Release Notes for Learning Factory

New buildings: Quality Manipulator and Long Quality Manipulators. For manipulating items, you know. With quality
Added an option to craft Quality Batteries, default recipe is added to Battery Maker
Sales mode for Smart Cat Store (to be unlocked on the progress bar of the Research Tree): allows selling items at minimum prices that leads to increased loyalty of cats who shop there
4 upgrades that increase the amount of items that can be added to a cat's shopping list upon visiting tasting buildings
Added statistics for added Loyalty (from tasting buildings and Roadside Boutiques shopping)
Added statistics for recommended items in tasting buildings

Subsidizing option in Research Hub: invest money to boost EXP gain for the next 100 articles for a researcher in the Hub
Experience gain ratio slightly increased
Research difficulty rebalanced and now depends only on how far from the start a research project is
Research Tree screen now displays the overall amount of Cat Knowledge Archives (via Oniguro)

Added an option to decline or upgrade Dr. Katz's requests (to be unlocked on the progress bar of the Research Tree): invest money to add challenge and receive a better reward
Dr. Katz's requests are now sometimes rewarded with Manipulators, Soil and Fertile Soil
Dr. Katz's requests now include Quality and High Quality items
Dr. Katz's requests now include a demand to satisfy a certain amount of cats with high Loyalty level
Upgrading a request may result in demanding higher quality items or higher levels of cats' Loyalty
Added an option to auto collect rewards from Dr. Katz's requests (via xz215279)

Added an option to auto build Blueprints in the are around the character ('J' by default)
Added an option to automatically hang a Blueprint on the mouse cursor while building for Logistics buildings only
Added an option to remove a building from crafting queue if that building's Blueprint was removed
New Blueprint in the Blueprint Library (via Oni)

Saved games can be sorted in the menu
Decreased saving time (especially for Factories with lots of Zeppelins)
Decreased saved game file size
Added an option to past a config to multiple buildings at once (if they are selected)
Added an option to assign controls to mouse buttons 3-6
Improved tooltips display
UI/UX fixes
Bug fixes

Added an option to edit custom Blueprints straight from the Blueprint Library: you can delete elements, rotate or invert the scheme
Pressing 'Ctrl+click' on a Blueprints results in production & placement of a respective building
Pressing 'Ctrl+click' with a building on the cursor force prints a Blueprint
Added tips & tricks for selected buildings in the Wiki
Added hotkeys for Blueprints
Switched logics of opening Blueprint Library and Blueprint Mode

New building: Aroma Machine produces High Quality (++) Yarn Balls, combining, perhaps, the most tempting combination in the world of feline desires: catnip and yarn balls!
New 'Deep Dive' option when starting a new game: added an ability to begin with unlocked machine learning, access to Zeppelins and Underground level, and hiring scientists immediately after tutorial
Subsequently, the 'classic' tutorial has been revised and improved, and is now called 'Relaxed Start': it provides more smooth and gradual introduction to the game core mechanics

Rerendered Manipulators with different color schemes for different Manipulator types
Items move out of Tunnels in a smoother manner
Improved color schemes on the mini map (Transporters, X-Switchers and tasting buildings are more visually distinctive)

Added an option to place items direcly into buildings (or pick items from buildings by hovering cursor over them) by dragging the mouse while 'Ctrl+LMB' is pressed (via Евгений Ры́марев)
Added an option to only pick items crafted by the player by pressing 'Ctrl+LMB' (via Евгений Ры́марев)
Added an option to conceal researched upgrades from the Research Tree
Added a hotkey for bug reporting
Added an option to save&&exit game (via SrBicho)
New menu theme
Improved sorting in the Wiki
Bug fixes
UI fixes

Updated art for Fish
Updated art for Apple Boxes
Base speed of Zeppelins slightly increased
Speed upgrades for Zeppelins provide 30% of boost (instead of 10%)
Improved Tutorial
Added an option to copy & paste Zeppelin settings
Added an option to copy & paste Dock settings
Added an option to duplicate routes and profiles on Zeppelin route settings screen (via RyanD)
Routes and profiles are now highlighted with colors when selecting a Dock in a Zeppelin's settings
Added an option to copy & paste Advertising Cat Gate settings
Added an option to copy & paste Trade Port settings
Crafting buildings do not switch to lower quality recipes if there's an option to craft a higher quality recipe but the output is blocked (via Евгений Ры́марев)
Added an option to disable interface windows closing when interacting with a building that does not open additional windows (via Евгений Ры́марев)
Wiki now displays throughput parameters for logistic buildings
Decreased save game file size
Increased game saving speed
Performance optimization
Bug fixes