Roadmap May 2026 (Patreon)

Hey everyone and sorry for being late with the roadmap this month. It was my 30th birthday, plus the beginning of May is, in Poland at least, a perfect excuse to make a BBQ party, and that's what I did for a few days.

I'm back now, and with me comes a new roadmap. I waited a few extra days so that I can confirm the status of some of our projects!

Vanilla Weapons Expanded - Coilguns remake is now in internal testing while we're working on improving the VFX of it. There's a few notable changes you will be able to expect when the remake arrives:

Coilguns no longer deal friendly damage in a small radius, which means you'll no longer get your own colonists killed!

Coilguns now have two power modes - by default, they fire a standard, non-multi-pawn-piercing projectile at extreme velocity. If High-power is enabled, it will fire the piercing projectile but the warm up of the weapon will double.

Coilguns now outright ignore any armor with their whopping 200% armor penetration. This will make them ideal weapons for mechanoid raids.

Gauss Lance has now become a sniper-type weapon with extreme range, instead of a large heavy weapon.

If you own Odyssey DLC, Gauss weapons now have access to a set of unique traits exclusive to them - for example, one trait removes the damage drop off when the projectile pierces multiple targets!

In addition to that, Vanilla Quests Expanded - Drone Factory is undergoing testing and final polish. We're writing the quest text, preparing infographics and the mod will be releasing relatively soon!

Vanilla Gravships Expanded - Chapter 2 aims to reach the minimum viable product state as soon as possible. Now, Minimum viable product is not something that will be released, but it's a big stepping stone for us, from which we can improve, enhance and add to. With big mods, it's important to aim for some sort of 'base', because tackling a mod that has 200 pages in the design doc is a huge and overwhelming task.

Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids 2 is still being ideated, with bits and bobs being added here and there, but I need to play the game myself extensively to really know what's needed for a mechanitor playthrough, because I never actually done that.

Sarg has been hard at work on the remake/uplift of Vanilla Events Expanded, so I'm glad to say the mod is in deep development now!

A new mod has also appeared on the roadmap: Vanilla Plants Expanded - Flowers. It's a mod I announced very recently, and a mod I work on when I need my brain to chill a bit after the intensive design sessions. Mostly, it's a mod that will add beautiful flowers and reward you for keeping a nice garden!

That's it from me! I will catch you soon with some more devblogs!