Town to City news & patch notes

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Greetings, Citizens!

We have released update v1.0.3 🌸

You can read the full changelog below:

Optimization:

• Optimization to the way the game calculates building connections and walking destinations for inhabitants

• Optimization to the way the game loads and stores save data throughout gameplay

• Optimization to the hotel route creation process

Tourism:

• Hotels now display from which city the bourgeoisie occupying guest spots are coming

• Updated all hotel routes to have a slightly longer maximum length

• Updated "marketplace stroll" route to also accept nature decorations

• Updated the "Rocemareé is now open" message to appear even if tutorials are disabled

• Updated the route creation process with more visual and auditory feedback

• Added additional explanation on how to make bourgeoisie employable in the tutorial pop-up on first interacting with Art Atelier or Departments

• Adjusted tourism tutorial to give more guidance after researching and placing the hotel

• Adjusted texts in UI and tooltips for better clarity based on player feedback

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a rare crash that sometimes happened after placing the art atelier and then going to place a different building

• Fixed that in some cases sandbox saves would become unloadable from the main menu

• Fixed that using undo/redo or using the water tool could cause water variations of decorations to revert to their normal land shapes

• Fixed that game would sometimes display a notification you can research an item when there were no available items for research

• Fixed that researching specific tourism research menu items would increase maximum amount of farm points you can store

• Fixed that if you moved bourgeoisie to a lower class residence they would not free up their guest spots at a hotel

• Fixed that 'Build Mayor's Home' notification failed to appear when playing on the Rocemarée map

• Fixed that the tourism tutorial could sometimes spawn in other maps

• Fixed that the game would display the "Welcome to Rocemarée" postcard when starting a sandbox game with the 'Unlock Everything' option enabled

• Fixed that the game would get stuck on the 'Edit routes' tutorial pop-up if you closed the buildings menu during the tutorial

• Fixed that sometimes a valid route point could show the invalid tooltip

• Fixed that sound effects were missing on the expansion animation of hotels

• Fixed that a building or monument could stay highlighted when player changed the current route's theme to one that only has a decoration requirement

• Fixed that the city select button in the world map showed number of all requests completed in campaign, instead of just the requests completed in that city

• Fixed that when loading a save with hotels there was a small chance all hotel workers would be fired upon loading

• Fixed that in some cases hotel employees were not getting fired when hotel route score went below the required amount.

• Fixed that within the world map any tourists in your towns would be counted towards the 'pets adopted' statistic

Note:

Game optimization remains a continuous focus for our development team. We are committed to delivering performance improvements with each upcoming update.

We hope you enjoy playing!

Greetings, Citizens!

We hope you have been enjoying Town to City 1.0 so far! As always, your support has been incredible, and we truly appreciate it. All of your bugs and feedback have been truly helpful to us, so without further ado - here are the latest patch notes for our recent update!

• Fixed that the art atelier tab wouldn't unlock if you first opened the research menu from the bottom right panel instead of the top right menu button after placing the art atelier
• Fixed that art atelier items would automatically appear in the build menu without unlocking them in the research menu upon assigning the correct amount of bourgeoisie workers
• Fixed decoration snapping points of the Grand Hotel
• Fixed missing inhabitant interaction animations for the Art Atelier, Grand Hotel and various beach decorations
• Fixed red spot on white flower patches
• Fixed that the bell animation appears stuttering when viewing the 'Cathedral' and 'Chapel' buildings from far away
• Fixed that route points for hotel routes could be placed out of bounds, on cliff, farm fields, bridges, water and buildings
• Fixed that route points for hotel routes would sometimes get duplicated
• Fixed that the '+' button to create a first route point would sometimes not appear after having manually deleted all points on a route
• Fixed that the route start point failed to move when the player moved any hotel building to another location
• Fixed that bourgeoisie residents in "Belvau" could be tourists in their own city in campaign, blocking other city residents from having a chance at those destinations
• Fixed that the hotel tab from the commerce build menu wouldn't be available in sandbox mode
• Fixed that 'editing routes' input helper overlaps with decoration categories when player opens the decorations menu
• Fixed 'Can be placed on water' text overlaps with the 'avg pts' text in the shoreline paradise route theme menu
• Fixed that the requirement bar’s progress didn't update after opening another route theme menu with the same requirement
• Fixed some texts going outside of their designated areas in various languages
• Fixed that in some situations the 'Others' guest count could display a negative value when the player removed workers from any hotels
• Fixed 'Add a Route' button failed to highlight when player hovers cursor over it in the 'Hotel' menu
• Fixed that the 'Yes' option failed to function when the player selects 'Save' and then 'Cancel' during the 'load game' process
• Fixed that it would started a new game on loading a sandbox save while in campaign mode and vice versa
• Removed the "You already have a building of this type" hint from hotels
• Added that Farm and tourist related research items are now counted towards the "You can research a new item" notification
• Added extra visual feedback to expanding the size of a hotel
• Added icons to points that are unreachable on the route
• Added that hotels now display the "add worker" icon in the world on top of the building
• Added additional checks to when requests can arrive at the mayor's home to prevent cases of requests spawning that the player has no way of completing
• Added audio to placing and deleting route points
• Updated the balance of all art atelier unlockable decorations

