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[Gabeux]

An unexpected use of drugs: I have to clear-cut an area to make a large farm so I gave an alpha beaver smoke leaf to up it's hunger, yayo to speed it up, and wake-up to help it work through the night.

Damn.
I wonder if anyone actually expected it to the point of making it their main focus with the feature. Giving cocaine to cats.

[Broseph Stalin]

A pirate boss got a free object lesson on the importance of helmets. She had a pain stopper so she kept coming until my colonists cut her legs out from under her.

This game is good at making me feel like an asshole. As I looked her over I saw that she's a 19 year old beautiful, bloodthirsty, lesbian drifter who grew up in the scouts. At some point before turning pirate she was working on a novel that was not very good. She has a passion for cooking, medicine, and animals. She also had a few friends, all of them died in a hail of gunfire while her painstopper kept her aware but totally helpless on the ground. She would have seen them being hauled off to the warg pit as chow. She's useless but I felt so bad I recruited her, she very slowly putters around the colony cleaning.

[Sergius]

Give her two peg legs.

Even better, give her four peg legs.

[SOLDIER First]

Like this?

[Bitoru]

New version is out and it seems like this is the point where I buy the game. 

[Darkond2100]

This is fantastic. The first time I check the dev log in ages and there's a new release waiting for me. I check my steam and it's already updated.

[martinuzz]

Anyone know if the CR, prepare carefully, improved stack, and refridgerators mod still work?

[Darkond2100]

They've not been recompiled yet.

[Sergius]

Just as well, as I like to try vanilla first on each new major update...

[Chiefwaffles]

Alpha 16 Devblog.

It's the stable version of what's been in unstable/dev/whatever they call it for about a week or so now. Basic gist is that it adds an actual planet overworld map that you can use to send caravans throughout the world to towns and outposts of the factions in your game. Caravans can experience random encounters, need food, can trade, and can settle down as new colonies. You can raid other outposts and towns as well.

There's also been tons of other useful changes like cleaning and harvesting being done in batches now - meaning, for example, if you were to force a colonist to clean a spot on the floor, they'll clean multiple spots (seems all the spots of the same type in the room/area) before they mark their job as done. Visual feedback for moodlets - you'll see some fairly noticeable thought bubbles appear when a colonist does/sees something that gives a mood modifier. Surgery failures seem to be a bit more sane now, with different types of failures affecting the location around the intended site the failure can occure in. Drugs seem to be nerfed and cause more permanent damage with a new constantly-present overdose change. Some additions to drug schedules. A ton of other improvements as well - you should see spoiler'd changelog below or the link above to see the whole list.

Spoiler: Changelog (click to show/hide)

Spherical planet
World map is now modeled as a sphere covered with hexagons (and a few pentagons).
New map generation to make nicer mountain ranges, hill clusters, and continents.
Nice backdrop with stars and sun.
Time of day is modeled on the planet view; local time of day corresponds to how the sunlight hits the planet.
Time zones are now modeled, out of necessity.
New planet generation parameter: temperature. You can make worlds that are overall hotter or overall colder.
New planet generation parameter: rainfall. You can make worlds where there is overall more or less precipitation.
New biome: sea ice.
Factions can now have many bases; non-player factions generate with lots of bases.

Multiple simultaneous maps
There can now be multiple local maps active at once. For example, you can have your colony running as well, as a group of soldiers attacking an enemy base, at the same time.
The character bar at the top of the screen shows all of your colonists and allows you to change which map you’re looking at. It groups characters togehter by the map they’re on.
You can settle multiple colonies at once. However, for balance and performance reasons, the default limit is one colony at a time. This can be increased in the options menu if you want to experiment, but we don’t recommend it.

Caravans
Player can now gather up groups of colonists, prisoners, and animals, and form caravans to travel across the world surface.
Caravans are formed using a special “create caravan” dialog, which allows you to easily decide what people, animals, and items should be included in the caravan up to its carry weight limit. The colonists do the busywork.
Caravans appear as units in the world map, where they can be ordered around similarly to drafted soldiers in the local map.
Caravans can be ambushed by enemy factions or manhunting animals. This produces a temporary local map.
Caravans can incidentally meet friendly traders and trade.
Caravans can visit other faction bases and trade with them. Faction bases have more stock and better prices than traders who come and visit your colony.
Caravans can attack faction bases. The game generates a simple faction base map with defenders and loot, and you raid it. If you defeat the defenders, you can move in and take over the base (for now, generated bases are quite simple.)
Caravans can settle and form new colonies.
You can abandon your bases to shift to new ones.
Caravans move at different speeds depending on the biome, the time of year (cold biomes close off with the winter snows), local hilliness, the movement speeds of people in the caravan, and whether there are wounded to carry.
It is possible to abandon people and items from caravans. Abandoning people will, depending on the context, produce sad thoughts from their friends and relatives, especially if you abandon them in circumstances that seem impossible to survive.

Travel victory
New game ending: A friendly person offers a ship, but it is distant, across the world map. If you travel there, you can escape the planet and complete the game. But, traveling there will take a long time and you’ll need to stop at various points to build up supplies or solve problems.

