Moonlight In Garland
1.3.6Z Update - Bug fixes
_______________________________________________________________________[/p][p]Early Access 1.3.6Z - Patch (PC and Mac) (Full and Demo) - 12/06/25[/p][p]_______________________________________________________________________[/p][p]General:[/p][p]- Wedding Boutique - Fixed crash on break up tab.[/p][p]- Dialogue - Fixed a silent fail on npc not found.[/p][p]- Recycling centre - Fixed soft lock when interacting with bins, when finishing intro with one bin, all bins now remember.[/p][p]- Settings - Reset to menu should now work on steam builds rather than quitting the game.[/p][p]- Low energy - Fixed size of overlay when mental energy at 0 to cover whole screen.[/p][p]- Noticeboard - Fixed Recycling/Graffiti not ticking off if Errands aren’t also active.[/p][p]- Location - Unlocked grass area bottom left of CBD.[/p][p]- Return to apartment now drops you at your door, not bed.[/p][p]- NPC Phone/Apartment unlocked - Fixed achievement sending multiple times.[/p][p]- Private detective - When completing an event, you go back inside the private detective office now.[/p][p]- Screenshots - 0 is now a hotkey to take a screenshot (this is a WIP, UI elements are currently not included in the screenshot). Screenshots are saved to your screenshots folder, one folder up from your save file.[/p][p]- Jake’s room - Adjust wall decorations[/p][p]- Chairs - adjust deck chair sitting directions.[/p][p]Shops/Inventory/Furniture:[/p][p]- Adjusted interaction window for bubble tea, Surface Studio, Wedding Boutique.[/p][p]- Fixed Buy All option not working.[/p][p]- Added Food tab to fridge.[/p][p]Saving:[/p][p]- Fixed tiredness/mental energy not updating quick enough to be caught when saving.[/p][p]- Old save files - Fixed beds not spawning in some situations.[/p][p]- Finance - Added reset to finance info to prevent loans doubling up when moving between save files.[/p][p]- Mail - Added reset to mail info to prevent doubling up when moving between save files.[/p][p]- Old save files - Added a check to confirm correct apartments are unlocked and if not, unlock them.[/p][p]- Old save files - Added a check to confirm player mail contains all mail that should have been delivered and if not, redeliver it. (You may get an influx of mail because I’m erring on the side of caution here, enjoy the free stuff!)[/p][p]- Noticeboard - Fixed Errands NPC occasionally loading as a different NPC.[/p][p]Events:[/p][p]- Elle 4D - Fixed crash on Sophie’s dialogue, updated portraits on dialogue.[/p][p]- Cecile 2 - Fixed time skip getting stuck occasionally.[/p][p]- Weddings - Prioritised weddings over other events on that day.[/p][p]- Weddings - Fixed wedding not triggering if you’ve moved apartments.[/p][p]- Moving - Returning to apartment or using taxi no longer quits the moving event (but you can’t exit the game).[/p][p]- Moving - Fixed new apartments not unlocking in specific cases once you’ve moved apartments.[/p][p]- BT 3 - Dialogue reset for NPCs after event now shows the right dialogue.[/p][p]- Fix issue with auto direction not being set correctly when trying to use a locked transition during a mini game.[/p][p]Festivals:[/p][p]- FoP - Fixed number of fish caught to match dialogue.[/p][p]- FoP - Fixed fishing choice not triggering when other dialogue is selected first.[/p][p]- FaL - Snacks booth now says snacks not decor.[/p][p]Animals:[/p][p]- Fixed bunny’s respawning at alarming rates.[/p][p]- Bunnies now have a greater respect for walls (mostly).[/p][p]Optimisation:[/p][p]- Detangled toggle logic from obj_game.[/p][p]- Inventory - Added graceful exit for compare structs.[/p][p]- Inventory - Added graceful exit for structs when placing items.[/p][p]- Moving - Removed excessive logging when moving apartments.[/p][p][/p]
1.3.6Y Update - Festivals, Hair Salon, Save Files
Hope you're having a good month! It's finally getting colder here in Melbourne and I'm excited for winter!
This update marks a huge behind the scenes milestone in terms of development as almost all the content on the original early access roadmap is complete. It's hard to reflect this accurately in the changelog but I've rebuilt almost all of the systems stuff to a manageable state now. So instead of chasing my tail redoing my previous work, from here I can focus on new content, fixing bugs and polishing the gameplay so it's . That means adding more of your requests, pets, furniture, collectables, jobs, donatables and more mini games.
Festivals:
There are 6 new festivals in Garland to celebrate throughout the seasons including a special event to ring in the new year by watching the midnight fireworks from your rooftop with your friends.
The rest of the festivals are like fun traveling markets with exclusive furniture and food to enjoy but as the Garland City Council expands it's budget I'll be adding more mini games and relationship events to them all as well.
Herbs:
You'll now find wild herbs sprouting all over Garland, use your cutters to snip them and you can collect all kinds of useful plants. These will be used for cooking and brewing herbal teas so start building a collection now. Don't forget to check out the beach for shells and the farm/mountains for mushrooms in autumn.
Speaking of foraging, the beach and university areas are now open to explore, though the Council is being slow at approving permits for new buildings there...
Save files:
This update is a big update to the format of save files which will allow better compatibility as well as straight up text editing of files. I've tried super hard to make everything as compatible as possible but I always recommend backing up your save file before upgrading and, as always, if you have any problems with the upgrade: just reach out in the discord and I'm happy to help!
We're holding a community movie night in the Garland discord community in early June, I'll be sharing behind the scenes stuff so make sure you drop by!
Thank you as always for sticking around with me this long, it's been a hell of a year so far and I'm excited for what's coming to Garland next!
<3 Violet
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Early Access 1.3.6Y - Patch (PC and Mac) (Full and Demo) - 29/05/25
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This is a big update and includes multiple changes to the format of save files going forward to make them easier to edit and more robust. After we switch to 1.3.7.etc files I will no longer be supporting as many super old files so please make sure to upgrade. Specific information is available by category below.
Make a back up of your save file before updating and message in discord if you run into problems!
General:
- Cutscenes - Fixed issues exiting from cutscene by forcing wait for pink bars on/off, this may cause a little timing weirdness in some events but I’m working through editing them.
- Intro - Fixed double fade down during hotel overnight.
- Intro - Prevented bunnies spawning in hotel if loading in on second day.
- Intro - Adjusted Hotel cutscene dialogue.
- Mail - Fixed mail not marking letters as read right away.
- Noticeboard, mail, PD icons - Fixed issues with triggering or not going away when read.
