Hello Shopkeepers!

We're very excited to be bringing you some immersion improvements, a better police wave system, and more quality-of-life improvements, including some highly requested features like alternate cosmetic slot overrides!

• Cosmetic Slot Overrides
  
• Police System Overhaul
  
• Option to Allow Customers in Plot
  
• Immersion Improvements to the Dialogue System

Saleblazers is also a part of the Steam Winter Sale which is going on now until Jan 2 at 10 AM PST. So now is a great time to hop in with a friend or two!

The lighting changes we made in update 14.8 have been well received, and we're enjoying them too.

We decided to introduce some updated Steam capsule art to reflect the game's improved look and hone in a little more on the shopkeeping aspects of the game experience.

Also, based on overwhelming player feedback, you can now adjust your appearance separately from your actual equipment.

If you've always wanted to look a certain way while retaining stats from another set of clothing, this is now possible!

You can access these new cosmetic equipment slots by clicking on the eyeball icon above the equipment slots in your inventory menu. A filled Ink Dye icon indicates that the cosmetic slot is active and will override the actual equipment slot.

This will let you not only override an item with another item but also override an item with nothing so you can get the stats from a mask, helmet or jacket without actually looking like you're wearing that item.

In this example, only the hat and jacket slots will be overridden, resulting in a final look of a Samurai Hat with no jacket. Keep in mind that their actual stats will not be applied.

We hope you'll all have plenty of fun with this feature and are excited to see your outfits! Put on some sweet threads!

We heard that the police system left much to be desired and agreed with that.

As a first step towards making this system more fun we've cleaned up some of its inconsistencies, reworked the spawning logic for the Police AI, and created new waves of Police to face off against.

These changes should make dealing with the Police more challenging and more fun!

• Added 2 new tiers of police troops, for a total of 4 tiers
  
• Police will now use ranged weapons more often and more effectively.
  
• Police equipped with higher-tier weapons will now always use them instead of sometimes switching back to a baton. This will mean to get an M4 from the Police, you'll have to actually fight an officer wielding an M4 instead of finding one in the death box of an officer wielding a baton.
  
• Police can now spawn in a radius around the player instead of from fixed locations
  
• You can now speak to patrolling Police to pay your bounty if you have one
  
• Updated the look of the Police to differentiate different tiers of officers better
  
• Balanced police HP and weapons
  
• Balanced the wave spawning for Police

We've been having a lot more fun trying to fight back against the officers trying to bring us to justice and have been finding it a lot more challenging to survive.
This has also made clean crimes where you don't get caught more rewarding, and running away from the law a more enticing option.

Based on player feedback, we've added a new option for when your shop is closed to not allow customers to enter your plot at all.

We hope this can introduce a new level of calmness by stopping customers from constantly leaving trash at your shop's doorstep when you're remodeling or doing other activities in your shop and planning on having it closed for a while.

We've also added some experimental text sound effects and camera head tracking to dialogue for increased immersion. So far, this has made talking to NPCs more engaging and satisfying. Let us know what you think!

This update contains a lot of backend support for dedicated server features.
You shouldn't notice anything different in your normal lobbies, but this patch is helping us gear up to release the beta version of our dedicated server console.

We have found some tricky edge cases with some of the features, so we're working hard to smooth those out before we make the console available.

Here's a preview of some of the things you can do with the system.

We're very excited!

• Added a cosmetics equipment slot feature
  
• Added "Allow Customers in Plot" option to shop sign
  
• Destroying or removing beds now removes your spawn point and saves it to the server (useful for future PVP dedicated servers!)
  
• Customers will no longer close doors that you have manually opened, based on QoL player feedback
  
• Added quest marker to the Snowville trenches keycard quest for better accessibility
  
• Added a new option to prevent customers from coming into the shop plot if the store is closed, based on player QoL feedback
  
• Rebalanced and added more (difficult) types of NPC police based on player feedback
  
• Police now spawn in non-fixed locations similar to night enemies
  
• Players can now interact with Police
  
• Police fine distance increased from 2 units to 5 units
  
• Camera now looks at NPC heads during dialogue to avoid scenarios where the NPC can be out of frame
  
• Dialogue text now plays text audio that is unique to each character
  
• Paper trash can now be turned into charcoal at the kiln to better automate crafting with trash with employees
  
• Adjusted chat and shop sign audio to be more peaceful
  
• Employees can now craft using items located in trash cans - this should help with automating your recyclers
  
• Shop simulations while you're away are slightly more accurate
  
• Loading into the shop via teleportation will now wait for the shop simulation to finish completely, preventing some lag spikes when teleporting to an automated shop
  
• Increased player sprint speed but increased stamina drain per second for more engaging movement

• Fixed a case that could cause items to fall out of chests in your shop plot
  
• Resolved an issue where simulating employees and customers could end up on top of displays or crafting stations and get stuck
  
• Fixed an issue where the barber in Snowville would sometimes fail to spawn
  
• Fixed an issue that caused Tobias not to enable the Guillotine on the first load during his quest
  
