Major QoL & Systems Overhaul Update is NOW LIVE!
Hello pizza nerds or wheeler dealers! We’ve been working behind the scenes on a massive overhaul to streamline your kitchen logistics, expand your business tools, and squash some of the most stubborn bugs in the system.
Here is everything new in this major Quality of Life update:
🍕 Interaction & Quality of Life
Pizza Rack Targeting: You can now place pizzas into the specific slot you are aiming at. Holding a pizza near a rack will show a ghost preview of the targeted slot. Racks also display a content label: "Empty", the specific Recipe Name (if all pizzas match), or "Mixed" (for Lv.2/Lv.3 racks).
Beggar NPC Interaction: Pressing [E] now opens a quick "Give $1 / No" prompt. Donating money causes the beggar to walk away and shifts your reputation toward the legitimate (Front) side. (Punching them remains a viable option, of course).
Cash Register: You can now press [Space] to confirm payments alongside the traditional [Enter] key.
Shakedown Tweaks: The Hitman and shakedown police will now only knock you down and remove you from the area, they will no longer take your cash.
Quest XP: Open-world NPC deliveries now grant shady XP on top of BTC rewards, matching the counter-side shady quest progression.
Back-Area Lighting: Boosted the ambient brightness in the back areas of the shop so dim corners are properly visible. Light switches now glow faintly in the dark so you can always spot them.
🛠️ New Machines & Items
Cargo Box Shelf (3 Tiers): Store your cargo boxes neatly in dedicated slots instead of dropping them randomly all over the floor. Aim at the specific slot you want to fill, no more priority for the first clicker.
Lv.1: 12 slots | Lv.2: 16 slots | Lv.3: 24 slots.
Conveyor Oven (Lv. 3): A two-tier auto-cooking masterpiece. Just drop the pizza on a plate and walk away, it rides the conveyor to a perfect bake. No handles to grab, no burn risks.
Combo Press & Sauce Machine: Efficiency at its finest. This machine turns raw dough into perfectly sauced dough in a single step, skipping the tedious press-carry-sauce shuffle entirely.
Large Ingredient Container (Lv. 2): Features a massive 250-unit capacity. Refill far less often once your kitchen scales up.
Wall Switch (Switch Arm): A physical lever on your wall to disable the online courier or the Redline (shady) phone whenever things get too overwhelming. Pull the lever to literally "cut the power" to that feature.
⚙️ New & Reworked Systems
The Upgrade Tree
Pizza recipes, machines, and shop expansions no longer auto-unlock upon leveling up. They are now purchased from a real, progression-based upgrade tree.
Front-side upgrades live under the Upgrades tab on the Kitchen Order Screen.
Shady upgrades live in the SkillForge on the Dark Web. Prerequisites must be owned before unlocking the next node.
Save Migration: Existing saves are automatically migrated! Every pizza recipe or machine you earned under the old rules will be unlocked for free upon loading.
Recipe Book (R Key)
Press [R] anywhere in the world to open a full recipe book overlay. No more walking back to the kitchen computer mid-cook. Locked recipes are greyed out so you can plan ahead.
Added a subtle [R] Recipes reminder hint to the bottom-right HUD.
Map & Quest Hub (TAB Overhaul)
Pressing [TAB] now opens a completely redesigned map featuring a side panel that lists every quest NPC, cleanly filtered by Active / Available / Locked.
Toggle View: The map is now a toggle (press to open, press again to close) instead of hold-to-open.
NPC pins now dynamically dodge place labels and connect to their true location with a dashed line when they shift positions.
The map is automatically suppressed in the lobby, main menu, and during scene transitions to keep things clean.
Dark Web Reworked
New ShadowKitchen Tab: Shady ingredients unlocked through SkillForge are now purchased directly here. The ShadowMarket has returned to being exclusively for contraband.
New MinerHub Tab: All BTC miner purchases and capacity expansions have been moved to their own dedicated tab. Paying off your full debt now unlocks unlimited miner capacity.
