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Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Home page (https://buoyancygame.com/)
Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1012610/Buoyancy/)
Steam forum (https://steamcommunity.com/app/1012610/discussions/)
YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYV4QusXsX6RovHnaIhOqQ)
Single-player
Buoyancy - Steam Trailer Aug 12, 2019
https://youtu.be/5M8HPqmbWYc
About
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game set in an ocean world.
Build a floating city. Plan out your city's expansion by placing floating platforms that connect with each other. There are several types of buildings: Gatherers, Production, Hunters, Military, and Utility. Resources are delivered in real-time for constructing and production by your villagers.
Manage a growing population. Your city's population will be ever growing! Manage your villagers happiness and nourishment levels to keep them alive. Try to balance resource production with an increasing population that demands more and more. Combat sickness and fires that could cripple your city.
Explore with your mighty city. In this ocean world there are resources and floating junk to exploit but they’re not always going to drift your way. You can move your city around to exploit resources providing your buildings a production boost. Most of these resources are critical to develop larger cities, and some are necessary to keep surviving!
Find schools of fish, derelict ships, and take advantage of rebounded whale populations (or don’t).
Fight for your survival. Pirates will attack you if they spot your city. You can train Guards to defend your city from invaders. Place Junk Cannons to destroy a large amount of pirates in one blow, but be careful of friendly fire!
Community
Feel free to follow us on Twitter, subscribe to our reddit, and be part of our Discord channel.
About us
We are Devs on a Boat, a small indie game company based in sunny Seattle, WA.
We currently do not develop on a boat, but we dream.
Mature Content Description
The developers describe the content like this:
Contains simulated violence and blood.
Contains cannibalism references.
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FAQ
When and where are update notes posted?
Update notes are posted in conjunction with game updates. They are posted on Events boards on Steam.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1012610/eventcomments/
When and where are Devlogs posted?
Devlogs are posted at the end of each month, serving as a monthly summary of the team’s work. They are posted here on our website and the links are always added on Steam and social media.
https://buoyancygame.com/category/devlog/
Can you translate to this language? Can I help with translation?
Most of the translations in the game are provided by the community. If you would like to help, request access to one of the Google sheets pages. If the language doesn’t have a Google sheet you can contact us and request it.
https://buoyancygame.com/localization/
Is there a road map for planned features?
The road map can be seen here.
https://buoyancygame.com/early-access-roadmap/
Where can I report bugs?
We prefer bug reports to be reported on the Steam forums.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1012610/discussions/2/
It’s acceptable to report them on our General channel in Discord as well.
I have a suggestion! How can I contact the team?
Join our Discord, send us an e-mail, or post on the Steam forums!
Discord: https://discord.gg/xVxQP3h
Contact Page: https://buoyancygame.com/contact/
Steam Forums: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1012610/discussions/
What is the estimated completion date?
Hopefully we can finish Early Access at the end of 2020!
Will you add Multiplayer support?
Multiplayer will not be added to the game.
Will you add Mod/Steam Workshop support?
Mod support is not planned currently, but may be considered after we leave Early Access.
Can you put a Creative Mode?
A “free build” Creative Mode is not planned currently, but may be considered after we leave Early Access.
Is this like Raft?
No
Who is Martin?
Martin is a great guy.
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Where's Kevin Costner?
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Where's Kevin Costner?
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Alpha v3.0.0815
Sun, 16 August 2020
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Updates/Changes:
- Wonder buildings optimizations
- Destroyed cities will spawn a corpse pile if there were enemy casualties
- Pirate cities give up chase earlier, movement speed slowed
- Pirate cities spawn required parameters increased
- Looter caravans will seek and destroy nearby wrecked Pirate scouts
- Demands revamped to Demander demands a certain amount of Trade Value from resources, instead of random Resource amounts
- Corpses thrown overboard have a chance to spawn Fish resource nodes
- Holding modifier keybind with Pause/Resume tool will pause/resume all of the same building
- Tower ranges shown when placing one of similar type
- Prisoners will be placed in another Prison if the original Prison is destroyed by the player
- Destroyed Ships in the world will sink if collided too many times
- Autosaved games create/use a different savefile
- Loaded save games can be organized by All, Manual, Autosaved
- Relics Manager in Policies to save Relics which can be used when needed
- Some new relics (Drills, Magnets, Photos, Coffee, Candy, Fishnets)
- Unhappiness event chance thresholds lowered
- Unhappiness Riot event cooldown
- New Water Cannon asset
- Can select in Settings to show Perimeter overlays for Gathering buildings, Any Building, or Off
- Can select in Settings to show Building Ranges for Placement, All Similar, or Off
Bugs Fixed:
- Autosaving when in Settings, game paused
- Notifications panel blocks priority panels
- Flat ocean toggle related errors
- Error from drinking extra water/beer for thirst at Storehouse
- Errors and Crashes from Horticulture bug
+ Removed Martin
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Devlog 25 – One Year on Steam!
