New map: Insula mortis Improved experience * Added mass upgrade tool. When an area is selected for upgrade, a popup window can be used to select what entities in that area should be upgraded. * Added comprehensive checklist-based tutorial that will guide new players though the early game (can be disabled). * Reworked and restructured tutorials to better explain game mechanics, be more simple to read, and be less verbose. * Added mods configuration options when starting or loading a game. This also allows you to add/remove mods before a game is loaded. Note that not all mods can be safely added/removed from a save. * Introduced a new bricks production chain into the game. Bricks can be used as an alternative for Concrete in Construction parts. Bricks are designed to make early game a bit easier. Performance * Further optimized transport pillars rendering and added LODs, saving many millions of drawn triangles in large factories. Balance changes * World map no longer gives refugees from explorations. * Beacon is now infinite with diminishing returns. * Reduced early research difficulties. * Removed electronics from collapsed radio tower. * Research labs no longer consume Unity when idle. * Reduced connector buffer size significantly (size is still based on transporting speeds of connected entities). * Increased water requirements to make 8 acid from 4 to 6. * Reduced water yield from cleaning of 24 toxic slurry from 20 to 18. Behavior changes * When assigning a vehicle to a building (e.g. mine tower), assign the closest one. * Excavators no longer return to the mine tower when mining finishes, unless they are outside of the mine area. * Dumping designations are no longer searched based on proximity to the mine tower but on proximity to the vehicle. * Refueling trucks now don’t leave fuel stations while the station keeps loading them with more fuel. * Trucks and excavators now prefer to refuel at the fuel station that is assigned to their mine tower. * Improved logistics jobs priority system. * Transport connector now attempts to accept inputs evenly from all connected ports (outputs were already even). This means that a connector has an equivalent behavior to a balancer without any priorities or ratio enforcement settings on. * Transports construction tool now places a connector in places where it makes sense (e.g. two output ports facing the same tile). * Statue of maintenance now provides maintenance reduction based on the number of operational statues. The maintenance reduction of a single statue was reduced from 5% to 4%, but each additional statue gives an additional reduction which is a half of the previous one. For example, 3 statues give 4% + 2% + 1% = 7% total maintenance reduction now! * It is now possible to flip entities with mechanical shaft such as turbines and generators. * It is now possible to queue any research node and all required parent nodes will be queued before it automatically. * Improved ship surrender logic so that your ship will not surrender if the enemy has much lower HP. * Improved tree harvester logic to ignore non-reachable trees if possible. User interface * Replaced toggle buttons with checkboxes. * Improved several dialogs to properly respect the Esc key. * Total population view moved from the big top left tiles to the main top toolbar. * Removed custom starving notifications and moved them to the regular notifications. * Notification dismissal status is now persistent (loads from a save). * Collapse warning icon on affected building disappears when its notification is dismissed. Notification reappears when more terrain under the affected building is modified. * Custom warning notifications on storages don't go away until the contents are more than 5% off the target to prevent flickering. * Message notifications now auto-collapse when there are more than 5 of them. * Add "delete entire transport" action into the construction toolbox for better discoverability. * Transport height now shows the correct height when connecting to other transports. * Remove the top title bar from the bottom toolbar and use tooltips for the items instead. * When selecting an entity, prefer a vehicle if there are two entities to choose from. This allows selecting trucks clipped inside of buildings. * Fixed idle non-assigned vehicles that were not properly updated in the UI. * Fixed an incorrect estimate of water yield in the rainwater harvester. * Fixed Recipe book that did not show some recipes as locked if the owning entity was locked. * Fixed hotkey for price tooltip did not work if transport editor was activated via copy tool. * Fixed missing tooltips in settlement overview, added a link for tutorial about health. * Product stats titles are now ordered by name. * Made key-binging tooltips translatable. * Mining overlay can be now toggled without canceling current selection for building. * Games can be loaded/saved by double-clicking on existing file names. * Updated translations, thanks to everyone who is contributing! Significant bug fixes * Fixed recycling of gold which was incorrectly returning only 1/3 of the expected value. * Fixed issue with free maintenance when global maintenance amount exceeded capacity. * Fixed contracts that were in some cases charging more Unity than they should have. * Fixed game crash when clicking "continue" for a save file that was deleted in the meantime. * Fixed terrain rendering that was showing lighter stripes on steep slopes. * Fixed shipyard collapse that was not properly destroying products, potentially causing the permanent radiation issues. * Fixed incorrect sun brightness and shadows intensity when a game was loaded during rainy weather. Transport related bug fixes * Transport connectors now return products to the shipyard when destroyed (instead of destroying them). * Fixed buried pipes that are no longer destroyed when another transport is built on top of them. * Fixed pipe attachment to the pillar that was sometimes incorrectly oriented. * Fixed spontaneous transport collapse that sometimes happened during flip, connection, or upgrade. * Fixed transport pillars that were sometimes stuck as a blueprint. * Construction state of a transport (e.g. ongoing upgrade or construction pause) is now properly preserved when joining it with other transports. * Fixed construction cubes visualization when transport under construction was connected to other transports. * Paused transports no longer accept products. * Transports in clearing mode are no longer moving products and are no longer accepting products. * Fixed destroy tool that was incorrectly selecting the entire transport when the cursor was previously on any other non-transport building. * Fixed transport destroy tool that was not showing destroy preview when repeatedly hovered over the same spot on a transport. Other Bug fixes * Server racks can no longer be added into non-constructed data centers. * Fixed vehicle overlay that was sometimes shown for an incorrect vehicle class. * Fixed wood disappearance when truck overload edict was active. * Fixed inability to select tree harvesters sometimes. * Fixed edict panel to correctly show effects of unity-positive edicts. * Fixed excess consumption of lab equipment on research finish or change. * Cargo depot modules now have an idle state. * Fixed that the beacon was not losing progress when paused. * Fixed buildings highlighting during route assignment. * Fixed rendering of building ghosts particles below terrain designations. * Upgrade of machines now properly prunes obsolete product buffers. This means that upgraded Blast furnace II will no longer accept iron ore since it cannot even process it. * Trucks no longer exceed reservations of other trucks when delivering their cargo * Fixed unity stats that did not contain items that went over the unity cap. * Fixed some recipes that were unlocked too early or were not visible in research. * Fixed that cutting and pasting of a building with vehicles assigned did not preserve the vehicles assignments. * When people leave due to lack of food, any homeless will now get properly accommodated in their place. * Fixed mining of corner designations that was sometimes not possible for large excavators.