Hey everyone, and welcome to the Tower Unite dev log for June 24th, 2025.

Since the last dev log, we’ve had a dev stream, released the public beta and full release of Workshop Condos, and have continued work on our various projects.

So, let’s dive in:

On Friday the 13th, we had an extremely unspooky dev stream, going into detail about the Workshop Rental Store, Pets Progress, and Dedicated Condos. There was Q&A throughout each section, as well as a dedicated Q&A at the end of the stream!

If you’d like to check that out, here is the VOD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JlJVttjPHQ

Just a reminder, there is an ongoing Condo Contest at the moment. The theme is Restaurants & Stores, and your submission can be a build from ANY TIME!

The submission period ends on July 6th, 2025 at 11:59 PM CT.

There are already a lot of awesome entries, so be sure to check those out, and join the contest if you want to share your Condo with the community!

The major project going on the past few weeks has been the Workshop Rental Store. We released the beta test, and the full update is out to everyone now! We appreciate feedback people gave during the beta testing and release, and we’re working on getting a hot-fix out to you all to handle those issues that we weren’t able to catch during the beta!

Development on Condo Pets has completed for its first release. If you want a better look at what’s been going on with Condo Pets, check out this section of the Dev Stream (around 49/50 minutes in).

We also have completed the two new Plaza areas: Cat Café and Dog Park!

We plan to have the Condo Pet and Café open soon after the Dedicated Condo update!

We’ve made HUGE progress on Dedicated Condos!!

We finished the item spawn system, allowing players who have the spawn permission the ability to spawn their own local inventory items in the Dedicated Condo.

We also finished the save system for Dedicated Condos, along with a backup system. Any player with the save permission can also manually save the Dedicated Condo within the server.

We now have a full logging system that logs chat messages, join/leave messages, and other important interactions.

To help setup your own moderation team, we added a new “Condo Mod” tag permission setting that adds the “Condo Mod” tag next to a player’s name so players know who is important in your Dedicated Condo. This tag is separate from all the other permissions, allowing you to have complete control over what a Condo Mod has control over.

On top of that, the Windows Launcher has been completed, along with the guide for Dedicated Condos.

We’re working on additional features for Dedicated Condos to make it easier to moderate them, and we hope to add a remote console system.

Below are a bunch of general fixes for specific parts of the game! Other fixes we’ve been working on that weren’t included below are that you can now skip dialogue mid-sentence again and that we fixed key binding not working with scroll wheel! There were also some general fixes for controller support, Zombie Massacre, and Virus.

For the upcoming and recently released updates, optimization work has continued! A significant amount of shader optimization was done to improve both performance and load times by reducing the amount of shader memory load.

We also worked on a permanent object pool in “garbage collection” to reduce the amount of hitches experienced in content-heavy areas like Plaza and Condos. This stops the engine from doing unnecessary garbage collection on assets that will soon be loaded back in anyway.

For SDNL, we’ve made some improvements to weapons, such as various improvements to the Sword & Shield item, fixes to the Egon Cannon’s sounds, and the ability to recharge thrown Chainsaws. We also fixed an issue with sliding that caused some players to get stuck during sliding.

We’ve made various fixes to issues in the Plaza! These include several optimizations such as reducing streaming hitches in stores area, reduced data on static meshes throughout the Plaza by removing adjacency buffers that were unneeded and fixes to textures, materials, lighting, and collision. We also cleaned up the lighting on the Plaza rooftop bar.

These Plaza optimizations have been pushed out as of the 1.0.1.0 update, and we’re continuing to work on further optimizations.

Several fixes were also made in the Condos. You can now set the max players that can enter your Condo while you are hosting your Condo, in case you want to increase the player count or decrease it without having to re-host the Condo.

We also fixed scoreboard input issues and being able to update your Condo title with special symbols.

For SDK users, we’ve fixed the flag scale issues with the hole tool for Minigolf. We’re also fixing several reported Condo IO bugs.

In other Condo news, we have some new upcoming Condo items for you all as well! These include the Server Rack, Coffee Machine, Espresso Machine, Paneled Glass Double Door, Paneled Glass Door, Wooden Lounger, and Bathroom Vanity Sink.

With this update, and the hot fix, we’ve been fixing several issues with controller support, and we’ve added a Steam Deck profile for those who game on the Steam Deck. We’re working towards getting Steam Deck verification very soon!

Work has begun on new Arcade games for Arcade: Phase 3! We have some development images of the early stages of three new games, Mac has gotten Air Hockey working right again, and work continues on the 2D Games! We’re very excited to get to start working on Arcade development again, and we can’t wait to get these games out to you all.

We’ve been taking in feedback from players and we’re working on a few other special features that don’t quite fit in other sections.

• We’re working on adding Workshop Map, Mutators, and Game Types to the server browser, so you can see which server is playing a specific Gametype.

• Progress on Condo Currency has been made, which is a feature that Condo owners can use to add their own fake currencies to their Condos. These per-player currencies can also be used to track individual progress for adventure maps as well!

