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Greetings scientists…

FOREVER SKIES 1.0 LAUNCH TRAILER

LAUNCH DAY BUNDLES

SOUL MASK, ALOFT AND PLANET CRAFTER

WHAT’S IN 1.0?

• [b]The Final Chapter[/b]. How does the story end? The decision is yours.
• [b]Biomes[/b]. Evolving the game's procedural world with more defined environments.
• [b]New Locations[/b]. New points of interest to explore throughout the adventure.

• [b]Colossal Lifeforms[/b]. Rare creatures, far beyond your means to fight. However, getting close enough might reward you with new places to explore.
• [b]New Collections & Rewards.[/b] Find artifacts and murals in the world to complete your collection and unlock new cosmetic rewards to customize your airship.
• [b]New Items.[/b] New tools, airship balloons, resources and crafting recipes

• [b]Optimization Improvements[/b]. Better overall performance. Now includes DLSS Frame Generation support
• [b]Balance & QoL Improvements[/b]. Larger stack sizes, quest progression improvements, UI scaling, “Read All” function for the database, “Ingredients Auto Crafting” to remove tedium for more advanced upgrades.

NEW GAME VERSIONS & DLC

Forever Skies OST by Paweł Błaszczak

Supporter Pack - containing a few very cool airship cosmetics.

Players can purchase them separately or packed together in the Deluxe Edition bundle!

CHANGELOG/PATCH NOTES

NEW CONTENT:

• The world has been split into 3 different Biomes, with unique visuals - Silent City - Overgrown Ruins - New Nature
• Different gates surround different biomes - The Wall - Charged Blockade
• New locations - Cosmodrome - Workshop - AI-Tree Surface Lift - AI-Tree Roots
• New small locations / POIs - Loot Containers - Luciferin POIs - Three unique Colossal Life Form POIs
• Murals - 20+ unique world murals

• The story finale has been added with more than one possible ending
• New Research: Computers with blueprints for Airship parts
• Discoveries tab in the Studies menu showing all the collectibles (replacing Scanner tab)
• Lore tablets in the Ark Capsule Drop random event

• Cutting Tool
• Extractor module: Organic
• Mural Frame
• New Balloons - Bulky - Flat - Tech
• Three Colossal Life Form Eggs for airship decoration

• Luciferin
• Machine Scrap
• Technology Token
• Basic Research Part
• Advanced Research Part
• Unique Research Part

• Ingredients Auto Crafting added - you can now craft items in printers for which you don’t have all the necessary components, but you have resources to craft them.
• Scalable UI (up to 120%)
• HUD elements highlights (Select Item, Flashlight, Helm’s Lock Speed) for better visibility of useful key shortcuts
• HUD discoveries count while exploring locations
• All action bar slots are possible to bind
• A UI widget that shows when the game is being saved
• Difficulty settings description added to the main menu when starting a game
• Building mode description added to the main menu when starting a game
• Database button to mark all entries as read
• Option to leave the game to the desktop from the Pause Menu
• Gamepad input settings to Settings
• DLSS Frame Generator

CHANGED:

• The Lower Greenhouse platform changed into a small early standalone location
• Locations and their surroundings changed their height/altitude to adjust them to the relevant biomes
• Dust color presets have been assigned to each biome to make them look more visually distinct from one another
• Rains less often (every 15 minutes, more or less)
• Clients' weather, especially rain, should now be better synchronised with the host's session (small issues may still appear, though)
• Locations general level art and level design pass
• Sewer lid under Sleeping Lilies moved to its correct position on Underdust: Suburbs
• Moth Swarms spawn time reduced
• World generation minor changes to prevent spawning locations on other locations
• Collisions on some locations adjusted

• First Immunity drop moved from Greenhouse Tower to Underdust: Tunnels
• Second Immunity drop moved from Underdust: Tunnels to Overgrown Lift
• Researching Encrypted Data no longer needs Evolved Flora Hologram as its crafting component
• Food and Water tutorial quests made as optional
• Item economy balance to progress the main quest path has changed
• Extracting Biomass grants a blueprint for Biomass Fuel
• Organic Printer removed from the Blueprints menu

