Winkeltje: The Little Shop News

Hello Shopkeepers!

With the end of the year in sight, we're all preparing for some family time and wondrous feasts of any kind. But although the end of the year may be in sight now, the past few weeks we've been hard at work on presents to give to you in the form of a new update. This is our biggest update yet, and we genuinely hope you will like it all. As the holidays are fast approaching, give yourself the gift of some time for yourself. Perhaps play some Winkeltje and have a nice big mug of a beverage of your choice. And although it might still be a little early, from all of us at Sassybot, we would like to wish you all happy holidays and a profitable new year!


In this update we add a fine selection of warm cozy Winter decorations, these are sure to make your shop feel all warm and ready for the Winter and new Winter Solstice event. New carpets, lanterns, solstice decorations and fireplaces add up to a grand total of 10 new ways to cozy up your shop!


Double wide walls give you even more freedom when creating your shop, with the first type of item being a Wide Archways for each set, we've got some cool stuff planned for this feature, but didn't want to keep you all waiting.


Objectives play a big part in the game and now they too have had their looks updated and code upgraded. New progress meters, a new way of tasks lighting up, a new deadline meter, new prioritization and overall a new look, make the objectives a lot clearer. A new deadline meter will tell you just how much time you have left for your objective. Deadline objectives are now properly pushed to the top of the objectives list, so you can always keep an eye on them and won't accidentally end up missing their completion date. New animations cause new objectives to drop from above and cause them to get crossed off on completion. There are also a lot of under the hood changes which will make displaying objectives easier for us, so you can expect some nice new stuff there in the future.

Of course as always, we're interested in knowing what you think of this update, so feel free to let us know what you think of it in the comments. Or join the Discord (https://discord.gg/ZSMEenk) where you can talk with us and the rest of the community, and where you can sneak a peek at the change logs as the game is being made.

For the full patch notes, feast your eyes on the list below.

[h2]New[/h2]

• Community Request: Furniture Tags - Furniture with tags now show their tags in the furniture buy menu.
  
• Community Request: Shopbuilder - Added support for double width walls.
  
• Shopbuilder - Added Double archways for the shop builder.
  
• Audio - A sound effect is now played when items have been delivered during the day.
  
• User Interface - Animated main menu background.
  
• Furniture - 6 new Winter decorations, 2 new fireplaces and 2 lanterns have been added to the game. You can unlock these through the new Winter objectives.
  
• Furniture - 'The Winter Wreath' and the 'Winter Garland' unlock at the start of Winter.
  
• Objectives - 'Winter Solstice Preparations' repeatable Winter objective, unlocks the 'Solstice Tree' and the 'Round Winter Carpet'.
  
• Objectives - 'Winter Sales' repeatable Winter objective, unlocks the 'Lantern on a Table' and the 'Square Winter Carpet'.
  
• Objectives - 'Fueling the Fire' repeatable Winter objective, unlocks the 'Enclosed Fireplace' and the 'Fireplace'.
  
• Objectives - 'Lighting up the Shop' repeatable Winter objective, unlocks the 'Wallmounted Lantern' and the 'Large Winter Carpet'.
  
• Events - 'Winter Solstice' Event. Successfully completing the 'Winter Solstice Preparations' objective leads to an increase of customers during Winter Solstice as result of your preparations.
  
• Audio - Failing an objective now has a unique sound.
  

[h2]Art[/h2]

• Community Request: Art - Updated the pie icons to be more discernible.
  
• Art - Updated the coin shader and pickup effect.
  
• Art - Coin brightness should now be adjusted depending on the time of day.
  
• Furniture - Updated the outlines of all furniture to be crisp once again.
  
• Furniture - Adjusted item height slots of the Adorned Cupboard, Large Adorned Table, Elegant Table, Large Elegant Cupboard, Large Rustic Table, Rustic Cupboard, Wide Elegant Shelf.
  

[h2]Balance[/h2]

• Community Request: Shop Size Increase - Increased shop size by 44% (100 tiles -> 144 tiles) [Note: For now sizes of older shops will not be increased, if you want to experience the larger shop sizes, you'll have to start a new shop.]
  
• Balance - The Forge and the Tailoring Station now have 10 appeal.
  
