Captain of Industry update 0.8.1b is now rolling out on PC (Steam). According to the official Captain of Industry patch notes, the latest update 0.8.1b added quality of life improvements and gameplay optimizations.
Since the last patch, players are facing a number of problems with the game. Today’s Captain of Industry patch 0.8.1b will fix a few of these issues.
Check out more details below.
Captain of Industry Patch 0.8.1b Notes – March 13, 2026
- Added ability to add and remove pillars on transport belts and pipes, similar to train track pillars.
- Added ‘remove_redundant_transport_pillars’ console command to remove all redundant transport pillars. We recommend saving your game before using it. Removing redundant pillars can improve performance.
- Stacker tower rails can now be placed on the ocean.
- Ocean area notifications now update when entities are moved.
- Optimized transport product rendering based on camera distance, reducing transport simulation update time by up to 50% (up to 10% of overall sim update).
- Optimized construction manager, up to 8x faster when many constructions are paused (up to 10% of overall sim update).
- Optimized ocean-related height change processing, saving about 1ms per simulation step on large saves (up to 3% of overall sim update).
- Fixed amphibious hydrogen excavator having incorrect construction costs.
- Fixed a ship pathfinding bug that could lead to ships pathing through obstacles.
- Fixed cargo ships using incorrect crew size for different ship tiers.
- Fixed stacker tower throttling being applied at half the intended rate, also causing delayed construction of new segments.
- Fixed stacker tower max terrain height calculation for segment layouts.
- Fixed stacker tower area selection not considering its pivot correctly.
- Fixed issues when adding or removing train track pillars.
Download Captain of Industry update 0.8.1b on PC.
