Inventory Hot Bar: Added right click > Equip and right click > Dequip
Stores: Added equip button to equippable items
Plaza: Optimized object amounts in stores to address hitches
Main Menu: Improved various aspects and polished up the connect area
Main Menu: Made "Join our Discord" more obvious and better
Main Menu: Improved look of notifications
Main Menu: Added small subtitles to some of the options for easier understanding for new players
Pause Menu: Improved look of the pause menu
Plaza: Game announcement messages now show a key prompt to inform how to interact with them
Plaza: Game announcement messages now no longer make a noise if you are currently busy in a game
Plaza: Moved currency HUD to the top right as it was blocking voice chat and game announcement messages
Plaza: Added game rules to the shooting galleries so players know not to shoot at birds
Billiards: Fixed networking not working for every second game
Optimizations
Plaza: Optimized object amounts in stores to address hitches
Plaza: Optimized game ports
Plaza: Optimized various particle effects
Bug Fixes
Fixed co-op condo spawning issues that would prevent players from being able to spawn items if they are not the condo host
Fixed additional hat offsets
Fixed some issues with player idle animations
Fixed Toy Robot not moving around properly
Fixed player model slippers not being colorable in some cases
Fixed Ceramic Table Lamp's body not being colorable
Inventory Hot Bar: Fixed sell option showing up on non-sellable items
Inventory Hot Bar: Fixed edit option not always showing up on multiple right clicks
Inventory: Fixed drag HUD showing up in Plaza when it shouldn't
Fixed player profile backgrounds showing up in collection book, player profile viewing, and other places where it should not show
right clicking on hot bar makes the right click menu never return
Condo - Default Condo: Fixed water post processing effects being offset
Plaza: Fixed Daisy floating
SDNL: Fixed grav glove resizing to 10x scale when a player dies
Virus: Fixed death camera clipping through the floor and your own infected player model
Known Issues We are currently in the middle of resolving issues with Billiards, this update fixes Billiards physics breaking every other game, but currently Billiards is still pretty broken and this update will make it unplayable. We will have a fix for Billiards in the next update.
Currently the Game World Ports do not have their matchmaking panels. You can join games through the Plaza or start them through the main menu for the time being.
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The Arcade Shooting Gallery and the Boardwalk Shooting Gallery are now open!
A double feature of shooting galleries!
Blast the evil corns that have taken over the garden in Corn of the Dead, the Arcade shooting gallery! This shooting gallery features multiple targets and 3 rounds.
Grab a rifle and precisely shoot the targets in the classic Western Shootout at the boardwalk! This shooting gallery is more simple and is more about precision than the other one.
Both shooting galleries feature their own achievements and leaderboards!
Various Bug Fixes & Optimizations
On top of the new shooting galleries, we have been focused on bug fixes and optimizations in this update, tackling bugs that players have reported in our feedback survey for the road to 1.0. There are over 50 bug fixes in this update and several quality of life changes, along with additional optimizations to the Plaza and the game itself.
New Standard Player Models
Previously shown on our dev logs, we have replaced the stock player models with our own custom made ones. These player models have more color customization and various outfits to choose from.
New D.I.Y. Interior
D.I.Y.'s store interior was pretty lack-luster and something we didn't feel was up to the same standards of the other stores, so we redid its interior! Wonder what else will take up the real estate that opened up next door...?
Updated Appearance Editor
The appearance editor has a couple of new quality of life improvements such as a search bar and categories, making it easier to find your accessories.
New Items
We also added new items, such as new food items, new lamps, vintage items, and some new gardening tools.
Changes
Arcade: Corn of the Dead Shooting Gallery now open!
Boardwalk: Western Shootout Shooting Gallery now open!