August 30, 2020
Hey everyone, we have officially been on Steam for one year! The team would like to thank all our fans for the support and feedback we received. We made a short recap video highlighting features we have implemented since Day 1 of the Steam release.
https://youtu.be/4__Dgx63X9g
Caravan Textures
Elliott
Worked a bit on the Medical and Military caravan this month. I plan to focus the textures more on the clarity. With notably the tent on the Medical caravan, and the turret with the Military caravan. While the Military caravan needs more work I plan to experiment a little with the Medical caravan first. It should be noted since both the medical caravan and military caravan are work in progress its very likely to subject change.
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Relics Management
Zomawia
Kinda old news by now since it was in the last update but I added the option to save Relics. Since most Relics give Happiness, among other benefits, the player can save them and use them when needed. I also added some other Relics that give city bonuses like Drills (temp increase rower thrust), Fish Nets (temp increase Fish production).
The next part of Relics will be a “RELIC_HUNTER” that can go through Junk to find Relics. Also want to mention Artifacts, special Relics that are strictly for lore and world building, giving clues to show how the current world came to be. Phase 3 of Relics will probably come after Upgrades and Tech tree stuff.
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Graphical Improvements
Shawn
The new graphical improvements are almost done. I am working on optimizing the performance so it doesn’t bog down older GPUs as well as fixing bugs with the new shaders and rendering pipeline.
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Main Menu with HDRP
Workshop asset
Kevin
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Save System reworked
Zomawia
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It was a long requested feature: Autosaves are different savefiles. Well there it is.
Building Upgrades
Zomawia
Still chugging along implementing building upgrades! Nothing really to show. =)
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Devlog 26
Wed, 30 September 2020
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Hey Buoyancies,
Our Devlog for September is out!
Check it here:
https://buoyancygame.com/2020/09/30/devlog-26/
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Devlog 27
October 30, 2020
Happy Halloween! Here’s the latest Devlog to show what we have been up to during October 2020.
Mill v2, Workshop assets
Elliott
Mill V2
The Mill redesign is a response to our new upgrade system for the buildings in-game. The original was also an asset that was made very early in development. So we figured to make the asset more compatible with the upgrade system and remove old art at the same time.
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Mill v2
Read on.... (https://buoyancygame.com/2020/10/30/devlog-27/)
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Alpha v3.0.1104
Thu, 5 November 2020
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The Building Upgrades system and new graphics rendering update are here. We've been hard at work getting these in and testing for weeks if not months. The Stats menu is also available but may be a bit slow if running huge cities. Please report any bugs on the Steam forums or Discord.
Updates/Changes:
- Building Upgrades (access Upgrades in Tools button or clicking on building)
- Graphics rendering changed to Unity HDRP
- Hungry or Thirsty villagers gain additional Happiness when consuming something
- Bread causes slight Thirst cost
- Trade quantities can be moved with a slider (underneath the amount)
- New assets for Medical, Military Caravans
- Work Overtime action disabled
- New Pirate armors for Skubassasin, Cousin Tank, Exploder, Plague Doctor
- Center camera on Notification source button
- New Workshop asset
- Villagers born from Prisons may mutiny during a Prison break
- Stats Menu with Villager, Prisoner Management
- Prison Management moved to Prisoner Management panel in Stats menu
- Priority systems consolidated in Stats menu, own hotkey
- Total prisons max capacity displayed on city stats panel
- Towers, Filter stations under construction will display range when clicked
- Improvements to keep other cities from bumping player
- Prisoner thrust amount depends on average nourishment, morale per prison
- New Mill asset
- Prisons generate unhappiness for your villagers each day
- French Translation updated
Bugs Fixed:
- Policy menu hotkey tooltip
- Villagers created with negative values
- Happiness going negative in certain scenarios
- Flat ocean mode toggle bugs
- Relics load error bug
- Second non-working Autosave toggle in Settings
- Workshop not sending out Repairers
- Tutorial text not updated with new keybinds
- Multiple galleys lagging game
- Pressing building tool hotkeys during building placement doesn't destroy placement
- Storms not doing decay damage
- Water Cannons not shooting buildings next to them
- Prison count incorrect in Prison management
- Water Cannons shooting other cities for no raisin
- Bridge gather placement indicator sucks
- Wonder buildings disconnected after load
