Hillshade Farm: First Harvest v1.5.0-2 update notes!
The latest of many updates for Hillshade Farm: First Harvest has just been released! 90% of bugs eliminated, polished content, improved quests, performance and much more!
What's new?
Menu Improvements
Character Creator Menu
The Character Creator Menu and its Level have been redesigned and polished. With new UI sounds, and better design for easier navigation!
Save & Load Menus
Save and Load System for the Demo is finished and works as expected! Now you can save your progress in the Demo, limited to 1 save slot.
Autosave Feature: Each 2 minutes the game is auto-saved to your current save slot.
When starting a New Game, make sure you delete the old slot beforehand!
Farm Stand Selling Menu
The Menu for the Farm Stand has gotten a big new improvement!
Each plant in the Menu now has its own banner which shows your current Inventory Amount and the option to Select Amount to sell anywhere from 0-100!
Gameplay Improvements
Tool Improvements & New Features
Using tools is now much easier and more satisfying! Swapping your tools using Mouse-Wheel scroll, more slots in HUD, new Animations & more!
Axe & Pickaxe
New Feature and Animations:
Heavy Hit: Hold RMB to initiate a charged hit with either Axe or Pickaxe. Causing much more damage, but taking a bit longer to execute.
Hit-Limit: New system for these tools which makes sure spamming the Use Button won't make the animation skip around.
New Animations: Each of these tools has 2 inputs now (LMB & RMB), for a normal Quick Hit and a heavy Charged Hit. Each hit has new better and appropriate animations making using these tools much more satisfying and immersive.
axe & pickaxe charged hit animations captured in-game. (tool hand-offset is being worked on!)
Tool Hotbars Scrolling
New input for swapping your tools using mousewheel has been added! As well as 4 new Item Slots in the HUD to make item navigation easier.
Tool Swapping using mousewheel: Simply make sure to put all your Tools in first slots 1-x so they are neighbouring. And that's it. Just scroll and your tools will swap!
New Area: Fishers Rest
Located just above your farm on the Hill, a peaceful oasis with sprawling nature and new stories to be told! This area is still in the making and this is the 1st iteration.
New Side Quest at this location: The Local fisherman is having trouble catching any fish lately, you can help him by making a special Bait for the fish!
This area will be further expanded to be a place of Locals meeting to have fun and hang out, as well as a good location to meet people and find interesting Side Quests!
cinematic shot of one of the cabins at Fishers Rest (side quest area)
New Content! Farm Bakery v1
Just by the Main Barn, is now located the Farm Bakery, with 2 new crafting Tables! Bakery Oven and Bakery Workbench, giving you new recipes to try out and things to create!
outside & inside screenshots of the Farm Bakery
Improvements
Pickup Truck Driving changes
The Pickup Truck has gotten yet another remake of its driving behaviour, making it more balanced between crazy sensitive and brick slow.
Chicken Systems Improvements
Chickens navigate, feed, and react to the environment more smoothly. As well as new enabled features like Sleeping at night, running from rain, hatching eggs and more!
Balanced Resource Collection
No more imbalance with item amounts: Crop Harvests now give bigger yields for better return on investment. Example: Strawberry went from 6-12 to 30-50 berries per Harvest.
Refined Crafting Flow
Crafting stations are easier to use, with faster recipe interactions and better feedback
Better Night Lighting
Tweaked moonlight, lamps, and building interior lights for a cozier night-time feel.
Updated Sound Design
Added new tool, and ambient sounds across the map.
New Click & Interaction Sounds
Every UI button now feels more tactile and satisfying.
HUD Polish
Cleaner icons and alignment across the interface. No more overlapping or misplaced indicator Widgets.
...and many other improvements across the game!
Bug Fixes
Battle against the army of Bugs is ever ongoing, and we managed to take out a lot of them! These are some of the bigger ones, and the game is running better than ever!
Fixed Level-Up Bug: Player no longer gains random XP or levels after loading a save.
Fixed Rock & Tree Persistence: Destroyed objects now stay gone after reloading or restarting the game.
Performance Optimizations: Reduced stuttering and texture streaming issues; smoother FPS across all areas.
Animal Behaviour Tweaks: Chickens behave better and don't freeze or get lost anymore.
Chicken Coop Data Save Overhaul: Chickens no longer clone or vanish on reload.
Barn Inventory Saving: All Barn Storage Boxes are being saved properly.
Inventory Bug Fixed: Items no longer spawn in air or overlap each other after load.
Improved Save Slot Handling: New Game now properly starts clean without reloading old data.
UI Freeze Issue Fixed: Chicken Coop management widget no longer locks input and is accessed using E key now.
Crafting Stations: Bakery oven, smokehouse, and dairy stations now properly remember crafted recipes and progress.
General Stability: Many crashes and soft-locks resolved. Game still may randomly crash at fresh opening sometimes.
Streaming Pool Adjustments: Improved texture streaming to reduce blurriness on load.
Sound & Effects Polish: Updated destruction sounds and UI audio cues.
UI Improvements: Better scaling on different resolutions and aspect ratios.
Autosave Reliability: Game autosaves more consistently and without stutter.
World Streaming Update: Fixed blurry textures on load; improved loading transitions when moving between areas.
+100s of others!
❤️ Thanks to the Community
These updates were built with and for you. Every bug report, opinion, idea and all the feedback really helped bring us here.
Please keep sharing your experiences, thoughts, and suggestions! It helps a lot as we move toward Early Access!
See you on the Farm, and have a great weekend!
- New Acre Games