Assembly Planter news & patch notes

It's been half a year since Assembly Planter has been released. A good time for some polishing. Here's a complete list of all the changes: Splitters are now actually useful. You can right-click them to change their shape. This way they are an actual alternative to multisplitters and crafting tons of glass early on is no longer a necessity. Early game changes:

• The hoe now gives more dirt.
• Blade upgrades are available earlier.
• Automation is now unlocked gradually over several levels.
• The first 7 levels are now unlocked automatically and the orb of wisdom is unlocked at level 8.
• The manual pages are now unlocked based on level so you can only see the things that are already unlocked.
• The tutorial can now be skipped.

Added the trading station that allows you to trade requested shrinker machines for time machines. Machines drop their resources when they are hammered and the cost of shrinker machines contains the base resources rather than the components. There's an option to revert this change. Pressing shift while using the hammer now gives back the machine itself instead of the resources. The stack size limit is now 1 Quintillion. Added short number notation for item numbers. Added shiny crates which allow you to use the entire stack of crates with a single click. Various small improvements:

• Craft time of machines set to 0.2s from 1s.
• Limited the maximum number of crafts that can be queued per table to 50.
• Transmutations are now stronger and there are a few more of them.
• Clicking a machine with a resource or seed in your hand now puts it into the machine.
• Added search function for crafting tables.
• If the first item of the output of a shrinker machine is biomass or dirt it now shows the second item instead in the custom crafting table.
• Added direct input for the input number in the shrinker.
• The input numbers are now saved.
• Changed the hotbar scrolling direction.
• Added slight camera lag.
• Item displays in crafting tooltips and the shrinker display are now smaller and scale similar to the hotbar.
• You can now also use space + mouse wheel for zooming.
• Added extra highlight to the hovered tile.
• Removed lesser time machines.

Bug fixes:

• Made splitters and filters move items at the same speed as conveyor belts.
• Fixed overflow errors
• Fixed <1ms machines stopping on loading the game.
• Fixed crash on the first shrinker use in a new world.
• Fixed zoom bug.
• Fixed bug that messed up the shrinker cost after cloning a machine that contains a deleted machine.
• Fixed pullers not resetting the conveyor belts when removed.

The game was looking kinda ugly so I decided to improve the visuals a bit. The biggest visual change is the tall 3D grass that has been spread outside the building area to cover up the ugly repeating grass texture. Some players had issues with the bright flickering colors of the conveyor belts. I didn't want to remove the bright colors because the game looks boring without them. Instead I tried to reduce the flickering by straightening and connecting the conveyor belts. I also increased the size of the orange stripes and the distance between them to make it look less noisy. Another frequent complaint was that you couldn't zoom out more. Now you can! Instead of switching between 4 given perspectives the camera can now zoom in and out using shift + mouse wheel. All changes: Visual Changes: -Added tall grass outside the building area. -Changed the conveyor belt meshes. -Splitters are now purple -Made the stripes on conveyorbelts bigger. -Floor tiles now have a random rotation. -Added a new barn model. -changed the UI to dark mode -Added hover animations for some ui elements Gameplay Changes: -Reworked the camera movement. You can now zoom using shift + mousewheel -The land size is now capped at 26x26 tiles. -wooden, copper and iron compost bins now give one more dirt Fixes: -fixed a bug that prevented plants and items in machines from getting saved. -fixed a bug that sometimes caused a crash when you cloned a machine that contained a deleted machine. -the max stack size and the expand cost can no longer exceed the integer limit. -The level up button is now closer to the orb of wisdom.

-Item pickup notifications no longer show the max stack size and the green number shows items per second. -Fixed a bug that caused splitters to break when they got items from another splitter. -Fixed a bug that allowed you to duplicate items by putting them in machines in the shrinker and then cloning them. -Fixed a bug that caused the clone function to mess up when the size difference was > 1. -The collapse button for the tutorial box now rotates when you click it. -Removed the "next page button" on the last page and the "previous page button" on the first page of the manual.