New Standard Player Models
Plaza: New D.I.Y. store interior
Added categories for player profile backgrounds in appearance menu for easier finding
Appearance menu now shows your current wearing accessory on the each tab
Appearance menu now has a search bar for easily finding your accessories
Stores now have a "Wear" button on wearable items for quickly wearing wearable items you have unlocked
Added sub-categories for hats and other wearables in appearance menu
Improved inventory item tags to make it more clear to new players. Added holdable, weapon, and equippable pet tags. Made equippable, wearable, milestone, unlockable tags larger than the other tags as they are more important
Plaza: Condo inventory is now hidden while in Plaza to avoid confusion for new players. You can access your inventory from the pause menu
Plaza: Added item currencies to HUD when you open the hot bar to quickly see your status on Sea Dollars, Anniversary Coins, Ghoul Coins, Holiday Coins, and Gold Catsacks
Plaza: Added info markers for Dark Voyage, Vroomspeed, Bumper Cars, and She
Plaza: Art pass on nature store
Plaza: Art pass on nature store's greenhouse
Plaza: Art pass and optimization on tower's chamfered corners
Plaza: Improved LODs for theater exterior
New Items
Rob's Imports: Brass Table Lamp, Brass Floor Lamp, Brass Wall Lamp, Fancy Candelabra, Metal Bucket, Rake, Pitchfork, Wheelbarrow, Watering Can, Shovel, Typewriter, Service Bell, Vintage Floodlight (lamp from Catzek)
Fresh: Rice Bag, Box of Pasta, Egg Carton, Can of Peas, Bread Loaf, Canvas Tin Can
Snackbar: Soft Pretzel (and Holdable)
Game World Changes
Accelerate: Criss Cross Rapids laps reduced from 4 laps to 3
Accelerate: Hallway Raceway laps reduced from 4 laps to 3
Accelerate: Riptide Retreat laps reduced from 5 laps to 3
Accelerate: Criss Cross Rapids, Hallway Raceway, Riptide Retreat are now separated in their own maps, improving load times for those maps
Accelerate: Improved engine sounds to be more dynamic, now will adjust based on the speed of the kart, drifting, airborne
SDNL: Adjusted gun game weapons (mixed some regular weapons with the super weapons) and removed camera from gun game
SDNL: Increased payouts a bit (50>100 units per kill)
ZM: Added new achievement for slaying the TRex boss
Libretro Changes
Libretro: Updated cores to 2025 versions, except for Citra and Stella due to compatibility issues with Tower. Downgraded Flycast to a version that does not crash Tower. Downgraded DOS Box to a version that has input that is compatible with Tower
Libretro: Added support for latest MAME core, labeled as MAME 2025. MAME 2010 is still supported as it has better lightgun support than the mainline MAME core at the moment. You will have to change your machines to use the latest MAME core manually, otherwise it'll still continue to use the 2010 version
Libretro: Added DOSZ, EXE, BAT, ISO, CUE, IMG, IMA file support to DOSBox
Optimizations
Fixed a common hitch in the game
Plaza: Lots of various optimizations across the Plaza
Optimized chat message system
Optimizations to various game asset loading with a focus on improving load times
Plaza: Translucency thread optimizations in Plaza
Plaza: Numerous optimizations throughout plaza
Plaza: DIY Store optimization
Plaza: Optimization on nature store
Plaza: Optimization on nature store's greenhouse
Plaza: Optimized static mesh data in Toy Store, Arcade, Lighthouse, and Nightclub
Enabled HZB Occlusion
Bug Fixes
Plaza: Fixed various milestone weapons not reloading ammo properly after respawning/dying
Plaza: Fixed hidden plushies not being interactable
Plaza: Fixed hidden casino plushy being in the ground
Plaza: Fixed Vroomspeed, Central Fountain, and new Casino Entrance missing location volumes
Plaza: Fixed center fountain stairs not colliding with Ball Race Orb Milestone or physics properly
Plaza: Fixed DIY store showing the wrong items in category view
Plaza: Fixed an open hole in Dark Voyage stairway
Plaza: Fixed collision holes in Vroomspeed, Monorail behind Bowling, Casino, and Tower Threads
Arcade: Fixed issues with throwing games
Arcade: Fixed coin pusher leaderboard screens placed in the reversed locations
Arcade: Fixed pilot hat label
Arcade: Fixed prince hat being missing from display
Arcade: Fixed price of brain slug hat not matching label
Plaza: Updated inventory refresh to help with appearance list not updating when buying new items sometimes
Plaza: Fixed up info marker positions for boardwalk and new D.I.Y.
