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Improvements The status icons above animals during mating are now much less intrusive. The good old Fortune Cookie and Pitch Cookie indicator is back in color. Reduced loading time when entering your own land. The Starfall event is now active every season. Our bear looks a bit fu
Random Events To add more variety, the event system now supports random events. Random events are revealed on the 1st of each season for the current season. New Random Events: Starfall A meteor shower is expected, resulting in more frequent meteorite sightings. You might be surpr
Without life partners moving to your land and having more meaningful interactions, the whole system feels pretty shallow. So this update is another step towards expanding the life partner system and giving it more depth, with room for further improvements. Life Partners Here is t
New Sickle The sickle has been reactivated as a basic recipe. Use it to chop grass cleanly without affecting anything else. Hay Shed Can now be built to dry grass into hay. Converts 20 grass into 20 hay overnight. Rainy weather and winter pause the drying process. Recipe can be p
Note I’m not really much of a breeder myself, but somehow it felt like breeding animals could use a little more variety and excitement. The anomalies added previously fit in well, so some of the other animal groups have now received their own as well. Hopefully, this gives player
New Singing Sunflower Among the strange seeds that can sometimes be found at Nick’s, there may now also be a seed for a singing sunflower. Once the sunflower has fully grown, it will sing from time to time and sleep at night. Nutty Chicken When hatching chicken eggs, there is now
Archaeology While testing the game, the archaeology branch was honestly a bit sad to look at. Everything else kept growing, while archaeology literally stayed stuck in the Stone Age. That is why the following adjustments were made to better fit the current state of Onyx. These ad
Giants Yeah, that just had to be. The first giant versions of plantable crops have been added. Nobody still knows where Nick gets his weird rarities from, but from time to time (30 %), he may have a bag of these unusual seeds available in his shop. They can also occasionally be f
Steamworks integration temporarily disabled due to hiccups. Will be re-enabled in upcoming updates. Many thanks for the reports, Cynthera!
Gamepad Improvements Virtual Keyboard Onyx now has the first version of its own virtual keyboard that automatically opens when you select an input field with a gamepad. While in-game and active, the virtual keyboard can be navigated using the D-pad (not yet fully supported in the
Foreword Hey everyone! After my graphics card fried, a very kind person sponsored a used replacement, bringing this whole odyssey to an end. While a few parts of this update were already pushed out, the complete patch (which was ready over a week ago) is now live! Bandits Finally
Long story short With this update, I wanted to breathe some fresh life into looting and crafting. The goal was to increase the variety of weapons and equipment, but without just adding useless filler items. Please note With the new stat system, some older weapons might have lost
Gamepads Okay okay okay.. Gamepads it is, then. I hear you. By the way, it’s been fascinating to see how some of you managed to configure your gamepads to control the character well, even though Onyx didn’t provide the necessary tools for it yet. I also must confess, while buildi
New Vesh the Elemental Joining from the very start of the game and basically just as lost as your own character. Vesh cannot be controlled and will pop up here and there from time to time. In terms of progression it is assumed that you meet Vesh right at the beginning of the game
New Help System The first version of the new help system is now live. A cat will now welcome you at the start of Onyx. She provides tips and guidance to help you navigate the world of Hyalen more easily. If you prefer, you can disable her guidance in the settings. The old tutoria
New Arachnophobia Mode Replaces the model of all spiders with a little cloud. The alternative model may be updated again in the future. Needed to be live asap. Quest Lost Technologies Charlie the Innkeeper now offers a new quest regarding the Lost Technologies from the fall of Fe
Preface Big thanks to the two ladies who’ve been grinding the game lately and dropping all that feedback! You asked if breeding could be a bit more interesting and, more importantly, if we could get something truly "cute" to breed. I loved those ideas, so this update is pretty mu
Autumn Festival The goal was to implement the initial version of the first seasonal event. As with our other events, it allows for more content to be added gradually. New village decoration. Side quest turkey hunt with a little giveaway event. Autumn outfit. Available from the se
New Outfits Explorers Outfit More durable and equipped with pockets. Wearing clothes with pockets expands your inventory capacity while equipped. Recipe is available with a chance from the Seamstress on Market Day. Gardeners Outfit More durable and equipped with pockets. Item wit
Foreword The goal was to implement an initial light version first, which can then be expanded step by step. New Partnerships You can now enter a partnership with Sarah and James in Minestra. The Partnership System Partnerships are not gender-specific. You can date whoever you wan