The sun has been warm and we have been hiding indoors getting an update ready for you guys! This time we have focused a lot on making the user experience of the game feel a lot better.

Duck Activity
Now shows what a duck is up to.
New Camera System
We have updated the camera system to feel nicer to use and you are now able to rotate.

Duck Last Name
You are now able to change the last name of your ducks.
This is done by splitting at the last space so that e.g. "Duck Flappy Duckington" would result in the first name "Duck Flappy" and the last name "Duckington".


New Menu
We created a new and more modern main menu.
An altered version of this menu is also used in the game now.
Currently, Mods and Controls are disabled since this isn't finished yet.

Consistent Escape Behaviour
We fixed the escape button feeling inconsistent.
It now functions as you would expect that it closes UI and exits build mode before opening the UI.

Added last milestone sprites
The last of the milestone sprites are now in the game you can see them below.

New Lighting System
We switch to a new lighting system to both get better shadows and better performance, we also fixed lamps not producing shadows and shadows flickering.
Fires, Construction and Rubble Scaling
Before we just placed a fire, scaffolding or rubble at the centre of bigger buildings, now as can be seen below these scale to the building size.
Automatic Save Converter
We have created an automatic save converter when you load a game that tries to convert the game to a new save.

New Save Format
We have optimized and rearranged the formatting of saving files to allow for faster and better previews and to allow for the saves only containing the necessary information.
This means that the saves should take up less space on your PC on average.

Custom State Machine
We are now using a more customized version of the Unity state machine which should fix ducks being in the wrong state and allows for features like Duck Activity.

New Console
We have added new commands and a new console front-end, along with typing suggestions.

• We removed the old info panel.
  
• We removed the blinking buttons.

• Fixed a bug that caused longer start-up times.
  
• Fixed a bug where loading an old save would break
  
• Fixed inconsistency in building updates.
  
• Fixed being able to interact with the game when the game menu is open.
  
• Fixed camera being able to move when the game is paused.
  
• Fixed the text for scenic mode.
  
• Fixed bigger buildings not being placed correctly.
  
• Fixed being able to enter Scenic mode while the game menu is open.
  
• Fixed not being able to rotate 1x1 buildings in some instances.
  
• Fixed rotation of uneven buildings (e.g. 1x2) not being correct.
  
• Fixed ducks not being hidden when in prison.
  
• Fixed ducks being prevented from going home from the hospital.
  
• Fixed riot times not being saved.
  
• Fixed location arrow not following ducks.
  
• Fixed preview camera being stuck and not following ducks.
  
• Fixed a bug that would break the game if a building burnt down while the UI was open.
  
• Fixed preview camera gyration when ducks entered buildings.
  
• Fixed friendship UI not scaling correctly.
  
• Fixed friendships not being saved.
  
• Fixed BuildingInRadiusMission didn't check if it's a new building within the radius or just somewhere in the city.
  
• Fixed lamps not turning on when loading a game at night.
  
• Fixed broken duck models not being fixed.
  
• Fixed camera clipping when zooming out or moving south.
  
• Fixed fires happening too often.
  
• Fixed work time being -1 to 25 now says all day.
  
• Fixed checks for if a road can be removed.
  
• Fixed 2x2 buildings entrance calculation.
  
• Fixed town hall not having a storage capacity.
  
• Fixed shadow cascades.

• Loading sometimes places the duckeronies icon incorrectly.
  
• Sometimes workers are odd in the menu from workplaces.
  
• Rotating uneven buildings can sometimes feel odd.
  
• Sometimes the arrow showing the rotation of a building bigger than 1x1 does not show up in times when it should.

Should you experience a bug that we don't know about please do let us know!


We are still working on implementing new and exciting things.

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Hello Duckerrinos!
We haven't posted anything in a while, but we've been hard at work creating new features and enhancing some old ones. Which we will share in this first update of 2021!

