Check out this delightful video to see all the cool new features:

Our best update yet brings the first native creature into to the world: The Megacephalalgia! A gigantic protomammal that is as dangerous as it is fluffy (very).

We now have weather and seismic research stations. Use them to forecast incoming weather and earthquakes, and use their data in your research room to uncover new technologies

Feeling lonely? You can now call new colonists down from orbit! Just build a microwave communications tower and wait for the prompt on your GUI.

Improved AI. Your colonists will better manager their needs and wants. Just remember that a happy well rested colonist is a productive one!

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We’ve released 0.41 early to let you start testing the new features.

• Fatigue now kills your colonists. Build beds and couches to let them rest, try to manage their workloads by turning off objects that are not in use, reducing build orders and locking doors.
• Colonists now have inventories. Ensure they have access to mined minerals so they can use them for producing objects.
• Badly damaged items will now require building materials to repair.
• Earthquakes can cause cave-ins in excavated areas, build rooms to prevent this rare, but deadly occurrence.
• Colonists will now better balance the overall needs of the colony with their own.

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