- Timing - Fixed timing of npc repeating emotes.
- Bank - Added max transactions to display to prevent crash on large files (the app will be redesigned soon).
- Bank - Added weekly interest to savings account and letter with a summary.
- Settings - Added option to turn off textbox slide in effect.
- Moving apartment - Turned off windows and other interactions during cutscene.
- Moving apartment - Fixed incorrect spawn location in Birch Tower 1 Bed apt move in.
- Sfx - Adjusted seasonal walking sounds so they only play in outdoor locations (don’t wanna track snow on Leon’s clean lobby floor!)
- PD Stake Out/Man Hunt - Now finish up in front of the PD office not inside.
- Player interactions - adjusted interaction logic to be more intuitive and prioritise better interactions especially around furniture and placement interactions.
- Rooftops - Fixed various issues with saving and loading furniture/items on rooftops.
- Items - Fixed issue with trash spawning incorrect depth.
- Various typos and text fixes (Intervision > StarSong).
Foraging:
- Added shells and beach items to spawn on beach locations.
- Added mushrooms to spawn in Autumn in Farm/Mountains.
- Added Herbs that spawn randomly in grassy areas, use your cutters to harvest them and get a random herb which will be used later in a tea brewing mini game.
Furniture placement:
- Fixed issue when exiting a room holding furniture would occasionally leave a piece of furniture in the doorway.
- Added option to snap placement to grid (this is a real WIP).
- Added functionality for rugs.
- Adjusted placement logic.
- Fixed issue not being able to place pet furniture.
- BE - CC 3 - can see where furniture is being placed during minigame now.
- PE - Sophie 1 - can see where boxes are being placed during minigame now.
Player Hair Customisation:
Note: your hair and clothing colour may appear incorrect in the load screen on old saves but should appear normally once loaded in.
- Player hair/beard/fringe and colours are now set after the initial customisation like clothing.
- New hair styles/hair colours can be purchased at the hair salon in Garland North. Once used, they are added to your customisation options at the vanity/mirror.
- Vanity/Mirror - fixed randomise option to only be available options.
- Opened hair stylist shop with daily styles/colours.
- Added hair stylist intro cutscene.
- Added Sage’s special budget random style cutscene.
- New colours for hair/fringe/beard: Yellow, Dk Yellow, Lt Orange, Orange, Red, Lt Pink, Pink, Dk Pink, Lt Purple, Dk Purple, Dk Blue, Lt Blue, Lt Green, Dk Green, Hazel, Lt Brown, Brown, Dk Brown, Lt Grey, Grey, Black, White.
Shops:
- Added energy drinks to vending machines.
- Fixed NPCs occasionally sliding away while shopkeeping (looking at you Tobias >_>).
- Fixed issue with same-obj-items buying the first available one in the shop rather than the one you click on.
Locations:
Note: new locations will not appear on mini map yet, map update is in the works.
- Added beach area south of Garland Central (WIP).
- Added university area (WIP).
- Updated farm area layout.
- Updated mountain area layout.
- Moved some lighting in Garland West/CBD and added new lamps.
- Removed dirt patches in Garland Central park.
- Adjusted grass colour.
- Removed construction blocks from Garland West > Uni and Garland Central >Beach.
- Updated Boat shed exterior.
- Boats now bob in the water.
Festivals:
- Added new festival days: Fortune and Luck Brunch, Beach BBQ, Moonflower Festival, Twilight Equinox, MidWinter, New Years.
- Each festival has an info booth, furniture shop and snack shop with new special items only available at the festivals.
- Added NPC dialogue for all festivals.
- Added reminder mail for all festivals.
- Schedule - All NPCs will be at the festival locations all day. Might change this in the future when more complicated schedules are added.
- Added various decor, weather, lighting etc. during festival days.
- New Years - Added fireworks event at your building rooftop.
- Fixed swan boat ride with partner giving wrong notification emotes.
- Petal Events - Added check so that petal events can run during festival days as long as they aren’t in the festival location.
Weather:
- Added butterfly weather for Moonflower Festival.
- Added fireworks weather for New Years.
Save files:
- Save files and persistence have been completely reformatted to allow easy text file editing and future adjustments for better cross platform compatibility.
- On load of an old save file, various upgrades to new systems will take place.
- I’ve tried really hard to keep everything compatible with old files but if you have any issues with your save please let me know in the discord community and I’ll get your file sorted.
- Daily Tasks - Any open tasks will reset during upgrade.
- Load screen - Hair/Clothes may appear the wrong colour on the load screen but once in game it should be fine.
- Rooftops - Plants, decor and items loaded from very old save files which were on rooftops or tables may revert to being on the ground during upgrade.
- Shops - Items currently for sale will reset during upgrade.
Player storage:
- Changes to player storage in back end, functionally there are no differences but on load your previous storage will be converted to the new format.
- Any items in storage outside your apartment will be moved back to your apartment storage during this upgrade - sorry!
- Any copies of items that were backed up for safe keeping or in old version apartments will be transferred to your apartment storage too so you might end up with a nice windfall!
Backend/Optimisations:
- Moved dictionary and info storage from ds_grid format to struct arrays and overhauled all scripts for: festivals, calendar, mail, shops, inventory, player inventory, player_info, tasks, daily tasks, photo data, countdowns, transactions, loans, relationships, rock tumbler, player apps, stored music, private detective, building info, apartments, news, help, stock market etc.
- Shops - Total rework of how shops are handled to allow for future customisations including changing item info to be global access rather than in room persistence.
- Dev mode - Added dev mode only screenshot export for future postcard feature.
- Time - Full refactor for time related functions. obj_daycycle > obj_game.
- Transitions - Full refactor for transitions and lift functionality.
- Player storage - Converted to be global access rather than stored in apartment persistence.
- Mail - Full refactor and added nightly mail queue system.
- Tasks - Added listener functions for future optimisations (this will help with a lot of slow down issues next update).
- Rock Tumbler - Refactored rock tumbler into basic shop functions to allow other shop storage.
- Daily dialogue - Moved to be stored in relationship struct for ease of access.
- Removed unused logs
- Updated spawning, detection and general player logic.
1.3.6W Update - Rankings, Buffs, Moving Apartments and More!
Hope you’ve all been well! Time is flying but things are ticking along and I have a chunky update for you today, here are the most exciting bits:
Move apartments!
Regret your life choices after moving in to a specific building? Well now you can move to a bigger apartment or a different building. Each building has layouts for studio/1/2/3 bed apartments and each have their own quirks. Pay off your generous and then check the listings at the desk in Quality Real Estate to see what’s available and get to packing~
Personal and professional rank progressions!
