Patch 1.90 (14th December 2016) [English, German, French only/ Russian Coming Soon]
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Внимание: русскоязычная версия обновления 1.90 содержит критическую ошибку, которая предотвращает создание новой игры. В настоящее время мы работаем с издателем, чтобы решить эту проблему. Мы рекомендуем откат до версии 1.83 или переход на другой язык. Мы приносим извинения за любые доставленные неудобства и благодарим вас за терпение.
Please note: The Russian Language version of the 1.90 update contains a critical bug that prevents a new game being created. We are currently working with the Publisher to resolve the issue. We advise rolling back to version 1.83 or changing to another language. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience as we work to resolve this issue.
Capstone Techs (added 12/1)

- In the Age of Ascension, players can now research that provide large, temporary empire-wide bonuses. These techs can be researched repeatedly with stacking bonuses.

Optimization

- Memory: introduced new texture compression for planetary and ship textures to greatly reduce memory usage and dramatically improve startup times.
- Removed legacy stopwatch code from the sound system
- Moved old profiling junk
- Reduced CPU usage of the particles and main graphics threads
- Removed redundant debug output
- Multithreaded the texture loading at the start of game to improve performance.

AI

- AI builds scout ships later in the game to keep exploring very large galaxies
- Dramatically reduced AI >normal economic bonuses (no longer needs them)
- Re-designed the way the AI expands into the galaxy with colony ships so that its expansion no longer stalls on large maps
- Dramatically reduced the amount of time an AI will interact with a player if they are not within ship range
- AI doesn't try to bribe other players to go to war unless they and the other players have a decent military already
- AI will no longer give tech gifts to players with a different ideology (i.e. no more Drengin giving you tech if you're a nice person)
- AI now scales the number of similar ship projects based on number of colonies rather than a flat number
- AI pumps up colony ship production priority if there are a lot of nice planets laying around
- AI pumps out fewer Constructors in general
- Re-designed the way the AI determines which planets should get a shipyard to be more (way more) intelligent
- Updated AI's handling of adjacency bonuses to be more intelligent
- AI values planet quality more when picking planets to colonize
- AI somewhat more heuristic on tech research
- AI somewhat quicker to war
- Auto Surveying Survey Ships will now survey extra anomalies if the ship has extra movement points.

