Vending Machine Co. v1.0.6 - Minor Fixes/Balancing & Cloud Save Update

A fresh update is here with UI improvements, better pacing, fixes, and some nice quality-of-life changes across the board.

⚙️ Balance & Progression

• Reduced vending machine upgrade costs by $50–$100 to speed up early game progression

• Improved overall early-game flow and ramp-up pace

🧠 UI & UX Improvements

• Updated day phase timer visuals and layout, now the player can clearly understand when they can end the day

• Improved book UI tag spacing

• Refined pricing panel increase/decrease steps (0.5 increments)

• Removed unused top item shift behavior

• Updated end-of-day timer text to “Ready to End”

• Removed unnecessary floating text at the end of the day

💾 Save & System Updates

• Improved save button responsiveness (faster refresh timing)

• Added and refined auto-save system (5 min auto saves)

• General save system stability improvements

• Book system sync improvements

• Data and localization sync updates

• Steam Cloud Save now correctly saves your game on cross-platform

🌍 Localization

• Updated and synced multiple localization entries

• Fixed Polish and Russian missing characters in the font

• Added Polish main menu translations

🛠️ Gameplay & Fixes

• Fixed Upgrade Machine achievement issue

• Improved minigame drill target performance

• Machines with graffiti now show warning indicators on both the machine and map

• Prevented item pickup from machines affected by graffiti

• Improved metro last machine guidance logic (last spot in the Metro Station had saving issues)

• Various backend fixes for item placement steps and latch behavior

We are here to quickly respond and implement your feedback :) I'm aware some of you unfortunately had your game crash and lost your in-game progress, this update will prevent it in the future with 5-min auto saves. Feel free to add me on discord if you need assistance restoring your save: buraktokak

Thanks for playing and keep the vending empire growing! 🚀

Don't forget to give us a review on Steam ❤️

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3622640/Vending_Machine_Co/