You can now track and improve your progress at various job/personal aspects of life in Garland. Each area has 5 rankings to max out as you live your life and when you level up to a new rank, you’ll get new perks including things like: better sale prices for items, better earnings, better spawn, tool use or harvest rates etc.
Buffs!
In addition to the buffs you can get from ranking up a category, there are also now buffs applied with certain items eg. wearing the speedy shoes will boost your walking speed. You can also purchase Hannah’s Buffins (Buff Muffins, she thinks the name is hilarious) from the Medical Center for bonuses in a variety of categories that last the day.
Sounds!
I’ve started the process of adding in all the new sounds to make Garland feel more alive. The biggest changes you’ll notice here are in UI and menus, though the animal sounds are pretty fun too :D
Luck!
Good luck with that…
Honestly there’s a bunch more stuff in the changelog but not a lot of space to write it here so please check it out. Next update will be festivals and tying off loose ends.
See you in Garland!
<3 Violet
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Early Access 1.3.6W - Patch (PC and Mac) (Full and Demo) - 08/04/2025
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General:
- Economy: adjusted pricing for items, fish, clothing, furniture.
- Hotel TV - updated to new system, edited all tutorial tv shows and updated images.
- ATM - fixed soft lock if achievement fires between ATM actions. (ATMs will be updated with new UI soon)
- Train travel - Updated to not require payment when a Monthly/Yearly train ticket is in your key items.
- Fixed various typos.
Player:
- Full overhaul of Physical/Mental Energy gains and drains.
- Fixed - issues with Mental Energy updating repeatedly after event completion.
- Adjusted and added Mental Energy and Physical energy drains/gains in multiple existing areas in game (jobs, events, npc interactions).
- Added various physical/mental energy gains/drains to using tools and interactions.
Rankings:
- You can now track progression in various jobs or personal developments. Check your current progress in the Player Info App.
- When you reach a new rank, new perks and buffs will be applied automatically (better sale prices for items, better earnings, better spawn, tool use or harvest rates etc.)
- Ranks have 5 levels + Max.
- Added Personal rank tracking for: Physical Energy, Mental Energy, Charisma.
- Added Professional rank tracking for: Gig Economy, Private Detective, Angler, Gardener, Recycler, Geologist
Luck:
- Luck is now randomly generated daily, there are 5 level.
- Good luck days give you buff across multiple categories. Bad luck days will give a debuff across those categories.
- Added cutscene to explain initial bad luck day.
- Added UI for crystal ball furniture item to check daily luck.
- Added shop to shrine to purchase Petal Fortunes, these tell you your daily luck and apply a small buff (can be good or bad!)
Buffs:
- Added systems for tracking, adding, stacking player buffs in various areas including: job pricing, sell and buy pricing, harvest chances, various spawn rates, petal points, tool usage amounts,.
- Converted existing status ailments (mental energy drain, speeds, energy saver accessibility option) to buffs.
- Added auto buff application/removal based on personal/professional rankings.
- Added introduction scene explaining energy and buffs to Hannah’s Medical Center.
- Pets - having a pet will now add a small mental energy buff.
- Added buffs to various consumable items.
- Added Buff Tab to Player Info App for troubleshooting.
Inventory/Item Upgrades
- Fixed - items moving when npcs or held furniture moves through them.
- Fixed - crash with item id’s not registering if items have been added in wrong format.
- Cameras: Added use and refill functionality to Digital Camera, Efficient Camera and Sage’s Camera.
- Cleaning Cloth: Added use and refill functionality to Absorbent Cloth and Super Cloth.
- Watering Can: Added use and refill functionality to Efficient Watering Can, Magic Watering Can.
- Speedy shoes: now apply a speed buff
- Yearly/Monthly Train tickets now work (make sure to Use them to add to key items).
- Added ability for item to trigger temp and perm buffs.
- Added various 1 day buffs to: Healthy Buffin, Chocolate Buffin, Garden Buffin, Lucky Buffin, Speedy Buffin, Charming Buffin.
- Added Key Items tab to hold important things (apartment key, train tickets).
- Adjusted physical/mental energy amounts of many consumable items.
Shops:
- Added train ticket shop with monthly/yearly tickets to Garland Central Station.
- Added Hannah’s Buffin shop to the medical centre.
- Added Shrine shop with Petal Fortunes.
- Fixed typo in seedlings category preventing sale to florist.
- Fishing shop can now buy fishing rods.
- Antiques shop now stocks: basic single bed in 3 colours, crystal ball.
- Crystal shop now stocks: crystal ball.
Furniture:
- Converted windows to be furniture items for future decoration options.
- Converted beds to be furniture items.
- NPC vanities can now be used to adjust player appearance and refill water.
- Added check to confirm if things stored on tables still exist when trying to move table.
- Fixed - tables loading in with incorrect item placement heights. Tables in old save files may need to be removed and set down again to reset.
Building Events:
- Added Diary tab which now updates with extra info after every building event.
- Fix issue with old save files occasionally not reading ticked off building events correctly.
Moving apartments:
- After paying off your interest free City Council Move in loan, you can now move to a new apartment in the same or different building.
- Note - you can only complete building events in your current building but progress is saved when you move so you can pick up where you left off if you ever want to move back.
- All 4 buildings have these apartment sizes, each with different layouts: studio (your starter place), 1 bed, 2 bed, 3 bed.
- The council only lends your first move in costs, so you will need to pay cash up front to move.
- Available apartments in other buildings are the the same size as your current place.
- Available apartments in your current building is one bedroom bigger than your current place.
- Check available apartments at the counter of Quality Real Estate.
- Added move in cutscene, packing and unpacking mini games.
- Added building manager intro scene when moving to a new building.
- Added furniture and storage move actions between apartments.
- Added available apartment menus, explanation info and triggers in Quality Real Estate.
- Updated apartment descriptions.
- Adjusted locations for petal events in non-starter apartments. Please note, this is a work in progress and petal event placements currently do not take into account any furniture you have placed or moved yourself.
- Added apartment key key_item to move in events.
Sound:
- Added and adjusted many new sfx including: refill cloth, refill camera, refill watering can, apply wallpaper, drop item, pet food refill, music cd.
- Animals - cat, lizard, hemi, owl, pigeon, raven, seagull noises when patting or running away.
- Tree bonk rustle.
- Various menu opens/closes/selections/button presses/scrolls, stockmarket open, initiative stamp.
- Added walking sounds to npcs.
