The garbage update

It's trash time, baby!

Summarized patch notes

Changes

• Introduced indoor air quality that propagates through rooms and shows up as a gas/dust cloud in the room. This mechanic also replaces the odour mechanic

• Employees now generate paper trash, which can be dealt with by using trash cans (can be auto-placed for old saves and blueprints)

• Employees and cooks now generate food spills to encourage office/canteen separation

• Pallets now auto-connect to conveyor belts, pickup and drop-off points will be refunded on load

• Some furniture can now be auto-placed by holding J (default binding) during placement

• Improved key binding UX because people still don't know you can rebind keys and use , and . to rotate furniture?!

• Overhauled pathfinding data structure for performance + better determination of outdoor walking speed

• You can now build in front of elevators due to pathfinding overhaul

• Added support for modding doors and windows due to pathfinding overhaul

• "Old sole" trait is out, but "Immaculate" and "Claustrophobic" is in + new "Paranoid" personality trait

• Added support for networking and html-like UI creation for code mods

• Add-ons are now filtered based on whether their parent product is archived

• Added confirmation when cancelling active support deals (they can be cancelled without repurcussion if work hasn't begun)

• Tables with stuff on it can now be eaten at, assuming the stuff on it can be free placed (e.g. not big objects like computers and servers)

• Increased how far elevators can be off center and still be connected to 8cm (Does not fix existing saves)

• Employees will now prioritize tasks based on whether they are a secondary task and/or secondary role individually instead of as a whole

• Rooms that are otherwise off limits will now be treated as neutral if they have food trays, since people forget to mark them as canteens

• Dirty room warnings now only pop up for offices and reception areas

• Improved flickering light from lamps that are about to break and added sound effects + option to disable

• Added notification when another company uses player's framework

• Made clocks colorable

• Added conveyor speed info to build menu

Fixes

• Old saves will now be cleaned of duplicated doors, which could heavily impact performance

• Fixed memory leak on some Linux distros by forcing memory cleanup once an in-game year

• Fixed cleaners being a lot slower while fast forwarding

• Fixed prints shipped with helicopter not being registered in the stat window

• Dirt is no longer removed when inaccessible, however cleaners have gained telekinetic abilities

• Renamed "Hypochondriac" trait to "Patient zero", to make the negative synergy with "Just the flu" clearer

• Fixed trees flickering at 8 days per month with > 200 fps

• Fixed room curve tool taking walls on other floors into account when calculating nearness

• Fixed some areas becoming unpathable in Windows builds making furniture unavailable despite not being obstructed

• Fixed bug in multiplayer when releasing new version of digital distribution platform

• Fixed task priorities not being loaded in correctly when loading a save game, making it so teams with max task limits would work on the wrong task, until task order was changed

• Fixed cooks not playing opening fridge animation correctly

• Fixed game breaking if setting color blind mode to Custom first time from drop down instead of using button

Patch notes for Beta 1.8.40

Changes

• Doors and garage ports now push dirty air outside

Fixes

• Fixed accidentally removing elevator load balancing from game

• A ton of small fixes