Tower Unite news & patch notes

This is the LAST DAY you can get yourself a Catsack plush from Makeship.

We did this re-run of the Catsack plush to celebrate the game's anniversary, but this will most likely be the last time you will be able to get one of these plushies directly from Makeship.

Plushy sales go directly towards supporting the game's development, so we really appreciate it!

As of this post, there's only 18 hours left to help us reach 100% funding on the plushy, otherwise the plushy will not be made!

ORDER ONE HERE TODAY

https://www.makeship.com/products/catsack-2-0-plushie

Thank you so much for supporting this plush and all of our past campaigns! These campaigns really help us fund the continued development of Tower, so we can't thank you enough, and hope you enjoy the plush!

Any support you give us means so much, and we hope to keep bringing you more fun!

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This is our second and final Anniversary update for our 2026 Anniversary Celebrations! We'll be running our anniversary events until May 29th.

We've added a few new Anniversary items and a few major bug fixes for the Game Worlds.

More New Anniversary Items!

• Anniversary Store:

  • 10th Year Commemorative Plate

  • Special Confetti Player Particle

  • Party Catsack

  • Tempura Hat

  • Tempura Tail

  • Confetti Player Particle

  • Confetti Player Trail

  • Clownsack

  • Pierrot Hat

• Celebrations

  • Festival Food Stall

• Snackbar

  • Tempura Shrimp

Head to Kalleira near the Plaza fountain!

We'll be running the anniversary events until May 29th.

Changes

• Condo Materials: Changed Oak Wood's preview image to be its diffuse, added Pine Wood which uses the texture from the old preview image. (this material matches the one used on many furniture items)

• SDNL: Switching weapons with scroll wheel now automatically confirms the selection for faster weapon switching

• SDNL: Super weapons now respawn every 20 seconds instead of 60 seconds

• SDNL: Super weapon Camera now only has 2 uses instead of 5

• SDNL: Super weapon Decimator now only has 6 shots instead of 10

• SDNL: You can no longer pickup health or armor while 1HP mutator is enabled

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Dango item not switching colors immediately when changing its property

• Fixed Dango item's "Hanami Color" property not displaying its name

• Fixed Flying Eyeball Pet having collision

• Fixed many Diamond Trophies losing their transparency

• Plaza: Fixed Private Theater buttons not working when you first book a room if others have used the buttons

• Plaza: Fixed various Private Theater replication issues

Game World Bug Fixes

• Ball Race SDK: Fixed boost volumes de-syncing/not working for clients on custom maps

• SDNL: Fixed weapon slots not updating properly and showing "unknown" weapons

• SDNL: Super weapons are now always in slot 8

• SDNL: Fixed Super weapons creating "ghost" weapon slots

• SDNL: Fixed Egon Cannon pedestal displaying the weapon wrong

• SDNL: Fixed Egon Cannon beam persisting after firing was released

Condo Bug Fixes

• Condo IO: Fixed persistent connections (such as movers) not properly disconnecting when you disconnect the item or change items

• Fixed Haunted TV and Crystal Ball not initializing properly without a Canvas URL

• Fixed "Title" text box not being visible on the Necronomicon

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Hello everyone and welcome to the Tower Unite dev log for May 4th, 2026!

Hope you all have been doing great! We’ve been hard at work on Elevator Development along with continuing our Tower Unite bug fixes and Events!

CATSACK PLUSH RE-RUN - 56% Funded!

We have an on-going Makeship campaign! The 2nd edition of the catsack plushy is here, and its 56% funded so far!

We need to get to 100% for the campaign to be funded, so if you’re interested, please check it out and get one for yourself (or a friend)!

The campaign will continue until May 16th, so be sure to order one before then if you’d like to support it!

These campaigns really help with supporting development, and you get a high quality plush in return!

NEXT TOWER UPDATE

We hope you all have been having a great time with the anniversary events! We have another round of anniversary goodies coming your way next update, and we also have some continued bug fixes.

The next update will include the Commemorative Anniversary Plate, Party Catsack, Tempura Hat, Tempura Tail, Confetti Player Particle, Confetti Player Trail, Clownsack, Pierrot Hat at the anniversary store! Celebrations will have the new Festival Food Stall, and the Snackbar will have the Tempura Shrimp item!

Festival Food Stall (multiple variations), Tempura Shrimp, Tempura Hat / Tail

In terms of bug fixes, we have fixes for SDNL weapon slots, Ball Race SDK Boost Items, and Condo I/O persistent connection disconnection issues!

The Anniversary Events will go on until May 18th!

OTHER TOWER PROGRESS

VR Progress

VR testing sadly continues to make macdguy nauseous, but he has been making some progress with controller binding fixes for the various VR controllers! Basically, buttons in VR will be functional. There has also been work done on the cursor, which has been having clipping issues, but we believe we’ve found a solution!

Fishing Payout Design

We wanted to give an update on where we’re at with updating some of the payouts and pricing in Tower. wheezwer has been working on the price adjustment design to try to improve the feeling of fishing. We’re going for an increase to put fishing on par with the average earnings per minute of gameplay in Tower Unite in general.

Some improvements include giving trash a standard price that is always below the earnings for catching actual fish (essentially just making sure fish are never worth less than trash items), organizing the fish into more clear categories under-the-hood so we can better standardize prices, and revising TU’s fish sizing to better reflect real fish sizes, which we’re also using when calculating the sell-prices of fish.

Since adjusting prices can be complicated and really affect gameplay, and we’re deep in Elevator development, we’re working on this redesign at a slower pace so we can be careful when testing it.

If you wanna give any more feedback on the feel of fishing, feel free to do so in the comments here. Every bit of feedback helps!

May Calendar

That’s a Wrap!

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To continue celebrating our anniversary, the Catsack Plush has returned! Catsacks contain multitudes, and now you can once again contain Catsacks! In your house!

It has been almost 3 years since the first Catsack Plush campaign, and now Tower's lovely cat mascot, the catsack, is here to capture your hearts and minds again, just in time to celebrate TU's anniversary events! We hope you enjoy the plush!! Your support means so much to us and with it we hope to offer even more awesome things in the future!

ORDER ONE HERE

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Thank you so much for supporting this plush and all of our past campaigns! These campaigns really help us fund the continued development of Tower, so we can't thank you enough, and hope you enjoy the plush!

The campaign will be up for a limited time (21 days), so check out the store page to see how it all works and get one for yourself! These limited time plushies go directly towards supporting our developers and the continued development of Tower Unite!

Tower Unite is 40% off for our Anniversary!

Also, to celebrate anniversary events even more, we've put Tower on sale for 40% off!

Any support you give us means so much, and we hope to keep bringing you more fun!

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To celebrate Tower Unite's debut to Early Access, we're starting our Anniversary Event celebrations!

Kalleira, wanting to celebrate with everyone, caused mayhem by bringing in all the characters and minigames from all the holiday events. Due to her magic, this event features minigames from Halloween events and Winter Holiday events all at the same time! You can also earn Anniversary Coins from playing any of the game worlds or minigames in Tower and unlock anniversary themed items, Halloween items, and Winter Holiday items! This event will last for the entire month of April, so you'll be able to take your time getting coins!

New Anniversary Items!

A small handful of anniversary festivities have been added, primarily including an expanded collection of Commemorative Plates. We hope to release a second content update including a selection of new items later in the events as well.

• New Anniversary items: Rubber Chicken, Rubber Chicken (Holdable), Dango Hanami, Party Crown (Black), (White), and (Gold)

• New collectible Commemorative Plates for each Game World, available from the Anniversary store locked behind certain achievements.

Head to Kalleira near the Plaza fountain!

Changes

• Start of Anniversary 2026 events!

• Added new Anniversary items!

• Renamed the various collector's plates to "Commemorative Plate - __" to better group them in the Inventory

• Added two new materials to Condo Surfaces: Vinyl Floor (Tiles) and (Seamless)

• Added volume setting to Boombox items and other radio stream items

• Boomboxes and other radio stream items volume now can be adjusted by adjusting the Media Player Volume setting

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the leaves on Flowers Orange not coloring

• Fixed Scattered Laundry not saving its Pattern property

• Fixed Fir Pine not appearing in the Trees category

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This update addresses bugs and issues reported from the latest update.

Bug Fixes

• Plaza: Adjusted the holiday pickup spawns around the store planters so things no longer spawn inside or on top of decorations. This includes all holidays

• Plaza: Removed an Easter decoration that was incorrectly spawning in the dog park

• Plaza: Fixed broken lighting on the slot machine stools in the Casino

• Plaza: Fixed broken lighting on some of the Easter plaza's Easter egg decorations

• Plaza: The Easter plaza centerpiece no longer plays water fountain sounds

• Fixed wrong EXP being given while playing Easter minigames

• Fixed Easter Egg Scramble being mislabeled in the collection book

• Fixed Easter Egg Scramble stats not keeping track

• Libretro: Added CHD support to Flycast, Mednafen PSX, and Yabause Saturn

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Hello everyone and welcome to the Dev Log for March 31st, 2026! We hope you all have been doing well!!

Since the last dev log, we’ve gotten out a bug fix update and hot fix! We’re going to be continuing work on bug fixes, as well as making progress on items for the anniversary event!

Bug Fix Roundup and Hot Fix

The initial batch of bug fixes has been implemented, as well as a hot fix that caught further resolved issues!

In case you missed it, a bunch of new items were added last update, such as the laundry items we showed off in past dev logs, as well as the poolcue, gridiron football, boombox, cassette recorder, and vent duct items! Improvements were made to Physics-al media and Libretro Cartridges spacing, the “Boardwalk Rail” item (now called Art Deco Handrail).

There were various fixes to Virus and SDNL, and some adjustments to payouts and effects in both games. Other fixes were made to existing items as well as accessories!

You can see the full lists of changes here and here!

Easter Events

Easter events have begun in the Plaza! The Plaza has been decorated to celebrate the springtime season! You can participate in the Easter Egg Hunt around the Plaza as well as the mini-game Easter Egg Scramble at the event arena.

Anniversary Events

Anniversary events are coming up on the 8th of April! We’ll be celebrating Tower Unite’s first official anniversary since its 1.0 release!

