It's Only Money News

Hey everyone,

This week we lay some physical groundwork for Chapter One, and add a few new furniture items to Third Hand Furniture, including a very special piece.

New Area: Lodge of the Three and surrounding Park



A new area has emerged this week, including the secretive Lodge of the Three and its surrounding waterfront park. While the primary purpose of this landmass will be revealed in Chapter One, there's certainly signs of a mystery some eagle eyed players can start to unravel starting today.

New Furniture Items At Third Hand Furniture



Third Hand's stock doubles this week, with a few new admittedly lower class selections.
Head on over to your favourite neighbourhood thrift store and buy the:

Crud Brand Single Bed: Applies the Well Rested buff upon use

Air Inflated Floaty Bed: Applies the Rested buff upon use

Budget Co Plastic Chair: Usually reserved for BBQ's or social events, Third Hand ensures you can recreate that vibe any time.

Sweaty Boy Gaming Chair: For when you feel the need to turn on your webcam and become a questionable personality for legions of weirdos, Third Hand now has your back.

Last but not least,

The Race Car Bed




The ultimate in sleeping satisfaction, hoon your way to a good nights sleep in the brand new Race Car Bed. It'll run you $600 at Third Hand, but it applies the elusive "Perfectly Rested" buff, dramatically increasing carrying capacity, stamina and damage.

Plus, a little preview of some of what you'll be doing in Chapter One..



You'll be covering an abduction shift for a new interstellar friend. Make sure you align the tractor beam correctly, or you'll cause someone to have a concussion instead of a new core memory. Not long to go!

Howdy everyone,

To kick off with some exciting news, we're in the final stages of putting together Chapter One. Once we've managed to knock everything together, we'll let the "Homies" in Discord play test, then we'll be able to settle on a firm date. We appreciate the patience, and we're super excited for you all to see what we've been cooking up.

Let's jump into the weekly update notes:

New Feature: Getaway Orbs



Getaway Orbs are the latest way to help bring your bounty down in Rockhaven. The ethos behind them were to reward players who want to roleplay "hiding" from the cops a little more. While you have any amount of Bounty active, Getaway Orbs will start to spawn in cheeky spots around the city.

Getaway Orbs come in two flavors, normal, and Mega, denoted by the varying color. Regular Getaway Orbs will clear $10 from your bounty, while Mega Orbs will decrease your bounty by $25. If you have a bounty, be sure to run through alleyways, climb rooftops, indulge your inner hide-and-seek mentality and you'll surely find a few.

As soon as you have $0 Bounty, the Getaway Orbs will despawn from the City until you need them again.

Six New Accolades

First off, congratulations to the multiple community members along the way for completing every single Accolade in the game to this point. A huge achievement, and one we'll recognise formally in Rockhaven soon enough (among other Community triumphs). Accolades will continually be added throughout IOM's life, and so too will the rewards for completing them. This week we're adding two new accolade tracks, bringing the grand total to another 6.

Car Crusher I/II/III: Crush Cars at Wheelies to Unlock
Public Nuisance I/II/III: Raise your bounty while staying alive to unlock these Accolades

New Pawn Store: Pier Pawn



We're also making efforts to add Pawn Stores to areas in Rockhaven that are missing that functionality. Until Chapter One comes, and the ability to raise your carrying capacity, it's good to offload what you can where you can. And with last weeks High/Low update, more Pawn Stores are always a good option to maximise profit.

You can find the latest store next to the Basketball Courts near First Church and Rockhaven Bridge.

New Shoes: Tonies Classic



A classic silhouette hits the streets of Rockhaven. Available at Legit Kicks (opposite the Slimeway), the Tonies design drops in three colorways:

Sensible Man (Black & White)
Firehawk (Red)
Ballpoint (Blue)

Cop your pair today, and be on the lookout for some exciting variations coming soon.

Have a great week everyone!

Hey everyone, this weeks content update features an overhaul to the Pawn store mechanics, allowing you to buy low and sell high around the city. Get ready to do some day trading!

Pawn Store Overhaul



Entering a Pawn shop will allow you to buy and sell as usual, but there's an additional mechanic at play now. Looking to the top of the vendors inventory, you'll notice two boxes: Wanted & Clearance.

Clearance items will be half off, allowing you to stock up on cheap goods. Wanted items can be sold for double their usual amount. Different Pawn shops are looking for different things, and their inventory and requests reset every midnight in-game time. So grab a car, haul around the city, buy low and sell high. Also be sure to pop into Sneddons to increase your Bank Inventory space, you might need it!

SlimeAid Vending Machine and Item




You may notice a new green vending machine in Rockhaven this week. It doesn't sell Conk'e Cola, it sells SlimeSip! A fantastic new drink that when consumed boosts the speed of pickpocketing success. Grab a can and get to work stealing.

