TinyLifeWeb/Changelog.md

# 0.15.0
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 Brazillian Portuguese localization (PinguinAnimation)
- Added a Credits menu
- 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

Fixes
- Fixed mirrored objects (like paintings) looking incorrect
- Fixed issues with migrating from older save files
- Fixed sitting on sofas and benches looking wrong
- Updated German localization

# 0.10.0
This update has a [devlog post](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/254608/0100-new-colors-clothes-and-many-fixes).

Additions
- Added two new tops, four new bottoms, and four new hairstyles
- Added keyboard lighting for logitech, razer and corsair keyboards
- Added various new color schemes to objects

Improvements
- Made more emotions influence social actions
- Made wallpapers and windows easier to apply by highlighting any part of the wall
- Made drywall free, but ugly to people

Fixes
- Fixed people queueing up actions with people who have already gone home
- Fixed importing households doubling their money
- Fixed the ability to have infinitely large households when importing
- Fixed a crash when grabbing an empty serving
- Fixed various depth rendering issues with small objects
- Fixed family meals costing the same as single servings
- Fixed people being able to talk through walls and doors

API
- Simplified clothing textures by removing redundant frames
- Added various events for people and actions

# 0.9.0
This update has a [devlog post](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/248431/090-kick-out-your-annoying-aunt-and-sofas).

Additions
- Added new furniture: A sofa, a coffee table, and a bathroom sink
- Added tabs to the furniture tool
- Added the ability for food to expire
- Added a food platter and a "call to meal" action for large households
- Added an option to allow people to do important actions, like paying the bills, automatically
- Added an option to merge and split households (from and to exported households)

Improvements
- Improved zoomed out rendering performance by hiding small items like grass
- Improved exported households, which will now contain the furniture storage and maintain relationships with other people
- Improved the build tool and lot outlines (to be isometric)
- Improved the color picking abilities of the bookshelf
- Updated German localization

Fixes
- Fixed an issue on some operating systems where textures were mixing visually
- Fixed the Paint action being on too many objects when a person is uncomfortable

# 0.8.2
Fixes
- Fixed a crash if an object had no default rotation assigned
- Fixed a hang when loading a game with an object of invalid rotation
- Fixed a crash when picking up non-rotating furniture

# 0.8.1
Fixes
- Fixed in-world sounds being a lot quieter than menu sounds
- Fixed a rare crash on load when removing outdated objects
- Fixed a crash with the skills menu on certain window sizes

# 0.8.0
This update has a [devlog post](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/236301/080-mail-carriers-bills-and-new-screenshots).

Additions
- Added a mail carrier that delivers mails daily
- Added bills that are delivered and need to be paid
- Added a water and electricity rating system that determines how expensive bills are
- Added bar counters that can be sat and worked at
- Added game hints to the loading screen
- Added dirt flooring and two new wallpapers

Improvements
- Made power and water be shut off if bills are not paid, disabling many actions
- Made job levelups give an additional monetary bonus

Fixes
- Fixed walls not having their shadow
- Fixed the bookshelf intersecting with another texture
- Fixed some crashes related to loading and saving
- Fixed camera scaling being incorrect when launching in fullscreen

# 0.7.0
This update has a [devlog post](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/223659/070-breaking-furniture-programming-and-many-improvements).

Additions
- Added food quality, which is influenced by the cooking skill
- Added object reliability, objects breaking and a repair skill
- Added a programming skill and some related actions
- Added the ability to try to gauge the relationship level of others
- Added Focused and Creative emotions
- Added a furniture storage to build mode
- Added a TV furniture item
- Added a "fool around" action for people who are romantic with each other
- Added a large amount of new food types
- Added a white outline around highlighted objects
- Added visual borders to the map
- Added an option to change the auto-save interval
- Added a few new flooring options
- Added the modern single bed
- Added the ambitious personality type
- Added three more job types
- Added two default exported households that ship with the game
- Added a button to choose a random first and last name for a person
- Added hotkeys for switching people (tab) and opening different tabs (number keys)
- Added the ability to give lots names

Improvements
- Made the last played household display in the Load Game menu
- Made clothing cost money
- Made computer screens display images for each action
- Made Uncomfortable emotion get worse the lower a need is
- Improved some existing personality types

Fixes
- Fixed getting embarrassed at yourself when showering or on the toilet
- Fixed non-sellable objects like gravestones being removed when importing a lot
- Fixed people placing items far away on large tables
- Fixed the sleeping pose displaying in the wrong location in beds sometimes
- Fixed being able to sell other people's paintings
- Fixed some sounds being too quiet or too loud
- Fixed being able to take food that someone else is currently eating
- Fixed off-the-grid objects (placed using Alt) having incorrect visual depth

API
- Allow mods to have icons
- Allow clothes to have multiple texture layers

# 0.6.0
This update has a [devlog post](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/216521/060-romance-sounds-and-a-lot-more).

