Patch Notes 0.5.7

Hi Travelers!

Another update packed with important fixes, plus a look at the issues we’re currently investigating or working on.

As always, I invite you to read Summary #3 of our Repair Roadmap to see how things are progressing with fixing Hotel Galactic.** We are not slowing down. **

New Features & Content

• Tutorials: Added tutorial videos and in-game hints to help new players get started with quests.

• New Animations: Characters now feature new animations for dialogues, diseases, and sleeping on the ground, adding more life to your hotel.

Gameplay & Balancing

Building & Demolition

• You can now cancel a room demolition after starting it.

• Fixed numerous demolition bugs to prevent issues like disappearing walls, tools getting stuck, or demolishing rooms with guests still inside.

Diseases & Medicine

• Rebalanced diseases: ill guests now show a new visual effect to make them easier to spot.

• Adjusted the chance of puddles appearing from sick guests.

• Reduced resource costs and crafting times for potions.

• Updated recipes for red and green potions to use more accessible ingredients.

• Adjusted material costs for the First Aid Clinic and Space Medicine Room.

Research & Crafting

• Master Builder and Master Tools technologies are now available for research.

• The Kitchen Order Board is now unlocked via the Kitchens research node.

• Adjusted crafting costs for various Kitchen items.

• Updated the Birthday Cake recipe.

Guest & Character AI

• Hotel day now starts at 8 AM; guests check out at that time.

• Guests about to leave on the ship can no longer be kicked out.

• Fixed a major issue where guests could get stuck on the guest ship, preventing it from leaving.

Item Placement

• DownwardTrumpetSketch and LadderStorage items can now be placed in any type of room.

Quests

• Added several new main story quests: Sparn’s Birthday, Tukyuk’s Ailment, and The Island’s Heart.

• Farm Empire: Fixed Turneep’s reward; now gives the correct Skyberry Spire seeds. Reduced the number of fruits required for harvesting.

• Simple Life: Fixed quest description in the final stage; correct WillowgrapeVineSeeds are now rewarded.

• Harvest Moon: Fixed a major bug that prevented quest completion.

• Homeless Species: Added quest rewards and updated required task items.

• Added an “await further adventures” objective to The Island’s Heart to clarify the end of the current story act.

• Fixed an issue where some quests could accidentally be started more than once.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

Performance

• Fixed a critical bug that caused severe performance drops and made the ESC menu unusable when cancelling orders at the order board.

• Addressed several potential crashes and errors related to character actions, laundry tasks, and item handling.

Laundry

• Fixed numerous bugs:

  • Wet clothes no longer fall through the floor.

  • Counters will not show negative numbers.

  • Cleaning tasks now work reliably after loading a save.

Characters & Guests

• Fixed an issue where characters would sometimes sleep on the floor instead of their bed.

• Fixed a bug where newly arriving guests would immediately leave the ship after loading a game.

Items & Rooms

• Fixed an issue where equipped backpacks could be packed into crates during room demolition.

• Crates can no longer be packed inside other crates when demolishing rooms.

• The building board will no longer remain visible when it shouldn’t.

• Trash in rooms is now always cleanable.

• Martian Mucus puddles will no longer block item placement.

• Fixed crafting and placement issues with the Nocturne item set.

UI & Visuals

• Fixed issues with cooking, autosave, and notification displays.

• Food items now appear brighter and more visible at night.

• Fixed an issue where unlocked items in the research panel appeared in the wrong order.

Audio

• Fixed issues with the music system.

Known Issues

• Some items going out of bounds cannot be picked up,

• Workers getting stuck to the cursor (reloading fixes it),

• Some items cannot be put into crates,

• Various balance issues (prices, resource costs, etc.),

• Various icons are placeholders or missing,

• Sell zone not working,

• Spa not working,

• Various optimization issues,

• Broken furniture on the crafting island is not usable after being repaired,

• Worker AI and behavior issues,

• Some missing language strings,

• The game in sandbox mode is not stable,

• Various issues while interacting with items in occupied rooms,

• Performance issues when Antialiasing quality is set to x8