Factory Town Idle news & patch notes

Misc Improvements

• When all production capacity (workers) are assigned at a building, you can now hit the ‘+’ button to assign additional workers to that recipe. - they will be reassigned from other recipes at the same building.
  • Some conditions must be met for worker reassignment: those recipes have more than one worker assigned and must be in ‘Auto-assign’ mode. If multiple recipes are available that meet those conditions, worker will be reassigned from the lowest priority recipe, and among those, it will reassign from the recipe with the highest surplus for its primary output item.
• When the icon of a locally locked item is clicked on (e.g. in the Research panel) it will open up the guide for the item
• A filter of “Increasing” or “Decreasing” on the Inventory panel will be preserved when switching towns
• In the item activity tooltip, the Production “Potential” and “% Potential” values will now display the true max potential based on recipe speed and assigned production capacity.
  • Previously, this value would not take into account situations when more production capacity was assigned than the output capacity or rate limit could accommodate. This new behavior allows display of "% Potential" values > 100%, and the logic is consistent with the percentage shown on each recipe's output progress bar.
• Item activity tooltip for “Consumption” now shows demand more accurately. If the item being examined is the limiting factor in its recipe, its demand is set as its full (unrealized) potential consumption for that recipe. In all other cases, Demand is calculated based on its actual consumption.
  • For example, if making Paper (water + wood), and the recipe would normally consume 10 wood / second and 10 / water second, but the recipe is slowed to 50% of its normal speed because of a lack of Water, then the demand for Water is 10 / second and is being supplied at 50% of its demand. The demand for Wood though should only be 5 / second, and it is being met at 100% of its actual demand. As Water supply increases, the Paper recipe will be able to run faster and the Wood demand will increase correspondingly.

Bug Fixes

• The town perk 'Storage Boost' was only assessing ‘Local Consumption’ when deciding how much to increase storage by. This was causing it to ignore potentially large effects of exports, and thus storage was much too small to handle throughput. Now it calculates based on Active Demand and storage expands appropriately. This should resolve some unintended limits on production speed due to insufficient storage.
• The bonus capacity given to items based on its consumption rate (to allow greater item throughput than storage would normally allow) was based only on local consumption, not exports. This was also causing unintended limits on production speed due to insufficient storage.
• Misleading entry in tooltip for Power made it seem as if it was exclusive to the Desert biome
• When ‘Extra Active’ game modifier active, player could still use hotkeys to trigger Turbo and Turbo Max mode. However, they would not function properly
• Requirements for Quest “Produce Copper Wire” (that unlocks Power Line) was displaying an obsolete quest as a prerequisite. Now it shows the correct prerequisite quest of “Produce 50K Copper Ingot” which is necessary to make Copper Wire.
• If game was quit while ‘Assign Worker’ buttons were highlighted during tutorial, and another game was loaded, they would remain stuck in highlighted state

Auto-Trade Improvements

• Local Balance: If there's a local deficit of the item, the recipe will Import. If there's a local surplus, it will Export. (This is closest to the current 'Auto' trade mode, so older trades in Auto mode will be migrated to use Local Balance)
• Local Fill: If the local town has spare storage capacity for the item, the recipe will Import. Otherwise, it will Export.

Balance Changes

• Added Omni upgrades for Well

Misc Improvements

• Improved loading times for large files
• Improved inventory filter when Trading recipe selected: now it shows the local inventory and the global trading post storage for the selected item. It can also do this regardless of the active trade mode (import, export, of Off)
• When an item filter is applied to the main production list, the relevant trade recipe will be shown whether the trade is importing, exporting, or off.

Bug Fixes

• When Unlimited Consumption modifier was on, Item production tooltip would always show zeros for item demand / supplied for its market consumption
• Last frame’s item demand was not stored in save file, so recipes that targeted demand would not be immediately stable when loading a game

New Features

• New Game Modifier: Trading Tokens. In this mode, exporting an item earns 'Trading Tokens' based on the value of the item. Imports require spending these tokens. This system encourages towns to have a balanced import/export scheme. In this mode, there is no maximum storage limit within Trading Posts so that towns can always earn Trading Tokens. This modifier unlocks once the player has reached Town Level 25 at some point in any playthrough.
• New Game Modifier: Default Auto-Assign. In this mode, the Auto-Assign feature is always available and is on by default for all buildings (except trading buildings). This modifier unlocks once the player has reached Town Level 25 at some point in any playthrough.

Balance Changes

• Added ‘Continue’ button to main menu. (It appears after the player has loaded a save file in this version once, as that info must be stored first before the game knows which file to continue playing)
• Game modifiers Easy Mode, Hard Mode, Mild Biomes and Extreme Biomes are now available by default instead of requiring game progress.
• In Extreme Biomes mode, Magic Jewelry research is now exclusive to the Magic biome (not the Jungle Biome) because those items are made at the Enchanter (which is only in the Magic Biome).
• Magic Potion recipe no longer requires Mana Transmitter research, because in Extreme Biomes mode, Magic Potions can only be made in the Forest biome's Medicine Hut but Mana Transmitter research is only available in the Magic biome.
• Magic Medicine research now has Mana Power as an input, to guarantee the player has access to Mana Power which is required for making Magic Medicine items.
• Quest that unlocks Steam Pipeline now also requires the player to produce a certain amount of Steam as well, otherwise the Steam Pipeline may be unlocked before Steam can be produced.
• Trading recipes for Steam, Fire, Power, and Omnistones default to trade mode “Auto-Balance” instead of “Off”
• World Panel icons are not hidden for unlocked biomes when game modifier Extreme Biomes or Mild Biomes is active

Bug Fixes

• Tooltip for ‘Excluded’ buildings on World Panel was not localized
• Turbo mode timer would occasionally flicker the counter up and down based on odd timing of accruing and spending time tokens
• Game could not load files with a period character in the file name
• Research and Upgrade buttons were available in the World panel before they were normally unlocked

Game Modifiers

• Extra Idle / Extra Active: Changes construction & research speed to support more 'Active' or 'Idle' playstyles. Extra Active mode speeds up construction and research, removes the ability to earn Time Tokens, and increases Click Power. Extra Idle mode increases construction and research times, but increases amount of idle time that can be accrued.
• Easy Mode / Hard Mode: These change the rate of coin & XP gain, the strength of many perks, available Land, and natural resource regeneration.
• Mild Biomes / Extreme Biomes: This setting will decrease or amplify differences between Biomes. Mild Biomes removes a lot of the penalties from different biomes, and Extreme Biomes adds a lot of additional differences and makes many buildings exclusive to one particular biome or another.
• Permanent Perks: This modifier prevents you from lowering the assigned level of a Perk within a playthrough. So you must be extra thoughtful when assigning Perk Points!
• Low Population: This modifier decreases the amount of Workers you get per House. This adds extra management challenge as you decide which are the most important buildings to staff.
• Infinite Storage: In this modifier, all resources and items have no maximum capacity. All Storage buildings and upgrades are removed. Recipes will not naturally self-limit, since they can not reach saturation.
• Infinite Land: Buildings no longer take up land, so you can expand faster.
• Infinite Consumption: There is no limit to how much you can oversupply a Market. This allows you speed up progression quite a bit if you can keep your production running.

