v0.5.1 to 0.5.4 - Achievements, Cloud saves and QoL

FluxWerks v0.5.4 - 02-09-2026

New Features

• Named Worlds - New worlds get a name, and the load screen now groups every save under its world, with autosaves kept per world. Older saves keep working and ask for a name the next time you save.
• Continue - The main menu now has a Continue button that loads your most recent save.
• Steam Cloud - Save files and blueprints now sync through Steam Cloud across your machines.
• Achievements - Added twelve Steam achievements.
• Cancel Plans - The area select box can now cancel every ticked plan inside it, planned terrain work included.
• Clear Work - The area select box can now cancel every nanobot work order inside it, like B hotkey but only inside the area box.
• Farm Areas Overlay - A new overlay button outlines the working area of every Planter and Harvester at once. Gold outlines are Harvester zones, green are Planter zones.
• Belt Flip - Press F over a belt or elevator while building belts, or use the Flip button in its inspector, to reverse the flow. Flip line in the inspector reverses everything connected at once.

Improvements

• Deleted Saves - Deleting a save or world now moves it to a trash shown in the load screen. Disk space frees when you empty it.
• Area Select Panel - Reorganized into labeled sections, the tick boxes, the actions that follow them, and whole area actions.
• Pending Upgrades - Buildings and belts queued for an upgrade now show a soft amber outline on the ground instead of the arrow icon.
• Upgrade Orders - The area select box and the belt inspector can now cancel queued upgrades.
• Xenobloom Withering - A bloom that produces no new growth for 10 minutes dies out on its own.
• Selected Building Area - Selecting a Planter, Harvester, Air Scrubber or Maintenance Depot now outlines its working area, the same way placing one does.
• Overlay Combinations - Area overlays no longer switch each other off. Only the three terrain tints are still one at a time.
• Pollution Overlay - Now also outlines the area each Air Scrubber draws from.
• Placement Assist - Placing an area building (Air Scrubber for example) now outlines the existing ones of the same type, so you can avoid overlapping.
• Blueprint Placement - While placing a copy or blueprint, F flips it left to right as you see it and T rotates the other way.
• Belt Preview - Belts being placed, copied or pasted now show the moving tread of a planned belt instead of a plain strip.
• Belt and Pipe Inspectors - Actions are now grouped as this segment or the whole connected line: take, flip, upgrade and demolish for belts, flush and demolish for pipes.
• Button Icons - Added new icons to replace some placeholders.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the area select box queuing upgrades to tiers you have not researched yet.
• Fixed panels drifting away from where you placed them.
• Fixed the main menu changelog hiding descriptions at some UI scales.
• Fixed a panel you closed reopening itself after you leave the pause menu.
• Fixed large buildings partly inside a Maintenance Depot's area never being repaired.
• Fixed the outermost ring of a farm being planted but never harvested.
• Fixed the dig area of an Excavator or Fluid Extractor sitting one block off centre at some widths.
• Fixed a rare crash caused by fluid simulation.
• Fixed inserters sometimes missing belt items in front of them or delivering seconds late.
• Fixed two belts merging onto the same lane taking long one-sided turns.

Balance Changes

• Planter and Harvester - Working area reduced by one row and column, so four Planters now tile one Harvester exactly.
• Air Scrubber - Intake area is now a square instead of a circle, drawing from further out at the same cleaning rate.

FluxWerks v0.5.3 - 31-08-2026

New Features

• Repeat Copy/Blueprint - Press X to bring your last copied selection or placed blueprint back onto the cursor. Also a button on the tool panel.

Improvements

• Xenobloom Sites - Sites now pin themselves on the map with a world beacon when they appear, and the pin removes itself when the site is cleared.
• Locate Button - Locating an alert on the map now pulses a temporary dot at the exact spot for a few seconds.
• Belt Placement - The build direction follows your cursor, R/T set it by hand. F reverses the flow for the whole run.
• Belt and Pipe Placement - Ends built in the air now outline the ground tile below them.
• Pipe Placement - Q/E now raise or lower where an auto-routed run lands.
• Fluid Extractors - Extractors left running far away now reach much more of the surrounding fluid before running dry.
• Toggle Light - Default key moved from X to H. Custom rebinds are unaffected.
• Tool Panel - Now sits fully in the bottom left corner after a UI layout reset. The build bar's default position moved slightly right.
• Scanner - Press G to toggle the panel and its ore overlay on and off.
• Xenobiology - Now follows Computing in the tech tree instead of Industrial Science.
• Xenobloom Eruptions - Only one eruption can happen at maximum every 20 minutes.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed copper, aluminum and gold blocks above a hot machine trapping its heat.
• Fixed the inventory's crafting column not staying closed when re-opening inventory.
• Fixed the performance panel's (F4) counters column stopping short of the panel bottom.
• Fixed dropdown menus cutting off longer options and overflowing their box.
• Fixed Xenobloom sites getting permanently stuck partway through their elimination count, already-stuck saves heal themselves.

Balance Changes

• Research Terminal MK 1 - Power use reduced from 600 to 500 kW.
• Research Terminal MK 2 - Power use reduced from 900 to 700 kW, computing required from 4000 to 3000.

FluxWerks v0.5.2 - 30-08-2026

New Features

• Fast Travel - Every drone port row on the map's Ports tab has a Travel button that flies you to that port.

Improvements

• Run in Background - Now on by default in the Settings.
• Overheat Warnings - The temperature notification now fires around 125°C, when a building is noticeably slowed. The status icon still shows mild overheat right away.
• Nanobots - Construction, demolition and repairs now get bots before terrain work. Running out of fill material cancels all the marked fill work at once.
• Upgrade Tooltips - Costs now show how many of each material you have, and the area Upgrade button shows the selection's total cost.
• Xenobloom Help - The bloom event, the wiki page and the site marker now say the harvest tool clears Xenomass, and the marker is easier to read.
• Xenobloom Sites - New sites now form on the closest suitable ground to your polluting machines.
• Building Notes - The note field is now always editable and saves itself as you type. Clear also hides the note again.
• Area Tools - Fill, Replace and Fluid Fill selections now show how much of the chosen material you have, red when it will not cover the box.
• Storage Slots - A lock button on the group header locks every slot to one item at once.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a false Inserter Jammed warning when taking from an unfinished building or a machine with no recipe selected.
• Fixed machines sometimes refusing a different fuel even though their fuel slot showed empty.
• Fixed the harvest tool marking plants through the ground.
• Fixed crafting tooltips not updating their item counts while crafting.
• Fixed the fill type picker overlapping its Cancel button at some UI Scale settings.
• Fixed the pipette not copying a storage's slot locks.

Balance Changes

• Foundry MK 1 - Fuel burn increased from 100 to 150 kW, now twice the fuel per item of a Foundry MK 2.

FluxWerks v0.5.1 - 29-08-2026

Improvements

• Height Offset - Now shown in amber on the area tools whenever it is not zero.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the area tools carrying over the height offset from the last tool you used.