The Tenants - Elite Update 0.72b

Content
- Added a host of new entry animations for Elite Contract clients.
- Added dedicated Hunter client assets for one of the Elite Contracts.

General
- Fixed an issue with large wall mounted items being impossible to place down.
- Fixed an issue with the apartment reset feature breaking the room detection system (thanks @vritto!).
- Fixed an issue with the new Elite Contract intros behaving erratically when the game was paused.
- Fixed an issue with the intros being sometimes overlaid with tutorial sequences.
- Fixed an issue with the billard table being required in one of the jobs.
- Fixed an issue with lacking skill points for older saves.
- Fixed an issue with pedestrian animations in the main menu.
- Fixed a visual wall glitch in the Suburbs.

Balance
- Lowered item spam penalties for Outdoor items. Achieving higher prestige scores in gardens should now be easier.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1009560/view/3105790983253155092
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The Tenants - Winter Update

Features
- Added a new in-game phone app: Camera.

Content
- Added a time-limited Elite Contract: Toy Factory.
- Added a time-limited tenant request: Wonderful Time.
- Added a time-limited tenant event: Singing Carols.
- Decorated the main menu and the district maps for the time-limited Winter event.
- Added two new loading screens.
- Added an item set designed by the Halloween community contest winner, @vritto.

General
- Fixed an issue where overlapping furniture slotted on the shelves and similar spots wouldn't detect collisions between each other.
- Fixed an issue with furniture being placed outside apartment boundaries in some cases.
- Fixed an issue with calculating agent work days in a given time period.
- Fixed a host of issues related to sound effects.
- Fixed a few issues with item placement.
- Fixed an issue that occurred when changing the target room mid-negotiation with a tenant.
- Fixed an issue with job clients rating items from a different room.
- Fixed an issue with the rendering of corners pieces for exterior walls.
- Fixed an issue with tenants getting stuck on certain actions.
- Fixed an issue with the missing game mode tooltip in the main menu.

UI
- Hidden the duration of the tutorial Pedro babysitting task.
- Fixed an issue with displaying nearby item connections after leaving renovation.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1009560/view/3105793519894801108

The Tenants - Patch 0.75b

General
- Fixed an issue with missing translations for a number of languages.
- Fixed an issue with furniture UI markers not properly updating in cleaning mode.
- Tweaked the in-game feedback tool to include more insightful info for the development team.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1009560/view/3105793519899249089
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The Tenants - Patch 0.75c

General
- Fixed a game breaking issue where the game would sometimes stop responding to all inputs.
- Fixed an issue with the Christmas tenant event where the give gift action wouldn't always work.
- Fixed an issue with a TV sfx in one of the Musician archetype actions.
- Tweaked the Train job to give a little more lee-way in terms of item placement.
- Added a temporary popup about the ongoing community contest.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1009560/view/3105793519914435242
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The Tenants - Patch 0.75d

We've now closed the submission form for our winter community contest and moved on to the voting stage. Now all of you can vote for your favorite designs for Santa's Toy Factory!

Head here to cast your vote: voting form

Thanks to everyone who found some free time during the winter break and submitted their entry!

General
- All walls are now up when entering Photo Mode.
- Tweaked pathfinding to avoid pathing inaccuracies in tight spaces.
- Tweaked the way the final review message is chosen to make it easier to get better reactions from tenants after their lease ends.
- Adjusted PIGEON Sink's height offset.
- Fixed a few issues with the RV toilet not being considered in apartment requirements.
- Fixed a number of game-breaking issues with some of the Uncle Steve interactions resulting in erratic behavior (things not disappearing properly, fixed issues coming back as failures, etc.).
- Fixed an issue with some of the tenant events granting negative happiness values after switching in and out of their district for a longer period of time.
- Tweaked Bar's colliders in the Train job to make it easier to place.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1009560/view/3105793519939291041
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The Tenants - Patch 0.75e

