Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening news & patch notes

⚡ Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening — Update 1.9.7 "Clarity" The Archive now keeps everything it promised, Recovery Orders complete however you get there, and the Ark Map stops pointing you at something you already own. Your progress is safe — no reset, and nothing you own is taken away. The Archive is fully preserved now • 📚 Own Preserve Archive Research? The Core Index nodes at the bottom of the Archive — the ones bought with Memory Cores — now survive a Legacy Cycle too. Before, only the six branch tracks came back and you had to re-buy the rest. (thanks Xeen) Recovery Orders • ✅ "Open the ___ tab" steps now complete when you open the tab yourself, not only via the order's GO TO button. Affected the Core Matrix, Archive, Crew, Memories, Equipment, Boost Upgrades, Daily and Player tabs. Ark Map • 🗺️ The Ark Map no longer lists the Core Matrix as your next unlock after you've already unlocked it — it now points you at the Legacy Cycle. (thanks DiamondG) Translations • 🌍 The whole Ark Map panel — every goal, next unlock and prestige explanation, plus the phase and campaign headings — is now translated in all 32 languages instead of showing English.

**Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening — v1.9.6 "Reckoning"** Your progress is safe — a Legacy Cycle now keeps MORE than before, and nothing you own is taken away unless you choose to Hard Reset. **KEPT THROUGH A LEGACY CYCLE** • Your Research ▸ ARK upgrades now stay with you through a Legacy Cycle — they only reset on a full Hard Reset. • Own a Preserve Exploration card? Your crews stay unlocked right after a cycle — no restart needed. **CHALLENGES NOW HELP THE MAIN GAME** • Every Challenge you clear gives a permanent +2.5% to all basic and exploration resource production. Clear more to stack it — the total shows on the Challenges page. **FASTER LEGACY RESET** • The long freeze when starting a Legacy Cycle on a deep account is greatly reduced. **FIXED (thanks Xeen)** • Global Goals now counts your Memory Cores contribution, and your share no longer shows above 100%. • Deep Ark-Side Capital resolutions matter again — the Names bonus per rank is no longer capped. **CLEARER** • The Signal page now explains, on hover, exactly how each readiness bar reaches 100%. • Starting a Legacy Cycle reminds you to spend your banked time, Lessons and resources first. **HARD RESET** • A Hard Reset (normal and ARK-Cores-included) now also resets your player level. A Legacy Cycle keeps your level, as before.

⚡ Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening — Update 1.9.5 "Inheritance" This one makes the Legacy "Preserve" upgrades keep everything they promise, and stops BUY ALL from ever spending your ARK Cores. Your progress is safe — no reset, and nothing you own is taken away. Preserve upgrades now keep everything • 🧭 Preserve Exploration Crews now keeps your crews' full levels through a Legacy Cycle — their stat paths and their crew upgrades — not just how deep they'd reached. It now does everything the separate Preserve Exploration Upgrades card did, so that card is folded into it. Own either one and your crews are fully preserved. • 🔁 Preserve Optimize, Echo and Memory Upgrades now also keep your endless (repeatable) upgrade levels through a Legacy Cycle, not just the fixed ones. Changed • 💠 Core Matrix BUY ALL no longer spends ARK Cores. The four earned-currency tracks still buy in bulk; the ARK-Core track is one step at a time on purpose, so a single tap can't drain your balance.

⚡ Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening — Update 1.9.4 "Continuity" This one keeps your account yours — it stops nagging you to sign in, and stops your progress and purchases getting rolled back when you play across devices. Your progress is safe — no reset, and nothing you own is taken away. Stay signed in • 🔑 The game no longer makes you sign in again every launch — it quietly picks your account back up on its own, on both phone and PC. Your purchases follow you • 🛒 A one-time unlock bought on one store — like the Signal Harvester on Steam — could stop working after you played on the other store. The game was reading "not bought here" as "refunded". It now remembers which store sold each unlock, so it stays yours everywhere. Nothing rolled back across devices • 💠 Permanent Token Store levels and permanent Legacy upgrades (Names, Resonance, Settlements) can no longer be lowered by an older save from another device — paid and permanent progress only goes up. • 🧭 Running expeditions and crew charting no longer get reverted when you switch devices — the newest exploration progress is the one kept. Fixed & Changed • 📜 Buying the bottom item in a long list no longer bounces the screen part-way up. • 🔩 Research ▸ ARK no longer has a BUY ALL — ARK upgrades cost ARK Cores, so they're one at a time now. • 🏆 New HIDE CLAIMED filter under Settings ▸ Achievements.

