Howdy Hunters,

This is a quick heads up that we're going to do some server maintenance on February 17, 2025, from 14:00 to 14:30 UTC

There will be interruptions on the server during this time.

This will not require a patch on Steam, it's all on the server.

Hello Newsbearers!




The Going International update is here. Your newsroom now has access to European headlines via the Telegrapher, letting you cover stories from across the Atlantic.

And to speed up deliveries and make your tower run smoother than ever, we're also introducing the Pneumatic Tubes and the Dumbwaiters. Hopefully they help you keep up with the ever-growing demand for scoops!

This update wouldn't be possible without our incredible community testers, who helped us refine the experience ahead of launch. In the patch notes below, we have highlighted the additions and changes that were a direct result of your input, so you can see how impactful your contribution truly is. Thank you so much for taking part in the testing. ❤







Your tower now has the world at its fingertips! Europe has been introduced as a key region for international stories. To support this expansion, you can hire a dedicated telegrapher to relay news from across the continent with precision.
Additionally, new traits have been added to your employee roster, enhancing their ability to tackle the challenges of international journalism.


The dumbwaiter optimises resource management by facilitating the seamless transfer of coal, paper, food, and more between floors. By strategically selecting the floors where they are installed and ensuring a sufficient number of resuppliers, heavy crates can move from the pavement to their destination in no time!


This high-speed transport solution ensures reports and other production items can move swiftly between floors, regardless of distance. With this upgrade, your tower’s workflow will be smoother than ever, allowing you to place critical workstations wherever you see fit.


The tubes can significantly enhance the efficiency of your text and image production chain by directly connecting desks, even across different floors.
Instead of carrying items from one desk to another, climbing stairs, or waiting for the elevator, employees can send them straight to the next desk using the pneumatic tubes.

As a reminder, the flowchart illustrates the sequential steps of the production chain for text and images, from their source to the printer. Connect some of them with tubes - you'll thank us later!





This overhaul ensures that your employees make smarter, more dynamic decisions to keep your operations running smoothly. This upgrade was essential to fully integrate the pneumatic tubes and dumbwaiter into your tower’s logistics, enabling your employees to cooperate, improving the efficiency of transport across all floors.


The Staff Board makes employee management easier than ever. You can toggle jobs and skills, view the number of employees assigned to each role, and sort traits and skills efficiently. Expanded employee cards now provide detailed information at a glance.


We’ve added a variety of traits tailored to automatic desks and foreign news. These include:

• Policy Hawk: Adds one Quality Star to a Legislative Report.
  
• Market Maven: Adds one Quality Star to a Stock Index.
  
• Locker Room Insider: 50% chance of adding an Insider tag to Baseball Results.
  
• Bloodhound: 50% chance of adding an Evidence tag to a Court Report.
  
• Anointed Pen: Experience gained from working on Obituaries increased by 10%
  
• Astrologist: Task speed on Horoscopes increased by 25% but has a 50% chance of adding a Lie.
  
• Psychic: 25% chance of adding a Forecast tag to Horoscopes and 25% chance of unlocking the next story file within news.
  
• Parisian Socialite: 25% faster reporting times for stories that take place in Paris.
  
• Berlin Observer: 25% faster reporting times for stories that take place in Berlin.
  
• London Insider: 25% faster reporting times for stories that take place in London.
  
• Kremlin Confidant: 25% faster reporting times for stories that take place in Moscow and Leningrad.
  
• Roman Consul: 25% faster reporting times for stories that take place in Rome.
  
• Continental Connector: Increases research speed by 20% for all foreign news.
  
• Polyglot: Opens up Language Barrier locks in news.
  
• Diplomat: Opens up Diplomatic Route locks in news.

To ensure players don’t miss out on important mechanics, we’ve introduced tutors across the 1931 timeline. These guides highlight key features, such as the Europe radio tower, dumbwaiter, pneumatic tubes, advertising systems, graphics processing chains, and the rush button.





The Europe content algorithm has had a complete overhaul and is now completely separated from the rest of the content algorithm. This ensures that all necessary tags for districts or quests will always be available in North America, preventing the game from becoming more difficult when unlocking Europe.


Globe filters help you prioritise your telegraphers’ efforts towards tags you need. Their lights will now have three states:

• Solid green: The tag can be found on the currently displayed continent.
  
• Blinking green: This newly added state indicates that the tag can be found on a different continent.
  
• Red: The tag has been depleted from the pool for the current week.

All production employees can now help with transportation—except the lawyer, who remains focused on lawsuits.

Employees will prioritise their own desk but are not restricted to it.

Preference is given to transporting items on the same floor or nearby, but this is not mandatory.


Production employees who are working on their last item can be considered for “pre transport” planning. This means they can already “reserve” bringing their item to the next desk in advance.
For example, this prevents situations where a distant resupplier is sent when it would have been faster for the employee to handle the task themselves.


Influence point requirements for the pay-up node in the Newsbook have been adjusted, now capping at 3 Influence Points instead of 10.

• Certain cities in Europe now feature dedicated background maps.
  
• Mutable Europe news placeholder text has been removed.
  
• Reporters now begin moving sooner after being dropped off by the taxi in front of the tower.
  
