The Planet Crafter update 0.5.005 is rolling out on PS4 and Xbox One. According to the official Planet Crafter patch notes, the latest Insects & Waterfall update added 3 new biomes, 15 new butterfly species, beehive and honey and much more.
Recently, a major update added new features, changes, and quality of life improvements. Unfortunately, players are still experiencing several issues while playing the game.
Today’s The Planet Crafter patch 0.5.005 will address a few of these issues. Check out more details below.
The Planet Crafter Patch Notes (0.5.005) – August 2, 2022
Major changes :
- Biomass unit is now the sum of 3 units : Plants, Insects, Animals (not yet implemented)
- Plants generation remplace the biomass generation on existing machines
- Reduced Nuclear Fusion Generator power input from 1625 to 1485 (Could lead to power shortage on your save, just add new power sources)
- Larvae appears naturally in the world after the trees stage
New Biomes :
- Waterfalls
- Meteor Field
- Mushrooms River
New objects :
- Biomass screen
- Incubator
- Beehive
- Butterfly dome
- Farm
- Honey
- Super food pack
- 3 types of wild larvae (common, uncommon, rare) (Place in incubator to create new species)
- 15 butterflies species (some are craftables, orther can be found in the world)
- Bees
- Silk farm
- Butterfly farm
- Butterfly display case
- Fence (Unlockable via blueprints)
Balancing :
- Increase some Tree seeds oxygen multipliers
- Some tree seeds have to bee unlocked
- Genetic manipulator produce tree seeds more quickly
- Increase plants generation for most of plants generating machines
- Reduce Trees spreader t3 energy consumption
- Reduce trees spreader t1 unlocking level (from 6.5e+07 to 4.5e+07)
- Reduce trees spreader t2 unlocking level (from 7.5e+09 to 6e+09)
- Reduce terraformation index required for trees stage
- Reduce terraformation index required for insects stage
Misc:
- 5 new achievements
- Improve Polish localization (Thanks to Tominion on discord)
- Improve English localization (Thanks to Neuromution on Steam forums)
- Fix loading / saving errors when using different devices to play (Thanks to akarnokd on Discord)
- 2 New golden crates
- Added 2 new drop levels for end game loot (better loot in crates for current end game)
- Added a background on machines informations
- Add allowed surfaces for wall screens (windows, corridors, biodome)
- Improve scroll on save file menu
- Fix craftstation t2 title missing
- Fix interiors too shiny in certain areas
- Reduce trees spreader t3 number of trees (from 55 to 45)
- Pod x4 is unlocked sooner with blueprints
- Change some recipes
- Change some unlocking values
- Biomass unlocking can now be see directly via the blueprints screen
- One new meteo event
- Increase inventory size of shredder machine
Performances:
- Improve performance for all trees rendering (add better LODs)
- Improve food growers performances
- Improve fusion generator performances
- Default FPS is now 60 (not infinite)
- Do not spawn (and hide) herbs untill the herbs stage
Bug fix:
- Improve placement of objects on outside foundation grids
Download free the Planet Crafter update 0.5.005 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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