Simplified Research Tech Tree

• Most research that simply unlocked new recipes were converted to Quests (e.g. Reinforced Plank, Copper Wire, Paper, Quartz). Players that previously produced these items will have these new Quests automatically marked as 'complete'.
• Basic Logic, Intermediate Logic, and Advanced Logic were removed. Related dependencies were merged into Study, Tech Lab, and various Tome researches.
• Magic Construction has been merged into the Enchanting research.
• Many cases where a research was required as a prerequisite instead simply requires access to the research's input items.

Unlimited save files

• Instead of 5 slots to pick from, you can now have an unlimited number of save files.
• When creating a new game you pick whatever file name you want.
• When loading, you will see a list of all the files you've created. Files created in versions prior to this update will be called "slot1", "slot2", etc.
• When in a game, you also have the option to "Save As" under a different file name.
• You can right-click on a row in the file browser to view an option to delete the selected file.

Balance Changes

• Infinite Research “Omnitemple Speed Boost” is now “Knowledge Speed Boost” and it boosts all Knowledge recipes by 25% per level (including Omnitemple recipes)
• Capped all research and construction costs at 10^300, to avoid overflowing the data types used to store costs
• Polished Stone is now made from Quartz instead of Refined Stone Brick
• Quest that unlocks Polished Stone now requires Quartz production instead of Refined Stone Brick production
• Quest for Berry Cake no longer unlocks until the player has access to Berries
• Quartz recipe requires 8 Stone instead of 10 Stone

Misc Improvements

• Added Brazilian Portuguese localization
• Changed icons for knowledge tomes so the tiers are easier to tell apart
• If a biome is locked, but its required quest is complete (but not claimed), clicking the “Create” button on the World panel will automatically mark the quest as complete
• Unmet requirements with item / research tooltips will display highlighted in red
• All tooltips on research ingredients will show the full tooltip guide for the item
• Tooltip guide for Coins shows which stores produce the coin type
• Menu that appears when right-clicking an item icon will show an Info button at the top that will open the tooltip guide for the item
• Game menu dismisses automatically after ‘Save’ clicked
• Tutorial pointer finger will no longer appear if the player has reached level 10 in any of their previous save files
• More details about recipe speed / productivity modifiers are shown in the tooltip for recipe progress

Bug Fixes

• "NaN" would appear in very large construction costs
• Tooltip panel would occasionally show items in the wrong order
• Skill gain was being undercounted during Fast-forward (turbo) mode
• Recipe speed modifiers were not being counted when calculating skill gain
• Skills will now gain as many levels as they need to during a single simulation tick, rather than being limited to one level up per simulatio tick
• Removed redundant building requirements from harvesting / farming recipes
• Fixed tooltips for Harvesting buildings showing excess line listings for each item harvested
• No reward was displayed when completing research “Ether Bonus: Earth Power” or any research that boosted cultivation / prospecting
• Item icons in tooltip guide would not always show the items’s name in a text tooltip when hovered
• IndexOutOfArrayBounds error was possible when returning to the main menu after launching with music turned off
• (Hotfix 1.3.0h) Fixed German localization missing many terms
• (Hotfix 1.3.0i) Fixed new natural resources appearing with "NaN" quantity when unlocking during gameplay

• Fixed bug: Production detail tooltip for currencies would incorrectly sort 'Production' rows at the bottom of the list, below Consumption totals
• Fixed bug: Research panel would not consistently update its display of available production capacity
• Fixed bug: Item Consumption detail tooltip would sometimes show “-100%” in the Contribution column when “100%” should be used
• Research panel production capacity now appears like the other production capacity displays in the game, and allows right-click 'Remove All' behavior

Turbo Mode performance improvement

• Turbo (fast-forward) mode has been optimized to run smoothly at all speed multiples. It does this by running one full simulation step per frame, and then repeating the last recorded net gain/loss for each item multiple times, until it catches up with the targeted simulation time.
• If a building or research is completed during these 'repeat' simulation steps, another full simulation step is triggered to calculate updated delta values (so you don't spend more than you need to on a building or research).
• This process can occur multiple times in a single frame, which may be necessary if lots of buildings are completing in rapid succession. However if the game is unable to run enough full simulations within the limit for a single frame (1/60 of a second), it will save those simulation steps for the next frame, and so on. This can result in a difference between the target turbo rate and the actual number of simulation steps run, but it will not spend more time tokens on these steps than are actually used not will it cause the frame rate to suffer.

Production Tooltip Improvements

• Production and Consumption are now grouped more clearly, and a ‘Total’ value is shown beneath each section.
• The “Potential” and “% Potential” are now based on how much can be produced within the constraints of actual storage space. That is, if a recipe is running slowly due to storage being full for its output item, this will show as running at “100% potential”, instead of appearing as running at < 100%. A recipe will only show as running at < 100% potential if there are not enough inputs to run the recipe at full speed.
• Can expand and collapse Production and Consumption groups in production tooltip panel
• Can click on headers to sort production/consumption tooltip by Name, Contribution %, Potential, Actual, and % Potential contribution values

Misc Improvements

• Save games now remember which building category tab was last visible, so it can be loaded when restarted
• The expand / collapse state of headers on the Trading panel are shared between towns, making it easier to track specific items' status when switching towns using hotkeys (Ctrl+Left Arrow or Ctrl+Right Arrow)
• Manual recipe production via click will potentially add to max demand per second for the purposes of increasing storage
• Added more contrast on the background for each building’s available production capacity, to help differentiate it from the recipe’s production capacity

Booster Building Changes

• 'Factory' boosts Workshop, Tailor, Pasture, Machine Shop, Stone Mason, Lumber Mill, and Food mill.
• 'Magic Boat' boosts Medicine Hut, Bakery, and Gourmet Kitchen
• 'Airship' boosts Jeweler, Refinery, and Enchanter.
• 'Foundry' (new building) boosts production speed of Forge and Magic Forge buildings.

