Hi Scouts! We're pleased to release our second major update to Cozy Grove! Here's a list of the highlights for the "Autumn Update":
- If you've upgraded it enough, you can now go inside your tent and decorate the interior! As you further upgrade your tent with Flamey, more rooms will be added to the interior (but not every upgrade adds a new room). You can decorate your tent's interior to your heart's content. When you enter for the first time, there should be a small housewarming gift waiting for you within.
- You know what enjoys hanging out indoors with people? Cats do! Lure them into your tent with the mysterious Cat Beckoner. Experiment and see which cats you can attract, and share your recipes with others. Note: you must leave food in the Beckoner overnight in order to attract a cat, and your odds of attracting a rarer cat will increase if you use at least one high quality prepared food.
- New Halloween event, coming to Cozy Grove from 20 October till 1 November. Who knows what spookiness might descend on the island... Don't miss it!
- We know that many of you have so many plants that it takes you forever to harvest them, so we've added the magical Accordion tool to the game! Use it to harvest many plants simultaneously by playing them a sweet tune that makes them sway with delight. Note: the Accordion will appear in Kit's store once you have revealed Bruin on the island.
- New Photography minigame! Join Arjun in his favorite activity to capture the magic of the island and your decorative scenes.
- Bunnies will now be available to join your outdoor birds and deer.
- New background music.
- Improved stone skipping activity.
- New clothing options, including some Halloween-exclusive outfits.
- Lots of new decorations for the new tent interior and outside.
- Improved decoration placement and movement.
- Added 20 slots to clothing closet.
- Improved sorting to merge items.
- Don't show happiness flyups when an animal's happiness has not changed
- Joyous and happy imp essence can be recycled
- Many other bugfixes and improvements.
We are already starting work on our Winter update, which will be smaller than this one as we can't keep putting off addressing some of the technical debt that has built up over the life of the project (technical debt makes it hard to add more to the game without causing perf and loading time problems, and just generally slows down development). We'll share more details on the Winter update later this year!