📜 Changelog
What changed in UrbanPact, newest first.
September 29, 2026
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🔬 "Labour market" is now spelled "Labor market".
The research node, the 🔒 Assign crews button on the crafting panel, its messages, and the website guide all use the American spelling now, to match the Hire Labor button. Game Scouting's "rumours" became "rumors" too.
September 28, 2026
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🧳 The hunt buttons now show where the Travelling Furrier's wanted animals are.
A 🧳 marks each hunt button whose ground and weapon can catch something on today's wanted list, so you can tell at a glance which hunts count. Thanks to Jörg for the idea. -
🔁 Fill now remembers research.
When your queue was empty, Fill refilled it with your last job, but it skipped over research, so if you had only been contributing research it grabbed an older job instead, often Odd Jobs. Now a queue that ran dry on research refills with more 🔬 Contribute Research, as long as your city's Library can still take contributions and its research tree isn't finished. Thanks to Vik for spotting it.
September 27, 2026
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🎟 Scratch a free ticket straight from your Bingo winnings.
When a win gives you a scratch ticket, the winnings message now has a Scratch now — free button, so you don't have to go looking in the Trading Post. Saved tickets are still there in /vendor → 🧪 Consumables. Thanks to Jörg for the idea. -
🔬 The Labor Market research now says "workers".
Its description told you to assign your "Masterworks crew", even if your city's Craftworks isn't a Masterwork yet or has already become the Engineworks. It now just says you assign your workers recipe by recipe. Thanks to Jörg for spotting it. -
🔬 The Research panel now shows which levels are core.
The panel counts how many of the 30 core levels your city has finished, but until now you couldn't tell which levels those were. Inside each chain, every core level is now marked 🏛, and the top of each chain says whether its levels are core, bonus, or a mix of both. Thanks to Jörg for pointing it out. -
🎟 Scratch ticket winnings now use thousands separators.
A big win used to read "+30673 Clay"; it now reads "+30,673 Clay", and the same goes for gold prizes and the message your city-mates get when you win for the city. Thanks to Jörg for spotting it. -
🧳 The Travelling Furrier has arrived.
Every day he posts a wanted list of three animals and buys every one you bring in: 50g × the ground number for each catch, plus a bonus of 1,000g × the ground number for each species to whoever brings in the heaviest total weight of it that day (a tie shares the bonus). One of the three is always a 🏹 bow animal from the Outskirts, so anyone who can hunt can join in. Your own hunts count, and so does every wanted animal in an expedition's bag; the Lodge's auto-hunt parties don't. See the list on the 🏹 Hunt panel and in a new 🧳 tab on /wildlife, keep track in your hour report (you can switch that line off in ⚙️ Settings), and he pays at the end of each day. Daily Tops now shows each day's heaviest bags. Thanks to Jörg, whose idea for the Wildlife Passport started it. -
🔧 Workbench level-ups no longer claim your queue was re-timed when it wasn't.
Once your Workbench reaches Level 5, your crafts run at their fastest speed, so every level after that only adds a craft slot, and the level-up message now just tells you that. You'll still see "Queued crafts updated to the new time" on the early levels, when your queued crafts actually get faster. -
🔨 The Crafting queue now counts in hours and minutes.
A long Workbench queue used to read "115m left"; past an hour it now reads "1h 55m left", the same way hunting trips do. Thanks to Jörg for suggesting it.
September 26, 2026
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🏪 Trading Post prices now all use thousands separators.
Your gold, your city's treasury, and the prices of tools, consumables, hunting tools, luxury goods, scratch tickets and the Master's Charter showed as plain numbers like 163787 while other prices read 250,000. They all match now. Thanks to Jörg for spotting it. -
🔦 The Librarian now suggests research.
When your city has research to fund and room for more Pages that hour, the Library's suggestions include 🔬 Contribute Research, ahead of the usual landmark visit. Anything your city is short of still comes first, and it won't suggest an hour your city's research limit would cut. The Library's one-tap fill now puts research in every slot your shortages leave, instead of landmark visits, until your city's research tree is finished. -
🔬 The Research panel now tells you the hourly limit on contributions.
A city can take at most 20 contributed Pages an hour, and until now you only found that out when your hour report said your hour had been cut short. The panel that invites you to contribute now says so up front. Thanks to Jörg for pointing it out. -
🔬 Finished research now shows what it took.
In the 🔬 Research panel, every ✅ row now carries the Pages your city put into it, e.g. "✅ Patronage I — 500 Pages", so open, locked and finished research all show their Pages. Thanks to Jörg for suggesting it.
September 25, 2026
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📋 Build your own hour report.
In ⚙️ Settings, tap 📋 Customize hour report to switch any section of your hourly report on or off: wages, city production, your shops, the Lodge, research, districts, trade routes, visitors, the AI tip and more. Warnings always show, even in a section you've hidden, so you'll never miss a sold-out shelf, an empty queue or a stalled project. Everything starts switched on, and any report choices you'd already made are carried over. -
💡 AI tips no longer start with a stray "FOCUS:" label.
It was a leftover from how the advisor is set up, and it's now removed before a tip reaches you, both in your hour report and in /help's AI Tips. -
🏅 Daily Tops now names everyone who ties, and has two new research lines.
When players or cities finish level on a category, the post lists them all instead of picking one, and the weekly podiums share medals the same way (two golds, then bronze). New: 🔬 Top Researcher, the most Research Pages contributed that day, and 📚 Top Research City, the city whose citizens contributed the most. -
😴 Rested charges no longer get used up on research your city didn't need.