• Bread, Apple Juice, Pear Juice, and Berry Juice were boosted by both Factory and Magic Boat, now they are only boosted by the Magic Boat.
• Tailor items were being boosted by both Factory and Airship, now they are only boosted by the Factory.
• Pasture recipes were not boosted by anything, they are now boosted by the Factory.
• Refinery and the Enchanter were not boosted by anything, they are now boosted by the Airship.
• Glass was boosted by the Workshop, now it’s boosted by the Foundry.
• All other Forge and Magic Forge items were not boosted by anything, now they are boosted by the Foundry.

Balance Changes

• Changed cost growth curve for all Buildings. In general they cost more at lower counts, and much less at higher (100+) counts
• Effect of upgrades for Steam Pipeline, Omni Pipeline, Power Line, Magma Pipeline, and Omni Pipeline are now exponential (they double their effect each level) instead of increasing the base effect by 50% each level. There are also 10 levels of each instead of 5. Each level requires more of the underlying building type to unlock the next upgrade type.
• Infinite research “Goods Consumption Boost” (which increases max market supply rates) increased from 20% per level to 50% per level
• Building construction times do not scale so high when you have hundreds / thousands of buildings
• Increased thresholds at which Quarry construction requires advanced items like Steel and Refined Planks

Bug Fixes

• Background tint of menu row items would occasionally have inconsistent colors
• Production speed tooltip was showing ‘Baseline Speed’, but not any indicator if the recipe produces more than 1 unit of output per recipe. This was causing the displayed potential items/sec value to not match the displayed values when added up. A new line for ‘Productivity’ has been added that displays number if items per recipe loop that are produced.
• Building cost would be shown in red if player could not currently afford the entire cost, which is not applicable since the cost is paid gradually
• Inventory items would sometimes appear empty for a single frame when new construction started
• Displayed costs in the pop-up construction details panel would sometimes not reflect the current increment multiple
• Decreasing storage, and then increasing storage, was causing items to disappear and created possibility for goods production exploit
• High-level towns (> 60) would have increasingly long load times

Balance Changes

• Reverted the ‘Dynamic Storage’ effect of Rail Depots. They were causing too much town instability due to sudden increase in storage. Rail Depots now provide a static boost of 10K to global storage capacity per building.
• The global perk “Global Trading Capacity” now has the dynamic storage effect that Rail Depots did in the previous version. Each level of this perk will now provide a bonus to all traded items’ global storage based on that items’ peak per-second demand. This also gives it consistent behavior with a similar Town Perk, and can be adjusted up or down as needed.
• Since the Global Trading Capacity perk is now much stronger, the level of it was reduced to 1 for any players that had levels in it. Quest Coins are refunded for these levels. This allows players to more carefully increase their trading post storage without causing major production shortages.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed label on Quest Coins button saying 'Perks' instead of the number of available quest coins

Bug Fixes:

• Tooltip for trading post inventory details would not display correctly or at all
• Game would not relaunch in Steam if launched from .exe while Steam was closed, causing cloud saves to be inaccessible
• Locked button on World Panel buttons for locked biomes was not visible
• World Panel buttons for locked biomes would show land, workers, research, construction, and upgrade buttons
• Label on the Time Tokens button would often show the label “Time Management” instead of the actual number of time tokens

Bug Fixes

Balance Changes

• Town Perk "Storage Boost" now adds storage to each item based on its max per-second demand (50% per level). This should improve how well storage scales for all items as the economy grows, and is intended especially to help replace the effects of the removed Omni Storage upgrades.

Improvements

• Inventory panel will display a header displaying which filter is active, if any. This is for both recipe filters and the increasing/decreasing state filters
• When Inventory is filtered to show increasing or decreasing items, it will automatically refresh every second to keep up to date with production changes
• World Panel buttons now include Land, Workers, Research, Upgrades, and Construction buttons. Right-clicking on Research or Upgrades buttons will automatically claim all research or upgrades that are available to claim
• Can right-click on a building header’s production capacity display to show an option to “Remove All”, which clears all production capacity assigned to that building. It will also disable production Auto-Assign if it’s enabled for that building.
• Can hover over the XP icon on the Town Status Panel (top-left, where the town name is shown) to get a tooltip showing XP earnings from all sources. Clicking on this icon will pin the tooltip and allow you to scroll the menu. The ‘Potential’ XP in this menu indicates the XP you would earn if you had enough inputs to meet the recipe’s demand. (For Markets, the recipe demand is always its maximum supply value.)
• When Auto-Trade switches mode between Import and Export, and Auto-Assign is active on the recipe, the recipe will have all production capacity removed. This is to prevent wild swings in trade volumes
• Notifications panel tracks notifications per-town, and switching towns will display that town’s notifications. Previously unviewed notifications will have a slight tint animation
• Claiming All upgrades will now show a list of which upgrades were claimed
• Removed behavior that production assignment increment automatically increases magnitude based on size of current production assignment value
• When a Perk has no levels, its description will simply state the effect of the next level of the perk. It will no longer show the current effect, i.e., 0% boost
• Added new Background Music track

Balance Changes

• New Town Perk: Storage Boost. Each level adds a multiplier onto all item storage (including natural resources) within the town
• Got rid of all Omni Storage boosts. Was too easy to unintentionally increase storage in an irreversible way using Claim All for upgrades. Functionality is replaced with the Storage Boost town perk
• New Global Perk: Construction Efficiency. Each level reduces the amount of physical items required for construction, all the way down to zero. Currency requirements are unaffected. This perk requires that at least one town has reached level 40.
• New Global Perk: Research Speed. Each level reduces research speed in all towns by a set amount. This addition is meant to help deal with exponentially growing durations of infinite research, and also help speed up development of towns in new biomes.
• New Global Perk: Global Trading Capacity. Each level increases the globally-shared limit for trading post inventory
• All Cultivation and Prospecting recipes are now available immediately as soon as the parent building & natural resource are unlocked. The related research (that was previously responsible for unlocking the recipe) still exists but now applies a 5x prospecting speed multiplier. The baseline speed has been reduced by 5x. This way there is less confusion about why a certain recipe is missing, and avoids the situation where a prospecting building might be empty of recipes. But it also maintains the importance of the related research.
• Increased baseline cost for all Omni-upgrades by 100x. ('Upgrade Efficiency' upgrade was causing early levels of these upgrades to be extremely cheap)
• All buildings have at least some coin cost, so there is still a cost when Construction Efficiency is at max level and all physical costs removed
• Rail Depots now add 50% of an item’s peak per-second import demand to its trading post storage. This value is multiplied by the number of Rail Depots built globally. This allows trading post storage to scale dynamically with item demand.
• Removed upgrades for Rail Depot capacity, as this could cause upgrades in one town to drastically affect other towns
• Greatly reduced market demand for OmniPipes, as it is a very pricey item and was causing an imbalance
• Changed calculations for XP earnings from recipes. Previous method was not taking into account recipes that produced more than 1 item (like advanced harvesting recipes), or productivity upgrades that increased the amounts produced by recipes.
• Increased XP value of all crafting / harvesting / cultivation / prospecting recipes
• Lowered power of “Town XP Multiplier: Yellow Coin” and similar upgrades since baseline XP values are now higher
• World Perk “Specialization” now requires a Market to unlock
• OmniTemple requires 10 Land instead of 1