Balance

- [updated 12/12] Made low level factories cheaper, provide smaller bonuses.
- [updated 12/12] Reduced the size of maps while keeping the same number of objects, effectively increasing the galactic density.
- [updated 12/12] Increased the zoom distance.
- [updated 12/12] Lowered diplomacy bonus of the Diplomacy Techs.
- [updated 12/5] Diplomacy tech effect to Diplomacy ability increased from 0.5 to 1
- [updated 12/5]Influence MinToClaim increased from 0.33 to 8
- [updated 12/5] Influence Radius root reduced from 3.25 (^0.325) to square root (^0.5)
- [updated 12/5] Eliminated the Influence Bell Curve target divisor.
- [updated 12/5] Influence fall off is increased from -0.3 to –10
- [updated 12/5] Capital Influence per turn increased from 1.5 to 3
- [updated 12/5] Colony Influence per turn reduced from 2 to 1
- [updated 12/5] Removed the faction ability bonus from the Diplomatic Office
- [updated 12/5] Removed all faction ability bonuses from starbase modules
- [updated 12/5] AI is much MUCH smarter about detecting cultural flipping strategies
- [updated 12/5] AI is much better about detecting fast alliance strategies
- [updated 12/5] Colonies now instantly update when you rush build to show the effect of the new building.
- [updated 12/1] Adjusted tech cost to increase per tech age
- [updated 12/1] New capstone technologies that can be researched repeatedly for galaxy wide bonuses
- [updated 12/1] Minor races will now establish trade routes.
- [updated 12/1] Tweaked influence such that growth is now slower in general, but influence improvements and modules are now much more powerful.
- [updated 12/1] Increased starbase spacing by to 3, from 2, until we get the new Administration cost stat implemented.
- [updated 12/1] Adjusted intensity on several strategic map icons and the grid.
- Starbase minimum distance reduced from 5 to 3 tiles.
- AI tends to focus more on tech (generally) than previously.
- AI will build survey ships late ingame.
- AI provided with a much wider variety of ship designs to choose from with the various strategies.
- AI weights units much more closely than previously in order to not make one virtually impossible to build.
- Opposing culture diplomatic penalty reduced from 1.25 to 1.1 if AI is benevolent.
- Opposing culture diplomatic penalty increased from 1.25 to 2 if AI is merciless.
- Opposing culture diplomatic penalty increased from 1.25 to 2 if AI is cruel.
- Close to victory diplomatic penalties increased from 1 to 5.
- Ripe for conquest diplomacy penalty reduced from 0.75 to 0.1 if AI is benevolent.
- Ripe for conquest diplomacy penalty increased from 0.75 to 1.25 if AI is aggressive.
- Minimum planet class to be a manufacturing world reduced from 7 to 4.
- Max number of colony ships the AI will construct at once increased from 2 to 3.
- Max slider focus reduced from 95% to 75% (to deal with coercion penalty).
- Coercion forgiveness eliminated (there is always some coercion if you move off from center).
- Maximum coercion reduced from 50% to 35%.
- Colony Capital production points reduced from 5 to 1.
- CivilizationCapital production points reduced from 5 to 1.
- Influence Radius root increased from 1.75 to 4 (i.e. influence ZOC will start out much much smaller now).
- Tech inflation penalty significantly reduced.
- Penalty for switching a constructor to a colony ship increased from 50% to 75% (yea, you know who you are).
- Pirates moved further away from starting location.
- Increased the variance for the various settings (minors, pirates, etc.).
- Modified the governor script to provide a bit more flexibility based on planet bonuses when building improvements.
- Colony capital maintenance eliminated.
- Colony capital hub provides a 2 (was 1) level bonus to adjacent buildings if they are population or manufacturing or research.
- Civ capital hub provides a 3 level bonus (was 1).
- Reduced maint. slightly on research buildings.
- Rare habitable planets decreased from 30% to 25%.
- Nebula and black holes and anomalies made much less common on all settings.
- Occasional planet frequency amount doubled from 1X to 2X.
- Common stars modifier increased from 0.9 to 1.
- Common planet frequency amount increased from 0.75X to 3X (this also fixes a bug where common was less than occasional).
- Abundant stars increased from 1X to 1.5X.
- Planet Frequency increased from 0.25X to 3.5X (also fixes bug).
- Tiny map base objects increased from 32 to 120 (i.e. tiny maps will be a lot more filled).
- Small map base object count increased from 64 to 150.
- Medium map Base object count increased from 110 to 200.
- Large map base object count increased from 155 to 300 (i.e. over twice as many stars/planets/etc. in a particular size).
- Huge map base object count increased from 250 to 350.
- INSANE map object count INCREASED from 1200 to 1400!
- Sensor cost components reduced slightly.
- Cargo module cost reduced from 27 to 10 (cheaper colony ships – but remember, planets now rely more on population for their production).
- Tiny hull cost reduced from 11 to 10.
- Small hull cost reduced from 25 to 20.
- Medium hull HP increased from 100 to 120.
- Large hull cost increased from 128 to 300.
- Large hull HP increased from 250 to 600.
- Large hull storage increased from 100 to 120.
- Large hull logistics cost increased from 7 to 10.
- Huge hull cost increased from 432 to 500.
- Huge hull HP increased from 500 to 800.
- Huge hull storage increased from 250 to 300.
- Huge hull logistics increased from 10 to 16.
- Cargo hull cost reduced from 42 to 24.
- Cargo hull HP reduced from 10 to 1.
- Cargo hull logistics increased from 5 to 6.

Improvements/Bugs Fixes

- [updated 12/12] Stuck Turn fix involving battle system in multiplayer
- [updated 12/12]Increase the opacity of the alpha on the un-owned grid
- [updated 12/12]Escape key now prompts the user if they are designing a ship, instead of instantly leaving the view.
- [updated 12/12]Added an option skip the upgrade notification on the starbases window.
- [updated 12/12]Fix some bad prerequisites some hidden minor race tech tree.
- [updated 12/12]Fix bad tech description for Technological Outreach tech, in the Torian Tech Tree.
- [updated 12/12]Added check in Galactic Events that prevent random crashes with event that pops up twice.
- [updated 12/12]Fix bad prerequisite for Xeno Geology in the Arcean techtree.
- [updated 12/12]Fix bad prerequisite for Drengin Manufacturing Stimulus.
- [updated 12/12]Fixed a major late-game memory leak
- [updated 12/12]Removed normal map corrections and Lean Maps from game as they didn't look good and were taking up too much space.
- [updated 12/12]Fixed false positive on culture flipping penalty in diplomacy window
- [updated 12/12]Fixed bad normal map for merc textures.
- [updated 12/12]Fixed issue in Krynn tech tree causing the Coordination Temple to be hidden.
- [updated 12/12]Fixed some issues that were causing some of the techs at end of the tree to have the wrong cost calculated.
- [updated 12/12]Fix text wrapping on starbase window
- [updated 12/12] Fix for capstone alerts showing up for non-local player and for tech victory alerts showing up for non-tech victory items
- [updated 12/12] When vram is maxed out, the game will no longer generate a massive log file.
- [updated 12/1] Increased the halo size on non-colonized planets
- Added author fields for maps, factions and ships.
- Starbases will now notify the you that they need to be upgraded after being initially built.
- Fixed double counting of trade routes for AI diplomacy purposes.
- Fixed late game crashes related to textures on large maps.
- Fixed an infrequent crash on loading large maps.
- Fixed bug that could cause the AI to see tiles in the opposite map position of where they were exploring.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the AI to reduce the priority weighting on colony ship production based on the # of targetable planets.
- If a player faction is set to random in the prefs.inifile, the quick-start tooltip will no longer display an invalid faction.
- Fixed an issue where if you changed the planetary spending wheel, the displayed. manufacturing time for improvements wasn't being updated at the same time.
- Clicking available projects tabs no longer resets the improvement cursor.
- Add ESC to close Ship Designer and Diplomacy screens.
- Starbases no longer incorrectly show the upgrade option when none avail.
- Fixed a crash related to the AI defying the UP.

