v0.518 Release - Painter's Tape, Object Focus, Real-Time Sun
Facey Sock Studios
v0.518 is pretty packed with updates!
- Focus mode - press Q while looking at a shape, and that shape will be the only thing you can paint until you press Q again to exit focus mode. Makes for quick work of painting objects without worrying about overspray!
- Painter's tape - press Shift + 0 to use the Painter's Tape tool, which allows masking off areas with tape, then removing that tape later. You can use it to protect areas or to create specialized designs.
- The time of day now changes in real time with 30 minutes equivalent to a full 24 hours. It can be paused by pressing T or fast-forwarded by holding down T.
- A pop-up message will appear if paint isn't landing and you're not sure why. Hoping to reduce confusion if you accidentally have the texture gun selected or an object in focus and your paint isn't painting as expected.
- Bug fixes:
- The transparency slider only affects paint going forward, not all transparent paint used in the world as it used to.
- Transparent paint used to be the same transparency regardless of the slider when looking in to a building. This has been fixed.
- Painting through transparent paint by holding Alt used to pass through entire player-placed objects - now, it appropriately passes through to the other side of the same object.
- Reverting paint with Z now clears the brush's bristle marks along with the paint.
Other updates made since v0.514:
- Paint brush now leaves a stroke that eventually dries and disappears.
- The skybox has visual upgrades including clouds and stars.
- Bug fix for steam joins not completing the download of the host's world.
- Player-placed horse and wagon now moves after being painted.
- 10 hair styles have been added to meeples.
- Bug fixes related to achievements/unlocks not triggering.
This announcement was originally published by Facey Sock Studios on Steam on Oct 12, 2026.
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