Airport Baggage Simulator - Major Update - Version 0.3

📢 Terminal Announcement 📢

[p]Günther Gewinn here again. As the airport's managing director, it is my honor and my duty to present the changes in version 0.3 of Airport Baggage Simulator![/p]

[h3]🧽 Automation for Airline Stickers[/h3]
[p]A new sorter with two outputs: one for suitcases with a valid airline sticker and one for suitcases with an invalid sticker.[/p]

[h3]🤖 Automation for Baggage Carts and Green Scanner Machine[/h3]
[p]An automatic scanner for validating baggage (green) as well as a baggage thrower that can automatically load baggage carts.[/p]

[h3]📒 New Scanner Machine for Terminal 2[/h3][p]A new scanner (yellow) to automate Terminal 2 baggage.[/p]

[h3]🛬 New Expansions[/h3]
[p]A new check (weight) and a new gate that serves flights to both DEL and AMS can now be unlocked.[/p]

[h3]⚖️ New Check: Weight Inspection[/h3]
[p]New work equipment: A baggage scale that lets you check whether the suitcase's weight has been paid for[/p]

[h3]🎒 New Skill: Backpack[/h3]
[p]Invest skill points in the Backpack to be able to carry more packages or suitcases around at once.[/p]

[h3]✨ New Decoration Options[/h3]
[p]You can unlock two new wall and two new floor decorations from Deco-Denise.[/p]

[h3]📦 New Baggage Type: Jumbo[/h3]
[p]Starting now, you can unlock Jumbo suitcases, which earn you significantly higher income per piece than conventional baggage.[/p]

[h3]🛫 New Upgrade for the Airport Sorter[/h3]
[p]You can now unlock an upgrade for the Airport Sorter that allows you to filter by two destination airports.[/p]

[h3]🚧 Faster Automation 🚧[/h3][p]We increased the base speed of all conveyor belts and machines. To illustrate, here's a conveyor line with one upgrade each before and after the changes.[/p]

Sorting machines now work faster, especially at the beginning of the game.
Straight conveyor belts and large conveyor-belt curves are now 33% faster.
Turntables now rotate within one second instead of 1.5 seconds.
Suitcases now cross bridges within 3.5 instead of 4.5 seconds.

[h3]🌻 Improvements for Plants🌻[/h3]

Giving plants love (upgrading them) now also improves their contribution to the decor level.
Plant upgrades now go up to level 7 instead of only up to level 4.

[h3]🎨 New Colors for Conveyor Belts🎨[/h3]

There are two new colors: Pink and Yellow.
The railings of straight conveyor belts and large curves are now colored as well.
It is now possible to color the conveyor belt of the substance sniffer.

[h3]🧹 New Skill: Janitor 🧹[/h3]
[p]For every skill point you invest in Janitor, you will receive +50 XP and +$10 whenever you dispose of trash or mop the floor (two points were invested in the clip below).[/p]

[h3]🕶️ Improvements for Rolf 🕶️[/h3][p]Rolf has "recalculated" his payouts once again. We improved his quality upgrade: per upgrade rank, you now get at least $10 more than before. In the image above, the upgrade is at Rank 3.[/p]

[h3]🐞 Bug Fixes🐞[/h3]

Package delivery can now be automated: If a conveyor belt is placed on the X on the floor, packages are caught out of the air and placed onto the belt, and Horst waits with the next throw until there's free space. (Previously, the problem was that the packages wouldn't stay on the belt or would knock each other off.)
Packages thrown into a baggage exit are no longer destroyed; instead, they reappear directly above the player's head and fall down.
In languages without latin letters, text that should have been readable on some of the TV screens, was invisible.
The elevated conveyor belt that could be unlocked through an upgrade at the dog was often the reason suitcases got stuck on what seemed like a straight conveyor-belt section.
It was possible to rotate the camera view while the feedback form was open.
Sometimes Rolf would examine suitcases in his absence and grant extra money.
It was possible to draw on whiteboards while the menu was open.
It is no longer possible to accidentally draw on whiteboards while holding the mouse button and walking by, for example while carrying baggage.
It could happen that the quest to find illegal substances with the sniffer could not be completed if the automation for the dog was unlocked beforehand.
After closing the feedback form the game was in a bugged state until the menu was opened and closed again.
It is no longer possible to build an endless UP farm. A machine now only grants UP progress once per suitcase, not over and over again.
Scanning a baggage item no longer grants XP multiple times.
Flipped conveyor belts no longer reverse direction after being upgraded.
Fixed city name labels overflowing on the Terminal 2 receiver in languages with longer names (e.g., Portuguese).
Fixed baggage occasionally not being picked up by storage.

[h3]✨ Quality of Life ✨[/h3]

To better distinguish packed building parts, there is now a hint showing the part's name while you carry it around in a package.
When you look at a sorter or any other building part that isn't a conveyor belt, a hint with the part's name is now displayed as well.
When suitcases are placed onto a table by a machine, the tag is now automatically rotated to match the table's orientation.
The default mouse speed has been reduced by 40%.
You can now use the mouse wheel to rotate buildings while placing them.
Suitcases can now be rotated both with the R key and with C.
It is now possible to interact with doors when you carry parcels or baggage.
XP & UP popups have subtler sounds, better-formatted text, and a subtler presentation when many popups appear within a short time or at a large distance from the player.
Build quests now include explained quest steps for clearer guidance.

[h3]⚙️ Miscellaneous ⚙️[/h3]

The plant "Rüdiger" has been improved and now provides 10 XP instead of 1 XP per upgrade level every 60 seconds.
Another plant "Kevin" that gives you a money bonus can now be bought after being promoted to trainee.
The number of invalid suitcases per flight is no longer always one, but now varies randomly to make things more interesting.
Additional suitcases now arrive between flights: starting at one every 15 seconds. The interval between suitcases decreases by 3 seconds for each promotion you've unlocked.
The trash can has been given a fresh coat of paint and now indicates that you get money back for disposing of packages.
Removing columns is much cheaper at the beginning and gets more expensive the farther back the column is in the hall.
For every skill point invested in Merchant you now get back 6% of the money instead of 2%.
For every skill point invested in Technician you now get reduce the price of upgrades by 8% instead of 4%.
The cost of the second upgrade of all sorter machines was reduced by $200.
Deko-Denise's email now points out that plants can be improved.
We have reduced the amount of upgrades for conveyors from 5 to 3, but increased the speed boost each individual upgrade unlocks.
The joke of the day has been added in Japanese with voice acting.
When a machine's output ends on a table, suitcases are rotated so that their front faces the front of the table, making them as easy as possible to process further.
New quest for substance sniffer automation, helping players discover this feature more reliably.
Airport Baggage Simulator now has, in addition to English, its own logo and title translation in the following languages: German, Japanese, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Czech, Russian, Spanish, and Italian.
Special thanks to Rusty Champaign, the YouTuber with the most-viewed video about the 0.2 update. To honor that, we added Champaign (CMI) as a new destination airport for Terminal 2.

[h2]🛫 Thanks for Reading 🛬[/h2][p]We hope you enjoy the new version! If you do, be sure to add the game to your wishlist so you don't miss future updates.

And always remember – airport operations tolerate no negligence!

✈️🧳

Solid greetings,
Günther!

Three River Games (3RG)
2025

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