Dear Conductors,
New harvests are coming to your onboard garden! You can now grow corn, potatoes, and wheat. New seed crates have also been added to the map, giving you more chances to collect seeds on your travels.
The redesigned Advanced Drink Maker has three independent crafting stations to prepare three drinks at once. Kitchen appliances now offer Collect All for finished products, and regular shops support bulk purchases, making meals, shopping, and everyday organization easier.
This update also adjusts cave exploration, diagonal half-wall building, Machete handling, and electrical equipment, with focused performance improvements for multiple carriages, extensive buildings, animal farming, and automation running together.
We have also improved save loading and recovery, and fixed issues with dropping items, stacking empty chests, building with a controller, and various visuals.
Here are the full update notes.
🌽 New crops: corn, potatoes, and wheat!
Bring some new harvests to your garden!
You can now grow corn, potatoes, and wheat. All three crops change visibly as they grow. Harvest mature plants for crops and seeds to keep planting.
🥔 Corn and potato seeds
Corn and potato seeds can be obtained through the same sources as chili and bell pepper seeds.
Look for seed supplies while exploring and bring new crops back to your onboard garden.
🌾 Wheat seeds
Wheat seeds are now permanently stocked at the mill for 2 Oxygen Coins per pack.
Visit the mill when you want to expand your wheat fields and prepare for future harvests.
🌱 Growth and replanting
Corn, potatoes, and wheat change appearance as they grow. Harvest them when ripe and use the seeds you obtain to plant again, adding more variety to your onboard farm.
📦 New seed crates on the map
New seed crates can now be found and looted during exploration.
The following seeds are more likely to appear than other seeds in these new crates:
Chili seeds
Bell pepper seeds
Potato seeds
Corn seeds
Keep an eye out for these new crates if you want to add these crops to your garden.
🥤 A fresh look for the Advanced Drink Maker—make three drinks at once!
The Advanced Drink Maker has a brand-new look!
An iron worktop, transparent drink tanks, metal taps, and wooden cups give your drinks corner more detail and a look that matches the other equipment.
🍹 Three independent crafting stations
The Advanced Drink Maker has three independent crafting stations, so you can prepare three drinks at once for yourself and your travel companions.
💧 Mixing and pouring effects
Mixing and pouring animations bring drink preparation to life.
Each station also has a subtle one-dot, two-dot, or three-dot marker, making it easy to tell them apart.
🔨 Build it after unlocking the blueprint
Unlock the Advanced Drink Maker blueprint to build and use it.
Set up your onboard drinks corner and get your next drink ready!
🍳 Collect All added to kitchen appliances
Kitchen appliance output slots now have a **Collect All** button to pick up all finished products at once.
Only finished products are collected.
Ingredients and fuel remain in the appliance.
Products that do not fit in your inventory remain in the output slots.
Collect multiple prepared meals more easily without moving them one by one.
🛒 Bulk purchases at regular shops
You can now buy multiple items at once from regular shops!
After selecting an item, you can:
Enter the quantity directly.
Adjust the quantity with the plus and minus buttons.
Check the total number of items and the total price.
Confirm to complete the purchase in one go, reducing repetitive steps when buying everyday supplies.
🔺 Build half walls diagonally across the center of a floor
Half walls now offer more layout options!
The following structures can be built diagonally across the center of a floor:
Half Wall
Glass Half Wall
Leaf Half Wall
Diagonal versions retain their appearance and height, and support further building above them.
Enjoy more ways to divide rooms, create diagonal barriers, and combine them with existing walls.
🪨 Cave stone doors open up, with exploration loot adjustments
You can now approach both stone doors in the cave and press E to open them.
They stay open, making it easier to explore deeper and return the same way.
🌱 New lootable seed crates
Two lootable seed crates have been added inside the cave, giving explorers more chances to find seeds in its depths.
🎁 Reward locations near the large stone door adjusted
Rewards near the cave's large stone door have been relocated:
The treasure chest is now inside the stone door.
The two vegetable seed crates are now outside, one on either side.
These location changes do not affect the corresponding rewards or drop chances.
