Cupid's Carnival is Here!
It's the season of love, and love is in the air in Skystead Ranch! Or at least love letters are in the air. Cupid's Carnival will run from the 9th of February to the 16th every year. It's a little late this year, but no less vibrant! As we are late this year, we are extending the event to run until the 19th of February for this year only!
Play during Valentine's Week to see your Skystead beautifully decorated with gifts, bears, and balloons!
Cupid's Carnival is an in-game event we run in all our games, so make sure to check out our other titles here to play along!
Although a little lighter in features compared to our previous annual Skystead events, we do hope to expand on Cupid's Carnival in the future, so watch this space and check back each year to see how it's evolved!
Beach Island Update pt.1
Once again, we want to express our thanks to our amazing Kickstarter backers who got us over the line for the Beach Island stretch goal! This new update wouldn't be here without your support!
Hot Sand, Cool Water and Blue Skies are coming! Surely to attract a whole new variety of Skylets along with it!
This is only Part 1 of the Beach Island update, which we are splitting into two large updates. We still have a ways to go to get the entire Beach Island ship-shape (if you pardon the pun), but with half of the update ready, we'd rather make it live for you to enjoy whilst we work on the rest, instead of it sitting dormant in the game files.
This Part 1 of the update brings two new Biomes and five new Skylets!
New Biomes
Unlock and purchase the Lift Upgrade for your island, and you will notice the Keepers stocking two new spells!
Sand - A golden, warm flooring that can be mixed with other biomes to make beaches, deserts and more! Be warned, the sand is too dry to plant grass (just like the Rock terraforming spell), so you'll need to get creative if you want a variety of biomes.
Deep Water - Deeper, bluer and maybe even wetter than the regular Water Spell. Dig deeper into your Skystead to create a whole new watery ecosystem for your Skylet friends!
New Skylets
The beach island will eventually provide you with ten new Skylets to discover. For now, here are the first five that are ready to go!
Introducing Hopper, Newt, Ribbett, Doc and Xotti!
All five need one or both of the new biomes to appear, so start experimenting with your island layouts and see who you can befriend first!
What's in Part 2?
This is only a taster of what's coming for the Beach Island update.
Most important is a new island! Get ready with that Lift Upgrade, as you'll be needing it to travel to the new island when it floats by! We're aware that, right now, with the two new terraforming spells, space will be a bit tight to attract all the Skylets, so a new island is a must-have that is coming soon!
Secondly, the remaining five Skylets for the beach island are still being prepped to be released into the wild. That will bring the total new Skylets for the Beach Island up to ten! More water-based and dry sandy Skylets are just around the corner.
We're excited to finally deliver the Beach Island update, as it means we'll be ready to focus on other finishing touches, like the House access and Skylet Plushes, to get ready for the highly anticipated console releases!
More Updates!
Not a part of the Beach Island update, but still worthy of a mention, is that we have fixed some big problems!
Sleeping Skylets Look so Cute!
We can't believe we missed this issue on release, especially since Jack put in so much work to make all of the Skylets have unique sleeping animations.
The Skylets finally curl up to sleep instead of just closing their eyes where they stand! Here are some adorable examples, but have a look for yourself in-game to see how your favourite Skylet settles down for some much-needed shut-eye!
Cooking Fixes!
Thank you for all of your reports to help narrow down the variety of cooking issues we had. All of the cooking recipes should now work as intended, looking at you Sky Fruit! The Sky Fruit no longer flies away from the kitchen appliances when placed, which means you can actually use it to prep a variety of meals as it was intended.
Put on your apron and give cooking a whirl to see what new recipes you can whip up!
Skystead Ranch V1.3.8 Patch Notes
New Features
Sleep! - Skylets play a falling sleep animation when they are supposed to. Previously, they just stood still and had sleeping "ZZZs" appear on their head. It is VERY cute.
New Sand Spell - A promised feature to come with the Beach Island update. This new Biome-creating spell lets you paint the floor with fine sand. Will you use it to make a dessert zone, a beach zone or just a sand pit for your Skylets to enjoy?
New Deep Water Spell - The second promised biome that is planned for the Beach Island update! This deep-water biome will attract exotic Skylets you can expect to see in a deep saltwater ocean.
5 New Skylets
Newt - A shy salamander.
Ribbett - A frog Skylet designed by one of our top-tier Kickstarter backers
Hopper - The one-legged Savanah Skylet.
Doc - The cutest baby octopus around.
Xotti - A mystical water-bending Axolotl.
Voices lines for Yolk and Fang Skylets - Long overdue, but these voice lines should be a welcome addition to these event Skylets.
Cupid's Carnival Event - Love is in the air, literally… the air is filled with love letters! This seasonal event runs from 9th February to 16th February each year and adds a variety of Valentine's themed decorations to the island! Sadly, we haven't had the resources to add a new Sky Pier addition or mini game, but we hope to add to the event next year.
Bug Fixes and Misc
Fixed Cooking! Several cooking recipes wouldn't cook correctly if you placed the ingredients in the wrong order. Everything should be working fine now. 🤞
Fixed a bug where, if you had 6 or more biomes in a zone, the corresponding billboard would have overflowing UI.
Removed the "Meal" tag from the Junk Food item. This was to resolve a conflict of it being Grumble's favourite food (who doesn't like meals), but it also adds to the joke of the item.
Fixed Spore's favourite food from a bugged Cheese item that you couldn't obtain to the Cheese item you can buy from the shop.
Changed Brie's favourite food to Nom Cream Dream, since its previous favourite contained meat (which it dislikes).
Sky Fruit now works with tables, cooking buildings and bins!
Skystead Ranch V1.3.10 Patch Notes
Bug Fixes and Misc
Fixed Shark Fury Grill recipe, incorrectly creating Fish Dinners
Fixed egg-based cooking recipes
Changed Fang's Favourite food to Fruit Jam to avoid a conflict where their favourite food contains a tag that they dislike.