Quests SOS, Performance Enhancements and more! - Patch Notes v0.52.15

Hello everyone!

We’ve bundled up another heartfelt patch to make your time in Little Sim World even more delightful! This update brings in a completely reworked Billing System to add more depth to your daily life, and a bunch of performance improvements, controller support updates, and multiplayer fixes to keep everything running smoothly. ✨

Patch Notes 🗒️ Little Sim World v0.52.15

SOS Quest System! 🆘

We know how frustrating it can be to get stuck in a quest and feel like your progress has come to a halt. That’s why in this patch, we’re introducing a brand new Quest SOS System! If something goes wrong or a quest doesn’t progress as expected, this system will give you a gentle nudge forward, helping you continue your journey without needing to restart or lose your save.

New Billing System! 💵

We’ve prepared a brand new Billing System for you! Look forward to monthly bills that more accurately calculate your usage. Prices have been rebalanced for electrical and Cooling/Heating! Gone are the days of exorbitant bills! Check 'Bills' in-game lesson for more details!

Hair Salon Changes 🪮

We've made some exciting changes to Julibee, inspired by your amazing feedback! Hairstyles you've earned will be available for direct purchase based on your current City Reputation level! We’ve also reworked the Hair Dye system to make it more intuitive.

Helping the Local Cashiers 🧾

Now the "Hungry Cashier" interaction with Yuna happens less often and has more meaning! Now, helping the Cashier's cause will give you a little bit of City Reputation XP.

Performance Updates 🛠️

• Performance will be slightly better while raining or hailing.

• Performance will be slightly better when at the university.

• Improvements to AutoSave now save asynchronously, so you will get fewer lag spikes going about your day!

• Updated our skinned sprite batching and deformation handling to improve framerate.

• Fixed Build Mode lag spike on start.

• Fixed AutoSave to not start counting until the game is loaded.

• Updated save button in pause menu to always show even when auto save is enabled.

• Fixed stutter on Status Effects trying to update UI that's disabled.

UI Fixes 📊 & Controller Support 🎮

• Added controller support to Fines UI

• Fixed popup buttons causing submit key to trigger action twice.

• Fixed skirt offsets on UI.

• Fixed Banana21 shop to show colour on tooltips.

Multiplayer Fixes 🧍‍♂️🧍‍♀️

• Fixed other players' stats no longer showing when opening specific menus.

• Fixed undo for furniture in Build Mode causing issues.

• Fixed bulldozer action not syncing for clients.

• Fixed rotation for the host keeping the items over furniture.

• Players' VFX now properly sync if activated before others join the session.

General Fixes 🎯

• Donating several coins to the museum will now display the right amount of earned experience. (Also, the top Experience Slider now looks cooler).

• Buying items during the last days of a season will no longer tell you an impossible date for the delivery to arrive.

• Achievements Data won't load multiple times on Game Load.

• Characters loaded after quitting a file in Tutorial now won't reset time.

• Fixed the library magazine shelf. They will no longer go missing after you take one from the shelf.

• Fixed Goth Mirror left view.

• Fixed Berry's catalogue missing items.

• Fixed Santa skirt secondary colour.

• Fixed Yuna's blank dialogue.

Quest Fixes 📜

• "Ink and Quill" and "A Winner's Path" questlines unlock. If these questlines stopped working for you at some point, you will be able to continue them!

• "Unconvering Secrets" quest - Fixed the Museum statues' "Read Inscriptions" interaction.

• "Strange Stones" quest - Fixed the