💎 Blue crystal passage and small ruins door improvements
Improved the blue crystal passage to reduce obstructions and make exploration and return trips smoother.
Approach the small stone door in the ruins and press E to open it. It stays open to make repeated trips easier.
🚪 Iron Roller Shutter redesign
The Iron Roller Shutter has a new design:
Blue-gray panels
Riveted edges
Recessed handle
The new colors and structural details fit better with existing buildings and different carriage layouts.
🗡️ Machete animations, appearance, and combat rhythm improved
The Machete has received several handling and visual updates.
⚔️ Smoother consecutive swings
Shortened attack recovery and improved transitions between attacks, reducing the awkward wait before your next swing.
🙌 Dedicated first-person animations
Improved the Machete's:
Draw pose
Swing animation
Running stance
Sheathing animation
Also adjusted the arms and fixed incorrect blade-edge orientation for more natural holding and swinging.
✨ Blade and item icon upgrade
Improved the metal blade, sharp edge, and wooden handle details, and updated the item icon to match.
⚖️ Damage balance adjustment
To account for the faster attack rhythm, the Machete's base damage per hit has changed from 18 to 14.
⚡ Power generation and consumption adjustments
Adjusted power values for some generators and appliances to better balance everyday electricity supply and equipment use.
✋ Hand Crank Generator
Power generated per action has increased from 3 to 10, providing more electricity with each use.
🧊 Large Electric Refrigerator / Electric Supply Refrigerator
Power consumption per second has decreased from 10 to 4, reducing the cost of continuous refrigeration.
❄️ Large Electric Freezer
Power consumption per second has changed from 5 to 6.
🍲 Tier-three Cooking Station
Power consumption per second has decreased from 20 to 10 for more energy-efficient cooking.
🪝 Lower standby power use for the Electric Automatic Collecting Grapple
The Automatic Collecting Grapple's standby consumption has decreased from 10/second to 5/second.
Operating consumption remains 10/second.
The device uses less power while waiting for a target, reducing ongoing consumption when idle.
⛏️ Lower standby power use for the Electric Automatic Drill
The Automatic Drill's standby consumption has decreased from 15/second to 5/second.
Operating consumption remains 15/second.
Automatic Drills use less power while waiting for work, making it easier to supply multiple devices.
🔋 Automatic grapples and drills now charge before starting
Electric Automatic Collecting Grapples and Automatic Drills now accumulate power before starting work.
If power runs low during work, the device pauses, retaining its current progress and any collected items, then resumes automatically when power returns.
Clearer device status messages have also been added:
Standby
Working
Charging
Insufficient Power
The power required to start is also displayed, helping explain why a device has not started yet.
🔥 Electric Furnace time estimates and pause messages improved
Improved the remaining-time display under unstable power, reducing frequent jumps in the estimate.
Different power conditions now have clearer messages:
**Insufficient power:** indicates slower smelting.
**Stopped without power:** displays “Paused”.
**Power restored:** processing resumes and the remaining time is recalculated.
Progress is retained while paused, making it easier to see whether the device needs more power.
🍽️ Cooking button and recipe controls fixed
Fixed the cooking button repeatedly flashing after adding ingredients.
Also fixed needing to click twice to start cooking with recipe details open, making it easier to cook once ingredients are ready.
🎨 Floor painting improved
Paint colors are now clearer on floors, with less interference from the original base color while preserving surface texture.
Use Original Color Paint to return a floor to its unpainted appearance.
🪜 Full and half staircase width improved
Fixed staircase sides visually protruding through nearby iron walls and iron window walls.
Adjusted full and half staircase widths for a more natural fit against walls while preserving their connections between levels.
🏠 Fixed the camera clipping through carriage ceilings when jumping
Fixed the view sometimes passing through the ceiling when jumping inside a carriage.
Reduced sudden views outside the roof that could disrupt visibility in low spaces.
🎮 Controller building selection fixed
Fixed difficulty selecting individual structures in the building interface with a controller.
You can now browse buildings cell by cell using the D-pad or left stick:
The list automatically scrolls to follow your selection.
