Highlights: The Blacksmith and Gem Workshop go double-lane—new second furnace / second bench upgrades process two different ores or gems at once; Royce's Auto-Sell departure rules are simplified to "full load or emergency cash", and he now actually gathers wood while waiting; cooking tasks short on ingredients no longer get marked as failed; plus a fix for the building-relocation tutorial popup.
New Content
- Blacksmith · Parallel Smelting: A new standalone coin upgrade, Parallel Smelting—once unlocked, a second furnace smelts the next different ore in your queue at 50% (500k coins) → 60% (1M coins) of the main furnace's speed. With only one ore in stock it stays idle and the main furnace keeps 100% speed; while both run, fuel burns twice as fast.
- Gem Workshop · Parallel Cutting: The same idea for gems—a second bench cuts a different gem in parallel at 40% (500k coins) → 50% (1M coins) of the main bench; it idles when only one gem is in stock, and blades wear out twice as fast while both run.
Gameplay Improvements
- Royce · simpler Auto-Sell departures: The old item-count/value/idle-timer rules are now just two—depart at a full load (20 items), or depart early for emergency cash when coins run low (≤10) with any surplus. While waiting, Royce no longer idles at the Simple Trading Point—he goes back to helping with wood; the "no surplus" notice is gone with it.
- Cooking · shortage tasks no longer "fail": Tasks short on ingredients now wait in the queue instead of being marked failed; legacy saves auto-restore such failed tasks to pending; failed tasks are merged per recipe in the queue bar (one slot per recipe), with smoother cancel behavior.
- Blacksmith / Gem Workshop · depletion alerts: Running out of fuel or blades now pushes a global notification when processing pauses—no more discovering the stoppage only when you open the panel.
- Text · Gravel Pit description: Now matches its actual output (steady stone plus a little sand); the Standing Orders hint and Royce tutorial wording were also trimmed (synced across 11 languages).
Bug Fixes
- Tutorial · relocation popup: Fixed the building-relocation tutorial popup appearing at the wrong time or failing to close (e.g., during relocation preview), which could interfere with normal controls.
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