• Winter seasonal content has ended. Christmas Pops will be back next year with more presents to give. Congratulations to the winners of the Winter Community Event: @Mona, @karoleem, and @Minnie!
  
• Fixed a number of issues with the new "Sell Everything" feature button selling things in renovation modes that don't permit rebuying all items. Also removed bulldozing windows from the action.
  
• Fixed a tenant request issue with requests not properly timing out when switching to a different district.
  
• Fixed an issue with the never ending Leaky Pipe event.
  
• Fixed a few issues with jobs, room detection, and preferred tags.

• Lowered the time interval between generating new Elite Contracts.

• Fixed an issue with the Gotta Catch Them All achievement expecting players to complete seasonal event sets.
  
• Fixed a number of glitches and issues with the seasonal environment, especially when toggling it off.
  
• Fixed an issue with a few furniture items causing game breaking issues when saving and reloading the game.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Small Christmas Tree being in fact giant.
  
• Fixed an issue with a certain collectible in the Suburbs being hard to reach.

Happy Holidays, Landlords!



Santa had a long rest building up to the holidays this year and entrusted his elves with ensuring everything was in order. However, when Christmas Pops came to his factory to see the progress, he realized they had done, well, pretty much nothing! Now he needs you to become a trusty elf and help him bring the holiday joy back to the districts of Wondersville. Will you take on the challenge and rise as an elf to restore faith in the old man's heart again?

If you want to meet Santa and become his helper, update the game today, and you'll find his workshop in the Slums. You really can't miss it.



While playing, keep an eye out for the limited-time Elite Contract at Arctic Circle 24/1 to take Santa's offer to help him out, and show us your Festive creations!

To learn more about the Winter Community Contest, go here: clicky clicky

Of course, it wouldn't be a proper update without new gameplay additions and content, and we've got that plenty as well!

You must have heard Steve mention fishing before, but how come he has never asked you out, right? Well, today, as sort of an experiment, we are adding a fishing minigame as a new phone app in The Tenants. With it being the first iteration, we would love to hear your feedback on it and perhaps some ideas on how to change it.

Fishing With Steve allows you to fish in three different locations, each featuring different fish species. Don't be surprised, though, when you find out your own tenants are staying up late playing FWS, trying to beat your high score, all the while avoiding to pay rent. Overtaking them on the leaderboard might yield you some cool rewards!

By popular demand, we're finally adding a true sandbox mode to The Tenants. Starting now, you can create a new Creative mode game with all of the game's content unlocked from the get-go. Max player level, all furniture items right there to fiddle with, a truckload of cash on hand, and most importantly, no pesky tutorials blocking your expanse. Also, the "no property limits" option finally works as intended, so there's that!

Additionally, we plan to implement a way to convert Landlord mode save files to Creative mode for the players that don't want to start over. However, this will come in a further update.

To spice things up for this festive season, we are adding three new sets to the game, available to everyone! There are new Christmas decorations for your yard area and a party set worthy of a proper New Year's ball.



Finally, together with the recent community event's winner, Blu, we've created a unique set full of interesting decoration items for all fans of reptiles and marsupials. Everyone needs a bit of cuteness in their apartment, so be sure to give them some love!


On behalf of everyone at Ancient Forge, we would like to wish you all the best this holiday season. Be sure to spend some time with your loved ones, and afterward, we hope to see you together with us in Wondersville for the festive celebrations! ːwinter2019happyyulː

• Christmas Pops is back with a new time-limited elite contract and a community event!
  
• Adorned Wondersville with festive decorations all around the game and the main menu.
  
• Elves now walk the streets of Wondersville.
  
• Uncle Steve took it upon himself to dress as Santa for all tenants.
  
• Added the option to disable seasonal environment.

• Implemented a new phone app: Fishing With Steve.
  
• Implemented new creative settings (full sandbox mode that unlocks all content, more starting money options).
  
• Implemented an option to quickly sell everything in player owned apartments.
  