Nuclearxpotato has been working on some commemorative plates for the occasion, which will be obtainable at the anniversary store and tied to game achievements!

Next Round of Bug Fixes

We’re continuing to focus on bug fixes for our next updates. We’ll continue to make our way through the bugs on the 2026 Long-term Bug Roundup Thread! Many of these bugs are challenging, but we will do our best to fix them!

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That’s a Wrap!

That’s going to do it for this week’s dev log! Be sure to keep an eye out for the next one!

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This update addresses bugs and issues reported from the latest update.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed footstep sounds being too loud / not adjustable in settings

• Media Shelves: Adjusted the spacing on thinner variants of Physics-Al Media and Libretro Cartridges so they fit together more snugly at 1.0

• Fixed Piggyback accessory issues in Game Worlds/Dark Voyage

• Fixed Piggyback accessory colliding with projectile weaponry (such as the Fireworks Launcher)

• Zombie Massacre: Fixed control issues relating to the Piggyback accessory

• Condo: Fixed issues with Theater Ticker Text not working on dedicated still

• Condo: Fixed Modular Catwalk Stairs becoming visually offset on Condo load

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This update addresses several bugs and adds new items.

We've been asked to slow down and do a bug focused update for awhile, and that's what this update was! We're continuing to work on new content for Tower, and will be preparing for our upcoming Anniversary events now that we've got more caught up with bug fixes. We have additional upcoming bug fixes requested by our community in the bug round up thread.

Changes & Additions

• Q1 2026 Plaza Update

• Plaza: Art passed the railings that run along the path directly behind the tower. They now look much better and also have better scaling (they are larger now)

• Condo Hub: Interaction is now disabled on 18+ Condo Hub doors when "Display Mature Content Condos" is disabled

• Virus: Enraged infected no longer occurs in Horde mode

• Virus: Horde mode now payouts even if you lose, but you get a 70% reduction of payouts. Before you would not get any payouts on lose

• Emote camera offset no longer applies while in a seat

New Items

In addition to the bugs we’re rounding up, some new items have been added… as a treat. A new selection of Laundry-related items have been added to round out your laundry rooms and laundromats.

• Central Circuit

  • Commercial Laundry Washer

• Rob's Imports

  • Laundry Detergent

  • Laundry Whitening Powder

  • Laundry Dryer Sheets

  • Bleach

  • Scattered Laundry

  • Laundry Cart (Small)

  • Laundry Cart (Large)

  • Laundry Basket

• Toy Stop

  • Poolcue

  • Gridiron Football

  • Gridiron Football (Tossable), a new Condo activity of “Catchball”

• Song Birds

  • Boombox, this along with the other Song Birds items feature an Internet Radio Audio Stream system, also seen in the Carnivorous Potted Plant

  • Deluxe Boombox

  • Cassette Recorder

• D.I.Y.

  • Vent Duct (Small)

  • Vent Duct (Large)

Item Changes

Some items have received visual improvements, new functionality, and QoL changes.

• Updated the Bedside Table Lamp's materials, reordered the colour layers to match other light items, added option for a thinner base, and renamed to Bedside Lamp Table

• Updated the handrails of the Modular Catwalk Stairs to not clip by default, with a new option that reaches the height of connecting Modular Catwalks

• Updated the Poolcue Rack item's materials and added variants

• Updated the Gramophone item, art passing the item and adding audio stream functionality

• Renamed Barrel and Barrel (Physics) to Wooden Barrel and Wooden Barrel (Physics)

• Renamed Pallet and Wooden Palette to Wooden Pallet and Wooden Pallet (Trashed)

• Renamed ALL Large Fish to organise them with their smaller counterparts. This will affect the Collection Book and inventory organisation; “Large Fish” to “Fish (Large)”

• Renamed “Boardwalk Rail” to “Art Deco Handrail”, since it hasn’t been used 

• Changed texture on the Upper Cabinet items to not look as obviously repetitive

• Unredeemable Catsack no longer appears as the default for Accessory pedestal items

• Tagged Throwable Blood Wine as Food

• Party Light and Retro Disco Ball items are now tagged as Lights

• Body Pillow item now supports Canvas Surface Materials

• Added colouring to the Potted Carnivorous Plant's pot

Optimizations

• Plaza: Overhauled the geometry of the railings that run along the path directly behind the tower to render much more efficiently. Less draw calls and occlusion queries

• Plaza: Merged meshes together where it made sense in the tower lobby to reduce drawcalls and occlusion queries for optimization

• Plaza: Overhauled the geometry and improved LODs for the Casino exterior to reduce occlusion queries and drawcalls

• Plaza: Overhauled the geometry for much of the rockwork in the gamepad side of the plaza island to improve rendering performance

• Plaza: Cut the amount of triangles in one of the flower meshes used at the nature store by 1/3 of its original value without losing noticeable visual quality, and improved the way they are rendered to reduce occlusion quarries and drawcalls

• Plaza: Improved LODs for the greenhouse structure at the nature store, and also merged in its interior woodwork for better rendering

• Plaza: Improved LODs for the upper side of the Casino Entryway

• Plaza: Merged all of the decorative vases in the cat cafe into their wall mesh

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the moon in the sky not occluding stars

• Fixed the ocean having several glitched reflections appearing in the distance

• Fixed Workshop player models being undersized on Vehicles

Game World Bug Fixes

• SDNL: Fixed Gun Game giving you two toy hammers on the last weapon tier

• SDNL: Fixed dinos being able to deal damage while dead

• SDNL/Virus/Plaza: Fixed crossbow bolt sometimes not appearing for clients

• SDNL: Fixed raptors not gibbing properly or being sliced in half (would just spawn two dinosaur ragdolls)

• SDNL: Fixed magnum laser sometimes targeting already dead players

• SDNL: Fixed winning team announcement announcing the wrong team often

• SDNL: Fixed gun fire sound not playing in gun game when a player just upgrades their gun

• SDNL: Dinosaur no longer turns into an human skeleton in lava

• SDNL: Improved issues where players sometimes not spawning in or spawning in as default model (less common of an issue)

• SDNL: Fixed gun game not always giving you a weapon

• Virus: Fixed infected eye effects being offset

• Virus: Fixed weapons sometimes not being given to players

• Virus: Fixed respawn issues

• Virus: Added a collider near the tents in Catzek to prevent a rare case of trapping Infected via the Sonic Shotgun

• Ball Race: Fixed material regression on the bumpers in Prism

Condo Bug Fixes

• Interaction trace is no longer offset for clients when sitting

• Disabled Sprays while on an instrument

• Fixed dithering on Canvas Surfaces with masked opacity

• Corrected initial brightness and attenuation values on MANY light items, preventing an inconsistency when reloading the Condo (if the values hadn't been adjusted)

• Fixed many light items not supporting shadows. They will also default to no shadows now (this will apply to older saves as well to retain the same visuals)

• Resort Condo: Fixed collision issues with the Dev HQ's office ceilings

• Resort Condo: Fixed material regression on the kitchenette's ceiling

• Condo: Removed a collider to the left of the glass door in the Default Condo

• Underwater Condo: Fixed material regression on the elevator towers of the Underwater Condo

• Fixed the False Wall (Default Condo) and Pool Cover (Courtyard Villa) overriding savedata on reload

Item Bug Fixes

• Physics Slot's base disables collision when made invisible

• Fixed collision issues with the Throwing Knife, Throwable Cleaver, Throwable Pitchfork, and Death's Scythe projectiles

• Fixed player models on RC Sleigh not initializing properly

• Disabled backface culling on Candy Bucket Hat, fixing visual issues

• Fixed Large Sunfish from appearing in the incorrect fish collection page

• Fixed an LOD issue with the Hula Doll item

• Fixed the default Range value of audio stream items (Potted Carnivorous Plant) being mismatched from the initial size, causing it to be 0 on reload if untouched

• Fixed Accessory pedestal items creating a ghost item upon loading save data

• Fixed people sitting on the Physics Pool Tube item not being affected by Volumes

• Fixed Accessory pedestal items leaving behind an item Presence when canceling a Copycat duplication

• Prevented an edge-case where you could sit in Pool Tube (Physics) while holding it

• Fixed visual issues on The Cat Fish

• Coloring/Material Fixes

  • Fixed coloring issues on the Bedside Table Lamp

  • Fixed material regression on the base of the Basic Lever IO item

  • Fixed material regressions on Grid Bookcase items and Coffee Table items

  • Fixed material regression on the video input sockets of TV and TV Wall Mountable

  • Fixed material regression on Colorful Office Desk item

  • Fixed material regression on Swivel Chair item

  • Fixed material regression on the Gramophone item

  • Fixed coloring issues with Party Light item

  • Corrected normal errors on the laundry machine items

  • Fixed coloring issues with the Cauldron and Rockstar Dino Plushy items

  • Fixed the accent not coloring on the Boardwalk Railing item

• Media Shelves Fixes

  • Fixed Media Shelves raising contents if they clip into another object

  • Fixed Media Shelves' spacing setting being inconsistent depending on rotation

  • Fixed contents on the Rental Shelves' lowest shelf rising up after reaching half full

  • Restored Rotation property to Rental Shelf items after resolving the bugs it caused

Plaza Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused underwater effects to play in the cave behind the roller coaster

• Fixed a broken material on the stairs leading into the Dark Voyage ride

• Fixed small visual error on the Cat Cafe's ottoman texture

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Hello everyone and welcome to the Dev Log for February 25th, 2026! This is a repost of our developer blog posted last week on our official forums.

Next Update: Bug Fix Update!

We’ve been working on a bug fix update for Tower Unite that we’d like to get out soon! We made a Bug Roundup Thread to bump some existing long-term bugs that you all want to bump / bring back to the forefront.

Upcoming Plaza Fixes

Johanna has continued work on many Plaza optimizations and fixes! These include fixes to sound effect issues with water, broken materials, visual errors, and merging some items to improve performance!

Upcoming Lighting Item Fixes

Nuclearxpotato has been working on a TON of fixes to lighting items in the Condos! The brightness and attenuation values for many light items have been corrected, hanging light items now support shadows, and several lighting items got a material pass and revised names for clarity!

