This article is a chronological log of the free updates Paralives Studio has released during Early Access, newest first. Paralives entered Early Access on May 25, 2026, and every update during and after Early Access ships free under the studio's no-paid-DLC commitment. Patch cadence is feature-driven rather than calendar-based. For the categorized list of acknowledged bugs and their workarounds, see Known Issues. For upcoming features, see Roadmap and Planned Features.
Version History
Version | Date | Focus | Highlights |
|---|---|---|---|
0.1.3 | June 6, 2026 | Content and fixes | Teen romance, group eating, the Paralives x Unpacking collaboration, a photosensitivity fade option, and firefighter and fire reliability improvements |
0.1.2b | June 1, 2026 | Hotfix | Fixed display-language and mod installs for players whose game sits on a different drive than the operating system |
0.1.2 | May 29, 2026 | Stability | Memory-leak fix, reduced save corruption, roughly 20 percent faster load, autonomous fire extinguishing, train motion-sickness divider |
Day-0 | May 25, 2026 | Launch patch | More than 20 fixes plus Live Mode inventory access and counter meal sales at all five restaurants |
Patch 0.1.3 (June 6, 2026)
Patch 0.1.3 is the second major post-launch update and the first to add new gameplay content during the June to September stabilization window. It pairs a content drop with a long bug-fix list.
New Content
Paralives x Unpacking collaboration: a free cross-game drop. Parafolk can play Unpacking on an in-world computer, collect Unpacking-themed stamps for the stamp-collecting hobby, and decorate rooms with Unpacking plushies and objects. The drop adds an Unpacking t-shirt and 10 collaboration-exclusive items recreating familiar objects from Unpacking. A discounted Steam bundle pairs both games. See Launch-Day Collaborations for the full collaboration roster.
Group eating: when a meal is eaten as a group, each Parafolk now grabs and eats their own portion instead of sharing a single interaction.
Teen romance: Teenagers can now flirt and form a romantic relationship with other Teenagers. See Relationships and Social System and Lifestages.
Photosensitivity option: a new accessibility setting controls how quickly objects such as trees and buildings fade out when they block the camera view.
Gameplay Fixes and Tuning
Using the telescope now increases the astronomy skill. See Skills and Knowledge.
More interactions now raise the Fun need, including Play Meli Melo, hopscotch, building sandcastles, playing with plushies, drawing on the floor, dancing and slow dancing, social media, reading books and newspapers, playing video games on a phone or computer, watching TV, and vandalizing. See Needs System.
Fire and firefighters: a smoke detector now correctly summons firefighters, fire no longer spreads into areas Parafolk cannot reach so it can always be extinguished, the number of firefighters that arrive is capped, firefighters keep their outfit, and they now act immediately rather than pausing between interactions. See Fire and Death.
Townie requests now fail automatically if the townie passes away, and the Clean the Beach request spawns its trash bags immediately so it can be completed.
The Town Hall hall-of-fame wall now correctly lists high-skill Townies your Parafolk can beat to claim the master photo. See Town Hall and Library.
Fixed a bug that made bills very expensive because of water consumption. See Economy and Bills.
Save system: further improvements reduce the chance of corrupted save files; voices of children and pre-teen Parafolk are now audible.
Build and cooking: ovens in tight spaces are now usable, frozen-pizza cooking glitches are fixed, the Modino wall sink works, and several pathfinding issues (an apartment staircase, a hairdresser entrance) were resolved.
Modding: playing with more than 50 Steam Workshop mods now works, and the in-game font supports more characters so modders can publish language translations. See Modding and Steam Workshop.
Display: in imperial units, heights now read as inches (for example 5 feet 11 inches) and lot-surface calculations were corrected.
Hotfix 0.1.2b (June 1, 2026)
A small hotfix that fixed an issue introduced in 0.1.2: players who had the game installed on a different hard drive from their operating system could not change the display language or install mods. It added no new gameplay systems.
Patch 0.1.2 (May 29, 2026)
The first major post-launch patch, four days after launch. It is a stability and bug-fix update with no new gameplay systems, in line with the planned stabilization window.
Stability: a memory-leak fix to reduce crashes and an improved save system that reduces corrupted-save frequency.
Performance: the initial loading screen takes up to 20 percent less time, the operating-system not-responding popup during loading is gone, and pathfinding was optimized to cut town lag spikes.
Fire: Parafolk can now autonomously extinguish items, fire no longer spreads to stairs or outside the lot, and firefighter calls are more reliable.
Paramaker and interface: a divider was added to the moving train to reduce motion sickness, Chinese character input was fixed, randomizing a character no longer risks unintended nakedness, and interface windows that would not close were fixed. See Paramaker.
Behavior: Parafolk no longer refuse vending-machine snacks when extremely hungry or refuse to sleep in long chairs when exhausted, and an infinite-notification personality-leveling bug was fixed.
Day-0 Patch (May 25, 2026)
Shipped alongside the launch build, the Day-0 patch fixed more than 20 issues found during the pre-release press window and unlocked several Live Mode systems. The most visible additions: interactable items can be added to inventory directly from the Live Mode interaction menu, all five Melino restaurants sell food at the counter, Collectibles have rarity-correct sell values, and a foliage-animation intensity slider was added for motion-sickness accessibility. It also bundled the launch-day cross-game collaborations.