Audio

• Fixed: Ambient sounds during initial game launch were not respecting in-game volume settings
  
• Fixed: Alt-tabbing while running underwater caused a large sound when returning to Eco
  
• Fixed: The audio for chopping trees would sometimes stop playing
  

Chat:

• Changed: Moved civic notifications to chat
  
• Changed: Added Government notification category in the chat
  
• Fixed: When responding to a DM from someone with spaces in their name, it could send the message to someone who had the first word of the name as their own name
  
• Fixed: Chat was not hiding correctly when the Eco Log tab was open
  
• Fixed: When relogging, unread messages in hidden tabs didn't show their notification badges correctly
  
• Fixed: In some cases, hidden tabs didn't show their unread message badges even after receiving new messages
  
• Fixed: Hidden tabs sometimes still showed their notification badges despite all message being read
  
• Fixed: Italicized text was getting clipped in new lines of the news feed
  
• Fixed: The chat command for listing admins was showing all players
  

Civics:

• Changed: Added more info for money transactions related to laws
  
• Fixed: Debt was not always being removed after repaying a cleared contract
  
• Fixed: The Withdraw from Election button was not displaying an error when no election was selected
  

Graphics:

• Fixed: Glass could have strange lighting tints, especially at sunrise and sunset
  

Storage:

• Fixed: The server config for storage link range settings was not being respected after server restart
  
• Fixed: The consolidate inventory button was not working for objects with built in storage, like vehicles
  
• Fixed: Consolidating inventories on migrated worlds where items were stored in objects with new restrictions that would otherwise prevent the item from being stored here would cause a crash. Such items on consolidating will now be moved to Void Storage.
  

Stores:

• Fixed: Authorized users of a store were unable to rename categories or delete items from sale
  
• Fixed: When a modded item was added for sale in a store and later removed from the server, it would cause the save to be unloadable. Removed items will now be removed from stores
  
• Fixed: Barter trades were failing without an error message
  
• Fixed: When the store was set to barter mode, there was incorrect padding in "Checkout" area
  
• Fixed: When having over 20,000 items of inventory in a store, the quantity text would exceed the limitations of the frame
  

Tooltips:

• Added: New hint tooltips for various buttons in the HUD UI
  
• Fixed: Tooltips were missing from items in the Item Selector
  
• Fixed: Tooltips tended to refresh when it was not necessary
  
• Fixed: Complex laws and civics could result in an unwieldy tooltip that took up a large portion of the screen
  
• Fixed: Recipe tooltips were not displaying text for tags with non-unique plural names
  
• Fixed: Currency text was missing from the Transactions UI when checking the tooltip for truncated text
  
• Fixed: Nylon Carpet was showing the tooltip for Wool Curtains
  

UI:

• Changed: Adjusted up pop-up notifications when damaging an animal with a bow (number only, text doesn't follow animal, different colors for headshots vs bodyshots).
  
• Changed: Updated Localization for a variety of phrases and languages
  
• Fixed: Hovering effect not getting updated when scrolling in a dropdown menu
  
• Fixed: Void Storage Icon was missing its animation
  
• Fixed: Profession Overview wasn't showing the specialty levels of the players who had learned a specialty
  
• Fixed: Preferred Playtimes menu was not showing hours above the time grid
  
• Fixed: The minimap would glitch for one frame when being opened for the first time
  

New Store UI

Improved Chat

Newsfeed

Storage Management

Lockable Tooltips

Tech Tree Visualizer

New Objects and Building Forms

• Several new furniture items: Hewn Dresser, Hewn Nightstand, Lumber Dresser, Softwood Lumber Dresser, Hardwood Lumber Dresser, Upholstered Chair, Upholstered Couch, Nylon Futon Bed, Nylon Futon Couch, Small Bath Mat, Large Bath Mat, Towel Rack, Wool Curtain, Nylon Curtain, Cotton Curtain, Cast Iron Bed, Steel Abstract Fixture, Steel Hanging Fixture, Steel Hanging Lamp, Steel Kitchen Lamp, Steel Searchlight, Steel Square Fixture, Wood Kitchen Lamp
  
• Three new building forms for Framed Glass: Window Corners, Window Grilles & Double Window
  
• Fourteen new building forms for Brick: Window Grilles, Window Grilles (Edge), Window (Edge), Brace, Brace (Corner), Brace (Turn), Side Brace, Small Corner Brace, Thin Floor (Bottom), Thin Floor (Top), Thin Wall, Under Brace, Under Brace (Corner), Under Brace (Turn)
  