Boardwalk: Fixed bumper car playtime not incrementing
Boardwalk: Fixed bumper car bumps stats not incrementing
Boardwalk: Fixed milk jug toss stats not incrementing
Fixed scoreboard not updating properly after server traveling
Fixed not being able to block workshop player models
Fixed scoreboard server title and player join permission notice (the friends only tag) not updating properly
Fixed selling appearance items not updating the list
Workshop: Fixed several workshop wearable offsets not applying properly
Game World Bug Fixes
Minigolf: Fixed spectating camera oftentimes clipping into the ground or railings when it should not
Accelerate: Fixed Criss Cross Rapids, Hallway Raceway, Riptide Retreat intro cameras and titles not working properly
SDNL: Fixed dino attack making multiple hit noises when a player is dead or is spawn protected
SDNL: Fixed gib chunks colliding with players
SDNL: Fixed pixel death not hiding the player properly
Zombie Massacre: Fixed several issues with pausing in singleplayer
Zombie Massacre: Fixed Arachnophobia boss achievement happening for TRex boss
Little Crusaders: Fixed Dark Dragon skin glow blasting light
Little Crusaders: Fixed lanterns not turning on in Mystic Grove and updated the lantern sounds and made the flashlights more lantern-like (also dragon now has a red evil light for their flashlight)
Workshop SDK Bug Fixes
Workshop Level SDK: Fixed Movers not always activating on published maps
Workshop Level SDK: Fixed Minigolf Splines being laggy when you toggle edit mode
Workshop Player Model SDK: Fixed weapon metadata preview not updating
Workshop Player Model SDK: Fixed vehicle animations not updating
Workshop Player Model SDK: Fixed downloading workshop player model not enabling the correct animations
Workshop Player Model SDK: Fixed mouth offset tab not auto closing
Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Tower Unite Dev Log!
Birb Plush Campaign Ongoing!
Birb's got it all: the power to stun dragons, an all-you-can-eat arcade game, a statue, the adoration of the people, and, now, a plushie! Bring home Birb and feel great safety if a dragon ever decides to try and start something. Birb has it handled. You just provide the birdseed. (And hugs.)
The campaign will be up for a limited time (7 days), so check out the store page to see how it all works and get one for yourself! These limited time plushies go directly towards supporting our developers and the development of Tower Unite!
We hope you enjoy the Birb plushie! Any support you give us means so much, and we hope to keep bringing you more fun in the future!
So, your build should be either: winter-related, themed after winter holidays / holiday activities (including New Years), or generally wintry and festive!
The submission period ends on January 22nd, 2025 at 11:59 PM.
Johanna finished working on a brand new interior for the DIY store.
macdguy worked on finishing both Shooting galleries, the one on the Boardwalk and the one in the Arcade.
Plaza: Shooting Gallery
Plaza: DIY Interior
Upcoming New Items
Nuclearxpotato continued working on a bunch of new items, mostly food but also a new milk crate!
Upcoming New Items: Food
Appearance Menu Improvements
macdguy worked on various improvements and quality of life changes to the Appearance Menu.
Appearance Menu: Worn items appear as Tab icons
Appearance Menu: Search Bar
Appearance Menu: Categories
Miscellany
Sabrina finished adding support for having multiple Libretro core package versions installed.
Johanna continued working on the Plaza, getting it ready for 1.0.
Joshua worked on reworking some wearables, giving them art passes and optimizations.
Lifeless worked on some quality of life fixes.
macdguy fixed various issues with the Workshop SDK, bugs in the Plaza, with the UI and Menus, and in Accelerate maps. He also worked on implementing the SDNL voice lines
Sketchman continued working on optimizations and bug fixes.
That’s a Wrap!
Thank you for reading and we’ll see you all next week for more!
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Note: Devs that don't appear in the weekly log are not necessarily away or not doing work, but may be working on things currently not announced or backend work that doesn't need to be detailed.