⚡ Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening — Update 1.9.3 "Restored" Mostly about things you had already paid for that were not doing what they said. Your progress is safe — no reset, and nothing you own is taken away. Restored • 💠 Permanent Token Store boosts could go missing — the reward arrived before your save finished loading, so it was overwritten and already marked delivered. Every boost lost this way is restored automatically. This one was on us. Upgrades that were doing nothing • 📈 Fracture Notation, Survivor Accounts, Bio-Encoded Fragment — showed a bonus climbing on the card, never paid it. They do now. • 🧠 Encode the Memory — promised +10% Memory Cores, never granted it. • 🧭 Hazard Control, Analysis, Endurance, Signal Detection — required to send crews deeper, but gave nothing back. Every path now contributes. • 🎲 The four crew upgrades offering a chance at bonus materials never rolled once. • ⛏️ Exploration materials banked while you play now include every bonus you have earned — they were only applied to the on-screen rate and to offline earnings. Expect a large jump if you have invested in exploration. New • 📊 Legacy bonuses on the Statistics page. If a line reads "-", that bonus really is doing nothing — which is how the above went unnoticed. Changed • 🏁 Challenge runs now start from nothing, including ARK Cores and purchases. Yours are set aside and returned when the run ends. • 📡 Signal Watch no longer pays out when you lose. ARK Operations games now have a cooldown. Fixed • 📜 Menus no longer jump to the top when you buy something further down — worst in Legacy, where the inheritance tree reset on every purchase. • 🔊 Volume and text-size no longer reset when entering or leaving a challenge.

**Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening — v1.9.2 "Core Imprints Hotfix 2"** Your progress is safe — no reset, and nothing you already own is taken away. **FIXED** • Core Imprints could look like they had vanished after signing out and back in. Your purchases were never lost — the game was reading a stale copy until you restarted. It now refreshes whenever you sign in. • The Auto-run switches on your relay protocols, and their Safe/Bold settings, were reset every time you signed out. They now save with your account. • PAUSE ALL / RESUME ALL locked the game up for several seconds. It was saving your whole game once per row instead of once for the category. • The Energy Reserve and Max Spend boxes wouldn't let you edit a number already in them, and couldn't read their own shorthand. You can now type 100Qi, 100e18 or the full number — any notation — and edit what's already there. **NEW** • Max Spend can now be a PERCENTAGE of your Energy per second instead of a fixed amount, so your automation ceiling grows with your production. Tap AMOUNT / % OF INCOME to switch — the line beside it shows what your percentage works out to right now. **PERFORMANCE** • A broad frame-rate pass. The nav rail, the player chip in the top bar, the Bridge visuals and the story-record scan were all repeating work every frame that only needed doing when something actually changed. **POLISH** • The PAUSE / RESUME buttons no longer clip their label, and switching between them no longer re-wraps the text on every automation card.

⚙️ Legacy of the Ark — v1.9.1 "Core Imprints Hotfix 1" Your progress is safe — no reset, and nothing you already own is taken away. 🐞 FIXED • Newly unlocked exploration crews were stuck. A fresh crew could never clear its first zone, so it cycled forever and paid out nothing until you funded its first upgrade from elsewhere. (thanks Xeen Dread) • Permanent Token Store boosts could be lost. After a cloud load the game held a stale copy of your permanent boost levels and wrote it back over the restored ones on your next purchase. Any levels lost this way are restored automatically from your purchase history. • Max-boost rewards now stack. Objective and daily rewards no longer overwrite each other's duration. • Permanent Automation Unlock only revealed the Systems/Drones/Fabricator tabs and never unlocked the automation behind them. It now does what the card says, and switches everything on when bought. (thanks Xekz) • Permanent Memories Unlock never did anything at all — it was looking for a tab under the wrong name. • Preserve Legacy Upgrades could walk your progress backwards. It now only ever raises it. • Deep Salvage no longer runs off the bottom of the screen, and the exploration page no longer shows a scrollbar when everything fits. ✨ NEW • Automation Pause Control (150 ARK Cores) — PAUSE ALL / RESUME ALL per automation category. • Maximum Automation Spend (100 ARK Cores) — automation only buys items under a ceiling you set. The opposite of the Energy Reserve. 🔧 CHANGED • Five Legacy Inheritance upgrades that had no real effect are no longer sold. If you already own one, you keep it. 💅 POLISH • ARK Operations has a new look, and Signal Watch now flashes each tap so repeating a colour reads as two presses. • The Crew Deck is far more compact — duty posts fit one row, exploration stats sit in two even rows.

