Melvor Idle 2's Next Fest Demo Is a Save File, Not a Sampler

Level 60 in 21-odd skills, Act 1 of the story, and a save that carries into Early Access. The free demo is a down payment on your first week.

The Shapez Studio Is Selling an Editor That Takes Things Away

tobspr spun Shapez's puzzle mode out into its own game, and the October 2 devlog is mostly a list of things the editor can take away from you.

The Conveyor Belt: Jagex's Roadmap Is a Ballot

RuneFest's big reveal still needs your vote. Plus: Factorio retires the pencil ship, Satisfactory digs a DLC, and two Tideward builds.

Melvor Idle 2 Is Putting Its Demo in Front of Strangers

The first public build goes to Steam Next Fest on October 19, and it is aimed at people who have never played Melvor. That is the braver test.

The Gathering Update That Made Nothing Faster

OSRS shipped another Gathering Efficiencies batch on September 23, and almost nothing in it makes gathering faster. That is the interesting part.

The Conveyor Belt: RuneScape Reached a Console, Then Met the Certification Queue

Plus: IdleOn fixes a rank that paid nothing for three ranks, OSRS pets follow you into the Gauntlet, Factorio goes native on ARM, and Tideward 1.0.4.

Factorio Closed an Eleven-Year-Old Request With a VR Headset

Someone asked Wube for an ARM build in August 2015. Friday Facts #446 shipped one for the Steam Frame, and the simulation turned out to be the easy part.

IdleOn Shipped a Class, Then Moved Its Price Four Days Later

IdleOn's Royal Guardian is three weeks old. Its unlock already fell from 600 orb kills to 250, and three of its bonuses shipped paying less than the interface promised.

The Conveyor Belt: Captain of Industry Took the Decimals Out of the Simulation

Plus: OSRS ships its puppies, RuneScape: Dragonwilds goes to console on Tuesday, Factorio 2.1.17, a standalone Shapez puzzle game, and Bell keeps the watch in Tideward.

The Conveyor Belt: Factorio's Final Major Update Hits Experimental

Grab a coffee — here’s your roundup of what’s moving through the factory this week. 📦 Patch Notes & News Factorio 2.1 is in experimental — and it’s the last big one. Wube pushed 2.1 to the experimental branch with a graphics and audio overhaul, quality-of-life

Shapez 2 Hidden Mechanics: 6 Things Most Players Miss (Layers, Cutters & Space Belts)

Shapez 2 has one of the gentlest on-ramps in the genre. No enemies, no power grid to babysit, no pollution creeping toward your base — just belts, shapes, and the quiet dopamine of a factory that finally lines up. But that friendliness hides how much depth is sitting one layer

The Conveyor Belt: Sandustry Digs Into Early Access

Welcome back to the Conveyor Belt — your roundup of everything spinning in the factory, automation, and idle world this week. Grab your coffee; this is a two-minute read. 📦 Patch Notes & News Sandustry hits Early Access August 13. Hooded Horse and Lantto Games locked in a date for their

Satisfactory Update 1.2: The Complete Fluid & Tanker Truck Guide

Fluid Trucks finally let you skip the pipe spaghetti. Here's when to truck, when to pipe, and the head-lift rules that keep tripping people up.

Factorio 2.1: The Quality Train and Asteroid Nerf That Rewrite Your Late-Game

The final Factorio update just hit experimental — and it quietly kills the legendary asteroid farm. Here's how to rebuild your late-game around it.

Shapez 2 turns up the heat, and Factorio's finale lands

Happy Friday, factory friends. Here’s your roundup of what’s worth your attention this week. 📦 Patch Notes & News Shapez 2 just shipped its 1.1 update, aimed squarely at anyone who found Manufacture Mode too cozy. The new Manufacture Hard Mode ratchets up the shape-conversion demands so

Mindustry v8: A Factory-Game Fan's Guide to Your First Hours on Serpulo

Factorio with a countdown clock - and after three years, the campaign finally teaches you instead of throwing you off a cliff.

The Conveyor Belt: Factorio's final update hits experimental

Welcome back to the Conveyor Belt — your roundup of everything factory, automation, and idle, served quick enough to read before your coffee goes cold. 📦 Patch Notes & News Factorio 2.1 enters experimental — and it’s the last big one. Wube has slated 2.1 for an experimental release toward

⚙️ The Conveyor Belt: A factory game made entirely of text just launched

TEXTORIO turns the whole genre into living ASCII — and it's out today for under four bucks.

Dyson Sphere Program: A Late-Game Interstellar Logistics Guide

Five years in, your ILS network is the only thing still bottlenecking your sphere. Here's how to scale to white science without crashing your power grid.

⚙️ The Conveyor Belt: Satisfactory goes cross-platform, Factorio prepares its finale

Update 1.2 lands on PC, PS5 and Xbox the same day, plus Factorio's farewell update arrives end of June.

Factorio Pollution and Evolution: The 5 Numbers That Decide Your Endgame

Wube just announced that update 2.1 will be Factorio's final content patch. Eight months in development, dropping in experimental at the end of June, stable by summer's end — and then the studio moves on to new projects. If you're like most of us,

Tideward Dev Log

⚙️ The Conveyor Belt: Satisfactory hotfix lands, DSP turns five

Plus a Dyson Sphere Program anniversary patch, a Factorio module-swap trick most players never learn, and this week's confessional poll.

The Deep Dive

Shapez 2 Manufacture Mode: A Beginner's Guide to Your First Trade Station

What to build first in Shapez 2 1.0's new progression mode — and the copy-paste mistake that wrecks beginner factories.

Patch Notes Roundup

⚙️ The Conveyor Belt: Belts of Iron rolls in May 28

A new procedurally-generated factory game lands later this month, plus today's Satisfactory hotfix and a Factorio filter trick most players miss.