Postcollapse update 1.16 is now available.

This update takes the game out of "Early Access".
After more than 15 early access updates and a lot of constructive feedback from the players, PostCollapse has changed significantly since the first release on Steam.
See this screenshot comparison for example:

The left shows the first released version of PostCollapse, and the right one how it looks now: The world is much more detailled, has better graphics and much more content. The game has evolved quite a lot during the early access phase.

The game now has reached a state where it feels like how it was supposed to be: You get the right feeling of solitude, and that you are alone and have to work for your survival. Also, although everything is still 100% procedurally generated, it doesn't feel that much articifial anymore, thanks to the feedback of all the players.

The major features introduced in the Early Access where the following:

• A 'minecraft' mode which enables you to modify every building in the world
  
• The possibility to create own buildings
  
• Radiation zones
  
• A 'hardcore' mode
  
• The possibility to create fences and cupboards
  
• Realtime shadows
  
• Steam Trading cards
  
• Much improved graphics
  
• More types of animals
  
• Tons and tons of gamplay tweaks
  
• Translations for Spanish, Russian and German
  
• Improved sound track
  
• Minimap and zoomable map
  
• and much more

In addition to this update removing all the early access warnings and similar, also a few game play changes are introduced:

• The Fishing rod doesn't break that often anymore
  
• Fixed stability problems which appeared on some systems after the Windows Creators Update was installed on them
  
• The finding probability of various items have been adjusted a bit
  
• Fixed a translation bug in russian
  
• Improved placement of containers for some special cases
  
• Performance improvements for terrain rendering

Note that this isn't the end, and the game will still be updated regularily, of course. Thanks to all the players who have brought the game with their feedback as far as it is now. Further constructive feedback is of course still welcome!

Postcollapse update 1.15 is now available.
This update adds some new gameplay features and a few minor improvements, here are the details:

• New camp fire features
  Additionally to the existing features (a warmer place to sleep and light),
  camp fires now have two new additional functionalities:
  
  You can now add wood into an existing camp fire (just click onto the wood in the camp fire to open the dialog) and make it burn longer. Works for hard wood, soft wood and paper.
  
  You can now cook meat with a camp fire. Just click onto the wood in the camp fire, and add raw meat which you can get from hunted animals, and the meat will be cooked. See below for details.
  
  
• New Item: Cooked Meat
  
  You can create cooked meat now with the new feature mentioned above. In the game, this
  is easier to digest than raw meat, so you will get more calories from cooked meat. So cooking your hunted meat now
  makes sense now.
  
  
• The auto-save functionality is now longer stalling the game so often now
  
  
• Water rendering is now faster on slow systems
  
  
• Fixed a bug causing earth to appear blue when using the shovel
  
  
• Fixed a crash when the game is being run in an emulator (yes, some people apparently do that)

Hope you'll like this update, feedback is welcome as always!

Postcollapse update 1.14 is now available.
This update adds a single new gameplay feature and a few minor improvements, here are the details:

• Possibility to create own buildings
  The most requested feature since the last update was the possibility to create own buildings from scratch, so that you don't have to use an existing building and modify it. This is now possible. It was quite an undertaking to make this work together with the procedural generated world and the other buildings. It works like this:
  
  Right-click, select "construct" -> "facilities", and there are now three new entries, for creating various sized platforms for new buildings. Then you can select a place where to build the building.
  The game engine wasn't designed initially to support a feature like this, so there are constraints where you can place new buildings. The game will show red markers when you try to build the platform where this is not possible, like too close to another existing building, or on a tile border. In a future update, maybe it will be possible to lift these restrictions, but let's see.
  
  The building platform is then created with a click, and you can then continue and modify your building like any other building in the world, and fit it to your needs by adding and removing blocks as you like.
  
  
• Performance improvements when there are many animals in the vicinity
  
• Fixed a translation bug in russian when creating fences

Hope you'll like this, feedback is welcome as always!

Postcollapse update 1.13 is now available.
This update adds a few gameplay and technical changes, here are the details:

• Nicer environment
  Improved vegetation drawing, for example bushes now look a bit more interesting and less blurry
  
• Watering indicator
  The game now better displays which tiles you have watered with the watering can: you can now actually see the
  water sinking into the ground. The tiles which have been watered are now drawn a bit darker directly after
  watering them, and fade back quickly.
  
• Software audio mixing
  Audio output is now done in software by default, which should reduce issues some people have reported with their sound hardware
  
• Stability improvements
  For some systems, where unlocked achievements sometimes could cause crashes, a few stability improvements have been implemented

Hope you'll like this, feedback is welcome as always!

