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.