Redesigned
One press to learn
Learn is a single button now. Each subject has its own page with its level, the next exam and what your study kit adds.
Learning
Studying got its own kit
New
The study kit
Notes, a method, a desk, a chair, a lamp, a board, tools and a teacher all go in their own slot. Better things make every Learn count for more, and some only help one or two subjects.
New
Picks and exams
Every new level gives you a pick of three things. Every fifth level is an exam that uses up some of your spare things.
New
Inventory and shop
The shop sells things up to the third tier. Anything better comes from picks, the beach and graduation.
New
Teachers and coffee
Teachers are paid by the session and take you past where you'd get on your own. Coffee gives a few Learns a lift.
New
School supplies
At six you start school with nothing, and pick one thing out of three for your school bag.
New
The first day
Your first day of school is a short 3D walk from the bus to the door.
New
Diplomas
Finishing university forges a diploma in a graduation hall. Burn up to five things into it and it keeps their multipliers.
Redesigned
Languages
Languages have levels from A1 to C2, learned one lesson at a time.
New
Traits
Some picks are traits instead of things. They last the whole life, and picking one again levels it up. A Traits page shows the ones you have.
Work
Work teaches through people
Redesigned
Extra hours
Your normal hours teach you nothing new. Extra hours do, and they push your performance up.
New
Colleagues
Three colleagues and a boss decide how much extra hours teach. They come and go, and a yearly review hands out gifts to keep them longer or make them teach more.
Rule change - jobs
No more yearly round
Ordinary jobs don't play a minigame every year anymore. Special careers keep theirs.
New - jobs
Degrees pay
A degree gives you a profession, like Medic or Programmer, worth more pay in its field. The interview shows exactly what you'll be paid.
Hustle
Hustling got levels
New
Levels
Every shift earns hustle experience, and every level brings a pick and a pile of cash.
New
Tools
Hustle has its own things: a toolbelt, ways to find listings and ways to bill. They bring more listings, better pay and extra time to hustle.
New
Shifts can go wrong
Some jobs are riskier than others. When a shift goes wrong you pay for it in money or tools, and safety gear helps.
Health
Health goes back up
New
Health comes back
Walks, runs and a fit body give health back, up to what's normal for your age.
New
Hospitals
Care is free where the country has a health service, or you can pay for it. Either way there are three hospitals to choose from, rated by stars.
New
The emergency room
When your health gets low, an emergency visit can pull you back. It takes part of the year, and after fifty it doesn't always work.
The beach
Rivals and bottles
New
Rivals
Other diggers walk the beach now and dig what you would have. Get too close and they'll fight you. A knockout costs you three levels.
New
Corked finds
Everything you dig up comes in a corked bottle. Tap to pull the cork.
New
Upgrades
Every third find brings an upgrade.
Between lives
Boosts and keepsakes
New
A boost for every life
When a life ends you pick one of three boosts. They stack for every life after, and you redeem them in a library.
New
Keepsakes
Each childhood story leaves a keepsake on your account that helps later lives study.
Smaller changes
What works differently
Redesigned
House and garage
Both pages are laid out like Study now, with totals first and each car on its own page.
New - childhood
The border
The fence crossing in The Border story is playable in 3D, under the northern lights.
New
Eating from the bins
A year eating from the bins now shows you doing it.
Rule change
Happiness
Happiness wears off more slowly, so a busy working life lasts longer before it runs dry.
Rule change
Pensions
A pension pot you stop paying into pays out at pension age, even if you never pressed Retire.
Your saves come with you
OpenLifeSim is a free life simulator you play in your browser. A life you started before 1.6.6 carries on where you left it.
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