Update #5: Live Now – UI, Controls, Drones & Quest Fixes

Hi everyone! 👋

Update #5 is here, bringing another round of improvements inspired directly by your feedback. Thank you for continuing to share your thoughts, suggestions, and bug reports, they’re helping us make Tiny Eden better with every update! 💚

UI

• Improved buttons, item containers, the transfer window, and item rarity backgrounds in the Storage interface.
• Restored the Back button in the Crafting menu and adjusted material spacing.
• Plant pot cards now always display water retention.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the cursor to disappear after sleeping or saving at a bed. This also prevented confirmation windows from receiving input correctly.
• Fixed project completion in the Project window.
• Fixed the Social Panel animation.
• Added a new opening animation to the pause menu.
• Made minor improvements to the Orders screen and quest tooltip images.

Settings & Controls

• Fixed the Credits screen displaying only a blurred background when opened more than once.
• Credits now play at their regular speed. Hold a mouse button, Space, or the A button on a controller to fast-forward.
• Camera inversion can now be configured separately for mouse and controller input.
• Your previous inversion setting will be carried over to the controller option after updating. If either input feels inverted, disable the corresponding inversion option in Settings.
• The left stick deadzone slider now works correctly. Previously, the deadzone was locked at 0.2.
• The game now uses a hardware cursor, preventing cursor lag at 30 FPS.
• Cursor size now follows your Windows scaling settings.
• Disabling Game Cursor now restores the standard Windows cursor, including in the main menu.
• Selecting System as the language no longer causes the game to switch back to English every time it launches.
• A confirmation prompt now appears when leaving the Settings menu with unsaved changes.
• The quit confirmation window now opens with No selected by default.
• PlayStation button icons are now detected through Steam.
• Added an FPS limit to menus.
• The radial menu can now be controlled with the right stick.
• Fixed hover detection on the bottom toolbar.
• Updated several labels and categories in the Controls menu:
  • Alt Action is now called Alternative Action.
  • Sprint has been moved to the Movement category.
  • The Encyclopedia and Drone Care actions now have proper names.
  • The Actions category has been localized into 10 languages.

Localization

• Localized loading-screen tips, Deluxe Edition content, and the Back button across all supported languages.
• Fixed apostrophes in loading-screen tips displaying as corrupted characters.
• Added localization for:
  • Cancel in the price editor.
  • Activating Drone Care.
  • Closing the Gene Lab.
  • Overdue invoice notifications.
  • Equip and Discard.
  • The Inventory tab.

• Localized two perks, RAM-related text in the Drone Hub, and the 10 kg biomass objective.
• Placement mode buttons are now labeled Place and Cancel instead of Put and Place.
• Grade 4 in the Gene Lab is now labeled Epic.
• Updated the Belarusian localization based on translator feedback, including the correct use of ў in a Guide tooltip.
• Fixed a Spanish tooltip for Drone Storage.

Drones

• Reworked the Drone Station and Drone Hub interfaces.
• Fixed drone mesh attachment and visibility issues.

Plants, Garden Beds & Composters

• Clay now has a minimum water-retention value.
• Composters now display their progress as a percentage directly on the model.

Perks & Experience

• The Recycling perk tree now grants experience for composting and uprooting plants.
• Fixed experience gains for the Decay perk tree.

Quests

• Fixed an issue that could prevent the Biosphere quest from progressing.
• Fixed the Harvest Mutated Peas quest.
• Fixed the License for Paws quest.

Shop, Deluxe Edition & Display Cases

• The 39 Deluxe Edition skins are now granted once and only to Deluxe owners.
• Players who purchase the Deluxe Edition later will receive the skins the next time they load the game.
• Implemented additional changes intended to address purchasing issues.
• Improved related systems in the Deluxe Edition content, Drone Station, genetics features, and Shop item list.
• Display Cases now recalculate their layouts whenever an item is added or removed.
• Fixed item placement in Display Cases.
• Added icons for posters.

Audio

• Added sounds to drone animations for cutting, cooking, planting, and spraying.

Art & Levels

• Added the new L_Home_Workshop level.
• Added new workshop furniture, including a large table, metal shelving, a stand, and an additional table.
• Reimported Rugs D and E.
• Reduced the size of several textures, including rugs, laboratory assets, the bed, and more.
• Adjusted LOD distances for props in the apartment.
• Updated the oil bottle materials.
• Made minor improvements to the apartment, the large rooftop greenhouse, and the apartment Drone Station project.

Please note, there is still more for us to do, and as such, we are still hard at work on the game! So please keep on reporting the issues that you come across!