AutoForge’s next update, Special Delivery, is now live on the public experimental branch! This means it has already undergone testing with our beta players and is now open for everyone to try.

During this experimental phase, we’re focusing on gathering feedback on the new controller support and phase transportation systems. Of course, we’re also on a mission to squash as many bugs as possible. We’re aware of some existing challenges—like ensuring the tutorial displays gamepad input glyphs correctly and making overall improvements to gamepad support—and we’re actively working on them.

If you do have any feedback to give or issues to report then please do so either in the Steam Forums or better yet over on our Discord.

Since gamepad support is still in development we have not specified AutoForge as having gamepad support on Steam. This means that Steam Input likely is going to be trying to be active for AutoForge. In order for native gamepad support to for AutoForge you will need to disable Steam Input for the game. Unfortunately I do not believe it is possible to do this for Steam Deck without an external controller (meaning Steam Deck support is limited to docked mode for this build). Sorry!

Special Delivery is backwards compatible with saves from 0.4. If you are going to be playing on experimental then please backup your save files. You can find your save files in the folder: "\Steam\userdata\<youruserid>\1960480\remote\saves"


Go to AutoForge Properties > Betas and select the "experimental" branch from the dropdown menu. Steam should update AutoForge to the latest build. You can verify this by launching the game and checking the version in the bottom left corner. It should be "0.5.1 experimental".

• Native Gamepad Support
  
• Introduced Phase Transportation for long distance item and fluid transportation
  
• Deconstruct mode for quickly dismantling parts of your factory
  
• Introduced many new monsters into the wild
  
• Many new QoL changes
  
• Lots of optimizations
  
  Full changelog will come with the full release of Special Delivery!

Thank you for taking the time to play the experimental version of Special Delivery!