Clockwork Empires Beta 54B has now been posted to the Experimental Branch on Steam. Major changes include the removal of repair trunks, and... well, honestly, a heck of a lot of things - we're not even sure where to summarize; however, it's a heck of a lot better. As always, experimental builds are opt-in on Steam. Changes below:

• text input boxes now have a caret
• keybinding widget now works in Configuration screen
• crash DMP reporter now correctly reports crashes when triggering MSVC internal error or SIGABRT
• upkeep removed as-such; it's being replaced with Office Supplies!
• Naturalist's Office now uses ammo for hunting, paper for surveying (scouting is free)
• Barracks now displays weapon stats & otherwise has a useful UI
• Barracks now used to supply ammunition to soldiers; different weapons use different types of ammo. If ammo runs out, soldiers will default to using pistol
• Foreign Office now requires paper to do bureaucracy
• Foreign Office workers will prioritize use of modules that increase their work speed ie. Bureaucrat's Desk
• Barbershop now requires Medical Supplies to do healing; if Sulphur Tonic is available, it will be used to make healing more effective and more pleasant
• Chapel now requires Iron Cogs as votive material to perform religious services
• Academy now requires paper to do training; if ink is supplied, it will double speed of training
• Mine now requires trusses to operate
• Laboratory now requires Science Materials to perform research
• UI for all offices has been given a polish
• UI for all offices now has various alerts for reasons why work cannot be performed due to lack of overseer/modules/supplies
• weapon power/damage/range rebalanced
• added Serpent Bell icon
• added new ore distribution - varies based on climatic zone
• added a new mining tech
• added a number of new commodities and workshop recipes to support the new office overhaul
• military may now do "cull troublesome animal"
• mine UI now displays more information
• rewrote assignment beacon rendering code to fix floating outline ugliness
• added terrain decal scene graph to render assignment beacons and other "zone-like constructions" after terrain but before objects
• added visual cue to indicate that a module must be affixed to a wall
• all recipes should now grey out correctly depending on your materials
• all modules in the game now have sort IDs and will display in the Modules Menu in a much more logical order
• a huge number of events now trigger sounds on firing
• made significant improvements to Meteor Shower event arc
• added/improved tooltips on a large number of constructions and buildings
• fix to Event Arc-related science jobs
• fix to Event Arc-related selenian AI
• renamed some office UI to try and make it a bit more clear
• removed skill effects on tree chopping/foraging
• added sugarloaf to traders
• more info for character info tooltips
• Ordering strings for commands and for buildings and modules.
• fixed order strings so they now also work on the filter buttons on the module placer UI
• added locking and unlocking of embark locations by biome type
• randomized start backgrounds
• added command tooltip details
• some small changes to where tooltips show up so that they look less like garbage
• added additional safety aborts to consume supply calls in fsms
• added better feedback to early safety rating
• added airdropcrate pos test
• made artifacts tradeable
• removed the Alone loadout
• added a safety check for if you removed a worker from the academy while they were working
• made improvement to tutorial controls image
• did major update to all tutorial text
• redid a number of building tutorial images
• wrote all Colonial Handbook help files
• removed a mysterious sound that played when nothing happened
• minor cosmetic improvement to Artist event arc
• workshop button now turns red when commodities are unavailable for a production that is set for a job
• added details for unlocking biomes
• added more tooltip stuff
• area designation stamps now highlight what objects can be selected
• rewrote all flatten terrain code. flatten terrain jobs are now not listed in a giant bulky mess at the start of the assignment, but are assigned first-come-first-serve. this fixes lurching performance issues when a user has a lot of flatten terrain jobs selected, as well as... works...
• moved flatten terrain to assignment beacon, so it can be cancelled etc.