Transport pods
You can build transport pod launchers and transport pods. These let you launch their contents long distances across the world map, over oceans or mountains.
Pods can be targeted on empty world tiles, to send a caravan of people and gear there.
Pods can be targeted on enemy bases, where you can perform “drop-in” raids and drop right on top of the base, or drop outside it – just like raiders do to you!
Pods can be targeted on existing combat maps or other bases you control. This allows you to do things like resupply an ongoing siege with artillery shells (just like raiders do when besieging you), reinforce a weak caravan that just got ambushed, or send supplies and people between two bases you control.
Pods are loaded by selecting several and creating a “launch group”. An interface like that for creating caravans appears, allowing you to define what and who should be included. The colonists do the detail work.
Transport pods require chemfuel, which can be bought, founded, drilled from the ground, or refined from wood or food using the new refinery building.

Usability improvements
New research screen! Research projects are laid out visually according to their dependencies in a left-to-right arrangement similar to the Civilization games. Modders need to manually place their projects, but if two overlap the game will automatically move them apart.
Redesigned how medical system generates text feedback. Tooltips now contain much more information with less ambiguity. Wound tendings are now of any percentage quality (not just good/poor).
Game now warns you when you order slaughter of a bonded animal (because of the mood impact).
Added visual feedback thought bubbles for when pawns gain certain good and bad thoughts, so it’s easier to see when something just bothered or pleased them.
Rich soil is darker in color and so easier to see.
Added a “hold fire” toggle on drafted pawns that makes them not automatically shoot at enemies.
In order to avoid annoying players by having animals always follow their masters, even into combat, players can configure when animals will follow their masters. There are two toggles: Follow while drafted, follow while hunting/taming

Drugs and Health
Drug rebalance. Increase drug addictiveness in general. Drugs can now damage the body in various ways: Alcohol can cause brain damage or liver cirrhosis or liver cancer, smokeleaf can cause asthma or lung cancer, psychite can damage kidneys, wake-up and go-juice can damage the brain, and generalized overdoses can cause brain damage.
Drugs are more lucrative on the market.
Added a third toggle in drug policy saying whether you can use the drug to feed an addiction, separately from joy usage.
There is now a random chance of a overdose when taking drugs, even if just taking one dose.
Added a way to administer specific drugs to people, including prisoners, animals, and downed people. So you can give Luciferium to someone who needs it.
Malari-block reworked into Penoxycyline, which prevents a wide variety of infections (not just malaria).
Drug chemical effects are modulated by body size. So elephants need a lot of beer to get hammered; squirrels not so much.
Luciferium occasionally heals old wounds/scars. Luciferium is harder to get (less of it in old shrines, higher prices).
Stats now stack differently (more additive, less multiplying) to reduce some exploits.

Misc
Reworked surgery failure into three modes – minor, catastrophic, and ridiculous. Ridiculous hits all body parts, minor and catastrophic hit parts near the surgery site.
Reworked trade prices across the board. Simplified trade price calculations and added rich tooltips to feed them back.
The mood effects from room impressiveness have been redesigned and rebalanced. Characters now have consistently reasonable thoughts about the quality of their personal room, so there is a reason to make better rooms (though high-quality rooms aren’t absolutely necessary). Mood effects from eating in or convalescing in nice/poor rooms are also more reasonable and better-fed back.
Rebalanced plant growth timings.
UI can now be scaled to arbitrary scaling factors, for players who play in really high resolution.
Rescued people (especially space refugees etc) should sometimes join the colony. If the environment isn’t survivable (e.g. bad temperature, toxic fallout) they should always join the colony.
Animals carrying inventory now have visible packs on.
Added new separate bills to stonecut each type of stone.
Prisoners are now temporarily marked “guilty” when they do certain actions, like killing a colonist or attempting escape. Guilty prisoners can be executed without mood penalties.
Faction names are now much more interesting and varied, and are separate from specific community names.
New Peaceful difficulty mode, for players who just want to build stuff. Disables major involuntary threats like raids.
Rename Megatherium -> Megasloth
New alert: Unhappy nudity
Backstories can be translated now
New translation tool gives a readout of exactly what translation data remains to be written and what data is unused.
Added proper chick peeping sounds.
You can now only request one trader per 4 days from a faction.
Colonists now get mood boosts for defeating big enemies or enemy faction leaders.
Cleaning and harvesting jobs are now given in batches (more efficient and sensible AI).
Default medical care for non-colonists is now herbal meds. Switches to best meds on recruit.
Rebalanced most range weapons so more time is in cooldown and less is in aiming – especially for light weapons.
Pawns generated below age 20 now have no adulthood backstory.
Hundreds of other balance improvements, exploit solutions, AI improvements, and bugfixes.

[Aseaheru]

 Also, Combat Realism is updated already for it, which is beyond awesome.

[Majestic7]

Aww, I will miss dwarven surgery where an attempt to treat an infected wound results in a removed kidney.

[Baffler]

I like this update. Mechanoids attacked the tribe in force, so instead of fighting them and having everyone die, I just grabbed all the livestock and everything I didn't want to lose and ran to the hills. The robots made a mess of the place before they fucked off somewhere else, but at least it's better than everyone dying.

[Majestic7]

I didn't event consider using caravans for evacuations. I wonder, is toxic fallout planetary phenomenon? Could you just evacuate temporarily and come back later when it is over?

[Retropunch]

Aww, I will miss dwarven surgery where an attempt to treat an infected wound results in a removed kidney.

Apparently there is still a chance of the operation going 'ridiculously' wrong, so there's no need to worry!