General
- Reverted some of the changes in pathing to allow for more testing & tweaking. We'll revisit the subject in the next major update.
- Fixed the incorrect material on the drawing table item.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1009560/view/3105793519942911032
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The Tenants - Patch 0.76

General
- Disabled winter decorations and seasonal time-limited content. Santa will return to Wondersville next holiday season.
- Disabled remodelling in a few jobs.
- Fixed Open House job ratings being sometimes wrongly docked for tenants not having enough past tenancies.
- Fixed a number of incorrect furniture icons.
- Fixed a number of wall decorations wanting to be placed right up against the wall even when they were on the wall itself.
- Fixed some tenants suffering from premature balding.

Balance
- Toned down tenant events frequency scaling with the number of player tenants. Introduced a hard cap starting at 22 tenants.
- Cashflow problem event changed to occur to everyone but Loyal / Diligent tenants.
- Date night event changed to occur to everyone except Loners with Social Animals having a boosted chance of it happening.
- TV / Internet subscription upgrade event changed to occur to everyone with Gamers having a boosted chance of it happening.
- Adjusted how much rent agents are able to get during lease renegotiations.
- Agents with over 75 Salesmanship will now never lose money on lease renegotiations unless the tenant is already maxed out.
- Adjusted what lease lengths agents are able to get during lease renegotiations.
- Agents might be able to get a longer lease than your current one, while agents with over 80 Salesmanship will never get a shorter lease than your current one. However, lease lengths negotiated by agents are capped at 120 days.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1009560/view/3105794879482124761

Landlord Update Teaser

Hey there landlords!


We have been working hard to bring you the next big update on our roadmap these past few months. The landlord update will mark an important milestone for all of us as we pass the roadmap's halfway mark and are getting closer to the 1.0 version
! This major update brings many new features, content, excitement, and a little something that happens to be a very highly requested system by the community.

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Let's start with the little something, which is, well, not that little. We're introducing a new Phone App to manage your properties and look at ones available for purchase; no more scrolling endlessly through the whole map to find that green dollar symbol! What's more exciting is that along with the new app, we're changing up how properties are bought and sold (yes, sold!).

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All properties will now be available to purchase via auctions
. Each purchase will now involve more gameplay elements as Uncle Steve himself will now dress up for the occasion! You'll be able to walk around the property first, evaluate how much it's worth, before you take part in a bidding war against other landlords. Finally, the update will also allow you to sell your own properties
through a similar system, this time featuring Steve as the auctioneer himself.

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But let's move to the next item on our list. A vast assortment of new jobs, which includes new Elite jobs and a newly introduced type of jobs, will be added with this update. For example, there’s a new Elite contract job for a botanist who will want their place to be full of plants and other exciting items as if it was the Palmenhaus Schonbrunn itself! Overall, we will be adding over 90 new jobs
altogether, which should alleviate some of the repetitive gameplay issues. Of course, we plan to still keep adding even more new jobs throughout the development, so don't worry about that!

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With the addition of new jobs as we mentioned we would be bringing you the new type of job called Puzzle jobs. These jobs are for the more challenge-seeking players or simply those who want a break from the complete renovation jobs. With the Puzzle jobs
, you will have less room to work with and yet more items to put in. Note you will not be able to edit the room layouts to make them any bigger. These jobs are where the challenge begins to see if you can fit all the listed items in the room, which may require you to think outside the box and use that reset button a few times here and there until it all just fits. Are you up for the challenge?

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Since we've been putting more jobs and Elite contracts in the game with each update, we decided that Elite contracts needed a little more spice to them. So instead of just taking them for the money, you will now be able to unlock Elite job items
each time you complete them. To unlock the full set of job items, you will need to complete each one three times. After unlocking these items, they are yours to use as your own furniture. You will notice these items scattered around in your renovation tab when renovating for jobs or your properties.

