Patch Notes: Version 1.1.0

Patch Notes: Version 1.1.0

🛒 = this change was suggested by players!

Quests

• Discounty Basement: Adds a multi-part questline, starting in Chapter 2 and continuing into the endgame, in which the player can add a basement to their store.

• The Boiling Brew: Adds a quest that introduces you Solruna's new experiments with paint. Can be started after seeing Solruna's final friendship event.

• 🛒 Corporate Espionage: the stealth route is shorter, and now spawns automatically when player is in the forest between 19:00 and 20:00.

• 🛒 Beyond the Fog: reduced the firewood Elmer requires to 1 piece, and clarified quest text.

• 🛒 An Apple of the Occult: changed wording of objective to reduce player confusion.

• 🛒 The Fishy Fisherman: players can now speak with Barbara to get more Fishmas Sticks if needed.

Shop:

• Basement: players can unlock a basement, giving extra storage space for item boxes, shelves, and decorations.

• 🛒 Scanner can now be toggled back to cash register using the PC.

• 🛒 Chester won't steal: fixed bug that could cause items Chester holds to be lost when the player leaves the store.

• Chester can now place items back in boxes if all shelves are full and he's got nothing better to do.

• 🛒 Improved scanner tutorial to clarify the controls.

• 🛒 Customers now queue based on proximity to the cash register, rather than the order in which they finish their shopping lists. No more cutting in line!

• 🛒 Trash compactor lights now indicate what type of waste they contain.

• Added a red-tinted "0" to empty shelves.

• 🛒 Players can no longer place items behind fridges. Already-placed items can be picked up.

New Rewards Shop Items:

• Improved Sponge: can be used 3 times before wetting again.

• Ultimate Sponge: can be used 4 times before wetting again.

• Discounty Bucket: bucket no longer has an appeal penalty

• Advanced Employee Shoes: Chester moves faster.

• Premium Employee Shoes: Chester moves even faster

• Employee Gloves: Chester restocks faster.

• Premium Employee Gloves: Chester restocks even faster.

• Category Discounts: get a discount when purchasing items in a particular category. Each category discount has 4 tiers.

Dialogues:

• Guy will no longer introduce himself in Chapter 2 and beyond.

• 🛒 Derek can no longer talk about his workday before getting to work.

• Karl no longer mentions the tea shop destruction early.

• Ted and Solruna will now kick you out of their shops if you stay too late.

Visuals:

• Added opening hours signs to all shops and trade deal vendors.

• Improved look of the green sea.

• Multiple aquariums no longer have synchronized movement.

• Added particle effect when the PC is unpacked.

User Interface:

• 🛒 Character customization options are now numbered.

• Added "Scan" command & button when using the scanner

• Added progress bar to the Rewards Shop showing how many new items have been unlocked.

• Tooltip for the standing fridges now way "Fridge" instead of "Cooler."

• Rewards Shop subheaders now properly scale to the text.

Other:

• ** Performance: **Fixed issue causing significant performance drops when entering the town.

• ** Performance:** Reduced the number of colliders and volumetric lighting sources in town to increase performance.

• Players can no longer immediately go to bed; can only sleep at 9:30 or later on all days.

• Ted's opening hours are now properly set to the times listed.

• Solruna now closes her shop at 20:00, to leave to parts unknown...

• Post-credits popup has now been changed to Player dialogue.

• 🛒 Removed deteriorated posters in the parking lot next to town hall to make it clearer posters cannot be hung there.

Bug Fixes:

• 🛒 Fixed customers getting stuck when doors to the warehouse are blocked.

• 🛒 Fixed issue that could cause incorrect tooltips to show on shelves & coolers

• 🛒 Fixed players getting stuck in hay bales near farm.

• 🛒 Fixed players getting stuck next to Fisher's mailbox.

• Fixed Ms. Andersen looking out her window when she's outside in some instances.

• Fixed Elmer's fireplace not being lit when it should be.

• Fixed unaligned walls in shop.

• Removed extra pixels in James' sprite.

• Fixed game pausing time after opening & closing sewer menus.

• Fixed gap in visual boundary around shop.

• 🛒 Chester's third friendship event is no longer available during Blomkest Fair, which could cause a soft lock.

• 🛒 Small potted tree now only spawns in the back slot at Solruna's store.

• 🛒 Fixed bird bath not returning to normal after finishing the related quest.

• 🛒 Advanced trade deal items can no longer be selected before they're unlocked.

• Fixed bucket spawning too early.

• 🛒 Expand and Conquer quest: Elmer's documents can no longer spawn in a way that can trap players.

• 🛒 Fixed rat bowl spawning too soon.

• 🛒 Shopping list text will no longer sometimes turn black.

• 🛒 Hilda's third friendship event object (pot outside of Karl's farm) will no longer be mistakenly highlighted.

• The player can no longer "outrun" the rain effect by running downward.

• 🛒 Fixed issue with Tellar's third friendship event triggering multiple times.

• 🛒 Fixed "New!" tag sometimes not disappearing on items from Delivery Guy.

• 🛒 Recycled individual boxes now return significantly less money than stacks.

• Fixed issue causing the "It's a Deal!" achievement to not trigger.

• Fixed "Scrub Amok" achievement to only require cleaning 10 messes as described.