Additions
- Added romance, romantic interactions and the Frisky emotion
- Added sound effects to various actions and objects
- Added job leveling based on work performance
- Added trees and grass patches and a new house to the map
- Added actions to wake someone up and quit your job
- Added some more positive emotions
- Added working animations
- Added a lot of skin and hair colors

Improvements
- Improved the lot and household import and export menus
- Notification history is now saved to file per save
- People can now only sleep in the same bed as someone they're romantic with
- Gameplay options are now stored per save
- Made it less likely for people to visit other lots at night

Fixes
- Fixed being able to remove openings and walls on other lots
- Fixed portraits not updating in the charcter creator
- Fixed plants not being removed when placing concrete or wood tiles
- Fixed being able to do several things (like showering) while holding something
- Fixed positive emotions taking precedence over negative ones if their total amounts are equal

# 0.5.2
Improvements
- Improved the changelog panel on the main menu
- Made the current emotion be more logically based on modifiers (by separating emotions into general categories)

Fixes
- Fixed people getting stuck in social actions occasionally
- Fixed unplayed disbanded households kicking you to the map select screen
- Some performance and RAM usage improvements

# 0.5.1
Improvements
- Improved the Person AI to drastically decrease the chance of people passing out and dying from low needs

# 0.5.0
This update has a [devlog post](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/212031/050-emotions).

Additions
- Added emotions
  - Added 7 emotion types
  - Made 22 events cause emotions
  - Made some actions and skills be affected by emotions
- Added a new family and house to the map
- Added genealogy (which has no effect yet)

Improvements
- Improved the look of the character creator's icons
- People will now leave the room when someone uses toilets or showers

Fixes
- Fixed the console displaying when launching the game
- Fixed a crash when launching the game for the first time

API
- Added some events

# 0.4.1
Fixes
- Fixed phantom cars when starting a new game

# 0.4.0
This update has a [devlog post](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/210682/040-consequences-death).

Additions
- Added low need consequences:
  - Passing out from low energy need
  - Peeing yourself from low toilet need
  - Starving from low hunger need
- Added death and gravestones
- Added a tool to move the contents of a lot
- Added some mean actions and action icons
- Added various particles, including for sleep
- Added an in-game menu and a ui scale option
- Added a tool to move existing furniture

Improvements
- Changed the game's currency to "Tiny Bucks"

# 0.3.1
This update has a [devlog post](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/206044/031-jobs-hyperspeed). Additions
- Added jobs: You can get a job at the computer and earn money by going to work
- Added negative relationships
- Added an extreme speed setting that can be used when everyone is sleeping or working
- Added texture packing to increase rendering performance

Fixes
- Fixed some crashes and deadlock issues involving actions and pathfinding

API
- Finished documentation
- Texture packing introduces a breaking change

# 0.3.0
This update has a [devlog post](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/203072/030-more-skills-more-stuff-to-do).

Additions
- New skills: Painting, charisma and humor
- New furniture: Mirror, bookcase and books
- Added descriptions for needs and skills
- Added a destruction tool for build mode
- Added action categories

Improvements
- Back up the save file before loading

# 0.2.3
This update has a [devlog post](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/201694/023-personality-types).

Additions
- Added painting and selling paintings
- Added personality types. To add personality types to your existing people, press F1 and type "EditPerson"
- Added a visual effect for money gain/loss

Improvements
- Increased the starting funds
- Improved the map by adding a park

Fixes
- Various action bugfixes

API
- More documentation

# 0.2.2
This update has a [devlog post](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/199801/022-nicer-menus-more-mod-abilities).

Additions
- Added mod list and "Open Game Folder" button to Options menu
- Added a long hairstyle

Improvements
- Improved some menus visually
- Allow for mods to add tiles and wallpapers

API
- Started on modding API documentation

# 0.2.1
Fixes
- Fixed a launch crash that was affecting some people

# 0.2.0
This update has a [devlog post](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/198831/020-custom-mods).

Additions
- Added the ability to create mods!
- Added more social actions
- Added a system for public spaces (currently only parks)
- Added household exporting and importing
- Added the easel and (secret) paintings, neither of which do anything yet

Improvements
- Show particles when the friendship status changes

Fixes
- Fixed a few minor bugs

# 0.1.2
Additions
- Added an options menu, including a language selection
- Added lot exporting and importing, allowing you to share lots

Improvements
- Made lots have value: Families can now only be created for cheap enough lots
- Some visual improvements, including a new font
- When searching for spots to put down items, people now look for closest locations correctly

Fixes
- Fixed being able to cheat money by deleting rooms

# 0.1.1
This update has a [devlog post](https://ellpeck.itch.io/tiny-life/devlog/193425/version-011).

Additions
- Added gridless placement by holding the alt key
- Added furniture picking using the middle mouse button

Improvements
- Made certain actions count as inappropriate on other lots (like sleeping and showering)
- Made social actions and notifications display portraits
- Made objects slotted into object spots not count for path finding
- Moved the game directory to local app data

Fixes
- Fixed the current household data persisting when going to build on another map
- Fixed an issue with driving causing crashes occasionally

# 0.1.0
- Initial alpha release