OpenRCT2 v0.4.31 Has Been Released - Bug Fixes and Quality of Life Updates

OpenRCT2 version 0.4.31 has been released. This one's not very feature heavy, instead being almost exclusively tiny fixes and small improvements.

The only significant change is that player-saved self-intersecting track designs can be properly placed. OpenRCT2 cheats lets you save track designs where the tracks intersect each other or otherwise have track that under normal gameplay, couldn't be placed because they don't pass the clearance checks. You could save track designs with this characteristic, but those saved track designs could not be placed. This update has finally changed that so that you can place them. Otherwise, some tiny quality of life improvements in this update include:

• When changing the weather, the dropdown menu now includes the appropriate weather icons.
• The viewing options and special track pieces menus no longer requires the mouse to be clicked and held for them to stay open.
• Maze construction will not automatically remove trees if you happen to build them in a tile that a tree is present.

Full blog post down below

Quote From Janisozaur

Wow, it's so cold over here in Poland. Wouldn't it be swell if you could have a real-life dropdown to force weather to be always "🌞 Sunny"? Well, you can't have it all, but maybe your guests could enjoy some warmth in yet another OpenRCT2 release v0.4.31, "Live from the Grill-O-Mat". Just don't leave it on too long or else they'd actually get grilled…

Here's the menu changelog:

• Feature: [#25844] The sprite builder now also supports adding JSON-based palettes.
• Improved: [#3788] Self-intersecting track designs can now be placed.
• Improved: [#25719] The weather change dropdown now shows icons next to the weather types for easier selection.
• Improved: [#25765] The ‘View options’ and ‘Special track elements’ dropdowns no longer need click-and-hold.
• Improved: [#25858] macOS now supports the onboarding menu.
• Improved: [#25882] Maze construction now auto-removes trees.
• Improved: [objects#421] The vehicle tab of some rides now shows more of the vehicle.
• Change: [#25018] Add upkeep cost to booster pieces.
• Fix: [#4643, #25167] Many metal supports draw with a filled in top when they didn’t in vanilla, causing some slight misalignment and glitching.
• Fix: [#15009] Landscaping tools do not display estimates when the game is paused (original bug).
• Fix: [#18441] Replacing footpaths sometimes results in a spurious “Footpath in the way” error (original bug).
• Fix: [#20620] In-game console caret does not update when pasting.
• Fix: [#20652] Twister Roller Coaster design ‘u(0241)’ has no preview and cannot be built (bug in track design).
• Fix: [#23859] Wrong banner text displayed after loading a different park.
• Fix: [#25221] When trying to cancel game file discovery, the prompt reappears.
• Fix: [#25703, #25889] Crash when scanning scenarios with packed objects in parallel.
• Fix: [#25739] Game freezes when a tab in the New Ride window contains more than 384 items.
• Fix: [#25745] Crash when a player connection is aborted early.
• Fix: [#25775] Network download sizes are in bytes instead of the listed kibibytes.
• Fix: [#25799] The animated options tab icon of the news window does not always redraw.
• Fix: [#25850] Guests do not have their happiness penalised by low energy, high hunger, high thirst, high toilet.
• Fix: [#25850] Ride nausea generation is different compared to vanilla.
• Fix: [#25854] When a guest is at 0 happiness or energy, the game draws too big of a bar in the guest stats window.
• Fix: [#25862] Diagonal and inclined brakes are not counted when calculating upkeep cost.
• Fix: [#25873] Repainting a banner in OpenRCT2-specific colours results in an error message.
• Fix: [#25879] Guest window viewport doesn’t follow vehicle when they board a ride.
• Fix: [#25908] Crash from use-after-free in banner text formatting during multithreaded rendering.
• Fix: [objects#419] Alignment of RCT2 red, yellow and green queue previews is off.
• Fix: [objects#424] Jet Aeroplane decor has a hole in it.
• Fix: [objects#425] Capacity of ‘Blob from outer space ride’ is incorrectly listed.

Our great friend, Deurklink, has again helped on making a video with the notable changes for this release:

What do you think of this OpenRCT2 update? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.