G’day mates,

Since Dinkum's release, I’ve been keeping my eye on all of the islands the community has created. I'll tell you what, you all have some amazing island development skills! So, I thought it would be a good idea to share some of them with you too. And I'll tell you what, there is no better day to show you incredible creations than today, ha ha ha!

To start this new community spotlight series we have the incredibly talented ElemetrixBuilds aka Benny. I'll tell you what, their island has inspired me and I hope it inspires you too! So let’s have a closer look at the beautiful ‘Palm Paradiso’ created by Benny.


Palm Paradiso Map.

Benny created this amazing island which is absolutely PACKED with different locations. There’s the Town Center, the Stadium, Flower Fields, a Maze, huge farming fields, a romantic Wedding Venue, restaurants, and much much more. I'll tell you what, it's a tourist's paradise! I can't show you everything in this post, but here are some great snapshots.

Welcome to Palm Paradiso!




The Stadium.

The atmosphere here must be insane during a match. I should buy some tickets.


Maze.

An amazing place to get lost in.


Wombat stall.

I'll tell you what, Benny has a talent for picking names for his furry friends.


Flower fields.

A bloody beautiful spectacle and this smell is divine.


Cargo Liner.

Look how huge this Cargo Liner is. It’s bloody massive!


Varossa Balley Vineyard.

Thank you so much Benny for sharing your piece of paradise with all of us. Benny is an amazing builder and a great member of the Dinkum community. I'll tell you what, it was an absolute pleasure to visit your island.

I'll tell you what, I'm a bit tired and hungry after this trip, so I am going to eat some bush limes. I've been hankering for them all day.

Before I leave, I also wanted to share this incredible fan art by our reddit user M_Snail. Isn’t that beautiful?


And if you want to join our amazing Dinkum Discord community, click right HERE.


Hooroo!

Fletch - Head of Island Exploration

G’day,

As you may already have noticed by looking at the Steam front page, the Steam Summer Sale has begun. Even though at this very moment we don’t have summer in Australia (it’s actually a bit chilly down here), it doesn’t mean we can’t join and celebrate this fantastic Steam event! So grab that sunscreen and put on a hat because Dinkum is part of the Steam Summer Sale.

From today, until July 13, 10 am PDT | 7 pm CEST / July 14, 3 am AEST you can get Dinkum with a warm 20% discount!

Join the 14-day-long event, have fun, and be part of our amazing community that we have here.


Have a good one and speak soon,

James



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I hope you are all having fun with the Mini Anniversary Update. I’ve got some small fixes in this hotfix for you.

• Additional items can be placed inside the Food Modeller
  
• Fixed a bug that caused health and stamina buffs to stack incorrectly
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the Deep Mine doors to lock some players in the elevator
  
• Fixed a bug that caused planted seaweed to grow into river reeds
  
• Fixed an animation problem with item changers such as grain mill and billy cans
  
• Raffle Wheel can no longer be placed inside the house
  
• Halved the time it takes for Coffee to brew
  
• Increased the duration of swim speed buff

Hey there everyone, long time no post.

As you know I’ve been hard at work on the Summer Sun update. Things are taking a bit longer than expected, so I’ve taken a little bit of time off to work on a smaller update. In this update John is running a little event in his shop to celebrate Dinkum’s anniversary! That’s right, next month marks Dinkum’s first year since entering Early Access.

When I put Dinkum up on Steam I expected it to be in Early Access for at least a year (now it looks like it might actually be a bit longer). I never expected so many people to play and enjoy my game, so I decided I wanted the updates to contain a lot more content than I was originally planning.

So, while you wait for the next major update please enjoy the new items available in this “Anniversary Event” update.


If you visit John on your island you’ll find his little green prize box on his counter. The items in here can be used to decorate your island and celebrate one year of Dinkum. To get the items you’re going to have to earn some Prize Tickets (John needs to make some Dinks off this event after all). Prize tickets can be earned by selling John any fish. You’ll receive one ticket per fish, so get your rod ready.


Oh, and there are a few more things to discover in this mini update. If you give Franklyn some shiny discs he might come up with a new way to get around the island with your mates. There is a new item to discover at the Tuckerbox, it’s a pretty groovy contraption and I think you’ll like it. I’ve also snuck in some other new craftable items in this update and a few new furniture items.

I hope you have fun discovering all the new things in this mini update and hopefully it’s enough stuff to play with until the Summer Sun update is ready to go.

Until next time,

Thanks for playing Dinkum!

James


Here are the patch notes:

New:

• John’s Goods is running an event!
  