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Another thing that's going to be touched up in the update is the main storyline. To make the early game smoother we added two new objectives and tweaked the cash flow quest
to be less of a hurdle. Moreover, the update features important quality of life changes, including refreshing the prestige value in the room panel with each item purchase, double-clicking the item to move it, and, oh, improved loading times
! Certain configurations should see up to a 50% improvement on the new patch.

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And that's it for today's teaser! Landlord Update
will go live in a few weeks' time and we can't wait to hear your thoughts about it! Until then, stay tuned!

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1009560/view/5771929045811467599

The Tenants - Landlord Update
Hello there, Landlords!

It's time for another major update! This time we're back with one that everyone's been waiting for quite some time, the Landlord Update! Introducing possibly the most requested feature by the community, apartment selling, today's update drastically enhances the gameplay as you know it, adding on new layers of interaction with the game and a plethora of new content to explore. To celebrate the occasion, The Tenants is now 25% off!
Let's dive right into it!

New Apartment Selling & Buying
The biggest changes in this update are by far related to how we look at properties in the game. We've always intended for The Tenants to have a more managerial style of gameplay at the very top of our gameplay loop, with players buying multiple properties, investing into them, renting them out, and eventually flipping them for profit. This dynamic was not possible to achieve without a number of key features, including the ability to sell apartments and the revised buying system. Both utilize auctions, a new interactive way to handle all your purchases and sales, where you'll get to bid against other landlords!

To make investing and progression more meaningful, players will now have to upgrade the so-called property limit, which describes the number of properties they can own at any given time. You'll find all about it, including a list of all upcoming and ongoing auctions in the area, in the new Properties app on your phone. Be sure to check it out!

Note: For players with existing save files who own more properties than their current limit allows them to, the game will prompt you to sell a number of units of your choice to convert your save file to a landlord update compatible version.

Job Overhaul
Jobs are an essential aspect of the game. As you venture into the landlord update, you will notice that the jobs have changed. You may see that all jobs that once were are no longer there or have been revamped in one way or another. Alongside doing this to existing jobs, we have also added new jobs, so over 90 new jobs are available in the game.

With new jobs come new requirements called prestige scores. We have decided to remove “decor” from jobs as it felt disconnected from the rest of the game. Adding prestige scores instead will make the game more consistent between jobs and your places, as scoring will be the same throughout both.

Moreover, we have added a new type called puzzle job. You will be challenged to think outside the box to fit the requirement task list into a small room supplied to you in these jobs. Are you up for the task? If so, try not to hurt yourself thinking!

Job Rating Changes
We've been closely monitoring the feedback related to job ratings, and the thing that kept coming up was that the game more-or-less forced players to keep using the same items over and over again (the most expensive ones). In the previous updates, we've added the Tags that didn't work exactly as planned since they were regarded as a separate rating category, and the old issues were still present for the other categories.

However, with this update, we've made bigger changes to the whole rating system. We've removed the Decor and the Tags categories, adding the new Prestige category in their place as previously mentioned. Furthermore, we've changed how the game rates the Required Furniture, Preferred Furniture, Walls, and Floors categories. Now, these categories don't consider the given item's price; instead, they focus on using the correct tags (if available) and avoiding placement issues.

The overarching goal here was to remove the focus on expensive furniture and materials, and enable players to use a wider variety of items while doing renovation jobs. Of course, this is an intricate system, and we're eager to hear your feedback on the changes. We plan to keep tweaking and balancing it in further updates.

New Unlockable Items

Another exciting feature of the new update is the new unlocking system for Elite Contract jobs! You will be able to unlock the complete set of unique job items for each contract by completing it three times. Each successful job will yield a portion of them, making each one more than worth the hassle while giving you a reason to come back to them to get the full lineup!

Landlord Points

One thing that we wished we had introduced right from the very beginning, was a second currency. With this new currency added, instead of using money for everything, you will now be required to use Landlord Points on a number of in-game features, such as gifting, sabotaging, and services. No more spending real money to boot your most hated tenant!

