Moon Sweepers 1.0.5 Patch

Update 1.0.5 brings a much more flexible building system: build anywhere, build on, under and beside foundations, move what you've built, and machines that snap neatly onto foundations. It also fixes a freeze some players hit shortly after loading their world, makes J.O.O.N.A.S. spread its capsules over your catchers, reduces stutters in big bases and fixes a long list of bugs.

BUILDING

• Build Anywhere: Every piece can now be built on dusty ground. The dust under it is pressed flat as it's built, so you no longer have to clean the ground first.

• Build On, Under and Beside: Aim at a foundation's top, underside or side to build on, under or beside it. Pieces can also be built out past an edge into the air.

• Move Mode: Press R with the building tool to pick up a piece together with everything standing on it, then place it again for free. Belts at its ports follow where they can reach. Right-click puts it back, X switches to remove mode, and R or Esc ends move mode. On a controller, press Y from remove mode.

• Full Refund: Removing a piece now gives back its whole price instead of 75%.

• Copy Rotation and Style: Middle-clicking a piece to pick it now also copies its rotation and style.

• Machines Snap to Foundations: The Stone Press and other machines line up with the foundation you aim at. They sit square to it, flush with its edges or centred on it, and otherwise on a 0.5 m grid. The mouse wheel turns them in 90° steps (30° on hexagonal foundations). Press F to place freely as before.

NEW OPTIONS

• New

  Public Game Warning: Starting a public game, or switching your crew to public, now asks you first. It explains what other players can do to your Moon and how to kick or ban them (ESC menu, under YOUR CREW).

• New

  Chat Voice Slider: Settings > Audio now has a Chat voice slider for the text-to-speech chat.

• New

  Vehicle Camera: New option in Settings > Controls, "Vehicle camera follows behind". Turn it off to keep the camera where you turned it, instead of re-centering behind the vehicle.

• New

  Garage Silo Status: A garage whose silo isn't sending its dust out now tells you why, for example "Connect a conveyor belt to its outfeed".

J.O.O.N.A.S.

• Smarter Capsule Delivery: J.O.O.N.A.S. now fires each capsule at the emptiest capsule catcher in the nearest group (catchers within 100 m of each other), instead of filling one catcher while the one beside it stays empty. When every catcher in a group is over 80% full, capsules go to the next group.

• Fixed

  Fixed hexes cleaned far away from players staying at 99.9% without completing or paying.

• Fixed

  Fixed J.O.O.N.A.S. leaving a permanent spot where nothing could be built.

BUG FIXES & PERFORMANCE

• Fixed

  Fixed the game freezing ("Not Responding") about half a minute after loading some worlds, every time, on both DirectX 11 and DirectX 12.

• Fixed

  No More 10,000 Capsule Limit: Capsules lying on the ground are no longer limited to 10,000. A world can now hold up to 90,000 capsules in total.

• Fixed

  Fixed capsules not packing in big bases with many capsules on belts. Q, the Auto-Packer and machines pack again.

• Fixed

  Fixed the player running forward on their own (a "stuck W key"), and keyboard and mouse being ignored, while a controller, joystick, wheel or pedals rested off-centre.

• Fixed

  Fixed sectors showing 0% cleaned with no dust left. They are now checked when the world loads and finished ones complete and pay. The map no longer shows 0% for a sector that hasn't been measured yet.

• Fixed

  Fixed a crewmate teleporting to another station launching the player under them off the map.

• Fixed

  Fixed a row of Stone Presses or other machines on foundations being refused with "Keep the whole base on a flat foundation top".

• Fixed

  Fixed air hockey tables at the South, East and West stations showing an extra "0 - 0" score.

• Fixed

  Fewer garbage collection stutters in big bases.

• Fixed

  Fixed memory leaks after leaving a world and after removing structures.

Found a bug? Please report it in our Discord so we can fix it quickly. Thanks for playing Moon Sweepers!