Patch #12: Upgrading Matching-Shape Houses In-place, Rebalances, Bug Fixes

Patch #12

Hello Everyone,

Have you ever noticed how the schematic progression includes a number of houses in the same shape but better quality? You can now upgrade in-place upgrade those houses once you unlock them!

Adding this feature required handling quite a number of edge cases, but the result should be a quality of life improvement for players. It rather feels like the long haul of gamedev: a lot of work for a seemingly small yet worthwhile improvement.

Of course please check out the full change log below. This patch brings a number of balance changes and bug fixes.

Daniel

Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood

Changelog

v0.6.173 Patch #12

Features

• Add upgrading of houses in-place if same shape higher tier is available

Gameplay

• Increase plank cost portion of Large Warehouse from 34 planks 55 planks

• Increase plank cost portion of Giant Warehouse from 55 planks 144 planks

• Add extra option to only show Status & Problems Only for show icon setting instead of the prior all or nothing

• Boost trade value of Hearty Meals from 21 to 34

• Boost trade value of Savory Meals from 21 to 34

• Boost trade value of Fancy Meals from 21 to 34

• Boost trade value of Jam Pastry from 13 to 21

• Boost trade value of Mushroom Stew from 13 to 21

UI

• Improve ui scaling of pirate menu at high populations

• Scale down event icon blips as the camera zooms out

• Show version number on pause menu

• Add Management Office to workplace overview

• Ensure research is always at bottom of sidebar

Bugs

• Fix resources clipping and overflowing the resource screen

• Fix expectation stars appearing over ore

• Fix mismatch of free construction worker count between HUD and workplace overview

• Fix tree decorations not occupying second cell vertically in blocking grid

• Fix Whiskers clipping through the sides of bridges

• Fix stone paths and pipes incorrectly blocking heat, light & pollution.

Crash Fixes

• Fix crash that could happen when filling in enclosed sections of water

Mod API

• Add Optional prepending of date log message modapi

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to many players who requested the ability to upgrade houses in-place

• Thank you to the players on the Discord who commented on how they’d be willing to pay much more for the larger warehouses.

• Thank you to Gardlt on Discord for reporting the ore expectations bug

• Thank you to IronJack on Discord for reporting the resource overflow on resource screen bug

• Thank you to Madame Hardy and VisceralRevolt on the Discord for suggesting the addition of the version number to the pause menu

• Thank you to Morwenna on the Discord for suggesting the meal trade values were too cheap 

• Thank you to Lord Yanaek and xs4nd3r for reporting the construction worker mismatch

• Thank you to KatherineOfSky for suggesting the research button always be at the bottom of the sidebar

• Thank you to Buckminster for suggesting the date logging for the mod log message call

• Thank you to Khemoterropy on the Discord for reporting the missing cell block in the tree decoration

• Thank you to KriticalSquid on Discord for reporting that Whiskers can clip through the sides of bridges

• Thank you to DeathWolf & Halhozo on Discord for reporting the crash that could happen when filling in enclosed sections of water

• Thank you to slavic on Discord for reporting that stone paths & pipes were incorrectly blocking heat

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