- Added seasonal walking sounds.
Save files:
- Adjusted persistence and save files for windows/beds as furniture items and to be in initial player room set up.
- Added Buffs, rankings, luck, building diary unlocks etc to save files.
- Adjusted daily songs save format so they aren’t messed up when new sounds are added.
- Added fallback reset for players on custom playlist bgm if it’s not found on load in.
Menus/UI:
- General - Adjusted various colours/backgrounds
- Initiatives App - Fixed current tally count not displaying on some Initiatives.
- Help/News App - Added reset to scrolls on selection.
- Relationships App - Updated button artwork, added petal event tracking graphics.
- Scroll Areas - Fixed scroll logic so it works better to centre selections when controller/keyboard control is used. Adjusted speed to be more insistent regardless of scroll box size. Adjusted entry/exit logic.
- Player Info App - As mentioned in previous updates, you can no longer change clothing/features in the app after your initial creation. Change features at your bathroom vanity anytime and change clothing by purchasing items from the clothing store. In a future update you will need to visit the city council to change the name on your player id (which you can still do at anytime).
- Player Info app - Added ranking and buffs tabs.
- Inventory App -Added Key Items tab to hold important things (apartment key, train tickets)
- Building App - Added Diary tab.
Dialogue/Textboxes:
- Full update to new UI system.
- Adjust portraits for different screen sizes.
- Add slide in/out for textboxes. (note, still adjusting timing on this and planning to add an option to turn off menu animations for accessibility)
- Lifts/Train: fixed text overlaps.
- Updated various textbox triggers to work with new UI system.
- Adjusted click to continue logic to prevent accidental selections.
- Lottie - Fixed wrong display name.
- Lottie - fixed intro event not triggering.
- Adjusted generic npc fallback text.
- Fixed rare crash when dialogue not found or incorrect format.
- Fixed - Regular Fish catch dialogue not found.
Settings:
- Added “In world highlights” control
- Added ability to turn off nightly auto save.
- Added verbose log on/off, moved log to accessibility settings page.
- Added auto select to use smaller hotbar layout on small screens (can still be overridden).
- Added optimisations to persistence to support future changes.
- Added health/Inventory amounts to debug overlay.
Optimisations:
- Fixed excessive logging from shopfronts in certain situations.
- Adjusted some logic around spawning.
- Small changes to camera refresh on window change.
- Moved some object code from draw > step event to support integrated graphics cards better.
- Adjusted options for outlining sprites.
- Streamlined logging in various areas.
- Added control for auto sfx choices on buttons, entry/exit, transitions.
- Cleaned up various code in player draw to prevent !instance_exists crashes.
- Overhauled player stat scripts, sleep timers etc for optimisation.
1.3.6V - Hotfix
- Fixed a crash for players over day 10 when resetting and viewing the noticeboard tasks. Please note that your daily noticeboard tasks will be reset when loading into 1.3.6V to fix this.
1.3.6U Update - Furniture, Storage, Stampcards, Steam Achievements and more!
Welcome to 2025 in Garland! I hope you’ve all been well even though it’s certainly been an intense start to the new year.
The first update for the year in Garland is a fun one both with front end stuff and polishing off a lot of back end junk so I can move on to more featurezzzz
First up is furniture! The antiques store is now selling some nice furniture so go check it out! By placing different kinds of furniture in your apartment you'll unlock category organisation tabs in your main storage area (which btw looks super nice now). I can't wait to see how you decorate your apartments :D
Next up I've added in the first batch of Steam Achievements. I know that this has been a long time request and once I'm sure everything is working properly in this update I'll be adding more with proper artwork. If you have any achievement suggestions let me know in the Garland discord!
The Council Initiatives stampcards have also gotten a rework and now you can have the satisfaction of smacking that stamp down when you complete them as well as: actual rewards for doing them. I know, very exciting! Just a quick note that while you can receive the reward items from Patrick, some of the tools attached aren't functional yet (speedy shoes don't make you go any faster right now but the kitty ear beret sure looks damn cute!). Hang on to them until next update and you'll be able to use them properly :D
Back end I’ve done a lot of optimising including adding fps control and texture changes which should help out those of you who are playing on machines with integrated graphics. There are still areas that are a work in progress so I’ll be ticking them off as I go along this year.
Last thing I wanted to mention is that this year I'm going to be doing updates monthly rather than fortnightly. This will give me more time to fix bugs before updates go out and add larger features without having to stress about getting things out while I'm working on bug reports. The updates will be a lot chunkier for you guys too so it should be more fun coming back every month!
Anyway, hope you're all well and I'll be back next time possibly with the ability to move between apartments or upgrade!
See you in Garland!
<3 Violet
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General:
- Fish- Fixed crash when trying to take photos of fish.
- Fish - Fixed fish spawning in recycling centre grass.
- Credits. - Fixed being stuck in credits room with no credits displaying.
- Credits - Added fast forward button to credits (hold d/right).
- Hotel tv - fixed some trigger issues, will be updating text/images soon.
- Fixed some conflicts with menu hotkeys.
- Weather - Fixed train level displaying weather incorrectly.
- Fixed collisions in Real Estate area.
- Npcs: fixed collisions causing them to occasionally walk through things.
- Help app: fixed Relationships info displaying incorrect text.
- Tourist booth - Sage will now cycle through various handy tips.
- Wallpaper - added moonflower wallpaper as stamp card rewards.
Player:
- Adjusted highlight logic and detection zones.
- Added highlight when interacting with fridge, vanity, recycling bin, vending machine, noticeboard, mailbox, detective cabinet, stock market desk, hotel tv, apartment rental window, shower, hotel vanity.
- No more getting sucked into stuff with circular collisions!
- Clothing: added speedy shoes, kitty beret, gold construction helmet as stampcard rewards.
Settings:
- Added FPS control.
- Added Weather toggle.
- Added Debug info Overlay.
- Added Shadow toggle.
Inventory/Storage:
- Inventory - updated inventory info to show more appropriate info based on item category.
- Storage - Full ui redesign.
- Storage - Now when in your apartment, the storage will have organisation tabs depending on your furniture. Eg. if you have a wardrobe there will be a tab in your main fridge storage for clothes. Recycling bin? Now you have a trash tab. More tabs coming soon.
- Storage - Storage furniture placed outside your apartment will act like regular category specificchests (eg. fridges can hold anything right now, but recycling bins can only hold trash.
- Storage - Storage furniture outside your apartment must be empty before you can use a hammer to move it.
- Museum - Added better highlight to already donated items.
