Hello factory builders,
I am excited to announce that the next update to Builderment is here! This update brings a bunch of performance improvements, quality of life features, and the introduction of Alternative Recipes!
Before we dive into the patch notes, I wanted to share some important news with everyone. After reading through the reviews and comments you have shared since the game's launch, I decided to lower the price of the game to $14.99 USD. The majority of the community was in agreement that the previous price was too high for the content currently available and your feedback is extremely valuable to me - even when it just comes to price.
To those who have purchased and enjoyed the game before this decrease, I want to express just how much I appreciate your support. Your involvement, feedback, and support mean more to me than I could possibly express. I know the price decreasing after purchasing something can be difficult to accept, but I want to reassure you that I will continue to work on additional content and adding to the game to bring more value and gameplay for everyone to enjoy.
Patch Notes
📜 Alternative Recipes
Alternative Recipes are unlocked through the tech tree and allow players to craft specific items with entirely different ingredients. For example Steel can be crafted with only Iron Ore and Coal instead of needing Graphite. However you'll need to use a mix of both normal and alternative recipes to maximize the use of resources in the world. Completely switching to the new recipes will likely cause other bottlenecks to develop in your factory!
⚙️ Selecting Belts
One big quality of life improvement added is now you can double click on belts to select all other connected belts on a path. Stopping at splitters, merged belts, and machines.
🪵 Cargo Visibility
Items on belts are now viewable when zoomed out further (configurable in video settings). With this change there are also entirely new models of all the items that are easier to recognize from a distance.
An item and it's low detail version:
📝 Full change log
- 12 New Alternative Recipes! Unlock new recipes to craft specific items with different ingredients.
- Smarter automatic underground belt placement when building belt paths.
- Double click on a belt to select or unselect all connected belts on a path.
- Optimized time it takes to load worlds.
- Camera will now zoom towards where the mouse cursor is.
- Improved efficiency/accuracy of extractors and factories to now output at 100% of their expected rate instead of 99.99%.
- Added video setting for cargo view distance with additional LOD to make items easier to see when zoomed out.
- Main menu now has a "Continue" button to jump back into the last world you were playing.
- Mac retina support, now displays higher native resolution.
- Various other little memory and performance optimizations.
Thank you for all your support and keep on building!
- Builderment Dev
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2414110
