Hi everyone!
We're finally here with another update, and it's a big one - the Phantom Friends Update!
We have a whole host of exciting new content in this update, including SPIRITS which we know you have all been dying to see more of! To make things even better, you can grab Spirittea for 30% OFF in the Steam Autumn sale which goes live today! Enough from us though, should we get into it?
SPIRIT PETS! You'll now be able to summon spirits as pets, using pet shrines! Hunt down pet ritual scrolls for help on how to summon them, and you'll have your own spirit companion that might be a bit less grumpy (sorry Wonyan)
NEW SPIRITS & QUESTS! You'll find some new spirits about town which you'll need to have your spirit vision ready for... what possibly could they want?
One of the new spirits you'll find is a SPIRIT MERCHANT! You may need their help during one of the quests, or when it's time to summon a spirit, so make sure your spirituality is high enough...
And as always, we fixed a truckload of bugs, and added a bunch of quality of life improvements and more content to accommodate the new additions in this update! Here's the full breakdown:
- Added Poegs to the game - it's a spirit pig that can be fed different foods and produces different coloured spirit essences (used in creating pets at pet shrine). Appears in-game if you've been in town until at least the 5th of the first year
- Added Poeg detector to spirit shop inventory. It can show where the Poeg is located on the map screen (a little white pig icon)
- Added pet shrines to the game, which can be used to summon pets
- Added pet ritual scrolls to the game (instructions on how to create pets)
- Added pet shrine to secret shop inventory
- Added pet shrine to Song's shop rotation
- Added pet shrine to secret shrine room
- Added a NEW spirit merchant. Will only be visible and active as a shop if spirituality is more than or equal to 100
- Added ability to scrub spirits for spirit materials (using broom)
- Added new flower shrine quest (started once player unlocks the pond in the bathhouse)
- Added a flower shrine to outside of the bathhouse area
- Added spirit flowers types around town
- Added 10 lion's mane spirit flowers around town
- Added water to bathhouse upgradable pond
- When the bathhouse pond has been upgraded, a watering can is spawned in front of it. The watering can is also added to the recovery shrine at this time. The watering can cannot be sold at the selling shrine
- Added veggies to Ito's truck shop. Each day Ito is in town, 2 random veggies that grow in the wild can be sold at his truck shop. The next time Ito is in town, the veggies will be randomly picked again (so it's possible to see the same veggie again)
- Added lasagna & the recipe for it
- Ensured that Song's shop will be selling the spaghetti recipe, noodles, tomatoes and beef during the stage of the spirit quest where lasagna needs to be fed to the Poeg
- Added tutorial for ceiling and floor brooms (the floor broom specifically describes how to get spirit materials)
- Revised the backup achievement code check which triggers when you load your save file. It will check more efficiently if you've been in town at least one year and should have the Countryside Experience achievement
- Fixed a bug where Kurkapi and Ribbard's songs wouldn't end when they were done bathing, or the bathhouse was closed
- Fixed bug where playing the drinking minigame 6 times soft locked the minigame, and didn't naturally end with dialogue from an NPC
- Fixed issue with Kim's quest's spirit where the spirit's depth was off when sitting in the tea fields (making it so the player could stand over top of its sprite when the player should be behind it)
- Fixed Maru and Sora's positioning on Tuesday and Thursday nights at 8pm (should be by the temple but were teleporting to the school)
- Fixed "controller is disconnected" message font size for non-English languages
- Added option to in-game menu to adjust deadzone level of joysticks
- Added option to in-game menu to have the game auto detect controller inputs for you, or to manually set the controller being used
- Added Aurum's background information to his spirit charm (updated when spirit tome is dug up)
- Fixed Corvink's bathing type to be "Swimmer" instead of Regular
- Adjusted spirit material drop rate to 45% chance and decreased required scrub time from 6 seconds to 5.5 seconds
- Added a Wonyan scrubbing reminder/tutorial that triggers in the center of the main bathhouse room if the Poeg quest is done, and if the tutorial hasn't been triggered yet
We hope you all enjoy this super cute update! We'll let you know soon about when you can expect this update to drop on console, so keep an eye out!
Until next time, and good luck in your Poeg hunting!
- Cheesemaster Games & No More Robots