- Museum - Added better highlight to items currently donating.
- Items - Updated various areas so items can hold more useful info.
- Items - Added a bunch of new upgrade items as stampcard redeems (better watering cans, cameras, cleaning cloths etc) note that these are not currently usable/refillable, functionality will come next update.
Steam Achievements:
- Added 15 starter Steam achievements.
- Old saves: if the item was being tracked already it should tick off automatically on load.
City Council Initiative Stampcards:
- Added a bunch of new stampcards, adjusted counts on old stamp cards.
- Stamp cards are now unlocked incrementally, first one during city council move in letter, second batch when getting your ID in the Welcome cutscenes, others on completion of various cards.
- Old save files will unlock the stampcards automatically and tick them off if the appropriate tallies have already been reached (for the most part… Some non plot ones eg Big Spender might need to be redone).
- Progress on stamps will now either send a notification or a completion achievement. Some tutorial cards will send achievements when the first stamp level is ticked off.
- Stampcards now require you to stamp them yourself in your notes app then redeem the reward to archive them.
- Redeem fully stamped cards by interacting with Patrick’s desk in the Council building.
- Added various furniture, pots, clothing and items for rewards (some of these are not currently usable and don’t have their buffs enabled but you can still collect them and next update you’ll be able to use them properly)
Petal events:
- Cecile PE 1 - Updated with new gardening info and added highlight to plants as the explains things.
- Pinewood BE 1 - Fixed dialogue choice skipping lines.
- Elle PE 4D - Fixed Sophie’s reset dialogue cutting off.
- Elle PE 1 - Swapped timing to be morning/afternoon, added transition lock during event, fixed camera requirement to start.
Quests:
- Demo full: Fixed quest not checking all npcs for first petal event and updated wording.
- Demo: Fixed quests not continuing to track after upgrading to full version.
- Council ID Welcome Quest - updated to add stamp card info.
- Added move in loan for repayment and letters from Ryan about it.
- UI: renamed journal to notes app, renamed errands > jobs, projects > to do.
- UI: Refresh on each notes app tab to make things clearer, readable and easier to navigate.
Gardening:
- Full Gardening logic rework.
- New icons for watering and cuttings.
- Fixed various bugs in growth cycles.
- If you dig up a plant, the seedling item will now remember how old it is.
- Placing a pot now automatically turns to a garden object and will need a spade to move it.
- Plants placed without pots will now be regular items.
- To garden: place a pot, place a plant or seedling in it, water daily. Once fully grown, water less frequently and collect cuttings with the cutters. Remove plants from pot with the shovel.
Furniture:
- Full furniture logic rework.
- Added 34 new furniture pieces in various colours.
- Hammer tool now has option to “turn” some furniture.
- Furniture with different turn options will now face the relevant way during placing action.
- Antique store: Added new furniture items for sale, cutscene on first visit and mail to advertise.
- Adjusted a lot of chair logic.
- Full item placement logic rework to account for oddly sized items.
- Added ability to place any furniture, item or garden object on top of tables.
- Player apt: converted all furniture (except bed) to be removable.
- Player apt: Adjusted starter furniture to be created on first time entry rather than static.
Festival of Petals:
- Upgraded all triggers.
- Upgraded info booth scenes.
- Upgraded fishing mini game, added high scores with tracking.
- Upgraded swan boat logic, added random npcs to boats, added ticket items. Now you will purchase ticket items and physically give them to npcs to ride the boats. You can also give them to anyone even if they’re not at the festival.
- Fixed special day events not triggering properly if you’re reloading the save.
Save files:
- Upgrade conversion for old pot/plant items.
- Upgrade conversion for old items that don’t have attached structs.
- Auto tick off previously completed stamps and steam achievements when possible.
- Added game version of save file to load display area.
Private Detective:
- Man Hunt - updated randomised npcs.
- Gather Evidence - added 9 new quests.
- PD jobs will now pay better and base the amounts on how well you do.
- Updated beginning cutscene to explain you can come and go 24/7 after unlocking.
Rooftops:
- Full rework of rooftop control and items on rooftops.
- Fixed various issues with items having wrong depth when rooftops were involved.
- Fixed issues with shadows on rooftops (some objects will still display incorrectly but it’s on my to do list).
Optimisations:
- Updated entire game to run on delta time for adjustable fps.
- Full reorganise of texture pages to help players with integrated graphics cards.
- Full redo of weather systems to be not frame dependant.
- Added ability to call cutscenes from multiple new objects.
- Consolidated a bunch of old scripts and removed redundancies.
- Changed notifications, tally checks and achievements to only check when one is created.
- Notifications: paused notification creation during transitions.
- Notifications: added auto check to end of cutscenes.
- Updated draw outline of sprites to shader.
- Fixed a couple of errors to player palette shader.
- Shadows: total math rewrite for speed, updated some placement on tree shadows.
- Lighting: moved to be controlled by day cycle rather than object.
- Added additional deactivation to buildings, trees, lamps and decor.
1.3.6T Update - Fishing!
Welcome to the last update of 2024 and congratulations for making it though the year, it’s certainly been a… time!
This update brings fishing and all the fun bits that come with it. Buy various rods from the boat shed in east Garland, catch 27 kinds of fish, donate to the museum and generally spend your days chilling by the water. In addition to that, I’ve also made fixes and adjustments to a lot of small things like UI, triggers and NPC schedules and interactions.
Like I mentioned, this will be the last update of the year, I’ll be taking a couple of weeks to have a break, refresh my brain and work on features to get ready for the planned updates in 2025. The next update will be in late January and will be crossing off a lot of community QoL requests.
It’s been a huge year for Garland, I’ve crossed a lot of things off the roadmap list but there is still more get done and I really appreciate you all sticking with me and having patience while I work things through. Every update, bug report and suggestion brings Garland closer to its full release and I’m really excited for next year!
I’ll be posting a proper end of year wrap up in the discord so come join us to celebrate or make suggestions for what you want to see next year!
Thank you so much for being part of the Garland community, I hope you have a relaxing holiday season and a chill New Years.
See you in Garland!
<3 Violet
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General:
- Adjusted player and NPC trigger areas to make them easier to talk to.
- Mail - Adjusted spacing in letterbox.
- Adjusted bollard placement in East Garland.
- Hairdresser - fixed floor displaying incorrectly.
- Shops - Fixed staff appearing when shops are not open.
- Museum - adjusted text in events to reflect new options.
- Sound - Added sfx for passing out.
- Progress bar - fixed issue of progress bar sometimes getting stuck on when pets are around.
