The first round of changes for the crafter are included in today's update. Technically speaking, the crafter now stores recipes inside its queue instead of items. It can now distinguish between the different ways an item is crafted as a result.
Additionally, you can see a preview of what is being added to the crafting queue, along with the raw items required for the crafter to fulfill the requested crafting steps. In the preview screen, you can also alter your preferred method of crafting a particular item.

It is now possible to partially uptier or downtier dust with the crafter. The generic way to solve this is a bit tricky since we cannot simply hardcode it into the game. The crafter should still be able to automatically detect recipe loops with modded recipes as well. However, this is a functionality we are still working on, along with a virtual inventory for the crafter that allows it to store the items it produces during partial steps, separate from the regular inventory.

Items will receive properties that define if they can be crafted, dissolved, or fabricated, in order to not link their creation methods to their mass. The crafter will be able to create items without mass thanks to this.

• added tooltips to tabs inside Power Plant
  
• added tooltips to power selection in boost tab inside Power Plant
  
• Factory item stacks that reach their max. size (=1e18) turn into infinite stacks
  
• added option to customize crafter to use specific recipes for specific crafting tasks
  
• added preview to crafter that shows recipes added to queue and raw items required
  
• added machine speed boosters to Factory manufacture

• reduced processing time of dense blocks by 10 seconds for each tier (so -10 on T1, -20 on T2 and so on)
  
• reduced processing time of down-tiering dust by 2 seconds and decreased the increase by tier by 1 second
  
• Power Plant boosts automatically unselect when cancelling them
  
• updated localization of 'Shoreline' module
  
• altered order of operations for all module attributes that use the alternative exponential scaling which fixes their attribute values at low levels on higher tiers
  
• changed crafter queue to be recipe based instead of item based
  
• removed deprecated migration checks from 2021 to speed up loading time
  
• improved description of 'Something' module
  
• changed 'Sky Blessing' to have a 1 sec. cooldown for individual enemies when not triggering on their hit

• fixed modules in Workshop not properly refreshing their background when switching blueprint while a search is active
  
• fixed wrong punctuation in darkness infinity stone unlock message
  
• fixed resetting air experiment sometimes causing the recharged percentage to become NaN
  
• fixed light blue color requirement for Trading Post light image in light experiment
  
• fixed town perks showing wrong current level beyond max level in hover preview when buying town perks with a multiplier
  
• fixed Workshop using deprecated background sprite
  
• fixed distribute equally button not appearing instantly after upgrading manufacture
  
• fixed cooldown of 'Rain Of Ashes' being off by 130 on lvl 1
  
• fixed nature and earth button order in era experiment
  
• fixed wave floor breaching the wave limit in sandbox mode

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This update adds a new artifact, new icons for Construction Firm skills, the introduction of the 'Trust Fund' mechanic, and comprehensive in-game stats for tracking your era hits & kills.
We've improved the clarity and performance of a few features, such as the military tier rewards' updated visuals and quicker processing for air experiments.

Many players who previously only played non-incremental games struggle with the notion of having to give up all current resources in order to advance further in the game. In the early stages of development we actually planned to have more military tiers and to let you progress quicker through them, but over time we decided to keep the total count low while in turn making each of them more meaningful instead.
We want our town prestige mechanic to be less punishing while still keeping the bump that currently exists after a tier up in order to not affect the pacing too much. That's why in this update, on reaching the next tier all your resources will be put into a so called "Trust Fund" which gradually returns all the resources you have spent to tier up over time. This way the resources gathered before tier up are not lost, while still incentivising proper preparation before proceeding. The time it takes to get back all your resources can additionally be reduced with an exotic skill in the Headquarters.

Furthermore, gems will no longer be awarded to you based on your current resource amount when you military tier up. We feel like there was almost no impact once you had your own gem production going in the Mine, Factory or the Shipyard. We originally envisioned that gems would be available in a more limited capacity and therefore be worth more.
Instead, after achieving the first four military tiers, you will now receive a set quantity of gems. In addition you will also receive exotic gems, which should allow new players to get exotic upgrades much earlier.

A huge part we have been working on is the mod editor for the modding DLC. We have finally decided on the framework we are going to use after a lot of prototyping in various languages and engines. If all goes well then even the mod editor itself might be easily modable.

• added artifact 'Nar's Tubular Test Tube'
  
• added 'era kills' to the enemy tab in the ingame stats menu (clickable for details over time)
  
• added 'era hits' to the enemy tab in the ingame stats menu (clickable for details over time)
  
• added icon to Construction Firm skill 'Fast Construction'
  
• added icon to Construction Firm skill 'Advanced Offline Construction'
  
• added 'Trust Fund' mechanic
  
• added exotic skill 'Trustworthy Trust Fund'

• added 'aura' tag to module 'Googles Influence'
  
• reduced memory usage of newly allocated mining asteroids
  
• improved air experiment processing performance (offline process calculation ~24k% faster)
  
• slightly improved clarity of reset info for gems experiment
  
• changed icon of boss unlocks in military tier rewards
  
• changed icon of new software unlocks in military tier rewards
  
• increasing military tier does not reward gems based on resources anymore, instead gems and exotic gems are now regular rewards at certain military tiers
  
• updated military tier help page

• fixed being able to import empty blueprints which are stored in the old format (to prevent errors being thrown in the console if there is an issue with the formatting)
  
• fixed final damage display in boss 5 not factoring in final Laboratory and Museum bonus
  
• fixed tower customization UI not updating when importing a tower styling

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It took bit longer than expected but it's finally ready: The unified import/export dialog!

