v0.20

New Features

• There's a brand new sabotage system with 17 cards across five categories: destruction, disruption, finance, intelligence, and labour.

• The black market menu lets you browse, buy, and manage sabotage cards to build your hand.

• You can now control game speed with five settings (x1 through x16), and if your system can't keep up it'll automatically step down — in multiplayer, everyone has to agree on speed changes.

• You can now demolish your own buildings, complete with particle effects and animated destruction.

• Buildings are now clickable with an outline shader that highlights them when you hover.

• A new notification panel shows game events with icons and visual feedback as they happen.

• The finance sheet got a full redesign with detailed tooltips and proper transaction tracking.

• The build menu has been redesigned with a floating bottom-left layout and category panels for quicker access.

• You can now name your multiplayer lobbies.

Improvements

• AI players now build consistently from the start of the game regardless of difficulty, with smarter adaptive behaviour replacing the old rigid profiles.

• The labour system now uses reputation and sentiment mechanics so worker distribution feels more dynamic.

• Financial line graphs are easier to read with better data visualisation.

• Miner smoke effects now use GPU particles for better performance and nicer visuals.

• Building tooltips have been overhauled with more useful info and a cleaner layout.

• Cursor detection is more accurate so clicking on buildings feels better.

• The lobby sync UI has been rewritten to show a single status line instead of polling constantly.

• Network sync is now handled by a centralised queue which makes multiplayer coordination more reliable.

• Sabotage cards now have rarity glows and badges so you can tell them apart at a glance.

• Menus now have sound effects for interactions like opening, closing, errors, and confirmations.

• Player tags above buildings now bounce when they update so they're easier to spot.

• The market runs on threads now so it stays smooth even with lots of entries.

• Resource entries now show their max inventory values.

• Wages and building economics have been rebalanced.

• General multiplayer stability improvements across all sync systems.

Bug Fixes

• Demolition effects and animations now show up properly in multiplayer.

• Fixed worker sync issues that were causing problems in multiplayer lobbies.

• Buildings no longer go missing for players who join an in-progress game.

• Fixed AI timeouts caused by thread task ID collisions.

• AI players now have fallback options when their first building placement fails.

• Player and AI colours now apply correctly.

• Fixed construction icons not displaying properly.

• Player tags now show up above HQ buildings like they should.

• The profit tooltip no longer appears on HQ buildings where it doesn't belong.

• Fixed auto-wage calculations giving wrong results.

• Fixed the market controller getting into a bad state after reverting changes.