Information for the selected building is displayed.
Required materials are displayed.
This makes building selection clearer and easier on controllers and Steam Deck.
🧭 Building action wheel targets fixed
Fixed the building action wheel incorrectly appearing when aiming at:
Dirt pits
Bears
Wild boars
Wild resources
Also fixed old wheel options remaining usable after a target changed state, keeping actions consistent with the current target.
🖱️ Drag indicators restored for custom stack splitting
Fixed missing drag indicators in the custom stack panel.
Restored the six-dot indicator and green border in the upper-left corner of the item card to clarify the draggable area.
After choosing a quantity, it is easier to find the item card and drag it to its destination.
📦 Empty storage chest stacking fixed
Fixed chests failing to stack with other empty chests after being used, emptied, and dismantled.
This fix applies to:
Small Storage Chests
Medium Storage Chests
Large Storage Chests
Existing empty chests can be merged by dragging or sorting, without placing and dismantling them all again.
📍 Chest contents indicator position fixed
Fixed chest contents indicators drifting away from their chests when turning the camera, sprinting, or adjusting the field of view.
Indicators now stay aligned more consistently, making stored contents easier to check.
🎒 Dropping items by dragging them out of the inventory after respawning fixed
Fixed being unable to drop items by dragging them out of the inventory after being defeated and respawning.
You can now organize and discard items normally after respawning, reducing inventory issues.
🫁 Oxygen and survival resource consumption fixed
Fixed abnormal oxygen supply and survival resource consumption in certain situations.
🌿 Oxygen plant previews and moving fixed
Fixed oxygen-producing plants sometimes continuously providing oxygen while being previewed or moved.
🍎 Oxygen, food, and hydration consumption fixed
Fixed initialization issues that could prevent oxygen, food, and hydration from depleting, restoring normal changes to these values.
🕳️ Cave edges and abnormal movement fixed
Fixed clipping through some cave edges and falling into unintended areas.
Also fixed characters suddenly being moved outside the mountain while walking in caves, making underground travel more reliable.
💡 White flashes and brightness changes in caves fixed
Fixed periodic white flashes and sudden brightness changes in some cave areas.
Reduced jarring visual changes during exploration for a more stable cave experience.
💾 Save and map loading improvements
Continued addressing issues that could cause save loading to fail or stall for a long time.
🗺️ Nearby map loading order improved
Adjusted the order in which nearby maps load when opening a save to reduce peak memory usage.
🔄 Automatic retries for temporary loading failures
Improved automatic retries after certain temporary read failures, allowing brief problems to recover during loading.
🪨 Terrain initialization issues fixed
Fixed some terrain initialization errors that could cause lengthy loading stalls and prevent entry into the game.
🛟 New loading fallback: enter saves with simplified terrain
If some map content fails to load, you can now enter the save with simplified terrain and receive relevant repair suggestions.
This reduces cases where an issue with individual resources makes an entire save unplayable.
Simplified terrain is a recovery option for loading problems, letting you enter the game first and then follow the guidance to resolve the issue.
🧰 Better recovery from scene file issues
Improved recovery for certain scene file errors.
When these issues occur, you can keep playing with a simplified scene. The game also attempts to schedule file verification for the next launch, reducing manual troubleshooting.
🚀 Large-scale performance improvements
This update focuses on multiple carriages, extensive buildings, animal farming, automated production, and dense resource gathering.
We have reduced repeated processing when nothing has changed, as well as overhead from many devices, animals, or items being present together. Details follow below.
🚂 Improvements for many carriages and animals
Improved the efficiency of animal state updates.
As furniture, equipment, and animal counts grow, fewer redundant operations reduce the everyday overhead of large farming trains.
🤝 Multiplayer animal synchronization improved
Improved state synchronization for chicken coops, animal pens, and fish tanks.
When a new player joins, loading initial animal states has less extra impact on players already online, improving shared farming carriage management.
🌱 Automatic feeding, seeding, and fertilizing improved
Improved processing efficiency when multiple automatic devices work in the same carriage.
