Hello, everyone!
Ninano: Dream Ranch Version 1.1 is now live!
This update took the longest time to develop so far. I focused on adding more dialogue for the villagers and improving quality-of-life features based on feedbacks.
Thank you all for playing and supporting the game! Below are the patch notes.
Highlights
- Approximately 24,000 words of new everyday dialogue added.
- Birthday gifts from residents.
- Gifts when residents' heart level increase.
- Gifts for every 10 kinds of fish donated.
- 140+ new items.
Quality of Life Improvements
- Increased the range of pickaxe and shovel usage.
- The shipping box has been moved outside, allowing earnings even on holidays of 'Get All Wholesale Store'.
- Ingredients stored in the refrigerator can now be used when cooking with recipes.
- Added sorting options (by name, by craftability) to the 'Follow Recipe' cooking UI.
- Added various quantity selection buttons when cooking with recipes.
- Animal details UI now displays affinity levels numerically.
- Recipes and blueprints can now be used directly from the inventory.
Text Readability
- Improved item name readability by changing text color to a darker shade.
- Increased font size for difficulty selection descriptions in the new game menu.
- Increased font size for Elena's reverse confession event.
- Increased font size for Kana's red heart event.
- Increased font size for tool crafting UI.
- Increased font size for animal purchase descriptions.
- Added an outline to the map name displayed in the top-right corner for better readability.
- Adjusted UI so that consumable item effects with more than two lines do not overlap with icons below.
- Item descriptions now automatically adjust direction to prevent text from being cut off.
- Increased item description UI size to prevent from being cut off.
NPC Updates
- You can receive gifts when heart levels increase.
- You can receive birthday gifts from NPCs with purple hearts or higher.
- Approximately 24,000 words of new everyday dialogue added. Total dialogue count now includes: ● ~80 lines per romanceable NPC. ● ~20 lines per non-romanceable NPC.
- Favorite items for some NPCs have been added or changed.
- Romanceable NPCs now have orange hearts as their maximum level before marriage.
- In difficulty of Fast, NPCs now start with half a gray heart instead of a purple heart.
- Schedule Additions and Changes ● Miya’s schedule changed after marriage. ● Koby has additional dialogue while performing specific actions. ● Koby visits the restaurant terrace on weekends. ● Haru plays instruments and music after marriage. ● Ria’s fishing shop visit changed from Monday to Saturday.
New Items
- 90 Recipes and Dishes
- 10 Mushrooms (can be obtained by digging cracked ground with a shovel)
- 3 cooking ingredients available at the general store Brown
- 10 magic accessories.
- 4 floorings, 4 wallpapers, 1 frame.
- Oven can now be purchased at the restaurant.
- Cauldron can now be purchased at the potion shop.
- 2 type of truffle oil can now be crafted using the oil extractor.
- 20+ furnitures (gifts from residents)
Adds
- You can now receive a gift for every 10 kinds of fish donated.
- Refrigerator customization available (10 types).
- The mountain’s colors now change with the seasons.
- Cloud and reef background objects to the lighthouse observatory.
Changes
- Adjusted UI in the calendar app to prevent festival names from overlapping with dates.
- Cafe construction reward changed to a magic accessory.
- Changed 2 heart flooring design to a more readable color.
- Changed production tools so each crafted item has different production times.
- Fixed lighthouse observatory flooring so it no longer appears cut off.
- Butcher shop now provides a sausage recipe instead of meat fat.
- Restaurant now sells a rotating selection of 10 different meals and recipes each day.
- Food and recipe selection at the restaurant expands as Edward's heart level increases.
Bug Fixes
- The number of raised animals not increased by one each time the game was loaded.
- Text now visible when entering a nickname after starting a romance.
- Text now visible when changing the ranch name at the Community Service Center
- Correct ingredients for blueberry ice cream.
- Lloyd’s Christmas duplicate dialogue no longer appears.
- Chris no longer moves to an inaccessible area after marriage.
- Buying multiple tools at once not caused them to share durability anymore.
- Players can throw animals onto locations occupied by held animals.
- The reward for donating all fish was incorrectly set and can now be reclaimed at the counter.
UI Fixes
- Calendar app not overlapping seasonal graphics at 1600x900 resolution.
- Adjusted Residents app position for heart levels at 1600x900 resolution.
- Spouse titles now appear in the Residents app.
- Mine floor UI now disappeared even if the player stayed overnight in the mine.
- Save file selection text now not broken in some languages.
- Title screen and pause menu backgrounds not cut off in certain resolutions.
- Language selection UI on the title screen displayed too large depending on resolution.
- Items for sale at the aquarium names translate immediately.
Controller Support
- Aquarium donations.
- Refrigerator.
- Changing ID Card at Community Service Center.
- Wholesale store's shipping box.
- Animal purchase.
- Cat Paw Gloves.
- Fixed inverted up/down movement when using chest.
Thank you. I hope you enjoy update!
NABI