Hey folks,

Here are some more fixes and additions to the game:

• Fixed: Echo no longer gets stuck if you delete the bot station while he is working on it.
  
• Fixed: Move/build building no longer checks the mouse position, but rather the tile that was clicked on. -> face palm moment. This should lead to more reliable placement, no more overlapping buildings or accidentally placing stuff out of range.
  
• Fixed: You can no longer accidentally upgrade, demolish, or move buildings with a right-click or middle-click. Left-click is now the main button action.
  
• Made some improvements to the ‘move’ function so that it works more reliably.
  
• Fixed: Biofuel bots will 100%-most-definitely ignore the lowest crop that’s available in your inventory (unless they have no other choice)
  
• Added: Removed the strange computer from peoples farms. It will spawn when you create a new farm but it is now treated as a decoration so that means you can demolish it if you’d like. (This should also help people trigger the Architect achievement)
  
• Added: You can now inspect berry bushes, no more guessing which ones you have already planted.
  
• Added: Berry bushes now also appear under Pinion’s statistics tab.
  
• Added: Splunk now ignores giant crops, and Slate who might be digging up a fossil on an otherwise completely empty crop patch.
  
• Fixed: After using the demolish function in the bees tab, clicking to place a bush maintains the bulldozer icon.
  
• Added: When focus mode is enabled, in other words, when crop/biofuel production time is doubled, the crop growth times will also double in the UI window that pops up when hovering over a crop.

I just wanted to quickly clarify that the ‘black screen bug fix’ actually fixes the game for people who couldn’t interact with it in any shape or form. You may occasionally encounter a black screen, and if the game is responsive, restarting should fix the issue. We’ve noticed that if the game is not in focus when it loads then it might not trigger the transparency correctly. We’re working on fixing this too but at least players can now interact with the game!

Thank you!

Hey folks,

We might have found a permanent solution to the black screen bug which was making the game non-interactable for some players - this thing has been haunting me for days now.

The temporary fix was to disable fullscreen optimizations on the exe file. As expected, most players didn't know what was causing the issue and just closed the game (potentially forever). I tried my best to communicate the temporary fix in the forums and updates, but to be fair it's not the player's job to check these all the time.


That means we had to enable a setting on Steam's side to install .NET 4.7.2 before running the script/game. When the pop-up from 'Steam Client Service' appears please click yes allowing Steam to add the changes.

After that, you will see Steam running the install script for Microsoft .NET before opening the game (this might take a short while but don't worry it should only happen once).

After that, you should be good to go!

I hope that this is the end of the dreaded bug, but I will be keeping a close eye on the Steam forums for any issues. Thank you!

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Edit: I should clarify that the biggest issue with this bug was that the game was completely unresponsive for a lot of players. Now you might still get a black screen but if the game is interactable then you should be able to restart to fix the problem.

We've noticed that a black screen appears if you click onto another application while the game is loading. I'm still looking into fixing this issue, but for now, players that were having problems can at least interact with the game.

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A big thank you to NauM, a professional Unity Developer! We've partnered up to work on more technical issues like these, and he has been a huge help over the last few days. ːorange_heartː

And to the developer of Outcore who also made a desktop game! He encountered the same issue and kindly shared his code to help us get this fix out as soon as possible. ːorange_heartː

Make sure to check out Outcore, it's free and it has Overwhelmingly positive reviews!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1275670/Outcore_Desktop_Adventure/