All the team has been working really hard on this update. We’ve made lots of new missions, damaged a bunch of vehicles (and repaired them again!) and squashed many bugs along the way. We’re really excited for you all to play it!
Missions
There are lots of new missions to complete all over Wobbly Island! There are all sorts of tasks for you to do, lots of them with unique rewards. So get out there and help some Wobbly’s!
You can tell a Wobbly has a Mission for you if they have a Mission Star above their head.
Detective Missions
Detective Buck needs your help! All his other detectives are on holiday so put on your thinking cap and head to the police station to help him solve a series of strange cases.
This series of missions work slightly differently to other missions. Once you’ve completed one case you’ll need to wait untill the next day for Detective Buck to have another case for you.
We hope to add more cases for you to solve in the future.
To Do List
To help you keep track of all your missions we’ve added a To Do List to the map screen. Here you can toggle which missions show on the map, and find details about the missions you have and next task you need to complete.
We’ve also added To Do List entries for all the existing missions in the game too!
Vehicle Damage
Vehicles in Wobbly Life now can get damaged! If you keep crashing into things the body work will get bent, the windows will smash, and eventually if you keep crashing it, it will explode!
There’s also a new particle effect for crashes and a few new vehicles for you to crash in!
Vehicle Repair Shop
You’ve damaged your pizza van and you’ve got a delivery to make? Don’t worry, Joe’s Repairs is here to help! Simply drive your vehicle into the garage and Joe will repair it for free.
You can find Vehicle Repair Shops near to Vehicle Paint Shops.
Updated Handbrake
We’ve reworked the handbrake functionality so now you can pull off cool skids! But don’t use it too much or you might spin out. We’ve also updated the skidding graphical effect.
Updated Models
We’ve updated loads of models in this update. Almost all areas of the game have had some changes but especially make sure you check out the revamped arcade, mall and shops!
Contest Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the recent Costume Design Contest!. Their amazing designs are now available in this update.
To keep up to date with any future contests make sure to check out our discord.
Easy Grab
We’ve added a new system which helps the player grab objects. When you press the grab button the Wobbly’s arm will now automatically move towards grabbable objects that are near it. This should be especially useful for picking up objects on the ground.
Ultrawide Screen Support
You asked, we listened! Wobbly Life now supports ultrawide resolutions so you can now go as wide as you want!
UI Improvements
Job Complete / Fail prompt
We’ve added on screen prompts when you fail or complete a mission.
Vehicle Paint Shop Adjustments
The Vehicle Paint Shop has had a visual rework.
Merch
Don’t forget we’ve got merch!
We have more stuff coming to the store very soon so keep an eye out for that.
- Added lots of new missions across the island! Find Wobbly's who need help and assist them with various problems.
- Added To Do list to keep track of all your current missions. Find your To Do list in the Map Screen.
- New Vehicle Damage System, cars can now get damaged if you crash
- Improved grabbing to make it easier to pick up objects from the floor.
- NPC's will now stay in the car when you get in, and pop out of the car if all seats are full.
- Cancelling a taxi job will eject any NPCs in your taxi
- Added Vehicle Repair Shops to car garages.
- Handbrake Rework, press space (or A on controller) to drift while driving.
- Added Prompts for when you fail or complete a Job.
- New Vehicles: Three Wheeler, Undercover Police Car, Clown Car.
- Updated Tin Foil Hat and Baby Spider missions.
- Added Winners costumes from the Costume Design Contest! : Ice Wobbly, Bathroom Wobbly, Arctic Explorer, Classic Detective, Cardboard Armour
- New Clothes: Bee Keeper Outfit, Pixel Sunglasses, Sandwich hat, Old Boots, Clown Outfit, Deserted island outfit, Propeller Hat Hair variants, homemade scary masks, Pie in Face Hat, Gorilla Costume, heart Pants, Banana Backpack, mechanic clothes, Detective Hat and Trench Coat, Mouse Outfit, Granny Head Scarf.
- New Pet: Big Cat.
- Updated split screen join button to A (On Xbox controller) (X on Dual Shock Controller).
- Updated Vehicle pricing
- Broken Traffic Light and Lamp Posts now despawn after a period of time.
