Hey factory builders! As you might know, we have mostly finished adding new content to the game (although there're still aces up our metaphorical sleeves!), so most of the work these days is about making the game more comfortable and appealing to you! This is why this update has a very long list of QoL improvements! This will probably happen again. Update the game, enjoy the new stuff, and please share your impressions in any form that is convenient to you.

v0.30.171 Released!

Graphics & Audio

• Re-rendered Cat House Maker
• Animated Hammock Weaver
• Cotton Gin animated
• Improved sounds

Gameplay

• New building: Lava Cooler extracts metals straight from the molten core of Mars
• 2 new upgrades for Underground Zeppelin (suggested by Lord Neodym)
• New mod type: create your own cat researcher
• 2 new hidden achievements
• Crafting Zeppelins now requires Ropes, but fewer Manipulators
• Increased rewards for selected Dr. Katz requests
• Catopia Ark modules can now be upgraded: invest precious resources to equip your space mission with a Copycat Deck, Creative Assembling Machine, Battlestar Gun Deck, Interstellar Store, Dune Terraforming Deck, Warp Storage, and Negative Mass Effect Generator. In the future, they will provide you with perks for 'New Game+' mode (to be introduced later)

QoL & Interface

• New stats: shows the share of loaded Transporters (with cats, or items, or both), the share of objects (items or cats) moving on Transporters (suggested by Hana), the share of occupied space in Zeppelins and Cat Zeppelins, and the share of working crafting and service buildings
• Stats on money now also displays the average amount of revenue per purchase (suggested by Prism1974)
• Stats on satisfied cats also shows stats on average loyalty of a cat served
• Optimized graph display in the stats
• Roadside Boutique now can display sales reports (as seen in Stores)
• The navigation of Zeppelins after moving/dismantling a Dock is slightly improved
• Added an option to automatically load buildings/item slots with respective items with a hotkey ('Y' by default) or a button (in buildings)
• Improved tutorials
• Improved interface
• 2 new mouse pointer types (cat paw-shaped!)
• Steam Deck support (partially) added: keyboard auto-calling, improved help & interface
• Added a pause button, located by the mini-map
• Configuration of buildings is copied when a Blueprint is created (suggested by Lord Neodym)
• When a cat increases their Loyalty in a service building, it is visibly displayed in a bubble
• The size and type of the mouse pointer on Steam Deck is independent from PC
• Contextual warnings for Docks
• Contextual warnings for crafting buildings
• Improved contextual warnings for Zeppelins
• Added an option to sync category of buildings in Construction window with the one currently selected on a player's building panel upon opening the former
• Added an optional visual panel for copying and saving Blueprints (turned off by default)
• Increased array of colors for marking ML clusters

Techie stuff

• Mod loading time decreased
• Performance optimization
• Bug fixes (kudos to Hana, Lord Neodym, S'Kleer)
• Localizations updated

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