Release notes for v0.3.0 (2025-10-27)

Patch Notes v0.3.0

New: Decorative Buildings

• Added new decorative buildings category

• Added Wall, Wall Corner, and Wall Tower as decorative buildings

• Added new Architecture I & II research to unlock them

• Added objective about building walls

• Walls can be drag-built & be in-place replaced by Wall Corners and Wall Towers

• Decorative buildings can be recolored with the new Crimson Dye potion, unlocked by the new Chromatic Alchemy research (more colors to come!)

New: Research Tree (instead of List:-) )

• Implemented visual research tree for each category, to replace old research panel

• Added right-click context menu on research items to track research requirements on main screen until research is finished

New: Mana Tree Variants

• Added multiple Mana Tree visual variants that progress with contributed Mana

• Completed Mana Trees now stay in the world, in all their glory:-)

New: Map Markers

• Added ability to place any available resource icon onto the map to remember factory locations, using Shift + Left Click (removed with Shift + Right Click)

Visual Improvements

• Apples now sway in the wind

• Improved color variation of vegetation

• Fixed subtle color shift that sometimes happened when deleting vegetation for the first time

Balancing

• Capped Mana Crystal level to a maximum of 15

• Essence Boost spell duration now affected by Advanced Spellcasting skill (increases from 30 seconds to 45 seconds)

UI Improvements

• Added fuel value display in tooltips for resources that can be used to generate power

• Changed default UI toggle hotkey from F12 to J to avoid conflicting with Steam screenshot function

• Production values exceeding 1,000 per minute are now formatted in the style of "1.2k" for readability

• Fixed save menu overflowing when too many active saves exist

Misc

• Resources gained via merchants & resource crates are now preferentially added to Warehouses that already store that resource, rather than always the closest Warehouse

• When you play the Water World challenge mode, the traveling merchants might have a new recipe in store that will help you traverse the wide ocean

• Resource nodes now translate into and out of ground when a Miner is placed or deleted, to reduce clipping

• Added new Throughput Mastery challenge objective

Fixes

• Fixed spell visibility not restoring when closing resource tree via close button

• Fixed Gold Component Technology research description

• Fixed Ward Generator not displaying effective Mana consumption based on skills

• Fixed recipe auto-upgrade being too aggressive and switching to unintended recipes

• Fixed power generator child classes (hydro generator etc.) not correctly registering power output from the start, which caused initial flickering in power display

• Fixed issue where spells not enhanced by Advanced Spellcasting skill were still labeled as such in the UI