• All special rewards from the Kickstarter campaign, the Holiday event and the WDC charity DLC have been moved from Device Fabricator into Furniture Fabricator
• Airship decoration items moved from Device Fabricator into Furniture Fabricator
• Boosters research recipes moved from Device Fabricator to Suit Printer tab
• Crossbow research recipe moved from Device Fabricator to Suit Printer tab
• Medium Backpack research moved from Device Fabricator to Upgrade Fabricator
• Bolt's research moved from Device Fabricator to Suit Printer
• Radar visual changed to highlight surrounding biomes better - Biomes representation on the outer ring - The biome you’re currently exploring is represented by the background colour - Murals icons added - Container icons added - World events icons added
• Filtering Deck Extractor now allows you to select Biomass for extraction
• Basic Turbine and Advanced Turbine now give not only an altitude bonus but also a maximum weight bonus (+50 / +100 respectively)
• Altitude bonus for Advanced Turbine is now +30 (instead of +20)
• Airship ascends/descends faster now - it's permanent, not related to Turbines
• Repair Thrower and Airship Builder now has a longer-lasting battery
• Both Automatic Extractors need Crystal Batteries
• Small Backpack moved from New Nature Territory to Greenhouse Tower
• Medium Backpack moved from Underdust: Suburbs to New Nature Territory
• Plant Oil and Organic Fertilizer are the default Distiller recipes now
• Low stamina animation with Knife plays its animation faster
• Wrecked versions of Repair Thrower and Paint Tool added so they match all the other Wrecked tools research process
• Crossbow bolts tweaked for a better lifespan, especially on long distances, e.g. for destroying the 3rd Biome gates
• Automatic Deck Extractor size reduced
• Automatic Deck Extractor crafting recipe changed (Fiberglass added)
• Metal Collector cannot be moved when there are some Metals gathered already
• Better detection range of Garden Pots placed under Sprinklers, less probability of those not being watered down with Sprinklers
• Sprinklers watering time reduced
• Sprinklers work when Garden Pots are out of water only
• Garden Pots collisions reduced so they can be placed closer together
• Paint Tool now contains 4 basic paints after acquiring this tool

• The Ladder Room module now has a proper ladder matching climbing animation
• Landing the airship at high speed will no longer cause damage

• Changes to flying debris: - Silicon is found in the Silent City biome - Biomass is found in the Overgrown Ruins biome - Glass is found in the New Nature biome
• Repair Patch stacks improved from 5 to 10
• Biomass stacks changed from 50 to 100
• Solid State Battery and Upgrade Fabricator crafting cost reduced
• Paint Tool moved from Furniture Fabricator to Suit Printer
• Energy Crystals are now craftable
• Fiberglass is now craftable
• All Keycards no longer need Access Modules as crafting ingredients
• Costs for crafting Polymer changed from 3 to 5 Plant Oil stacks
• Picking up a Firecracker plant now rewards with its fruits (with a random chance on getting its seed)
• Artifacts can’t be recycled anymore - they can only be sold in Artifacts Printers on the Dust Territories only
• Plants from the Overgrown Ruins biome need Organic Fertilizer for their growth process aboard your airship
• Plants that are pickable in Underdust locations only need Dust Fertilizer for their growth process aboard
• Radio Towers artifacts pool raised (from initial 2 to 6), so players can find a bigger variety of items
• Glowweed Seeds added as a loot on Infected Gardens
• Glowweed Seeds added and Petit Bruiseflower removed from Overgrown Lift
• Some plant spoiling timers were prolonged
• Rebalancing research and craft recipes
• Stacks Balance - Energy Crystal: 10->50 - Polymer: 20->50 - Epoxy: 20->50 - Transformer: 10->25 - Machine Parts: 25->50 - Synthetic Compound: 25->50 - Luciferin: 20->50 - Solid State Battery: 10->25 - Upgraded Battery: 10->25 - Copper Element: 25->50 - Virus samples 1->10
• Energy Crystals can now be found on both Wild Habitat and New Nature Territory
• Energy Crystals can now be found in the Colossal Life Form cave in the New Nature biome
• Stamina Booster is now a reward from extracting Photophobia Virus Sample (previously assigned to Pyrexia)
• Biomass Fuel crafting recipe changed (Clean Water >> Dirty Water)
• Lobster Pepper plants added to Greenhouse towers again
• All Plants should have their boiled versions (instead of an Overcooked Meal)
• Synchronize the growing times with the water quantity in the soil