Legacy of the Ark — v1.8.3 "Impermanence Hotfix 3" 🛰️ Save-safe — no reset, and nothing you already own is taken away. 🔧 Fixed • Event goals for Time Shards / Memory Cores are no longer impossible. They were sized to your single best-ever Anomaly or Awakening — so pushing deep once could pin the target far above anything a normal run makes. They now track what your recent runs actually produce, and ease off within a few hours if you slow down. • Endless Echo prices no longer stay locked to your best-ever Anomaly. If one deep run had made them unaffordable, they now scale to what you can currently pull and recover after a Legacy Cycle. • A Recovery Order pointing at a Core Matrix upgrade now opens the Core Matrix, not the Archive. ✨ New • Your permanent Token Store bonuses now show on the Stats screen (under BONUSES: TOKEN STORE) — so you can finally see what they add. • Every Advanced Storage upgrade now has a tooltip explaining exactly what it does. ⚖️ Changed • Claim Amplifier now rewards banking up: instead of a flat bonus identical to Claim Efficiency, it grows with the size of a single claim (up to 12h). Claim Efficiency stays your flat, every-claim multiplier.

Legacy of the Ark — v1.8.2 "Impermanence Hotfix 2" Your progress is safe — no reset, nothing you own is taken away. Fixed • Buy All Max works again once your endless paths are level (it was doing nothing until you could afford all four steps at once). • Solar Cells/Panels no longer climb on their own each Anomaly loop while automation is off. • A settlement that reads "4/4 ready" but won't advance now tells you it needs a Continuity Charter — and the Charter for a cycle you just finished is granted right away. The SURVEYED step now names which Deep Region to chart. • Memory Core directive & goal rewards are no longer stuck at 1 — they price off your real Awakening output. • Archive research buttons respond reliably (no more freeze on buy) and show the discounted price you actually pay. • The AWAKEN "READY" tag no longer flickers. Changed • Time Shard directives are far easier (~1/5 the ask) and stop ballooning at high tiers. • Strain costs no longer outrun its fixed income as you complete Legacy Cycles. • Fixed a late-game case where automation swallowed all your Energy. • Surge Boost help text corrected. "Lessons Recorded" now explains itself. Story Archive moved to the main Settings page. The top bar now shows your real Time Shard rate. Behind the scenes • A large cut to server costs to keep the game sustainable to run. • Autosave now runs every 15 minutes, plus on exit and manual Save Data. Heads up: a crash or force-close could lose up to 15 min of idle progress — a normal exit always saves first.

Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening — v1.8.1 "Impermanence Hotfix 1" Your progress is safe. No reset, nothing you own is taken away. If your level, directives or leaderboard score had stopped moving, this is the update that starts them again. FIXED • Directives asking you to earn Energy no longer sit at zero forever. Past a certain lifetime total, the counter behind them could not register another second of production — and a Legacy Cycle made it permanent. The further you had progressed, the more certainly it hit you. It also silently stopped your Bridge goal, daily/weekly objectives, Live Event goals and your Global Ark Goals contribution. • Your level, XP bar, leaderboard score and season score move again. All four read that same stalled counter. Your standing was never wrong, only frozen — it resumes from where you actually are. • Achievements measured by total Energy earned can be reached again. • The Boost screen no longer traps you after a Legacy Cycle — you are returned to the surge meters automatically. • Boost no longer stutters when you buy, and the long freeze while a batch of achievements unlocks is gone. • Endless Memory: capped Echo cost-reduction tiers are now granted free and stepped over, instead of raising that path's price for nothing. Buy All Max works there again. • Buy All Max now spreads evenly across the four endless paths instead of pouring everything into the first. • A goal rolled right after a prestige no longer locks in a 1 Memory Core reward forever. • Expeditions name their materials correctly again. CHANGED • "Lessons Preserved" is now "Lessons Recorded" — it counts the Lesson upgrades you buy in a cycle. It never kept Lessons through one, and the old name implied otherwise.

