📚 Patch Notes Archive

Patch Notes XSO-0R

• Bonehilda will now light up fireplaces and clean the 4 tile White Tub.
• Several fixes to the bird cages, in the buy and play with interaction - more fixes may be required.
• Fixes to Oxygen Bar to prevent object being stuck in use.
• Fix to height slot object crash when moving certain objects around.
• Several fixes to text and spelling across many objects.
• Krampus gift has a decreased chance to provide its gift, the gift can now only be acquired during the month of December and the gift goes directly into your sim's inventory now.
• Purchasing chickens, rooster or chicks now goes directly into your inventory instead of the sim hand.
• Chickens, rooster, chicks and white chickens are now tradeable and sellable - whilst for sale they do not lay eggs or grow.
• Christmas, Summer, Autumn and Spring pole are now tradeable.
• Christmas catalog items have been removed.
• City snow fall has ended.

Patch Notes XSO-0Q

• Eggs sale price was decreased to 70/140/210/280/350.
• Carrots and Lettuce sale price was increased to 125/250/375/500/625.
• Super Vegetables sale price was increased to 150/300/450/600/750.
• Common chickens sale price was updated.
• Vine plots take +6h total to grow and garden plots +3h total to grow to full maturity (in-game time hours).
• Vegetable Stands and Amenities Stands reflects the eggs and vegetable price changes.
• Burglar no longer spawns in job lots.
• Added +Fun increase to Arcade Games objects.
• Added +Fun and +Social increase from small pets (birds, iguanas, turtles, etc).
• Critical fix to refined crystals exploit.
• Added additional catalog items by Deak.
• Fixes to text and graphics on multiple objects.

Patch Notes XSO-0P

Core Fixes & Adjustments

• Readded 3D mesh to Black Limo
• Remesh for rare eggs
• Nesting box now allows collecting your rooster or white chicken and prevents collecting dead chickens, chicks
• Nesting box egg collecting no longer collects eggs for sale
• Magic Duel Arena buffed from 5/10/15 magic coins → 10/15/20 magic coins depending on win conditions
• All wardrobes now correctly display the "Wear Work Uniform" option (requires having a job)
• Fix to dupe exploit with certain objects
• Chicken stall refactor (allows for proper animal assignment and less lag)
• Carrots now properly get considered vegetables with cooking recipes
• Lettuce properly generates values for cooking recipes
• Vegetables can now be used in multiple cooking recipes
• Firefly Lamp added to rare items shop
• Removed double charge on certain interactions

Patch Notes XSO-0O

• Fix for NPC unintended behavior when player is actively buying/selling.
• Implement safety check for certain object interactions.
• Loot drops now properly despawn with updated logic.
• Magic Coin exchange rates rebalanced.
• Several costume items added to the catalog.
• Additional texture updates to seasonal content.

Patch Notes XSO-0N

• Improved stability in lot transitions.
• Adjustment to skill decay rates when offline.
• Fixed certain aspiration rewards not applying correctly.
• Added new DJ booth and speaker options to entertainment catalog.
• Rebalanced money object payouts across entertainment category.
• Performance improvements to rendering on high-population lots.

Backend Fixes

• Haunted Dollhouse/Stronghold can now be traded.
• Swimwear Racks now work properly.
• Slot Machines behave as intended.

XSO-0I Patch Notes

• A lot of technical improvements to graphics (lighting, rendering, lot thumbnail generation, etc).
• Recursive search loop for the hole in the ground and beanstalk objects.
• You can no longer summon Bonehilda during midnight to 1AM.
• Fix to garden and vine plot exploit; fix to gardener trying to water dead plots; chance of crops to die reduced from 20% to 10% (IF you have 20 cooking and 20 creativity).
• Better search logic to prevent duplicate summoning NPCs for the Gnome and Flamingo Dancer.
• Tuscan Stove now has the same food contribution as other stoves.
• Burglar, Alarm system and Police Officer added.
• Raccoon added.
• New buffet halloween table, painting and cutting board added.
• Minor fix to Halloween lights on and off state.
• Salads no longer spoil.
• Cakes that spoil take double the amount of time to spoil (from 8 to 16 sim hours).
• Cheese and bread slight cut on hunger fill.
• Golden thread, beehive and butter stations cannot be mass queued now.
• Most rare items have had their salvage option removed and have fire immunity.
• Halloween maze is here ("Xeno Psych Ward").
• 3 new items on the magic coins shop (Crystal Ball, Shrink Crystal and Magic Mirror).

Launcher Hot Fixes

• Open Lots tab now refreshes every time you click open lots again.
• Settings when ticked save even when you close and reopen the launcher.
• Disk space check was removed for Linux compatibility.

Launcher Update Patch Notes

• Smart targeted search implemented (launcher will track and lock on your XSO Client folder).
• Anti-nesting extraction to prevent folder duplication.
• The XenoSO logo on the side panel can now be clicked (goes to website).
• Settings redone to be more clear.
• Clicking "Home" or refresh in the home tab will auto trigger a smart search.
• Ignore any system metadata windows files on extraction.
• Linux disk space check for installing/updating fixed.
• Smart screen resolution improvements.

