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Patch Notes

Versions and changes for Idle Holdings.

Version 1.251 changesNew World – Era VIIIVersion 1.2 brings Era VIII, local supply chains and the spaceport to Idle Holdings, alongside new artwork assignments, clearer research and resource views, and many smaller fixes to controls, progression and saves.Added9Changed9Improved13Fixed20Show all changesHide changes

Added

  • Added Era VIII, New World, with six development phases from the first landing to a new civilisation.
  • Added local businesses for water, food, power and housing after arrival.
  • Added production chains for building materials, components and composites in the new world.
  • Added local research into solar power, geothermal energy, water recovery, hydroponics, habitats and more.
  • Added the Worldwork as a dedicated area for larger projects and the new world’s shared development.
  • Added the spaceport, with a fleet overview, exploration targets, expeditions and routes to known deposits.
  • Added short, skippable introductions to Era VIII and the spaceport.
  • Added matching icons and artwork assignments for the new businesses, resources and research branches.
  • Added illustrations for the Era VIII estate and Worldwork construction projects.

Changed

  • The transition from Era VII to VIII now uses regular completion research, EXODUS and HORIZONT. The previous Frontier progression layer has been removed.
  • From Era VIII onwards, the main navigation contains Businesses, Research, Worldwork and Empire.
  • Integrated the new businesses into the main game’s familiar industry lists, business cards, location details and upgrade sheets.
  • In Era VIII, the header shows local research data, available power and workers instead of the historical global Research Point counter.
  • Business cards retain the direct single-level purchase; expanded details offer purchases of up to five levels together.
  • Ordinary business levels, special upgrades and ongoing research or construction jobs are presented more distinctly.
  • Era VIII research uses saved jobs with actual remaining time. Research in Eras IV–VII still completes immediately after payment.
  • Current companies appear first in the Holding area in compact two-column rows; earlier companies remain available in collapsed sections.
  • Regular Era VIII completion now includes a successful expedition returning with useful cargo. The Worldwork foundation remains optional for that completion.

Improved

  • Reduced the cash opening costs of the 18 basic Era VIII businesses so the starting funds support earlier development.
  • Reduced the cash costs of the first local research projects in the landing phase.
  • The next investment shows its actual cash price, available and required materials, and missing immediate prerequisites.
  • Business details explain required materials, stored amounts and possible suppliers separately.
  • Up to five direct supply links lead from business details to the relevant supplier.
  • Resource details show stock, storage limits, production, consumption and net change, with separate producer and consumer rows.
  • Income and material output on the new business cards reflect actual utilisation and supply bottlenecks.
  • Made project cards more compact, with status, costs and duration first, and expandable purpose and requirement details.
  • Aligned the new world’s research map with the shared map controls, using staggered branches and matching technology symbols.
  • Placed long construction-method and supplier names beside shorter action labels to improve readability.
  • Clarified German and English descriptions of supplies, workers, power, construction progress and company orientations.
  • Improved line breaks in long German research terms and made resource-bar labels easier to read.
  • Revised finite-resource and alternative-supply hints to point towards recovery, substitute processes and spaceport routes.

Fixed

  • Fixed repeated availability changes on level-up and construction-method buttons that could restart their colour transitions.
  • Fixed locked companies appearing to be free when their price quote was incomplete.
  • Era VIII level-up availability now accounts for research, materials and other requirements as well as cash.
  • Paid special developments that are still running display Paid or In Progress rather than appearing completed prematurely.
  • Fixed clipped or apparently empty dynasty-name fields by correcting their padding and text presentation.
  • Prevented confirmation of empty or invalid dynasty names and aligned the error messages with name validation.
  • Prevented unintended landscape rotation on mobile devices; the game stays in its intended portrait orientation.
  • Prevented new businesses earning twice when the same production line was processed through two progression paths.
  • Removed an extra market-saturation deduction in late-era offline calculations.
  • Prevented arrival funds, starting materials and starter businesses being granted again on repeated loading or transition.
  • Preserved purchased business levels and developments when older saves are migrated to the new level curves.
  • Already paid research and construction jobs retain their saved durations and progress when balance values change.
  • Prevented partial purchases and deductions in failed multi-level purchases: if saving fails, levels, cash and materials remain unchanged.
  • Paused or fully blocked businesses no longer show nominal income; deliberately pausing a business releases its power and workers.
  • Prevented exhausted deposits refilling after reloading or restarting an era.
  • Prevented a ship being assigned to multiple simultaneous jobs.
  • Protected cargo when storage is full: it remains aboard the paid ship until it can actually be unloaded.
  • Automatic routes check cash reserves, material reserves, target stock and configured budgets before the next charge. Missing supplies pause the route.
  • Preserved port projects, ships, known deposits and already paid flights when restarting the current era; automatic routes initially remain paused.
  • Removed outdated introduction and help text pointing to retired Frontier controls or unavailable procurement actions.