🏕️ Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening — Update 1.8.0 "Impermanence" Progress is safe — no reset, nothing you own is taken away. New • 🏕️ Impermanent Settlements (Legacy ▸ Scars) — found a camp with Time-Scar Data, sustain it through three phases, then let it fall. A camp cannot be made to last; what it leaves behind is permanent, and the next camp inherits it. Each re-founding costs more. This is what Scars were always meant to be spent on. Fixed • 🔍 Four of the six Anomaly Lenses did nothing at all. Momentum, Storage, Signal and Continuity now have real effects. The Storage fix also switches on two Wake Protocols and the milestone cash-out rewards, which had never paid either. • 🌙 Awakening Lens: +5% → +20% Memory Cores. Memory scales with the square root of Shards, so the Shard Lens already gave nearly the same Memory for free — it was never worth equipping. • 📡 Signal stage 2 now really gives the +15% Names it advertises (it gave about half). • 👁️ The Anomaly screen now shows what your Lens actually does — its effect was never included in the one percentage on that screen. • 🌍 Your Global Goal contribution no longer resets to zero on every launch. Your work always reached the community total correctly — only your own readout forgot it. • 🎁 Global Goal rewards now use your best recent output, so claiming right after an Anomaly no longer locks in a near-zero reward. Changed • ⏳ Legacy Cycle costs now rise as you complete more cycles. Your Legacy income already multiplies every cycle, so with fixed prices each cycle collapsed toward nothing — a 20th finished ~38× faster than a 2nd. Every cycle is still faster than the last — it just isn't free. Same goals as always. Huge thanks Xeen Dread and Xekz — nearly all of this came from you. 💛

⚡ Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening — Update 1.7.20 "Foundations Hotfix 20" Almost all of this came from your reports. Progress is safe — no reset, nothing you own is taken away. 📱 Android: Play was stuck on 1.7.4 in review. This brings you everything from 1.7.5 onward at once. Thanks for waiting. 🙏 New • 🔋 Awakened Power Continuity (Memory) — your Energy is no longer lost when you Awaken. The companion to the Echo that carries Energy through an Anomaly. Unlocks after Shard Continuity Archive. Fixed • 🔢 Equipment counts no longer flip negative at very high counts — which flipped production negative and could pin Energy at 0. Already wrapped? It's restored, not reset. • 🧾 Bulk equipment was charging nothing — Buy x100 / Buy All Max / automation were free. Now priced correctly. What you've built is yours to keep — this one was on us. • 🧑‍🚀 Crew Training levels stay bought — levels above your Echo floor were wiped back to 300 every launch. • 🛑 Emergency Stop respects your choices — RESUME restores exactly what was running, not everything. • ⚙️ Turning off all automation is no longer an Emergency Stop — Auto-Anomaly/Awaken keep cycling, so you can stop spending Energy without stopping Awakenings. • 💾 Pausing an automation saves immediately. • 📋 Recovery Orders no longer strands your CAMPAIGN list after your first Legacy Cycle. Opening a Legacy page now counts as visiting it. • 👀 Better contrast on Crew Deck overview titles. Performance • 🚀 Boost upgrades no longer stutter when bought; saving is faster game-wide.

🩹 Legacy of the Ark — v1.7.19 "Foundations Hotfix 19" A quick follow-up to the last balance fix, straight from your feedback. Your progress is safe — no reset. ⚖️ Balance • Last update capped endless Echo cost reduction at 90%. That same cap now also covers your regular Echo upgrades, Crew Training, and building costs. At very deep cost reduction these were quietly dropping almost to their base price and no longer climbing — now they keep a strong discount but the price always rises as you buy more. • Everything you've already bought is kept — only the next purchase re-prices. If you're deep into cost reduction, expect your next tier to jump up sharply (that's the ramp doing its job again). 🖥️ Small stuff • The cost-reduction bonus rows now cap their shown % at +90%, so the number matches what you actually pay. Thanks as always for the reports — keep 'em coming. 🚀