Bug Fixes

• Mana Power was not tradeable
• Fixed bug failing to load large numeric values in save files which would cause the main launch menu ‘Play’ button to become unresponsive.
• Claiming a research recipe that was also selected would preserve the selected recipe filter on the inventory panel with no obvious way to remove it
• Notification Log would always show completed research as ‘level 1’
• Fixed transparent background on Inventory popup panel
• Construction Details panel would sometimes show non-localized text in header
• Changing perks with right-click would not update perk description to match new value of perk
• Description of “Town XP Boost” World Perk was stating that it 'increased XP for selling items' was incorrect, now it states that it increases XP from all sources
• Happiness XP Bonus was not immediately recalculating its effect on non-Market recipes

Improvements:

• Added Italian language localization
• Changed ‘Scroll Up’ and ‘Scroll Down’ hotkeys from Q and E to A and Z, to prevent overlaps with existing menu hotkeys. In addition, the keys can be held down to scroll repeatedly. (Page Up and Page Down are also mapped to this function.)

Balance Changes:

• Resources are no longer added when their capacity expands, as it was possible to exploit by adding/removing associated perks
• Removed slightly confusing quest requirements for higher levels of “Research Speed” upgrade. They were intended to prevent displaying these levels before the type of coin used to purchases these levels was available. But they were not formatted well and didn’t serve much purpose. Now all levels of this upgrade cost Yellow Coins and have no additional requirements besides completing certain amounts of research globally.

Bug Fixes:

• Was possible to minimize the main Markets or Trading header, causing all rows to disappear without an obvious way to make them visible again
• Game will respond to launch arg “-windowed” to launch in window mode instead of exclusive fullscreen (to fix issues where game would not display properly in exclusive fullscreen, causing in-game windowed mode option to be inaccessible)
• Also added “-fullscreen” launch arg that sets to exclusive fullscreen
• Added logic to help prevent ‘One Week’ and ‘One Month’ achievements from triggering early
• Was able to click on locked Biome modifier icons to see the locked info
• Water Wheel research was required on all recipes that use power, even though power can now be traded between towns. This was causing an odd situation where the Machine Shop or Mana Transmitter could be unlocked but no recipes were visible for them.
• Changing towns (with ctrl+left or right arrow keys) while the Town Perks menu was open would not update that menu’s displayed town
• Was able to exceed building limits (e.g. for biome-specific buildings that are capped based on town level) using the build-multiple commands

Misc Improvements

• More details provided in Market Fulfillment tooltip, specifically including descriptive rows for things that modify oversupply rates
• Low market supply does not use sad face icons, to avoid implying a penalty

Balance Changes

• Markets can be oversupplied even from the start of the game (by 100%)
• Lowerered Stone Mason research time
• Lowered baseline demand for Wood, Stone, Stone Brick, and Plank
• Further decreased effect of Land on resource regeneration rates (was too high and making Cultivation and Prospecting useless in early game)

Bug Fixes

• Goods Consumption Boost upgrades were being applied to the baseline demand for an item, instead of just affecting oversupply
• Player could specify a production limit for Market recipes that exceeded the max demand for that item
• Cultivation production auto-assign could enter a cycle where it would be added and removed repeatedly
• Water Spring was showing up twice in tooltip for Well
• Hotfix 1.0.0a: Fixed low land amounts having negative impact on resource regeneration rates

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

Factory Town Idle is transitioning from Early Access to a "1.0" Full Release version!

New Trading Capabilities

• Mana Pipeline: Trades Mana Crystals and Mana Power between towns. Built with Mana Pipes.
• Steam Pipeline: Trades Steam between towns. Built with Steam Pipes.
• Omni Pipeline: Trades Omnistones between towns. Built with Omni Pipes (this is a new item, produced at the Machine Shop from Omnistones and Mana Pipes and is sellable at the Hardware store for Purple coins.)
• Magma Pipeline: Trades Fire between towns. Built with Magma Pipes (another new item, produced at the machine shop from Steel and Power and sellable at the Hardware Store for Red Coins)

UI Improvements

• Added Skill display back to recipe rows (sorry about removing it!)
• To make space for the Skill display, the Pause and Production Limit functions have been combined. They are accessible by clicking on the recipe's production progress bar, instead of having their own icons.
• Moved Research / Upgrades / Construction to top navigation panel instead of being underneath town stats. This opens up more room for inventory and quests, and makes the UI similar to the older style which it seems many players preferred.
• Inventory Panel will expand its height when fewer coin rows are visible that would otherwise occupy that vertical space
• Quests panel has larger default height (shows 4 quests instead of 3)
• Moved Quest Coins to the top-right grouping with the rest of the global management buttons (rewards, time tokens, etc)
• Building construction progress bars animate more smoothly
• Search input field is now hidden by default, can be toggle on by hitting new ‘Search’ button on the main panel header (or using hotkey Ctrl-F)
• Removed background images from some parts of the UI so it doesn’t feel like all the background space is occupied
• Combined “Housing” and “Support” buildings into “Buildings” navigation category, to save space on the town navigation header
• To avoid confusion, the previous “Buildings” panel (which displayed building counts and construction status) is now called “Construction” and its hotkey is C
• Increased size of confirm button on reward panel
• Small text size animation applied when manually changing assigned production capacity
• Rail Depot is now in the “Storage” Category
• Town Happiness is now shown as a full progress bar with percent
• Available worker count is shown on the House header in main recipe list
• Can right-click on building headers to expand/collapse all similar headers (just like Control+left click currently does)
• Tooltip guide can alternate which side of the screen it can appear on, based on how far left or right the guide would normally appear on the screen
• Clicking a locked item icon will now pin the tooltip guide
• Tooltip guide for recipes will show the recipe requirement
• Added better indicator of locked state on each Perk
• Improved formatting on long time spans
• Improved tooltip on rate progress for research and construction

