Version history/0.4.0

0.4.1

Features

• Smooth (precise) rolling stock placement.
• Rotating while building affects the direction of the rolling stock.
• Rolling stocks can be disconnected from both sides.

Bugfixes

• Fixed the pump buildability.
• Rail signals connect to more than one rail when connected to junction.
• Fixed memory leaks related to train path searching.
• Fix of building station desynchronising the replay.
• Don't show the contents of the cursor when map is stopped.
• Fixed bug in connecting rolling stocks across crossroads.
• Fixed crash when removing rails in rail crossings.
• Fixed crash when not selecting research while the inserter had already his science pack on the way to the lab.
• Stop train when riding manually and switching to automatic mode.
• Fixed bug of crash (and other problems) when riding rolling stock after it was rotated.
• Fixed a bug of crash after removing train stop on circular rail.
• Cannot rotate train stop and rail signal after built.
• Fix of crash when splitter with connected transport belts was rotated.
• Fixed bug in setting up the train while reversing

Changes

• Shorter flying text duration (2.5s instead of 3s)

Graphics

• Added accumulator charging animation.
• Draw ending/starting pieces of underground belt and splitter.
• New transport belt to ground sprites.

Scripting

• Added entity.vehicle property.

0.4.0

Features

• Automated train transportation. Trains can be given schedule to go to Train Stops (named after backers).
• Added simple rail signals functionality.
• Added rail cargo wagon.
• Locomotive uses fuel.
• All the desynchronisation problems in the game replaying should be solved.
• Added small replay options control panel.
• Added small flying text notifications (used to notify mining, quick transfer and contents of mined entity).
• Added medium electric pole.
• Added big electric pole.
• Added substation.
• Added basic accumulator.
• Player slides around corners.

Changes

• Filter inserter doesn't pick items without any filter set, smart inserter still takes everything without filter set.
• Wider crafting/item selection screen (10 slots instead of 8, temporary solution until crafting tabs are made)
• Smaller inserter bounding box, so it is easier to run through the factory.
• Car shows fuel icon when out of fuel
• Locomotive and Car are minable
• Easier riding in locomotive and car (accelerate vs. brake vs. reverse)

Bugfixes

• Fixed resources not colliding with water.
• Fixed the calculation of loot count.
• Fixed not working clear filter action.
• Fixed drawing position of one of the trees.
• Fixed mouse click originated in GUI that closes affecting the game. (Clicking on resume started mining etc)
• Fixed crash after confirming notice box of error in script on level/campaign start.
• Show error in the player console when autosave can't be made and continue, instead of closing the game.
• Fixed over extension in the recipe window.
• Fixed one rail connection bug.
• Fixed some train connecting bugs.

Graphics

• Picture for single piece of wall.

GUI

• More visible (white) caret in the console.

Modding

• Mods can specify dependencies.
• Mods can contain Lua migrations.
• Default values for loot (probability 1, min = 1, max = 1)

Scripting

• Better error handling on many places (so the game will write the cause of the error instead of crashing, or writing error -1)
• Changed the GUI interface to minimalise mod conflicts. GUI object contains now 3 accessible sub object (top, left, center). These are always flows and can't be removed, when more than one mod (and/or script)adds something there it all stacks.
• Added frame, label, table and progressbar to creatable GUI.
• Added basic font settings for GUI elements (bold/not bold + color)
• Added way to change caption of existing GUI elements
• GUI name doesn't need to be unique globally, it just needs to be unique in the context of the parent element.
• Allowed loading bounding box with named parameters (lefttop, rightbottom)as well as without it in format {{1, 2}, {3, 4}}
• Added direction property to LuaEntity.
• Added hasflag method.
• Removed game.getrandomnumber, use math.random instead, it will use the internal game random number generator.
• Added way to read/write amount in resource.
• Fixed bug of units killed by die command not creating corpse+sound.
• onchunkgenerated event added (contains area with bounding box of the chunk).
• Fixed bugs with remote interfaces
• Exposed enemy distraction in freeplay attack data