More help between the numbers
As the new week begins, we’re looking back at the work we’ve brought together over the weekend and into Monday.
A recipe table tells you what a machine needs. It leaves other questions open: where does this item fit into a factory, when is an alternate recipe useful, and what happens to the byproducts? We’ve added English and German explanations to all 184 item pages in the wiki. The existing facts and recipe tables stay alongside the articles, so you can move from an explanation to the actual quantities without changing pages.
Research planning gets its own place too. Our MAM guide lets you select research goals, collect the material costs of your selected unfinished research and mark entries complete. It remembers that checklist in your browser. The total covers your selections; it does not automatically include every prerequisite. We make that limit visible because a shopping list should not promise a complete research path when it cannot provide one.
We’ve also made the wiki search easier to use from the keyboard. Arrow keys move through results, Enter opens the selected page and Escape closes the suggestions. A small hint below the results shows those controls.
Show the tools before explaining them
Our new homepage replaces the previous version. It brings four short recordings into the introduction: exploring the map, adjusting a train route, changing a production target and using the Magic Wand to build an upstream chain. They show the actual application, including how a change affects the plan.
We’ve also given account features more room on the new page. Browser-local planning remains a starting point; saved worlds, public or private sharing and invitations to collaborate deserve a clear explanation beside it.
The common aim is to make the next step easier to judge. An item page should help with a production decision. A product tour should show what a tool does before asking you to learn its controls. You can try the tools directly from the new homepage.