OpenRCT2 v0.4.12 "The Ministry of Silly Walks" released!

We skipped last month's release due to many of the OpenRCT2 team members enjoying summer and being busy, but we're back again!

There was a lot of code changed for plugin support, but my personal favourite is "Feature: [#21893, #22065] On launch, the game now indicates what system is being initialised."

Which one is yours?

Here's what's new:

• Feature: [#622] Add option to align the top toolbar buttons horizontally centred (off by default).
• Feature: [#20263] Ability to increase the size of the map in the (0, 0) direction.
• Feature: [#21714] [Plugin] Costume assignment is now tailored to each staff type.
• Feature: [#21853] Enlarged UI mode.
• Feature: [#21893, #22065] On launch, the game now indicates what system is being initialised.
• Feature: [#21913] [Plugin] Allow precise and safe control of peep animations.
• Feature: [#22046] [Plugin] Add interface for crashed vehicle particle.
• Feature: [#22085] [Plugin] The result of actions that create banners now includes the bannerIndex.
• Feature: [#22087] [Plugin] Expose guests’ favourite rides to the plugin API.
• Feature: [#22090] [Plugin] Allow writing of paused state in non-networked settings.
• Feature: [#22140] Add option to automatically close dropdown menus if Enlarged UI is enabled.
• Feature: [#22150] [Plugin] Expose monthly expenditure history to the plugin API.
• Feature: [#22210] [Plugin] Peeps can now be made stationary or completely frozen.
• Feature: [#22210] [Plugin] The direction in which a peep is facing can now be manipulated.
• Improved: [#19870] Allow using new colours in UI themes.
• Improved: [#21774] The Alpine Coaster now supports using the alternative colour schemes.
• Improved: [#21853] Dropdowns now automatically use multiple columns if they are too tall for the screen.
• Improved: [#21981] Rendering performance of the map window has been improved considerably.
• Improved: [#21981] The map window now defaults to showing as much of the map as fits the screen.
• Improved: [#21983] Taking a screenshot now shows a message again, closing when taking another.
• Improved: [#22026] The options window now stays centred when window scaling is changed.
• Improved: [#22060] [Plugin] The scroll wheel can now be used to modify spinner widget values in custom/script windows.
• Improved: [#22065] Joining a network game now indicates progress using coaster trains.
• Improved: [#22075] [Plugin] Plugins can now use G1 Icons.
• Improved: [#22084] The game now temporarily pauses while the load/save window is open.
• Improved: [#22217] See-through items are ignored again in viewport/pointer interaction.
• Improved: [objects#238] Add preview image for invisible queue.
• Improved: [objects#329] Add RCT1AA lay-down coaster trains (for import only).
• Change: [#7248] Small mini-maps are now centred in the map window.
• Change: [#20240] Heavy snow and blizzards now make guests buy and use umbrellas.
• Change: [#21043] The new music styles are no longer added to old parks automatically.
• Change: [#21214] Wacky Worlds and Time Twister’s scenario names now match their park names.
• Change: [#21991] UI themes JSON now use colour names and a translucency bool, instead of a number (old themes still work).
• Change: [#22057] Reorder Time Twister’s scenarios and adjust their difficulty classification.
• Change: [#22173] Patrol path selection is visible over existing patrol paths.
• Change: [#22196] Make track navigation buttons holdable.
• Change: [#22227] [Plugin] Ride prices are now constrained for plugins as well.
• Fix: [#13234] Vehicle weight sometimes wrong after using Remove All Guests cheat.
• Fix: [#13294] Map corners are cut off in some directions (original bug).
• Fix: [#14630] Non-ASCII thousands and decimal separators not processed correctly.
• Fix: [#21496] Some RCT1 scenery is hidden after saving and reloading.
• Fix: [#21533] Support glitches on Hybrid Coaster.
• Fix: [#21974] No reason specified when attempting to place benches, lamps, or bins on path with no unconnected edges (original bug).
• Fix: [#21987] [Plugin] API cannot handle negative removal prices.
• Fix: [#22008] Uninverted Lay-down roller coaster uses the wrong support type.
• Fix: [#22012] [Plugin] Images on ImgButton widgets cannot be updated.
• Fix: [#22121] Some news items in the “Recent Messages” window have the wrong text colour.
• Fix: [#22152] [Plugin] Negative signed integers are truncated.
• Fix: [#22161] Using arrow keys in textboxes crashes the game.
• Fix: [#22174] Cheats are reset when starting a server.
• Fix: [#22185] Intensity and nausea are incorrectly sorted in the rides list after ratings invalidation.
• Fix: [#22226] Red traffic light shows incorrect sprite when pressed.
• Fix: [objects#323] Incorrect wall boundaries on large WW/TT scenery objects.
• Fix: [objects#331] Incorrect hover car capacity string.
• Fix: [objects#334] Incorrect school bus capacity string.
• Fix: [objects#337] Swan Boats use an incorrect third remap colour (original bug).

You can download OpenRCT2 v0.4.12 and view the whole changelog here

We would like to thank everyone who contributed with code, testing, translations, bug reports and everything else. We would also like to thank our sponsors:

• Digital Ocean, for hosting the multiplayer master server and our infrastructure
• Backtrace, for handling our automated crash reports
• JetBrains, for providing us with development software
• Github, for handling our development and issue tracker

If you're interested in contributing to OpenRCT2, feel free to join us on Discord.

You can also sponsor OpenRCT2 team members:

https://github.com/sponsors/IntelOrca

https://github.com/sponsors/janisozaur (yours truly)

https://github.com/sponsors/broxzier

https://github.com/sponsors/Gymnasiast