Hello, Hydroponic Farmers 🌱
We’re back with another quality of life update for Hydroponics Farm and Store Simulator! As always, your feedback continues to guide our improvements. This time, we’ve focused on delivering features that give you more control, clarity, and smoother gameplay along with a few bug fixes to keep things running as expected.
Let’s take a look at what’s new in this patch:
New Features
1. Keybind System (Keyboard + Controller)
You can now customize your controls for both keyboard and controller! Whether you prefer WASD, arrow keys, or a custom layout, you can set the controls that work best for you. Gamepad users can also freely remap button actions.
2. Auto Claim System
Claiming objectives no longer needs to be done manually unless you want to. With the new Auto Claim option, your objective will be claimed automatically to ensure a smoother gameplay process and don't need to back and forth checking tablet menu. Don’t worry, you can toggle this feature on or off anytime from the Settings menu.
3. Player Movement Speed Settings
A new option in Settings lets you adjust how fast your character moves. Whether you prefer a relaxed pace or speedier steps, the choice is yours.
4. Employee Activity Info
Wondering what your employees are doing? Now you’ll see a small activity label under each employee’s name, showing exactly what task they’re currently handling. This makes it much easier to monitor and optimize task assignments.
5. Improved Employee Behavior
Employees now act smarter when it comes to harvesting:
- Prioritize growbeds with the highest number of ready to harvest commodities
- Continue harvesting other growbeds with the same commodity if the harvest box isn’t full yet
These behavior updates are designed to make your employees more effective and efficient. By focusing on high yield growbeds and reducing unnecessary switching between crops, employees can now complete harvesting tasks faster and with less backtracking. This helps maintain smoother workflows, especially when managing many growbeds.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that prevented harvesting plant from certain growbeds
- Removed repeated “Customer path blocked” notifications to reduce UI clutter
We’re continually improving the game during Early Access, and your input means everything to us. If you have ideas, encounter bugs, or simply want to share feedback, we’d love to hear from you.
And if you're enjoying your time in the world of hydroponic farming, leaving a review on Steam is very helping us! 🌿
Thanks again for all your support. See you at the next updates of the game! 🐟💧
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3152540/Hydroponics_Farm__Store_Simulator