s&box

0.2.0

8 June 2026

Personal vehicles (headline feature)
Five purchasable cars at the Main Street garage: Rusty Hatch, Chrome Truck, Regal Sedan, Street Bullet, Ivory Apex
Garage shop UI with level and rebirth gates, coin purchase flow, and ownership persistence across sessions
Pause menu and player menu Garage tab: set active car, recall to a safe nearby spot (30s cooldown)
Arcade town driving: tools holster while mounted, delivery packages stay on your back, dismount required to complete dropoffs
Mount, dismount, and engine loop SFX (GameAudio)
Idle garage return after 300 seconds parked (unmounted, low speed); ownership unchanged, recall still work.
Stuck flip hint after 5 seconds upside down; out-of-bounds cars auto-return to garage
Four vehicle achievements: first ride, first car owned, tier 3 owned, tier 5 owned (retroactive on load); 28 achievements total
Nameplate Driving label while mounted; totalRideSeconds ride telemetry in save
Main menu and UX
Main menu lobby on join: Play, Guide, Stats, Town Map, Settings, Leave S&box Menu
Pause menu Return to Menu without leaving the server
Shared settings panel (SettingsUI.razor) in pause and main menu
Delivery claim toasts for contested shared packages
Tutorial
Guided tutorial expanded from 5 to 7 steps
New Visit Garage step (step 4): compass leads to Town Garage on Main Street; peek at Rusty Hatch before tool shop
Garage and shop browsing steps hide the compass overlay while their UIs are open
Save and progression
Save schema version 2: unlockedDistricts[] field (additive, forward-compatible.
Save schema version 3: ownedVehicles, activeVehicleId, vehicleStats with automatic .backup.json before migration
Vehicle ownership preserved through rebirth/prestige
District systems (code only; map deferred)
Town Map tab with Coming Soon panel for specialist districts until next map update
DistrictDefinitions, DistrictGate, SpawnDistrict job focus gating, district challenge flavor copy (active only after a district unlocks)

What's New overlay updated for v0.2.0: vehicles headline, garage tutorial step, honest Coming Soon for district.
Tutorial flow reordered: litter, bin, leaves, garage, tool shop, accept delivery, complete delivery
Achievement unlock toasts now play the coin tick SFX instead of the level-up sting
Level-up SFX volume lowered to 62 dB so rebirth and level gains are less harsh
Settings Reset Save closes all menus, resets main menu session state, teleports to world spawn, and restarts the tutorial
Vehicle shop and garage UI read live speeds and prices from catalog data
Disconnect cleanup despawns orphaned world car instances; save ownership intact
Welcome guide achievement count updated to 28 (was 24 before vehicle achievements)

Mount prompt now stays visible when temporarily blocked (menu open, dismount cooldown) instead of disappearing entirely (WorldInteractable, NetworkedVehicle)
Mount range checks multiple anchors (seat, highlight, root, collider) for reliable E prompts
Client-side vehicle owner registry mirrors host assignment for consistent mount prompts in multiplayer
Safe recall spawn: 32 candidate search, no despawn before safe spot confirmed
Delivery interact path unchanged: single E route, requires dismount at dropoff
Reset save main menu lockout: wiping save no longer leaves you stuck behind a closed main menu; session state resets and tutorial restarts cleanly
Rebirth loud SFX: achievement toasts no longer blast the level-up sound during prestige bursts

Held tool world visuals: Code in tree; ToolVisualFeature.Enabled = false. Other workers do not see your equipped tool prop yet.
In-world district gates: No DistrictGate triggers placed on NewCity 2. Walking to a gate to unlock districts is not live.
Spawn district tagging: Spawn volumes remain starter zones (DistrictId: ""). District-themed job spawns ship with map work.
Town Map district cards: Coming Soon panel shown instead of LOCKED cards until TownMapFeature.DistrictsAvailable = true.
Industrial Yard district: M-A1 scope (prestige endgame gate).
GDD district rule twists (+15% bin, leaf combo, chain delivery): design targets only; not live.
Custom vehicle SFX art: Placeholder loops reference toolswitch.vsnd until art import.
Auto-spawn car on join: Remains OFF by default.

Specialist job districts and gated work zones ship with the next map update (Town Map shows Coming Soon until then)
Held tool props on other workers postponed until custom art pass
Global challenge leaderboards remain planned for a future update
Placeholder vehicle engine loop audio until custom SFX import
Host migration may reset idle despawn timers (runtime only; recall on reconnect)