Beta 52D of Clockwork Empires is now available on the experimental branch on Steam. It primarily exists to fix bugs and add refinements to issues in betas 52B and 52C, which... didn't get announcements posted for them, clearly due to Novorusian saboteurs. Changelog for 52D:

• added a number of new military techs
• added weekly upkeep notification alert
• farm harvests are now output in stacks rather than individually
• foraging collects stacks rather than single units (as applicable)
• doors can now be properly dismantled
• can now send order to groups of surface nodes to mine just clay or just stone or just sand
• "Chop Tree" job will place output stack into chopper's hands & will return to stockpile if available
• "Mine Surface Node" jobs will place output of up to 3 items in miner's hands & will return to stockpile if available (job time increased to compensate for faster extraction speed)
• new experimental loadout, for funzies
• decreased priority of idling when off-shift
• the population counter now correctly reflects your starting pop in all loadouts
• reduced map size and dealt with The Consequences Of These Actions
• "I have altered the tooltips on population capacity. Pray I don't alter them further."
• balance: starter crops all yield faster harvests (the proportion of crops over time is the same)
• balance: time it takes to chop tree and mine surface node have been changed
• balance: added one MC and one LC character to all loadouts
• balance: max science points for lab now determined by Overseer science skill level
• balance: made some QoL bonus/malus changes
• FIXED: replays not saving work orders for workshops, causing determinism break
• FIXED: save game crash after starting new game, quitting, starting new game again
• FIXED: event arc director point gains
• FIXED: when farms are removed they will be correctly deleted from Offices list
• FIXED (52C): offices operating w/ unmet upkeep
• FIXED (52C): various edge cases involving Upkeep calculations