Patch 1.1.4480 (14 December 2016)

- Fixed Bugged End Credits where 2 music tracks would play at once
- New option to disable dynamic shadows on projectiles
- Small fix to the eye direction for the good elder in the last shot of the level 7 outro
- Pickup respawn in level 7 in first phases
- Pickups in the Boss Leve only respawns on normal and easy difficulty
- Fog Performance heavily optimized
- Optimized Visual Effects for Performance
- Disabled dynamic shadows on crate meshes for performance gains
- ♥♥♥♥load of Global performance fixes
- Level 1: Optimization pass.
- Level 2: Lighting optimization pass
- Level 2: Fixed collision on raising tree.
- Level 2: Updated some unnecessary mist planes with the ConsoleLODComponent
- Level 2: Fixed messed up lighting on lilypads at rotating platforms near the end
- Level 3: Optimization pass
- Level 3: Player rotation fix for controller on logs
- Level 4: Optimization pass.
- Level 6: Lighting optimization pass
- Level 6: Updated unnecessary mist planes with the ConsoleLODComponent
- Level 6: Replaced a scaffolding mesh that was set as destructible
- Level 6: Fixed the beginning elevator near the spikes, that wasnt looping fully. incase the player died before the checkpoint
- Level 6: Fixed missing collisions in the pixelverse
- Level 6: Fixed Saw animations

Patch 0.4.1 (14 December 2016)
For our final planned update of 2016 we're making some fixes and adding some silly stuff for you to enjoy. Thank you again for an oh-my-goodness-is-this-really-happening 2016 and we look forward to creating more Slime Rancher adventures in 2017.
Happy holidays!

Changes:

- Added fashion pod gadgets! Fashion pods allow you to shoot costumes on to your slimes. We'll give you a moment to let that sink in.
- Ok? Also added the taming bell and refinery link gadgets.
- Added more slime lamps and gave the amber slime lamp some happy pills.
- New icons for install/remove gadgets and remove crops.
- Changed the Fabricate Gadget screen to keep the previously fabricated gadget selected.
- Added an effect on the purchase screens to make it obvious when you make a purchase.
- Added animations to the tutorial popups.
- Added indicator to the tutorial popup when you complete the task requested.
- Changed tutorials requiring an on-ranch action to hide themselves if you’re away from the ranch for 15 seconds.
- Changed some tutorial timing and completion checks.
- Adjusted treasure pod opening effect.
- Changed the Slimepedia Vacpack tab to Tutorial and changed the entries to better mirror tutorial info.
- Added some new treasure pods to the world. One of them is amazing.
- Changed the colors of fill meters for the science resources.
- Adjusted the volume for some sounds including extractor working sounds.
- Added sound while the extractor is ready. The machines no longer dance in silence. Whoa, that sounded way more ominous than intended.
- Strange diamonds, royal jelly, and lava dust now randomly show up as Range Exchange rewards (rarely) after unlocking Slime Science.
- Tweaked rare drop rates on extractors to be slightly less rare.

Fixes:

- Fixed bug where slimes and resources could get stuck under the ranch porch.
- Fixed bug where some purchase buttons could be pressed via a gamepad while otherwise disabled.
- Fixed an issue where Xbox One controllers on some versions of Windows 10 were not properly recognizing actions on the DPad.
- Fixed bug where largos could be fired into or carried into walls in some situations.
- Fixed bug where slime would sometimes vibrate back and forth while trying to look a particular direction. We've switched the slimes to decaf.
- Fixed bug where the Range Exchange screen sometimes lost information at certain resolutions.
- Fixed bug where transition between far and near versions of slimes was less smooth than intended.
- Fixed bug where the red teleporter and warp depot were possible to unlock without acquiring the appropriate treasure pod.

Update (15 December 2016)

- We have added the Russian version of The Void to everyone's accounts.

Patch version 10 (15 December 2016)

- Adds in-game language selection with the following languages;
English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.