Air Conditioner, Heater and Wooden Furniture Arrive! Flip Building Pieces, Enjoy Smoother Performance and Recover Cloud Saves

Dear Conductors,

It's time to make your train a little more comfortable! When you cross a hot region, switch on the Air Conditioner to clear the heat from that carriage. In the cold, use the Heater to warm the carriage it's installed in. There's also a new furniture technology pack. Set a wooden coffee table in front of the sofa, put out a few drinks and pull up a stool for a friend.

Renovating your train is easier, too. Use the Building Hammer to turn a backward window, wall or staircase around in place. Gangway frames now fit right against walls, and you can paint the iron panels. The central console also shows how many days you've survived, along with your deposits and interest at the Oxygen Bank.

We've also improved cloud save protection when switching computers, recovery of older saves, and multiplayer performance on large trains running production equipment, water systems, chargers and livestock facilities. Here are the full update notes.

New Air Conditioner: cool down a carriage

Unlock the Air Conditioner through research to craft this appliance.

Crafting materials: Steel Ingot ×5, Copper Ingot ×5, Gold Ingot ×3.

Connect it to the power grid and switch it on. The cold air clears the heat from the carriage where it's installed. It only cools that carriage, so start with the living or work area where you spend the most time.

New Heater: stay warm in cold regions

The Heater also requires research. Connect it to power and turn it on to blow warm air and clear the cold from its carriage.

Crafting materials: Steel Ingot ×3, Copper Ingot ×3, Gold Ingot ×3.

Like the Air Conditioner, the Heater only affects its own carriage. Before heading into a cold region, pick a place to rest and connect the heater to power there.

New furniture technology pack: a wooden coffee table and three stools

The new furniture technology pack includes four pieces of natural wood furniture. All four recipes require unlocking, but appear early in the technology tree, so you can start furnishing your carriage early on.

Wooden coffee table

Set it in front of the sofa and put a few drinks on top. It's a good place to start if you want a corner of the carriage where friends can sit and chat.

Square Stool, Round Stool and Wooden Stool

You can sit on all three stools. Pick your favorite, whether you're saving a seat for a friend at the coffee table or adding a stool beside your work area.

A new look for the wooden table

The wooden table now has the same warm wood grain as the new furniture, with more rounded corners and legs. Its size and height are unchanged, so dishes already on the table stay right where you put them.

New Building Hammer action: flip a piece in place

If a window faces the wrong way or a staircase goes up in the wrong direction, you no longer need to dismantle and rebuild it.

With the Building Hammer equipped, aim at a wooden window, wall, staircase or another piece that can change direction. Open the action wheel and choose Flip in the upper left, marked with a reversing arrow. The piece turns 180° in place.

Flipping costs no materials. Flip the piece again to restore its original direction.

The central console now shows days survived

The central console displays the number of days survived in the current save. When you return to the controls, you can see how long this journey has lasted.

A new Bank deposits page on the central console

Open Bank deposits on the train's central console to see how many Oxygen Coins you've deposited and how much interest you've earned, without a special trip to Oxygen Town.

This page is for checking your balance. To deposit or withdraw Oxygen Coins, you still need to visit the bank.

High-Altitude Survey Log: receive the rocket's observations in person

The player who launches a homemade rocket will receive a High-Altitude Survey Log after 5 seconds.

When the log arrives, your character briefly lowers their weapon, picks up the log in their left hand and brushes their right hand over the rocket on the cover before taking up their previous equipment again.

If an enemy appears, attacking or switching equipment interrupts the inspection. The log stays in your inventory. Once you're safe, take it out again for a closer look at the rocket and observation sketches on the cover.

The Leaf Backpack and Wolfskin Backpack are now visible when worn

Your teammates can now see which backpack you're wearing.

Leaf Backpack

Leaves are tied together with cord to make a drawstring bag. The item icon has also been updated to match the pack on your character's back.

Wolfskin Backpack

The Wolfskin Backpack has a distinctive wolf-head flap. Switching backpacks or unequipping one now updates your character's appearance at the same time.

