NewSO Update – the last week of fixes, all in one place
We have been shipping fixes faster than we have been writing them up, and the notes for the last week never made it onto the site. Rather than post them piecemeal after the fact, here is everything from 31 August through 3 September in one place, grouped by what it touches. Macs. Two separate crashes, […]
NewSO Update 536864
You can be a roommate at four lots The roommate cap is now four lots per Sim, up from three. Owning a lot still uses one of those slots, and a lot still holds up to eight roommates. The Diametric Dueling Device works, and it teaches Logic Magic duels actually run now. The Diametric Dueling […]
Mayors & Elections Guide
How neighborhood elections work, who can nominate and vote, and what a Mayor gets: the Town Hall, bulletin priority and a public star rating.
Create-A-Sim Reimagined
Coming Soon to NewSO! We’re excited to introduce some new options to Create-a-Sim later this week! When creating a new Sim, you’ll now be asked which experience you’d like to use: Classic or NewSO. This is completely optional, so players who prefer the traditional Create-a-Sim experience can continue using it. The new NewSO experience introduces our experimental Non-Binary option, allowing you to […]
NewSO Update 536862
Owners can now Force Open and Force Close any door **Every door now has owner-only “Force Open” and “Force Closed” options on its pie menu.** Property owners (and whoever placed the door) can now hold any door or gate open – it stays open even as sims walk through – or snap it shut again, […]
NewSO Update 536860
NewSO now runs on .NET 10 (Windows) The Windows game and the Volcanic editor now run on a modern .NET 10 engine. You do not need to do anything – the update installs it like any other patch, and the game looks and plays the same. Under the hood this replaces a runtime from 2016, […]
NewSO Update 536859
The Magic Town food and berry displays actually sell you things Buying from a Hidimant Food Display or a Golden Meriklime Display never completed. Your sim walked over, took the item off the shelf, and then just stood there – nothing was charged, nothing arrived in your inventory, and the goods stayed stuck in your […]
NewSO Is Moving to .NET 10
We’ve reached an important milestone in NewSO’s development: the game’s core client technology has been rebuilt on .NET 10, a modern, actively supported platform.Our new client has successfully completed the entire gameplay journey—from launching and updating to logging in, entering a city, and joining a lot. This is much more than a version-number change: it […]
NewSO Update 536858
Servo and Bonehilda actually finish their chores now Servo would often freeze for several seconds partway through a job, his hat flickering on and off as if he couldn’t decide what to do next, before he either continued or gave up entirely – and Bonehilda (the skeleton butler summoned from the Bag-O-Bones closet) had the […]
NewSO Update 536857
New catalog sets: Slinger Harris, Anna Von Marlene, and friends 23 objects that were already in the game files but had no catalog card are now buyable: “Slinger Harris” – curtains, wood panel, beverage bar, curio cabinet, ceiling lamp, column, chair, table, plant and buffet. (The dining table was already listed.) “Anna Von Marlene” – […]