• Implemented a pin system for favorite items.

• Added a new item set: Reptilia And Marsupial, co-designed by the winner of the Halloween renovation contest - Blu.
  
• Added a new item set: Outdoor Christmas Inflatables.
  
• Added a new item set: Happy New Year.

• Added an option to browse agents before replacing an existing one.
  
• Agents now take care of tenants' trash while working.
  
• Outlets UI will now also display unavailable outlets.
  
• Sampling items will now also correctly copy the color variant.
  
• Added a portal front door to the Nerd House in the Suburbs.

• Fixed the "no property limit" setting to actually allow for an unlimited number of properties.
  
• Fixed cashflow calculation inaccuracies.
  
• Fixed an issue with Target Cards.
  
• Fixed issues related to the sprinkler malfunction event.
  
• Fixed an issue with the pest event tutorial.

Thank you,
Ancient Forge

• Revised the way the game preloads all its data at startup. This should significantly help those freezing and crashing when launching the game.
  
• Employees will now display outdoor icons above their actual workstation.
  
• Employees will now go home after work, instead of going to another job.
  
• "Escape" will now close open panels first, before launching the pause menu.
  
• Adjusted the budget of the President job.
  
• Adjusted the location of one of the cell phone collectibles in Manhattan.
  
• "Gotta Catch Them All" achievement will now count collectible sets completed pre-1.0.
  
• Fixed agents not renting out properties to businesses in Manhattan properly.
  
• Fixed issues (hopefully) with agents renting out properties for $0. If you have any more cases like this, please email us at support@ancientforgestudio.com.
  
• Fixed an issue with purchased elite job properties not resetting their requirements to default.
  
• Fixed an issue with the AI not reloading its current action properly when restarting the game.
  
• Fixed a number of issues with furniture items.
  
• Fixed an issue with Open House guests being stuck at thinking at one of the Manhattan properties.
  
• Fixed an issue with an incorrect property thumbnail in the Slums.
  
• Fixed more issues with the Politician speech event not spawning properly.
  
• Fixed issues related to research tasks involving tenants who had their traits swapped.

• Halloween is now over! Congratulations to the winners and everyone else for their wonderful designs!
  
• Agents will now prioritize lease extensions that boost rent value before opting for same terms extension.
  
• Adjusted the budget for the gas station job.
  
• Fixed an issue with Loan Oak 45 never coming back to auctions after missing it the first time.
  
• Fixed an issue with ghost fixed-price property offer notifications.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Politician speech event breaking in more complex apartment layouts.
  
• Fixed an issue with the incorrect Discord invite link in the main menu.
  
• Fixed a number of issues with furniture and color variants.

• Implemented free vertical placement for all wall-mounted outlets.
  
• Added a recovery fix upon game reload for a very peculiar case where the player skips past the Open House tutorial section.
  
• Fixed another issue with the Sushi Bar room detection, this time fixing it for good.
  
• Fixed an exploit that would sometimes allow players to add company focuses in residential property open houses.
  
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes let players use an infinite amount of tenant solver tokens.
  
• Fixed an issue with the outlets being unavailable to purchase in limited renovation modes.
  
• Fixed an issue with the finances overview panel not refreshing tenant entries properly for business properties.
  
• Fixed an issue with duplicated entries in the tenant overview panel for business properties with a large number of employees.
  
• Fixed an issue with inconsistent wall materials in reviews in some Manhattan apartments.
  
• Fixed an issue with business properties displaying "-1" vacancies in some cases.
  
• Fixed an issue with the door color variant popup not appearing.
  
• Fixed a number of issues with lease extensions when moving the tenant to a different property.
  
• Fixed a host of issues with many furniture items.

Hello there, Landlords!



How's everyone doing this week? For us, it's been quite the special one, with The Tenants finally leaving Early Access, maturing into a fully-fledged title. We have been reading your feedback, reviews, and suggestions, polishing the game, and fixing the bugs that have come up since then. Today we're releasing another update that contains more much-needed fixes with a little sprinkle of some extra spookiness to celebrate this year's Halloween.

