Apologies for the many hotfix updates recently. If you encounter any more bugs, don't hesitate to let us know using the [report form](https://tinylifegame.com/bugreport).
This update has a devlog post, which you can view [on itch](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/303915/0170-life-goals-reward-personalities-and-daily-tasks) or [on Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1651490/view/4244072077610086379). Tiny Life now has a [Twitter](https://twitter.com/TinyLifeGame) for news and sneak peeks, as well!
Additions
- Added Life Goals
- Added 5 new personality types that can be obtained by completing life goals
This update has a devlog post, which you can view [on itch](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/289260/0160-woodlands-and-visitors) or [on Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1651490/view/2949282742498975401).
Additions
- Added the Woodlands Set with art by [faellynna](https://www.instagram.com/faellynna/), which includes a Woodworking skill and a large variety of new build mode items:
- 34 new furniture items, including the woodworking table and new types of decorative items
- 4 flooring tiles
- 5 wallpapers
- 2 roof styles
- 8 character creator items
- Added a large new forested area with dirt footpaths to the eastern part of town, along with some new houses and empty lots
- Added emotion sting sound effects by the lovely [Jamal Green](https://jamalgreenmusic.com)
- Added a regular visitors system that allows for people from exported households to visit and interact with the town without living there
- Added a few households that are exported by default to populate the visitors system
- Added the ability for furniture to get dirty and having to be cleaned
- Added an "Invite into Household" interaction
- Added a way to scrap other people's crafts on public lots
- Added italian translation ([SchiavoAnto](https://twitter.com/schiavoanto))
Improvements
- Improved the chatting interaction on the computer, now allowing people to chat with specific people
- Added more in-game hints for various build mode tools
- Added a configurable keybind for increasing and decreasing game speed
- Cleaned up the localization of money and always display money amounts with decimals
- Allow easily deleting items in the move tool by pressing the Del key when hovering over them
- Split the Import menu into custom and default content and improved the household import menu
- Move invalidly placed objects into the furniture storage instead of selling them
- Made people leave the room on their own if they see someone being inappropriate
- Rebalanced bills slightly
- Made people tell others to leave the room when they start fooling around
- Disallow trees from being placed below roofs
- Made trees have a minimum distance from walls
- More gracefully handle Steam cloud sync exceptions
- Color lots on the map based on whether people live there
- Added the ability to clone roofing, openings, wallpapers and tiles in build mode
Fixes
- Fixed paintings being placed on easels incorrectly at fast game speeds
- Fixed a crash when hovering over people with lot employments whose personality is known
- Fixed 3D sounds breaking on camera rotation
- Fixed depth calculations being incorrect for larger and oddly-shaped objects
- Fixed the ability to hack yourself
- Fixed roofing having incorrect display names
- Fixed a crash when exiting the move tool with an item from storage selected
- Fixed hidden (out of town) people still spawning particles and emotes
- Fixed the ability to ask lot employment people to leave not working
- Fixed furniture with parents sometimes not being imported correctly
- Fixed people turning around visually for a single frame when starting social actions while sitting
- Fixed roofs having incorrect depth calculations in some camera rotations
- Fixed people not leaving occasionally when being asked to leave
- Fixed money not being subtracted when importing new households
- Fixed practice speech and jokes actions going on forever if done automatically
This update has a devlog post, which you can view [on itch](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/277913/0150-barbecue-trash-cleaning) or [on Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1651490/view/2968419780808932932).
Additions
- Added a barbecue and some grillable food items
- Added a picnic table with attached benches
- Added a new nature-style park with picnic tables and barbecues to the map
- Added an outdoor trash can and a Throw Away interaction
- Added a cleaning skill and some new, related actions
- Added chinese translation ([Rosareven](https://github.com/rosareven))
- Added multiple new funny actions
- Added a few personality-related emotions and actions
- Added a trash collector global employment which will go around public lots and clean up trash that was left behind
Improvements
- Made off the grid (ALT) furniture placement pixel-based
- Improved font smoothing, making small text and tooltips easier to read
- Made sounds in hidden rooms a lot quieter
- Made households on the default map know the personality types of their members
- Don't let people that are hidden from the player starve to death
- Rebalanced jobs, making them give you less ridiculous amounts of money
- Made people with global lot employments have slower need decay, stopping the mail deliverer from passing out constantly
- Made tooltips on invalid actions display instantly
Fixes
- Walls will now only be removed using the Remove tool when there is a line drawn through them, or when both sides are contained in a rectangle
- Disallow wall hanging objects from being placed off the grid
- Fixed paintings on easels being hidden with the Hide Hanging Objects option enabled
- Fixed people trying to get ingredients to cook when there were no available counters to prepare the food on
- Fixed people stuttering visually when on their way to social actions
- Fixed cars being spawned erroneously when the map is loaded
# 0.14.0
This update has a devlog post, which you can view [on itch](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/274082/0140-lamps-lot-movement-speech-sounds) or [on Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1651490/view/4430963222678444595).
