State: Early in development, playable, expect changes
General changes:
Planet progression
Lignumis -> Pelagos -> Gleba
and then you have a choice
- Cerys -> Nauvis
- Vulcanus -> Arig
- Fulgora
after that
Aquilo -> Vesta -> Shattered Planet (here is end game screen)
Assembling machine progression
I think that "electric assembling machine but faster" is boring as hell. Instead of this assembling machine progression will require different source of power on each step, challanging you a bit every time you want to upgrade your production. Currently planned assembling machine progression looks like this:
- Burner Assembling Machine
- Steam Assembling Machine
- Electric Assembling Machine
- Diesel Assembling Machine
- Nuclear Assembling Machine
- Fusion Assembling Machine (WIP)
Mining drill progression
Similar to assembling machies every drill require different source of power so progression looks like this:
- Burner mining drill
- Diesel mining drill
- Big mining drill
Portable powering progression
To make it more interesting portable fission and fusion generators now require fuel cells to power up but they are more powerfull than before:
- Basic portable generator
- Portable solar panel
- Portable diesel generator
- Portable fission reactor
- Poratable fusion reactor
Science lab progression
- Burner lab
- lab
- biolab
- fusion lab
Quality
- all qualities are unlocked with quality module 1
- quality modules can't be used on recyclers
- quality modules can't be used on asteroid crushers
Nuclear power
To unlock nuclear technologies you need nuclear science pack which is planetary science pack of Nauvis.
Nauvis is locked behind Cerys. Idea behind it is that if engineer figured out how to make spidertrons by looking on pentapods on gleba, he figured out how to build nuclear reactors by spending time with Cerys ancient technologies.
Fulgora
Looks like we finally know where are fulgorans went. Their civilization was ruined by machines they created
Holmium is no longer to be found in scrap. You need oil rig in order to mine it from spoiled trenches of fulgora