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Hello Shopkeepers! Happy 2025!

We hope you all had a good end to last year and are starting with an even better 2025!
We took some time to rest and are excited to be back with another update.

• Quest NPCs will now come to your shop
  
• Outposts can now send raids after you clear them
  
• You can now ping enemies remaining in an outpost one by one
  
• More outposts now feature rewards for clearing them

Once you complete quests for various NPCs, they can appear at your shop as customers!

These special customers have additional patience for your shop and some fairly large wallet sizes, so accumulating them should give you a small but welcome boost to the quality of your clientele.

Not every quest NPC can be a customer yet, but most NPCs associated with the main quest can. A few of our favorites from side quests will show up, too.

We plan on adding this functionality to more NPCs, so if you have a favorite character you want to see at your shop, let us know!

The NPCs available in this update are:

• Tayada
  
• Mayor Yori
  
• Captain Latch
  
• Andrei Barnaby
  
• Aiden Kingsmithy
  
• Jones Fishingman
  
• Freda McQuillan
  
• Chef Pippo
  
• Ambrosia
  
• Cassandra Gale
  
• Samantha Cole
  
• Senhi Hideta

This was one of our earlier ideas when we started implementing the main quest into the game.
For various reasons, it didn't make it into the build until now, but we think it adds a nice connection between the story and your shop progress.

If you have already completed the associated quest for these characters, they should unlock automatically when you load your save on this update and start showing up at your store.


Right now, these special customers can be a bit rare to spawn, but you can change that by asking them to come to your shop!

Once you complete the associated quest for these characters, most will have a dialogue option where you can invite them to your shop.

Once you do, they will show up at the next shop you go to (or choose from one of your shops if you have friends running them in multiplayer).

So if you're ever low on customers, or just want one of these characters to drop by your shop, head over to them and just ask!


In update 14.4.0, we added an experimental feature where you could see your progress for clearing out enemy outposts, receive a reward when defeating all the enemies in the outpost, and see how long until the outpost was reinforced and refilled with enemies.

In that update, we only added this feature to 3 outposts so we could try out the feature and get feedback on it.
You all seem to really like that mechanic, and we do too! So, we decided to add it to this update.

One of this mechanic's biggest shortcomings was not finding the last few enemies in the outpost to clear it.
To address that, we've added this ping button that will appear once you've cleared more than 60% of the outpost.

Pressing it will ping one of the remaining enemies so you can hunt them down.
To ping the next enemy, you have to wait until the previous one is dead and their body has despawned, so you probably can't just spam pings and kill enemies, but this should help direct you to the next group or straggling enemy if you get stuck.

We also added the ability for the enemy factions to attack you in retaliation for clearing their outposts.

Every outpost that shows clear progress and gives a reward for completing it has a percentage chance to have the faction who owns that outpost send a retaliatory raid.
The chance of a raid and the size of that raid depends on the size and strength of the outpost you clear.

If you trigger a raid, you will see this Raid Incoming tag under the outpost UI once you clear it and the reward is spawned.
The raid will come after you in the next few hours in-game, so you can try to prepare wherever you are, or you can go back to your shop or base to hunker down behind some turrets and spikes.

Because this mechanic introduces additional attacks that can target you and your shop, we understand not everyone will want to play with it enabled. So turning off the Peaceful Shop setting will completely disable these raids from spawning.

This setting was previously named Peaceful Nights as it also turns off nighttime attacks from ghouls, but we renamed it this week for these new outpost raids as they can occur during the day.

With these new additions to our outpost clearing mechanic, we have also added functionality to more outposts throughout the world.

In addition to the 3 original outposts with the mechanic, we're adding 9 more outposts that track your clearing progress and provide rewards (and raids) when completed.

8 of these outposts are Outlaw controlled in the Wetlands. This area should be an even cooler place to adventure and fight with all the outposts concentrated around the environment.
We also added the functionality to the small Ronin outpost on the southern edge of the Shepherd Ruins, as new players commonly frequent it.

We hope you enjoy clearing these outposts, reaping the rewards, and fighting off the forces that the Outlaws and Ronin send after you for revenge!

We introduced the scrap all button back in update 14.3.0 and have enjoyed being able to quickly scrap loot that we don't want.

However, the downside of this button is when it is pressed accidentally and ends up scrapping gear you actually do want, either in an enemy death box or in one of your own containers.

To help avoid this issue and give you all a little more peace of mind, we've introduced a hold to confirm functionality to this button.
You can either hold the button on the UI or the keybinding to scrap the contents of the container you're interacting with.

We tried to dial in the timing so it doesn't slow down quick looting too much but will still give you enough time to stop pressing it if you hit it by mistake.

We made this feature live earlier this week alongside some of the more pressing code fixes in the full patch notes below, so you may have already tried it!

The prologue is the first impression of the game for a lot of players, so we're continually working to improve it and ensure players are smoothly introduced to Saleblazers.