• New Crab Pot object that functions like a Fish Trap but for crabs

Balance Changes

• Excavator, Skid Steer, and Steam Tractor now require calories to operate
  
• Motor vehicles can no longer be used underwater
  
• Increased default player experience required to gain a new star by 25%
  
• Calorie reduction for leveling up skilled labor reduced to 20-50% from 50%-80%
  
• Labor costs for most recipes requiring skilled labor reduced by 30%
  
• Increased Labor costs for most food recipes
  
• Food Tastiness feature is now enabled by default
  
• Major rebalance of food nutrients and calories to make it harder to get a perfectly balance diet and to encourage more variety
  
• The Icebox and the Refrigerator can now only store food, but can store a significantly larger amount
  
• Added new recipe for Bean Sprout. They are now crafted in a Farmers Table instead of a random drop from Beans
  
• Removed Greens tag from Bean Sprouts
  
• Reduced cost of Heart of Palm in all food recipes they appear to 2 from 8
  
• Change Heart of Palm cost to Camas Bulbs in "Fantastic Forest Pizza"
  
• Changed all recipes using Beet Green item to use Greens tag instead to reduce RNG fortunes dictating what to craft food wise
  
• Added recipes for crushing Mortared Stone and Stone Roads for recycling back into Crushed Mixed Rock
  
• Hunting: Deadeye talent bonus head shot damage reduced to 50% from 100%
  
• Hunting: Deadeye talent moved to level 6 and Arrow Recovery talent moved to level 3
  
• Health of all animals increased
  
• Recurve Bow moved to Smelting and now costs Iron Bars instead of Steel
  
• Biodiesel now requires a new ingredient Ethanol which is crafted by Cutting Edge Cooking
  
• Significantly reduced amount of Tallow obtained as a byproduct
  
• Render Fat recipe now costs Scrap Meat instead of Raw Meat
  
• Modern Agriculture Research Paper now has an additional Berry Extract Fertilizer cost
  
• Added new tag Fertilizer Filler which contains Plant Filler, Pulp Filler, and Composite Filler
  
• Adjusted several Fertilizer recipe costs to include a Fertilizer Filler cost
  
• Added new recipe to produce Tallow at the Bakery Oven
  
• Tallow Candle, Tallow Lamp, Tallow Wall Lamp, now have an additional Cotton Thread cost
  
• Candle Stand, Ceiling Candle, and Wall Candle now costs Tallow Candle instead of Tallow
  
• Carved Pumpkin and Tallow Candle is now produced by Farming specialty
  
• Lights that use Tallow as fuel now consume fuel at a slower rate
  
• Smith clothing Nylon Fabric cost changed to Cotton Fabric
  
• Significantly reduced the amount of items that are eligible to be used to back a currency
  
• Mining Basic Upgrade is now made on a Rocker Box
  
• Paper Milling Upgrade is now made on a Carpentry Table
  
• Crabs now drop a Crab Carcass instead of Raw Meat
  
• Added new recipe for Clean Crab at the Fishery
  
• Added new Small Fish tag to consolidate recipes on the Campfire
  
• Masonry Mortar recipe labor cost increased to 25 from 15

Modkit

• Added support for assigning server permissions via mods (Example mod for adding whitelist via Discord: https://github.com/StrangeLoopGames/EcoModKit/tree/testgame/whitelist-authorizer-example/Examples/DiscordAccessMod)
  
• Added a post construction hook for modifying the properties of plant species without an override
  
• Added Modkit support for Eco animal components and animation
  
• Added support for multiple clients to connect to RCON
  
• Adds support for executing chat commands via the Eco REST API
  
• Added some commonly modified values to the server configs so they can more easily be edited: Stack size modifier, Weight modifier, Fuel modifier, Stockpile range modifier, and Plant maturity rate modifier
  
• Fixed: Accessing the Mod Browser via the Server UI was not refreshing the available mods upon on the first load

Optimization

• Many optimizations to block building and chunk rendering to use less memory
  
• Mesh builders would not always clean up due to frequent updates, causing performance degradation over time
  
• Reduce FPS impact of having large amounts of unread notifications
  
• Reduce performance impact of opening storage containers when many other linkable storages are nearby
  
• Tooltips now cache on both the server and client, leading to much reduced demands on populated servers and instant-tooltips on the client that don't require a call to the server.
  
