🥳 Let's have a party! 🥳
Aaaaaand another big update is here, bringing new features, Items, and, most importantly, things from Players!
Throw Party, Piano, or duck to your friend while playing co-op! 🦆
On our Roadmap, if something is highlighted, then it's from your suggestions or ideas, which were mentioned 🥰
We are really happy that the interactive Roadmap on Canny has been positively received from you guys!
Full changelog here and also in-game:
New:
• New job: "Save our summer!" (in Coralroot Forest). Unlocked by completing either of two jobs "Setting up a movie set" or "Making room for our new baby"
• New house: "Pool party aftermath"
• 4 new patio furniture assemblies.
• Proper pool placement system! No more cursed workarounds! Now you can:
• Resize pools.
• Connect multiple pools – even if their bottoms are different depths.
• Tile every surface separately.
• Build inside and around them - DIY your own stairs or make custom tile patterns. (Pixel art pool tiles, anyone?)
• Add lights, ladders, drains... go wild!
• A lot of new items! (Full list below)
• Item collections while buying – it’s easier to buy similar items like mugs, books, cabinets, and plant pots. We will be adding more collections in the future!
• Throw and drop items with the new Throw Mode added to Hands (available in both Sandbox Mode and Story Mode!).
• Occasional decorations (like Halloween, Winter) have been moved to their own separate category in the Store
• Added a sub-category for plants that can be placed inside vases
137 new items!
• A fully customizable, resizable pool!
• A water gun - pick it up and shoot your shot
• A car - just one...for now ;)
• 4 new patterns - usable on furniture and as wallpapers
• A new kind of tiny fence
• 6 new basic doors
• A firefighter helmet
• Beach towel
• Pool slides
• Pool drains & fountains
• Pool filter & ladder
• Water sprinkler
• 6 fire pits and a patio heater
• A modular bar table and stool, made to circle around the tall fire pits
• Hydrangea
• Juniper
• Banana trees
• Prickly pear cactus
• Bird of paradise plant
• Fruit bowls - with and without the fruit ;)
• A camping bed - for sleeping on-site!
• A camera and tripod it slots into
• 11 items for fishing and diving hobbies
• Trekking poles
• 6 new small toys like a cute octopus and pufferfish
• More inflatable toys
• And 37 decorations! Including:
• Flower heads and bouquets for sunflowers, roses, crocuses, lenten roses, hyacinths, daffodils, and tulips
• Crow figurines
• Foxy figurines
• A golden pineapple
• Seashells and starfish
• 3 vases
• 5 candleholders
• A tea light candle
• A new clock
Changes:
• Huge performance improvements!!!
• [UI] Refreshed the "Change style" panel for furniture and wall/floor/ceiling materials.
• Parts within items like door handles and sinks now have pictures showing the styles.
• Color and material tooltip names are now visible in the main view.
• Choosing colors for patterns has been reworked.
• Cushions can now be flipped (press V)
• Changed the main menu art to Summer ;)
• You can put pens and pencils into office organizers.
• Items snap into sockets much more easily than before (e.g., shaving razor & shaving stand)
• Items that are resized while buying will now keep their size.
• Re-enabled ignoring collisions when resizing in Story Mode.
• Auto-grass cutting with rotated objects should now be a bit more accurate.
• Before-after sequences can be instantly rewatched. Because why not admire your work twice?
• You can use "Open in Store" for items and surface finishes with most Architect Tool and Flipper Tool modes.
• It’s now easier to unlock the “Hello” achievement if you missed it earlier. Any job related to Tom Marino will do.
• Unified which buttons are used for "Context Tool Action" and "Change Mode / Open Options" for all tools across Architect and Flipper mode.
• Changed the button for dropping items in Architect Mode with the Transform Tool. Don't be surprised.
• In Sandbox Mode, “Reset Progress” was renamed to “Start Over” and immediately loads the level.
• A Bessie pop-up appears if we detect any external issues with saving like insufficient disk space.
Co-op changes:
• Phone calls are now fully synced.
• Recap screens now appear for everyone.
• Third-person animations got smoother in multiplayer.
• Improved VFX when using detergent.
• More sounds are now synchronized.
• Other players now get appropriately paid in co-op.
Fixes:
• Flipping molding upside-down no longer flips the stairs.
• Jobs unlocked by new updates no longer make archived jobs disappear.
• Grass growth and cutting should now behave more predictably.
• Sandbox Mode: Unpacking box operations (like cloning) are more stable now.
Co-op fixes:
• Joining after the host sold something no longer breaks the session.
• Host won’t get stuck on the loading screen if someone joins mid-load.
• Internet hiccups during startup no longer cause an incomplete list of available regions.
• Selling a roof mid-customization no longer blocks players. Roof drama resolved.
• Budget now syncs properly when a new player joins mid-session.
• Surface finishing tools sync their state correctly upon new player entry.
• Surface materials held by players now sync as they should.
• Paint area markers now properly disappear if another player demolishes the painted wall. No more painting into the void.
Important: The upside-down pools have stopped working. Please use the newly introduced pools 🙏
Update should be available now to download, if you don't have it, reset Steam or wait around 2 Hours
🎥 Stream Q&A with Jerma! + Summer Splash Contest 💦
Friendly reminder, there will be a Q&A Stream with Jerma in 3 days!
You can join the event on our Discord server or follow us on Twitch so you don't miss the opportunity to ask us anything!
For the FIRST TIME EVER… We're taking things to the next level! 💥
But most important, enjoy the update! ^^
~Kiki❤