New places to visit

• Kongo is now reachable. Finish Hirago's airport story to open flights to Kongo.
• Mushroom Village. At Kongo airport, Sal and Mugsy have a letter for you from Chi. A typhoon has hit the village, and it's time to go home.
• Four festival towns: Fortune Village, Easter Island, Pumpkin Village and NorthBell. Unlock them by rebuilding Mushroom Village, celebrating with Chi and Moca, and claiming the village's first collection reward. Once unlocked, they stay open all year.

Mushroom Village homecoming

• Harvest the carrot farm, visit Pipi and Yori, and get settled back in.
• Decorate: buy furniture at Yori's shop and arrange it in the treehouse and in Chi's and Moca's homes. Friends now drop by to use your furniture.
• Rebuild: repair the village's eight damaged buildings with materials and carrots.
• Yori's voucher machine trades furniture vouchers for new pieces.
• New village collection: fish, bugs, figures, diaries and friends, with regional rewards at 25%, 50%, 75% and 90%.

New things to do

• Cooking: a request list tracks dishes people ask for. Recipes now preview before you cook, show ingredient costs, and support cooking again and in batches. There's a Cook Off at Easter Island.
• Mining: after buying Monko's mining company, you can mine in more cities and hire crew to boost stamina.
• Reward boards: Mine, Pumpkin and Easter boards, including an Easter egg hunt with paid hints.
• Madam Niblet (Ola Streets) will read the spirits to find activity photos you've missed.
• Furniture shops at Yori's in Mushroom Village and Gloria's in Kongo.
• Many new and expanded conversations across the world, including café time with Sapphire in Kongo and a certain night visitor at the Hirago museum.

Improvements

• Museum: donating a painting now keeps your original; the museum displays a replica. Eiko will return originals taken by earlier donations.
• Journal: furniture you've ever owned stays discovered, new notification dots, Mushroom Village pages and smoother tabs.
• The item store now shows when it restocks.
• Pronunciation guides: optional pinyin, furigana/romaji and Korean readings, found in Settings.
• Audio settings show percentages.
• Wait timers now stay correct when you change time zones.
• The game now also saves when you pause, switch away or quit.
• Steam achievements now sync for the playtest.
• Smaller download, faster loading and lower memory use: maps and big menus now load only when needed.
• Lots of bug fixes and translation improvements.

For playtesters

• Fast waits: Settings > General > "Playtest: 90% shorter waits" cuts timers to 10% so you can test faster. It's off by default.
• Your existing save carries over.
• Casinos are open at night to watch, but you can't play yet.
• Rattoria isn't available yet, and Mushroom Village activity photos are coming later.

Thank you for playing! Please report bugs and feedback through the playtest forums.