In the future, we'll be looking at adding even more avenues to spend your landlord points on, so make sure to keep an eye out for that!

New Events

It's been a while since we added any tenant events to the game, and it seems like our tenants have managed to come up with a number of really interesting issues to bug you about during your gameplay. New events are all uniquely tied to specific tenant archetypes, and they all can involve Steve in one way or the other! And so, alcoholics might forget their way to the bed while artists will message you asking you to drop by to pose for their new painting. Plenty of fun ahead in Wondersville!

New Tenant Archetype - Magician
It wouldn't be a major update without a new archetype coming to town! Magicians are all about gaudy appearances and equally ostentatious magic tricks. Although, with enough gigs lined up for the month, they can be pretty good at paying rent on time! Make sure to treat them well, or who knows what can happen to a landlord they deem problematic.

No update would be complete without a batch of key quality of life changes and improvements to the existing mechanics. We've focused a lot on improving loading times
and the general loading pipeline, which in the past could cause crashes for some of our players. Important balance changes have been also pushed, lowering the $12k cashflow quest to $8k, while adding two new quests in the Slums in between to make the transition to the Suburbs smoother.

We're very excited to get this update out for you to play with! Some of the features released today have been in the works for months, designed right at the beginning of the development, and it's incredibly rewarding to see them come to fruition. We hope you enjoy it, and we can't wait for your feedback!

Full Changelog

Features

Added a new Phone app: Properties.
Implemented selling apartments via auctions.
Reworked buying apartments to work similarly to selling.
Added a new currency: Landlord Points.
Implemented Elite Contract item unlocks.

Content

Added a new tenant archetype: Magician.
Added 6 new tenant events tied to specific archetypes.
Added a new renovation job type: Puzzle jobs.
Added 4 new Elite Contracts.
Added over 90 new renovation jobs.
Added 2 new missions in between the Slums' missions..

General

Optimized the game's loading speed in a major way.
Tweaked and polished the environment in the Suburbs.
Fixed Open House jobs being sometimes wrongly 1 star reviewed for being sold too cheaply.
Tenants will now leave their apartments for other reasons than only going to work.
Tenants will now try to use the freshly installed items right after a renovation request.
Tenants will now look at items of interest (for example when watching TV).

Jobs

Reworked (once again) how rooms are assigned and recognized in renovation jobs.
Removed Decor from scoring categories, added Prestige instead, and reworked the scoring in general.

UI

Polished the item unlock popup on level ups.
Re-organized item assignments to different furniture categories.
Added the ability to click and search scored item types in the room context menu panel.
Tweaked the furniture placement warning icons in renovation mode.
Added an event icon that signalizes that a tenant's lease is ending.
Added tooltips that explain how to unlock locked features in the Open House UI.
Moved the common requirements to the bottom of the renovation checklist.

Balance

Reduced the casfhlow required in the "Playing for High Stakes" mission from $12k to $8k.
Reduced the number of required Babysitting jobs to perform in the "Babysitter" mission from 3 to 2.

Thank you,
The Tenants Team

The Tenants - Patch 0.8b

General

Tweaked photo mode's camera. Made camera bounds more forgivable in the Slums.
Fixed an issue with off balance prestige values inflating apartment ratings.
Fixed an issue with overlapping chairs slotted to different tables.

UI

Fixed roadmap popup's UI layout making it impossible to close the popup.
Fixed money not always updating in the UI.
Fixed missing phone translations.

Jobs

Significantly increased the number of items provided by job clients.

The Tenants - Patch 0.8c

General

Added visualization of the auction table for Steve to make starting bidding more intuitive.
Added the ability to attach your save file when using the in-game feedback report tool.
Added some missing translations.
Fixed an issue with players being unable to exit failed auctions.
Fixed a glitch with the proximity bonus lines in the UI.
Fixed collider issues with some of the furniture.