• Blueprint menu adjusted to uniform UI look
• Database entries stripped of any irrelevant data (like edible and nutrients sections)
• Suit Printer tab moved to the leftmost space in the Research Station
• Cooldowns to many repeatable VOs and message log lines
• Distiller message log informs about finishing the whole process instead of every stack of distilled liquid
• Hold time on an Insect Catcher device reduced
• Hold time on picking up placeable objects has been reduced
• Removed greyed out layer from locked slots, color change and paddle shake added instead
• Slight change in a selected inventory slot for better visibility
• Removed color coding from object health indicator, outline added instead
• Minor changes in UI for localization purposes
• Inventory gamepad bindings - “Move” is on Facebutton Bottom (X/A) and “Use” is on Facebutton Left (Square/X)
• Posters were rescaled
• Database icons and backgrounds adjusted
• Simplified controller’s Adaptive Triggers conditions for some tools

• Clients can’t join the session while the host is operating lift to or from Underdust locations to prevent further session problems
• Elevator ride “interactive loading screen” changed not to generate so many frame drops
• Scrapwing Hatchery no longer spawns when all players are sleeping at the same time
• Insect Catcher sound tweaked
• Player breathing sounds tweaked
• Player coughing sounds for Dust tweaked (oxygen threshold for coughing lowered)
• Ladder climbing sounds tweaked
• The virus, which the player is infected with, is named Grey Plague and updated in the Database entries
• Only the first intake of the Cure plays its animation
• Viewing Corner dimensions adjusted
• Stair Rooms dimensions adjusted
• Inverted Cockpit model adjusted
• General texts polish
• Many optimization works to boost the performance of the game - Further optimization of airship flight physics - Elevator rides should be less choppy - The intro movie should play more smoothly - Hosting a co-op game should now be less taxing on the host's CPU - Other CPU-side optimization - Draw call reductions - Lighting optimization - Reduction of memory consumption of models and textures

FIXED:

