Nivalis Unofficial Patch

Nivalis Unofficial Patch

I started Unofficial Patch after watching managers buy the wrong amounts of ingredients and running into NPC and performance problems in my own playthrough. I focused on faults I could trace in the game code and assets: purchasing, presentation cleanup and rendering work that could be reduced without replacing the simulation.

The patch has improved FPS in my own playthrough. I did not run a controlled benchmark, so I cannot promise a percentage or a fixed number of extra frames.

Version 0.3.13 — official Update #3, Steam build 25738165.

Install LUZ Civic Terminal (recommended). It can download and install the recommended BepInEx build, import mod ZIPs, manage profiles, check declared dependencies and apply your selected mods. Manual installation remains available.

Features

• Venue-specific purchasing policies, stock targets, cash reserves, spending limits and dish priorities.
• Complete-batch purchasing that shares available ingredients and money across the menu, with a last-restock report.
• Faster walking, turning and active work animations for employees currently working at player-owned venues.
• Supplier ranking that balances price, stock and district travel, with greater urgency around meal times and recent demand spikes.
• Batched shopping notifications across businesses; purchase failures and other warnings stay immediate.
• NPC command, hand-prop cleanup and navigation activation repairs.
• Lighting and volumetric command reuse, abandoned render-texture cleanup, verified character LOD corrections and cheaper distant open umbrellas.
• Animation LOD reduction set to 40% by default, adjustable live from 0% to 50%.
• Simpler Wet Surfaces and Reduced Rain Effects options.
• A shared Mods settings tab for Unofficial Patch, Better Time and Tracked Quests HUD when installed.
• Shopping price order in both directions and a Decorations filter.
• Optional Mute Ava's Voice setting for phone and in-person dialogue, off by default.
• Balanced Detail: earlier existing lower-detail meshes for selected props and middle-distance NPCs, plus native distance limits for selected hair and clothing.
• Optional local CPU, GPU activity, RAM and graphics-memory capture, disabled by default.

Manager policies

Open a venue's Staff tab and choose Edit Manager Behavior. Select Balanced, Save money or Keep menu available. Expand Purchasing details to set stock coverage, supplier preferences, a cash reserve, a spending limit and emergency orders. Set dish priorities to Low, Normal or High. Money fields accept decimal points or commas. Apply affects the next restock; Cancel discards your edits.

The planner accounts for shared ingredients, current stock and incoming deliveries before funding complete recipe batches. A zero spending limit keeps the game's allowance. Emergency purchases may use a cheaper supplier, but never bypass the cash reserve, budget or available stock. Last restock explains the latest result and is cleared between sessions.

Save the game to keep applied policies. Back up BepInEx/config/NivalisUnofficialPatch/ManagerPolicies together with your saves. Use in-game saving to carry policies to a different slot; renaming a save externally does not rename its policy file.

Staff pace

Employees currently working at player-owned venues walk 14% faster, with matching walking playback. Turn animations play 20% faster and active work interactions play 10% faster. Customers and off-duty staff are unaffected. Production timers and work queues retain their native rules; faster animation does not guarantee extra output.

What was wrong and why I fixed it

• Managers could buy inconsistent quantities. Recipe checks and orders did not consistently use the same batch quantities. Restocking now accounts for each recipe input, the listed shortage, stored stock and deliveries already on the way. Purchases transfer real supplier items and share the available budget so one ingredient cannot spend the same allowance twice.
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