⚡ Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening — Update 1.7.18 "Foundations Hotfix 18" A balance tweak from your feedback. Your progress is safe — no reset, and Echoes you've already bought are kept. Balance • 💠 Endless Echo upgrades no longer stay almost free. With deep Memory "Echo cost reduction," endless Echoes were flat-lining near their base price and stacking far past their intended pace. The reduction is now capped at 90% — still a strong discount, but the cost keeps climbing as you buy more. • ♻️ Cleaner endless-Memory upgrading. Once that Echo-cost-reduction reaches its 90% cap, the tier is marked "no further benefit" and Buy-All skips past it so you don't spend Memory Cores on it (you can still buy it manually if you want the effects behind it).

⚡ Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening — Update 1.7.17 "Foundations Hotfix 17" More fixes for our deepest late-game players. Your progress is safe — no reset. Fixed • ♾️ "Inf E" on Salvage & Equipment is gone. Same fix as Crew Training last patch — at very high levels the price had outgrown the number format; it now displays and charges correctly at any level. • 🛒 "Buy All Max" on Crew Training no longer freezes or crashes with a huge energy bank. It now buys everything you can afford instantly instead of grinding level-by-level. • 💠 Fixed Daily Login & Achievement rewards pushing Time Shards / Memory Cores negative at very high production — the reward now adds correctly at any size. Performance • 🚀 More speed work for the deepest saves — trimmed extra per-frame calculations (endless Optimize bonuses and the crew auto-buyer) that were still causing slowdowns. • 🛒 "Buy All" is instant again on Echoes, Memories and Research — it no longer grinds through endless tiers one at a time.

⚡ Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening — Update 1.7.16 "Foundations Hotfix 16" A fix for our deepest late-game players. Your progress is safe — no reset. Fixed • ♾️ No more "Inf E" on Crew Training. At extremely high levels, Crew Training upgrades — and the endless Operations / Command tracks — could show "Inf E" and refuse to buy, because the price had outgrown the normal number format. Costs now display and charge correctly at any level, so you can keep spending your real energy again.

Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening — Update 1.7.15 "Foundations Hotfix 15" A batch of fixes and polish, straight from your reports. Your progress is safe — no reset. Performance • 🚀 Big speed fix for deep late-game saves. Heavy automation was making a huge number of tiny purchases every frame and could grind the game down to a crawl. It now buys in bulk — same result, far smoother — so high-end runs stay responsive. Fixed • 🔐 No more "logged out / reset" on launch. If the game couldn't silently sign you back in, it could drop you into a guest session that looked logged out with your settings and tutorial reset. Your account now stays loaded on your device — just sign in again to reconnect the cloud whenever you're ready. • 🔁 Endless Echo upgrades show the right cost per level again — deep cost reduction was making all four look identical. Balance & clarity • 🎯 Rotating community Goals now reward you based on your own production instead of a fixed amount. • 💠 Cost-reduction bonuses now show full precision past 99% (up to 99.9999%), so very deep reduction reads its true depth. • 📝 Cost-reduction upgrades now spell out that they only discount the ramped-up cost, never the base — so a price can never reach zero.

⚡ Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening — Update 1.7.14 "Foundations Hotfix 14" Another round of fixes and polish, all straight from your reports. Your progress is safe — no reset. Fixed • 🤖 Automation stays how you set it. Turning a System/Drone/Fabricator off no longer flips back on after an Anomaly, an Awakening, or restarting the game. • 🎯 Auto-Anomaly / Auto-Awaken fire on the right number now. They trigger when the reward you actually see (the "+X") reaches your target — before, they fired much later than the value you entered. ⚠️ You may want to revisit your target. • 🌀 Fracture milestones count boosted collapses. A big Anomaly with a Chrono Surge going now counts toward your milestones and best run. • 📋 Stuck Recovery Orders complete again — "Advance Deep Dive Foxtrot to level 5" and "Enter the Core Matrix." • 🛒 "Buy All" on Echo and Memory upgrades now buys the endless tiers too. • 🏗️ Second Awakening Protocol now keeps the base-layer buildings your automation built through the Anomaly — no more rebuilding the same base every cycle. Balance • 💠 Cost reduction reworked. It never drops a cost to zero, but deep cost-reduction upgrades keep helping all the way down instead of hitting a wall. • ⚖️ Bear Weight (Legacy) now costs Section Signals instead of being free. Localization • 🌍 The Legacy pages are now fully translated in every supported language.

