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- Patch Title: Patch notes for v0.6.2
- Patch Release Date: April 15, 2024
The developer of Captain of Industry has released a new update for the game on April 15, 2024. Here are the new things that you should expect to see or change on this new update. This information was curated directly from the official announcement on Steam.
- Research changes
- Farm is now unlocked from the start.
- Merged loose storage research into mining research.
- Merged vehicles management I into advanced logistics.
- Merged flywheel research in power production II.
- Merged tree harvester II research into large vehicles.
- Goals changes
- Goals can no longer be disabled in new games.
- Added a button to collapse all goals into a single header per each.
- Redesigned goals so that lots of them are not blocked by ship exploration or trading.
- Removed the goal to stockpile wood and buy bricks for wood, instead requiring to buy bricks for iron.
- Added a quick trade to buy bricks for iron.
- Added 11 new decal symbols.
- Conveyor lifts can be now directly connected to balancers and sorters.
- Ore sorter’s buffers and throughput now scale with trucks overloading edicts.
- The “out of fuel” notification is no longer shown if the vehicle already goes for fuel.
- Fixed world map mines that would keep mining when resources get depleted.
- Fixed trucks that would prioritize ore sorter over their tower’s own dumping designations.
- When assigning a truck, prioritize an empty one.
- Tree planters now prefer to plant trees close to the forestry tower.
- Bloom effect was clamped to avoid overblown bloom regions due to too high color intensity values, sometimes appearing due to driver issues.
- Increase transport max terrain penetration from 0.1 to 0.2 tiles.
- Creating settlement refunds removed custom surface cost.
- Molten channels can be completed in open elevated space.
- Fixed a lag between load/quit game and loading screen appearing.
- Fixed that loans could go into negative in rare cases.
- Removed picking highlight from cut tool that was being left behind.
To learn more about this new update, check the official source mentioned above.