Developer posts and news about this game.
Patch Notes v0.10.17 Short changelog today, which is probably a sign that we'll slow down the daily patches for a bit, to focus on Act III:-) (but if you have any bugs/suggestions/feedback, that's always welcome! Updates will continue as things accumulate) Improvements & Qual
Patch Notes v0.10.16 Quality of Life - Warehouses can now be placed directly on top of conveyor belts - Added a "Guide me there" option to resource right-click context menus, pointing a tracking arrow toward the Warehouse with the highest stock - Added a tutorial on how to find A
Patch Notes v0.10.15 New Content - Added firefly critters that can spawn during night mode - Birds and butterflies now rarely spawn in flocks, granting bonus rewards if the entire flock is caught - Added Architect-themed seasonal critters during their encounters (or when bound, a
Patch Notes v0.10.14 Visuals - Snow can now land on buildings during winter - Traveling merchants now wear season-appropriate clothing during the Architect War - Added toxic spring visuals to the Architect Coilstone encounter Quality of Life & UI - Holding Ctrl during mass de
Patch Notes v0.10.13 Logistics - Elevator Bridges can now be unlocked earlier (after Conveyor Efficiency III) - Elevator Bridges can now also be placed and auto-placed (via drag-placement) in water, once Bridge Engineering is researched - Right-click "Connect to this building" ca
Patch Notes v0.10.12 New Features - New Spell (Terraform; unlocks at Level 10) to lower terrain height by one level Quality of Life - Newly unlocked buildings now automatically claim empty hotbar slots - Curved belts can now be directly replaced in-place with straight belts - Add
Patch Notes v0.10.11 Gameplay - Added a new Act I research node to (inefficiently:-) ) produce Pure Essence - Rebalanced siege item requirements for later architects UI & Quality of Life - Ancient Obelisks can now be right-clicked to track resource requirements, with an optio
Patch Notes v0.10.10 Camera & Controls - You can now tilt the camera using Ctrl + RMB drag - Rotation now keeps the center of the screen stationary - Removed unnecessary rotation during top-down mode transitions that occasionally happened - Action bar hotkeys (previously fixe
Patch Notes v0.10.9 Production & Recipes - Production chain view now flags recipes that require a building level above 1 - Production chain view no longer lists duplicate recipes coming from visual building variants (Compact Assembler and similar) - Recipe progress bars now a
Patch Notes v0.10.8 Performance - Performance improvements for larger factories - Fixed the auto-save lag spike in large factories UI & Visuals - Added a crafting progress bar to the building info UI - Fixed margins on the legendary inventory tab - Improved color saturation -
Patch Notes v0.10.7 Performance and GPU - Fixed performance issues with high-resolution external displays - Reduced overall GPU usage - Dynamic resolution adjustment no longer changes rendering scale when doing so wouldn't improve FPS Window and display - Windowed mode can now be
Patch Notes v0.10.6 Logistics & Production - Splitters/Mergers now show actual direction arrows once connected to belts or buildings - Gathering from resource crates now only targets Warehouses that already stock the resource or are marked for it, so existing factories no lon
Automate the arcane! Arcaneering: Beyond Automation is an isometric factory game where spells are part of the production line. Mana powers your machines, auras change what a building can do, and the recipes you find in the world are as important as the ones you research. Build th
Patch Notes v0.10.5 New Features - Right-click context menu now offers "Connect to this building", auto-placing a connection between two buildings - New "Issues" tab in the resource tree UI and Map UI, showing where and why buildings in your factory are operating below full effic
Patch Notes v0.10.4 Potion Cauldrons - Cauldrons now level up with use, each level granting +4% brewing speed - Some Cauldron recipes are now level-gated - Golden vegetation can now be used in place of regular vegetation to gild potions for triple the recipe amount Building &
Patch Notes v0.10.3 Production planning & recipes - Planned builds can be pinned on screen; clicking a pinned item opens placement mode with the recommended recipe preselected - Resource icons in the resource tree's production tab now also open the production chain view - Pro
Patch Notes v0.10.2 Building & Placement - Wall drag-placement now auto-curves and auto-places wall curves - Drag-building a Wall through an existing Wall auto-places a Wall Tower at the intersection (if unlocked) - Improved curve detection and rotation in crowded building en
Patch Notes v0.10.1 Building - Drag placement now auto-curves when ending adjacent to an eligible connection - Drag placement can now be dragged so that the final tile is an unextended curve - Selection during blueprint creation is smoother - Building right-click context menu gai
Patch Notes v0.10.0 Architect Skill Tree & Cosmetics - The world now contains 52 collectable Architect Caches that award XP when found - Every 10 caches found unlocks a node in the new Architect branch of the skill tree, dedicated to cosmetic features. Rewards include an opti
Patch Notes v0.9.1 New - Added limited modding support for buildings (updated modding kit at - New graphics option in the main menu to switch the rendering driver between D3D12 and Vulkan (Windows only, requires restart) Graphics - Windows rendering driver default switched from V