• Optimized thread safety checks
  
• Optimized burst

New Visual Effects

• New decorative insect Firefly that comes out at night
  
• Added harvest effects when harvesting with a shovel
  
• Added harvest effects when harvesting with a steam tractor
  
• Added harvest effects for underwater plants, urchins and clams
  
• Updated harvest effects animations for a large variety of plants
  
• New splash effect when jumping into water

Bug Fixes & Improvements

Audio

• Added a variety of new musical tracks and remixes of existing ones
  
• Added sound effects for the shooting down the meteor sequence
  
• Added sound effect for completing a transaction in a store

Avatar

• A larger variety of tools will now be displayed as carried on the avatar when they are added to the toolbar
  
• New animation for climbing over the top of a ladder
  
• Zooming in while in third person could sometimes have the avatar blocking the frame
  
• Trees and another plants will now temporarily hide if they would be blocking the avatar while in third person mode
  
• Improvements to responsiveness while moving with third person camera
  
• Fixed: When editing the avatar, occasionally foliage would be blocking the screen
  
• Fixed: It was possible to get stuck in a roof if placing objects when placing objects below where you were standing
  
• Fixed: During avatar creation, the avatar would often spawn facing blocks
  
• Fixed: It was possible to get stuck in a wall when opening a door that pushed you backwards
  
• Fixed: The avatar would have jerky movement when aiming a bow in third person
  
• Fixed: It was possible to zoom out in third person view past the intended maximum amount when setting different values for first person and third person field of view
  
• Fixed: Avatar nameplate could disappear when above water texture

Civics

• Added additional information to tooltips for law conditions
  
• Added collapsable menus for viewing civics in the Legislation tab of the Government UI
  
• Election Processes can now specify what happens in the case of tied result: No Winner, Random, or Incumbent Priority
  
• Fixed: It was possible to start an election for a deleted law draft if two people were editing a law at the same time
  
• Added expandable lists for advanced fields when drafting civics to make large laws easier to work with
  
• Added link to relevant Ecopedia page when creating/edit a civic
  
• Adjusted font colors for civics titles to be easier to read while editing
  
• Fixed: Elections Processes that had Mininum Percent of Voters Required of 0 would result in win for an election in which no one voted, instead of no declared winner
  
• Fixed: When starting a multi-provision election, provision names would not update in the pending election UI if their drafts were edited after being added
  
• Fixed: When a title that was reference in a law was deleted, it was not possible to remove the reference to this title by revising the law
  
• Fixed: It was not possible to reference items with a parent item in a law (Example: Softwood/Hardwood Boards)
  
• Fixed:  Hovering over "math operation result" on a sidebar message did not work if the message was very long
  
• Fixed: Laws with a text formula did not allow editing
  
• Fixed: Blocking inventory access on a deed also blocked access to trucks with position on that deed
  
• Fixed: "Construct or Deconstruct" with "Ramps" did not work with a law that ignored authorization
  
• Fixed: Some text found in Constitution UI are overlapping each other while some are outside the border
  
• Fixed: It was not possible to edit deleted titles on linked articles such as laws, amendments, etc

Crafting

• Fixed: Focused Workflow talent was activating while having two of the same crafting tables in the same room
  
• Fixed: Crafting time required for a project was not displaying correctly when it was reduced by talents
  
• Fixed: When opening the crafting UI, sometimes the window would start partially scrolled down
  
• Fixed: Control hints would not follow the mouse when highlighting a crafting table
  
• Fixed: The Advanced Crafting button was missing a unique icon
  
• Fixed: Work party tooltips were not being updated when labor and resources were added to projects

Graphics

• Added new graphics setting that enables high quality water rendering
  
• Improvements to underwater post-processing effects
  
• Glass blocks now refract light
  
• Added sunrise and sunset colors to volumetric lights
  
• Improvements in lighting saturation
  
• Increased bloom strength range
  
• Fixed: Vsync and Volumetric Lighting would not always initialize correctly
  
• Fixed: Angling the camera by a block in the water caused water fog to disappear
  
• Fixed: Driving vehicles with the lights on at night caused graphical bug on water surface
  
• Fixed: Crossing 0,0 point would cause lights and insects to momentarily disappear

Main Menu

• Improved Voice Chat settings to be more clear and provide additional options
  
• Added confirmation box after pressing Exit to Main Menu while connected to a server
  
