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Learning Factory

New Update: Cat Blimps & Infite Quests For Knowledge



It's been more than 2 years since Learning Factory was released in Early Access, and we're eternally grateful to the players, who joined us way back in 2021 and 2022! This week's update comes with a couple of features, that will definitely help experienced engineers rethink their logistics and boost their factories - all for the sake of making cats happy, of course.

Major v0.20.126 Released



  • Endless researches: 15 special end-game scientific projects that allow you to spend ridiculous amounts of money for serious gameplay bonuses (see below)
  • New building: Pawssenger Dock - for your cats to wait for boarding and being carried around the Factory
  • Naturally, it comes with a new airship: Cat Blimps!
  • New upgrade: High Quality (++) Cat Houses
  • Cat House Maker has Quality (+) recipe by default
  • After cats leave tasting buildings, items they've added to their shopping list are displayed above them
  • When you get a reward for a Dr. Katz's request, it's visually displayed above the character's head
  • Pipette tool now works on grown up plants (a growing plant will stick to the cursor)
  • Cats slightly rebalanced
  • Research cost slightly rebalanced
  • Order of research projects in Terraforming category slightly changed
  • Improved tutorial
  • Campaign loading speed decreased (up to 10 seconds)
  • Freeplay premade maps loading speed decreased
  • Saving game time optimization
  • Save game file size decreased
  • Minor SFX improvements
  • Performance optimization
  • UI/UX fixes
  • Bug fixes



By the way, the idea of cat-shaped Cat Blimp was originally suggested in discussion with the community, so if you think we've got crazy ideas, you haven't seen the people playing our games :) Anyway, here's what the legend began with (a sketch by Jiiniasu):



Infinite Research: Eternal Quest For Knowledge



Enter our long-awaited feature for the players who are bearing the burden of being filthy rich and out of projects to research! These one will keep your cat scientists occupied for ages AND provide handsome bonuses to your Factory and your catstomers:

Here’s the current structure of research projects and their characteristics, divided by knowledge fields:

Upgrades: Fortune Activator (income increase) - Cat Smell Amplifier (Hype increase) - Square Cardboard Space Signal Emitter (Loyalty increase)

Production: Time Machine (increased craft & trading speed) - Dark Matter Condenser (chance of creating extra building) - Nanoproduction (chance of creating extra item while crafting)

Science: CatGPT (perfect ML prediction chance && data quality increase) - Cat Hive Mind (extra researcher XP) - Catificial Intelligence (extra articles quality)

Logistics: Space Bender (increased character speed) - FTL Engine (increased Zeppelin speed) - Black Hole Pocket (extra Storage && Stores capacity)

Terraforming: Growth Hormones (chance of extra plant multiplication) - Fungi From Pluto (plant growth speed increase) - Plantastic Cloning (chance of keeping a plant intact for harvesting it twice in a row)



Now, we've got a question for you: what other parameters would you like to be able to modify with such research?

Some of the projects above were developed with help from our community, but we could use more ideas - because in the end, we're always trying to make features the will be useful to you, the players!

Send your thoughts to Discord server of ours or leave a comment!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory

And don't forget to follow Learning Factory on Steam to get the news about new updates as soon as they're out there


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How to Get More Involved



Going to Early Access is but the first step to glory (and eternal cat happiness). Wanna be part of what happens next? Head to this blog post and learn how to help make the game even more awesome!

Share Your Gameplay and Become Part of KOTOVOD History


Learning Factory needs your help! Record a 10 or more minutes of you playing the game, share a video using any way you see fit, write your name into Learning Factory credits and get a promo cat! Make history here

Dev Diaries, March 2023: Subsidizine Researchers & Demandin Dr. Katz



Hey everyone! It is well known that the older you get, the faster flies the time. Apparently, a similar principle applies to video games: the closer to release, the shorter the next month seems. Is it the middle of March already? It is. And apparently, we've made a lot of progress.

