Goals, Orders and Efficiency
0.2.6
3 July 2026
Industry²
Released
Drop ore, lay conveyors, and refine it into packaged goods to sell for coins in this cozy 2D factory builder.
Goals, Orders and Efficiency
A changelist for Industry².
🎁 Added
- Objectives, a Current Goal card that always points you at the next useful thing to do, from your first sale through tech, contracts, compacting, the Network and rebirth, each paying a coin or Tech Point reward
- Machine actions, task markers now appear on droppers, machines and processors, send the engineer over and solve a quick minigame to Tune, Oil or Calibrate that machine for a temporary boost
- Engineer levels, the engineer now earns XP from builds and tasks and levels up, permanently improving its build and walk speed, shown in Live Stats
- Contract choices, every contract now offers three tiers at once (Easy, Medium, Hard) so you can pick the one that suits your factory
- Contract streaks, completing contracts back to back builds a streak worth up to plus 50 percent rewards
- Factory efficiency score, a flow rating in the Stats panel with Bronze, Silver and Gold badges, a live readout of what is holding your factory up, and your best output this run
- Production Chain guide, a new section in the guide that lays out every recipe from ore to necklaces, revealed as you discover each machine
- Try it now, unlock popups now let you grab the new machine straight away and show your next unlock target
- Task boost feedback, boosted machines glow while their boost is active, and machines pop a ring when they finish a job or make a sale
🧼 Improved
- Smoother machine feedback, dropped ore now grows into place and finished goods pop as they complete
- Rebalanced progression, the money curve is much steeper so upgrades, rebirths and staying longer all feel more rewarding
- Cleaner HUD, softer grid lines, a tighter top bar and more consistent panel styling
- Blueprints now show their total build cost, and stamping skips pieces you have not unlocked yet instead of failing
- Toolbar cards you cannot afford yet are now dimmed
- The tutorial hint line hides itself once you have rebirthed
- Your engineer level, current goal and contract streak now carry across every rebirth
🪛 Fixed
- The processor limit could show a negative number and block placing processors once lifetime earnings grew very large
- The rebirth count now shows correctly under the coin total
- The dropper task marker no longer draws off the top edge of the grid
- The Current Goal and contract cards no longer overlap each other or the Stats panel
- Contract Take buttons no longer wrap onto two lines
⚠️ Known Issues
- The progression rebalance also applies to runs already in progress, so an existing factory may show lower numbers than before, this is intended
- The task marker keys off the grid row, so at some zoom or pan positions it may still clip near the very top edge