+ Removed Martin
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Alpha v3.0.1111
Wed, 11 November 2020
Updates/Changes:
- Engine updated to Unity 2019.4.14f1
- Linux renderer changed to Vulkan
- Mac renderer changed to Metal
- Workshop, Mill asset optimizations
- Town Center foundation optimizations
Bugs Fixed:
- Navigation stuck on Guardhouse, Harpoon Tower
- Camera zooms out too far
- Relics load error on older saves
- Pink tree in pirate city
- Save during foggy weather can mess up loaded game
- UI errors in saved game object
- Random death and fires causing errors in certain scenarios
+ Removed Martin
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Alpha v3.0.1117
Wed, 18 November 2020
Updates/Changes:
- Building Production Tab and Usage stats in Stats panel
- City Statistics Tab with History and Graphs in Stats panel
- Villagers walking on a fire have a chance to lose health/gain thirst, or burn to a crisp
- Loud production buildings (producing smoke) can scare away schools of fish
- Windows build change to x86_64
- Deep Diver, Fisher, Scavenger, Forager have increased chance to produce nothing the longer a city is stationary
Bugs Fixed:
- Platform reflections are too shiny and chrome, riding eternal
- Lighting errors during sun changes
- Workshop foundation hover texture messed up
- Workshop building too small after built
- Pollution effect in water not showing
- Fires not being set on some buildings
- Fire related errors
- Fertilize with corpse going to paused Greenhouse
- Scavenger special upgrade bugged
- Dispose of body error during mass die offs
- Upgrades can cause a save error
- Navigation errors for Tree, Gulls, Monument
- Demo ship upgrade City Action not unlocking
- Lots of bugs related to Upgrades system
- Some particle objects not auto disabling
- Stack overflow error during city war cleanup
- Invaded cities always retreat after tribute surrendering
+ Removed Martin
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Alpha v3.0.1121
Sun, 22 November 2020
Updates/Changes:
- Buildings under construction can be paused/resumed
- New Shipyard asset
- Toggle in settings to disable villager reaction sprites
- Building production won't pause if there is no more storage room left
- Storehouses can store past their maximum capacities
- Storehouses will decay resources if overcapacity
- Villagers can be killed by falling resources if a Storehouse is overcapacity
- UI buttons to start/stop specific Resource storage at Storehouses (Town Center is disabled)
- Stopping storage of a resource will clear out the resource and need to be transported elsewhere
- Destroyed storehouses have a chance to spawn resources that were stored there
- Destroyed under construction buildings spawn crates instead of instantly adding to storehouses
- French translation updated
Bugs Fixed:
- Wrecker ship not spawning/moving
- Shipyard capacity upgrade making too many available ships
- Renovate upgrade not being applied immediately
- Lamps at night too bright
- Villager thirst not saving
- Estimated resource usage accuracies
- Storehouse capacity upgrade stacking after load
- Fog save causing load errors
- Chance for resource crates to produce errors
- Rare error during resource collectable despawn
+ Removed Martin
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Devlog 28
Mon, 30 November 2020
Hey Buoyancies!
November's devlog is here for reading material. Check it out.
Texturing
Elliot
Shipyard
Sticking with a lot of the refining buildings this building mostly uses a metal design. But experiments with the design by being mostly constructed from the hull of a ship and less from the design of a constructed building from mostly scrap pieces
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Hot Air Balloon (WIP)
A particularly noteworthy asset that only is seen when deployed by the city. I found it interesting to experiment with the torn mixed fabric design we tend to apply throughout our textures on this asset. While am more comfortable with the direction for the basket, I most likely will make changes to the fabric on the balloon
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Wrecker Ship (WIP)
While I want to keep the frame more wooden I feel the plastic bulkiness on the front and sides makes the asset look a little silly. But I am in favor of a primarily green color pallet
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Ships n’ chips
Kevin
This’ll probably be what I want to show for this Devlog
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Graphical Update… Again…
Shawn
After the launch of our updated rendering we found that players using the Linux OS were unable to play the game. To remedy this, we had to upgrade our engine – now Linux players were able to once again enjoy Buoyancy… Weeeeeeell…. Turns out, the upgrade also changed a lot of how lighting and shaders worked; our textures were blinding, the scene lighting was not correct, and shaders broke leaving textures invisible in game. We had to fix as much as we could quickly so we didn’t blind the players from the sheer reflection of the sun from their cities. After the most problematic bugs were fixed, we began working on lesser issues and will continue to fix reported graphical bugs that may pop up as more players are able to find them.
