Update v2025.15.4.1 - Employee Reset, Direct Harvest & Better Organizing
Hello, Hydroponic Farmers đą
Thank you so much for playing our game and for being an incredible part of our journey. Your feedback, whether through discussion comments, in-game feedback, livestreams, video content, or other channels, has been invaluable to us. We truly appreciate your passion and insights as they help us improve and grow together.
Now, weâre excited to bring you the latest update, which introduces new quality-of-life features to enhance your store management experience. Hereâs whatâs new:
1. Employee Reset Feature
Employees may sometimes get stuck and stop moving, preventing them from performing tasks. To fix this, you can now reset an employee by approaching them within 50 cm and clicking on them. If you're using a controller, press the RB or A button to reset them, allowing them to move and work again.
2. Employee Direct Harvest to Inventory
Employees with a harvest skill of at least 60 will now place harvested commodities directly into inventory instead of putting them on the table. This improvement helps streamline the workflow by reducing unnecessary item transfers and keeping your storage more organized. With this feature, managing harvested goods is now faster and more efficient.
3. New Storage Interaction
The storage system has received several important upgrades to improve flexibility and control in managing your resources:
⢠Multiple Access Support
Storage slots can now be accessed by multiple employees and players at the same time. Previously, each slot was limited to one user, which often created bottlenecks. This change significantly improves efficiency, especially in high-traffic areas.
⢠Reset Storage Focus
You can now clear the current focus commodity from a storage slot. This makes it easier to repurpose storage space as your inventory needs change.
⢠Smarter Employee Stocking Rules
Employees will now only place harvested commodities into storage slots that either match both commodity type and quality, or into unlabeled slots. This helps ensure a more organized storage system and reduces mixing of different item types.
⢠Storage Slot Locking
You can now lock specific storage slots to prevent employees from interacting with them. This gives you greater control over which resources are preserved, ideal for managing limited or rare stock.
⢠Commodity Replacement Confirmation
When changing the commodity type in a storage slot, a confirmation dialog will now appear to help avoid accidental changes.
4. New Shelf Interaction
Shelves have also been improved with new functionality to make product display more adaptable:
⢠Reset Shelf Focus
Just like with storage, you can now clear the focus commodity on a shelf, making it easier to adjust your merchandising strategy on the fly.
⢠Price Tag Visual Update
When a shelf has a focus commodity set, the price tag label will update its view to reflect this focus more clearly, helping players and employees easily identify what belongs where.
5. New Growbed Interaction
Growbeds now offer more intuitive management for your planting activities:
⢠Reset Growbed Focus
You can now reset the focus on a growbed, making it quicker to change planting priorities without needing to manually clear or reassign crops.
⢠UI Overlap Fix
Weâve fixed a UI issue where interface elements would overlap when trying to change a growbedâs focus. This makes the growbed interface cleaner and easier to use.
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Other than the features mentioned above, weâve also been working on fixing a variety of bugs, both from your helpful reports and our internal QA. Here are some of the key improvements:
As part of our commitment during Early Access, we always open to all feedback and suggestions to make this game as mature as possible. If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, donât hesitate to share your thoughts. đż
And, if youâre enjoying the game, weâd love to hear your thoughts in a Steam review. It really helps us grow and improve the experience for all.
Thank you for being part of the community, and happy farming đđż
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3152540/Hydroponics_Farm__Store_Simulator/
Thank you so much for playing our game and for being an incredible part of our journey. Your feedback, whether through discussion comments, in-game feedback, livestreams, video content, or other channels, has been invaluable to us. We truly appreciate your passion and insights as they help us improve and grow together.
Now, weâre excited to bring you the latest update, which introduces new quality-of-life features to enhance your store management experience. Hereâs whatâs new:
Feature Updates
1. Employee Reset Feature
Employees may sometimes get stuck and stop moving, preventing them from performing tasks. To fix this, you can now reset an employee by approaching them within 50 cm and clicking on them. If you're using a controller, press the RB or A button to reset them, allowing them to move and work again.
2. Employee Direct Harvest to Inventory
Employees with a harvest skill of at least 60 will now place harvested commodities directly into inventory instead of putting them on the table. This improvement helps streamline the workflow by reducing unnecessary item transfers and keeping your storage more organized. With this feature, managing harvested goods is now faster and more efficient.
3. New Storage Interaction
The storage system has received several important upgrades to improve flexibility and control in managing your resources:
⢠Multiple Access Support
Storage slots can now be accessed by multiple employees and players at the same time. Previously, each slot was limited to one user, which often created bottlenecks. This change significantly improves efficiency, especially in high-traffic areas.
⢠Reset Storage Focus
You can now clear the current focus commodity from a storage slot. This makes it easier to repurpose storage space as your inventory needs change.
⢠Smarter Employee Stocking Rules
Employees will now only place harvested commodities into storage slots that either match both commodity type and quality, or into unlabeled slots. This helps ensure a more organized storage system and reduces mixing of different item types.
⢠Storage Slot Locking
You can now lock specific storage slots to prevent employees from interacting with them. This gives you greater control over which resources are preserved, ideal for managing limited or rare stock.
⢠Commodity Replacement Confirmation
When changing the commodity type in a storage slot, a confirmation dialog will now appear to help avoid accidental changes.
4. New Shelf Interaction
Shelves have also been improved with new functionality to make product display more adaptable:
⢠Reset Shelf Focus
Just like with storage, you can now clear the focus commodity on a shelf, making it easier to adjust your merchandising strategy on the fly.
⢠Price Tag Visual Update
When a shelf has a focus commodity set, the price tag label will update its view to reflect this focus more clearly, helping players and employees easily identify what belongs where.
5. New Growbed Interaction
Growbeds now offer more intuitive management for your planting activities:
⢠Reset Growbed Focus
You can now reset the focus on a growbed, making it quicker to change planting priorities without needing to manually clear or reassign crops.
⢠UI Overlap Fix
Weâve fixed a UI issue where interface elements would overlap when trying to change a growbedâs focus. This makes the growbed interface cleaner and easier to use.
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Other than the features mentioned above, weâve also been working on fixing a variety of bugs, both from your helpful reports and our internal QA. Here are some of the key improvements:
- Fixed an issue where all employees could get stuck when resetting one of them
- Fixed employees getting stuck while restocking
- Added logic to ensure employee reset can only be triggered when the employee is stuck
- Fixed a bug where infected plants couldnât be harvested
- Fixed an issue with the focus commodity not working when switching from ânoneâ to a specific commodity (case: shelf not empty)
- Fixed employees restocking the same shelf repeatedly
- Fixed a bug where shelves could be stocked with two different commodities
- Fixed a storage error when selling items still in the equipment drop zone
- Fixed employees not restocking shelves to full capacity
- Fixed employees getting stuck on growbeds
- Fixed an issue where the game wouldnât open when using the Czech language
- Updated UX hover collider priority between inventory and inventory slots
As part of our commitment during Early Access, we always open to all feedback and suggestions to make this game as mature as possible. If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, donât hesitate to share your thoughts. đż
And, if youâre enjoying the game, weâd love to hear your thoughts in a Steam review. It really helps us grow and improve the experience for all.
Thank you for being part of the community, and happy farming đđż
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3152540/Hydroponics_Farm__Store_Simulator/