Hello, teaheads,
We are happy to implement more features in this update.
1. The change of seasons now affects the color palette of the entire level. In addition to that, the fog and cloud cover and rain fx are also added.
2. We are introducing a bunch of BRAND NEW tea processing equipment which can be helpful in preparing more variations of tea.
a) Hand rolling - This manual process is extremely helpful for subtly damaging your tea and processing it again for more flavors. Make sure you keep an eye on the chemical charts for better understanding.
b) Hand Tossing - This is even subtler than hand rolling. This tradition of bruising tea is quite common among oolong producers. This method is for further tweaking your tea flavors.
c) Bruising Machine - This tumbling machine is predominant in oolong factories. They are trying to mimic hand shaking or tossing via a machine. But can it really replace manual bruising? What do you think?
d) Sha Qing Wok - This is the staple equipment for Chinese producers. It's still an irreplaceable part of tea production, especially Puerh. A hard labor-intensive process, but with its benefits.
e) Automated Sha Qing Machine - This is the automated version of sha qing wok. Fast, efficient. But, will it give the same quality as manual sha qing? You have to experiment with it to find out.
f) Steaming Machine - This is also a very popular option. Especially among Japanese and Indian green tea producers. But you have to tweak your pipeline a bit to accommodate this.
g) Ball Rolling Machine - This is popular among Oolong producers. Especially who like to preserve the volatiles.
h) Rack Drying Machine - No fuss, efficient and effective. But they give a slightly different result than the traditional roasting machine.
i) Charcoal Roasting - This is quite a specialty tea equipment. We are really unsure about its effectiveness apart from the nuances it brings in flavors. We tried our best to implement it. Let us know the results.
There are also numerous small improvements and bug fixes apart from these. But we don't want to bore you with that. Go ahead and play with these new toys and let us know what you think.
Cheers