Economy Bros — patch notes and updates
Stored observation / content update:
Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| V8.05 Patch | 2026-11-01 | -Fixed npc's wearing weird pants from a previous playermodel |
| V8.04 patch, get your pumpkin head today or tomorrow! | 2026-11-01 | -Fixed big burger joint having ketchup bottle clipping in ground near entrance-Fixed out of bounds not working for vehicles-Fixed pumpkin head not being able to be bought on Halloween (MADE IT SO YOU CAN BUY IT ON 11/1/26 tomorrow)-Fixed tree grower machibnes not destroying trees/plants in the way when you place them down-Added bartender job to a few of the casinos |
| v8.03 Food Delivery Job! + | 2026-10-30 | -Added a food delivery job! Walk into any restaurant and look for a floating/spinning paper bag, press e on it and deliver it to the house it needs to be delivered to, you can deliver up to 8 bags at a time and the pay works just like the other jobs where you get raises and starting pay per order is $100 (not that its hard but because its time consuming)(other players won't see your deliveries)-Made out of bounds boxes work better-Changed the ammo system, it is very simple now, if you load ammo into an ak47 no matter which ak you are holding, if you have 2+ ak's in your inventory, the ammo will be the same, so if you have 5 bullets in your fi |
| Bartender Job!!+ | 2026-10-29 | -Added a Bartender Job-Made blueprint job tutorial picture bigger-Made logs/planks/bricks/rocks/rawiron/iron/corn/eggs/steak max stack 10k |
| Patch v8.01 Small Stuff | 2026-10-26 | Made it so telephone poles can have longer lines Changed npc walking animation Added 8 new flags (other top nations Economy Bros sold in, thx guys) -Canada flag -UK flag -Australia flag -Denmark Flag -Netherlands flag -Norway flag -Swedish flag -Austria flag -Jamaica flag Changed floor in subway station |
| Patch v8.00 Bug Fixes | 2026-10-25 | -Fixed beginning warning accepting page changing language when pressing accept with mouse -Added safeguard for player inventory when loading in to help prevent crashes (Working on the bartender job but in the mean time will still be fixing bugs and uploading) |
| V7.41E - Version 7 COMPLETE | 2026-10-25 | NOTE: in this new update double check that your robot server setting is set to how you want it to be: now you have the new option to choose whether your robots can interact with your friend's machines or not via the Robots: Shared, or Split -verified steam joining works, just make sure you select "host" before opening your city -Added a server option that allows you to change whether the robots work with anybodys machines/businesses/robot containers or if they only work with the machines and buildings that the person who placed the robot. If you played before this update all of your existing cities will by default have it set to not shared, b |
| Patch v7.40 | 2026-10-23 | -Fixed task manager saying "First Person Template..." now just says Economy Bros -Made the jet walls the original tan color instead of gray -Added controller support for the main menu, settings, inventory, shop, market, and computer -Added a red flash animation when setting map to daddys money showing it disabled import money and cars -Fixed vehicle ownership being lost when saving the game (if you lost ownership of your vehicle, you can seize it for free by pressing honk while looking at it or pressing seize asset while looking at it in the map) -Made it so that you cannot buy or craft more than 10x max stack size of any item to prevent you |
| Patch v7.39 | 2026-10-22 | -Fixed bug where if you crafted 1k of something, if it costed more than 56k materials to craft, it would craft it but not remove all of the materials |
| Patch v7.38 | 2026-10-22 | -Officially fixed issues with game saying container is in use when trying to pickup a prop you placed down -Fixed left mouse button saying "Left mouse button" instead of the icon, but only the first time you look at a tree but being fixed the 2nd time you look at a tree, now it just always shows the icon |
| Patch v7.37 Achievements + Bug fixes | 2026-10-21 | -Made out of bounds boxes larger -Revised get out of car logic -Fixed achievements not working for players who were using any language other than english -Caught up on translations |
| Log Growing Machine! | 2026-10-21 | V7.36-Added a machine that turns 1 oil into 10 logs by growing trees-Added a South African flag-Lowered volume of hover shop item clicky sound-Fixed hedge bushes' grid placement |
| Patch v7.35 Bug Fixes | 2026-10-20 | -Fixed corn to oil machine oil can and hazard tape being a default gray grid texture, I guess the new materials I made didn't save before I exported the game -Fixed glitchy pallet boxes visual when looking up a bit near them -Fixed front door on big Victorian home not being the same color as the other double door |
| TURN CORN INTO OIL | 2026-10-20 | V7.34-Added a Corn to Oil machine, note robots will only be able to add clumps of 200 corn, if you have less, they will not be able to add it, that will cover (10)-10sec cycles using 20 corn per cycle and 1 oil, to then make 8 oil-Added Lods for oil miner, bigger miner, autominer, auto wood cutter, auto brick press, bigger brick press, blast furnace-Fixed npc gender and color diversity-Added Indian flag |
| Patch v7.33 Bug Fixes | 2026-10-19 | -Fixed vehicle factories, robots not bringing blueprints -Made it so if you leave the settings page without clicking confirm on the resolution change, it will just automatically confirm it -Fixed head being invisible when customizing car from first person driving mode -Fixed camera not moving with the car after leaving autobody shop in first person driving -Fixed head being visible in first person driving if enter car that was already in first person driving before getting in -Fixed piano lod distance -Fixed corn grid placement -Made it so that if an animal is overlapping with a building when the city gets opened, it wont spawn that animal -M |
