HI EVERYONE!

Here's our changelog for update 4.0, if you want to read more about the update, read our full blog here.

As always, we love hearing from you, so if you have a cool museum you've built, or you have some feedback, please let us know!

CHANGELOG

10/07/2025

Number of changes: 17
Inspired by the community: 88%
Changes with ✨ were inspired by the community.

New Content & Features

✨ Fantasy Finds

• All players can now access the first three Points of Interest (Fledgling Arms, Wishfell & Fairydale) of the new Fantasy Finds Scorched Earth expedition map ahead of its full release

• All other POIs in the expedition map require the Fantasy Finds DLC once it launches on 17th of July

• The new Fantasy theme is now discoverable in Scorched Earth

• The Fantasy Expert can be hired in any museum via a job advert after gaining one star in Memento Mile

• Fantasy experts come in 1 of 4 subclasses
• Rogue (Starts with higher Dexterity)

• Barbarian (Starts with higher Strength)

• Wizard (Starts with higher Intelligence)

• Bard (Starts with higher Luck)

• Unlocking Fledgling Arms, Wishfell, and Fairydale provides:

• 5 new Fantasy exhibits

• Fantasy-themed decoration

• Fantasy-themed plushies, books, onesies and posters for the Gift Shop

• New guests (Elves, Goblins & Dwarves) will begin to appear in the museum if it contains Fantasy Exhibits
 

✨ Pointy Mountains Finale Museum

• Upon reaching Curator Class VII, a new finale museum set in the Pointy Mountains becomes available to play

• Discover the mystery of the missing curator across 5 stars

• Discover 1 new exhibit and cater to 2 new guest types

✨ New Staff Traits

• Morbid - Enjoys when bad things happen on expeditions

• Sensitive - Hates when bad things happen on expeditions

Improvements & Fixes

Quality of Life Improvements

• ✨ When setting up a job ad, you can now choose to advertise for 1, 2 or 3 applicants. When the applicants appear, they will not disappear unless manually dismissed

• ✨ Botany-themed Heater and Humidifier can now be accessed in career mode after unlocking the “Overgrowth Jungle” POI in the Two Point Sea expedition map

• ✨ When setting up a tour, the Buzz section of the rating now also displays “bad”, “average”, “great” or “perfect” next to the total Buzz

• ✨ Some POIs now have a “POI Hint” section in the bottom-right of their POI overview. These hints provide more details about important systems like Hospital POIs and unique exhibits

• Staff Trait Reworks

• Globetrotter - Changed to give a status effect instead of an instant stat buff

• Travel Sick - Changed to give a status effect instead of an instant stat debuff

• ✨ When viewing the Exhibit List, the subcategories of a theme will now sort correctly

• ✨ We’ve slowed down the speed at which baby fish grow so the joy of parenting can last for longer

• ✨ Rebalanced expert trait drop tables so that experts are less likely to have multiple negative traits

Bug Fixes

• ✨ Fixed an issue where Wailon Walters could lose his invulnerable trait, which could potentially soft-lock career progress

• ✨ Fix for the ambient speaker reverting to prehistory after copying multiple times.

• ✨ Fix for an issue where the player can sometimes be locked out of loading a level.

• ✨ Fixed a gamepad issue where a "Double A to select" was displayed on the level select screen.

• Fix for players sometimes getting stuck loading into a level.

• Other Stability Fixes