This update has a lot of quality-of-life improvements, especially for mod creators and modded players. It also introduces bathtubs and crying babies!
Additions
- Added the ability to mourn a person's death at their gravestone
- Added the ability for babies to cry
- Added a selection circle around the currently selected Tiny in the world, which can be disabled in the options menu
- Added bathtubs, the ability to take baths with bath bombs, and a new plumbing upgrade
Improvements
- Display icons for Tinies who are out of town or on different maps
- Allow selecting lot requirements in build mode to see objects that match them
- Allow setting time display independently of the localization setting
- Cleaned up the household split menu to make it clearer
- Order interaction circle menu pages by display name
- Don't include fancy food in the emergency food delivery
- Display special particles for some death reasons around the gravestone
- Display a newborn baby's sex in the customization menu
- Display special visuals for romance and cartoon tv channels
- Include people's ages and personalities as tags when uploading a household to Steam workshop
- Stop people from going jogging while visiting someone else's home lot
- Cycle through hints every few seconds on long loading screens
- Continue following a person with the camera if they move to a different map
- Made gym trainers a bit likelier to help with training
- Improved the baby laying texture
- Made emotion effects on need restoration a bit stronger
- Preload all the game's default sounds when the game is loaded, rather than when they are first used
- Explain the meaning of each backup type in the backups menu
- Also create a backup of a save automatically if the versions of installed mods change
Fixes
- Fixed lot types being sorted by their icon's name rather than their display name
- Fixed being unable to clean objects that are broken
- Fixed people with lot employments spawning into a map immediately when a new save is created
- Fixed the EarnMoney goal not being triggered when selling items from the household storage
- Fixed the main menu background zooming incorrectly on different ui scales
- Fixed being unable to adopt a baby as parent
- Fixed the kiss action sometimes not looking right due to person rotation issues
- Fixed the game crashing when furniture placement causes an exception
- Fixed storing objects in household storage on other maps causing them to be duplicated
- Fixed broken plumbing objects not spawning puddles anymore since the multi-floor update
- Fixed an exception when updating Steam workshop items while in an import menu
- Fixed the buttons in the center of the interaction wheel menu misaligning during the opening and closing animations
Removals
- Removed the keyboard lighting setting due to large maintenance overhead
API
- Allow mods to specify a version through the mod's assembly info
- Allow mods to specify a website and donation link to display in the options menu
- Added the ability for mods to add custom static maps, exported lots and exported households through events
- Allow setting custom death animations and particle spawn functions in DeathReason
- Exposed various more methods to the API, including pathfinding, map drawing utilities, play mode tool, other build tools and more
- Added various events including Map.OnDraw, Particle.OnSpawnAmbientParticles, and more
- Moved breakable furniture settings into BreakableFurniture.Settings struct
- Added IBreakableObject and ILightObject interfaces to generify breakable and light furniture
- Allow using the migration system for exported lots and households
- Added Sand tile category and SandRequired object category