Fidget Spinner RPG News

Early Access v1.4.4 has been released! Read on for a list of changes...


The journey system has been revamped... There are now a total of 97 journey objectives in a new layout, and some key objectives now award permanent effects in addition to the base exp they rewarded before. Each journey objective has its own Steam achievement too!

Note: Loading a legacy save (one from before this update) may result in some notification spam at first pertaining to the journey steps that have already been completed.


You can now upgrade construction machines to make them process items faster.
Simply right click (most) machines and choose "Inspect or Upgrade this Machine" to see the new machine upgrade UI.
This UI shows maximum input/output rates, as well as lets you use materials to increase the machine's clock speed - effectively multiplying its efficiency.


Two new Prestige augments have been added:
Draught of Everlastence makes potions not drain duration for the next playthrough.
Penchant for Building makes construction unlock at level 35 competency for the next playthrough.


Visual effect tiers for RPM up to 1 trillion have been added! As such, randomly generated RPM effects now activate after the 1 trillion mark.

[h2]Balance Tuning[/h2]
Balance has been adjusted in several areas:
The glorious amulet has had its power reduced by approximately 50%.
Added 2 piece set bonus to The Lonely Ring, so you can no longer stack multiple of them for insane stat bonuses.
The Optimizer meta talent point increase threshold has been reduced from 25 to 10.
Haggling EXP awarded for vendor transactions has been reduced.
Well rounded EXP per point is now 0.03% (down from 0.1%).
Engineering EXP gains have been boosted by approximately 30%.
Jewelcrafting now unlocks at level 10 mining.
The Aura of Decay prestige augment has been rebalanced.
Vendors are now gated behind unlocks (for example: the reagent vendor won't show up until you have unlocked alchemy), and a new "general store" vendor has been added.

[h2]Smaller Changes and Bugfixes[/h2]
Your Steam status will now show your current RPM if you're in a game.
Even more news ticker lines and vendor quotes have been added.
Custom filters are no longer reset when you prestige (note: you still need to unlock the filters before they will become activated on your next playthrough).
Some potions that were missing a potion tag have been fixed - they should now all work with the "Potion" item type filter.
If an item has more than three tags, the tag icons will shrink to make them fit.

v1.3.20 is out now on the main branch!
Here's a list of changes:

• Added a new tab in the settings that enables setting up bindings (with optional modifiers) to quickly perform various actions on items.
  
• Several optimizations to increase FPS, especially in CPU-bound cases.
  
• You can now continue to build multiple of the same construction machine type by holding down shift while building.
  
• Added a new talent in construction that allows connections and item consumer machines to process stackable items in stack sizes of up to 2.5% of their max stack size per point.
  
• Added alchemy-related machines to construction for reagent gathering, ore grinding, and potion brewing.
  
• Fixed some potions not containing the correct crafted by proficiency attributes which made them not work properly with the researcher machine.
  
• Fixed brewmaster talent not correctly adding stats to potions when interacting with the orichalcium scaling effect.
  
• Fixed some cases where items could get tagged as both trash and favorite via filters and/or the auto tag as trash setting.
  
• Enabled machine connections to split a held stack at the endpoint and give the endpoint socket a partial stack to prevent a case where machines could get "jammed" under certain circumstances.
  
• Slightly adjusted machine connection item spacing to reduce overlap between the endpoint socket as well as the item packets themselves.
  

v1.3.16 is out on the main branch with the following changes:
Fixed upgraded gems reverting back to an un-upgraded state when socketed into items.
Added settings option in UI settings to disable news ticker (which effectively hides all AI generated content as well).

v1.3.15 is out on the main branch with the following fixes:
You can no longer place machines in invalid positions by moving them and then clicking both mouse buttons at once.
Potion of the Mechamaniac will no longer cause machine time advancing to break under certain circumstances.
Items bought from vendors will no longer be tested against the global item quality filter (the one in the gameplay settings).

Early Access v1.3.14 has been released! This update, which has been in development on the experimental branch, is now finally live on the main branch. Read on for a list of changes...


