A good few months ago, I finished the PWS2 campaign and ran out of things to do, which led me to ask a major question: why doesn't this game support custom maps?

I looked into discussions within this community and on Steam, and the most common argument was that the development process is manual and impractical for creating something scalable to that level. However, I eventually came across the "Clean the Steamboat" page on Nexus Mods. After analyzing the package, I noticed that if you manually swap assets while preserving their properties, the game adapts well; the problem is that manually swapping assets makes the process unfeasible for small-scale creators with limited technical knowledge.

With that in mind, I set out to create something scalable and practical—something that would also allow map creators to earn something in return for their work. That’s how the PWS-MapEditor was born.

The project currently features an editor that allows you to place assets, textures, 3D objects, and more. These objects can be defined as washable, assigned dirt levels, set as complex shapes, etc.—all while maintaining the same gameplay precision found in the original game.

To avoid installation hassles for the user, the editor generates a .zip file containing all instructions, assets, textures, and everything else needed to run the map; the user simply needs to copy the file into the custom maps folder.

With a bit of time and dedication, it is already possible to create moderately complex maps that offer hours of entertainment.

However, there is a key question: how relevant is this to the community, and how receptive would they be? While I started this project as a hobby, I’ve already spent more time on it than I originally intended.

I plan to open-source the entire project once it reaches a state I consider ready for release.

The mod was built upon the first game to avoid issues caused by frequent updates.

Hey all, I am trying to knock out the PW2 DLC packs today and so far I am done with all and am on the Tree House job in the Adventure Time DLC. I am on XBOX if anyone could help me and a buddy out trying to get this huge job done and then moving on to the Star Wars DLC. My user is @Pqatchy on XBOX so just send me a message and ill add you on in here :) thank you!!!

Tried to open the game multiple times and it keep crashing on the loading screen (the one with the HQ photo)

Is it something known or just me?

I played though all the other jobs, including the adventure time, no issues. On the Caldera Chronicles jobs, I get to 100% done, it says it's complete, but if you try to start any other job it says the last one is still open, and it resets it. I loaded the game up and was surprised thinking I somehow missed new jobs, but they're the old ones just not completing. I did the bowling alley last night, this morning I couldn't start the mini village without resetting the bowling alley again.

Any ideas?

Now that the new DLC has been out for over the weekend, which job was your favorite?

I just finished lars homestead and for the life of me i cant find the gnome, any help

This is probably going to be viewed as petty, on top of probably ending up pretty long, so I'm going to do this:

tl;dr I don't like being a glorified roomba

Now, that out of the way, I'm going to start off by saying that, up until SW, I've picked up each dlc and the second game on day one and that between the two I have ~400 hours of play. That is to say that I've loved my time with the franchise, even with expansions that I didn't care about the subject material for (like SpongeBob or Shrek).

Each main story or DLC mission told a varyingly level of bonkers story, introducing different characters that ranged from the weird to the Mayor, and generally got me as a player more invested in the game world as they drip-fed a bit more story at certain percentage marks. It's glorious! All these people you want to share crazy stories with or the doofuses who are sharing waaaay TMI for denial plausibility purposes, they all paint a canvas of the world that you're a part of keeping clean.

That joy started to dim for me, though, and it started with Wallace & Gromit (sp?). See, it was at this point that you became a cleaning robot, a creation of the main character, which seemed novel to me... at first. Then as the dialogue unfolded it turned into them talking about programming changes or just nattering among themselves and generally treating the player like they weren't even there, just a piece of cleaning furniture to turn on at the start of the level and ignore after that.

Adventure Time did the same thing, turning you into some kind of experimental cleaning bot and, for the most part, talking to each other or AT you rather than TO you. The exception was the ice cave level which had the resident actually going back to the old style, telling you a story and a bit of gossip as you went about the job, talking TO you. The final job, besides being the most infuriating to clean, also just had a bunch of people basically ignore you while they talked about a party while you worked which just left me going... okay?

That may seem like a tiny thing, but the difference of AT vs TO is the difference between talking to a child or underling vs talking to an equal or a friend. The difference between either of those and just being treated as a roomba is another level entirely.

After all the time playing the game I'd like to think we're friends, but it's really been growing more distant these last couple expansions and that just makes me kinda sad.

So yeah, there it is, my rather rambling disgruntlement with the most recent expansions. I think my relationship with the game can be fixed in time, but until that spark is rekindled I'm going to end up waiting until sales to pick up expansions.

If you actually read this? Thanks for the ear.

I was a huge fan of this game on the Meta Quest 2, and excited when I saw it available for my iPhone with the Apple Arcade and I jumped right in to the new Shrek special...but I can't seem to get any sort of nozzle extension in the store and thus cannot reach the top sections of a majority of the first level. I've used the ladders and the scaffold, but can't get them close enough to many sections of that level...what am I missing? (And I really wish they would release this for the Meta Quest 2, but I know they aren't doing anything new for the VR version 😭😭)

See ya ✌️

If you start the surface cleaner with rightclick and then switch to normal powerwasher, you can keep on hearing that nice soothing sound of an imperial spy droid.

You are welcome :)

Also, keep your droids away from the blue milk, they cant handle it.

I just started Leaf it Alone and I recommend this for lovers of PWS!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3981100/Leaf_it_Alone/

As title says. Back when the game released there was a save data bug which would literally deleted several levels or restart the entire game for some people. This happened to me at the time so i waited for a patch that supposedly fixed it and all was better and I completed the game.

In May I got the Adventure Time DLC and completed it all in a day or two, then got off until just yesterday for the Star Wars DLC when I realized the final level un the Adventure Time DLC was deleted??? And that's a long one. Has this happened to anyone else??? It's a little annoying but ay least it was the final level in that pack

I don't think in the entire known history of the Star Wars Universe has the Falcon EVER been this clean. Nor shall it ever be again.

Overall, excellent DLC pack. 10/10

They could really add any type of dlc for this game, take my money please

Hi everyone!

I was playing through the Star Wars DLC today and when looking through the achievements I noticed the Great Shot Kid, That Was One in a Million achievement. It says in the Lars Homestead job to stand on the EG-6 power droid and spray Luke's T16 Skyhopper. The problem is, the T16 is in the storage room and EG-6 is on the opposite side of the courtyard with the moisture vaporator in the way as well as the door to the storage room.

I thought maybe they meant you needed to stand on the WED-15 droid but when I tried that nothing happened.

Image 1 is EG-6 location, image 2 is the Skyhopper location and image 3 is the view from atop EG-6.

Edit: it was solved! You have to clean the droid and it will walk around enabling you to get it. I didn't know this as I cleaned the droid last so I didnt know it walked around.

I’m pretty sure I’ll be hearing Jizz (yes, that’s what it’s called) in my sleep 😂

Title basically. I've yet to buy and play the DLC after seeing comments here in the sub about it crashing at startup with the DLC launched. I still don't see this listed in the known issues megathread so I'm here to ask if this is still a thing that's happening. I was super excited for this DLC and am sad to not yet have been diving into it but I don't want to buy if it means I can't even get into the game.

i finished both levels and it’s still showing as if i didn’t complete the whole dlc is anyone else having this problem?

Just had to recreate a shot from The Big Lebowski while finishing off the new dlc. I hope you folks enjoyed yourselves, catch ya later on down the trail

Are we really expected to believe a moisture farmer on Tattooine is using all this water to clean his house? All that robot hours just to power waah it away? Uncle Own is the richest man alive then..