[2021] Update 9.4.2 released!

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

With this update comes a variety of bug fixes, improvements, and balance changes.

Please note: Large servers may experience a longer than normal loading period when initializing properties due to a bug fix that clears out empty deeds from the database.

Civics & Contracts

• Fixed: Custom stats for civics were still recording even when the action that triggered the stat increase was prevented
  
• Fixed: Text formulas in laws could sometimes cause the server to crash and the save to become corrupted
  
• Fixed: The Distribution Station was incorrectly using time played to determine if eligible to receive items, rather than using days since joining the server
  
• Fixed: Contracts were unable to be marked as failed
  
• Fixed: Admin command /titles unassign was not working when targeting someone besides self
  
• Fixed: It was not possible to repay loans when using a personal account
  
• Fixed: Amount owed for a loan contract would not always update to reflect the amount remaining after making a partial payment

Food & Nutrition

• Added modable variables for minimum calories and minimum nutrients provided for food items to be eligible for cravings (default is 200 calories and 12 nutrients)
  
• Increased default amount of calories provided for food items to be eligible to a favorite/least favorite food to 500 from 50
  
• Added modable variable for minimum nutrients provided to be a favorite/least favorite (default is 50)
  
• Increased default minimum calories needed to be considered for Food Variety to 100 from 50
  
• Increased default number of foods needed for Food Variety bonus to be hard capped from 40 to 60
  
• Fixed: Food variety bonus would instantly jump up to the hard cap of 50% bonus when reaching the soft cap of 25%
  
• Fixed: Sound effect for eating was not playing

Modkit

• Added mod support for UI prefabs for a collection of variable types: Boolean, IEnumerable, Int32, and String
  
• Fixed: Servers with large mods could experience slowdown when multiple people were connecting to the server for the first time and needed to download mods
  
• Fixed: Quick Join & URL links would not did not properly launch with Steam version of Eco

UI

• Updated Localization to cover many new strings
  
• Updated tooltips for Lavish Workspace and Frugal Workspace talents to indicate the crafting tables must be placed on claimed land for these talents to work
  
• Property overlay is now displayed on the map by default (It can still be disabled)
  
• Fixed: Punctuation marks in chat were displaying an empty deed
  
• Fixed: Pollution & sea level rise were missing statistics on the web UI
  
• Fixed: Local worlds saves were unable to be sorted by date last played
  
• Fixed: When scrolling in the server browser, the background shade for servers was appearing above the server list
  
• Fixed: Opening the citizen object UI was showing the World Progress tab by default rather than the citizen objectives
  
• Fixed: Exhaustion preference UI now displays units to indicate the number selection is based on hours
  
• Fixed: There were typos in the Ecopedia "Trade" and "Property" entries
  
• Fixed: After playing for a long amount of time, new chat messages and notifications would sometimes stop displaying
  
• Fixed: "Setting Up Shop" achievement was not displaying an icon when unlocked
  
• Fixed: When level 0 in a specialty, the experience tooltip for this specialty would display symbols rather than a number for the amount of experience needed to level up this specialty

Vehicles & Tools

• Further polished legacy cart controls to fully restore old cart behavior
  
• Fixed: Skid steer did not have its normal smooth movement when picking up rubble
  
• Fixed: Vehicles could slide on ramps even when movement keys were not being pressed
  
• Fixed: Vehicles would sometimes disappear when crossing zero point on the map
  
• Fixed: In some situations, tools would no longer work after switching from third person view to first person
  
• Fixed: When using tools in third-person view, they could have faster animations than when using them in first-person view

General Fixes:

• Fixed: It was possible to place objects on the edge of property that overlapped into other's property
  
• Fixed: Doors incorrectly required solid ground both in front of and behind the door in order to be placed in a location
  
• Fixed: On rare occasions, a server would be unable to start after a restart due to being unable to load the chat
  
• Fixed: Missing inventory stacks caused by removing modded items caused a NullReferenceException crash
  
• Fixed: Incompatibilities in the latest Unity version were causing hard to identify client crashes
  
• Fixed: Avatar could sometimes clip through the ground when moving through zero point
  
• Fixed: Using command "/skills all" followed by command "point" caused Eco to freeze