Storage System changes
Zomawia
The Storage system was reworked. Building production doesn’t stop anymore if you reach maximum storage. Resources will now decay if their Storehouse is at capacity. Villagers can also die from falling crates at overcapacity Storehouses.
Watch out for falling Whale.
Various Requested Stuff
Zomawia
Buildings under construction can be paused and resumed
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Recruit amount from other cities
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Screenshots for save games
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See what resources villagers are carrying. Use the overlay toggle button and enable it in Settings menu.
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Pausing and resuming resource storage in Storehouses
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Stats Menu
Zomawia
Finished with the stats menu for now. Added a World panel and a calendar to it so you can see the current day and future holidays. I intend to put Biome, Seasons, and Weather information there when we get those systems running.
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Alpha v3.0.1203
Fri, 4 December 2020
Updates/Changes:
- Graphical settings optimized/changed for new renderer
- Construction piece assets for Mill, Workshop, Shipyard
- Recruit panel to choose how many recruited villagers
- Saved games shows image of city
- Overlay can show sprite of resource in crate, toggle in settings menu
- Pirate scouts can be smashed into destroyed ship nodes to sink them
- World/Calendar panel in Stats panel
- New asset for Seaplane
- Asset optimizations for Trapper trap
- Fireworks fire amount limited to 15% of total buildings
- Helper system for building production and construction (add/remove helper villagers)
- All task completion will result in happiness, hunger, thirst gains
- Only Idle villagers will receive unhappiness loss during stat updates
- Idle villager happiness loss depends on how they are idle
- Cousin rating reduces happiness loss from events
- Villagers gain happiness if new villager born
- Fires cause unhappiness to villagers on platform
- Extinguished fires give happiness to villagers on platform
- Very exciting asset animation on Medicine Hut
- Scrap building tool to descontruct buildings and get back resources depending on decay
Bugs Fixed:
- Light flicker on Bakery too fast
- Bridges on other cities very dark (wrong textures)
- Super bright spotlights on some platforms
- Bioalgae glow is TOO DAMN BRIGHT
- Navmesh path blockers not working after loading game
- Navmesh errors with Shipyard, Mill, and a rock
- Town center has 0 mass, renovate upgrade not doing anything
- Greenhouse production not affected by decay
- Resources being added to total resources but not Storehouses in certain scenarios
- Villagers enroute for resource delivery not stopping if building paused
- Medicine Hut LODs not working
- Resources only going to TC
- Villager death error from no platform assigned
- Platform null errors during rioting, cannibal sickness events
- Texture flicker when Low quality and low texture setting
- Resource nodes sometimes don't provide bonus when connected
+ Removed Martin
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Alpha v3.0.1207
Tue, December 8, 2020
Updates/Changes:
- Buildings can be freely rotated (hold R during placement)
- More bridges to use
- Increased the amount of times villagers check for stat replenishment (50s -> 30s)
- Get Food threshold default changed from 50 -> 70
- Get Happiness threshold default changed from 50 -> 60
- Hunger gains slightly reduced
- Small wake trails for rowers
Bugs Fixed:
- Villagers can't reach washed up resources sometimes
- Resource piles spawning outside of platform
- Wake trails ugly, repeating poorly after new renderer
- Building placement splash visuals suck after new renderer
- Workshop platform during placement wasn't turning green/red
+ Removed Martin
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Alpha v3.0.1220
Sun, December 20, 2020
Updates/Changes:
- New Hot Air Balloon asset
- Crashed Balloon collectable resource (gives plastic and 1 unlucky corpse)
- French translation updated (thanks Yves)
- German translation updated (not 100%)
- Toggle in the buildings menu to show buildings built that are same type when hovered
- Ctrl + Scroll wheel will cycle between command/upgrade tools
- Placeable objects system (in Build Menu, Objects tab)
- Lamp posts removed from most platforms
- Placeable Lights (lamps, firepits) sources give small Happiness to passing villagers during night time
- Other Placeables give small Happiness to passing villagers during day time
- Placeable Walls
- Reduced Decay firestart chances, decay amount from fire, lightning decay amount, daily decay amounts
- Decay repaired per resource changed 2 -> 8
- Villager fire fighting strength increased
- Combat UI buttons moved to top of screen
- Can use UI menus during combat now
- Some more floating cities
- Destroyed Floating Cities can respawn if no more left (except cities with Wonders)
- Quantity of resources increased in resource nodes (fish, kelp, ships, etc)
Bugs Fixed:
- Lucky villager not selected for Hot Air Balloon ride
- Hot Air Balloon marker lines suck
- Rower wake trails go missing during certain camera angles
- Villager could be named Martin
- Tutorial not using rebinded camera panning keys
- Thin bridges showing in all the build menu filters
- Node display particle is gross since new renderer
- Villagers could get stuck on Smelter, Trapper platforms
- Corpse pile node choice results for Eat, Ignore were flipped
- Fires, some lights still too bright in other cities
+ Removed Martin
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Devlog 29
December 31, 2020
Happy Chrimbus and New Year! Here is our recap to end this year.
