- You can now abandon broken saves in the lobby
- Fixes a case where some broken saves would not show up at all
- Fix some missing text when loading mods with errors
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The PlateUp! Rush Hour update is now live! - 40% discount
We are excited to announce the Rush Hour update is now live with a massive 40% discount! It's overflowing with new features and quality-of-life improvements for experienced and new players alike.
Turbo Mode has been added to let you get stuck into the challenge of your restaurant as quickly as possible. You'll have to hit the ground running, with greatly increased customers, rushes, and a new challenge card every day - but to help you out, you'll have cheaper blueprints and more choice of what to buy each day.
Weekly Speedrun Map What is better than proving to yourself that you have what it takes to run a successful restaurant? That's right: proving it to others! Each week, the lobby will have a new fixed seed run which is the same for everyone. Complete day 15 as fast as possible to find out where you rank in the global leaderboard
Expanded Lobby - Save Slot Map One of the most requested features is here: you can now keep up to five restaurant saves at once, using the new map feature in the lobby. Had to pause a game with your friends but want to try out some solo strats? Returning to HQ from the in-game menu will now save your restaurant (from the beginning of the day) and allow you to return to it later.
Expanded Lobby - Trophy Room Show off your achievements and experience to your friends with the new trophy room. This room displays your progress through the game's unlocks, achievements and levels, as well as showing your stats for this week's speedrun leaderboard. Watch this space in the future, too, as we look to add more stats and run tracking to help you optimise your gameplay.
And more! We've fixed some bugs, added recipes to card choices, added the ability to automatically skip recipe popups, prevented rerolling without any blueprints, improved warnings when the game can't load because of mods, improved modding feature support... and even added the ability to automate beans!
We hope you enjoy the Rush Hour update, and if your friends still don't own PlateUp! They can pick it up now with a 40% discount!
Patch Notes 1.1.5
Turbo Map - This update's event mode is Turbo and it'll give even the most experienced of restauranteurs a challenge. More customers, more cards, more money, more blueprints - get your game going from the start. This mode has been designed to give players who are currently managing incredible overtime runs a way to play challenging runs in shorter time periods. It's really hard!
Save Slots - You can now keep up to 5 saves at once in your lobby. Interact with the map to choose a location and then keep your restaurant there if you quit out. You can keep a save with your friends until everyone's ready to play, and still practice some solo strats in your own time.
Trophy Room - A taste of things to come, the new trophy room in the lobby lets you show off and keep track of your achievements, level and unlocked dishes and layouts. Watch this space in the future as we look to add more stat tracking to runs to help you remember your greatest moments and optimise for the future.
Return to HQ - You can now return to the HQ directly from a run, saving your run at the beginning of the current day. This means you can switch out the run you're on whenever you like.
Speedrun Leaderboard - A new speedrunning leaderboard and weekly speedrun map is available in the trophy room. This map is fixed for everyone (including card choices, irrespective of your setting) so you can compete with your friends for the best time, and see your placement on the global leaderboard
Recipe Info Improvements - Card choices now show the relevant recipes, so you can decide in advance if you'd rather pick up a "straightforward" salad with potato or a "simple" stuffing. There's also a new option to allow you to automatically skip new recipe popups, so experienced players can stay in the action.
Gameplay
Blueprint cabinets can now be pinged to show what's inside them during prep time
Portioners can now take from ingredient providers, such as beans
Breakfast upgrades (like mushroom and tomato toppings) no longer need the beans card
Staple blueprints (ones that show up in the shop more often) now have a white border
Staple blueprints until purchased (like the research desk) now have a yellow border. This border will disappear when the blueprint is no longer a staple
Special staples from cards now have a purple border
Upgraded blueprints now have a glowing blue border
Appliances that have their requirements to appear in the shop met will now appear on that day, rather than waiting until the next day. For instance, if you don't need any chopping in your recipes, the Sharp Knife won't show up. Prior to this update, if you chose a card that added this requirement, Sharp Knives could only appear in future days. With this fix, you can get them in the shop (and rerolls) on the same day you choose the card.
You can no longer reroll blueprints if there aren't any to reroll
Fixes
Menu scrolling now loops top and bottom
Replacement booking desks are now free
Booking desks should no longer show up as a garage reward
Fixed a bug where some food could become invisible in the combiner
Blueprints should now always drop into the correct rotation
Fixed a number of places where dishes had incorrect processes required (this fixes a few edge cases where you wouldn't be offered suitable appliances in the shops, particularly with pies, dumplings, and stuffing)
Added "snowglobe" map previews for all settings, meaning that mods that add more settings to the selector will display correctly
Fixed a bug where players could get tools permanently stuck in their hands
The day timeline during prep time now works out the correct icons to draw automatically, improving case where mods gave custom cards out
Mod Support
If the game detects that a mod can't load correctly it will now display an error rather than showing a blank screen
ItemGroupView.ComponentGroup has been made public
Views have been fixed in multiplayer when players had different sets of mods installed
Patch 1.1.4 - Valentine's Day
Features
- Romantic Map - Celebrate Valentine's Day on the new Romantic event map, with new wallpapers, floors and decorations!
