Hello everyone!

We've just released the second beta of the game (v0.0.2b). This addresses a lot of issues that have been reported on our Discord to improve the gameplay experience. Here's a partial changelog:

• Added ALT modifier to force multiple pickup of items
• Added kinesin protein used to assemble filtering items
• Added oxidized symbol on exhausted buildings
• Added overloaded symbol on suppliers which don’t produce enough energy
• Added warning symbol on crafters with no recipe configured
• Added picker white to colored picker evolution node
• Added workbench to help in manually crafting more complex recipes
• Added support for multiple types of microtubules
• Added retrieve enzyme action on catalyzer to salvage and reuse it
• Added buffer of 1 item to Electron Transport Chain to avoid downtime
• Added oxidation enable/disable as game rule
• Added primitive items to ease early gameplay
• Now transporter item can be retrieved from a membrane transporter
• Removed phospholipids from single resource spawns
• Removed energy requirements from dna scraper
• Removed cooldown from manual pickup from resource heaps
• Information tooltip is now showing energy values in calories
• Information tooltip is now show on non existing tiles
• Tweaked some recipes to balance the experience
• Fixed electron transport chain which wasn’t saving its state
• Fixed energy suppliers/poles which didn’t always connect to network
• Fixed evolver tooltip which wasn’t showing correct item count
• Fixed creative actions allowed in peaceful/sandbox
• Fixed a crash with launchers with no ammo inside
• Fixed placement of items on bacterial colonies (now unallowed)
• Fixed placement of items on diseased tiles (now unallowed)
• Fixed bacteria attack behavior and expansion which was erratic
• Fixed floating items spawning on expanding bacteria colonies
• Fixed ui popup menu which got stuck in some situations
• Fixed deleting save game from main menu
• Fixed issues with paths containing spaces on Linux
• Fixed issues with paths containing non ASCII characters
• Evolution view now remembers its position
• Exposed showItemAmountsInObjectOverlay in options
• Added space key to evolution view to recenter it
• Added checks if saving game fails to avoid crashes
• Added open user folder button to Options->Misc
• Added keybind management in Options->Controls
• Lot of undocumented tweaks

Have fun! Any feedback is really appreciated!

Please mind that shortly we'll enter the early access phase and we won't be actively release free betas here on itch.io anymore! Please subscribe to our playtest on Steampage if you want to keep testing the game before the release!