Arcaneering: Beyond Automation

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• Patch Notes·1 Sept 2026Official

  Release notes for v0.10.4 (2026-09-01)

  Patch Notes v0.10.4Potion Cauldrons- Cauldrons now level up with use, each level granting +4% brewing speed- Some Cauldron recipes are now level-gated- Golden vegetation can now be used in place of regular vegetation to gild potions for triple the recipe amountBuilding & Placement- Drag placement now supports gaps, letting you drag through already-placed Splitters and similar- Assisted placement is less aggressive- Mana consumption now also shows on the speed control slider for relevant buildings- Warehouses without a set visual label now take their label from the majority resource- Improved placement of the production view icon- Ctrl+C on a building with no copyable settings now fires a notification- Suggested belt direction going into or out of a production building can now be overridden by the playerUI- Building info, build menu, message log, resource tree, and objectives menu are now draggable- Objectives menu, resource tree, and message log can be resized by dragging edges and corners- Added an FPS Limit option to the menuMisc- Faster world generation- Better start-up loading distribution + faster start-up- Production chain planner now factors in unlocked skill bonuses (such as Mana Forge production speed)- Improved merchant disappearance animationFixes- Re-doing a blueprint placement no longer loses connections- First belt of a drag placement can no longer connect across cliffs- Lowered dragon flying height to stop camera clipping
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• Patch Notes·29 Aug 2026Official

  Release notes for v0.10.3 (2026-08-29)

  Patch Notes v0.10.3Production planning & recipes- Planned builds can be pinned on screen; clicking a pinned item opens placement mode with the recommended recipe preselected- Resource icons in the resource tree's production tab now also open the production chain view- Production planner gained an "Auto" option for alternate recipe choice, returning to the auto-best default- Level-locked recipes now sort to the bottom of the recipe selection UI- Pressing Enter after filtering/searching for recipe will now select itPlacement- Middle-clicking a building acts as a pipette, letting you place copies of it- Right-click during a drag-placement now cancels only the drag, not the whole placement mode- Holding Ctrl temporarily disables assisted placement- Single blueprint placements now show their cost in the preview- Out-dragging from a connected curve belt now also auto-places a SplitterCopy, paste, & mass editing- Building right-click context menu can now also copy/paste settings (in addition to the standard Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V)- Mass settings paste brush now shows a running count of affected buildings- Mass delete now shows a label totaling the refundUI- Building XP/leveling progress is now displayed in building info UI- Connections can be switched to another eligible input/output in the gear menu of the building UI, not just removed- Buildings benefitting from a Mystic Wellspring now show that buff in their UI- Hovering the consumption text of Power Generators and Power Spires shows consumption rates for other fuels- Spell buttons now hint at right-click for automation once the automation skill is unlocked- The automation icon now dims when an automated spell currently can't perform its task- The Message Log is now better organized and prettier- Brewing UI now shows seconds remaining on cauldron progress, and the favorites section always starts uncollapsed- Statistics search box now supports WASD input- Recipe selection UI now resizes with search/filtering- Resource nodes on wo...
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• Patch Notes·23 Aug 2026Official

  Release notes for v0.10.2 (2026-08-23)