• Fixed a bug where graphic reporters would not assist with items if they’re assigned in the newsbook.
  
• Elevator usage is slightly discouraged for resources. Making the dumbwaiter a little bit more likely to be used when they are close to each other.
  
• Travel mode pricing changed: Boat: $50, Zeppelin: $150, Plane: $300
  
• The travel discounts are not 50% instead of 25%. Note that for legacy save games which already have purchased this discount, unfortunately you are stuck with the 25%. However, you
will still benefit from the zeppelin and plane being cheaper overall.
  
• Fixed a Mayor NPC quest asking for a Mafia tag instead of a Mayor tag
  
• Reduced the “thinking” time when picking up an employee that was carrying an article.

Join the community! Talk with the dev team, share with other players, be a part of the journey to the 1.0 and beyond!

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See you very soon in the Tower! Take care!

Exciting news, heroes! Blightstone will have a playable demo during Steam Next Fest, running from February 24 to March 3!

In this demo, you’ll begin your journey with a party consisting of the Brawler, Arcanist, and Hunter, each bringing their unique skills to the battlefield. But that’s not all—there’s also a secret unlockable character waiting to be discovered!



We’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback as you dive into the world of Blightstone. Share your experiences with us on the Steam Discussions, or join our Discord and leave a comment in the dedicated feedback room.

Your input is invaluable in shaping the game, and we can't wait to see what you think!

Commander, you ready? Update time!





Bug Fixes:
- CRASH: The game crashes when I evac soldier and the last soldier gets killed by the shark boss
- gram fix replace "yoau" with "you"
- gram fix replace "iminent" with "imminent"
- tentacles appeared on aggro 4 when they should only appear on aggro 5
- achievements for killing plants and small spiders
- MachineGun Overwatch upgrades bug
- Wrong icons on heavy swat encounter
- MachineGun Stock Bug
- Pockets C Backpack Upgrade Bug: The Pockets C upgrade actually increases your looting speed by a great amount instead of reducing reload time
- door achievement bug
- The loot common components achievements have incorrect values
- On Shark Boss change "save Jim" into save civilians
- progress on civilians rescued grade bug
- SMG Silencer The SMG Silencer upgrade bug



Ballance:
- when you lvl up the hunger skill the + 1 hunger point should arrive full not empty
- wall spider spawn rate of small spiders increases the delay by 3 seconds
- reduce default electric barricade addon damage by 10%
- reduce barbwire default damage with 10%
- increase default fault price for building a barricade with an engineer to 50 materials(repair costs you leave them at 10 cause repair is slower)
- when level up health of the unit the new health also come heald, if he gets 1 lvl of HP he must get +10HP to cap and +10HP actual HP
- reduce the requirement for termination grade for ending movie by 25%







Regards,
Cristi P. - 16 BIT NIGHTS

* Fixed bug related with resists

1、Reduce the attack speed of enemies, decrease the number of enemies, re - configure the positions of enemies, enhance the gaming experience, and slow down the game rhythm.
2、Add save points. Now there are save points both before and after each boss fight.
3、Increase the hit - protection time to provide more room for operation.
4、Added some individual maps and adjusted the feedback and movement patterns of some enemy.

Overall, the adjusted rhythm is more relaxed, making it more suitable for playing and exploration. Meanwhile, the playability of the actions has also been enhanced.

[Added]

• World Side Quest: Marriage and the Law
  
• Shared Bicycle Fast Travel Points (replaces Bus Stops)

[Adjustments]

• Nightclub DJ Music

[BUG Fixes]

• Discrepancies between text and voice acting in the female protagonist's side quest.
  
• Nicole becoming unresponsive during specific quests.
  
• An issue preventing the Lin Xi route's ending from triggering.

Here are the main updates for version v1.0.07:

• Fixed an issue where selling equipment with one click could cause the game to freeze.
  
• Significantly optimized memory usage when the game is running in the background (though it is uncertain whether the infinite dodge and instant kill floor issues have been completely resolved, further observation is needed).

The save files are located in C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\LocalLow\skyblack games\Timeless Teapot\userData\saves. If cloud saving does not work, you can manually copy the files.
The achievement system is temporarily unavailable due to technical reasons and will be updated in future versions.

Features like equipment attribute rerolling are currently in development.
If you encounter any bugs or have questions, feel free to join our group for feedback: 1020655392 or email us at skyblack7301@gmail.com.

Offical Backstory Book Published!

YES! This is real, here you can order it the The Offical Backstory Book of Unfinished!

This is just a very short novella, just 25 pages.

Goodbye!

Cancel 'Take' and 'Throw' with the opposite mouse button.

• You can now cancel 'Take' when holding left click on a box by right-clicking.
  
• You can now cancel 'Throw' while holding right click to prepare a throw by left-clicking.

• Level 05-06: Added missing wall for robots..
  
• Robots falling on KoKo will now correctly kill her instead of walking on her head.
  
• Fixed a specific situation where a robot could get stuck in the ground instead of being crushed.
  
• Completely broken pots can no longer be picked up.
  
• Fixed a bug where a box just picked up could fall on KoKo's head.
  
• Fixed a bug preventing the key box from being affected by gravity after a level restart.
  
• Holding 'Take' on a box that has exploded will now be canceled.