It's been a long time coming! Character customization is here in 0.9.2 alongside a bunch of quality of life improvements and fixes!
Since there are so many balancing changes, especially regarding food stamina values and resources, there's a full blog post on our website with the numbers if you want to get into the nitty gritty. Otherwise, this patch note post will have all the points you'll need to know going into 0.9.2~
CHARACTER CUSTOMIZER
- Customize the colors of the base (body), ears, face details, blush, paw pad, and tail
- Change ears and eye colors individually
- Color history palette lets you quickly re-use colors you’ve already picked
- Profiles allow you to use and save up to 5 different color combinations
- Randomize this (part) or randomize all (chaos) to get the creative juices flowing
- Rotate between 8 directions! You used to not be able to see the paw pad, so we’ve added one direction with it visible
In the future, we'd like to add different ear/tail styles, fur patterns, and accessories! But for now, we will focus on reaching 1.0 with the other features like tool upgrades and bonding.
MIRRORS
To change your character’s appearance after the opening sequence, you can craft and place a mirror. Those who have a save file prior to the release of 0.9.2 will get a letter in their mailbox with a Softwood Mirror attached.
To start with, we have 4 mirror styles:
- Softwood Mirror
- Sleek Mirror with three dye slots
- Traditional Mirror
- Vintage Vanity with a surface
Like all other crafting recipes, these can be found and purchased at your local Carpenter’s.
NEW STORAGE CONTAINERS
We’ve been needing some better storage solutions that fit in with your decor a bit better, so we added a few! All of these have buildable surfaces on top, so you can put objects on them or stack up the boxes.
- Simple Console Table
- Simple Floating Shelf
- Tropical Storage Box (dyeable inner)
- Storage Box (dyeable lid and body)
- Sleek Console Table (dyeable handles, surface, drawers)
- Vintage Dresser
QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGES
FISHING SENSITIVITY
Fishing Sensitivity option added under Settings - Gameplay to change speed of your line.
GRASS
No more pesky grass in your town area by the bulletin board. Your days as the forced lawnmower are over. Rejoice.
MAIN MENU
Will auto-highlight Continue if you have a save file instead of New Game. Main Menu also has a new look that focuses on the two buttons you’re the most likely to click and matches better with the rest of the game’s new UI.
SKIP INTRO
For those who want to skip the first day’s of cutscenes! You can now go straight from character customization into day two without missing out on any items. It will put you back at home after the cutscene of Mikan, Nobu, and you fixing up her house.
GAMEPAD ROUTING
Remember the strange jank when using controller inside the Furnace, Alembic, and others? We’ve improved SnackoUI’s gamepad routing. You’ll also feel these positive changes inside the journal, where it will no longer focus on ghosts.
Selecting an item in the crafting menu will now auto-focus on the right side to allow you to decrease, increase, or craft the item.
EVENT TRIGGERS
Friendship and heart events no longer trigger the second you get into the map, pulling you to random places. Now, a trigger a spawn near the location of the event instead.
BETTER INTRO QUESTS
Adding additional rewards to quests to help get your early game decorating vibe started.
- Moo-re to a Farm: +1 Stuffed Chicken
- D.I.Why: +20 Softwood Fence, +20 Softwood Path, +5 Cobblestone Path A, +5 Cobblestone Path B
- I Ship It!: +1 Softwood Couch
BETTER PLACEMENTS
- You can now shove chairs closer into the Softwood Table
- You can now place the Simple Fridge up against the wall when grid snapping is on
STEAM DECK POLISH
Entering name fields now bring up the keyboard
Default frame rate set at 60 instead of unlimited to help battery and fan noise
MORE OBVIOUS HARDWOOD
Hardwood trees are now always some shade of pink that turn more purple as it gets colder. No more guessing what is what in the summer!
BUG FIXES
- Softwood Lamps can now be placed on surfaces
- Fixed scary bug where passing out in the Mines or outside the house will result in a giant face in your front door window
- Walking on paths will no longer jitter your character
- Tutorial quests no longer re-add to bulletin board in year 2
MOVEMENT & TOOLS
- Window for double-jumping now longer (refer to full patch notes for more details)
- Easier to spam tool faster
- Slightly faster tool charge up time
BALANCE
The full scope of these changes are too long to stuff in here, so please refer to full patch notes for all numbers.
- Cooked foods now give more stamina
- All foods now give either stamina and/or health
- Tomatoes and corn now ship for slightly less to compensate for multi-harvests
- Turnip now ship for slightly more
- Conduit and Quicksand shrines tweaked to be slightly easier and have more routes to the chests and end
- Trees in farm and town take less hits
- Resource drop ranges are more compact, going from larger ranges like 3-7 to smaller, more fair-feeling ranges like 5-7
- Debris in town take less hits to destroy fully
- Housing expansions, wallpaper, and flooring styles take less materials to unlock
- NPC housing takes less materials to craft
That's the end of the notes for 0.9.2! I'm probably missing a couple of bugs fixed...but we'll be keeping our eyes peeled for anything unexpected that we'll hotfix in the upcoming weeks!
Enjoy the new patch, and thank you for playing 💌