Status: Cleaning up and fixing all remaining known issues and items before the release of update ''Stockpile'' below.
There are 4 items remaining on the to-do before the update is released.

Additional information regarding progress may be found on the Discord, link available via www.godsandidols.com/community/

These are upcoming changes that are not yet in the game!
These notes may change, and things may be added or even removed, before the patch goes live.

GAMEPLAY

• Overhauled planetary stockpile/inventory mechanics:
  • Warehouse type buildings now provide inventory slots, replacing the fixed +Max stockpile
  • Each inventory slot has a max amount of the assigned resource it can hold
  • Multiple slots can be set to the same resource and they will stack
  • If a resource has no slots, or if it exceeds the amount provided by its assigned slots, no more of that resource can be produced on the planet
  • Even if planet stockpiles are full you can still collect resources directly in treasures, via events, or points of interest
• Some new buildings, resources, and production chains
• Only one planet can now be freely accreted per star system
  • More planets can be accreted once you have a Capital planet
  • Accretions after the first one will require a new type of resource that is generated by population over time
  • Existing star systems that have multiple planets will have all unseeded planets shattered and Shards granted
  • This change is required to facilitate some new gameplay mechanics
• Shards can now be spent to improve a planets Metal, Life, or Gas stats over time
• Shattering a planet now grants Shards based on the planets stats
• Treasures Shard drop amounts have been reduced
• Treasures can now contain certain basic resources, such as food
• Balance changes
  • NPC Fleets CIWS rate of fire has been reduced
  • NPC Fleets Pulsegun range has been reduced
  • Planetary defenses accuracy has been slightly reduced
  The intent behind these changes is to make NPC invasions last a bit longer. This is a temporary stop-gap measure until the PvE Combat update
• The stellar Region alignment mechanic has been removed
  • Regions are now Sectors
  • All Sectors now have asteroid belts
  • All Sectors can now be settled
  • The Stars in the newly available Sectors have no benefits over the old Sectors

AUDIO

• Interface volume can now be set
• Combat chatter volume can now be set independently of Effects
• Frequency of Combat chatter can now be set

INTERFACE

• Many startup errors and messages are now shown as ingame dialogs instead of Windows popup ''crashes''
• The Settings dialog now re-opens if a UI reload was needed to apply new settings
• Updated the Settings dialog with new options, including customizable keybindings

ENGINE

• Completed the long ongoing migration of all network communications to the new NetComs library
• Greatly improved client startup and error handling
• Using override.ini has been deprecated and will be ignored
• Internal Hashmap library updated from version 2.1 to 2.3: ~700 improvements
• Internal NetComs library updated from version 0.3 to 2.0: ~600 improvements
• Internal Dictionary library updated from version 1.0 to 1.1: ~20 improvements
• Internal HTTP library updated from version 0.3 to 2.0: ~50 improvements
• Internal JSON library updated from version 1.0 to 2.0: ~300 improvements
• Several render backend improvements:
  • Gods and Idols now has multi-monitor support and can be set to run on a specific monitor in Borderless fullscreen
  • Exclusive fullscreen mode has been removed in favor of Borderless fullscreen mode for greater compatibility
  • Gods and Idols Borderless fullscreen now always runs at the same resolution as the monitor it is set to run on
  • A new Render Scale option has been added
  • The interface is not affected by Render Scale
• Windowed mode now better remembers the position of the window on multi-monitor setups
• Windowed mode window size can now be set exactly, down to the pixel
• Settings.ini has been deprecated and is no longer used
• Settings are now stored in /userdata/settings.json instead of /bin/settings.ini
• Logs are now stored in /userdata/logs/ instead of just /logs/
• The ancient UIC/CACHE[] library is no longer used, resulting in significantly improved UI performance
• Decreased file and texture buffers memory usage
• Gods and Idols can now recover from certain memory errors during texture load by automatically attempting to reduce texture scaling
• Updated Steam API bindings
• Greatly improved memory utilization and handling, fixing many random ''out of memory'' crashes
• New improved input keyhandler that unifies key symbols between the engine and UI
• Greatly improved memory handling related to texture loading and reloading, and screenshots [F8]

BUGS (Thank you for reporting issues and bugs, your help is greatly appreciated!)

• Fixed R-99 timeout error during account reset [NOTE: UI only bug. Accounts were still reset]
• Fixed a minor memory leak in Datastream:Discard()
• Fixed int64 values failing to copy during Hashmap=Hashmap assignments leading to null values under certain conditions
• Fixed 'true' and 'false' not parsing correctly when reading certain JSON objects
• Fixed invalid glMagFilter for planet surface textures
• Fixed several issues related to minimizing the Gods and Idols window
• Clicking back onto Gods and Idols after it has lost focus no longer triggers unwanted mouse clicks on random UI elements
• Fixed several issues related to the Audio handler causing excessive debug log spam
• Fixed audio not working properly if master volume was raised after starting at 0
• Fixed Dictionary cache reference corruption in Hashmaps after Hashmap:Add() operations
• No more black boxes covering parts of the UI when opening some dialogs and menus
• Planet grid adjacency checking no longer randomly fails
• Adjacent tiles checking no longer randomly include additional non-adjacent tiles
• Fixed ''Stockpile full'' if production output was scaled higher than total stockpile space
• Fixed a memory leak in JSON.ReadString
• Fixed an issue that could cause a disconnect if the client took too long to load assets