Builderment News

Hello factory builders,

Achievements are finally being added to Builderment! Along with a nifty hotbar to quickly place down buildings.

There are 24 achievements in total, there should be a mix of easy, medium, and hard ones. Leave a comment if you have suggestions for more.

The hotbar holds up to 8 buildings of your choice to quickly switch between frequently used buildings. To change your hotbar hover over the building in the Build Menu and press the keyboard number to select it.

[h3]Patch Notes:[/h3]

• Added 24 Steam Achievements.
  
• Added hotbar to improve building experience.
  
• Fixed bug with items held by robot arms using wrong mesh.
  
• Increased Coal Power Plant duration from 15 sec to 30 sec (halving amount of coal required).
  
• Increased Nuclear Power Plant duration from 1 min to 2 min.
  
• Reduced Furnace Tier 4 speed to 300% to be equal with other tier 4 buildings.
  

Thank you for all your support and keep on building!
- Builderment Dev

Hello factory builders,

Today brings a minor update with a big feature, writable signs! You can unlock them in the tech tree under decorations. After you place a sign you can edit the message and text color. They can be copied and moved like other buildings and also included in blueprints!



There is a technical limit of 100 per world which I hope is enough, if not let me know in the comments.

Thank you for all your support and keep on building!
- Builderment Dev

Hello factory builders,

Builderment is participating in the Steam Summer Sale along with other great indie titles from indie.io. You only have between now and July 11th to get Builderment at an incredible 20% discount.

Get ready to dive into epic building and automation at a discount! Builderment is now available at 20% off during the Steam Summer Sale! From June 27th to July 11th, immerse yourself in stunning graphics, complex automation gameplay, and epic logistics challenges all while enjoying fantastic savings. Don’t miss out on this limited-time offer to explore Builderment and embark on an unforgettable journey. Make sure to check out other great indie games on sale during the Summer Sale from indie.io.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2414110/Builderment/

Hello factory builders,

We are proud to announce that Builderment is now being published by indie.io. For those of you who may not know, having a game publisher like indie.io greatly helps indie developers focus on game development while they handle all the behind-the-scenes magic. From helping manage store pages to crafting marketing campaigns and even helping the game shine at both digital and live events, publishers help in all the aspects that indie developers often struggle with.

You may also be concerned about horror stories of publishers ruining the vision of a game or forcing arbitrary restrictions on the dev team. For indie.io, that couldn't be further from the truth. indie.io has been a great partner to us, only enhancing and supporting our vision. We were very careful when considering whether to go with a publisher or not, and selected indie.io because they are committed to our vision of the game, and only want to see it reach its full potential as we see it. We maintain complete creative and development control, and indie.io wouldn't have it any other way!

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Thank you for all your support and keep on building!
- Builderment Dev

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2414110

Hello factory builders,

I am excited to announce that the next update to Builderment is here! This update brings a bunch of performance improvements, quality of life features, and the introduction of Alternative Recipes!

Before we dive into the patch notes, I wanted to share some important news with everyone. After reading through the reviews and comments you have shared since the game's launch, I decided to lower the price of the game to $14.99 USD. The majority of the community was in agreement that the previous price was too high for the content currently available and your feedback is extremely valuable to me - even when it just comes to price.

To those who have purchased and enjoyed the game before this decrease, I want to express just how much I appreciate your support. Your involvement, feedback, and support mean more to me than I could possibly express. I know the price decreasing after purchasing something can be difficult to accept, but I want to reassure you that I will continue to work on additional content and adding to the game to bring more value and gameplay for everyone to enjoy.

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[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

📜 Alternative Recipes
Alternative Recipes are unlocked through the tech tree and allow players to craft specific items with entirely different ingredients. For example Steel can be crafted with only Iron Ore and Coal instead of needing Graphite. However you'll need to use a mix of both normal and alternative recipes to maximize the use of resources in the world. Completely switching to the new recipes will likely cause other bottlenecks to develop in your factory!

⚙️ Selecting Belts
One big quality of life improvement added is now you can double click on belts to select all other connected belts on a path. Stopping at splitters, merged belts, and machines.



🪵 Cargo Visibility
Items on belts are now viewable when zoomed out further (configurable in video settings). With this change there are also entirely new models of all the items that are easier to recognize from a distance.


An item and it's low detail version:



📝 Full change log

• 12 New Alternative Recipes! Unlock new recipes to craft specific items with different ingredients.
  
• Smarter automatic underground belt placement when building belt paths.
  
• Double click on a belt to select or unselect all connected belts on a path.
  
• Optimized time it takes to load worlds.
  
• Camera will now zoom towards where the mouse cursor is.
  
• Improved efficiency/accuracy of extractors and factories to now output at 100% of their expected rate instead of 99.99%.
  
• Added video setting for cargo view distance with additional LOD to make items easier to see when zoomed out.
  
• Main menu now has a "Continue" button to jump back into the last world you were playing.
  
• Mac retina support, now displays higher native resolution.
  
• Various other little memory and performance optimizations.
  

Thank you for all your support and keep on building!
- Builderment Dev


https://store.steampowered.com/app/2414110