Patch Notes for Build 1.0.25831

GAMEPLAY FEATURES

• Allow browsing of lower resolutions in options menu

• Player now customises their character before they enter the game

• New Tech Tree with ability to rebuy extra items

• Town Rankings now offer rewards at each tier

• Removed time requirement for Town Ranking Challenges.

• Added Treasure Hunting

• Added 'Collections' Phone App

• Improved radiosity lighting

• Added 'Creative' Mode

• Added 'Town Settings' App (available in Creative Mode)

• Maintenance workers will now collect items that are left on the ground outside zones and take them to 'Lost and Found' storage at the Maintenance Office

• Improved physics stability

• Reworked End Game Story, you can finally find out what is behind that door.

• Added Garbird Pests to the game

• Added New Standalone Tutorial

• Added Sprinklers

• Added Parking Garages

• Added New Achievements

• Added new Trinket Shop Fitout.

• Changed fallback quantitites for loot crates to use coins instead of export tickets as export tickets have been removed from the game.

• Safe now has some dialogue if you interact with it before getting the code.

• Adjusted Controller Vibration algorithm, should feel less like it is full of bees

• Added ability for the player to rename Fitouts

• Build mode camera will now cut back to player when returning.

• Build mode camera will now inherit zoom and pan from previous camera

• Added 'Locate Emergency' Emote to help locate Garbirds

• Updated time widget to have an icon showing today's weather forecast.

• Mascots now idle wander near desire props.

• Removed 'hard edge' from map borders

• Added new animations (Mascot Dance, Fitness Tourist idle, Posh Tourist idle)

• Full localization pass

• Many optimisations, improvements and bug fixes!

AUDIO

• Added music to the title screen, customisation sequence, and a set music track the first time you load the game

• Boom gate open and close audio

• Fire ASMR audio for Brazier, Campfire, Pizza Oven, Fire Barrel

• Player emotes now have abstract sounds

• Add Storage Lock/Unlock sound effects

• "Chill 01" removed from Streamer-Safe music collection

BUGFIX

• Fixed player not bringing out phone when in build mode.

• Resolved issue where a player could pick and clone a prop, and then the colour information would persist for unrelated props selected

• Fixed issue where the Storage Skip couldn't be placed in the Deep Forest and Mine levels.

• Fixed issue where workers who were holding drills at the time of save, would no longer work when loading the game.

• Fixed issue that was causing tourists to drop garbage on the floor if they were interrupted while walking to a place to sit down.

• Smoothed out train movement

• Removed tile restrictions on horn scare.

• Fix crash if player is moving a widget and they get a boss phonecall.

• Fixed issue where player could not build terrain at 0,0

• Fixed widgets not being correctly created on new game.

• Fixed bug where tourists would no longer consume items that were left in the output storage after a fitout changed recipe.

• Fixed camera from performing weird movement when starting a game.

• Improved player movement on lower frame rates.

• Adjusted sorting for UI HUD Elements.

• Added Vombat vehicle to imports.

• Added a rumble when a fish is hooked.

• Fixed issue where player was unable to hop off vehicles when on certain terrain types.

• Added appear/disappear effects to various objects.

• Maintenance damaged states are not appearing for client player.

• Fixed maint workers not idling correctly.

• Fixed Visuals pop-in if you save and then reload without moving.

• Moving a broken prop does not also move the attached storage.

• Resolved issue where actors would look for actions while being hit by a vehicle, resulting in some strange behaviour

• Fixed issue where client co-op players could not get on a vehicle immediately after joining a game

• Resolved issue where items desires may be set to 0 causing industries to grind to a halt.

• Fixed issue where player was unable to highlight cells around the edge of the map in build mode.

• Fixed some camera stuttering when moving the camera near the bounds of the build area.

• Updated Townie Goobers dialogue so he doesn't tell lies about Mana Extractors

• Stopped Storage Skip from displaying two icons in Storage Menu

• Opening storage menu with Dpad Down no longer moves the cursor down one entry in the Storage Menu upon opening

• Updated interior collision on the Maintenance building to fix potential NPC pathfinding issues.

• Stopped Beetroots appearing in the colour picker

• Fixed issue where buildings with construction sites were not correctly applying cloned colours

• Fixed controller navigation skipping over the 'invite code' button in the Multiplayer App

• Fix visual pop when customizing player appearance

• Fix players can be hit with vehicles while they are sitting on a chair

• Stop the player 'hopping' when they replant, or plant last crop

• Fix zone border visuals not appearing when creating a new zone

• Online Co-op/Networking has been updated to be be more robust and use less data

• Stopped player from being able to trigger emote wheel in when the customisation or phone menus are active

• Fixed overly shiny indirect reflections of local environment on non-metal surfaces

• Fixed issue where Tourists would appear in the incorrect position when high-fiving as a network client

• Stopped the camera from panning to freshly created zones in build mode

• Fix actors from floating over a cliff at map extents by adding a virtual collider around the map

• Fixed issue where workers would spam pathing errors

• Fixed camera sometimes snapping to the wrong angle when talking to NPCs

• Ensure footprint colour updates if wallet changes without having to move the cursor

• Fix Hooptie vehicle moving position after loading save

• Fixed a bug where harvested items did not spawn at the source object correctly

• Fixed issue where Mascots would not get changed into their suits at night

• Ambient shading no longer shows faint banding artifacts on surfaces at certain camera distances

• Fixed a few minor postprocessing related memory leaks that occur when exiting gameplay

• fix for blur/bloom propogating blocky visual artifacts on some systems

• Tent: support custom coloring

• Conservatory: support custom coloring

• Fix odd flicker on certain zone borders

• Fixed Bags/Balloons etc not appearing for network clients

• Fixed tools teleporting out of personal storage on load and becoming non-interactable

• Fixed issues with the player not being able to sit at various outdoor settings.