Upcoming General Item Fixes

Fixes have also been completed for several items!

You’ll now be able to put default canvas surface materials on the canvas body pillow item. Media Shelves and Rental Shelves have had some adjustments to fix problems with rotation and spacing! Material regressions and LOD issues were fixed on various items. You can also now color the plant pot of the Carnivorous Plant!

We’ve also improved audio streaming items by fixing the default range, and we’ve implemented a fix for the spray hotkey activating while using instruments!

The modular Catwalk Stairs’ handrails have been adjusted to be the same height as connecting Modular Catwalks. The original end-cap variants have been replaced with one that doesn’t clip into the handrail of connecting Modular Catwalks, and new endcaps have been added

The Poolcue Rack item has been artpassed and variants have been added + a new loose Poolcue item. The Gramophone has been artpassed and is now an Audio Stream item (like the Potted Carnivorous Plant), it even animates!

Upcoming SDNL & Virus Fixes

macdguy has been working fixes to SDNL and Virus! These include a fix for SDNL’s gun game and Virus not always giving the player a weapon, and respawn issues with Virus. He's also actively resolving issues with SDNL's respawn system.

General Bug Roundup Progress

We really appreciate all of the bug reports that have been bumped in the bug roundup thread! We’re working through them steadily and want to continue getting out bug fix updates as we can. Some of the bugs listed are extremely difficult to tackle, so progress might feel slow, but we are tackling them!

Payouts and Pricing Survey

Unrelated to the bug fix updates, the payouts and pricing survey is over! (There were 849 responses!)

We appreciate you guys participating and filling it out! We’ve been going through the responses and jotting down the notable takeaways from the survey to use while doing testing on the games in-game economy. The community perspective is very helpful.

We’ve been doing tests on game length vs. payouts, pay-in vs. payouts, Condo building time vs. game play time to earn Units, and game vs. game comparisons, and other tests, all supplemented by information you all gave.

This testing is not only to improve the feeling of payouts. We’ve also been discussing some QoL changes unrelated to payouts such as improvements to Laser Tag and Fishing gameplay experience.

Once the testing is over, we’ll be able to implement some improvements that will help with the overall feeling of Tower Unite!

Upcoming New Items

Vent Duct modular items have been created, allowing players to quickly assemble explorable vents using Item Snapping!

The Scattered Laundry item was created, with control over the variant and pattern of the clothes, as well as Laundry Carts: two separate items with variants changing their contents

That’s a Wrap!

That’s going to do it for this week’s dev log! Be sure to keep an eye out for the next one!

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Hey everyone! Its the beginning of a new year, and we’re back for a dev log for January 14, 2026!

We hope you all had a great end of the year and we wish everyone the best for the new year!

2025 was a big year for PixelTail, and we’re really looking forward to what’s in store in 2026!

General

We’ll be working on our two ongoing projects this year: Tower Unite & Elevator!

Tower Unite

Since the last dev log, we wrapped up the second half of the Winter Holidays update and have continued working on Optimizations, Items, Cooking, Accelerate SDK, and more!

For 2026, we’re going to continue working through our post-1.0 Roadmap as well as deliver the usual QoL updates and fixes for Tower Unite!

Plaza Optimizations

We’ve wrapped up some substantial work on Plaza Optimizations since the last update!

We’ve made updates to how the Boardwalk renders, some improvements for users on low post processing settings, improved anti-aliasing performance and optimized night lighting.

We also fixed a massive performance issue with dynamic lights, and improved performance, render distances, etc. for numerous misc. lights throughout the Plaza, among other improvements!

You can check out the list of optimizations on our Trello!

Cooking

The “Cooking Mode” System was completed! Players will be able to toggle cooking mode on, select the items they wish to cook, and throw them into cookers (like the blender)!

Work was also completed on the cooking processor logic (for recipes), and the cooking actions system with heat, blend, freeze, prepare, grill, and boil as the options!

SDNL / Milestones

Fixes were made to the Grenade Launcher’s sticky grenade as well as the “The Big Finale” achievement! We also made some light tweaks to existing SDNL milestone items for QoL purposes.

More super weapons such as the Grenade Launcher, Rocket Launcher, and Chaingun were added to Kalarry’s Warez!

Accelerate

The “Track Spline” for the Accelerate Map Editor has been completed. This spline will allow players to place down track pieces easily when making their own Accelerate maps.

Items & Condo

Lots of work was done on fixing material regressions for various items, as well as some texture fixes, collision issues, coloring issues, seating and emote issues, and NPC / Camera issues.

We also have a batch of new items such as the Accessory Pedestal and Physics Pool tube which allow players to display owned accessory items in their Condos as items! Another addition is the Text Ticker Item, which is an alternative of the Theater Ticker item.

And, finally, we have the Laundry items, made for Elevator, which will be items in Tower Unite! These include the Commercial Laundry Washer, Laundry Detergent, Laundry Whitening Powder, Laundry Dryer Sheets, and Bleach.

Elevator (24 HOURS LEFT IN KICKSTARTER)

We’ve had the Elevator kickstarter ongoing since December 16th, 2025, and we have raised over $70,000! We are so appreciative for the support.

THANK YOU to everyone who has played the demo, left a review, supported the Kickstarter, or just spread the word about Elevator. We can’t do what we do without you all, so thank you!

There’s about 24 hours left in the campaign, so if you wanna spread the love and get some fun goodies, pre-order the game & get access to closed betas, please consider supporting!!

We’ll keep you guys up to date on some Elevator news in the Dev Logs going forward. Elevator development images and progress will be shared behind-the-scenes with the backers.

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That’s going to do it for this week’s dev log! Be sure to keep an eye out for the next one!

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This is part 2 of our Winter Holidays 2025 events!

Changes & Additions

• Added 6 new festive sprays to Santa's Workshop

• Added 3 new collectible, festive Catsacks to Holiday events

• Added new "Accessory Pedestal" type items to D.I.Y.: Accessory Display and Physics Pool Tube. These items can display owned accessories in your Condos, with more display options coming in the future

• Added new item to Central Circuit: Text Ticker, an alternative version of the Theatre Ticker that takes text input

• Added more Super Weapons to Kalarry's Warez: Grenade Launcher, Rocket Launcher, Chaingun

• Replaced the Decimator milestone slot with the Chaingun Jetpack (Decimator has been moved to Kalarry's Warez with other Superweapons)

• The D.I.Y. store attendant's hat spinning light is more noticeable

• Reworked how seating poses are applied internally. This will allow players in special poses (via a Hidden Seat) to blend their animation with Emotes and look around

• Adjusted various offsets for the special seating poses to more closely match the head's position

Bug Fixes

• Fixed SDK3 Workshop models not sitting on the Santa Throne

• Fixed collision issue with scaled Modular Catwalk items

• Fixed default playermodels not animating properly on the RC Sleigh

• Fixed colouring issues on wooden barrel items: Barrel, Barrel (Physics), and Prop Barrel

• Fixed Adrenaline not appearing in the Weapon Pickup selection popup

• The tonemapper no longer turns off on low post processing settings

• Fixed a minor graphics settings scalability bug that was causing the post process settings to change the radius of the post process ambient occlusion.

• Fixed material regression on certain golden accessories: Dog Collar, Gold Pumpkin Clock, Gold Tube, and Gem Crown

• The nutcrackers at the game world ports no longer cover up the screens.

• Fixed Item properties not working for Twin Cabinet and Upper Cabinet items

• Fixed Holiday Coins not being granted by Holiday Visitors

• Corrected Pool Tube idle 4 being incorrect on SDK3 and Default player models (it was a duplicate of idle 2)

• Fixed spray activating when pressing G over top items/games that have G prompt

• Fixed material regression on Strainer accessory

Optimizations

• Broke the boardwalk up into chunks that can have improved LODs to improve overdraw and tri counts at a distance

• Improved the performance of anti-aliasing across all graphical settings with no noticeable visual impact

• Optimized the night lighting throughout the plaza and is now much more performant

• Fixed a massive performance issue that was caused by a bug which doubled up dynamic lights on top of each other in the stores areas, improving the performance in this area significantly

• Improved performance, render distances, etc. for numerous misc. lights throughout the Plaza

• Set up ocrohedral LODs for several foliage meshes

Happy Holidays from the TU Team!

We hope you all have a great time in the game and out of it, and we thank you guys for your support this year! It’s meant the world to us! :]

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This hot fix addresses reported issues from the Winter Holidays 2025 (1.1.2.0) update.

Changes & Additions

• Increased cooldown on the Kalleira Grenade Milestone from 1 to 3 seconds

• New Variant to the Theater Ticker item: a large circular loop

• Changed name of Small Speaker and Speaker to Large Speaker and Large Speaker (Wall-Mounted)

• NPC item now uses the current skeleton player model

Bug Fixes

• Minigolf: Fixed a possible softlock on Dino Drive's volcano grass

• Fixed the SDNL Motion Potion accidentally granting 5 jumps haha whoops

• SDNL: Fixed "The Big Finale" achievement not being in the correct category (Weapons)

• SDNL: Grenade Launcher's sticky grenade no longer moves its victim when attached

• Fixed the Boomerang item projectile not having collision

• Fixed material regression on Computer Desk 2 and Classic Computer Desk items

• Fixed material regression on Speaker and Small Speaker items

• Fixed material regression on Modern Reception Desk item

• Fixed material regression on Ancient Jar item

• Fixed material regression on the default Ball Race bumper

• Fixed material regression on Bookshelf Rings item

• Fixed material regression on Candy Slam targets

• Changed the material on the Snowflake Pet

• Fixed Elf Mutilator being purchasable multiple times

• Fixed typo on Krampus Horns item

• Fixed Workshop playermodels not correctly sitting on the Santa Throne

Happy Holidays from the TU Team!

MORE HOLIDAY FUN & ITEMS ARE ON THE WAY!!!

We hope you all have a great time in the game and out of it, and we thank you guys for your support this year! It’s meant the world to us! :] <3 PixelTail Games Join our Discord for development updates and community fun! Join Our Discord We love awesome people like you! Follow our developments on our Trello in near real-time: Tower Unite Roadmap If you love our game and want to support its development, please consider getting a Supporter Pack! We'd be so grateful!

