Hello, Catalysts! This update's got some very highly sought-after improvements for how building things works.

Most notably, Decorations have had a huge rebalancing. They're now a lot stronger and more interesting to place down; As a decor takes up more space, the range it reaches gets further while the boost it provides gets weaker. This means you can get a LOT of decor overlapping one building to supercharge it.

Not only that, there's now what I call the Town Renovator! You now have three little snow globes in the buildings menu. Using one of these will swap out your ENTIRE town with whatever you have already stored in there. It's a really fast way to change your town's layout, or just bulldoze everything and try something new.

That's the most notable changes, but there's more than that! Here's the full patch notes:

• Added a Town Renovator! You can swap out your town layout using 3 different slots, letting you quickly clear out or change up your town.
  
• Added a phonograph. It's buildable late in NG+ and plays a certain someone's tracks after their work is done.
  
• Attempting to place a building over multiple others now stores all overlapping ones (and you still pick up the closest one)
  
• A couple more decorations are now paintable. (Boss 4's table and candle, as well as some seasonal decor)
  
• Added a secret to a building. (Hint: Bubble)
  
• Pawn shops now offer stacks of 5 materials instead of single materials, making them more worth it for the real estate.
  
• Warehouses now accept up to 12 sellable items and will attempt to distribute them to refill stores as well as materials.

• Buffed overall decor range and strength. Now as a general guideline, the more space the decor takes up, the larger its range gets while the weaker its boost gets. There's a couple exceptions though to keep some interesting niches.

Previous decor stats:
New decor stats:

• Slowed down the base rate of building updates: 20-25 minutes -> 25-30 minutes
  
• Adjusted stats of some decor that didn't match the standard of the rest of the decor.
  
• Increased level of T1 class shops, 1.0 -> 1.5
  
• Fixed some incorrectly-colored building menu icons.
  
• Buildings that hold items but don't sell them no longer contribute the items to town level. (refineries and the warehouse are the only buildings that do this.)

• Added building UI displaying how decor affects them when you place something down.
  
• Added update popups. These appear with a chime whenever something happens from real-time updates. Visits, purchases, taking quests, etc. (You can turn these off in the options menu.)
  
• Added new UI to forbidden knowledge to make its effects clearer.
  
• Fixed a long slowdown during judgement if you have an absurd amount of money from the previous run.
  
• Fixed the camera during the ending breaking on very very wide windows.
  
• Added visual variants for the loop badges when you get a lot of them.
  
• Reading cards now makes the music quieter.
  
• The screenshot buttons now display the town stats (if the option with menus visible is used) and the amount of loops completed.
  
• Fixed the Menu-enabled screenshot button not displaying menus that were offscreen in-game.
  
• The building menu now displays the number of each building placed in town.
  
• Added more material sprites to one of the guide cards to hopefully encourage experimentation a little more.

• Increased requirement for the Decorator achievement, 110% -> 200% total buffs (to account for decor being way stronger now)
  
• Added an NG+ reward building for Boss 6's request
  
• Loading in now checks to see if you're missing any achievement statues, then adds them back.
  
• Fixed the Expansions statue not being unlocked correctly.

• Added sounds to NPCs spawning, making the music quieter for a second.

Hello, Catalysts! It's been one whole year since the game first released, and I couldn't be happier with how everything has gone.

To celebrate, we've updated the game with some anniversary-related things, as well as some good old quality-of-life to hopefully make the early parts of the game easier and less...confusing. Maybe on my next game I should just explain everything with text, haha.

• Added 3 new floor types: Brick, Quilt and Classic Rock
  
• Added an anniversary shop! Sells random fireworks and a party hat.
  
• Added a new set of decor! Things hanging on ropes, a new late-game flower, and a FIRE JET. Normal stuff.
  
• Increased capacity per-item of Warehouses, 99 -> 999
  
• Fixed the Incinerator not being solid.
  
• Fixed a Hitching Post decor being buried in the ground.

• Some old envelopes have appeared in the menus...They point out the basics of how each menu works. They show up as a hint button on those menus as well, so you can turn that off in the options.
  
• Added more steps to the town expansion so that little task starts much earlier. There's now a trinket associated with it! If you're loading an old save file, it'll consider those already done.

• Added 5 new hats and 5 new heads.
  
• Adventurers have a chance to be very color-coordinated...what do you think determines that?

• Added a rapid click function for the Materials menu; you can now hold rapid click to stack up mats EXTREMELY fast.
  
• Added more clarification to the Decor hint card.

Hello again, Catalysts! Very small hotfix today for some pretty important bugs.

• Fixed a crash that happens when first starting NG+.
  
• Fixed buildings becoming intangible if you cancel moving one.

Hello again, Catalysts! As is the nature of game development, no patch can survive being un-hotfixed for long. Here's some visual fixes regarding some new things added in v2.1.

• Fixed falling adventurers teleporting onscreen from above.
  
• Made pets less prone to taking a bunch of tiny steps.

• Fixed some missing names in new items.
  
• Fixed incorrect sprites with some gem items.
  
• Fixed negative stats on items using the wrong icons.

Hello, Catalysts! Pretty big update! New buildings, new cards, and a WHOLE lot of little tweaks here and there to make things smoother. If you're playing on the Steam Deck, everything should properly adapt to it now!

Also important is a controls menu! Wow! I'm so adamant on developers adding these, yet I didn't add one to my own game. How hypocritical...UNTIL NOW.

• Added a Rabbit & Steel cameo! It should show up after Boss 3 becomes available.
  
• Added Hint Cards that you get as you progress through the game. These should have (still cryptic) hints on how some mechanics work.
  
