Hi everyone, 😄

Thank you very much for your continued support, bug reports, and feedback. In this update, we are addressing one of the most common frustrations we’ve seen from the community: the limitations caused by Loading Zones when accepting projects. We’re also updating Quick Project rules to create more variety in daily planning, and shipping several improvements to employee behavior and UI clarity.

We understand many players felt frustrated by being limited to one project per Loading Zone. In this update, we are overhauling the system so that one Loading Zone can be used for multiple projects, as long as the combination is valid and the scheduling rules are respected.

The core rule is:

• If you accept a Contract Project first and assign it to a Loading Zone (making that zone “scheduled”), you can then accept Quick Projects into the same Loading Zone under a specific condition.

• The Quick Project must target the same Loading Zone as the scheduled Contract Project, and its Loading Window must be less than or equal to the remaining Preparation Time of the scheduled Contract Project.

This rule exists to prevent situations where a truck arrives while another truck is still expected to occupy that Loading Zone. With this change, players should have more flexibility in organizing project choices and planning production without feeling blocked too early.

Because of this overhaul, we also updated the UX and UI in the Project Menu so the new rules are communicated more clearly and the flow of selecting Loading Zones and accepting projects is easier to understand.

With the new project acceptance rules, Quick Projects are also being adjusted.

• Quick Projects now have a new randomizer for their Loading Window.

• Instead of being fixed, Quick Projects can now generate with 1 day to 3 days Loading Window variants.

This adds more variation to difficulty and preparation requirements, making Quick Projects feel less predictable and encouraging more strategic planning.

Because the new project handling can create more active project combinations, we updated the Active Project HUD to keep it readable.

• The HUD now shows a maximum of 4 prioritized projects, focusing on:

  • Projects for today, or

  • Projects whose truck has already arrived
    Then it will display other projects after those priorities.

This is meant to keep the HUD useful at a glance without becoming overcrowded.

Based on community feedback, we refined several Production Assistant behaviors so they work more efficiently and feel more intentional.

• Smarter box selection for Starter MachinesProduction Assistants no longer choose boxes randomly or only by closest distance. They now consider the required amount more carefully.
  For example, if a machine needs 24 items, the assistant will prefer using one Medium (M) box instead of immediately taking a Large (L) box or combining multiple Small (S) boxes.

  

• Employee now respects Turn On/Off state of Starter MachineSupplying behavior now depends on whether the Starter Machine is turned on or off.

  • If the Starter Machine is turned off, employees will not insert items into it.

  • This means you can prioritize which Starter Machines should receive supplies by turning unused machines off directly using the machine’s Turn On/Off switch, without needing to open Employee Settings for every machine.

  

Fixed an issue where employees could still supply Starter Machines after 20:00 (End Production Time) under certain conditions.

• With this update, whenever an employee is about to place items into a Starter Machine, the system will re-check the time before the final input happens.

• This prevents unintended late supplying behavior after production time ends.

Fixed an issue where employees could walk through Supply Racks as if they had no collision. Supply Racks now properly block employee paths and can no longer be passed through.

We found reports where an employee appears to be “working” but only walks back and forth without completing the task. In many cases, this happens because the target machine or object has no valid path for the employee to reach it, causing the pathfinding process to repeatedly fail.

To avoid this issue, please make sure:

• Machines and objects are not blocked or locked in a way that prevents access

• There is enough clear walking space so employees can reach the interaction point properly

Some players reported that products always come out as Grade D after the Packaging Machine. In most cases, this is not caused by the packaging stage itself, but by an incorrect processing order earlier in the line.

The recommended general order from the catalog is: Slice → Wash → Dry

If the order is violated, the system may treat the product as improperly processed, which can result in Grade D output.

To reduce how often this happens, we added a potential fix that allows some flexibility in the early order:

• Slice → Wash can now be swapped to Wash → Slice without affecting the result.

