Find The Needle V13 rebalances sell prices and orders and adds Depot controls and a Shelf Limits card

Update V13 is the first big balancing step: higher sell prices, smaller order requirements, more free upgrade levels, new Depot tools, a UPGRADE tab, and fixes. More daily updates are expected.

What changed

• Hay sell price up 25%; several products up about 69%.
• Panel Press plans: $400 (was $800).
• Platforms: $5 a square metre (was $10).
• Free levels for belt, arm, compressor and wrapper speed: 3 (was 2).
• Shelf Limits card costs $600.

Economy

• Hay sells for 25% more.
• Bales, eco bricks, slabs, discs and sacks sell for about 69% more.
• Stage 1 buyers now request double the amount, at 40 wrapped bales and 8 panels per minute.
• Panel Press plans cost $400 (was $800).
• Platforms cost $5 a square metre (was $10).
• Glass costs $8.
• Loose hay has its own buyers, who pay the full rate for up to 6,000 strands per minute and slightly less beyond that.
• Hay pressed into a product still pays in full.

Orders

• Every order now pays what its goods would sell for.
• Straw Panels: 25 (was 40).
• Wrapped Bales: 70 (was 120).
• The Dairy: 200 bales and 200 wrapped bales (was 480 and 520).
• Eco Bricks: 300 (was 480).
• Rods and Gears: 120 and 40 (was 190 and 70).
• Pulp: 325 (was 540).
• Paper: 115 (was 195).
• First Bales still asks for 20, with the same needles as before.
• Your first compressor and its plans are now free with the order book.

Upgrades and Unlocks

• Level 4 for belts and arms unlocks with Straw Panels, while for the compressor and wrapper it unlocks with Wrapped Bales.
• The levels after that also open one order sooner.
• Extend the Shed now unlocks at Straw Panels, the Dairy and the Garden Centre.
• The Depot Drone now opens with Wrapped Bales, before the Dairy.

Depot

• With TAKE ONE and TAKE MAX, you can remove stock from the Depot manually.
• EMPTY OUT sends one kind of item, or everything, back onto the belt.
• Shelf Limits ($600) sets how many of each item the Depot keeps.
• Carry More has 2 new levels, allowing up to 7 in your arms.
• A Depot with no belt after it now drops what it can't hold instead of selling it.

Interface

• A new UPGRADE tab on each machine lists its tech cards and links to them.
• Machines show SHORT OF POWER when power can't keep up.
• The Biogas Digester reports when it burns bales faster than they arrive.

Bug Fixes

• The vacuum no longer keeps popping out scrap.
• Switching from a joiner to a belt keeps grid snapping on.
• Fixed a crash that could happen during loading.
• All 16 languages are up to date.

Check out the interactive calculators and database on findtheneedlers.com.