• Decorations - Increased appeal value of a lot of decoration pieces to be more fair when it comes to their occupied space.
  
• Events - Successfully completing the 'Harvest Day Preparations' objective now leads to a boost of customers during Harvest Day (Autumn) as result of your preparations.
  

[h2]User Interface[/h2]

• Main Menu - The background scene is now in a Winter holiday mood for the season.
  
• Objectives HUD - The Objectives HUD has been given a new look! New progress meters, new way of tasks lighting up when you're performing an action that updates the objective, a new deadline meter, new prioritization and overall a new look, make the objectives a lot clearer.
  
• Objectives HUD - New animations when an objective starts, when it's completed and when it's failed.
  
• Deadline Objectives - A new deadline meter will tell you just how much time you have left for your objective.
  
• Deadline Objectives - Deadline objectives are now pushed to the top of the objectives list.
  
• Time - Added a little line on the time dial to indicate when the day is over.
  
• Optimization - Optimized the amount of Translate() calls done when hovering over an object.
  
• Controls - Updated camera animation system.
  
• Controls - Tweaked camera sensitivity control settings.
  

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

• Player - Player could end up teleporting if they walked into the corner of a double shelf.
  
• Shopbuilder - Trying to build a wall without a neighboring tile will now give a hint as to why it does not work.
  
• Shop - Walls that were added to the game after a file was saved should now unlock correctly.
  
• Structure - Market Gate had 2 unassigned colliders.
  
• Furniture - Pot Shelf could push the player around when it was being moved.
  
• Art - Fixed a graphical issue with the coin shader.
  
• Art - Fixed an issue where materials using the vertex color shader would sometimes create overbright spots due to the output not being clamped.
  
• Art - Outlined objects should have the cloudy highlighting working once again.
  
• Objectives - "Harvest Day Preparations" objective was not set to repeatable.
  
• Objectives - Objectives with a deadline now correctly load in the remaining days.
  
• Objectives - Repeatable objectives will now correctly trigger again when failing them.
  
• Objectives - Deadline objectives could throw an error when they are not shown in the currently active objectives list while being updated.
  
• Tutorial - When saving and loading the game during the "Learn the controls" objective, it could not be completed.
  
• Tutorial - Tutorial objective "Expansion" would not correctly update after loading a save file.
  
• Tutorial - Tutorial prompts for "Welcome!" objective now only shows after confirming.
  
• Tutorial - Tutorial objective "Welcome!" would not correctly update after loading a save file.
  
• Tutorial - Tutorial objective "The Camera" would not correctly update after loading a save file.
  
• Tutorial - Tutorial objective "Grand Opening" would not show prompt to open the shop after loading a save file.
  
• User Interface - Returning to the Scenario Select in a different language would not update the text to the correct language.
  
• User Interface - The button bar at the bottom of windows should now make the button wider if needed once again.
  
• User Interface - Deleting more than one shop from the Load Shop menu would not work.
  
• User Interface - Fixed an issue with outlines, UI, and cursors flickering when a menu is open.
  
• User Interface - Using the Q and R key should now adjust the camera orbit speed relative to the camera sensitivity setting.
  
• User Interface - Increased the size of all the old UI to fit better with the default size of the new UI.
  
• User Interface - UI should default to "Tiny" once again.
  
• User Interface - When dragging the mouse to buy tiles, there would be audio feedback given even when nothing was changed.
  
• User Interface - Setting UI scale to anything beyond normal should now also adjust the scenario select window height.
  
• User Interface - Opening the game settings with UI scale set to higher than normal on 1920x1080 resolution would try to reduce the UI size using an incorrect value.
  

[h2]Hotfixes[/h2]

• [4493] Easy, Hard, Relaxed & Creative modes should now correctly have the 12x12 grid.
  
• [4495] Failed objectives are now correctly unsubscribed from events.
  
• [4496] Trying to continue with an (old) invalid shop would break the game. The main menu continue button is now omitted when such a shop is detected.
  
• [4497] The objective fail animation in the HUD could cause an error if it was trying to animate while not being visible.
  
• [4498] The crafting UI was occasionally causing an error when trying to craft something under rare circumstances.
  
• [4499] Updated French translation.
  
