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Component printers and assemblers will now automatically be grouped into assembly lines, which should result in less pile ups and I'm hoping it'll make them easier to manage.

Changes

• Component printers and assemblers are now automatically grouped into assembly lines, which can be assigned to active printing tasks
  
• Component printers in an assembly line are now stalled periodically when assigned to tasks that don't need them, avoiding extra component pile ups from other tasks that do
  
• Updated Manufacturing tutorial
  
• Missing recycler message is now only shown for assemblers assembling the final product
  
• Added ability to quickly change room to pillar and vice versa
  
• Added percent input field when selling stocks and changed percentage calculation when adding more shares, so it is equal to the amount of company share lost
  
• Burglars no longer sneak while being arrested
  
• Made furniture culling more aggressive when rendering shadows from the sun to improve shadow rendering performance
  
• Added more variety to contract company names
  
• Added new task filters to filter deals and contracts
  

Fixes

• Fixed security getting stuck in sitting animation if going from loitering to standing guard
  
• Fixed stock window breaking when player is worth less than $0
  
• Fixed cases of staff being stuck turning around due to floating point precision error
  
• Fixed employees sometimes being teleported to bus on load if bus was driving away when saving
  
• Fixed bug where employees would skip elevator queuing entirely
  
• Game will now display the correct error for snapping furniture when the room placement is invalid
  
• Fixed rent data overlay not displaying unrentable rooms correctly
  
• Fixed first loaded save after launching game generating nav meshes extremely slowly due to the low default minimum thread count in the .NET threadpool
  
• Fixed game freezing for a while on big saves due to the aforementioned nav mesh generation issue
  
• Doors and rooms will no longer have the inaccessible/blocked marker if they are in the process of generating nav meshes
  
• Fixed cooks being stuck trying to get food to a tray with no food in hand
  
• Fixed game freezing when placing furniture in rapid succession in rooms with lots of stuff, due to main thread waiting for navmesh generation to finish
  
• Fixed room meshes not being batched correctly for shadowing, decreasing shadow rendering performance for complex buildings
  
• Fixed rare cases where code that scales furniture to avoid wall clipping could end up scaling something, that was placed near a wall without clipping it, by a high factor
  

[h2]Patch notes for Alpha 11.7.52[/h2]
Changes

• Blueprints can now be grouped together
  
• Added search + enter to build in blueprint window
  

Fixes

• Fixed pillar tool breaking in basement
  
• Fixed manufacturing panels not updating printer and assembler counts if they were hidden when new machines were placed
  
• Fixed employees complaining about night shifts on the way home from work, if the walk home takes them into night shift hours
  
• Fixed product detail window updating at the end of the day, right before all losses were calculated, thereby showing an incorrect loss value until re-opened
  

[h2]Patch notes for Alpha 11.7.53[/h2]
Changes

• SSR is no longer scaled by SSAA, which would cause a large performance drop when both were enabled
  

Fixes

• Fixed RECOMPILE_DLL_MOD command throwing back the same cached compile result from launch
  
• Fixed being able to place acoustic panels on top of eachother
  

Changes

• Replaced grass system with something simpler and more performant
  

Fixes

• Fixed being able to place in-floor objects over stairs and elevators
  
• Fixed selection detection for corner carpets
  
• Made thread safety more robust for pathfinding and navmesh generation, to avoid furniture being marked as unreachable because the navigation mesh was still being generated
  
• Fixed NaN progress in alpha stage, if employee with exactly 0% art or code skill was working both art and code
  
• Fixed cases of data in list columns not being visible immediately
  

[h2]Alpha 11.7.48[/h2]
Changes

• Optimized grass shader
  
• Most graphics options now default to lowest setting on intel graphics processors
  
• Fixed some furniture textures causing darker furniture after being copied
  

Fixes

• Fixed issues with staff randomly not being able to reach certain areas
  
• Fixed grass being rendered through floors if mask is refreshed during early hours, due to fog
  

[h2]Alpha 11.7.49[/h2]
Fixes

• Fixed grass index out of bounds error
  
• Build grid is now rendered through grass always
  
• Fixed environment objects, such as lakes and houses, not being accounted for in navigation mesh when loading map, allowing people and animals to walk across them
  
• Fixed pathing along actual paths not always being generated causing unpredictable pathing near paths, like walking too close to walls and going in and out of doors along the path
  
• Fixed elevators randomly becoming unreachable since waiting area was no longer scaled when elevator is squished against walls
  

Changes

• "Upcoming releases" window has been upgraded to a full calendar view of all upcoming releases and deadlines
  
• Added ability to only apply interior or exterior style to rooms using style panel
  
