This time next week we should be pressing Steams big green button to ship Iron Roads out to Early Access! To that end we have been pushing bug fixes quite rapidly these last few weeks, and weve been a little slow posting patch notes

• Weve reworked the chooser screen. All three play modes for a scenario are grouped in the same place
• Speaking of which, the third mode is Free play mode. You get infinite resources, no contracts or goals, so you can build whatever you wish
• Technology unlocks are permanent now, so once youve researched power once you never need do it again!

• The cargo screen no longer shows the count of all types of cargo waiting at a stop, just the selected cargo
• Trains too long for a station, that magic flip while their tail end is on a corner, no longer leave the station in a bad state that blocks other trains
• Dragging purchase land no longer draws whatever the last selected construction mode was
• It no longer crashes when you try to click purchase countryside tiles
• The required tools are no longer locked in the tutorial
• When the collected reward is zero, the collect button now displays as Dismiss rather than Collect 0
• The jump to button jumps to the correct stop when there are multiple notifications shown at once
• Click delete now deletes the entire bridge or tunnel and no longer leaves it in a bad state
• Weve fixed a number of bugs with the Chinese translation, and waypoints now change language immediately the language is changed
• The Mole Miners rest contracts are not shown in the tutorial before power is researched
• The edit train window now returns to the correct service after clicking confirm
• Weve fixed the zoom scale change for hi dpi screens