Developer diaries

Developer diaries are articles, usually accompanied by screenshots and videos, showing the momentary state of development, describing features and explaining game design choices.

They are typically published by the developers in the game's main forum on Paradox Plaza.

Below and Beyond[edit | edit source]

All developer diaries about Below and Beyond.

No.	Title and Link	Description	Date
1	Build Underground Bases and Mine Asteroids in Surviving Mars: Below & Beyond, Launching September 7th	New buildings, resources and mysteries. Underground bases and mining asteroids. Mars Lifestyle Radio DLC. Limited edition Surviving Mars OST Vinyl.	2021-08-31
2	Dev Diary #1 - Asteroids	Recon Center, Asteroid Landers, Micro-G Auto Extractors and Micro-G Mining Stations. Mining resources on asteroids. Exotic Minerals that are exclusive to asteroids.	2021-09-01
3	Dev Diary #2 - Underground	The Elevator. Darkness and quakes. Buried wonders. Drone Hub Extenders.	2021-09-02
4	Dev Diary #3 - Tech Tree and Free Update	Recon and Expansion tech tree. UI QoL improvements. Birth limit policy. School Spire genius nerf. Amphitheatre.	2021-09-03

In-Dome Buildings Pack[edit | edit source]

All developer diaries about the In-Dome Buildings Pack.

No.	Title and Link	Description	Date
1	In-Dome Building Pack	Silva talks about the buildings created for the content creator pack (In-Dome Buildings Pack).	2021-03-15

Green Planet[edit | edit source]

All developer diaries about Green Planet.

No.	Title and Link	Description	Date
1	Terraforming	Introduction to Green Planet terraforming by Ivan Grozev. Four major terraforming parameters: Atmosphere, Temperature, Water, and Vegetation. New research technology field, Terraforming.	2019-04-12
2	New Buildings and Tech	Green Planet adds 7 new buildings dedicated to the terraforming efforts. The Forestation Plant, GHG Factory, Carbonate Processor, Core Heat Convector, Magnetic Field Generator, Lake beds, and the Open Farm. The Capital City is a large domeless "dome".	2019-04-18
3	Vegetation	Plant life, seeds, soil quality, rain, toxic rain, open farms.	2019-04-25
4	Disasters and Special Projects	Disasters: Toxic rains and marsquakes. Special Terraforming Projects: Capture Ice Asteroids, Cloud Seeding, Import Greenhouse Gases, Launch Space Mirror, Launch Magnetic Shield, Melting the Polar Caps, Seed Vegetation.	2019-05-02
5	Armstrong - Free Update	Armstrong patch. Free stuff, including 3 free Special Projects. Build Menu: Landscaping. Large Dumping Site and Rocket Construction Site. Twenty new events.	2019-05-10
6	Opening Domes	Game design decisions on the timescale for the simulation of terraforming. Opening domes. Capital City.	2019-05-16

Space Race[edit | edit source]

All developer diaries about Space Race.

No.	Title and Link	Description	Date
1	Space Race	New features coming in Space Race - the first expansion for Surviving Mars. Free Gagarin patch. New and Improved Sponsors, Sponsor Goals, Rival Colonies, Planetary Anomalies, Supply Pods & Rockets, Events.	2018-11-14

Base game[edit | edit source]

All developer diaries about Surviving Mars.

No.	Title and Link	Description	Date
1	Vision	The game is undoubtedly a city builder, but not your average city builder. Surviving Mars was inspired by the old, idealistic sci-fi stories. We wanted to keep the science in the game plausible without diving into minutiae.	2017-11-01
2	Resources	Basic Resources (Metals, Concrete, Rare Metals, Food), Advanced Resources (Polymers, Electronics, Machine Parts, Fuel), Grid resources (Power, Oxygen, Water), Funding.	2017-11-15
3	Dome, Sweet Dome!	Domes, spires, colonist traits, colonist stats (Health, Sanity, Comfort and Morale).	2017-12-14
4	Surviving Cold Waves By Stirling (Sebastian Forsström - Product Marketing Manager for Surviving Mars)	The effects of a cold wave and what to do about it.	2018-01-29
5	It's a Mystery!	Mysteries are long epic scripted sequences of events that tell an interactive and often fantastic story.	2018-02-02
6	The Seven Wonders of Mars	There are seven wonders, including the Artificial Sun, Mohole mine, and Space Elevator.	2018-02-14
7	For Science!	Five tech fields (Biotech, Engineering, Robotics, Physics and Social), Breakthroughs, research points, anomalies, collaboration losses.	2018-03-14
8	Modding!	Modding! Mods and modding tools.	2018-03-23
9	Opportunity	Content from "Opportunity" patch. Passages, Game Rules, Storages, Workshops.	2018-04-13
10	Curiosity	Content from "Curiosity" patch. New domes (micro, barrel, trigon, mega-trigon, diamond), Command Center, Info Bar, Tutorial.	2018-05-25
11	Da Vinci	Content from "Da Vinci" patch. Creative Mode, Eight New Game Rules, Storage Management, Power Connectivity, Follow Camera. Patch highlights.	2018-08-01
12	Challenge Accepted!	Content from "Sagan" patch. Challenges, Maps, Self-sufficient Rovers. Patch highlights.	2018-09-24