Learning Factory News

Everyone knows that felines and humans have had darker pages in their mutual history. Sometimes it was about some tiger occasionally munching on some expendable human. But most frequently it were the humans who were harassing defenceless cats for looking too suspicious.

Fortunately, these grim times are over now. Even more fortunately, humans are now aware that although cats do not possess any kind of magic (which, honestly, would be kinda cool) they do carry around their infinite wisdom. And thanks to the magic of science, humans can make it up for centuries of kicking cats around. The time of KOTOVOD has come!

This week brings at least one more impressive piece of machinery to make your cats feel special: meet the glorious Pillow Maker, which, perhaps not surprisingly, produces pillows of exquisite quality to roll on. In order to make sure that there's enough cloth for making these luxurious items, Cotton Collectors have been redesigned for more efficient production.

Luxury stock attracts luxurious customers: rich and elite cats have been spotted on Learning Factory campus, looking (and finding!) the most extravagant and fashionable goods. And this is but the beginning! Thanks to the work of KOTOVOD engineers, cats will thrive in abundance!



[h2]Version 0.7.8 Released![/h2]

• New types of cats added: rich and luxury cats are here to find the most exquisite items you have to offer
  
• Existing types of cats rebalanced
  
• Cotton Collector updated: it now picks cotton from the area in front and to the side of it
  
• Cotton Collector now animated
  
• Starting map reworked
  
• Tutorial and tasks updated
  
• New type of starting store: Fixed Price Stores feature items that cost 1 coin. The Store that allows price tuning now must be researched before building
  
• Store crafting prices decreased
  
• Research price for the first types logistics machinery decreased
  
• Machine learning model updated, Linear Regression and Research Labs can now take the data directly from the Stores
  
• Data Storage is now optional for building: it speeds up research and stabilizes Linear Regression
  
• New building: Pillow Makers are capable of crafting comfy pillows for cats
  
• Crafting houses now requires pillows
  
• Prices of many items rebalanced
  

[h2]More Engineers Required[/h2]


We want YOU at KOTOVOD! Your participation in our Alpha program will help us create a more bright and enlightened future for cats and humans! Please use the information below to join our ranks:

To play the Alpha, please join our Discord server or sign up for Email list

And of course, don't forget to add Learning Factory to your Wishlist (check out the button on the right of this page!)

Also don't forget to vote for next features on the Learning Factory's Public Roadmap

Hey everyone! Today's vote is not about art, but rather about concepts: we would like to ask you what would you like to see next in Learning Factory?

🕹 - Smart Manipulator
🤖- Another machine learning model (we're thinking of tabular-based reinforcement learning, but there are other options, too)
🛠 - More means of production

[h2]Head to our Discord Server and help us shape the game![/h2]

On the vast planes of Mars, the harvest season never ends! Especially when it comes to harvesting fruits of hard work, being done by workers of KOTOVOD Learning Factory campus. Although the key to success is hard work around the clock, an experienced manager knows that changing even the smallest detail can sometimes lead to greatest changes.

This fall, thanks to technical modifications suggested by KOTOVOD Optimization Dept., Cotton Pickers are picking cotton from a wider territory than before: not only it boosts production, but helps fighting with excessive reforestation problem, so common on Mars these days. And that's just one of the many improvements, successfully implemented after suggestions from Optimization Dept., where work never stops, day or night. Is this department run by robots? Or maybe there are genetically modified I.L.L.U.M.I.N.A.T.I. operatives at work there? The answer is: it is not impossible! Anyway, the results are exceeding expectations and it's all that matters!

[h2]Version 0.7.7 Released[/h2]

• Wires visually better connect to buildings
  
• Tunnel movement direction can be reversed by clicking on it. Therefore, there's no more need to switch map layers to place some tunnels
  
• Reworked Cotton Picker is harvesting wider areas of cotton fields, cotton can be harvested again after a certain period of time
  
• Apple Pickers now require boxes from Box Makers to be able to pack apples into boxes. Additionally, apples are also being gathered from a 3x3 tiles area
  
• New hotkeys available: Ctrl+click switches between open inventory windows, Shift+click picks half of a stack of an item. Shift+Ctrl+Click sends half a stack of an item between open inventory windows
  
• You can drop items to buildings from your inventory without opening a building interface
  
• There's now a research progress bar for current research
  
• There's now a field for entering promo codes in the main menu. Try one of these below and see what happens: CATBUS, CHESHIRE, IRON_CAT. Also, you can get an extra one for sharing your feedback here :)
  

[h2]More Engineers Required[/h2]


We want YOU at KOTOVOD! Your participation in our Alpha program will help us create a more bright and enlightened future for cats and humans! Please use the information below to join our ranks:

To play the Alpha, please join our Discord server or sign up for Email list

And of course, don't forget to add Learning Factory to your Wishlist (check out the button on the right of this page!)

Also don't forget to vote for next features on the Learning Factory's Public Roadmap

Greetings, comrade engineers!

We are going to update Box Maker design to make it more nature friendly (e.g. it's more rusty and covered with leaves). We encourage you to let us know, which design do you like more -- the new or the classic one?

[h3]Classic Box Maker[/h3]


[h3]Updated Box Maker[/h3]


[h2]Head to our Discord Server and let us know!
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Powered by the greatest minds on Mars, the KOTOVOD Learning Factory is thriving! What could better prove it than the happy faces of cats, entering shiny Cat Stores on the Factory campus? Only the breathtaking view of shiny new heavy machinery, beginning its never-ending shift!

The mighty rotation of the drills of "The Boring Boris", the mesmerizing rhythm of "Gangsta-Ropers"... All of them, and more, are working for the good of cats from all over the known space!



With the new machinery, provided by KOTOVOD's partners from the Interstellar Lazy Labor Union for Mars Integration and Never-ending Aspiration for Technological Innovations, those cats will indeed thrive, as they definitely deserve! Hooray, comrade engineers! Get back to work now.



[h2]Version 0.7.6 Released[/h2]

• Tree-harvesting reworked: lumber-mills now collect trees from an area of 3x3 tiles; trees grow back after some time
  
• Iron mining reworked: most iron sources have been replaced by iron veins providing infinite supply of iron. They can be harvested by hand or machinery
  
• New "Boring Boris" Drill model added
  
• New type of splitter: Cat Sorter allows splitting cat lines by cat types
  
• An additional longer version of manipulator is added; updated looks for both versions
  
• 2 new buildings: Claw Sharpener Crafter and Rope Crafter
  
• A new hybrid map viewing mode - for easier orientation between surface and underground levels
  
• A new mysterious type of tree can be found on Mars. The Turing Tree is not only beautiful, it multiplies by rules of Conway's Game of Life
• Research tree optimized
  
• UI improvements, bug fixes
  

[h2]More Engineers Required[/h2]


We want YOU at KOTOVOD! Your participation in our Alpha program will help us create a more bright and enlightened future for cats and humans! Please use the information below to join our ranks:

To play the Alpha, please join our Discord server or sign up for Email list

And of course, don't forget to add Learning Factory to your Wishlist (check out the button on the right of this page!)

Also don't forget to vote for next features on the Learning Factory's Public Roadmap