Hotfix 30 — Heart of the Machine Steam update #604748

If you have a sense of deja-vu about these two fixes, it's because I thought I fixed them yesterday, but they were still recurring under some...

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Heart of the Machine (2001070)
Event type
patch note
Published
21 December 2025 - 19:47:32 UTC
Source
steam_community_announcements
If you have a sense of deja-vu about these two fixes, it's because I thought I fixed them yesterday, but they were still recurring under some circumstances for some players. Hopefully this smashes those two bugs for good, but please let me know if you see them again! Hotfix 30 Changelog Bugfixes Still Thought Everyone Died: Further fixes to ensure that the "population zero" and "city is barren, so no streetsense, etc" stuff can not kick in. Two hotfixes ago, I made it a lot less common, and not something that could happen before chapter 3. But it was still firing wrong. The new solution involves only calculating the gone population on the turn change, not during a turn. And it does a full inventory of all the buildings just to make sure that it's not running across something that was temporarily cached wrong. This should be the end of this bug for good now, but if it happens again for an...

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