Developer posts and news about this game.
Happy Holidays, everyone! Old St. Pinapl is here with a new update for you all. The focus this time has been re-balancing, tweaking, and wrapping up some unfinished business. Rather than make you wait even longer for another big update, I decided it might be better to release thi
Hello everyone! Today marks the 1 year anniversary of Alnico hitting early access!! Woo! I was hoping to have a fun update ready to release for today, but as usual between work and everything else, I have not been able to wrap things up like I wanted. As compensation, I hope you'
I know many players have been experiencing inexplicable lag, slowdown, performance issues, etc while playing Alnico. Despite my best efforts, the issue has persisted since the game released. In an attempt to weed out the issue, I have made a debugging tool that you can run in you
New Features Added "craft type" filter options to the Journal Added a "last filtered by" indicator to journal pages Added scroll bars to journal pages where applicable Fixes Removed the secret 101st Alloy from the Journal & Order Scroll pool. Oopsies! Adjusted the hat height
IT'S FINALLY HERE! Thank you everyone for waiting so patiently. As promised, the big update has finally been posted! Without any ado, let's jump right into what's new! Main Features Hot new menu design, including refreshed sprites, better organization, and lots of new settings! T
Hello friends and strangers, your favorite fruit cube is here with a much needed update on the state of the game. Where have I been? I'm glad you asked! I want to start by apologizing for the lack of presence I've had on Steam. While work has continued since the last update, I've
Hello everyone, Pinapl here! At long last, I have compiled a big ol' list of strings from the game and uploaded them to a free online resource that will let everyone help contribute to the localization of the game! Currently, we are translating the game into the following languag
Happy holidays, everyone! I'm trying to push out a fun little holiday update this month, so please enjoy this experimental update with oodles of little changes. Let me know if anything is glaringly broken asap please so we can push this to the public build! Additions Completely r
I got a report that someone's saves were wiped after updating and we can't have that. I can't fix what's gone, but going forward I have implemented a secondary error catcher that should grab your save file and push it into a different file if something goes wrong so I can diagnos
I haven't yet gotten to fixing the bundle of bugs that have been reported, but I did get carried away and add a bunch of new twitch chat functionality! Streamers, please enjoy these good and bad additions to the twitch integration at your own risk. Additions New !explode and !res
It's time to experiment with some experimental changes! I've theoretically fixed an issue causing some machines to run the game very poorly, let's hope it works! Note: zooming out will still cause considerable lag for a moment. Additions Added photo mode, accessable by pressing F
Greetings, smiths! Pinapl here with the first real update since Early Access released! First of all, I want to thank everyone for your patience while I recovered from covid, and for all the wonderful feedback I've received. I've been doing my best to read all the discussions, rep
The update is almost ready for the public branch, but first I want to make sure that I didn't muck anything up in the past few days. I've added new crafting recipe data for all 40 crafts, and finished crafting sprites for 28 of them! If everyone could please craft a bunch of stuf
It's me again! I've peered into your hearts and determined what you truly desire: another experimental build! Same deal as the last one, you'll have to opt-in to the experimental branch in steam betas. Theoretically, this build will be more stable than the last. Focused on bug fi
Hello smiths, it's me!!! I've finally recovered after getting covid a few weeks ago, and to celebrate, here's a new build for you! In order to play on the experimental build, you will have to opt-in to the experimental build in the Steam Betas tab. Google is your friend if you ar
It's Smitherying Time! It's finally here, Alnico Smithery is publically available to buy and play! Hello all, it's your favorite fruit cube back again. For those who don't know, my name is Pinapl, and i'm the sole developer for Alnico Smithery. After 20~ months of development in
Hello everyone, it's your favorite citrus back with an update. With Next Fest drawing to a close, I wanted to take this moment to both thank everyone who's tried out the game and let you know what you can look forward to with the full release, coming to early access October 25th
Fixes Magnet works again, yay Fixed missing boundry on left side under the refinery Various Twitch fixes
I've gotten word! It's been told to me from the highest mountains and the deepest seas! There is an error! And I think I fixed it! While I was at it, i've attempted to make the click & drag physics more stable so your ore can stop exploding out of your buckets . Here's hoping
Hello everyone, your favorite fruit here with another update! Next Fest is almost over, and I've been blown away by the amount of support and feedback I've received for the game. Thank you everyone so much for trying it out, it means the world to me! (maybe even 2 worlds!) Anyway