Oil Rig, Historian
Kevin
all I can show for this months dev-log.
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Oil Rig
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Historian
Read on.... (https://buoyancygame.com/2020/12/31/devlog-29/)
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Alpha v3.1.0107
Fri, January 8, 2021
Updates/Changes:
- Scrapping a building will refund completed upgrades
- New Demo ship asset
- New Wrecker ship asset
- Jobs and assignments optimizations with higher city populations
- Exploder Pirates can blow up walls
- French translation updated (thanks Yves!)
- Washed up resources will respect limits and be thrown out if applicable
- New music from Byron for the Wavebreaker Invasion event, and some other sound effects
- Laborers jobs amount shows amount that can't be completed due to insufficient resources/idles
- Cousins might accidentaly destroy food at Galley
Bugs Fixed:
- Platforms could have double buildings built on it
- Texture errors for Medicine hut doctor
- Texture errors for Guardhouse, Prison, Ranger Barrack alarm object
- Notification UI title text overflow
- Villagers stuck on Food break when replenishing thirst
- Buildings stop producing and receiving input resources
- Trade menu sliders bugged at 100 amount
- Crash after city war is over
- Error during villager death if it was carrying something
- Helpers don't leave building if paused
- Villagers spawning off platforms in some of the newer cities
- Whale from Whale call not going to city
- Whales not roaming around
- Removed food from Storehouses not going to Galley
- Prisoner conscript not working during city war
- Prisoner conscript navigation errors after multiple fights
- Imprison villager button not working in Stats
- Tooltips for Prisoner stat buttons incorrect
+ Removed Martin
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Alpha v3.1.0112
Wed, January 13, 2021
Updates/Changes:
- Updated to Unity 2019.4.17f
- Default Villager speeds lowered from 1.5 -> 1.25
- Bridge speed boosts lowered from 2x -> 1.5x
Bugs Fixed:
- Fireproof upgrade not working correctly
- Error when doctor trying to heal killed sick villager
- Rain particles not appearing
- Rotten food event selecting 0 resources
+ Removed Martin
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Alpha v3.1.0120
Thu, January 21, 2021
Updates/Changes:
- Fuel Factory wonder building added (makes Crude Oil from plastic)
- Optimizations
Bugs Fixed:
- Tree leaf color pink before acquisition
- Villagers getting stuck on getting corpses
- Random fire event dead worker error
- Refinery special upgrade causing no pickups
- Error can happen during eat corpse blood effect
- Error from Motor particle system
- Harpooner producing without Whale nodes
- Lighting errors related to Moon light cycles
- Galley error adding too many resources
- Daily decay not happening on buildings
- Villager not on navmesh sometimes after city war
- Invasion/War button flashing never stops
- Pause button in Building info panel not interactable
+ Removed Martin
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Alpha v3.1.0129
Fri, January 29, 2021
Updates/Changes:
- Change Input storage amounts (1,2,3,4x of required) in Building info UI
- Toggle if Flammable buildings will display icon when placing Firestarter and viceversa
- French translation updated (thanks Yves!)
Bugs Fixed:
- Wonder scrapped message appearing for no raisin
- Hostile Takeover happening too early in game
- Resource count and limiter not synced
- Wrecker ships get stuck sometimes
- New moon lighting is too dark
- Disaster Events could stop happening forever (storm, pirates, takeover, etc)
- Can't invade Cousinopolis city
- Incorrect villager fire death notification
+ Removed Martin
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Devlog 30
January 31, 2021
Hello and Welcome back to the Buoyancy devlogs.
