• Updated to run on Java newer than 8. (tested on Java 11).
• Minor refactors and library bumps.
• Uses vendored version of TornadoFX 2 (should probably get away from Tornado and just use vanilla JavaFX or other lib, as TornadoFX is effectively abandoned)

KotCity 0.49.3

Just a quick release with some new buildings, pathfinder fixes and a fix for bad collision detection with buildings.

New in this version

• Districts by @sabieber, initial version, more features to come!
• performance improvements by @sabieber
• Improved UI (added some nice labels)
• Vector Graphic (SVG) assets are now supported!
• Some fixes to railway (still buggy, but getting better!)
• railways by @moonpatroller

Changes for 0.49.1

• Overhaul of desirability
• Land value integrated

New In 0.49

• Wow! Economy seems to finally be "stable". City actually fills in and so on. I need to add some more building levels but this is a good step.
• Railroads (pretty broken right now)
• Scrollable toolbar for those with small screens
• Misc bugfixes
• Changed the way city desirability is calculated

See the detailed roadmap at https://github.com/kotcity/kotcity/wiki/Roadmap

Changes for 0.48

• Pollution now affects the happiness of residential and commercial zones (probably eventually higher level industrial too!)
• One way roads, contributed by @carenajosh

See our roadmap at https://github.com/kotcity/kotcity/wiki/Roadmap or come yell at us at https://gitter.im/kotcity/Lobby

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Changes in this version!

• Awesome UI icons by @sabieber

See our roadmap at https://github.com/kotcity/kotcity/wiki/Roadmap or come yell at us at https://gitter.im/kotcity/Lobby

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New in this release:

• Reworked UI (thanks to @sabieber)!
• Buildings are able to upgrade to "level 2" if they are happy enough

Next up

• Better docs
• Hook up pollution to traffic
• Hook up pollution to desirability

See our roadmap at https://github.com/kotcity/kotcity/wiki/Roadmap

Chat with the devs at: https://gitter.im/kotcity/Lobby

New in this version

95% of these are from my main man @sabieber, who is the KotCity hero

See our roadmap at https://github.com/kotcity/kotcity/wiki/Roadmap

• displaying population
• buildings construct a little more often
• tweaked required kots for industrial plant
• min map size reduced (can play on a 32x32 map if you want now...)
• right click and drag to pan map
• update cursor on map pan
• dynamic framerate adjustment during panning, zooming
• zoom to mouse position on zoom

Changes in this release

• Green terrain
• Buildings now build properly in the most desirable areas
• Police stations and police coverage
• Contracts / Economy reworked to avoid "swinging" in economy
• Improve layout of query window, title screen and map gen
• Zots display properly now
• Fixed bug where user could pan outside map and crash the game
• Pathfinding uses all cores now :)
• Contracts void themselves if their source is out of goods
• Buildings obtain up to 3 contracts with suppliers, to fill in when they run low on goods

Next up!

• Upgrading of zones to level 2 - 5 buildings
• Pollution
• Land value

Help wanted

Like city building games and working on transit? We need help with implementing rail / airport / bus transit!