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Greetings, Citizens!

• Fixed that the game had unplayable framerate on some specific CPUs. If you are still experiencing extremely low framerate after this, please let us know on Discord so we can research the issue further.

Greetings, everyone!

Here is the full 1.0 Changelog to go alongside our recent release!

• Rocemarée, a sea side city with two monumental ruins
• New house styles for Rocemarée

• Create tourist routes and attract tourists to your town
• Three types of hotels: Inn, Boutique Hotel, Grande Hotel

• Art atelier: Unlock special new fancy decorations
• City Hall Departments: Set up departments and manage policies

• Beach decorations
• Beach chair
• Cushioned beach chair
• Wooden beach chair
• Beach tent
• Beach towel
• Frilly beach towel
• Log bench
• Campfire
• Palm tree
• Sandcastle
• Sandcastle kit
• Loose sand

• Broken roman pillar
• Duck nest
• Information sign
• Swinging bench
• Lemonade stand

• Golden gate
• Willow tree
• Round stone bench
• Wood gazebo
• Arched gate
• Iron fancy fence
• Stone gate
• Topiary
• Painters easel
• Greenhouse
• Fancy fountain
• Roman pillar
• Gate half
• Bell tower
• Sculpture gallery
• Carved wall
• Skeleton display
• Contorted tree
• Stone gazebo

• Picnic blanket

• Obelisk
• Lighthouse

• Appropriate obelisk
• Bestest route
• Dear mayor
• Forest getaway
• Harmless fun
• Motherly light
• Pillar to roof
• Sight for shore eyes
• Sleep little ducky
• Station to station
• That'll be a dime

What is Included in The Wandering Towns bundle?

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Building worlds, pixel by pixel, tile by tile…

We are excited to announce that we have teamed up with Dorfromantik to bring you the Villages and Towns bundle!

What is Included in the Villages and Towns bundle?

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Greetings, Citizens!

The time has come…

🏡 Town to City 1.0 is OUT NOW! 🏡

What’s New in 1.0?

• A new campaign map, Rocemarée! Featuring two monumental ruins and three hotels for tourists.
• Ability to design various types of scenic routes for tourists
• Lighthouse and Obelisk monuments
• 11 new requests
• New house designs
• Late-game Bourgeoisie mechanics, including tourism, working in the town hall, and unlocking super fancy decorations at the new Art Atelier building
• New beach-themed decorations

What’s to Come?

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Greetings, Citizens!

Since releasing in Early Access in September last year, we have been blown away by the community support! So, without further ado, we have some very exciting news for you…

🏡 Town to City 1.0 will be releasing May 26th! 🏡

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Greetings, Citizens!

There’s nothing like enjoying the first signs of spring…

🌸We’re thrilled to announce that our Cherry Blossom Update is OUT NOW🌸

Adorn your town with beautiful sakura! Keep reading to see what’s been added to this new update…

Patch Notes:

New content:

• Cherry blossom decorations pack:

  • Single bamboo

  • Bamboo patch

  • Red wooden bridge

  • White stone arch

  • White stone wall

  • Stone lantern

  • Cherry blossom

  • Large cherry blossom

• Cherry blossom ground paint

CPU performance improvements:

• We've made changes and improvements across the board that significantly improves CPU performance. Especially for bigger cities, this should feel noticeable.

• Part of our optimization approach was upgrading to a custom version of Unreal Engine 5.7 and doing engine optimizations.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed that the bourgeoisie could work at the research center if you upgraded a house with artisans who were already working there.

• Fixed the carousel switchers in the settings menu, which did not line up in the center with other settings entries.

• Fixed that the second length variation of the dark wood bridge had the same icon as the first variation.

• Placing a building on farmland now accurately removes the farmland. Previously, it was only hidden, allowing the player to go above the assigned farmland limit by painting extra land and then removing the building.