- Ultra wide support
- Vehicle Customize Shop UI revamp
- Improved car crash sounds at speed - Pausing/Opening Map now makes your vehicle brake - Cows are now affected by Hose Water
Graphical Upgrades
- Replaced and updated many models and textures across the game. - Added animations to arcade machine screens - Improvements to Terrain Seams - Edits to wheel skid particle - Updated graphics for controls page - Retextured some vehicles : Police Helicopter, Taxi
Bug Fixes
- Fixed spraying water on fire particle not playing correctly - Potential fix for input locking after hiding a job sheet - Fixed chunks not loading when they have been unloaded then immediately loaded - Fixed sleeping particle showing when your not sleeping - Fixed a bunch of unnecessary memory allocations - Fixed tutorial minimap icons - Fixed telephone box ui sounds on controller - Fixed weird pose when getting into vehicle when grabbing onto it - Fixed engine and horn sounds not always sending to reverb when in a tunnel - Smoothed drawbridge and ferris wheel movement on the client side - Fixed Lumber job tree stuck in ground
Design your own costume competition
Hello all Wobblies!
Check out our 'Design your own costume/clothes' competition! 🎩👕🩳
We’ve got a minor update for you this month, adding 3 new jobs as well as a bunch of fixes and some graphical improvements. We hope you enjoy it!
Put on your hard hat and visit the new construction site in the forest! You can show off your building skills in 3 new jobs. There are a bunch of new vehicles and tools to help you get the job done.
The new building jobs work in 3 stages in a similar way to the farming job. Once you finish one job the same NPC will offer to start the next stage.
Recycling Job
Become a heavy machinery expert and use the Recycling Machines to turn bits of rubble into new building materials.
Construction Job
Take on the role of a builder and lay the bricks yourself. Place bags of materials on the walls and use a hammer to build them before the time runs out!
Demolition Job
As a Wobbly builder you don’t get everything right the first time. So sometimes buildings need to be demolished. Make use of a variety of new tools and vehicles to knock those walls back down again.
Save Game Backup System
For the PC version of Wobbly Life we have added a backup system, which puts the last 20 saves into a directory in case you delete/corrupt the save file.
The backups are located here (replace USERNAME with your computer user name) - >> C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\RubberBandGames\Wobbly Life\Save
You should find a folder with a bunch of numbers and _backup, the bunch of numbers is your steam id.
Once you find the folder and want to restore your game, all you need to do is make sure the game is closed, extract the backup you want to restore from its zip file, then copy all the contents inside the backup and put them inside your save folder which will be located here -
>> C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\RubberBandGames\Wobbly Life\Save (It will be the folder with a bunch of numbers - not the one with _backup)
We hope this helps people who lose their save files. We have made a bunch of adjustments in this update to try to ensure that this doesn’t happen, but without knowing exactly what causes the save issues we have introduced this system as well.
We do plan to go into more detail soon in the Steam discussions about restoring backup saves.
Merch
Don’t forget we’ve got merch!
We have more stuff coming to the store very soon so keep an eye out for that.