Patch Notes XSO-0h

• Architecture Upgrades: Migrated client architecture from 32-bit to 64-bit (removing 4GB memory limitation); Enhanced audio system; Implemented object disposal mechanisms (prevent memory leaks); Optimized memory handling; Redesigned 3D rendering pipeline; Enhanced drawgroup rendering; Updated lighting system; Added CPU multi-threading support; Implemented core image loading class performance improvements; Resolved rendering issues; Optimized game thread CPU utilization; Redesigned user interface.
• New Content: Expanded buy mode catalog; Fix to carved pumpkins sound issue; Fix to vulture flamingo; New catalog items for Halloween and restructure of the catalog (no more asterisk * items); 3D mesh package included on the client.

Launcher Update Patch Notes

• Finds XSO.exe files (in addition to XenoSO.exe and FreeSO.exe).
• Case Insensitive (finds XSO.exe, xso.exe, etc.).
• Searches deeper (through all folders up to 5 layers deep).

Patch Notes xso-0g

• Fixes to beanstalks entry and exit to reinforce recognizing the object.
• Fixes to gnome NPC to prevent him from trying to water plants that are blocked.
• Fix to Feverfew Bush and Riley's Thistle (now static plants, old ones must be replaced).
• Fix to Get Happy Spell from creating the wrong token.
• Fix to candle crafting table and rebalance to materials needed (cost changed from 20 beeswax and 3500$ to 10 beeswax and 4500$).
• Summer catalog items are gone.
• Halloween catalog items are activated.
• Added 3 front desks under the misc catalog that allow transfer of cash up to 30k.
• (Gift: everyone gets a pumpkin carving table).

Patch Notes xso-1f

• The gnome table is now in the catalog.
• The gnome table and gargoyle table will now pass the object directly into you inventory.
• The cauldron to brew spells was added to the catalog.
• The snake charmer NPC will auto spawn even when the lot goes offline.
• The Magic Table will now account for charisma on all tricks.
• The Duelist NPCs will now stick close to the arena.
• You can now duel the vendor NPCs (Mara, Todd and Vicki).
• The puzzle cemetery magic coins was nerfed from 10 coins to 5 coins per completion.
• If you have 20 mechanical you will no longer die from doing repairs.
• Added toadstool game object for player to player races.
• Several fixes to the golden toilet.
• Fix to vulture flamingo sound.
• The candle crafting table has had the odds of crafting boosted.
• (Compensation for downtime: 1 rare medieval dollhouse per account).

Patch Notes xso-0b

• The ground portal will now allow you to jump between entry to exit and exit to entry.
• Fix to the crash on the VMNetdriver pertaining to the timeout method.
• Added 2 new lamps.
• Implementation of magic coin system (obtainable at Magic Town Center lot via Snake Charmer, Spook Show, Duel Arena, Puzzle Cemetery and Magic Table).
• Implementation of 2 spells: Enchant (for Gnomes and Flamingos) and Transmutation (for gargoyles).
• New animated paintings that you can obtain via magic coins.
• Gnome table will be made available on the catalog later on.

Patch Notes xso-0a

• Fixed Midnight Mystery Canopy bed's motives rate increase.
• Fixed TV audios that were playing custom random audios.
• Fixed Volcanic browser view scroll save statement.
• Fixed lamps on the catalog that had no option to manage or change light colors.
• Fixed time out to be a total of 30 min. consistently before you get kicked.
• Decreased impact needs on beehive, butter churner and spindle.
• Added new decors, tables, miscellaneous, stairs, lights, fences and columns.

Patch notes XSO-0

• Fixed the paintings that were previously added so that they can be behind objects and not have object to object collision.
• Fixed the Fortune Teller object not charging the 2$ when interacting with it.
• Fixed a factory JWT Token factory issue that was causing shift timer tokens to expire sooner than they should.
• Fixed and added semiglobal to add support to roller coasters.
• Removed the wagon wheel from the restaurant lvl 3 which was blocking NPCs from sitting on the table.
• New update lockout system which will apply only after this update.
• Added a new fence and curtains.
• Added new crafting gargoyle table.
• Added new spinning golden thread wheel (will be a spell ingredient later on).
• Added a new couples bed.

Server Patch Notes

• Rebalance on butter, honey and wax objects. (Butter from 78$, 156$, 234$ and 312$ to 38$, 76$, 114$ and 152$; honey and wax from 78$, 156$, 234$ and 312$ to 27$, 54$, 81$ and 108$).
• Baking mix stand rebalanced to accommodate the new values (from 2450$ on sell 10 butter to 1050$ and honey/wax to 750$).
• Over 35 new items added (build mode, walls, windows, plants, doors, appliances, decor, misc, surfaces, entertainment & more).

Server Patch Notes

• Experimental fix for JWT Token factory job time parameters that may have been causing performance issues to some users.
• Fix for Beehive table which was causing sims to be attacked by bees even when fully green.
• Time out extended to 30 min. (25 min of inactivity plus a 5 min message warning).
• Added crafting candle table to the catalog.
• Rebalance and fix for a potential surplus exploit on the Baking Mix vending values as well as honey, beeswax and butter. (Baking mix adjusted from 2750$ to 2450$; beeswax, honey and butter nerfed from 90$, 180$, 270$ and 360$ to 78$, 156$, 234$ and 312$).
• Added Autum Tea Fountain to the catalog.
• "Walk here" will now allow you to cancel it.

Server Patch Notes

• Audio fix for the OpenAL error people have been getting that caused them to crash.
• Summer items are added on the catalog for a limited time.
• Vegano Market Stand added to the catalog and fixed text money values on the interaction.
• Pizza money object has had its payouts increase by 20% to better approximate other group money objects.
• Pizza, Code and Band are working as intended on money lots, no overtime penalties, on welcome lots it'll remain unchanged.