree
  • Players now need to craft and upload research packs to unlock new recipes. This requires:
  • New Building: Research Table – Used to manually upload basic research packs.
  • New Building: Research Lab – A larger building that can automatically upload research packs using electricity.

• Resource Deposits
  • Resource deposits now have a limited amount of resources. Once depleted you’ll be able to dismantle and move the mining drill to a new location.

• Furnace
  • New 3D model and textures.
  • Recipe now requires scrap metal instead of stone.

• Conveyor Belt
  • New 3D model and textures.

• Multiplayer
  • Added basic multiplayer support, some weird edge cases and behavior but you can connect and join a game with friends.
  • Host games and connect via LAN or IP address.

🎮 UI & UX Enhancements

• Added keybinding to toggle HUD visibility.
• Added Sort button in the player inventory.
• Increased brightness during night time.
• Enabled shadows on grass.
• New Settings menu, moved from a 3rd party plugin to my own implementation to keep visual style between menus.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Performance

• Fixed collision issue with Belt Splitter ghost.
• Improved performance while placing ghost belts.
• Fixed weird backward running animation.

As always, thanks for reading and head over to the discord to learn more https://discord.gg/xmmPeZHj4T