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2 October 2026

Areas

23 changes in this update

Map

Drilling plots on the map - bought drilling plots show on the ground in their owner's colour like other land, and Find plots outlines the field's free plots. Click one to open it
Added

Economy

Drilling plots - buy a dedicated oil plot when a field has no suitable mapped land. Verified plots have no crops or passive rent and share the existing drilling cell limit

Economy

Selling with goods inside - sell a building to the bank or leave a rented unit even with goods stored there. The goods stay on the spot as a pickup point in your stock, and deliveries still on the way end up there too
Oil output - speed from fittings, research and morale now raises the oil limit of wells and platforms, up to ten times. Before, more speed only cut the staff needed
Oil levels - oil wells and offshore platforms go up to four times the usual maximum level: 20, or up to 32 with level research. Each level adds two workplaces and more oil
Platform storage - the oil buffer grows with the platform level, 12,000 per level factor, so 66,000 at level 7

Interface

Sending from a platform - the send window lists only what works at sea and adds Plan collection route, which drafts the barge or tanker route to your harbour
Business workforce - a clear capacity headline, staff requirement and next-worker gain replace the crowded speed and staffing strip. Unused staff show their wage cost with a direct reduction action; formula details are expandable. Existing industry rules stay unchanged
Fitting effects - installed equipment and the catalogue explain what still improves capacity at this site. Equipment details retain per-piece bonuses, costs and quantity review; selecting equipment makes room for the decision and action
Extraction sites - Manage opens the same building window as other businesses, with operations, staff and fittings. Offshore platforms no longer have a separate management panel inside the business list
Oil search - choose a field to see available land with verified drilling coordinates, expansion space and land prices, then open its purchase window directly

Logistics

Routes from a platform - the destination list shows only harbour space you own or rent, and the freight network and land vehicles are marked as not available from a platform
Sea distance - a route from a platform shows the actual sea distance, travel time and upkeep per round trip once you pick the harbour, and says right away when it is out of reach

Handbook

Oil extraction - explains mapped parcels, dedicated drilling plots, separate land and well purchases and physical oil after a plot is sold

Map

Date line - crossing between east and west keeps the camera near its origin and preserves tile retry delays. Map tiles on both sides of the date line load without invalid tile coordinates
Distant lake regions - coarse tiles use a time budget for new lake-level calculations. Some lakes follow the ground while the remaining calculations complete and warm the cache
Place names in the far north - fully zoomed out above about 60 degrees latitude, city names show up again instead of none

Economy

Buying a drilling plot - no longer ends with a backend error about the balance. The purchase always went through, but the window did not update
Capacity audit - includes the capacity of additional workplaces and checks fishing boats separately, avoiding invalid figures from their zero floor area

Interface

Platform oil in contracts - oil still on an offshore platform no longer makes a contract Ready to send. The status says At sea and the line shows how much waits on the platform
Send goods - a trip the server turns down, such as oil straight from an offshore platform, shows its reason once in the window. Before, the same error message popped up again and again

Logistics

Route frequency - clearing the minutes field to type a new number keeps Every selected. Before, it jumped to As soon as it can and Every came back with 30

02.10.2026