Dear Pixelians! 👋
This patch brings a fresh wave of quality-of-life improvements, new content, and community-requested features to make your experience smoother, more fun, and even more immersive.
Let’s dive into what’s new! 🚀
Highlights of Update [v1.0.18]
Storage Inventory
This update introduces a brand-new feature: Storage Inventory 📦
You’ll be able to access it straight from the Furnishing Window while at home, and it’s shared between all of your properties. If you miss your rent and get evicted, or decide to sell your property without including furniture, all your items will be safely transferred to your Storage Inventory.
I’ve also added a new option that lets you manually send any of your furniture to your Storage Inventory whenever you’d like.
Say goodbye to losing your hard-earned furniture during tough times in Pixelia! 🏡
🎯 Pin the Pixelian! – NPC Waypointing Arrives!
Ever found yourself circling Pixelia over and over, just trying to track down that one elusive Pixelian for a quest? Or maybe you've resorted to waiting outside their home like a detective on a stakeout? Finding the right person at the right time hasn’t always been easy in earlier versions.
With our new NPC Waypoint System, that hassle is finally a thing of the past! 🗺️
You can now place a waypoint on any NPC, allowing you to instantly locate them on the map and track them in real-time. Whether you're on a mission, handing in a task, or just looking to say hi, finding the right Pixelian is now as easy as pie.
No more hide-and-seek! ✨
Purchasing Rented Properties Made Easier!
Previously, you had to wait until your rental period expired, and often faced eviction, before you could buy a rented home. And even worse, when you got evicted, your ruthless landlord would sell off your furniture to cover costs. This meant that buying your rented home involved a lot of hassle and difficulties.
Now, with this new feature, you can purchase your rented property at any time, without waiting for the lease to end or dealing with eviction hassles!
You can purchase your rented property through the Housing menu or by visiting the Real Estate Office.
Ghoulies Safecracking Quest
This quest now features a handy option to highlight the specific home you need to lockpick and break into to access the safe, making your mission clearer and easier to complete.
💬 Skipping Dialogues
This isn’t a new feature, but we didn’t communicate it clearly before, which was our oversight. You’ve always been able to skip dialogue, but since we didn’t mention it, many in our community were unaware.
To fix this, we’ve now added a visual hint to let you know you can skip and don’t have to wait for any Pixelian during conversations.
💾 More Reliable Save System!
We understand how frustrating it can be to lose your progress due to corrupted save files when a crash occurs during manual or auto-saving. Previously, interruptions during the save process could damage your save data, causing you to lose your game progress.
To prevent this, we’ve implemented an additional safety measure.
Now, when you save your game, the original save file remains untouched. The game first creates a temporary copy of your save file, writes the new data onto that copy, and only replaces the original file once the process completes successfully. This way, if a crash or interruption happens during saving, your original save will stay intact, protected and untouched.
Other Minor Tweaks
- Hacking Bank Accounts and Stealing Data on computers now takes much less time.
- If your hacking attempt fails, the Crime UI will appear to display the amount of Crime Points you've gained.
- Controller support has been added for the Butcher Job.
✅ Bug Fixes
- To view concert offers from your Music Band manager, you needed 5 Composed Music. However, if you had a Music Album containing 10 Composed Music, the game didn’t correctly recognize that this requirement was met. This issue is fixed now.
- Successful government hacking actions on the computer now count correctly toward the "Mastermind Criminal" dream goal.
- Resolved a bug where the "Write Book" mini-game window remained open if your character experienced a bladder accident during the book writing process.
- Fixed the Trait Task "Eat 3 Seafood" so that eating Cooked Salmon now counts properly.
- Relationship values will no longer drop below -100 when attacking someone.
- Corrected the price range for the product "Solar Bloom" in the Cosmetics Store.
- Corrected the incorrect furniture category title for beds in the Furnishing Menu.
And there’s more news! If everything goes smoothly, the upcoming update will wrap up the long-awaited revamp of the notorious Guitar Minigame. Following that, we’ll start rolling out options to turn mini-games on or off.
Feel free to join our Discord group to share your suggestions and feedback. We always listen closely and take every comment into consideration.
If you do not use Discord, you can check out our Steam Forums for anything that you'd like to share.
See you in the next update soon! 💖