Staff Behavior, Optimization, Bug Fixes, Visual Polish & More | Version 1.0.90

Hey Backyard Chefs!

Thanks so much for all the support, reports, and ideas you’ve shared with us. We’ve been listening closely to your feedback, and this update puts a strong focus on optimization, smoother staff behavior, more reliable farming and market flow, save/load fixes, and several visual and interaction improvements. We prioritized performance and stability work in this patch, and optimization will continue to be an important focus in the next updates as well. As a small part of that, staff walking speed has also been increased by 20% to make daily service feel a little less sluggish.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could cause the game to restart without saving progress.

• Fixed an issue where customers could fail to shop at the market under certain conditions.

• Improved staff waiting, cooking, serving, and pickup position algorithms.

• Fixed trash can removal/save behavior so removed scene objects stay removed after loading.

• Fixed waiters serving customers from behind walls.

• Fixed several chef issues, including chefs getting stuck at the same kitchen position.

• Fixed farmers getting stuck or choosing harvest tasks when no shelf space is available.

• Fixed Steam achievement checks and unlocks failing in some cases.

• Fixed missing or incorrect icons for seashells and tomato sauce.

• Fixed customer/shopper highlight effects using stale cached visuals.

• Fixed bush visual flickering.

• Fixed bull idle animation.

• Adjusted farm and livestock colliders so the player can move around them more easily.

• Improved overall stability by reducing unnecessary background processing, logs, and save/load warnings.

Balance

• Staff movement speed increased by 20%.

• Trash can interaction time reduced from 0.5s to 0.25s.

Features

• Added a new quest for upgrading recipes 4 times.

• Increased grass flowers for a denser outdoor look.

Thanks to @heyoitzkai, @thelifeofsteve, @senoritadookie, @Summer, @killer_bun7123, @0grescu3r, and @SidBangBang for helping us identify and resolve some of these issues.

Please share the things you loved, what you think could be improved, and any bugs, crashes, feedback, or suggestions in the Discord channel or on the Steam forums. We'll be closely watching them throughout launch. 💛

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Have fun farming and building your restaurant!

Till next time,Furkan & Sevo @ indieGiant