- New Construction site jobs! Recycling Building Demolishing - New Clothes: Construction Gear, Bowl cut hair, Pizza Slice hat, Frog Face Hat, Giant Top Hat, Axalotl Hat, CardboardBox Top, Kimono Flowers and Bamboo Tops, Frilled Shirt 1&2, Bushy Hair, Hair Plats, Farm hat pigtails, T-Shirt Stripes, Dungarees Skirt, Ski helmet. (Spread across all 6 different clothes shops) - Added save backups located LocalLow\RubberBandGames\Wobbly Life\Save they are under your Steamid_Backups - Improved grabbing physics - Improved network syncing to avoid hiccups/lost packets and massive sling shot issue - Sloth hat now plays Sloth sounds - Treasure Chest backpack now shoots coins on a button press and has sounds - Slightly reduced the difficulty of the Ice Cream job
Graphical Changes
- Added CTAA Anti Aliasing - This helps reduce pixilation, especially on distant objects - Trees now sway in the wind - Added birds, flies and fireflies in some areas - Updated stone terrain texture - Updated some particles
Bug Fixes
- Fixed hearing environment music reverbs even when the environment music slider is all the way down - Fixed Big Helicopter blue door when it should be another colour - Fixed a bunch of split screen ui related issues - Fixed ai issue around golf course - Fixed when in super yacht spawner players can pull you around the map - Fixed an issue in super yacht when getting out of bed clips you into the floor - Fixed being able to grab onto fire trigger box - Fixed job sheet stays on screen when you go into cinematic camera after hitting accept - Fixed issue where there are 48 fish when there should be 47 due to Sea Urchin - Fixed Vehicles not destroying underwater - Fixed score board text going through fog - Fixed Super Jelly Hat ability not working - Fixed Big vehicles like Caravan get stuck on farmhouse fireworks button when spawning them in, causing it to fly up in the air - Fixed player selection animation stutter - Fixed Scooter, Toy Car and Space Hopper Leg of Wobbly vibrates on vehicle causing it to move by itself - Fixed some navigation issues - Fixed ai vehicles not detecting other vehicles in front - Fixed issue where save file would go in read only, loading the game will fix this - Fixed cutscenes being interactable on pause menu - Fixed Old Car Passengers hands sticking out the vehicle
Known Bugs
- Vehicles can sometimes float in mid air when nobody is in them - Recycling cement mixer rotation speed not always consistent depending on FPS (If you are having issues we suggest putting vSync on)
Update v0.7.6
Hello all Wobblies!
Before we talk about the update, we just want to say a massive thank you for all the support. Wobbly Life has almost been out in Early Access for 2 years. We seriously couldn't do this without you guys.
Welcome to the v0.7.6 Update!
This is a pretty ‘Wobbly’ update. We’ve added a new mission involving the Jelly Man, boy does he like jelly! We’ve also updated fishing with a new collection of fish and a Fishing Book to keep track of how many fish you’ve caught. Thank you all for playing, we hope you enjoy the update!
A Wobbly Mission
Jelly Man has been seen around Wobbly Island collecting a lot of jelly. He’s also been very secretive about what's down in his basement. See if you can find out what he’s up to!
Fishing Book
Each fishing hut now has a Fishing Book. This book lets you keep track of all the fish you’ve caught, their rarity and how much their worth. See if you can catch them all!
Ice Fishing
Now you can fish up on the mountain! Wrap up warm and head up to the icy lake to catch new fish for the Ice Fishing collection.
New Paper Round Job
The Wobbly’s of Paradise Island need their papers! Head down there and make sure they get them. The paper job graphics have also had a refresh!
Merch
Don’t forget we’ve got merch!
We have more stuff coming to the store very soon so keep an eye out for that.
- New Mission involving the Jelly Man and his house! - New Newspaper Job on Paradise Island - Added Fishing book to keep track of your fishing stats and a unlock for catching every fish - New location for Ice Fishing - Updated hamster ball so it floats once again - Added New Clothes: Sheep Cardigan, Cow Costume, Dressing Gown, Umbrella Hat, Bunny Ears - Farm barn doors now have sound - Removed Higher quality terrain option (it serves little purpose now) - Added surfboards to Paradise Island beach - Updated drowning animation - Reworked some areas of the saving system to prevent save corruption - Added light indicator on metal detector - New sounds and particles for football and hockey mini games
Graphical Changes
- Updated fire hydrants - Updated targets for paper round jobs - Tweaked TAA anti-aliasing settings - Tweaked night lighting & shadows - Updated rain particle so the splashes align with the object it hits
Bug Fixes
- Fixed flickering in crystal cave - Fixed hovercraft not able to go through arm barrier - Fixed pond cave water stops working - Fixed client not able to see treasure location radius on mini map - Fixed cows not moving - Fixed being able to jump on trampoline which loses all your momentum - Fixed being able to go backwards through the pond cave - Fixed cows not having a crash sound when hit by a vehicle - Fixed network flood when drowning - Fixed main menu pet not doing Flourish - Fixed hoverboard not hovering on snow and farm land - Fixed super speed when pushing boats - Fixed a bunch of issues with money spawning inside vehicle - Fixed burger machine previous burger shrinking issue - Fixed being able to start a race early by getting in out vehicle - Fixed barbershop door bell sound not always playing - Fixed rain sound delay when moving from snow to rain - Fixed split screen shop UI issues - Fixed some instances where ambient sounds don't play - Fixed FOV settings resetting - Fixed rain going under water - Fixed glitched book in museum - Fixed tutorial respawn issues - Fixed pool noodle and floaty bed sync issue
Known Issues
- Vehicles can sometimes float in mid air when nobody is in them
Major Update v0.7.5
Hello all Wobblies!
