Some Larger Improvements Patch 5 (v0.52.5)

[JinX]

📢 Patch Notes: Little Sim World v0.52.5

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🛠️ Balancing Updates

• Furniture will get dirty less often.
  
• Increased storage size for cabinets.
  
• Even more interest-related activities now award a slight Happiness boost.
  Current list includes:
  
  1. Cooking
     
  2. Using All Gym Training Equipment
     
  3. Painting
     
  4. Crafting
     
  5. Using Archaeology Set
     
  6. Using Crush Station
     
  7. Fishing

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🌐 Multiplayer Fixes

• Fixed players having no curtain when using the bathroom.
  
• Fixed progress issues for writing books (PCs were unsynced).
  
• Fixed mailbox issues; mailboxes are now independent per player—changes will properly save whether you're host or client.
  
• Fixed players sometimes being unable to use double beds or benches.

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🚀 Performance Fixes & Crashes

• Updated internal event handling, addressing issues like:
  • Clock stopping
  • NPCs not leaving stores
  • Quest steps and phone calls not triggering
  
• This should improve stability but may not fix all related issues yet.

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🎮 Controller Support Fixes

• Fixed controller interaction for Billboards during "Eye to Eye" Main Quest.
  
• Fixed controller interaction for University Window during "Libra Ex Machina" Main Quest.
  
• Fixed controller interaction for Red Royal Snail Postboxes.
  
• Fixed controller interaction for ATMs.

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📚 Quest Fixes

• "A Winner's Path" progression unlocked.
  ➤ If your quest was stuck, it has been restarted to unlock the progression. (Does not apply to completed quests.)
  
• Yoga Ball Reward:
  ➤ Players who completed "A Winner's Path 1" will receive the fixed version of the Yoga Ball reward.
  
• Improved controller detection for the Repairman NPC next to the bus stop.
  
• Players who already completed the Yoga Ball quest will receive the fixed version in their mailbox.

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🔧 Other Fixes

• Fixed interaction menu to support any aspect ratio; ultrawide monitors now fully utilize screen edges!
  
• Fixed fullscreen/borderless switching in settings.
  
• Dialogue can now be skipped with any keyboard key.
  
• PCs no longer change their repair components every time they are selected for repair.
  
• Fixed Water Filters bug—always check remaining uses before drinking tap water!
  
• Added new backpacks and removed extra player slots.
  ➤ Players who lost slots will receive a free Tier 0 Backpack.
  ➤ Any items exceeding inventory space will be sent to your mailbox.
  
• Level 0 Beds are now more comfortable!
  ➤ Fixed bug where Comfort need would constantly drop during sleep.
  
• Fixed interaction tooltips not appearing above buttons.
  
• Multiple localisation fixes.
  
• Items dropped inside Littles’ houses will no longer disappear.
  ➤ Items dropped outside might still disappear—check your Mailbox or Royal Snail PO Box for lost items!
  
• Fixed DateTime loading the next month if the game was saved on the last day.

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⚠️ Known Issues

• Ongoing instabilities with quests:
  ➤ "Something Fishy This Way Comes…", "A Finnicky Gift", and "Swimming Charade".
  ➤ Some players aren’t receiving the correct item after delivering the fish to Jesse. This is on our radar!
  ➤ Please report any issues via the bug-report channel.
  
• A strange bug is causing golden bubbles to appear during unrelated activities.

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📥 Don’t forget to update your game on Steam to apply the patch!
📅 More updates coming soon!

[cas6384]

Thank you devs! You guys are awesome. Is the museum donation thing a known bug? I haven't seen a fix mentioned in other patch notes. By museum donation thing, I was only getting EXP for one item I donated when donating multiple, so I would donate say a common coin, a rare fish together, I would only get EXP for the coin. So I've been donating my items one at a time (I did start a new save) to ensure I get the EXP from all items, since it takes so long to level reputation after hitting level one. I saw it mentioned somewhere (here or reddit, I'm not sure) and wasn't sure if it was brought to yall's attention.

[AleKote]

Nice!

[bartleybrandon00]

you guys are doing so good and thanks for the hard work, i thought id mention its taking long to load and i still get that big pause right when opining the game, and seems to take longer than it should for a game like this to even load a save its not my computer for KSP loads faster, not dissing it just wondering if that is expected for now for its just been released, and the update for being able to pay bills came out then i ended up not being able to pay them now, i get it in the mail but cant pay when i go to the place, and thank you guys for keeping up with this game and not leaving it :)

[JinX]

Originally posted by cas6384:

Thank you devs! You guys are awesome. Is the museum donation thing a known bug? I haven't seen a fix mentioned in other patch notes. By museum donation thing, I was only getting EXP for one item I donated when donating multiple, so I would donate say a common coin, a rare fish together, I would only get EXP for the coin. So I've been donating my items one at a time (I did start a new save) to ensure I get the EXP from all items, since it takes so long to level reputation after hitting level one. I saw it mentioned somewhere (here or reddit, I'm not sure) and wasn't sure if it was brought to yall's attention.

Thanks for reporting this, let me see and check what's going on here <3

[JinX]

Originally posted by bartleybrandon00:

you guys are doing so good and thanks for the hard work, i thought id mention its taking long to load and i still get that big pause right when opining the game, and seems to take longer than it should for a game like this to even load a save its not my computer for KSP loads faster, not dissing it just wondering if that is expected for now for its just been released, and the update for being able to pay bills came out then i ended up not being able to pay them now, i get it in the mail but cant pay when i go to the place, and thank you guys for keeping up with this game and not leaving it :)

Thank you for the report, checking in on this now <3