Hey Curators!


Hold onto your brushes, because summer in Two Point County is just
heating up, and so is your favourite museum sim! We’ve got a jam-packed season
ahead, and this update? Consider it the picky bits before the main BBQ event.



Expect new content, seasonal delights, and quality-of-life updates alongside
optimisation - tonnes of lovely Two Point goodness to keep your museum halls
buzzing over the warmer months. But the best part? The cherry on top? To add
some extra ✨sparkle✨ to all this lovely new content,
this update is thanks to YOU.



We couldn’t do this without every single one of you brilliant (and occasionally
chaotic) Curators who’ve sent us your thoughts, feedback, and fantastic ideas.
We’ve been listening, we’ve been brewing, and whilst there’s exciting new
content still cooking we’re here to do one thing to kick-start a fantastic
summer: deliver!

​So, what’s new?

• New
  Memorial Exhibit Items for MIA staff; statues, busts, plinths and plaques
• 30
  new posters across the cafe and gift shop
• Expedition
  randomisation overhaul (first trialled on select POIs)
• Batching
  workshop items
• Staff
  XP changes & 6 Staff Traits
• Further
  security improvements
• Community-inspired
  quality-of-life changes
• …and
  much more!

​MIA Staff Exhibits

We’ve all lost staff members (and some more than others). Whether you’re a
careful curator and have only lost your cherished Derek Mayonnaise (who went
missing on the quest for those pesky Sickly Pears). Or, you're the kind of
player with complete disregard for County employment laws, which heavily
impacts your staff turnaround. Either way, you’ll be glad to know you now have
a permanent way to remember your beloved (or sacrificial) staff members.

​Now when you receive the dreaded news that Toilet Terror,
Tracy Plunge, hasn’t returned from your latest expedition endeavour, you’ll
receive a memorial item to remember them. The type of item is dependent on the
staff member's rank, as well as their staff type and gender. From a humble
plaque to a gigantic statue, for those high-level losses. 

These memorial exhibits are engraved with your staff
member’s name, alongside their years of service and where they went MIA, so
you’ll never forget the perilous journey that ultimately met their demise.
Guests can admire your wall of shame (or fame), as they would traditional
exhibits. You can create a memorial garden, to do your trusty staff members
justice, or, shove them in an unused corner. 

Don’t want to remember them? You’re a fire and rehire kinda
museum manager, huh? Well, lucky for you, memorial exhibits can be sold, you
cold-hearted capitalist. 

New Posters

We’ve seen your requests for new items, and wall decor, alongside more items for your rooms, came in joint first in community requests. You can now showcase the gift shop posters being sold to your guests, with each of our six exhibit themes having four poster variants. You’ll need the MEGA store to beat all megastores to showcase them all at once, and they are lovely if we say so ourselves.

In the cafe, show off your favourite Two Point County brands
with the new Cafeteria posters. You can customise your walls with six new
posters, from Dinosaur Nuggets to Hog-Logs Cereal, there’s a fan-favourite food
for every Pointian. 

Expedition Overhaul

RNG not manifesting that pesky missing exhibit? We’ve
overhauled randomisation to give us more control to fine-tune expeditions, so
there’s (hopefully) no need to repeat the same expeditions over and over, and
over, again. 

Now, fine-tuning things is a tricky job, so we’ve gone with
a phased approach to iterate on randomisation. This ensures we don’t
inadvertently make things worse by upsetting the RNG powers that be. Our goal
with these changes is to ensure greater control over quality distribution,
alongside ensuring you see each exhibit across a set amount of expeditions.

​These POIs are smarter, knowing when you’ve not received an
exhibit for a long time. For now, we’ve introduced this new randomisation model
to:

• Cold
  Mines
• Downtown
  Wetlantis
• Greasy
  Fields
• Carrion
  Trail
• Ginormous
  Rock
• Darkest
  Depths
• Rib
  Row
• Endless
  Dump

From here, we’ll monitor feedback on these POIs and increase
the number which use this new system over time. We want to get this right, so
please let us know how you get on! 

Workshop batching

A heavily requested feature, from all of you, our lovely
curators, was the ability to batch or queue up workshop projects. This enables
you to create several of the same workshop projects at once, freeing up your
time for more important tasks, like noodling around with prehistoric ferns or
laying new carpets.

You’ll now have the ability to create 1, 3, 5 or 10 workshop items at once, enabling you to stockpile expedition essentials like checks notes Rank Cheese…? Each item is built sequentially, so you’ll get the first copy of the cargo item in the same amount of time. Batching items together will increase the upfront cost of beginning the project, however, cancelling midway through will reimburse you.

As usual, this update also comes with a load of bug fixes, improvements and optimisation changes. 

A huge thank you to you, our community! Whether you’ve just started curating or have been around since the Two Point Hospital days, we are ecstatic with how the launch for Museum has gone, and it’s all down to your positivity; whether you’ve shared your museum build, a top tip, or sent us a message with your ideas and feedback, it’s been overwhelmingly lovely watching you curate, and we can’t thank you enough for putting your faith in us and for playing our games

If you’d like to send us your thoughts for future content or updates, or show us your fab museums, here’s the place to do that:

Love from Abby & the Two Point Team <3 

(P.S. One of the best things you can do to help support the studio is to leave a Steam Review! If you’ve tried your hand at curating, we’d love to hear your feedback. Thank you!)

Changelog:
Number of changes: 
Inspired by the community: 
Changes with ✨ were inspired by the community.

