📅 Release Date: March 26, 2026

The v0.7.0 update marks the one-year anniversary of inZOI in Early Access. This update focuses primarily on core improvements, system expansion, and gameplay refinement, alongside selected new content additions.

🧾 Overview

• 🔧 Focus on gameplay improvements and stability
• 🏪 Expansion of business, simulation, and social systems
• 🆕 Introduction of new core features (minimap, calendar, memories)
• 🤝 Continued emphasis on player-driven development

🎮 Gameplay

🏪 Business

• 🌸 Added flower shop system
  • 6 new farmable flowers
  • Crafting: bouquets and flower baskets
  • High Gardening skill can apply special effects
  • Existing flower shops can now be purchased
• 🎬 Added movie theater system
  • Genres: Horror, Comedy, Teen Romance, Documentary
  • 🍿 Popcorn machine interaction
  • Can be operated as a business
• ➕ Added:
  • 💰 Tip jar system (based on customer satisfaction)
  • 🧘 Massage & yoga interactions
  • 📢 Promotion-related urges
  • 📊 Customer satisfaction info
• 🔄 Improvements:
  • Business actions prioritized
  • Lecture payments adjusted
  • Cancel item sales
  • Vendors react to purchases

🚗 Driving & Vehicles

• 🚘 Drive vehicles across the city
• 🚲 Added bicycles
• 🅿️ Family parking spaces & public parking
• ⚠️ Improvements:
  • Automatic deceleration before collisions
  • Better collision handling

🗺️ Minimap

• Added minimap system
  • 👤 Player & family tracking
  • 🏠 Property icons
  • 🎛️ Custom filters
  • 📍 Movable UI
  • ❌ Can be disabled

🚨 Crime

• 🚗 Vehicle theft now punishable
• 🌾 Crop theft now treated as crime
• ⚖️ Trial-bound Zois cannot travel
• ⚖️ Adjustments:
  • Reduced arrests for minor crimes
  • Balanced "Extort" interaction

📱 Smartphone

• 📞 Call & receive calls
• 👥 Contact system (add/block/delete)
• ℹ️ Notes:
  • Deleted contacts must be re-added
  • Blocked Zois can request unblocking

📅 Calendar & Events

• Added 28-day calendar system
  • 🎂 Birthdays
  • 🎉 Holidays
  • 🤰 Pregnancy milestones
• 🎊 Seasonal festivals:
  • 🌸 Spring Festival
  • 🎃 Halloween Festival
  • ❄️ Winter Festival
• ⏳ Aging tied to birthday events

🔄 Multitasking

• 🍔 Eat while walking
• 💬 Talk while holding food
• 🔘 Improved interaction icons

👶 Babies

• ⚙️ Adjusted needs
• 🎨 Added customization
• 🦷 Teeth progression system
• 🧼 Quick cleanup interaction

🔔 Status Updates

• Added Status Updates menu
  • 📢 Life event notifications
  • 📜 Event tracking

🧠 Simulation

💬 Conversations

• Outcomes now depend on:
  • 🧬 Traits
  • 😊 Emotions
  • ❤️ Relationships
• 🔄 Improvements:
  • Interrupt small talk
  • No NPC interruptions
  • 🌍 Conversations outside lots

⚙️ Interactions

• 🎯 Player actions override others
• ⚠️ Needs-based interruption (<30%)
• 🧹 Smart cleaning tool usage
• 💊 Medicine without sitting
• ➕ Additional:
  • 🎁 Display gifts
  • ⏳ Longer idle after selection
  • ⏱️ Cooldowns start after actions

👥 Group Interactions

• ⚡ Faster participant selection
• 🚫 Excludes distant/incompatible Zois
• ➕ New interactions:
  • 🛏️ Pillow fights
  • 🛁 Lower-body soak
  • ⛄ Snowman building
  • 🏋️ Fitness & 🎵 music activities

🎉 Social Events

• 🎂 Birthday parties added
• ➕ Improvements:
  • 🚪 Door permissions for guests
  • 📣 Event coordination
  • ❌ Late responses cancel events
• 💍 New wedding interaction:
  • "Give Kiss Performance"

❤️ Romance

• 💑 Spouse dating system
• 💋 New interactions (e.g. "Kiss Passionately")
• 🔄 Improvements:
  • Teen relationship logic
  • Mood-based success rates

🍽️ Food

• 🍴 Eat held food
• 🍽️ Plates placed after meals
• ☕ Teatime system added
• 🧁 Baking from fridge

🎯 Urges

• 👶 New child-related urges
• ⚡ Family conflict scenarios

🧠 Memories

• Added:
  • 🧩 Memories system
  • 🏆 Milestones system

🎞️ Animations

• 📱 Smartphone (sofa/toilet use)
• 😡 Emotional states
• 👶 Baby interactions

🔧 General Improvements

• 🆕 New ambitions:
  • ☕ Coffee Master
  • 🍰 Baking Master
  • 🍹 Drink Mixing Master
• ⚠️ Reduced death from low needs
• 💡 Automatic lighting system

🎨 Create-a-Zoi (CAZ)

🔄 Improvements

• 🧍 More realistic body shapes
• 🎯 Selective presets
• 🎲 Improved randomizer
• 👕 Fixed clipping issues

🆕 New Items

• 👶 Baby outfits (6)
• 🩲 Adult underwear (3)
• 👗 Additional clothing

🏗️ Build Mode

🏠 Property System

• 📏 Standardized sizes (7 formats)
• 🔄 Auto-update notifications
• 💾 Preset saving

🔧 Improvements

• 🏡 More editable properties
• 💧 Adjustable pool water
• 📐 Better snapping

🆕 New Content

• 🏯 Hanok structures
• 🎪 Festival items
• 🧱 Modular roofing
• 🧩 Tiles & decorations

🎮 Controls

• ⌨️ Custom keymapping
• 📷 Improved camera behavior

🧪 Cheats

• UnlockSiteArea
• ToggleModinsight

🌐 Canvas

• 🔍 Added property size filter

🧩 Mods

• 🆕 Support for:
  • Animations
  • Accessories
  • Faces
• 🔄 Improvements:
  • No restart required
  • Better search & packaging

⚙️ System & Performance

🎨 Graphics

• 🌙 Improved lighting & shadows
• 🎮 Better low-end presets
• 🛠️ Fixed color tone issues

🚀 Optimization

• 🧠 Memory improvements:
  • PSO partitioning
  • Preallocation
• ⚡ General performance boost

📦 Additional Content

👕 Character

• 🎽 10 new wearable items
• 👶 Baby outfit customization

🌍 World

• 📦 100+ new items:
  • 🍲 Food
  • 🌸 Flowers
  • 🪑 Furniture
  • 🎉 Festival content

✅ Summary

The v0.7.0 update delivers a comprehensive upgrade focused on:

• 🔧 Core systems
• 🧠 Simulation depth
• ⚡ Stability and performance

This update sets a strong foundation for the next year of inZOI development.