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It's been a while! I'm working on the mobile version of the game and have added an essential mobile feature that I also want to bring to the desktop version: background progress. Now, when you open the game, everything that happened while you were offline (up to 8 hours) will be simulated until a complete stop or a major event. Offline time also counts toward the "Need a break?" achievement!

Additionally, I've updated the game shell version to try and fix a rare bug that caused crashes at certain points in progression on some computers. I also updated the Czech translation, thanks to Kryštof Kubík.

This update has one major QoL thing: you can now build upgrades without having to construct previous machines first. I hesitated a lot about this change but ultimately didn’t find any strong arguments against it. So if it is not a unique machine or a hollow flower/fruit, you can place it anywhere if you have resources.

Thanks to Hernán Marandino the game now has an amazing soundtrack. You may hear it in the background at certain moments. I personally love how it merges with the sound of machines, so sometimes you can't even tell if it's music or just the game itself.

Charonite and Qanetite surges are significantly buffed. They could be used to even make pumpless setups (if you don't have too many extractors). Red surges are buffed as well.

Other than that:
+ Surges now remember their stabilizers after relaunch
+ Fixed a bug when Neophobia didn't appear in the achievements list
+ Added Norwegian language
+ Stabilizer in hand now prevents accidental surge collection
+ You can see the refund amount when upgrading something
+ Upgrading counts as deletion for RBR achievement (just feels right)
+ Minor bug fixes

+ limited UI size for large displays
+ fixed Red Blue Rock achievement bug, which was making it unachievable

And one more thing:
In a simple words: much less whack-a-mole.
Details: As you may or may not know, there is a mechanics allowing you to refill multiple buildings on a single silo charge if it happens quick enough. But there was a problem: converters drift a little out of sync and on top of that, the time until resources arrive to a refilled machine varies. It's like that for a reason: if everything happens at the same frame, it doesn't look good in general.
I gave converters a little variation to the animation, but the functional timings are strict now. So if you make a converter setup around a silo, it will get the full benefit of single charge refill until the silo is depleted.

I'm happy to present you a big update with the new mechanics and quality of life stuff! This update introduces three new machines called "Stabilizers". The first one becomes available after encountering the first surge and locating Elmerine. Placing a stabilizer near a surge (being careful not to accidentally collapse it) allows it to harness the surge's power for a few minutes. The effect varies depending on the type of surge and scales with its grade, which is indicated by its size and the number of stars in a stabilizer's tooltip. There are three surge grades. Higher grades produce stronger and more frequent effects. The same goes for the stabilizers. The second stabilizer becomes available at a certain point in the game's progression, and the third one is quite tricky to discover. These stabilizers offer different ways for progressing through the game or can be ignored in favor of simply collecting resources from surges.

SPOILER ALERT. The effects of the surges. I strongly suggest you to explore stabilizers on your own at first.
Charonite surge: Boosts a random channel for a short amount of time.
Elmerine: Tries to refill a random building.
Qanetite: Hits a random cube with the force dependant on the surge grade
Beta-Pylene: Hits a random cube containing Beta-Pylene, knocking it out of the cube and leaving mostly Charonite. Damages the cube.
Hell Gem: Boosts a random converter.
Chromalit: Spawns a surge. Just one Chromalit surge can be stabilized.
Celestial Foam: Forces immediate annihilation of one Hell Gem with one cube of Celestial Foam.
Hollow Stone: Spawns a Hollow Stone
Void: Recharges one second-grade stabilizer and dies out shortly after. And something else.
Reality: Recharges all the symbols to some degree, depending on the grade of the surge. And something else.

What else is there:
+ Now you can swap buildings when relocating them with [E]
+ UI is scaled for big screens
+ Added hints telling if a machine can be moved or copied in [Alt] mode
+ Ctrl+w shouldn't affect other apps now
+ Converters now show their output in a tooltip
+ New Neophobia achievement
+ Fill director stops pointing to machines immediately after a click
+ Zoom level doesn't reset on restart
+ Fullscreen setting persists
+ Added relocation to gamepad controls (leftmost round button, [x] on xbox or [square] on ps controller)
+ Fixed a few bugs in a gamepad support
+ Chat scrolls to the most recent text by default
+ Romanian language is added to the game
+ General Decay Reactor now can be connected to the conductors network
+ Fixed resource icons in the machine store again
+ Fixed a rare bug which was preventing finishing the game
+ Tweaked scroll speed for windows platform
+ Proper rendering of resources traveling through conductors
+ Charonite and Void surges are slightly more distinguishable from each other
+ Added a guiding arrow on the other side
+ Fixed other minor bugs

Thank you all for playing my game, and see you on the next update!

