Patch notes / 0.50.0.73

Bigger Batteries, Barge Loading Bays and Coloured Lights

Dev build: 30 kWh batteries, Barge Loading Bay sizes and power, lights in any colour, recipe output counts, 14 other changes

0.50.0.73

Bigger Batteries, Barge Loading Bays and Coloured Lights

Improvements

  • Batteries hold 30 kWh, up from 5, and charge and discharge six times faster
  • Logistics bay barge ports are now Barge Loading Bays, holding 2, 5 or 10 stacks by tier. Fast bays draw a flat 2 kW, Express bays 5 kW
  • Lights take any colour from the mass driver laser picker and glow with a soft halo that tints nearby structures
  • Shift-click copy and paste, blueprints and rebuild ghosts keep a light's colour and on/off switch
  • Recipe tooltips show the output count in the title, like "Organic Compounds Recipe x7", and the time of one whole craft
  • The Plasma bolt starts at your hull's edge, not behind the ship, and grows and crackles with its Oracle damage level
  • Power distributors get the mass driver's Follow destination toggle
  • Ctrl+click on a mass driver takes from its launch chamber first, then its landing pad
  • Landing zone ghosts show their buildings brighter and their outline dimmer
  • The FPS overlay hotkeys no longer clash with danger ping (Ctrl+G) and Take All Ships (Ctrl+H). Its mode key is now Ctrl+U
  • Desync recovery covers two more cases where a game forked again right after recovering

Fixes

  • Heat receivers take heat from whichever transmitter aims at them, even when their own link back to it was lost
  • Mass drivers rearm after every shot again, and one short of launch power waits at Charging 0% after rearming
  • A crafter fills its own input before passing items on, so a greenhouse substrate loop can be jumpstarted
  • A host whose relay connection dropped can host again without restarting
  • Chat starts empty in each new game and keeps its lines through a resync or reconnect
  • A pasted and rotated mass driver no longer links to a target out of range
  • Copy and cut drags over big bases no longer add to a long session's memory growth