You can now export blueprints, AI scripts, AI windows and even tower styles using a single export code. It also features a preview of the data you want to import together which any requirements you have to fulfill (like RAM requirements in the case of AI scripts or modules in the case of blueprints). You can freely select which one of the things contained inside the code you want to import and which you don't.
Similar on the export side you can now simply select what you want to export and it will instantly generate a shareable export-code for you.

The new dialog still accepts the old format so it doesn't break compatibility with existing codes but we still recommend to update any guides of yours by packaging all your AI scripts and blueprints into a single code.

Thanks to all our supporters who helped us testing this feature. It was quite a technical challenge to make it work with new and old export codes so it's very likely that there are still some issues here and there. Please let us know if you encounter any issues.

• added unified Import/Export dialog
  
• added upgrade to lava pump in Power Plant
  
• added upgrade to plasma pipe in Power Plant
  
• added upgrade to fusion generator in Power Plant
  
• added upgrades to plasma turbine in Power Plant

• replaced blueprint export/import with new system
  
• replaced AI script export/import with new system
  
• replaced tower design export/import with new system

• fixed AI scripts allowing arbitrary arguments for actions/functions when importing a script
  
• fixed worker not refreshing 'Construct Drone' button in Power Plant

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This week's update focuses solely on Adventure, but we've also implemented the long-awaited unified import/export dialog. Since this new dialog will replace all areas of the game where you can import/export, we decided not to release it with this update and instead polish it up and give it to our Discord/Patreon premium supporters to test first.

Here are some screenshots of what you can expect the dialog to look like in the future:

• added spell 'Identify Room'
  
• added spell 'Mana Armor'
  
• added AI Action 'Adventure: Cast Spell'
  
• added AI Action 'Adventure: Teleport'
  
• added AI Action 'Adventure: Buy Market Item'
  
• added AI Function 'Adventure: Get Mana Armor'
  
• mana no longer drops in chests
  
• last armor drop reduced to d130 (was d200)
  
• last sword drop reduced to d160 (was d200)
  
• fixed a bug with AI function 'Adventure: Count Entities'
  
• fixed a special case where map button doesn't get enabled after map unlock
  
• fixed 'Phoenix Feather' missing a sprite when dropped

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• added AI function 'Adventure: Golden Hearts'
  
• added AI function 'Adventure: Count Entities'
  
• changed AI function 'Adventure: Get Entity' to also return enemy types
  
• added worldmap

• added artifact 'Una's Replicator'

• fixed Museum not displaying conversion rate bonus
  
• fixed description of module 'Storm Aura'
  
• fixed description of module 'Monsoon Aura'
  
• fixed missing localization for enemy ability in c7-2
  
• fixed Trading Post tutorial crate outline being offset

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This update brings some more changes to Adventure and changes the scaling of Infinity Stones.

The main focus of the Infinity Stone rescaling was to make Infinity Stones usable way before reaching the final military tier. Previously, there was barely a gradient between not charging the stones at all and instantly charging them in the blink of an eye. Now, it's possible to charge your first stone even without focusing directly on doing so. It's also much more rewarding now to reach higher infinities on lower difficulties due to the Infinity Power values now being multiplied together.

• added AI function 'Adventure: Mana'
  
• added AI function 'Adventure: Emeralds'
  
• added AI function 'Adventure: Has Phoenix Feather'
  
• added AI function 'Adventure: Has Item'
  
• added item 'Hammer'
  
• added relic 'Master Sword'
  
• added relic 'Master Armor'
  
• added new enemy
  
• removed 'Emerald Map' from market
  
• added 'Emerald Map' as chest drop (d50+)
  
• rescaled market prices
  
• changed 'Emerald' drop to fixed amount of 3 without 'Emerald Map' and to 6 otherwise
  
• removed drop cap of 'Emeralds' when 'Emerald Map' is unlocked (previously 100)
  
• increased chance of rocks on higher distances
  
• changed effect of item 'Holy Bomb'
  
• changed teleport location to be the closest exit (prefers x over y)
  
• changed effect of 'Phoenix Feather' to negate damage when player would die instead of setting player health to 3

• added help page for infinity stones
  
• required start amount of stones now starts at 200
  
• upgrading reduces the charge amount by a fixed -1 (up to a total of -150)
  
• extraction bar production now starts at +1
  
• bars now have a base filling time of 10 minutes (down from 1 year)
  
• the duration upgrades now reduce the base charging time by a flat 5 sec. (up to -500 sec.)
  
• infinity power formula based on infinity highscores has been completely rescaled
  
• infinity powers for each difficulty now get multiplied together instead of added
  
• infinity power now has a logarithmic scaling to better reward spreading your highscores instead of constantly grinding the same difficulty
  
• the minimum and maximum charge time for infinity stones is now 0.028ms and ~33 hours