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The current colonist model was already in the game over eight years ago, in early 2016. The workflow for producing it was horrible. The model has a bunch of surfaces that connect and disconnect in many different spots. To texture them, the model has to be “unwrapped” into a flat image that displays all these surfaces next to each other. But getting a feel for how the textures look on a 3D model from a flat image is very difficult. 
Farmer / tinkerer / beekeeperI had used it to make a new vertex-painted colonist model before the release of 0.9.0, but Zun never got around to implementing it. It was also a bit “flat”, undetailed and boring. In recent weeks, Zun did put it in an internal development build, and I gave it a bit more life and detail. We like the results a lot and are near-certain of adding this to the main branch. 
Named colonistsAnother change concerns the saplings. Saplings placed by players would always grow into the same very small tree. In the next big update, saplings will be able to grow into larger, more diverse and more natural shapes, like the trees that are in the world when you first launch the game. 
After six years, Colony Survival finally has a new main trailer! Here it is: 
We set another major step since the last Friday Blog. We now have full controller support and Steam Deck compatibility! 
The game is currently on sale! It’s 30% discounted. If you don’t own it yet - this is a great time to purchase it! And if you do - thanks, and consider telling your friends or outright gifting them the game :) 
RaftsburgLast and least, for the first time in years, we’ve updated the storepage. We changed some promotional texts to better reflect the current state of the game, nearly completely rewrote the answers to the Early-Access-questions, and updated some banner-images. 
Lagoon's world used in these screenshots and the videoLighting has changed quite dramatically! Here is a before/after video: 
To simulate morning dew, there is a new fog effect in the valleys, which helps to bring some of the ‘drama’ back. And we’ve dimmed torches and other player-built lighting during the day, to make towns appear less “orange”. 
When you can see the sun directly for the first time, the sunlight has to travel through the atmosphere for a very long time before it hits your eyeball. Which means that a large percentage of it has already scattered away and bounced around. As a consequence, when the sun is close to the horizon, you actually don’t witness deep shadows. The direct sunlight is weak and the scattered light that is indirectly bouncing around is relatively strong. 
Another problem is that our eyes absolutely do not register light objectively. They constantly adapt to the world around us. Two things that have the same brightness might look completely different to us, depending on the circumstances.
The live build of Colony Survival was just updated from 0.10.0.13 to 0.10.1.0! The main change in this update concerns water. The visuals are much improved. Instead of it being solid light-blue “shaving foam”, it’s transparent with a new “wave-effect”. Moving around in water has also been enhanced. 
The lighting during the day cycle has been tweaked a bit. We also found a bug affecting the ambient lighting during the sunset and sunrise, which has been fixed. 
Veel plezier met de update!
As long as Colony Survival has been publicly available, people have called the water block the ugliest in-game block. It has always been a pain point. Water is actually a very strange material. Unlike sand or stone or grass or wood, you’re not simply looking at a static surface. Water is transparent and reflective, and big bodies of water are always moving. 
Both transparency and reflections are complicated and costly to pull off right. Many games have static worlds, meaning the major features of buildings and terrain aren’t really moving. Simultaneously, their water is often also something that can’t really be moved, and which always acts as a simple 2D surface. It’s a lot easier to make this simplified water look realistic. 
But in our game, it’s not so simple. Players can completely change the terrain and they have to manually add the buildings. They can dig canals and make the water dynamically move to new spots. The water actually consists of 3D blocks which can be viewed from all sides. 
Our old solution was to just give it a ‘physical surface’ like all the other blocks, and to make the textures move around automatically to simulate little waves. It worked when you looked at it from a distance and didn’t think about it too much, but when you got close and focused on it it was quite weird. 
But now, Zun has taken the time to look at the water properly, and to figure out a form of transparency that works well with our lighting system. We’re very happy with the results! All the pictures in this blog show the new water. It hasn’t been released publicly yet, but expect it to be part of the new patch. 
Two months ago, we started this Builder’s Contest, with a deadline for Jan the 5th. That date has passed and we have selected our winners! Watch the video to see their worlds. 
All these worlds can be downloaded from the Workshop and explored by yourself! And when you’re in Colony Survival’s Steam Workshop anyway, it might be a great moment to look at all the other things that are available there.
Colony Survival is currently on sale! Pick it up for 30% off between now and January 4. 
Of course, we can change that as well! But we’ve got multiple ideas like this, and we’d basically have to change the core fundamentals of the game and rebuild it entirely from scratch again, in a way that is substantially different from the product that people decided to purchase and that they got used to. 
Pathros by PatateNouilleWe are organizing a new Builder’s Contest! The best world will win a digital Steam Gift Card worth €100, and the next spots will win €50 / €25 / €15 / €10, respectively. We are planning to use these worlds to film a new main trailer and to make new screenshots for the Steam Storepage. This leads to a bunch of specific needs and preferences: 
Good luck and have fun building! The winners will be announced in a Friday Blog after the contest has ended. If you have any questions left, put them in the comments or share them on Discord. We’ve got a dedicated channel called #builderscontest where you can share your progress and discuss the contest with us and others. 
The update has been released to the default, public branch of Colony Survival! By popular request, it mostly adds decorative items like doors and window frames. Much of that content has been detailed in previous blogs, so we’ll start by mentioning some features that have been added since the start of the Open Beta. 
0.9.0 added “horizontal elevators” that could quickly move players in a straight line. The Open Beta changed that to actual rails which could go up hills and around corners. This full release adds junctions, both three-way and four-way. Hold the default movement buttons to determine your direction: “A” to go left, “D” to go right. 
We’ve also added rail gates. They are closed by default, blocking passage towards both monsters and colonists. When a railcar approaches, it quickly opens and closes to allow the railcar to pass the gate smoothly. 
The final important new feature of the last few weeks is Archimedean screws. When you’ve accidentally flooded your mines, this is the new tool to drain them. Sadly, completely realistic, realtime 3D water physics on a large scale aren’t possible yet, so their functioning is a bit wonky. When you place an Archimedean screw, water in a radius around it just straight up disappears. Unrealistic, but practical and computationally inexpensive. 
Since the release on Steam in 2017, we’ve added large amounts of new content, dwarfing the amount of content on the day of release. Simultaneously, at least 25% of inflation has occurred. As announced before, this is why we’ve decided to do a slight price hike, coinciding with the release of 0.10.0. The price has gone up from €/$19,99 to €/$24,95. 
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