{"id":1228,"date":"2026-08-14T16:41:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2026-08-14T16:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:51:15","slug":"alpha-15-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/14\/alpha-15-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha 15 &#8211; Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hey everyone, Today I&#8217;m releasing Alpha 15. I was going to release this as an update to Alpha 14 but bumped it due to the amount of balance and refactoring changes. Meaning, this update may play quite a bit different to previous builds. Don&#8217;t forget you can still play any previous builds on Steam by going to properties &gt; game versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As usual, it&#8217;s extremely helpful reporting your issues either on the discussions on Steam, our forums or our <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/cBNNfht\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/cBNNfht\">discord<\/a>. This helps me to help you in the best and quickest way possible and also ensures your suggestions, balance issues, bugs or anything else you have to say actually gets correctly addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/widget\/2133570\/\" width=\"646\" height=\"190\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/itch.io\/embed\/1171939\" width=\"552\" height=\"167\"><a href=\"https:\/\/produno-games-studios.itch.io\/spaceslog\">SpaceSlog by Produno Games Studios<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New Items<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Add depleted uranium resource.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add depleted uranium refining recipe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Improvements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Add filthy ship thought.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Major refactoring done to buildings and blueprints.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add new incident &#8211; Crew rescue.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rename the powered Airlock door to Automatic Airlock door.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Update zone highlight.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure other blueprints can be placed over cable and ducting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Change fuel type to Deuterium.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Carbonaceous asteroids need to be mined to gain materials which can be refined inside a refinery to create liquid Deuterium fuel cells.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure main setup menus on game start reset if going back to the main menu.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add scattered items to scenario json files.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Balance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Increase the amount of heat removed by heat extractors.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Slightly adjust research and split out the Electric Cooker.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An injury does not always have to be tended before it will stop bleeding. Though someone can still bleed out before that happens.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wounds can become old without needing to be tended.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Increase heal rate of all beds.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wounds will also heal when not resting, just much slower.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Increase time of day by almost 25%.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adjusted days per month and year to account for the new length of days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fixes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fixed: Memory leak with zone textures.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: Issues with captain appearance selection.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: Various text issues.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: Widget hotkeys could fail to work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: Recipe crafting amounts were not always counting correctly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: Healing did not use the healing skill correctly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: Custom pawns could still sometimes show up more than once.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: Would not always make it clear if a pawn was in a mental break or not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everyone, Today I&#8217;m releasing Alpha 15. I was going to release this as an update to Alpha 14 but bumped it due to the amount of balance and refactoring changes. Meaning, this update may play quite a bit different to previous builds. Don&#8217;t forget you can still play any previous builds on Steam by&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/14\/alpha-15-balance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alpha 15 &#8211; Balance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"Alpha 15 update of SpaceSlog","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Alpha 15 update of SpaceSlog","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[19,4,21],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update","tag-colony-sim","tag-devlog","tag-spaceslog","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}