Devlog 9

🛋️ v0.4 — Themes, Furniture & Bigger Events

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Furnish Your Rooms

Rooms no longer build instantly. When you place a room, a furnishing panel opens — every room type has required items (the basics that make it functional) and optional upgrades that add capacity, revenue per session, faster treatments, or daily reputation. A Sauna needs a Wood Heater to open, but add a Bucket & Ladle and Eucalyptus Bundle and guests spend more each visit. The old Level 1/2/3 upgrade system is gone — what you put in the room is what you get out of it.

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Room Themes

Treatment rooms now have a theme. Click any treatment room in the toolbar and a compact theme strip appears above it before you place anything. Themed rooms tint on the canvas so you can read your spa layout at a glance.

🧊 Nordic

Faster recovery · Higher upkeep

🍵 Japanese

More patient guests · Slower throughput

✨ Celestial

20% VIP upgrade chance · Higher upkeep

🌿 Natural

+25% revenue · Fills a little slower

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Events Now Pause the Game

Events used to slide in as a corner notification while your spa kept running. Now they pause everything, blur the background, and demand your attention — because some of them actually matter. Three new strategic events join the roster:

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Staff Called In Sick

Hire temp workers to stay open, or close for the day and waive wages.

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Heatwave

Pool and Juice Bar surge for 3 days — but nobody's going near the Sauna.

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Water Shortage

Mud Bath, Pool and Changing Room go offline. Pay to fix it or wait it out.

Polish & Fixes

✓ Toolbar font sizes bumped up across the board

✓ Staff buttons now say "Hire Therapist" etc. — no more confusion with building rooms

✓ Packages panel shows all packages grayed out with ✓/✗ per room — always know what to build next

✓ Zoom now anchors to the tile under your cursor

✓ Therapists now spread across rooms instead of piling into one

✓ Pause state preserved when opening and closing the main menu

Steam Early Access launches June 4. If you're enjoying the game, a wishlist really helps! 🌿

⭐ Wishlist on Steam 💬 Discord 🐦 Twitter

— Paul