Hello everyone! I didn't write anything on Steam for a while so I thought to share with you what I am working on and what will be included with the next update :) Since I will be on vacation for the next 2 weeks starting tomorrow, next update should come in the first half of September. There are 2 big new features that I managed to finish so far and when they are tested properly the update will be ready.
First thing is the introduction of weather. There will be 6 weather conditions: sunny, partly cloudy, cloudy, light rain, heavy rain and thunderstorm. Depending on the weather you will get a bonus or a penalty to the number of customers that you get daily. This also includes very beautiful clouds and sky (no longer single color like before). Besides that I wanted to go even deeper with this mechanic and I made tables and seats which are outside not usable during rain, some light sources also don't work (since candles and torches can't burn in the rain of course), but when it's sunny or cloudy weather you get a bonus for every seat outside, since some people prefer having an option to sit in fresh air :)
It was a real challenge implementing rain since Tavern Master doesn't have a system for creating roofs and you obviously don't want to see it raining inside the tavern, but I managed to do it after some prototyping, I hope you will like the result :)
Second big new thing is the introduction of takeout! You can now build a counter where guests can come and order food which will then be prepared and packed for them to carry somewhere else to eat :) If you decide to include takeout counter in your tavern, you should think about increasing the size of your kitchen since it will increase the number of food orders significantly.
Besides these 2 things I really want to solve the problem of sudden scaling of events when you unlock a new floor. I don't have a solution in my mind yet so I can't promise or share anything, but I just wanted to let you know I am thinking about it, I saw a lot of people suggesting that I change that :)
For the end I want to ask you a question to help me design a new feature :) If I introduced basements, how would you like to use them? Is it for storage, customers, brewery or something else? I thought we can try brainstorming that together since I really want to add basements :)
Let me know your thoughts and have a great day!