Artificer's Tower

Released: Apr 18, 2024
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Last updated: 14 Sep 2026, 05:49 GMT

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07 Oct 2025Developer post
Unity Security Fix + Enemy Stability
This patch attempts to make the enemies more stable, as there are some rare reports (thanks @TDFEnforcer) where the game does not save due to the enemies appearing off the path. I haven't been able to replicate the issue so not 100% sure on this one! If you hadn't heard Unity has
11 Dec 2024Developer post
Hospital Patch!
Good morning/afternoon/evening Thanks to @Fox for pointing out an issue with the Hospital where the mages couldn't climb into the beds. This quick patch should make sure they stop spinning in circles and actually get healing! Thanks! Jason
16 Nov 2024Developer post
Steam Deck - Manufacturary
A quick patch to fix up the Manufacturary on controllers/Steam Deck to select the first craftable item as other rooms. Thanks to @hardtofindname for the feedback report this helped nail it down quickly. If anyone has any troubles don't hesitate to reach out on Discord as well to
11 Aug 2024Developer post
Stability Patch
Hello Artificers! This isn't one of the fun new UI/controller fixes but a stability one! At least I hope so, I can't seem to replicate the troubles out there where the AI just starts misbehaving by not doing what they're supposed to. I have run through the entire codebase to clea
28 Jul 2024Developer post
Not So Simple Crafting
Hello Artificers! Thanks again to @Victor and @Murometz for their continued feedback. I still haven't completed all the points, but I'll keep patchin' to get everything in. Simple Crafting With trying to help diagnose some crafting troubles Murometz discovered a rather nasty habi
Hello Artificers!
Thanks again to @Victor and @Murometz for their continued feedback. I still haven't completed all the points, but I'll keep patchin' to get everything in.
Simple Crafting
With trying to help diagnose some crafting troubles Murometz discovered a rather nasty habit of Simple crafting to flood the rooms with tasks! I managed to see it go from 6 items in the Fabrica to 200 items in under two minutes. Thankfully this has been fixed up for those who still use the Simple crafting system.
Wages & Tuition
This was a silly mistake on my part as I've never tested the Headmaster's + Administration Offices back to back before. It turned out which ever one you opened first grabbed ownership of the Wages or Tuitions tab and never let go making it impossible to tweak these in the tower unless you reloaded the game.
With the Steam Deck there was also confusion on being able to edit the Wages + Tuitions as you couldn't even highlight the bars to get the tooltip. To make this more clear I've updated the UI to let you know to upgrade the room to get the feature:
More Fixes:

Controller Support - Order panel should no longer reset row selection when the room is active
Controller Support - Editing/Adding roles in the Admin Office should work now with L1/R1 selection
Thanks, as always, for all your feedback!
Jason
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20 Jul 2024Developer post
Small Debug Patch
I've had more reports of mages getting so lazy they won't even use doors! Thanks @Victor for the save game it gave a slight clue but after hours and hours of trying to break the mages they wont' co-operate with me! If anyone runs into this issue with mages just standing around in
16 Jul 2024Developer post
Hotfix Patch! (Tooltips)
In my infinite wisdom to try to make tooltips expand more consistently I instead broke all tooltips that weren't text based... Tooltips should be working as normal again! Thanks! Jason
15 Jul 2024Developer post
Controller and Steam Deck Enhancements
Hello Artificers! Thanks again to an amazing list of issues with Controller/Steam Deck support from @Victor, today's release brings more love for the Steam Deck. Glossary Last patch fixed up the Glossary for controllers as it was awkward to control the scrollable pages. It was wo
Hello Artificers!
Thanks again to an amazing list of issues with Controller/Steam Deck support from @Victor, today's release brings more love for the Steam Deck.
Glossary
Last patch fixed up the Glossary for controllers as it was awkward to control the scrollable pages. It was working, but the movement was choppy, and I may have spent too much time this week making it feel better. But hey, it feels better now at least!
Item Selection
With the controller, it turns out the window wasn't showing any tooltip information when selecting a new item. This made all the recent work on the Trap Room ammo selection a lot less effective on the controller, so thanks again for this note!
Dimensional Door Linking
A miss on my end for controllers/Steam Deck was the ability to link up Dimensional Doors. It worked great to add linked doors, but the removal of those? Yeah, that wasn't working at all! This update will make it so you just select a room that is linked, and it will detach (both for controllers and mouse/keyboard).
Really, I spent too much time on the Glossary fix, and honestly, it's not perfect but much better. I needed to move on, so most of this patch is just little fixes:
More Fixes:

Trap Room - Changing ammunition will properly update the tooltip
Feedback - Moved around the UI to allow Steam Deck with on-screen keyboard to play nice
Radial Menu - Submenus are sticky and won't auto-close if you miss the left-to-right movement
Options - Gameplay tab controller navigation has been fixed up
Research - Switching from the right page to left page with the controller should remember the category instead of resetting
Tooltips - Better resizing when switching from large to small text or vice versa
Thanks, as always, for all your feedback!
Jason
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09 Jul 2024Developer post
Hotfix Patch! (Tower Repairs)
fix: Intermittent tower lock up due to crafting and repairing competing! Thanks again @Treatid for the quick feedback and bug report! Jason
07 Jul 2024Developer post
Crafting and Controllers
Hello Artificer's! German Translation Fix After all that great work by @Evixwater, I had a bug with the demo deployment! It's been fixed up and the tutorial should make a little more sense. If anyone notices anything else please let me know! Janky Controllers Thanks to some great
Hello Artificer's!
German Translation Fix
After all that great work by @Evixwater, I had a bug with the demo deployment! It's been fixed up and the tutorial should make a little more sense. If anyone notices anything else please let me know!
Janky Controllers
Thanks to some great feedback I've been able to fix up controller support. One thing that should feel better is room selection; the problem was handling long-distance selection and rooms next to each other. Another major fix that was reported was that the Glossary didn't have a way to scroll the right page; it was possible but kind of ugly by moving the selection to the bar. I've updated the Glossary to use the right stick on controllers to allow scrolling properly.
Crafting
While putting in some fixes for the smart crafting, I found crafting a bit slow if the primary set worker wasn't in the room. This has been changed to allow for faster crafting when utilizing multiple mages. It won't impact students in the room as they're not good enough yet to lead tasks. I think I've fixed the issue with the smart crafting piling tasks into one crafting room but I'll need more reports if anyone sees this going crazy!
Other Fixes/Updates:

Removed editing room names from controller support for the moment, it's too many buttons doing the same task
Editing orders should allow number input more readily
Added support for selecting Candidates outside the tower with the controller
Next Up
This week was a flurry of feedback and I didn't get all of it in; next week will be continued efforts and hopefully a new UI to manage assignments en masse!
Thanks, as always, for all your feedback!
Jason
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04 Jul 2024Developer post
Hotfix Patch! (Broken Tower)
fix: Small Private Room intermittenly causing nav mesh issues blocking the tower from functioning correctly! Thanks Artifcer@Treatid for the save games! Jason
01 Jul 2024Developer post
Hotfix Patch! (Admins Folly)
fix: Administration Office will no longer over-over-over-over fill with tasks! Woops fix: Administration Office task increase has been halved fix: More translation repairs fix: Research Mastery achievement has been fixed! Not sure how I ever had it working.. Thanks for all the re
28 Jun 2024Developer post
Hotfix patch!
This quick patch fixes to major annoyances at the moment: - Tower rooms losing pathing causing wandering and disabled rooms - The Administration Office can't keep up with 200 mages! Thanks to @PepperEye, @murometz, and @Evixwater for the quick reporting and support! Jason
22 Jun 2024Developer post
Guten Tag, Artificers!
Hello Artificer's! German Translation Exciting news! Thanks to an enormous effort by @Evixwater, who I cannot thank enough, Artificer's Tower has been translated into German! There are over 10k words in this small game, so all thanks to @Evixwater for taking this on. Notification
Hello Artificer's!
German Translation
Exciting news! Thanks to an enormous effort by @Evixwater, who I cannot thank enough, Artificer's Tower has been translated into German! There are over 10k words in this small game, so all thanks to @Evixwater for taking this on.
Notification Autoclear
Mentioned in several patches over the last few months is the idea of notifications automatically clearing when no longer needed. I'm happy to say this has finally started! It's only made it into the missing ingredient notification at the moment, but the pieces are in place to expand it to at least half the notifications where it makes sense.
Assignments
Stare at a problem long enough, and hopefully, a simple solution arrives. That's what I did this week on the mage selection for work assignments. One of the challenges is having multiple stations/classrooms/etc. where a mage might be assigned to both. What I've added as a simple change is a toggle to only view Unassigned mages/students to let you more easily identify who needs a spot.
Other Fixes/Updates:

Sort orders for the drink tooltip on the HUD (Thanks @Evixwater!)
Rounding errors on the Merchants for buying and selling items
Intermittent invincibility for mages wearing training equipment
Next Up
A break! Next week I'll be taking a break and visiting family; but afterward, it's back to the list from all the feedback.
Thanks, as always, for all your feedback!
Jason
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16 Jun 2024Developer post
Twisty Towers
Hello Artificer's! Twisty Towers I've been battling a long-standing bug with Artificer's Tower and I really hope today it's solved for good! I thought I had a smart idea to only make one version of the room's "shell" that was a complete mess, and only when two rooms attach should
Hello Artificer's!
Twisty Towers
I've been battling a long-standing bug with Artificer's Tower and I really hope today it's solved for good! I thought I had a smart idea to only make one version of the room's "shell" that was a complete mess, and only when two rooms attach should the game delete parts of the room to allow travel. It turns out this can be a little tricky to get right with building rooms on top of each other. It might be hard to tell from this recent screenshot, but the door is closed, causing the mages a heap of trouble. Future towers will hopefully automagically repair any naught doors.
Admins Wanted
Something I completely failed to test in all these years was building multiple Administration Offices in my towers. Without doing that I failed to notice that if you had more than one the work piled up in all the rooms at the same time at the same rate! On top of that you can't work crafting chains if any of them are full of work.. Special thanks to @Evixwater for the feedback as this is fixed up!
Achievements
Not a major issue but one that has annoyed me since I put achievements in is that they weren't showing up in Steam when you received them. This patch fixes that issue, it was a small thing but one more thing off my mind.
Other Fixes/Updates:

Optimizations for AI pathing
Resizing of parts of the UI to work correctly for other languages
Fix for the research book not showing title in other languages
Next Up
Back to the quality of life changes that I intended for this patch, that tower door bug really got me.
Thanks, as always, for all your feedback!
Jason
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05 Jun 2024Developer post
Jun 05 - Quick Fix!
fix: Disabled order row recipe tooltip while editing an order to prevent fighting with tooltips. Thanks @HedgeHedge for the report!
02 Jun 2024Developer post
Jun 02 - Hotfix!
fix: Promotion icon over mages will no longer crush computers! Thanks @Ultima!
02 Jun 2024Developer post
Order Up!
Hello Artificer's! This week has been a challenging week. Let’s dive into the latest changes! Update Active Orders I've heard your requests for the ability to edit orders, especially auto-orders, and I'm excited to announce that this feature is now live! Previously, you had to de
Hello Artificer's!
This week has been a challenging week. Let’s dive into the latest changes!
Update Active Orders
I've heard your requests for the ability to edit orders, especially auto-orders, and I'm excited to announce that this feature is now live! Previously, you had to delete and re-add orders to make changes, but with the new UI, you can easily edit them. While it's a small UI change, adding controller support proved to be more challenging than expected, but it's working smoothly now.
Mass Equip Highlights
Another popular request has been the ability to see at a glance if items are liked or hated directly from the Mage Item window. I've added background coloring to each item so you can quickly identify what you might want to upgrade. Please note that food and drink preferences are slightly delayed as they are based on the last consumed item. However, with auto-equipping the best food/drink, this shouldn't be an issue.
Quick Promotions
Focusing on promoting a mage to a specific skill can be tedious, so I've implemented a simple UI tweak to streamline the process. Special thanks to @Luneli for the feedback!
Other Fixes/Updates:

Mage Job window sorting now considers both skill and attribute when sorting jobs - Thanks @Seros Senric!
Fixed the experience display for Archmages - Thanks @tyege!
New Promotion icon will now show correctly when loading a game
Room description now displays the primary skill and attribute
Trap Priority tooltip updated to clarify it only affects Administration task priority
Fixed controller accessibility issue when the game is paused and the mouse is used
Next Up
I'm focusing on more quality of life improvements, with a priority on getting notifications to auto-clear. Some of these will be tricky, but I'm committed to enhancing your experience!
Thanks, as always, for all your feedback!
Jason
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30 May 2024Developer post
May 29 - Hotfix!
Thanks to @Luneli for identifying a game-breaking bug that could have been causing others trouble out there! fix: Mages that can and want to fight but have no weapon can intermittently break the AI when the tower is under attack
26 May 2024Developer post
Promotions Revamped and New Tips Added!
Hello Artificer's! This week has been a busy one with lots of improvements and fixes. Let’s dive into the latest changes! Promotions A lot of focus has been put into making the promotion system smoother and more rewarding. One major fix is that promoting Scholars to Mages will no
Hello Artificer's!
This week has been a busy one with lots of improvements and fixes. Let’s dive into the latest changes!
Promotions
A lot of focus has been put into making the promotion system smoother and more rewarding. One major fix is that promoting Scholars to Mages will no longer reset their skills to 0. Additionally, promoting students in a skill from a previous promotion will now properly display the new max potential. Candidates with no skills will also display an empty skill screen correctly.
Another significant update is that Mages and Students will no longer lose experience during promotion and can save experience for multiple promotions (except Student to Mage). This ensures that all the hard work put into training doesn’t go to waste.
To make things easier, there's now a new icon over Mages/Students who are ready for promotion. No more missing who's due for a step up!
Tips
To help everyone get the most out of the game, several new tips have been added:
Demigod Mages: Learn the advantages when a mage reaches this high status.
Administration Office Overload: Understand the implications and how to manage it effectively.
Advanced Skills: Get insights on how to unlock and utilize advanced skills.
Productivity: Discover how to boost productivity in various rooms.
Council Room: Learn about the benefits of having a Council Room and how it impacts your operations.
These tips aim to provide better guidance and enhance the overall gameplay experience.
More Fixes

Students piling up just outside the tower, didn't get the 6ft distance memo
Students can now participate in Combat Training from day one!
Tooltip for the new Craft Chain gameplay setting
Students appeared to not gain skills has been fixed
Mage/Student AI should avoid all rooms attached to Trap Rooms or Shield rooms in or out of combat
Classroom description showing a -1 need - shouldn't show one at all
Private Study always provides a better bonus for researching than the Library
Fleeing mages are a lot smarter and will stop trying to fight after fleeing for 30m
A special thanks to @tyege for all the feedback this last week!
Next Up
Looking ahead, more UI tweaks are on the way to help you understand the different skills in more depth. Stay tuned for these upcoming improvements!
Thanks as always for all the feedback!
Jason
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Updates & announcements

Simple Crafting

Wages & Tuition

More Fixes:

Glossary

Item Selection

Dimensional Door Linking

More Fixes:

German Translation Fix

Janky Controllers

Crafting

Other Fixes/Updates:

Next Up

German Translation

Notification Autoclear

Assignments

Other Fixes/Updates:

Next Up

Twisty Towers

Admins Wanted

Achievements

Other Fixes/Updates:

Next Up

Update Active Orders

Mass Equip Highlights

Quick Promotions

Other Fixes/Updates:

Next Up

Promotions

Tips

More Fixes

Next Up