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