Blueprints Complete!



If you were not using this mighty powerful instrument before, you should give it a try now! You can now make changes in the Blueprints straight from the Blueprint Library, but what’s even more exciting - you can instantly craft buildings over the Blueprints by pressing ‘Ctrl + click’ (by default) on them. Or even better - you can automatically build stuff around you by pressing just one button ('J’by default)! Just make sure you have enough resources for it.



Visual Update: It Has Begun!


Mark these words: come summer, you will see a whole different Learning Factory! Needless to say, the graphics in the game is far from final: we only have one Sergei, the artist. But his talent is truly unstoppable: he already started polishing key buildings in the game, adding shadows and other very important details. The first subject to transform is, of course, the Yarn Ball Maker - one of the first and most important structures at any stage of your Factory development:



Needless to say, redesigning the Yarn Ball Maker means redesigning Yarn Balls as well:



It took us some time to implement because Sergei has a habit of sometimes going WAY too deep into details. This time he spent hours studying the techniques of weaving in the textile industry, so he could make Yarn Balls look truly realistic (for a game about cats on Mars in the future, yes, why?).

Eventually, the resulting Yarn Balls ended up becoming so realistic, they’d look visually noisy when the camera zoomed out too far… Therefore, we had to postpone implementing them until the next update. But they arrived at last:



Oh, but what about that delicious Yarn Ball with a gold star, on the right? Oh, it’s just a new type of item, combining the softness and playful potential of Yarn Balls with the irresistible vibes of Catnip Algae. We even had to design a special machine for you to be able to craft it:



Gameplay Changes: Sales, Subsidizing & Dr. Katz Requests


We have a confession to make: lots of features we implement on a bi-monthly basis are not listed in these humble Dev Diaries. Mostly because we don’t want to overburden you with too many details - we do make a lot of changes to the game. But the most recent update introduced a bunch of cool new things that are worth mentioning:

There’s now an option to subsidize cat researchers working in Experimental Labs. For a reasonable price, you can make it so the next 100 articles written by a researcher will bring them twice as much experience. They don’t go out of their laboratories much, but they still like money, who knows why! Cats are mysterious.

You can also spend money on upgrading Dr. Katz’s requests (those mini-quests that you see in the upper left corner of the screen from time to time) - the challenge will become harder but the reward will be better, too!

And to earn money to afford these tools, you can turn on Sales pricing mode in a Smart Store! It’s an addition to already existing manual pricing and machine learning pricing. With this thing on, all items in a Store will be sold at minimum prices, but the satisfied cats will become more loyal, which will bring you more profit in the future.

Now What?


Once you get locked into serious feature adding, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. Even with the game’s full release approaching, we still got a couple of awesome things up our sleeves!



One of them is Cat Zeppelins. Like, for transporting cats this time. Once we introduced Cargo Zeppelins to the game, some players started trying to put cats inside of them, though they were never designed for this. Some of the players even succeeded in doing that (which, naturally, resulted in the game crashing). So we thought it was a fine idea. We haven’t heard of any historical cases of cats traveling in giant blimps, so we see it as our chance to finally make things right, even if just in a video game. Cats deserve to be able to fly in airships, dammit!

The other big feature we’re working on is dedicated to those who made the best of the features from the paragraphs above and is now carrying the burden of being filthy rich. The codename of this feature is ‘endless researches’, and it will allow you to invest ridiculous amounts of money to squeeze the game for various benefits for your Factory: increased Hype, increased XP levels for scientists, a chance to craft an additional building while crafting, a speed boost for Zeppelins - you name it! As long as you keep the sweet dough coming.

See you in a month! Things are about to get exciting as ever as the full release approaches. Glory to science! Glory to KOTOVOD!

Steam Spring Sale: Learning Factory Is 31% Off!



Hey everyone!

You know the drill. What else there is to explain? It's Steam Spring Sale, and Learning Factory is 31% off for the rest of the week!