• Flatten terrain target height now displays in tooltip
• "Designate Building" dialog now attaches to blueprint for confirmation once it is drawn out
• added more cult stuff
• improved more cult stuff
• Steam Knights made more reactive to threats
• made reactions to horrors more expressive
• foreign civilians will properly flee from horrors
• added "Cry over Body" job
• lack of booze for Public House will generate alerts
• removing forageables can be done via left-click, per object
• added small vs. large stockpiles
• clarified bric-a-brac display names
• made Occult Inspectors slightly more expressive
• "Workbench" is now "Assembly Workbench" and is used only to make modules, except in the kitchen
• added new module: Decor Workbench. Makes all relevant decor items for that workshop
• removed module recipes from ceramics/carpentry workbench
• removed decor recipes from all modules that aren't Decor Workbench
• Mine now caps depth if you don't have modules required to dig deeper
• removed basic brew, added back individual brewing recipes
• gave better icons to most military techs
• improved a bunch of tooltips
• Fishperson-related alerts should have sounds more consistently now
• changed all civilopedia references of "citizens" to "colonists"
• added product listing to mine tooltip
• added Workplace system
• failure states for workshop jobs now show properly.
• added parent container code for office UI buttons
• Quality of Life is now a first class element in the character info panel
• Combat tooltips pared down significantly
• can now add widgets to the front of a container's stack
• balance: QoL effects adjusted
• balance: fishpeople made weaker
• balance: increased starting food amounts
• balance: surface stratum of mine now includes sulphur
• balance: Chemical Works has been moved earlier in the game progression
• balance: bandits given worse weapons
• balance: changed cost tiers of a vew buildings to streamline the early game
• balance: lowered quality bonus from rugs since they don't block walkspace and are therefore superior to normal decor
• balance: Immigration now takes longer between waves the later you are in the game (max immigrants increases as well, however)
• balance: Chapel effects now emphasize lowering despair
• balance: Pub effects now emphasize lowering anger
• balance: added more high ground in temperate swamp biome
• balance: added more guaranteed starting surface clay/stone
• FIXED: static buttons for work crews
• FIXED: finally fixed our scrollable vert boxes so they don't do weird things with scrolling too far and their padding isn't horrible. Finally. After 2 years of this bug.
• FIXED: edge cases for the building confirmation window
• FIXED: offset so that modules menu isn't below the screen. My bad.
• FIXED: attempt_emote.fsm
• FIXED: added safety check for scripterror in fishperson cult arc
• FIXED: added safety check for scripterror in rogue stahlmarkian
• FIXED: obeliskian_melee error
• FIXED: incorrect Ceramics Workshop tech modifier display
• FIXED: crash deleting a stockpile
• FIXED: crash deleting a house
• FIXED: crash deleting a workshop
• FIXED: in the event that the game didn't crash while deleting a thing, it would appear with a graphical artifact glitch
• FIXED: progress bars with "0" percent in them still showed some percent
• FIXED: on rare maps, all characters and everything in the world will suddenly start sliding into the lower left corner of the screen
• FIXED: lock up in character screen when character had maxed out skill tree or zero skill
• FIXED: disappearing modules
• FIXED: bug where unassigning a work crew wouldn't immediately update the window.
• FIXED: Tutorial FYI text boxes can now expand properly.
• FIXED: tooltips being basically everywhere.
• FIXED: image buttons not pushing their size appropriately
• FIXED: crash deleting farm and building new farm
• FIXED: gameSimRequireGameObject not working correctly for requirements; various other graying behaviours not working correctly
• FIXED: a bunch of bad button typecasting
• FIXED: Mysterious Ore drop position
• FIXED: issue in tutorial that prevented it from progressing
• FIXED: a number of bugs in production menu grey-outs
• FIXED: scripterror in building name change
• FIXED: military culling of bad animals
• FIXED: you may now place the Lower Class Rug
• FIXED: player didn't get ownership of bar of gold gift
• FIXED: loading bay door claiming to add -1 quality in tooltip
• FIXED: military culling of bad animals
• FIXED: lc rug
• FIXED: incorrect action text on bandit spawn FYI alert
• FIXED: incorrect Novorusian text
• FIXED: foreign office error
• FIXED: trade bool on dormant spore
• FIXED: Boxed Macroscope constuction
• FIXED: bug where minimum number of immigrants could be 0
• FIXED: some food was tagged as both overseer and labourer-preferred
• FIXED: civilians will now only consider melee/ranged attacks if they are not within some distance (X) of a military character
• FIXED: crashed airship event weirdness
• FIXED: scrollbars not sizing correctly on OS X
• FIXED: assignment beacon drop zones now only show those beacons visible for the current selection mode
• FIXED: assignment beacons now correctly encompass all objects inside (Although it is a little conservative)