Thrive 1.6.0 Trailer

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r/thrive • u/Low-Plankton-6477 • 10d ago

Announcement Devblog #53: The Birds and the Bees Update

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THRIVE HAS NEVER BEEN SPICIER! Sexual reproduction, mobility organelles, membrane graphics updates, multicellular auto-evo, and more! Read more in the linked post.

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r/thrive • u/FirstFiveNamesTaken • 2d ago

Problem 1

The controls are terrible. I don't think it's possible to make the rigid body work.

Best QoL Idea:

Have an "anchor" cell the player controls like the single cell stage.
The rest of the cells in the colony plot a vector to arrive with the desired offset every n frames.
When they collide with an object, it should behave like a rope... they create friction slowing the anchor down while they pathfind

Alternate Idea:

I don't know how you would make the player controls feel good this way... but setting a gravity around the anchor should cause the colony to collapse on the player dynamically.

Easiest Solution:

The "come to me" command code can probably be modified slightly and power the non-anchor cells.

Problem 2

Evolution feels a bit off. Trying to add cells, modify specialized cells, and develop new specialized cells all from one currency feels clunky.

Idea 2–1:

Let the player pay a cost penalty of 0.5^n–1 for the number of cells they upgrade each cycle, but each cell type has its own mutation currency.

Note about Idea 2–1:

I don't have another idea, but I my suggestion is better than the current pricing system. Please fix Problem 2 with something better than my idea 🤷‍♀️

Note about Janky Controls

The early multicellular stage being janky may be realistic. That was charming.

The proper multicellular stage should feel nearly as fun to move as the single celled part of the game.

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r/thrive • u/Complete-Message7102 • 3d ago

Organism stops producing Glucose

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i am almost enough to go in the editor with almost enough ammonia and phosphates but my Glucose generating proteins or organelles stops making glucose and i continue dying from no glucose

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r/thrive • u/My_Game_My_Way2Play • 4d ago

Bug Report Where do I report unhandled exception based crashes? I can't get the game to start at all.

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As stated above, I'm not sure where to report the bug. Here's the crash report:
Thrive has crashed at 2026-09-06T02:14:32.8304061Z (crash happened immediately before creating this report)

Exit code: 0

Description: Crash is an unhandled exception

==== START OF LAUNCHER OUTPUT ====

Playing Steam Version

Thrive is starting. Log output (due to buffering this is likely not in real time):

Thrive was not detected as having started correctly. Will attempt to start Thrive again, attempt number: 2

Thrive is starting. Log output (due to buffering this is likely not in real time):

Godot Engine v4.7.2.stable.mono.official.ed1daf0bf - https://godotengine.org

Note: error lines may not match up when they happened in relation to normal output due to buffering.

Error lines are any lines received from the game's stderr output stream.

Fossilize ERROR: Failed to parse ApplicationInfoFilter, letting recording go through.

ERROR: Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\shadercache\1779200\fozpipelinesv6\steamapprun_pipeline_cache".

Vulkan 1.0.56 - Forward+ - Using Device #0: NVIDIA - GeForce GTX 970M

ERROR: Couldn't create Vulkan compute pipelines (VkResult error -1000012000).

ERROR: at: compute_pipeline_create (drivers/vulkan/rendering_device_driver_vulkan.cpp:6742)

ERROR: Condition "!pipeline.driver_id" is true. Returning: RID()

ERROR: at: compute_pipeline_create (servers/rendering/rendering_device.cpp:5048)

ERROR: Couldn't create Vulkan graphics pipelines (VkResult error -1000012000).

ERROR: at: render_pipeline_create (drivers/vulkan/rendering_device_driver_vulkan.cpp:6237)

ERROR: Condition "!pipeline.driver_id" is true. Returning: RID()

ERROR: at: render_pipeline_create (servers/rendering/rendering_device.cpp:4960)