Engineers, most factories were stuck at the same wall: batteries gating oil, capped Sources, parallel lines undercounting. That wall is gone.
Progression unblocked: batteries and scaling
The biggest change is a full redesign:
- Source upgrades no longer cost their own resource. Each tier is paid with the previous chain's goods. The oil and battery dead-wait is gone.
- Battery Banks unlock with Battery Tech. No more hunting for the unlock.
- Upgraded Sources deliver their full researched rate. A hidden cap held every Source at 1250/s no matter what you researched.
- Deliveries from multiple sources add up again. Two factories feeding one warehouse count both, like in 0.8.
- The Oil Refinery consumes what its recipe says. It was quietly eating double.
Nuclear reactors got better
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Reactors make power without a heat exchanger. Core plus turbines now produce base power, and exchangers boost it. Before, a reactor without an exchanger ate fuel and produced nothing.
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A zero explains itself. The energy row now names the problem: "no turbine to convert the heat", "no reactor fuel". Hover a turbine or heat exchanger to see what one more would add, straight from the reactor math.
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The reactor card shows real output. The old flat "+100 energy/t" is gone. Card and energy row now always agree, and the coolant plant no longer lists energy it doesn't produce.
Accurate numbers on the map
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Every rate reads /t. The map said "/s" while parcel interiors said "/t" for the same number. Now it is one unit everywhere, at every game speed.
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Cable bars show true fill. A patched cable carrying 64/t of its 128/t now reads half full instead of full. Base cables look exactly as before.
Quality of life
- UI scaling works on every platform and can't lock you out. The Settings dialog scrolls, and parcel cards stay under the menus.
- Esc opens the pause menu when nothing else is open, and consistently closes what you'd expect.
- Power demand is measured before throttling. No more flickering grids.
- Sources stay visible in dark mode.
- Cleaner parcel descriptions in every language.
- The factory mark runs cool blue now, favicon included.
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