Hello, Hydroponics Enthusiast! 👋
We’ve been listening closely to your feedback, and we're happy to share a series of updates that improve gameplay, fix bugs, and introduce helpful new features. These changes aim to make your farming and store management experience even better. Here’s what’s been added and improved:
🌾AI Employee Farmer Improvements
- Employee work duration now adjusts based on individual stats.
- Added save and load functionality for employees.
- Improved task management to address idle behavior.
- New feature: You can now fire employees.
- Employee contracts now auto-decrease daily and expire automatically, firing the employee when the contract ends.
- Fixed a bug where hiring an employee didn’t reduce your funds.
- Added a popup notification when an employee’s contract ends.
- Resolved an issue where players could still deploy and harvest plants while employees were processing the growbed.
- Added an auto-harvest feature for players.
🛠️ New Features & Fixes
- Sandbox System for Shelves: Added new sandbox functionality for managing shelf layouts.
- Shop UI Update: Improved the store interface for purchasing items.
- Fish Health: Fish can no longer get sick.
- Controller Support: Movement can now be controlled with both Arrow keys and WASD.
- Tablet Shortcut: Press ESC to close the tablet quickly.
- Customer Variety: Added new NPC customer types for a more diverse experience.
- Daily Report Update: Improved the daily report view to include shelf expenses.
- Tablet Sorting: Tablet content now auto-sorts according to chapter order.
- Box Labels: Added special commodity labels when carrying boxes.
- Starting Setup Expanded: Players now start with 4 plant shelves and 2 aquariums.
- Shelf Capacity: Increased shelf capacity to 12 items.
- Duplicate Pickup Fix: Resolved a bug where the same shelf or growbed could be picked up twice.
- Delete Shelves: You can now remove unwanted shelves.
- Infected Plant Removal: Fix issues that made it difficult to manage infected plants.
- Shorter Hold Time: Reduced the hold duration for sick plants to 1.5 seconds.
- Payment Interface Update: “Change to Give” and “Received” views are now hidden when using credit cards.
- Hover Text Update: Messages now distinguish between special and regular commodities during harvest.
- Bulk Seed Purchases: You can now buy more than one seed at a time.
- Price Tag Bug Fix: Resolved an issue where the price tag view showed incorrect prices after switching tags.
- Auto-Harvest Added: Introduced an auto-harvest feature for easier management.
- Growbed Assembly Update: Improved the growbed assembly process for smoother gameplay.
We hope these updates enhance your farming experience and make gameplay more enjoyable. Thank you for all the helpful feedback—your involvement plays a crucial role in making the game better. Feel free to explore the updates and let us know what you think. feel free to leave a comment or post on our discussion forum. 🌱
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Cheers!
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