v1.5.5.1 has been released as a quick bugfix update with the following fixes:

• You can no longer slot quick slot categories (accessed via the + icon by the action bar) into a macro (which previously resulted in the macro aborting at the ability cast).
  
• Fixed an issue with an invalid item ID to tier mapping pertaining to the gold item tier, causing some effects to fail under certain circumstances.

Version 1.5.5 has been released to the main branch! Ready on for a list of changes...

The game has come a long way from its initial early access release over a year ago, and now I feel it is finally time to end early access.

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in the early access release! Your continued feedback, testing, and support throughout this journey has been invaluable to me! I'm very excited to finally end early access, and am looking forward to what the future holds for this game while I continue to release more updates.

You can now select an area of machines to perform group operations on them. Simply click on the group select button next to the build machine button and drag out a rectangular selection box. Current group operations supported are: delete, take all items, upgrade, move, group connect, and duplicate.

There is a new transmute tab on the salvage/upgrade window where you can transmute salvage materials. For example: You can turn 200 scrap and 25 proficium into 100 proficium, or up-convert quality based reagents with additional scrap into higher tiered quality reagents (doodads into dingbats, for example). There are currently a total of 46 different transmutation recipes available, so getting the specific salvage materials you need should be a bit easier now.

This version adds a new item tier, Gold! The special effect of gold equipment gives you gold coins whenever you obtain a new item based on a percentage of the new item's value. There's 3 potions that have various wealth-related effects, too.
Additionally, RPM effects now go up to 5 trillion RPM.

Item tiers (for example: stone, copper, iron, and so on) have had their respective skill level ranges adjusted. Previously there was a 10 level range (20 for Obsidian) for crafting/gathering abilities of a specific tier. This has been changed so that each tier now has a range of +5 over the last tier.

Fixed a number overflow issue with the amulet of decay that would cause it to increase RPM and not add gold under certain circumstances.
The well rounded talent now also keeps track of the decimal value of the exp it should award, granting 1 exp when that amount goes over 1. No more lost exp due to rounding!
Haggling exp now also keeps track of the decimal value of exp added, granting 1 exp when this value goes over 1.
The beneficiary prestige talent is now marked as permanent.
Various buffs added by talents should now correctly update their max stack size (or remove themselves completely if applicable) if points are removed from the talents that grant them.
Fixed a crash/hang that could sometimes occur when max upgrading a specific stat on an item.
Added journey objective and steam achievement for reaching gold tier blacksmithing.
Added a notification icon that appears when you have new talents available.

v1.4.5 has been released to the main branch with the following bug fixes and improvements:

• Added a button to sort auto fill sockets by their total stat amount.
  
• It should no longer be possible to move a construction machine into an invalid position if it was previously in a valid position the very last frame (this issue was particularly evident during times of low framerate).
  
• Items marked as new are no longer erroneously filtered on inventory sorting.
  
• It is no longer possible to place non-gem items into the autofill socket slots by dragging an autofill gem into an inventory slot with an item.
  
• Fixed "Any" stat filter average stat calculation.
  
• The construction machine interface now has better handling of culling of not-in-view machines, this should result in better performance when machines are not visible.

Early Access v1.4.4 has been released! Read on for a list of changes...

The journey system has been revamped... There are now a total of 97 journey objectives in a new layout, and some key objectives now award permanent effects in addition to the base exp they rewarded before. Each journey objective has its own Steam achievement too!

Note: Loading a legacy save (one from before this update) may result in some notification spam at first pertaining to the journey steps that have already been completed.

You can now upgrade construction machines to make them process items faster.
Simply right click (most) machines and choose "Inspect or Upgrade this Machine" to see the new machine upgrade UI.
This UI shows maximum input/output rates, as well as lets you use materials to increase the machine's clock speed - effectively multiplying its efficiency.

Two new Prestige augments have been added:
Draught of Everlastence makes potions not drain duration for the next playthrough.
Penchant for Building makes construction unlock at level 35 competency for the next playthrough.

Visual effect tiers for RPM up to 1 trillion have been added! As such, randomly generated RPM effects now activate after the 1 trillion mark.