• [4500] A task in the objective HUD would sometimes try to pulse its background while the reference to the objective would no longer exist.
  
• [4502] The furniture UI should now be placed in front of the objectives HUD.
  
• [4504] Fixed an error that could occur in the rare case of the entrance transform being null.
  
• [4505] The restock UI was visible in the first frame after loading a shop.
  
• [4508] Pressing escape while crafting will no longer close the radial menu.
  
• [4509] Walking away from a planter after having it selected with the dpad would not disable the farming status HUD.
  
• [4510] Payment objective did not always compare shop money to a rounded debt value.
  
• [4512] Fixed an error where a task animation would start while not being visible.
  
• [4517] Objectives that completed without being visible in the HUD were not correctly deactivated.
  
• [4518] Fix: Setting the sounds volume in the game settings should now correctly save the preference.
  
• [4519] UI - Fix: Regular items without a quality level would appear to have a poor quality when inspecting the item using the item info popup.
  
• [4520] Fix: Winter garland collision box was not centered.
  
• [4521] Fix: Square carpet did not have a centered collision box.
  
• [4523] Fix: Shops that started in creative mode will now have newly added furniture unlocked
  

Greetings Shopkeepers!

Over the past weeks we've settled into the new office, getting familiar with the new environment and conquering the different trials that come with it. Now just as we've settled in and with production getting into full swing again, it is time for another update. So take some time for yourself, start up a relaxing session of Winkeltje and just enjoy the season from the inside for a bit. Now, if you were to ask me, I would say that sounds like a lovely time, wouldn't you?


This update brings 2 new kitchen planters for you to place. This should give some more variety to your shop's gardens because they can only be placed outside, but they will be cheaper as a result of that. Now you can finally create the kitchen garden of your dreams in Winkeltje.


Whenever you first open your shop after this update, you will be presented with a pop up, here you can give your shop a name. This name will be used as your shop's save name, so you can more easily identify which of your many shops is which.


The Main Menu is the first thing everyone sees when they start the game, but as we've been updating the UI, the Main Menu has been lagging behind on that. Now with this update the Main Menu gets its share of love and care. With a new style and completely remade the New Game and Load Game windows add many quality of life improvements. The New Game window has a new selector for the difficulties, showing all the options without having to use a slider. Hovering over them will show exactly how the difficulty is different. The Load Game window now allows for more than 3 saves and selecting an entry shows a screenshot of the shop, the shop name, difficulty, the in game day and season, when it was saved and which version it was saved in. Note: That screenshots won't appear just yet for older saves, a shop will have to be loaded and then saved for the screenshot to appear.

The decoration rebalance was planned long ago as we were adding more and more decoration pieces, but now it's finally here. With this update the appeal value will be determined through a variety of factors; the area the decoration piece occupies, if it's wall mounted, if it's a carpet or if the decoration piece is for outside. Of course you want to get what you pay for, so the price of each decoration piece is now calculated based on the appeal worth of the piece. As with the item rebalance, the decoration rebalance has gone through testing on the unstable branch, but balancing is an ongoing process and we are always looking for feedback. So please don't hesitate to contact us and let us know what you think of it!

Of course as always, we're interested in knowing what you think of this update, so feel free to let us know what you think of it in the comments. Or join the Discord (https://discord.gg/ZSMEenk) where you can talk with us and the rest of the community, and where you can sneak a peek at the change logs as the game is being made.

And of course, for the full patch notes just have a look below.

• Community Request: Shop Naming - You are now able to name your shop when you open it for the first time. (Or upon first load after the update.)
  
• System - Save game names now take on the shop name. (Older saves will be renamed to the new shop name after they have been given a name.)
  
• Furniture - 2 new kitchen gardens for planting crops. These are cheaper alternatives of the 2 slot and 4 slot planters without the wooden rim and with lower appeal.

• Main Menu - The Main Menu has been given a new look!
  
• New Game - The New Game window has as had its look updated to the new UI look and has a new selector for the difficulties, showing all the options without having to use a slider. Hovering over them will show exactly how the difficulty is different.
  
• Load Game - The Load Game window has been updated with a new look and now allows for more than 3 saves. Selecting an entry shows a screenshot of the shop, the shop name, difficulty, when it was saved and which version it was saved in.
  