So first some house-keeping things:

Where have you guys been?
We have been busy with exams, and battling Covid.

Will there be this long gap again?
Hopefully not! The next few updates should just stabilize the game, and add a few new features.

So with that out of the way let's get into the new things!


If you let your ducks get too mad for too long they will resort to crime. This means they may go to the town hall and steal your duckeronies or they may even riot and shut down a workplace for some time.

Police ducks can help get the perpetrators put in prison and might even stop them in their tracks before they get to steal your money or shut down a workplace. Police ducks can be hired at a police station.


Sicknesses have been updated. Some sicknesses will make your duck feel so bad they need to go home while other sicknesses will be mild enough to keep your duck walking around and working. Some sicknesses are more contagious than others and some may even have a risk of killing the duck!

We would not want the ducks to die, so build a hospital to help mitigate the risk of this happening and help the ducks keep a healthy life!


Ducks can now become friends with each other if they have good interactions with each other. This means they will want to talk to each other more than they otherwise would and get happier when they talk to their friends!

You can see who the ducks are friends with and who they might not like that much if you right-click on them.

As a way to make text and icons a little bit bigger, the basic UI has been updated. Starting at the build menu, the resource buildings - food, water, and research - have been placed into the same category. Happiness now shows the average happiness for the city, and when hovering the box a popup shows how the happiness is spread over the ducks.

New Roads
With the plan to bring cars to Ducktopia the road models have been updated. They now have a nicer look and are ready for when cars will roam the world.
Updated Models
All the models have now been updated.

Duck Replacement
We have reworked how duck replacements work and use a system similar to the one we use for buildings.

Console
We have added a console with a bunch of commands to help test the game, some of these commands include giving resources, changing resource cap among other things. Use it at your own risk.

Live Season Updates
We have also added the ability for the game to update to the currently supported seasons (Halloween and Christmas) without having to update the game.

Reset Camera to Centre
We found ourselves getting lost in the void, by scrolling too far out. But no more!
We have added a key (F) to center your camera back to the center of the map.

Lock Camera to Board
To further help with this we also locked the camera to the board and added a show board bounds option, to visually show where the map ends.

• Fixes a bug where the player could exit the map bounds.
  
• Fixes a bug where the player couldn't build near the edge of the map.
  
• Fixes some camera clipping when zooming (Still more work to be done).
  
• Fixes a bug where the player wouldn't be told about map bounds unless holding shift.
  
• Fixes a bug that prevented the UI from updating when loading or tabbing out.
  
• Fixes a bug when loading the Kasper trait.
  
• Fixes a bug keeping the version UI above the gameplay UI.
  
• Fixes a bug that could sometimes break time controls buttons.
  
• Fixes a bug that would color the notifications a wrong color.
  
• Fixes a bug preventing the player from properly closing the info UIs (Duck UI, BuildingUI, Etc.).
  
• Fixes a bug related to placing bigger buildings.

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In the next few updates, we will focus on stabilizing the game more, fixing bugs, and optimizing it. So don't expect too many new and exciting features.
But we'll leave you with this:
Cars!

• There are still some problems with bigger buildings not being placed correctly.
  
• Sometimes ducks who work 24/7 don't go to work.
  
• When a duck is in prison, it is sometimes stuck outside it (This is only a visual bug).
  
• Friendship UI scales weirdly.
  
• There are sometimes problems with firefighters not getting to the fire in time.
  
• BuildingInRadiusMission does not check if it's a new building within the radius or just somewhere in the city.
  
• Sometimes ducks stand still for a long time.
  
• Camera clips when looking at parts of the map.
  
• W/Up arrow breaks and no longer works.
  

If you encounter other bugs or things that seem wrong or weird, feel free to tell us by sending a bug report. Either using the button in the top-right corner of the game, write a post in the discussion here on Steam or join our discord and tell us.

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We hope you like the update! And from everyone at the Ducktopia team, we wish you a Happy Easter and thank you for staying around with us!



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