To celebrate Steam Capitalism and Economy Fest 2024, we're launching Update 14.0 - License to Sell with some all-new content that'll challenge both your shopkeeping and combat skills at the same time.
As always, thank you for leaving feedback on the Steam forums and https://discord.gg/Saleblazers. We hope you'll all have a great start to a new year!
New Desert Shop Plot
In this patch, we've added a Decommissioned Shop Plot in the Desert to the northeast of the Canyon. All throughout the day, waves of cultists relentlessly attack any unfortunate soul who happens to be in the area.
In addition, if you drop to 0 stars you'll lose everything within the plot bounds. It's all or nothing in the desert!
Desert Shop Plot Questline
The government needs your help in revitalizing the desert and protecting the desert shop plot's customers from roving bands of cultists.
Take on the challenge and build a 5-star shop from nothing while surviving against waves of cultists in a harsh desert environment.
When you're ready, speak to Inspector Gunther at the new desert shop plot!
New Carbon Iron Building Pieces for Taller Buildings
You can now build taller structures with all-new Stone and Carbon Iron building pieces.
The sawmill has also become more of a roleplayer for construction as you will now use it to cut planks, stone bricks, and carbon iron bars into smaller cut versions for your building pieces. These cut versions of processed materials are an important change to balance the resource costs of the new beams. We also hope it makes using the existing castle and coastal building sets less of a resource grind.
It might be helpful to acquire a Glider before experimenting with taller structures!
Expanded Employee Table Unlocks
We've added a few more lines to the Employee Table's unlock tab. You'll be able to increase your employee capacity count, train several employees at the same time, and unlock more training courses.
One of the biggest pieces of feedback we've heard about larger shops is that 8 employees sometimes isn't enough. We hope that with these new unlocks, which will allow you to have up to 16 employees at once, you can run massive shops more efficiently and reach your automation goals.
If you already have employees, you'll need to unlock these new nodes to hire more, but you'll keep your existing employees.
NPC Summons
We've added walkie talkies throughout the game that, upon use, will summon NPCs to your location. Sometimes they're friendly... and sometimes they aren't.
If you've already completed Mayor Yori's questline, talk to him for the first one of these.
Carbon Iron Crates
We've also seen feedback about wanting better late-game item storage options. Our first step for improving this is the introduction of short and tall carbon iron crates to the research tree. These crates can hold 22 and 28 items and boast high HP to keep them safe.
📜 v0.14.0 Patch Notes
➡️ Changes
- Lobby settings are now saved to the save file, saving you a few clicks!
- Added a new desert shop plot that will disappear if you drop to 0 stars
- Added new quest to the desert where you'll have to run the desert shop plot to 5 stars
- Added several summon items to the game
- Added summon item to Androids
- Added summon item to government NPCs
- Added summon item reward to Mayor Yori's questline
- Added more employee research unlocks to the Employee Table
- Employee Table now supports multiple active training courses
- Updated Employee UI to fit its new features
- Added Carbon Iron Beam building pieces that have higher integrity values
- Added government NPCs and ghouls to the abandoned town to the north of the desert
- Added Carbon Iron crates to Research Tree
- Added cut versions of various resources to improve crafting flow
- Added Trail Mix and Apple Juice recipes to the Stove
- Rebalanced items that can be gathered at each shop plot
- Added new dialogue to the plot sellers that explains what resources will be necessary to reopen the plot if the government shuts it down
- Guns will now have recoil animations even when aiming down sights
- Gated several dialogue choices behind completing the tutorial for more consistent lore
- Added new 5 star shop plot achievements
- Added leather as a gathering employee resource to the Dojo Shop Plot
- Added mushrooms as a gathering employee resource to the Hillside Shop Plot
- Updated grass materials to react better to light
🎷 Audio Changes
- Added new music for North Star component cutscenes
- Added new music for Karrax boss fight
- Tweaked Researcher voice line so it isn't covered by explosion sound
- Added Nav Computer Researcher cutscene music
- Adjusted (spoiler) explosion mission music crossfade
- Adjusted Kazai Village Post Office quest music to not cut off if clicking through dialogue quickly
- Tweaking placement of silence in researcher north star component dialogue
- Rebalanced volume of North Star cutscene music
- Adjusted End Credits music
- Tweaked more waterfall audio in the desert, canyon, and Kazai Castle areas
- Tweaked Shepherd shield break sound and 3D settings
- Added new audio and music to Early Access ending cutscene
🛠️ General Fixes
- Opened up paths to several inaccessible runes throughout the map
- Adjusted some collisions throughout the map
- Adjusted Wellspring Totem name and position
- Fixed looping dialogue option on Rohbar Doun's exit dialogue if you've already completed Captain Latch's quest
- Various fixes from v0.13.1.15-v0.13.1.22, which you can read up on in our discord channel since we didn't want to spam Steam announcements for daily patches