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2025 WINTER QUESTS AND HOLIDAY EVENTS HAVE STARTED!!

2025 Winter Holiday Events are here!

There are three exciting Holiday Quests to participate in!

Spread holiday joy and help Santa Claws deliver gifts to the hardworking Plaza staff, share the joy of hats, and find the missing reindeer!

Find the quest-givers in the Central Fountain area!

In addition, the usual Holiday cheer has swept through Tower Unite! Enjoy beautiful holiday decorations in the Plaza, earn Holiday Coins from playing games, and deck yourself out with some new festive gear at Santa Claws’ store!

New Holiday Items!

This update includes new festive items to coincide with the Winter Holidays event.

• Santa’s Workshop:

  • Krampus Horns

  • Ice Crown

  • Peppermint Horns

  • Peppermint Glasses

  • Tinsel Scarf

  • Santa’s Sackpack

  • Ice Wings

  • Stocking Stuffer

  • Toboggan Backpack

  • Sack on your Back

  • Sack on your Neck

  • Santa Throne

• Celebrations:

  • Tinsel String

  • Yard Light Snowman

  • Yard Light Toy Soldier

  • Yard Light Candle

  • Yard Light Candy Cane

  • Yard Light Catsack

  • Aluminum Tree

  • Simple Wooden Sled

  • Sack on a Rack

  • Snowflake Decoration

SDNL Milestones

SDNL has received its long-awaiting Milestones, including memorable weapons from the Game World and some special treats.

• Toy Hammer

• Retro Gun

• Crosshair Halo, a unique Accessory

• Telepuncher

• Mystical Katana

• Super Shotty

• Decimator

• Kalleira Grenade

• SDNL Motion Potion, grants the player double jumping and sliding from SDNL

• Raptor Potion, transforms the player into a Raptor from SDNL: Dino Battle

New Less Festive Items

This update also includes some decidedly less festive miscellaneous items.

• Toy Stop:

  • Baseball Bat

  • Wooden Baseball Bat, a hotbar weapon

• Popstop:

  • Squizz Grape Soda

  • Squizz Orange Soda

  • Red Spring Diet Soda

  • Pepper, PhD. Soda

• Tower Threads:

  • Sackpack, purchasable after reaching 500k experience in Casino

• XxF3RR3TxX’s Customization Station:

  • Frostbite Background

  • Hinderance Background

  • Meadows Background

  • Catzek Background

  • Hospital Background

  • Overtime Background

  • Solar Background

  • Corrosion Background

  • Subway Background

  • Desertion Background

• Rob’s Imports:

  • Royal Throne

• Kalarry’s Warez:

  • Handheld Cannon

• Central Circuit:

  • Soda Vending Machine Secret Door

Winter 2025 Plaza Update

• Adjusted the smoothie store entrance to have a scale that is larger and doesn't feel like you're going to bonk your head on it in VR.

• The back plaza area behind the casino now has proper snow trails for the winter plaza.

Theater Condo Art & Editing Update

• An art pass to the concessions counters, screens, and canopy sign

• You can now edit the concessions sign and toggle off and on various aspects of it.

• The concessions menus now have a default texture displaying a generic menu when not overridden by a Canvas.

• You can now edit the theaters themselves! Every surface, railing, and chairs can now be fully edited and customized.

• An art pass to the theater rooms, adding Surface customization, toggle-able lights, and projection rooms (unfurnished).

• Handrails, curtains, seats, and speakers can now be toggled on or off.

• An art pass to the seats, which carry over to their item equivalents

• There are new animated “now playing” tickers above each theater entrance. These are available as an item as well. Using a persistent IO connection to a Media Player, this item can display the video title of what’s currently playing. The Theater Condo art pass will include a unique version of this for each viewing room, built into the hallway outside.

Other fixes and changes include:

• Updated the theater screen and projector lights so they only turn on when Media Dynamic Lights is enabled.

• Longstanding errors with the normal maps on the pre-built light switches were fixed.

• The built-in Theater doors can now optionally take you back to the Condo Hub.

Changes & Additions

• Winter 2025 Plaza Update!

• Start of Winter Holidays 2025 Events!

• Added new items to Santa's Workshop

• Increased amount of pickups spawned during the "Presents from the North Pole" event from 10 to 25

• SDNL: Added Milestones!

• SDNL: Buffed Payouts!

• Condo IO: You can now use the Tower Glove while inside Location Volumes that have No Weapons rule enabled

• Collection Book: Added crab category to Unlockables

• Collection Book: Added hovering over items to see more details on the item

• Collection Book: Added hints to Hidden items you don't own.

• Added new Profile Backgrounds based on maps original to Virus and SDNL (unlockable with the Hidden Animal and CCTV achievements respectively)

• New Sodas Added to PopStop (Vendy): Squizz Grape, Squizz Orange, Red Spring Diet, Pepper PhD.

• New Item Added to Tower Theatre: Theater Ticker, a unique item that displays the title of the currently video on a connected Media Player

• New Item Added to Tower Threads: Sackpack (only purchasable after reaching 500k Casino exp)

• New Items Added to Celebrations: Simple Wooden Sled, Sack On A Rack, Yard Light Snowman, Yard Light Toy Soldier, Yard Light Candle, Yard Light Candy Cane, Yard Light Catsack, Aluminum Tree

• New Items Added to Toy Stop: Wooden Baseball Bat, Baseball Bat (Weapon)

• New Item Added to Rob's Imports: Royal Throne

• New Item Added to Electronics: Soda Vending Machine Secret Door

• Minigolf: Improved look of customization menu

• Condo: Art passed fountain item

Optimizations

• Reduced material permutations, optimizing materials across the game

• Accessories: Optimised Materials

• Plaza: More shadow-pass optimization by further expanding the Plaza's shadow proxy system.

• Plaza: Purged several materials and converted their material instances into another master material to reduce shader permutations

• Plaza: Simplified rendering inside of the music store and vehicle store to reduce draw calls

• Plaza Foliage System: Reduced density, and set up an improved LOD system.

• Plaza: Fine Foliage optimization - set up adaptive alpha cutoff to reduce overdraw on foliage that has a lot of fine details/edges (grass, ivy, etc)

• Plaza: Optimized the water refraction effects in the ocean to only render on the closest water plane to the player, significantly optimizing the distortion process (GPU based)

• Plaza: Optimized the underwater post process effects, and they no longer have any cost when not underwater

• Plaza: Set up improved LODs for casino exterior and arcade exterior to decrease overdraw from fine trim-sheeting at a distance

• Plaza: Changed the adaptive alpha cutoff settings in the foliage master from a static switch to a lerp switch to decrease shader permutations

• Plaza: Fixed some of the palm trees in the boardwalk area from not being in the landscape foliage system, causing them to not swap LODs properly

• Plaza: Improved the geometry and LODs of the casino back Plaza area to be more performant

Bug Fixes

• SDNL: Fixed hosts not spawning with weapons often

• SDNL: Fixed respawn issues (players being invisible on respawn)

• SDNL: Fixed weapons still firing after death

• SDNL: Fixed being able to switch weapons while dead

• SDNL: Fixed recoil issues with single shot weapons

• SDNL: Plushy Grenade now visually reappears when ammo is replenished

• SDNL: Fixed arms T-posing when sliding without an active weapon (such as after throwing the Chainsaw)

• Condo: Theater's built-in door now actually takes you back to the Condo Hub

• Condo: Fixed longstanding normal error with pre-built lightswitches

• Condo Hub: Fixed mirrored poster on the doorway for the Theater

• Condo - Underwater: Fixed satellite elevator cars not moving

• Condo - Underwater: Fixed underwater features not toggling on/off properly (fixes lighting tint issues)

• Condo - Underwater: Fixed underwater post processing features not toggling on/off

• Condo - Underwater: Fixed second set of surface water existing for no real reason

• Condo - Underwater: Fixed surface water visual pop in bug

• Condo IO: Fixed OnSoundEnded not firing when a Sound Emitter is set to Play Once

• Arcade - Ice Cave: Fixed balls oftentimes disappearing while throwing

• Accessories: Fixed coloring issues on Candy Bucket Hat, Candy Backpack, Bag of Roses, Bag of Clovers, and Reindeer Bells

• Accessories: Fixed scaling issues on Cat Ears, Earmuffs, and Devil Horns (noticeable on workshop models)

• Accessories: Fixed Catpack's colouring and fading breaking after running

• Fixed collisions on throwable projectiles

• The Infection milestone now deals PVP damage

• Throwable Shrimp milestone now follows the rules like other throwable food items

• Popcorn Bucket item now appears in the correct category in the Theatre store

• Fixed bug with Festival Lights items where the "Animation Intensity" property was overwriting the "Animation Speed" property

Happy Holidays from the TU Team!

This isn’t the last of our holiday fun this year, but we did want to wish you all a Happy Holiday season!

MORE HOLIDAY FUN & ITEMS ARE ON THE WAY!!!

We hope you all have a great time in the game and out of it, and we thank you guys for your support this year! It’s meant the world to us! :] <3 PixelTail Games Join our Discord for development updates and community fun! Join Our Discord We love awesome people like you! Follow our developments on our Trello in near real-time: Tower Unite Roadmap If you love our game and want to support its development, please consider getting a Supporter Pack! We'd be so grateful!

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Happy December everyone! And welcome to the Dev Log for December 3rd, 2025!

Since the last Dev Log, we’ve worked on various bug fixes, another optimization pass for the Plaza, a revamp of the Theater Condo, Holiday items, and Cooking.

Jingle Jam 2025

You’ve probably seen our announcements for it already, but we want to mention again here that we are a part of the Jingle Jam games collection!

Jingle Jam is a fundraiser to help out life-changing charities! The Jingle Jam crew will be hosting fundraising streams for 2 weeks so check it out and spread the word to help out these great causes!!

The Jingle Jam will be running until December 15th, 2025 (ending 08:59 AM GMT).

You can check out the Jingle Jam page, learn about the charities and games involved, and donate here!!

Snowman Contest - ENDS DEC 14th!!

We’re doing a Snowman contest again!! Make your finest snowman and share it with all to see!

It ends at 11:59 PM on December 14th, 2025!