See your backpack in photo mode

You can now see your own backpack in photo mode. Take a picture with your friends to capture everyone's expedition outfit.

Plans for more backpack designs

In future updates we plan to redesign the icons and appearance of the Pigskin Backpack, Tech Backpack and electric backpack and gradually add models that show when they're worn. These changes are planned for later updates.

Gangway frames are easier to place against walls

When building a gangway frame, aim at an unused attachment point on a wall to place it. Even if the wall sits flush against the frame, you can leave the wall in place.

Narrower gangway frames

The gangway is now about 8 cm narrower on each side. When you place it against a wall, the edges of the frame are less likely to stick through.

The iron panels on a gangway can now be painted

Use paint to color the iron panels of a gangway so that the connection between two carriages matches their color schemes.

More furniture can hold items on top

You can now place other items on top of bedside cabinets, small primitive refrigerators and bookshelves.

Put a small ornament on a bookshelf or decorate a bedside cabinet using these once-empty surfaces.

New textures for bookshelves and bedside cabinets

We've adjusted the texture of the bookshelf. The bedside cabinet also has updated colors and details for a more consistent wood finish up close.

The front arrow in the placement preview is easier to see

When placing an item with a clear front, the yellow direction arrow is now slightly larger and closer to the object. Before setting down a fridge, chair or similar piece of furniture, you can see which way it will face.

Corrected the position of spiral stairs in multiplayer

Fixed spiral stairs sometimes appearing in the wrong place for teammates during multiplayer construction. Both full-height and half-height spiral stairs now appear where the host placed them.

Corrected the top of the pentagonal glass side wall

Fixed the frame of a pentagonal glass side wall sticking up through the floor above it. From upstairs, you no longer see the frame poking through either wood or glass flooring.

Blue-white lightning returns deep inside the volcano

Blue-white lightning has returned to the depths of the central volcano. When the train crosses the suspended tracks, look through the dark red mist to see branching arcs flash across the slopes.

Head on toward the crater for a closer look at flashes of lightning between the rocky peaks.

Corrected the shading of the rails on the main map

Fixed the rails on the main map looking like two black strips.

The tops of the rails, polished by passing wheels, now have a silvery gray sheen. The sides retain the darker look of weathered steel. You can clearly make out the rail profile even from the side.

Cleared floating snow from snowy railways

Removed patches of snow that floated above parts of the snowy railway. On these stretches, snowdrifts no longer pass through your carriage and block the view.

Smoothed the approaches to the small forest bridge

We reshaped the slopes at both ends of the small forest bridge. The rails now run continuously onto the bridge, without a raised step covering the track at its entrance.

Desert bandit train: gunners turn their cannons to aim again

Gunners on the desert bandit train now turn their cannons in place to fire at different parts of your train.

After destroying a floor piece, a gunner will look for another target and may aim directly at you. When you approach the enemy train, watch where the barrel is turning and keep moving.

Fixed multiplayer shipping from the Star Chart Table

Fixed Send cargo being unavailable in multiplayer even after a landing beacon was selected and the cargo was loaded.

You can now send cargo directly from the Star Chart Table without first opening the beacon to check its inventory.

When a shipment is blocked, the message explains what to do

• If you can't cover the shipping fee, the message shows how many more Iron Ore Fragments the space warehouse needs.
• If the beacon has too little room to receive the shipment, the message asks you to take out the cargo already there.
• If the cargo awaiting shipment changes, the message asks you to check it and try again.

Fixed dragging items out of containers in multiplayer

Fixed an intermittent problem that prevented players from dragging items out of a container in multiplayer.

You can now drag your chosen quantity directly from the item's icon, even if a teammate is using the same container and the contents of other slots have changed.

The climbing view is centered on the ladder again

Fixed the climbing view sometimes shifting toward your left shoulder. When you grab a ladder, you face it squarely. If you look down, the view stays centered as you watch your hands take turns climbing.

Smoother first-person view while walking

Movement now looks smoother when walking in first person. Hold WASD to move sideways or turn the camera as you walk around nearby furniture. Objects move more smoothly across your view, especially at high frame rates.

