Hi Seedlings!
We've just pressed the button to make our latest update available as an Experimental Build.
We’ve spent the last year since release reviewing player comments and have come up with a host of new features and improvements which we think make the game even better.
What to try:
- Start a new game. We’ve changed the content a lot, so that will be the only way to fully experience all that is new.
- Try Customising your farm. This is gated at the very start, but not long into the Prologue, you can play about with this much-requested feature. Turn the music up when doing so to hear a new track!
- Check out the new Friends & Family gameplay, which will have you organising friendly villagers to repair ruined buildings and bridges.
- When you hit Renown Level 3, you will see Hobs putting up evil Totems around the land. These are new combat challenges with great loot rewards.
- Spend some time playing with the beautiful new Progress Screen. This, we believe, really helps tie together the whole game experience.
- Try the revised Skill Tree system - we’ve tried to make it easier to unlock some skills so that your progression is faster.
What to expect:
- There is a lot more variety when chatting with NPCs.
- Clearer clues to what NPCs need in their lives.
- New task types.
- New cut-scenes, both for the player’s story and NPC stories.
Things to note:
- Installing this build will overwrite your current version of Kynseed. Existing saves stay in the Saves folder, whilst Experimental saves go into a new folder.
- If you want to return to the previous build, switch back to the default branch on Steam, where your previous saves will be intact. You won’t be able to load your Experimental saves into the default branch.
- We have bugs. We are working through them right now. If you spot any big ones, let us know - specifically crashes. We don’t see many crashes these days, but if you see one:
- Take a screenshot of the red crash screen using the Snipping tool in Windows and send it to us via the channel on Discord, or by email at [email protected].
- Also, send us your latest save, found in Kynseed/ExperimentalSaves.
- And finally, send us the latest file in Kynseed/Logs.
There is more balance work to be done, for instance, on item prices, Friendship Points and Renown levels, and a few other relationship and story tweaks we are a bit behind on.
This player needs plenty of friends to complete her farm vision...
How to get the Experimental Build installed:
In your steam library right click and access properties for Kynseed.
Under the Betas tab, select Experimental from the dropdown.
This should now update and replace the build with this version. You can return to the normal build by choosing None for the Beta Participation options.
How to get in touch:
Our Community Manager has set up a dedicated channel on PixelCount’s Discord called Experimental Build. If Discord is not your thing, you can email us at [email protected].
That is it. Once again, thank you for being one of our much-loved community members in the first place, but even bigger thanks if you decide to take a quick look at this build preview. We hope you like it.
All the best,
PixelCount