Jobs

Reworked First Impressions to be more consistent with the rest of the reworked categories, taking into account tags and proximity bonuses instead of prestige only.
Added more items provided by the client.
Fixed an issue with missing Firewood items in the Barracks Elite Contract. Implemented a recovery fix for already affected save files.
Fixed room detection issues in the Brewery job.
Fixed Botanic Garden job clients wanting wall mounted items for their preferred items.
Fixed Garden Work tenant request to require Garden Plants instead of Big Plants.

Balance

Reduced the amount of Landlord Points rewarded for solving issues with Uncle Steve and for completing Elite Contracts.

The Tenants - Patch 0.8d

General

Fixed a game crash that sometimes occurred when moving certain garden items.
Fixed a game crash related to the Botanic Garden job.
Fixed a pathing issue related to wall-mounted items, preventing players from renting out previously verified properties. The fix is temporary and you might observe inconsistent behavior with some shelving items; more patches are on their way.
Fixed an issue with the Alcoholic event sometimes beginning too close to the bed causing unexpected behavior.
Fixed purchase auctions starting with a $0 opening bid.

The Tenants - Patch 0.8e

General

Fixed being able to sample and buy furniture even when you couldn't afford it.
Fixed an issue with the boat being available for purchase before completing the first Elite Contract.
Fixed an issue with auctions sometimes failing after being completed.
Fixed incorrect Workshop floor mapping in one of the Suburbs properties.
Fixed an issue with the two piles of garbage stacked on each other in one of the Suburbs properties.
Fixed a couple issues with the cockroach event tutorial hard locking the game.
Fixed two jobs that required non-workshop type floors in workshop type rooms.
Fixed an issue with ghost UI markers in some tenant events.
Fixed a host of issues in the new tenant events related to starting and ending them.
Fixed an issue with the proximity bonus detection range calculation sometimes being incorrect.
Tweaked one of the speakers to be placeable on various surfaces and not only on the floor.

Balance

Cleaned up tax behavior with auctions. Apartment sales will not count towards taxable income anymore to avoid double taxation. All apartment transactions after selling are now grouped together and carried over to maintain finance history integrity.
Slightly increased profit margins for sell auctions.

The Tenants - Patch 0.8f (Trashing disabled!)

Hey there, Landlords!

Due to popular demand we've decided to temporarily disable the tenants trashing feature until we rework the system in a way that is enjoyable for players, instead of plainly frustrating.

General

Disabled trashing altogether until the system's rework.
Fixed an issue with room detection in the Baron's Mansion two-room job.

The Tenants - Patch 0.8g

General

Fixed an issue with one of the jobs in the Suburbs.
Fixed a number of issues with the Earthquake event where Uncle Steve wouldn't always appear to fix the issue.

The Tenants - Patch 0.81

*General

Disabled Research for Pedro.
Tweaked new archetype events to only affect the happiness of the tenant with whom the interaction took place.
Fixed an issue with Pedro sometimes disappearing when launching a pre-landlord update save file.
Fixed a few edge cases related to the cockroach event tutorial section.
Fixed an issue with the reviewer sometimes not spawning after completing the job.
Fixed a few issues with tenants getting stuck.
Fixed an issue with tenants sometimes choosing never to report issues.
Fixed a few edge cases where tenants would interrupt their action while reporting apartment issues never completing it.
Fixed an issue with the Heating Damage event not properly recovering its state when reloading the game.
Fixed the Cactus Hunt minigame looping forever when the player has lost the first match.
Fixed a few issues with events not ending properly when restarting, forever leaving an unresolved issue marker.
Fixed an issue with being able to start an Open House while in uncle mode in said property.
Fixed an issue with the front door not always being selectable in certain events.
Fixed Buddha statue item type.
Fixed Vinyl records clipping through one of the tables.

The Tenants - Spring Update

Hello there, Landlords!