The new construction skill, which you unlock at level 70 competency, is all about creating machines to automate tasks for you. After unlocking construction, you can build machines in your active build area from within the new construction window... Machines you build will perform actions passively over time, such as mining/refining a desired ore. Machines can have inputs (on the top of them) and outputs (on the bottom) and you can either use your inventory to fill/empty these sockets or make connections between your machines (by right clicking on a given machine socket) to automate the process.

As you level up construction you'll unlock more machines that do things like store items, convert items to gold/item proficiency XP/salvage materials, split or merge a machine connection, or filter items passed along a connection path based on one of your custom item filters.

Construction has talents for things like increasing the build area size, reducing the time it takes to build machines or speeding up the rate at which your machines operate, as well as a meta talent which makes your machines passively accumulate operating time (up to 24 hours worth) when you exit the game and come back.


A *lot* of humorous new text lines have been added to the news ticker, with various new activation criteria.
RPM effect tiers now exist for up to 200 billion RPM.
There's also a new crafting material tier: Obsidian... It can be crafted into new gear, potions, jewelry, gems, etc. The obsidian armor special effect is particularly useful for the new construction skill, it makes all your machines advance through time whenever you cast an ability.
A new heirloom item has been added: Bag of Expansion, which increases the max stack size of all items for every rank owned.


There have been a lot of changes to balance to address potential "snowballing" issues, and tone things down a bit to a more reasonable pace.
Most notably, the meta talents "Gotta Go Fast" and "Money Can Buy You Anything" have been updated to scale with the order of magnitude of RPM/Gold instead of being a flat multiplier like they were previously.
The potion of temporary excellence has had its base duration reduced to be more... temporary.
Salvaging items now has diminishing returns when the salvaged materials from an item would result in a stack of materials greater than the max stack size of that material.
Scrap has had its base stack size quadrupled, up to 1 million.
Restoring a potion's duration with the potion of critical restoration now also slightly increases the potion's consumption rate.
Changed the Omnipotent prestige talent to grant +50 to all stats per rank (up from +5).
Changed brewmaster talent to now scale with the target crafted potion's proficiency.
Increased base prestige augment activation RPM requirements.


Lots of little quality of life fixes and improvements have been made across the board...
The sell all trash button has been improved in that it now correctly handles selling partial stacks, and doesn't get interrupted on the first failed sale.
Changed first buy option on vendor items from "buy all" to "buy max", this now also takes into consideration your total gold and the amount of gold the vendor can carry to calculate the maximum buy amount.
There is now a toggle to enable a mode for left-click instant buying items from vendors on the vendor UI.
The individual stat section of the item upgrade UI has been redesigned... You no longer need to cycle through each individual stat with the arrow buttons!
Stack size and total stat count text on item icons will now show abbreviated values at higher orders of magnitude (for example: 1.1k, 15m, 5b, etc.).
Condensed socket section of item tooltips to take up less space on the tooltip, and now show total socket stat bonuses instead of stats for individual socket slots.
Added new UI setting to hide stat effect breakdowns in tooltips and equipment window, this is useful if you want tooltips to be (potentially a lot) smaller.


Smallish performance optimizations across the board, mostly pertaining to UI rendering.
Fixed ability automation mode not using items from material storage.
Spread out the calculation of upgrade materials in the upgrade UI to happen over multiple frames.
The upgrade UI will no longer show the quality upgrade if the target item is already max quality.
Losing possession of an item while it is slotted into the salvage upgrade UI and then attempting to upgrade that now nonexistent item will no longer break the upgrade UI.
Fixed a case of inventory slots not updating after upgrading the item that was slotted in them.
Skill unlocks that are still locked will now always show up after unlocked ones in the skill unlock list.
Fixed a case where extra commas could be added when abbreviating numbers.
Fixed a number overflow issue related to salvaging exp earned from the scrap heap talent.
Fixed active ability tooltips refreshing constantly when stat or proficiency pertaining to them is increased and the tooltip is visible.
Fixed item quality filter slider text always showing 0% when reloaded from a saved state.
Changed duplicate item icons for malachite ring and soulstone amulet that were the same as emerald ring and peridot amulet.