Editing V2026.05.31

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| released = 2026-05-31
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== Changelog ==
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A new update for Bconomy has been released.

=== New Features ===

* <strong>Cooling Bay.</strong> (TheCarriedOne)
** Once you own a Mint and a Refinery bay, you can build a Cooling Bay as your 3rd bay.
** Cooling Bays don’t produce BC or Salvage – their job is to provide cooling for your hot bays so they can hold full speed when covered.
** The network panel shows total cooling output and how much is in use; each hot bay shows what it needs vs what it’s getting and a throughput effectiveness %.
** Cooling is consumed from a per-bay coolant store. Use the Cooling Bay’s <strong>Coolant</strong> popover to <strong>Deposit</strong> Cryo Gel. If the store runs dry, cooling falls to a 10% cap and covered bays slowly heat up.
** New items: <strong>Frostsac</strong> (Hunt loot) and <strong>Cryo Gel</strong> (crafted from 50 Frostsac + 30 Insulating Resin).
* <strong>Thermal Routing &amp; per-bay allocation.</strong> (TheCarriedOne)
** New research node <strong>Thermal Routing</strong> unlocks a per-bay cooling allocation control. When unlocked, the Cooling Bay card shows an <strong>Allocation</strong> split-bar popover so you can route more cooling to specific heat bays instead of splitting evenly.
** <strong>Thermal Master</strong> now requires Thermal Routing first (so you may need the new node before you can re-unlock the node/title).
* <strong>Cooling Output Efficiency &amp; Surge Capacitor.</strong> (TheCarriedOne)
** <strong>Cooling Output Efficiency</strong> upgrade: +3% cooling output per tier (up to +30%). You will see the real +X.XX% effect text in the upgrade rows and purchase views.
** <strong>Surge Capacitor</strong> upgrade: banks spare cooling into a reserve and spends it to cool bays faster right after an overclock burst. The reserve bar shows the live projected reserve and a subtitle with the net throughput rate.
** <strong>Coolant Buffer Expansion</strong> and Module Capacity Expansion now apply to Cooling Bays as well.
* <strong>Module list grouping &amp; module-count bar on bay cards.</strong> (TheCarriedOne)
** The “Modules N / Y” line is now a toggle: collapse/expand the module list. There’s also a new ⚙️ module-count bar that switches the list between per-module rows and a grouped-by-level view.
** Grouped view shows one row per level (e.g. “3 x Level 5”) with an aggregate stat tooltip and group actions (bulk level, bulk Pause/Run).
* <strong>SysOp trophy/title.</strong> (Wewert)
** New trophy/title added: 🧑‍🔧 <strong>Bconomy System Operator</strong>.

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