Hello and welcome to your weekly Thrive Progress Update! This time we have some important functional additions to the Multicellular Stage, as well as some interesting visuals produced while working on...

Hello and welcome to your weekly Thrive Progress Update! This week's patch notes look perhaps a bit more quiet than expected, as several bigger features were being worked on but not finished yet. But ...

Hello and welcome to your weekly Thrive Progress Update! Our lead programmer had fewer working days this week, so our patch notes are shorter this time. The major feature I hinted at last week did get...

Hello and welcome to your weekly Thrive Progress Update! We finally got through the backlog of issues this week, so work has begun on a new major feature. Though since it is not yet finished, you will...

Hello and welcome to your weekly Thrive Progress Update! There's a laundry list of patch notes this week, though most of them are smaller items. Most of those are still bugfixes of reports for the lat...

Hello and welcome to your weekly Thrive Progress Update! Last week, we released Thrive 1.6.0 , and we hope you're enjoying the update! As is usually the case with such an extensive release, there has ...

The time has finally come for Thrive 1.6, the third major update to the Multicellular Stage! So how come it's called 1.6? Three months have passed since the last major update, and a lot has been added...

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Hello and welcome to your weekly Thrive Progress Update! We are currently in feature freeze for the release of Thrive 1.6, expected exactly one week from now. That also means we have a release candida...

Hello and welcome to your weekly Thrive Progress Update! We have another major feature added this week with the new organelle Actomyosin organelle. Actomyosin represents an arrangement of Actin and My...

Hello and welcome to your weekly Thrive Progress Update! With great new features often come great new bugs, and last week's addition of Sexual Reproduction certainly was a great new feature. As a resu...

Hello and welcome to your weekly Thrive Progress Update! The game is still progressing quickly, and we have a major new feature added this week. That new feature is the new reproduction option: Sexual...

Hello and welcome to your weekly Thrive Progress Update! With most of the vacation catching up done last week, progress on the roadmap is picking up again. The first major point on the roadmap is that...

Hello and welcome to your weekly Thrive Progress Update! Our lead programmer returned from vacation this week, so you can look forward to accelerating progress on the game. Time was mainly still spent...

Hello and welcome to another Thrive summer break Progress Update! As our lead programmer is on vacation, we will be providing you with weekly updates on volunteer programming contributions, and things...

Hello and welcome to another Thrive holiday Progress Update! As our lead programmer is on vacation, we will be providing you with weekly updates on volunteer programming contributions, and things that...

The same as with last week, our lead programmer is currently on vacation, so progress Thrive is limited. But, we will still be providing you with weekly updates on volunteer programming contributions,...

As announced last week, our lead programmer is on vacation, so progress on Thrive is slowing down. But, we will still be providing you with weekly updates on volunteer programming contributions, and t...

Hello everyone, and welcome to another weekly Thrive update! With our lead programmer going taking a well deserved vacation for about 5 weeks, this will be the last one for a while with significant ch...

Last week we released Thrive 1.1.0 in an apparently fairly stable state, as the number of bug reports was relatively low. We are still very interested in hearing all of your feedback ! Besides a few b...

It's already time for the second major update of the Multicellular Stage! In the last update, we first introduced the Cell Specialization system. This has now been greatly improved upon by refinement ...

As announced last week, we are now in feature freeze for the release of 1.1.0 next week! Which means there is also a release candidate build available right now for testing . If you're interested, ple...

Last week we told you that this week would be the last one to add new features before the next release. However, due to a scheduling conflict with when we would then have our release stream (can you g...

Despite this work week once again only having 4 days, there is still a significant number of patch notes. In new mechanics, we have the visualization side of the cell adjacency system (the back-end wa...

This week was a lot more busy with things changing in the game itself compared to last week. These changes include some very old issues in the game that were finally fixed. Additional changes include ...

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There's been a few, but significant, changes to the game this week. There's been a balancing round that was mainly aimed at making photosynthesis a bit less easy to use, and making non-engulfing membr...

With Easter still eating into the workdays, and about half the work time still going into our development infrastructure in the background, progress is once again limited on the visible side this week. Several volunteer contributions are also clos...

We have exciting news this week as we have finally assembled our Multicellular Stage Release Roadmap ! As we are still hoping to finish the stage this year, this is the list of things we are planning ...

This week's update looks a lot more quiet, as much of the work has gone into our back-end systems that allow us to continue developing Thrive. Another factor is that while several volunteer contributi...

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It's been another busy week in Thrive development. Release 1.0.1.1 went out on Monday as a (mostly) bugfix update. Included in that was a fix for Multicellular design conversion sometimes failing (lea...

The theme of this week is “fixes and auto-evo”. Last week was the release of 1.0.1, and as always that produced some issues that had to be fixed. In particular, some people were experiencing an issue ...

It's finally time for the first major update of the Multicellular Stage development process! We have a new cell specialisation feature allowing you to really take advantage of the multiple cell types ...

As said last week, we delayed 1.0.1 to try to fit in a few more things, in which we succeeded. So today we are in feature freeze, and we have a release candidate build for all those interested to test...

This week, the game code caught up to the Multicellular Stage officially not being a prototype anymore. Trying to enter it no longer warns you about it being a prototype, and instead you get that warn...

This was a busy week behind the scenes, but once again not as many patch notes on the list. A lot of work went into performance improvements for the compound cloud system, which had become slower afte...

A somewhat quieter week this time, as more technical work is taking place. The game was updated to Godot 4.6, as fortunately this version this did not cause unacceptable problems (4.5.1 was skipped). ...

Quite a few changes went into the game this week, as can be seen from the substantial list of patch notes. Some of those are still holdovers from the holiday, but the extra good news is that this list...

Hello everyone. As you may have heard by now I am working on a project to add some new loading screen images to Thrive. While I don’t expect these to be the only loading screen images added during d...

Welcome everyone, to an uncommonly varied Progress Update. We've got everything from Multicellular fixes and design discussion to a community art contest and a very exciting video project from our com...

Welcome everyone to the first non-holiday Progress Update of the year! Our lead Programmer returned from vacation during the week, which means development will be heating up again. Having said that, a...

Welcome everyone to the first Progress Update of 2026! Speaking of which, Thrive is currently still on the Steam winter sale . Our lead programmer has not yet returned from vacation, so just like last...

We hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season! Speaking of which, Thrive is currently still on sale . With our main programmer on vacation, there have been no large programming tasks completed...

In case anyone missed it, this week we released Thrive 1.0 ! The Microbe Stage is now feature complete, and development has shifted to the Multicellular Stage. The release this time happened on Wednes...

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...

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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 Mi...