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Tower Unite Dev Log!
Birb Plush Campaign Ongoing!
Birb's got it all: the power to stun dragons, an all-you-can-eat arcade game, a statue, the adoration of the people, and, now, a plushie! Bring home Birb and feel great safety if a dragon ever decides to try and start something. Birb has it handled. You just provide the birdseed. (And hugs.)
The campaign will be up for a limited time (14 days), so check out the store page to see how it all works and get one for yourself! These limited time plushies go directly towards supporting our developers and the development of Tower Unite!
We hope you enjoy the Birb plushie! Any support you give us means so much, and we hope to keep bringing you more fun in the future!
So, your build should be either: winter-related, themed after winter holidays / holiday activities (including New Years), or generally wintry and festive!
The submission period ends on January 22nd, 2025 at 11:59 PM.
Nuclearxpotato continued working on a bunch of new items. He focused mainly on new food items, but also worked on a new typewriter item!
Upcoming New Items: Food
We've got so much food: Onigiri, Soft Pretzel, Rice Bag, Raw Dough, Box of Pasta, Can of Peas, Canvas Tin can, Egg Carton, and Bread Loaf.
Upcoming New Items: Typewriter
Miscellany
Sabrina worked on adding support for having multiple Libretro core package versions installed.
Johanna continued working on the Plaza, getting it ready for 1.0.
Lifeless worked on some quality of life fixes, such as the ability to purchase items seen in shops by interacting with them physically.
macdguy worked on fixing various bugs, such as issues in the Workshop SDK concerning movers and editor. He also implemented the new player models, making it easier to add newer ones in the future.
Sketchman continued working on optimizations and bug fixes.
Will continued working on music in preparation for the 1.0 release.
That’s a Wrap!
Thank you for reading and we’ll see you all next week for more!
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This update fixes several bugs from the last update, along with addressing disconnect issues.
Addressing Disconnects
Last year we pushed a bug fix for issues with billiards, arcade, and other games where game objects would seemingly not spawn. We did this by correcting a race condition we found in Unreal's net driver. Due to the disconnects people are experiencing though we've decided to temporarily remove this fix, as it is possible the issues are related.
If the disconnects continue, then we'll know it's not related to our net driver changes and we can re-apply the fix. If the disconnect issues stop, then we at least have some idea of where they're likely coming from.
We appreciate everyone's patience while we get to the bottom of this issue, and will let everyone know as soon as we have a better understanding of what's happening. In the meantime this means that you may experience the previous bugs with billiards, arcade, and so on.
Changes
Minigolf - Dino Drive: Removed all friction on HIO funnels, fixing players getting stuck on HIO funnels
Adjusted materials on a bunch of wooden items to be more consistent
Major art pass on Fireplace items and made them functional lights
Updated Chessboard item to use new pieces and only have 3 draw calls, variants, and colouring
Improved materials on Chandelier item
Holdable Hot Dog now takes 4 bites to eat as opposed to 1
End of Holiday events
Bug Fixes
Possible fix for Game World/condo disconnections
Minigolf - Dino Drive: Fixed OOB in ditch in Hole 8
Minigolf - Dino Drive: Adjusted Hole 16 (Bone Vortex) to make the HIO more consistent
Minigolf - Dino Drive: Fixed a stuck spot in Bone Pit HIO
Fixed Canvas Doormat not applying rotation on load
Fixed Hot Chocolate visual states being reverse (empty when full, filled when eaten)
Fixed IES on various lights
Fixed Bumper Post condo item not being colourable
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We're back from our holiday break and excited to show today's developer log!
Birb Plush Campaign Started!
Birb's got it all: the power to stun dragons, an all-you-can-eat arcade game, a statue, the adoration of the people, and, now, a plushie! Bring home Birb and feel great safety if a dragon ever decides to try and start something. Birb has it handled. You just provide the birdseed. (And hugs.)
The campaign will be up for a limited time (21 days), so check out the store page to see how it all works and get one for yourself! These limited time plushies go directly towards supporting our developers and the development of Tower Unite!
