This update is packed full of both optimization improvements and content! As we've been working on bringing the game to the Switch we had to take some time to tackle optimizing the game for a different platform, and this update for the PC makes full benefit of that, with considerably lower memory consumption and running much smoother.
Gamepad
The changes made to the gamepad controls for the Switch version have now been implemented into the PC version as well. If you already play the game with a gamepad you'll notice a lot of improvements with all the inventory actions accessible via gamepad.
There are new button shortcuts and a new item selection menu that gives you extra options when handling items including a way of splitting items with precision.
The game now also shows the correct key prompts in the UI based on your controls configuration.
New Creature: Owls and Transport Baskets
In this new update every winter you might start noticing some nests showing up around the forest. Every day of winter there's a small chance that a Snowy Owl Egg will appear in one of those nests. Picking up an egg starts a new questline with Poppy to build an Egg Hatchery that can be used to hatch Snowy Owl Eggs.
The eggs require to be cuddled once a day for 5 days to hatch into a Baby Snowy Owl. After 10 days of either being cuddled or eating Small Fish, it will mature into a Snowy Owl.
There's a new Boris questline that follows the large storage quest that will unlock a Basket Blueprint. This Basket can be combined with a Snowy Owl to create an Owl Transport Basket.
Owl Baskets can be used to transfer items home. Any item placed in the Owl Basket will be flown to the home chest, this works anywhere even if you're on Kozita! In case the home chest is full the remaining items will attempt delivery at every in-game hour.
Kozita Expansion
The Druid has discovered how to handle Kozita's Thorns and with your help they will start a new questline to get rid of them. This questline will ultimately give you their clothing item, the Leafy Coat.
Once the thorns are gone you'll be able to explore the rest of Kozita, meet the Kozita Miners, the fisher Roe and Mina, the Dragon enthusiast.
Mina is a big fan of Dragons and likes to create and hide Dragon Statues across the island. They will trade any Dragon Statues you find for Dragon-themed decoration items and eventually even Dragon Eggs.
Jasper, the miner, on the other hand is interested in the gems Mina uses to craft those statues and will trade any Dragon statues you find for gems and ores.
There are 20 Dragon Statues scattered around the island each in-game year for you to find. Mina can tell you how many are left for the year if you ask them.
New Creature: Dragons
Dragons are a great new addition to the Garden Paws mounts. They're the only mount that can not only glide but also Fly. Every day in Kozita there's a chance a Dragon Egg will be in one of the nests scattered around the island.
There are 5 different Dragon Eggs that you can find in different times of the year. Each season has a dragon egg and there is a rare chance to find a Dark Dragon Egg. Each egg has a few different dragon possibilities that can hatch from it. With some being rarer than others.
Dragon Eggs can be placed in the Egg Hatchery and take 15 days to hatch. Dragon Babies take 25 days to mature.
It's a lot of fun braving the skies of Kozita with the Dragons. When in the air you can press the jump button to fly. The same stamina wheel that appears when you're swimming appears when you're flying, with a wing icon in the center while flying is active.
New Creature: Elephants
Dragons aren't the only new animal coming into Garden Paws with the expansion of Kozita Island you'll also find Elephants that you can tame! They can be tamed with Hay and can be used as mounts.
Breeding - Alpaca, Cow, Fox, Bunny
Poppy is back with more breeding treat recipes! With this update the Alpaca, Cow, Fox and Bunnies can all breed adorable colorful new animals!
New Loot Chests for Late-game players
When you get to year 3 you'll start noticing better loot coming out of the Chests you find around the island. From large stacks of resources to random Decorations or even Animals, you never know what you're going to find when opening one of these new chests.
More New Items and Features
Superior Furnace
The Superior Furnace can hold stacks of up to 50 at a time as opposed to 10 of the regular furnace, making it easier to set up items to smelt and forget about it going to do other things in the island. This can be obtained through a questline with Beltran in year 2.
Ghosty
Ghosty is an adorable little ghost that follows you around when placed in the Face Slot of your equipment inventory. It can be traded for 25 pumpcoins in Halloween Island
New Kitsune Fox skins
Splash can now sell 3 new Kitsune Fox skin variations, Purple, Green and Blue.
Flower Sprinkler (In Winter with Pamela)
In Winter Pamela can now trade Snow Drops for a Flower Sprinkler, that has the same range of the Gold Sprinkler with a cool flowery visual.
Other Fixes and Changes
- If you're zoomed in on the map you can now click and drag the map to move the map view around.
- Crystal Paw and Birch Glass Shelf are now dyeable
- Guitar has been fixed and can now be played again.
- Four Christmas sweaters that were missing from Dasher's shop have been added to Dasher's shop.
- The Grey ferret can now be placed in the Ferret's Habitat
- Music no longer overlaps after you change islands.
- Pegasus and Skeleton Horse can now be placed in any stables.
- New sand collecting spots have been added closer to the player's house.
- Changed the icon on one of the Cat Tabby skins so it doesn't have the same icon as the other cat tabby skin.
- Made the shed Item Icons slightly smaller in hopes of fixing an issue with the last row of items not responding to clicks.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the animal showing their preferred food above their head when feeding.
- Fixed missing colliders in Castle Interior.
- Fixed an issue with the "Pick All" button on the Cooking Station
- Fixed an issue with the Dungeon Master costume breaking on the Horse and Dragon characters.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent bears/beetles from leaving the bear cave
- Fixed an issue that could prevent the cat ghost from being tamed.
Happy Holidays and thank you for all of your support!
