SpaceChem — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| Last Call BBS - The last game by Zachtronics! | 2022-07-05 | Boot up your Z5 Powerlance and dial into Last Call BBS, the last game from Zachtronics! The Barkeep’s loaded up his retro computer with a full set of puzzle games for you to download and play. No need to worry about copy protection, they’re all fully cracked and ready to enjoy! Includes eight full games: 20th Century Food Court: Design factories to produce food just like they did over 700 years ago in the 20th century. Keep your costs low and your machines running fast! STEED FORCE Hobby Studio: Assemble robot models based on the anime smash hit Steed Force right on your computer. No sandpaper required! X’BPGH: The Forbidden Path: Enter a cur |
| UPDATE: Minor bug fixes | 2020-08-31 | Today's update fixes a minor bug where typing a forward slash into a text field would paste the contents of your clipboard instead, in addition to some tweaks to make the "mirror vertically" feature more intelligent. |
| UPDATE: 64-bit Mac Support (v1016) | 2020-07-15 | Today's update brings SpaceChem into the future with an upgrade from SDL 1.2 to SDL 2.0 and 64-bit builds for macOS so that the game now runs on macOS Catalina. It looks like it also contains a few fixes for obscure crashes and scroll wheel support for some of the game's UI. |
| UPDATE: More bug fixes (v1015) | 2020-02-28 | Today's update is all bug fixes, brought over from the game's unofficial "community edition": Fixed a Windows-only display bug when using a high-DPI monitor. Fixed an exploit where you could disconnect a pipe from its reactor. Fixed a crash when loading invalid ResearchNet puzzles with negative counts. Fixed a crash when displaying text with an ellipsis but not enough space to fit it. Fixed a bug in undo/redo with cloned reactors. Fixed a crash when pressing Ctrl-Z while dragging a pipe. Fixed a bug where input distributions were reset when opening windows in ResearchNet. |
| UPDATE: Bug fixes (v1014) | 2019-05-17 | Today's update includes the following: Fixed a crash when starting a pipeline with too many reactors. Removed impossible scores from the histograms for the "Swapite" journal puzzle. Bumped the version number from 1013 to 1014. When things settle down with these changes I'll upload a build to non-Steam stores as well. |
| UPDATE: Miscellaneous bug fixes | 2019-02-28 | Today's update includes the following changes: Fixed a bug in production inputs with variations of the same molecule. Fixed a bug with reactors being slightly too roomy at the right and bottom. Fixed a bug with the Reset option and "ancient" reactors. Fixed a bug that would spawn an empty level completion screen. |
| UPDATE: SpaceChem community update (v1013) | 2019-02-10 | Can you believe it's been over eight years since SpaceChem first launched? Today we're releasing a community-driven update featuring a host of bug fixes, improvements, and new journal puzzles. Special thanks to 12345ieee and Csaboka, who did most of the actual work for this update. Added a bunch of new user-created puzzles to ResearchNet. Added a right-click menu to the inside of reactors with options to swap colors, mirror the program, and reset the contents of the reactor. Added an option to the options menu to show bonder priority in reactors. Improved the performance of the fastest playback speed in non-defense puzzles so that it now runs |
| UPDATE: Fixing a crash on Mac when importing custom puzzles | 2018-11-07 | Today's update fixes a crash on Mac when importing custom puzzles. No other platforms should be affected. |
| UPDATE: SpaceChem is back on Mac! | 2018-10-23 | After a few years of SpaceChem not being officially supported on Mac, we've finally gotten around to getting it working again! It ought to work out of the box for everyone now, and not require Mono to be installed separately or anything like that. If you experience anything weird please send me an email (zach@zachtronics.com). |
| Infinifactory has left Early Access! | 2015-06-30 | If you liked SpaceChem there's a good chance you'll love Infinifactory, the latest design-based puzzle game from Zachtronics! LIKE SPACECHEM… IN 3D! Design and run factories in a first-person, fully 3D environment. HISTOGRAMS ARE BACK! Optimize your solutions, and then optimize them more when you see how much better your friends did. VISIT EXOTIC ALIEN LOCALES! Explore a story-driven campaign with 50+ puzzles, audio logs, and more. BLOCKS THAT MOVE! Go beyond the campaign and push the limits of Infinifactory’s next-generation block engine in the sandbox. STEAM WORKSHOP INTEGRATION! Create, share, and play custom puzzles on Steam Workshop. htt |
| Infinifactory has left Early Access! | 2015-06-30 | If you liked SpaceChem there's a good chance you'll love Infinifactory, the latest design-based puzzle game from Zachtronics! LIKE SPACECHEM… IN 3D! Design and run factories in a first-person, fully 3D environment. HISTOGRAMS ARE BACK! Optimize your solutions, and then optimize them more when you see how much better your friends did. VISIT EXOTIC ALIEN LOCALES! Explore a story-driven campaign with 50+ puzzles, audio logs, and more. BLOCKS THAT MOVE! Go beyond the campaign and push the limits of Infinifactory’s next-generation block engine in the sandbox. STEAM WORKSHOP INTEGRATION! Create, share, and play custom puzzles on Steam Workshop. htt |