Heyho dear industry giants,

we have a new update for you!

After releasing the first part of the new line manager with the last update, we are now releasing the second part, which adds new functions to the line manager. In addition, you can now set waypoints with which you can take detours. The tutorial has also been revised and a new map (12x12) has been added. Of course, we have also taken care of one or two bugs.

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The freight amount is now automatically set to the annual production of the industry where the goods are being loaded. This can be changed at any time, allowing you to set the amount to your desired value.
In addition to the freight amount, there are now options for loading and unloading behavior.

The first option is called "Deliver Regularly". In this mode, the specified freight amount is delivered at regular intervals until the end of the year. The frequency of vehicle dispatch depends on the available vehicle models, their loading capacity, and the time remaining between the current date and December 31st. This option is ideal for preventing your industry’s entire storage from being emptied at once, which could lead to oversupply of your businesses or other buildings.

The next option is "Deliver Immediately", which is the counterpart to "Deliver Regularly". It attempts to deliver the specified freight amount as quickly as possible, dispatching as many vehicles as necessary to complete the task. This option is ideal for ensuring fast deliveries.

The next option is "Deliver All", which requires "Deliver Immediately" to be enabled. This setting tries to continuously empty the storage of all industries on the route where freight is loaded, dispatching vehicles accordingly. In other words, as soon as freight is available in an industry’s storage along the route, vehicles will be sent to pick it up. Since deliveries happen as frequently as possible, you cannot set a specific freight amount.

The final option is "Avoid Overfilling". This setting prevents vehicles from being dispatched if their cargo would exceed the storage capacity at the destination. If you have an extended route with multiple loading and unloading stations, only the amount of cargo that can be unloaded without exceeding storage capacity will be loaded.

Additional settings can be made through Advanced Line Settings. For example, you can define the seasons during which the line should be active. Vehicles will only be dispatched during the selected seasons. The vehicle filter allows you to specify which vehicle models should be used for the line — for instance, setting it to only use the fastest vehicles. Another feature exclusive to advanced lines is the use of waypoints.

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Due to the large number of intersections, certain routes can become very prone to traffic jams. It would be more efficient to take a small detour that crosses fewer intersections and reaches businesses in the city more effectively. With waypoints, you can now do exactly that and adjust a line's route as needed.

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The tutorial has been redesigned to make it easier for players to kick off their industrial careers. We've split the tutorial into multiple chapters, allowing you to learn the game at your own pace. Whether you're just starting out or simply looking to refresh your knowledge, each chapter explains the basics in a clear and structured way — including how to use the new Line Manager.

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We’ve added a brand-new map to the game! "Midgard" features 7 cities, spans 12x12 kilometers, and offers the largest landmass to date, effectively making it the biggest map in the game. Start your company and transform this land into a thriving industrial and urban region!

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• The demand from suburbs is now shown collectively in the city overview, rather than individually for each suburb.
  
• Several UI updates have been implemented. For example, new labels for cities have been added, and after selecting a map in the main menu, map settings are now shown immediately.
  
• Various balancing changes have been made — for instance, adjustments to production volumes and prices (in combination), and vehicles no longer have delivery times; they are available immediately upon purchase.
  
• Additional performance and stability improvements have been made under the hood.
  
• Several annoying graphical bugs have been resolved.

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Thank you very much for your support up to this point. Please continue to let us know about anything you notice. Be it ideas on how we can improve the game or bugs that need to be fixed.

Your teams
Don VS Dodo & Toplitz Productions

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Hello!

Good news! We are starting the Steam Spring Sale today and have a few discounts for you.
Industry Giant 4.0 is available at a discount of 30% in this sale!

The sale runs from 13 March to 20 March 2025

Take this opportunity to expand your gaming experience and get the offer while it's available!

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Hello, fellow Industry Giants!

Whenever we look at our Discord, we also see great screenshots of the places and cities in Industry Giant 4.0. We recently added a terrain modification tool along with the update for city growth, which makes for even greater cities.

That's why the call goes out to you all out there today: Show us your cities and settlements!

Go into the game, select the best settings, and start snapping.

Pause the game and press Ctrl + Y to activate screenshot mode (the HUD will fade out).

After that, please upload your screenshots to your Steam profile. To do so, open the Steam overlay (usually Shift + Tab) – Screenshots. Then you can select the option to view and upload screenshots of the current session or at any time (from this game).

Next, go to your profile and you will find the entry ‘Screenshots’ listed there. Click on the screenshot and select ‘Copy Link Address’.

Go to this website here (a form) We don't need any personal information, just your Steam name and the URL to your submissions.

https://forms.office.com/e/whHN3hS3A0

Do you have any further questions, suggestions or ideas? Then share them with us on Discord, Steam and our social media channels!

Don VS Dodo and Toplitz Productions

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The heart of this update is focusing on the first iteration of the new line manager. With this change it is easier to create lines for your transport routes. You can create lines directly from an industry or the other way around from a shop. From an industry to a shop via the departure function and from a shop to an industry via the arrival function.

