Version 1.4.0

Hi Pioneers! Sub-models, one Existing Factory node, a full planet survey on the map, water dam nodes, and a solver that no longer leaves buildings idle.

NEW FEATURES

• Sub-model node. Place another model as one node.
  • Interface: Model Input / Model Output nodes in the placed model, one part each, pooled by part.
  • Ports carry one copy’s I/O; count solved like recipe buildings, whole copies by default, copy limit as ceiling or exact.
  • Per-copy power consumed/produced added to totals.
  • No overclock, no Somersloops. Lockable, markable as built.
  • Sources: own cloud models, local drafts, public models. Self-reference and cycles refused.
  • Sub-models tab: this model’s interface + placed models with copies and MW. Open model (browser: new tab; desktop: same window with back link). Refresh on open when the source revision changed, and on request.
• Blueprints. Save a selection under a name, icon and colour (suggested from the end product and its solved rate); place it from its catalog as a production line (the nodes as copied plus Model Input/Output for open parts, factory ports inside a factory) or as one Existing Factory whose ports are the selection’s open ports, one per part, wired. One undo step, built and locked marks dropped. Always kept on the device without a limit and, while signed in, mirrored to the account (50, Patreon 2,000; a full account leaves new ones on the device until there is room). Newer side wins, a deletion elsewhere is followed. Switch under Settings, Saves and recovery.
• Desktop sync no longer fills the snapshot limit. Only the three newest Desktop auto-sync snapshots are kept; a model at its snapshot limit says so instead of asking for a retry.
• Switching models asks about unsaved work. Opening another model from the switcher or the recent list offers save, keep editing or leave, the way leaving the modeler already did.
• Every hint explains itself. Each button, chip and value on the canvas, in the toolbars, panels and catalogs now opens the same kind of tooltip as a port or a connection: the label, one sentence on what it does, the shortcut where there is one, the exact figure behind a rounded number.
• Grid or list in the catalogs. The blueprint catalog and the sub-model picker take the palette’s view toggle: tiles with part icons or rows naming them, one remembered choice for both. Palette port icons read stronger.
• Factory ports as nodes. Inside an Existing Factory its ports stand as nodes: drag them, wire them, add Factory input / Factory output from the palette. Model unchanged; only the port position is stored.
• Catalogs for models and nodes. Switch model (Ctrl + O) and Find a node (Ctrl + F) are card catalogs with search, filters and long hover cards.
• Existing Factory counts itself. Empty factory + rate on each port = I/O per factory. Drawn count is the start; solver grows it on demand; limit caps it. Machines inside: port rates are boundary limits, count is manual.
• Special node tooltips. Palette hover: what it is, how to use it, why it exists. All 12 special nodes.
• Existing Factory node. Outpost + Blueprint merged. Boundary ports, count, title, item/building icon, stated MW consumed/generated (counted in summary). Inputs ordered before outputs. Old models, SFMD imports and share links load unchanged.
• Map: planet survey. Crash sites (unlock cost: item + count or MW; save marks collected drives), roads, spawn points, world border, gas pillars, spore flowers, large/small rocks (save marks cleared). Offline.
• Map: vehicles and trains. Trucks, tractors, explorers, factory carts, drones, locomotives, freight wagons from a save as one world-object group.
• Map: water dam nodes. Refined Power dam nodes with dam line, section count, MW at spot; save marks built dams/turbines. Needs fresh export.

QUALITY OF LIFE

• Map panel. Wider, pushes map aside, compact rows. Saved buildings grouped by build-menu category/sub-category. Caves, crash sites, world layers in one Map layers section.
• Map lines to scale. Belt 1.35 m, rail 6 m, road 25 m; scale with zoom. Power lines drawn pole-to-pole/machine. Hover = length.
• Map deposits. Own Deposits section, hexagon markers, per-resource toggle, on by default.
• Map caves. Underground caves/entrances on by default; Underground section toggles.

BUGFIXES

• Leave button while a container is open; deleted container auto-leaves.
• Wiki window on Windows: white/unclosable. Window built in sync command → event-loop deadlock. Now async. Wiki window no longer requests update checks.
• Container boundary: child output to a boundary port with nothing wired outside was forced to 0 (“can only reach 0”). Now leaves the model. Pinned boundary rate counted once, not half in/half out.
• Saved buildings with a mod/folder class (Pipeline Mk.2, Seed Extractor) or build-menu-only entry show real name/icon/category. Unknown classes: readable name + ”?” instead of vanishing.
• Power slug icons back on the desktop map (markers + legend).
• Dead-end auto building takes full upstream supply (auto-count miner, storage fed by several producers) instead of stopping at 1 with a surplus warning.
• Exact rate / upper limit on a merged Modular Miner output keeps the port rate, count follows; automatic restores.
• Burn-recipe generators (Coal, Fuel, Nuclear): power linear with clock. Was using the consumption curve (22 × 250% > 55 × 100%).
• Dev site / dev desktop share links → dev.k-mods.com.
• Two auto-count miners on one chain: larger drawn supply used whole, other miner grows to match. 240 crushed ore no longer idle behind one SAM node.
• All amounts decimal (217.5, not 435/2): warnings, tooltips, edit fields, arrow-key steps. Fraction number style removed.