• Only your bed will show up on the map and will be visible from anywhere on the map
  
• Added proper translations for several sleeping-related text strings
  
• Renamed Invert Mouse settings to Invert Look settings to better communicate that it will also work as a controller invert
  
• Possibly fixed another case of getting stuck at the register
  
• Fixed Senhi, Mayor Yori's assistant, sometimes saying she was busy instead of playing her dialogue as intended
  
• Fixed an exception that could occur when equipping Airstrafer Sunglasses
  
• Adjusted Small Candelabra LODs to be more accurate
  
• Adjusted the UI for item categories so it doesn't overflow in some languages
  
• Customers and employees during shop simulation should appear less frequently on top of items
  
• Fixed various code exceptions

• The peaceful nights lobby setting currently disables police waves

These should now be resolved in hotfix v0.14.8.16. Thank you for your patience!
We are working on these and will release a hotfix shortly. Apologies for the inconvenience!

• If the Police interrupt a client during item checkout, there is a chance they can get stuck
  
• The quest Guillotine Grease has some mismatched translation keys for other languages
  
• Completing certain cutscenes can get the player stuck (you can still teleport away to fix this for now)

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Hello Shopkeepers!

This hotfix brings some important fixes to save data, as well as some other fixes for various issues reported over the past week or so.

This primarily fixes a rare issue where player-built structures in shops fail to save and load after teleporting. If this happened to you, please load a backup save from the Help menu in the settings to recover your buildings. If you do not have a valid backup save, reach out on Discord, and we can potentially manually restore your save file.

Thank you to everyone who has recently reported things and given us feedback on Discord or the Steam Forums.

We're looking forward to the next update!

• Fixed an issue where building pieces in shops would sometimes not load properly after teleporting
  
• Fixed Dye Bench causing backpacks with contents in it to disappear when dyed
  
• The Armor Stand Display will no longer drop a few feet and rotate slightly when placed
  
• Fixed Cass not appearing properly at the fishing hut near New Bedstone
  
• Fixed mouth animations not playing during dialogue for NPCs
  
• Fixed item serialization issues from dynamic shops in Barry's Bazaar
  
• Improved the reliability of ensuring 3 shops spawn in Barry's Bazaar
  
• Fixed client being able to kick the host via the scoreboard and therefore shut down the server
  
• Fixed shooting or throwing items at optimized objects as client, causing a duplicate ghost object to be left behind
  
• Fixed beauty not updating properly on the lower level of the Smithrock shop plot
  
• Customers will no longer use empty food sample stands
  
• Fixed Sweat Tech Bazaar shopkeeper NPC not wearing correct clothes
  
• Fixed some LOD crossfade settings in New Bedstone and Kazai Village
  
• Fixed part of the Bazaar Outpost not rendering properly
  
• Fixed a bad collider in the cave west of Kazai Village, blocking proper movement
  
• Fixed a case where clients could not recover their death boxes from Burke O'Hare
  
• Addressed some unoptimized items in the Bazaar region
  
• Fixed some items that would unload when you got close to them in the Snowville Outskirts region
  
• Removed a deprecated pickaxe from the Crater area
  
• Removed a broken prefab from the Build a Boat random encounter
  
• Adjusted and optimized the LODs for Gunpowder and Wheat Seeds
  
• Corrected the localization string key for the goodbye dialogue option when speaking with Freda McQuillan
  
• Fixed various code exceptions

Thank you for sending in bug reports and feedback via the ESC -> Help menu ingame, Steam forums, and Discord. Here are a few fixes that address some player feedback!

• Fixed connections for electricity not working properly (if you had an existing save file with them, they should load properly now)
  
• Fixed electrical connectors not unlocking when researching the Electrical Generator (you should now see it in your electronics lab)
  
• Fixed Snowville bunker not loading in properly in some scenarios
  
• Fixed some errant colliders in Kazai Castle from our previous optimization push
  
• Fixed camera being stuck in Bellstalker Mountain in multiplayer when triggering certain dialogue
  
• Fixed snow not stopping when touching walls and floors due to previous optimization
  
• Fixed rare case where you could see some props load in when you shouldn't in certain areas
  
• Fixed some rare code exceptions

Hello shopkeepers!
We hope you're having a great week on the Island. We just wanted to resolve a couple of small issues before the weekend. The main one being Freda's house on McQuillan Ranch not rendering properly.
If you had issues with the house previously, that should be fixed now!

• Freda's house now renders properly
  
• Fixed some floating items in a shed in McQuillan Ranch
  
• Fixed an issue preventing crafting employees from crafting more than one item per station if Electronics Labs were involved
  
• Armor Stand equipment slots can now be restocked by employees
  
• Fixed the Reading Light meshes not rendering properly
  
• Fixed Wolf and other NPCs not having proper hitboxes when attacking
  
• Fixed some code exceptions

• Optimized the meshes in McQuillan Ranch to improve performance
  
• Optimized the batching for some props based on data from save files sent in by players
  
• Reduced some grass density and optimized foliage near Pop Pop's shop plot

We noticed that Steam's automatic pricing for Poland was disproportionately high, so we've manually adjusted it to increase accessibility for our future Polish players.