  Patch Notes v0.10.2Building & Placement- Wall drag-placement now auto-curves and auto-places wall curves- Drag-building a Wall through an existing Wall auto-places a Wall Tower at the intersection (if unlocked)- Improved curve detection and rotation in crowded building environments- Smoother mass deletion selection- Auto-placed Elevator Bridges during drag-placement now can also span intervening Splitters/Mergers- Placing a copy of a building via right-click context menu now preserves its rotation- Blueprints now save settings such as Super Splitter filters and Warehouse visual labels- Improved auto-connection of blueprints during blueprint drag-placement- Pasting settings from a different building type now fires an appropriate warningLogistics- Mergers now use round robin, so a single saturated input line can no longer hog them- Mergers now keep feeding eligible items/lanes even when the lane whose turn it is is blocked- Hovering over a Conveyor Belt now shows its flow direction arrow- Items now follow a smoother curve through Conveyor Belt curves- Resource crates now have a right-click context menu, including a delete optionProduction Planning & UI- Production Chain view can now be used for production planning, with target productions and auto-selected best recipes that can be overridden- Resource tree UI now supports drag-panning- Improved snapping to the resource when searching in the resource tree- Progress bars (loading screen, brewing UI) now move smoothlyCamera- Camera now zooms toward the cursor instead of the screen center- Smoother and more even zoom- Improved drag panning as a means to travel the world- Fixed right-stick zoom pacing for controllersFixes- Fixed Production Chain objective not completing when Miner and Smelter are connected by a very long belt segment- Fixed Conveyor Belts sometimes unable to curve when connecting to a belt beneath an Elevator Bridge- Fixed pasting a Super Splitter with an Overflow filter setting- Fixed blueprints starting ...
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• Patch Notes·16 Aug 2026Official

  Release notes for v0.10.1 (2026-08-16)

  Patch Notes v0.10.1Building- Drag placement now auto-curves when ending adjacent to an eligible connection- Drag placement can now be dragged so that the final tile is an unextended curve- Selection during blueprint creation is smoother- Building right-click context menu gained a Delete optionCamera & Navigation- Transition between top-down and regular camera view is now animated instead of abrupt- Ctrl-clicking the map places a screen-edge tracking arrow that disappears once you reach the marked area- The Merchant symbol on the world map is now more prominentUI & Controls- All tooltips now use the styled tooltip- Esc now also closes the building info UI, and does so before opening the game menu- The top-down view shortcut is now listed in the build menu shortcut list- Recipe choice UI now sizes itself based on how many recipes are availableFixes- Resource crates no longer swallow drag placements that start on their tile- Resource crates no longer refuse a transfer when the preferred Warehouse is full but another Warehouse has space- First placement of a given building type no longer causes a lag spike- Undo pressed right after a long drag placement no longer undoes the placement before it- Fixed a rare issue in which hovering over resource icon in the building UI did not produce a tooltip- Localization fixes
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• Announcements·9 Aug 2026Official

  Release notes for v0.10.0 (2026-08-09)

  Patch Notes v0.10.0Architect Skill Tree & Cosmetics- The world now contains 52 collectable Architect Caches that award XP when found- Every 10 caches found unlocks a node in the new Architect branch of the skill tree, dedicated to cosmetic features. Rewards include an optional night mode and more!Trader Token Shop- Token shop can now very rarely offer alternative recipes otherwise obtainable from merchants and chests- Token shop can now rarely offer new decoration buildings to unlock that have been added, such as a FountainVisuals & Animation- Reworked meshes for most buildings & critters for a better factory experience- Production buildings now have a moving/glowing part during production- Resource meshes are now visible as they traverse the Elevator Bridge- Building and resource icons now use the available icon space betterPerformance- General performance optimizations, especially for larger factoriesUI & Quality of Life- Search bars are now typo-resistant and support fuzzy search- Ancient Obelisks now show in their tooltip how much of each requested resource is currently present- Power bar tooltip now shows how much power is still available or overspent- Status dot in the building info UI now has a tooltip explaining why a building stopped producing- Fine-tuned objective grouping in the objectives UI, and objective progress now updates live while the UI stays open- Escape now properly closes the scratch pad and the search bar- Improved handling of keybind remapping conflicts and fixed display of compound keys such as Ctrl+ZBlueprints- Better match between the can-place preview and actual placement eligibility- More robust blueprint save/load handling- Better stride handling when mass-placing irregularly shaped blueprints- Better price calculation for partial blueprint placements- Smoother blueprint mass placement- Blueprint placement now properly clears the redo stack- Fixed blueprint mirroring persisting after cancelling placement with right-click/Esc- Fixed a r...
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