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Dev blog – The Mines #1

In the last few months we have been solely working on a major upcoming district zone, The Mines.
As per tradition, our devblogs don't tend to be long posts, so let's get straight into it.

[h2]Upcoming areas[/h2]

[h3]Mines[/h3]

The Mines are a large zone with a maze of tunnels, buried secrets and new services for convenience.
Among with rocks and, umm, more rocks, the mines comes with a narrow-gauge railway network, you can use to traverse the tunnels and shunting carriages full of ore you have mined. The mines will also provide with new opportunities of tenement upgrades.

[h3]Tenement A[/h3]

Tenement A, a large habitation block near the market area, provides a new, and less depressing, job opportunity. The block also hosts, or well, used to host a hospital dedicated at helping the victims of the fungal disease.

[h3]Open Sewer Metro[/h3]

The 'Open Sewer Metro', a local network of smuggling tunnels of an unknown original purpose will serve as a metro system connecting districts of Obenseuer.

[h3]Other new locations[/h3]

A few smaller new task-related locations are coming, like Bank of Bazaar where you can rob the bank vault.

[h2]New animals[/h2]

Chicken coops can be installed in tenement to provide with an income of chicken meat, feathers and eggs. Oh, you can also breed cats.

Your cat has also passed the inspection of the administration, and will be delivered to you.

[h2]Newspapers and magazines[/h2]

O-Market sells daily newspapers from the outside world. You can read newspapers to pass time and gain a small mental health boost from reading the news.

Daily lifehack magazine will also arrive in an item form, what can be read at your leisure to gain invaluable knowledge of crafting recipes.
It is now also possible to subscribe to the Open Sewer magazine, which will also provide recipes and small amount of random skill per volume.

[h2]Other upcoming additions[/h2]
  • New crafting stations, such as electronics and sewing station.
  • New furniture such as editable signs, cages, rugs and a head lantern
  • New items such as ores, Bobby and vanilla ice cream
  • New recipes
  • Several bug fixes and other additions


Full list of upcoming changes can be found out by wading through our changelog:
https://github.com/loiste-interactive/Obenseuer-Issues/blob/main/CHANGES.md

Update March 21st 2024 (Version 0.3.38) - hotfix

[h2]Patch notes for March 21st 2024 (Version 0.3.38) - hotfix[/h2]
  • Fixed crafting stations visual state not updating when power status is changed (issue #1913)
  • Fixed the backpack being usable after being taken while sleeping (issue #1917)
  • Fixed betel palm trees giving tomato seeds (issue #1914)

[h3]Items[/h3]
  • Fixed eating canned foods not giving you an empty can

[h3]Tenement System[/h3]
  • Fixed cleaning status not always updating correctly
  • Fixed missing toilet in fine basement sauna upgrade

[h3]Deekula A[/h3]
  • Changed Dr. Pena MD model

[h3]Deekula C[/h3]
  • Fixed storage stove being a ball grill (issue #1912)

[h3]Kolhola[/h3]
  • Added ability to ask which pod player rented (issue #1111)
  • Added dialogue if all pods are rented (issue #1122)

Update March 19th 2024 (Version 0.3.37) - hotfix

[h2]Patch notes for March 19th 2024 (Version 0.3.37) - hotfix[/h2]

  • Fixed survive 7/30/365 days achievements not triggering
  • Fixed broken sauna (issue #1906)
  • Fixed bucket toilets buckets not filling with products made by player
  • Fixed non sellable items dissappearing when trying to sell them
  • Fixed not being able to move items when using keyboard or controller

[h3]Items[/h3]
  • Changed the plastic filament not to be stackable
  • Changed the coffee packages not to be stackable

[h3]Tenement System[/h3]
  • Added resident list to stairwell to display current residents

[h3]Recipes[/h3]
  • Fixed cider yield

Update March 15th 2024 (Version 0.3.36) - hotfix

[h2]Update March 15th 2024 (Version 0.3.36) - hotfix[/h2]

  • Fixed difficulty setting not saving correctly from main menu (issue #1902)
  • Fixed some crafting/growing stations not showing recipes (issue #1899)
  • Fixed refresh rate resetting

[h3]Tenement System[/h3]

  • Fixed furniture storages sometimes losing all items (issue #1900)
  • Fixed not being able to use the shabby bathroom shower (issue #1897)
  • Fixed wine rack bottles remaining in the furniture store UI if the game was saved when the wine rack was last selected (issue #1896)

[h3]Furniture[/h3]

  • Fixed Open Sewer poster name (issue #1895)

Update March 14th 2024 (Version 0.3.35)

Hello,

Time for another update of bugfixes and a few additions for Obenseuer.

[h3]Difficulty settings[/h3]

You can now select a custom difficulty where you can change several settings such as needs speed, renovation cost, and addiction recovery speed.



[h3]Hygiene and radiation[/h3]

Two new stats have been added.

The hygiene which decreases slowly, but you can use the shower to wash yourself. Too low hygiene exposes you to fungal disease.

The radiation is hidden stat, which can be checked by Dr. Pena or using a dosimeter, which you will need in the mines. Also pharmacy now sells iodine pills.



[h3]Sleeping events[/h3]

There are several different types of sleeping events, such as the police can take you to jail or someone can infect you with a fungal disease.

[h3]Mask slot and dishwasher[/h3]

There is currently one item for the face slot, a face mask which provides protection against fungi. Face masks can be bought at the pharmacy. A dirty mask also quickly reduces hygiene.

Dishwasher can be used to wash away the owner of the items.



[h3]Other additions and changes[/h3]

  • Added ability to move items quickly by holding down the mouse button
  • Added processing time for crafting furniture
  • Added a second autosave slot
  • Added ability to remove save slots
  • Increased spoilage times
  • Increased farming payment
  • Increased mash payment
  • Rebalanced renovation costs
  • Police respawn to their original positions


Also here are some pictures of future updates:



Full changelog can be read here:
https://github.com/loiste-interactive/Obenseuer-Issues/blob/main/CHANGES.md

Also, previous 0.3.33 version can still be accessed from: Steam library -> Obenseuer -> Options -> Betas and selecting 0.3.33