Bug catching connoisseurs!
A brand-new update is out now, adding a bug survey into Hokko Life. How many will you catch? 🐛 🐞
New additions
Collecting
Bug Survey! (aka Bug Tournaments) Every 2nd of the month there's a big bug survey, collect as many of an insect as you can to get a prize!
- 10 New Butterflies
- 30 New Fish
Requests
Notification board: Check the notification board to find out if any villagers have new requests for you. Go and speak to Moss for more information!
Crafting
You can now deconstruct items crafted on the crafting bench! Select Deconstruct to get the resources back from an item in your backpack.
Painting & Designing
Added paintable objects to the Painting Tool: Egg; Sign; Round and Square Floor Items; Landscape and Portrait Wall Paintings
Multi-select mode added to the Design Tool! Hold Shift on KBM or choose Multi-Select in the Tools Menu
You can now choose "Dark Mode" background in the Design Tool
Other
Japanese language added
Fixes
General
- Fish should no longer spawn or swim to places underground
- Community: Fixed a bug where fishing tournaments wouldn't be saved properly and got reset on game restart
- Community: Fixed black screen bug when using the weather control device around midnight
- Community: Fixed an issue where buying a house while being introduced to house buying would break the intro flow
- Fix for issues caused when pressing certain buttons simultaneously or in quick succession
- Community: Rain/Snow now correctly affects crops even if you don't visit the level with them in
- Community: Fixed an issue where design requests requiring a material would say they were completable when they weren't
- Fixed some cases where the hud would show over another UI after selecting something from the backpack.
- Villagers should no longer request housing changes when that merit hasn't been unlocked
- Villagers should no longer request paint when paint hasn't been unlocked
- Community: Fixed issue where some pickups weren't collected when picking up lots of things at the same time
- Fix for issue where, despite what Oma says, it's not "sunny outside" and is in fact still raining after intro cutscene
- Selling Money Bags to Moss now gives you cash instead of nothing.
- Fix for being able to throw more bombs than you have
- Fix for furniture placement breaking when trying to place an item on a path on a raised area
- Community: Fix for appearing in request dialogue instead of the amount
- Community: Fix for dyes getting placed when selected from backpack, and then not being able to be picked up
- Community: Fix for exterior wall and roof patterns being removed from backpack if selected outside of the building properties screen
- Community: Fix for repeat placement on infant trees and plants placing fully-grown versions
- Fix for cursor disappearing when backing out of the save screen in the Painting Tool when using Gamepad
- Flower growth merit now properly affects petal regrowth
- Fix for Mine Helmet getting destroyed when switching to another hat in the mine levels
- Fixes for issues caused by bridge being placeable anywhere in the Forest Path level
- Editing an existing design will now properly take the required resources from your backpack
- Community: Fix for villagers not saying anything when you immediately speak to them again
- You can now no longer place a bridge somewhere you can't reach
- Fix for HUD overlapping building customisation ui
- Fix for villagers items being destroyed if you cancel placing them after opening their moving in boxes
- Fix for moving in boxes not getting placed in villagers' homes
- Fixed for some wearables having snow on them
- Fix for butterflies landing in water
- Fix for snow remaining after quitting to main menu and starting a new game
- Community: Fix for issue where speaking to a villager quickly after a previous conversation causes the characters to stand there in silence and stare at one another
- Community: Fix for avatar and villagers floating about the floor in some levels
- Fix for issue where controller icons wouldn't correctly update if connecting a controller at certain points in the game
- Fix for correct map texture not displaying for meadow combination 01a-00
- Tweaks to collision across lots of items
- Fix for weird dialogue camera when confirming a new house location not focusing on Rosa or the player
- Community: Fixed issue where you couldn't dig holes in the Grove
- Fix for previous seasonal content being displayed in slots in the seasonal store that should be empty
- Fix for bug where bait wasn't being given as treasure
- Fix for villagers snapping to position when talking to one another
- Fix for cursor size setting not affecting placement mode
- Fix for cursor speed setting not affecting design and painting tools, and placement mode
- Fix for successful purchase audio playing on house purchase when purchase was unsuccessful
- Fix for an issue where you couldn't dig next to trees
- Fix for villagers rotating strangely when using whistle function in photo mode
- Community: Fixed a bug preventing glasses, beanies, fedoras and other items not appearing in the fashion store
- Fix for not being able to complete a request if the villager is winning in a tournament
- Fix for ordering of scores on the tournament leaderboard being wrong