The placeholder ShadowMail tab has been removed.
Smart Search: The search bar now matches the exact brand names NPCs use on the phone (e.g., "Wire Recorder 3000", "Rocket Fuel Coffee") rather than just the canonical item names.
Fixed Closets for Appliances
The Washing Machine and Incinerator no longer need to be fetched from Hobarey Depot as heavy cargo. They now live in built-in back-room closets. As you purchase their SkillForge upgrades, the closet contents will automatically swap from Lv.1 ➔ Lv.2 ➔ Lv.3.
HUD Scale Settings
Added a new HUD Scale dropdown menu in the Settings (ranging from 90% to 150%) so you can pick the perfect fit for your screen resolution.
⚖️ Balance & Core Changes
The Perfect Bake: The oven's "perfect" timing window is now fixed at exactly 6 seconds. The visual indicator and actual pizza quality now match perfectly if a pizza looks burnt, it really is burnt.
Bitcoin Miner Exploit: Bitcoin Miners can no longer be sold, successfully closing the buy-at-cap-then-refund exploit loop.
Removed by Design
We pulled these elements deliberately as their gameplay upside was minimal and they were causing unnecessary friction:
Forgery Station: Temporarily disabled.
Pizza Rack Lv.1 & Dough Press Machine Lv.2: Removed from the store catalogue (any already-placed ones in your shop will keep working normally).
Crouch Bind: Removed from the bindable keys list as it had no active gameplay function.
🌍 Polish Localization
Fixed over 110 entries! Restored missing Polish diacritics (ą, ę, ł, ż, ź, ć, ś, ó, ń) and added full Polish translations for the Map/Quest hub, tier-II upgrades, quest objective templates, Redline phone dialogues, beggar interactions, and recipe book flavor text.
🔒 Notable Bug Fixes
Save Pipeline Hardened: Fixed crashes when starting a new game on an empty slot, partial "looks-empty-but-actually-broken" saves, OneDrive/antivirus disk locks, and concurrent save collisions. Failures will now trigger on-screen warnings and log to a dedicated save folder. Broken partial saves are automatically cleaned up at launch.
Save Snapshot Timeout: Raised from 2 seconds to 5 seconds, ensuring slow remote clients no longer lose their inventory states during a save event.
Late-Joiner Sync: Fixed host/client synchronization issues for the oven, press, and sauce machine handles (they will no longer render in the wrong positions for joining players).
AI & Exploits: * Customers forced to leave at closing time will no longer drift away into the abyss with cash or credit cards floating in front of them.
Empty cargo boxes on a relocated Cargo Shelf will no longer visually reappear as full.
Cargo Shelves will now properly reject empty cargo boxes (no outlines, prompts, or ghost previews).
Visual Tweaks: The active map pin is now a clean, centered green dot instead of the old off-center arrow icon.
Colliders: Enlarged the Level 2 Oven handle collider, making it significantly easier to grab mid-rush.
Input System: Moved the Red line Phone ESC key handling over to the modern Input System to prevent interface lockups.
UI Clean-up: The Kitchen Order Screen's Machines and Upgrades tabs now share identical naming structures, ordering, and subtabs. Open-world quests will no longer double-display in both Active and Available lists.
Menu Stacking: The Recipe Book and Map can no longer be opened simultaneously; opening one will automatically close the other. The Recipe Book background now matches the order screen's cream aesthetic.
Deep Linking: MinerHub's "Unlock in SkillForge" buttons now link directly to the correct node on the upgrade tree.
While pushing out these fixes, we’ve already kicked off development on our next major patch. We are cooking up some yummy features that will get single-player enthusiasts hyped and completely charm fans of classic simulation games too!As we build out this upcoming major content step by step, we’re continuing to closely track community feedback, read through every support ticket, and work full throttle on updates and hotfixes. Remember to join our Discord for more information, chat with us or share your weird moments. Just make sure your pizzas don't burn we’ve got the rest covered! :)
Peace, Bunch'o'Nerds Team