Patch Notes - 0.23.1120
Hi All, I've been busy this week working on a new way to sell wholesale items, added the much requested automatic chicken feeder and a few other quality life improvements for ACRES. I've been trying to create a good balance between adding new features and improving the current systems with these updates. Thank you all for playing, and Happy Farming!
Wholesale Item Selling Overhaul
Efficient Selling: Items can now be sold more efficiently from the detailed storage menu, accessible in the top menu bar or by pressing the CAPS hotkey. Wholesale items fetch a reduced rate compared to Vender Orders in non endless modes.
Intuitive Selection: Easily select one, multiple, or all items by clicking on the desired crop or inventory item. Convenient buttons for selecting none and selecting all are located in the top right-hand corner.
Total Price Calculation: The wholesale panel calculates the total combined price for selected items. Adjust the quantity of each item to sell using the slider or buttons at the bottom. The slider allows adjusting the selling quantity from 1-100%.
For example, if Cabbages, Carrots and Beets are selected and the farm has
- 10 Cabbages,
- 23 Carrots,
- 50 Beets
with a Sell amount of 50% the button will sell the following as a combined order.
- 5 Cabbages,
- 11 Carrots,
- 25 Beets
Expanded Selection: Non-crop items like eggs, honey, and vegetable oil can now also be sold, with stable seasonal prices. Add these items to wholesale orders.
Reputation Points Bonus: Earn Reputation Points for every $10,000 on each wholesale sale, providing an additional incentive for successful transactions.
Automatic Chicken Feeder and Chicken Run Improvements
An automatic feeder can now be added to each chicken run. Use the Secondary Action key (Right click or gamepad X) to upgrade each run. The upgrade cost is $512.
The automatic feeder can be selected to use Cabbage, Carrots, Lettuce, Tomatoes or None from the farm’s storage. The feeder will automatically pull the selected crop from storage if no food is planted inside the run. Selecting ‘None’ will turn off the feeder.
The chicken run will process as normal and produce an egg if food is present, checking the current acre for an available cover crop or commercial crop for food first. If food is not present in the run, chickens will then draw from the automatic feeder, ensuring constant egg production. Be sure to keep the selected crop stocked in the farm's storage.
- Progress Indicator: A progress bar is now displayed in the Chicken Run's world widget, indicating the time until the next acre in the run is ready for grazing.
- Nighttime Animations: Chickens now rest at night, with animations reflecting their sleep state.
- Early Wake-up: Animals now wake up at 7 am, two hours earlier than before.
Bio Diesel Refinery & Oil Press Updates:
- Auto Shutoff: The Biodiesel Refinery now automatically halts production if fuel storage is full. It no longer produces or consumes input items if storage is at max
- Replaced Refinery world widget text from "rate" to "gallons / hour".
- The Oil Press can now be turned off by selecting ‘None’ as an input with Secondary Action Key (right click or Gamepad X)
- The Oil Press widget style has been updated to match the chicken run’s
Endless Mode Enhancements
- Reputation points can now be earned in endless mode by selling orders totaling $10k or more
- The current amount of Rep Points is now displayed in the license menu, this is helpful while in endless mode when the Reputation Level bar is removed.
- Buttons for opening the available orders tab have been removed in endless mode.
- Licenses for increasing max orders have also been removed in endless mode.
- Removed the text ‘Orders are Optional’ when the endless mode preset is selected in the new game mode selection window.
Additional Improvements
- Increased the size of the tool selection buttons in the primary toolbar
- Added additional descriptions for each license
- Added tractor world icon to indicate right click ( or X on the gamepad) is used to cancel tractors
- The world widgets are now opened and usable for placeables larger than one acre if the mouse or selection tool is over the non primary cell
- Added a back option to the game mode selection window during the start new game process
Bug Fixes
- Fixed placeable item cost world widgets rotation direction on newly selected tools.
- Additional tractor collision checks have been added for more consistent results.
Thank you all again for playing ACRES and being such a great community,
Jimi