• Fixed a bug where Thunderstorms were looping indefinitely, which resulted in lowering performance
• Corner View room tops do not overlap with floors anymore, and its glass material has been corrected to standard airship modules' glass
• Hanging Cabinet pivot lined with the center of the cabinet
• Fixed collisions on Infected Garden, blocking entry to one of the location branches
• Large Bloom Two-Deck Cockpit icon changed to a proper one
• Fixed a bug where the player could pick up Thorn Bee Hive, resulting in bees staying in the world forever
• Fixed a bug where players could rescue two Friendly Insect pets
• Fixed a bug where players couldn’t join a co-op session if their Steam names included some special characters
• Fixed a bug where clients in co-op sessions didn’t see plants growing
• Fixed a bug where non-picked-up items in buildings containing Wrecked Objects needed for main quest progression (e.g. Wrecked Basic Turbine) appeared again floating mid-air on the next visited locations
• Fixed a rare bug where the Sleeping screen (when a player got exhausted) didn’t fill the whole screen
• Fixed a bug where the Friendly Insect animation breaks when more than one player tries to pet it at the same time
• Fixed a bug where eating Green Colander raw treated the Pyrexia disease
• Fixed a bug where players caught anything other than Dust Moths during the tutorial
• Fixed a bug where clients in a co-op session didn’t see the dust on the Underdust: Suburbs
• Airship shouldn’t get stuck in a location's geometry
• Fixed a bug where Charged Blockade sound wasn’t playing properly
• Fixed a bug where both biome gates weren’t playing sounds
• Underdust: Suburbs level design tweaked so Mantis enemies do not get stuck in the floor
• Fixed a bug where clients in a co-op session saw incorrect Docking Plank movement
• Fixed a bug where the Blueprints screen showed placeholder items on the first opening
• Fixed some bugs with levitating items
• Fixed bugs with the wrong interactive material setup for some objects
• Fixed a rare bug where the healing sound from a Medical Station didn’t end after healing was completed
• Fixed a bug where trigger for running a lift was present on the whole lift
• Fixed a bug where new Room frames were weirdly rotated in ghost mode
• Fixed a bug where player was stuttering while snapped to Helm during flight
• Fixed a bug where Filtering Bottle was showing durability 0/0 after crafting
• Fixed a bug where player could block themselves when building Balloon Core
• Fixed a bug when player is using a gamepad and is in the splitting menu, pressing anything on the mouse causes them to lose focus
• Fixed a bug with Dust shader visible on entering both combat locations
• Fixed a bug where Copper Elements on the Lower Wind Farm could be picked up again after saving and loading a game
• Fixed a bug where Alternator switch doors weren’t working on Underdust: Suburbs
• Fixed a bug with the wrong message being played and shown in the log when Engines were being placed
• Fixed a bug where items dropped on the airship were detached from it after save / load
• Fixed a bug where Moth Swarms were blocking players from interacting with world objects (no triggers were shown)
• Fixed a bug where some objects in a Greenhouse Tower weren’t visible for clients in a co-op session
• Fixed a bug where players couldn’t use the Artifact Trade Station properly with a controller
• Fixed a bug where clients in a co-op session saw some strange items in the middle of Underdust: Suburbs
• Fixed a bug where clients in a co-op session stopped seeing the Dust after they returned to the same location for the second time
• Fixed a bug where the crosshair disappeared after opening and closing the pause Menu
• Fixed a bug where clients, after joining a co-op session, saw an empty Radar (and it got refreshed only after moving the airship)
• Fixed a bug where some in-game screens lost their focus and couldn’t be interacted with when using a controller
• Fixed a bug where resources on a Standard Wind Farm lower landing pad were visible & floating midair after scanning the Wrecked Basic Turbine and then visiting a different Standard Wind Farm
• Fixed a bug where consuming items from dropped stacks removed the whole stack but gave a boost from a single item only
• Fixed a bug where clients, after joining a co-op session, couldn’t see the quest log on their HUD
• Fixed a bug where the Garden Pots preview stayed visible after the player moved the Sprinklers
• Fixed a bug where the ghost previews for Garden Pots, flickered while the airship was moving
• Fixed a bug where the Select Item menu was opening when the player wanted to pick up an object from the ground with a controller
• Fixed a rare bug where a client in a co-op session saw the Extractor ray pointed in a weird direction instead of towards the extracted object
• Fixed a bug with the player changing their look direction after using the Select Item menu with a controller
• Fixed a bug where Descent to the Underdust “!” mark stayed on the Radar after leaving this location
• Fixed a bug where Radar was placed upside down after loading a game or moving it
• Fixed a bug where player could lock their movement after using Cure from any container other than the inventory
• Fixed a bug where Friendly Insect Pet stayed in its cage after being rescued by a client in a co-op session
• Fixed a bug where Medical Station collisions prevented placement of other devices on the floor down below it
• Fixed a bug where a player standing from a chair could’ve been flying and falling off an airship
• Fixed a bug where a player using a controller had an additional, invisible row between Inventory and Backpack
• Fixed a bug where Friendly Insect Pet could get lost forever after player death
• Fixed a bug where Soft Cushion could be lost when placed on Catwalks and taken by a Scrapwing Hatchery
• Fixed a bug where blueprints in Artifact Trade Station and Technology Printer could be bought more than once
• Fixed a bug where the player couldn’t switch filters on an empty container of a Filtering Deck Extractor
• A set of vines, which could spawn on Wild Habitat arenas removed
• Level design and level art improved in some locations for a better exploration
• Several of the most common sources of a crashing game have been removed
• Final texture added to the recharge strap of the Extractor tool

KNOWN ISSUES:

• There’s a rare bug where the radial menu (C key bind) stops working and requires a save and reload to start working again
• There is a bug where the player’s position while using the Medical Station change when an airship is flying