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Heyo! This month was a big one for Exofactory. I finished a lot of important factory-building pieces, including better belts, cleaner building placement, baseplates, and major improvements to how the Exoframe and Global Mode feel. You can read the full technical post here A Reall
Hello Everyone! Hey! I’m going to start posting more announcements here on Steam as development continues, so this place should be a bit less quiet going forward. This is the shorter Steam version of the latest blog post. The full one has more details, videos, and technical rambl
Major Quality of Life Bumps This update focuses on clarity, smoother controls, and fixing a number of long-standing issues. Buildings finally tell you what they cost, machines explain what they’re doing, and movement feels better than before. This is a stripped down version of th
Demo Bugfixes & Quality of Life Improvements Many quality of life improvements and bug fixes are included. No big "features" per say, but lots of little fixes. ~ Cait Notable Bug Fixes Camera Spinning - Should no longer happen after brushing against terrain. Gamepad Crash - A
Hotfix 2025-10-16 #1 A few things that I had the energy to fix. More to come, but probably not today. Small optimizations resulting is some performance increases. Fixed subtitles appearing below window UIs For some users right clicking in a Splitter or Merger would cause a crash.
Hotfix 2025-10-15 #3 Ultrawide Screens should now work. This was caused be leaving a literal todo! in a match for a resolution class. Lesson learned? Late night programming has its risks. My apologies to those players with ultrawide screens. Should be better now. ~ Cait
Hotfix 2025-10-15 #2 I made changes to how displays are handled. When we have uncertain environments we make educated guesses instead of panicking. Second fix in an hour. Not related to the last hotfix. I just was recently made aware and wanted to prioritize this. Thanks to those
Hotfix 2025-10-15 #1 Many small fixes here including: New clearer camera controller hints. Scrolling now behaves as expected. Exoframe camera now sits in the Exoframe. Building interactions in global mode register from farther away. Re-positioned the test rock. The global camera
Hotfix 2025-10-14 #2 The terrain shader was also preemptively handling terrain splat maps. Since we don't use those in the demo we can just remove them resulting in meaningful performance improvements. Two lessons here: Don't do too much preemptive abstraction Don't learn how to
Hotfix 2025-10-14:1: Fix : Fixed UI scaling issue where developer forget to add it. Fix : Some players where stuck and could not craft galvanized iron. This is now fixed. Thanks to the testers who found these issues. ~ Cait
Hey everyone! I’m excited to finally announce that the Exofactory Demo is officially out and available to play as part of Steam Next Fest ! This build is the result of a ton of work (and late nights), plus huge help from our amazing testers during the soft launch. Some of the lat
Native Steam Deck Support Both the Demo and Full version of the Exofactory now have native Steam Deck support! Going forward, along with accessibility, and controller support Steam Deck support will be a first class citizen. If you experience and issues I would encourage you to r