We hope you enjoy the Birb plushie! Any support you give us means so much, and we hope to keep bringing you more fun in the future!
So, your build should be either: winter-related, themed after winter holidays / holiday activities (including New Years), or generally wintry and festive!
The submission period ends on January 22nd, 2025 at 11:59 PM.
The Brass and Ceramic lamp items all have adjustable lampshades with two shapes, sharing the fabric patterns from the Curtain items.
Upcoming Art Pass: Fireplaces
Upcoming New Player Models
Joshua continued working the new Player Models.
Upcoming New Player Models
Miscellany
Johanna continued working on optimizations for the Plaza.
macdguy experimented with splitting up the .pak file, potentially allowing for quicker patching and smaller download sizes. The downside observed is the game takes up space on disk.
Sketchman continued working on optimizations and bug fixes.
Wheezwer worked on getting the Birb Makeship campaign underway.
That’s a Wrap!
Thank you for reading and we’ll see you all next week for more!
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Note: Devs that don't appear in the weekly log are not necessarily away or not doing work, but may be working on things currently not announced or backend work that doesn't need to be detailed.
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Join our Discord for development updates and community fun! https://discord.gg/pixeltail We love awesome people like you!
Birb’s got it all: the power to stun dragons, an all-you-can-eat arcade game, a statue, the adoration of the people, and, now, a plushie! Bring home Birb and feel great safety if a dragon ever decides to try and start something. Birb has it handled. You just provide the birdseed. (And hugs.)
The campaign will be up for a limited time (21 days), so check out the store page to see how it all works and get one for yourself! These limited time plushies go directly towards supporting our developers and the development of Tower Unite!
We hope you enjoy the Birb plushie! Any support you give us means so much, and we hope to keep bringing you more fun in the future!
We're officially back from our Holiday break and will be posting more updates about the game soon!
Dino Drive! (0.18.5.0)
Minigolf - Dino Drive!
Welcome to Dino Drive, where dinosaurs* and golf balls can live together just as they did millions of years ago. Explore a highly themed, outdoors minigolf course before braving the blacklight depths of the monster golf course known as the Extinction Zone.
Be aware that while most dinosaurs* are friendly giants, some may see your game of golf as an easy meal, so don't spend too long in the tall grass. Can you find and identify all 35 unique species throughout the park?
After completing the course, drop by Tower Threads (or any Dino Drive licensed retailer) to grab some souvenirs to remember your time here. At Dino Drive, it's always a roar! (*and other extinct prehistoric species)
Dino Drive Souvenir Items
You can grab them in Tower Threads!
New Furniture Items!
On the Road to 1.0, we’ve been working on adding more requested items to increase the catalogue. The full list of new items is below.
New Store - XxF3RR3TxX's Customization Station!
Head over to Tower Threads to check out the newly opened store attendant. This digital ferret will hook you up with over 90+ new profile backgrounds!
