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Changes

• Cooks can now use trays outside of their assigned rooms
  

• Sort icon on columns is now separate from header, to avoid it being cut off
  

• "Night owl", "super focus", "born leader" and "just the flu" above employees heads will now change color depending on whether the effect is currently negative or positive
  

• Changed the wording of the team compatibility filter error when looking for new employees

Fixes

• Changed room aura calculation to avoid inconsistencies based on furniture placement order
  

• Fixed bug when new product is released using framework with no owner, mostly occuring in multiplayer
  

• Fixed leader multitasking specialization not applying to accounting work and incorrectly requiring 3 stars for support work

It's trash time, baby!

Summarized patch notes

• Introduced indoor air quality that propagates through rooms and shows up as a gas/dust cloud in the room. This mechanic also replaces the odour mechanic
  

• Employees now generate paper trash, which can be dealt with by using trash cans (can be auto-placed for old saves and blueprints)
  

• Employees and cooks now generate food spills to encourage office/canteen separation
  

• Pallets now auto-connect to conveyor belts, pickup and drop-off points will be refunded on load
  

• Some furniture can now be auto-placed by holding J (default binding) during placement
  

• Improved key binding UX because people still don't know you can rebind keys and use , and . to rotate furniture?!
  

• Overhauled pathfinding data structure for performance + better determination of outdoor walking speed
  

• You can now build in front of elevators due to pathfinding overhaul
  

• Added support for modding doors and windows due to pathfinding overhaul
  

• "Old sole" trait is out, but "Immaculate" and "Claustrophobic" is in + new "Paranoid" personality trait
  

• Added support for networking and html-like UI creation for code mods
  

• Add-ons are now filtered based on whether their parent product is archived
  

• Added confirmation when cancelling active support deals (they can be cancelled without repurcussion if work hasn't begun)
  

• Tables with stuff on it can now be eaten at, assuming the stuff on it can be free placed (e.g. not big objects like computers and servers)
  

• Increased how far elevators can be off center and still be connected to 8cm (Does not fix existing saves)
  

• Employees will now prioritize tasks based on whether they are a secondary task and/or secondary role individually instead of as a whole
  

• Rooms that are otherwise off limits will now be treated as neutral if they have food trays, since people forget to mark them as canteens
  

• Dirty room warnings now only pop up for offices and reception areas
  

• Improved flickering light from lamps that are about to break and added sound effects + option to disable
  

• Added notification when another company uses player's framework
  

• Made clocks colorable
  

• Added conveyor speed info to build menu

Fixes

• Old saves will now be cleaned of duplicated doors, which could heavily impact performance
  

• Fixed memory leak on some Linux distros by forcing memory cleanup once an in-game year
  

• Fixed cleaners being a lot slower while fast forwarding
  

• Fixed prints shipped with helicopter not being registered in the stat window
  

• Dirt is no longer removed when inaccessible, however cleaners have gained telekinetic abilities
  

• Renamed "Hypochondriac" trait to "Patient zero", to make the negative synergy with "Just the flu" clearer
  

• Fixed trees flickering at 8 days per month with > 200 fps
  

• Fixed room curve tool taking walls on other floors into account when calculating nearness
  

• Fixed some areas becoming unpathable in Windows builds making furniture unavailable despite not being obstructed
  

• Fixed bug in multiplayer when releasing new version of digital distribution platform
  

• Fixed task priorities not being loaded in correctly when loading a save game, making it so teams with max task limits would work on the wrong task, until task order was changed
  

• Fixed cooks not playing opening fridge animation correctly
  

• Fixed game breaking if setting color blind mode to Custom first time from drop down instead of using button

Patch notes for Beta 1.8.40

• Doors and garage ports now push dirty air outside

Fixes

• Fixed accidentally removing elevator load balancing from game
  

• A ton of small fixes

Click here to see how to join the Unstable branch.

Remember to back up your important saves and leave plenty of feedback for the new features!

Patch notes for Beta 1.8.36

• Introduced indoor air quality that propagates through rooms and shows up as a gas/dust cloud in the room. This mechanic also replaces the odour mechanic
  

• Employees now generate paper trash, which can be dealt with by using trash cans (can be auto-placed for old saves and blueprints)
  

• Employees and cooks now generate food spills to encourage office/canteen separation
  

• Pallets now auto-connect to conveyor belts, pickup and drop-off points will be refunded on load
  

• Some furniture can now be auto-placed by holding J (default binding) during placement
  

• Improved key binding UX because people still don't know you can rebind keys and use , and . to rotate furniture?!
  

• Overhauled pathfinding data structure for performance + better determination of outdoor walking speed
  

• You can now build in front of elevators due to pathfinding overhaul
  

• Added support for modding doors and windows due to pathfinding overhaul
  

• "Old sole" trait is out, but "Immaculate" and "Claustrophobic" is in + new "Paranoid" personality trait
  

• Added support for networking and html-like UI creation for code mods
  

• Add-ons are now filtered based on whether their parent product is archived
  

• Added confirmation when cancelling active support deals (they can be cancelled without repurcussion if work hasn't begun)
  

• Tables with stuff on it can now be eaten at, assuming the stuff on it can be free placed (e.g. not big objects like computers and servers)
  

• Increased how far elevators can be off center and still be connected to 8cm (Does not fix existing saves)
  

• Employees will now prioritize tasks based on whether they are a secondary task and/or secondary role individually instead of as a whole
  

• Improved flickering light from lamps that are about to break and added sound effects + option to disable
  

• Added notification when another company uses player's framework
  

• Made clocks colorable

Fixes

• Old saves will now be cleaned of duplicated doors, which could heavily impact performance
  

• Fixed cleaners being a lot slower while fast forwarding
  

• Fixed prints shipped with helicopter not being registered in the stat window
  

• Dirt is no longer removed when inaccessible, however cleaners have gained telekinetic abilities
  

• Renamed "Hypochondriac" trait to "Patient zero", to make the negative synergy with "Just the flu" clearer
  

• Fixed trees flickering at 8 days per month with > 200 fps
  

• Fixed room curve tool taking walls on other floors into account when calculating nearness
  

• Fixed some areas becoming unpathable in Windows builds making furniture unavailable despite not being obstructed
  

• Fixed bug in multiplayer when releasing new version of digital distribution platform
  

• Fixed task priorities not being loaded in correctly when loading a save game, making it so teams with max task limits would work on the wrong task, until task order was changed
  

• Fixed cooks not playing opening fridge animation correctly

Patch notes for Beta 1.8.37

• Added conveyor speed info to build menu

Fixes

• Fixed multiplayer breaking after first day
  

• Fixed some modded furniture breaking game during placement

Patch notes for Beta 1.8.38

• Added a 30 minute delay on dirty room warnings and disabled it if there is a cleaner on the way, to avoid getting spammed by canteen and kitchen food waste
  

• Improved trash can auto placement algorithm to take into account how much trash will be generated vs what can be stored

Fixes

• Fixed not being able to place trash cans in atriums
  

• Fixed clock background defaulting to black in old saves
  

• Fixed memory leak on some Linux distros by forcing memory cleanup once an in-game year
  

• Fixed game breaking if setting color blind mode to Custom first time from drop down instead of using button