🌾 Massive Update — Harvest Together
Hey farmers! This is our biggest update yet. We've packed the farm with new life, made co-op more fun, and given every single day a little more surprise. Here's everything that's new:
🌟 Skill Tree
Every player can now specialize. A skill tree that climbs to level 40, split across four branches — Farming, Nature (fishing and foraging), Commerce and Mastery. You won't have enough points for everything, so pick your path. Changed your mind? Reset your skills for gold and rebuild. Skills are personal — everyone grows their own way.
🧑🌾 Farm Helpers
You can now upgrade your hired helper NPCs. Spend diamonds to grow their work area and speed up their pace, and choose which jobs they handle (watering, harvesting, animal goods, picking trees/hives/mushrooms) from a menu. Helper settings are farm-shared — the host and guests upgrade the same helper together.
🧺 Weekly Town Order
A courier from town walks onto your farm with a weekly order. Accept it and deliver before the week ends for a big payout of gold, diamonds and XP. It's tied to the real calendar week and refreshes every Monday. It only ever asks for what you've already unlocked.
🧺 Traveling Merchant (NEW!)
Every real-world Wednesday and Saturday, a traveling merchant rolls onto your farm. Her stock changes weekly: two seed lines at 30% off, plus one "exotic" seed the shop doesn't sell yet — from the next tier up, for farmers who like a head start. Stock is limited, so don't dawdle!
⭐ Market Specials (NEW!)
Every day, two of your unlocked products become the town's specials and sell for +30%. We announce the day's specials each morning, and they wear a starred badge at the Produce Stand. No penalties, no locks — just a fresh "what should I sell today?" every single day.
🐄 Love Your Animals
Name your animals and pet them each day (click them and watch the hearts float up). As their affection grows their hearts fill in (0–5) and their goods sell for more. Names and hearts are farm-shared and saved.
🐶 Dog Bond (NEW!)
Your Dog House's loyal companion now loves you back. Right-click to pet it once a day and watch your bond grow (♥♥♥♡♡). From 3 hearts, your dog starts fetching you little gifts now and then. And of course, a left-click still calls it along for a walk.
🍂 Seasons Matter
Every crop and fish now has a favorite season. In-season crops grow faster and in-season fish bite more often. But nothing is locked — you can plant and catch anything any time; the season is simply a bonus.
✨ Crop Mutations
Every harvest has a small chance to come out an exceptional quality: Silver, Golden or Rainbow — each paying a gold premium on top. Fertilized plots and in-season crops mutate more often.
🍳 Perfect Cooking
When a dish finishes, there's a chance it comes out Perfect — a flawless batch with a gold bonus on top. Your perfect-cook chance grows with your farm level; cooking gets better with practice.
🌷 Farm Beauty (NEW!)
The shop's dozens of decorations (flower beds, lamps, benches, the tire swing and more) now do one more thing: decorating your farm earns Farm Beauty stars (0–5 ★), with extra points for variety. Your stars are proudly displayed in the Guestbook — visitors love signing a beautiful farm.
🎪 Harvest Festival (NEW!)
On the first weekend of every real month, the fair comes to your farm! Festival stalls appear by the starting area and a harvest contest runs all weekend: hit 25, 75 and 150 harvests to instantly claim bronze, silver and gold prizes — gold and diamonds included. Prizes pay out the moment you reach each tier, so there's no magic hour you have to be online for.
🌽 Giant Crops and Team Combo (Co-op)
When a block of the same crop ripens together, it can grow into a Giant Crop — harvest it together and share the reward. Work in quick succession to fill the Team Combo meter for bonus gold. These moments need a real second player in your session.
👤 Guestbook
Every friend who visits your farm is logged in your guestbook — their name, how many times they've visited, and when they were last seen. Anyone present can sign it with a short note. A lovely little keepsake for your farm.
On top of all this: we cleared the on-screen HUD icon clutter and gave every panel a keyboard shortcut (press F1 for the full list — it's also in Settings → Controls, in every language), fixed the missing crafting icons, and gave co-op sync a full once-over. The game is fully localized in 33 languages.
Have fun, and may your harvests be bountiful — together <3 🌻