Hello everyone!
Update 0.12 is now live! This update includes new customization options for lights and storefronts, some NPC tweaks/improvements, an empty box dispenser, an item teleporter, more memory optimizations, and more!
Customizable Lights:
Lights can now be customized with options for light color and intensity. Simply click on a lighting fixture you've placed with the customizable spray paint item and you will be given a choice of colors, intensity, and lamp colors. Yes, this means that there are now customizable options for the fixture as well as the light itself.
Customizable Storefronts:
The storefronts of Paris and Lyon are now able to be customized. Wall color, Pillar color, and Awning color are able to be changed.
Item Teleporter:
This can be used to take virtually anything you can pick up between stores. The teleporter can be found in the DepotMax app and is unlocked at Player Level 35. Once placed in your store, you can pick up pretty much anything and deposit it into the teleporter. Items can then be retrieved from it from any placed teleporter item, either in the same store for efficiency or in other stores to transport items between them. The teleporter works as a stack so the last item you put in will be the first item you will get back out when you retrieve an item.
Box Dispenser:
There is now an easy way to get any kind of empty box you would like. No more need to keep a corner full of empty boxes! The box dispenser can be found in the DepotMax app and is unlocked at Player Level 16. Once placed down, you can pull boxes from the sections on top for all different sizes of boxes: small, medium, large, and pastry from left to right.
New special bookcase:
We've included a new special bookcase for Children's books available at Shop Level 29. This works just like the other special bookcases and gives a slight boost to Children's books.
NPC Improvements/Tweaks:
A few things to note on NPC improvements and tweaks this update. Customers walking speed has been slowed down by about 20%. This is to help it feel less like a constant rush of people running around after a lot of feedback that they feel too fast.
In order to help spread queue balance for checkouts, there is now a new system in place to balance queues. If you or an employee checks out the last customer in a queue, the system will look for the largest queue and pull the second customer in line over to the empty checkout queue line. This can be stopped by closing the register before the customer is done checking out.
Customer expressions have been tweaked a bit and material issues that were causing their teeth and mouths to be entirely black is now fixed.
Customers who sit in the antique chairs will now pull out a book if they've picked one up instead of just sitting there.
Fixes/QoL:
As usual, we've also included other fixes and Quality of Life improvements. A full changelog is below
Changelog for 0.12.1121
Added:
- Customizable Lights.
- New wall lamp. This one includes slightly more customization
- Customizable Storefronts for Lyon and Paris.
- Cashiers will now pull the next waiting customer from the longest line that isn't theirs if their line has emptied to balance queue lines. This will also work for player cashiers.
- New special Childrens bookcase.
- Posters may now be placed on outside windows.
- Item Teleporter. A new item placed anywhere in any city that can hold practically any item. Put another teleporter in another location to move items from one location to another. This works as a stack so you'll retrieve the last thing you put in first.
- Empty Box Dispenser. A new item to get empty boxes whenever you'd like. No need to stockpile them in the back anymore!
- Ability to delete book workshop special books.
- Books N'More now shows how many available licenses you have
Changed:
- Memory improvements for all items (books, candy, bookmarks, board games, etc.), workshop items, and customizables (furniture and floors/walls).
- Steam Workshop item materials loaded on demand instead of preloading on launch.
- Newly spawned customers will walk ~20% slower
- Spawning cooldown for NPCs reduced slightly to compensate for slower walking speeds
- Customers who elect to sit in reading chairs will now pull out one of their books if they've picked any up
- All rugs are now placeable in storage areas
- Coffee hotkey changed to right click so you can make new coffee while holding one in your hand
Fixed:
- Steam Workshop books will now count for related achievements. These should be updated when the relevant action is performed next (unlock a license, purchase, etc.)
- NPC teeth/mouths are no longer super dark.
- Potential race condition with customizable material setting on load eliminated
- App showing wrong number of pastries per box
- Rare case when editing book workshop duplicated a book
- Potentially fix the one frame fallthrough when opening furniture