Saleblazers News

Here's a very small hotfix to resolve an issue where some users could click on the "Scrap All" button on their own death box, accidentally turning all their belongings into Scrap.

[h3]➡️ Changes[/h3]

• Scrap All button is no longer available on death boxes spawned in after this update (old ones will still have them)
  
• Removed in-game backup save prompt that was unintentionally in the game because I accidentally pushed our work in progress code
  

Here's our next batch of community advice for the loading screen! If you'd like to participate, join us over at https://discord.gg/Saleblazers

[h3]🧠 New Community Advice Loading Tips[/h3]

• "Your only limit is your imagination." - Kei
  
• "Craft an anvil and keep it in your inventory to make emergency repairs." -Nyla Grey
  
• "If you can't carry it, scrap it." -Anonymous
  
• "Embrace the Desert's greater danger for greater rewards." -Anonymous
  
• "When the Island gives you enemies, turn their gear into sales at your store." - Anonymous
  
• "As an avid gatherer, it is your responsibility to replant what you gather. Don't neglect your seeds!" - Anonymous
  
• "Purchasing new shop plots will also unlock new locations for your employees to gather from!" -JazDog
  
• "Fear not the deal." -Anonymous
  
• "Keep building." -Anonymous
  
• "Knife attack combos can stunlock you. Parrying gives you an opening." -Anonymous
  
• "Employees working after the shop closes can restock and check out any remaining customers." -Anonymous
  
• "Shopping customers remain in a shop even after the shop closes." -Anonymous
  
• "Carry a torch at night and bring a friend!" -Cyraine
  
• "Layer different building materials of doorways, beams, and fences to create new wall styles." -Cyraine
  
• "Hide electrical wires and extensions behind furniture, walls, and floors." -Cyraine
  
• "Building materials have different integrities. Try stone and carbon beams for taller and wider builds." -Cyraine
  
• "You can put signs on your crates to help keep organized." -Cyraine
  
• "Throw grenades at bamboo to harvest more quickly. Wildlife and passersby may be harmed." -Cyraine
  
• "Higher rarity items sell for more." -Cyraine
  
• "You can build anywhere in the world, but you can only run a shop on designated plots." -Cyraine
  
• "Throw food and drinks at customers to satisfy their hunger and thirst. Caution with poisons, explosives, and sharp objects." -Cyraine
  
• "If you don't have enough money to activate a teleport totem, you can activate it later from the map." -Cyraine
  
• "Press shift to freely place objects on top of one another." -Cyraine
  
• "Lock-pick behind closed doors, and they'll never know something's missing." -Cyraine
  
• "If you can steal it, you can sell it." -Cyraine
  

We've also fixed some minor issues in this patch. Please do let us know via ESC -> Help -> Report a Bug with your save file uploaded if you still encounter any navigation issues after this patch.

Make sure your waiting queues are on plot floors, you have an open sign near your shop floor, and that all customer interactable items are placed on top of floors. Customers can't access items if they aren't placed on floor tiles.

[h3]➡️ Changes[/h3]

• Added 24 new Community Hints
  
• Showers are larger now
  
• Changed Washing Machine and Dryer to heavy melee combo
  

[h3]⚙️ Optimizations[/h3]

• Optimized Bellcursed Torch particles slightly
  

[h3]🛠️ General Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed rare edge case where if an autosave occurred at a specific chunk load configuration that the shop's nav mesh could be messed up
  
• Added fallback to tutorial skip door if you somehow trigger it after getting into the shop
  
• Fixed scenario where employee could be saved as fighting and never stop fighting
  
• Fixed Washing Machine and Dryer items flying around like crazy
  
• Fixed a hole near Kazai Castle allowing players to get underneath the river
  
• Temporarily disabled loading backup save from within the ESC menu for now until we reconfigure the backup save flow to work in-game instead of in the lobby
  

Here's a small hotfix targeting some more save system and nav mesh issues. Have fun!