New Buildings assets
Elliott
Fuel Factory
While in the last Devlog I said I most likely will reduce the number of red hues in the texture. I found them very eye-catching and saw a lot of compromise with the other colors that the texture had with greens and yellows
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Historian
I wanted to primarily focus on a wood-based texture, letting the unique building design take stage while not resembling something very industrial. It should be noted while not in the render the torches will be lit, and collected relics are placed on top of the podium
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Historian
Belief Building Concepts
Kevin
For Devlog if I’m not too late
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Artifacts. History, Lore, and the Artifact Room
Shawn
We have begun work on implementing the artifact system which encompasses all the history and lore aspects of our storytelling. Artifacts will be uncovered during playthroughs and store in the artifact room which will be accessed from the main menu and in-game. All artifacts in this room can be clicked on to get a closer view, rotate, and learn more information about the part of history it represents. There are also plans to include information about each belief but, for now, we are focused on the history. Here is the prototype for what we have.
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BUGS
Zomawia
Zom fix bugs. Go away bugs.
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Alpha v3.1.0218
Fri, February 19, 2021
Updates/Changes:
- New song during gameplay - "Lost at Sea" by Byron Brown
- Event frequency decreased, balancing (pirates, storms, etc.)
- Fuel Factory asset optimizations
Bugs Fixed:
- Too many villagers trying to eat small amount of food
- Storm arrow directional not displaying
+ Removed Martin
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Alpha v3.1.0223
Wed, February 24, 2021
Alpha v3.1.0223
Updates/Changes:
- Plague pirates sick chance decreased
- Pirate reduced health, walk speed, spawn amounts
- Pirate subs will be destroyed if collided with another docked boat
- Old age deaths re-enabled, lowered chance
- Doctor heal time decreased
- Evaporator production changed to 5 -> 6, production time reduced 70 -> 60
Bugs Fixed:
- Exiting Settings menu doesn't revert back to previous set game speed
- Villager Management runs out of scroll space with higher populations
- Trade value for your city starting with high numbers
- Wrecked pirate scout encounter could die during spawn
- Resources not saving after invasion
- Combat AI error
- Available food/beer stored amount inaccuracies when pirates steal them
- Villagers not drinking seawater if no water/beer available with some city designs
- Villagers dying from thirst using nourishment death notifications
- Orange sun color at start
+ Removed Martin
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Devlog 31
February 28, 2021
Hey everyone thanks for reading this devlog. We are still chugging along getting the new buildings done for the Beliefs system. The Beliefs system in-game is still under progress as well as the Artifacts and lore. Also we did a ton of bugfixes during February and the game seems pretty stable after playtesting a bunch.
Belief buildings assets
Kevin
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Oil Rig Platform
Elliott
This asset, in particular, was more time-consuming than I initially thought. I found a struggle with finding a balance of the design by keeping most objects more traditional designed, while also applying more crude constructed buildings and textures. I applied this thought process because I wanted some of the buildings to appear as if they been simply damaged and worn by time and use, while others are constructed by the people residing there. I can see improvements could be made by applying more objects like creates or tables to apply a more living abode to who lives here. But overall I find the shape and organized chaos with the textures to work nicely with the platform and fit well into the game.
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Recycling Pool
Elliott
While this asset is labeled WIP It most likely won’t be seeing many changes since the color scheme is almost identical to the concept, I still will play around with adding more detail and cohesion to the texture
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Lore
Shawn
Most artifacts history’s are in the pre-writing stage, many are outlined, and three have their narrative drafted. Hopefully we’ll have most drafted and/or being revised by the next Devlog.
Belief System
Zomawia
Been working on the beliefs system intermittently between bug fixing phases. The UI for selecting new techs is working as is the Belief selector panel. I decided not to a do a tech tree but make the whole tech system open, kind of how building availability and upgrades are.
You earn tech points in-game to unlock the belief techs. Each Belief earn points during gameplay differently though some may overlap. Examples: destroying a city, hitting a population goal, crash into a trading post.
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Alpha v3.1.0303
Thu, March 4, 2021
Updates/Changes:
- Updated to Unity 2019.4.21f
- Most Tier 1/2 building masses, pollution levels lowered
- UI background alpha slider in settings menu
- Doctors will go to next closest sick person instead of returning to Medicine hut
- Building a Medicine hut will change sickness law default to Send doctors automatically
- Doctor heal speed increased
- Tooltip in breaking down what is affecting production rate (hover over gear)
- Workshop input resources reduced 10 -> 3
- Disabled Wrecker ships using Gasoline
Bugs Fixed:
- Main UI buttons being pressed when overlapped with Building Info panel footer buttons
- Water count in storehouse quanity mismatch
- Notification UI title text clip
- Villager pathfinding getting stuck on bare platforms
- Recycler special upgrade causing crates that can't be picked up
- Workshop not making Tools sometimes
- Blight event check causing error
- Wrecker ships returning before reaching collectable resource
+ Removed Martin
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Devlog 32
March 31, 2021
Hey everyone. Thanks for reading March Devlog. This is sort of a repeat from last month since we are still working the Beliefs and techs. All the new buildings have been modeled and are awaiting textures and other optimizations.
