• Posh bar no longer makes cards and money glitch inside it
  
• Back button now works on the furniture app inside the tablet
  
• Keybinds 'reset to default' functions properly
  
• Bottles not being able to be taken in and out the fridge should now be fixed
  
• Barkeepers will no longer pull a sickie and will show up to work now every day
  
• Bar level 50 will now give the achievement
  
• Liquor bottles will stop getting stuck to employees (Thankyou to Rusty Champaign, turns out we only fixed half the problem and he located the exact cause)

[This should [b]not[/b] affect saves]

Hi everyone, so we've had the best of both extremes since launch which can be wonderful yet daunting. It's just so wonderful to have this level of support with people praising the game and making their own suggestions to how it could be even better!
Yet on the other end we see harsh criticism, the kind that makes you wince as you read/watch on. However I strongly believe that both are coming from a place of passion, therefore ignoring the 'haters' only serves to harm a game's development and purely listening to the supporters only gives half the story.
So to all the people who have spoke loudly on the positives and also to those who have shone a light on the negatives, I am very grateful to you both.

Anyway, here's the patch:

• Bottles will no longer get stuck to employees hands and get stored in wrong places
  
• Pictures displayed wrong tooltips
  
• Removed softlock for using the cash register
  
• Made the fridge lights 1/4th as bright as before
  
• Fixed misaligned walls in bar 2 (2 walls will require repainting if you've painted them already, sorry)
  
• Pub names didn't get saved between patches but now it will
  
• Liquor specialist was locked behind level 21, this wasn't the intention and the requirement is lowered
  
• Liquor pouring had incorrect tooltips
  
• Some AI liked to do a cheeky T-pose when waiting for change, new laws have made this illegal

• We've changed the prices on all licenses, making the earlier packages cheaper but the later ones more expensive

• We've added a new 'info' app on the in-game PC. Should you ever be confused about how the game works, information can be found there

Hi everyone,
Thankyou for the fantastic reception, here are a few things we were able to fix immediately.

• Flaked paint is no longer duplicated on the tablet
  
• Moved Pub chat to be under ambient sound setting instead of general SFX
  
• Moved the rep +- to be further away from the level to prevent overlapping
  
• Increased customer hitbox so you no longer have to hug them
  
• Fixed Gamepad loss of control when using tablets and pause menu

• Cheats now marks your save so you can't claim achievements.

• This should not affect your save, but let us know if bugs start occuring that weren't there before
  
• We're trying to track down a bug where the staff get stuck after customers order a shot, please join our Discord and let us know if this is affecting you too.

Well folks, this is it. Our exit from Early Access and into version 1.0.
We call it this because we want to convey that this isn't the end, that more updates and content will come of which I'll detail below. But without further ado, here's what the update brings:

• The Imperium, a huge property that used to be a nightclub before 'the incident', no longer will you be scratching for space in the Hound and Hare, this marks a significant milestone in our ability to make purchasable properties and future versions will now be easier for us to make.
  
• Background Sim, a huge effort in optimization. When you leave a property, the game will now covert all objects into pure mathematical calculations. This means you can now own as many properties as we can deliver with no impact to performance.
  
• Inverted bar corners, a long requested piece of furniture which will allow you to snake your bar in any direction you so please.
  
• Posh bar pieces, now there are 3 tiers of bars with the last one giving a + rep for having.
  
• Golden rep reward, if a customer finds more than 4 things they like about your bar, it's condensed into 1 golden +rep that doubles the reward.
  
• Steam achievements, enjoy showing off your successes in Pub Sim, now we've got it working you can expect more in the future.
  
• New Save System, our old system was very prone to corruption when the game got updated, the new system saves and checks many more aspects of the game to hopefully make sure changes are properly integrated.
  
• Snapping Grid, this allow you do quickly and accurately place objects, no longer will you be stuck measuring the specific height of lights.
  
• Animated progress bar, not requested at all but I personally felt that 1.0 is a benchmark where we make sure there is no part of the game that looks 'good enough' but rather has had effort poured into it. The old bar was a remnant of the first prototype so I hope you enjoy the new one.