- Fix for home exterior decoration requests being marked as completed as soon as they're accepted
- Community: Fix for trees around the Workshop being choppable and infinitely regrowing
- Fix for trees at the back of the small wood being choppable
- Fix for players and villagers spawning in impossible-to-leave locations during house cutscenes
- Fix for backpack not updating correctly when dropping or destroying bait from the bait bag
- Community: Fixed a bug preventing the player from digging holes where insects are
- Community: Fix for snow on Design Tool pieces when designing outside during the winter
- Community: Fix for being unable to place infant trees on the raised area of the meadow
- Fix for fishing challenges staying active after sleeping
- Community: Fix for floating item crates
- Fix for loss of control when being shown the full backpack ui after picking flowers
- Fix for cursor being able to be moved out of area when selecting items in the crafting list
- Community: Fix for player sliding around without animation if moving very slowly
- Fix for placement audio playing when an object can't be placed or when using repeat placement
- Fix for visible pop caused by cloud shadows
- Fix for control settings not changing language correctly
- Fix for being able to hand in less produce than required for Oma's requests
- Multiple fixes for Photo Mode being locked by player position
- Various fixes for fertiliser
Visual
- Fix for player hud showing on top of the build select screen after tutorial
- Fix for issue where lights would turn on during the day, or off during the night
- Community: Fix for cash popup showing wrong amount before filling up
- Fixed issue where the insects section of collection book ui wouldn't display properly in collection cutscene
- Fix for bandana being too small
- Fix for villager meshes popping to a location when sitting or standing from sitting
- Community: Tweaked camera and tree position on main menu so larger hair styles are not obscured
- Tweaks to visuals and collision on beach
- Fixed attachment of skirts on villagers
Changes
- Butterflies behaviour tweaks for less jerky animation, more running away from the player, and less flying through buildings
- Added the "Bugs run away less" Merit.
- Reworked the request system to be more reliable, causing less long delays between requests.
- Request amounts now scale based on how long the player has been playing
- Request bonus rewards are no longer given all the time, but are awarded for quality of item, or speed or completion, or sometimes randomly
- Smoothed loading on the Crafting interface, optimised refreshing of list
- Smoothed loading on Collection book interface
- Collection book ui updated, now shows more information about the creature the more of them you catch.
- Added Deconstruct button to crafting interface, allowing you to deconstruct crafted items and get their resources back
- Added collision to some placeable objects
- Larger walkable area on some meadow layouts over river stone crossing
- Fishing tournaments are now on the 17th day of the Season
- Improvements to performance in the city centre and small wood
- Visual improvements of brush packs in carpenter store
- Increased the chance of rain during autumn
- Increased the chance of snow in winter
- Community: Selecting a money back in your backpack will add all cash from all money bags.
- Amount of bombs now shown on equipment ui
- Dialogue camera is no longer affected by player zoom, ensuring dialogue camera is correct at all times
- Removed annoying collision on infant tree meshes
- Reworked randomisation function to correctly follow weights on randomised items
- Villagers now move in with a bed
- Mail is now ordered by date it was delivered
- Mail is now split into several letters when having lots of things delivered
- Game now remembers if you have snapping on/off on object placement
- The fish you are being rewarded for are now listed when speaking to Derris about new or record fish
- Tweaks to characters' eye movements to make them a bit more natural and less intense-stare
- Villagers now always show random dialogue, even when you have interactions with them (follow, request)
- Bait is no longer removed if you cancel fishing without snagging a fish
- Increased brightness of the mining hat's light
- Insects in a level refresh every few minutes so there's constant variation
- Added a bunch of new sound fx
- Added new music tracks and updating existing with polished versions
- Villagers move quicker to catch up if they fall behind when following you
- Added more safety checks to the save system, aborting saves if anything goes wrong to safeguard progress
- Weeds no longer override equipment when pressing interact
- Reworked avatar eye and mouth textures
- Reworked villager eye textures
- Decreased sensitivity on input screens that change amounts to avoid too-quick changes
- Unlocked camera when on interior placement mode
- Community: Tweaked camera in house type 2 to help with visibility on 16:10 aspect ratios
- Added performance options: disable distant lights and shadows
- You can now close the backpack/emote menu/equipment options with the same button you opened them with
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