🛰️ Legacy of the Ark — v1.7.13 "Foundations Hotfix 13" Your progress is safe — no reset. A big batch of fixes and balance, all from your reports. 💙 🔄 Legacy Cycle Progression now re-locks after a Legacy Cycle and re-unlocks as you replay — like a fresh run, so it's clear what you can and can't do yet. Locked features are shown but greyed, never hidden. Kept through a cycle now: your Daily Login streak, Achievements, and Advanced Storage upgrades. 🛠️ Fixes 🎮 Steam Deck / desktop sleep now banks offline time — putting the Deck to sleep used to earn nothing; now it counts as offline time you can collect. Auto Anomaly / Auto Awaken: "% of Last" and "Fixed" are now separate settings (they were behaving the same), and the reward shown is what you'll actually receive. Auto-strategies fixed: a temporary Time-Shard boost was inflating your "best run," which threw off the % of best strategies — they now pace correctly, and the panel shows the active strategy's real target. Emergency Stop now also halts Auto-Anomaly and Auto-Awaken. Number entry fields are much easier to type in and overwrite. Fixed hard-to-read text on some buttons and the empty Duty-Post label. The Legacy crew tutorial no longer points at the wrong button. "Second Awakening Protocol" now tells you it also unlocks Auto-Anomaly. ⚖️ Balance Echo upgrade cost reduction now works — it applies to the endless Echoes too and no longer caps out, so every level keeps helping. Endless Echo upgrades are far cheaper to get started. The "Last Signal" energy requirement can no longer grow out of reach. Bear Weight (Legacy) is no longer free to spam to the cap.

🩹 **Legacy of the Ark — v1.7.12 "Foundations Hotfix 12"** Fixes straight from your reports. **No reset — your progress is safe.** ✅ **Fixed** 🔧 **The ORDERS screen no longer flickers or distorts.** Its text was resizing itself over and over — most noticeable if you'd bumped the in-game text size. It's rock steady now. 🔧 **Returning players won't get bounced back into the tutorial.** Some of you were shown the intro again and temporarily lost access to your Recovery Orders behind it. Your onboarding now stays complete, and your Orders stay with you. 🔧 **Switching accounts or signing out no longer resets your sound and text-size settings.** Thanks for the reports — keep 'em coming. 🛰️

🛰️ **Legacy of the Ark — v1.7.11 "Foundations Hotfix 11"** is LIVE on Steam! A quick fix, from your reports. **No reset — your progress is safe.** 💾 🐛 **Fixed** • After a **Legacy Cycle**, the Bridge **Quick Buy** panel was coming up empty — you had to open each screen to buy things. It now lists your buyable upgrades again. 🛒 Thanks for the report, Commanders — keep 'em coming. o7

🛰️ Legacy of the Ark — v1.7.10 "Foundations Hotfix 10" is LIVE on Steam! A batch of fixes + polish, all from your reports. No reset — your progress is safe. 💾 🐛 Fixed • You can now start your first Legacy Cycle! The Names page was staying locked even at 100% readiness — fixed. (If a gate like "Awaken once this cycle" is still open, the Names page now tells you why.) • The "Collect Offline Earnings" order could get stuck, and hitting GO TO on an order left the window open so it looked frozen — GO TO now closes the window and takes you where it should. • Long menu lists no longer jump back to the top when you buy or select something. 🙌 ✨ Improved • Resource names that were getting cut off (Thermal Cores, Deep Crystal…) now fit and wrap, and the Deep Surge screen colors are cleaner and easier to read. • On the Legacy pages, items you can afford are highlighted and ones you can't are dimmed. • The Legacy "Signal" resource is now "Section Signal", so it's no longer confused with the exploration Signal material. • Daily Time Shard / Memory Core directives are now actually reachable (they were being set impossibly high). • Command Chain, Precision Commands & Reduced Tap Fatigue now boost your overall Energy production — and auto-taps keep Command Chain running — so they're finally worth taking.