Each hour, everyone's normal research contributions (Scholar's Charters included) now count first, and a rested charge is only used if your city still has room under its 20-Page hourly limit. Before, whoever's hour came first could spend a charge and take Pages from another citizen's hour while the city banked the same 20 either way. Charges spent that way have been given back. Smaller cities, which rarely hit the limit, keep the full rested bonus. Thanks to Jörg for suggesting it. -
🎯 Crossbow Tactics now speeds up the hunts you already have queued.
Finishing a level used to make only your next Big Game trips faster, so a long queue kept running at the old pace. Now every crossbow hunt still waiting in your queue is re-timed to the new speed the moment your city finishes the research, and everything behind it moves up. A trip already out finishes as planned, and a hunt can only ever get shorter. Your city's announcement says so when it happens.
September 24, 2026
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🏘 The district tip no longer doubts your role in the same breath.
When your districts had room to grow, the hourly tip could tell you to found another one and, in the same sentence, say you weren't the Mayor or Minister of Zoning. That tip only ever shows up for someone who holds the role, and it now says so. -
🔭 The newly-charted marker on the hunt buttons now shows on every weapon.
A 🔭 ground holds a species you haven't brought home yet, and it might be Big Game prey, but the marker only appeared on the 🏹 bow button, which made it look like a bow-only find. It now appears on both the 🏹 and 🎯 buttons for that ground. Thanks to Jensen for spotting it. -
🌐 Research is on the website.
Every city's page now has a 🔬 Research section showing its Research Pages, what it's working on and everything it has finished. The guide has a new Research page with how research works and the whole tree, subject by subject, with every price and what each piece does, which is more detail than the bot shows. The 🔬 Researcher medal appears on player profiles too. Thanks to Jörg for pointing out it was missing. -
🔬 The research tree is easier to plan with.
Locked research now shows its price next to what it's waiting on, e.g. "🔒 Patronage II — 700 Pages · Needs Patronage I first", so you can save up before the prerequisite lands. Research you can start now is marked ▶️ (🚧 once Pages are in it) instead of an open padlock, so the padlock only ever means "not yet". Thanks to Jörg for both. -
🔬 Research now earns you a medal, and the Realm Herald covers it.
The new Researcher medal, in its own 🔬 Research section of /medals, climbs with the hours you spend contributing research in the Library: Bronze at 25, then Silver 100, Gold 300, Platinum 750 and Diamond 1,500. Every hour that adds at least one Research Page counts once, so a Scholar's Charter or a rested bonus doesn't change your pace, and neither does your city's hourly limit. Hours you've already put in since the Age of Technology began are counted. The daily Realm Herald now also hears about research each city finishes. Thanks to Jörg for asking for both. -
🔬 Your hour report now says when the city's research limit cut your contribution short.
A city takes at most 20 contributed Research Pages an hour, and two Scholar's Charter holders can fill that between them. Whoever's hour lands second used to see just "+5 Pages", which looked like the Charter wasn't working. The report now reads "+5 Pages (5 of your 10 — your city hit its limit of 20 contributed Pages this hour)". Thanks to Vik for reporting it. -
🔦 The Library now notices when your city has run completely out of something.
If a good your districts need every hour hit zero, the Library's suggestions went quiet about it, because an empty store has nothing left to count down. It now leads with "⛏ Gather Coal — your city has run out and its districts are going without". Thanks to Jörg for spotting it.
September 23, 2026
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🔬 The hourly tip no longer tells a Mayor to go ask the Mayor.
While a research node was already part-funded, the tip could assume you held no research role and tell you to ask whoever did — even if that was you. It now knows whether you're the Mayor or Minister of Research and tells you to spend the Pages yourself. - 🎟 Every scratch now says whether it was free or paid. Right under the scratch, a free ticket reads Free and a bought one reads Paid with the gold it cost, win or lose.
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🎟 Free scratch tickets are described in plain words.
After you scratched a free ticket, the result said it was one "you had put by", which read as if a word was missing. It now says "a Scratch Ticket you had saved — no gold spent", and the list of free tickets you still have starts with "You still have free:". In /vendor, each one shows as "one saved, free to scratch". -
🎟 A free Bingo scratch ticket no longer points you at the paid one.
When a Bingo win includes a scratch ticket, the win message told you to scratch it "free with /scratch". But/scratchalways buys a new ticket with gold, so following that cost you gold and left your free ticket where it was. The message now sends you to the right place: /vendor → 🧪 Consumables, where each ticket you've won has its own 🎟 button. It also says plainly that/scratchis the paid one. Every scratch result now lists any free tickets you still have and where to use them. After you scratch a free one, the shortcut underneath is labeled "Buy one with gold" so you can't mistake it for another free ticket. -
⚒️ Your Engineworks is now called the Engineworks.
Once a Masterwork was upgraded to the Engineworks, the ⚒️ menu button and the title of its panel still said "Masterwork". Both now say Engineworks. If your menu hasn't refreshed yet, the old button still works. Thanks to Jörg for spotting it.
September 22, 2026
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🔬 Your hour report now shows what your city's researchers did.
Every hour the city pays its Library researchers from the treasury and they add Pages to the research tree — the Research panel says so, but the hour report never did, so that wage bill left the treasury without a word. There's now a line for it: "The city's researchers added 10 Pages to the tree — 500💸 in wages from the treasury." It's separate from your own 🔬 Research line, which is volunteer work and costs the city nothing. Compact reports carry a short version. Thanks to Jörg for the catch. -
🔨 A number on the crafting panel didn't say what it was counting.
When your city has a build project running,/craftshows a progress line for each crafted material it still needs, ending in something like+1,620 next tick (15 crafting). The first figure is units — the second was a count of crafts, sitting right beside it with nothing to say so, which made it read as more units or as some kind of multiplier. It now reads15 crafts in your queue: a count of crafts, yours only, each of which lands a whole batch rather than a single unit. Thanks to Jörg for the catch.