[h3]➡️ Changes[/h3]

• Wet attribute FX now wrap around the character collider (for example on Chickens the FX used to stretch well above their heads but now it fits them)
  
• Plants in Crop Plots will die if the Crop Plot is destroyed
  
• Trees planted in Crop Plots will instantly explode instead of entering physics mode first
  
• Every patch, the shop will rescan itself at least once per plot to account for any nav mesh fixes done
  
• When customers purchase and put on multiple clothes via a shopping basket, they won't cycle to their old purchased clothes anymore
  

[h3]⚙️ Optimizations[/h3]

• Removed an object dictionary that didn't need to exist which should save some memory
  

[h3]🛠️ General Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed Researcher quest not saving number of researched nodes properly
  
• Fixed case where if a client placed items that it wouldn't cut the nav mesh properly and thus cause AI to walk on top of objects weirdly
  
• Fixed case where nav mesh tags could disappear when not intended
  
• Fixed items falling off walls and causing unintended consequences due to save optimization changes
  
• Fixed dragging and dropping items with in-world drag move not updating nav mesh properly
  
• AI chase encounters will now end at 50 units to prevent AI from reaching you when they shouldn't
  
• Added warning if you start an intermediate training course if the employee doesn't have the skill yet
  
• Fixed wrong optimized save version mesh of Castle Stone Foundation
  
• Fixed shop floors sometimes not being set properly to the correct shop once per session when loading in with a lot of floors in your shop
  
• Removed another database of night raids that could attacked your buildings
  
• Fixed nav mesh not updating properly if you drag select items from the world into containers
  
• Fixed a case where customers would still say that they're at the cash register or shopping when they are actually leaving your shop
  
• Fixed a case where customers would take the long way around to exit your shop
  
• Fixed Bubu not saving in the water if you threw it into the water
  
• Fixed crafting continuing to consume fuel items even if the output inventory is too full to continue crafting
  
• Fixed outpost lamp moving to weird location when hit in Researcher Camp
  
• Removed deprecated beaker items in Researcher Camp
  
• Possibly fixed an issue being stuck at 100% loading when teleporting to Researcher Camp for some players
  
• Fixed some code exceptions
  

Hello! Here are a few more fixes to address some issues that players and internal developers encountered.

Happy shopkeeping!

[h3]➡️ Changes[/h3]

• Removed Plant Fiber drops from Banana Tree and increased its Banana drops instead (the trunks still drop Plant Fiber)
  
• Night raids rebalanced to have Bellcoats later on and have fewer Ghouls early on
  
• Banana Tree and Cactus destroy immediately instead of falling down
  
• Banana Tree sways less in the wind
  

[h3]🛠️ General Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed items not having beauty when returning to the shop (this is due to our optimizations)
  
• Fixed extremely rare edge case where loading the shop wouldn't load the shop's nav mesh causing customers to not be able to pathfind in the shop due to some async timing issues
  
• Fixed customers being unable to pathfind if a door was placed very close to the shop plot edges
  
• Fixed customers sometimes getting stuck on the shop plot tiles if they were trying to run away in fear
  
• Fixed a rare edge case where customers that were feared no longer moved if they were on a plot tile
  
• Possibly fixed a rare issue where crafting UI slots were not populating as expected (let us know if this still happens to you since we couldn't reproduce this ever)
  
• Fixed night raid enemies sometimes not moving or attacking properly because they were incorrectly targeting building pieces (supposed to be deprecated behavior due to it not being fun)
  
• Adjusted light locations for Dojo ceiling lanterns to be more accurate and not leak through floors above
  
• Fixed client putting stacked items in containers through item placing mode (clicking on the mesh) causing the item to not appear for them
  
• Scythe should no longer drop extra seeds unless it is the killing blow
  
• Crafting UI should update instantly now instead of requiring you to reopen the crafting UI to see new recipes
  
• Client should see new recipes indicator in crafting UI now when recipes are unlocked
  
• Fixed Banana Tree taking too long to grow and had it explode instantly for better polish
  
• Fixed Defensive Spike sometimes not dealing DoT while enemies are inside it if it is in an optimized save state
  
• Fixed rare case where customers can grab displays from a floor above
  
• Fixed rare case where customers can mantle up to the floor above then get stuck
  
• Fixed Locker colliders not matching visuals
  
• Changed Ronin and Outlaw cutouts to not have world space material
  
• Fixed a spot in the prologue where you could get stuck in the shooting range area
  
• Fixed a few rare code exceptions
  

Hello! Hope everyone's having a great time checking out all the awesome games available on Steam's Open World Survival Crafting Fest that's going on right now.

