The Nova Update
0.3.6
6 August 2026
🎁 Added
  • 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.
🧼 Improved
  • 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.
🪛 Fixed
  • 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.
⚠️ Known Issues
  • 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.