Welcome to v0.7.5 Update!
This is our most adventurous update yet. We’ve added new jobs, pets, caves and a brand new mystery in the jungle. We’ve also done a lot of work under the hood on how the game works, this will allow us to do even more exciting things in the future!
Jungle Mystery
There is a new mission to complete in the jungle. Get to the bottom of what's behind the mysterious door and help the archaeologists discover more about the ancient Wobblies.
New Boats
The water in the game has had a major upgrade with the new buoyancy physics! We’ve also added lots of new boats to take out and enjoy them with. Travel peacefully on a yacht, or splash around on a speedboat, the whole ocean is out there for you to mess around in!
Water Redesign
The waters in Wobbly Island have had a complete redesign with new environments and new shaders. These updates bring new life to the big blue!
Caves
There are now new caves all over the island with puzzles and secrets for you to explore!
Fishing Job
Fishing has come to Wobbly Island! Get out on the water and see what you can catch. Different areas of water contain different fish so make sure you fish around!
Disco Job
Put on your dancing shoes and head out on the town, the Wobbly Disco is open for business. See if you can impress the new DJ!
New Museum Collections
Explore the deepest depths to collect rare gems and crystals in the cave collection, and fish artifacts from the sea for the ocean collection.
New Map Features
We’ve added some new features to the in game map. You can now hover over any icon on the map and a pop up will appear with more information about it. Also, more than one split screen player now can use the map at once!
Pet Design Contest Winners
Merch
Don’t forget we’ve got merch!
We have more stuff coming to the store very soon so keep an eye out for that.
- Updated water physics - Added Ancient Trials Mission - Added new caves around the island - Added Ancient Hoverboard - Added New Jobs: Disco and Fishing - Added Cave and Ocean collections to Museum - Added new Vehicles: Speedboat, Yacht, Tugboat, Large/Small Fishing Boats - Added new Pets: Winners of the Pet Design Competition: Gemmy, Gnome, Hedgehog, Outlet Monster - New Clothes: Candle Hat, Disco clothes, Afro Hair, Spaghetti Hat, Ancient Trial Armor, Toaster hat, Fishing Clothes, Sweatpants, Gemstone Hat, Ocean Collection outfit - Added Baby Sea Turtles particle to Paradise Island beach - Added coral reefs around the Jungle Island - Added UFEgg - Map now supports multiple split screen players using it at once - Map icon hovering - You can now hover over map icons to get more information. - Updated Hovercraft movement - Revamped boat handling - Updated Burger-Omatic in Burger Job to make it easier - Limited the spawning of the ring artifact (Via the prop spawner) - Limited science job barrels - Added more NPCs to the world - RubberBandGames are hard at work in the office. - Added water sounds when you are near water - Updated archaeologist reward to include female archaeologist variant - The sound options 'SFX' slider now affects the volume of cutscenes too - Updated and remixed main menu music - Optimized the rendering of the player camera - Quality setting for SMAA - Improved physics to prevent object clipping - Support for DualSense controller (PS5) - Support for Steam Deck - Added some minigames in the Jungle
Graphical Changes
- Wobblys now blink! - Updated Particle effects: Present, Boat Trails - Improvements to UI for shops and wardrobe - Vanish particle on player when respawning - Added Vanish particle to NPCs in delivery jobs - Removed snow from fairground stalls - Updated ATM and phone box Models - Fixed Typo in Chef Job Sheet - Updated Minimap to have Map button - Added more dreams and improved dream sequence background quality - Updated Hedges - Updated Race Countdown - Updated some buildings in the Village and City - Added some garages to the Village
Bug Fixes
