Schedule 1 v0.4.7 Open Beta — Avatar System Rebuilt, Special Customer Groups & Hundreds of Megabytes Less Memory

Schedule 1 v0.4.7 is available to test on the beta branch, and it's a substantial one. The headline is a complete rebuild of the avatar appearance system — the old one was, in the developer's own words, pretty janky and wouldn't have been able to support user-created cosmetics coming in a future update. Alongside it: four new special customer groups, a new Hyland Medical interior, a big batch of purchasable clothes and cosmetics, new teleport locations, and a memory optimization worth hundreds of megabytes on late-game saves.

👥 New Special Customer Groups

Four themed groups of customers are now in the game, each with their own named members:

• Hippies — Amethyst Pidley, Bodie Hunt, Charlie Menson, Dylan Roberts, Jayne Lemons, Krystal Bird, Rose Welsh, Samantha Spears.
• Party Bus — Brad Chaddington, Chad Chaddington, Broc Evans, Dave Trotter, Josh Harrington, Michelle Delacroix, Stacy Sinclair, Terry Haines, Tracy Dupree.
• Businessmen — Bill Short, Grant Gainsworth, Hunter Yieldman, Johnny Smith, Micky Boone, Penny Stockman.
• Bikers — Bob Harley, Butch Malone, Diesel Rodd, Joey Quinn, Rick Boggers, Shane Mulligan, Timmy Benson, Vince Knuckles.

And they don't just stand there — the special customers got new NPC behaviours: talking on the phone, using a laptop, sitting on the ground, dancing, peeing, vomiting, boinking, and revving motorcycles.

🏥 Hyland Medical & New Places

• Added the Hyland Medical interior — and Hyland Medical is now a purchasable business.
• Added black rubber mats, available in the hardware store, in 1x1, 2x2 and 4x4 sizes.
• Added a Persian rug, available in Bleuball's Boutique.
• Made the corporate plaza a bit bigger.
• Several new teleport locations: southoverpass, suburbia, park, westville and casino.
• Modified several NPC schedules to work with the new Hyland Medical interior.

👕 New Clothes, Accessories & Cosmetics

New purchasable clothes and accessories:

• Eyewear: gold aviators, silver aviators, browline glasses, round tinted glasses.
• Headgear: beer hat, jet helmet, panzer helmet, plus Paisley and USA bandanas.
• Ties: blue, red, green and brown.
• Tops: leather jacket, aqua/purple/yellow tie-dye shirts, dirty tank top, hot shirt, Molerats jersey, tube top, mesh top.

Plus three new hairstyles — 'The businessman', Poofy wavey and Long wavey — and three new purchasable facial hair styles: Chevron, Swirly and Biker mustache.

✨ The Avatar Appearance Rebuild

This is the structural change behind all those cosmetics, and it's the part that matters for the future:

• The avatar appearance system was rebuilt from scratch — clothing, hairstyles, body shape and so on. Per the developer, the old system "was pretty janky and would not have been adequate to support user-created cosmetics (coming in a future update)".
• Accessories and layers have been removed and replaced with 'AvatarObjects'. An AvatarObject can have several layers and attachments associated with it.
• AvatarSettings is gone, replaced by NakedAppearance plus Outfit.

In other words: the cosmetic foundation was replaced with something extensible, specifically so that player-made content can hook into it later. That's the most forward-looking change in the patch.

⚖️ Businesses, Economy & Quality of Life

• Business laundering capacities were increased: post office 4000 → 5000, car wash 6000 → 8000, Taco Ticklers 8000 → 12000.
• Added the new queuecustomergroup command — useful for anyone staging specific customer groups, whether for testing or for setting up a scene.
• Tweaked the wording of several conversations and NPC dialogue (with more grammar and spelling fixes below).
• Refactored the system controlling NPC walk speed and cleaned up NPC code and cutscene code.

⚡ Performance & Optimizations

• Optimized how icons are generated and saved for mixed products — which, per the patch notes, "should result in several-hundred megabytes saved in memory use for late-game saves". If you run a long-lived world with a big product catalogue, this is the single most valuable line in the update.
• Improved how NPC ragdolls work so physics components aren't created until they're actually needed, avoiding unnecessary physics overhead.
• Improved the fire effect in the burning barrels.
• Removed some unused textures from the terrain, and fixed several trash LODs to reduce pop-in.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fixed physics props falling out of sync when thrown in multiplayer. The most multiplayer-relevant fix in the list.
• Fixed NPC-driven vehicles failing to detect obstacles when in 'kinematic mode'.
• Refactored sleeping logic.
• Fixed 'I'm stuck' button teleporting vehicles to the wrong location in the prologue, and the contacts app viewport sometimes being incorrectly positioned there.
• Fixed NPCs sometimes not facing the right direction for certain behaviours.
• Fixed avatar impostors being incorrectly positioned when the avatar is ragdolled.
• Fixed dress shoes clipping with feet, and several hairstyles clipping with hats.
• Fixed skateboard input prompts remaining visible after getting off the skateboard.
• Fixed a rounding issue in tree rendering code, and various spelling and grammar errors in NPC conversations.

🖥️ What This Means For Your Server

• Do not run this beta on your live community world. The appearance save conversion goes one way — switch back to the default branch and converted appearances won't load correctly. Test on a copy, with a backup taken first.
• The memory optimization is the reason to care even if you skip the beta. Several hundred megabytes less memory in late-game saves is exactly the kind of win that keeps a long-running server from degrading after days of uptime. Expect it to land in the default branch later — and in the meantime it's a good argument for enough RAM headroom to hold a mature save.
• Multiplayer physics props are fixed. Props falling out of sync when thrown is a client/server desync symptom; having it patched matters most on populated servers where thrown physics objects are constant.
• User-created cosmetics are coming. The avatar rebuild was done specifically to support them, which signals a future modding/customization surface. If you run a community, that's worth planning around early.
• Beta testing is a real contribution here. The new customer groups, NPC behaviours and cosmetic sets are exactly the content that benefits from players reporting what breaks — and the patch notes end with a batch of clipping fixes that only surface when people actually wear the clothes.
• Back up before every beta session. Two separate risks in one patch — a one-way save format change and a prologue vehicle teleport bug — make automated backups with one-click restore the difference between testing and losing a world.

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Conclusion

v0.4.7 is a foundation-laying beta. The avatar appearance system was rebuilt from scratch — AvatarObjects with layers and attachments, NakedAppearance and Outfit replacing AvatarSettings — explicitly to make room for user-created cosmetics down the line. Around it: four new special customer groups with all-new NPC behaviours, the Hyland Medical interior as a purchasable business, a wide spread of new clothing, accessories, hairstyles and facial hair, five new teleport locations, the queuecustomergroup command, higher laundering capacities, and a memory optimization that saves hundreds of megabytes on late-game saves.

Just take a backup of your save before you touch the beta branch — that appearance conversion doesn't go backwards.