Small patch which introduces the first drivable vehicle. The next feature we want to study its implementation is grid snapping + furniture snapping.

Halloween music, ghosts and extra props visible in city will disappear this incoming weekend but decoration and paintables will persist in case players want to use them.

Changelog:
- Implemented a new prop under the devices menu tab: the Mini Transport Vehicle. It is rideable by players and allow 6 boxes to be carried on it. Since it is its first implementation there could be problems that will be solved over time. Controls are:
* WASD to accelerate, decelerate and turn.
* E to get out
* F to honk
* Space and right click to do a tiny hop forward or backward respectively in case it gets stuck somehow or for some stubborn walkway.
Boxes remaining in the transport will not save for now so make sure to store them before leaving the game.

- Added 24 new achievements and the respective ingame stats tracking for them to work. Achievements are normally awarded at the end of day.

- Related to previous point, the cat can now be petted.

- Added a shortcut button in manager blackboard to order all the current products in view at once. It is the big + located in the bottom right corner of the area.

- Moved the 4x recycling box perk in the tree so it’s more useful early game.

- Modified tutorial to not mention the deprecated tablet.

- Restored TVs collision which was removed long ago due to not having tables at hand could cause players to get stuck.

Spooky times are upon us.

Changelog:
- Halloween update additions which include:
* A new tab in the Builder for seasonal Halloween decorations with 13 props.
* 16 new Halloween paintables.
* 37 new hats.
* New music tracks exclusive for Halloween both for main menu and ingame.
* A small ingame mini-event.

- Added a new machine in the devices tab that allows all prices to be changed from there. It is meant for commodity in advanced stores so its price is set for now at 90.000$.

- Boxes have now each a different color depending on the product group they contain. Brown for basic products, white for pharmacy, blue for seafood, etc.

- Products in the manager blackboard are now organized by their common group instead of each having their own tier. P.e. Basic Products I, II, III etc is now only Basic Products.

- Pressing escape in single player stores will now pause the game.

- Reassigned numpad keys now should work correctly for credit card checkouting.

- Store won’t be able to be opened without at least one manned checkout and will give a warning.

- To prevent accidental deleting it is not possible to remove a container furniture until it is emptied of all its products or boxes.

- An issue which prevented coop players to give extra funds has been fixed, this was useful for multiplayer faster starts and have less value in ongoing games.

Hullo! There have been big changes related to the Builder and decoration tablet so make sure to check the logs below.

Changelog:
- Decoration tablets have been deprecated and all their contents moved to the Builder, which now features several tabs. Two new keys (Z and X) allow changing tabs, they can be reassigned in options to inputs of player’s convenience. This will help reorganizing items better when more arrive (a separate tab for lights, devices, decoration, etc.)

- An improvement related to previous point: decoration can now be moved with the builder instead of having to delete and rebuy it for repositioning.

- Deleting is now done from the builder in a new element just below Place Mode.

- Reworking the builder has now allowed being able to delete big furniture during nights but players will have to dispatch all customers first and wait until they leave the area. Currently the only way to do so was during mornings.

- Added 10 more expansions to the store to be acquired.

- Added an extra door for customer access along with its extra entrance space (available since Day 1).

- Since the auxiliar door left to the store was removed for new expansions, doors are now permanently opened for convenience.

- New additional furniture for produce, it’s less cumbersome than produce A and three of them should barely fit between pillars. Produce A can now have two stacks of most trays except artichokes to compensate its volume.

- Added a self-checkout furniture for 2500$. They won’t replace normal checkouts entirely as customers with a lot of items will not prefer them but they do help a lot nevertheless. As they are customer manned, they have a slower product checkout speed and there’s a tiny chance a product won’t be checked in (won’t affect statistics), chance that is increased with difficulty.

- The issue in the pre-patch where self-checkout wouldn’t count towards franchise experience and income should be solved.

- Improved customers shopping list pathing, they should be more efficient and do not roam the store so much which inherently means more customers per day.

- Dances and numpad keys required for pricing or credit card checkouting are now assignable in options (22 new assignments). Players using Numpad Plus for deleting values may have to reassign it in Controls.

- Improved certain behaviors performance, the FPS gain can be up to a 15% especially in the case of big stores.

Hullo! This is the first update related to produce: small fruit and vegetables are organized in trays for convenience but we are considering also including bins or baskets for “in-bulk” products. With this patch the total product amount available rises to 214.