Upcoming Theater Condo Art & Editing Pass

Nuclearxpotato has been working on a long-awaited Theater Condo Art and Editing pass!!

His update brings countless improvements and fixes to the Theater condo, including:

• An art pass to the Concessions counters, screens, and canopy sign.

• You can now edit the concessions sign and toggle off and on various aspects of it.

• The concessions menus now have a default texture displaying a generic menu when not overridden by a Canvas.

• You can now edit the theaters themselves! Every surface, railing, and chairs can now be fully edited and customized.

• An art pass to the Viewing Rooms, adding Surface customization, toggle-able lights, and unfurnished projection rooms.

• Handrails, Curtains, Seats, and Speakers can now be toggled on or off.

• An art pass to the Seats, which carry over to their item equivalents

• There are new animated “now playing” tickers above each theater entrance. These are available as an item as well. Using a persistent IO connection to a Media Player, this item can display the video title of what’s currently playing. The Theater Condo art pass will include a unique version of this for each viewing room, built into the hallway outside.

Other fixes and changes include:

• Updated the Screen and Projector lights so they only turn on when Media Dynamic Lights is enabled.

• Longstanding errors with the normal maps on the pre-built light switches were fixed.

• The built-in Theater doors can now optionally take you back to the Condo Hub.

Additionally, the Popcorn Bucket item now appears in the correct category in the Theater store, and the poster for the Theater Condo doorway was fixed in the Condo Hub.

Upcoming Winter 2025 Plaza Update & Optimizations

Johanna has been working on a ton of Plaza optimizations for the Winter 2025 Plaza Update!

These include improvements to shaders and materials, water optimizations, grass and foliage effects, and LODs. These all will help with how the Plaza loads in on the user-end and lead to better performance!

Upcoming SDNL Fixes

macdguy has been working on bug fixes for SDNL including fixing major spawn and respawn issues, death state issues with weapons, and weapon recoil issues! We also buffed payouts for SDNL as well.

Upcoming Winter Holiday 2025 Items

Progress is being made on new items for the Winter Holidays events in Tower Unite! New items include vintage outdoor decorations, the disturbingly adorable Sack-on-a-Rack, a metallic Christmas tree, and a baseball bat! These are in addition to other holiday items we’ve shown in previous dev logs!

We’ve also been working on some winter-themed sprays for the event!

Upcoming Item Fixes

Nuclearxpotato fixed a bunch of small things with various items, such as:

• A bug on the Festival Lights item where the “Animation Intensity” property was overwriting the “Animation Speed” property.

• An art pass of the Fountain item.

• Material optimizations of Accessory items.

• Fixed scaling issues on the Cat Ears, Earmuffs, and the Devil Horn.

• Fixed the Catpack’s coloring and fading breaking after the character runs.

• Fixed coloring issues on the Candy Bucket Hat, Candy Backpack, Bag of Roses, Bag of Clovers, and Reindeer Bells.

• Added new Profile Backgrounds based on maps original to Virus and SDNL.

Upcoming Condo Fixes

macdguy worked on some fixes with visual issues in the Underwater Condo such as fixing the satellite elevators not animating, underwater post processing/lighting issues, and surface water issues.

He also fixed an IO issue with OnSoundEnded not being called with the Sound Emitter item.

He added an exclusion to allow the Tower Glove to be usable while inside Location Volumes that have No Weapons rule enabled.

Cooking Progress!

Cooking has had some major progress! macdguy has completed work on recipe book and the recipe unlocking system. The internal recipe and crafting systems have also been finished!

Upcoming Collection Book Improvements

The collection book has also gotten some love with a new category for the crab unlockables as well as showing hints for hidden items you’ve yet to unlock.

That’s a Wrap!

That’s going to do it for this week’s dev log! Be sure to keep an eye out for the next one!

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We are so happy to announce that we are a part of the Jingle Jam 2025 Games Collection this year!

Jingle Jam is a fundraiser to help out life-changing charities! The Jingle Jam crew will be hosting fundraising streams for 2 weeks so check it out and spread the word to help out these great causes!!

This year the Jingle Jam is raising money for Autistica, Become, CALM, Make-A-Wish, The Trevor Project, The Grand Appeal, War Child, and World Wildlife Fund!

A big group of games (including Tower Unite) are included in the Jingle Jam games collection, spanning all sorts of different genres!

The Jingle Jam will be going on from December 1st (TODAY!!!) until December 15th, 2025 (ending 08:59 AM GMT).

You can check out the Jingle Jam page, learn about the charities and games involved, and donate here: https://jinglejam.tiltify.com/

https://www.jinglejam.co.uk/

Steam Awards 2025 is here and Tower Unite can be nominated in all categories this year!

We're trending as Best Soundtrack award right now, so keep up the momentum and...

Vote Tower Unite for Best Soundtrack for Steam Awards 2025!

https://store.steampowered.com/steamawards/nominations/2025

Also please consider voting other categories such as Sit Back and Relax Award and Better With Friends Award!

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Hello everyone and welcome to the Tower Unite Dev Log for November 18th, 2025!

As has been the case in our past couple of Dev Logs, we’ve been hard at work on a project outside of Tower and are near the point of finally giving everyone the inside scoop on it! We appreciate everyone’s patience and hope you all have been having fun in Tower in the mean time.

But, in terms of Tower Unite development, we’ve been able to tackle various parts of the game since the last dev log, so let’s get into that, along with other TU events!

November 2025 Condo Contest - Free Build

We have a Condo Contest ending very soon! It’s a free build contest so participants can submit a build with any theme they like. Check out the entries, rules, and prizes here!

TU DEVELOPMENT

Work on our side project is wrapping up, and we’re really really excited to share it with you soon! We’ve been very busy doing the final touches on it. Unfortunately, while we didn’t intend for it to affect Tower development at all, we got very passionate about the project and put a lot of heart in into.

Now that the bulk work is done with it, we’ll be back to Tower development. Keep in mind that a lot of the stuff we made on our side project has already turned into new Tower items and we’ll continue to pair the two projects together. We appreciate everyone’s patience.

We’re eager to get back into Tower development with Arcade: Phase 3, Accelerate SDK, Cooking, and other roadmap objectives as soon as we can. As you saw in previous developer logs, we’ve already made a lot of progress on these.

Nuclearxpotato has been on a roll with a bunch of fixes and improvements to Tower Unite in the mean time, so we wanted to shout him out! The team’s been doing some major fixes and other developments as well, which we’ll go over too.

So, let’s catch up since last time and see what’s been going on!

Game World Polish

We’re continuing with updates to Virus & SDNL! These include both visual polish and changes to weapons and features of the games. Here’s some of what we’ve been working on:

• T-posing issues while sliding

• Visual / Material fixes with weapons

• SDNL Announcer Adjustments (including volume sliders)

Milestone Items

We’ve made some improvements to existing milestone items like the Throwable Shrimp and The Infection milestones. We’re also working on upcoming milestone items, which you can follow the progress of on our Trello here.

Upcoming milestone items include:

• SDNL milestones

• Accelerate milestones

• Nightclub milestones

• Boardwalk milestones

• Condo milestones

• Casino: Throwable Dice

• Casino: Throwable Cards

• Unfinished Plaza milestones

Condo Fixes

Various fixes were made to the Condo system. A major optimization to I/O was completed, which will make I/O connections run more efficiently.

There were also many fixes to materials and collision issues. Some notable item additions include:

• a new version of the Soda Vending Machine item was added (with new variants)

• adjustments to the scale and art of the Kitchen Counter items.

• as well as the addition, updates, and fixes to the Victorian item set, added with the Halloween update

Contest Posters Added

In case you missed it, in Hotfix 1.1.1.2, we finally added the posters that were made during the Workshop Rental Store Poster Art contest! We’re so happy to finally have them in game and hope you guys have been able to check them out too.

They’re located all around the store where we had space!

Early Access Items Added

Another addition you might have missed was the Early Access items, which were added in Hot Fix 1.1.1.2. These items are distributed automatically if you played the game during its Early Access period!

Upcoming Fun!

We have some exciting stuff planned for December, so keep an eye out for that!

That’s a Wrap!

That’s going to do it for this week’s dev log! Be sure to keep an eye out for the next one!

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Super small quick update...

New Early Access Exclusive Items

For the players who played Tower Unite during its Early Access period, we have added a few new exclusive items as a thank you for playing and contributing to Early Access!

These 4 fun little items will be automatically given to players who played Tower during its Early Access period when they launch Tower Unite.

End of Halloween Events

As the spooky season starts to end, so will our Halloween celebrations :(. Halloween events will end on November 14th, so make sure you hop on before then to collect your Halloween items!

Rental Store: Community Posters!

We've also updated the Rental Store in the Condo Hub to include community-made posters from the August/September 2025 Art Contest! Again, thank you all for participating! We included every poster that was submitted from the contest!

Vending Machine Updated

The vending machine got a little update. You can now choose between two different types of vending machine styles and also adjust the vending machine labels to make them canvasable. There's also new soda types.

Changes

• Added Early Access Player exclusive Items: Early Access Plate, Early Access Hardhat, Early Access Plushy, Early Access Spray

• Added community contest posters to Rental Store in Condo Hub

• Condo: Updated and remodeled Soda Vending Machine item, allowing for new variants

• Condo: Four new soda types can be dispensed from the Soda Vending Machine item

Bug Fixes

• Virus: Fixed players stepping onto physics props in Subway

• Condo: Corrected material issue on Victorian Chaise item

• Condo: Corrected material issue on Disc Jewelcase item

• Condo: Fixed Victorian Fabric (Floral) surface material changing to Victorian Fabric (Plain) when World-Align was enabled

• Condo: Soda Vending Machine will now properly initialize when placed (no longer showing Canvas Not Set)

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As All Hallows' Eve approaches, we have a small little part 2 to our Halloween events!

New Halloween Items & Updates

More Ghoul Coins!

Since it's almost ghoul time, we've massively increased the drop rate for Ghoul Coins from sacrificing Remains!