We're back with a new update outside our regular Early Access roadmap schedule, bringing you some of the highly requested features! We're also celebrating Spring with a time-limited in-game event that will take you on a wild egg hunt and reward you with unique themed decorations. All right, let's go over what you can expect to find in this update!

*Egg Hunt event

Today we're beginning our Easter Egg Hunt Event, which will last for two weeks. Steve's been hard at work hiding all the Easter eggs around the Slums district for you to search for. Make sure to find them all, as collecting the whole set will reward you with a unique Easter decorations item set!

The Tenants: Egg Hunt
is a time-limited event that will take place in the slums from April 21st to May 5th.

*Creative Mode overhaul

We finally had the time to properly work on the Creative mode and make it into the game mode that we had initially envisioned it as. Now you will be able to fully customize your playthroughs by increasing the starting cash, reducing the number of events happening to your tenants, disabling the tutorial, and more!

For your convenience, we have also added a couple of presets to choose from if you're unsure what settings to go for.

Note:
Achievements will no longer work in Creative Mode due to the scope of possible gameplay modifications. For players with existing Creative Mode save files, we will grant a grace period of two weeks within which you're still eligible for achievements, unless you modify any of the creative settings in the pause menu.

*Dark User Interface theme

For all the night owls in our community, don't worry. We got you covered. We're very excited about this feature ourselves, as most of our dev team uses dark mode wherever it's available. So with this update, we're adding a dark theme for the whole user interface (except the main menu), which also opens up a way for potential additional themes for the UI to be added in the future.

*New furniture

What update would it be if we didn't add a plethora of new items for you to spice up your properties with? Apart from the Egg Hunt related decorations, we've added a bunch of general use items (over 120 in total!) that you'll unlock the usual way, through leveling up your landlord.

*Steve's Guidebook

Throughout our Early Access adventure, we've added many new features and mechanics to The Tenants, and there hasn't been an in-game way to catch up with the new additions. On top of that, some players may click through tutorials that pop up when they're engaged with some other type of content, and there was no way to access them later on. Until now, that is. Whenever you feel like it, you can click on the Steve's Guidebook icon in the top right corner of the screen and browse through any of the tutorials that you've previously unlocked.

In a not-so-distant-future update, we also plan to add tenant archetype entries to the Guidebook that will unlock after interacting with a given archetype. If you have any ideas on what more you'd like to see here, please let us know!

Auction tutorial

When we introduced the new system for buying and selling properties, we honestly ran out of time to implement proper tutorials that'd explain the new mechanics. The Spring Update, fortunately, removes this issue, as now you'll be guided by Uncle Steve through your first time selling a property of your own.


We're hoping that this update will make the wait for the Manhattan Update all the more enjoyable. We feel that we've managed to tie some of the crucial loose ends just in time to prepare for the upcoming major release. Feel free to share your thoughts on the Spring Update with us in the comments below or on our official Discord server, which can be found here: link.


Full Changelog

Features

Implemented Steve's Guidebook.
Overhauled Creative Mode (you can skip the tutorial now!).
Added a new dark mode UI theme.


Content

Introduced Egg Hunt - a time limited event with Easter decorations to snatch!
Added new tutorial sections for auctions.
Added over 120 new items including dryers, printers, board games, cutlery sets, kitchen utensils, dishwashers, bathroom clutter, decorations, and more!
Decorated main menu to match the spring/Easter spirit!