• Credits - The Credits window has been updated to the new UI look.
  
• Prompts - Brought back the button prompt to bring up the options for both play mode and shop edit mode.
  

• Balance - Lowered costs of large and huge planter.
  
• Decorations Rebalance - Appeal of decoration pieces is now based on the area they occupy and the type of decoration. Prices for each decoration piece are now based on the appeal rating of the piece.
  
• Items - Starting a shop was a little too hard so all item prices have been increased.
  
• Events - Mining Rush event doesn't start until day 15 now (was day 1).
  
• Events - Adjusted the price modifier of Tools during the Mining Rush event (3x -> 2x).
  
• Events - Reduced the length of the Mining Rush event. (7 days -> 5 days)
  
• Events - Adjusted price modifier for Coal during Coal Find event. (0.5x -> 0.6x)
  
• Events - Adjusted price modifier for Iron during Iron Find event. (0.5x -> 0.6x)
  
• Decoration - Fancy Bouquet now uses a capsule collider instead of a box collider to make placement easier.
  
• Decoration - Vase now uses a capsule collider instead of a box collider to make placement easier.
  
• Decoration - Table of Plenty now uses a capsule collider instead of a box collider to make placement easier.
  
• Decoration - Small Rug's collider size was adjusted to more easily fit within one tile.
  
• Decoration - Flower Box can now be placed anywhere (inside and outside). Decoration value lowered to accompany being able to place outside (140 -> 100).
  
• Decoration - Flower Barrel can now be placed anywhere (inside and outside). Decoration value lowered to accompany being able to place outside (140 -> 100).
  

• System - Attempting to load (very old) save files would crash the game. The game now shows a generic error that a save file could not be loaded.
  
• Player - Player would autowalk into the faced direction when switching between controller and mouse while moving furniture.
  
• Shop - Calculations for Net Worth now correctly reflect the increasing price of shop expansions.
  
• Shop - In very rare circumstances the historical sales data list would be empty and throw an error.
  
• Trader - Trader prices can't be 0 anymore.
  
• Art - Fixed the seams between walls.
  
• Objectives - When loading a save file, invalid objectives will now be safely ignored instead of throwing an error.
  
• User Interface - Removing an item from the buy items menu should now correctly transition the number color to white.
  
• User Interface - The item info tooltip would cause an error when inspecting an item affected by an event where the exact event name does not have an icon.
  
• User Interface - Fixed an error that would occur when a reminder was being called in the Awake function.
  
• User Interface - Traders automatically going home did not remove the notification at the top of the screen.
  
• User Interface - Events used the incorrect icon parameter, causing issues on re-used events.
  
• User Interface - Event overview description now correctly uses the description from the event script.
  
• User Interface - UI now starts at scale 1 (tiny) when a player first opens the game.
  
• User Interface - Hovering a planter and going to the game menu would not reset the cursor to the correct graphic.
  

Happy Autumn Shopkeepers!

This week we moved offices, and while our move is still ongoing and we're busy settling in, we just didn't want to pass up the chance to share this new Autumn update with you all. Because with Autumn in full swing now with its windy and wet weather, what better way to enjoy it than from a dry and toasty place with some new Autumn themed goodies. That sounds like a wonderful time to me, honestly.


4 new autumn and 4 banner decorations have been added to the game to cozy up the place. These can be unlocked through new objectives that will activate each Autumn. They can only be completed in Autumn, but don't worry if you don't complete it in time, there will always be a next autumn to try unlocking them. If you do complete them, you can repeat the objectives and get some additional rewards.


The Level and Appeal bar get an update in this installment of the UI overhaul adventure. The day length bar is gone, but you will now be able to track the progress of the day with a clock. Extra accents and animations are added to when events appear, so it's even clearer when a new event starts and notifications light up. A much requested feature was being able to tell for how long events will be active for, with this update, you will be able to do just that for events that have a set length. You can see when events are starting up, when they are in full swing and when things are returning to normal. Some events however, you will just not know how long they will take.

7 new events have been added to the game, to add even more variety and a new harvest day has been added to Autumn. Furthermore the Shopping nights now no longer happen randomly but instead happen regularly on the last day of the season.


