Territory Control 2 news & patch notes

New Stuff

• Added time-based map unlocking (e.g. server would start with 3 maps unlocked, with 1 new map unlocking every day irl)

• Added "ISO Handbook" GUI widget (basically Minecraft's NEI)

• Added Sliding Door (Sheetmetal)

• Added Heavy Door (Smirgrafit)

• Added Compacted Scrap

• Added Formic Acid

• Added Phlogiston explosions

• Added Basic & Motorized axles (for belt transmission)

• Added new Karban crafting options for niklajzner-steel processing

• Added Betoniter Kiln

• Added EC-Scrap recycling recipe

• Added more items to loot tables

• Added more C-Putty crafting options

• Added new crafting options for construction site foundations

• Added more ways to produce nitroglycerine

• Added Emplacement and Tower Mount recipes to wrench

Tweaks

• Increased Vending Machine's interaction priority

• Increased projectile miss chance of some objects/obstacles

• Reworked fire effects & mechanics

• Rebalanced various augments

• Updated guns' properties (max velocity, recoil/damage multipliers)

• Rebalanced some materials' damage type multipliers/resistances

• Increased Rot's stack size and unit mass (so rotting meat doesn't clog up your storage)

• Improved scaling of explosive resources' power based on their quantity

• Associate RPC asserts/errors with player ID/network connection

• Improved server-side validation + optimized it a bit

• Inventories now display their current weight when hovered

• Most doors can now be opened/closed by left-clicking them

• Made some ammo recipes cheaper

• Made shipment mass affected by its contents

• Changed Vending Machine's catalogue

• Increased red sugar's mass per unit

• Improved landmine arming logic (so they don't accidentally explode when being deployed)

• Made conveyors, belts & pipes breakable

• Increased various ore/mineral yields' roughly 3x

• Himlkarzenus can now be used as currency at the Vending Machine

Fixes/Bugs

• Fixed EC-MT Accelerator on rocket launcher being too scary

• Fixed being unable to place an augmented Rocket Launcher on a tripod mount

• Fixed Phlogiston Sprayer burning people through walls

• Fixed NPCs ignoring "Open Doors" flag

• Fixed hornets spamming repath when the target is underwater (was causing a huge performance hit)

• Made item-dragging flight exploit a bit more difficult

• Fixed an ugly augment exploit (found by @skaymo)

• Fixed resources' despawn/merge counter being reset whenever their quantity changed

• Optimized ECS system setup time during game init from ~5.4s to ~0.045s

Recipes

• Added Earmuffs recipe

• Added Heavy Shield recipe

• Added Revolver Cannon recipe

• Added Rocket Launcher recipe

• Added extra Landmine crafting options

  • Landmine mass-production

• Updated HC-13.2mm recipe

• Added MG-20.4mm recipe

• Added AC-33.6mm recipe

• Added KN-51.9mm recipe

• Added Rocket recipes

• Added C-Putty recipe

• Added Smirgrafit Scrap Cleaning recipe

• Added Smirgrafit Clay recipe

• Added more byproduct/residue mappings to materials

NPCs

• Improved Capybara physics

• Increased Hornet repopulation interval to 5-15 minutes, adding 1-5 hornets each time

• Added a way to assign NPCs to vehicles/turrets/mounts (with very shoddy GUI atm)

• Nerfed loadouts for region-spawned characters

Fixes

• Fixed Map Editor not connecting to the internal server due it not checking if SDR is enabled

• Fixed Map Editor generating assets in outdated format

• Fixed Map Editor window resizing

• Fixed some blocks not exporting to terrain.png with !export

• Fixed too strict building clearance requirements (changed from 100% to 95%)

• Fixed Munitions Workshop's press not pressing

Misc

• Killed Rosin

• Merged Smirgrafit Powder and Compacted Smirgrafit Powder into Smirgrafit Clay

• Replaced Brown Coal with Karban

• Added more server-side asserts/validation

• Reworked propagation of controls/input across nested entities (it's still shit)

Official Server

• Wiped Map

Newbies

• Added tutorial

  • To access the tutorial, look for the menu in the top-right of the screen while in-game.