We also added a couple new Halloween items…

New to Cauldron

• Gleeby Catsack (rare)

• Spooky Catsack (rare)

New to Halloween Characters

• Gleeby Catsack (rare)

• Spooky Catsack (rare)

Added more new Victorian furniture available in Rob's Imports and Sweet Suites

• Victorian Writing Desk

• Victorian Rolley Desk

• Victorian Executive Desk

Nimbus Art Pass & Bonus Level

Nimbus was our first Ball Race map, and it has gotten some love finally! The artwork for the tiles, objects, and more have been redone and we've added a bonus level that was missing from Nimbus.

Condo Optimizations

We went through a lot of the systems in Condo IO and optimized them to improve performance for Condos that have intense usage of Condo IO. We're hoping the optimizations we did will reduce CPU usage overall.

Changes

• Added new items to Rob's Imports: Victorian Writing Desk, Victorian Rolley Desk, and Victorian Executive Desk

• Added new decorative Catsacks to Halloween Visitor and Cauldron drop pools: Gleeby Catsack and Spooky Catsack

• Halloween: Increased the drop rate for Ghoul Coins from sacrificing Remains

• Increased Laser Tag payout: Winning Team 500 > 2500 units

• Increased Laser Tag payout: Gained Points (per point) 2 > 4 units

• Increased Laser Tag payout: Didn't Get Tagged 500 > 1500 units

• Increased Laser Tag payout: Didn't Get Eliminated 800 > 1250 units

• Ball Race - Nimbus: Continued art pass on Nimbus, updated the art on the pillars, hammers, moving platforms, and boost ramps

• Ball Race - Nimbus: Added more Melon pickups to Nimbus

• Ball Race - Nimbus: Added a Bonus Level to Nimbus (Level 11)

Optimizations

• Condo IO: Condo IO tick operations moved to a separate subsystem that handles all the IO latent connections and delays more efficiently (while reducing overall tick overhead)

• Condo: Optimized Volumes (including Push Volumes) (overall reduction in player checks)

• Condo: Optimized Timer (no longer updates timer text if the timer is not visible)

• Condo: Optimized Relays (only effects editor visibility state)

• Condo: Optimized Clock IO output calls (less IO calls)

• Condo: Optimized Plush items (better animation handling, less taxing)

• Condo: Optimized Text 3D update calls (less overall updates unless needed)

• Condo: Optimized Hit Target Volume (doesn't update text until health is changed now)

• Condo: Optimized Physical Media Shelves (settles into idle state after media changes)

• Condo: Optimized Weapon Pickups (less event calls)

• Condo: Optimized Paper Lantern Lights (lights reduced in size, helps with less light overdraw)

• Condo: Optimized Boardwalk Midway Lights (lights removed)

• Condo: Optimized Physics Items (no longer does certain physics events if it's not simulating fully)

SDNL Changes / Fixes

• SDNL: Fixed missed BERT darts having collision with the player (causing oddities when stepped over).

• SDNL: Fixed Raptor ragdoll violently trashing around

• SDNL: Superweapons are no longer removed in Gun Game when depleted

• SDNL: Fixed Gravity Glove intro speech playing during Team Deathmatch

• SDNL: Reduced volume of Announcer overall

• Added volume slider for Voice Over/Announcer

• We're still investigating and working on more fixes for SDNL

Bug Fixes

• Fixed player head angle (while in seats) flipping back and forth when you look at yourself

• Fixed Candy Bucket Holdable running out of ammo when throwing candy

• Fixed missing texture on Minigolf Spline Plaster

• Fixed material regression on the Wet Floor Sign and Canvas Floor Sign items

• Fixed coloring on the Tiki Torch item

• Fixed Varnish property on Victorian Dresser, Hutch, Dining Table, Accent Table, Coffee Table, and Console Table not reapplying on Condo load

• Virus: Fixed material regression on the Golden 9MM Upgrade

• Fixed collision on Victorian Wardrobe variant 2

• Fixed material regression on Theater Door

• Fixed normal map mismatch on Wood Parquet condo surface materials

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Hello and welcome to the Tower Unite Dev Log for October 21st, 2025!

It’s been a while since the last dev log, so we hope you all have been doing well.

Since the last Dev Log, we started the Halloween events for this year, started our Suki plush campaign, have been working on adjustments to unit payouts, and other fixes!

We’ve also been still making progress on our outside-of-Tower project and hope to have an announcement for that soon!

Halloween Events

Halloween events are ongoing in Tower, so hop in if you want to enjoy the seasonal festivities!

There are new items to celebrate the season including additions to the Victorian furniture set, spooky cosmetics, and much more!

We’ve also adjusted some pricing at the Ghoulcery story after player feedback, so enjoy discounted prices on profile backgrounds!

Check out the event details here!

Halloween Condo Contest

Our yearly Halloween Condo Contest has a week left! Submissions are allowed until October 27th, 2025 at 11:59 PM CT! Check out the rules and prizes here: Halloween 2025 Condo Contest

Makeship Suki Plush Campaign Started

The Suki plush is available to order from Makeship!

It’ll be available for a limited time so be sure to check it out if you’re interested!

Sales of the plush directly help the continued development of the game, so we greatly appreciate all the help funding the plush that we can get!

Early Access Player Rewards

Early Access Player Items have been made to thank you players who have been with us from early on! These include:

• Early Access Spray (The first animated spray!)

• Early Access Plate

• Early Access Hardhat

• Early Access Catsack Plush

The catsack, when squeezed, will swing its pickaxe like the image it’s based on!

When the items are ready (which we’ll announce), these rewards will be automatically distributed to anyone who played before the Early Access release.

Optimizations

Lots of various optimizations were completed in regard to Arcade leaderboard screens, textures and skeletal meshes, lighting, and other areas of the Plaza!

We’ve made changes to reduce shadow calculation costs by adding a shadow proxy system.

As for Condos, we’ve gone through a lot of various and commonly used items and IO logic items and optimized them. We’re also working on a full Condo IO optimization pass behind the scenes, which we hope will reduce overall IO expenses in Condos.

Leaderboard Improvements

Behind the scenes, Sabrina has been working on a new way to load and display Leaderboards in-game to help improve performance in the Arcade and Boardwalk. This new leaderboard system displays the leaderboards to an image that can also be shared outside of the game as well!

Not only does the new leaderboard system help with performance (especially in the Arcade), but it also has built in mechanisms to prevent leaderboard cheaters from ever showing up.

VR Scaling

As we make progress on VR support, the scale of various Plaza store entrances has been adjusted for a better experience for VR players! These scale changes were made as we play tested VR and found several of the entrance ways or rooms to be a bit too cramped, something you can only notice while in VR.

Dark Voyage Fixes

With the spooky season in effect, we’ve been giving some love to Dark Voyage to improve the experience, fix bugs, and resolve some performance issues!

We’ve added more targets, specifically in the mansion and laboratory areas, fixed issues with sounds and post processing effects.

General Bug & Crash Fixes

Some general bugs were fixed with weapons, NPCs, T-Posing, the Nightclub Brightness setting, game pad buttons for tutorials, Halloween Event fixes, and much more.

Several crashes have been fixed, including a player model crash, a Condo sorting crash, several UI crashes, and an Arcade crash!

Payout Adjustments

We’ve been listening to player feedback on payouts in the game, and we are planning on doing a survey soon to get more direct feedback about payouts and pricing in Tower Unite.

For now, there have been some payout increases to Laser Tag, pricing adjustments to Ghoul Coin items, and plans to adjust SDNL as well as other Game World payouts.

Nimbus Art Pass

An art pass on Nimbus has been completed! Nuclearxpotato has been working on updating the look of this long-standing map to give it a fresh feel. Nimbus was the first level we created for Ball Race in Tower Unite and was long overdue on some love.

Various moving objects no longer have “programmer art” and have their own unique models.

Nimbus also now has its own bonus level, something that was missing from it compared to the other Ball Race maps.

SDNL Fixes

Various fixes were also made to some issues in SDNL, such as fixes to the BERT gun, disabling player collision, ragdolling, and announcement issues. We’re continuing to address issues with SDNL and are focused on bug fixes going forward. We are also investigating the invisible player spawn issues and weapon loadout issues for hosts.

Updated Rules

We’ve updated our Rules to be more clear and easier to read, and consolidated them on our Guides page so you can easily find it, along with clear guides on how to Report Players and Condos.

Here is the link to the new permanent location: Rules.

We’ll continue to keep the rules and report guidelines up-to-date so we can all keep Tower Unite a safe place for everyone to enjoy.

Winter 2025 Items!

New Winter Holiday items are being made! So far we have:

• Ice Crown

• Santa’s Sackpack

• Peppermint Horns

• Peppermint Glassess

• Krampus Horns

• Tinsel Scarf

If you wanna make suggestions for Winter Items this year, check out the Winter Item Suggestion Megathread!

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SUKI HAS ARRIVED!

ORDER ONE HERE

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To celebrate our recent Cat Cafe update, the Suki plush is here! Suki is the cat of Tower Unite's lead developer, and she's always had her paws in the game, whether its in easter eggs, minigolf cameos, or accidentally unplugging dev PCs - Suki has got it covered.

Bring Suki home with her adorable detachable catpuccino, and get ready for some cozy atmosphere! <3

Thank you so much for supporting this plush and all of our past campaigns! These campaigns really help us fund the continued development of Tower, so we can't thank you enough, and hope you enjoy the plush!

The campaign will be up for a limited time (21 days), so check out the store page to see how it all works and get one for yourself! These limited time plushies go directly towards supporting our developers and the development of Tower Unite!

We hope you enjoy the Suki plushie! Any support you give us means so much, and we hope to keep bringing you more fun!

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This small update addresses issues with the latest Halloween event update!

