OpenRCT2 v0.4.31 “Live from the Grill-O-Mat” released!

Wow, it's so cold over here in Poland. Wouldn't it be swell if you could have a real-life dropdown to force weather to be always "🌞 Sunny"? Well, you can't have it all, but maybe your guests could enjoy some warmth in yet another OpenRCT2 release v0.4.31, "Live from the Grill-O-Mat". Just don't leave it on too long or else they'd actually get grilled…

Here's the menu changelog:

• Feature: [#25844] The sprite builder now also supports adding JSON-based palettes.
• Improved: [#3788] Self-intersecting track designs can now be placed.
• Improved: [#25719] The weather change dropdown now shows icons next to the weather types for easier selection.
• Improved: [#25765] The ‘View options’ and ‘Special track elements’ dropdowns no longer need click-and-hold.
• Improved: [#25858] macOS now supports the onboarding menu.
• Improved: [#25882] Maze construction now auto-removes trees.
• Improved: [objects#421] The vehicle tab of some rides now shows more of the vehicle.
• Change: [#25018] Add upkeep cost to booster pieces.
• Fix: [#4643, #25167] Many metal supports draw with a filled in top when they didn’t in vanilla, causing some slight misalignment and glitching.
• Fix: [#15009] Landscaping tools do not display estimates when the game is paused (original bug).
• Fix: [#18441] Replacing footpaths sometimes results in a spurious “Footpath in the way” error (original bug).
• Fix: [#20620] In-game console caret does not update when pasting.
• Fix: [#20652] Twister Roller Coaster design ‘u(0241)’ has no preview and cannot be built (bug in track design).
• Fix: [#23859] Wrong banner text displayed after loading a different park.
• Fix: [#25221] When trying to cancel game file discovery, the prompt reappears.
• Fix: [#25703, #25889] Crash when scanning scenarios with packed objects in parallel.
• Fix: [#25739] Game freezes when a tab in the New Ride window contains more than 384 items.
• Fix: [#25745] Crash when a player connection is aborted early.
• Fix: [#25775] Network download sizes are in bytes instead of the listed kibibytes.
• Fix: [#25799] The animated options tab icon of the news window does not always redraw.
• Fix: [#25850] Guests do not have their happiness penalised by low energy, high hunger, high thirst, high toilet.
• Fix: [#25850] Ride nausea generation is different compared to vanilla.
• Fix: [#25854] When a guest is at 0 happiness or energy, the game draws too big of a bar in the guest stats window.
• Fix: [#25862] Diagonal and inclined brakes are not counted when calculating upkeep cost.
• Fix: [#25873] Repainting a banner in OpenRCT2-specific colours results in an error message.
• Fix: [#25879] Guest window viewport doesn’t follow vehicle when they board a ride.
• Fix: [#25908] Crash from use-after-free in banner text formatting during multithreaded rendering.
• Fix: [objects#419] Alignment of RCT2 red, yellow and green queue previews is off.
• Fix: [objects#424] Jet Aeroplane decor has a hole in it.
• Fix: [objects#425] Capacity of ‘Blob from outer space ride’ is incorrectly listed.

Our great friend, Deurklink, has again helped on making a video with the notable changes for this release:

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We would like to thank everyone who contributed with code, testing, translations, bug reports and everything else. We would also like to thank our sponsors:

• Digital Ocean, for hosting the multiplayer master server and our infrastructure
• Backtrace, for handling our automated crash reports
• JetBrains, for providing us with development software
• Github, for handling our development and issue tracker
• SignPath, for providing a free certificate to sign our builds

If you're interested in contributing to OpenRCT2, feel free to join us on Discord.

You can also sponsor OpenRCT2 team members:

• https://github.com/sponsors/IntelOrca
• https://github.com/sponsors/janisozaur
• https://github.com/sponsors/broxzier
• https://github.com/sponsors/Gymnasiast

On behalf of the OpenRCT2 team: happy building!

janisozaur