World's Fair Pack coming soon!

Our world is full of beauty and culture, so what better way to celebrate that by taking a theme park trip around the world?! Pack your bags and join us on the PlanCo Plane for the flight of a lifetime:

The brand new World's Fair Pack is arriving soon!

Inspired by real-world theme parks and celebrating global cultures, the World's Fair Pack will introduce you to 10 fabulous new brands from around the world; each of these brands brings with it some giant and regular food signs, vending machines, and traditional wall-sets including shop panels, doors, and roof pieces from that part of the world. Each new brand comes with a dedicated new shop for your guests to grab food from. There's also a host of new cultural props, fences, path extras, and character hats.

As if that wasn't enough, the World's Fair Pack also features two new coasters and a ride! The Jixxer and Interceptor are a dueling duo of launched motorcycle coasters with a high-speed hydraulic launched track and riders leaning into the corners as they embark on a crazy motorcycle race! The Polarity is an unmanned rapid transport system using magnetic forces to propel the train forward at great speed. It has a unique and flexible track system with a futuristic feel.

The World's Fair Pack will launch alongside our recently announced free update 1.8 on October 16, 2018! It is completely optional for you to purchase - you can get it from Steam or the Frontier Store at £7.99 ($10.99, €10.99). Please note that you need to have the Planet Coaster base game in order to download and play this extra content.

Boarding now for the PlanCo world tour!

Hi coaster friends!

We hope you're having a wonderful time, wherever in the world you might be!

We're happy to announce that we're preparing another update for you, which as per usual is a free update combined with a new special Pack! We're going to hold on to the Pack info a bit longer, but would love to share all the free stuff that is coming in update 1.8 soon!

(Please note that the recently announced Thememaker's Toolkit is not included in the 1.8 update, but in a future one this year instead!)





RESTAURANTS

The PlanCo chefs have been working hard to prepare the most mouth-watering menus for the brand new restaurants you can now place in your parks! Have your guests get together for a yummy daytime or evening meal to enjoy in one of the fine establishments you choose to build. Restaurants are built very similarly to hotels by creating a restaurant facility that guests enter, and increasing its capacity with additional expansions. You can of course dress it up to your liking or use one of the provided in-game blueprints. Once your guests have finished their meals, they will leave with a boost to their happiness, food, and drink rating - which will vary on what your restaurant offers and what your guests have bought. You can customise what your restaurants offer by choosing from the different in-game brands and creating a menu; the more items being served, the higher your running costs. You can increase the effectiveness of your restaurants by using perks to attract different guest demographics and increase their star rating.

You can also play around with restaurant capacity (very similar to how hotels work). Each box represents a group of 4 at a table, so if you place 20 boxes inside your restaurant, you have space for 80 guests to dine. Guests who have a meal at a restaurant will feel spoiled and luxurious, so do try them out for yourself!

NEW SCENERY

We're adding some extra vending machines, building on the ones that were released in previous update 1.7! You can now also expect to find Chief Beef, Hotdog Squad, Pizza Pen, Cosmic Cow ice cream, Mexcelente, Tiki Chiki, Monsieur Frites and Missy Good donuts. It's looking like a yummy update already...





OBJECT BROWSER IMPROVEMENTS

We've added more tags to better categorise and identify objects in the building menus for Planet Coaster. You can add your own tags to scenery and blueprints, or based on projects you're working on, so that you can more efficiently find your more commonly used pieces. We've also created a Favourites category, which is an easier way to find the items you use all the time! You can now use the search bar to search for these tags, which should hopefully help with the endless scrolling for that one wall piece or, my favourite, the Dragon Poo.

TRIGGER EVENTS FOR DOORS

All door animatronics have been changed in the game so that they have extra trigger options, and you can now open and close them as you please. This much-requested change allows you to perfectly time coaster doors with their coasters or tracked rides, right up until the last 100th of a second.

NEW FIREWORKS

A host of new firework shapes including letters and Planet Coaster iconography are ready to shoot into the skies, and will give your park that extra spark of excitement.

CUSTOMISE OPERATION STAFF

Another much-requested feature, you can now customise the staff colours of the ticket booth staff and the ride operators! Time to make those green and purple aliens!





COASTER IMPROVEMENTS

Lapping has been added to 38 coasters, which allows you to lap the train through the station multiple times! We've also improved the Operations Tab with a dropdown menu showing only the possible operations mode for a specific coaster: Standard, Lapping, and Block section.

EVEN MORE NEW ADDITIONS!

You thought that was it? Think again! We've also removed the blue glow around selected scenery items, making it easier to change their colours; we've added new audio effects to the camera effects introduced in update 1.7, and triggerable speakers now have the option to change their pitch by trigger, meaning you can bend or snap to that pitch by up to an octave.



We hope you're excited about this amazing free update, and we will be telling you even more about the additional Pack really soon. Please be sure to tune in TONIGHT at 7PM BST to watch Lead Artist Sam Denney and Gameplay Programmer Robert Chisholm talk about the 1.8 free update (and Sam's promised us to not drop any spoilers about the upcoming Pack...) over at http://www.youtube.com/planetcoaster/live

We hope to see you there!
Bo

Hello coaster friends,

One of our favourite parts of Planet Coaster is seeing all the amazing, funky, and creative blueprints our players display on the Steam Workshop. There's so much attention to detail, so much originality and creativity, and it blows us away every day to see what you've put together - whether that's a recreation of your favourite theme park, a super spooky haunted mansion, an elaborate Go-Karts track through the gears of a clock, or a scene straight out of a Hollywood action movie. There seems to be no limit to what you all build and create!

