Hello, Neighbours! <3
The demo for Moonstone Island is now live!!!!!! That means you can play fourteen days of in-game time, with a new look at a different season: Fall! Everyone's favorite season is Fall, right? You've got beautiful autumnal colors, hot chocolates, and marshmallows, pumpkin pie, cozying up by the fire with a steaming cup of chai... It's just the best. Or maybe I'm just hungry.
🌱 Farming! 🌱
Moonstone Island might have a blacksmith, a botanist, a herbalist, a historian, a tavern keeper, a carpenter, a shopkeeper, an artist, a fisherman, and a scientist, but what it doesn't have is a farmer – someone who actually grows crops to eat. That's where you come in! You can collect seeds, hoe the land, plant crops, and grow them, just like a real farmer, except with way less manure!
When your crops are fully grown, you can harvest them to find out more about what they do. Each season has 14 unique crops, which works out to two crops of each elemental type, and they all have special effects and buffs that they can provide, from helping you tame Spirits to restoring your own Stamina.
But the crop doesn't stop there! You're also an Alchemist, after all – why not build an Alchemy Lab and experiment with creating potions out of your freshly-grown crops? You might stumble upon something game-changing 👀
The crops are also just very cute. Moonstone Island doesn't have booooring crops like turnips and carrots, oh no! Instead, you'll be growing Grumpkins, Sweater Plants, Umbrellashrooms, and Pinwheel Flowers, all of which will make your gardens look sweeter than apple pie.
Oh no. I think that the last pie reference means I'm really hungry. I'm going to go find myself a pie. You see how many of the Fall crops you can find!
~ Kate, Community Manager, and Crop Cultivator