1.5.0

FEATURES
Scientific Notation

• Added support for Scientific Notation in settings

Learning Objectives

• These goals walk you through the games features and provide EXP for each one completed! The following Objective Paths were added:
• Added the Extraction Apprentice goals
• Added the Extraction Journeyman goals
• Added the Refinement Apprentice goals

NOTE: All existing users will have their Extraction Objectives marked as complete.

Workshop Redesign

• Redesigned the workshop to align with our vision for Refinement and build infrastructure for the future. Key Highlights are:
• Ability to craft all complex components from just vials
• Ability to see missing materials
• Ability to queue 4 crafting requests at the same time. Each request can contain up to 100 of the same item. And will craft them from the materials available.

Sprite Chest

• Sprites now passively generate rewards over time. The rewards are generated by your sprite taps with a chance to generate rewards at a % chance equal to 1/4th of your base active tapping rates.
• Generated items can be claimed from the Sprite Chest on the sands page.
• Each Sprite Chest initially holds 100 gold nuggets, 250 chips, and 500 vials.
• The Sprite Chest is independent per region allowing for multiple passive reward streams.

Powerful Contract Upgrades

• Powerful Contract Upgrades have 5 levels each and provide useful bonuses that greatly speed up progress.
• Added the following 4 Powerful Contract upgrades:
• Starting Sand - Start each run with sand already stored
• Recursive Boost - Each contract upgrade owned multiplies profits
• Vial Cost Discount - Decrease the sand cost of exporting vials
• Sprite Chest Increase - Increase the sprite chest capacity
• Removed the Sand Export Efficiency Upgrade & Replaced it with the Vial Cost Discount Upgrade. Any contracts used on the Sand Export Efficiency Upgrade have been refunded.

New Contract Upgrade Levels

• Added 20 new Contract upgrade levels to the non-powerful contract upgrades.
• Multiply all profits, contract potency, and export multiplier all now go to level 200.

Other

• Added 10 new Company Levels

QUALITY OF LIFE

Prestige Updates

• Prestige now provides sand vials for the remaining sand in your sand storage. This is not affected by the 1.25x ad multiplier.

Data & Statistics

• A star now highlights the most profitable product per second.

Statistics page Additions

• Sand Vial Cost
• Export Multiplier
• Profit per Second % contribution for each product
• Switched the % completed for each category of Region Development with the last level obtained.

Onboarding & World Hub Adjustments

• The region token progress, region unlock, and region enter buttons have been moved to better accommodate smaller devices. And have been redesigned to reduce clutter.
• Shortened Onboarding & clicks to enter the Volatile Badlands
• Reduced the load time for the region selection screen.
• Added an “!” indicator to the Hub Button when you can level up your company.

Tooltips

• Updated the wording on most tooltips to account for changes from the last few updates.
• Adjusted the wording on the Action Needed Alerts to make them easier to understand when prompting the user.

BALANCING CHANGES

Extraction Adjustments

• Exporting fills the excess sand bar now adding 50% of the exported sand to the excess sand bar.
• Reduced the Sand Mines starting upgrade cost in each region.
• The unlock requirement for the Sands Page is now reaching 25 product improvements.
• Adjusted all Product scaling, improvements, and upgrades to better balance products and make each product useful during specific parts of gameplay.
• Each product will receive a massive boost to profits every 4k levels in the Volatile Badlands and Scorching Desert, and every 5k levels in the Enduring Plains.
• 6k sand Levels are now required for 100% completion.
• Max Sand Mines level is now 6k

Exchange Adjustments

• Exchange Gold now provides 1-2 gold bars when rolled.
• Arcanite Parts (Shards, Cores, and Arcanite) can no longer be found in the Exchange. Only Vials can be found in the Exchange.

Company Adjustments

• Various Company Level Adjustments

BUG FIXES

Audio Fixes

• Audio no longer continues plays when leaving the App.
• Music should no longer pause other audio.

Authentication Fixes

• Fixed an issue that blocked users from logging into their account due to guest account linking issues.
• Fixed an issue that would log users out of their account if persistent auth rehydration took too long to complete.

Workshop Fixes

• The player should no longer be able to go into debt in the Workshop
• Negative item values are now visible on the company page.

General Fixes

• Tap Tiles and other assets no longer remain on screen when moving between pages
• Removed the currently unreachable sand capacity goals.
• EXP no longer looks like it is being claimed when at the current max level.
  

1.5.1

BUG FIXES
General Fixes

• Fixed a bug that shorted Scientific Notation Numbers by an order of magnitude.
• Scientific Notation now only displays one whole number with 2 decimals.
• The company screen is now scrollable to fix overflow on smaller devices.
• Powerful Contract Upgrades now show the value of the current boost instead of 0 when comparing the upgrade.
• Changed the starting text for the recursive boost to read 1x instead of 0
• The most profitable product will now update properly when buying product upgrades and Arcanite Upgrades.
• The Exchange box glow is now contained.