Next Keystone update: smoother play, sound controls and new titles

The next Keystone update brings easier furni placement, new sound and window controls, and another round of fixes. There are also new titles for pumpkin growers and Glukko collectors. Thanks to everyone who sent in reports. Here's what's changing.

Sound

You'll find the new controls in the Game Menu, under Audio. Press Esc to open it.

• New UI sounds and Furniture sounds sliders let you adjust message alerts and furni sounds separately.

Building and moving furni

• Fixed blueprint placement ignoring clicks on the previewed furni. You no longer have to find a clear patch of floor to click.
• When placing several copies of a furni, each click now places one item and keeps the rest ready to place. Before, a click could place two and end placement early.
• You can now right-click or click outside the room to stop placing furni and return the remaining items to your inventory.
• Room owners now have a Pick up all... button in the chat panel's Furni tab. It opens the choice of floor furni, wall furni or both, without needing to type :pickall or select items in the list.
• Typing :pickall in a room where you cannot use it now shows a message explaining that, instead of opening a confirmation you cannot complete.
• The Advanced movement button now has its own arrow icon.

Display and controls

• A new Window size option in Game Menu > Graphics lets you choose a window size without dragging its edges. It only offers sizes that fit your screen, and you can still resize the window by hand.
• Fixed text sitting too high on buttons, including Move, Rotate and Compost.
• Labels in the Graphics settings now line up with their controls.
• You can now add HabMoji to room names, room descriptions and wing names using the button beside each box. You can also type :name to search, then press Enter to insert a match.

Performance

• Keystone now uses less memory.
• Reduced stuttering when playing in a window, especially on Windows.
• Windows: the game can now recover from some graphics errors that previously interrupted play, including while changing room lighting.

Rooms and furni

• The HC X-Ray Screen now shows what is behind it, instead of a solid green panel with white corners. Rooms with several of these screens also run more smoothly.
• The Pad of stickies now shows its picture in the Catalogue instead of a grey cube.
• Fixed the fish-store display at Snouthill Pier getting stuck as a loading cube.
• Fixed challenge characters sometimes not appearing when you entered the room.
• Fixed a crash that could happen while a room's furni was loading.
• Fixed being left on the hotel view after a room reload, instead of being taken back into the room.
• Fixed hotel characters getting stuck in Lido changing booths and leaving them locked.
• Added White Bathroom Tiles, the Glukko Organ, three Glukko infostand decorations and three Glukko name plates. Their availability will be announced separately.

Titles and challenges

• Nine new Harvest Grounds titles for growing pumpkins and composting their plants. There are goals for growing different varieties and reaching bigger harvests, plus a secret title to discover.
• Two new Glukko Outbreak titles: Guinea Pig for owning 6 different pieces of virus furni, and Chief Virologist for owning all 18. Floor and wall furni both count, and you keep earned progress if you later trade a piece away.
• My Stamps now updates when you earn an achievement, without needing to reopen the tab or log back in.
• Removed two unintended entries that appeared without proper names under an empty category in Challenges.
• Fixed the third dish becoming unclickable in Clean the Dishes after clicking another dish more than once.

Games

• Fixed ships in Battleships and pieces in Chess disappearing behind the board while you placed or moved them in Resizable mode.
• Fixed unresponsive buttons in the Shutter Showdown camera window, including taking a photo, submitting an entry and closing the window.
• Rubber Duck Rally rounds now last 90 seconds. Golden ducks appear at 30 and 60 seconds.

Fishing

• Added ten fish to the Glukko fishing hole, with entries in Fish-O-Pedia and fishing requirements from level 5 to level 99.
• Fixed the Deepgrove fishing hole so it offers the correct selection of fish.

Other fixes

• The Portuguese letters õ and Õ now appear correctly in game text instead of showing as playing-card symbols.

Keep the feedback coming, especially if you still run into missing characters, loading cubes or crashes.

See you in the hotel!

Origins Staff