Nubby's Number Factory
Steam News 17 November 20256mo ago

Update V1.4 - The Big One

Welcome to the v1.4! It's sure been a long time coming (half a year!) and I'm glad to finally get it out there! You can read the patch notes below. Within the next week, I'm gonna be rolling out a patch to fix any bugs…

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changedWithin the next week, I'm gonna be rolling out a patch to fix any bugs we find / make balance changes. Also, I'll be making a nubby news post pretty soon to talk about the future of the game. Until then, enjoy!
addedAdded the cosmetics menu to the game! In the cosmetics menu, you can unlock and use a bunch of different cosmetic nubby skins to play with in game AND you can also unlock and play with a bunch of new item skins to spruce things up a bit! Both nubby skins and item skins are unlocked using stars. There are some special nubby skins and item skins that are unlocked by getting achievements and making progress in the game.
addedAdded new supervisor: "Dwarf Tony". Unlockable with stars.
addedAdded "The Nubby Trials" as challenges to the game. This is a set of 5 difficult challenges where you attempt to beat a normal 80-round run. The main point is that every 10 or so rounds, the game activates a "trial" that is basically a mini challenge. Trials range pretty heavily in effect, and they're all meant to throw a curveball in how you'd normally play the game to encourage using all your nubby knowledge to beat a run, instead of relying on your typical go-to builds. There are 5 trials per difficulty level of the nubby trials, and 5 difficulty levels. This means that there's 25 total trials to overcome in the entire nubby trials series of challenges.
addedAdded steam achievements
changedItem & Perk additions:

Welcome to the v1.4! It's sure been a long time coming (half a year!) and I'm glad to finally get it out there! You can read the patch notes below.

Within the next week, I'm gonna be rolling out a patch to fix any bugs we find / make balance changes. Also, I'll be making a nubby news post pretty soon to talk about the future of the game. Until then, enjoy!

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V1.4 PATCH NOTES:

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Big additions in V1.4:

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-Added the cosmetics menu to the game! In the cosmetics menu, you can unlock and use a bunch of different cosmetic nubby skins to play with in game AND you can also unlock and play with a bunch of new item skins to spruce things up a bit! Both nubby skins and item skins are unlocked using stars. There are some special nubby skins and item skins that are unlocked by getting achievements and making progress in the game.

-Added new supervisor: "Dwarf Tony". Unlockable with stars.

-Added "The Nubby Trials" as challenges to the game. This is a set of 5 difficult challenges where you attempt to beat a normal 80-round run. The main point is that every 10 or so rounds, the game activates a "trial" that is basically a mini challenge. Trials range pretty heavily in effect, and they're all meant to throw a curveball in how you'd normally play the game to encourage using all your nubby knowledge to beat a run, instead of relying on your typical go-to builds. There are 5 trials per difficulty level of the nubby trials, and 5 difficulty levels. This means that there's 25 total trials to overcome in the entire nubby trials series of challenges.

-Added steam achievements

Item & Perk additions:

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-Added upgraded versions of ALL food items (including new food items added in this update)

-Added common food item: "Jelly"

-Added common food item: "Tri-Bagel"

-Added new item category, "Evil", exclusive to nubby trials. Evil items cannot be moved, upgraded, sold, or otherwise destroyed.

-Added 8 and a half new "evil" items, exclusive to nubby trials

Item & Perk Tweaks/Reworks:

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-All ultra-rare black market items have been moved to the rare item pool.

-Slight rewording of donut item description.

-Slight rewording of starfruit item description.

-Soup crackers (rare tier food item) moved down to common tier

-Chip and broken chip now give you +1 reroll instead of instantly rerolling when you eat them.

-Reworked mollusk item. Mollusk is now a common, non-corrupted octony exclusive item.

-New mollusk effect: Nubby launched -> Mutates into a random common item that is not currently in your inventory for the rest of the round.

-New mollusk+ effect: Nubby launched -> Mutates into a random rare or ultra-rare item that is not currently in your inventory for the rest of the round.

-Reworked asbestos item. Asbestos is now a common corrupted item.

-New asbestos effect: 4 pegs halved -> Mimics the non-upgraded effect of the item in SLOT 2, but keeps its own trigger.

-New asbestos+ effect: 4 pegs halved -> Mimics the upgraded effect of the item in SLOT 2, but keeps its own trigger.

Bug Fixes:

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-Fixed game-ruining issue where some players weren't able to get past the title screen without the game crashing. (Note: This is a half-fix because this issue is due to save corruption in the autosave save file. While I cannot fix the issue of save corruption itself, I made some tweaks that ensure that you won't get permanently locked out of the game if your autosave file

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Steam News / 17 November 2025

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