Developer posts and news about this game.
Added hotkeys (keyboard 0-9) to activate town menu panels When a Market item is oversupplied, the displayed recipe ratio is shown as > 100% instead of < 100% Research panel is flagged with a “!” if a research completes in the active town, or if you load a town with a resear
Reminder that Early Access launch is tomorrow (Thursday April 20)! Huge thanks to everybody that helped with playtesting to get the game to this point, all the feedback was extremely valuable and helped smooth out a lot of balance issues & bugs that I probably would've missed
Removed ability to reset World or Town. Ultimately this feature was not adding much fun for all the extra player effort it required. This may reduce replayability but will result in a much more balanced & interesting playthough. My goal is to eventually add an endgame conditi
Reworked Market Happiness system. Previously, a Town XP Multiplier bonus was awarded based on the average fulfillment of all items available in a market. However this had the effect of penalizing the player for unlocking new items, as it dropped their average fulfillment. Now, ea
Fixed bug: Steam Demo was not using Steam Cloud (all locally saved games are uploaded automatically upon launch) Places where time is displayed (Research & building duration, Daily reward cooldown, Global & Town Perk reset cooldown) now displays seconds Research displays
Many early quests and resources now have higher completion requirements, to improve pacing for new players Reformatted Trading list items to make Buy / Sell functions more obvious Towns level up automatically without having to click ‘Level Up’ Fixed bug: changing towns would some
Updated sound effects Updated localization When Prestige XP count is displayed, the Town Reset buttons are now also displayed so players can view possible Town Perks Fixed bug: Quitting a town in progress, and starting up a brand new town file, would sometimes display blank cente
Town Notification bar shows ‘Welcome Back’ when loading a file, and displays idle progress earned if any. When first starting a game it will display Quest prompts Town Resets & Prestige Points stat items are hidden until the town is reset at least once Initial Click resource
Changed unlock structure for Natural Resource crops to make them more unique across Biomes. Starter biome (plains) contains Grain, Cotton, Apples, which are unlocked based on town level progression. But other crops are only found initially in other biomes: River has Sugar, Tomato
Prestige Points are earned based on cumulative town XP earned. You still need to reset your Town to claim them, but they are no longer tied to specific town levels. This generally results in lower Prestige Coins totals, especially at higher town levels (20+). Legacy games will pr
Note: some important dates are coming up! A free demo version of Factory Town Idle will launch this April 6 and the retail copy will launch into Early Access on April 20th (expected price is $5 USD). Once it launches as a paid game, the Playtest version will still be playable, bu
Added Omnitemple recipes, which produce Star Coins Star Coins are used for Infinite Research, which appear when Omnitemple is created Added Infinite Research (which can be completed any number of times for cumulative bonuses at an increasingly large cost) for: Crafting Speed, Omn
Fixed Shrine Speed and Temple Effectiveness upgrades being too strong by a factor of 10 Fixed bug: Upgrade description would not update if upgrade purchased and row replaced by new level of same upgrade Exploration Upgrade bonus now increases quadratically instead of always provi
Added Clickables menu. This is a list of basic items you can click to earn for free. It is now the menu shown when starting up a new save file. The Harvesting panel is now only available once workers are. Manual click production is totally separate from regular worker production,
Well is now a Support building instead of a Cultivation building. This means it no longer needs to be assigned to the water “recipe” to be effective. Each well instead automatically increments the natural resource water amount by 2 per second Added Well Effectiveness upgrade. Eac
Added Bookstore, which sells Paper, Books, and all other Knowledge Tomes (Paper & Books removed from General Store) Adjusted trading prices for all Bookstore items as well Added ‘forward’ and ‘back’ navigation (ALT+ left arrow and ALT+ right arrow) Added icon for Tractor and
Patch 1.50 has a lot of new stuff: Biomes Each of the 7 available town slots is assigned to a specific biome (Plains, River, Jungle, Snow, Magic, Mountain, and Desert). Each Biome has various modifiers that affect resource capacity, cultivation & prospecting productivity, and
- Added icons & tooltips for upgrades - On Market Panel, Town XP Multiplier now shows “+” if the value is positive, so it is clear it is an additional bonus, e.g. +10% and not a penalty multiplier of 10% - Changed links on welcome menu Hotfix 1.49a: - Fixed stuck screen when
Note: This is a very large update that may cause some disruptions with your save file! Quests got a big change and it affects how many Quest Coins you own. In many cases your available Quest Coins will decrease, and many of the associated perks were turned into "Prestige Upgrades
Quests are grouped into collapsible sections Improved performance of Quests panel when lots of quests active Fixed bug: Creating an additional town by skipping other town slots would create blank town data for the skipped slots Secondary+ towns start with 1 house Quest for Plank