• Fixed: Text was getting truncated in the settings menus after lowering resolution
  
• Fixed: Pressing enter while a window was open in the main menu would proceed to connect to the most recent server instead of reacting to the window that was open
  
• Fixed: Main Menu was not displaying correctly on wide screen monitors

Meteor

• Meteors will now destroy objects inside buildings when destroying buildings instead of leaving them floating
  
• Rooms destroyed by meteors will no longer count as valid rooms
  
• Meteor craters will no longer create dirt floating in the water when hitting small bridges
  
• Ramps hit by meteors will be always destroyed entirely
  
• Items in stockpile's inventory that are destroyed by meteor impact will be removed from stockpile's inventory or turned into dirt
  
• Crate blocks spawned by stockpiles will no longer be immune to meteors
  
• Changed size of crater created by main meteor impact from 30 to 50
  
• Effects of '/meteor addhours' command will now be visible in server's configuration
  
• Fixed: Using /meteor addhours command was not updating display for hours remaining until after a server restart

Minimap

• The 2D Map can now be zoomed out far enough so it is possible to see the entire map at once
  
• Different view styles of the map/minimap now retain their own zoom settings
  
• Fixed: Map marker text would overlap with other elements of the UI
  
• Fixed: Minimap icons could trigger tooltip popups when hovering outside of the minimap when the minimap was in docked mode
  
• Fixed: The map would close when editing a deed by selecting the deed on the map
  
• Fixed: "Follow Player" setting in the minimap would not work in vehicles or after using the /fly command.
  
• Fixed: Player arrows in the minimap would face the wrong direction while operating a vehicle if they entered the vehicle while in 3rd person
  
• Fixed: Black deeds were appearing invisible on the map

Tools

• Hitting an animal with a bow now displays damage taken in a popup above the animal
  
• The Fishing Pole line can now break if it takes too long to reel in a fish, which is indicated by the fishing line turning red if it is about to break
  
• Fixed: Attempting to use the shovel with a non-diggable block in hand would cause the shovel to not work without an error to explain why
  
• Fixed: Rapidly clicking while the hammer was selected would result in placements errors
  
• Fixed: Fishing pole line was offset in first person when turning down render scale below 100%
  
• Fixed: Reeling in a fishing pole when cast a very short distance was taking too long
  
• Fixed: It was not possible to reel in a fishing pole after interacting with another object while fishing
  
• Fixed: Fishing pole line could be dragged on land by walking away after casting
  
• Fixed: Switching off and on the fishing pole while a fish was on the line would freeze the fish
  
• Fixed: Modern Pickaxe tooltip was displaying the incorrect amount of hits required on Basalt
  
• Fixed: Papaya was giving the incorrect interaction hint when a hammer was selected

Tutorial

• Updated style of tutorial to be more goal oriented and with additional informative videos
  
• Shrunk UI for tutorial and notifications.
  
• Added tutorial for opening the Ecopedia
  
• Added tutorial for using a Machete to clear paths
  
• Centered experience multiplier during the Forage for Food tutorial
  
• Added triggers to active the food tutorial when either at 20% calories remaining or after eating food for the first time
  
• Tutorials now show their subtasks one at a time when they should be done in a specific order.
  
• Fixed: The camera would get stuck with strange behavior when pressing escape during the meteor tutorial at the moment the meteor was spotted in the key
  
• Fixed: If skipping all tutorial steps after first skipping the Nutrition tutorial, the nutrition meter would not load, requiring a reconnect to appear.
  
• Fixed: The "Reset Ecopedia viewed pages" button was not functioning
  
• Fixed: Client could crash when using the /tutorials task discord command

Vehicles

• New and improved model for the Wood Cart
  
• Fixed: After renting out a vehicle, the tenant was unable to drive the vehicle or access the storage
  
• Fixed: Exiting a vehicle in a narrow space would teleport you to the surface
  
• Fixed: Wood carts could teleport to the surface if they were confined in too small of a space underground
  
• Fixed: Crane could have a phantom shadow placement after leaving and reentering when the storage was empty
  
• Fixed: Avatar would stretch when crossing the world border while operating a wood cart
  
• Fixed: It was not possible to rotate blocks with the Crane
  
• Fixed: When using a crane to interact with a stockpile, the control hint would list all items to pick up when it should only have been blocks
  