Changelog:
- Implemented 23 new products related to produce: red/green apples, clementines, oranges, pears, lemons, mangoes, avocados, kiwis, papayas, strawberries, cherries, artichokes, zucchinis, carrots, tomatoes, po-ta-toes, onions, bananas, melons, pineapples, pumkins and watermelons.

- Implemented a new furniture piece: the produce shelf A. This will probably be the last furniture piece before reworking the builder menu as it seems cramped right now. More shelves will arrive, as well as a more vertical furniture piece for produce.

- Added four new storage modules to be bought and will probably add soon another row but for the store itself.

- Started to implement several optimization features, there should be in certain cases between +10% and +25% FPS boost in fully upgraded stores with dense furniture or storage. Extra optimization features are planned to be added as adding more features is starting to take its toll on performance.

- Empty boxes can now be bought from the Manager’s blackboard. The image shown in the box will be random.

- Restocking employees will now try to merge leftover box contents with others in storage if they exist.

- Added a new switch in the employee’s blackboard in case players want to interrupt box recycling.

- Slightly displaced store’s end’s wall for better furniture fitting there.

- Modified avoidance radius for employees, this will make them less prone to get stuck with each other but also will make them overlap visually more. Feel free to report if there are still issues with them to further tweak their values.

- Added a visual effect for products checkouting, they will drop themselves inside newly added bags in each checkout. Visual effects and animations will be slowly added.

How’s everyone? The first iteration of the customization update is now available for public testing: fully painting the store and annex facilities should cost between 300.000$ (with cheap materials) to 4.000.000$ (if you pave it in gold!) Have fun experimenting, more materials will be added in the future.

Changelog for this week:
- Implemented the first customization update. Players will be able to use the green tablet to paint up to around 3500 entities including most floors, ceilings and walls. Pillars and beams will be customizable when possible as they require some particular changes as well as the exterior facades.

- Removed the vents for now as they made painting the ceiling difficult and implemented a new decoration to compensate: the ceiling vent.

- Reorganization: there’s a new room outside the store which will act as a restroom and players will be able to decorate with custom furniture in a future patch. Also moved the jail there.

- At least one of the security employees will now pick up dropped stolen products. The rest will stand guard.

- Improved product placement: they should appear perfectly centered on each container type.

- Introduced a storage shelf variant with no labels so new storage system can now be combined with the old one. We will sort a bit better the builder furniture list in a future rework.

- Detergents and Hand Soap now face forward correctly.

- Made some fixes and rebaked the pathing for customers and employees, they shouldn’t go in the area outside storage anymore.

- Hosts can now open and close their games willingly with a new button in escape menu. Players will be unable to join a closed game.

- Slightly Reduced thieving chance for coop games but increased max selectable difficulty from 7 to 10.

- Adjusted storage shelf width which was slightly higher in one of it sides.

Hello! Small list but substantial patch, it preloads more than 70 materials intended for the customization update and color variations for some of them.

Changelog:
- Added most of necessary resources for the incoming first customization update. Players are now able to preview the customization tablet in a wall of the cool room without money cost until full implementation (this wall is only meant for local visualization and won’t sync between players).

- Added a new furniture shelf type, a lower wooden counter which fits 10 different products. Introducing more types of containers has brought certain issues out like weird product placement in some cases, we will attempt to fix this by either modifying certain products or trying to center them to the shelf accordingly.

- Implemented a High Latency setting in Options. This will allow players with high ping which have problems when restocking place products at a slower pace but in bulks of 5, hopefully leaving more time to sync with the host.

- Reduced Standing Freezer width just enough so 3 freezers will fit in the shortest distance between pillars.

- Implemented closing and opening a checkout lane. Existing customers in a lane will stay there for now until served. We had to alter some core behavior for employees for this to happen so report if there are any issues.

- Improved the perks that affect cashier employees checkout speed.

- Fixed the two shampoos being the same model case latest update introduced.

- Corrected an issue related to the standing freezer which probably made customers stand in bulk in front of it or even made employees go outside the map.

- Left a tablet outside for people who built stuff in doors and locked themselves out when loading.

Is it a plane, is it an UFO? No, it’s your employees being able to chase those pesky thieves.
Changelog:

- Added two new product franchises: Pharmacy I and Pharmacy II which will branch from Hygiene in the perks blackboard. Includes stuff like basic medicines, vitamins, etc. The next franchises added will probably be fruits and vegetables.

- Added a new store furniture piece: the standing freezer.

- Added a first iteration of security role for employees. They will try to run after thieves and hit them but won’t pick up products from the floor for now.

