0.4.0

0.4.0, subtitled "For Your Convenience (Part 2)" was a major update to Fruit Juice Tycoon: Refreshed. Its main focus was on making several quality of life improvements and overhauling the inventory and the Shop.

0.4.0 released February 14th, 2026

Changes

UI & Menus

• Overhauled the Shop:
  • (+) Tools and Placeables are no longer on random rotation
  • (-) Tools and Placeables now require the player to get certain Achievements to unlock
  • (-) Raised the price of most items
  • (-) The Umbrella and Personal Teleporter are now located in the Shop
  • (+) Shop now has 8 slots for Consumables
  • (+) Consumables have a chance to be sold in bulk for a discount
• Overhauled the Inventory:
  • Item Cards have replaced the item info sidebar, similar to other menus (i.e. Shop and Placeables menu)
  • Item Cards now offer more information on their effects
  • Added dividing lines to item cards to separate groups of text info (i.e. title, description)
  • Added the option to use Consumables while viewing their item card
  • Added the option for Consumables to be automatically used when their buff expires
• Stats menu now tracks non-Consumable, Tycoon-wide buffs, such as the Mutagen and Enchanted Oak Tree

Gameplay

• (+) Plants can now be affected by multiple boosters of the same type at once
• (-) Enchanted Oak Tree now increases the multiplier of all dropped fruits to be Shiny by 1, rather than multiplying it.
• (+) Increased the maximum n00bfr00t trees held from 3 to 9
• (+) Shininess now multiplies the amount of fruit when collected instead of randomly adding 1-3
• (~) Haunted fruit now triple the amount of fruit when collected instead of randomly adding 5-10
• (+) Raised the Tokens cap from 2,500 to 3,000
• (+) Raised the Speed Boost granted by Bloxy Cola from +4 to +6
• Rebalanced Quests:
  • Special Quests' requirements and rewards have been increased
  • The "Find or purchase items" quest has been removed
  • Added the "Use consumable items" quest
• (+) Shaking Plants can now yield Magic Fertilizer and Four-Leaf Clovers
• Adjusted Balloons' drops:
  • (+) Increased chance for Green Balloons to drop items
  • (-) Decreased chance for Green Balloon and Red Balloon to drop
  • (-) Decreased Money granted from both types
• Tweaked Consumables:
  • (-) Reduced the duration of Bloxiade's effect from 2m to 1m 30s
  • (-) Reduced the duration of the Midas Gauntlet's effect from 2m 30s to 2m
  • (-) Reduced the duration of the Toxic Waste Barrel's effect from 2m 30s to 2m
  • (-) Reduced the duration of Bloxiade's effect by 30 seconds down to 1m 30s
  • (-) Turbo Batteries no longer automatically activate Sprinklers for their maximum run time, instead adding 30 seconds to its timer on use, capped at 5 minutes.
  • Renamed Sparkling Water to Sparkling Juice
  • (-) Sparkling Juice has a lower drop rate

Visual Changes

• Remodeled the Crown Jewel
• Added particle effects to the Mutagen
• Sprinklers cause affected plants to flash when activated
• Trees now flash when ready to be shaken again

Bug Fixes

• Items equipped that have empty inventory slots between them will no longer be unequipped when leaving and rejoining