We didn’t want to wait until we had the other changes for the line manager in the game, because we think it will push the game forward. Stay tuned for the other changes, including features as you know from the games predecessor like the order for trucks to wait at an industry until fully loaded.

We fixed some issues with the city growth as well as some changes that make the city grow in a way it should be, from a small city to a big city including high-rise buildings and skyscrapers.

We also implemented two of the three top priorities that came out of the survey we started last week. We have changed the speed, capacity and costs for maintenance for trucks and trains and we have added a new map (12x12) to the game and another one will follow soon.

• A new map has been introduced to the game: Arctic Haven (12x12)
  
• The first iteration of the new line manager. With this change it is easier to create lines for transport routes.

• Trucks and trains have undergone a balancing change in their speed, capacity, and maintenance costs.
  
• The mechanics of town growth have undergone significant changes.
  
• It is now much more common to encounter high-level structures, such as high-rise buildings and skyscrapers.
  
• To enhance the construction process, it was essential to implement an interpolated step. When constructing at a speed of 1x, the construction fences and scaffolding should expand gradually rather than in abrupt increments, ensuring a smoother transition.
  
• Chinese localization for the Terrain-Edit message have been successfully added.
  
• The depot limit has now been established at 25 units per depot.
  
• Depot Capacity Upgrade Modules: You can enhance your depot's capacity by purchasing Upgrade Modules.
  
• To optimize the town's demand parameters, the supply level limit has been established at 20%. Additionally, the building level limits will now range between 50% and 70%.
  
• The implementation of the new demand order has led to a reorganization of city demand, providing players with greater variability than ever before. This works only if you start a new game. Unfortunately it doesn’t work with older savegames.
  
• New demands have been allocated to the cities on the maps, making them accessible in new games sessions. However, existing save games will retain their original sorting.
  
• The storage capacity of the shops has been increased.
  
• In levels 1 to 3 of era 4, additional town buildings can be constructed in cities.
  
• The feature of shop rating has been disabled due to community feedback.
  
• Various performance optimizations have been made since the last update.
  
• We have marked the maps Rivals, Mountain Valley, Twin Peaks as legacy (replaced by V2). They are still available, if you select “outdated maps” at the map selection menu.
  
• Marking non-default product quality filtering in advanced line menu.

• City growth UI doesn’t show demand for every level.
  
• Lines cannot build, because Truck will not reach the Depot again.
  
• Wrong behavior with "Residential Building Supply" Layer.
  
• The application's window cannot longer be reduced to an unplayable size.
  
• City grows now correctly in all zones who are able.
  
• Holding Alt while smoothing inverts strength.
  
• Households go shopping more often than demand indicates.
  
• Optimize shop distance calculation.
  
• There was no import and export harbor and airport at the map Peninsula.
  
• The Terrain edit mode tool leaves terrain elements hanging in the sky.

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Greetings, dear Industry Giants!

Today we need something from you! Your opinions! For an important survey on the upcoming updates. So please make use of your right to vote and decide on a handful of key questions!


We also have a tutorial video for you on the Terrain Tool!

Do you have any further questions, suggestions or ideas? Then share them with us on Discord, Steam and our social media channels!

Don VS Dodo and Toplitz Productions

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Greetings, dear Industry Giants!

Today's update brings the long-awaited terrain modification tool! This tool offers you the opportunity to customise the landscapes on the maps!


Form hills, mountains and valleys.

Use the ‘Raise’ and ‘Lower’ functions to create high ground or deep canyons and valleys. Adjust the size and intensity of your tools to make precise or large-scale changes.

Smooth and level surfaces.

Use the Smooth tool to even out uneven terrain and create a harmonious playing environment. Perfect for preparing building sites for buildings and industries or traffic routes.

Use the tool to design your maps the way you want!

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Greetings, dear Industry Giants!

We are excited to announce a new feature for Industry Giant 4.0: the terrain modification tool, which you have already been able to test on the test branch! This tool offers you the freedom to modify the landscapes on maps!


Sculpt hills, mountains, and valleys.

Use the ‘Raise’ and ‘Lower’ functions to create towering terrain or deep canyons and valleys. Adjust the size and intensity of your tools to make precise or large-scale changes.

Smooth and level surfaces.

Use the smooth tool to even out uneven terrain and create a harmonious playing environment. Perfect for preparing building sites for buildings and industries or traffic routes.

Use your creative freedom to design your maps as you see fit! Coming soon here and currently available to try on the test branch!

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Happy Holidays, industry giants and business tycoons!

The Holidays are upon us, and we hope you find as much harmony in your worlds as you do in a perfectly planned production chain and flow of goods! May your progress in the new year 2025 run as smoothly as an optimised economic cycle in Industry Giant 4.0!

We wish you a wonderful Holiday season and a happy new year, when we will be back for you!

Looking back at the busy weeks since we launched into Early Access, we want to also thank you for the constant stream of constructive criticism and valuable feedback on our game design, mechanics and features. With several updates we have since added 4 new maps, a dozen new features and quality of life improvements such as the Production Chain Navigator and expanded City Overview. While we are going to continue working on this, drastic improvements have already been made to overall game performance and stability. Last but not least, more than 100 critical and minor issues have been fixed.