Changes

• Moved Cape items to be Back accessory items instead of Neck

• Based on user feedback, all profile backgrounds in the Ghoulcery have been permanently discounted

• Dark Voyage: Added 20 more targets to the Lab (and made all the potions destroyable)

• Dark Voyage: Added 12 more targets to the Blood Kitchen

• Dark Voyage: You can now shoot the eyes of the skull before the cave segment in Hell

• Chat: Achievements and EXP Rank ups now always display in Awards tab

• Chat: Achievements earned on local server now displays in local chat again

• Plaza Scaling Fixes for VR:

  • Adjusted various plaza NPCs to have a more reasonable height/size

  • Adjusted doorways for the appearance store to be larger and the correct scale

  • Adjusted doorways for the vehicle store to be larger and the correct scale

  • Adjusted doorways for the furniture store to be larger and the correct scale

  • Adjusted doorways for the electronics store to be larger and the correct scale

  • Fixed the smoothie store cups being gigantic

• Adjusted how many workshop player models are stored in cache to prevent hitching in Plaza and hopefully resolve issues with respawning workshop players in Ball Race

• Halloween Staves are now tagged as "Magical"

• Ball Race: Minor art pass to Nimbus' tiles

Optimizations

• Plaza: Ferris Wheel mesh rendering optimization

• Plaza: Optimized Arcade leaderboard screen logic

• Plaza: Texture memory optimizations in the Plaza

• Plaza: Set up shadow proxy system in the central plaza and stores areas to reduce shadow calculation costs

• Temporarily disabled Dress physics simulation as it was causing horrible FPS issues (we're looking into it)

Bug Fixes

• Plaza: Fixed broken lighting issues in the Arcade

• Plaza: Fixed remains spawning under the Halloween maze bridge sometimes

• Condo: Fixed various issues with Vault Door and Safes (and improved their textures)

• Condo: Fixed Caution Tape item being weirdly-centered

• Dark Voyage: Fixed post processing effects not kicking in fast enough for the Mansion segment

• Accelerate: Fixed Workshop Accelerate vehicle type pose not working on first load in

• Accelerate: Fixed end results score sorting being incorrect

• Dark Voyage: Fixed time doors not always opening/closing properly or showing levels unstreamed

• Dark Voyage: Fixed various sounds being hearable from large distances when you shouldn't

• Dark Voyage: Fixed end game taking way too long to return back to the station

• Condo Hub: Fixed video rentals not returning to the shelves sometimes

• Plaza: Fixed the floor from the tower lobby slightly intruding into and z-fighting with the appearance store's floor

• Plaza: Fixed the stools in the appearance store having the wrong player sit offset

• Plaza: Fixed pop-in for Minigame Arena signs

• Condo Hub: Fixed workshop rentals getting stuck not respawning properly

• Minigolf: Filled invisible collider near the end of Hole 11 in Oasis

• ZM SDK: Fixed activation radius for zombie spawners not working properly

• Additional crash fixes

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HALLOWEEN 2025 EVENTS ARE HERE!

Our Halloween events have begun!  Enjoy the Halloween festivities and fun as well as some new items that can be found at the Ghoulcery at the center fountain! All Halloween items from 2017 to 2024 are unlockable during these events!

Ghoul Coins

Earn ghoul coins to exchange for Halloween items! You can earn ghoul coins by playing Plaza minigames or Game Worlds, Crusty Remains, as well as in the Arcade and through Fishing!

Crusty Crustacean Remains

Collect Crusty Remains and put them in the Cauldron. You can earn various items and some of the new items with the remains!

New Halloween Items

This year we've added over 48 new Halloween items, including new Sprays and Profile Backgrounds!

New Items

New Sprays

New Pets

Halloween Items (Full List)

Ghoulcery Store

• Ram Horns

• Pharaoh's Nemes

• Broodsac Eyes

• Mutagen Injections

• Ritual Dagger

• Flaming Eyes

• Slime Cube

• Deadwood Branch

• Nocturnis Sceptre

• Skull Staff

• Player Sprays

  • Witch's Brew

  • Ghostly boo!

  • Trick-or-Treater

  • Trick-or-Treat

  • Werewolf Family

  • Vampire

  • Happy Halloween 1, 2, 3

  • Ghostly Eyes (+ Foiled)

  • Monster Eyes (+ Foiled)

  • Cat Eyes (+ Foiled)

• Player Profile Backgrounds

  • Dark Voyage (Hell)

  • Dark Voyage (Mansion)

  • Dark Voyage (Western)

  • Moon (Blood)

  • Moon (Blue)

  • Moon (Dark)

  • Moon (Foggy)

  • Moon (Werewolf)

  • Thorns (Black)

  • Thorns (Blue)

  • Thrown (Crimson)

  • Thorns (Orange)

  • Thorns (Purple)

  • Thorns (Red)

  • Webs (Green)

  • Webs (Orange)

  • Webs (Purple)

Celebrations

• Pumpkin (Destructible)

Rob's Imports

• Cobweb

• Second-Hand Ritual Dagger

Tower Threads

• Crab-On-The-Head

• Cucumber Eyes

Central Circuit

• CryoCasket

• Specimen Tank

Cat Cafe (Pets)

• Cat (Wicked)

• Cat (Angelic)

Dog Park (Pets)

• Slime Dog

New to Cauldron

• Zombie Crab

New to Trick or Treat

• Zombie Crab

• Ghoul Coin

Added new Victorian furniture Set available in Rob's Imports and Sweet Suites

• Wardrobe, Chaise

• Armchair (High-Back)

• Dresser

• Accent Table

• Console Table

• Hutch

• Sofa

• Coffee Table

• Pew

Changes

• Start of Halloween 2025 Events

• Added new Halloween 2025 items (about 48 items)

• Renamed "Block One Way" to "Ignore"

• Added dynamic text keyword support to Text 3D (%name%, %time%, counters, etc.)

• Updated items for Victorian furniture set: Dining Table, Dining Chair, Armchair, Loveseat

Bug Fixes

• SDNL & Virus: Adjusted how players are spawned to prevent players from being invisible on spawn

• SDNL: Fixed Toy Hammer preventing primary fire sometimes

• Workshop SDK: Fixed workshop tags expanding across the screen on upload

• Fixed MIDI velocity input issues for MIDI keyboards on certain notes (G4, Ab4, A4, etc.)

• Fixed a couple reported exploits

• Fixed a crash regarding workshop player models

• Fixed a crash regarding condo sorting

• Fixed several crashes related to chat UI

• Fixed a crash that would occur in the Arcade

• Fixed switching to no weapon not updating the crosshair properly

• Fixed NPCs / eyeballs looking at your camera instead of your player model

• Fixed Skeleton player models T-Posing on ragdoll deaths

• Fixed Nightclub Brightness setting not applying to the nightclub overhead spotlights

• Controller: Fixed Plaza tutorials not having gamepad button inputs

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the Tower Unite Dev Log for August 27th, 2025! It’s been a couple weeks since the last dev log, so let’s get caught up!

Art Contest - Design an in-game Poster!

We’ve got an exciting art contest going on where winning submissions will be featured in-game!

The contest ends on September 14th at 11:59 PM CT!

Check out the rules and prizes here: August/September 2025 Art Contest (Workshop Rental Store Poster)

Current Development Goals!

Right now we have several fun projects in motion for you all: the Arcade Phase: 3, Cooking, Halloween, Optimizations, and VR Support!

Cooking Development Progress

Cooking is the next major feature on our roadmap, and we’ve got some work to do to get it up to par! We’ll be finalizing the recipes for the initial cooking update, which will feature a broad assortment of basic recipes using the cooking items we have currently!

Future cooking updates will spice up the variety even more, as we hope to tackle some more basic cooking ingredients as well as more seasonal foods to create and enjoy!

Arcade: Phase 3: Development Progress Update!

Arcade: Phase 3 is moving along steadily! Johanna has completed and continued 3D modeling artwork on several new machines, including the baseball game, the ball drop game, a car-push game, and more!

wheezwer has completed the 2D artwork for “Raptor Rampage,” and will be starting work on the baseball cabinet next.

In recent updates, we’ve also fixed unreleased items having a purchase prompt in the arcade prize area!

Halloween 2025: Upcoming Items Sneak Peak!

We’re gearing up for Halloween in Tower Unite, which is one of our favorite times of the year! This year we’ll have some new items, like placable cobwebs and updates to the Victorian furniture set, as well as some other exciting items we can’t wait to share.

Additionally, we’ll be doing some new Halloween Sprays and Profile Backgrounds!

VR Development

We’ve been getting back into some VR work recently, too. We’d like to get a couple fixes done for some existing VR issues, as well as tackle other desired features and necessary changes to the game like sizing issues and the like, along with IK arm movement and networking.

VR support is a dizzying process both technically and physically with having to remove the headset for development, but we’re really excited for its potential! We’ll keep you all posted on progress with VR as it moves along.

Recent Development Highlights

New Items

Tons of new items and fixes for old items have been included in the most recent update!

Cafe & Pets Items

Tower now offers lots of very cute and sweet food options with the Cafe update, as well as various structural and furniture pieces to build your own Cafe settings in the Condos!

There are also quite a few new pet furniture items to play around with as of the most recent update, so be sure to check those out to make sure your pets are comfy cozy!

Game Worlds Port Panel

An addition you may have missed in the most recent update was the Game World Ports Panel: a placable panel for your Condo so you can queue up for Game World servers with friends!

Item Tweaks and Fixes

With the most recent updates, we’ve done an art pass on the chainlink fence item, as well as added some new features you should be sure to check out! Similar additions were added to the rope and cable items.

We also have done various fixes to lighting, coloring issues, icon clarity, animations, sounds, and camera offsets!

Global Chat

With the release of Global Chat, we’ve been seeing a lot of use of the new feature, and we’re happy to say its been stable and running well since! We’ve recently updated it to fix quotation marks and are currently looking into adding unicode support.

Optimizations

We’ve done plenty of optimization work with the most recent updates, including optimizing network load-in, collision meshes all throughout the Plaza, occlusion culling, and object counts!

UI Fixes

Various fixes were completed for UI and menu issues, mostly in the Workshop and Waiting for Players menus, but there were also some fixes to use prompts and loading screens as well! We're working on improving the UI for Steam Deck and fixing smaller elements on Steam Deck being hard to see.

That’s a Wrap!

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This update addresses issues from the latest Pets & Global Chat update.