Improved cloud save recovery and backup protection

We've improved recovery when you change computers, multiplayer character progress arrives late, or world files are incomplete. The game distinguishes between recovering your character and restoring a world you can actually enter. It no longer reports a complete recovery while data is still missing.

Backups are kept when world data is missing

When you change computers, if the cloud save lacks data for the train, a carriage still in use or objects already placed, the game keeps the existing backup and tells you that recovery is incomplete.

Even if your character progress has been recovered, the home screen continues to show “Recovery incomplete” while the world is incomplete. The game won't load the partial world.

Repeated saves preserve the previous distinct backup

When you save the same progress several times, the previous world backup with different content is kept. Loading an older save also protects newer progress. If there's a conflict, the original save is kept so older content can't overwrite your progress.

Both records are kept when multiplayer character progress arrives late

After you join a friend's room, your original character data may take longer to sync. The game protects that progress so a new character won't overwrite the old one. If the two records differ, both are kept.

See the progress of the check when you retry

When you retry cloud save recovery, you can now see how far the check has progressed. If you close the screen before it's finished, you can reopen it and try again.

What happens when a world file is missing

If a world file is missing from the cloud save, the game asks you to exit and wait for Steam to sync. If your computer has a copy with exactly the same content, the game can use it to restore the world. If files are still missing, it keeps your existing progress without forcing the world to load.

Improved recovery for saves that appear in the list but won't open

If the world save is intact but some character data is damaged or temporarily unreadable, the game now tries to recover the usable character progress so you can enter your world.

When you use a recovery copy, a message tells you that this progress is saved only on the current device. Look for this message to tell locally recovered progress apart from data that has already synced.

Better performance on large trains and in multiplayer

We've focused on situations that can cause stuttering: starting many production machines together, restoring lots of furniture from a save, and running water systems, chargers and livestock facilities continuously in multiplayer.

Running several Ore Crushers at once

We've improved performance when many Ore Crushers run together in multiplayer. Starting them at once is now less likely to cause severe stuttering or disconnections for players who have joined the room.

Furniture and equipment are restored by carriage

Saves with many placed objects now load more efficiently. A carriage that's ready can continue restoring its furniture and equipment while other carriages are still being prepared.

Water supply and automatic sprinklers on large trains

Large trains now do less repeated work to supply water, run automatic sprinklers and sync electrical equipment. In multiplayer, idle Tool Charging Racks also send fewer unnecessary updates.

Running production, charging and livestock facilities together

Multiplayer runs more smoothly when many machines are producing goods, several tools are charging and multiple livestock facilities are working at the same time.

Cooking stations wait quietly when the output slot is full

When several cooking stations finish cooking, each waits quietly if its output slot is full. Clear some space and the finished dish can be served as usual.

More efficient groups of wind turbines

We've reduced the processing load when several wind turbines run together. Their power output, blade animations and collision behavior stay the same.

More efficient automatic feeding in fish tanks and animal pens

We've optimized automatic feeding for large numbers of fish tanks and animal pens. When animals are already full or there is no suitable feed in stock, fewer unnecessary checks are made, reducing the load in large farming areas.

Thank You for Your Support and Feedback

After this update, set aside a corner of your carriage for yourself and your friends. Adjust the temperature, place a wooden coffee table in front of the sofa, and set out a couple of drinks. When your train crosses the suspended tracks at the volcano, look out the window. You might catch a flash of lightning in the red mist.

If cloud save recovery or a multiplayer shipment goes wrong, please tell us in the Steam Community what message you saw and at which step it happened: switching computers, joining a friend's room, or sending cargo. Those details help us find the cause faster.

Share your Steam review

If you have enjoyed your travels in OxyRail, please consider taking a moment to leave an honest review on Steam.

Whether it is the satisfaction of building your train alone or adventures with friends, your experience helps other players discover the game and helps us understand what you enjoy most and what still needs work.

If you have already written a review, you are welcome to add to or update it based on your current experience after trying this update. We would love to hear about changes you like, problems you encounter, and things you hope to see.

Thank you for your support and companionship. Pack your supplies, and see you at the next station!

— The OxyRail Development Team