Millbank Improvements

0.2.0
8 October 2026
Areas
107 changes in this update

Added

18 changes
Multiplayer
  • Voice chat - talk to other players using in-game voice chat

Employment
  • Promotions - employees can now receive promotion opportunities while working

  • Promotion notifications - promotion offers can now appear through the in-game phone

  • Department Manager - added an additional supermarket career progression tier

  • Employee cover - NPC staff can temporarily cover jobs when players are unavailable

  • Bakery employment - new characters can now begin their career at the bakery

Leisure
  • Pool - added pool tables and new downtime activities

  • Pedestrians - street pedestrians can now stop and rest on public benches

Apartments
  • Furniture - added more detailed furniture and additional bed models

  • Radiators - added new detailed radiator models

Shops
  • Phone shop - added new furniture and product displays

  • Clothing store - added improved clothing displays, materials and garment geometry

Millbank
  • West Depot - added the West Depot and surrounding area

  • East Millbank - expanded the visible neighbourhood around the eastern edge of Millbank

  • Pavement signs - added new signs around Millbank

  • Vegetation - added new grass, flowers, trees and waterside plants

Roads
  • Rural roads - added proper shoulders to rural roads

  • Road repairs - added varied asphalt patches and road repairs

Improved

33 changes
Apartments
  • Interiors - improved apartment furniture placement and layouts

  • Bathrooms - improved bathroom layouts and wall joins

  • Windows - improved clearance around apartment windows and radiators

Shops
  • Shop fronts - improved and optimised the bakery and supermarket fronts

  • Clothing store - improved materials and presentation throughout the store

Millbank
  • Neighbourhood - improved the overall layout and appearance of Millbank

  • Greenspaces - improved parks and green areas with more natural vegetation

  • West Meadow - improved grass and vegetation throughout the meadow

  • Terrain - improved terrain materials and environmental detail

  • West Depot - improved surfaces, collision and surrounding scenery

Roads
  • Roads - improved road shapes and generated geometry

  • Terrain blending - roads now follow the surrounding terrain more naturally

  • Junctions - improved the appearance and construction of road junctions

  • Road markings - improved road markings with more natural wear

Navigation
  • Pedestrians - pedestrians now use more of the authored paths around Millbank

  • Greenspaces - pedestrians can now navigate through park and gravel paths

  • Footpaths - improved connections around the depot and construction areas

Characters
  • Carrying - improved animations while carrying baskets, boxes and other objects

  • Stock boxes - characters now hold stock boxes more naturally

  • Hand placement - improved hand and finger positioning when interacting with objects

  • Character poses - improved body and arm positioning during interactions

Casino
  • Roulette - improved dealer animations and marker movement

  • Slot machines - improved seating and character positioning at slot machines

  • Casino models - improved several casino models and environment assets

Audio
  • Rain - replaced the old rain ambience with a more natural looping sound

Performance
  • Startup - reduced waiting during startup by overlapping the intro with navigation preparation

  • Businesses - improved performance when businesses have large numbers of staff and customers

  • Bakery - improved bakery NPC and queue performance

  • Supermarket - improved stock and checkout performance

  • Pedestrians - improved pedestrian movement and navigation performance

  • Stock - reduced the performance cost of stock cases

  • Vegetation - improved rendering performance in areas with large amounts of vegetation

  • Trees - reduced rendering overhead from repeated tree meshes

Fixed

52 changes
Employment
  • Closing time - players now correctly finish work when their workplace closes

  • NPC closing - NPC employees now correctly leave businesses at closing time

  • Business doors - doors now correctly lock when businesses close

  • Closing animations - fixed staff continuing carrying animations after finishing work

  • Promotions - improved feedback when a promotion position is already occupied

Shops
  • Expansion walls - fixed misaligned walls between the bakery and supermarket expansions

  • Retail shelves - fixed incorrect shelf placement in the supermarket

  • Clothing doors - fixed collision on the clothing store's sliding doors

  • Bakery lighting - fixed unwanted fixture glow and staff lighting behaviour

Roads
  • Junction gap - fixed a visible gap in one of the Millbank junctions

  • Road surfaces - fixed several incorrect or overlapping road and yard surfaces

  • Coffee court - fixed pavement and collision around the coffee court

Characters
  • Basket carrying - fixed incorrect one-handed basket carrying

  • Stock box grips - fixed incorrect hand placement while carrying stock boxes

  • Kitchen poses - fixed unnatural character poses during kitchen interactions

  • Character anatomy - fixed several unnatural arm and hand positions

Casino
  • Dealer clothing - fixed casino dealer clothing occasionally not appearing

  • Slot animations - fixed slot machine animations during multiplayer

  • Casino shadows - fixed some casino materials not casting shadows

  • Roulette dealer - fixed excessive bending during roulette interactions

  • Roulette tables - fixed roulette tables after the casino mesh changes

  • Blackjack - interrupted blackjack games now settle correctly after a restart

  • Blackjack - inactive players can no longer hold a blackjack round indefinitely

NPCs
  • Stockroom stairs - fixed employees being unable to use the shared stockroom stairs

  • Navigation - fixed NPCs attempting to use blocked or invalid routes

  • Pedestrians - fixed distant pedestrians disappearing or using incorrect viewing information

  • Store manager - fixed the seated store manager moving away from their chair

Homes
  • Doors - fixed some home doors not working correctly

  • Door prompts - simplified duplicate home door interaction prompts

Deliveries
  • Cargo - fixed some rotated stock cases being packed incorrectly inside delivery vehicles

  • Interrupted deliveries - stock cases now recover correctly when delivery work is interrupted

  • Recycled cases - recycled delivery cases no longer remain unnecessarily in world and save state

Bakery
  • Takeaway bags - takeaway bags can now be replenished through deliveries

  • Opening stock - fixed sold bakery stock returning after loading a save

  • Orders - packed goods and completed sales now survive restarts correctly

  • Cancelled orders - fixed products being lost or reused incorrectly when takeaway orders are cancelled

  • Payment props - fixed cash and card props not following customers' hands correctly

  • Receipts - bakery receipts can now be placed on counters before being attached to takeaway bags

Saves
  • Save recovery - local saves can now recover from previously validated save generations

  • Player position - fixed saved player positions being corrupted by some regional number formats

  • World saving - player saves no longer unnecessarily delay world checkpoints

Furniture
  • Persistence - fixed owned furniture not always restoring correctly on dedicated servers

  • Placement - fixed furniture placement continuing while other interfaces are open

  • Validation - improved server-side validation when moving furniture

Pool
  • Joining - fixed controls being taken before the server accepts a pool game

  • Pool tables - fixed pool tables being incorrectly treated as static

Coffee
  • Paid drinks - paid drink collection now survives save and restart

  • Abandoned orders - abandoned coffee orders no longer block the counter indefinitely

UI
  • Menus - Escape now works correctly when navigating menu sub-pages

  • Localization - improved translated inventory and leisure interaction text

  • Phone - fixed the phone incorrectly restoring controls used by pool

Business
  • Revenue - fixed supermarket revenue totals not updating correctly for clients

Removed

3 changes
Casino
  • Legacy meshes - removed old casino geometry that has been replaced by newer models

Assets
  • Unused models - removed unused and outdated environment models

Onboarding
  • First Steps tutorial - removed the old introductory tutorial

Known Issues

1 change
Employment
  • Promotion positions - senior positions may remain occupied by offline employees until the position becomes available