Today we are releasing Rigs of Rods 2025.08 Release Candidate 2. This release is a follow up to the previous release candidate.

This is pre-release software. It is not officially supported.
Use at your own risk.

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A decent amount of progress has been made this week, with a good amount of progress on achievements and the implementation of the first settings related to planet customization. Though customization options for the planet generator are somewhat limited – partially due to it being a first implementation, and partially related to the simpler…

This week’s devbuild is less dense than usual, but a solid amount of work has occurred behind the scenes. The framework towards achievements is being established, though we are waiting on some graphics work to decorate them. Some solid work has also been done on the basic planet customization options, though a sizable amount of playtesting…

Progress continued this week with many small changes being completed for the game. These included many small bug fixes, and even fixes for the future stage prototypes which don’t often receive attention. The most interesting addition for many players this week will be the added multicellular species preview images, which have been missing …

With the return of our full-time programmer, this week features the release of the first dev-build in about a month! Some balancing tweaks, changes to compound behavior related to sulfur, and further refinements can be seen. Balancing will not necessarily be final, and is subject to change upon further tweaks and community feedback.

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Less activity this week as our full-time developer continues to enjoy their vacation. Some further development of concepts on the forums, as well as some update to information in the Thriveopedia can be seen below.

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• No official devbuild this we…

The developer forums were alive with discussion this week, refining pending concepts. There is no devbuild this week, as our developer continues to enjoy their vacation.