| V7.32 Robot Fixes | 2026-10-18 | -Fixed robots - I pushed the update without testing them as much as I should have and I apologize for that, some might have gotten some free resources so take that as a gift from me XD |
| Patch v7.31 | 2026-10-18 | -Possibly fixed controller yaw not working, lmk if its still broken and if so what controller you use via discord/bug report/steam discussions ːsteamthumbsupːːsteamthumbsupː |
| v7.29 First Person Driving + More! | 2026-10-18 | V7.29-Added first person driving, just scroll in-Optimized Robots-Fixed gas pump cost text being way too long-Fixed the inside of the construction sites having navigation-Fixed elevators not working right with multiplayer-Fixed compass not working after dying-Fixed notifications not showing up after dying-Made it so that dealerships have colored cars-Made it so that when you manufacture a car, it will have a random color-Fixed player aiming up and down animation-Added X and Y invert look settings-Added 11 Flags, with 2 versions, a tall pole, and a 45 degree to put on side of building |
| Patch v7.28 MAIL+QOL+BUGFIXES | 2026-10-17 | -added a mailbox in the subway station, where you can send up to 100 items between cities -Made it so that the field of view changes based on the aspect ratio of your screen for the jobs to ensure it isn't too zoomed (doesn't update live so if you change your aspect ratio after entering the job, just get out of the job and go back in and it will update) -Fixed achievements not being added onto steam, lmk if its still broken, you may have to get paid any amount of money before it updates -Made it so that the poll will automatically load the results if youve already voted instead of being reset each time you open the main menu -Added a 3 second |
| Patch v7.27 Building Ownership | 2026-10-16 | Fixed issues with prop and building ownership, there was a code issue where it wouldn't remove the prop/building ownership when you picked up the prop (or construction site) -If it made it so you do not own the building I am soooo sorry about that, im sure thats so much money you lost and I have great deep sadness with you, so a moment of silence will be held for you and your lost Jacksons... ...But on a lighter note there is a possibility that your newfound gained karma from your loss may be able to cashed out at the ingame casino, so there's that XD (I did not increase luck, just a joke)(But still a possibility) |
| Patch v7.26 Bug Fixes | 2026-10-16 | -Optimized casinos -Made it so you can't play casino games if building is closed -Stopped camera shake if npc pedestrian walked into car -Fixed npc pedestrians walking through buildings -Fixed server browser not being big enough and sometimes hiding the join button and clipping the password entry box -Fixed main menu buttons on the left being blocked by something and only really being able to hover them to the left half of the buttons -Added warning to let player know that they need to refresh prop id's if keeps saying Container is in use, when trying to pickup a prop -Fixed the 2 gold car wraps to actually look like gold and not some trashy |
| Poker! | 2026-10-15 | -Removed some of the buttons for some of the casino games to prevent confusion when going up to the table to play and forgetting to have to press use on the table to start the game then being able to add wagers after-Added Poker to all casinos-Fixed the sky colors being pale white during noon-Added building ID's to refresh button in server settings, and fixed some buildings having the same building ID's causing many random issues-Fixed destroying building causing home not owned glitch |
| Patch v7.24 BlackJack Fixes | 2026-10-13 | -Moved the blackjack chips to behind the cards -Fixed blackjack getting a blackjack on the first draw and table getting all busted |
| Patch v7.23 Bug Fixes | 2026-10-13 | -Changed the bug report button to f8 -Fixed it when you added money to the robot vault, after going above 509 it would go down to 255 -Also made it so the robot vault can take up to $10m per click when adding money -Fixed building materials getting converted into cash again when collecting from factories -I am now working on adding Poker to the gameːsteamthumbsupː |
| Patch v7.22 | 2026-10-13 | -Caught up on translations |
| Business and Rental Income Buff 5x | 2026-10-13 | -Made the dude thats dancing in the subway station normal sized-Added new betting options to Blackjack and Craps-Made all businesses now produce 10% of their building value in profit each day-Made all home rentals now make 5% of their building value in profit each day-Made any new loans now 20 days long instead of 100 (instead of costing roughly-Increased profit margins to 30% instead of 15% on all vehicle blueprints, although removed the minimum profit margin on the cheaper cars (the new calculation is (\*0.7)-5,000 so 30% profit, minus the $5k it costs to manufacture the car using the 500 building materials and oil) |
| Patch v7.20 Bug Fixes | 2026-10-11 | -Fixed leaving the game via jets putting your stuff in the public storage bin -Changed button to report but to "=" instead of P -Fixed getting stuck on rainy days forever and eternity -Changed regular furnace to request 30 instead of 40 raw iron -Fixed fence placement grid -Made the treadmill work and fixed collision |
| Patch v7.19 Baccarat+Bug fixes | 2026-10-11 | -Added more wager options for baccarat -Fixed Passenger camera -Fixed input getting completely bricked if you clicked the screen while typing for chat |
| Patch V7.18 Multiplayer fixed for other languages!+ | 2026-10-10 | -Optimized the backend of the chip drop game -Fixed multiplayer not working in other languages -Fixed tall grass showing weird edges |
| Patch V7.17 New Sky/Lighting | 2026-10-10 | -Fixed Slots not working in some of the casinos -New Clouds and lighting -Fixed it never raining -Changed the sky brightness, you may want to lower it back to normal if you had it on high, the old high is pretty much the new normal |