Thank you so much for your continued support of Town to City - we hope you enjoy the new update and look forward to seeing your creations!

Greetings, Citizens!

As you may remember in our end of year post, we mentioned that a separate team here at Galaxy Grove have been working hard on a new unannounced management game…

🚂 We are thrilled to reveal our upcoming rail tycoon, Steam to Electric! 🚉

“But what does this mean for Town to City?” we hear you ask?

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Greetings, citizens!

We are so glad to see how much you’ve been enjoying the new update! We have been collecting your bugs & feedback, and are pleased to release this small update.

• Fixed buildings from being able to snap to the sides of bridges
• Fixed issues with the size of brushes when using the dithering setting
• Fixed that decorations now have the correct position at the cursor when dragging over water
• Fixed that cats glitch around in the original position of a house when trying to move it
• Fixed that pets all had their default size, instead of the random modifier
• Fixed that undo/redo didn't properly update heights of buildings terrain filling to the new height
• Fixed possibility to place bridges through steep terrain mountains
• Fixed issue with fence posts not being able to be curved or moved when on terraformed terrain
• Fixed that bridges wouldn’t move up or down when terraforming the land they’re on
• Fixed that moving buildings would not always properly update their position in the code

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Greetings, Citizens!

Looking to raise your town to new heights?

We are thrilled to announce that our Terraforming Update is now LIVE! ⛰️

• Add water
• Remove water
• Raise terrain
• Lower terrain
• Smooth terrain
• flatten terrain

• Light wood bridge
• Dark wood bridge
• Stone bridge
• Stone arched bridge
• Metal bridge

• Light wood streetlight
• Dark wood streetlight
• Stone streetlight

• Swing
• Tree swing
• Roundabout
• Tumbling bars

• Added redo/undo for all brushing
• Added new decoration filter menu
• Added ability to visually change the station to a previously unlocked version
• Added ability to swap house colors after having placed the house
• Added continuous demolish feature
• Added disable collision options for building placement
• Added demolish blocking decorations option for building placement
• Added ignore placement restrictions option for building placement
• Added a transformation gizmo to the game for tweaking decorations
• Added a hotkey for increasing and decreasing brush size
• Added the ability to adjust the lighting in photo mode
• Added the ability to adjust the lighting during gameplay
• Added that fish can now jump from all water sources
• Added warning in the upgrade class of house tooltip stating that all decorations will be removed
• Updated the camera system to work better with height differences
• Renamed some decorations for better consistency in relation to the search menu
• Updated the inhabitant pop-up for better readability
• Raised the spawn rate of geese in the animal shelter
• Raised the spawn rate of the allergic to camels trait

• Added a tooltip to the variation buttons of color based variations in the build menu
• Added a high contrast roads setting which increases the contrast for better readability
• Added a replace color gradients with icons setting which does away with the red/green gradients in the happiness breakdown and replaces it with icons
• Updated settings menu section selection buttons for better readability

• Fixed that unlocking geese in the research menu would increase warehouse production per worker
• Fixed you could sometimes still brush crops after closing the farm tab
• Fixed incorrect text for "Grape" in the "Edit Farm" menu
• Fixed that inhabitants would sometimes get stuck at their doors
• Fixed that the Encyclopedia menu wouldn't always respond to a single click
• Fixed that upgrading a house in class with the upgrade class tool did not bulldoze all decorations.
• Fixed that animal bushes did not count as bushes placed in some requests
• Removed the mention of the big bell in the metal decorations pack, as it doesn't exist in-game

Greetings, Citizens!

We’re excited to show you our brand new trailer for our upcoming Terraforming Update - coming to you in March 2026!

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Greetings, Citizens,

Over the last couple of months, we have been hard at work on our exciting new mystery update! With that being said…

We are thrilled to announce that Town to City will be featured in IGN’s Fan Fest on February 26th!

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Greetings, citizens,

We have loved seeing your enthusiasm for the latest Town to City updates, especially the Animals Update! So what if we told you that you could potentially have your own adorable voxel sheep?

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Good day, everyone,

We present to you the latest patch for Town to City!

• Fixed the issue where the road drawing tools and ground painting tools would be outside the screen when using a UI scaling higher than 100%.
• Fixed performance issues related to the brazier decoration.
• Fixed the issue with the brazier glitching the lighting on some hardware.
• Fixed that exiting the settings menu with right click would keep the controls locked in-game.

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Greetings, citizens,

It is time to sprinkle some festive cheer!

