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Steam News7 January 20242y ago

Patch Notes 1.98

Balance Changes Advanced levels of Research Speed upgrade, that require red, blue, and purple coins, now require that coin’s respective unlock quest to be completed first Stone Mason is now available in initial research

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Full Factory Town Idle update

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What changed

3 fixes1 addition8 changes0 removals
  • Balance
  • Gameplay
  • Store
  • UI and audio
changedBalance ChangesAdvanced levels of Research Speed upgrade, that require red, blue, and purple coins, now require that coin’s respective unlock quest to be completed first
addedBalance ChangesStone Mason is now available in initial research set, and Quarry research is dependent on Stone Mason, instead of vice versa. This is because Stone Bricks are needed very quickly but the Quarry is not
changedBalance ChangesReduced the multiplier that Land has on resource regeneration from .5x per land to .1x per land. Increased baseline resource regen rate for all resources (resource regen was scaling too fast)
changedBalance ChangesIncreased baseline harvest speed of Harvester Hut Wood from .25/sec to .4 / sec (Was difficult for early towns to keep up with increased market demand for wood)
changedMisc ImprovementsChanged many icons & background images
changedMisc ImprovementsIf tutorial was instructing player to build a General Store, but no Workers were available, the tutorial pointer finger will point to the House instead of the General Store

Factory Town Idle changes

changedAdvanced levels of Research Speed upgrade, that require red, blue, and purple coins, now require that coin’s respective unlock quest to be completed first
addedStone Mason is now available in initial research set, and Quarry research is dependent on Stone Mason, instead of vice versa. This is because Stone Bricks are needed very quickly but the Quarry is not
changedReduced the multiplier that Land has on resource regeneration from .5x per land to .1x per land. Increased baseline resource regen rate for all resources (resource regen was scaling too fast)
changedIncreased baseline harvest speed of Harvester Hut Wood from .25/sec to .4 / sec (Was difficult for early towns to keep up with increased market demand for wood)
changedChanged many icons & background images

Balance Changes

  • Advanced levels of Research Speed upgrade, that require red, blue, and purple coins, now require that coin’s respective unlock quest to be completed first

  • Stone Mason is now available in initial research set, and Quarry research is dependent on Stone Mason, instead of vice versa. This is because Stone Bricks are needed very quickly but the Quarry is not

  • Reduced the multiplier that Land has on resource regeneration from .5x per land to .1x per land. Increased baseline resource regen rate for all resources (resource regen was scaling too fast)

  • Increased baseline harvest speed of Harvester Hut Wood from .25/sec to .4 / sec (Was difficult for early towns to keep up with increased market demand for wood)

Misc Improvements

  • Changed many icons & background images

  • If tutorial was instructing player to build a General Store, but no Workers were available, the tutorial pointer finger will point to the House instead of the General Store

  • Tutorial pointer finger will point to the Town Perks and/or the Global Perks buttons if the player has available perks to purchase and has not yet opened the panels

  • More detailed tooltips will be shown when hovering over production contribution details

  • Labels in production tooltip details will more specifically show the producing or consuming building, not just the panel (e.g. “Forester” instead of “Cultivation”)

Bug Fixes

  • Auto-assign production capacity on Cultivation and Prospecting recipes would ignore natural resource regen, resulting in excess amounts of production capacity assigned

  • Desert Well penalty was not being applied

  • Descriptions were missing for Steam Pipe, Power Line, Mana Pipe, Magma Pipe, and Omni Pipe speed upgrades

Source

Steam News / 7 January 2024

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