Over the past couple of weeks, we've been working on overhauling the lighting in the prologue level to look nicer, better match the open world, and perform better.

In patch v0.14.8.15, we introduced the long-awaited cosmetic slot options so you can equip something stylish without sacrificing the stats of the gear underneath.

We asked to see some of your character creations using this feature on our Discord, and it's been great to see everyone's outfits.

From left to right, we have characters from Sei, KatVet, eaglescout, and Recette.

if you have a cool character you want to show off, please post it in the #characters showcase channel in the Discord. Thanks everyone for sharing!

We've got a few new loading screen tips to add to this update. Take note of the knowledge they bring!

• Wanna run faster? Equip a pocket knife and drink some coffee! -Anonymous
  
• Stay curious. There might be a rune behind the waterfall. -Anonymous
  
• Dress up with the cosmetic slots! No one knows there is full body armor under your apron. -Anonymous

We also have one more new loading screen tip inspired by some players on Discord, but that is coming as a slightly more official tip.

• You can place single items from an equipped stack in your hotbar.

Thanks to everyone who shared loading screen tips and to everyone who is active on our official Discord, giving feedback, grouping up, and discussing the game.

• NPCs from various quests will now come visit your shop and purchase items from you
  
• You can now invite NPCs from various quests to visit your shop
  
• Enemy outposts with outpost cleared rewards now have a chance to send a raid after you clear them
  
• After clearing 60% of an outpost with clear percentage players can now ping the remaining enemies needed to clear the outpost
  
• Updated 9 outposts with names, raids, timers, and rewards for clearing, including the outlaw outposts in the wetlands
  
• Added tool tips to explain lobby options when hovered
  
• Scrap all button now has a short confirmation timer before it executes
  
• Reduced the damage for the charged attack on katana weapons
  
• Can no longer sneak attack bosses
  
• Rebalanced prologue level lighting and some art assets to match the rest of the updated game
  
• Updated ambient occlusion to be less visually heavy
  
• Grass now stays down for an extended duration of time
  
• Adjusted all the grass materials in the game for better reactivity
  
• Explosive Mines no longer damage structures
  
• Adjusted the distribution of some lootable items in the wetlands area
  
• Slightly improved the roof textures in Kazai Village
  
• Overhauled the lighting in the prologue level
  
• Characters now automatically get up from being knocked down into water after 3 seconds

• Optimized electricity wires to improve performance for shops with a lot of electronics and wires
  
• Slightly optimized water ripple effect for NPCs and enemies swimming or wading
  
• Optimized some animal spawners near the Decommissioned Shop Plot in the desert
  
• Minor code optimizations

• Fixed stick-to-wall placeable items like electricity extension rods/lights not properly saving and loading
  
• Fixed an issue that could cause clients to lose items in slots that had been added by Ambrosia when joining a host
  
• Fixed an issue where skill points would sometimes not save properly for clients who quit the lobby immediately after allocating them
  
• Fixed an issue that would cause some clients in a server to no longer be able to interact with certain doors or crates properly
  
• Fixed an employee pathing problem that caused them to wiggle back and forth while moving, which was reducing their efficiency
  
• Fixed NPC shop stock not randomizing their rarities based on calculated chances properly, resulting in an overabundance of high rarity items in shops
  
• Fixed a case where NPC villagers would talk to no one and become busy when they shouldn't
  
• Cleaned up character creation logic to reduce hiccups
  
• Fixed a case where Josef Heart could spawn twice
  
• Fixed a case where clients could not see the Researcher properly
  
• Adjusted Sketchy Kyle's spawn position and wander radius so he can't end up inside of Zena's Arena
  
• Fixed an issue where some quest rewards are spawned in an unreachable location
  
• Fixed a case where items inside Barry's Bazaar shops get duplicated on save and load sometimes
  
• Fixed restocking employees aren't showing the no proper storage emote above their head on containers that did not pass the category filter setup
  
• Prevented a case where shop vault money could overflow and cause issues above 2 billion dollars
  
• Fixed an early version of the spawner for the outpost revenge raids, sometimes firing endless spawns
  
• Fixed being unable to navigate to cosmetic slots with controller
  
• General stability fixes
  
• Fixed some slight clipping issues in Zena's cutscene
  
• Centered the prologue level to the world origin to fix various shadow artifacts and culling lag spikes
  
• Fixed floating crouch animation
  
• Fixed various collision issues in Kazai Village
  
• Fixed some backend issues with the Boba shop in Kazai Village
  
• Corrected some bad item setups for objects in Kazai Village
  
• Cleaned up some bad objects in the Wetlands
  
• Minor visual polish on the prologue level
  
• Fixed various minor localization issues
  
• Fixed various disconnection issues

Hotfix v0.14.9.1 is out now that resolves this issue. Thank you for your patience!
A follow-up patch should be releasing later today with some additional fixes.

• Clients sometimes see naked NPCs or NPCs with missing skin when transitioning from the prologue to the open world.

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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