General

Added a confirmation popup when exiting the game while a tutorial section is ongoing.
Added a confirmation popup when not extending tenant's lease during lease renegotiations.
Greatly reworked tenant's movement during Open Houses, specifically targeting large properties and the Suburbs.
Added the ability to see your currently selected item tag filters and easily clear them out.
Changing the color variant of an item in the buy UI will now pull it up to purchase it.
Moved floors and walls to the top of the renovation checklist.
Added a tooltip when trying to use an outside flooring inside and vice versa.
Added a tooltip when trying to rent by rooms without separate bedrooms.
Tenant context menu panel will now display player's character name when listing player relationship.
Increased character limit to 1000 in the feedback panel.
Adjusted a few item colliders for easier placement.
Fixed a number of issues with the tenant events not always ending properly.
Fixed an issue with tenants getting stuck in front of the front door when being sabotaged.
Fixed an issue with removing parented furniture in equipment failure and tenant request tasks.
Fixed an issue with tenant requests requiring the player to work on bathrooms even though the request was for a different room.
Fixed an issue with mismatching property images.
Fixed an issue with tenant requests not ending properly when the tenant has moved out.
Fixed an issue with the camera controls not rebindig correctly.
Fixed an issue with the lease renegotiation tutorial getting stuck.
Fixed an issue with scoring the floor category in the tutorial job.


Balance

Boosted aunt's apartment prestige multipliers.
Adjusted tenant archetype bedroom and apartment likes.
Limited earthquakes to only affect some of the apartments in the later stages of the game.
Increased budget of a few jobs.

The Tenants - Patch 0.85b

*General

Babysitting jobs will now still produce events even in Creative Mode regardless of the player tenants setting.
Added a services & sabotages tutorial popup in the Pedro Trashing tutorial.
Adjusted a number of kitchen sets to include the new dishwashers.
Fixed an issue with storage items not being accessible.
Fixed an issue with preferred items not being ticked off in Creative Mode when apartment work time scale was set to 0.

The Tenants - Patch 0.85c

*General

Egg Hunt's Easter Set will now be unlocked across all your save files (including future save files).
Easter eggs can now be picked up even when the game is paused.
Game will now show the old save file warning only once before upgrading the file to the current version.
Auction bidders now use the same method of rating as Open House guests. The amount they're willing to bid is now less random and more dependent on their ratings.
Opening bids are now less random and more dependent on property conditions.
Moved the research tutorial to right after the player starts their first research
Tweaked photo mode's camera controls to allow for more freedom.
Fixed an issue with proximity markers being displayed even when the newly bought item was placed in the bonus position right off the bat.
Fixed a room detection issue in the Brewery job.
Fixed an issue with tenant renovation requests not kicking the player out of renovation mode when the lease with the tenant in question ends.
Fixed a number of issues with furniture items.


*Open House

Open House guests will now choose the item to rate from a pool of items close to the one they're standing next to.
Open House guests will now first favor the rooms that are actually being rented out when rating the property.


*UI

Main menu save slots will now display exact gameplay settings when hovering over the game mode icon. This will work only after you load your save file at least once.
All creative mode settings will now be displayed in the pause menu for information purposes.
Fixed a number of issues with the UI styling.

The Tenants - Patch 0.86

*General

Disabled Egg Hunt and Easter main menu decorations. Come back next year for another chance at unique item drops!
Updated the main menu with a fresh look.
Tweaked Photo Mode's camera controls.
Changed skill tree's default tab to Landlord.
Fixed a rare bug in the Pedro tutorial that resulted in broken save files.
Fixed an issue with a pink arcade.
Fixed a few item slot colliders.

Manhattan Update: Eyeing the Big Apple

Hello there, Landlords!


We started working on the Manhattan district itself almost a year ago, and now we're almost ready to finally release it into the wild. At the same time, this will be the last major milestone on our way to the full release, which is scheduled to come out before the end of this year.

Apart from the third district becoming available in-game with the new update, we're also using this opportunity to make some bigger changes to the core gameplay elements before we go ahead with the full release. On top of that, we've also decided to implement a few brand-new mechanics, along with a vast number of QoL tweaks and features. Let's dive into the specifics of what you can expect on July 22nd (yeah, that's the official planned release date)!