❄️ We are excited to announce that our Winter Update is now LIVE! 🎁

• New winter-themed decorations in the research menu:

• Added a snowy landscape brush.

• Picking a random variation no longer automatically turns off randomisation in the decoration variation menu.
• Tooltip for fences now properly includes both controls for curving, which are C/V AND Z/X.
• Fixed that in some circumstances, the location of the pop-up when assigning a pet to a house would be too far from the original house.
• Allergic to Camels trait has been made less rare to help with spawning the “on the lookout” inhabitant request.
• The “Lavender Legend” request can now spawn on a farm that already has crops
• Warnings related to the farm will now appear within the farm tab, not just as an icon on the building in the world.
• The farm menu when clicking on a farm in the world now has a button to stop and start painting crops. You no longer need to reopen the menu to start painting again after cancelling.

• Fixed an issue where pets messed with the happiness calculation letting a town go over 100%.
• Fixed a problem with statues, the watch tower and the hopscotch sinking into the road when another decoration is placed nearby.
• Fixed the issue where the book nook did not appear in the build menu.
• Fixed an issue where the Economy Menu button wouldn't appear even though it should after loading a level.
• Fix the issue where moving a family doesn't make the family’s cat move to a spot in the new house of the family.
• The household UI, when clicking on a house to assign a pet, now shows the correct trait %.
• Renamed pets now have the correct name in the pet inventory.
• Fixed the potted flowers not allowing certain variants (purple/orange/white) to be placed on windows.
• Fixed some traits showing an incorrect happiness percentage in the overlay and resident pop-up.
• Fixed a missing tooltip in the warning for when there is a connection missing on the granary.
• Fixed that when placing decorations on buildings, it could deform the kerbs underneath the building.
• Fixed that you couldn't place decorations on the side of a building if that decoration would then hover over water.
• Fixed cat teleporting all over the place when the house it was on is being moved
• Fixed a research notification popping up if you could research the Golden Crampton monument, rewarded for owning Station to Station, but you couldn't because you don't own the game.
• A dog that gets stuck should now automatically teleport to the inhabitant it follows to stop it from getting stuck.
• Fixed that Twitch Integration didn’t work with pets living in town.
• Fixed that decorations placed in water would sometimes get blocked from being interacted with by tools, due to the clickable fish spots taking priority.
• Fixed that stepping stones wouldn't highlight when interacting with them.
• Fixed that small tree stumps would clip with the ground when placed.
• Fixed that animal bushes would sometimes get distorted when placing them.
• Fixed issues with the wall variant of the small autumn hedge.
• Fixed a missing door to the small station version.

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Greetings, Citizens!

The year is slowly winding down to a close, and what a year it has been for us!

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Greetings, everyone!

We are thrilled that our Animals Update is now live for you!

Please take a look at the patch notes for this update.

• Added new buildings (Dress Maker, Patisserie, Animal Shelter)
• Added new decorations:

• Added new farm types (Cow field: milk, Sheep field: wool)
• Added pets!

• New sandbox mode level (Île d'Aurore)
• New requests:

• Added free walk mode accessible in the Mayor's home and photo mode

• Completely overhauled the save system to hopefully prevent any further cases of players losing progress.
• Improved loading times.
• Added new Twitch integration settings and moved to a separate tab.
• Added the option to draw roads underneath buildings.
• Updated credits.
• Fixed happiness breakdown of farmers showing work decoration when farmers don’t have this.
• Fixed class specific happiness breakdown bar not showing the correct percentage.
• Added ability to quit without saving.
• Level button can no longer display a level as locked if save data exists for that specific level.
• Fixed various placements on buildings.
• Fixed LODs on multiple decorations.
• Fixed Winery having its door offset from the entrance on the model.
• Fixed that the completion percentage in the save menu would never go above 95%.
• Fixed that you couldn’t select any of the visual upgrades for the Mayor’s home in sandbox mode.
• Fixed Mayor’s home variation buttons would always display text “Complete more requests to unlock this exterior”.
• Fixed that gravestones would show they need research to unlock instead of a mayor's home request.
• Fixed that some farm crops did not have shadows.
• Fixed doors on the Mayor's home.
• Fixed shoe store having a wrong texture on the door.
• Fixed that sometimes trying to access a specific variation buttons in the build menu would pick the wrong model.
• Fixed misplaced water edges in Belvau.
• Fixed that some props didn’t have the right categories.
• Mayor’s Home now shows a list of all completed quests.
• Fixed crop eraser brush not showing an outline.
• Added a workaround for the crashes some people experience when hovering over the first family that arrives. Please have a look at the FAQ for more information on how to use this workaround.

