TowerLine news & patch notes

Machines, belts, and junctions now share a single timing model, the whole factory runs in step

Junctions pass items straight through at belt speed; machines no longer let queues pile up in front of them

Speeds are now defined and shown in items per second instead of tick multipliers, so they stay consistent regardless of simulation rate and are easy to calculate

Direct machine-to-machine transfers (e.g. chained extractors into storage) are capped at current belt speed

Reroll your map: after you've held 100 research points at any point, zoom out and switch to refresh mode to reroll an owned section's resources for a fee. Bad spawn? Second chance.

Extractor throughput: hover an extractor to highlight its entire pass-over chain and see measured throughput over the last 5 seconds versus the configured max (items/s)

Item Signal emitter: type an item code to emit a constant item wire signal, with a live preview as you type, especially handy for upgrade requirements

Order details now have a button to copy the item code to the clipboard

Speed upgrades and the money multiplier can now be bought past their previous max (+0.5 items/s and +0.5× money per buy, with rising gold and item costs)

Barrel Assembly Infuser no longer locks up when a shorter assembly arrives while color is waiting on an unused input

Research purchases staying in sync after load (tree, badge, and Wire Layer unlock)

Filter Splitter rotated visuals no longer show misleading indicators

Blueprint codes: export a blueprint as a text code, share it, and import in the blueprints menu. We also have a Discord bot now: drop your blueprint code there and it draws it for everyone to see what spaghetti you built

Save codes: same idea for save games, can be exported and imported via the Load Game menu

Saves now use a compressed format: quicker loads and less Steam Cloud space

Load times have been drastically improved, especially for larger factories.

The Statistics menu stays smooth late-game, even with thousands of delivered item types

Signal Selector: merge multiple wire inputs into one output (empty/false skipped; newest value wins)

Machines placed next to an open belt auto-attach, with a clearer placement preview

Extractors show an icon for the material they pull

HUD buttons have hover tooltips for machine and category names

Full UI redesign with a cleaner, non-angled layout

Tower detail views use color icons for each tower part: clearer for everyone, including color-blind players

Research tree can be navigated with WASD (great for trackpads)

Tutorials for signal/wire devices show up in the help menu once you unlock them

Various UI improvements

Progression softlocks where unlocks stalled or were skipped: existing saves self-heal on load

Cloud saves could overwrite newer progress when playing on multiple devices: fixed

Research progress no longer lost after quit/reload

Various bug fixes across belts, wires, extractors, infusers, tunnels, upgrades, and simulation timing