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Hello mates!

Friends, thank you so much for joining us for the Craftomation 101 1.0 release!

We've received a huge amount of feedback from you: reviews, comments, reports, and messages on Discord. Thank you for all of it. We read everything, even when we don't manage to reply right away.

We need your help

Unfortunately, some of the bugs you reported are still a mystery to us. We tried to reproduce them and couldn't. This includes several bug reports from reviews, and an issue with batteries that was mentioned in a review about commands without details on what exactly went wrong. And a few others as well.

We're really sorry you ran into these problems. If you've hit a bug like this and want to help us make the game better, we'd be very grateful if you sent us feedback directly from the game.

Here's a short video on how to do it:

These in-game reports include your save file. With a save, it's much easier for us to reproduce the bug you describe and actually fix it, instead of staring at the screen and guessing.

Fixes

Over this past week, we've released seven patches. Seven. Valery, our programmer, barely slept. Our tester barely slept either. We were so busy fixing things that we skipped writing posts for several of those updates. So this post catches up on all of them at once. And today's hotfix is, we hope, the last one for this week.

We really hope the game already feels at least a little better. Here's what changed, what we're working on now, and where we could really use your help.

What's fixed and changed

Screen size settings
Not a bug, but a request. A streamer on our Discord asked for a window where you can choose the screen size. We added it in a day, and he was happy. We were happy too.

Find n Pick: robots not finding items
We found a rare bug where a robot could fail to find the item it needed through Find n Pick. Fixed. We also fixed an issue with item search and chest filters.

Missing texts
Players spotted places in the game where some texts were missing. We filled them in.

Renaming functions
Previously a new function name was saved only when you clicked the checkmark. Now it's also saved when you press Enter or click outside the function window. No more losing names you carefully came up with.

Campfire tooltips
Added a clarification that you drag the campfire onto the item, not the item onto the campfire. Yes, this one confused quite a few of you, and fairly so.

Heating button
Added a button that relights frozen campfires, so it's easier to get out of tricky situations when everything around you has gone cold.

And a bunch of other fixes and improvements

• Fixed variables from functions not passing their values in some cases.
• Fixed code nodes sometimes becoming invisible in rare cases.
• Changed font colors in places where you told us the text was hard to see.
• Fixed tooltips from the game field sometimes appearing in programming mode.
• Fixed the functions tab disappearing if you deleted all your functions.
• Added more tooltips to make things easier to understand.
• The programming window now remembers where you left your code when you close it.
• Fixed nodes with coordinates sometimes showing an old coordinate.
• Fixed a bug where a volcano could stop working.
• Slightly adjusted the balance to make things a bit easier: you now get more bonfires.

Coming soon

New, clearer tutorials. We expect them in about a week. Many of you told us that the first steps can be confusing, and we agree.

What's next?

These are things we'd really love to work on after the release. We can't promise anything or give any dates yet, but we're keeping them in mind:

• Infinite resource sources.
• A command that sends a robot to a specific position.
• New commands based on your feedback.
• A balance review, including batteries. We want to look into it, but we can't promise the result yet.
• Fixed variables sometimes needing an extra separate connection before their data actually reached the next node.

Thank you for playing, building ridiculous robot programs, and telling us what breaks. Keep it coming.

How can you join the development?

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• Share your ideas and feedback on our Discord server
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