The Roast 0.11.0 – Decoration Overhaul, Café Appeal & Stability Fixes

Hello everyone! This update brings a major expansion to the decoration system. Decorative items now do more than just make your café look nicer — they can improve your café’s overall appeal and provide gameplay bonuses.

🪴 Decoration System Update

• Added new decorative items, including Rugs, new Paintings, Floor Lamps, and more.
• Decorative items now have Aesthetic Score and Theme values.
• Decorative items and painted walls now contribute to your café’s Appeal value.
• Higher Café Appeal can provide bonus XP and extra tips when completing orders.
• Improved decoration market sorting so available items are shown before locked items.
• Added a new scale punch animation when placing decorative items.
• Added a dedicated placement sound for decorative items.

☕ Barista & Milk Fixes

• Fixed an issue where baristas could incorrectly add milk while preparing an Espresso Macchiato.
• Fixed an issue where the milk UI could display the Warm / Steamy state incorrectly.

👥 Worker & NPC Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could occur when firing workers.
• Fixed issues where some machines could become unusable after changing worker tasks or firing workers.
• Fixed an issue where workers could get stuck while searching for available tasks.
• Improved NPC movement and navigation behavior.
• Fixed crashes related to NPC clothing, eyewear, and cosmetic mesh updates.
• Made additional NPC performance improvements to help the game run more smoothly.

🌐 Multiplayer & Steam Fixes

• Improved stability when hosts and clients leave multiplayer sessions.
• Fixed crashes that could occur while returning to the main menu, closing the game, or ending an active Steam session.
• Improved session cleanup and leaving behavior for hosts, clients, and standalone games.
• Added safeguards to prevent multiple session-leave operations from starting at the same time.

🖥️ Graphics & Compatibility

• Added automatic graphics setup for new players.
• Added an Auto Configure button to the graphics settings, allowing players to automatically adjust graphics settings at any time.
• Initial graphics settings are now selected based on the player’s hardware.
• Changed the default graphics settings to a safer Medium preset with a default 60 FPS limit.
• Added DirectX 11 as a compatibility option alongside DirectX 12.
• Added the ability to select the preferred DirectX version from the graphics settings. Changing the DirectX version requires restarting the game.
• Added a graphics safe-mode prompt after an unexpected shutdown while using DirectX 12.
• Improved initial settings and resolution scaling for integrated graphics hardware.
• Automatic graphics setup now selects up to High settings by default, while Epic settings remain available manually.

⚡ Performance Improvements

• Improved performance related to shop lighting, decorative lights, and rendering settings.
• Improved rendering defaults to reduce unnecessary GPU load on first launch.
• Improved stability on lower-end and integrated graphics hardware.
• Made additional performance improvements across NPC and gameplay systems.

🛠️ Additional Stability Fixes

• Fixed several stability issues related to worker task evaluation, NPC handling, character visuals, multiplayer shutdown, and gameplay object validation.
• Added additional safety checks around multiplayer operations and game shutdown.

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