Industry Idle News

This version will be live at 17.00 EEST 29 May 2021

If you are not ready to update, you can choose "legacy" on Steam (Right click game name -> Properties -> Betas -> legacy). Legacy version will stay at 0.8.6 for one more week.

0.9.0
- New map: Vancouver - new unique bonuses, unique buildings and unique policies (Expansion Pack 1)
- New policy: High Pressure Gas Pump - Natural gas pumps have 2x output but use 2x power
- New policy: The Renaissance - Research Lab has 2x capacity but takes culture as the extra input
- New policy: Supply Chain Booster - Resource boosters use 2x power and science, but for each working mine a resource booster is boosting, it also provides capacity boost to adjacent factories that consume the mine's output (the factory should only consume deposits)
- New policy: Production Diversification - Each different type of building gives 1% extra capacity to all buildings (Vancouver only)
- New policy: Syrup Plastic - All buildings that input plastic use maple syrup instead (Vancouver only)
- New building: Maple Syrup Factory (Vancouver only)
- Balance: IC Fab change from 4 Al + 2 Battery to 4 Al + 14 Si
- Balance: Liquid Propellant change from 20 Petrol to 10 Petrol
- Balance: Gas Propellant change from 45 Gas to 24 Gas
- As a result of the propellant change, the input of the following buildings are slightly adjusted: Missile Factory, Project V-2, Project Vostok, Air Shuttle Inc, Satelink Inc
- Policy costs now ramp up faster to the number of active policies
- Wholesale orders should now have more consistent value
- Custom building color is now stable and available to all players
- Update translations - thanks to the hard work of community translators
There are 85 resources, 119 factories, 48 policies, 12 maps and 38 achievements available in this version

0.9.1-0.9.2
- Bugfix: Fix a bug where Maple Syrup Factory is available on maps other than Vancouver
- Bugfix: Fix a bug Supply Chain Booster policy does not calculate boost correctly

0.9.3
- Wholesale center order has been reverted to the old logic in 0.8.0
- Fix a bug where It's All Green achievement is not awarded correctly

Web: https://play.industryidle.com/
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574000/Industry_Idle/
Google Play: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.fishpondstudio.industryidle
AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/industry-idle-factory-tycoon/id1554773046

- You can now customize a specific building type's color in building info panel (this is an experimental feature and is only available for Expansion Pack owners until it stabilizes. Please report bugs on Discord)
- A new leaderboard: Total Valuation Per Hour Per Swiss
- City leaderboards has been changed to Total Valuation Per Hour
- Update game framework version (this update might be bigger than usual)
- Update translations - thanks to the hard work of community translators
There are 84 resources, 118 factories, 44 policies, 11 maps and 38 achievements available in this version
Web: https://play.industryidle.com/
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574000/Industry_Idle/
Google Play: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.fishpondstudio.industryidle
AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/industry-idle-factory-tycoon/id1554773046

- New leaderboards: Total Valuation Per Hour, Total Valuation Per Hour (< 1000 Swiss), Building Valuation Per Building. New players get more chances to feature in the leaderboard!
- Fix a bug where hiding resource movement might cause blackout for a cycle
- Fix a bug where auto highlight sometimes highlight the wrong buildings
- Fix a bug where Wind Turbine has wrong descriptions
- Now when you get the GPU is busy popup, the reload game button should work better - but if you continue to have issues, please report on Discord
- Update game framework version (this update might be bigger than usual)
- Update Chinese/German/French translation
There are 84 resources, 118 factories, 44 policies, 11 maps and 38 achievements available in this version

Web: https://play.industryidle.com/
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574000/Industry_Idle/
Google Play: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.fishpondstudio.industryidle
AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/industry-idle-factory-tycoon/id1554773046

- Now when you cancel a trade or fail to accept a trade, the resource will be refunded to one of the buildings that it is drawn from instead of always to Trade Center
- Fix a bug where adjacent bonus square policy is not implemented correctly
- Profit in building info panel will grey out if the building is not working
- Add a hotkey [0] for cancel building construction
- When resuming from background, the game's screen sometimes turns grey - this is because the operating system has put the game's graphics to sleep as GPU is busy with other tasks. A popup has been added to reload the game in this case
- Update Chinese/German/French translation
There are 84 resources, 118 factories, 44 policies, 11 maps and 38 achievements available in this version
Web: https://play.industryidle.com/
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574000/Industry_Idle/
Google Play: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.fishpondstudio.industryidle
AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/industry-idle-factory-tycoon/id1554773046

0.8.0
- Steel-Space tech tree has been expanded and rebuilt
- New Building: Radar Factory
- New Building: Project V-2 (Expansion Pack 1)
- New Building: ICBM Factory (Expansion Pack 1)
- New Building: Atomic Bomb Factory
- New Building: Nuclear Missile Factory
- New Building: Dynamite Factory
- New Building: Liquid Propellant Factory
- New Building: Gas Propellant Factory
- New Building: Project Vostok (Expansion Pack 1)
- New Building: Space Force Command (Expansion Pack 1)
- New Building: Space Colony Inc
- The following buildings' input has been adjusted, please see build menu for the new input requirement: Semiconductor Fab, Artillery Factory, Missile Factory, Satellite Factory, Spaceship Factory, Air Shuttle Inc, Shipyard, Submarine Factory, Aircraft Factory, Helicopter Factory, Zeppelin Factory, Console Factory, Linux Distribution, Satelink Inc, Web Browser, Music Producer, Book Publisher
- New Policy: Adjacent Bonus Square - Adjacent bonus is 50% more effective, but tile modifiers scale from -15% to +15% (square map only)
- New Policy: Resource Booster Square - Resource boosters provide 25% more boost but their science input and power usage also increase by 25%
- New Policy: Steel Furnace Modernization - Steel mills and stainless steel plants have 2x capacity but uses 2x power
- New Policy: Iron Steel Zone - Resource booster provide a output bonus equivalent to adjacent bonus to adjacent steel mills or stainless steel plants for each working iron mine it is boosting
- You can only change your name once every 24h
- Improve performance of player trade and chat
- Update translations - thanks to the hard work of community translators

0.8.1
- Add Missing Policy: Fuel Dynamite - Dynamite factories use your current fuel instead of oil
- Fix a bug where tile modifiers do not show correct gradient color
There are 84 resources, 118 factories, 44 policies, 11 maps and 38 achievements available in this version

0.8.2
- Bugfix: St. Petersburg's map bonus has been changed to: Project Vostok has 2x capacity
- Bugfix: Toulouse's map bonus has been changed to: Rocket factories have 2x capacity
There are 84 resources, 118 factories, 44 policies, 11 maps and 38 achievements available in this version

0.8.3
- Fix a bug where Chinese chat channel sometimes fails to update when new messages come in
There are 84 resources, 118 factories, 44 policies, 11 maps and 38 achievements available in this version

There are 84 resources, 118 factories, 43 policies, 11 maps and 38 achievements available in this version
Web: https://play.industryidle.com/
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574000/Industry_Idle/
Google Play: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.fishpondstudio.industryidle
AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/industry-idle-factory-tycoon/id1554773046