Critter Cove News

This build helps us prepare for both the visiting and decorating Critter home update and new islands update both will be coming out very soon. First the Critter Home decoration update then shortly after will be the new islands update. Will be putting out a blog post about all this on the 12th of May with the fixed times for both updates. So a lot of new stuff coming very soon. Thank you for your support and patience.


Visuals

We added a visual sign to the outside of houses to indicate who owns the house.


Bug Highlights

Fixed inventory item loss for FIX IT quests/actions like the Crab Shop, Air Machine, Boat Upgrade Control Panel, etc Quests. Anytime you "fixed up" a broken object ie crab shop, boat upgrade, upgrade boat panel, air machine and any others like that it would take two items from your inventory not just one.

Fixed issues with critters riding or standing on items like the spring rides or soap box being off center.

Fixed issue where Critters would potentially stay at home for longer then they should after sleeping making it hard to interact with them or find them. They will now leave their house correctly.

Fixed items like the easel and barbells being placed close to walls could cause the character to go through the wall when used.

Fixed items that you need to be in specific position to use should now cannot be placed where the space needed to stand to use would go through a wall or object.

Fixed picking up a trunk or anything with storage with an almost full inventory in the decoration mode can results in loss of items if there are more items in the storage then available in player inventory.

Many More.

Improvements to reduce hiccups, lag and stutters. Found a number of issues that were causing the CPU to block temporarily. You should now see a more consistent frame rate especially while moving around the world and lower cpu consumption. Steamdeck and lower end systems will notice the biggest change but improvements should be noticed on all systems. General improvement to frame rate as well.

Will continue to look for bottlenecks and improve them in future releases.

Fixed issue where if the player goes out of bounds or sometimes drowns the game would send them back to a point they had last surfaced but at the bottom of the ocean versus the top.

Player Unable to Install Control Panel on Boat Upgrade Station. Fixed issue where the player has a completed control panel ready to install on the boat upgrade station (and has the quest in there journal), but the boat upgrade station does not allow the install. If you have had this issue the control panel should now be unlocked and allow you to complete the quest.

Power Box on Air Refill. Fixed issue If Player ignores Anchor and goes straight to examining and fixing the air refill station using a power box from under Rigg’s Outpost, Player will not be able to clear the quest. If you have had this issue the quest should now be available to complete again by talking with Anchor. We also no longer let you interact with the air refill station before the quest is handed out.

Crash fixed while decorating your house and interacting with the default bed side table after picking up the candle on it. If you had issues with decoration in your house causing a crash this is the fix.

Fix issue with cooking UI and experiment where you could not drag and drop items into the experiment buckets.

Improved collision loading so you should not be able to run through walls etc when moving around the world quickly.