- Fixed being able to glitch into the mine when quitting the mine job - Fixed golf cave unloading - Fixed spelling typo in tutorial - Fixed a bunch of glitches due to the space hopper - Fixed Hovercraft passenger in driver pose - Fixed white fence gates not opening/closing - Fixed fire extinguisher particle not playing sometimes - Fixed Helicopter sounds slowly fading out after they explode - Fixed plane maintaining previous speed from last driver - Fixed wobbly sometimes not in correct vehicle position - Fixed instant death in caves when going underwater - Fixed tomato cannon not launching tomatoes properly - Fixed unlock notification stopping other UI being interactable - Fixed jet pack particle still playing when disabled - Fixed bed in maze mansion player not sleeping in correct position - Fixed Wobbly NPCs sometimes not wearing clothes - Fixed motor chopper stuttering - Fixed split screen music issues - Fixed chopper bike jittering - Fixed split screen vehicle customize issues - Fixed temple orb sometimes not there - Fixed present counter getting stuck on screen - Fixed trailer wheels not moving when connected - Fixed trailer input hints not showing - Fixed vehicles horns staying on - Fixed various spelling issues
Known Issues
- Some players lose their save file, we believe this happens mainly on Laptops. At the current moment we are unsure why this happens so we highly suggest that you backup your save files. - Vehicles can sometimes float in mid air when nobody is in them - Walking at an edge of a boat will cause it to go fast in that direction
Where are we? Update?
Hello all Wobblies!
Just a quick message to show we are still around.
I would like to apologize for the lack of updates, we've put all our efforts into the next update and we are quite proud of it, we've still got a bit more to go, we hope to release it in the coming months, hopefully sooner.
The reason why it has taken us longer then previous updates is because we've had to redesign some areas of Wobbly Life which will allow us to continue with further development. We've have put a lot of love into the next update and have experimented with new things we are excited for you to see.
We have also extended our Full Release Date once again to before Summer 2023, this is good news because it means more content for you guys! We also have plans for post release content... but more on that another time.
I would also like to thank everyone for playing Wobbly Life, we simply couldn't do it without you.
Stay Wobbly, RubberBandGames
We now have plushies!
Hello everyone,
Just a quick announcement, we finally have plushies! You can purchase them on our online store. store.rubberbandgames.com
Updates are coming!
All the best, RubberBandGames team
Update v0.7.1
Hello all Wobblies!
Welcome to v0.7.1 Update!
This is our last update for the year 2021, we’ve got many more updates planned for next year.
We at RubberBandGames want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has supported us in developing this game, we hope you all have a happy holiday and you will be hearing more from us in the new year!
Wobbly Island has gone all festive! So make sure to wrap up warm when you go out in the snow. The holiday decorations are all up, so why not drive through a snowman or two, or go help the Elves collect candy canes! There are lots of fun festive rewards to be unlocked!
Merch
Don’t forget we’ve got merch!
We have more stuff coming to the store very soon so keep an eye out for that.
We are still looking into why some people are losing their save files, from people we have asked it seems to only happen to laptop users for reasons unknown to us. We will be looking into this more in the new year but for the time being we highly suggest all laptop users to backup your save files.
- New clothes: Robber Outfit, Candy Cane Christmas Jumper, Christmas Tree Jumper, Rudolf Costume, Bauble Shirt, Christmas Pudding costume, Christmas tree costume, Cracker Costume, Roast Dinner Hat
- Added collectable Candy Canes to be delivered to Elves around the map for a reward (Every 10).
- Re-added snowmen
- Clothing customs (Jet pack, Propeller hat etc) now is disabled when going in flower cave
- Can now buy different coloured golf balls.
- Added some more NPC's
- Graphical Changes: New Grass Texture
Bug Fixes
- Fixed jittery Artifact flower - Fixed Golf cave de-spawning - Fixed Open door to tennis court mansion - Fixed furniture store sign colliders - Fixed a bunch of telephone player positions - Fixed train interaction issues for client - Fixed death barriers under the map not working - Fixed certain hospital job under the sand - Fixed oven models missing bottom
Design your own pet competition
Check out our 'Design your own pet' competition! 🐇😸🐶
What fun pet ideas can you come up with? 💡
Post them on our Discord channel. Link: https://discord.gg/s8X8f2xGuB