• Fixed: It was possible to reduce the calorie consumption of the Hand Plow by eating after running out of calories while operating it
  
• Fixed: When backing up into a wall with the Hand Plow, it was possible to get stuck when dismounting
  
• Fixed: When using an Excavator or Skid Steer to pick up large pieces of rubble, it was only providing one stone/ore instead of two
  
• Fixed: The toolbar was missing while riding in a Steam Tractor
  
• Fixed: Steam Tractor attachments were not visually synced with other players after turning them on
  
• Fixed: There was an exploit where you could take finished items from other's work table by giving them authorization on your vehicle

UI

• Added pin button to backpack so that it remains open when pressing Escape
  
• It is now possible to search the economy viewer by text
  
• Updated style for many of the UI, including the Escape Menu, Currency Exchange, Bank, Deeds, Status Indicator, and more
  
• Unified size and settings of various fonts to add more consistency
  
• Updated style for control hint popups when hovering over an object
  
• Added additional information for the notification when being invited to join a residence, like deed location
  
• World Objects that used a paper background for their UI now use a wood background, with the exception of the Bank which uses a metal background
  
• Notifications from the Currency Exchange are now condensed into one message
  
• Added tooltip to Currency Exchange amount restrictions to explain its meaning
  
• Changed colors for object and block highlights to be more color-blind friendly
  
• Clarified error message on Mint UI when trying to mint a currency with a duplicate name
  
• Bank UI now displays Personal Accounts and Government Accounts separately
  
• Fixed: Blur effect was not disabled when hiding the UI while a menu was opened
  
• Fixed: Changes made on the Authorization UI were not updating for others when multiple people were accessing this UI
  
• Fixed: Tags did not have spaces when they were multiple words
  
• Fixed: Research papers and camo clothing did not display their color tints in the Ecopedia and tooltips
  
• Fixed: The highlight for carried blocks would overlap the current quantity carried when moving more of a block into the carried slot
  
• Fixed: Icons on the notification banner could exceed the boundary of the background in cases with small amount of text
  
• Fixed: Icons for the Small Standing Wood Signs would display as salads in the Ecopedia
  
• Fixed: Background blur was missing when opening a Contract or Workparty from outside of a Contract Board
  
• Fixed: The notification for claiming the first plot of a deed showed total land 0 square metres claimed
  
• Fixed: When mousing over the notification for gaining specialty experience to see the tooltip, it would suddenly vanish after moving the mouse away
  
• Fixed: Asphalt Concrete Ramp was included in the Road Tag when this is already covered by Asphalt Concrete
  
• Fixed: Some of the marked up text in the Ecopedia did not have a working tooltip when hovering it
  
• Fixed: Escrow transfer messages for contracts were not displaying the name of the contract associated with the transfer
  
• Fixed: Rent for Property UI did not have a scroll bar, creating issues when having a large formula for determining eligble renter
  
• Fixed: In the Economy Viewer UI, the Work Party tab was not scaling when the UI size was adjusted
  
• Fixed: Changes made to the Set Play Times UI were saving changes regardless of the method used to close the UI

World Objects

• Fixed: Not all plants species would fit correctly in a planter pot
  
• Fixed: It was possible to place very large world objects in a way that would encroach on a neighbor's property claims
  
• Fixed: Using /spawn court command was causing the Court to spawn partially inside the wall
  
• Fixed: Some objects had duplicate Power and Pipe Components included in their tooltip
  
• Fixed: Using the /build stockpile command with some blocks, like clay, would cause a crash
  
• Fixed: The Computer Lab would sometimes report there was not enough power to power the lasers when there was adequate power

Misc

• Added option for server admins to disable proximity voice chat
  
• Expanded the exhaustion feature to allow saving up stamina over multiple days when not becoming fully exausted. The maximum amount of time preserved can be set in the server configuration.
  
