If you find any bugs, please consider reporting them to our Discord server, or you can let me know directly. If you could wishlist or share the game on Steam, that will help a lot – thank you!

In Alpha 3, we’ve introduced random world events that will challenge your base’s ability to adapt. The frequency and intensity of the random events increase based on the number of tiles that you have dug, and the number of artifacts you’ve uncovered.

This system is still very much WIP, but the plan is to expand this out into a wide variety of challenges. In Alpha 3, you could be faced with solar flares or meteors!

There’s a new power overlay which shows you your electricity network, and where the conductive points of each building are. This layer turns on automatically when you’re building wires, or you can press F4 to toggle it.

There are two new buildings to play with:

Beds are buildings where your pawns can have a nap. When pawns are tired, they will prefer to seek out an unclaimed bed and sleep there, gaining a mood buff and faster stamina recovery.

Oxygen candles are based on the real world, where you can burn a cartridge (“oxycan”) to generate oxygen (and a lot of heat). When starting the game, you are provided three oxygen candles to help you get going – a few more are scattered throughout the world for you to find.

A major part of this release are the new liquid, gas, and light shaders, which have smoother edges, waves, bubbles, and better performance across a wider range of computers.

Care has also been working hard on new building art in this release, and I’ve been refreshing the animations too. I’ve also fixed a rendering bug that vastly improves the quality of text across all dialogs and windows.

There’s also new art, new music, new elements, faster simulations, alert bubbles, a new crash handler dialog, and a ton of bug and crash fixes. Full details are in the latest Adaptory release notes:

Thank you again for supporting this project, and for all of your feedback so far!