- Implemented a network core change that will hopefully reduce latency for placing products in those who sometimes have missing items when restocking.

- Players can now merge boxes contents by clicking a box with the same product in a storage shelf. Being able to do so directly in boxes isn’t implemented yet as ground boxes don’t show their quantity for now.

- Clients should now be able to check each number of products in ground boxes in the manager’s blackboard. This doesn’t count the boxes players are carrying around yet (both for host and clients).

- Added two new options: Bloom setting (useful if you have overlighting in your store) and turning off videos generally (some old graphics card won’t support this feature).

- Adjusted some products for better performance, should scratch some FPS especially in bigger stores.

- Fixed an issue in which a franchise point was automatically awarded every time the game was loaded. (In ongoing games It should happen only once again and then not anymore)

- Customers paying with money should pay with less weirder amounts of money when value is high.

- Red beans, big tuna and premium soda now face forward correctly.

- Fixed an issue in which employees would go through the store’s doors when closed.

- Reduced thieves max speed and they will roam around a bit more.

- Fixed an issue in which cheese bags would get in front of price label inside fridges.

Greetings supermarket owners. This week has been mostly focused to prepare some core changes to network and saving system as this was a necessary pre-step for adding more perks or products and adding paint customization. We are also improving employees so apologies if they behave weirdly these days while we are tweaking them. Changelog:

- Added fourteen new employee related perks, they will probably change position in the blackboard as more stuff is added:
* Five perks for five additional employees.
* Three perks to have faster checkout speed.
* Two perks to have faster product placement
* Three perks to have even faster movement speed.
* One perk to have employees recycle boxes.

- Saving system has received core changes. Saving and loading should be way faster now and problems related to props missing in some saves should be mitigated as the game now access the data folder way less times.

- Day statistics won’t end automatically and will now wait for the host to press a key. Clients will have to wait for the host.

- Storage shelves will now remember the last product placed in them, that way employees will sort them accordingly. A label in each spot will show the product that was previously there. Spots can be cleared with the pricing tool the same way that with shelves. (The issue present in the past weekend pre-patch where storage employees wouldn’t work should be gone).

- Employees will now prioritize restocking most empty shelves and keep iterating up to the more filled ones. In most cases several employees shouldn’t focus on the same shelf anymore.

- Employees should now go directly to another shelf if has products remaining in box instead of the current behavior in which they would return each time to storage box.

- The issue in which employees wouldn’t restock shelves until their full capacity should be fixed.

- Added a bamboo variation of the new potted spruce decoration plant.

- Added a history to chat text messages.

- Fixed an issue in which you could build or move new furniture inside decoration.

- Fixed an issue in which player’s speed was faster while moving in diagonal.

Changelog for this week:

- Customers will now try to do a straight queue at checkouts.

- Base game version now can now choose the gender of the starter character in main menu. Two new characters have been added to the DLC skins.

- Added a product search field in Manager’s blackboard.

- Added a first rework of TVs: a monitor in the cool room allows several options:
* Turning them off.
* Allow some default videos included in the game to be repeated in a loop. This is the default option also in the base game.
* Allow local videos or online videos URLs. Input must end in a supported video format: mp4, mov, avi…
* Hook the browser to TVs: note this has a small performance overhead and volume may be dependant on each webpage. Most non-stream features should work.

- New decoration prop: a bigger potted plant, meant for outdoors but can also be placed indoors.

- Product name and brand are now added on carried boxes.

- Checkout cash and notes have a sound when interacting with them.

- Fixed an issue in which player’s view would stay in the Manager’s blackboard when jailed.

- Introduced player crouching. Binded to C by default and customizable in Options. Some items and animations will have to be polished since this feature was not intended to be present.

- Some improvements to products placement:
* Coke can packs will now be placed in two rows on shelves instead of just one.
* Smoked salmon, parma ham and sliced ham now fit in bigger quantities in both single and double fridges.
* Rotated margarine and soda bottles to face forward.
* Adjusted veal and chicken wings trays which were displayed weirdly.
* Changed chopped beef and chicken wings tray color.

- Drastically reduced thieves spawn chance in solo games with difficulty zero.

- Fixed an issue in which the builder grid wasn’t visible in part of the ceiling.

- Added a first iteration of RU & UK localizations. Feel free to report if there are problems with Cyrillic characters visualization. More localizations will arrive when possible.

- Fixed one of the issues in which some characters skins arms would display weirdly.