Good news, dear Tinkerers & Tycoons,

Our next update is available! As always, we aim to react quickly to community feedback for constant improvement of your favorite Corporate Machinery Simulator. Today, we are happy to introduce a broad mix of improvements, including new features, refined balancing, and many bug fixes. We hope you like these changes and we are looking forward to your feedback.

Enjoy & stay safe,
your Chasing Carrots

v0.6.3

Upgradable Tables

• Players can now upgrade crafting tables directly from the respective table panel.
• To upgrade a table, a module needs to be selected.
• Based on the selected module, the table will be upgraded to the next, faster table.
• The upgrade will cost the difference between the original table and the new one.
• Upgrading a table will cancel the crafter's current progress and restart it.
• Previously set logistics connections will remain active on the upgraded table.
• Upgrading tables will not be possible if the construction menu is not available.

Quick Hire

• All workstations now have a quick hire button.
• A random employee will be hired and assigned to the selected table.
• Every table also has a quick fire button.
• This option will be unlocked once employee hiring is available.

Advisor System

• From time to time the advisor, Lumo, will pop-up on Monday mornings.
• The advisor informs you if there are potential basic problems in your company.
• We will be considering expanding this feature with more tips in the future.
• If possible, the advisor will show you an example of the detected problem.
• There are 6 tips that can currently be triggered:
• Not all Products are getting sold from the Outgoing Zone.
• Production Employees are inefficient and have to walk too much.
• Production Employees are missing Module/Component XYZ.
• Not enough of Base Material XYZ being ordered in Incoming Zone.
• Logistics connection isn’t served, because it is not in range of a Logistics Point.
• Hint: Sell over-produced Modules/Components XYZ.

Other

• While placing new equipment, the respective holograms now have an improved preview for where the object can be placed.
• All production and research times are now displayed as in-game days.
• Mouse confinement setting is now ‘off’ by default.
• Info browser now has tooltips for materials & modules.

Balancing

• Inventory transfer times are now 1s (0.066 days), no matter how many materials are being transferred.
• Previously it was 1s per different material/module/product.
• Metal Cases sampling time has been fixed. The base sampling time was too low:
• 0.46s -> 1.46s (9.2s -> 29.2s on the first Analysis Table)
• Level 3 got re-balanced to provide a more steady income:
• Calculator markets provide more income now.
• Market requirements for Calculators and Pocket Computers were reduced.
• Markets for the ‘Welfare Survival’ challenge have been updated:
• Removed markets beyond cleaning/transport bots.
• All markets progress slightly slower.
• All market requirements increase less drastically.
• All markets have an increased profit amount.

General Fixes

• Calculation of camera bounds has been fixed. Previously, some unintentional camera behaviour could occur at the edges of some maps.
• Sometimes the mouse containment setting used wrong data to apply the containment. Now it should always fit the actual game window.
• Challenge completion achievement did not trigger properly (4/7 challenges done)
• The next challenge you complete should reward all missing achievements.
• Fixed an issue where the game crashed when returning to the main menu.
• When sales for specific products were above 65 535 G the amount looped to 0 G.
• Sales for a single product can now be ~16 000 000 G.
• Fixed an issue where the game would crash when switching modules on a crafting station.
• Fixed a UI-scaling issue with highscore tables making some buttons inaccessible.
• Blueprint Designer button is now gated properly depending on whether the Drafting Table is available.
• Hitbox issues, mainly with the chemistry table, have been fixed. The hitboxes should now behave more consistently

Level & Challenge Fixes

• Level 3, Milestone 8: the Metal Case (Tier 3) was counted as a viable module to complete the current task (reaching a production of 14 Tier 4 modules every week)
• Level 4, Milestone 7: the goal unit [produced/week] was wrong. It has been changed to display the correct unit [produced].
• Level 6, Milestone 1: progress counted 'total production', which was wrong. This has been corrected to 'weekly production'.
• Level 6, Milestone 5: progress counted 'Courier Bots' while it should have been only counting 'Delivery Drones'. This is also fixed now.

Text Fixes

• Welding Table now has a proper description, the localization string was broken.
• [FR] Level 6, Milestone 4 the ‘[goalTarget]’ replacement was broken.