2 updates ago we introduced a crafting unlock choice with which you could now pick which crafting profession you wished to unlock in whichever order you wished. Items however were balanced according to a specific path, this update brings a big item rebalance with it, that will make all crafting professions equally profitable. Some items now require different or a different amount ingredients to make. This has gone through testing on the unstable branch, but balancing is an ongoing process and we are always looking for feedback. So please don't hesitate to contact us and let us know what you think of it!

Of course as always, we're interested in knowing what you think of this update, so feel free to let us know what you think of it in the comments. Or join the Discord (https://discord.gg/ZSMEenk) where you can talk with us and the rest of the community, and where you can sneak a peek at the change logs as the game is being made.

And now for the full patch notes!

• Community Request: Event length - You are now able to tell for how long events that have a set length will be active for. You can see when events are in their start up phase, when they are in full swing and when things are returning to normal. Some events however, you will just not know how long they will take.
  
• Furniture - 4 new autumn themed decorations and 4 banners have been added to the game. You can unlocked these by completing the new autumn objectives.
  
• Objectives - Deadline objectives will give you a finite amount of time to complete the objective, if you fail the objective you get nothing, but don't worry, there will always be a next time to try it.
  
• Objectives - Repeatable objectives can be completed more than once. There are currently 3 new Autumn objectives which are repeatable.
  
• Events - 7 new events (Frost, Drought, Mining Rush, Coal Find, Iron Find, Trade Fair, Traveling Fair) and 1 event variation (Autumn Harvest Day) have been added to the game.
  

• Level and Appeal bar - The Level and Appeal bar has been given a new look!
  
• Level and Appeal bar - The day progress bar has been changed to a clock.
  
• Settings - Added a reset button to easily return settings back to default.
  
• Settings - Opening a dropdown in the settings menu should scroll to the current selection.
  
• Buy Menu - Preview render textures now apply mild anti aliasing.
  

• Shopping Night - Shopping night are no longer random and happen every season on the last day of the season.
  
• Plague - Now also causes linen, wood and spades to be more expensive and wanted.
  
• Harvest Day - Now makes food cheaper instead of more expensive in anticipation of the harvest, different types of food are harvested than in Autumn. Sickles are now in high demand for the harvesting.
  

• Raw Resources Rebalance - Resources in general have been made cheaper to buy and sell.
  
• Food Rebalance - Food in general have been made cheaper to buy and sell.
  
• Seeds Rebalance - Seeds have generally been made cheaper to buy, except for potatoes which are slightly more expensive.
  
• Crafted items Rebalance - Crafted items prices are now based on their crafting items and their tier (their position in the wheel). Each crafting profession is now equally profitable. Prices now gradually increase per item so while some of the lows and highs may be lower, the mid range items have their prices increased.
  

• System - Players who have their OS language set to a different language than English could experience trouble playing the game.
  
• System - Added additional check when saving the shop to avoid saving null items.
  
• Art - Tweaked all furniture placement dust particle emission shapes as some were incorrect.
  
• Art - Doors were not using correct material.
  
• Art - Doorframes were not outlining to indicate interaction.
  
• Art - Placement dust should look less dark and more puffy.
  
• Art - Fixed particle collision on wall mounted decorations.
  
• Art - Toned down the Kingsday hype on the trader by making the clothes less fluorescent.
  
• User Interface - Navigating dropdowns in the settings menu should now also work for controller.
  
• User Interface - Fixed an issue where a small part of the Save Shop button was blocking a raycast.
  
• User Interface - Clicking a button should now only play the mouse down and up sound effect instead of also the select sound effect.
  
• User Interface - Updated the Game Settings menu to use toggle buttons instead of regular buttons.
  
• User Interface - When autorun is enabled, the prompt will now what button to press to walk.
  
• User Interface - Inline icons should now be correctly fixed due the icons.asset.meta file not appearing as a change to commit.
  
• User Interface - Icons in UI were offset due to increasing the resolution. This should be fixed now.
  
• User Interface - When closing the shop builder menu using a controller, the selector is now correctly put back where it was before
  
• Shop Builder - Trying to place a wall with a controller when having your mouse outside of the grid would throw an error.
  
• Furniture - The starter table had its collision set incorrectly and should now align and be valid when snapped in any orientation.
  