• Chandelier has been optimized
  
• Level 999999999 won't appear for brand new players
  
• Initial game view ruined the broken Pub surprise, camera is now fixed
  
• Improved interaction box for cash register
  
• Repairing front text now says 'repair' instead of 'expand property'
  
• Keybind switching is fixed
  
• Jukebox didn't always show the music available
  
• Game no longer gets pitch-black at night
  
• All drinks are now on the price sheet
  
• Barkeepers will stop undercharging customers
  
• Customers will move away a lot faster now if a barkeeper refuses their order
  
• Liquor is now charged correctly (you always made a loss if you charged less than 300%)
  
• Barkeepers will stop freezing players if they use your beertap at the same time
  
• Fixed text overlapping problems
  
• Money sound is now affected by volume sliders
  
• Players can only stand from crouching if nothing is above them, this caused big problems before

• Added more descriptions for the misc crates
  
• Fixing the Pub front makes all the doors faster and without the creakiness
  
• Tip jars now accumulate money rather than giving it automatically
  
• Added a confirmation to starting your first shift to prevent early mistakes
  
• Added subtle tutorial for dealing with change
  
• Customers will no longer ask for a similar product if you don't have one
  
• Added -3 for dirty windows so players are more aware they can wash them
  
• We've split up the licenses so you don't need to purchase everything at the same time
  
• Also added 'recommended capital' for each license
  
• Added more staff management options
  
• Added warning for quitting the game when it hasn't saved
  
• Made the player hitbox smaller
  
• Vastly optimized the customer and staff AI
  
• Liquid amounts in wine and Liquor is now more easily seen
  
• Loan payback is now 0.5% of the current amount instead of the initial amount
  
• Added 'Final Orders' so you don't need to wait for ages at 00:00 while the liquor drinkers spend another couple of hours there
  
• Added map markers to help lost souls find their way home
  
• Made Whiskey Bottles a little smaller since they overlapped everything
  
• Plant collision box has been severely reduced

For this release we had the help of our fantastic testers:
Knightowl, KristyDiggs and Thamalo.
Who helped purely because they wanted to see Pub Sim become the best game it could be, to them myself and Valentin are incredibly grateful.
But specifically for this patch we also hired a team of professional testers to make sure this comes out as smooth as possible. If you do find any problems then please let us know and we'll work to fix it straight away.

Lastly, we did a community vote to what comes next so I'd like to present the results and plan in this order:

Today - 1.0 launch
Summer - Cooking snacks and soft drinks.
Autumn - Bathrooms, overdrinking and barfights
Winter - Fruit Machines, dodgy games and Casinos

Again thankyou to everything for supporting this game, we love to work on it and it's only because of you that we can continue to do so. We sincerely hope you enjoy this for a long time to come.

Hi folks, just a small patch to fix up some minor issues
This shouldn't affect save games but of course if you are facing excessive issues then a corrupted save will usually be the reason.

Bugs fixed

• Rainstorms were far too common
  
• Coins had temporary collision and pushed the player back
  
• Immovable objects could be selected which softlocked the player
  
• Text overlapped the in-game PC
  
• Weather sounds were not tethered to the audio sliders
  
• Some option sliders were not tracking the mouse very well

Hi again everyone, I come bearing news (other than the update) and I'm excited to get stuck in.

Right now we're working towards a huge feature, the ability to purchase another property on the map and own two Pubs at the same time. I believe this will take another couple of months to get it perfect but once this is done I will consider the game out of Early Access.

What does this mean for the game? Not much in a development sense, we'll keep digging through the most suggested features and work on the next big thing, the only reason we're calling this 'complete' is because this feature (along with the others we've implemented) pretty much encompasses the vision of what we thought this game should be.

This update comes with something else which, to my surprise, has been suggested by the existing community for some time. The game is too cheap, and while I wanted to keep the price low this also comes with expectations that the game isn't very good and is 'bargain bin' tier. So for this I'll be raising it to be in-line with other Sim games in our quality range.

And now we come to the patch itself, this isn't the biggest one but should fix many of the gripes we've been facing since patch 10 and beyond.

• Save slot data not always updating
  
• Wine was drained too quickly when being drunk
  
• Shotglasses VFX went wild when used by staff
  
• Liquor drinkers didn't reward the player for each drink
  
• Shotglass UI is not accurate
  
• Storage shelves can become unusable
  
• Beer not draining when being drunk
  
• Liquor drinker rate every drink as extremely dissimilar
  
• Beer tap kept running if shift ended while barkeeper was pouring
  
• Crates would randomly be rotated 180 on load
  
• Spillages are now on the tables instead of the floor (customers no longer wetting themselves)
  
• Couldn't move chandelier after placing
  
• Barkeepers kept phasing through the bar
  
• Cleaner got stuck on one particular spiderweb
  
• Glasses no longer get stuck to customers legs (hopefully fixed)
  
• Shelves no longer contain ghost bottles
  
• Rarely a barkeeper didn't take money from customers
  
• Ultrawide monitors had a squishing issue with the in-game PC, this has finally been fixed

• Added inverted options
  
• Added controller support
  
• Customers can leave puddles if it's a rainy day

Hi everyone and apologies for taking so long to fix this one, it was a real pain to find and especially over Christmas. However, with fingers crossed, we believe we got it.

