Big Ambitions Patch Notes and Update Tracker

Big Ambitions left Early Access on 28 August 2026 and got its first fix wave four days later. A second big patch and three hotfixes have followed. This page tracks what each build after 1.0 changed, and names the announcement it came from. It does not reproduce the patch notes — the full text is on Big Ambitions’ Steam news page, under the title shown on each entry.

Every build since 1.0

Why “1.0.1” finds nothing

This trips up almost everyone searching for a Big Ambitions patch, and it is not a bug:

• Hovgaard numbers builds, not point releases. The patch after 1.0 is called 1.0 Build 3672 — not 1.0.1. The number is a build counter that has been running since Early Access, which is why it jumps from the last EA build in the 3500s straight into the 3600s. If you search for a dotted version number you will find nothing, because one was never published.
• The 1.0 build itself has no number. The launch announcement never states which build shipped on 28 August. It is simply “1.0”, so that is how it is listed above.
• The build counter is not sequential across announcements. Early Access posts covered two or three builds at once (EA 0.11 Build 3538 / 3539), and Hovgaard only posts about builds worth posting about. A gap in the numbering is not a missing patch note.
• Some builds have no post of their own. Build 3674 was a hotfix added to the top of the Build 3672 notes a day later, and the post was retitled Build 3672/3674. Look for 3674 there.

What the 1.0 build itself added

The launch build was not a version bump on the last Early Access patch. Hovgaard published the feature list two weeks ahead of release, then confirmed it on the day:

The roadmap page has the full 1.0 block as the studio drew it before release.

Build 3674: the stuck employees

This is the hotfix to know about if your logistics stopped working in the first days after launch. Employees who tried to quit were getting stuck partway, and that made training, imports and deliveries fail. Hovgaard’s note says that if you saw logistics stop or training never finish, it should sort itself out as you play through to the next day. The same hotfix fixed scooters that could not turn after being used twice.

Build 3675: the AI textures come out

Hovgaard pushed Build 3675 on 10 September because, in the studio’s words, the use of some AI textures had frustrated some players. Hovgaard removed and replaced the AI textures on NPC store billboards, cinema movies, posters and standees, menu boards, airplane logos, two plant textures and a couple of TV shows. The notes list nothing else. As of 5 November, the AI disclosure on the Steam store page says AI was used only to translate the game.

Build 3680: patch 2

This is the “big patch 2” the 3675 post promised, out on 16 September, and the longest list since 1.0: optimisation first, then more than a hundred fixes. The ones that change how you play:

• Gated communities are closed to taxis and private drivers unless you own a home inside.
• An El Gato earnings exploit is gone. The notes say only that you could earn too much from it.
• Custom games get a slider for item resell value.
• Clearer alerts. A business that is open with no employees now warns you, and the alert for assigning an underskilled driver now says what skill the driver needs.
• Job board announcements can be switched off.

It also fixes hairdresser customers stuck at the register, boat purchases at the Hamptons docks reverting on reload, and wages that were not resetting each day or week.

Build 3682: the weekend’s bug reports

The last build so far, a hotfix on 23 September. If a vehicle vanished after you parked underground, this is the fix, and Hovgaard says missing vehicles should reappear when you load in. It also reopens the entrance to the 4 22nd St warehouse, stops the rain inside Hamptons homes, and fixes a few achievements, including old saves that were never credited for finishing.

The FPS drops

The most-reported problem of launch week, and one Hovgaard put in writing. The Build 3672 notes said the studio was looking into why some players see FPS drops and choppy gameplay. Build 3680 is the first patch to answer it: its notes open with lag fixes for the Contacts app, the Columbus Circle roundabout, VoogleMaps with many filters on and the area around the raw goods importers, plus general optimisation against crashes and low FPS. Hovgaard says this should fix the optimisation problems and asks anyone still affected to report it. The Build 3682 notes do not mention FPS.

How this page is kept

Worth stating plainly, because an update tracker that quietly goes stale is worse than none at all:

• Sources: Hovgaard’s Steam announcements, plus the Steam store page for the AI disclosure. Each build names the announcement it came from. Nothing else.
• Scope: one line per announced build since 1.0, plus the systems it touched. Early Access builds are not listed — the game they patched is not the game you are running. Full notes stay on Steam.
• Checked: on every build, and at least once a fortnight otherwise.

Every other Big Ambitions page here carries the build it was written against. When this tracker moves ahead of one of them, that page starts saying so on its own.

Related

• Big Ambitions roadmap — what is planned after these patches
• Big Ambitions mods — which Workshop mods have been updated since 1.0
• Getting started — the first hour in the version you have