Hello all! It’s been one week since the first pre-alpha build. Today we’re releasing a new build with tons of improvements and fixes to the game!

• Added solar panels, which generate power during the day.
• Added rotation alignment to the dragger tool, which makes it much easier to align parts together in engineering mode.
  • You can turn also turn this off to build wonky contraptions.
• Made the engineering mode dragger more responsive.
• Improved engineering mode UI.
• Added keybind hints to engineering mode to help players learn the controls.
• Wires are now much prettier looking.
• Implement a reload hint for empty firearms.
• Newly textured models:
  • Work Light
  • Railgun Rail
  • Weapon Frame
• Various minor thermodynamic simulation improvements.
• Editor improvements:
  • A new “Play Here” button that drops the player where the editor camera is facing.
  • Improved lighting presets and time of day selector.
• Fixed a couple misleading interaction prompts in the game’s story
• Fixed cases where rotation would happen in an unintuitive direction
• Fixed flashlights not matching their light color.
• Fixed mouse locking when rotating objects.
• Upgraded wgpu, which should resolve some reports of graphics issues.