It took longer than expected, but I'm happy to say that the 1.2 update is now available on Itch.IO! The biggest amount of time was spent on a complete rebuild of the colonist behavior system to fix up existing issues and ensure expand-ability as I continue to add new content and colonist actions.

There are a lot of other great fixes and improvements including storage containers can now be placed anywhere, better profession leveling, better hauling and a lot more. Check out the release notes below for a full list of updates and fixes.

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Release Notes

Updates

• Colonist movement speed now based on athletics attribute
• Colonist profession level now affects productivity for some professions.
• Completely new colonist behavior system to allow for better behaviors as well as resolve issues with colonists getting stuck
• Builders now collect all items required to build an object before going to the object to build it.
• Builders will only collect items for a build project if all items required to build it are available
• Colonists moving items to storage will now pickup multiple adjacent items on the ground
• Changes to base profession productivity speed
• Profession level progress is now scaled. Higher levels require more experience/work in that profession.
• Items on the ground can be selected and will now show internal inventory with quantities.
• Deconstructed structures now drop the materials required to create it
• Deconstructed storage containers drop their content on the ground
• Deconstructing action now takes time to do based on structure durability
• Added deconstruction animation and effects
• Game starts with four colonists instead of three
• Added Feedback form to main menu and in game menu
• Colonists now have hair with random starting color.
• Darker lighting
• Minor graphic tweaks to Fog Of War and tile selection
• Minor UI tweaks
• Storage containers can now be placed anywhere
• Removed Storage Room Floor
• Storage Container inventory size increased

 
Fixes

• Colonists will no longer favor moving items to storage over their chosen profession
• Colonists should no longer get stuck in various situations
• Profession level progress should update with colonist info window open
• Colonists now correctly find and eat food items.
• Global Storage Facility Storage section should now show items stored in storage containers.
• Colonists profession level properly capped at 10