Misc Improvements

• Clicking a required research within the tooltip panel will navigate to that research, as well as update the tooltip panel to show that research’s information
• Improved description of Crafting speed perk so it is more clear that it applies only to recipes in the ‘Crafting’ category
• Changed icons for some town perks to better match the associated panel
• Changed sprite for General Knowledge Tome
• Changed sprite for Mana Crystal natural resource
• If tutorial pointer finger is highlighting a building ‘add’ button, and that building is hidden by an active production filter, the pointer finger will instead highlight the production filter button
• If tutorial finger is highlighting a button on a recipe production row, and that row is hidden due to its building header being minimized, the pointer finger will instead highlight the building header expand/collapse button
• When an building cost item is locked, it will show a more detailed tooltip when hovered to give player a way to find out how to obtain it
• Upgrade ‘Workers per House’ is now accessible from the House building’s upgrade panel
• Upgrade ‘Research Speed’ is now accessible from the School building’s upgrade panel
• When mass-expanding header sections, the list will scroll to the last header you clicked on to prevent it from going off-screen due to section expansion
• Navigation button for Trading filter appears as soon as Trading Post is available to build, otherwise it can be hard to know how to build a trading post
• When the upgrades panel is closed, any text search filter will be removed

Balance Changes

• Biomes must be unlocked in order Plains > River > Forest > Mountains > Jungle > Desert > Snow > Magic. However, if a player already has a town started in one of these biomes it will remain unlocked.
• Demand for different goods will have more variance in how they scale with Town Level. Basic Goods will scale much slower then advanced goods. However, scale effect based on number of houses has increased. In general this means there is more demand for all items.
• To limit the effect of this increased demand on high-end towns, the power of the Goods Consumption perk has decreased by 50%.
• Doubled baseline sell speed on basic items, so that early towns can keep up with this increased demand without needing to build too many Markets
• Town Trading Speed and Global Trading Speed perks now apply to all trading recipes, not just Trading Post recipes
• Added more levels to the Construction Speed town perk
• Increased duration & cost for more end-game recipes and research
• Research for Fire/Earth/Water/Air temples now require Mana Temple to be researched first
• For simplicity and consistency, town perks “Cultivation Productivity” and “Prospecting Productivity” are now “Cultivation Speed” and “Prospecting Speed”. Instead of increasing the number of items produced, they increase the recipe speed. 5 more levels have been added to each.
• Previous production tab called “Research” is now called Knowledge, to help differentiate it from the Research tab
• Slightly increased xp requirements for skill level gain, so they don't rise excessively fast in the early game
• OmniTemple has been moved to the Knowledge tab, since it produces items consumed by research recipes
• Added 5 more levels to Global Market Speed perk
• Added new Town Perk “Knowledge Speed”. Increases speed of all Knowledge-related recipes, that is, recipes produced by Study, Tech Lab, Mage Tower, and Omnitemple. Note that these recipes no longer benefit from “Crafting Speed” perk as they are not classified as Crafting recipes.
• Increased skill gained from manual recipe clicks by 8x
• Upgrades panel unlocked after 5 research, instead of 10
• Can earn Red Coins from level up rewards
• Prospecting Speed perk unlocks with Quarry, not Mine
• Knowledge Speed perk requires a Study to be built before it can be used
• Increased max workers on Forge research to 10
• Increased General Knowledge Tome costs in many research recipes
• Research Speed upgrade is now unlocked based on global research completed, so it is more easily available in new towns that need help speeding through early research
• Removed ‘Power Line’ research. Now, Power lines are unlocked globally with a quest to produce a set amount of Copper Wire. This quest is automatically marked as complete if the player has built any Power Lines in any of their towns.
• Added new speed upgrades for Power Line, Steam Pipeline, Mana Pipeline, Magma Pipeline, and Omni Pipeline
• Increased resource regeneration rate of Rock, as it was too easily becoming a negative value in early towns
• Added early-game quest to ‘Build 10 Houses’ as a bridge between the 1 House and 15 House quests

Bug Fixes

• Fixed overflow error when calculating very long time durations
• 'Add Production Capacity' button was not greyed out when research was already at max capacity
• When attempting to assign more production capacity to a research than was allowed, the research header was flashing as if there wasn’t enough schools. Instead the current/max label will flash
• Recipes that produce Knowledge Orbs (i.e. Omnitemple recipes) were not producing any XP
• ESC key was not always removing the top-most dismissable window
• “???” was appearing in tooltip for Power production, due to Solar Power recipe being available but non-productive in biomes other than Desert
• Tutorial pointer finger would appear above pop-up menu panels
• Skill tooltip was not updating every simulation tick
• All numbers in the thousands were being displayed as rounded to the nearest 10
• Automatic Assignment is unlocked at town level 10, but it was shown in the level 11 rewards
• Perk labels would not reload when language option changed
• Quest to make Wool Cloth to unlock Hat was visible before Wool Cloth was unlocked
• Unlocked Markets with zero items to sell did not have correct display on their headers
• Cost displayed on Construction Details panel would not immediately update after Construction Cost perk modified
• Clicking quickly to fast-forward the town level up reward animations would sometimes result in particle effects that were too large

Misc Improvements:

• Added buttons on top of Inventory panel that let you choose between the old 1-column or more compact 2-column layout
• Added new icons for many storage buildings
• Removed background tint that would be applied based on active biome
• Time Management button will flash when game speed is paused, to help prevent confusion if players accidentally turned on Pause mode
• Increased duration of silence between background songs
• Decreased contrast of building section header backgrounds for better readability

Bug Fixes:

• Manual recipe production was applying skill gain bonuses twice
• Manual recipe production skill gain was calculated based on potential production instead of actual production (i.e. ignoring production decreases due to limited input availability or output availability)
• Changing towns while quests panel was minimized, and then maximizing the quests panel, would only display a partial list of available quests
• Error causing failure when applying Language settings