Additions
- Added dynamic lighting and two lamps, a ceiling and a floor one
- Added speech sounds and a way to change a person's voice pitch in the character creator
- Added skill requirements for job promotions
- Added information to skill levelup notifactions that lists what actions are now unlocked
- Added an option to increase the overall brightness of the world at night
- Added an option to hide objects attached to walls and ceilings
Improvements
- Overhauled the Move Lot tool, allowing for much easier lot movement and rotation
- Made it likelier for people to pay the bills if their needs are extremely low
- Improved performance of in-world rendering
- Require the "Allow AI Important Actions" option to be turned on for people to repair things automatically in the active household
- Made hints and loading screen info display the current keybind for actions, not the default one
- Made puddles evaporate and disallowed mopping on natural ground
- Improved the volume of in-world audio (temporarily, there are still [more issues to fix](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/7532))
Fixes
- Fixed the ring menu breaking with a single action on the second page
- Fixed romantic actions displaying for family members if someone is too sad (yikes)
- Fixed incorrect furniture collisions between wall- and floor-based objects
- Fixed action prompts having close buttons when not exitable
- Fixed some visual inconsistencies with particles that are attached to objects
- Fixed held items being deleted when switching out of the Move tool
- Fixed corner-based furniture being able to connect incorrectly, especially counters
- Fixed a wall rendering inconsistency in some camera rotations
# 0.13.1
Additions
- Added the ability to ask people about their personalities
Improvements
- Wait longer until a partner is ready for social actions if the action was invoked by the player
- Improved positioning of some objects
Fixes
- Fixed the visual position being incorrect when running on treadmills
- Fixed most foods not having to be cooked
- Fixed some actions not completing correctly, causing cars to get left behind after traveling
- Fixed an action exception if a chair becomes occupied
# 0.13.0
This update has a devlog post, which you can view [on itch](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/271199/0130-camera-rotation-and-a-larger-map) or [on Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1651490/view/2967291343236374275).
Additions
- Added camera rotation, which can be used using the C key or the rotation buttons in the top right
- Added a new, more commercial-looking area to the game's map that currently features a park and a new resident
- Added Steam cloud syncing when playing while Steam is open
- Added some more social actions, especially ones related to emotions and skill levels
- Added a proper logo to the game, created by [Tector](https://www.instagram.com/tector_pixel/)
- Added getting water and washing your hands at sinks
Improvements
- Improved action navigation by adding pages to the ring menu
- Added some more plant and wood color schemes
- Added an "are you sure" screen for map employment changes
- Made objects be worth less when sold after being used
- Improved the roofing tool by displaying what's going on
- Made people a little less fast when feeling energetic
- Handle more action-related issues gracefully by displaying a notification about them
- Improved the options menu by adding tabs to it
- Made all emotion modifiers have higher values by default to allow for more nuanced emotions
- Improved rendering performance
- Added more info about the progress of map loading to the loading screen
- Added food preview icons to the food creation menu
- Made people display emotes while practicing speech or jokes
- Order stuff in the buy menu ascending by price
- Added some error handling for loading broken save games
Fixes
- Fixed a crash if asexual people tried to start new relationships
- Fixed a crash when modded furniture is removed from the world
- Fixed people being able to "go here" into walls
- Fixed some furniture items always reverting to their default colors when loading a save
- Fixed people being able to place wall-hanging items like paintings on the ground
- Fixed placing computers on desks (and similar stuff) being difficult
- Fixed some depth inconsistencies with rugs and wall-hanging objects like paintings
# 0.12.2
This is a small update that features several accessibility features based on information gathered in the [Tiny Life Roadmap Survey](https://ell.lt/tinysurvey). If you haven't taken part in the survey yet, you can still do so now!