Devices continue to follow the existing rules:
Operating range is unchanged.
Power requirements are unchanged.
Resource allocation rules are unchanged.
Limited resources are still allocated in the same order.
Reduced repeated processing during simultaneous work while preserving your automation arrangements.
🥚 Automatic egg collection improved
Reduced processing overhead when collecting several eggs in succession, improving collection from multiple productive coops.
Eggs and randomly generated dung are still processed together.
When space is insufficient, the existing rules for collection failure and retaining items still apply.
🌾 Automatic crop and mushroom harvesting improved
Improved efficiency when harvesting multiple planting slots in succession, reducing overhead during large harvests.
Yield rules for crops, seeds, earthworms, and mushrooms are unchanged.
Failed collection will not consume additional products as a result of this optimization.
🐔 Chicken coop saving and egg display improved
Reduced repeated saving when a coop's state has not changed and optimized egg display processing.
This reduces overhead when many coops are present, helping farming carriages run more efficiently.
🗂️ Scheduled rotating backups improved
Improved rotating backup processing to reduce the impact of backup creation and file writing on gameplay.
The existing backup interval is retained.
The limit of ten rotating backups is retained.
Existing backups are kept if writing a new backup fails.
Reduced backup overhead while continuing to protect your progress.
🛠️ Durability indicators for large amounts of furniture improved
Optimized hidden furniture durability indicators, reducing continuous processing when many furnishings are present.
Aiming at an item still promptly displays its durability for inspection and repair.
🍎 Food displays in storage containers improved
Optimized food decorations inside containers, reducing repeated work when many containers are present.
Food appearance, container placement, and collision remain unchanged, preserving existing storage displays.
🪢 Zipline performance improved
Reduced repeated processing during zipline operation and optimized trolley visuals.
Grabbing, riding, movement, sounds, and first-person hand visuals follow the same rules, preserving the controls while reducing overhead.
🪓 Dense resource gathering improved
Improved processing after gathering wood, food, trees, minerals, and stone.
Reduced overhead when collecting large quantities of resources in succession.
Resource drop and respawn rules are unchanged.
🔗 Carriage connecting platforms improved
Reduced repeated processing when connecting platform states have not changed.
Platforms still update normally as the train moves and turns, retaining their existing passage and support behavior.
🌿 Improvements for many oxygen sources
Optimized range checks when many plants and oxygen devices are aboard, reducing processing overhead from multiple sources.
The following rules are unchanged:
Oxygen supply range
How multiple sources stack
Oxygen Box consumption
💪 Skills page performance improved
Reduced repeated processing while the skills page stays open.
Skill progress and descriptions still update normally, and switching languages continues to display the appropriate text.
🌗 Day and night lighting updates improved
Reduced repeated processing when light brightness has not changed.
The existing day and night brightness and transitions are preserved, keeping the same lighting rhythm.
🏗️ Performance improved for extensive buildings
Improved efficiency when many structures are present, reducing overhead while the train moves and during everyday operation.
The following building features and rules are unchanged:
Appearance
Painting
Collision
Interaction
Reduced some overhead for players who keep expanding their trains while preserving the results of their builds.
💬 Thank you for your support and feedback, Conductors
From new crops in the garden to new equipment in your drinks corner, and from cave passages to large-train performance, this update expands exploration, management, and building while addressing everyday issues you have reported.
If you encounter problems after updating, please tell us on the Steam Community. Include what happened, whether you were playing solo or multiplayer, and screenshots or steps to reproduce it to help us find the cause faster.
Thank you for sharing your trains, farms, and adventures. Pack your seeds and supplies, and get ready for new harvests on the next leg of your journey!
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Whether it is the satisfaction of building your train alone or adventures with friends, your experience helps other players discover the game and helps us understand what you enjoy most and what still needs work.
If you have already written a review, you are welcome to add to or update it based on your current experience after trying this update. We would love to hear about changes you like, problems you encounter, and things you hope to see.
Thank you for your support and companionship. Pack your supplies, and see you at the next station!
— The OxyRail Development Team 🚂