Time to wipe it out of your wishlist into your Steam library! And don't forget to grab some other awesome games on the way.

Happy hunting!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory

And don't forget to follow Learning Factory on Steam to get the news about new updates as soon as they're out there


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How to Get More Involved



Going to Early Access is but the first step to glory (and eternal cat happiness). Wanna be part of what happens next? Head to this blog post and learn how to help make the game even more awesome!

Share Your Gameplay and Become Part of KOTOVOD History


Learning Factory needs your help! Record a 10 or more minutes of you playing the game, share a video using any way you see fit, write your name into Learning Factory credits and get a promo cat! Make history here

New Update v0.19.125: Sales, Subsidizing & New Yarn Balls



It's not the length of list of changes that defines an update. This one is marked as 'Regular' but the list of changes is actually pretty long. There are lots of things that we added and improved here in there - they might not sound as cool as finalizing Blueprint mode. Nor they are as epic as something that we're planning for the next update (wink-wink, nudge-nudge).

Still, they change the experience from the game a great deal. Here's how.

v0.19.125 Released


New buildings & Sales



  • New buildings: Quality Manipulator and Long Quality Manipulators. For manipulating items, you know. With quality
  • Added an option to craft Quality Batteries, default recipe is added to Battery Maker
  • Sales mode for Smart Cat Store (to be unlocked on the progress bar of the Research Tree): allows selling items at minimum prices that leads to increased loyalty of cats who shop there
  • 4 upgrades that increase the amount of items that can be added to a cat's shopping list upon visiting tasting buildings
  • Added statistics for added Loyalty (from tasting buildings and Roadside Boutiques shopping)
  • Added statistics for recommended items in tasting buildings

Researching



  • Subsidizing option in Research Hub: invest money to boost EXP gain for the next 100 articles for a researcher in the Hub
  • Experience gain ratio slightly increased
  • Research difficulty rebalanced and now depends only on how far from the start a research project is
  • Research Tree screen now displays the overall amount of Cat Knowledge Archives (via Oniguro)


Graphics



  • New visuals for Yarn Balls
  • New visuals for Yarn Ball Maker
  • Lava terrain visuals slightly improved

Dr. Katz requests



  • Added an option to decline or upgrade Dr. Katz's requests (to be unlocked on the progress bar of the Research Tree): invest money to add challenge and receive a better reward
  • Dr. Katz's requests are now sometimes rewarded with Manipulators, Soil and Fertile Soil
  • Dr. Katz's requests now include Quality and High Quality items
  • Dr. Katz's requests now include a demand to satisfy a certain amount of cats with high Loyalty level
  • Upgrading a request may result in demanding higher quality items or higher levels of cats' Loyalty
  • Added an option to auto collect rewards from Dr. Katz's requests (via xz215279)


Blueprints



  • Added an option to auto build Blueprints in the are around the character ('J' by default)
  • Added an option to automatically hang a Blueprint on the mouse cursor while building for Logistics buildings only
  • Added an option to remove a building from crafting queue if that building's Blueprint was removed
  • New Blueprint in the Blueprint Library (via Oni)

QoL & Interface



  • Saved games can be sorted in the menu
  • Decreased saving time (especially for Factories with lots of Zeppelins)
  • Decreased saved game file size
  • Added an option to past a config to multiple buildings at once (if they are selected)
  • Added an option to assign controls to mouse buttons 3-6
  • Improved tooltips display
  • UI/UX fixes
  • Bug fixes


Got Blueprints?



Here’s an awesome trade offer.

We get: Blueprints from your Factories that you consider so cool/useful, that all Learning Factory players must have it

You get: your work added to the global Blueprint Library and your name in the game (in case we and the commuity find your Blueprint useful). Pictured above is one of the first works by one of our players - check it out in the game now!