Balance has been adjusted in several areas:
The glorious amulet has had its power reduced by approximately 50%.
Added 2 piece set bonus to The Lonely Ring, so you can no longer stack multiple of them for insane stat bonuses.
The Optimizer meta talent point increase threshold has been reduced from 25 to 10.
Haggling EXP awarded for vendor transactions has been reduced.
Well rounded EXP per point is now 0.03% (down from 0.1%).
Engineering EXP gains have been boosted by approximately 30%.
Jewelcrafting now unlocks at level 10 mining.
The Aura of Decay prestige augment has been rebalanced.
Vendors are now gated behind unlocks (for example: the reagent vendor won't show up until you have unlocked alchemy), and a new "general store" vendor has been added.

Your Steam status will now show your current RPM if you're in a game.
Even more news ticker lines and vendor quotes have been added.
Custom filters are no longer reset when you prestige (note: you still need to unlock the filters before they will become activated on your next playthrough).
Some potions that were missing a potion tag have been fixed - they should now all work with the "Potion" item type filter.
If an item has more than three tags, the tag icons will shrink to make them fit.

v1.3.20 is out now on the main branch!
Here's a list of changes:

• Added a new tab in the settings that enables setting up bindings (with optional modifiers) to quickly perform various actions on items.
  
• Several optimizations to increase FPS, especially in CPU-bound cases.
  
• You can now continue to build multiple of the same construction machine type by holding down shift while building.
  
• Added a new talent in construction that allows connections and item consumer machines to process stackable items in stack sizes of up to 2.5% of their max stack size per point.
  
• Added alchemy-related machines to construction for reagent gathering, ore grinding, and potion brewing.
  
• Fixed some potions not containing the correct crafted by proficiency attributes which made them not work properly with the researcher machine.
  
• Fixed brewmaster talent not correctly adding stats to potions when interacting with the orichalcium scaling effect.
  
• Fixed some cases where items could get tagged as both trash and favorite via filters and/or the auto tag as trash setting.
  
• Enabled machine connections to split a held stack at the endpoint and give the endpoint socket a partial stack to prevent a case where machines could get "jammed" under certain circumstances.
  
• Slightly adjusted machine connection item spacing to reduce overlap between the endpoint socket as well as the item packets themselves.

v1.3.16 is out on the main branch with the following changes:
Fixed upgraded gems reverting back to an un-upgraded state when socketed into items.
Added settings option in UI settings to disable news ticker (which effectively hides all AI generated content as well).

v1.3.15 is out on the main branch with the following fixes:
You can no longer place machines in invalid positions by moving them and then clicking both mouse buttons at once.
Potion of the Mechamaniac will no longer cause machine time advancing to break under certain circumstances.
Items bought from vendors will no longer be tested against the global item quality filter (the one in the gameplay settings).

Early Access v1.3.14 has been released! This update, which has been in development on the experimental branch, is now finally live on the main branch. Read on for a list of changes...

The new construction skill, which you unlock at level 70 competency, is all about creating machines to automate tasks for you. After unlocking construction, you can build machines in your active build area from within the new construction window... Machines you build will perform actions passively over time, such as mining/refining a desired ore. Machines can have inputs (on the top of them) and outputs (on the bottom) and you can either use your inventory to fill/empty these sockets or make connections between your machines (by right clicking on a given machine socket) to automate the process.

As you level up construction you'll unlock more machines that do things like store items, convert items to gold/item proficiency XP/salvage materials, split or merge a machine connection, or filter items passed along a connection path based on one of your custom item filters.

Construction has talents for things like increasing the build area size, reducing the time it takes to build machines or speeding up the rate at which your machines operate, as well as a meta talent which makes your machines passively accumulate operating time (up to 24 hours worth) when you exit the game and come back.

A *lot* of humorous new text lines have been added to the news ticker, with various new activation criteria.
RPM effect tiers now exist for up to 200 billion RPM.
There's also a new crafting material tier: Obsidian... It can be crafted into new gear, potions, jewelry, gems, etc. The obsidian armor special effect is particularly useful for the new construction skill, it makes all your machines advance through time whenever you cast an ability.
A new heirloom item has been added: Bag of Expansion, which increases the max stack size of all items for every rank owned.