This change is meant to cover the most common mistake we see players make when setting up lines. After this update, players who prefer to Wash first and Slice after should still get the same output quality as the original Slice first then Wash order.
One more important note: the system now does not reduce the quality of raw commodities when the day changes. Only completed products (after labelling) have a grade, and that grade will only decrease after day change if the product is not stored in the Cold Storage Room.

Once again, thank you very much for all your feedback and patience. We are still tracking everything and prioritizing improvements based on feasibility and impact, while continuing to refine core systems step by step.

If you encounter any issues with this new update, please report them through the in-game Bug Report Menu and/or the Steam Discussions so we can investigate quickly.

See you in the next update! 🥗🚚

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Hi everyone, 😄

Thank you very much for your continued support, bug reports, and feedback. Your messages and detailed explanations have been extremely helpful in guiding our priorities, especially now as the factory expands and systems become more complex. This update continues our step-by-step approach by adding more storage capacity, improving delivery handling, and introducing new routing options for conveyor layouts.

Here is what is included in this version.

As factories grow, storage becomes one of the biggest bottlenecks. In this update, we are adding Cold Storage Rooms 3 and 4.

• Between Factory Building 1 and Factory Building 2, we prepared additional rooms that can be used as new Cold Storage areas.

• We also heard feedback about wanting a dedicated Supply Storage Room. After reviewing the needs, we decided not to separate it as a special room, since Supply Racks can already be placed inside Cold Storage.

• This means these new Cold Storage rooms can also be used as supply storage if your playstyle requires it, especially if you want to place Supply Racks in a more organized space.

This was a frequent community request, and with the factory area becoming larger, being able to monitor supply stock without walking back and forth has become much more important.

To help you track how many supplies you currently have, the Project Menu now includes an additional view that shows your Supply Stock information. This displays the total stock of purchased supplies such as Commodities, Packaging, and Labels. You can filter and sort by quantity to the information shown in the menu.

We refined the truck loading process to handle overflow more cleanly.

• If a delivery would result in extra items than the target, the excess will now be converted into a new box, instead of extra items to deliver.

• The extra box will appear next to the truck and can be picked up by employees and returned to available Cold Storage.

This not make extra item to deliver, and makes overflow handling more consistent.

A new conveyor type is now available: Rotary Splitter Conveyor.

• This conveyor splits the line into 3 alternating outputs using a smart routing method.

• If one of the output sides has no connected conveyor, it will automatically route to another available output instead.

This opens up more specialized layout options and makes complex multi-branch lines easier to build.

Vendor Truck capacity has been increased.

• At Reputation Level 10, Vendor Truck capacity can now reach a maximum of 960.

We updated the Project Menu UI to make managing offers much easier.

• Added category tabs: All, Active, and Offer.

• Added a preparation filter with options: All, Today, 1 Day, 2 Days, and 3 Days.

This was a common request to help players quickly sort and focus on the right project type without manually scanning long lists.

Supply purchasing now supports quicker quantity selection.

• Added +1 and +10 buttons for faster bulk purchasing without too many repeated clicking.

• You can still set a specific quantity manually, and you can remove items from the Cart list if needed.

We updated the Label Machine monitor display:

• It now shows the selected Focus Commodity icon, instead of appearing blank right after deployment.

Fixed an issue where employees could supplying a Starter Machine even after the Focus Commodity changed mid-process.

• Employees will now stop supplying if the Focus Commodity no longer matches what they are holding.

• They will try to return the item to an available Supply Rack.

• If no suitable rack exists, they will drop the item near the Starter Machine instead.

Fixed an issue where employees could repeatedly try to restock labels when the Focus Commodity did not match the remaining label type inside the machine.

• A warning is now shown in Employee Settings when this mismatch occurs.

• Employees will no longer attempt to restock when the label inside the machine does not match the focused label type.

Once again, thank you very much for all the support, reports, and feedback. We are continuing to record everything and prioritize updates based on feasibility and impact, while keeping the game stable as new expansion content rolls out.

If you encounter any issues after updating, please report them through the in-game Bug Report Menu and/or the Steam Discussions. Every report helps us validate fixes and improve the experience faster.

See you in the next update! 🥗🚚

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