Hello chefs!

This week's update is all about the CUSTOMERS! We've added 14 new customer portraits: 3 brand new customers and 11 existing customers got a makeover, so every customer now has a unique portrait.

4 of these customers were voted for in the latest Discord poll. Which one are you most excited to see?

A couple of these customers have the new Bully trait which means they snatch a dollar from you every time you take an ingredient with a specific tag.

Additionally, the customers will line up and hold their plates during Principal Clucker's omelet inspection.

But this update isn't just about the customers in the game, it's also about the customers of the game! We've added 2 of the most highly requested features: mid-run saves and an info tab in the catalogue.

Your current run is now saved at the start of each round and the start of each shop. So when you've got a long endless run and it's time for bed you can feel free to exit and continue some other time!

Thank you to the chefs in our Discord who helped playtest the beta branch! It's likely we might've missed some bugs or exploits so if you notice anything weird please let us know via the in-game form, the Steam forums, or on Discord.

We've added a 4th tab in the Catalogue that shows tips for each of the major mechanics in the game. This should be a helpful reference if you can't quite remember the initial popups or want a slightly more in depth explanation. Let us know if you'd like to see anything else added here!

We've also added 3 new achievements.

Lastly we've made quite a few quality of life changes and balance adjustments you can check out below.

Happy cooking, chefs!

-Chef Schu

v0.9.25 Patch Notes

Content

• New Bully customer trait

• 3 new customers

• 11 updated customer portraits

• Mid Run Save Data

• Catalogue now has an Info tab with descriptions of major features

  • Let us know if you think of anything we missed!

• 3 new achievements

Quality of Life

• Pantry ingredients/helpers are hoverable during scoring so you can review how they score

• Scoring tooltips are nested at bottom of screen

  • Now you can take screenshots that show both the total score and 1 hovered ingredient

• Adding pulsing color when you have a locked apron selected (so you know why it's locked)

• Game is playable on controller (not recommended but works similarly to Steam Deck)

Balance

• Haunted Trait: each ghosts takes 4 seconds longer than the previous ghost to spawn

  • This should help make things more manageable in endless runs

• Ascetic Trait: won't appear on first round

• Vegetarian and Carnivore Traits: won't appear in first 2 rounds

• All customers are available in any given run

  • previously there were 4 customers that only appeared as boss Teachers on Green Apron

• Ribs are now Sticky

• BBQ makes Meat ingredients Sticky

• Honey Glazer makes Vegetable ingredients Sticky (instead of Meats)

In an effort to make legendaries more valuable we rebalanced the following Legendary Helpers:

• Stir Fry Specialist

  • Added "+0.2x to each Seafood per Veggie touching"

• Comfort Cook

  • Added "+0.2x to each Root per Meat touching"

• Charcuterie Chef

  • Added "+0.2x to each Dairy per Fruit touching"

• Softie Chef

  • Added "+0.2x to each Soft per Crunchy touching"

• Crunchwrap King

  • Added "+0.2x to each Crunchy per Chewy touching"

• Chewy Champion

  • Added "+0.2x to each Chewy per Soft touching"

• Helper Hater

  • Added "Decrease by -2pts each time you reroll"

  • This helper was insanely overpowered with some chefs reaching +80 to every ingredient if they earned enough money. We try to avoid nerfing but something had to be done. This is my attempt at allowing it to scale without letting chefs endlessly hire + fire in a single shop

Art

• Customers now hold their omelets during omelet inspection

• Occupation of Managers is shown

• Occupations are shown in catalogue

• Ingredients in crates follow your cursor

• New art for Root & Fruit Finesser

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where Sticky Jimmy didn't give full buff to ingredients like Steak that want to touch a specific tag

• Fixed bug where slider SFX would play on start at full volume

• Fixed bug where discarded ingredients still counted as "on side"