How to make a Blueprint:

  • Press and hold Ctrl and drag your mouse over a group of buildings/object
  • Press Ctrl+S to save the group as a Blueprint in the Library ('B' by default)
  • Don’t forget to enter a name and a description of what your blueprint does (this is also where your name will appear, if we select your Blueprint for the official list)
  • You can also make simple editions to a custom Blueprint in the Library: delete items with the right mouse button, rotate the whole Blueprint or invert the surface and underground levels

How to share a Blueprint:

  • Go to Blueprint Library ('B' by default)
  • Find your work there
  • Press the arrow icon (‘Export Blueprint’) next to a Blueprint’s name. Or press ‘Details’ and find the ‘Export’ button there
  • The Blueprint will be copied to your clipboard as text, you can then paste it anywhere and send it to anyone you want (it will be attached as a text file if you paste it to Discord)

How to import a Blueprint:

  • In the Blueprint Library, find the ‘Import’ field in the lower part of the screen
  • Paste the text code of a Blueprint you got somewhere
  • Hit the green arrow button

Share your works on our Discord server! Or drop them into a text file and mail it to info@luden.io

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory

And don't forget to follow Learning Factory on Steam to get the news about new updates as soon as they're out there


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How to Get More Involved



Going to Early Access is but the first step to glory (and eternal cat happiness). Wanna be part of what happens next? Head to this blog post and learn how to help make the game even more awesome!

Share Your Gameplay and Become Part of KOTOVOD History


Learning Factory needs your help! Record a 10 or more minutes of you playing the game, share a video using any way you see fit, write your name into Learning Factory credits and get a promo cat! Make history here

New Update: Blueprint Library Boost, Aroma Machines & More!



Hey everyone! As you know, our game is about building a Factory (duh!). And while we're maintaning an incredibly relaxed and fluffy atmosphere, factory vibe implies constant pushing forward, to new frontiers, better production, and, eventually, the Catopia!

That said, here we are with yet another major update for the game. We've got plans to keep them coming, too.

We hope you enjoy it, and don't forget to share your impressions in the comments or on our Discord server!


Major Update: v0.19.124



Blueprints



  • Added an option to edit custom Blueprints straight from the Blueprint Library: you can delete elements, rotate or invert the scheme
  • Pressing 'Ctrl+click' on a Blueprints results in production & placement of a respective building
  • Pressing 'Ctrl+click' with a building on the cursor force prints a Blueprint
  • Added tips & tricks for selected buildings in the Wiki
  • Added hotkeys for Blueprints
  • Switched logics of opening Blueprint Library and Blueprint Mode




Gameplay



  • New building: Aroma Machine produces High Quality (++) Yarn Balls, combining, perhaps, the most tempting combination in the world of feline desires: catnip and yarn balls!
  • New 'Deep Dive' option when starting a new game: added an ability to begin with unlocked machine learning, access to Zeppelins and Underground level, and hiring scientists immediately after tutorial
  • Subsequently, the 'classic' tutorial has been revised and improved, and is now called 'Relaxed Start': it provides more smooth and gradual introduction to the game core mechanics




Visuals



  • Rerendered Manipulators with different color schemes for different Manipulator types
  • Items move out of Tunnels in a smoother manner
  • Improved color schemes on the mini map (Transporters, X-Switchers and tasting buildings are more visually distinctive)




QoL/Interface/Fixes



  • Added an option to place items direcly into buildings (or pick items from buildings by hovering cursor over them) by dragging the mouse while 'Ctrl+LMB' is pressed (via Евгений Ры́марев)
  • Added an option to only pick items crafted by the player by pressing 'Ctrl+LMB' (via Евгений Ры́марев)
  • Added an option to conceal researched upgrades from the Research Tree
  • Added a hotkey for bug reporting
  • Added an option to save&&exit game (via SrBicho)
  • New menu theme
  • Improved sorting in the Wiki
  • Bug fixes
  • UI fixes


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory

And don't forget to follow Learning Factory on Steam to get the news about new updates as soon as they're out there


----------------------


How to Get More Involved



Going to Early Access is but the first step to glory (and eternal cat happiness). Wanna be part of what happens next? Head to this blog post and learn how to help make the game even more awesome!

