Hello Mayors!
Happy Halloween! Don’t forget to fully deck out your town with pumpkins, creepy fences, and put on your fangs, because it’s almost Halloween!
But we’ve got even more to share with you today, so let’s dive in!
Online Co-op comes to Preview
We had an absolutely wonderful closed Alpha test (and squashed some good bugs) and are happy to share that you can try out online co-op on the Preview branch now! If you haven't accessed this branch before, it's quite easy. You can find how to opt-in here ⤵️
We are aiming to bring co-op to main branch late November, but in the meantime if you do want to help us kick the proverbial Tricornicycle tires, we would greatly appreciate it. If you have friends around the world, even better, but any and all feedback is very, very welcome at this phase.
And here’s what you’ll be able to look forward to:
four player online co-op
play with both local and online players simultaneously
chat and emotes, and the ability to ping your location so people can find you
set different interactivity levels for visitors to your town—turn on all permissions for trusted people, turn them off for folks just passing through
all players get their own phones (in both local and online co-op!)
fast travel to far zones BUT you'll have to figure out how to unlock it first!
named save profiles! (i.e. easily swap between different towns you’ve created)
new (weird) tools
Our favorite new things include being able to eat from certain shops!
Food will then become garbage, which you can throw away like a good citizen OR throw it at other players
(you can also throw anything from your backpack!)
Rotating shops coming soon! 🔁 🏪 🔁
After terraforming, pretty much our top request has been: when can I rotate shops? And we heard you! We’ve been working very hard to make this possible (lots of NPC pathing issues 😅) BUT we’ve figured it out! It should be coming to Preview in the next few weeks, and main after that. And look how good it looks!
We truly cannot wait to see how this transforms your towns, so please share pictures with us!
cheers,
Emily & the Prideful Sloth team