Features / Additions

• Added 7 original background music tracks
• Added ‘Music Volume’ to settings Panel
• Added new hotkeys: Left and Right bracket for Previous / Next Song
• Added new ‘Biome Unlocked’ animation
• Increased framerate from 40 fps to 60 fps
• Added new global perk: Trading Speed (works in addition to Town Perk Trading Speed)
• Added new Research: “Enhanced Market Construction”. It is unlocked after Magic Construction Research is completed. It is now responsible for unlocking Market Construction Cost upgrades. (This was done to prevent those upgrades (which cost Purple Coins) from being made available before Purple Coins could be earned)

UI Improvements

• Can right-click on priority, production limit, pause, and auto-assign buttons to clear the setting
• Trading Post category headers (Unique Import, Metals, etc) have an additional slight indentation so they are easier to distinguish from the Trading Post building headers
• Menu panels World, Town & Global Perks, Buildings, Upgrades, and Research will block cursor from interacting with background while active
• Hovering over the ‘info’ button on a building header will show the tooltip details, instead of requiring a click
• Added tooltip when hovering pause button
• Tooltip panels for items now show full details of producing & consuming recipes
• Tooltips for Research that unlock Buildings now directly show the details of the unlocked Building
• When zero production capacity is available for a building, that number is highlighted in yellow
• Repositioned many items in the main production list panel so they can be more aligned with their headers
• Production Limit configuration is now a distinct button, instead of requiring a click on the production progress bar (which wasn’t visibly intuitive)
• Skill display region has been removed from the recipe display rows, as it was taking up lots of space for something that was minimally useful. You can view skill level & skill XP by hovering over the recipe’s production progress bar along with all its other speed modifiers & stats
• Right-Clicking on a recipe row will open a new panel with detailed access to pause / priority / production limit configuration options
• Clicking on Pause button will show a small pop-up window with options (Default/Inherit, Pause, and Play) instead of cycling through
• Upgrade costs >= 1000 coins are rounded to the nearest 2 significant digits
• Improved overall formatting on Tooltip panel
• Changed default icon when recipe not in paused state
• Clicking on Level Up Rewards after reward boxes begin shaking will cause them to immediately open (revealing their contents) instead of dismissing the reward window. Clicking after the contents have been revealed will dismiss the reward window

Balance Changes

• Aqueduct is now a Harvesting building, instead of a Support building that passively harvests water. Players will automatically be assigned maximum production capacity for any Aqueducts they have already built.
• Aqueduct Effectiveness upgrade now applies a boost to the Aqueduct Harvesting recipe
• New Omni upgrade for Aqueduct Speed
• Water Wheel and Solar Panel are now Production buildings, each with a recipe that generates power for free, instead of buildings that passively generate power in the background. Effectiveness upgrades now apply to these power recipes. Players will automatically be assigned maximum production capacity for any of these buildings they have already built.
• Reduced Quest Coin rewards from reaching new town levels
• Reduced the amount of automatically completed research when starting in new biomes, to reduce visual confusion from having lots of unlocked but not yet usable buildings
• Default trading mode for non-unique items is now ‘Autobalance’ instead of ‘Export’
• Increased cost of several Town Perks (if this increased cost would result in negative Town Perk Points, players are allocated enough new Town Perk Points so their balance is no longer negative)
• Added max production capacity for non-infinite research. The more complex the research (longer duration), the more production capacity allowed.
• Added small linear increase to building construction time based on number of buildings created, so that the Construction Time perk has more usefulness
• Increased threshold of required upgrade purchases for unlocking new levels of ‘Upgrade Efficiency’ upgrade
• Modified cost and duration of several research recipes and upgrades
• Reduced effectiveness of Research Speed Town Perk and Research Speed upgrade
• Quests to level up River and Forest to unlock Mountains and Jungle have had the required town level increased from 15 to 20
• Fish Oil is unlocked with a Recipe Quest (requires Basic Medicine as well as access to Fish) instead of being its own research
• Cash Register per-level requirements changed from “Spend X ” to “Produce X ” and requirement values greatly increased

Bug Fixes

• Building rows were not displaying recent upgrade icon, or displaying highlight if upgrades was available
• Tooltip for trading post global storage was clipped off screen
• Pinned construction details panel would remain visible when town changed, resulting in mismatch between displayed building and active town
• Research that required specific natural resources to be unlocked would always load with zero production capacity assigned
• Inconsistent scroll wheel behavior on pinned item tooltip panel
• Clicking on background of Level Up rewards panel would not advance the animation to the next phase
• Chute and Harvesting Speed perk were being applied twice to harvesting recipes
• level-up reward values would sometimes initialize at higher values before it ran the reveal animation, so it would appear to be counting down instead of up
• Claiming level-up rewards from the World Panel would earn coins for the town displayed on the main interface, not the town that rewards were claimed for
• Using ESC to dismiss a pinned modal menu would leave it in pinned state, so it would be unintentionally default to pinned state the next time it was shown
• Trading Post category headers for Unique Resources were not correctly showing label indicating whether they were unique Imports or Exports
• Changing a recipe or research’s priority when no production capacity is assigned would prevent auto-assignment of production capacity on that recipe or research
• Some requirements that involved numbers over 10 Billion were being displayed as a rounded down value (e.g. 99B instead of 100B)
• Cultivation / Prospecting tabs weren’t unlocking immediately when Farming / Quarry research completed
• Calculation error was causing first 10 skill levels to advance too quickly
• Inconsistent display of decimal numbers

Balance Changes

• Added new quests to reach various town levels in specific biomes. These quests provide a new item ‘Reward Booster’. Each Reward Booster will increase the min and max random ranges for Quest Coins received from the Daily Reward chest

Misc Improvements

• Added permanent display for Coins, removed them from the Inventory panel
• Left-side Inventory and Quests panels are now collapsible
• Clicking on header label on Inventory section will open a new pop-up inventory panel
• Notifications moved to the top header, to give more space to inventory & quests on the left hand side
• Hovering over Town Experience progress bar will show XP and time until next level
• Global utility buttons moved to new topmost header (along with notifications), so that the town navigation buttons can be wider and have labels
• Can click the item icon on a inventory list item to apply it as a filter to the main panel without also activating / pinning the item’s production tooltip
• Moved ‘Cotton Cloth’ recipe above ‘Shirt’ recipe
• Added icon to ‘Adjustment Factor’ button
• Changed several icons
• Added extra tint and texture to production category headers, to help distinguish from building headers
• When an item filter for ‘Power’ is applied to the main production panel, Water Wheel and Solar Panel will be potentially visible due to their passive production of Power
• Added ‘Claim All’ button back to main menu’s quests panel
• Launch menu buttons animate size when hovered
• Added 2 more save slots
• Rearranged UI layout of town status panel in top-left
• Changed resolution of UI background sprites to reduce blurriness
• Changed appearance of save slot buttons
• Added ‘Controls’ panel that lists useful hotkeys
• Renamed ‘Production’ panel to ‘Crafting’
• Town XP rate is now shown near the Town Level progress bar, instead of taking up space in the inventory bar
• Closing the Level Up rewards panel before animations are complete will no longer play the reward gain sound effects after the panel closes

