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0.3.6

6 August 2026

35 changes in this update

Rebirth 25 opens the Nova tier — five new parts, the deepest content in the game.
Plasma Tipped Processor — every sale through it pays x3. Max 3.
Void Crucible — a heavy cup-shaped refinery with the biggest one-time ingot boost there is (x110).
Nova Press — boosts a crafted good x14, and stacks on top of the Aurum Press.
Nova dropper — a 12-tile spiked star, the richest ore source in the game.
Nova Forge — a Regalia and a Prism Core become a Nova Core, the new apex good. It is the first good that needs BOTH of your late production chains at once.
Three Nova tech nodes out past Titan on the far edge of the tech tree.
Rush contracts — a fourth, timed contract tier. It asks for less than Hard and pays the most of the four, but it expires, and running it out costs your streak.
Your board now GROWS. Every 5 rebirths adds a row, up to 3 extra rows.
Network factories can be upgraded with Tech Points. Each level is +25% output and pays for itself in about half an hour, at every level.
Placed factories can now be recalled off the Network grid instead of only erased.
Blueprint share codes — hit the arrow on any blueprint to generate a code, and paste someone else's in to import their layout.
A More Games button up top, with a one-click clipboard copy for Mash & Slash
Three new achievements: Aetherborn, Nova Lord and Quadrillionaire.
Three new contract types: Regalia, Prism Cores and Nova Cores.
A sixth Parts Guide page covering the whole Nova tier.

Parts now have a SHAPE as well as a colour — droppers are round ore nodules, refineries are flat-based kilns, crafting benches are cut-gem lozenges. You can read what a machine does at a glance.
Big multi-tile machines have real surface detail and a raised bevel instead of being flat slabs of colour.
The board window no longer changes size. It stays put as your board grows, and you can zoom out to frame the whole thing.
The Reset View button now frames your entire board rather than snapping to a fixed zoom.
The Network panel lists every compacted factory, placed or pooled, so you can upgrade any of them.
Build Mode moved to its own line under Leaderboards.

Hovering a machine or picking a tool no longer shoves the entire board up and down.
The Prestige shop can now be scrolled — the last few upgrades were unreachable.
Regalia Bench and Prism Loom had one of their two input sides blocked by their own footprint, so they could only be fed down a single merged belt. Both have been reshaped.
Regalia and Prism Cores looked identical to a basic Jewel on the belt. Both have their own art now.
The Serpentine Refinery, Aurum Press, Regalia Bench and Prism Loom rendered with blank, unmarked centres.
Aetherium ore rode the belts grey instead of its own colour.
An ingot that went through the Serpentine Refinery showed no upgrade marker.
Regalia Bench and Prism Loom showed the half-finished material sitting inside them while they waited for a partner.
Network processors kept a gold "just sold" flash lit permanently after their first sale.
Resetting your progress replayed none of the unlock popups.
Network factory upgrades never actually applied — the multiplier existed but did nothing.

If you had a Regalia Bench or Prism Loom placed before this update, its shape has changed — you may need to sell and rebuild it.
The board still sits very slightly left of centre.

The Nova Update