Additions
- Added lot rotation to the Move Lot tool
- Added an in-game hints system, which can be disabled in the options for more experienced players
- Added a chance for angry people to autonomously do mean actions
- Added a Controls section to the options
- Added an X button to menus to make it clear that you can close them
- Added an error handler for when actions break, causing them to display a notification instead of crashing the game
- Added a way to delete the held object in build mode (by pressing the delete key)
Improvements
- Improved the saves menu by adding rename and delete buttons
- Improved visual feedback on the household selection ui
- Improved the way furniture looks when not placeable
- Increased the size of notification text
Fixes
- Fixed relationship changes being displayed for both people involved
- Fixed the top right corner of the screen not allowing for in-world interactions
- Updated German localization
# 0.12.1
- Fixed Make Mod and Write Book actions crashing the game
- Updated German localization
# 0.12.0
This update has [a trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e86RRKPNLv0) as well as a devlog post, which you can view [on itch](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/264773/0120-the-fitness-set) or [on Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1651490/view/2990934608186477339).
Additions
- Added the Fitness Set, with art by [Tector](https://www.instagram.com/tector_pixel/), which includes a fitness skill and several new furniture and clothing items:
- Five new hairstyles
- One new pair of pants and shoes
- Three new tops
- 11 new furniture items, including a treadmill, a standing desk, a protein shaker and some decorative items
- Added aromance and asexuality, both of which can be set in the character creator
- Added two additional windows and one additional door
- Added an outfit system that allows you to create multiple outfits for a person and switch between them anywhere
Improvements
- Made social actions less likely to be executed by the AI if they've been done recently
- Made people mop more puddles after mopping a puddle automatically
- Made people more likely to do the dishes, so that they actually do the dishes
- Fixed a few memory leaks that caused more RAM to be used the more saves were loaded/exited in one session
- Improved map rendering performance
Fixes
- Fixed some visual inconsistencies with the in-game ui
- Fixed held items being on a lower layer, causing them to look incorrect
- Fixed negative social actions taking away from relationships too little
- Fixed the ability to place ground objects on other ground objects
- Fixed the position of the coffee table being slightly off in one rotation
- Fixed covered tiles not being included in a lot's covered area
- Fixed people going to weird locations when visiting non-residential lots
# 0.11.0
This update has a devlog post, which you can view [on itch](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/260838/0110-more-actions-more-skills-more-personalities-more-pride) or [on Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1651490/view/3028088035178415265).
Additions
- Added a lot more social actions in various categories
- Added Introverted, Extroverted and Thinker personality types
- Added a Gaming skill and associated actions
- Added an Angry emotion
- Added doors, and the ability to lock them
- Added several LGBT flags as wall decorations
- Added multiple TV stations which each have their own effects
- Added the ability for people to put items on the ground
Improvements
- Made using the same social actions over and over get boring
- Made people hold a mop when mopping floors
- Made people display emotes when waking someone up
- Made people's current emotions be displayed under their portrait
- Replaced all frames on new saves with doors
- Slightly rebalanced Writing royalties
Fixes
- Fixed people making group meals too often
- Fixed people using objects in different rooms if they're technically closer
- Fixed people cleaning up in-progress food automatically
- Fixed being unable to move objects if the furniture storage contains furniture
- Fixed people getting up from chairs for one frame inbetween actions
- Fixed smelly particles appearing below objects
- Fixed hair changing colors when selecting a different hairstyle
- Fixed multiple invalid game states which could cause crashes
# 0.10.1
This update has a [devlog post](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/256150/0101-in-depth-writing-skill-and-more-ai-depth).
Additions
- Added an option that causes people in unplayed households to do skill building activities automatically (if their personality or existing skills allow it)
- Added a confirmation prompt for quitting your job
Improvements
- Rebalanced some actions and skills, especially in respect to skill building speed
- Made people clean more dishes automatically after cleaning a dish
- Updated the descriptions of all personality types
- Updated the map (when creating a new save file) to give every household jobs by default