But this is obviously not the end of the road as we want to share our development roadmap for the first quarter of 2025 with you:

Stay tuned for more updates to this roadmap in 2025 and keep the feedback coming, your input is crucial to a successful Early Access phase.

Of course this news would not be complete without “one more thing”, so today we are also rolling out another major update to the game. See changelog below:

• Two new maps have been introduced to the game: Mountainpass (10x10) and Ryusei (10x10).
  
• A new simplified mode is now accessible for line managers, streamlining the line creation process. Players also have the option to switch back to the advanced mode at any time.
  
• The game now incorporates individual town demand, enhancing the diversity of gameplay and creating a more engaging experience for players.
  
• We added a text-to-speech functionality to the tutorial, including a Play/Pause button at the relevant message popup (English and German only now).
  
• We have adjusted the balancing of market prices on the ‘Neighbours’ (4x4) map and would welcome your feedback on this.
  
• The UI of the city overview has been enhanced and is now showing demands at different levels within the city.
  
• High-tech Industry has been added to the game.

• The Production Chain UI now enables users to select and build structures directly from the overview.
  
• Enhancements to the rendering performance.
  
• The game now features a direction indicator that appears when players begin constructing new roads or rails.
  
• The town window now displays enhanced information based on the building level of each town.
  
• English and German localization for the new Maps feature have been added.
  
• With left SHIFT, it is now possible to delete multiple sections of a track/street or entire connections with the Bulldozer tool.
  
• Further performance and stability optimizations.

• Skyscraper town buildings not appearing after the year 2050
  
• Improvements have been made to address various tooltip and wording issues.
  
• The flickering issue observed around buildings has been successfully resolved.
  
• The “In-game UI Scale” feature has been moved from GAMEPLAY settings to GRAPHICS settings.
  
• Foundry can now store coal.
  
• Fixed for the tutorial step with the second wood production.
  
• Improved train connections.
  
• City growth behaves now better across city boundaries.
  
• Minor bug fixes.
  
• Fixed misleading text in Shop UI (EN and DE)

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The same update will be available on the Public Beta Branch, including terraforming tools as an experimental feature:

Players can now modify the terrain of a map during the game and use a brush tool to adjust the height or depth within the selected radius. Additionally, the edges of the modified areas can be smoothed. Important: Maps edited with this tool will require more storage space, which means the size of the save game is increasing.

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PS: If you fancy some ice and snow, why not try the Permafrost demo!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3197110/Permafrost_Demo/

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Hello everyone!

We’re using a separate branch to test updates before they get applied to the “live” version. You can check out changes here first.

Some of you probably have not done this before, so we have a small guide:
Prerequisite:
You must have Industry Giant 4.0 in your library – obviously.
The procedure

• Open your game library.
  
• Right Click on Industry Giant 4.0 there.
  
• Open properties.
  
• Select the tab "BETAS".*
  
• Select the branch public_testing
  
• Press Close

Steam should now download this version of the game.
*Steam labels all those builds as "betas” albeit they’re not betas, so do not be too confused!

Please report bugs or issues found there
and – if you are on Discord in

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• Two new maps have been introduced to the game: Mountainpass (10x10) and Ryusei (10x10).
  
• A new simplified mode is now accessible for line managers, streamlining the line creation process. Players also have the option to switch back to the advanced mode at any time.
  
• Players can now modify the terrain of a map during the game and use a brush tool to adjust the height or depth within the selected radius. Additionally, the edges of the modified areas can be smoothed. Important: Maps edited with this tool will require more storage space, which means the size of the save game is increasing.
  
• The game now incorporates individual town demand, enhancing the diversity of gameplay and creating a more engaging experience for players.
  
• We added a text-to-speech functionality to the tutorial, including a Play/Pause button at the relevant message popup (English and German only now).
  
• We have adjusted the balancing of market prices on the ‘Neighbours’ (4x4) map and would welcome your feedback on this.
  
• The UI of the city overview has been enhanced and is now showing demands at different levels within the city.

• The Production Chain UI now enables users to select and build structures directly from the overview.
  
• Enhancements to the rendering performance.
  
• The game now features a direction indicator that appears when players begin constructing new roads or rails.
  
• The town window now displays enhanced information based on the building level of each town.
  
• English and German localization for the new Maps feature have been added.
  
• With left SHIFT, it is now possible to delete multiple sections of a track/street or entire connections with the Bulldozer tool.
  
• Further performance and stability optimizations.

• Skyscraper town buildings not appearing after the year 2050
  
• Improvements have been made to address various tooltip and wording issues.
  
• The flickering issue observed around buildings has been successfully resolved.
  
• The “In-game UI Scale” feature has been moved from GAMEPLAY settings to GRAPHICS settings.
  
• Foundry can now store coal.
  
• Fixed for the tutorial step with the second wood production.
  
• Improved train connections.
  
• City growth behaves now better across city boundaries.
  
• Minor bug fixes.
  
• Fixed misleading text in Shop UI (EN and DE)

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