Kitchen Overhaul: Prep Stations, Automation, Twitch Integration!

NEW: APPLIANCE THROWING & IN-WORLD UPGRADES

• Throwing Appliances & Deliveries - When opening delivery boxes or moving equipment in Ctrl edit mode, you now lift appliances right over your head. Placing them down will literally chuck them across the room into position, try chucking it past your friend
• In-World Counter Upgrades - While in Ctrl edit mode, you can hover over counters to see an in-world upgrade sign. Click Middle Mouse Button (MMB) to instantly upgrade a standard counter into an Industrial Counter with a bottom shelf(you can use the bottom shelf to store items), or upgrade that into a 2-tile Prep Counter or the deluxe version which has 2 cutting boards on it.

NEW: AUTOMATION & APPLIANCES

• Auto Vegetable Slicer - Added a commercial automatic slicer to the shop. Just drop vegetables like lettuce or tomatoes onto it and it slices them automatically so you don't have to stand there chopping(you can continuously feed it, the tray can hold up to 6 of the same items).
• Commercial Stand Mixer - Added a heavy-duty stand mixer on a stainless counter. It automatically whisks batter and eggs, includes an undershelf for extra storage.
• 4-Portion Auto Cheese Shredder - Upgraded the Automatic Cheese Shredder so you can feed and queue up to 4 blocks of cheese in a row. The catch bowl now visually stacks up to 4 portions of shredded cheese, and you can scoop all available portions straight into a pan at once or apply them directly onto a raw pizza or grab one at a time.
• New Counter Options - Added double-tier and industrial counter options to the store for more kitchen storage flexibility.
• Remade Tablet Store Icons & Extra Trash Cans - Redid all the Market and Store item icons on the tablet for a cleaner look, and added Trash Cans to the shop so you can buy extras for your kitchen.

NEW: TWITCH INTEGRATION

• Twitch Chat Voting - Added Twitch chat integration in the Settings menu. Streamers can now connect their Twitch channel to let chat vote live (1, 2, 3, or R to reroll) on both Draft Day cards and Challenge Day modifier cards with a 1-minute voting timer.
• Will be adding more soon

ENDLESS MODE & QUALITY OF LIFE

• Endless Starter Picker - You can now pick your starter dish and kit when kicking off an Endless run.
• Persistent Endless Decor - Your restaurant decor now save between Endless runs instead of resetting.
• Pan Storage for Cooked Meats, Wings & Breakfast - You can store cooked individual meats, sliced vegetables, cheese, cooked wings, pancakes, waffles, sunny side up eggs, and scrambled eggs straight into pans.
• Flexible Pan Plating with Sides - Improved plating logic so you can plate entrees or sides straight from a pan onto a held plate (or a plate on a serving tray) whether you put the entree on first or the side on first (fries, breadsticks, bacon, asparagus, mashed potatoes).
• Quick Recipe Key (J) - Press 'J' anytime to pull up quick recipe hints and ingredient steps if you forget a dish.
• New Bug Report & Feedback UI - The in-game bug report menu now gives me background session logs to help track down issues faster, if you run into any issue PLEASE USE THE IN GAME REPORT.

ANIMATIONS & VISUAL POLISH

• 25+ New Kitchen & Customer Animations - Added over 25 new animations and visual effects across cooking appliances, prep stations, cleaning, and customers eating in the dining room, plus a new golden aura for VIP patrons.
• Reworked Pickup & Place Animations - Completely overhauled item pickup and placement animations. Items now fly smoothly into your hands and snap cleanly onto counters, cutting boards, tables, and stoves instead of just popping into place.
• Pan Swapping Animations - Added animations when swapping pans, you can pickup the pans with right click on and swap positions if a prep-counter slot or counter has a pan on it with right click again.
• Better Stainless Steel & Lighting - Polished the metallic look on counters and appliances so stainless steel actually looks like stainless steel, along with an ambient lighting in the kitchen.
• Doorbell Timing & Audio Polish - Moved the customer arrival sound to play right when the front door opens instead of when they sit down, along with new sound effects for doors, spills, and suds.

PERFORMANCE & OPTIMIZATION

• Massive FPS Boost - Did a huge deep-dive optimization pass across the whole game (around a 57% FPS boost in heavy scenes). Reworked walls, counters, and city buildings, and heavily reduced draw calls on fridges, pizza ovens, fryers, burger presses, stoves, plate racks, doors, pizzas, weather.
• Animation Optimization & Storm Lag Fix - Reduced particle draw calls, and fixed a lag spike when thunder plays during storms.
• Mouse Movement & VSync Fix - Disabled forced VSync and reworked mouse polling to eliminate camera micro-stutters and input lag when looking around quickly.
• Reworked FPS Cap & Mouse Input - Overhauled the frame rate limiter and mouse pointer lock so playing on a capped framerate feels smooth without camera stutter.
• Smoother Customer & MopBot Movement - adjusted how customers and MopBots update their movement so they glide smoothly across all framerates without causing lag spikes or jitter for remote players.

FIXES

Co-op Item & Plate Safeguards - Fixed multiplayer edge cases where plates, dirty table dishes, or held food could disappear or duplicate between players. Cooked Food Resetting on Stoves - Fixed a bug where placing already-cooked food from pans back onto a stove or burger press would turn it back into raw food. Prep Counter & Kitchen Fixes - Fixed collision and placement issues when rotating 2-tile Prep Counters, moving Prep Counters in the Tablet Layout app, chopping or assembling pizzas on Prep Counters, and several pickup animation and station interaction bugs. Industrial Counter Shelf & Co-op Pan Fixes - Fixed plating directly off the bottom shelf of Industrial Counters, and fixed a co-op bug where a teammate using pans could cause items to disappear