• Rounded and Inverse corner carpets can now be placed on the same tile
  
• Improved parking space and dead end avoidance for AI cars
  
• Garage port can no longer be built on floors that don't have road access
  
• Textures loaded from furniture mods are now compressed to preserve VRAM, but take a little longer to load
  
• Optimized server wire rendering
  
• Increased how far off pallet pickup and drop points can be from a pallet and still work
  
• Optimized gamma handling
  

Fixes

• Fixed AI releases being too centered on December
  
• Made "Rooms inside rooms" error even less likely to occur when just free-building up against other rooms
  
• Fixed furniture at edges of room sometimes getting lost when splitting room and undoing
  
• Fixed furniture moving to mouse position when rotating while holding alt
  
• Fixed style panel not working for furniture in Custom Map mode
  
• Fixed people stepping out into the middle of the road if they have nowhere to go and the nearest exit is directly in front of the road
  
• Improved loading order when moving company to empty plot, to avoid ID clashing
  
• Fixed not being able to place multiple copied wall furniture in some cases
  
• Fixed cases of server wires not lining up when server was placed up against a wall
  
• Fixed reloading modded furniture not cleaning up old data from VRAM
  
• Fixed progress panel on marketing work being incorrect when marketing options are not selected in order
  

[h2]Alpha 11.7.44[/h2]
Fixes

• Fixed pallet pickup points no longer working
  
• Fixed saves having environment re-generated on load causing doubling of trees, water, plots, etc.
  
• Fixed UI breaking when scrolling horizontally using pad or wheel in lists that are exactly as tall as there are items
  
• Fixed calendar software filters not working when modded software categories contain no descriptions
  

[h2]Alpha 11.7.45[/h2]
Changes

• Made it so you can't select features that depend on a chosen tool, which does not support their specialization (Not relevant for vanilla software)
  
• Made burglars more sneaky
  

Fixes

• The game will now correctly identify if an area outside is enclosed by rooms and not treat doors from that area as accessible from the outside
  
• Fixed burglars not fleeing until they are completely done burglarizing a single large room with no security cameras
  
• Fixed burglars walking back and fourth between most valuable items, instead of prioritizing nearest valuable items
  
• Fixed server wire vertical offset
  
• Fixed employees complaining about benefits getting worse when they are improved, because got older and their priorities changed
  
• Added daily recount of product storage to fix any sync issues
  

[h2]Alpha 11.7.46[/h2]
Changes

• Added ability to quickly shift grid by 1/2
  
• Added a bunch of tooltips to design document detail panel, including new "Wasted interest" stat
  
• Added auto balance button to submarket targeting in design document window
  
• Added stat to product detail window showing how much OS sales were boosted by supported products (This has always been simulated)
  

Fixes

• Fixed pillars in basement
  
• Fixed line rendering for path building, wall rounding and roof editing not working since last patch
  
• Fixed putting furniture in inventory not retaining atlas index, e.g. for painting and carpets
  

Changes

• Added option to use solid ground instead of void as world background
  
• Adjusted fog distance based on camera zoom level
  

Fixes

• Added fail safe to avoid components suddenly not printing
  
• Fixed being able to place furniture inside each other up against walls using scaled grids
  
• Fixed deleting wrong style in style panel if selected object had unsaved style
  
• Fixed couriers giving up completely if trying to fetch boxes from a blocked garage port
  
• Fixed top floor being unreachable in Hardware Inc map
  

Changes

• Added ability to place and rotate furniture, rooms, doors and windows with no grid by holding Alt
  
• Added red outline to intersecting furniture when placing new furniture
  

Fixes

• Fixed some list content not being visible at first until interacting with it
  
• Fixed furniture silently becoming unreachable if moved in a specific order under certain conditions
  
• Fixed cost not displaying correctly when dragging conveyor belts or just moving furniture
  
• Fixed server dropdowns not updating instantly when server configuration changes
  
• Fixed specialization panels not updating instantly when new specializations unlock
  
• Fixed game sometimes breaking when deleting a room outside of build mode in the same instant an employee decides to use a furniture in it
  

[h2]Alpha 11.7.41 (2021-02-12)[/h2]
Fixes

• Fixed corner and inverse corner carpet boundaries being reversed, making impossible to place properly in room corners
  
• Partly fixed bug where rooms could be marked as inaccessible if the room leading up it is divided into multiple areas using furniture and each area has multiple separate entrances
  
• Fixed not being able to freely place furniture from inventory if you can't afford full price
  
• Fixed corner fence posts missing from outdoor areas in some cases
  
• Made "Rooms inside rooms" error less likely to occur when just free-building up against other rooms
  
• Fixed game suggesting room auto-completion when it would create invalid rooms with very low angles