Changelog

0.1.219

Homes and roads for the ALA work towns: drones restore the ruined houses and build new ones by plan, a town road network carries power to every house, and shift workers get a home with a charging bed.

New

• Town Road, a walkable grate block with an insulated wire inside that carries power. Drones lay the town's road network from the town hall, and a building counts once its inlet shares a network with the core.
• Shift workers now live in capsule houses. The first homeless worker moves into a restored house and charges on its bed, and the Reception Capsule only brings a worker back when a free house waits.
• New house blocks: the House Inlet, which takes power only on its outer face, and the two-block Charging Bed a shift worker lies down on to charge.
• Lay a new house anywhere in a town's territory: place a House Inlet, pick a plan and a turn. The site is checked, then drones clear it, lay its road and build it.
• House Plans: a town learns each of the four house types once, from a sheet put into the dispatcher or used on the core. Sheets lie in house ruins or are crafted, and the town hall gives one.

Improved

• The Settlement Core's Construction tab shows building cards with progress bars and a hint for the next step. A Find button outlines a shift worker through walls, and town chat lines are coloured.
• Builder drones open wooden doors, trapdoors and gates on their way and shut them behind, place doors and beds whole and clear grass and flowers themselves.
• The Town Dispatcher keeps a queue of orders for chosen buildings that you can reorder or cancel. When a job stops, the reason is shown in the window and said once in chat.
• Shift workers move like people in heavy suits: a weighty walk, breathing while they stand and a wave to greet you.

Bug Fixes

• The Town Dispatcher window now fits on a 1280x720 screen at GUI scale 3.