A second hotfix for Beta 51 of Clockwork Empires, Beta 51B, has now been posted to the main and experimental branches on Steam. It fixes a number of issues found in Beta 51. It contains the following changes:

• blueprint design mode will now hide all assignment beacons; regular mode will now turn them back on again
• moved "Clear Terrain" jobs into the building construction job if they are automatically spawned by building construction
• assignment of workcrew to service job should adjust their work schedule appropriately
• optimized code from widget manager which greatly speeds up work crew menu
• balance: reduced sleep time
• balance: adjusted relationship of happiness to work shifts
• balance: adjusted output of stone from surface nodes
• balance: slightly increased nighttime sight radius
• FIXED: "Make stone smelting crucible" now moved over to new multistack system
• FIXED: picking up a multistack from the stockpile now correctly decrements the stockpile counter
• FIXED: more cleanup of phantom objects
• FIXED (OSX): crash on embark screen whenever you generate an ocean biome
• FIXED (OSX): crash in rendAssignmentBeacon handler
• FIXED (OSX): some other misc. crashes
• FIXED: talking to fishperson could freeze colonist (temp. removed this job)
• FIXED: long clothes line required 1 less bricabrac than advertised
• FIXED: tutorial would appear after game start; it no longer does
• FIXED: workers will no longer try to walk to be near their overseer if their overseer is in an underground mine and therefore technically off-map
• FIXED: fence icons
• FIXED: typo in work quality of life description
• FIXED: if you chopped down a burning tree, it would leave a fire in its place forever
• FIXED: mine products display is more readable
• FIXED: "make tin exotic caviar" job for workbenches, removed from ovens
• FIXED: players should not be attacked before they finish the tutorial
• FIXED: "make chemistry workbench" job
• FIXED: Moved brick kilns and iron smelting crucible to multiobject system (should fix build failure)
• FIXED: steel ingots looking for wrong object
• FIXED: Foreign office wasn't displaying building quality correctly
• FIXED: Public House crash
• FIXED: Pulque icon
• FIXED: in certain rare cases items given to player by events would not be set as owned by player
• FIXED: perennial crops would only output harvest once
• FIXED: characters would sometimes not work during the first shift of their workshift