Hey Backyard Chefs!
First of all, thank you so much for all the support, patience, bug reports, and feedback you’ve shared with us since launch. Farm to Table is a solo-developed project, and Early Access has only been live for a little over a week. Every report, suggestion, and message you sent over the past week has been incredibly helpful while the game keeps improving step by step.
This update focuses heavily on some of the most requested quality-of-life changes, especially shelf labeling, staff clarity, recipe renaming, and mouse invert support.
Highlights
Shelf crate labels are here!
You can now label shelf crates and control them with lock, unlock, and reset options.
This should make storage much easier to organize, especially for players who have been struggling with farmers placing ingredients in unexpected spots. Shelf organization has been one of the most requested improvements, so we’re really happy to start improving this part of the game.
Staff can now explain what they are waiting for
Staff members now show wait reasons when something blocks their work.
They can explain if they are waiting because of things like:
Missing assignments
Missing shelf space
Missing ingredients
Unreachable targets
Blocked stations
We also added warning indicators for staff blockers that the player can fix. This should make it much easier to understand why a chef, farmer, or waiter is not working instead of leaving you guessing.
Recipe renaming added
You can now rename discovered recipes.
This was another highly requested feature, especially for players who like organizing their menu in their own way.
Invert Mouse setting added
An Invert Mouse setting has been added for players who prefer inverted camera controls.
Changelog
Added
Added recipe renaming for discovered recipes.
Added an Invert Mouse setting.
Added shelf crate labels with lock, unlock, and reset controls.
Added staff wait reasons so staff can explain what they are waiting for, including missing assignments, missing shelf space, missing ingredients, unreachable targets, or blocked stations.
Added warning indicators for player-actionable staff blockers.
Added scrolling support to the recipe/menu limit UI for longer lists.
Fixed
Fixed an issue where loading or saving could reset research progress and money. (Thanks to @notfriendless on Discord for helping us track this down.)
Fixed save controls so they are unavailable until loading is complete, helping prevent accidental saves over incomplete game state.
Fixed ingredient transfer issues that could cause ingredients to disappear, duplicate timing problems, or become interactable before movement finished.
Fixed shelf labels so loaded shelves can restore labels from their saved contents.
Fixed staff assignments so hired staff keep their assigned fields, cookers, and stations more reliably after loading.
Fixed highlight behavior on sprite-based visuals.
Adjusted
Thank you again for playing, reporting issues, and helping us improve Farm to Table step by step. Your patience during these first Early Access days means a lot, and we’ll keep working through the feedback as quickly and carefully as possible.
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View game pagePlease share the things you loved, what you think could be improved, and any bugs, crashes, feedback, or suggestions in the Discord channel or on the Steam forums. We'll be closely watching them throughout launch. 💛
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Have fun farming and building your restaurant!
Till next time,
Furkan & Sevo @ indieGiant
