1. Industry Idle
  2. News

Industry Idle News

Patch 0.1.7

Patch 0.1.7 has been released on Web/Steam:
- New Policy: Tile Modifier Plus - Tile modifiers only affect output instead of both input and output
- New Policy: Wholesale Partners - Wholesale center orders only contain resources that are currently being produced (you also need to be producing the number of required resources to unlock wholesale center)
There are 68 resources, 91 factories, 25 policies and 9 maps available in this version

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574000/Industry_Idle/
Web: https://play.industryidle.com/
Google Play (still 0.1.3): https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.fishpondstudio.industryidle
AppStore (still old alpha version): https://testflight.apple.com/join/fugd7eO6

Patch 0.1.6

Patch 0.1.6 has been released on Web/Steam:

- Introducing tile modifier: each tile will impact building's capacity (-25% ~ +25%). You can see the modifier when you build a building (next to the name) and see a building's info
- New Policy: Nature's Power - doubles the tile modifier's effect (expansion pack 1)
- New Building: Dogecoin Farm (Dogecoin), Operating System Inc (Operating System), Linux Distribution (Operating System, expansion pack 1), Web Browser (Internet)
- Trade Center will show the price of a resource as soon as you've unlocked its production in research lab
- Trade Center will no longer show the price of a resource if you cannot produce it
- Now you can apply a building's setting to all buildings of the same type
- Bugfix: Wholesale center will not generate orders that you cannot produce
- Balance: Bitcoin requires 5 integrated circuits as input
- Balance: Cities with only oil deposits have oil refineries unlocked by default
- Balance: Knowledge through Steel policy cost has been reduced by half
- Bugfix: Fuel Cost Discount now works correctly
There are 68 resources, 91 factories, 23 policies and 9 maps available in this version

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574000/Industry_Idle/
Web: https://play.industryidle.com/
Google Play (still 0.1.3): https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.fishpondstudio.industryidle
AppStore (still old alpha version): https://testflight.apple.com/join/fugd7eO6

Patch 0.1.5

- Statistics Bureau has been completely redesigned
- Offline Earning calculation has been revamped - now it should better reflect your progression
- New Building: Chromium Alloy Plant
- New Building: Titanium Alloy Plant
- New Policy: Chroiron - chromium alloy plants do not use Lithium but use 2x Iron instead. Now you should be able to build space station without expansion pack
- The game can be run without internet connection (offline earning will not be generated). Web version still requires internet (duh)
- Improve Swiss Shop UI
- Improve Logistics Center UI - now it will show a warning badge if your fuel consumption exceeds production
- Add hotkey [4] for shut down/turn on production
- You can now shut down mines/oil wells/natural gas pumps now
- Sell building's hotkey has been changed from [Backspace] to [0]
- Bugfix: Slow down to save up policy should now work correctly (expansion pack 1)

There are 65 resources, 87 factories, 22 policies and 9 maps available in this version

Patch 0.1.4

- Bugfix: Sometimes grid highlight is not rendered properly after using logistics center
- Balance: Wholesale center requires 8 different resources to unlock
- Balance: Max builders upgrade base cost reduced from 50 to 25
- The last upgrade option is changed to upgrade to next multiplier instead of fixed 10x
- Logistics center now shows top 20 fuel cost routes
- Add leaderboard opt-out. PLEASE NOTE: if you want to enable leaderboard later, you need to reset your data first

There are 65 resources, 85 factories, 21 policies and 9 maps available in this version

Patch 0.1.3

- Balance: Schools now have 4x science and 2x power usage
- Balance: Wholesale center requires 10 different resources to unlock
- Balance: Universities do not require books any more (expansion pack 1)
- New Building: Polytechnics use semiconductors to produce science
- New Policy: Knowledge Through Steel - steel mills use 2x input and produce extra science
- New Map: Detroit
- New Map: Boston (expansion pack 1)
- Bugfix: Correct the description of Hearts of Iron policy
- Expansion pack owners will have a ⭐ next to the name in leaderboard as well
- You can only send one chat message every 10 seconds (doesn't apply to expansion pack owners)
- Industry Idle is coming to Apple Homepod, Amazon Echo and Google Home: https://industryidle.com/voice.html

There are 65 resources, 85 factories, 21 policies and 9 maps available in this version