Release notes for v0.10.0 (2026-08-09)

Patch Notes v0.10.0

Architect Skill Tree & Cosmetics

• The world now contains 52 collectable Architect Caches that award XP when found

• Every 10 caches found unlocks a node in the new Architect branch of the skill tree, dedicated to cosmetic features. Rewards include an optional night mode and more!

Trader Token Shop

• Token shop can now very rarely offer alternative recipes otherwise obtainable from merchants and chests

• Token shop can now rarely offer new decoration buildings to unlock that have been added, such as a Fountain

Visuals & Animation

• Reworked meshes for most buildings & critters for a better factory experience

• Production buildings now have a moving/glowing part during production

• Resource meshes are now visible as they traverse the Elevator Bridge

• Building and resource icons now use the available icon space better

Performance

• General performance optimizations, especially for larger factories

UI & Quality of Life

• Search bars are now typo-resistant and support fuzzy search

• Ancient Obelisks now show in their tooltip how much of each requested resource is currently present

• Power bar tooltip now shows how much power is still available or overspent

• Status dot in the building info UI now has a tooltip explaining why a building stopped producing

• Fine-tuned objective grouping in the objectives UI, and objective progress now updates live while the UI stays open

• Escape now properly closes the scratch pad and the search bar

• Improved handling of keybind remapping conflicts and fixed display of compound keys such as Ctrl+Z

Blueprints

• Better match between the can-place preview and actual placement eligibility

• More robust blueprint save/load handling

• Better stride handling when mass-placing irregularly shaped blueprints

• Better price calculation for partial blueprint placements

• Smoother blueprint mass placement

• Blueprint placement now properly clears the redo stack

• Fixed blueprint mirroring persisting after cancelling placement with right-click/Esc

• Fixed a rare issue where mirroring a blueprint blanked a preview mesh

Balancing

• Maximum required keys for chests capped at 20

• Required siege item count per tower, fort, and citadel capped at 20

Steam Integration

• Game now pauses when the Steam overlay is opened

• Game now pauses when a controller disconnects

• Steam language preference is recognized as the default game language, where available

Fixes

• Fixed the Solar Resonator overspilling its base size

• Fixed double-clicking a save overwriting it without a confirmation prompt

• Tooltips now update correctly when zooming or panning without moving the mouse

• Fixed the resolution dropdown becoming unselectable after disabling fullscreen

• Fixed an item duplication exploit in the Merger

• Fixed an exploit allowing repeated trades with the same merchant by clicking quickly

• Fixed power output upgrades on the Solar Generator being lost when it ran out of fuel

• Fixed the expanded storage talent perk in area effect buildings

• Fixed items across an entire belt curve stopping when the first item in the curve stopped

• Fixed Elevator Bridge connection previews not aligning with the actual connection after placement

• Better protection of Splitter slot indices when undoing a mass delete

• Fixed "exit to menu" followed by "new game" pausing the auto-save timer

• A failed auto-save no longer resets a custom auto-save interval

• Fixed whales being replaced by fish on animation in Water World, and fixed dragon scaling issues