We've included a bunch of optimizations as well which should reduce the filesize by roughly 2gbs.

Ultimately it was an issue to do with an unused save file not updating properly and causing a crash as soon as the map was loaded. Since we load the map upon game start it caused an immediate error.

If of course you're still crashing or find other issues then please let me know and we'll be right on it.

Hi everyone, we've spent a LOT longer on this one and I can only thank each and every one of you for your patience and support, I truly hope you feel it was worth the wait.

As always, PLEASE START A NEW GAME AS THIS WILL CORRUPT OLDER SAVES AND CAUSE STRANGE BUGS. But now for the good stuff:

• Tip Jars, there are now upgradable tip jars that will allow happy patrons to support your business
  
• New Intro, enjoy a bit more context into the start of your Pub venture
  
• A repairable front of house that will allow a greater markup tolerance once done
  
• New liquids, No longer will you be serving flat apple juice
  
• New lighting and dynamic shadows, atmosphere now included
  
• Further onboarding, hopeful removal of confusion for fresh players
  
• Project health, we've spent time to make sure the game will be ready for the future
  
• New crates and boxes for drinks
  
• New snow effects because it's Christmas!
  
• Added extra staff options so you can control when Barkeepers should serve or turn a customer away
  
• Fresh lighting pass to avoid black voids when upgrading the bar

• Main menu freeze upon game start
  
• Tablet not removing paint mode
  
• Part of cash register covered by text which blocked the mouse
  
• Customers went into stock room
  
• Placement arrow facing wrong direction
  
• Computer screen black
  
• Spawned under the ground
  
• Bar is dusty despite being clean
  
• Cleaner stopped working
  
• Drink Labels incorrect
  
• Ghost drinks taking up space despite not really existing
  
• Customers not leaving even after waiting beyond their patience timer
  
• Stock worker getting stuck
  
• Spirit drinkers refusing to leave
  
• Cleaners not cleaning shot glasses
  
• 1 Patch of dirt caused tons of dust
  
• Beer bottles showing as 0mls
  
• Glasses not despawning when shelf is moved
  
• Outside bin was highlighted when a full glass was being held
  
• Pause menu didn't pause the game
  
• Stockworker not replacing empty kegs from storage
  
• Modern pointlight had no material
  
• Customers never selected Absinthe
  
• Customers didn't reduce liquid amount in glass when drinking

• Items that are not level locked but have other requirements are now amber coloured instead of red
  
• Added further steps to help understand how the liquor specialist works
  
• Game now autochecks the players language
  
• Rep summary is now more understandable
  
• Mouse auto recentres during summary, cash reg usage and pause menu
  
• Spent money in summary is now red and not green
  
• Cleaners remove empty bottles instead of barkeepers now
  
• Stock workers use up the lowest quanitity crate instead of the first one they see
  
• Customers evenly distribute themselves between cash registers
  
• Added brightness options for game and the in-game computer in the office
  

• Lighting sometimes flickers
  
• AI clipping into tables
  
• AI teleporting forward when standing up from a seat
  
• Fog can enter the bar
  
• Staff pouring can sometimes look strange
  
• Bottles sometimes clip their boxes
  
• Some boxes are overlapping the stock shelves
  
• Beer can look red when customer is drinking it

Thankyou again, I hope you all have a wonderful time this season and we'll be continuing to work on Pub Sim in the coming year, please let us know if you find any extra issues and we'll be sure to get it fixed as soon as we possibly can!

As well as the usual bug fixes I thought it'd be nice to keep you in the loop to what's coming next, we're aiming to launch this just ahead of the Steam autumn sale.

Fluid Dynamics
We're working on making the liquids in the game look more realistic since right now it's functional but not great to look at.

Lighting Pass
We wish to make the game nicer to look at, making sure that the game has less harsh shadows especially when you expand the building.

New Game Intro
The game will start with a little more context to what's going on.

New Broken Front
New games will start with a dilapidated front, fixing it will allow a 50% increase to drink markup and gives a new short-term goal.

Tip Jars
3 tiers of tips will be added to allow you to earn a little more on the side for happy customers.

New Drink Crates
We're adding 9 more boxes for drinks, this will be to more clearly show the difference between Beers, Wines and Liquors at a glance. Then also Economic, Mid-range and Premium versions of those drink types.


Further Notes
Firstly, the property management feature is still being worked on, it won't be ready for patch 10 but I doubt it'll be too far behind it

Secondly, against my initial wishes it has been suggested from the community and internally that Pub Sim is just too cheap and people seem enthusiastic to support it further, so after the Autumn sale I will be raising the price to be more in-line with other Sim games of similar quality.