Welcome back to another Engine Room Dev Update, the latest in our weekly updates to EverRail! This week we’re back with changes to the glider launch station, fixes to our mission and tutorial system, as well as fixes for several bugs which you’ve all brought to our attention!

We want to thank you all for the feedback and the bug reports you continue to send in. We read all of them, and we take them all on board, and your ideas are constantly a source of inspiration to us! Please keep sending them, either here on Steam in our discussions, on Discord in our dedicated channels or in game using the F2 Bug Reporter!

We’ll also take this chance to remind you all about our Trello, where we’re constantly updating our plans for development and including your feedback, and you can see what our plans for EverRail are! You can find the Trello here: https://trello.com/b/0MIQ3LJ6/everrail-development-roadmap

Now, without further ado, here are the 0.2.7 Patch Notes:

New: Hunger

• We have explained the hunger setting better now with a tooltip and inverted how the slider works in the settings.

New: Glider Launch Station

• The Glider Launch Hatch has been visually redesigned to better imply that you are flying the Glider (and die on destruction) instead of it being an unmanned drone

• Glider inventories accept glider equipment and upgrades only, not everything anymore

New: Bug Reports With Save Data

• Bug reports now attach your savegame and your settings to help us investigate issues

New: Frame Rate Limit Settings

• The frame rate limit is now two settings: one to turn it on and one to set the value

New: Death Reasons

• The death screen shows more reasons for your death that fit the situation

• In multiplayer, when a player dies for one reason and there are no passengers left, the other players will see that reason for game over instead of the reason for why the other player died (causing confusion)

Improved: Audio

• Sound effects follow your audio settings

• Voice lines never play louder than the master volume

• New snow displacement sounds with more variety and a better mix

• The 3 different Drones, Craftable inside the Glider Fabricator had their weird costs (50 Scrap, 100 scrap etc) overhauled and you now craft 10 in one go

• The T3 Prow Scan 3 cost has been fixed

Improved: Missions And Tutorials

• Missions no longer stall after the first run of a step

• Prerequisite steps no longer fire twice or complete a mission too early

• Hint popups appear in the correct order and stay dismissible

• Objective markers no longer point into the void while you are inside the train

• Train repair objectives complete at 90 percent repair, not after the first repair pulse

• The train tutorial shows input icons in all languages, not English key labels

• EMP guidance is split into separate robot and turret popups with new images

• New stunned text and reworked train repair text

Improved: Glider

• Glider crashes are detected reliably on all terrain

• A crash no longer triggers a double explosion

Improved: Level Traversal

• Improvements of railings and fences of several locations to support vaulting or clearly block traversal

• Minimap fixed and improved for several locations

• The tech fabricator no longer lets you fall behind the crafting station

Improved: Storage And Crafting

• Storage buildings have fitting Slot Counts based on their size, making larger Storage Buildings at least as or even more efficient as smaller ones (This led to quite the amount for the Huge Storage  )

• Tracked recipes are visible inside the Crafting Screen (Work in Progress) - Showing your pinned recipes and the total materials you still need right there in the crafting menu

Improved: Settings And Controls

• Mouse right-click closes the building menu and the crafting menu again

• The control settings screen is clearer to use

• Alt+Tab no longer opens the unsaved changes popup in the settings menu

• The scanner range is always visible

Bugfixes

• Glider toolbelt items no longer reset when you swap gliders at the loadout station

• The food distribution timer will now show properly after the tutorial has been completed

• Fixed several issues with the derailment fail-safe train tool

• Fixed drones that did not despawn after a scan finished or failed

• Fixed lost resources when a client cancels a queued crafting item

• Returned resources drop to the ground when your inventory is full

• Fixed the loss of an item in progress of being crafted when you load a savegame

• Custom maximum battery settings restore correctly from savegames

• Tracking several items no longer shows oversized tracking information

• Iso fuel collection resets correctly

• Fixed missing textures and images on storage and glider loadout buildings

• Enemies no longer stay standing after they should have died

• Fixed a crash from a threading race in world generation (game and engine side)

• Fixed Scrapper tool will appearing alongside the pistol after consuming all the scrapper tool charges

• Fixed toolbelt functionality no longer working for the client and requiring a game restart

And that’s all from the Engine Room this week! We’ll be back with another Engine Room Dev Update next week on Tuesday, and we’ll have our weekly Conductors Log on Thursday, so keep your eyes peeled!

Welcome back to the Conductors Log! This week our passengers finally find the train horn, and the train's Aegis shield comes in handy when the track ahead is blocked.

Looking at everyone's faces, and with the weight of Gunner and Pilot's death still resting on my shoulders, I've decided we're not ready for the tunnel. Not yet.  

So, for now, the loop it is. At least until we've got some better gear for everyone, and maybe the guts to brave the greater unknown.  

Brains delivered on their promise faster than I expected. The EMP pistol sat on the workbench, ugly and cobbled together from a random pistol barrel that was lying around and some spare bolts, but Brains swore up and down it would knock the shield off any turret we ran into. Though they weren't sure how long.  

And I wanted to – no. Needed to believe them. 

Driver on the other hand, had made a rather amusing discovery. 

They had been muttering for days about needing a way to tell people the train needed to set off. And it seems like their prayers were answered. After fiddling with a few more nobs, a sudden horn noise blared through the train. It startled all of us.  

Driver on the other hand was ecstatic. This was exactly what was needed.  

They honked the horn a few more times; the train racing forward picking up speed. Faster than any time before. This led to the next discovery. 

The train, it turns out, has an alarm system. A shrilling, red light blinking alarm.  Going too fast hurts the train, I mean the battery charges very quickly, but it damages the train. It also means stopping in time before hitting something or just in time for a facility would be difficult.  

I could feel a lump form in my throat at the thought of something hurting the train. Hurting our only protection. But Driver assured me it will be okay. That he found something else. But before they could explain, Eyes came crashing into the expedition wagon, shouting about some debris blocking the tracks ahead. I could feel the panic rise in my chest, but Driver seemed relaxed, or as relaxed as someone could be at that thought.  

They pushed me towards the cockpit and told me to hit a specific button right before the debris hit us. I had no idea what that meant but as the doors to the cockpit shut behind me, I had little choice. 

I watched as the debris came closer and closer and in the last second, and I hit the button. The Aegis shield, as Driver later dubbed it, came to life. Blue light filling the room as it blocked the impact. The train barely shuddered from the impact, as if nothing had really been in the way. 

Driver was laughing as I emerged from the cockpit, the train slowing down. Saying something about how I should see my face.  

I was glad someone was laughing...it eased some of the tension a bit. 

Brains joined us after a moment, explaining that the shields ate up a lot of our energy and that we should use it sparingly. They also showed me a repair kit, which I looked at confused.  

Brain explained that the train took some damage it'd need repairing next time we stop. Asked me if they should take care of it. I nodded, wondering when I became the designated anything.  

The train continued on, Eyes was up in the sky checking what facility we should top at next. Drive was making sure we stayed on track, occasionally honking the horn, as if to remind us they were still there.  

Brain and I were busy setting up new workstations, some new storage boxes not only for rations but also for the isotopes Eyes were incredible at collecting. But one thing became clear. We were running out of space. And we weren't sure how to get more...