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New Cancel action in Controls: bind a second key that backs out of every dialog, menu and tool. Escape still works Your mouse's side buttons can now be bound to any action Every connected controller now shows up in the settings, unplugging one is noticed, and a Steam Deck can swi
Hello everyone! We’ve finished work on Microlandia 2.2, and this time it’s a technical update, and a pretty exciting one. Over the past months, we’ve been quietly building Microlandia’s new game engine, Moonshine, and it’s finally ready! It’s lighter, more efficient, and less tem
Waste is now divided into categories: plastics, organics, paper, the rest, and unsorted New recycling bins: homes near a bin sort their waste into plastics, organics, paper and the rest New biogas digester: built beside a landfill, it turns the city's sorted organic waste into el
Small fine tunings to the business AI so they are more resilient and better at keeping their staff employed without overhiring Business owners settle for their own share of a wage instead of quitting when profits are thin Fixed how the data is presented in the business inspector
Important note: this patch corrects a problem that started in 2.1.3 that caused many businesses to close and residents to leave. If you think your city 'death spiraled' from this, you can contact us and we'll help you recover your savefile. If enough people are affected, we may a
Lowered the floor rent price of farms so they become the most accessible price for starting up a firm
Hotfix for the “results does not match” contract error making the census window failing
Improved how citizens' spending is accounted for and it matches better with what is demanded in non-exporting firms like retail, restaurants and leisure. Improved the job-searching algorithm to better match companies with workers and at the same time reduce the wasted work that c
Drag over a street with a different layout to rebuild it: the cursor names the street and the price. It works between layouts of the same width Single-family-home neighborhoods are laid with narrow 10 m streets, since their houses park in their own garages Fixed neighborhood crea
In this new version of the game, we’ve focused on improving the transportation system to give you more options for how people get around your city. Bicycles Citizens now have a new way to get to work or go shopping on the weekend: the bicycle. When you build a street, you now hav
New Air Quality section in the Pollution tab: the daily air quality index where your citizens live and work, its main pollutant, and a verdict from Good to Hazardous Reworked the heat map: it now adds up the heat your city adds by day and by night, with new levels from minimal to
Reworked how power is imported from neighbours: each neighbouring city has a different cap on how much it can sell - Micropolis (North): 44M kWh/day nuclear, Richton (South): 8M kWh/day coal, San Gigante (East): 2.4M kWh/day solar, Rivalton (West): 2M kWh/day wind Exported power
Fixed the garbage export bill: the Regional Waste Compact now updates its estimate of your exports precisely. Waste disposal costs drop a lot in big cities. Corrections to power usage of paper mills, data centers, warehouses and petrochemical plants Fixed a bug where households w
Farms and vineyards need much less water, now calibrated on real irrigation surveys. The sources are listed in the documentation Small adjustments to the data center and information sector logic, so that they are more likely to be founded correctly and less likely to be a waste o
Fountains now come in six looks: pick round, small square, small round, rococo, brutalist or modern Data Centers rebalance: When founded, it starts with 20 million in venture capital. Can only be founded and by hire engineers Rebalanced the logic for who exits the city due to hig
Hotfix for soccer/basketball fields not rendering in some cities
New building: Data Center, a commercial building plenty of jobs for IT, but water and power hungry, and nearby residents oppose it. Brand new WebGPU renderer, now has it's new backend implementation independent from the other renderer, and is a lot more efficient, specially in la
Fixed very large cities getting stuck in an endless loading loop Fixed the map and the building inspector not working on older macOS versions Fixed Campara starting with $100M instead of its $200M starting loan
Faster city loading on some graphics cards that saw loading screens for minutes Improved fallback to WebGL2 when WebGPU rendering is not available Fixed cities that could fail to load after a lost connection during loading Fixed loading cities with lost elections waiting three mi
New Victorian and Mediterranean looks for the House, with three models each and several paint colours. Pick them alongside Bungalow in the building style chooser, which now translates their names Coal plants can now sell spare power through transmission towers when Sell surplus i