Crafting

• Rebalanced some work amounts

• Rebalanced couple of recipes

• Added slag shattering recipe

• Fixed error spam in blueprints with long descriptions

NPCs

• Fixed assigning personnel in buildings having too short range

Engine

• Minor optimizations

• Made SDR enabled by default

• Added GUI scaling

• Added aliases for right alt/shift/ctrl keys

Misc

• Fixed ammo not generating enough heat in guns

Crafting

• Added Steel Rod recipe

• Added insect meat to Chosen Plantstuff recipe

• Added crappy hand-made wrench for very basic structures

• Fixed not being able to make steel in Metalworks

• Hid various unfinished recipes to reduce confusion

• Added new community recipes

  • Glass Sintering by Korezack

  • Glass Calcination by Korezack (+ made some edits so it has clinker+cement byproducts instead)

  • Kuprovst Roasting based on Korezack's recipe (with some major changes to it)

Trading

• Added missing vending machines to Starobordus and Houbus

NPCs

• Decreased animal spawn rate

• Reverted some crappy pathfinding stuff

• Buffed couple of origins

• Fixed Personnel tab's Assign button having unlimited range

• Made Badger wimpier

• Made Drevokocur angier

Engine

• Fixed player ID randomization in offline mode

• Increased size of dynamic texture draw buffer (e.g. for pre-rendering character heads and augmented weapon textures)

• Fixed tongs being exported along with the character entity when entering buildings/checkpoints

• Fixed the dreaded bug with armor/helmet dropping when entering buildings/checkpoints (also fixes a very easy way to crash the server)

• Fixed F1 (hide HUD) being locked behind dev mode

• Added a setting that may potentially fix the rendering issues on Intel IGPUs

Misc

• Fixed kicking faction members kicking the leader instead

• Fixed Dud Explosive augment with Essence Payload

• Fixed some physics objects colliding with background fences

• Replaced Chalcopyrite with Kuprovst

• Fixed shipment pouch flying away when picked up due to very low mass

• Fixed some materials tagged as fuel not having fuel properties

• Reworked Thermal Essence collapsing

• Supplies are now non-attachable

• Added drill to Haraburdec

• Improved Valej (added a Heavy Cannon Mount, Twuk nest and more fun)

• Added a funny thing to Houbus

• Entities in "Interactions" side-menu tab now also have their inventories displayed

• Added "Nearby Items" side-menu tab to make picking up items in messy bases easier

Community Highlights

"The badger's den, best bar in Dedolez" by Kasket

An Alkohol Gild soldier from one of the official server's newest clans. by Mace/Oryx

Thank you After 5 long years of development, the game finally released into early access on February 23rd, 2026. We've come a long way since the original Territory Control mod for King Arthur's Gold, and we're so happy to finally see the fruits of that labour. To our dear testers, thank you all so much for your endless support, helpful feedback and presence during the pre-release period. Your patience and support will not go unrewarded And for all the brand new players who gave the game a chance, welcome!

Growing Pains We're well aware of the current accessibility issues that plague the game, we're hard at work on tutorializing the game as that is the current development priority. If you're a new player and dead confused (I wouldn't blame you) we've put up a #new-player-help channel in the official discord as a temporary band-aid solution to the issue. We're working on a more permanent solution, which will be part of an update that'll release sometime next week. Know that the game is still in early alpha, and a lot is yet to come. A good chunk of content is at current still unavailable, but once the accessibility issue is mostly resolved, that will become the next priority. Something to look out for regarding the coming updates, is that most of these will require a server wipe to prevent game-breaking bugs.

The Future You can expect frequent updates and changes to the game, primarily content like Vehicles, Player Economy, Automation and High-power Industry which are mostly already implemented, to become available within the next couple of months. TFlippy & I (Knorrepot), are always hard at work to improve the play experience and listen to community feedback. I (Knorrepot), will also be hovering about servers collecting footage for a proper multiplayer gameplay trailer. If you're experiencing something interesting in-game, and think it might be good for me to record, shoot me a ping in the official discord! For more details on the coming update, join the official discord -> Territory Control 2 Official Discord Server

Community Highlight We've already seen fantastic builds and deranged blueprinted weapons being posted online. Here's a screenshot of the entirely player-built Federalia Faction Base, a testament to what can already be done with the current build system.

And again, thank you all for your support & feedback <3 <3 <3 In addition, the official server has received a fresh wipe, so go nuts! -Knorrepot