• Earn Prize Tickets and exchange them for new special items and prizes
  
• Franklyn can craft a new vehicle (he might need to learn it from a shiny disc)
  
• The Tuckerbox sells a new machine to help display your food
  
• Added some new crafting recipes to learn
  
• Seaweed now drops it can be brewed or placed

Changes:

• John will pay less for relics
  
• Lowered Camera Tripod price
  
• Spinifex will now grow back in the tropical biome
  
• Improved performance of flower beds and water beds
  
• Improved performance of placeable lights
  
• Improved performance of chests
  
• Improved performance of changers such as furnaces, mills, campfires, etc
  
• Improved performance in large farms
  
• Improved performance related to terraforming
  
• Added LOD to certain placeable objects.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused visitors using gliders to experience lag when opening and closing them
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the compactor to dig down twice when visitors used them
  
• Fixed a bug that didn’t update the telepads icon position when it was moved
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the mailbox to softlock when deleting mail
  
• Animals and NPCs can’t walk through Lilly Pilly plants anymore
  
• Fixed a bug that caused problems when auto stacking into your travel bag
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some chests to desync when using quick move
  
• Jetskis now only require Vehicle Licence Level 1, instead of level 2
  
• Cloth can no longer be placed into the spinning wheel
  
• Fixed a bug that caused character to show an incorrect animation when their vehicle was destroyed
  
• Fixed a bug that shows the wrong tool when dropped
  
• Tape Measure no longer requires Deep Mining Licence
  
• Buying farm animals now counts towards the spend money daily task

G’day!

Today the wonderful Cozy & Family Friendly Games Celebration Steam event begins, and Dinkum is proud to be a part of it. To celebrate the occasion, you can get Dinkum with a sweet 20% discount.

The event will last till June 05 at 10 am PDT | 7 pm CEST, and June 06 at 3 am AEST - whole 4 days of celebration!


Speak with you soon,

James



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G’day everyone,

I am happy to say that Dinkum is part of the Earth Appreciation Festival! The event started on the 17th of April and will end on the 24th of April 2023. This fest is to raise awareness of how fragile our earth and its ecosystems are. If we’re not careful, we will lose some absolutely beautiful critters and plants that we will never get back. To raise awareness for this cause I’ve organised a 20% discount on Dinkum.

Let’s celebrate our beautiful Earth together!

Irwin

I hope you are all enjoying the Blooming Spring Update. I've got a small batch of hot fixes, but there are more on the way.

Thank you all for playing!

• Made adjustments to the speed fish can pull on the rod
  
• Fixed a generation problem with a certain treasure room in the Undergrove
  
• Fixed a bug where NPCs would not introduce themselves to visiting players

G’day everyone,

I hope you are all doing well this morning, afternoon, or evening, wherever you may be. I’ve been working on new Dinkum content for quite some time, and I am now happy to announce that the second major Dinkum update is ready for you to play! With the Bloomin’ Spring update a new resident is joining our community, some new wildflowers will spring up on the Island, you can build a new building in your town, dive deeper into the deep min, and many more surprises that I left here and there for you to find. If you want to know more details about what’s coming to Dinkum, keep on reading. But if you don’t want to spoil the fun of discovery, you can jump into your Dinkum island and find the surprises yourself. Whatever option you choose, I hope you enjoy all the new content. Ok, I’m just about to get into more details, so if you don’t want spoilers, now is the time to go!! But before you do, thank you for your support!


You’re still here? In that case, let me tell you more about the Bloomin’ Spring update. From today you can say hello and become friends with Sheila, our new villager on Dinkum Island. You can find her at your local Visitor Site. Sheila loves food and her hobby is cooking. She is known to make some tasty tucker. If you want her to move permanently to your town, you’re going to have to cook up some treats for her. Sheila is the owner of Tuckerbox, a local tuckshop. And if you collect all the necessary materials to build it, she will happily run it for you and all the other residents so that everyone on the island can enjoy her treats.




Sheila and her Tuckerbox have a lot of comfort to offer.

When spring starts, some new wildflowers will start appearing all over the island. Keep your eyes open for Jackaroo Paw, the Flannel Flower, River Daisies and a bunch of Paper Daisies Rayne has started selling Jacaranda saplings in her greenhouse. These are available all year, but blossom into a bright purple colour in spring. What can be better than the back garden full of flowering plants. And that smell!


Is there a better way to relax than taking a nap in your garden?

From now on you can also add a Band Stand to your town! This is a place to host events, parties, gatherings, and celebrations. If you want to build one, just talk to Fletch and you will build it in no time.



Can’t wait to see what events we can have here!

Are you looking for a way to organize your town a little bit better? Perhaps making it easier to navigate? Or perhaps you would like to commemorate some special places? Well from now on you can place signs which you can use to mark directions, highlight spots, or just to upgrade the look of the town’s street. Before you can place them, speak to Fletch first and get a Sign Writing Licence – thanks to that licence you will get The Sign Writing Table, a pen, and a few sign recipes. With these, you can start putting signs anywhere you like!


Is it possible to have too many signs?

Well, there's a sneak peek, but I’ll leave you with the fun of discovering all the other new additions. There’s plenty of new stuff that isn’t mentioned here, but if you really, really, really want to know more, check out the changelog below. And before I go, I just want to thank you all for all your help, your comments, feedback, and support. You have no idea how much it means to me to get such positivity from all of you. So once again, thank you and I really hope you like the new update!