The team have been hard at work as we’re getting ready for another Planet Coaster update, but we've got a very special announcement for you today, which we hope enables and strengthens that creativity even further:

Thememaker's Toolkit



The Thememaker's Toolkit is a pipeline system for 3D models to be added as scenery items to your parks. It is a free feature we have been working on for a while now, and will truly challenge players who'd love to try their hand at creating all-new items for their parks! Skilled artists within the community will be able to create a host of items such as a sci-fi spaceship, or an amazingly crafted piece of foliage. The Thememaker's Toolkit will give you the ability to bring your 3D models to life and share them with everyone.

This much-requested community feature will make its way into the game later this year. We wanted to let you know today as some Thememaker's Toolkit files will be visible in the game folders after our next update. We also hope this gives you plenty of time to prepare your gaming stations with the necessary tools, or start planning your next creations which will be infused with boundless variety once the feature launches.

We will have even more news for you soon regarding the next Planet Coaster update, but for now: thank you for your ongoing support!

P.S. We've also got a Support FAQ here for you if you have any more questions, but feel free to pop any below this forum post as well.

Hello coaster friends,

One of our favourite parts of Planet Coaster is seeing all the amazing, funky, and creative blueprints our players display on the Steam Workshop. There's so much attention to detail, so much originality and creativity, and it blows us away every day to see what you've put together - whether that's a recreation of your favourite theme park, a super spooky haunted mansion, an elaborate Go-Karts track through the gears of a clock, or a scene straight out of a Hollywood action movie. There seems to be no limit to what you all build and create!

The team have been hard at work as we’re getting ready for another Planet Coaster update, but we've got a very special announcement for you today, which we hope enables and strengthens that creativity even further:

Thememaker's Toolkit



The Thememaker's Toolkit is a pipeline system for 3D models to be added as scenery items to your parks. It is a free feature we have been working on for a while now, and will truly challenge players who'd love to try their hand at creating all-new items for their parks! Skilled artists within the community will be able to create a host of items such as a sci-fi spaceship, or an amazingly crafted piece of foliage. The Thememaker's Toolkit will give you the ability to bring your 3D models to life and share them with everyone.

This much-requested community feature will make its way into the game later this year. We wanted to let you know today as some Thememaker's Toolkit files will be visible in the game folders after our next update. We also hope this gives you plenty of time to prepare your gaming stations with the necessary tools, or start planning your next creations which will be infused with boundless variety once the feature launches.

We will have even more news for you soon regarding the next Planet Coaster update, but for now: thank you for your ongoing support!

P.S. We've also got a Support FAQ here for you if you have any more questions, but feel free to pop any below this forum post as well.

Hi all,

We've updated Planet Coaster to update 1.7.3 on the 13th of August. Below are the changes for this update...

Staff, Guests and Facilities Bug Fixes

• Vendors no longer get stuck when deleting a Staff Building they are in
  
• Fixed an issue where Mechanics and Vendors would get stuck at the exits of rides
  
• Fixed an issue where guests would not exit rides
  
• Fixed an issue where Mechanics would get stuck inspecting Vending Machines
  
• Fixed an issue where Janitors would occasionally get stuck emptying bins
  
• Fixed an issue where staff would not visit Staff Buildings

Ride Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the wings on the Test Flight flat ride were not aligned properly
  
• Improved the light sequences for the Centrum and Test Flight flat rides

Scenery Bug Fixes

• Improved where guests sit on benches in the Vintage pack
  
• The Lightbox Lettering A in the Vintage Pack now has a more shapely number of lights
  
• The Vintage Ride Booth can now be selected with the multi-select tool
  
• Fixed an issue where Video Billboards would not load their selected video
  
• Improved the stability of the Advanced Move function

Audio Bug Fixes

• Improved the performance of User Music on Park Speakers

UI Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where a grid would sometimes appear around paths
  
• General stability fixes and improvements

As always, if you come across a bug or issue with the game, please report it on our official forums here: https://forums.planetcoaster.com/forumdisplay.php/37-Bug-Reports

Hi all,
We've updated Planet Coaster today to version 1.7.2 to address some of the issues you have raised. Check out the changes below!

Staff, Guests and Facilities Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where staff members would get stuck at Park Spawn Points if path was deleted beneath them
  
• Fixed an issue where mechanics would not interact with rides to inspect or fix them
  
• Fixed an issue where guests would not hold drinks correctly when collected from a vending machine
  
• Adjusted the way shops connect to paths based on player feedback
  - The original design was that shops should always be connected to paths
  - This was not fully functional and was fixed in 1.7.0
  - Based on player feedback, we have allowed guests to use shops that are very close to a path even if they are not directly connected

Scenery Bug Fixes

• Improved the icons for the Carnival Decorative Trims in the Vintage Pack
  
• Fixed an issue where the Steam Engine Generator would produce steam when it wasn't animating
  
• Improved the collision on the Bandstand in the Vintage Pack
  
• Fixed an issue where parts of the Pavement 4m No Kerb item from the Studios Pack would disappear at range

We'll be continuing to review feedback and address issues so please continue to let us know if you come across any in the bug report section!

Hi everyone,

We've updated Planet Coaster this morning to version 1.7.1!

This update features a few fixes for newly-reported issues with park staff and facilities. The full details can be found below:

UI Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the text for Camera Effects was incorrect in US English

Staff, Guests and Facilities Bug Fixes

• Improved the way win probability affects the happiness guests gain from crane machines and Zoltan
  
• Fixed an issue where staff would get lost if the path was edited while those staff were in buildings
  - Symptoms of this included staff floating and staff not attending to their job.
  
• General stability fixes.