Welcome all to this very special devblog celebrating the release of Thrive version 1.0! This release marks the completion of the Microbe Stage, the first stage of the 9 planned. The Microbe stage will continue to be supported with balancing and bug fix updates, and volunteers are welcome to continue to make contributions to it. But…

Today is our last Progress Update before the release of Thrive 1.0 on the 17th of December, and with it the functional completion of the Microbe Stage.

Of course, there will still be updates on the Microbe Stage, especially when it comes to fixing issues and balancing. But our main development efforts really will be focusing on the Mul…

Last week we released 0.9.1! It was… somewhat less stable than we had hoped. In particular, the new cell division effect had a physics problem that caused frequent crashes. The first part of this week was dedicated to fixing this and a number of other bugs, with bugfix release 0.9.1.1 being released on Wednesday.

Nonetheless, there was…

Quite a lot of noticeable progress this week! Several new patch events were added to mix up compound levels across many patches at a time. Auto-evo now recognises upgrades to toxin organelles, making Thrive significantly more toxic. Thermosynthesis now produces glucose to make it significantly less frustrating to use (This slipped into the…