The 15.2 update introduces new social features, changes and improvements to waystations, and economy balancing.
Friendship and Social Features
Players can select their Mood under its tab in the Character Menu to display an icon representing their current vibe. Selecting Not Feeling Social prevents players from automatically meeting or greeting Strangers or receiving requests from anyone who is not a friend. The Newbie and Volunteer Guide moods make players visible on the map so others can find you and help.
A new auto-meeting feature allows players to automatically meet other players by accompanying them when playing music or by joining a fluffalo train ride. This auto-meeting will not apply to players who are using the Not Feeling Social mood or players you have blocked. Spry Fox made a change to hide the avatars of players you have blocked, instead of showing them as Strangers.
The invite screen was renamed to Recruit a Friend, and the developers removed the cooldown on getting gifts so both players are rewarded immediately when a new player joins via recruit code. Crosslanders will now react differently to receiving their favorite gifts, so it is more evident when you discover their favorites. Players can now get Friendship progress with DJ Fuzz EE, Luna and Rudi by completing their world events in the wilderness.
Waystations
There will be enough Starter Plots so every player with Neighbor role or higher can own one. As default, only the Starter Plot owner can place, move, rotate, remove or propose items. If a Starter Plot owner becomes inactive or leaves the waystation, the items placed inside their Starter Plot will be returned via Mail, and they will need to collect those items before they can claim another plot.
Players can talk to Eudora to check the list of Waystation members, and they can select any player who completed the Architect Certification to appoint as their Preferred Architect. Once a selection threshold is reached, the monthly selection process stops being random and switches to whoever got marked as Preferred Architect the most. Spry Fox increased the amount of build limits for all Beacon Ranks. The Waystation Vending Machine now has resource exchanges to get Wood, Ore, and Clay.
Resources and Economy Balancing
Exchanging resources for coins with Crosslanders now wields double the amount of coins from 100 to 200 up to 200 to 400 each. Under coin trades made accessible earlier on, the Tailor offers Pigment Base in the Initial unlock instead of Upgrade 1. Marj’s Shop now sells Soothing Tea for Greens and a much lower amount of Coins.
Spry Fox increased the harvesting caps for Fishing and Blots to 300, Mushrooms to 100 and Wilderness Pots to 30. Under the First Time Harvestable Bonus, you will now get double the amount of resources the first time you harvest a Bramble, Relic, Stump or Ore node, once per Wilderness. All Harvest nodes that previously required co-op are now doable solo.
The updated Passing Spirit request spread should be: Standard Items: 50% Complex Items: 30% Master Items: 20%. Players can now get Parts by completing world events, or collecting them from Shrineworks Dispensers in caves and peaks in the Wilderness. In Chaos Shrines, there are now 3 tiers of Coin rewards instead of 2. In Wilderness Caches, Traversable chance is now 10%. Wall and floor dye unlock costs are updated to Simple: 2,000 Coins Complex: 6 Sparks Masterful: 16 Sparks.
Player Houses
Settings now includes a button to toggle Build Mode Snapping on/off in the Settings Menu for structural pieces like Floors, Walls, Roofs. To simplify building set pieces, Spry Fox is replacing all of the building set corner, connection, inner corner wall pieces with Smart Connectors. Under Home Prestige, you get 1 point for every new type of decor or dye you use. Players can access Mr Kit’s Catalog directly from a new kiosk at your home trolley station.
Quests and Errands
Hardtack has two new Friendship Quests, which will be available to anyone who has reached Friendship level 2 or higher with him. Most Errands can be completed in 1-2 days of play. The old Help 5 Spirits quest is now gone, and this has been turned into an Errand.
Wilderness
In the event schedule, Luna now shows up according to the Lunar Calendar. Spry Fox increased the number of votes needed for wilderness proposals of anything except the 4 main traversables (jump pads, launch pads, lift fans, and ladders) up to 15.
Quality of Life Improvements
The much-requested toggle for glider auto-deployment has been added in the Settings. The team fixed instances where moving many objects at once in the player home could cause the game to desync and incorrectly prevent placement. Players who remain inactive for a period will no longer be reset to Initiate if they return to the same waystation they were assigned before.