Builder's Dream MAJOR Update 📐✨

Meowllo! It's been a while!! Because we couldn't make any hotfix patches while swapping out with our fancy new Builder's Kit.

There's a lot of new features of quality of life things to go through, so let's just go straight into it. More GIFs, less yapping from me. Yippe!!

Builder's Kit Overview

🔖 UI

• Ability to search for items

• Categories with pages...and the pages save! If you're on page 3 while exiting, you will come back to page 3

• Ability to favorite items to easily access them through your favorites tab

• Shows how many you own and how many you are able to craft

• Like all of Snacko's UI, the new Builder's Kit catalog also has a dark mode.

✨ New Features

• Multi-select same buildables to mass dye

• Able to preview dyes and dyes are now shown as swatches in the dye menu

• When you switch dye colors, it will refund your previous dye

• Multi-select items while holding down a key + hovering over them to move, adjust, or put away

• You can now select foliage that you've planted, like trees or flowers, to move them

• When pressing down on your middle mouse button or clicking in your controller's right stick while hovering a buildable, it'll let you place that buildable (eyedropper tool)

• You can now craft directly while placing things in build mode. It'll show you how many materials you have and how many you need

• It'll read your items from your rucksack, storage containers, and your overflow storage as well

• You can now place buildables anywhere, including out of bounds, in other maps, and inside NPC houses

• Buildables no longer have collision restrictions. You can now put objects as close together as you like, or clip them together using the new "Nudge" feature

• "Locking" an item puts you into nudge mode. While nudging, you can raise or lower objects, as well as shift them around

• You can use this to clip objects into each other or float them

• Buildables placed on top of each other will now get parented properly

• Selecting a buildable will highlight and select any buildables on it

• You can combine this with nudge to easily parent buildables to a foundation to make moving your creations around easier

• When moving multiple objects, they will try to snap to surfaces

• Locking while moving will snap them to the first selected buildable's height

• Fences now preview the connection while moving or placing

• Fences can now slant their connection for slopes or platforms

• You can undo and redo actions: place, put away, move, and dye

• The undo and redo queue is saved and only refreshed when you change the map, reload, or place a required buildable for a quest

• You can turn on screenshot mode and use this as a way to record a timelapse of your builds!

New Content & Changes

🖼️ New Quests

• Paintings have been removed as chest items in the overworld and replaced with materials

• You can now obtain paintings through quests, starting with Catching a Glimpse, available after Charity Work and MSQ Follow the Sign

• Completing these quests will also teach you the crafting recipe for them, allowing you to place them as decorations after donating one to the Cultural Center

• The new quests also contain side story content

• 6 quests added: Catching a Glimpse, Painting Jumpscare, Doppelganger, Frame of Time, Path of the Pious, and Artistic Surprise

📬 Quest Changes

• Quests that ask you to invite all villagers or shopkeepers of a certain type have been re-parented to quests that are later in the game to prevent them from showing up too early

• If you had them accepted but not completed, they'll be returned to the board or unavailable until you complete all the prerequisites

• Tutorial days now properly teaches players how to claim quest rewards

• Small Workbench has been moved to D.I.Why and taken out of tutorial days

🔭 Visual Changes

• New grass texture

• Added cloud shadows to the world

• Changed "Block" type buildables to have a subtle texture

🐛 Fixes & Balance

• Floating ominous orb in the title screen by Mikan's house now gone

• Flowers now drop 1 Plant Material with a 15% chance of dropping 2 as the new Builder Kit makes it easy to mass-craft and plant flowers, giving you too much of a net positive of stamina and materials

• Available paintings now have sell values

• Crafting tab no longer lags; only contains crafting recipes for consumables and materials. Traditional buildables can be crafted or pinned from your Builder's Kit

• Cows and chickens no longer yap so frequently and less loud

• Removed all building restrictions except for barns and NPC houses

• Fixed issues with building inside townhomes

• The grid now properly aligns with the corners of the house, allowing you to place blocks, counters, or tables to snap to the edge properly

• Guardians now have their own text style

• Optimization of buildables, especially in save files with 20,000 blocks

...Wow, did I get everything? I think so! The text overlay when you're in nudge mode used to be "locked". But then, I made a joke image while working on the new tutorial images and...

There's a lot of features packed into this update, and it should make building a lot smoother and feel a lot better. You can really go all out making different kinds of things, like a Pumpkin-headed Nobu Jr Plush, or something more normal.

Which new feature are you the happiest about? I think for me, it's the undo and redo. I make mistakes a lot, so it's a lifesaver. I still have a slight bit of panic when I accidentally put things away, but now I remember I can just ctrl+Z my problems away.

If you read this all the way to the end (or you just scrolled here hi), thank you very much! The two of us need to go take a nap now~ ...and buy groceries.

As always, thank you very much for your support 🥺 We put a lot of work and polish into this update!

If you have any questions, feel free to ping us in Discord. See you soon 🐾