Demo Update

Balancing

📈 Objectives

We have increased the game's difficulty after Day 10. Many of you have reported that the game becomes too easy once you get the hang of its mechanics.

• Objectives have been scaled up, especially for the final days.

• City Favor objectives have also been increased.

• Severity has been slightly increased, from 10% to 15% per tier.

⭐ Relics

A few changes to relics, turns out many of you have been breaking the game!

• Tesla

  • From: + 20% efficiency for transformation machines within a 11x11 area.

  • To: + 15% efficiency for transformation machines within a 11x11 area.

• Capital amplifier

  • From: +1% efficiency for transformation machines within a 11x11 area. (1% efficiency for every 4 tokens owned, up to 20%.)

  • To: +1% efficiency for transformation machines within a 11x11 area. (1% efficiency for every 4 tokens owned, up to 30%.)

• Sales bonus

  • From: +1 token for every 200 ingredients sold.

  • To: +1 token for every 3 00 ingredients sold.

Tutorial

🎓 New Tutorial Flow:

The tutorial has been redesigned for a better first experience.

• The tutorial is now clamped to Day 10, with additional steps added throughout.

• Various bug fixes and polish applied across tutorial sequences.

• Minor tutorial hints added for the Compendium.

Settings

⚙️ Complete Settings Rework:

The settings menu has been fully overhauled. Here are the most requested features, now available.

🎮 Inputs:

• All inputs are now fully customisable, rebind anything to your liking!

• Camera movement, rotation, and zoom can now all be assigned to keys.

• Camera movement sensitivity is now adjustable.

🖥️ Graphics:

• You can now select on which monitor the game is displayed.

• Proper VSync and FPS limit management have been added.

🔧 New Options:

• Show shortcut on hover.

• Commands follow the mouse.

• Keep conveyor selected after placement.

Others

🔍 UI & Readability:

• Increased visibility of events.

• Increased visibility of locked tiles.

• The info screen has been reworked, press “ I” to display useful information about the game and its inputs.

• Hovering an element now displays its associated shortcut, if it has one.

🚀 Performance:

• Optimized geometry by replacing most terrain cubes with planes.

• Disabled GPU Resident Drawer on systems with no GPU hardware.

• Added GPU instancing on repeated instanced materials.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• AddedMachine Codexnew ingredients now correctly appear when an output recipe is saved.

• Machine field feedback now properly shows "Not connected" and "Wrong recipe" messages.

• Recipe display in the Machine Codex has been reworked, you no longer need full ingredient quantities to check a recipe. One of each ingredient is enough to determine whether the recipe exists.

• Structures now display correctly in the Structure area of the end-game screen.

• City reward choice no longer appears when all rewards have already been claimed.

• Abundant spells can no longer appear inside one another.

• Fixed music stopping in the Kilokrill biome.

• Items selected from the shop and not placed at end of day are now correctly refunded.