Daily Update 13

Hi everyone! Today's update is live.

Bonus challenges

- New bonus challenges: every now and then the game offers a short timed challenge. Accept it and finish in time to earn money and XP.
- Offers start after you finish the first tutorial. The reward ranges from 100 to 5000 depending on your level.
- Added sounds for offers, accepting and declining. If you'd rather not have them, you can turn bonus challenges off in Settings.
- The challenge card hides while the tablet is open, but the timer keeps running. In co-op, the host decides.

Home

- 8 items are now on sale in the home store: Fridge Freezer, Kitchen Stove, Dining Table, Dining Chair, Large Rug, Round Rug, Runner Rug and Large Oval Rug.
- The Big Rug is now a single piece, and a new Small Rug has joined it.
- Four rugs got new tablet icons that clearly show their real patterns and colors.
- While placing an item, the cursor now sits right in the middle of it, so you no longer hold the big rug by its edge.
- When you sit or lie on a sloped sun lounger or bench, your character now follows the slope.
- You can now sit on a bench or sun lounger an NPC was walking to; the NPC looks for another spot.

Tutorial

- The tutorial order has been reworked: placing items, picking up boxes, first orders, the website and the support floor are explained step by step. The new step texts are in every language.
- The guide now marks where to go on the map and leaves the choice to you.
- A tutorial card now only appears right after its own task; an unrelated step no longer takes over the card.
- Control steps for new players: walking and looking around, running, opening the tablet.
- New guide steps introduce R&D, the item store, the Stock page and orders.
- New step: hire your first employee. The card takes you to the Staff > Hire screen. These steps are skipped in older saves.
- New tutorial steps for the museum: opening the company, finding the museum, opening it and placing your first artifact.
- The task card is readable on top of the open tablet too, and has a single close button.
- Fixed the tutorial highlight on the tablet: when an app or a store item is highlighted, the other apps and store rows now dim properly.
- The Trashbin, Shelf and Packing Table steps now advance only when you actually place the item. The flow: open the box with C first, right click to enter placement mode, left click to place.
- In the first products step you now buy 5 each of 5 different products.
- When walking, if the target is more than 200 meters away, the guide first shows the Bus Stop (it used to be 250 meters); this now applies to every tutorial step.
- The shelf stocking step moves on to pricing after you place 5 products.
- In the market products step you buy 2 each of 3 different products. A new step comes before listing: put the products in the cooler.
- The tutorial hint line now shows together with the task line, and the tutorial strip on the tablet is wider.

Employees

- When an employee goes on vacation, an orange alert pops up; employees who leave at the same time are grouped into one notification.

Bug fixes

- The preview of the item in your hands no longer blocks the path and no longer counts as a bench.
- An ownerless box left in the middle after loading a save is now moved aside.
- Walking employees and the boxes they carry no longer block item placement.
- After changing the language, every cell in the cargo office table now shows in the new language.
- Fixed the gap in the fence and the steep slope in front of some villa doors; you can now walk up to the door easily.

Controller

- In tablet lists, pressing right now moves to the button on the side card (R&D Research, Shops Buy / Open, Companies Select).
- The Steam on-screen keyboard now only opens on Steam Deck and in Big Picture; long key labels on the on-screen keyboard now fit the keys.

Visuals and interface

- The camera no longer goes inside shops when you walk around them.
- The "Recommended" badge in the guide no longer overlaps the "New" tag.
- Repaired the torn pocket and holes in the Rucksack product model.
- Fixed the text margin on the delivery sign, other players' name tags no longer show through walls, and the held item indicator has been refreshed.
- Added a faded % sign next to the Auto price percent box on the Stock page.
Thanks for all your feedback, we're keeping an eye on Discord and the forums. If you run into a problem, don't forget to let us know!
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