Belts of Iron Update 0.3

Over the last couple of months I’ve been working on adding a ton of content and general improvements to the game and now I’m happy to share they are stable enough to release to new and current owners of the game.

Here is a full list of what’s changed. But if you’ve been following along or on the experimental branch there isn’t much new for you here.

🚆 Trains & Logistics

• Manual train driving added (in addition to automation).

• Train collisions, derailments, and player damage can occur.

• Rail signals (block & path) added for preventing collisions.

• Fluid Wagons added for transporting liquids.

• Cargo Wagons now show contents of inventory.

🏭 New Buildings & Systems

• Chemical Plant (Advanced fluid processing)

• Solar Panels + Accumulators

• Large Storage Container

• Bucket Miner (Late game mining drill)

• Tier 4 Belts

• Steel Power Poles

• Fluid Valve (can limit flow rate)

💧 Fluids

• Fluid indicators when building pipes.

• Ability to drain pipes and storage tanks.

• Fluid simulation completely reworked.

📦 Building & Automation QoL

• Blueprints can be saved/loaded between sessions

• Drag-to-place power poles when wiring

• Splitters/mergers auto-connect when aligned

• Recipes organized by category + show crafting building

• Power usage graphs available from poles

🔬 Progression & Research

• Starting inventory size reduced.

• New research for additional Inventory slots.

• New research for Jetpack capacity.

• Rebalanced many recipes, research, and build costs.

🌍 World & Resources

• Resource nodes now spawn in clustered deposits

• Ferrocrystals can be auto-mined after hive destruction

• New enemy: Needler (ranged attacker)

⚙️ Gameplay Changes

• Interaction range reduced (30m → 10m).

• Splitters/mergers now require belts in inventory to place.

• Rocket recipe and launch pad inputs changed.

• Significant multiplayer + performance improvements.

• Many smaller bug fixes.

If I missed something it’s probably in the individual release notes

https://beltsofiron.com/release-notes

As always, thanks for reading and head over to discord to learn more

https://discord.gg/xmmPeZHj4T