Less than a month after Simutrans 124, a new Simutrans version has been released. This was supposed to be a bugix release to address some of the issues players reported for the 124 release, but it ended up being a minor release with new features (player ranking) and a renovated chat window.
Download Simutrans 124.1
- Download on the Simutrans Forums (From SourceForge)
- Download on Steam. For Steam players, please read the Steam announcement.
Highlights of this version
- Player ranking window
- Renovated chat window (icons only included in pak128 and pak64)
- For Steam only: The first achievements, rich presence, and the end of the preloader.
- Fixes related to crashes and installation of paksets.
- Fixes to the tutorial.
Paksets updated since Simutrans 124
- Pak64 124.1
- Pak128 2.9.1
Full changelog
Here’s the full list of changes since the last version.
Added
- New chat system with personal and company wide messages
- New squirrel function for convoys is_followed()
- Integrate Steam API into Simutrans (managing wokshop items, rich presence, and achievements)
- Split macos builds into macos-intel and macos-arm
- silent installer in principle suitable for the Microsoft store
Changed
- Support for player ranking in the current year and divers fixes
- Updating the line schedule of a convoi bound to this line will overwrite any pending changes from that schedule if open in the schedule window
- scrolled list now takes care of all dynamic resizing => more reliable and more performant
- check_and_set_dir will attemp to create directories if they don’t exist (and testfile is not provided)
- some small GUI fixes for size recalculation and related
Fixed
- makeobj did not dump empty placeholder parent nodes like MENU
- remove triple CR since lots of translations with trailing returns
- only resort player buttons in container if needed to keep buttons responding on first click
- News windows again in reasonable width
- Crashes/failed asserts of passenger AI
- Properly have scrolled list starting at top or bottom
- log nickname change in chat
- size of infowindows better match the space
- Updating the line schedule of a convoi bound to this line will overwrite any pending changes from that schedule if open in the schedule window
- copy to clipboard
- New world tool had wrong tooltip and hide building was never in selected state
- right size of empty textarea groundwindows
- renaming cities, convois and factories works again
- Cannot build ship depots on dead-end canal or river tiles
- Reflect player button color on the player frame when changing player color
- Working strcasestr implementation
- Possible crash when requesting more than 12 threads via commandline
- catch empty strings in dr_mkdir()
- properly detect portable installations
- create alsways absolute paths on Windows
- nsis uninstaller