We know some of you have been wondering if a certain someone is making a return to Wondersville, so we're bringing you good news from the castle! Dracoola has decided to grace us with his presence once more. He wants to stay for a little while and needs your help.

If you want to meet him, update the game today, and you'll find his highness cooped up in a mysterious mansion in the Slums, patiently waiting for you. For the best designers in town, we have a number of exciting prizes up for grabs in the official Halloween community contest, which you can read more about here.

Note: This is a time-limited event. Completing the job will count towards the Community Champion achievement progress.



As mentioned before, it's not just the event this time around, as we have managed to pack a few important changes to the game with it. We are fully aware there are still more issues to be fixed, so fret not; we will be getting to them all these coming weeks. Here's the full changelog:

• Reintroduced Count Dracoola with a special community contest Elite Contract.
  
• Decorated the main menu and the Slums with a sprinkle of spookiness.

• Implemented furniture tooltips in renovation mode displaying item names and tags when hovered over.
  
• Added budget entries for all undo actions.
  
• Tweaked the background traffic density setting to be more responsive.
  
• The apartment context UI will now show the number of vacant bedrooms.
  
• Vacancies will now be calculated as 0 in cases where a single tenant occupies the entire apartment.
  
• Added tenant level and level-up reward markers to the tenant overview panel.
  
• Disabled moving the fuse box if it's not in the job room.
  
• Adjusted aunt apartment's error message when heating isn't configured to be less confusing.
  
• Fixed issues related to achievements on Epic Store.
  
• Fixed a few issues related to the Politician archetype entry in Steve's Guidebook.
  
• Fixed an issue with detecting preferred item placement in the tutorial trailer.
  
• Fixed an issue with tenants not receiving XP after a full month passes.
  
• Fixed an issue with business employees receiving XP.
  
• Fixed an issue with players not being able to tear down certain walls.
  
• Fixed a few issues related to doors and furniture item colors.
  
• Fixed a missing building in the slums.
  
• Fixed a game-breaking issue with agents searching for new tenants sometimes locking the bedroom slot forever.
  
• Fixed issues related to undoing wall bulldoze actions.
  
• Fixed an issue with ambient sounds stacking when changing districts.
  
• Fixed an issue with the notification count not refreshing after clearing all messages.
  
• Fixed a few game-breaking issues related to open houses and the new open house filters.
  
• Fixed an issue with Sushi Bar's outdoor garden area not allowing players to place items.
  
• Fixed a number of issues related to room detection in Manhattan jobs.
  
• Fixed even more garden gnome issues.
  
• Fixed a number of tutorial issues related to using keyboard shortcuts over UI buttons.
  
• Fixed a number of issues with the Cactus Hunt event.

Thank you,
Ancient Forge

• Fixed a host of issues related to translations which impacted the ability to load the game for some users.
  
• Fixed detecting completion of achievements related to collectibles in cases where a user has already completed a given set.
  
• Fixed an issue with loading the game on Epic games store.
  
• Fixed an issue with the auctions tutorial.
  
• Tweaked placement availability for one of the Darts items.

• Fixed an issue with registering some of the new achievements.
  
• Fixed issues with a number of jobs.
  
• Fixed an issue with one of the translations causing issues when continuing the game.
  
• Enabled bulldozing walls even when they're outlets on them.

• Fixed a number of issues related to the game freezing on startup. If you're still experiencing the issue, then please launch the game using the new "Play with extended logging" launch option on startup and email us your log files to support@ancientforgestudio.com.
  
• Fixed an issue with the renovation item list not properly updating.
  
• Fixed an issue with the room highlighter not always working in jobs.
  
• Fixed a number of issues with jobs.
  
• Fixed an issue with tooltips not always working in the main menu.
  
• Fixed a few issues with the utility and remodelling tutorial sections.
  
• Removed Twitch integration console being pulled up by pressing F12.