There's a quick update which tames surges (there was a possible bottleneck if you accumulate too many hell gems at a certain point). And something extra to make things more clear.

+ Surges are capped now. If you accumulated a lot of hell gems before the foam, this update would fix that
+ You can see the return value of the machine you are about to sell
+ You can see what resources you are short of in the machine store
+ If you hover over a resource, you can see it's rates if you have first streamer tower. If you have the last upgrade of the streamer tower, you can also see a graph of the resource rates
+ While there is no AZERTY support yet, you can move using arrows

Firstly, thank you a lot for all the support for the game! And secondly, I'm happy to announce a fresh new update. It has some major improvements to quality of life and progression in general:

+ Machine relocation. If you have a disassembling tower, you can relocate most of the machines by pressing [E]. You can't move cubes, extractors, machines built on hollow rock and hollow stones
+ Working channels now cause anomalous resource manifestation, which you can collect manually
+ A silo can refill multiple machines on a single charge now (if refills happen in a very short amount of time). This is a huge buff to autonomy of converters.
+ halved the Chromalit price of Celestial Irradiators to make it more more accessible if you miss the Chromalit vein
+ Hollow stone spawn rate of the Reconstructed Hollow almost doubled
+ if you press [Q] over a machine, the machine store centers on a relevant item
+ greatly reduced visual noise for "no flashes" mode
+ Fixed a bug which allowed to build/refund a machine more than once
+ ctrl+w shouldn't close the game right now on Windows
+ reduced price scaling for most resonators
+ reduced price scaling for Hell Gem injector and Hell Gem destabilizer
+ even less price scaling for conductors
+ time warps don't affect camera movement anymore
+ a bit less steep scaling for upgraded channel coolers
+ Added a Latvian language thanks to Roberts Artūrs Bumburs
+ updated some of the translations and added the contributors to the ending credits
+ fixed some minor bugs

The update is now live for both Windows and Mac versions of the game. There was quite a few updates to the game in the past patches, like new buildings and mechanics, so feel free to browse through them in case you missed that.

Hey! There are quite a few things in this update, primarily based on your feedback. Its main goal is to make your time in the game more pleasant and to make the most challenging moments a bit less frustrating without making them too straightforward, if it makes sense.

New features:
+ There's a new type of machine. Once you build it, you can click and hold cubes to break them, just like with the first machine. Descriptions for these machines in different languages may be a little off at the moment. I'll fix that with the following updates.
+ You can now zoom in and out using your scroll wheel while holding the shift or control key. Tapping shift or control without scrolling will return the game to its original zoom.
+ Shop update: machines are now grouped with similar ones and their upgrades. Some have changed places to be closer to relevant neighbors. The shop can be minimized for easier access in the late game (look for the button in the bottom-right corner of the screen)
+ Added a control for disabling flashing lights. The button is in the bottom-left corner of the menu, next to flashlight mode
+ There is a Hungarian language now in the game, thanks to Simon Dániel and Márton-Mezey Csenge

Rebalancing and refining:
+ The chance of getting to the other side by teleporting after the chancel is dramatically increased
+ Reduced the Qanetite price of General Decay Reactor to make it accessible earlier
+ Halved the Qanetite price of Hollow Rock Research Facility
+ Removed the requirement of 6 Gradient Wells to build ???.
+ Time warps are two times shorter and less likely to be severe and more likely to speed things up
+ Hollow stones can't spawn behind the hollow rock
+ The jumpscare image now better fits the lore and gives a better clue on progression
+ Reworded Irradiator's description to give a better hint on progression (just in English now, but other languages will follow shortly)
+ Steam achievements persist in-game
+ A visual glitch with resources in the shop menu on some computers should be fixed
+ Fixed some typos and minor inconsistencies

If you wish to see the updates as soon as they are ready, there's a "destabilized" branch of the game designed for testing the changes. Before switching to the testing branch, I strongly advise exporting your game and saving it to a text file to ensure your progression is safely preserved (There is an [export] in the bottom of the main menu).