- Groups - Cater your restaurants to Couples, a new group card that adds a special customer type. Currently only on the Romantic map
- Setting Selector - You can now choose your restaurant's setting, from City, Country, Alpine and Autumn, in the lobby, independently of the seed. This means you can play your favourite layouts on whichever setting you like. You can also now reroll the maps in the lobby by changing the setting, and unlock two additional dish slots for a total of 6
- Seed fixes - Seeds have been improved and should be more consistent everywhere. Random maps now have correct seeds, and maps that can't be recreated via a seed (i.e. special event maps) won't show an incorrect seed. These improvements should make seeded layouts more stable going forward, but unfortunately some layouts may have changed
- Host stand - The host stand has returned; add one of these to your restaurant to bring a queuer in from the cold, and place their menu exactly where you want them to sit - no more solo diners taking the best tables!
- Tray improvements - The tray has been
- trained* to work better, and will now try and remember what you're doing. If you've just taken a plate from a plate stack, it'll try taking another before putting one down. This should make it work better with dirty dish racks, dishwashers and more!
- Korean and Turkish support - The game can now be played in both Turkish and Korean! (If you've already played the game, your language won't be detected and you can change it in the options menu)
Balance
- Patience was previously able to exceed the maximum in the bar. This has been changed so that adding patience will no longer go above the initial value.
- The booking desk has been added to the shop (for free) if you don't already own one. Now you don't have to regret skipping out on it.
- Messes can no longer spawn on the front door tile
- Autumn maps will now offer customer cards once all food is taken
- Portioners now work with things that leave something behind after being split, such as potato salad or pots of beans
- Dumplings are now unlocked normally rather than always being available. The diner map has been moved from level 8 to level 4
- Customer schedules are calculated more accurately and update dynamically during the day if players leave and join
Fixes
- Pointing multiple combiners at a sink will no longer cause items to duplicate
- Dropping letters inside or outside no longer affects what they will be
- Fixed some cases where you couldn't pick up a blueprint you were standing on
- Twitch names will no longer be used up in practice mode
- Dish cards now have their own icon
- Grabbers reset their pushing progress correctly when empty
- Meat sources now have unique names
- Fixed some incorrect appearances of colourblind support letters
Mod Support
- Fixed a typo in HardcodedBlockers that prevented them from being added to unlocks
- Improved IApplianceProperty and IItemProperty so that custom attachment logic is no longer necessary
Love is in the air with the new PlateUp! Valentines update!
February is upon us and love is in the air and in keeping with the time of year we are excited to announce the PlateUp! Valentines update!
The update will add the new Couples mechanic, the couples will need a little more dedication and attention to make their meal extra special. You will find the couples are a little less patient when inside your restaurant, but they do come with increased queue patience. And don't worry they will be easy to spot in the crowed as they will have little hearts floating around them.
There is also a new romantic themed map, the ability to choose the setting of your restaurantt in the main lobby area. You may also notice the return of the Host Stand which will allow you to choose the best locations for your customers to be seated.
Finally we are also happy to be featured in the Friendship Games Week where you can check out PlateUp! and all the other amazing games being featured in this Steam event:
We hope you enjoy the latest update; stay tuned for even more PlateUp! content coming your way soon...
PlateUp! X Golfie!
Golfie has just left early access, and we would love to see you all enjoying the game, so we're offering a chance to win a copy of the game for you and your friends! Gather up a group of Fore! (heh, get it, four, fore... nevermind.) and get to playing some PlateUp! for a chance to win!
PlateUp! Entry Requirements:
1. Get your group of Fore! to join the Golfie Discord & the PlateUp! Discord. (Make sure they have the same name in the game as Discord)
2. Play the new PlateUp! Chinese New Year update with your friends and successfully Franchise (Complete Day 15).
3. Submit a screenshot of your group Franchising to the "golfiegiveaway" Event Channel!
We'll be choosing 4 groups of winners from the participants, the Crossover Event will run through January 30th, and we'll draw one winner every other day starting on Tuesday, January 24th.
Patch 1.1.3b
- Adds bunny ear hat
- Fixed some visual bugs with mandarin slices, especially in trays
- Mandarin servings can't be put in food prep stations (single pieces still can)
- Dumpling restaurants now have default names (thanks to the playtesters who submitted these!)
PlateUp! Chinese New Year update and lowest ever 34% discount
We hope you are having a great 2023 so far, and that the New Year's resolutions are still going strong!
