Mayor May Knott news & patch notes

Mayor May Knott is now available for $19.99!

(We've also fixed the pricing for LATAM and MENA)

$22.99 was a weird price, so we've changed the price to the much more familiar $19.99! That's 15-20 hours of delightful indie game for the typical price of 4-6 hours of delightful indie game!

If you've been waiting for the game to be available at a lower price, but you missed the last sale, then now's your chance!

build 1.2.2

fixes:

• fixed game running strangely on monitors with high refresh rates

• minor change to north cliffs to make stars easier to see

• fixed interior objects on houses not hiding correctly when may is outside of house

• made restaurant stove wait to consume fuel until may finishes interacting with it, to prevent being able to put in and take out fuel and run stove with no fuel

• Fixed Cliff name in bug bait request

• fixed some tawny waypoints

• fixed finnickiness on covered bridge ladder

• fixed being able to run up bowling railing

• made bottles full fortune only show when may has an oil bottle and hasn't fed an oil bottle to HP

improvements:

• added gclock request to deconstruct something

• new marquee on jeans splicer

• removed label from splicer box, made tulip talk about it if may either has request from ghost or request from dolphinstein

• set dialog UI to replace straight quotes with curly quotes

• Put hoopjoob and spikes on town Hall roof

• changed save data to use vector3int for positions

• minor dialog improvements

• gave scout a furniture corner with mushroom table and chairs

• better roofs on duplex houses

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This bundle is a 10% discount from buying both games separately, plus for a limited time 7 Nights at Vroombi is at an additional 15% launch discount, and Mayor May Knott is at a 25% discount for the Steam Summer Sale! That's a whole bunch of percents off!

v 1.2.0 notes

note that this build is only on the feature-test branch, and will go live on the default branch once it's been tested

fixes:

• moved ivy's clinic position so she can't trap may in corner

• fixing residents walking through operating table

• made restaurant stove wait to consume fuel until may finishes interacting with it, to prevent being able to put in and take out fuel and run stove with no fuel

• Fixed Cliff name in bug bait request

improvements:

• added g clock request to deconstruct something to teach player how to deconstruct things

• minor changes to north cliffs to make stars easier to see

• new marquee on jeans splicer

• removed label from splicer box

• changed tulip dialog to also unbox splicer if may is ready for pants on body builder

• added other supporting dialog about it

• set dialog UI to replace straight quotes with curly quotes

• Changed tawny waypoint from booth to glitzberg entrance, and created new waypoint for her in front of hall of records

• Put hoopjoob and spikes on town Hall roof

v 1.1.8

minor fixes:

• fix for moon disappearing near midnight

• fixed texture on the hole in zojiro's log

update 1.1.7

fixes:

• fixed stuck check erroneously firing when something is touching the top of may's head

• fixed being able to walk along the cliff wall over the UFO area

improvements:

• replaced more terrain with cliff geo in UFO area

update 1.1.5

fixed residents only bathing while may is in the bathmat

update 1.1.4

lots of changes in this one, albeit mostly behind the scenes:

fixes:

• fixed the long freeze that sometimes happens between the ending and the credits and during "save and quit". It's still sometimes noticeable, but much less noticeable now.

• fixed bathmat windows exterior being transparent if unoccupied

• fixed some buildings' internal lights being on when may is outside

• fixed tater going through all pending remarks before may can complete his request

• removed unnecessary shadows from lights

improvements:

• implemented framerate limiting (should fix wildly fluctuating framerates and overheating graphics cards)

• setting stone floor and wall repairs to give scrap concrete

• improved time sun's shadow turns on / off so it's less jarring

• stopped pop bottle automatically fueling juggourd with bottles from rack

• made fountain dialog interactable, so player can hide clown head, and also empty water bottles

feature-test update 1.1.3

(only on special feature-test branch)

• fixed tater going through all pending remarks before may can complete his request

• removed unnecessary shadows from lights

• stopped pop bottle automatically fueling juggourd with bottles from rack

• made fountain dialog interactable, so player can hide clown head, and also empty water bottles

feature test branch 1.1.2

(only on feature-test branch)

updates:

• various improvements to fix freeze when unloading main scene

• setting stone floor and wall repairs to give scrap concrete

• fixed bathmat windows exterior being transparent if unoccupied

• fixed some buildings' internal lights being on when may is outside

• improved time sun's shadow turns on / off so it's less jarring

feature test build 1.1

note that this build is ONLY on the "feature-test" branch, which is publicly available, but is not the default branch. You will need to switch to the "feature-test" branch in the Steam Client to use it.

fixes:

• async scene loading (should fix freeze when going to credits / save and quit after long sessions)

