Hey Animal Lovers! 🐶🐱

We’ve got some exciting news to share with you today – UPDATE I is here! 🎉
This is the very first big step on our roadmap, and we couldn’t be happier to bring you a set of improvements, fixes, and new settings that make managing your shelter smoother and more enjoyable.

Everything we add and adjust is shaped by your feedback – and we love seeing how passionate you are about making life better for your four-legged friends. 🐾

So let’s get straight to it – here’s what’s new and improved in this update: 👇



Additions and Changes:

• Added a setting that allows to change pets' fur intensity.
  
• Added a setting that allows to change pets' aging speed or turn it off completely.
  
• Added a setting that allows to change disease spreading speed, or even turn it off completely!
  
• Added a setting that allows to separately change auto closing of doors in cages, one setting for outside doors and doors inside the building.
  
• Added a setting that allows workers to close already opened doors in cages, separated to inside and outside doors setting.
  
• Added buttons in shelter management that allow to turn on/off all heating/cooling items at once.
  
• Added greater range of values for mouse sensitivity setting, from [min 0.02, max 1.25] -> [min 0.002, max 1.5] to allow greater available range.
  
• Added a setting that allows to change grid toggling method from holding button to toggle on/off.
  
• Added a setting that allows to change sprint toggling method from holding button to toggle on/off.
  
• Added a setting that allows to hide quest panel.
  
• After first shelter upgrade the grass will be shorter and better maintained so that balls and other small objects do not get lost in it.
  
• Lowered delivery drone sound intensity a bit.
  

Fixes:

• Fixed issue when clients sometimes were having incorrectly upgraded shelter after joining server mid game.
  
• Fixed host sometimes having incorrectly upgraded shelter after loading a save file.
  
• Implemented zoom in/out on the shelter map using gamepads.
  
• Implemented correct tooltips for zooming in/out for gamepads.
  
• Fixed workers having different outfit each day.
  
• Changed default graphics settings for SteamDeck.
  
• Corrected font size to be easily visible on SteamDeck.
  
• Fixed an issue where some animals would change to incorrect colors after growing up.
  
• Sphinx no longer changes color when at a distance.
  

We hope these changes make your shelter feel even more alive and enjoyable. 🌟
Thank you for supporting Animal Shelter 2 your feedback truly helps us make the game better with every update.

Stay tuned, because this is just the beginning – more updates are on the way! 🚀🐾

See you soon,
Animal Shelter 2 Team