Share Your Gameplay and Become Part of KOTOVOD History


Learning Factory needs your help! Record a 10 or more minutes of you playing the game, share a video using any way you see fit, write your name into Learning Factory credits and get a promo cat! Make history here

Developer Diaries, January-February 2023



Hey everyone! Time for another edition of Learning Factory's dev diaries. Has it really been just a month? It was really rich with events for us: we participated in the Base Builder Fest on Steam and released Learning Factory on Epic Games Store but most importantly, we've introduced 3 updates oozing new content and features. Here's a short list of the most game-changing things!

Blueprints To The Max




It's funny that we sometimes hear rebukes (and, ironically, compliments) that Learning Factory is like Factorio but it's not Factorio. Well, yeah, it is definitely not Factorio, nor it was ever meant to be. Naturally, this great game was one of our principal sources of inspiration but we like to think that Learning Factory is more about economics, data, and optimization of stuff. And cats.

But there's one feature in Factorio that we and our players are particularly fond of - the Blueprints. Those handy ghosts of buildings can be a great help when planning a really big factory. We started introducing them to Learning Factory last year but in the most recent updates, we've really upgraded them.



For starters, there's a Blueprint Library that you can see in the screenshot above. It contains some pre-made schemes from us (that also serve as tips & tricks for building) but you can also enrich the list with your own creations: press Ctrl and drag the mouse over a group of objects and then press Ctrl+C to copy and Ctrl+S to save the blueprint.

And then you'll be able to press the ‘Export’ button in the library to copy and paste your scheme code and make it shareable. This short video on our YouTube channel explains the basics of it.

Please send us your Blueprints, we'd love to check them and try them out in our own Factories!

New Buildings Again (And We're Far From Done Yet)



Blueprints can be an infinite source of fun and experimenting but those are primarily for advanced (and/or really curious) players. Here's something that may be enjoyed by absolutely everyone: new buildings! We have introduced quite a few:



These bad boys will take your Metal (and, occasionally, some Wood) and smelt it into higher-quality Metal! If that doesn't sound cool enough, Lava Furnace actually needs to be placed on lava under the ground. The Underground level is actually becoming quite a world of its own: with underground Zeppelins and metal sources to mine, there's now also an option for sub-surface fishing - make sure to research the respective upgrade for the Fishing Spot!



Speaking of quality, Cotton Gin is your best friend for producing top-quality Cotton! According to our research, the original Cotton Gin was invented in 1793 by an I.L.L.U.M.I.N.A.T.I. member, hiding under the alias of Eli Whitney. This hi-tech version of that magnificent machine is perfect for refining cotton to make sure no Martian dust and sheep nano-particles end up in the product.



Did you know: all tiles on Mars have different quality rates, and some buildings work most efficiently when set up on the proper type of soil or water? For example, Fir Trees grow best in the northern biome, and Fishing Piers achieve maximum productivity when placed near hot or cold water. But even the fitting tiles can be below perfect by default. To ensure top quality, you should consider replacing natural tiles with those produced by you… Or by one of these Soil Silos, which are your new helpers for automated ground production. Ground control too major!



This cute little thing is yet another tasting building that we started introducing at the end of last year. Works pretty much the same as others: passerby cats might get inside and will likely add Boxes to their shopping list afterward. And if you're suspecting a Schrodinger Box reference in the design - you're absolutely right!



Last but not least, behold our mighty Experimental Lab! If you look closely, you might notice an empty Cat Knowledge Archive at the base of this awesome new building. Empty Archives are required for the production of these think tanks (or rather think boxes?), and your effort of finding them will be rewarded by the doubled speed of research inside.

Now What?




