1. Update #18: Live Now — Activity Feed, Central Heating & Steam Deck Improvements
  2. Hi everyone!
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  4. 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.
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  6. Here’s everything included:
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  8. ✨ New Features
  9. 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.
  10. Notifications appear and disappear one at a time, with unique icons for newly unlocked tools.
  11. The feed now shows where each item was sent, removes unnecessary “x1” labels, and displays wallpaper names.
  12. Dismantling refrigerators or cabinets no longer creates unnecessary feed notifications. Package contents will still be displayed.
  13. All feed notifications now use a solid background for improved readability.
  14. 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.
  15. Lamps now turn off correctly regardless of the selected GI setting.
  16. 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.
  17. Store Sale Notifications: A dollar icon now appears above sold items, while the amount earned is displayed in the Activity Feed.
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  20. 🎮 Steam Deck & Controllers
  21. Implemented improvements following Valve’s review.
  22. External controllers no longer override Steam Deck controls.
  23. Updated 14 interaction prompts across all supported languages to use controller-friendly wording such as “select,” “press,” and “view.”
  24. PlayStation button icons now display correctly from the first launch.
  25. Connecting a second controller no longer interrupts held stick input.
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  28. ⚙️ Performance & Stability
  29. Reduced periodic stuttering that could occur roughly every 30 seconds.
  30. The game no longer crashes if a save slot becomes unavailable.
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  33. 🧬 Plants, Genetics & Planters
  34. 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.
  35. Fixed several plant debuffs and gene modifiers.
  36. Deep planters can now be placed correctly and no longer report false placement collisions.
  37. Planters are now considered full precisely when the interface displays 100%.
  38. Improved watering control: A single click no longer fills a small planter from 60% to 100%.
  39. 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.
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  42. 🍳 Cooking & Perks
  43. 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.
  44. Ex Nihilo has received a new icon and an updated description.
  45. Fixed the Bark, Special Enzymes, and Waste Not perks.
  46. Updated the Wild Cooking perk description across 10 languages.
  47. Cooking bonuses are now displayed as whole-number percentages.
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  50. 🤖 Drones
  51. Moving a Drone Station into shared storage no longer leaves some of its items behind.
  52. 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.
  53. The kitchen drone’s knife is now positioned correctly.
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  56. 🏡 World & Items
  57. Water now stops running after the watering can has been filled.
  58. The laboratory now has a functional sink instead of a decorative one.
  59. A new game now begins with three empty planters instead of four, preventing issues that affected some players.
  60. Fixed the floor in Room 3.
  61. Candles no longer consume energy.
  62. Fixed an issue where the paint roller could stop working after interacting with the cat.
  63. Fixed visual issues with the Capybara Drone and withered poppy models, and adjusted biomass volume.
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  66. 📋 Quests & Tutorial
  67. The tutorial no longer leaves the clock stuck at 10:00 when loading an older save.
  68. Fixed the quest marker for the Database quest.
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  71. 🌐 Text, Localization & Interface
  72. Fertilizer quantities are now displayed consistently in kilograms per bag.
  73. Descriptions for pests, weeds, pollen, and soil now correctly explain their effects.
  74. Corrected typos across 22 English text entries and standardized terminology.
  75. Multiline localized text no longer reverts to English.
  76. Fixed the elevator tooltip and garden bed crop names in Traditional Chinese.
  77. The seed panel no longer overlaps warning messages on 16:9 displays.
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  80. Thank you for continuing to share your feedback with us! It helps us make Tiny Eden better with every update.
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