Menus/UI
- UI tabs - Fixed issue with tab sometimes toggling menu on after closing.
- Fixed buttons accepting pressed when highlighted if the mouse is outside a scroll area.
- Shops - Fixed issue not saving scroll ratio when buying/selling items causing a jump to the top.
- Inventory - Added colour to item title, weight/length options to description sidebar.
- Inventory - Added options for sprite/info overrides.
- Inventory - Added transparency to unavailable inventory slots.
- Fixed issues when menu has been opened during sitting.
- Clothing shop - Fixed crash when clicking hover on non-clothing items.
- Adjusted scroll bar speed to be more relative.
NPCS:
- Pathfinding - Fixed NPCs stuck in doorways
- Pathfinding - Fixed NPCS not wandering appropriately and adjusted timing on wandering.
- Petal Points - Fixed relationship level up not sending achievements.
- Petal Points - Added achievements for friendship levels decreasing.
- Kirin - Fixed dialogue loop in Kirin’s first meeting.
- Added Fern to Museum donations counter.
Fishing:
- Fish now spawn in some ocean/river areas.
- Rod items now have Use action
- Added various rod items to fish shop.
- Added X new fish in various rarities.
- Clothing - Added fishing animation to current clothing options.
- Added fishing mini game.
- Collections app - Added fish tab, adjusted other tabs slightly.
- Museum - Added donation ability for fish.
- Updated fishing shop interior.
- Settings - Added accessibility control to have the mini game always on, always off or for less common fish.
Backend/Optimisations
- Started set up for hair style options in hair dresser.
- Pathfinding and schedules for npcs optimised.
- Petal points, Mental and Physical health scripts partially optimised.
1.3.6S Update - Pets!
We’re coming to the end of the year so this is the second last update for Garland for 2024 and it’s a fun one: PETS!
After Spring 25, the Pet Rescue adoption program will open (via a letter) and you’ll be able to adopt some furry friends! Currently there are 3 colours of cats with 3 personality types and different combinations will be available every morning. Once you adopt a friend, you’ll need to give them a bed and bowl to eat/drink from and take care of their needs every day. You can check your pet’s stats from the bed too and see if you’ve earned their love yet :D
Their reactions to you and how they respond to your care is based on personality so it’s going to take time and work to earn respect from the grumpier animals. Check the full changelog for more details of all the changes. I’ll be adding more mechanics and types of pets once I’ve got some more data on how we can balance the gameplay so feel free to give me your feedback in the discord community!
Also, a special thank you to our discord community for all the random cat names included so far too!
This update also brings the start of the furniture mechanics for decoration (so many sure you buy a hammer if you wanna redecorate!).
There will be one more update in Mid December before I take a break over the December holidays. It will include some more furniture and a couple of other big things for you to play with over the holiday break.
That’s all for today, see you in Garland!
<3 Violet
See you in Garland!
<3 Violet
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General:
- Updated overnight transition to be smoother, now you wake up with an emote for some pep in your step too.
- Minor wording adjustment to controls image.
- Moved phone portrait placement during text conversations.
- Save/load menu - Removed save button when opened on title screen.
- Added “Accuse!” label to Private Detective Man Hunt mini game.
- Adjusted random spawn mechanics to be more precise and have less change of void spawning.
- Temporarily turned off some highlights on interaction to prepare for furniture system (furniture, chairs etc).
- Fix for the nightly spawn running twice in some cases.
PETS!!
- Cats are now available as adoptable pets from the pet shop.
- Pet adoption will unlock via a letter after Spring 25th, visit the pet rescue after reading the letter to trigger the cutscene.
- 3 colours of cat with 3 personality types are available to start with.
- Once adopted, pets will appear in your apartment.
- Added pet information tracking system.
- Pet interactions added : food, water, cleaning, patting.
- Added Pet adoption cutscene event.
- Upgrade to pet shop ui, redid shop tab and added adoptions tab.
- Added cat food, pet beds, pet bowls in 4 colours to pet shop.
- Added overnight resets for food, water, other pet systems.
Pet care instructions:
- Adopt a pet from the pet rescue, a basic bed/bowl is included in the adoption fee but you can purchase other colours (and soon styles) in the pet shop).
- Feed once a day by adding cat food to the pet bowl.
- Water once a day by adding water to the pet bowl via the watering can.
- Pat daily.
- Wash weekly with the cleaning cloth.
- Gain points towards hearts by meeting your pet’s daily needs, lose points if you don’t care for them.
- Points are determined by pet personalities, so grumpy animals will take longer to earn a relationship with while cheerful animals will be quicker etc.
- Each pet requires its own food/water bowl.
- Pets can share beds.
- Check on your pet’s stats, thoughts and mood by interacting with the pet bed (highlight for this interaction is coming soon).
NPCs/Events:
- Oliver PE 1 - Fixed last line repeating
- Chloe PE 2 - Minor dialogue changes.
- Fixed issues with NPC dialogue not progressing in some situations, updated associated scripts.
- Small changes to NPCs who are path walking when talking (this is still not fixed fully but soon!).
- Adjusted NPC spawn logic (still WIP).
- Pathfinding - Fixed NPCs randomly disappearing while walking their paths.
- Adjusted a bunch of doorway nodes to have the correct facing directions for NPCs starting and ending paths there.
Inventory/Furniture:
- Bird seed now has 10 uses, Cat food now has 3 before being empty and removed from inventory.
- Hammer - Now if you place a furniture item, you will need to use the hammer to pick it up again as an item. (Update for the label coming soon, currently it’s using the “pick up label”).
- Added furniture system including colour handling (only current placeable furniture items are pet bed/pet bowl).
- Added ability for furniture items to link to menu ui.
- Added room persistence for player placed furniture items.
- Added special item tracking for shops.
- Added colour of furniture/clothing objects to inventory, storage and shop listings. Note: some thumbnails will have a default colour eg. pet bowl/pet bed will display their thumbnails as the red version currently.
- Cat food - Will refill pet bowl.
- Watering can - Will refill pet bowl - Note: must be on “Water” action NOT refill, this label will be updated soon.
Back end/Optimisations:
- Debugger - New scripts added: petal_points, go_to, npc_romance
- Debugger - Adjusted time_season to accept text input for eg. “spring”, etc
- Fixed crash if wedding menu system is somehow called outside of mall level.
- UI - fixed issues with UI button auto button selection and added recursive search for button selection in scroll area stacks.
- Updated a few other random scripts to have silent exits.
1.3.6R Update - Museum, Clothes, Second Chances
What a week huh? *_* Update time I guess… This is a big features update so buckle in.