Changes

• Plaza: The Cat Cafe's no weapons zone has been expanded further away from the front of the building

• Plaza: The Dog Park no longer allows weapons

• Plaza: The Dog Park benches can now be sat in

• Plaza: Removed loading screens from Lighthouse doors and the exterior Monorail doorways

• Plaza: Added door sounds when using loading screen doors and added some door animations to the sliding doors

• Plaza: Various occlusion culling optimizations

Optimizations

• Plaza: Optimized the collision mesh of the monorail bridge's support cables

• Plaza: Optimized the collision mesh of the D.I.Y. Store's interior structure

• Plaza: Optimized the collision mesh of the Cat Cafe's interior entryway

• Plaza: Optimized the collision mesh of the Cat Cafe's spiral staircase

• Plaza: Optimized the collision mesh of the Celebrations Store interior structure

• Plaza: Optimized the collision mesh of the Condo Realtor store interior structure

• Plaza: Optimized the collision mesh of the Casino exterior doorway walls/ceiling mesh

• Plaza: Reduced the object count in Tower Threads store

• Plaza: Optimized the collision mesh of the structures above the stores

• Plaza: Optimized the collision mesh of the theater exterior

Bug Fixes

• Fixed major memory leak when using appearance store/condo/stores

• Plaza: Fixed the Poseidon roller coaster going through the geometry of the fake Arcade interior

• Plaza: Fixed the colored liquids in the back room of the Tower Threads store not rendering

• Plaza: Fixed broken lightmaps on monorail track

• Plaza: Fixed a hole in the Tower Threads store's back room ceiling

• Plaza: Fixed some lighting errors in the trivia's fake interior

• Plaza: Fixed broken materials in the Bowling Alley interior

• Plaza: Fixed the Bowling sign inside the Bowling Alley interior having bad material assignments

• Plaza: Fixed the desk inside the Bowling Alley from having its front panel texture looking stretched

• Condo: Fixed pumpkin materials

• Condo: Fixed seat camera offsets in hidden seat

• Plaza: Fixed Dark Voyage sound playing when leaving the Arcade

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This hot fix addresses issues from the latest Pets & Global Chat update.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Dark Voyage issues

• Pets: Fixed Golden Retriever t-posing at dog park

• Pets: Fixed Corgi being offset

• Pets: Fixed pets floating in Underwater Condo (while inside)

• Condo: Fixed Game World Port Panel use prompt being wrong

• Condo: Fixed Doghouse coloring issues

• Condo: Fixed Cupcake Wrappers having back-face culling

• Fixed Holdable Catsack Popsicle not removing properly

Changes

• Condo: Added Pet Supplies to Pets / Critter category

• Condo: Added a width property to the Rope / Cable items

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Pets & Global Chat!!

This is one of the largest updates of the year! We’re bringing you Pets, Global Chat, new Cat Cafe, tons of new items, much-requested updates to the Dedicated Condos browser, and plenty more! So let’s dive in!

Global Chat

Global Chat is back! Global chat offers the option to chat with other users outside the bounds of an individual server! So, you can access global chat and interact with users while you’re in different parts of the game, like talking to players in the Plaza while you’re in the Condos or Game Worlds!

Global Chat also brings back Game World notifications when a player starts a public game world server!

Cat Café: Café Miaou

A brand new store is now open - Café Miaou!

This elegant and cute cat cafe serves delicious pastries and drinks, all while keeping our resident cats safe and warm. Sit down, relax, have a cup and snuggle and pet our adorable cats.

Dog Park

For dog enthusiasts, we’ve also opened a dog park! Head over to the West Stores in the Plaza, by the Backer Statue Garden to visit and adopt tons of adorable canine friends!

Condo Pets!

With both the Cat Cafe and the Dog Park, you can now adopt your very own Condo pet!

We currently have 28 lovable and adoptable cats and dogs!

Pets have traits such as love and energy, and commands such as sit, follow, eating/drinking, and sleeping.

You can get pet beds, pet food/drink bowls, and cat towers for your wondrously cute animal friends.

New Condo Browser Filters

In our last update, we added Dedicated Condos, but it was a bit hard to navigate all the new servers. 

You can now easily sort the condo browser and filter out by Dedicated and Player-Hosted Condos.

Enhanced Dedicated Windows Launcher

For those of you that use the Windows Launcher for Dedicated Condos, we’ve added some enhancements to the launcher (should be out in a day or so).

You can now have per-Condo server profiles, which helps with running multiple versions of your Condos.

We’ve also added other features to the launcher such as: Chat Log (which updates in real time), Bans Editor, Custom Condo Map name setting, and Client Port setting.

60+ New Items!

• Added new items to Café Miaou

  • Holdable Coffee

  • Pet Bed (Round)

  • Pet Bed (Rectangular)

  • Pet Bowl

  • Cupcake

  • Cupcake (Chocolate)

  • Jam Filled Cookie

  • Chocolate Filled Cookie

  • Gelatin

  • Frosted Cookie

  • Creme Sandwich Cookie

  • Sugar Cookie

  • Swiss Roll

  • Croissant

  • Cinnamon Roll

  • Brownie Square

  • Tart

  • Flan

  • Macaron

  • Cappuccino

  • Holdable Catppuccino

  • Eclair (Iced)

  • Eclair (Plain)

  • Holdable Eclair

  • Jelly Doughnut (Iced)

  • Jelly Doughnut (Plain)

  • Holdable Jelly Doughnut

  • Doughnut (iced)

  • Doughnut (Plain)

  • Holdable Doughnut

  • Holdable Onigiri

  • Onigiri Neko

  • Coffee (Black)

  • Cat Condo (Modular)

  • Cat Condo (Beds)

  • Cat Condo (Base)

  • Litterbox

  • Doghouse

• Added new items to Rob's Imports

  • Fancy Footrest

  • Cafe Counter

  • Diner Seat

  • Diner Booth Seat (Single)

  • Diner Booth Seat (Double)

  • Diner Booth Seat (Corner)

  • Propane Tank

  • Jerrycan

• Added new items to Sweet Suite

  • Vase (Trimmed)

  • Cutesy Cafe Chair

  • Cutesy Cafe Ottoman

  • Cutesy Cafe Table

  • Cutesy Cafe Accent Table

• Added new items to Kalarry's Warez

  • Sword & Shield (SDNL)

• Added new items to DIY

  • Game World Port Panel

  • Rope

  • Cable

  • Chainlink Gate (Short)

  • Chainlink Gate (Medium)

  • Chainlink Fence (Short)

• Added new Condo Materials

  • Sparkly Fabric

  • Confetti Tiles (Black)

  • Confetti Tiles (White)

  • Roof Scales

• Added new items to Central Circuit

  • Soft-Serve Machine

Changes

• New Store: Café Miaou (Cat Café)

• Global Chat

• Condo Pets

• New Store: Dog Park

• Added "Player Hosted", "Dedicated", and "Friends" Condo server filter buttons

• Plaza: Moved Treasure from the Sea spawn locations to behind the pool slides beach area and off the grass

• Plaza: Moved the fishing music in the fishing docks near the ferris wheel to be in a less annoying location and reduced the volume

• Plaza: Tower rooftop back structure art pass

• Plaza: The Arcade now has a faux interior to make the plaza feel more seamless and immersive

• Plaza: Cookie, Holdable Cake Pops, and Paska Bread are now available from Café Miaou

• ZM: Moved Weapon Switch controller binding to Top Face Button (Y on Xbox controllers) to avoid issues with microphone input colliding with swapping weapons

• Arcade: Unreleased items no longer show a purchase prompt

• Condo: Updated Thumbnail for Climbable Rope item to be more clear

• Condo: Chainlink Fence, Large Barbed Wire Fence, and Large Barbed Wire Gate have been renamed to Chainlink Fence (Medium), Chainlink Fence (Tall), and Chainlink Gate (Tall) respectively

• Condo: Existing Chainlink Fence items have been art-passed and given variants. Tall fences now have adjustable barbed wire (allowing you to remove, double it, change its position, etc)

• Condo: Restaurant Booth now uses a new model that is distinct from the Nightclub Booth seats (it used a much older iteration and didn't match)

• Condo: Added new per-player permission - Pet Control (gives players permission to adjust pet names and take care of your Condo pets)

• UI: Workshop tags now have a scrollbar to them instead of just wrapping and making things more vertical

• UI: Workshop maps now have use a Game World color scheme that isn't grey for the Waiting For Players menu

Optimizations

• The game engine should now handle masked material's opacity in the pre-pass now, optimizing translucency and the game's ability to handle foliage overall (was broken in the previous engine upgrade). This will result in way better FPS!

• Plaza: Separated interiors in the plaza into a separate light channel to reduce lighting calculations of directional lights and skylight

• Plaza: Optimized the skeletal mesh animation of the subway's escalators

• Plaza: Optimized initial network load in

Major Bug Fixes

• Fixed Use not working for several items and objects

• Dedicated Condo: Fixed copycat not copying properties when duplicating an item

• Dedicated Condo: Fixed certain items loading in wrongly (ex. Fireplaces)

• Fixed various Holdable food items not removing properly after being eaten

Minor Bug Fixes

• Plaza: Fixed Booze Bash, Chainsaw Battle, and Plane Wars not announcing in chat

• Plaza: Fixed Dev HQ vent not being usable

• Plaza: Fixed the control panel in Private Theatres being unusable

• Plaza: Fixed Backer Grove location volume title being wrong

• Plaza: Fixed an incorrect material assignment on the lamps outside the seasonal store on the boardwalk

• Plaza: Fixed fountain area causing splashes

• Fixed splash effects in water not happening

• ZM: Fixed HUD not showing "power up" controller bind

• Condo: Fixed coloring issues on Gallery Bench item

• Condo: Fixed IES on Emergency Light

• Condo: Fixed Aqua Power Display item starting with a light enabled (even when Media Dynamic Lights were disabled)

• Condo: Fix for Gem Pop candy using a broken material (also added color randomization similar to Holdable Balloons)

• UI: Fixed workshop browser tabs going off the screen on Steam Deck

• UI: Fixed up a lot of padding and font issues with the Waiting For Players menu

• Plaza: Fixed Plaza fountain water effects and splashing effects

• Dedicated Condo: Fixed Volume IO items showing to clients sometimes

• UI: Fixed Waiting for Players menu not letting you input into chat

• Condo IO: Fixed setting color on items (such as Lightbox) not working properly

• Condo: Fixed setting color on certain items (such as Lightbox) not coloring the emissive texture of the light properly

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