Planetary Life

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• Patch Notes·22 Aug 2026Official

  Devlog 6: Working on Civilizations update

  Hi everyone!This is a quick update with the current development status of the Civilizations update.The bottom menu size and content has been reduced, so it doesn't take too much screen space and it shows mostly resources and current global status of the city.On the other hand, the demography menu now contains the temperature tolerance bar. However, I'm thinking on doing changes here so there won't be a global temperature tolerance, but... it will work per tile. So, you can have some areas of the city that are OK, but other areas are freezing. This will open new survival strategies such as allocating some space for buildings that will warm/cool the area.Of course, this means a new menu ("habitability menu" maybe?) should be added.Also, the resources menus got improvements showing now all sources that increase or consume each specific resource:Buildings menu has been totally reworked again. Now, I think is much more intuitive and easy to use.You will have a list of buildings that you can create on the left menu. Also a demolish button.Once you select a building type, you just place the new building in the highlighted green areas. Always next to existing city extensions.Also, buildings have a building cost, maintenance cost (be careful spamming buildings without a plan!), and requirements: lumber camp requires a tile with wood resources.Military menu keeps pretty similar, but now custom vehicle slots will be blocked until you find the right technology.Also, new religion/politics menu. A bit more simple but easier to use than the previous prototype. You will be able to choose between 5 cards and combine them to create the rules of the civilization. Here, you can use and mix politics and religion type cards. Each card can have benefits but also disadvantages. You choose what kind of civilization you will build. These cards and more will be unlocked when you investigate more technologies/discoveries.Disclaimer: The cards in the following screenshot are just mock-ups!On th...
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• Patch Notes·20 Jul 2026Official

  Release notes v0.7.8.6

  Bug fixes Quick update to fix a new crashing issue with AMD GPUs introduced after adding new shaders for volumetric clouds.
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• Patch Notes·16 Jul 2026Official

  Release notes v0.7.8.5

  New features Added volumetric clouds to replace the old clouds rendering. Changes Adjustments in dust remover tool. Adjustments in terrain modifier tool. Decreased the probability of disasters based on Core Heat. Shake screen only in closer zooms and when the location is visible. No more shaking when a meteor or earthquake happens in the other side of the planet. Bug fixes Fixed dust percentage not counting properly. Fixed stats screen not showing values properly.OLD FLAT TEXTURE CLOUDS:NEW VOLUMETRIC CLOUDS:INSIDE THE PLANET:
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• Patch Notes·10 Jun 2026Official

  Devlog 5: Working on Civilizations update

  Hi everyone!After some few updates and making the game compatible with Steam Deck, I returned back to my regular work on Civilizations update.This time I would like to show you things.DEMOGRAPHYFirst, I changed how population work in cities, from a single overall population number into something a bit more complex based on ages and groups of demography.If we have creatures with different ages, why not the same for cities?We will have three groups of age: young, adult and elder.Each of them will have different properties, for example in this image you can see that only adults and elder people can be workers and used in the city production.Also, there is a graph showing how demography is distributed per age.For now, I will try to keep it simple, but this will allow some more flexibility for future features.VEHICLE EDITORI shouldn't add more scope to the update, but anyway... I think this was needed!I added a full vehicle editor to the game.The way it works is similar but a bit different to another very familiar game.Here, you don't have 3 slots for 3 different types of vehicles (land, water and air). Instead, you have 3 slots for any kind of vehicle.When you design a vehicle, first you have to add a base component, this will define if the vehicle is for land, water or air. This means, you can create a civilization where all vehicles are ships because the whole planet is a water world.Also, the base will provide energy for the rest of the components, where each of them will add life, defense and attack power properties to the vehicle.I hope you like this new additions!The update is starting to look good and I probably after this everything is going to start progressing faster. So, soon, you will start seeing devlogs more frequently!See you!
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• Press Coverage·25 May 2026

  Shape the planet and evolve strange creatures in Planetary Life with Steam Deck support

  Planetary Life is an intriguing looking planet and life sandbox simulation game, where you get to shape everything from the planet to the creatures. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/shape-the-planet-and-evolve-strange-creatures-in-planetary-life-with-steam-deck-support/
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