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Greetings, Citizens! Expand your town with some new four-legged friends…

🐶 Our Animals Update is now LIVE! 😺

Greetings, Citizens! Have you found Town to City to be relaxing? Laid back? Peaceful? If your answer is ‘yes’ to any of those options, then we would love for you to nominate Town to City in this year's Steam Awards!

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Greetings, citizens,

We are thrilled to announce that Town to City will be featured in Cozy Quest 2025, with a lovely 15% discount!

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Greetings, citizens!

We’re excited to show you our brand new trailer for our upcoming Animals update - coming to you in November 2025!

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Greetings, citizens!

We are incredibly excited to let you know that we will be featuring a brand new trailer in the Galaxies Autumn Showcase!

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Greetings, Citizens!

The season for Trick or Treat has arrived, and we have a treat in store for you…

🎃 Our Halloween Update is OUT NOW 👻

Keep reading to learn about what’s included in this update!

• Halloween decorations:

• New Halloween quest.
• Added a film grain effect to the photo mode options.

• Fixed the wrong number of researched items to unlock displayed on the overworld map.
• Fixed farming bug where farms would have the same farmID and thus share the same fields and output.
• Fixed the issue where the gardening table couldn't have other props placed on top of it.
• Fixed the square brush rotation, now goes in increments of 7.5 degrees instead of 12.5 degrees.
• Fixed that decoration variations would sometimes revert to the default version if the wall variant didn't have a unique model per variation.

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Greetings, everyone!

A chill in the air means one thing, Autumn has arrived.

🍂 We are thrilled to announce that our Autumn Update is OUT NOW! 🍂

“What does this new update include?” we hear you ask. Keep reading to find out more!

• Added new autumn-themed decorations, including trees with beautiful orange leaves. These are unlocked through a new item in the research menu.
• A new sandbox map.
• Added the ability to rotate the square brush
• Increased max brush size (and added a performance warning when setting a really high value)
• Added the option to pause family spawning at the station

• Added a price tag and cost info while upgrading roads.
• Added a beautification score pop-up on buildings when placing decorations.
• Added an option to disable the input helpers, such as while drawing roads.
• Added a warning icon for crop commerce that could be activated because there are enough crops, but it hasn't yet been activated.
• Added a warning if no shops are connected to a house.
• Added a warning if the luxury is not met.
• Added new icons for resident customization UI.
• Loading time optimization.
• Improved the look of the range indicator of decorations.

• Fixed the game showing that you could research an item in the notification when you could have researched the Golden Crampton if you owned Station to Station, while not owning Station to Station.
• Fixed that you could click through the inhabitant pop-up.
• Fixed that inhabitants could all get stuck waiting for a single inhabitant to finish finding his path if that path became corrupted.
• Fixed a couple of text wrapping issues.
• Fixed Twitch connection would drop on level switching.
• Fixed that some farming props would incorrectly cause kerbs to form around them.
• Fixed that the arrow scroll buttons in the decoration menu would sometimes become greyed out when they shouldn't.
• Fixed the issue where the locate warehouse button on warning icons would move the camera to the edge of the world.
• Fixed the problem where icons fail to disappear after the player fulfils the requirements in the building menu.
• Fixed that the mayor forgot to install a door on the roof in the 3rd upgrade variant.
• Fixed the issue where the mayor finally received a door in the 4th upgrade variant, but it was misaligned with the door frame.

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• Fixed that not all decorations would appear in one of the filter categories.
• Fixed that the road brushing menu disappears when pressing ESC while brushing crops at a farm.
• Updated the dark brown road indicating a road is too thin to only appear on even thinner roads.
• Fixed that the plaza road and upgraded road would not turn dark brown indicating too thin road.
• Updated Vineyard Visions inhabitant request to only ask for 100 grapes instead of 150.
• Fixed that the green road highlight indicating building range would not update if you drew additional roads while the highlight was visible.
• Fixed farming mechanics and granary would become disabled after reloading a Sandbox mode save in specifically the Belvau map.
• Fixed some small animation errors in the various activities people can perform while at buildings.
• Fixed that request dialogues were unreasonably heavy on performance.
• Fixed that you could be connected to Twitch twice if you double clicked the authorize button.
• Fixed that sometimes building connections would be lost after erasing a piece of road and then replacing it again.
• Fixed that removing decorations that were blocking a connection doesn't always bring back that building connection.

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Greetings, everyone! To celebrate our bundle with the incredible folks at House Flipper 2, we’re running a special giveaway 🙌

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