🛰️ **Legacy of the Ark — v1.7.9 "Foundations Hotfix 9"** Two quick fixes. **No reset — your progress is safe.** 💾 🐛 **Fixed** • **Live-event daily goals now count your exploration materials.** "Gather Survey Data / Arkalloy / Bio Samples / Thermal Cores / Signal / Deep Crystal" goals were stuck at 0 even while you were gathering — they track properly now. (Global Ark Goals were already counting fine.) • **Quick Buy display glitch** — a long two-material cost was squishing the upgrade name into a stack of single vertical letters. Cleaned up. Thanks Xekz! 🫡

🛰️ **Legacy of the Ark — v1.7.8 "Foundations Hotfix 8"** is LIVE on Steam! A big fix-it pass — all from your reports. **No reset — your progress is safe.** 💾 🐛 **Fixed** • **Expeditions could wipe your Time Shards on claim** — long deep-run rewards overflowed. Fixed — and if this hit you, ping us here and we'll make it right. 💛 • The **Ark Accelerator** now diverts your *full* energy output (auto-taps included), so high allocations actually drain what they promise. • **"Tap the core yourself"** objectives now count in every tap mode, not just Energy. • The **Recovery Order** "Open the Advanced Storage screen" step (and other open-a-screen steps) now completes properly. • **Endless Optimize** shows new tiers the moment you unlock them — no more leaving and coming back. • **Surge Boost** upgrade buttons light up the instant you can afford them. • The **MAX** buy button now works on the Echoes and Memories screens. • **Discord links now open the Discord app** instead of your browser. ⚙️ **Changed** • **One name per resource** — exploration materials now read as **Survey Data, Arkalloy, Bio Samples, Thermal Cores, Signal, and Deep Crystal** everywhere. No more department/material mix-up. • **Exploration crews now earn MORE per second the deeper they go** (they used to earn *less* the deeper you sent them!) — and path upgrades are cheaper.

🩹 Legacy of the Ark — v1.7.7 "Foundations Hotfix 7" Two small quality-of-life fixes. No reset — your progress is safe. 🛡️ FIXED • ENERGY RESERVE field (Automation) — the number you typed was invisible, so it looked like nothing was happening. Good news: your reserve was always being saved correctly the whole time — it was just a display glitch. Now you can actually see what you type. 👀 • INVITE CODE field (redeeming a friend's referral code) had the same invisible-text issue. Fixed too. That's it — quick one. As always, thanks for the reports that make these possible. 💚

🛠️ Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening — v1.7.6 "Foundations Hotfix 6" Save-safe. No reset — your progress carries over untouched. 🔧 Fixed • Running a Challenge could reset your Exploration progress. When a Challenge run ended, your crews, path levels, and materials were being wiped. Challenge runs no longer touch your main-game Exploration, and your progress is safe from here on. If you lost Exploration progress to this, reach out on Discord — we're making affected players whole.

🛠️ Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening — v1.7.5 "Foundations Hotfix 5" Save-safe. No reset — your progress carries over untouched. 🔧 Fixed • "Enter Endless Echoes" and "Enter Endless Memories" can finally be completed. The buttons to buy a procedural Echo or Memory tier weren't showing up anywhere, so those Recovery Orders were impossible to finish. Once you own every Echo (or every Memory), the procedural INTEGRATE cards now appear at the top of the ECHOES tab (under Time Anomaly) and the MEMORIES tab (under Awakening). Buy one to complete the order and continue the campaign — any stuck campaign clears the moment you purchase a tier.

🛠️ Legacy of the Ark: The Long Awakening — v1.7.4 "Foundations Hotfix 4" Save-safe. No reset — your progress carries over untouched. 🔧 Fixed • Endless Echoes: the "Enter Endless Echoes" Recovery Order could stay locked even after you'd followed the campaign. Procedural Echo tiers now unlock once you own every Echo — you no longer have to max them all first — so the order, and the endgame after it, moves forward. Any stuck campaign resumes automatically on your next launch. • Global Ark Goals: claiming a milestone reward no longer resets the button or comes up empty — claimed milestones now stay claimed. • Daily Core Cache: a daily purchase that arrived late, was interrupted by a restart, or was made on another device is no longer lost — pending purchases now follow your account and deliver reliably once confirmed.