Second chances at love:
If you’ve completed a romance choice event, chosen the plutonic option and changed your mind later after getting to know someone you can now get a second (or third etc) chance at love. Purchase flowers at the wedding shop and give them to your romantic prospect. But there are no guarantees at love so reactions will depend on whether you’re in their good graces or not >:D
More complicated relationship dynamics:
When you have a life event with an NPC (break ups, divorce, marriage, dating), word gets around the city pretty quickly and you’ll find it effects the NPC’s close friends/family. Eg. If you ask Avery out you might find Cecile happy with you and Leon not so much.
Museum Donations:
Garland’s Museum of Unnatural History has completed its renovations and is now open for donations of Plants, Crystals and wildlife photos. You can track what you’ve already donated in your Collections app. There is currently no reward for donations but that’s coming soon with the Council update and will be applied retroactively to your save files so donate away!
Clothing and Customisations:
This update sees the way clothing and character customisation works backend get a complete overhaul to allow custom clothing and storage solutions in a future update. The clothing shop is now open and has a selection of items in various colours that rotates daily. You can now change your body/face at your bathroom mirror, and your personal options (name, favourites etc) at the Council via your Garland ID.
While all the new UI is done, I’m doing these changes over 2 updates because I didn’t want you to be stuck in an outfit you didn’t like and in the next update, you will no longer be able to select from the customisation options in your phone menu as you’ll need to purchase shirts/pants/socks/shoes/accessories from the shops. So please make sure to pick your favorite outfit options before next update!
When you load into this version, your save file will be upgraded to handle the changes but as always, if you come across any problems please log them in the Discord’s bug reports channel! I’ve also fixed a bug that was causing some older files to default to the smaller inventory allowance, so if you have an old file you should be back to min 16 slots after this update, for some of you this will be a free inventory upgrade :D
Next update will be finishing off the customisation changes, changes to storage (sorting yay!) and either pets or fishing. I’m not sure if this will be in 2 weeks or 4 but I’ll be doing my best to get things out asap. I’ll also be taking a break between 23th Dec - 13th Jan this year so I won’t be as quick with replies during that time.
See you in Garland!
<3 Violet
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Notes:
Player clothing and inventory management have changed, so your save files will be updated when you load in.
The player customisation is undergoing some big changes to how you will apply customisations to accomodate custom clothes. From the next update, you’ll be able to do minor changes in your app like you can now, make face/body changes at your bathroom mirror and make info changes at the Council to update your ID. Clothing other than your base set will be purchasable from the clothing shop, hair styles etc will be purchasable from the hair salon. Some of this is already available this update but I’ve left the full customisations in your phone menu for now.
Please choose your clothing options in the phone menu this update because from the next update onwards, anything you’re not currently wearing will need to be purchased from the clothing shop! This includes: shoes, socks, shirts, pants and accessories. Hair/beard/fringe options may also be limited to the hair salon but I’m still working through options there.
General:
- Adjusted some collisions to prevent NPCs getting stuck in the middle of rooms (still a WIP)
- Update Music shop into, Private Detective Intro cutscenes to new system. (no more double Chloes!)
- Shops: adjusted shops that buy everything to say “Everything” instead of listing.
- Player interactions: adjusted a whole bunch of range checks for trigger areas and hierarchy of triggers to make interactions easier especially around shops.
- Fixed mail not being sent for clothing shop opening and ferris wheel invite on some old save files.
- Audio - Fixed sound example being wrong sfx and music level not updating until refresh.
UI:
- Added a new option for hotbar/UI overlay placement. Toggle it in settings.
- Photos - Complete redo of photos app to work with future quests/donations.
- Hotbar - Fixed soft lock when using mouse on hotbar context menus.
Inventory/Tools:
- If an item is selected in the hotbar and we’re not holding it, tab now reselects the item from hotbar before continuing to cycle.
- Fixed tool options not auto selecting when using mouse to select tool from hotbar.
- Repotting: fixed missing option for repotting.
- Planting: removed ability to plant any item in a pot when incorrect tool actions showing.
- Storage: fixed items refilling themselves when placed in storage (sorry lol).
- Item refills: refill your watering can/cleaning cloth at the bathroom sink in your apartment now.
- Added display for item colour/other info to inventory.
Relationships:
- Fixed some petal events that kept trying murder Ryan for no reason.
- Upgraded all first meeting events to new system (will show names as ??? until correct dialogue now).
- Added second chance to date NPCs. If you have completed the Choice Petal Event, you can now buy flowers from the wedding shop and ask them out again… success depends on your current petal point level with them.
- Added NPC responses for second chance at love for: undatable, too soon, already in a relationship, acceptance and rejection.
- Added flowers to wedding shop inventory.
- Weddings - Fixed wedding decor sometimes spawning under backgrounds.
- Weddings - Added specific text for NPCs on wedding night.
- Added Petal Points addition/subtraction for other NPCS for life events (break ups, divorce, marriage, dating). eg. If you date Avery, Leon and Cecile have feelings about it.
- Kirin PE 4D - Pt 2: fixed phone item creating itself over and over. Pt 3: fixed event not triggering at school.
- Chloe PE 5D - Fixed positioning so you and Chloe aren’t hiding behind the couch like weirdos.
- Birthday event - Fixed friendships not registering in some cases and preventing the birthday trigger.
Player Customisation/Clothing:
- Fixed stuck blinking problem (no, for real this time…)
- Full update to how player clothing is handled/saved/drawn in prep for custom clothing.
- Added all current clothing options as clothing items with wear action.
- Added UI to player’s bathroom mirror for changing face/body features.
- Added UI to Council building for changing player info (name, favourites etc).
- Updated UI for character creation during intro.
- Added shop clothing UI including trying clothing on.
Museum Donations:
- Upgraded Museum interior.
- Added Museum donations mail and opening cutscene.
- Museum app cutscene now happens on day 4, donations open day 7.
- Updated Museum app cutscene to new system.
- Updated Museum info in mini map.
- Added donation tracking of plants and photo to phone app.
- Added donation area and tracking to museum area for items(crystals/plants)/photos.
- Note: rewards for museum donations are not currently implemented as they tie into the council reward system that’s comings soon.
Save/Load
- Added tracking for new item management system.
- Added conversions for new inventory tracking and adjusting saves to accommodate.
- Added conversions for new outfit customisations and adjusted saves to accommodate.
Backend/Optimisations:
- Inventory item tracking overhaul to add item custom struct tracking.
- Added additional tracking for photos as prep for future quests.