We are excited to announce the first of many updates to PlateUp! this year: the Chinese New Year update, which launches today with a historic 34% discount.
The Chinese New Year update introduces a new main dish in the form of Dumplings. Dumplings are a very popular and traditional Chinese New Year dish, which also come with the option of a host of side dishes including Mandarin Slices, Bamboo Shoots and Crispy Seaweed.
You will also notice that the restaurant is kitted out with lanterns and other traditional decorations for the holiday, as well as a new themed hat to get into the spirit.
Additionally, customers may leave you red envelopes as gifts. These envelopes will contain additional blueprints to make sure the year of the Rabbit brings prosperity - and an extra hop in your step.
We hope this festive and fun update will add a little spice to January!
There's never been a better time to get stuck into PlateUp! And if your friends are looking to pick up a copy, they might also like to know that PlateUp! is available with an additional discount in the new Yogscast Games Multiplayer Bundle alongside Golfie, the roguelike, deckbuilding, minigolf game which is celebrating its full launch from Early Access today!
Both games offer brilliant online multiplayer fun, so do check out the bundle today.
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/29977/
Happy Year of The Rabbit! And stay tuned for even more PlateUp! content coming your way soon...
Chinese New Year Update Patch Notes
- Lake map: Celebrate the new year with this scenic lakeside restaurant. This month's event map allows you to pick up multiple mains during your run, so you can impress your customers with a huge variety of dishes, including the new dishes, which are more likely to appear on the Lake map. Customers will show their gratitude by gifting you discounts on your appliances. Appliances on this map are all discounted and more likely to be upgrades.
- Decorations: Two seasonal decorations and three new wallpapers to celebrate the new year!
- New main: Dumplings: Dumplings are available for everyone to select during this event in the lobby, together with two new extras.
- New side: bamboo shoots: Collect these fresh from the ground and serve as an accompaniment to your meals.
- New starter: mandarin orange: Picked straight from your very own tree, these mandarins can be served as a refreshingly quick starter - ideal to counterbalance a heavy soup!
- More varieties: Stir fry has been upgraded with new varieties; you can now mix in bamboo shoots and mushrooms to give your customers all the choices in the world.
- You can now play your favourite seeds more easily than ever, with copy-paste support in text inputs (via ctrl-v)
Balance
- Individual customers have been made more polite: customers in groups of one will now choose to sit at a bar table if one is ready for them
- Steak is now available as a secondary main on maps that allow for mains to be selected as cards
- Coffee machines have been fixed so you can automate coffee again
- Autumn map runs should no longer be offered Variety franchise cards
Fixes/Other
- Fixed an input issue in the Steam deck that prevented players from creating profiles when playing on the deck
- Breadsticks and napkins now show their supply count properly
- Fixed an issue where franchise creation screens with more than 30 cards would have some unreachable cards
- Turkey toppings now have colour blind support
- Stir fry now has colour blind support
- Fixed an issue where level generation would do some unnecessary stuff and take longer than it needed to
- Changed customer spawn location logic to support modded maps that were very long
- Tweaked snow visuals
- Fixed some missing text
- Tweaked hitbox of flowers to prevent cases where players could get stuck
Official PlateUp! Advanced Guide
With the Holiday update now out for PlateUp! we hope you are having a great time with the new map and the additions we've thrown into the update too!
In this post, we hope to help you learn to set up complete automation systems, advanced research techniques and much more with these advanced tips & tricks.
Research Desks are considered Staple Appliances unless you own one. This means they're more likely to appear in your daily blueprint post and can't be rerolled unless you own one.
Putting a Research Desk inside your first Blueprint Cabinet means you'll have a much higher chance of getting another one the next day.
There are two main strategies associated with the research desk. Either turn your first Research Desk Blueprint into a Blueprint Desk and use it to lock in more Research Desk Blueprints, or turn it into a Copy Desk and throw out your Research Desk to increase your chances of getting another in the average post.
Try only to use the Booking Desk once you have a Blueprint Desk once you lock in your order since Blueprint Desks will cycle throughout the game day, and using the Booking Desk speeds up the day so that the Desk will cycle less.
There are appliances in the game that can automate almost any process, so play around with them until you figure out what works and doesn't.
Some processes are not automatable, but that's okay; if you have the extra hands, manual cooking or cleaning is faster and more space efficient than automation for some processes.
Some Mains are more straightforward to automate than others, which often correlates with the customer increase or decrease attached to the Main Card.
Taking extra Recipe Cards will require additional or more complex automation systems. However, taking Customer Cards can allow you to focus on automating as much as you can of the Main you start the game with.
Full automation is possible, but you must slowly work up to it. Start by automating one process at a time and gradually build up a system throughout the run.
With the Workshop just coming out of Beta, check out some mods created by community members that can make automation easier for when you're learning!
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