Hey engineers, When you get to design a factory, every small detail matters! And not only because you're working with complicated machinery, where everything will break if a detail breaks (do you like silly jokes as we do? share your favorites in the comments!). It is also important because we want you to feel comfortable while playing Learning Factory. Which is why this new update is dedicated to making game prettier, along with making complicated mechanics more easy to learn!

v0.31.184 Released!

• Re-rendered Vitamin Maker
• New phrases for cats, specific for their place of origin
• Increased speed (by 1 tick) for selective Manipulators (suggested by S'Kleer)
• Increased size of bubbles for cat phrases on Transporters and in Stores, to facilitate reading
• New premade Blueprint for Cargo Docks, available in the Wiki
• New premade Blueprint for the tutorial
• New item requests and cat types appear less frequently in early parts of the game
• Performance optimization
• UI/UX improvements
• Tutorial fixes/improvements
• Improved tutorial upon picking a Cat Knowledge Archive
• Bug fixes (kudos to VladGev, U[A]T morningstar2651, Malolitrazhka)
• Massive community localization update for the German language (kudos to Bass)
• Improved Steam Deck interface
• 1 new unique cat researcher
• A new item per each categories of appearance for cat researchers (3 items total)

Re: Factory

In this section of patch notes, we answer the questions from the community that were submitted via the in-game feedback form and/or seemed especially interesting to us, You can always contact us directly in the comments or join our Discord server Q: "My life would be so much easier if selective manipulators worked faster, because I need 4 of them to load/unload a Dock, and it gets clumsy" -S'Kleer A: We'd like to make it so Manipulators would occupy 1*2 tiles instead of 1*3 tiles so they wouldn't occupy so much space. But since they were not designed to be of that size from the beginning, it would take too much work to change them. So we've tuned up their operational speed, which is supposed to make more comfortable to work with, as one would need less Manipulators to achieve the same result. Q: "My game froze during the map change, or at least it didn't continue loading. I even have it on video since I was recording at the time. With an interstitial sequence, I was asked if I wanted to pack my things and get to know another map. After some text exchanges at the bottom of the loading screen, no new line appeared. I waited an additional four minutes, then I exited using ALT+F4." -Emanuel - Vito A: Please send us a saved game filee and/or a video of your gameplay, so we could better detect and fix this issue! Contact us at info@luden.io, or on our Discord server. A friendly reminder: you can always chat with us directly on our Discord server. We're using Discord for work, so you'll find many of us there most of the time, don't be a stranger! An even friendlier reminder: don't forget about our collection of items in Steam Points Shop! Sergei the artist makes wonderful factory art to be observed from above, but his works' magic really shows at close-up perspective:

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