New Items
Dino Drive Souvenirs (Tower Threads), unlockable only after completing / mastering Dino Drive
Dino Drive Costume
Dino Drive Glasses
Dino Drive Hat
DIY
Electric Enclosure Fence
Thematic Entry Gate
Rob's Imports
Skeleton (T-Rex)
Spare Bone (T-Rex)
Pizza Box
Metal Utility Cabinet
Vintage Filing Cabinet
Power Drill
Needlenose Pliers
Wrench
Screwdriver
Toy Stop
Meteorite Ball
Sweet Suites
Wooden Post Bed
Wooden Post Queen Bed
Wooden Post Bed Frame
Brass Frame Bed
Brass Frame Queen Bed
Brass Bed Frame
Booth Seat (Single)
Booth Seat (Double)
Booth Seat (Outer)
Booth Seat (Inner)
XxF3RR3TxX's Customization Station
Angular Profile Background (Forest)
Angular Profile Background (Grass)
Angular Profile Background (Rose)
Angular Profile Background (Sunbeam)
Bubbles Profile Background (Ocean)
Bubbles Profile Background (Astral)
Bubbles Profile Background (Pop)
Bubbles Profile Background (Tangy)
Bunnies Profile Background (Dark)
Bunnies Profile Background (Gloomy)
Bunnies Profile Background (Strawberry)
Cats Profile Background (Black)
Cats Profile Background (Brown)
Cats Profile Background (White)
Cats Profile Background (Orange)
Chains Profile Background (Gold)
Chains Profile Background (Rose)
Chains Profile Background (Sage)
Chains Profile Background (Sky)
Chains Profile Background (Violet)
Computers Profile Background (Green)
Computers Profile Background (Grey)
Computers Profile Background (Pink)
Computers Profile Background (Purple)
Computers Profile Background (Red)
Computers Profile Background (RGB)
Confetti Profile Background (Black)
Confetti Profile Background (Green)
Confetti Profile Background (Lavender)
Confetti Profile Background (Pink)
Confetti Profile Background (White)
Dogs Profile Background (Black)
Dogs Profile Background (Blue)
Dogs Profile Background (Grey)
Dogs Profile Background (Wolf)
Dogs Profile Background (Purple)
Dogs Profile Background (Artic)
Floral Profile Background (Cornflower)
Floral Profile Background (Daisy)
Floral Profile Background (Peony)
Floral Profile Background (Velvet)
Floral Profile Background (Wisteria)
Foxes Profile Background (Black)
Foxes Profile Background (Blue)
Foxes Profile Background (Green)
Foxes Profile Background (Grey)
Foxes Profile Background (Orange)
Foxes Profile Background (Purple)
Foxes Profile Background (Red)
Foxes Profile Background (Kitsune)
Waves Profile Background (Aether)
Waves Profile Background (Cherry)
Waves Profile Background (Dusk)
Waves Profile Background (Lime)
Waves Profile Background (Pale)
Waves Profile Background (Plum)
Grid Profile Background (Blue)
Grid Profile Background (Green)
Grid Profile Background (Orange)
Grid Profile Background (Pink)
Grid Profile Background (Purple)
Grid Profile Background (Red)
Hearts Profile Background (Blue)
Hearts Profile Background (Fuschia)
Hearts Profile Background (Pink)
Hearts Profile Background (Purple)
Hearts Profile Background (Red)
Pride Quilt Profile Background (Rainbow)
Pride Quilt Profile Background (Ace)
Pride Quilt Profile Background (Agender)
Pride Quilt Profile Background (Aromantic)
Pride Quilt Profile Background (Bi)
Pride Quilt Profile Background (Gay)
Pride Quilt Profile Background (Genderfluid)
Pride Quilt Profile Background (Genderqueer)
Pride Quilt Profile Background (Lesbian)
Pride Quilt Profile Background (Nonbinary)
Pride Quilt Profile Background (Pan)
Pride Quilt Profile Background (Trans)
Techno Profile Background (Digital)
Techno Profile Background (Chip)
Techno Profile Background (Fuschia)
Techno Profile Background (Teal)
Triangle Profile Background (Night)
Triangle Profile Background (Royal)
Triangle Profile Background (Seaweed)
Triangle Profile Background (Wood)
Tropical Profile Background (Azure)
Tropical Profile Background (Coconut)
Tropical Profile Background (Crab)
Tropical Profile Background (Lemon)
Tropical Profile Background (Orchid)
Tropical Profile Background (Palm)
XxF3RR3TxX Background
Changes
New Minigolf Map - Dino Drive!
New Dino Drive Souvenir Items!
Plaza: Added media player to Casino lounge room
Improved appearance menu for player profile customization
A new store inside of Tower Threads has opened!
Optimizations
Plaza: Various optimizations to water, shaders, and particles
Bug Fixes
Plaza: Fixed tiny dragon in Toy Store
Plaza: Fixed Casino high roller room missing seats
Scoreboard: Fixed location count / filter not being updated properly
Scoreboard: Fixed various issues with the Plaza/Condo scoreboard
Minigolf - Alpine: Fixed broken lightmap on Hole 15
Ball Race - Paradise: Fixed missing material on Level 6
Fixed catsack counter on splash screen not displaying count