Bug Fixes

• Tooltip for unlocking Magic biome was only showing the Snow biome level requirement, not the Desert biome level requirement
• Automatic Assignment for Research was getting unlocked at town level 11, instead of town level 10 (the rest of the panels unlocked Automatic Assignment at level 10)
• Production adjustment delta would sometimes revert to low values when current capacity was high and adjustment factor > 1
• Confirmation panel when deleting town slots was showing the wrong slot number
• Switching trade mode to ‘off’ would cause some item icons to be resized incorrectly in that row and elsewhere in the UI
• Upgrades button would stay selected after the Upgrades panel was closed

• Removed obsolete Clickables option from cost icon right-click menus (which would result in the old clickables menu appearing and being unable to hide it)
• Selecting a recipe filter no longer shows all other recipes that share inputs and outputs with the selected recipe - instead it just shows the recipe you selected
• Selecting an inventory item will also apply a filter on the main panel based on the selected item
• Fixed bug: Market and Trading filters would appear as "Item" filters on the main panel instead of "Markets" or "Trading"
• Fixed bug: Locked items were appearing in pop-up navigation menu when right-clicking an item icon

Improvements

• Header expand / collapse status is preserved based on active panel filter and active town. This status is also now saved with the game file
• Added animated pointer finger icon to help guide player through early game stages
• Added limit of 100 status log entries per town
• Enlarged top navigation buttons
• Upgrades panel displays its current building filter (if any), and allows player to clear the filter by clicking on it

Bug Fixes

• Inventory panel filter (which is applied when a recipe is selected) was not cleared when the primarily list filter changed
• Cycling towns while a filter was active would not show any items in the new town

Combined production panel

Misc Improvements

• Added new Global Perk: Market Sell speed (so that construction of new markets is no longer the bottleneck)
• New Building: Caravan. Permanently unlocked after building certain amount of Trading Posts. Is an early stage building that boosts trading speed and should be useful for getting new towns started with imports.
• Added hotkey navigation for panels
• ESC key closes top menu or resets active panel filters
• Fixed some icon blurriness
• Changed several icons
• Quests that check for building counts will check counts across all towns, not just the active one
• Can use Control + Left and Right arrow keys, or mouse forward/back buttons, to cycle between active towns
• Upgrade button on building section headers will flash if an upgrade is currently available and affordable for that building
• Can click and hold on building header add / remove buttons to trigger multiple add / remove actions without many clicks
• Harvesting recipes are labeled based on the item produced, not the resource harvested
• Notification sound and text appears when quest ready to claim
• Notifications stay on screen for longer
• Highlight image around buttons is re-used for better performance (fewer image objects need to be created)
• Slight animation applied to highlight image when fading out

Balance Changes

• Town Perk Points are now earned as rewards from from leveling up towns, not on a continual basis from earning XP. Existing counts of Town Perk Points are unaffected.
• Leveling up towns also earns quest coins
• XP can be earned from harvesting, crafting, and cultivating items. This change was mode so that early towns can level up easier, that towns don’t suffer a penalty for exporting, and that overall there’s less of a dependence on market throughput.
• All XP level requirements have increased greatly, so that this new automatic source of XP doesn’t cause all leveling to become trivial.
• Creating buildings and completing research no longer earns XP, as it was a trivial amount anyways
• Magic Biome is now unlocked by a single Quest to level up Desert and Snow biomes, instead of requiring two different quests.
• Mountains biome has 2x productivity for all Machine Shop recipes
• Increased strength of Natural Resource Regeneration perks
• Reduced strength of early levels of harvesting speed perks (since Town Perk Points are available much sooner)
• Increased cost and duration of many research recipes and upgrades
• Lowered strength of Sell Value perk
• Lowered strength of Max Time Tokens perk for early levels, while keeping the same strength for higher levels. Otherwise, early game players could fast-forwards through most of the early game.
• Lowered XP value for high-end crafting & market recipes
• Increased cost of many early levels of town perks, since they are now available from the first town level (if this would result in negative perk balance, extra perk points are granted until balance is zero)
• Increased strength of Goods Consumption Boost perk, so that players aren’t as constrained by market demand as long as they’re able to produce a lot of items
• Automatic production capacity assignment unlocked at Plains level 10 instead of 11
• World panel unlocks at Plains level 15 instead of Plains level 12
• Several upgrades for Production Capacity now require Blue Coins instead of Red Coins, so there is something to use Blue Coins for as soon as they’re available
• Increased cost and effect of Market Consumption upgrades

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where rapidly switching increment delta while clicking could result in removing buildings that were in use, causing negative production capacity
• Tooltips for hovering Auto-assign, Trade Mode, and Production Limit buttons would be missing in some cases
• Tooltip and popup window offsets were calculated incorrectly when canvas scaled due to resolution that was not 16:9
• Dragging modal panel borders when resolution is not 16:9 was causing menu to change its anchored position on screen
• Was greatly undercounting the stat for “Sell X items at Y market” requirements, causing various quests to take longer than necessary

Additional Hotfixes 1.91p, 1.91q, 1.91r

• Fixed missing tooltip on top-right main game menu button
• Fixed costs for buildings missing ingredients when switching towns while an increment multiple was active
• Fixed the Power trading recipe missing from Power Lines in Trading Panel
• Fixed trading post 'trade mode' showing as default 'Export' even when a value was specified

• Find Factory Town Idle in your Steam Library
• Right click on it and choose 'Properties'
• Navigate to the 'Betas' tab
• Select 'beta' or 'NONE' to switch between branches

• There are buttons at the top that let you change the filter to just 'Harvesting' or 'Markets', as a convenience that mimics the old tab buttons. But the key is you're no longer forced to view things in separate category groups.
• Top-level Building categories (Harvesting, Cultivation, Trading etc) can also be expanded or collapsed like other section headers
• As you scroll downward, the headers for the top-most section will remain on screen until that section has been fully scrolled off the top - making it easier to access the parent building's settings for the recipes you are looking at
• Clicking an item icon will immediately apply a filter that shows all recipes that use that item as an input or an output
• Town data has been compacted to fit in the top left, so the full vertical scroll area can be used for the main recipe panel.
• The Clickables panel is gone, but instead every recipe is clickable (just click on the big green arrow on any recipe)
• The Quests panel was taking up a lot of space, so it now fits neatly in the left panel.
• The inventory panel is still visible all the time.
• Buildings, Research, and Upgrades have individual pop-up panels and can be accessed via hotkey.
• There are new windows that can show a big list of quests and recent notifications.
• Hovering over the building add or remove buttons will show the current ingredients required, so it's easier to discover why a building construction is slowed

