Hello everyone!

We’re writing today's FOUNDRY Friday to provide news regarding the next big release, referred to as Update 2. As you may know, we originally planned for the 2nd update to arrive at the end of this year. After analyzing player feedback and survey results, we have decided to adjust the timeline and move Update 2 into next year.

The main reason for this decision is because we want FOUNDRY to provide a great and unique gaming experience and we believe to make this work we need an even bigger update. Because of the scope of the changes, breaking it into incremental pieces would have been difficult and slowed development. This means that instead of getting a smaller update at the end of this year, we will instead deliver a much larger update next year, addressing many of the suggestions our active community members shared with us during these months.

What will Update 2 be about?

Many of our players have mentioned that a more meaningful purpose for building a factory would make the game more interesting for them — Update 2 solves this by letting players explore commerce and robot production of all kinds. After all, what’s a factory if you aren’t building something? We’ve been talking about this in several past FOUNDRY Fridays and you can read about that here and here. We believe our work on this feature drastically improves the core of the game. 

Alongside that, we will also focus on new features, buildings, recipes and space station content — everything to make the game longer, deeper and more engaging — we will gradually share more details as we work towards Update 2. 

And finally we will keep working on game performance, optimization and QoL features so that your factories will run smoothly while looking great.

We would like to express our gratitude to everyone who has been talking to us on Steam, Discord and socials, and participated in our surveys — you are shaping this game with us and your input is what is helping us deliver the best possible version of FOUNDRY.  

It is a bit too early to have a specific date, but we’ll be transparent about our progress and what we’re working on in future FOUNDRY Fridays, and we will inform everyone as soon as we have a release window for it.

Join us on the upcoming livestream

To talk about Update 2, the new timeline and to answer your questions we will be hosting a livestream on Wednesday, the 4th of December at 18:00 CET / 9 AM PST. Tune in to share your feedback and get in touch with the developers!

See you next time,

-Foundry Team

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