Changelog

All notable changes to Actually Working Employees are documented in this file. The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[1.0.0] - 2026-11-04

First public release. It replaces Harder Working Employees: remove HarderWorkingEmployees.dll from your Mods folder.

Added

• Fixes for botanists, chemists, handlers and cleaners, running on the host.
• An employee that loops a failed walk or stands still while it should walk is moved to its target.
• A chemist that fills a cauldron counts as working and is not sent to a new task.
• Stations and slots an employee leaves locked are freed when it stops working, is fired or the night is skipped.
• Items an employee still carries go back to their source slot when the task is cut short.
• Idle chemists and cleaners say which station or bin holds them back.
• Path checks to stations are remembered for a few seconds.
• A phone app called Employees with every employee setting: walk speed, wages, signing fees, assignment limits and the time of each action for all four roles. Every value starts at the vanilla default.
• A Fast preset that doubles the work speed and raises the walk speed of all four roles.
• Handler routes: wait for a worthwhile load before a trip and choose the fullest, emptiest or nearest route first.
• A botanist option to leave pots alone that a sprinkler watered recently.
• Speed multipliers for plant and mushroom growth, drying racks, cauldrons, lab ovens and mixing stations.
• More employees than idle spots per property, and an employee limit you can change.
• Options to let employees walk through each other and through furniture.
• Problem badges, a Setup Doctor and idle time tracking on the Diagnostics page, all off by default.
• Co-op: only the host changes the values. Guests who have the mod see the host's values, locked.
• Settings are saved in UserData/ActuallyWorkingEmployees.cfg. On the first start the values from MelonPreferences.cfg are taken over.