• Fix Wobbly Friend becoming tired and failing to wobble after long 8+ hour play sessions.

• Fix vehicle engine jiggles stopping after long 8+ hour play sessions.

• Fixed seating exit positions for a variety of chairs

• Fixed an issue where the in-game clock and timers could slowly lose accuracy in very long-running towns

• Fixed issue where splitscreen players could see alerts from other levels

• Fix for items in backpacks not moving correctly when an actor sits down etc

• Resolved several animated shader effects that could slowly stutter, jitter, or freeze after long play sessions

• Fixed issues if network player was disconnected as they were joining

• Fix maintenance workers getting stuck collecting garbage inside buildings

• Fix vehicle becoming non interactable for co-op clients if you store/withdraw multiple vehicles

• Fixed an issue with the interior collision of the Diner fitout which restricted the player from moving past the tables.

• Fixed an issue with Freshenators interaction point being offset to the visual.

• Fix brazier/campfire/hotrock fire particles producing INF/NaN's on some hardware

• Fix ghosted pending construction resources sometimes sticking around for multiplayer clients

• Fix garbage not correctly entering the Garbage Disposal for multiplayer clients

• Fix for stored items sometimes floating in strange positions

• Fixed multiplayer players hearing Rock/Paper/Scissors musical beat while in other levels or far away

• Fixed the Rock/Paper/Scissors music not playing correctly for multiplayer players who join a game while a match is already in progress

• Fix rare crash that can occur when swapping town profiles multiple times, followed by loading and saving town

• In multiplayer, fix items sometimes falling to the players feet when transitioning into the makers

• Workers will now no longer forage more than they need from forage locations

• Fix rare exception in terrain visibility

• NPCs will now participate in Rock Paper Scissors if no other players are available.

DESIGN

• Baldo townie dialogue and join request has been updated.

• The build menu items and categories have been reordered to make it easier to navigate.

• Ticket pod has been renamed to the Coin O' Matic Pod and now generates coins instead of export tickets.

• Removed 'Export' Feature from the game

• Updated fitouts to have exposed tourist desire values in EGO Tech.

• All customization items now have a name.

• All player vehicles can now be driven off road.

• Added small truck to Imports.

• Updated TownCo. Townie Agent dialogue and quest now that exports has been removed. Townie now asks for treasure collection.

• Updated join requirements for some of the early townies to be easier.

• Removed 'Managed Output' from Manage Module, was never working as intended

• Updated Metal Ingot craft time to be the same as other industry resource craft times.

• Updated Mana Extractors to not need Mana Nodes anymore. Mana Nodes have been removed from the game now.

• Removed farm plots from trader inventory now that we have them in the rebuy tab of EGO tech.

• Fixed spelling mistake on the Biz Mascot Body clothing option.

• Reduced starting fishing zone size to fix issues with early fishing workers taking too long to fish.

• Updated size of some dockables.

• Updated Chum hint text to be more clear about the player having to catch fish and not using workers for their join requirement.

• Added Floor Tentacle and Conspiracy Board to game.

• Removed side collision on wood bridge.

• Removed road tile requirements for car park.

• Updated tourism building to have 4 job slots instead of 1.

• Updated star values on some items in shops.

• Slightly reduced the time it takes to catch lobsters and crabs from pots. Was 2.5 game hours, now is 2 game hours.

• Reduced min/max fishing time from 4 to 8 seconds to 3 to 6 seconds.

• Updated townie strings that were referencing import tickets that don't exist anymore.

• Slightly reduced Agent Toffee's join coin request

• Updated the icon and guide entry to match the updated Maintenance building visuals.

• Slightly increased tourist wallet sizes. They now have a little bit more money to spend while in town.

• Players can now interact with the Wiggly Friend.

• Updated the sort order of props in the transport section of the build menu.

• Look at camera instead of rotating during boss calls.

• Crafting Minigame now uses a single prompt, has a more generous pre and post angle hitbox, and also no longer loses speed when the current recipe runs out.

• Reworked 'Storage' Menu to add a scroll bar if contents go off screen

• Removed 'Recipe' Panels from Storage Menu

• Camera Positioning in Storage Menu now uses current camera rotation

• Improve mini map performance

• Antialiasing performance improvements, differentiates Medium and High quality settings with a better balance of cost to quality

• Allow lights that would otherwise only be on at night-time to also be on when in interior locations

• Improved save file size

UI

• Renamed 'Friends' app to 'Multiplayer'

• Added item storage info on manage menu

• Added 'Produces' info to tooltip in build mode

• Adjusted customisation menu to be horizontal, instead of vertical

• Changed 'inventory' prompt to say 'storage'

• Brand new Town Ranking UI

• Added tabbing in customisation menu

• Added back prompts for join game, options, and overlay panels

• Added DPAD Movement prompt for phone

• Smoothed out transition when exiting game

• Disable chatting if there is only one player.

• Better icons for player names / numbers

• Removed hitching when transitioning from landscape -> portrait mode in the phone

• Added prompts to town info app.

• Added garbirds to map filters

• Fixed selection outline on Items in the build menu

• Added a confirm prompt to customisation.

• Challenge Todo Lists will now hide items as they are completed

• Todo lists will now only show up on the primary player's screen when playing in split screen

• Adjusted EGO Value in Phone App to have White text instead of blue.

• Added an on-screen keyboard for jailbreak for controller only platforms.

• Made the credits page a bit more pretty