• Furniture - Adjusted collision box of crate to make it valid when snap aligning.
  
• Objectives - "Use a Crafting Station" objective will now also complete when planting a seed in a planter
  
• Objectives - Objectives are now looped through in reverse to avoid an error when the enumeration was modified through another trigger.
  

Greetings Shopkeepers!

Autumn has truly begun now and that means sitting inside with your preferred hot beverage, while the customers come rolling in or while crafting your next masterpiece. Just lovely.



For a long time now, a highly requested feature was Click to Move, in this update you can now finally move just with your mouse. Click on a destination and you will walk there, or hold the mouse button to move in the direction of the mouse pointer. This feature can be enabled in the Settings menu (Settings -> Gameplay -> Accessibility).

We need your feedback to improve this feature, so don't hesitate to get in touch with us!


For the second update of the UI overhaul, we have tackled the settings menu, here you will find all new graphics, audio and gameplay options and some old and trusted ones! All with a shiny new look.
A major addition is the addition of a controls tab, here you can find all of the controls for keyboard and controller, accompanied with a convenient category drop down for context based controls.


6 wonderful new crafting decorations have been added to the game, 2 for each profession. You can unlocked these by completing objectives accompanying the corresponding profession. These will really add some style to your shop!


Last update we updated the engine for Winkeltje. If you took a break and haven't played since before Update 3818, but now decide you want to open up shop again there will be incompatibilities with any previous saves you've had. But all is not lost! Included in Update 3906 is a save converter which will convert your shop save file and make it ready for this version and beyond. Simply load that version from steam, load up your shop and you’re good to go to update to the latest (stable) version.

Instructions for how to do this can be found here: Fix: "Error loading save file. File is likely outdated."(https://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791463886720/announcements/detail/1597010908188855828)

Let us know what you think in the comments or join the Discord (https://discord.gg/ZSMEenk) where you can talk to us or the rest of the community and where you can sneak a peek at the change logs as the game is being made.

For the full patch notes, you do not need to look further than just below this line!

• Community Request: Click to move - Turn on "Click to move" in the options and you can navigate your shop with your mouse. Just click and hold to follow the mouse, or click somewhere and walk there automatically.
  
• Community Request: Sprint toggle - An "Always Sprint" toggle has been added to the options. Turning this on will allow you to run around without holding down shift. If you still feel like walking after all from all that running around, you can always still hold shift.
  
• Furniture - 6 new crafting decorations have been added to the game, 2 for each profession. You can unlocked these by completing objectives accompanying the corresponding profession.

• Settings - The settings interface has been updated with a sleek new look!
  
• Settings - All settings options now have a description to them, so you can read what they will do.
  
• Settings - Selecting a language that has a translation completion of less than 80% should now show a button that leads to the 'Community Translations' post on Steam.
  
• Settings - Graphics - Shadows can now be turned on or off.
  
• Settings - Graphics - Anti aliasing can now be changed between different MSAA options: None, 2X, 4X and 8X .
  
• Settings - Graphics - Ambient occlusion can now be turned on or off.
  
• Settings - Graphics - Depth of field can now be turned on or off.
  
• Settings - Gameplay - Click to move can be toggled on here.
  
• Settings - Gameplay - Always sprint allows a player to toggle between having running or walking as the standard movement.
  
• Settings - Controls - A new screen which shows all the controls for keyboard and controller, accompanied with a convenient category drop down for context based controls.
  

• UI - Difficulty slider was causing an error.
  
• Objectives - "Upgrade 1 display" would trigger when unlocking a crafting station, it now correctly triggers only when buying a shop upgrade.
  
• Objectives - Removed an unnecessary Translate call when spawning objectives
  
• Shop Builder - Removed unnecessary fence post generation.
  
• Shop Builder - Stucco and brick window shutters are no longer stubborn and will open up the correct way.
  
• Navigation - Player should now always be able to move between furniture whenever the AI can as well
  

• Furniture - Particle dust around starter counter was not sized correctly.
  
• UI - The 'helpTranslate' button was not centered correctly.
  
• UI - Changing the language in game would not update the HUD.
  
• UI - Confirmation windows would only show the number of buttons of the first shown confirmation window.
  