• framerate limiting (should fix wildly fluctuating framerates and overheating graphics cards)

update 1.0.19

fixes:

• fixed "meet wilbur" fortune not completing

• fixed markup on fries record description

improvements:

• minor spelling change to grover's initial greeting

• added avocado planchette to fortune table

• performance improvements:

  • replaced dialog variables SortedDictionary with normal Dictionary

  • cached character animator busy parameter check

  • turning off sun shadows when sun is below the horizon

update 1.0.18

fixes:

• fixed may sometimes getting stuck when jack delivers a house battery

• fixed antiques standing in clinic doorway after getting bodies

1.0.17

• fixed game-breaking bug introduced by trying to fix a rare bug

• replaced station street lights with modern-style street lights

update 1.0.16

lots of improvements in this one!

fixes:

• fix: forcing may to finish interaction when an event starts, to make sure she doesn't get stuck in interaction after event

improvements:

• setting zojiro to not use meatshrooms for cooking since he was hogging them all

• made it possible to reach chestnut from town hall with speed wheel as an alternative to the intended method

• made waterfall rubble dialog work even when bea is not in mine

• more streetlights on west side, working toward total coverage

• hard edge on tater spotlight

• lots of improvements to lights

• fence on top of shelter

• added backup saves on the (in-game) hour to mitigate any possible future save game corruption

• turning off rain when inside and clock isn't fast forwarding so it stops raining inside buildings

• made chance mansion brighter at night

hotfix 1.0.15

hotfix for save-corrupting bug!

Unfortunately, if your save was corrupted by the bug in the last build, this fix will not restore your save. However, the dev has been diligently reconstructing players' corrupted save files over on the discord! So come by if you need it!

https://discord.com/invite/BJjCZvfN8p

hotfix 1.0.14

• added more specific graphics settings to "very low" quality setting, including no shadows from additional lights

• fixing scout and timberly getting stuck in forest

hotfix 1.0.13

• fixed dolph getting stuck in the doorway of clinic when he doesn't have house

• fixed residents getting stuck in front of bath stall

• another fix for tater not giving pirate clue

build 1.0.12

fixes:

• fixed being able to fall off the sides of the witch house stairs into the yard

• fixed errors on trying to move off the right edge of the fortune cards

• another potential fix for stuck prompts on water dispensers

• fixed grover having weird sleep behavior if he has body but not house

• hiding interact prompt when interactable is behind camera

• closing gap between terrain and waterfall cave entrance

• added parlor puzzle fortune

• fixed vegetables flashing "not ripe yet" prompt when picked

• fixes for float variables getting corrupted if stored in dialog variables

Our amazing super-fan and community manager Zuasha has been leading the effort to create and expand the Mayor May Knott Fan Wiki! Come check it out if you're stuck on a tricky puzzle, want details about the characters, ghosts, and other aspects of the game, or have something you want to contribute!

https://mayor-may-knott.fandom.com/wiki/Mayor_May_Knott_Wiki

And remember that you can find community help and support and other fans of Mayor May Knott on our Discord!

https://discord.gg/U2uKQyxWte

update 1.0.11

fixes

• fix for may getting stuck in houses if she enters precisely when the resident leaves

improvements

• made hallway stoplight glow instead of flickering on and off to help with photosensitivity

• implemented incremental garbage collection to see if that reduces "hitch" and end of game

hotfix 1.0.10

fixed missing model bugs in glass shop and mirror puzzle

update 1.0.9

fixes:

• fixed pail rider fighting between bathing and going home

• minor adjustments to rider camp

• fixed cooking UI saying "Craft" instead of "Cook"

improvements:

• made automatic outdoor lights disable shadows when may is inside or far enough away to try to improve performance

The Mayor May Knott Soundtrack is now available!

Groove into the weekend with all 37 (!!) tracks from the game, including "End of the Line", all of the songs (and "The Testament of Dr. Caboose") from the edjukebox, "Fruit Alphabet", and the ephemeral, atmospheric background and title music!

Launching at 10% off, plus an additional 20% off if bought in a bundle with the game!

patch 1.0.8

fixes

• fixed kath trapping may in corner of basement

• additional fix for tater pirate clue

• fixed glass shop basement decor being invisible during tulip appear event

• fixed mattress not appearing on bed in mansion

• minor fix that might improve performance slightly

improvements

• better method for making grover friendly

patch 1.0.6 notes

fixes:

• restored and updated model of fountain statue piece

• minor occlusion tweaks to improve performance

improvements:

• replaced five gem on clock puzzle with a cluster of 5 one gems

• made repair ignore slim's bed so it doesn't block repairing floor from above

• made traffic light more visible in hallways puzzles