Ranching MK II Preview is on Steam
We have the fishy creature in game now guys. #AsteroidFishingSimulator2018
Don't forget, it's under the Betas tab on the game properties. Get on it.
Posted Apr 19, 2018, 5:33 PM UTC
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Lots of new critter variation, molten slickster, longhair slickster, many different shine bug variants...
Gulp Fish (variation of the new Pacu fish) eats polluted water and splits out regular water - this one is interesting.
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Since discovering the glory that is natural gas generators, my attitude has shifted to "polluted water is awesome."
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Polluted water is just oxygen waiting to be made.
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It's got the highest energy capacity of everything, transfers reasonably well, and once you extract all the usefulness out of it, you can turn it back into water. pwater is life.
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The Gas Power Generators are the only ones with by default fully automated input and output.
You just need a p water pool for natural gas, and water pool for hydrogen.
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Algae Terrariums are producing 290 g/s of polluted water now in addition to their existing outputs.
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So, go to Betas to ranch Bettas...?
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Oh wow. They added an inbuit RS gate, that's nice.
Inline pipe sensors can only go up to 100 Celsius.
Performance seems a lot worse for me at least though :/
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Someone mentioned that they collect a lot of metrics from people playing the preview so when the full release comes out, it'll run a lot smoother.
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thanks, i was wondering why the game ran so much better after the last beta
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Just passing on knowledge~. Bonus info - you can turn off the metrics in the menu but, honestly, I dunno about you but I'm willing to take a performance hit on what amounts to a disposable colony so that Klei gets data that could make the game better.
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Quick restart fixes it. Time to ranch!
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in-pipe sensors
Finally!! Just last night I was thinking of a workaround for my natural gas generators > sieve > carbon skimmer loop running at different outputs of polluted water and having to constantly tweak liquid valves... Now we can just have the valves open and close based on sensors!
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Yup. This is the thing I've been dying for instead of making complicated designs and tricks.
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Hm.. the scaly things seem to be a relatively early game plastic resource. This makes things interesting.
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This is the Slime Rancher everyone wanted.
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heads up, previous saves don't work.
there are little scaley things too :o
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Oh. I hope they will work that out. I have an old save I am running my lets play on.
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well, the preview is optional for another couple weeks or so anyways.
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Worked for me.
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really? I tried a few times and it kept giving me a black hole.
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You might've had some specific thing triggering a crash then. I loaded up the debug world I've been testing for the last few weeks and it worked (with some expected glitches).
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I suppose I could just be unlucky lol
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Damn and I just hit cycle 350. I was about to build an a.c. unit and finally stop using wheezleworts
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Ugh. That's tough. Maybe just wait til actual release if you want to keep working on your current one. It'll run faster then too.
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Is there a reason to use your mark 1 save?
Or is most of the stuff world Gen changes?
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There are some world Gen changes - new animal spawns, mainly.
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Here's the post with new features on forums:
https://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/89964-ranching-upgrade-mark-ii-preview-is-here-264752/
Wait ... is that a Xenomorph hatch? Oh god.
The morphs are amazing.
I was more thinking about the Alien franchise in which Aliens would hatch out of Duplicants chests