New Mechanics and Gameplay Improvements
- Added Sprinklers that water crops automatically.
- Sun Lamps can be stacked on top of Sprinklers. Their effects will be combined while only using 1 tile space.
- Sun Lamps (and Sprinklers) show their area of effect before placement.
- Added resource-gathering items - Fish Nets and Auto-Tapper.
- Added Bell Tool that herds creatures back to their pens.
- Added Auto-Collector to collect drops and produce from creatures.
- Some items, such as Fish Nets and Lily Pads, can be placed on water.
- Some items, such as Chairs and Lily Pads, can be rotated when placing.
- Tilled soil can now be removed using the Hammer tool.
- Ability to craft Cooked Fish & Cooked Meat with Campfire.
- Added a 'Fishing' category to the Crafting Tab. Fish-related items, such as Fish Bait, can now be crafted from there (instead of from the Ranching category).
- Added 'Crafting Benches' to allow for quick crafting of certain items.
- Improved detection for Creature Pens and Troughs for Controllers.
New content
Items:
- Automation: - Basic Sprinkler - Gold Sprinkler - Chroma Sprinkler - Gold Sun Lamp - Chroma Sun Lamp - Auto-Collector - Bell Tool (Upgradable) - Fish Net - Auto-Tapper - Bait Press - Feed Crafter
- Decor Sets and Items:
- Snowman
- Mini Fir
- Chestnut Furniture Set
- Cherry Furniture Set
- Maple Furniture Set
- Fir Furniture Set
- Furniture Sets include:
- Bed
- Bedside Table
- Chair
- Table
- Round Table
- Wardrobe
- Dining Table
- Wooden Seat
- Buffet Table
- Wall Shelf
- Rugs:
- Maroon Rug
- Cherry Rug
- Honey Rug
- Forest Rug
- Cream Mat
- Flower Baskets:
- Chamomile
- Wild Violet
- Sunflower
- Eggbloom
- Starburst
- Caffodil
- Hydranbear (Coral)
- Hydranbear (Pink)
- Hydranbear (Lilac)
- Pitch Lily
- Barrels:
- Covered
- Potato
- Carrot
- New items that can be found using the Fish Net:
- Water Snail
- Apple Snail
- Mussel
- Peach Mussel
- Slug
- Lemon Slug
- Slimeshroom
- Jellyshroom
- Lily Pad
- Lily Pad (Teal)
- Lily Pad (Lime) - Food:
- Cooked Fish
- Cooked Meat
- Maple Syrup
- Lavacress - Misc
- Fish Bait Crafting Recipe
- Snowman Crafting Recipe
- Mini Fir Crafting Recipe
- Ground Beetle (chance to drop from breaking rocks/logs).
NPCs:
- New Townsfolk: Alfie the Tinkerer. Alfie arrives in Shimmerbrook on 16 Spring of Year 1.
- New Shop: Alfie's Awesome Automations.
- 100+ lines of additional dialogue among the NPCs. More dialogue will be added as we continue development!
- NPCs can sometimes talk about another NPCs' gift preference.
- Updated NPCs' gift preferences for the new items.
Music:
- 5 new OSTs! One new track per season + one additional track for rainy days. Thanks to Bobby, DT, Shevone, and Tomás for their beautiful soundtracks! <3
- Updated Main Menu music.
Balancing Changes
- Increased item pickup radius from 14 to 18.
- Brown Wool adds 3 ticks instead of 2 to the Spinning Wheel.
- Increased time taken for wild animals to eat from a feed bowl from 3 to 5 seconds. The duration shortens to 0.5 seconds once the creature has been tamed.
- Shipping Price of a Stick decreased from 2G to 1G.
- Adjusted drop rate of Sticks from trees.
- Moved the unlocking of Mines from 14 Spring to 10-11 Spring (depending on when/whether conditions are met).
Bugfixes
- Fixed incorrect line breaks for item descriptions in Shops.
- Fixed being able to 'drop' important items such as Research Scrolls onto the ground when sorting chests with full chest and bag inventory.
- Fixed one instance of being unable to interact with animals/wild plants which happens when switching from a Watering Can to a different tool while trying to water a tile.
- Fixed Wall Decor incorrectly overlapping with some items during placement.
- Fixed items incorrectly overlapping with Beds.
- Fixed one of Yan Yan's favourite gift dialogue not being triggered when gifting the item.
- Fixed incorrectly completing objective during 'Unidentified Fish Part' Quest when researching an item that is not a Fish Part.
- Fixed 'Research Complete'! popup showing when fishing even after research was completed and before the scroll is claimed.
- Fixed a bug where Hydranbear (Lilac) would have an error in its sprite drawing.
Happy Researching!
- Miki