PostCollapse update 1.12 is now available.
This update adds a few gameplay and usability changes, here are the details:

• Fences
  It is now possible to construct fences. Two types of fences are available: A small one for fencing in your
  garden and protecting your plants, and a bigger one for your house.
  
• Destroying facilities
  You can now always destroy created cupboards and fences (right-click onto them, choose 'destroy')
  
• Safe DIY cupboards
  Constructed cupboards in your headquarter now behave the same as pre-existing cupboards and other containers:
  Putting items into them will guarantee that you won't loose them. They will stay inside always.
  Note that this only applies to contructed containtainers inside your head quarter.
  
• Adjusted Tiredness in Hardcore mode
  You don't get tired that fast anymore in hardcore mode, so you can be awake a bit longer.
  
• Spanish
  There is now a fourth in-game language supported: Spanish
• A few minor bug fixes here and there.

Hope you'll like this, feedback is welcome as always!

Postcollapse update 1.10 is now available.

This update adds a few gameplay and usability changes, here are the details:

• Minimap
  There is now a minimap which you can switch on to view while playing. You can enable it with the new checkbox which appears under the map which you can open with the 'M' shortcut.
  
• Construct Torches
  It is now possible to construct torches from piece softwood and hardwood. It might be a bit easier now to do useful things during the night.
  
• Zoomable map
  There are now zoom buttons on the map which you can open with the 'M' shortcut. This allows for example to zoom out and look for other cities to discover.
  
• Finalized Hardcore mode
  The 'hardcore' game mode is now out of beta. A few minor values were adjusted here and there, but apart from that it is now as it was from version 1.09. But feedback is of course still welcome.
  
• Performance improvements
  Performance of the realtime shadows in the game has been improved (around 5-20% depending on your hardware), resulting in better frame rates.
  
• Important and not-so-important lables on the map now have slightly different colors
  
• Fixed a bug where setting the shadow option to "automatic" (which is the default) would turn off shadows always on some hardware.
  
• Fixed a bug causing info texts at game startup not to be visible sometimes when the game is run on a big resolution screen.
  
• Fixed a bug making it possible to water the ground although the inventory menu is active

Hope you'll like this, feedback is welcome as always!

Postcollapse update 1.09 is now available.
There is only one big cosmetic change in this update:
The game engine now is able to draw realtime shadows. The game graphics look a bit more interesting because of this. The performance impact should not be too high, since the technique used isn't very demanding.

There is also a new setting for this in the options. It is set to 'automatic' and
can be manually switched on/off. If you have a slow PC, it is recommended to turn this feature off.

To implement this, big parts of the graphics pipeline needed to be rewritten, and this took quite a lot of time, also in order to make it compatible with old hardware.

Gameplay updates and changes are planned for the next update. Hope you'll like this update anyway. Feedback is welcome as always!

Postcollapse update 1.08 is now available.
This update adds a few cosmetic changes, but also includes some minor gameplay adjustments wished by the community:

• Damage of arrows is a bit higher now, so it is much easier to go hunting
  
• Fridges now rarely contain things which are not to eat or to drink
  
• Boars are now not as aggressive and are not attacking the player from an area far away
  
• Much nicer looking trees
  
• The starting point for a new game will from now on no longer be next to an impact zone
  
• Various performance improvements
  
• Captions of message boxes are now a bit easier to read
  
• New axe model
  
• Fixed a bug causing mouse control not to return sometimes when closing a message box with 'escape'
  
• On slow systems, the frame rate dropped when there where many animals in the vicinity, this has been
  improved now. The game now should run very fast even on those systems.
  
• If the game wasn't able to start up correctly the last time, it asks the user if it should
  start with default settings

Hope you'll like this, feedback is welcome as always!

Postcollapse update 1.06 is now available.
This content update adds some major new features wished by the community:

• You can now choose between two game modes: Standard and Hardcore. Standard is how the game worked until now. In the new Hardcore mode, everything runs a bit slower: Days last longer, injuries are more serious, winters are harder and similar. This mode is for players which have more time to play than casual players, and want to spend more time in the game. The mode is beta, values in this mode are already roughly balanced, but feedback is still much appreciated!
  
• There is now a new type of building to explore: Churches are now scattered accross the country and cities.
• The houses are no longer only filled with rectangular cupboards but
  more interesting furniture like kitchens, lockers, sofas, etc.
  
• The game now has fall damage: When you climb onto the roof of a building and jump down, you will likely injure yourself now.
  
• Some of the windows in the houses are now filled with broken glass
  
• Improved the textures of some of the walls of the buildings in the game (see image above)
  
• The game is now a bit brighter since it looked too dark on some systems
  
• You need now a lot less water for surviving the winter (about half)
  
• There is now a new music track (created by Johannes C. Meffert) which plays when an animal is attacking.

Hope you'll like this, feedback is welcome as always!