There have been a lot of changes to balance to address potential "snowballing" issues, and tone things down a bit to a more reasonable pace.
Most notably, the meta talents "Gotta Go Fast" and "Money Can Buy You Anything" have been updated to scale with the order of magnitude of RPM/Gold instead of being a flat multiplier like they were previously.
The potion of temporary excellence has had its base duration reduced to be more... temporary.
Salvaging items now has diminishing returns when the salvaged materials from an item would result in a stack of materials greater than the max stack size of that material.
Scrap has had its base stack size quadrupled, up to 1 million.
Restoring a potion's duration with the potion of critical restoration now also slightly increases the potion's consumption rate.
Changed the Omnipotent prestige talent to grant +50 to all stats per rank (up from +5).
Changed brewmaster talent to now scale with the target crafted potion's proficiency.
Increased base prestige augment activation RPM requirements.

Lots of little quality of life fixes and improvements have been made across the board...
The sell all trash button has been improved in that it now correctly handles selling partial stacks, and doesn't get interrupted on the first failed sale.
Changed first buy option on vendor items from "buy all" to "buy max", this now also takes into consideration your total gold and the amount of gold the vendor can carry to calculate the maximum buy amount.
There is now a toggle to enable a mode for left-click instant buying items from vendors on the vendor UI.
The individual stat section of the item upgrade UI has been redesigned... You no longer need to cycle through each individual stat with the arrow buttons!
Stack size and total stat count text on item icons will now show abbreviated values at higher orders of magnitude (for example: 1.1k, 15m, 5b, etc.).
Condensed socket section of item tooltips to take up less space on the tooltip, and now show total socket stat bonuses instead of stats for individual socket slots.
Added new UI setting to hide stat effect breakdowns in tooltips and equipment window, this is useful if you want tooltips to be (potentially a lot) smaller.

Smallish performance optimizations across the board, mostly pertaining to UI rendering.
Fixed ability automation mode not using items from material storage.
Spread out the calculation of upgrade materials in the upgrade UI to happen over multiple frames.
The upgrade UI will no longer show the quality upgrade if the target item is already max quality.
Losing possession of an item while it is slotted into the salvage upgrade UI and then attempting to upgrade that now nonexistent item will no longer break the upgrade UI.
Fixed a case of inventory slots not updating after upgrading the item that was slotted in them.
Skill unlocks that are still locked will now always show up after unlocked ones in the skill unlock list.
Fixed a case where extra commas could be added when abbreviating numbers.
Fixed a number overflow issue related to salvaging exp earned from the scrap heap talent.
Fixed active ability tooltips refreshing constantly when stat or proficiency pertaining to them is increased and the tooltip is visible.
Fixed item quality filter slider text always showing 0% when reloaded from a saved state.
Changed duplicate item icons for malachite ring and soulstone amulet that were the same as emerald ring and peridot amulet.

Early Access version 1.2.15 has been released! This update has been in development on the experimental branch, but is now finally live on the main branch. Read on for a list of changes.

The new Salvaging skill, which is unlocked at level 30 competency, allows you to break down just about any unwanted item into scrap materials. You can then use these materials to enhance your other items.
Every item you salvage will give a base amount of Scrap, as well as secondary materials based on the item's other qualities (such as stats, quality, proficiency, and special effect magnitude). You can analyze any item to see what sort of materials you could get by scrapping it on the appropriate tab on the new Salvage window.

To salvage items, mark the items you want to scrap as trash and then use one of the abilities in the Salvage skill to scrap 1, 5, or 10 at a time.

Once you have scrap materials, you can use them in the item upgrade tab of the salvage window. Slot an upgradeable item in and you can see what sort of upgrades you can perform as well as the material cost. The cost increases as you perform further upgrades of the same type.

The salvaging skill also comes with 6 regular talents and one meta talent in it's talent tree.

There is now a material storage tab on the bank/storage window... After putting at least one point into one of the storage talents in either Salvaging, Mining, Blacksmithing, Jewelcrafting, or Alchemy, you will be able to deposit relevant crafting materials into your storage via the "Deposit Materials" button on your inventory. When materials are stored in this way they won't take up precious inventory space, and they will be automatically consumed from your storage when you need them to craft items!

