Thrive 0.5.6

We've continued making progress by fixing a bunch of small bugs and introducing new features. Some of the highlight features are: behaviour editor, auto-evo affecting the player, and a mod loader.

Read more in our devblog: https://revolutionarygamesstudio.com/devblog-30-now-in-stores-near-you/

Thrive is now available on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1779200/Thrive/
And Itch: https://revolutionarygames.itch.io/thrive
You can support future development if you want by getting Thrive from there.

Installation

For easiest installation, download the latest version of the launcher:
https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive-Launcher/releases/

Alternatively, download the relevant file below for manual installation.

Patch Notes

• Auto-evo can now cause species to split
• Auto-evo now tries to fill empty patches with species split or migrated from nearby patches
• Auto-evo now affects the player population
• Added mod support (there's a few example mods available: https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/ThriveMods/releases)
• Added a new panel in the editor showing the predicted auto-evo population numbers for the player species based on current edits
• Implemented the behaviour tab in the editor
• Toxins can now be fired with less than the required amount of toxin, but they deal reduced damage in that case
• Fixed some colony physics issues
• Fixed a crash when cell that was going to bind just died
• Fixed incorrect rotations in colonies that happened in some cases
• Mouse hover panel no longer shows the exact compound values, instead only the rough category of how much stuff there is, is shown
• Mouse hover panel now shows all cells of one species on one line instead of one line per cell
• Balance changes
• Microbe AI tweaks (toxin shooting, running away)
• Current patch name is now shown with a fancier fading in and out large text
• There is now a JSON debug mode that activates automatically on save failure. This will provide much better information to us regarding saving failures when players report them.
• Extinction screen now has buttons to load a save or exit to the menu
• Updated to Godot 3.3.4
• Solved a save upgrade problem from 0.5.4 with extinct species still existing in historical graph data
• Adjusted volumes of quite a few sounds and music tracks
• Quitting the game now has a confirmation popup if it has been more than a few seconds since the last save
• Added new tutorials to the editor and microbe stage to try to help new players have easier time with their first playthrough
• Added credits in the game
• Added licenses display in the game
• Added a button in the editor to generate a random species name
• Added a tutorial that pops up if the editor button is enabled for too long without the player noticing
• The current species name is now prefilled as the save name when saving the game
• Updated to a newer font version to fix some translations having broken characters (the font now looks slightly different)
• Added a special extinction music track that plays on the extinction screen
• Toxins no longer go through floating chunks
• Added a key to hide the GUI of the game, useful for screenshots
• Moving to any patch in freebuild is now possible in a single step
• Increased the amount of personality mutation possible in a single step
• Translation progress is now shown under the selected language in the options
• Added tooltips for the bottom left buttons in the microbe stage
• Implemented a custom dialog box class and switched over to it. Now many more dialogs can be dismissed with ESC
• Implemented a tweaked colour picker that has better tooltips and translation support
• It's now possible to control the number of worker threads from the options menu
• Fixed a slight angle in the health and ATP bar filler textures
• Added highlight effect to checkboxes and moved to using a custom checkbox control
• Improved performance of line charts with many points
• Win and extinction screens are now on top of the tutorials
• Text in dropdown buttons is now localizable
• A warning popup is now shown when attempting to open screenshots or saves folders if they don't exist
• Empty datasets in graphs now have text saying they are empty
• Engulfing button in hotbar is now hidden if cell can't engulf
• Other GUI tweaks
• Added hotkeys for delete and move in the editor
• Implemented a proper system for game objects to refer to each other over multiple frames, this should fix at least one saving error
• Auto-evo now uses all available executor threads when the loading screen is waiting on it
• Music tracks within a single stage now cross fade
• Added a cheat to spawn an enemy cell
• Taking a screenshot now temporarily disables the colour filter if one was enabled
