Features

• Added Feedback System to give ingame development feedback by pressing F9
• Improved terrain visuals with bevels and material blending
• New Modular Building System for large structures
• Added Blast Furnaces and related buildings as a new way to produce basic metal goods
• Added new Pipeline system
• Added Walkway System
• Added Customizable Signs
• Added Concrete and related production line: Decorative blocks which increase walk speed
• Added Procedural Atmospherics with dynamic cloud system and improved multi-color gradient fog
• Added a factory foundation texture outline system
• Conveyor Distributors now have a priority toggle for input and output
• New endless research: Pumpjack Efficiency
• Added new sloped drag mode for stairs and conveyor slopes
• Improved Character Controller: No more getting stuck on certain edge cases
• Improved QOL for placing/visualizing a variety of buildings: Freight Elevators and Loaders
• Rail Miner minecarts now visualize which ore they carry
• Additional models for conveyor slopes, depending on if they have ground support
• Multiplayer: Added lag-compensation for world decor destruction
• Loader mode can now be pre-selected before placing via radial menu
• Basic controller support with virtualized cursor
• Sunbeam / light shaft effect added to “ultra” quality atmospherics
• Visual improvements for UI frames and buttons
• Converted the main menu into a 3D scene
• Radial menu improved with better spacing on icons, animated display, and a frosted glass appearance
• Animated placement preview objects and rotations
• Added new outline placement shader which preserves some texture detail of buildings to help visualize placement
• Mining laser now produces light and collides with buildings
• Improved smoke particle visuals which now respect atmospheric lighting
• Most large smoke particles now collide with objects above
• Improved input binding screen
• Improved foliage streaming in/out visuals
• Added 30 FPS Frame Rate limit for power saving and low end machines
• Balance Changes
• New building “Smelter”: Plates and Rods are now created with this machine (was previously Assembler)
• Renamed Electric Blast Furnace to Induction Smelter

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Bug Fixes

• More consistent smoke wind direction for particles
• First person geometry no longer collides with world space UI
• Baked shadow removed from first person drill
• Fixed visible hole in empty pipes
• Fixed initial loading stall caused by audio assets
• Fixed stair-stepped look for ambient shadowed regions
• Machines with higher base speed now also consume fuel faster
• Prompt to enter multiplayer name now also opens when hosting a server (previously on on joining a server)
• Slightly improved factory screen panel text readability

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Optimizations

• C++ Backend Rewrite to allow for megabases
• Optimized terrain lighting generation
• Optimized terrain collision mesh generation
• Optimized terrain streaming
• Optimized vegetation rendering
• Optimized screen panel rendering
• Optimized distant particle effect rendering
• Optimized factory rendering
• Optimized large factory load times
• Optimized gpu texture memory usage
• Optimized autosave performance
• Optimized terrain memory usage
• Optimized factory streaming performance