Meowllo! It's been a while!! Because we couldn't make any hotfix patches while swapping out with our fancy new Builder's Kit.
There's a lot of new features of quality of life things to go through, so let's just go straight into it. More GIFs, less yapping from me. Yippe!!
Builder's Kit Overview
🔖 UI
- Ability to search for items
- Categories with pages...and the pages save! If you're on page 3 while exiting, you will come back to page 3
- Ability to favorite items to easily access them through your favorites tab
- Shows how many you own and how many you are able to craft
- Like all of Snacko's UI, the new Builder's Kit catalog also has a dark mode.
✨ New Features
- Multi-select same buildables to mass dye
- Able to preview dyes and dyes are now shown as swatches in the dye menu
- When you switch dye colors, it will refund your previous dye
- Multi-select items while holding down a key + hovering over them to move, adjust, or put away
- You can now select foliage that you've planted, like trees or flowers, to move them
- When pressing down on your middle mouse button or clicking in your controller's right stick while hovering a buildable, it'll let you place that buildable (eyedropper tool)
- You can now craft directly while placing things in build mode. It'll show you how many materials you have and how many you need
- It'll read your items from your rucksack, storage containers, and your overflow storage as well
- You can now place buildables anywhere, including out of bounds, in other maps, and inside NPC houses
- Buildables no longer have collision restrictions. You can now put objects as close together as you like, or clip them together using the new "Nudge" feature
- "Locking" an item puts you into nudge mode. While nudging, you can raise or lower objects, as well as shift them around
- You can use this to clip objects into each other or float them
- Buildables placed on top of each other will now get parented properly
- Selecting a buildable will highlight and select any buildables on it
- You can combine this with nudge to easily parent buildables to a foundation to make moving your creations around easier
- When moving multiple objects, they will try to snap to surfaces
- Locking while moving will snap them to the first selected buildable's height
- Fences now preview the connection while moving or placing
- Fences can now slant their connection for slopes or platforms
- You can undo and redo actions: place, put away, move, and dye
- The undo and redo queue is saved and only refreshed when you change the map, reload, or place a required buildable for a quest
- You can turn on screenshot mode and use this as a way to record a timelapse of your builds!
New Content & Changes
🖼️ New Quests
- Paintings have been removed as chest items in the overworld and replaced with materials
- You can now obtain paintings through quests, starting with Catching a Glimpse, available after Charity Work and MSQ Follow the Sign
- Completing these quests will also teach you the crafting recipe for them, allowing you to place them as decorations after donating one to the Cultural Center
- The new quests also contain side story content
- 6 quests added: Catching a Glimpse, Painting Jumpscare, Doppelganger, Frame of Time, Path of the Pious, and Artistic Surprise
📬 Quest Changes
- Quests that ask you to invite all villagers or shopkeepers of a certain type have been re-parented to quests that are later in the game to prevent them from showing up too early
- If you had them accepted but not completed, they'll be returned to the board or unavailable until you complete all the prerequisites
- Tutorial days now properly teaches players how to claim quest rewards
- Small Workbench has been moved to D.I.Why and taken out of tutorial days
🔭 Visual Changes
- New grass texture
- Added cloud shadows to the world
- Changed "Block" type buildables to have a subtle texture
🐛 Fixes & Balance
- Floating ominous orb in the title screen by Mikan's house now gone
- Flowers now drop 1 Plant Material with a 15% chance of dropping 2 as the new Builder Kit makes it easy to mass-craft and plant flowers, giving you too much of a net positive of stamina and materials
- Available paintings now have sell values
- Crafting tab no longer lags; only contains crafting recipes for consumables and materials. Traditional buildables can be crafted or pinned from your Builder's Kit
- Cows and chickens no longer yap so frequently and less loud
- Removed all building restrictions except for barns and NPC houses
- Fixed issues with building inside townhomes
- The grid now properly aligns with the corners of the house, allowing you to place blocks, counters, or tables to snap to the edge properly
- Guardians now have their own text style
- Optimization of buildables, especially in save files with 20,000 blocks
...Wow, did I get everything? I think so!
The text overlay when you're in nudge mode used to be "locked". But then, I made a joke image while working on the new tutorial images and...
There's a lot of features packed into this update, and it should make building a lot smoother and feel a lot better. You can really go all out making different kinds of things, like a Pumpkin-headed Nobu Jr Plush, or something more normal.
Which new feature are you the happiest about? I think for me, it's the undo and redo. I make mistakes a lot, so it's a lifesaver. I still have a slight bit of panic when I accidentally put things away, but now I remember I can just ctrl+Z my problems away.
If you read this all the way to the end (or you just scrolled here hi), thank you very much! The two of us need to go take a nap now~ ...and buy groceries.