• Added option to the escape menu to view and copy the Server ID of the server connected to for sending to others so they can join
  
• Greatly expanded the text strings that are localized
  
• Fixed: There was no error notification when trying to plant a seed on a tilled soil block that had been covered by other blocks
  
• Fixed: The drop down to select a bank account to pay repair fees was not appearing in the Tool Bench
  
• Fixed: Smiting an Industrial world object with a Dev Tool would not update the room calculation to no longer be considered an Industrial room
  
• Fixed: Using the Land Claim Stake near the border of the plot would not display the claim highlight
  
• Fixed: Server could crash with LiteDB Exception: Databse lock timeout
  
• Fixed: A crash could occur when quitting Eco while connected to a server under certain conditions related to pollution
  
• Fixed: Occasionally the client would crash with an null reference exception related to "InventoryChangeSet"
  
• Fixed: Occasionally the client would crash with an error "Failed to handle RPCResponse"
  
• Fixed: Base food score was not being added to experience multiplier with zero calories
  
• Fixed: Claiming an individual plot displayed a notification of the plot have a total land of 0 square meters
  
• Fixed: The contract clause Add/Remove Blocks was not counting blocks that were stacked on top of each other
  
• Fixed: Placing a waterwheel underwater could create holes through the water
  
• Fixed: The camera would get displaced if being attacked by animals while sleeping
  
• Fixed: "Features" server config tab would not update until after saving the settings
  
• Fixed: Various typos and text corrections
  
• Fixed: Animal carcasses would sometimes teleport to the surface

• Fixed: Players and other objects would sometimes appear invisible to others
  
• Fixed: The audio for chopping trees and other tools would sometimes stop playing until switching tools
  
• Fixed: Members of a demographic were not given edit permissions when that demographic was assigned as a manager of a registrar title or a bank account
  
• Fixed: 32-bit build would crash on startup
  
• Fixed: Casting a fishing pole was creating errors in the server log
  
• Fixed: Issue with banlist on servers
  
• Fixed: Using RCON with a non supported command was causing an exception
  
• Added: /kick, /listusers and /listadmins commands now all have RCON support
  

• Added: New emotes: /wave, /sit, /bow, and /salute
  
• Added: Modkit support for custom images for signs and Ecopedia banners
  (More Info: Example Mod & Wiki Documentation)
  
• Fixed: Laws using a progressive percent were unable to accept 0 as the minimum threshold
  
• Fixed: Firing a bow was creating errors in server logs
  

• Added: New admin commands to help manage the skill points and levels of other players
  
• Fixed: It was possible to exploit furniture score calculations by placing furniture in the gaps of the wall between rooms
  
• Fixed: Plants would not render on the edges of the screen when rotating the camera in third person
  
• Fixed: Eco client would freeze when failing to get a response from Steam while in the middle of connecting to a server. This now causes a timeout with an error message explaining the problem.
  
• Fixed: Eco client would freeze when failing to connect to a Cloud Worlds when the relay server was unreachable
  
• Fixed: Using "Global Timer" as the value for a law effect would cause an exception
  
• Fixed: There was a situation that could result in some plants dying on a fresh world even when they were in a habitable environment
  
• Fixed: Exiting a UI with the left mouse button would also trigger the tool being held
  
• Fixed: Economy Viewer would show negative values for crafting time remaining on public crafting stations with finished orders
  
• Fixed: Mods downloaded from mods.io were being placed in the incorrect folder
  
• Fixed: There were still cases of rounding errors for currency transactions with fractions of a cent
  
• Other: Various Localization updates and fixes
  

• Fixed: Harvesting grass and wheat was causing a client crash
  
• Fixed: The camera was set to a fixed position when driving a vehicle as opposed to adjusting to face the direction the vehicle was moving
  
• Fixed: Players were often appearing invisible to others
  
• Fixed: Tool animations would not always display when viewing others use a tool
  

Civics & Contracts

• Fixed: Custom stats for civics were still recording even when the action that triggered the stat increase was prevented
  
• Fixed: Text formulas in laws could sometimes cause the server to crash and the save to become corrupted
  
• Fixed: The Distribution Station was incorrectly using time played to determine if eligible to receive items, rather than using days since joining the server
  
• Fixed: Contracts were unable to be marked as failed
  
• Fixed: Admin command /titles unassign was not working when targeting someone besides self
  
• Fixed: It was not possible to repay loans when using a personal account
  
• Fixed: Amount owed for a loan contract would not always update to reflect the amount remaining after making a partial payment
  

Food & Nutrition

• Added modable variables for minimum calories and minimum nutrients provided for food items to be eligible for cravings (default is 200 calories and 12 nutrients)
  
• Increased default amount of calories provided for food items to be eligible to a favorite/least favorite food to 500 from 50
  
• Added modable variable for minimum nutrients provided to be a favorite/least favorite (default is 50)
  
• Increased default minimum calories needed to be considered for Food Variety to 100 from 50
  