• (hopefully) fixed the ending not accounting for placed buildings.
  
• Most cards you get are now non-dismissable until you get to the end of them.
  
• Fixed the tutorial card re-view on the main menu playing the unlock animation.

• Added a Warehouse! These evenly distribute materials you put in them across town, refilling shop stocks.
  
• Added an Incinerator! These burn up materials and items for a small amount of extra time to the current night.
  
• Added a Grill! It's a lategame variant of the Bakery, though it's not a lot of overlap.
  
• New Decor! A popcorn machine, hitching post, tacky lightup arrow sign, and more!
  
• Clocks now have standard decor properties.
  
• The signal catcher now works a little differently. Once it gets a signal, you hold click on it for a second. After you do that, then it sets ALL elements to 0 and unlocks the signal.
  
• T2 class shops have had their attract rates slightly buffed.
  
• Moths no longer push out of each other if they're past the town borders, so hopefully they don't push out of the screen.
  
• Geode Shops now create a Rock Bag out of 100 pebbles...that sells for as much as 100 pebbles.
  
• Boss 5's material now makes a new item in T1 class shops.

• Optimized offscreen adventurers; they don't update every frame now.
  
• Fixed NPCs holding the wrong card if new cards were added after they spawned (again).
  
• Fixed adventurers walking in place.
  
• Picking up an adventurer while stock displays are open now shows some stats about them and what they've bought.

• Added a Controls menu! You can now rebind your controls. Yay!
  
• The options button is now darker on the title screen so as to be less eye-catching during the intro.
  
• Made various improvements to how controllers handle.
  
• The cursor now snaps to "ENTER WORLD" on controller so you can get in real fast.
  
• Changed how cameo cards look to be a little cooler.
  
• Popup menus now have a nice little animation when they spawn.
  
• There's now a Button Magnifier option. With it enabled, it shows a much larger number when stacking up resources.
  
• Fixed grabbing menus if you're already holding the mouse down.
  
• the "Reset Default Options" button in submenus now only resets the options present in that submenu.
  
• The cursor now shows an indicator when scrolling.

• The game now always starts in fullscreen when in Big Picture Mode.
  
• Fullscreen and window size options no longer appear when on the Steam Deck or other fullscreen-only platforms.
  
• The tutorial's control prompts now adapt to the type of control scheme you're using.
  
• Steam deck and Big Picture Mode now display virtual keyboards when renaming a friend.
  
• Added A+X as a default binding for rapid click on controllers.

• Boss quests are now limited to 300 completions to keep save file sizes consistent.
  
• Fixed being able to add materials to a completed fetch quest.
  
• Increased ice nautilus drops: 6 ice 3 shell -> 10 ice 6 shell
  
• Increased pillow drops: 4 silk 6 feather -> 8 silk 8 feather
  
• Applied save compression to the quests file. You shouldn't notice anything, but still worth noting!

• Added several new rare moon variants.
  
• Fixed some names.

Hello, Catalysts! A good bunch of you have cleared NG+ now. Good to see it!
There were a bunch of reports of friends lists having some weirdness when it hits the limit. Along with fixing that, I made the file compress the same way others do, which means I can afford to increase the friends limit without changing the file size! Yay!

• Increased the friend limit to 125. Have fun!
  
• Fixed the friends list getting all weird if you hit the limit.
  
• Fixed recently-added friends forgetting they're already in town if the game is restarted.

• In sidequest 6, fixed an NPC saving incorrectly if the game closes during a crucial moment.

• Fixed the giant pillar in NG+ being highlighted as buildable when you can't afford it.
  
• The brewery now shows that materials can be put into it when you hover over them.

• Applied some compression to the friends file. This shouldn't affect anything on your end but I'm writing it down anyway.
  
• Queued up savefiles now set the saving cooldown immediately to prevent a potential frame-perfect double-save. MAYBE that fixes the freezing i've seen people get? We'll have to investigate further to figure out what's causing this.

Hello, excavating Catalysts! Do you like shovels? Do you like shovels that don't break? Then this update is for you.

• Fixed picking up invisible buttons when using the shovel.
  
• Adjusted the final photo of the shovel sidequest.
  
• Made a couple of the shovel spots easier to hit.
  
• Fixed a crash when double-clicking the shovel.
  
• Fixed a crash when trying to pick up a material while holding the shovel and vice versa.
  
• The shovel.

Hello, Catalysts! Another hotfix. Smoothing things out. You know the drill. In addition to bugfixes, though, you can now SIT ON BENCHES AND STUFF. You can click on your adventurer to make them interact with the building they're standing in front of, if they can. Otherwise they'll just jump in place. Woohoo!

• Fixed not being able to swap outfits.
  
• The exit confirmation menu now waits until the game is done saving to actually close the game.
  
• The exit confirmation menu now suppresses automatic updates like most other menus do.
  
• Cards with objective counters now highlight the counter when showing unlocks. It's also been moved lower.
  
• During the tutorial, the double click prompt now blinks faster.

• You can now click on yourself to interact with buildings like other adventurers do.
  
• Fixed rearranging the friends list not updating in-town adventurers correctly.
  
• Fixed guildmembers keeping the chatbadge after you remove them. Freeloaders.

• Changed the soccer ball to be more mechanically consistent with the rest of the game.
  
• Fixed a reversed sprite on a certain building that, according to achievement stats, I don't think anyone's gotten yet.

Hello again, Catalysts!! Very small fast hotfix for this; we were getting reports of a very strange crash. Remember when I said "Everything's proooobably okay"? Turns out that wasn't entirely true, haha. We'll be keeping an eye out on any other issues.

• Fixed a crash on load when a cocoon attempted to spawn.