• UI - Opening a confirmation window that pauses the game would not be correctly reset when deactivated.
  

Hello Shopkeepers!

With the summer holiday over and the days growing colder we once again spend more time indoors. And what better way to do this than with some new stuff to play with in Winkeltje?



This update marks the first update in a line of updates which will have some part of the UI updated to a new look. We are currently hard at work overhauling the UI to be clearer and just feel nicer in general, an added bonus is it becoming more modular for possible future features. In this update the Game Menu and Confirmation Window have both gotten some much needed love and are looking better than ever!


A much requested feature was a way to have control of the order in which crafting options unlock. With this update we added crafting skill points which can be gained at level 3, 9, 13 and 20 with which you can unlock crafting stations. Whenever you have unlocked a new crafting skill point the unlock window will open automatically, allowing you to unlock a new crafting station if you wish.


The Starter and Stucco and Brick set gain a few extra options, to help you create the shop of your dreams.


With this update we updated the engine for Winkeltje to Unity version 2019.2 to be able to make use of the awesome new features and fixes. To ensure there wouldn’t be any incompatibilities for shops caused by the engine upgrade we gradually updated the game with this in mind since version 3818. So if you’ve played in your shop since update 3818 you won’t have to do anything and you should be able to open up shop right away! Neat huh?

But say you took a break since before Update 3818 and now decided you wanted to open up shop again. If you were to go straight from pre-3818 to this version there will be incompatibilities with your save. But all is not lost! Included in Update 3906 is a save converter which will convert your shop save file and make it all ready for this version and beyond. Simply load that version from steam, load up your shop and you’re good to go to update to the latest update.

Instructions for how to do this can be found here: Fix: "Error loading save file. File is likely outdated."(https://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791463886720/announcements/detail/1597010908188855828)

And lastly... with the end of the summer holiday a new internship period has begun, and so we welcome Densin onboard as a new Game Design intern for the coming period.

Read Densin’s introduction here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/949290/discussions/0/1635291505036745726/

For the full patch notes, you do not need to look further than just below this line!

• Community Request: Crafting Unlocking Choice - You now unlock crafting skill points when you reach certain levels (3, 9, 13 & 20), with these you can unlock the crafting stations in any order you wish!
  
• Shopbuilder - New wall options for the Starter and Stucco and Brick kits (3 total) for your corners and to spruce up the place.
  
• Engine Update - Updated the engine to Unity version 2019.2
  

• Game Menu - The Game Menu UI has been updated with a sleek new look!
  
• Confirmation Window - The Confirmation Window UI has been updated with a new look!
  

• UI - Bushes would not pulse red when placed in invalid positions.
  
• UI - Cloning a planter while hovering over the original would cause the farming UI to bug out.
  
• UI - Furniture unlocked by either level or objective would appear twice in the unlock menu
  
• Events - The plague event wouldn’t start before the 40th day of any year .
  
• Events - Events never took longer than 1 day to finish up after they were active.
  
• Events - Events didn’t have proper price normalization while an event finishes up.
  
• Trader - Traders would not correctly apply the modifiers for crafting resources.
  
• Trader - Player can no longer collide with the trader.
  
• Player - When pushed out of bounds, the game should now put you back faster and more consistently
  
• Shop Builder - When reverting the shop builder, pillars would sometimes not be rotated correctly.
  
• Shop Builder - Crate collision box was inside the floor, causing collision issues when changing the floor.
  
• Shop Builder - Stucco and brick Window shutters are no longer stubborn and will open up the correct way.
  
• Shop Builder - Walls with windows that should have shutters will now always have shutters when there is no floor on the other side of the wall.
  
• Shop Builder - "Cost" string will now translate correctly when swapping languages while in the shop builder
  
• Shop Builder - Stucco set wall had incorrect shadow casting settings that made some walls appear dark during the day.
  

• Norwegian - The game is now available in Norwegian! - Thanks to Birk Fjeldbo Berg
  

• Crafting - The initial crafting unlocks for crafting stations would not unlock correctly
  
• Shop Builder - Shelves would not be marked as invalid when they should’ve been.
  
• UI - Interactables would sometimes not de-highlight correctly when an object had multiple colliders.