That’s going to do it for this week’s dev log! Be sure to keep an eye out for the next one!
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New to the Condo Hub, the Tower Condo Rental store is now open! This is a place where you can browse Workshop maps and Condos that TU players have made.

Here, you’ll be able to warp to Workshop maps from the Condo hub, including joining with a group! This immersive multiplayer workshop browser is a great activity for you and your friends to find new levels to play!

You just need to grab a map from the shelf and throw it at the TV to travel yourself and others to the map.

We hope this new rental store will be a more immersive and fun way to explore all the Workshop maps that have been made!

Below, we have a list of significant changes included in this update!

• Outhouse

• Portable Toilet

• Brass Chandelier

• Packaged Snacks

• AquaSlate (Note) and AquaSlate (Media)

• Bulky Tablet (Note) and Bulky Tablet (Media)

• Standing Chalkboard Menu

• Wicker Cubby

• Concrete Barrier

• Caution Barrier

• Fox and Wolf Ears

• Workshop Condo Rental Store!

• Game World Votemap timer now pauses until 50% of players have voted (friends only/singleplayer matches only)

• Condo:

  • Condo per-player permissions now save (with Steam Cloud support)

  • Added moderation tag permission, which grants a "Condo Mod" tag next to player's name who has this permission set

  • You can now change the max players in the condo settings while the condo is hosted

  • Material search is now saved

  • Added ability to right click and add items to your favorites

  • Added Double Wide radius option to Canvas Tube and Canvas Elbow

  • Reworked Canvas Tube to use two separate variables (Radius and Division) instead of the singular variant slider

• Condo - House Changes:

  • Closed gap on middle floor bedroom's wall (connecting it to the hallway)

  • Rebaked Lighting to prevent blue light affecting items near walls

  • Fixed UV errors on Entryway wall and Basement stairs wall

• Casino: Updated NPC models

• SDNL: Shield from Sword & Shield now can now be restored by using weapon pickup or ammo pickup

• SDNL: Thrown Chainsaw can now be restored with ammo pickups

• SDNL: Improved Sword & Shield sounds and added an effect when it's actively blocking bullets

• You can now skip dialogue mid-sentence again

• A significant amount of shader optimization was done. This was necessary to  improve both performance and load times by reducing the amount of shader memory load that the game engine has to deal with at any given time

• Added a permanent object pool in garbage collection to reduce the amount of hitches experienced in content-heavy areas like plaza and condos by stopping the engine from doing unnecessary garbage collection on assets that will soon be loaded back in anyway

• Plaza: Reduced streaming hitches in stores area

• Plaza: Reduced data on static meshes throughout the plaza by removing adjacency buffers that were unneeded

• Fixed join button no longer existing on friends list

• Fixed issues with clicking on player badges

• Fixed quick zoom not working while in an emote

• Plaza: Fixed incorrect materials on street lamps in backer statue area

• Plaza: Fixed an incorrect collision for the rooftop bar

• Plaza: Fixed an incorrect collision for the rooftop structural elements

• Plaza: Fixed sunlight going into the tower lobby through the ceiling

• Plaza: Fixed several incorrect support pillar material assignments in both the rooftop and the arcade

• Plaza: Fixed warped textures on boardwalk floorboards near the shooting gallery

• Plaza: Fixed store pedestal rotation not working properly with mouse

• Plaza: Fixed Condo Hub showing as icon being wrong on the 2D map

• Condo: Fixed stashing an item in a group stashing the entire group when group selection is disabled

• Condo: Fixed Bowling Ball Rack not displaying properly

• Condo: Fixed rental shelf media angles being messed up when the shelves are rotated

• Condo: Fixed coloring error on Beach Lounger and Horizontal Freezer items

• Condo: Fixed condo scoreboard taking mouse input of the entire screen, preventing you from using inventory while it is open

• Condo: Fixed updating condo title not working for certain symbols (such as +)

• Condo: Fixed being able to toggle thirdperson on and off while in a camera mode

• Condo: Fixed sleeping in bed not fading out if you had a post process volume placed

• Condo: Fixed dragging over the Inventory/Condo IO tab buttons causing them to get stuck in a weird visual state

• Condo Editor: Fixed having to double click to expand advanced properties

• SDNL: Fixed Egon Cannon sounds being the wrong sound class

• SDNL: Fixed Sword & Shield not equipping properly (right click feature)

• SDNL: Fixed Shield from Sword & Shield not destroying properly visually

• Fixed key binding not working with scroll wheel

• Fixed sizing of settings menu on small resolutions (such as Steam Deck)

• Fixed a bug with auto keyboard focus on media request UI

• Fixed key control descriptions clipping into the control binding buttons

• Controller: Fixed NPCs still talking when pressing crouch button after leaving a store

• Controller: Fixed scrollbar not working for Plaza / server lists

• Minigolf SDK: Fixed flag scale issues with hole tool

• SDK: Fixed workshop no collision items still colliding with weapon traces

• Removed first weapon shake effects while in third person

If you missed our previous developer blogs, we're working hard on getting Dedicated Condos out for our next update, with the new Pet Store following that update.

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