Hi Everyone,
Another update is now live!
This one focuses on making the overall experience feel smoother and clearer, with new animations across progression and UI screens, improvements to liquid and ingredient interactions, more customization, and a large number of fixes.
Progression & UI
We’ve added more feedback and polish to several progression screens:
Added animations to the Day Summary screen
Added animations when claiming tiers in Character Progression
Added animations to the Skills screen
Added animations to dish evaluation details
Added sounds to UI animations
Improved Character Progression refreshing
Fixed incorrect ingredient weight display
Fixed badges not disappearing for locked customers
Fixed excessive mixture details appearing in order ratings
Fixed mouse cursor resetting to the center of the screen when switching tabs
Improved ingredient screen scaling for 16:10 displays
Gameplay & Interactions
Added Mass Transfer from containers or player hands directly to the Assembly Ingredients Board
Stackable ingredients transferred from deep containers to cutting boards or oven trays will now recreate their stacks
Improved physics when inserting objects into containers
Fixed objects behaving chaotically when dropped on the floor
Fixed several ingredient colliders
Fixed stack placement on kitchen stoves
Fixed throwing pots with colanders
Fixed ingredients spawning above spawners when holding a full container
Fixed object placement on sloped shelves
Fixed collision prediction for the small paper bag spawner
Fixed transferring ingredients when the source container contains movable ingredients
Fixed liquid level visualization refreshing incorrectly when removing ingredients
Fixed several container transfer and mass transfer issues
Liquids & Cooking
We’ve made several improvements to liquid visuals and cooking feedback:
Reworked liquid stain color generation
Fixed inconsistent liquid surface visualization when pouring into containers that already contain liquid
Fixed inconsistent liquid colors between bottle spawners and their carton versions
Fixed liquid surface visualization in several pouring situations
Added a correct hint when trying to pour from an empty bottle
Fixed missing tags for liquid mixtures on plates
Fixed missing charred tags after blending charred ingredients
Fixed thermal information not updating correctly in ingredient mixture hovers
Fixed an issue when blending coated ingredients
Fixed missing texture and material issues on the upgraded tap in Ecru Atelier
Blueprints & Recipes
Fixed small ingredients mixed with blobs being incorrectly treated as separable mixtures in Blueprints
Fixed the plate hologram for custom Blueprints
Improved Blueprints from other players in the Day Menu
Blueprints remain available in the Day Menu after their owner disconnects, but can only be removed from the menu
Fixed the Grilled Seitan recipe
Fixed several Blueprint and recipe-related issues
Tutorial & Sandbox
Improved tutorial and progression flow
Fixed issues with hints and progression
Hidden the quest panel in Sandbox mode
Fixed several tutorial-related UI and interaction issues
Kitchens & Visuals
Added LODs for spice containers and small jars
Fixed and optimized various ingredient colliders
Optimized models and visuals across the Player Kitchen
Improved ice cream stand models
Updated street cones and background bar assets
Improved drawer and bedroom cabinet handles
Updated the floor texture in BK2
Fixed shadows affecting bowls in Ecru Atelier
Fixed missing avocado spawner materials and shader
Fixed bread crumb spawner clipping
Improved Butter Lettuce smoothness
Other Fixes
Fixed loading issues when returning from the Player Kitchen to the main kitchen
Fixed Quick Join becoming unresponsive after a failed join
Fixed Error 104 when returning to the kitchen in multiplayer or using Quick Join
Fixed customer movement
Fixed a rare crash related to the Kitchen Dance skill
Fixed the default save bottle issue
Fixed player position when starting a game in BK1
Fixed character crouch hand positioning
Fixed pinned recipes appearing in Character Creator
Fixed missing customer type names in the Orders app
Fixed incorrect player hints being shown for the host's Chef Belt
Fixed several issues with container transfers and ingredient mixtures
And, as always, there are plenty of smaller fixes and polish improvements throughout the game.
Thanks again for all the feedback and reports. We’re continuing to work through your suggestions and improve the game one update at a time.
More updates coming soon.
Big Cheese Studio