Kasi version 0.5.0 adds flowers that can manipulate time, as well as a few other small changes.
The full changelog is listed at the bottom of this post or in-game in the "What's New?" menu.
Major Changes
Clock Flowers
Overlapping two flowers now creates a clock flower. Clock flowers have three hands that tell time. The short hand goes around once per year, the big hand goes around once per day, and the little hand goes around 10 times per day.
Clicking a clock flower will stop time around your plant. Clicking again will resume time. While the world around you may stop including the sky, birds, spiders, and general physics, your plant does not. It can still absorb water and sunlight and can still grow. Strangely, the bees that pollinate your flowers are also not affected. You can pause time during the perfect light angle for maximum energy, or during the day for more pollination.
Rotating a clock flower clockwise around the branch to which it is attached will speed up time around your plant. You can skip a rainstorm, a night, or a whole season. Maybe you want your spider to grow up faster, or you want to test out the seasonal colors of a custom color palette. While time can be sped up, it cannot be reversed. That's thermodynamics.
Manipulating time does have a cost. Stopping time or accelerating it will slowly shrink your clock flowers until finally they wither and fall off. However, flowers grow along growth paths, just like leaves, and bigger flowers can affect time more before dying.
Minor Changes
Feedback Menu
The feedback menu just contains useful links to places where you can provide feedback on the game, which I am eagerly accepting. However, if you are reading this on the Steam community page, then you are already in the best place to do so.
Multiple Colors for all Leaves in Palettes
Previously, custom color palettes could only use multiple colors for fall leaves. Now, the leaves of any season, as well as vine leaves, can be as many different colors as you want, and they will automatically blend between seasons. You can finally have that rainbow tree you always wanted. Or a ghost tree, because any color can also be set to be transparent.
Full Changelog
Version 0.5.0 (2020-11-19)
- Add clock flowers, which can control time
- Color palettes can use multiple colors for vine leaves as well
as regular leaves in non-fall seasons
- Add feedback menu
- Minor performance improvements for larger plants