Speaking of what we're working on now, we must get back to the players comparing our game with Factorio. (Are there really many factory building/optimization games that don't look like Factorio?) We'd really like to highlight what's making Learning Factory unique, that's why we're working on an additional version of the game's tutorial, specifically made for factory-building connoisseurs. This way you'll be able to get past the basic stuff like laying down Transporters and mining basic resources, right into serious cat-catering and data processing stuff!

We're also hoping to finalize the Blueprints with a couple of useful new features. And, of course, some new art is looming: right now Sergei the artist is busy improving the looks of the most important item in the Factory - the Yarn Balls. They deserve their own little story but that's for the next edition of these Dev Diaries:



The journey to Catopia continues! Join us if you're still not with us, and let us know what you think of the game so far. We're always glad to chat with our players.

See you in the next chapter of Learning Factory's History!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory



P.S. If you want to keep an eye our progress closer, don't forget to follow Learning Factory on our Steam page and never miss an update again!



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How to Get More Involved



Going to Early Access is but the first step to glory (and eternal cat happiness). Wanna be part of what happens next? Head to this blog post and learn how to help make the game even more awesome!

Share Your Gameplay and Become Part of KOTOVOD History


Learning Factory needs your help! Record a 10 or more minutes of you playing the game, share a video using any way you see fit, write your name into Learning Factory credits and get a promo cat! Make history here

New Update v0.18.123: Experimental Lab, Blueprint Library & Two Soil Silos



Releasing an update every 2 weeks is, to be frank, quite a challenge. But we couldn't be happier that we accepted it. During this pre-final stage of development, each update pumps the game with new content, new mechanics, and less bugs (or so we aim for but Early Access is Early Access). We like to work hard, knowing that we're making something that allows you to kick back and have a tranquil night (or a day? or a weekend?) of cat factory building!

This time we bring you more automation, more planning, and more in-depth research:

v0.18.123 Released



  • New building: Experimental Lab requires a base from Cat Knowledge Archive to be crafted. It occupies more space but any scientist inside works twice as fast



  • New buildings: Soil Silo and Enriched Soil Silo automatically craft ground tiles for you +alternative recipe for crafting Fertile Soil
  • Updated visuals for Cat Gate
  • Added the Blueprint Library with pre-made Blueprints and an option to share Blueprints with other players
  • Added an option to copy Blueprints from both map layers



  • Area place/removal of terraforming tiles doesn't require an upgrade anymore
  • New Upgrade: Fishing Spot can now be improved to be placed underground and produce High Quality Fish
  • Cargo Zeppelins' speed is the same as regular Zeppelins by default; added another upgrade to increase the speed of regular Zeppelins
  • Granny Cats can now appear out of Shopaholic invasion event but not too often though
  • Inventory Teleport item transfer limit increased from 100 to 500 items
  • Added an option to change mouse cursor size
  • Cursor settings now available in Gameplay Options, too
  • 2 new achievements
  • Improved tutorial
  • Optimization, Transporters optimization
  • Bug fixes



https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory

And don't forget to follow Learning Factory on Steam to get the news about new updates as soon as they're out there


----------------------


How to Get More Involved



Going to Early Access is but the first step to glory (and eternal cat happiness). Wanna be part of what happens next? Head to this blog post and learn how to help make the game even more awesome!

Share Your Gameplay and Become Part of KOTOVOD History


Learning Factory needs your help! Record a 10 or more minutes of you playing the game, share a video using any way you see fit, write your name into Learning Factory credits and get a promo cat! Make history here

New Update: Better Blueprint Mode, More Quality Items & Other Cool Stuff



Hey everyone!

This update came bit later than usual but totally worth the sweat and some occasional tears! The second part of Blueprint functions is now available for you to check out, with some more awesome Blueprint-related goodness to be introduced in the next updates. As for today...