Speak to you all soon,
James



Patch Notes

New

- Spring has sprung with new wild flowers appearing in the season.
- A special Town event will occur on the last day of spring.
- A new villager can move to the island.
- A new building can be built.
- Travel deeper into the Deep Mines.
- New enemies can be encountered in the deeper mines.
- There is a new Signwriting Licence.
- Added several new sign related craftable recipes.
- There is a new Brewing licence to unlock new recipes.
- There is a new Water Scaping licence to unlock.
- Water Beds can be crafted to create decorative waterfalls around your island.
- A new visitor will visit the island in Autumn and Spring to hold a competition.
- Each season now has its own sunset time.
- The bulletin board now contains a calendar.
- Villagers will now visit other buildings on their days off.
- Each villager now has a birthday.
- Pleep are now bought as babies.
- Saddled Mus are alive now!
- There is a new whistle that can call saddled Mus to you from anywhere.
- Added a Tripod Camera used for taking selfies.
- There is a new vehicle to discover.
- Added several new plants.
- Added several new milestones.
- Added an auto stack button for storage containers.
- Added a collect and delete all button to the mailbox.
- Added “save” button to letters you want to protect from the collect all button.
- Motorbikes now have boost for cool and extreme jumps.
- A shady visitor has some new items for sale.
- Each villager now has their own shop music.
- All furniture and clothing has a icon now.

Changes

- The Cheese maker and Spinning wheel are now unlocked through the animal processing licence.
- You can now donate multiple items to the museum all at once.
- You can now buy up to 999 seeds at once.
- Magpies no longer eat crops.
- Villagers with high friendship will slowly lose some friendship if they aren’t talked to for a while.
- Changed the texture of fertilised soil.
- Mail in the mailbox is now sorted newest to oldest.
- Lowered the value of flour and sugar a bit.
- Decreased the likelihood of villagers rewarding players with clothing and increased likelihood of rewarding with Dinks.
- John’s Goods rotates his eatable stock.
- Queen bees are more likely to spawn from hives.
- Cooked meats now have additional buffs.
- Hammer weapons swing a bit faster.
- Bush Devils are now immune to fire.
- Players will move to the position they were standing before they sat down instead of always moving forward.
- Hovering over buff icon will show it’s name.
- Dinking Rich milestone now only grants 1000 Permit Points per level instead of 3000.
- Increased the sell value of fossils.
- Fullness effect was increased after late.
- NPCs offer new items when offering to sell things.
- Fish are more common on rainy days.
- Bugs are more common in spring.
- Some brew recipes have changed.

Bug Fixed

- Fixed a bug that would not let visitors cast their fishing line properly in multiplayer.
- Dinks earnt from selling discs now count towards Dink related milestones.
- Players can no longer accidentally pick things up in the overworld when inside a building.
- Fixed a bug that would cause power tools to charge twice when placed on charge overnight and saving and reloading.
- Fixed a bug that would cause problems if the player passed out while riding a vehicle.
- Fixed a desync problem with furniture placed on top of other furniture.
- Fixed a bug that caused the Torch to stun animals during the day.
- Fixed a bug that could very rarely teleport players while sleeping.
- Fixed a bug that made the fish pulling speed frame rate dependent.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the player to fall through the ground when using a wheelbarrow
- Wheelbarrow can jump again.
- Fixed a bug that would make objects on certain tiles always drop the same drops.
- Fixed a bug that caused Watermelons and Pumpkins to give harvesting XP.
- Fixed a bug that caused the sounds from bugs to not use volume settings.
- Fixed a bug that destroyed bushes and ferns when planting grass seeds under them.
- Fixed a bug that caused gates to rotate incorrectly when being placed on their own.
- Fixed a bug that would let animals walk through fences.
- Fixed a bug that would softlock players who have been revived in water.
- Lots of other smaller fixes.

G’day,

Dinkum’s second major update - The Bloomin' Spring Update is getting closer to release. To hold you over just a bit longer, I’ll be hosting a live stream Q&A where I will be showing off some of the new features coming to Dinkum.



If you have time and want to hang out, join me on Sunday the 5th of March at 9:30 am AEST | 12:30 am CET | Saturday March 4th 3:30 PM PST on Dinkum's Youtube channel. It’ll be fun to hang out, play a bit of Dinkum, and have a chat with each other.



Hope to see you there,

James

G’day everyone!

The Weekend Deal has started and with it a sweet deal on the game. If you want to spend your upcoming weekend in the wild Australian-inspired outback, build your own town, grow some veggies, make friends, and even pet a wombat or two, you can do all that for less!

You can now buy Dinkum with a 20% discount, which will end on Monday, 13th of February. And if you already have the game and you’re enjoying it, perhaps you would like to gift it to someone special this Valentine's Day so that you can explore Dinkum Island together!


Enjoy your weekend everyone!


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