Shrine, and other assets
Kevin
new buildings in the works
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Artifacts
Shawn
Rough drafts for all the lore for each artifact is complete. I will begin revising the drafts and expanding the lore where I need to and Elliott has begun modeling the artifacts.
Belief building texturing
Elliott
Arena
For the Arena, I was worried the overuse of the wood paneling textures would make it very bland and hard to identify. I believe I found a good use with the metallic paneling parts and the blue tarps flanking each side to help the asset stand out with its unique design.
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Arena
Recycling Pool
As posted from my last Devlog this asset was mostly completed and primarily needed a little touch up to be game-ready. While not a very big building I saw the It stands out fine with the green liquid inside the vat and in the tub
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Recyling Pool
Oil Platform node and cities
Zomawia
Integrated the new oil rig platform to resource nodes (similar to Sunken tankers for oil, scrap metal). Also created some new cities that utilize the oil rigs. Since the oil platform navigable areas are way higher than the players platform I had to revamp our code to accept different height differences, also with animation changes (climb, jump down). This could be used for other future structures like mega faction cities, iceberg cities, etc.
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Belief buildings wip
Zomawia
Worked on things relating to the beliefs. Most of these new buildings were ideas from the fans. Here are the descriptions and usage:
Historian – Processes Junk in an attempt to find educational materials. Villagers can use them to reduce their Cousin rating over time.
Shrine – Processes Junk in an attempt to create offerings. Villagers can use offerings to worship here and increase Happiness over time. Intended to replace Brewery as primary Happiness source.
Smokeshop – Processes Grains, Crude Oil, and Seaweed to create Smokes. Villagers can smoke the Smokes here to increase Cousin rating over time.
Arena – A large building that Villagers can spar in. Sparring villagers gain Happiness over time while also increasing Hunger. Intended to replace Brewery as primary Happiness source.
Soup Kitchen – Processes Flour, Seaweed, and Water to create soup. Villagers can eat here to regain stats over time. Intended to replace Galley as primary Food consumption.
Recycling Pool – Corpses are deposited here and turned into a nutritional sludge. Villagers can eat here to regain stats over time. Intended to replace Galley as primary Food consumption.
Some higher tiered buildings will be also be locked until a Belief is selected.
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Alpha v3.1.0428
Thu, 29 April 2021
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Updates/Changes:
- Maxed out prisons will spawn new prisoners if empty prison avaiable
- Eat prisoner lowered meat chance 2-3 to 1-2
- Prisoner birthrate chance reduced and clamped (10) per prison
Bugs Fixed:
- Brewery random event firing without a brewery
- Wanted resources could show up as exports for Other cities
- Eat corpse causing all villagers to stop moving
- Upgraded prisons losing prisoners after load
- Upgraded shipyards losing extra ships after load
- Trading ship left and UI interaction error
- Navmesh fixes
- Combat AOE slow causing errors
+ Removed Gasprice
+ Removed Martin
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Alpha v3.1.0525
Wed, 26 May 2021
Updates/Changes:
- Looter Caravans will save previous selections
- Buildings with Helpers will continue production if Specialist leaves for food/drink
- Helper count show in UI next to Specialist count
- Helpers that die will attempt replacement with idle villager
- Pollution spill event tweaks, more affected buildings
- Wonder buildings can be scrapped for new placement but will cause happiness loss
- Prison break tweaks, will reduce food levels stored in prisons
- Fires can burn/destroy internal storages to applicable buildings
- Scrapping a building can now be cancelled
- Click on city status icon to hide the icon
Bugs Fixed:
- Survivor Raft (boat version) too low and unnoticeable
- Last Tree leaf material ugly fix
- Double UI click audio during trade buttons
- Workshop was part of polluting event
- Range placement indicator shader fix
- No description when hover over the Help icon at Pirate City
- Paused construction and buildings asking for resources
- Save relics toggle not working
- Priority construction ignored sometimes
- Depleted resource in multiple node null errors
- Villagers could get stuck in the air when ending a battle with oil platform cities
- Helpers leave building when doing an upgrade
- Trade panel won't reappear after paying pirate demands
+ Removed Martin
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Devlog 36
July 31, 2021
Hey Buoyancies! Thanks for checking out our latest devlog.
July has come and passed and here is what we have been up to.