-fixed crash on shift click with empty hotbar -fixed a bug showing level 0 when you're level 15 -fixed a bug that caused the golden auto sieve to be unlocked too early -fixed compost bins being destroyed on clone -item now take rounded paths on conveyor belts fixing a bug that caused items to get stuck in corners. -fixed a bug that caused seeds to get added to the shrinker cost

This is the first big update of Assembly Planter. I tried to fix all the things players seemed to dislike most about the launch version of the game. Old Saves The update changes big parts of how you progress through the game and it also changes how crafts are saved. This causes saves from before the patch to partially break. You can still use them but all your crafters will break and you will likely be at an unintended point of progression. I highly recommend starting a new game. New Progression System The new progression system gradually unlocks things as you progress through the game. This is done through a leveling system that unlocks new content and directly explains what the new items are used for. Leveling up always costs certain resources. New Sieves Sieves were the cause of a lot of early game confusion because it was hard to know what they produced and what they needed to produce it. Many had also missed the fact that every sieve produced different seeds and you had to keep the old sieves. Now sieves are direct upgrades of each other and they allow you to choose what seeds you wan't them to produce. Higher tier sieves just have more seeds to choose from. Most seeds are now produced from a single piece of dirt so you no longer have to put exactly 5 dirt into the sieve for it to work. Clone Machines One very convenient new feature is the new clone button. It allows you to instantly rebuild a machine in the shrinker by pressing a button. Test Shrinker Setups What confused players most about the shrinker was the fact that it doesn't run continuously like the simulated machines. In this patch I tried to make the whole shrinker process more intuitive and hopefully less confusing. Pullers no longer pull every second when you place them in the shrinker. Instead they only spit their items out once when you click the new "Test" button. This allows you to directly see what the machines do with the items. It also removes most differences between the calculated and the simulated machine. All Changes -Added New Level System that gradually unlocks content and explains it to the player. -Reworked Sieves. -Added a clone feature for shrinker builds. -Setups in the shrinker don't run continuously anymore. -Added new upgrades for the hammer, the hoe, harvesters and planters -Added a second type of time machine -Added giant crates (Apparently huge crates aren't big enough) -Changed several crafting recipes to fit the new system -The manual is now only used for automation and it is not an item in the inventory anymore -Made the UI style a bit cleaner -Added the option to turn of the item popups -Pullers now have input boxes to set the values -Custom Recipes can no longer be manually crafted -The Expand Button now has a real button you can press instead of the weird right click -Added Recipes for the hoe and the wooden blade. -fixed a bug that caused planters in the shrinker that were fed by multiple inputs to compute too high times. -fixed a bug that caused self feed collectors to sometimes not cancel out inputs -fixed a bug that caused the time machines to mess up when the land was expanded -fixed a bug that allowed you to turn soil to grass in the exact moment when a planter was planting something on it causing it to grow on grass. -fixed a bug that removed items form your inventory when you clicked them while a puller/filter was open -fixed an issue that caused shrinker caclulations to change even tough nothing about the setup changed -fixed conveyor belts connecting to time machines

-added Crafter name wrapping as well as a name character limit -fixed "delete craft outside custom crafter menu" bug -fixed a bug that caused a crafting table to keep crafting when you removed it -fixed bug where you got 10 crafts for the price of 11 -fixed bug that allowed you to select items in the shrinker display -fixed shrinker time bug -fixed stardust collector crafter bug -fixed screenshake setting loading -fixed bug that allowed you to open a machine while it was being destroyed -fixed multisplitter with multiple inputs bug

-Slight shrinker error message adjustments -New early game page in the book -Fixed Key mapping bug -Fixed sound bug

-Added improved error messages for the Shrinker that give you more information about why it's not working. -Ctrl click in the puller now increases the input by 100 -fixed a bug with open inventories during shrinking -probably added 700 new bugs