​New Content
& Features

✨ MIA
Memorials

• When a staff member goes MIA, the related inbox message will now
  give you a memorial exhibit that you can place in the museum
• The exhibit's Buzz and appearance depends on the rank of the staff
  member when they went MIA 

✨ New
Posters

• Added Gift Shop poster wall items for each of the six exhibit
  types. Each type has four cosmetic variants
• Added Cafetaria poster wall items, six in total for food items like
  the Dough Cake, Hog-Logs and Dinosaur Nuggets 

✨ Security
Improvements

• Thieves who have stolen something now carry a backpack and have a
  different walking animation, making them much easier to see
• Thieves who have been revealed but have not stolen something now
  play more suspicious animations
• All Crime Guilds now have their own entry in the sticker book which
  details their Modus Operandi and additional information 

Major
Quality of Life Updates

✨ Improved
Randomisation

• The drop table randomisation system has been overhauled and a new
  system is being trialled on a selection of POIs
• These new POIs are smarter at knowing when you’ve not received an
  exhibit for a long time and have a better understanding of how to
  distribute multi-part exhibits versus regular exhibits
• We will monitor feedback on these POIs and increase the number of
  POIs that use the new system over time: Cold Mines Downtown Wetlantis
  Greasy Fields Carrion Trail Ginormous Rock Darkest Depths Rib Row Endless
  Dump 

✨ Workshop
Project Batching

• When building cargo items, you now have the option to build 1, 3, 5
  or 10 copies of the item
• Each of these copies will be built sequentially, meaning you’ll
  still get the first copy of the cargo item in the same amount of time as
  if you were building just one copy
• Choosing more than one copy will increase the upfront cost, but
  cancelling mid-way through will reimburse you for any unbuilt copies 

✨ Staff XP
Gaining

• Increased the amount of XP gained from most jobs Significantly
  increased the amount of XP gained from capturing criminals

✨ Invalid
Items Updates

• A major pass has been made on how certain items are calculated to
  be invalid: you should now see far fewer exclamation marks above walls and
  items

✨ New Staff
Traits 

• Workhorse - +5% Movement Speed, Energy decays slower 
• Delightful - Will occasionally entertain guests 
• Clumsy - Occasionally spontaneously gets an injury 
• Good Egg - Raises happiness of nearby staff 
• Bad Egg - Lowers happiness of nearby staff 
• Theatrical - Gains happiness when working on tours

Other
Changes

• ✨ Introduced a character cap limit which is available in the
  settings menu. This is recommended for low-end PCs to improve performance 
• ✨ Whenever an ambience speaker is duplicated or copied, it will
  retain the previously selected ambience theme 
• ✨ Updated the UI for the cafe to make it clearer that the food
  options can be changed 
• ✨ Added a queue indicator to most queue-based items to help signify
  queue direction and the front of the item 
• ✨ XP rewards from expeditions now show the correct amount of XP in
  the crate reveal screen 
• ✨ Updated the sorting layer of all fish in the aquarium to make them
  easier to select 
• ✨ Staff who are on an expedition are now greyed out in the staff
  list 

Fixes:

• ✨ Fixed an issue where robot staff were not correctly going to get
  perks installed 
• ✨ Fixed an issue where training items were not correctly improving
  the time it takes to train 
• Fixed Sunny and Stormy being able to appear on the same staff
  member 
• ✨ A fix to the Ghostology-themed archway to prevent stuck characters
   
• Updated to the functional description of the Ambience Speaker,
  which reflects a change to the phrasing of related status effects. Buzz
  effects are to guests and not exhibits. 
• ✨ Fixed the issue where keyboard prompts were not respecting
  keyboard layout during the tutorial. 
• Updated ghosts to be removed from the room when
  destroyed/repossessed 
• ✨ Fixed Objective navigation on the gamepad, the back button now
  closes sub-objectives 
• ✨ Fixed issue with the ability to specify staff zones over plots not
  in play 
• ✨ Added dragging prompt to build button prompts to help avoid
  confusion when creating a room on controller 
• Fixed issue with gamepad staff zones cursor appearing initially
  under building floors 
• Fixed issue with the Botany salad food option, it now correctly
  gives a buzz boost to the Botany theme 
• Made fell in ectoplasm expedition injury and physical injury 
• Added progress bar to unlock plot(s) objectives sub-goal when
  requiring more than a single plot 
• ✨ Fixed issue with Pebberly Heights platform looping audio 
• Fixed inconsistency between Training icons in the Staff Inspector
  Menu and Training Menu. 
• Updated staff resignation warning to just be sad sprite 
• Added improvements to the Ransom Message 
• Fix for several Alien exhibits display incorrect symbols in all
  inspector menus. 
• Fixed interior shadows leaking onto exterior surfaces below the
  playable area 
• Fixed player's inability to remove landscape smart brush tiles when
  painted in Wailon Lodge and Pebberly Heights levels 
• ✨ Camera zoom is no longer limited to Very Low-quality settings 
• Fix for Lodge plot build audio issues 
• ✨ Fix for radio show subtitles not pausing when the game is paused 
• Fix for Assistant working in a gift shop outside of assigned staff
  zone. 
• ✨ Fix for issue where players could paint exterior paths in
  buildings on Wailon Lodge. 
• ✨ Players are now able to reduce character cap on Console platforms.
   
• Optimisation improvements 
• Stability improvements