- Update #18: Live Now — Activity Feed, Central Heating & Steam Deck Improvements
- Hi everyone!
- Update #18 is now live! This update introduces a new Activity Feed, central heating radiators, improved Low GI lighting, and clearer store sale notifications. It also includes Steam Deck refinements, smoother performance, watering improvements, gameplay fixes, and more.
- Here’s everything included:
- ✨ New Features
- Activity Feed: Everything you receive is now displayed in the corner of the screen, including resources, Plasmids, planter add-ons, coins, skins, shop purchases, package contents, and newly unlocked tools.
- Notifications appear and disappear one at a time, with unique icons for newly unlocked tools.
- The feed now shows where each item was sent, removes unnecessary “x1†labels, and displays wallpaper names.
- Dismantling refrigerators or cabinets no longer creates unnecessary feed notifications. Package contents will still be displayed.
- All feed notifications now use a solid background for improved readability.
- Improved Low GI Lighting: Ambient lighting, time-of-day sunlight, and optimized lamp lighting now work when Global Illumination is set to Low. The main menu lighting has also been updated.
- Lamps now turn off correctly regardless of the selected GI setting.
- Central Heating Radiators: Radiators have been added to every room. All radiators except the one in the starting room consume the same amount of energy as a heater.
- Store Sale Notifications: A dollar icon now appears above sold items, while the amount earned is displayed in the Activity Feed.
- 🎮 Steam Deck & Controllers
- Implemented improvements following Valve’s review.
- External controllers no longer override Steam Deck controls.
- Updated 14 interaction prompts across all supported languages to use controller-friendly wording such as “select,†“press,†and “view.â€
- PlayStation button icons now display correctly from the first launch.
- Connecting a second controller no longer interrupts held stick input.
- âš™ï¸ Performance & Stability
- Reduced periodic stuttering that could occur roughly every 30 seconds.
- The game no longer crashes if a save slot becomes unavailable.
- 🧬 Plants, Genetics & Planters
- Fixed an issue where gene effects could be applied twice, causing certain value ranges to collapse into a single number. Existing saves are repaired automatically when loaded.
- Fixed several plant debuffs and gene modifiers.
- Deep planters can now be placed correctly and no longer report false placement collisions.
- Planters are now considered full precisely when the interface displays 100%.
- Improved watering control: A single click no longer fills a small planter from 60% to 100%.
- Fast watering now stops at the lower edge of a plant’s boost zone. Inside the zone, watering slows to 8% of the planter’s capacity per second, making it easier to reach the desired level.
- 🳠Cooking & Perks
- Ex Nihilo: The chance to create an additional serving is now 5% per serving. Previously, the chance was 50% and could trigger every time for medium-sized dishes.
- Ex Nihilo has received a new icon and an updated description.
- Fixed the Bark, Special Enzymes, and Waste Not perks.
- Updated the Wild Cooking perk description across 10 languages.
- Cooking bonuses are now displayed as whole-number percentages.
- 🤖 Drones
- Moving a Drone Station into shared storage no longer leaves some of its items behind.
- The drone shelf now appears only at the apartment station. It is visible, can be targeted, and no longer creates invisible obstructions at other stations.
- The kitchen drone’s knife is now positioned correctly.
- 🡠World & Items
- Water now stops running after the watering can has been filled.
- The laboratory now has a functional sink instead of a decorative one.
- A new game now begins with three empty planters instead of four, preventing issues that affected some players.
- Fixed the floor in Room 3.
- Candles no longer consume energy.
- Fixed an issue where the paint roller could stop working after interacting with the cat.
- Fixed visual issues with the Capybara Drone and withered poppy models, and adjusted biomass volume.
- 📋 Quests & Tutorial
- The tutorial no longer leaves the clock stuck at 10:00 when loading an older save.
- Fixed the quest marker for the Database quest.
- 🌠Text, Localization & Interface
- Fertilizer quantities are now displayed consistently in kilograms per bag.
- Descriptions for pests, weeds, pollen, and soil now correctly explain their effects.
- Corrected typos across 22 English text entries and standardized terminology.
- Multiline localized text no longer reverts to English.
- Fixed the elevator tooltip and garden bed crop names in Traditional Chinese.
- The seed panel no longer overlaps warning messages on 16:9 displays.
- Thank you for continuing to share your feedback with us! It helps us make Tiny Eden better with every update.