Major Update: v0.18.121


Gameplay



  • New Building: Cotton Gin improves the quality of Cotton
  • Boxing Office now animated
  • New milestone with a new unlock type: sell items to cats with high loyalty levels
  • New parameter: ML capacity limits the number of ML models that you can place at your Factory. ML Capacity can be increased by conducting researches, buying territories and unlocking milestones
  • Cacti growth rate decreased
  • High Quality (++) Iron can be traded in Trade Ports for lesser amount of Concrete
  • New Guide explaining the basics of Turing Trees
  • Depending on Hype level, cats might visit service buildings of the same type several times
  • Depending on Hype level, cats might add up to 3 item types to their wishlist upon visiting tasting buildings
  • Five more upgrades of items for Quality: Yarn Balls ++, Claw Sharpeners +, Claw Sharpeners ++, Ropes ++, Pillows +




QoL



  • Added an option to mass select, copy, and rotate Blueprints (currently without Tunnels and without copying on both layers at once)
  • New event type: indicates the first case of mass purchasing for a cat type
  • New event type: indicates when a certain cat type requested more items then there are slots in a Store
  • Improved tutorial and new research hints (suggested by Евгений Ры́марев)
  • Added an option to change mouse grid size
  • Turning on mouse grid enables mass picking items from Storages
  • Turning on mouse grid enables area deleting Blueprints
  • Turning on mouse grid enables mass removal of Transporters
  • Turning on mouse grid enables mass planting (suggested by Евгений Ры́марев)
  • Added an option to instantly place a Drill or an Extractor (if crafted) by pressing 'Ctrl+click' on a Metal/mineral source
  • Added an option to request crafting of 500 items at once by pressing 'ctrl+RMB' (suggested by Евгений Ры́марев & xz215279)
  • Text updates




Interface



  • Added an option to tune the density of clouds (suggested by Евгений Ры́марев & LoadRunner)
  • Added an option to prevent requests tab from collapsing (suggested by xz215279)
  • Added an option to change keyboard hotkeys for zooming
  • Added an option to toggle sticking of different object types while dragging the mouse
  • Improved sorting of items on building panel and in recipes
  • Sorting of objects in the Wiki synched up to the order on the crafting panel
  • UI/UX optimization


Accessibility Options



  • Added an option to change mouse pointer visuals




Code Improvements



  • Decreased save game file size
  • Decreased game saving time
  • Bug fixes
  • Performance optimization


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory

And don't forget to follow Learning Factory on Steam to get the news about new updates as soon as they're out there


----------------------


How to Get More Involved



Going to Early Access is but the first step to glory (and eternal cat happiness). Wanna be part of what happens next? Head to this blog post and learn how to help make the game even more awesome!

Share Your Gameplay and Become Part of KOTOVOD History


Learning Factory needs your help! Record a 10 or more minutes of you playing the game, share a video using any way you see fit, write your name into Learning Factory credits and get a promo cat! Make history here

Learning Factory Is 34% Off For Base Builder Fest



MEOW YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US

Hey engineers, base builders, and city planners of all ages! As you might know by now, there's an event going on, dedicated the games we like most: those about planning, building and optimizing complex structures.

Naturally, Learning Factory wouldn't miss it for the world! Your beloved cat-catering factory building game will be on discount from January 23 to January 30, and how:

34% off the main game, and 14% off the DLCs!



Pack your things, draft your plans, pet your cat - and see you on Mars!



https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory

And don't forget to follow Learning Factory on Steam to get the news about new updates as soon as they're out there


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How to Get More Involved



Going to Early Access is but the first step to glory (and eternal cat happiness). Wanna be part of what happens next? Head to this blog post and learn how to help make the game even more awesome!

Share Your Gameplay and Become Part of KOTOVOD History


Learning Factory needs your help! Record a 10 or more minutes of you playing the game, share a video using any way you see fit, write your name into Learning Factory credits and get a promo cat! Make history here

Hotfix v0.17.119



Greetings, engineers!

Nothing special here, just a regular round of service of our bug-eradicating department. Please update the game, we hope those pesky creatures won't bother you today.