• Improved the mouse over GUI element detection in the microbe editor
• Fixed being able to get an enemy cell into your colony
• Fixed editor button state not updating after colony bind and unbind
• Fixed an exploit allowing the binding agent to be placed without the nucleus
• Fixed AI species being able to evolve an organelle that can be placed just once, multiple times
• Fixed some game settings applying while loaded in the Godot editor and causing issues
• Fixed microbe colonies making compounds disappear if the colony members have different sets of useful compounds
• Fixed save slot rotation not working with 10 or more saves
• Fixed placed hex material colour not restoring when hovered with multiple hover hexes in the editor
• Fixed keyprompts staying stuck on the screen if tutorial was disabled in the editor
• Fixed organelles flickering when moving (was caused by render order of them not being fixed)
• Fixed rare crash in compound cloud simulation
• Fixed osmoregulation missing in some organelle tooltips
• Fixed microbe intro restarting if space was pressed during it
• Fixed ATP balance bar icons having one organelle placement delay in hiding or showing themselves
• Fixed the reproduction bars being full after loading a save where the player is dead
• Fixed the microbe stage background not working in really wide aspect ratio (it's still possible to get around this, but now any realistic resolution should work)
• Fixed back to main menu buttons not working while a submenu animation is playing
• Fixed a crash related to changing the chromatic filter options
• Fixed a potential softlock if the game was paused before the tutorial popup
• Fixed the reproduction cheat crashing the game if the player is dead
• Fixed ESC pausing the loading screen
• Fixed button press sound being restarted in the middle of it if another button was pressed too fast
• Fixed duplicate player cheat not working after being in the editor
• Fixed rigidity slider not re-enabling when undoing gives back some MP
• Fixed floating chunk not properly checking for failure when retrieving touching microbes
• Fixed some code still referring to membranes with old names. Fixes some missing info in membrane tooltips.
• Made sure that cells with a cell wall that doesn't allow engulfing cannot enter engulfing mode, and stopped the AI from even trying it
• Arrow key rebinding for movement should now work
• Saving is no longer possible while extinct
• The spinning Thrive logo in the loading screen now rotates smoothly
• Extinction theme is now played just once
• Added extra checks for allowed species name formats
• Quit button no longer plays a sound to not have it sound glitchy
• Fixed warnings about non-power-of-2 textures
• Microbe editor grid is now created in the shader and not loaded as a texture
• Tweaked the dissolve effect for chunks
• Exiting the editor no longer prints to log that game locale was changed even when it wasn't
• Entering the main menu ensures the game is not paused
• Added defensive programming to one place in auto-evo where there was a very rare exception happening
• Increased cheat cloud density
• Added more explicit null checking in JSON serializer
• Slight efficiency increase to auto-evo by reusing already computed energy balance in one method
• Renamed the incorrectly named "remove organelle" input
• Refactored microbe AI to use a common method to check what can be engulfed to reduce code duplication
• BBCode in the game can now refer to some game constants
• Slight input rebinding code refactoring
• Mouse hover panel now keeps updating while the game is paused
• Removed Godot editor (tool) load attributes to reduce Godot automatically breaking those(we are still looking for a permanent solution: #2751)
• Split Microbe class into multiple files to make it more manageable
• Refactored the patch map setup code
• Updated to C# 9.0
• Updated SharpZipLib to 1.3.3
• Updated the used game text extraction code to extract new Godot Node properties that were missing before from translatable strings
• Format checking script will now detect git merge conflicts
• Format script will now print out the text extraction tool version if translations are detected to not be up to date
• Format script changes checking should now work properly on Windows
• New languages: Danish, Ukrainian, and Hungarian
• The "@" in process environment display is now translatable
• Updated translations
• Improved instructions for working on the game and PR templates
• Added a documentation page about getting started with Godot
• Sadly removed some work from people who we didn't manage to contact to sign our CLA
• Steam: added mod uploader to workshop and loading subscribed workshop items in the mod manager in the game
• Steam: Steam username is now used inplace of the operating system account name