Pre-Alpha DevBuild 0.28

**Status:** Released 5 Apr 2023

## Maker of Mechs Pre-Alpha DevBuild 0.28: Parallel Flux

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### The Blacksmith

Tsi-Lu, The Blacksmith, will now help you repair your mech

* This quest chain is available in New Worlds or in Parallel Universes

### Parallel Flux

Flux Crystals can now be invested at buildings to increase their total production by 1% per Flux Crystal. This bonus multiplies with other building bonuses

* Up to 10 000 Flux Crystals can be invested at each building
* Flux Crystals can no longer be sold to Syngen
* Flux Crystals (in your cargo hold or invested at buildings) will now follow you to parallel universes
* Buliding 50 Mechs to finish the game (down from 100) rewards 100 Flux Crystals that can only be spent ia a Parallel Universe
	+ This quest is repeatable with double the mechs for each repeat
* Go Parallel is now available from X-52
	+ Older worlds will now have a Mech Factory to gain access to X-52, along with the quest to build a Mech Armada
* The Victory window no longer has a New World button

* The rest of your Mech's cargo hold no longer survives Go Parallel
* Net Cargo Hold Value is no longer shown in the Overview Panel (it is not directly important to the core loop anymore)
	+ You can find it in the Inventory Window when hovering over SymCoin

*Being able to keep all items creates a keep vs spend choice that counteracts the always-upgrading feeling we want*

### Balance

* The second assembly line at the Mech Factory now costs 40 Oil (up from 6 Rock)

*The previous cost was mostly a place holder. 40 Oil is still relatively cheap, but offers an incentive to plan some oil and charcoal into the core loop.*

* Mechs now take 10 minutes each to produce

*Mechs are at the very end of the production chain and we wish for players to invest into and upgrade mech factories. With a 30 second production cycle there was no reason. With a 10 minute production cycle you will want to install at several more assembly lines to be effective.*

### General

* SynGen will no longer buy Mechs from you
* [Fix] "Can you do me a Favor?" now only needs 2 Favor to show (was 5)
* [Fix] The Mech Factory will now generate with a road
* New Zorion West now spawns to the West of New Zorion
* Numbers will no longer round down in displays
* Added new art for completed jobs an deals
* Leading ticks in the dev console will now be ignored
* Continued to iterate on sound balance
* Added many new music tracks
* Improved Lady Zorion's dialog
	+ Comment on the ones you like/dislike with "return Jukebox.NowPlaying" from the dev console
* Hovering over inventory items will now show their trader buy and sell rates
	+ This was initially done to solve for amounts appearing enough but not being enough. Since floating point numbers are commonly not precise this leads to a lot of cases of underreported numbers that just feel wrong though. Common examples are 1.14 and 2.30 that cannot be represented when rounding down

### Engine

* [Fix] Colons containing spaces (: :) will no longer be considered a sprite for the LUA string formatter
* Inventory and Recipe systems have been streamlined
* Added the World.OnBeforeSave event
* Added the World.CustomStorage string map
* Prices for inventory items are now persisted per world and can be changed via script
* Attempting to load an invalid sprite will no longer stop the entire loading process
* ContentManager.DeleteSprite now allows scripts to delete sprites
* Sprites with overlapping aliases will now emit warnings instead of errors

### 6 April 2023 Hotfix

* Added more information about Go Parallel in the Flux Crystal inventory tooltip
* [QoL] improved the readability of warehouse upgrade details
* [Fix] The Mech Factory's tooltip now show its inputs needed with positive numbers
* [Fix] The Mech Factory can now produce items again
* [Fix] The Mech Factory no longer has the option to install a Har'bek Bay
* [Fix] The option for upgrading Mech Factories is now accessible again
* [Fix] Fixed a typo in "Building Storage Areas"
* [Fix] Fixed the "Acres" error with the mayor's quest chain
* [QoL] Lowered the volume of Free Adventure Track by 20%
* [QoL] Lowered the volume of all sound effects by 20%

### 7 Apr 2023 Hotfix

* Continued to normalize music volume
* X-52 no longer has an option to drink beer
* Favor dialog options at traders have been removed
* A few previously unnamed music tracks now have names
* Removed the "What parts do you need?" dialog option at the Mech Factory
* [Fix] Producing mechs no longer breaks the production counter
* [Fix] The dev console's scrollbar now scrolls up/down (was down/up)
* [Fix] Added concrete to the inventory window