• Increased default number of foods needed for Food Variety bonus to be hard capped from 40 to 60
  
• Fixed: Food variety bonus would instantly jump up to the hard cap of 50% bonus when reaching the soft cap of 25%
  
• Fixed: Sound effect for eating was not playing
  

Modkit

• Added mod support for UI prefabs for a collection of variable types: Boolean, IEnumerable, Int32, and String
  
• Fixed: Servers with large mods could experience slowdown when multiple people were connecting to the server for the first time and needed to download mods
  
• Fixed: Quick Join & URL links would not did not properly launch with Steam version of Eco
  

UI

• Updated Localization to cover many new strings
  
• Updated tooltips for Lavish Workspace and Frugal Workspace talents to indicate the crafting tables must be placed on claimed land for these talents to work
  
• Property overlay is now displayed on the map by default (It can still be disabled)
  
• Fixed: Punctuation marks in chat were displaying an empty deed
  
• Fixed: Pollution & sea level rise were missing statistics on the web UI
  
• Fixed: Local worlds saves were unable to be sorted by date last played
  
• Fixed: When scrolling in the server browser, the background shade for servers was appearing above the server list
  
• Fixed: Opening the citizen object UI was showing the World Progress tab by default rather than the citizen objectives
  
• Fixed: Exhaustion preference UI now displays units to indicate the number selection is based on hours
  
• Fixed: There were typos in the Ecopedia "Trade" and "Property" entries
  
• Fixed: After playing for a long amount of time, new chat messages and notifications would sometimes stop displaying
  
• Fixed: "Setting Up Shop" achievement was not displaying an icon when unlocked
  
• Fixed: When level 0 in a specialty, the experience tooltip for this specialty would display symbols rather than a number for the amount of experience needed to level up this specialty
  

Vehicles & Tools

• Further polished legacy cart controls to fully restore old cart behavior
  
• Fixed: Skid steer did not have its normal smooth movement when picking up rubble
  
• Fixed: Vehicles could slide on ramps even when movement keys were not being pressed
  
• Fixed: Vehicles would sometimes disappear when crossing zero point on the map
  
• Fixed: In some situations, tools would no longer work after switching from third person view to first person
  
• Fixed: When using tools in third-person view, they could have faster animations than when using them in first-person view
  

General Fixes:

• Fixed: It was possible to place objects on the edge of property that overlapped into other's property
  
• Fixed: Doors incorrectly required solid ground both in front of and behind the door in order to be placed in a location
  
• Fixed: On rare occasions, a server would be unable to start after a restart due to being unable to load the chat
  
• Fixed: Missing inventory stacks caused by removing modded items caused a NullReferenceException crash
  
• Fixed: Incompatibilities in the latest Unity version were causing hard to identify client crashes
  
• Fixed: Avatar could sometimes clip through the ground when moving through zero point
  
• Fixed: Using command "/skills all" followed by command "point" caused Eco to freeze
  

Legacy Cart Control Option

Balance

• Wind generators now calculate height bonus from the center of the blades instead of the top occupancy point
  
• Brick Fireplace recipe moved to Kiln from Masonry Table so it can benefit from Pottery upgrades
  
• Slight nutrient buff to Sunflower
  
• Fixed: Seed recipes on the Farmers Table were not benefiting from increased crafting speed from upgrades
  
• Fixed: Sunflower did not have increased stack size on Steam Tractor
  

Modkit

• Fixed: Some popular mods from 9.3 were not compatible with 9.4 due to changes in how chat handled custom commands
  

Vehicles

• Added option to the control settings to enable legacy cart controls which uses mouse look to turn instead of the keyboard
  
• Turned down camera sway when turning with a cart in first person
  
• Fixed: Carts were having trouble getting enough momentum to climb ramps
  
• Fixed: Carts were not able to easily transition off ramps unless the connected block was tamped with a road tool
  

UI

• Fixed: Desired purchase quantities for stores would reset to 0 when scrolling with the mouse wheel
  
• Fixed: Economy Viewer was not displaying all text when using Chinese language
  

Other Fixes

• Disabled option for servers to enable the experimental Education & Settlements feature
  
• Decreased match score benefit when a server has the Needs Immigrants status from losing active players
  
• Fixed: Setting the Specialty Cost Multiplier to 0 would cause the server to crash
  
• Fixed: A desync in the client would occasionally cause a crash related to the RPCManager