There's also a new heirloom item that increases base material storage size by +1 stack for each heirloom rank owned, as well as a a gameplay setting (off by default) to auto deposit materials to your material storage, if possible.

There is a new help website, accessible in-game via the new help window as well as in your browser at http://help.fidgetspinnerrpg.com/. This site lists a bunch of information about the game in a searchable format, and since it's a website I can push updates to it without having to update the game files.

There is now a new "Socket Autofill Slots" tab in the equipment window. You can slot up to 75 gems here, and they will be automatically activated and deactivated depending on how many empty sockets you have on all your equipped gear. The auto socket slots will light up green to show which ones are active, and will act as if you are wearing a piece of gear with the appropriate gem when they are active. You can still use the old socket system too, of course, but this new feature helps alleviate the tedious issue of swapping out gems when you equip new items.

A new system for specifying custom item filters has been added to engineering, accessible from the macros & automation window. This is similar to the preexisting blacklist/quality threshold settings, but more advanced in that you can customize specific conditions with which to perform automatic actions on items. With the new filtering system, you can do things like: automatically mark all gear with strength on it as trash, mark as favorite gear that has more intuition than the gear you're wearing, etc.

There's a new tier of ore, gear, jewelry, and potions to craft... Thorium! The special effect for thorium equipment grants you charges of a buff whenever you cast an ability... Upon reaching 250 charges, you will instantly consume all charges to restore your stamina back up to full. There's also a matching secondary ingredient (watermelon) in the alchemy skill, along with two new potions for this new tier. There have also been three potions added for Orichalcium (Tier 8).

Also, RPM now goes up to 50 billion before activating the final, randomly generated mode.

Lastly, several new NPC vendors have been added, bringing the total vendor count to 12. These new vendors sell various items that were missing from the haggling system previously. For example: the new vendor Dustin sells alchemical dust, and Reggie sells alchemical reagents. Some preexisting vendors have been updated as well to have more items they can stock.

There have been multiple balance changes across the board... Due to some of these changes, legacy saves from before this update may have some issues, such as having more talent points spent than are available in a particular skill. This can be alleviated by un-allocating talent points and re-allocating them again.

• Adjustments have been made to EXP values required to level various skills to make them level slower (especially at higher levels) and pace out the unlocks a bit better.
  
• Several early-game unlocks have changed places for a smoother early experience.
  
• Prestige augments now require significantly higher RPM thresholds to activate.
  
• Talents that grant proficiency bonus on specific crafts ("Lord of Rings" in Jewelcrafting, for example) have been adjusted to grant +10 proficiency bonus per talent point (down from +25).
  
• The "Luck of Copper" special effect no longer scales linearly with RPM added and instead is based off of the order of magnitude of RPM added to prevent snowballing when using this special effect at higher levels.
  
• The haggling skill now earns less EXP per transaction, but also has had it's level curve adjusted to require less EXP to level in the beginning.
  
• The "Money can buy you Anything" talent now increases its talent point cost sooner than before.
  
• The "Spin to Win" talent has been reworked and can now proc off of any RPM added, granting gold scaling with the added RPM order of magnitude.
  
• Automation delay now has a multiplier that applies differently for different automation modes, making certain modes more useful.

There's been lots of little changes and fixes too!

• Optimized game file compression significantly, reducing total file size to just over 1gb (down from approximately 1.5gb).
  
• Items marked as new or trash now have a blue or red border in the inventory.
  
• Equipped potions now have a highlight indicator showing how much duration percentage they have remaining.
  
• Fixed potions crafted with the "Brewmaster" talent always showing as 100% quality.
  
• The "Herbalist", "Bunsen Burner", and "Catalyst" talents have been adjusted to fix some cases where cast times could go negative.
  
• The inventory is now hard-capped at 500 total max slots, to prevent severe performance degradation caused by having an absurd number of inventory slots.
  
• Fixed an issue that would cause a hang/crash if passive stamina regen per second got too high and resulted in a number overflow.
  
• Fixed an issue with the "Prospector" talent sometimes triggering on non mining abilities if the ability cast before the current one was a mining ability.