Workshop Update is Out Now!

Hello there, Landlords!

We're very excited to release our first post-release major update for The Tenants since our 1.0 launch last year. While we had cautiously put Steam Workshop as the last entry on our post-1.0 development roadmap, we actually started working on it much earlier, hoping to get a headstart, and in fact, it turned out that we managed to make it work much sooner than expected. Thus we shuffled our roadmap plans a little and are ready to bring you the Workshop Update now!

Steam Workshop

The Tenants now features a Steam Workshop integration as a way for our community to participate in the creation of content for the game by sharing and trying out other community members' creations in your own game.

As part of the release, we have built a custom set of tools known as The Tenants Modding Tools that every owner of the game should have access to. To get everyone started, we have also uploaded a number of unique custom items ourselves to showcase the capabilities of our tools. Make sure to give them all a shot!

Visit our Steam Workshop page here to subscribe to the new custom content.

Check out our Workshop Guide for more information on how to get and create mods for the game.

District levels

One of the things we wanted to add in this update is a new form of progression for the city and how well you do in each district. With the Workshop Update, we are introducing more rewards for those who decide to go through all the jobs and apartments in each part of Wondersville.

You'll be able to gain experience by completing jobs, purchasing, and renting apartments. We have prepared a unique set of rewards for each district, so be sure to max them all out to get the most out of your apartments!

Job favors

Jobs are always something that we strive to improve, finding new ways to differentiate them and add more in terms of stakes to each one. With the new update, some jobs will come in as favors for your tenants, completing which will yield bonus happiness and XP for your tenant. Just another way to make that one annoying tenant happy!

New player avatars

Along with an option to change your avatar in an already existing save, we have added a total of 20 new choices for you to pick from. Looking at the new roster, we think they turned out pretty great!
Additionally, with the new update, you can change the avatar in existing save files. Simply click on it and pick a new one!

New low-level jobs in Slums & progression pace rebalance

Based on player feedback, we have decided to add more jobs available at the beginning of the game in the Slums district. At this point, the player doesn't have access to many apartments yet, so they need to rely on jobs to earn money. With the increased variety of those, the early part of the game should be much more entertaining.

To help with the slow progression at the start of the game even further, we went through the job payouts and significantly increased them for a lot of the gigs. What's more, happy tenants will now show their appreciation with extra money by giving you tips with each rent payment, provided that you have indeed kept them beyond exuberant.

Swap assistant

If you've reached the end of the game, you might have noticed that to change your end-game assistant, you had no other option than to start a new game. Needless to say, it also made the journey to completing all the achievements a pretty arduous one. For a price of 750 landlord points, you can now swap your assistant any time you want!

Elite contract entries

Steve's Guidebook has been expanded with a list of all elite contracts in each district you have unlocked. This way, you will be able to track your completion progress much more easily and see what items you have unlocked through each contract.

New items

Can't have a major update without a new batch of items! This time we focused on going through all your suggestions on our social media and put together an array of new bathroom items, sauna accessories, desks, chairs, rugs, and other clutter decorations!

We have also taken the opportunity to add more unique items to jobs, items that can only be found and salvaged with Uncle Steve. In turn, we have reduced the amount of trash that players need to clean up and focused on giving you more unique rewards for going through with all the sweeping and mopping.

As always, there are even more changes in the game, so be sure to check out the full changelog down below, and see you around in Wondersville!

Full 1.1 Patch Notes

Features

• Implemented Steam Workshop support.
• Implemented district levels accompanied by a new form of progression.
• Implemented job favors.
• Implemented the ability to swap the end-game assistant.
• Implemented Elite Contract entries in Steve's Guidebook.
• Implemented rent tips.
• Implemented ceiling-based items.
• Implemented the ability to swap player avatars.
• Reworked the Agents app into the Districts app.

Content

• Added 10 new early-game renovation jobs in Slums.
• Added over 90 new furniture items.
• Added 20 Workshop items.
• Added 30 new Unique furniture items salvageable by Uncle Steve.
• Added 20 new player avatars.
• Added 5 new Phone wallpapers.

General

• Added a new +$10k bidding option in auctions.
• Added an option to cancel and close the tenant trait swap popup.
• Added the option to adjust starting landlord points in Creative Mode.
• Made the tenant entries in the apartment context menu clickable, focusing the camera on them and opening their context menu.
• Disabled the ability to sell tenant beds in renovation requests to avoid potential issues.
• Tweaked the asset compression method to improve loading times.

Balance

• Limited free outlets in the aunt apartment tutorial section to 3.
• Reworked and added new proximity bonuses for many furniture items.
• Reduced the amount of trash in renovation jobs in favor of more unique items.

Bugs

• Fixed a visual glitch with one of the Manhattan buildings.
• Fixed a visual glitch related to furniture wall-alignment indicators appearing in front of Manhattan windows.
• Fixed an issue with some couches not lining up as they should.
• Fixed an issue with not matching color variants for some of the kitchen counters.
• Fixed an issue with the move tenant feature being redeemed for all tenants after using it only once.
• Fixed an issue with apartments not updating properly after buying doors.
• Fixed an issue with room overlay names not corresponding exactly to the requirement list.
• Fixed an issue with window curtains not snapping to window slots after the player bulldozed their windows.
• Fixed an issue with the same rating category being displayed in both "focus" and "don't mind" sections for renovation jobs.
• Fixed an issue with the skunk sabotage not working properly.
• Fixed an issue with the player being able to install heating in the garden in some of the Suburbs houses.
• Fixed an issue with the Fortune Teller's skull not being placeable on surface tops.
• Fixed an issue with workers getting stuck in the apartment after doing two classification changes in a row.
• Fixed an issue with starting an Open House during the classification change in the apartment.
• Fixed an issue with being able to renovate the apartment during an active Open House.
• Fixed an issue with the tenant trait swap option.
• Fixed an issue with the Breath of Freshness tenant event giving full happiness value even if the player didn't offer to pay for painting the room.
• Fixed an issue with sending an agent to search for new tenants while they were already searching.
• Fixed an issue with placing the camera in the Influencer tenant event.
• Fixed an issue with agent stats not updating properly after completing training.
• Fixed a couple issues with Uncle Steve sleeping once he's a tenant.
• Fixed a desync issue in the beer drinking tenant action.

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Thank you,
Ancient Forge