Patch Notes 0.1.7 Quality of Life

Babies Visual Update: Our Parababies have received a well deserved upgrade. As much as we loved our biblically accurate babies, we have seen the feedback and have decided to update their look to make them cuter and less Bobby Hill coded.

Intimacy Update: Getting intimate in Paralives can be a bit convoluted at times, you can now initiate intimacy directly through clicking on a bed or a current partner.

Food Storing System: Players can now put food inside of refrigerators, avoiding early spoilage and making it easier to have something to snack on in the morning before work!

Street Addresses: Melino now has street names and addresses to make it easier to keep track of which lot is which! We’re entering the modern era.

Assign Bed Slots: Paras can now be assigned to a bed. Parafolks will then instinctually go to sleep in their own bed.

Move in With Friends: On friendship level 3 or more, Paras will now get the opportunity to ask friends to move in together through Together Cards.

Filters in the Paramaker: You can now search clothes and hairstyles with a few optional filters.

Drink Coffee: Coffee machines are no longer only aesthetic! You can now drink coffee which will have you ignore your sleep need for 2 hours while draining your bathroom need.

Hug Friends and Family: Hugs are universal, they shouldn’t be restricted to lovers only. If a Para is either part of your family or has a friendship level of 3 or higher, you can select the hug interaction by clicking on them.
Invite Paras to Current Lot: You can now invite Paras directly to a visited lot through your phone.
Lifespan Adjustments: We have rebalanced lifespans, adding a bit more days to adult stages and trimming everything pre-teen and below. An elder with a baby should now normally be able to live long enough to not have their child taken away by social services upon their death. The average lifespan has gone from 98 days up to 112.
Display Prices for Items in Your Inventory: Mostly for artists and scavengers, we have added item value when you hover or select items in your inventory.
Play Dorfromantik: To celebrate our latest Steam bundle, we’ve added Dorfromantik to our collection of playable games!

New Ground Textures: Players can now decorate their homes with a variety of natural floors inspired by our terrain painting tools.
Food Information on Hover: By hovering over a plate of food, the game now displays its quality and time before spoilage.
Babies Born in Parents Arms: Babies should no longer spawn on the pavement on birth (except for twins or triplets, in which case one will spawn in your arms and the others on the floor).
Vegetarian Options in Restaurants: Each restaurant should now have at least one choice for vegetarian Paras.
Display Townies on Town Map: We have added an optional toggle inside of the option menu to track townies in real time.

Lot Painting Limits: We have lightly extended the limit of lots to allow terrain painting that goes slightly out of bounds. This is mostly to make sure players can connect their lots to the sidewalk.
Five New Patterns in the Paramaker: A few clothes have gained new patterned swatches as well.

Breaking up Abruptly Ends the Conversation: Ending a relationship in a brutal manner will also end any ongoing conversation and group interaction to give you both time to cool off.

Listen to Music: We have adjusted Para behavior when listening to music on the radio. You can now either listen to music or dance to it, with each using different animations to properly differentiate the two actions.

Time Inconsistencies: The speed of time should now remain constant even after 70 in-game days, no longer slowing down and breaking gameplay.
Advanced Transform Tool: Should now be much more reliable and less prone to breaking the position of items upon reloading the game.
Unusable Item When Cooking: We have adjusted the wording for when items are busy to ‘’Item is in use’’ to offer more clarity to players.
‘‘Do X for Y Amount of Time’’ Goals: These goals should progress normally and be completable.
Baby Genetics: Genetics should now be able to generate baby faces that account for their parents in the Paramaker. In addition to this, sliders applied to babies will affect their look in their next life stages.
Family Member Label: We have refined how the game detects people who are related. Paras should no longer have any romantic feelings towards their family members (ie: grandparents, cousins and uncles) and any romantic action towards them should no longer be possible.
Food Rotation Fixes: Meals should always be oriented properly in a Para’s hands.
Moving Out Without Your Children: Parents should no longer leave their kids behind when asked to move in. We’re looking at you Sebastian.
Dead Paras: They should no longer remain lying down in the street for days on end.

Tunnel Access: One of our fast travel tunnels was unreachable through some angles, it should now be usable at all times.

Sleep Talking: Paras should no longer continue conversation while sleeping.
Babies on the Floor: Paras should instinctually prioritize putting babies in cribs instead of on the ground when an action that can’t be completed with a baby in your arms is queued.
Feed Toddler already in high chair: Players should now be able to feed toddlers that are already sitting in a high chair.

We are aware that players are still dealing with mod issues, it is an expected result that some mods may eventually stop working as we update Paralives all throughout Early Access.
NPC Paras will often walk through walls when finishing a conversation.
As always, we thank you for all of your reports. We are aware of more issues. Read the previous patch notes and Known Issues posts for more information. Thanks so much for all the feedback reports!