Hakoniwa Base Ball 1.16 Adds Player Profiles and Rebuilds the CSV Editor

Version 1.16 of Hakoniwa Base Ball arrives with two headline changes: expanded player profiles and a ground-up rebuild of the in-game CSV editor. The update post also retroactively documents Version 1.15, which addressed a farm-game bug, contract renewal improvements, and unspecified additional fixes.

What changed

Player profiles (Ver 1.16)

• Every player now has a profile sidebar on the player detail screen
• Japanese players are assigned a hometown drawn from all 47 prefectures, weighted by population and baseball tradition; foreign players come from a pool of 16 countries
• Height and weight reflect positional tendencies — tall pitchers, smaller middle infielders, larger power hitters — with occasional outliers
• Existing saves and custom CSVs are unaffected; players without values receive auto-generated ones, and generation is deterministic per player

CSV editor overhaul (Ver 1.16)

• Breaking balls can now be edited per pitch type across six dropdown slots; pitch count, signature pitch, and overall breaking value stay in sync automatically
• The static guide panel is replaced by per-field hover tooltips
• Hometown, height, and weight are editable directly (blank hometown triggers auto-generation)
• Visual refresh aligns the team and stadium editors to a shared design language
• The bundled standalone CsvEditor.exe also supports the new fields

Steam Workshop fix (Ver 1.16)

• A bug preventing Workshop mods from replacing the Japanese and foreign name CSVs is resolved; qualifying mods now fully replace the name pool for newly generated players

Taken together, these changes give both casual players richer character detail out of the box and modders a more capable, less error-prone set of tools.