Hello everyone! :)
This update expands the early- and mid‑game fishing experience, introduces three new characters, and adds a small but meaningful set of improvements, balance tweaks, and fixes.
New Content
Reworked water animation along coastlines for smoother and more natural movement.
Improved fish pathfinding for more reliable behavior.
Added a brand new fishing questline with 8 quests, introducing new mechanics and progression.
A new NPC Carlo, the master angler, has arrived in town.
Added NPC Aveline, the seamstress.
Added NPC Jensen, the carpenter.
Added 2 new fishing rod recipes for advanced progression.
Added a new tool, the Wood Shovel.
You can now add or remove land tiles using this tool.
Fixes
Fixed an issue where items would reset their durability when dropped and picked up again.
Fixed a bug where learning a recipe could reset all active recipes in your buildings.
Fixed an issue where the scaling for books was not applied correctly.
Changes
Furniture can now be purchased directly from Jack, and is available from the start.
Improvements
Code cleanup and internal performance improvements.
Additional optimizations across multiple systems.
As always, thank you for playing, sharing feedback, and reporting bugs, it really means a lot and helps shape the game 💛
Have fun and see you in the next update!
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