This is a small hotfix to resolve a few rarer issues that we've found. We apologize for the frequent post-patch hotfixing that we try our hardest to avoid.

Happy shopkeeping!

• Fixed case where nav mesh wasn't properly loading and unloading on async thread, causing some AI to get stuck per chunk
  
• Significantly improved networked ragdoll stability
  
• Slightly optimized melee blood trail VFX
  
• Improved Seed Swap Messenger NPC quest marker spawning
  
• Fixed catfish weapon damage being too low
  
• Restored some missing preplaced items in the world that didn't show up due to an item optimization
  
• Minor visual update to Jones Fishingman's house
  
• Armor Stand can now be restocked by employees
  
• Fixed Wolf and other NPCs not having proper hitboxes when attacking
  
• Fixed some code exceptions

This is a small hotfix to resolve a few more issues that were reported over the weekend.

Saleblazers is also on sale right now until 11/25! So it's a great time to jump in or get your friends to try the game.

Happy shopkeeping!

• Moved the Basic Compass and Portable Map unlocks in the Research tree a few nodes earlier
  
• Slightly reduced the fire rate and increased the reload time for Zena's AA42 Shotgun
  
• Changed some medium weapon attacks to feel more stable
  
• Added a notification to tell you when an Employee places something in your inventory
  This happens when they are holding an item and navigating to a container and that container becomes invalid, most often because it gets unloaded. Instead of deleting the item, they will place it in your inventory. However, these items appearing in your inventory were slightly confusing if you didn't know where they came from. Hopefully this notification helps clarify things.
  
• Updated the wording for the Mystery of Research and The Runes quests to say the quest giver will contact you when they are ready to continue
  This text is to help clarify that these are quests we plan to add objectives to in future updates. This text previously stated that the quests will continue in the 1.0 release, but additions to these quests may come sooner.
  
• Rebalanced jump attacks of medium pole and trinket items to be faster and have more airtime

• Fixed case where nav mesh of shops weren't being saved properly
  
• Fixed the Piñon Pine Trees losing their colliders after being hit
  
• Fixed an issue where re-pooled enemies continually have their drops stack on death. You should no longer get multiples of many items when repeatedly killing enemies
  
• The Catching A Friend side quest will now complete properly and can't be completed multiple times
  
• The Pressed for Success side quest now properly rewards a rune on completion. If you've already completed this quest, talk to Jules again to get the rune
  
• Fixed localization support for Zena's AA42 Shotgun
  
• Fixed an issue that would cause Zena to drop a guaranteed legendary copy of her AA42 Shotgun
  
• The Basic Compass should no longer clip with display trays
  
• Fixed an issue reintroduced with v0.14.8 where some enemies could spawn under the floor. This was especially prevalent in the crater area
  
• Fixed a few props near the entrance to Snowville that would unload when you got close to them
  
• Fixed a case where an NPC's world subtitles could be visible by the player who triggered them when it shouldn't be
  
• Fixed the Bamboo Bowl recipe not unlocking properly through Pop Pop's questline
  
• Fixed reload time information for gun items being inaccurate
  
• Melee attacks are no longer allowed while gliding or ziplining due to animation issues
  
• Fixed various localization issues

This is a small hotfix to resolve the known issues from the Navigation Update.

We also found some additional optimizations thanks to the data provided by a few players following the Navigation Update. Thank you to everyone who helped report things.

Happy shopkeeping!

• Fixed the basic compass sometimes not properly updating quest markers if the user loaded in with many different active marker types
  
• Fixed the interactable collider for the Deagle, AA42, and M4
  
• Fixed a case where Bellcoats could continue playing growling audio after dying
  
• Fixed a case where customers were not resetting their 3D footstep location properly
  
• Fixed some bad item setups in the Winery
  
• Fixed an issue where some preplaced items did not save their health properly after taking damage
  
• Addressed some edge cases surrounding killing Eddie right before starting dialogue with him
  
• Corrected some enemy rigs that were not rendering properly
  
• Fixed a collider issue in Kazai Castle
  
• Fixed the wolf lunge attack so it no longer moves it on top of boars it is hunting
  
• Fixed employee container filters not working as expected
  
• Fixed employee table UI not showing employee slots as expected and not being in the right positions
  
• Fixed customers not using shopping baskets
  
• Fixed rain going through walls and its splash going through ceilings
  
• Fixed a case where a haggling employee might leave their cash register instead of remaining at the cash register when they're not supposed to
  
• Fixed a rare disconnect exceptions

• Reduced lag on some combat VFX
  
• Fixed a case where tree felling VFX was being duplicated and not being cleared properly over time
  
• Further optimized bush spawning