RELEASED FrackinUniverse 6.4.22

Does FU expanding tenants as well?, i mean if i build a house of precursor blocks/glass furniture, can i expect anyone ?

 

It adds tenants, yes. Not tons, but it does.

 

Would it not make sense for the local sun to be shining upon your ship, with potential for environmental effects like increased levels of radiation, higher or even lower temperature depending on the star you're orbiting? Could also make it possible for solar panels to work on ships if sunlight to the ship world is added.

 

@sayter
make pls planets:
"sausage block" planets with ketchup seas
and compressed fish planets with milk seas
it would be funny tho

 

No.

 

There is no way to make varied effects based on sun type, that I know of. The API makes no distinction there.

Solar panels will not work on ships ever again. The intent is to get people building better generators, not spamming 900 cheap shitty solars and never touching anything else.

 

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Found a bug, the quest "Dark Stained Glass" doesn't show up in the quest book, despite being required for other quests.
Also, the precursor generator must have it's object health set wrong, as the only way to move it is to break the ground it's on, and if that ground is unbreakable you're screwed.

Finally, I built the Farsight XR-20, but found it can't shoot through walls, which makes no sense at all. I'd also suggest changing it's alt to the spawn energy field ability the Arcon Warden has, just to be true to form.

Here's a log if needed. https://pastebin.com/uDCsrJNp

 

Not a bug. Intended. Go to the science outpost and pick up quests there.

Nope. 100% intended. Has a ton of HP. Eventually does break.

Why not? it wasnt intended to pierce walls in FU. It's intended to -look- like the PD weapon...not to be a clone of it.

 

Well, fair enough I suppose. Although I'm curious, what does the precursor generator having loads of hp supposed to signify? That It's really REALLY heavy and should be moved with explosives? If so, maybe add to the examine dialogue "I might have to blast this thing out" or something.

Also, think I found an actual bug. If you place the "Amber Lamp" object facing left, it actually appears about 10 blocks to the right of where you placed it. The game still thinks it "exists" where you placed it though, so you have to break an invisible object to remove it.

Finally, an idea. Would it be possible to make the final upgrade of the translocator fire a guided missile like teleport beacon that stops when it hits an object instead of the ballistic one? And maybe give it the camera following trait that the Oculus Reaver alt has? It would be really fun, and a cool reward for maxing it out.

 

It's amazingly powerful and therefore isn't effort free. Nothing more than that.

heh. I forgot that object even existed. ive never even placed it, as it was added by another conributor lol. Thanks.

Nah. It's fine as-is. The max-tier is already super-duper useful, and ive no interest in custom-coding a new firing method for it at present. Perhaps someday.

 

I'm curious about something: I recently noticed the mention of the opening Protectorate mission's dialogue being overhauled. I tried it out and did notice the change (though there's still some remaining mentions of it being a graduation ceremony - the human examination of Leda's portrait for one), but I was wondering why the decision to change the Protectorate lore in the first place? Is it related to a later FU questline?

Not that I'm particularly attached to the Protectorate lore in the first place, mind. It's rather generic and uninteresting.

Still, seeing Leda going on about weaponizing matter manipulators was rather surprising, and I'm assuming is likely foreshadowing lategame FU tech.

 

There's a weapon called the "murder manipulator", I also think it upgrades a bit down the line, not worth it in my opinion to make but if you're a collector or something then yeah go for it.

 

Absolutely brütal. I want one.

 

i changed it because the vanilla storyline kinda sucks. Nothing more complex than that.

 

Hi, is there any way to skip the Erchius Facility quest? Crashes my game whenever I try to turn in the quest at Penguin Pete so I think one of my mods might be incompatible. Thanks!

 

Probably helps to post a log.

And yeah, the vanilla story is kinda bland.

 

no log, no help. Clearly something conflicting though, and it isn't FU.

 

The Magma Frame seems to be mislabeled. It says it kills mites and increases production, but it actually kills mites and sets the hive to always night. Took me a while to figure out why my Godlys were broken.

Also, the values for honey jar buffs could use a look at, a lot of the effect times don't sync up with the honey food block times. This means they're effectively useless for providing resists, since you can't use another jar when the resist times out, as the blocking time is longer. Actually, could we just ditch the whole honey food block thing? It doesn't seem to serve any useful purpose.

EDIT - Nevermind the resists thing, looked at the wrong value. It's just the healing effects that don't line up. Blocking debuff still annoying though.
Also noticed the Queen's shield stats are actually worse than the earlier Amber Knight shield, which is odd.

 

thanks. will correct that.

intentional for balance purposes. Will not remove this. People were abusing them by stacking them with certain other effects allowing them to effectively be invulerable. This counters that and forces them to plan accordingly.

I will adjust Protection to be higher though, and increase base protection. It's actual *effects* are superior than the Amber.