New Shop: Undercity Pawn




Take a detour from the Beggar King and you'll notice a new trading post has opened up in the Undercity. Handy to dump off wares, or check the clearance items before you head on up into Rockhaven proper.

Other Additions/Bug Fixes:

- Added new items that intend to be used more substantially when Chapter One Drops:
Sapphire Gem, Found on Rich Citizens
Bluetooth Speaker, Found on Medium Income Citizens
D-Battery, Found on Poor Citizens
Spare Tire, Found in Car Inventories

- Fixed some floor meshes that would cause NPC's to be stuck halfway in the ground.

Howdy everyone,

Another smaller weekly update hits today, including some community requested features, and other tidbits that lay the groundwork for content coming in Chapter One. Let's get into it:

Pickable Fruit Trees



If you're broke and in need of a full belly, scour around the forests and greener parts of Rockhaven and look for Fruit Trees to steal an Apple or two from. The community has requested growable plants for their safehouses and other production methods, and this is our first step toward toward those systems. In the mean time, have fun committing crimes against nature.

New Pawn Location: Underpass Pawn



Located next door to Awesome Dragon Dojo, and across the way from Aoraki Stadium, the newest Pawn Shop in Rockhaven should make it a little easier to offload your ill-gotten gains for cash.

New Ambient Vendor: Express Pawn



Speaking of making it easier to off-load, Ambient Pawn vendors will now spawn around Rockhaven. Be warned: These Pawn Vendors only buy at half the usual market price. So only use them in a pinch, or you know, rob them. It's up to you.

All Black Steezy Collection:



New to Steezy is a hotly requested all black suite of Clothing, featuring sweats, a hoodie, a beanie and a pair of the 680ti's. Pop on over to Steezy Central and get yourself fitted up.


Continued Performance work:

We've steadily been chipping away at optimizing the game, and have noticed a small but appreciable FPS increase across the board, including handhelds like the Steam Deck and Ally. This is a continuing process, but thanks again to all those who've helped report issues.

Known Issues:

- Playing the game while running Razer Cortex can negatively impact performance, with at least one user reporting that it caps their frame-rate at 30. We're investigating what we can do from our end, but we recommend turning off Razer Cortex while playing It's Only Money if you're noticing performance problems.

- Selecting Randomize while having a bald hairstyle can change your hair color and style when using a wardrobe

- Some trees are giving out sticks instead of Apples. This will be fixed in a hotfix coming tomorrow


Homies Preview


As mentioned in an earlier update, Tenants become Homies in Chapter One. We wanted to take a moment to go in-depth with some of what this change entails.

You'll free and move Homies into safehouses you own like normal, but now Homies can be tasked with following you, fighting with you, be assigned to business HUBs and participate in missions and Crookbook games with you throughout your time in Rockhaven. As they do this, they'll earn EXP and level up their star rating. With each star rating, they'll gain a point in one of three categories: Health, Body and Mind. Additionally, every Homie has a class, which will confer bonuses based on activities, and determine the combat moves they use.



Housing will also debut a small overhaul in Chapter One. You'll still buy and furnish your safehouses with essentials like normal, but instead of property worth being a barrier to move people into, they'll now provide statistical bonuses to the assigned Homie. Simply put, the better a place is decorated, the more the property is worth, the more bonus points into the aforementioned stats a Homie will receive.



We hope you're looking forward to the Homies overhaul, and the rest of the content coming in Chapter One. See you next week, and we hope you have a good one!

Howdy everyone,

As mentioned last week, we're continuing our weekly updates but they'll be of a smaller variety as we're full steam ahead trying to get the various elements of Chapter One finished up and tested. We appreciate the patience the community has shown thus far. We're really looking forward to showing off more specifics, and more importantly, getting the update out as soon as we can.

Let's go over what's in this weeks update:

New Prop Hunt Zone: Green Island Shopping Square



Weave in and out of Green Islands shopping square as you disguise yourself as various appliances, clothes racks and barrels in this new Prop Hunt Arena. Additionally, these zones will be used for a future activity debuting in Chapter One.

Ambient Dialogue Additions and Improvements

MOVR's now have ambient dialogue as they patrol the streets looking for citizens to scan, and undercitizens to fight. Additionally, several improvements have been made to police dialogue to better reflect the actions they're taking and the current status of your bounty.

New Clothing




A range of new clothing and colorways hits Rockhaven today, including:

- 3 New Boots at the Boot Boy Store
- 3 New Tube Skirt Variants at "Finer Things"
- New Leather Vest clothing piece, debuting in three different colors at "Misery"

New Easter Egg: Pay Respects



Today also marks the addition of our first easter egg. As time goes on, we'll quietly sneak these into the game for you to find, but figured we'd highlight this is now a feature you should be on the lookout for. Our first pays homage to a series and team that inspired us as a team. Pictured is a little hint on where to find it.

Other Notes

- New Junk Items added which will have further use in CH1
- Fixed various bugs submitted by community members

Cheers everyone, have a great week!