Manhattan district
The crown jewel of the update itself, the third district, will finally become available with the Manhattan Update. Available to those that have finished all their main story missions in both the Slums and the Suburbs. Once you buy the property mentioned in the last Suburbs' mission, you'll be prompted by Uncle Steve who'll get the keys to Manhattan for you. Keep in mind though, that you can always use Creative Mode to reach the new district faster!


Apart from the new environment itself, accompanied by new flats to buy and do jobs in, we wanted Manhattan to feel special in comparison to the other two districts. After all, it's the late-game area in which players that "finish" the game (reach the final mission) will spend most of their time.

One of the main features that the last district introduces is the property classification system, which splits apartments into two types: residential and business. The former are your regular apartments that you can rent out to tenants. The latter opens up the possibility to rent your properties to whole companies that will then bring their employees along and start using your apartment as a new office. Business properties will require a different set of items to host an open house, and each company type (there'll be at least a few of those) will require a different set of workstations.


Have you ever dreamed of solving a missing yogurt case ? With office spaces will also come a new set of events, a new tenant archetype (can you guess what it is?), and apartment subscriptions. Ah yes, the subscriptions. More on that later.

Target Cards
In life, not everyone is dealt a good hand of cards, and the same is true for The Tenants. With our last major update, we're adding a new type of progression system, in which you'll receive random Target Cards that you can complete at your own pace. The first set will be fully randomized, but then when you complete a card, you'll be able to choose one of the three random cards for your next target.


These cards will range from signing a particular type of tenant into one of your apartments to performing a given number of sabotages on unsuspecting tenants. On completion, they'll either give you plain cash, Landlord Points, new items, a random gift/service/sabotage, or the brand new Tenant Solver Token, which allows you to solve a chosen apartment event without your intervention.

City Pickups
With the new and beautiful district of Manhattan, we wanted to entice players to explore Wondersville from up close, instead of just jumping from one apartment to the other. With the release of the new update, we advise you to start looking under those bridges and into the chimneys scattered across the city. You might end up finding one of the two kinds of pickups we've implemented in the game:


Respawning pickups - simpler items that can be found in various parts of the town, on pickup will grant either money, Landlord Points, Tenant Hearts, and occasionally a rare epic item.

Collectibles - split into different sets that range from 7 to even 20 pieces. Some can be found only in a single district, while others may be scattered around all three. Each set on completion rewards the player with something different. So, for example, when you collect all Uncle Steve cards, you will receive a permanent move speed buff for Uncle Steve, and picking up all the graffitis will reward you with a set of them to use in your own interiors.

Apartment Upgrades & Subscriptions
And finally, at least when it comes to the biggest of the new features, we have the new apartment Upgrades & Subscriptions systems. We were never quite happy with the old utility system and we've had various ideas on how to rework it. The rework was originally planned for the Renovation Update , but as we sat down to fully design it, it only grew in size and scope with each iteration. Eventually, we had to push it back a little to make sure it was fully ready and compatible with the rest of the game before we release it to the public. Well, it's ready now!


Each apartment will have a plethora of various upgrades that can be installed in them along with a selection of subscriptions that can be turned on and off whenever the player wants to. The three core upgrades that are required to rent a unit out are electricity, heating, and water. Apart from installing them, the player will have to use Uncle Steve to configure each upgrade and place corresponding outlets in the property. Most of the outlets have a limited range in which they work, so it's good to plan ahead where the, let's say fridge, is going to be placed.

On top of that, there'll be a bunch of additional upgrades that may increase the value of the apartment for some tenants and clients, like the automatic cleaning robot (yay!) dispatch stations and such. Meanwhile, subscriptions do not require a permanent installation and they can be switched on and off whenever, although cutting off your tenant's high-speed internet connection will definitely not make them happy.


Whew, we've made it through the most important new additions coming in Manhattan Update. Don't forget to mark July 22nd on your calendars! We can't wait to hear your thoughts on the upcoming update in the comments below or on our official Discord server, which can be found here: link.

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Ancient Forge Studio