Version 0.7 is coming along nicely and this week I added 2 more buildings into the steel tier; the Steel Boiler and the Quarry. The steel boiler serves as as an upgrade to the iron boiler that has higher energy output and improved efficiency. It can be found relatively early on in the steel tier and does not even require Mechanical pack 2 to be unlocked so you can start to power more things in the pursuit of steel production and science. The quarry come in a little later and serves as the mining machine for the steel tier. It can mine out a volume of 15x15x300 over 60,000 blocks. It is not the fastest taking over 18 hours to do so but they should provide you with a nice steady stream of resources. The design of the Quarry is heavily inspired from the BuildCraft Quarry and moves and extends to each block it is mining. I am sure the visual design will change eventually but for now getting it working was the most important part. For now Quarries run off of solid fuel for power this is only temporary and they will run off electricity once it is introduced. There are a few more pieces of steel machinery that will hopefully be added in the next week or so including the steel pump and steam engine.
Version 0.7 is getting close to its release and hopefully will be there in about 2 weeks.
Reminder that there will be an AMA (Ask me anything) in the official discord on the 24th of February at 3pm Eastern if you want to stop by and ask me how many twinkies I am tall or anything else that strikes your fancy.
Also if you enjoy playing Engineer Alpha and want to see its development continue far into the future you can support the game on Patreon and you get access to exclusive content. There was recently a post about Nuclear Reactors and there will be another soon about Electricity.