By making players share items, organise them in chests, protect them, it leads to way more emergent situations that can be fun in multiplayer. "where is the steam engine blueprint? it's in a chest next to the boilers, use that to build more".
By making players do extra work to share blueprints, it ...

The functionality of automatic blueprint library sharing in multiplayer is removed. The "shared blueprints" panel is removed. Blueprints and blueprint books in multiplayer will be shared by manually trading the items or by linking them in the chat. Blueprints or books linked in the chat can be ...

Coal Liquification Issue: Raw inputs have been swapped.

I'm using coal liquification in my current base for oil. The inputs for steam and heavy oil have been swapped by the last patch, rendering my build inoperative till I fix it.
Was there a specific reason why this was done?

I think this is ...