- Adjustments/optimisations to a bunch of cutscene scripts to continue disentangling old systems.
- Added and adjusted many of the shop trigger functions in preparation for rotating items more thoroughly.
1.3.6Q Update - Building Event Updates
Hope you're all having a good one.
This update doesn't look big on paper but it crosses off a huge thing on my todo list: converting all the building events to the new cutscene system. They've all gone through text edits, positioning edits and some changes to the mini games. There have also been some changes to the event trigger times (you can trigger at more times of the day) and positioning (you can trigger more events without needing to use a specific entrance). I’ve fixed up a couple of bugs (particularly in the Man Hunt mini game) too.
All of these changes will be added to the wiki in coming weeks.
I was hoping to get a bit more into this update but unfortunately, life gets in the way sometimes. Next update will be museum collections, second chances at romance, menu layout options for steamdeck and possibly furniture placement with a few items to get you started.
I’m also going to be doing a stream on Oct 25th (Friday Melbourne time)/Oct 24th (Thurs night US time) to celebrate a year since the original early access release so come join me on twitch!
See you in Garland!
<3 Violet
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General:
- Adjusted collisions in mountain area to avoid being stuck in the campfire.
- Added check to specific older save files to ensure they get the Ferris Wheel letter for the ticket.
- Inventory - Fix crash on old save conversion when blank items are in inventory.
- Fixed Ryan PE 1 only triggering at night (triggers morning/afternoon now).
Private detective:
- Man Hunt - fixed ui overlay not displaying.
- Man Hunt - updated code for smoother running and added a few new dialogue options. (Private detective quests are next on the polish list).
Building Events:
- Adjusted many event triggers to be available at other times of the day and less dependant on which entry of the building you take. (Full details will be added to the wiki in the next few weeks)
- Move ins (all buildings) - Full polish with a heap of small fixes and updates to text.
- Cedar Court: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 - Full polish with a heap of small fixes and minor updates to text.
- Birch Tower: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 - Full polish with a heap of small fixes and minor updates to text.
- Maple Place: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 - Full polish with a heap of small fixes and minor updates to text.
- Pinewood Central: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 - Full polish with a heap of small fixes and minor updates to text.
Backend:
- Optimised scripts for player movement.
- Optimised scripts for player interactions during cutscenes and mini game events.
- Moved all building events to new cutscene system and dialogue to csv format.
1.3.6P Update - Backpack Upgrades, Item Refills, Welcome Quest Updates
The update is a little early this week because I wanted to get that mail bug patched on Mac and for once the planets actually aligned!
This update is another fun one with changes to inventory management! You can now purchase backpack updates at the clothing shop to expand your inventory to 16 or 24 slots! New games will now start with 8 open slots but current saves will continue with 16.
Some items are now consumable and will require refilling. You can fill your watering can or wash out your cleaning cloth in your apartment sink. If you run out of shots for your camera you can pick up some film at any vending machine. If you’re using an item during an event scene they won’t deplete though so don’t worry about not being able to finish!
This update also has updated portraits and emotes in all the Petal Events, there are a loooot of them that had to be done so if you notice any that don’t match the dialogue please let me know in the discord and I’ll get them fixed up!
As I add new features I’m also going back through the old cutscenes/events and editing them so they are more stable and have better dialogue. This update does that for all of the welcome tasks, they’re still waiting on getting the new portraits though. Next update I’m doing the building events, I know there have been some issues with the event mini games preventing progression (and unintentionally hilarious npc interactions) that have been driving me nuts untangling but fingers crossed that will be polished off once and for all next update! Sorry to anyone that enjoyed Cecile’s special ability to levitate though…
Anyway that’s all for now, see you in Garland!
<3 Violet
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General:
- Fixed NPCs and player getting stuck in Maple Place Lobby Tree (stay back Treebeard!).
- Adjusted safe spawn spots in Garland Central to avoid big tree.
- Added auto tab select during tutorials for journal.
- Edited text for when the player doesn’t have a map.
- Transitions between rooms now recognise diagonal movement.
- Added vsync option to settings (I don’t recommend it tbh but it’s there).
- Fixed intermittent crash on mail check (Mac).
- Fixed some typos.
- Adjustments to player range checking for interactions/item usage.
- Building Event - CC2 - fixed some spawn issues but the building events are next on my list to polish so full redos are coming soon.
- Fixed noticeboard tasks not updating in journal in some cases.
- Adjusted furniture in player room to be objects to support future furniture movement.
- Fixed intermittent crash on context menu selection.
- Fixed items on roofs not respecting the fact that they are on the roof (some items behind buildings are still a little transparent but I’m working on getting them fully corporeal again).
- Adjustments to menus during mini games which was preventing date registration on hotbar in some situations.
- Fixed the duck in the North pond deciding to live under the pond.
- Settings - Reset settings option now resets only the options on that page and loads the defaults rather than saved options.
Quests:
- Full polish of the Welcome quests with a heap of small fixes and updates to text. (Move in, building quests and NPC first meeting scenes are next.)
- New mail on first day from the tourism department to give a free ticket to the ferris wheel.
- Ferris wheel quest now requires you to bring a ticket, there is also a council worker there to greet you.
NPCs:
- NPC names are now ??? until first meeting is complete (timing of this to be mid scene will be adjusted when the NPC intros are in edit phase.
- NPC Petal Events now have updated portraits and emotes.
Inventory.
- Adjusted new game inventory slots to 8.
- Added ability to expand inventory to 16 or 24 slots with new backpack items.
- Added functionality for refillable consumable items (watering can, camera, cleaning cloth).
- Added film item to refill camera (sold at various shops).
- Added fill to player sink to refill watering can/cleaning cloth.
- Fixed notification on placing item (now says placed not dropped).
- Added item usage counts to room persistent/save files (including handling old files).
- Added cute new UI to display how much usage consumable items have left.
- Hotbar: if you’re not holding an item but there’s a hotbar selection still acting pressing back will now deselect it.
Shops:
- Added Celina to Fashion Fables shop.
- Added backpack expansion items to shop.
- Added Fashion Fables shop opening via mail (after completing Sophie PE 1). If you’ve already completed this event, you should automatically get the mail delivery for this.
Backend:
- Additional audio system optimisations.
- Continued cleaning up, consolidation of old scripts.
- Added support for text during import of emotes and portraits.
- Optimised player tool usage/labels scripts (some of the tools are still WIP).
- Minor adjustments to some money functions (these are on the list to optimise along with the ATM).
- Minor adjustments to mail trigger (this will be polished in the next round of trigger updates).