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https://buoyancygame.com/2021/07/31/devlog-36/
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Alpha v4.0.1008
Fri, October 8, 2021
Updates/Changes:
- Updated to Unity 2020.3.18f1
- New Water and Lighting system
- Beliefs and Tech point system
- New Belief Buildings added - Smokeshop, Historian, Soup Kitchen, Arena, Shrine, Recycling Pool
- Galley is not a default building anymore (part of Belief buildings)
- Most City Actions locked to certain Beliefs now
- Butcher building is required to process corpses, can rot
- Helper boost numbers shown in production progress tooltip
- Prison food value and nourishment balancing
- Other city villagers, military combat stats boosted
- New Smelter, Scavenger assets
- Buildings now show visible decay with darkened colors
- Removed chance that building destroyed on collision, does heavy decay damage instead
- Mass Quarantine changed to villagers quarantine instead of banished
- Trade City needs help status icon in City Status UI
- Free rotate toggle added in Settings
- Crashed rafts and trade posts spawn corpses
- Pause/resume game time button, hotkey
- Camera pivot hotkeys
- Scrap progress shown in overlay/hover
Bugs Fixed:
- Fuel Factory wonder saving incorrectly
- Main UI buttons are preceding Building UI panel buttons when clicked
- Cities destroyed stat was tallying from other city kills
- Wrecker ships not redeploying if area was previously depleted
- Mega Dale City using wrong description, save path
- Wrecker ship colliding with temporary building/bridge placement
- Guardhouse/Ranger Barracks filling up pass capacity
- Military sending incorrect amount to fight
- Harpoon tower special upgrade error if unit killed by other
- Villager sad icon not turning off sometimes when at high happiness
- Caravan bad rotation at spawn
- Building hover tooltips not updating when same building panel is open
- Prisoners not moved immediately when prison scrapped
- Prisoner data not destroyed in certain cases
- Pirate sub collider issues
- Pathing improvements for long, complicated paths
- Prison food levels not being replenished when retrieved from Galley
- Gather perimeter indicator not resetting rotation if using free rotate
- Navmesh from other cities could mess up Town Center pathing during load
- Wrecker ships deploying if Scavenger is paused
- Resource carried is null causing all villagers to stop moving
- Scrollwheel sensitivy for trade menus bad
- Error when clicking between resource quota fields but not entering anything
- Random Beer events happening without Beer
- Whale from Whale Call not arriving to city
- Error when Trade Boat forced dock, then leave from inactivity
- Water Cannon keep shooting water after extinguising
- Idle villagers not rowing
- Construction resource not being delivered after pirate steal same
- Shipyard outline material using wrong shader
- Villager errors related to removals, death, deletion
- Bridge, platform not refunding from destruction
+ Removed Martin
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Devlog 39
October 31, 2021
Hey everyone. Happy Halloween! Thanks for checking out our latest Devlog. Alpha 4 was pushed out this past month with the Beliefs and Techs system being highlight of the update. What’s next? We will be working on the Biomes and Artifacts update.
New Storehouse, Artifacts texturing
Elliott
Storehouse_v2
While the back view cant be seen compared to the last devlog. I should note that I didn’t make many noticeable changes to that side. I feel the shape of this structure to be pretty noticeable for its large doors and noticeable ring of direction arrows that wrap around the structure. I found the mix of wooden texturing for one building roofing, and metal for the other. Helps distinguish while also complementing each other with their distinct designs.
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Read on: https://buoyancygame.com/2021/10/31/devlog-39/
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Devlog 40
December 1, 2021
Happy Turkey Time! Here’s what we have been up to this past November.
Upgrade Meshes
Kevin
More upgrades this month for the Refinery, Mill, Guardhouse, and Trapper.
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Read on: https://buoyancygame.com/2021/12/01/devlog-40/
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Devlog 42
January 31, 2022
Thanks for checking out our latest devlog. We are working on our next big update for Biomes and Artifacts. The art team is finished with building redesigns and upgrades and now focusing on art for the Biomes.
Faction Capitols
Sneak peek on the Faction cities
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Read on.....https://buoyancygame.com/2022/01/31/devlog-42/
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Devlog 43
April 4, 2022
Hey everyone! Our latest devlog covers more of our Alpha 5 progress. The Artifact Room is almost done and we have more asset work on the Biomes update.
For this month I constructed an artifact room. We wanted an area where you can inspect the items acquired in-game. The room needed to be large to accommodate all of the artifacts. Also giving the player a goal by seeing all the empty tables.
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The artifact room’s assets have been created and placed inside the scene.
This is where players will find out more about the artifacts they find and the world of Buoyancy.
Read on.....https://buoyancygame.com/2022/04/04/devlog-43/