We've been working on this major update to Verdant Skies for months, and we're happy to release the largest update yet!
Major Items:
- Your child can now grow up into a teenager. Guide them through their formative years at boarding school, then watch them blossom into their own person as they return to the colony!
- A new set of Quantum Technology events that tie into the growth of your child. This features a bunch of new unlockable blueprints and craftable items, including some high-priced special end game items.
- All new UI artwork for the entire game!
- A special "The End" event, featuring a new vocal song.
Finally,
Full changelog:
- 4 new boss fish, each can only be found in certain circumstancesandafter you've found all the other fish in that area.
- New shaders for the UI, including sparkle effects.
- Baby naming events for each character- these events also support naming previously born babies.
- The journal more directly explains what you need to have a baby with someone.
- A bunch of additional baby and move-in dialogs for Nessa.
- Special sleeping messages when you've moved-in or married someone.
- Remove some debugging splicers which were accidentally added to the map.
- The Deep Core Miner is now cheaper to build.
- Animals won't eat if they were recently fed.
- Animals now show all of their food preferences - just click on them repeatedly.
- Shorten AI timers after wedding events, the eclipse party.
- Rewrite name input dialogs to support a wider variety of name types (animals, children, nicknames, etc)
- Improvements to genetic splicer UI, including text issues with names, animal quality traits, and more.
- Fix scale on Anthony's dresser and collider on Zaheen's Tapestry.
- Clay pits now respawn with more clay in them.
Fixes:
- Fix the move-in event triggers, they no longer require max friendship.
- Fix the genes for the animal growth rate trait so it can't be affected faster growth and slower growth at the same time.
- Fix mouse input on the clothing UI.
- Fix an off by one issue with counting the number of times your baby has slept.
- Many minor event fixes!
Finally, be sure to check out the Marina Expansion Mod, here in the steam workshop:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1667729331
This amazing new mod by MidknightMasquerade adds a Marina Diamante, a traveling food critic. There's a huge amount of great content in this mod, so check it out!