Quality of Life and Wire Works
0.2.9
6 July 2026
🎁 Added
  • Wire Compacter, a new machine that presses hot metal straight into Wire (any material), a parallel path to the Ingot Compacter, unlocks after processing 300 ingots
  • Hold to place, hold left click and drag to lay down a whole line of pieces instead of clicking each cell
  • Undo, a new Undo button removes the last piece you placed and refunds its full cost
  • Blueprint delete confirm, deleting a saved blueprint now asks Sure before it removes it
  • Keybind cheatsheet, a small on screen list of the controls, and a Key hints toggle in Options to turn it on or off
  • Hover info, hovering a machine, dropper or processor with an empty hand now shows what it is, what it does, and its boost status
  • Polished item shine, fully polished ingots get a small shine mark and fully polished wire gets a bright outline
🧼 Improved
  • Prestige Shop redesign, a cleaner two column layout with tidier cards, clearer levels and calmer colours
  • Invalid placements now show a clear red tint so a bad spot is obvious before you click
  • Engineer tech rebalanced, Engineer Speed and Prime Engineer give a smaller boost now that the engineer also levels up on its own
  • Wire now reads clearly on the belt, the Wire Compacter makes a long strand and the Wire Drawer makes a coiled glyph, both coloured to their metal
  • The Neutronium dropper now drops dark orange and the Dark Matter dropper drops purple instead of grey
  • The polish effect is now a shine burst instead of the old scale pop
  • Toolbar dropdowns cap their height and scroll so long lists stay on screen
🪛 Fixed
  • Clicking the Move tool no longer nudges the whole grid up and down
  • The polish shine no longer flickers off an ingot as it passes through other machines
  • Machine and processor boost tasks work again and the click ripple always shows
⚠️ Known Issues
  • The Wire Compacter value is still being tuned so its payout may change in a future update