Hotfix #10: Unlimited Freeplay Rebuys & Workshop Upgrades!

Hey Flippers!

Hotfix #10 is officially live, introducing a highly requested community feature alongside a major upgrade to our Steam Workshop! Because House Flipper is an intensive sandbox where almost every object is interactive, unoptimized Workshop models with massive file sizes can easily overload your hardware and cause the game to crash. We originally introduced the 3MB upload cap to protect your performance, but at the request of our players, we have managed to raise the maximum Workshop file size cap from 3MB to 10MB - giving creators more creative freedom while keeping your gameplay perfectly stable.

📝 Hotfix #10 - Patch Notes

🎮 Quality of Life & Features

• Freeplay House Rebuying: You can now purchase and flip the same house as many times as you want in Freeplay mode from the get-go, without needing to complete all jobs and houses first. (Classic mode behavior remains unchanged).

• Steam Workshop Expansion: Increased the maximum file size cap for uploading Workshop items from 3MB to 10MB to better support high-detail creations.

• Day/Night Controller: Added an extra refresh pass for night lighting and lamp intensity to ensure proper illumination when the dynamic Day/Night mode is disabled.

• Heart items: Resolved missing markers used for identifying the room where an item is placed, as well as appraiser preference tags.

🔧 Bug Fixes & Mission Polish

• "A bathroom rush": Fixed a problematic bathroom door that couldn't be closed by the player.

• Entresol Quest Fix: Resolved an issue tracking completion progress for the floor tiling quest in areas featuring an entresol/mezzanine floor.

• Menu Lighting: Adjusted and balanced the lamp intensity within the main menu scene.

• Fixed errors occurring during the placement of tiles and panels.

• Fixed issues related to cockroaches.

• Lima pouf: The shop preview no longer displays the previously selected item.

🎨 Visuals & Shaders

• Water Walls: Replaced the legacy textures on Water Wall 1 and Water Wall 2 with a proper, dynamic water shader.

• Night Sky: Added a subtle, realistic rotation effect to the stars.

⚙️ Stability & Technical

• Memory Optimizations: Implemented further memory management improvements to prevent unexpected game crashes.

• Code Fix: Resolved a null reference exception crash occurring within the custom rendering pass.

  🛠️ Hotfix #10.5

  Fixes & Tweaks:

  - Fixed issues with pool rendering and grass clipping through the floors of house extensions.

  - Entresol: Disabled the frame collider if the side is touching a wall - no longer blocks actions like wall painting.

  - Fixed a bug on the makeHome map where magic orbs did not change the in-game time.

  DayNight & Visuals:

  - DayNightController: Improved day exposure intensity.

  - Visuals: Changed the minimum value of the Brightness slider from 0 to -1.

  (If you find the game too bright, you can now turn the brightness down even further)

  Steam Workshop:

  - Steam Workshop should now be functional on Mac.

  - Improved item transparency.

  - Added a notification informing players when the game detects items that exceed the Workshop size limit.

  - The "Toggle Mods" option in the Main Menu can now be checked/enabled even if you don't have any items in your directory.

  Optimization:

  - Further memory optimizations and FPS drops.

☀️ Stack Your Discounts 💰

If you haven't picked up the Remastered Collection yet, the newly launched Steam Summer Sale is the perfect opportunity to save a massive amount on your upgrade. As a reminder, your price for the Remaster automatically drops lower at checkout based on how many major legacy expansions you already own in your library.

This is where you can double-dip on savings: the Steam Summer Sale has officially started right now, bringing huge discounts across almost the entire classic House Flipper family! Our ultimate all-in-one package for the original game - The Flipper Bundle (featuring the base game and its expansions) - has just received a massive extra discount, jumping from its usual 15% to 55% off. Buying these original DLCs at a deep discount right now to green your garden or renovate coastal mansions is the ultimate way to trigger that much bigger veteran loyalty discount for the Remaster at checkout!

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You can also find updates there regarding our other titles, including Farmbotic, Honeycomb: The World Beyond and Builder Simulator - American Houses.

Happy flipping!

~ The Frozen Way Team