0.5.8 Release Candidate Testing

[DeepSix (Only you can prevent safety)]

Are you playing from the launcher or from the downloaded file?

[Nigel]

The launcher.

[fralegend015 (Shroudmaster)]

You need to play from the downloaded file

[Nigel]

Ok, but how do i do that.

[DeepSix (Only you can prevent safety)]

You download the release candidate from the link, extract it and run the game file (named Thrive in my computer) inside it.

[Nigel]

Ok! how do you reccomend extracting it, im assuming i have to use another program to do that

[DeepSix (Only you can prevent safety)]

You can download 7zip

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I can’t use the pilus when I’m a multicellular organism for some reason.

[Nigel]

I did it! im proud of myself now

[Cogiii (Cog)]

All bugs I experienced:

1. Nitrogen-fixing plastid overrides the evolve bar’s ammonia collection (Collected ammonia goes straight to storage, and not sure about nitrogenase.) I also got plastid ammonia sent to both my storage and evolve bar.
2. A little bit above my cell gas was disappearing like something was collecting it, but nothing was. It followed me like I had a hitbox up there, but none of it went into my storage. All cells of my species had the same issue. (see image)
   
   

Things that aren’t bugs:

1. How do I delete cells in my body plan? I don’t want to remove the cell type as a whole, just move or delete them from that specific position.
2. My daughter cell spawned as a full organism but I didn’t : (

[fralegend015 (Shroudmaster)]

@Cogiii

My daughter cell spawned as a full organism but I didn’t : (

That’s because you are the daughter organism and that is the adult organism

[DeepSix (Only you can prevent safety)]

@Cogiii

How do I delete cells in my body plan? I don’t want to remove the cell type as a whole, just move or delete them from that specific position.

Try hovering on the cell and press del

[fralegend015 (Shroudmaster)]

Is it intentional that you can’t enter the multicellular prototype in freebuild mode?

[hhyyrylainen]

@suppressor666

confirm that exiting the editor with negative ATP balance causes a crash

In multicellular or normal editor? That was the important part to confirm.

[Cogiii (Cog)]

Seems that only multicellular crashes. I just tested it.

[hhyyrylainen]

Thanks for the bug reports. I’ll try to fix some of these and open issues about the rest for the future.

@dan54

I’m not 100% sure if this was a glitch, but the Ice Ocean theme was playing even though I wasn’t in the Ice Shelf patch.

There’s no patch specific music playing. Even putting some of the multicellular tracks in the game was a bonus, and the reason why they can’t be patch specific is that there’s only 1 general finished multicellular theme and 2 for different regions. So there wouldn’t be any music variability.

@aleixcoma

I normally have the Mods DamageNumbers and DiscoNucleus enabled in my Steam version Thrive. The following error regarding the Mods appears as soon as I open this release candidate:

From a quick test by me, the mods should still be compatible. Could you provide the game logs? The full error should be contained there.

Also I didn’t have any issues with a mod that I tested on a different computer downloaded through the Steam workshop and enabled on the steam beta branch. If you don’t use Steam, do you have the latest versions of the mods?

@aleixcoma

If I am not mistaken, wasn’t the amount of species limited to 10 per patch in a previous update, precisely with the purpose to increase performance?

It’s a soft limit that increases penalties if the limit is reached which should reduce further species counts from growning.

@fralegend015

I don’t know if it is intended but you cant enter engulf mode when you don’t have ATP

It’s been like that for a long time now, not a new change.

@GodOfKnowledge

it appears that i also experienced the sizing issue, but on just one of the organelles, this was just after selective unbinding

You are not multicellular yet, right? Organelles grow in size as they get ready for dividing. That’s been a feature for yers as well.

@fralegend015

Is it deliberate that the nucleus costs 70 MP instead of 100?

@Buckly changed that as a balancing change.

@DeepSix

I can’t use the pilus when I’m a multicellular organism for some reason.

Does it work in a normal colony? There shouldn’t be anything special regarding that in a multicellular colony…

@Cogiii

Nitrogen-fixing plastid overrides the evolve bar’s ammonia collection (Collected ammonia goes straight to storage, and not sure about nitrogenase.) I also got plastid ammonia sent to both my storage and evolve bar.

I’m 99% sure it will happen even without that organelle. Multicellular organisms only grow one cell at a time so if you have much more ammonia than phosphate you can saturate the growth with ammonia so that it doesn’t get used anymore until you get more phosphate.

@Cogiii

My daughter cell spawned as a full organism but I didn’t : (

Budding is the reproduction method where a single cell is ejected to grow into a new colony. That’s the only multicellular reproduction method currently available.

@DeepSix

Try hovering on the cell and press del

Deleting is not implemented. If it accidentally works, I’d be a bit surprised…

@fralegend015

Is it intentional that you can’t enter the multicellular prototype in freebuild mode?

Yes. My idea is that freebuild is a mode where advancing stages is not allowed.

@Cogiii

Seems that only multicellular crashes. I just tested it.

In the editor with negative ATP? So you mean the cell editor within the multicellular editor with negative ATP, causes the issue?

[Nigel]

Just a quality of life thing that could be fixed, but i think that multicellular organisms shouldnt be effected by ice shards in the ice area. It makes it way harder to navigate and annoying.

[Untrustedlife]

Why wouldnt they be affected? They should just get tools to deal with ice shards.

Evolve some cell wall armor with little armor cells.

[Cogiii (Cog)]

@hhyyrylainen

In the editor with negative ATP? So you mean the cell editor within the multicellular editor with negative ATP, causes the issue?

Yes. (specifically, having less ATP generation than osmoregulation cost. Having less than required for movement doesn’t cause a crash.)

@hhyyrylainen

I’m 99% sure it will happen even without that organelle. Multicellular organisms only grow one cell at a time so if you have much more ammonia than phosphate you can saturate the growth with ammonia so that it doesn’t get used anymore until you get more phosphate.

I’m an idiot. My storage was increasing because my colony cells were generating their own ammonia.

[Nigel]

Although I see your point of view on this, i feel like its pretty annoying when you have a really large multicellular organism and it gets hung up on a piece of ice a nanometer in length that you cant even SEE.

[suppressor666]

in the multicellular editor