Atomcraft Patch Notes and Update Tracker

Atomcraft moved from demo and itch builds into a Steam full-release window in July 2026 with a rapid stream of quality-of-life and systems updates. This page summarizes the changes players ask about most — nukes, tracking, belts, map zoom, radioactivity, cooking, wiring, and performance — and links into deep guides on this wiki.

Launch-window video context

July 22, 2026 — Nuke Launcher

• Added Nuke Launcher and nukes (highly destructive; fallout yields heavy radioactive isotopes).
• Performance: optimized Hammer / tool highlight line drawing.
• Rolling backups for world header savefiles (up to 5).
• Balance: turret pixel category Ruby unlock cost reduced to 16 (from 64).
• Balance: procgen guarantees at least one Cobaltite room in lower limestone caves.
• F2 Editor Mode only after console command editor entry.
• Toolbox swap safety improved to reduce save corruption.

Deep dive: How to Use the Nuke Launcher.

July 21, 2026 — Material Tracking

• Eye-button pinning with sparkles through fog of war.
• Hydrogen Bromide + H2O → Hydrobromic Acid.
• Manganese reclaim reactions from oxide / chloride / sulfate dead ends.
• Save/restore Inventory+Ship visibility toggles.
• Middle-click pinned recipe ingredients into the selected slot.
• Heat Insulator improvements and NPC duplicate fixes.

Deep dive: How to Track Materials.

July 19–16, 2026 — Languages and Material Belt

• More interface languages (including Hungarian, Swedish, Vietnamese, Indonesian; Thai earlier).
• Material Belt upgrade: ten rows of material shortcuts.
• Creative Mode encumbrance fix; pipette / shift pickup fixes.

Deep dive: Material Belt Guide.

July 17, 2026 — Slot locks and QoL

• Press L while hovering a material slot to lock/unlock it.
• Additional requested QoL polish around inventory workflows.

See Hotkeys.

July 13–10, 2026 — World map and performance

• World map zoom and pan.
• Empty worldmap search blocked (prevents overload).
• Multiple performance passes reclaiming substantial FPS.

Deep dive: World Map Guide and System Requirements.

July 8, 2026 — New Cooking System

• Cooking tab lists recipes craftable from current inventory while keeping discovery.
• Earlier cheese / sandwich / steak chains still matter for survival pacing.

Deep dive: How to Cook Food.

July 6, 2026 — Formula search modes

• Name Only / Formula Only / Name+Formula modes in material inventory, reaction search, and spaceship inventory.

Late June 2026 — Wiring, ship teleport, power

• Major wiring reliability improvements (especially L-shaped corners).
• Teleport to repaired friendly spaceships from the world map.
• Power grid / ship systems expansions.

Deep dives: Wiring and Logic, World Map.

Earlier 2026 — Radioactivity and Accelerator

• Particle Accelerator (protons, neutrons, alpha particles).
• Synthetic element decay with grayscale + white-noise radiation presentation.
• Geiger Counter rem meter and Rad Suit full protection.
• Discord Rich Presence showing discovered element counts.

Deep dive: How to Handle Radioactivity.

How to use this tracker on the wiki

1. Skim the dates above for systems you missed.
2. Open the linked deep guides for workflows.
3. Use Reactions Cheatsheet for chemistry deltas.
4. Check Demo vs Full if you are returning from the January demo.
5. Return to the Review hub for verdict and requirements pages.

Atomcraft is still receiving polish after launch. This tracker is a fan-maintained orientation layer — always confirm critical numbers in your installed build’s patch notes and Material Guide.