New Features / Improvements

• New Building: Rail Depot. Increases global trading storage capacity. Has an upgrade to increase its effect {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43372048/a427eb69dec0aa2d6b1f23a9f4091dc2eda6bc46.png
• 8 New Biome-specific perks that boost the sell speed of whichever market type has boosted demand in that biome (e.g. Plains has perk to boost sell speed of Gourmet Foods store) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43372048/37dbab99d57f394d76876e44b9260ab55e5bcd5a.png
• Average fulfillment per-market is displayed on each market section header {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43372048/40cfb18ed6f878626fa448519fb7904f2caeffbb.png
• Added button on top of menu that changes the baseline delta when you click on an add or remove button. The modifier keys (Shift and Control) will multiply their effect on top of this baseline. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43372048/3743ea3818b8ac46161377f675d1e966ef9e6270.png
• Tooltip for Trading Post allows expanding the ‘Inventory’ section to show which buildings contribute to its max capacity
• Steam Train and Packager moved into “Trading” building categories, as that more closely aligns with their function
• Changed happiness / fulfillment icons as previous ones were blurry {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43372048/8061c765310cec88e6e1d2fa029590601f2d1868.png

Balance Changes

• Wonders (University, Observatory, etc) now have a maximum capacity per-town. This limit increases with town level. It starts at 5 Wonders per town once they are unlocked at level 35, and gradually increases into the hundreds and eventually becomes unlimited once the town reaches level 50. This is to prevent them becoming incredibly powerful as soon as they are unlocked. Players that have built more than the maximum will not have any buildings automatically removed; however, they will be unable to build new ones until their maximum is increased above their current count.
• Increased baseline time to construct a Wonder from 1 hour to 10 hours (though in practice this is reduced greatly by perks)
• Increased starting cost of all Wonders
• Lowered the land bonus per Observatory from 5% to 2%
• F3 Speedup mode starts at 2x, then 5x, before reaching 10x

Bug Fixes

• Cost icons with zero inventory, zero production, and zero demand were appearing in plain white text instead of red text, which was confusing when auto-assign did not assign any production to them
• Selecting a currency to display its tooltip, and then closing the tooltip, would not de-select the currency. This caused a subsequent failure to pin the tooltip the next time that currency was selected
• Clickables were not updating their skill meters
• Auto-claimed research would trigger an exclamation point alert on the research tab
• Trading Post categories with specified settings to not be paused (displayed as a play icon) were getting incorrectly restored as paused when loading file

Eight Wonders of the World!

• University (Plains): Lowers Upgrade costs
• Monastery (Forest): Lowers Research costs
• Harbor (River): Increases Trading speed
• Observatory (Mountains): Increases available Lane
• Pyramid (Jungle): Lowers building costs
• Grand Bazaar (Desert): Raises market sell speeds
• Treasure Vault (Snow): Raises market sell values
• Obelisk (Magic): Increases XP multiplier

Research Auto-Claim

Misc Improvements & Additions

• New Town Perk: "Remove Biome Penalties". This perk has 5 levels, each level of this perk reduces all negative effects of the town’s biome by 20% (At the last level of this perk, all negative effects of a biome are removed). This is unlocked for a town once it reaches level 30.
• New Town Perk: "Extra Quest Coins". Each level of this Perk gives you additional Quest Coins you can spend on Global perks. It's unlocked for a town once it reaches level 40.
• Time Tokens panel will stop flashing if you click on it, even if you don’t spend any tokens
• Can click on a biome modifier icon in the World panel to get a descriptive tooltip of that modifier
• TAB key opens the World panel for easier Town / Biome switching
• Clicking a research requirement or research reward in the detailed tooltip panel will navigate to and highlight that research (If research panel open)

Balance Changes

• Removed shovel and pickaxe inputs from Prospecting recipes (was creating too much complexity and self-reinforcing bottlenecks)
• Quest to build a Gourmet Foods store now displays after the player unlocks Refined Sugar
• Silver Ingot and Gold Ingot moved to Hardware Store instead of Jewelry Store, as they could be unlocked before Jewelry Research (and thus had nowhere to be sold). Players will be granted additional Hardware Stores if this would cause their available sell capacity to be negative.
• Increased crafting count targets for many recipe unlock quests
• Increased cost of many research recipes
• Removed Gear cost from Machine Shop
• New towns in other biomes now additionally start with a Quarry, a Farm, and a Forester
• Lowered exponential growth of Trading Post Storage Capacity upgrade
• Increased upgrade requirements for each level of Upgrade Efficiency and Construction Efficiency
• Added 5 more levels to Forge Proficiency upgrade
• Swapped requirements for Market Consumption Boost and Market Capacity upgrades - now, Consumption Boost upgrades require a set number of items sold and Capacity upgrades require a certain number of buildings built. This avoids the odd setup where demand is low, so no more buildings are built, which prevents unlocking of upgrades that boost demand
• Upgrade for Trading Post Production Capacity increased from 4 to 10 levels, but only adds 2 additional capacity per level instead of 3
• All other Production Capacity upgrades changed requirements from having Skill levels to having certain multiples of 10 buildings, and added a 5th level
• Moved Cheese from the Animal Products trading category to Gourmet, to align better with its production building (Gourmet Kitchen) and similar items
• Research that have item prerequisites are unlocked if the item is available in any town (since the items could be imported)

Bug Fixes

• Prospecting tab would show up as ‘new’ when switching from biome without the tab available into one with the tab available
• Detailed tooltips were appearing too far to the right
• Some reward items were using a tooltip for Time Tokens
• Tooltips missing from most Market Construction Cost upgrades
• Fish Clickable was linked with Fishing Net, not the regular fishing recipe, so it would not unlock at the right time or update its skill correctly
• Biomes were not showing as rewards up in Quests’ reward sections
• Clicking on global inventory bars in Trading panel would not pin the panel
• Auto-assign had too long of a cooldown before correcting over- or under-assignments of production capacity
• Fixed bug: Some upgrades not appearing in unlock rewards of completed research