Thanks to an awesome suggestion by JazDog on our Discord server...



We're now open to adding community advice to our loading screen tips!



If you'd like to submit yours, feel free to join the #🧠loading-screen-tips Discord channel.

Without further ado, here's our first batch of community advice!

[h3]🧠 New Community Advice Loading Tips[/h3]

• "Friendly Fire Isn't" -PhobosReloading
  
• "You can parry projectiles! Successfully parrying a projectile will reflect it back to the enemy." -JazDog
  
• "NPCs have Telemed, too. Be mindful." -PhobosReloading
  
• "Shop plots can be found all across the island. You can even run multiple shops at the same time!" -JazDog
  
• "You can scrap any item by placing it in the trash icon near the bottom left of your inventory." -JazDog
  
• "You can block bullets with any melee item." -Anonymous
  
• "Everything you find is a weapon. Just throw harder." -PhobosReloading
  

We'll be keeping an eye on this channel and plan to periodically add more tips throughout our future patches. Have fun everyone!



Here's a summary of the tweaks we've made that should improve the overall shopkeeping experience.

[h3]➡️ Changes[/h3]

• Removed "Scrap All" button from mannequins and armor stands so that players don't accidentally scrap their collections
  
• Players can now walk on doors (previously it wouldn't consider you to be grounded)
  
• Players can now open Shepherd doors from the inside of Shepherd Pods
  
• "Needs Cash Register" icon for customers changed from a Retro Cash Register to a Bamboo Cash Register for better intuitive understanding
  
• Added several community loading tips
  

[h3]🛠️ General Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed money placed on the ground being non-interactable after game load
  
• Fixed being unable to change floor type for stairs after game load
  
• Fixed shop being set to employee table hours even if link to shop hours was not checked in the employee table UI
  
• Setting auto shop hours on and when changing start/end hours for employee table link to shop hours mode will now immediately update the open state of the shop based on the start and end hours instead of needing to change the hours or wait until the next hour
  
• Fixed client interacting with employee table with link to shop hours mode not instantly setting open shop hours
  
• Fixed training reroll cost not rendering in employee table UI
  
• Fixed several Plant Pot items not having descriptions
  
• Fixed Fish Basket missing icon, value, and description
  
• Fixed rare case where some items weren't considered to be in the shop upon loading for very fast computers
  
• Fixed edge case where if a client right clicked to split a stack then tried to left click on a stack of items in a container that the item from the container would fall out onto the ground instead of trying to add it to the client's inventory
  
• Fixed code exception relating to hotkey slot UI
  
• Fixed one case where a revenge encounter could keep looping if you teleported away at a specific moment
  
• Fixed one case where an employee's equipment could lose some of their save data
  
• Fixed a few cases were items wouldn't show up as expected in pooled death boxes
  
• Adjusted several LODs to have better distances and models
  
• Improved accuracy of employee wage calculations during simulation
  
• Fixed Cooked Pufferfish collision not being in the right location
  
• Fixed ultra rare case where if the host closes the server while you're fading to your ESC menu that your ESC menu would stay on the main menu
  
• Fixed leg inverse kinematics not turning off sometimes for other players (such as when sitting in a chair or in a Golf Cart)
  
• Fixed police trying to add fines to defensive spikes and turrets
  
• Fixed employees sometimes gathering 0 items if they were too low of a level which caused phantom objects for clients as well
  
• Fixed employees reading stack counts incorrectly which caused them to always restock or gather when they should move on to another task
  
• Fixed 45 degree roofs being difficult to dismantle due to offset collider after loading a shop