Hi!



Is your farm getting too big to handle it all by yourself? Don't worry, farmhands come to the rescue!

Farmhands will take care of most items within their range, for a price of course.

We're also adding the Guestbook, a Decoration where visiting players can sign and leave a message for others to see.

Today's Farm Showcase: Just around the Riverbend by PepperMinty


With this update, we're entering the final phase of development and heading towards the full release. We will soon increase game price, and we're currently working on a "Supporters Pack" that will be given for free to people that helped development during Early Access, so now it's a good time to get the game!

New features:

• Farmhands, workers that will take care of tiles around them for a daily payment. You can customize their body in the Customize section (other features will be randomized).
  
• Guestbook, where visitors can sign and leave messages.

New items:

• 3 new Tractor Antennae
  
• New hair: Messy

Improvements:

• Done a number of improvements that should speed up farm loading.
  
• There's now a "Skip tutorial" button in the pause menu.
  
• Event items now are labeled as such in the shop/customization window.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a rock image missing in the map preview.

Hi!



Today's update brings new quality of life changes, such as being able to jump over fences with tractors, as well as new content (Bathrooms for the house), as well as some minor bugfixes.

Today's Farm Showcase: "The Spa is now open!" by Pony Slaystation


Honorable Mention: "A quick gallery of my new farm" by tiny toe


New items:

• 3 New tractor Antennas (Horseshoe, Venus, Duck)
  
• Bath furniture for the house
  
• Squirrel and Panda backpacks
  
• 2 new Suit clothing
  
• 2 new pendants (Butterfly & Bat)
  
• New female hair style

Improvements:

• The character doesn't need to recover its speed after jumping a fence (so overall you'll walk faster over fences).
  
• You can now jump fences while on the tractor
  
• You can now unpause the game by pressing the Start button on the gamepad.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed Pet particle issues when they teleport
  
• Fixed camera rotation issues with the game paused.

Hi!

Today we're releasing another hotfix update, again addressing some bugs that weren't completely fixed yesterday.

Improvements:

• Reduced CPU/GPU usage of animals a bit. Should improve framerate when in crowded areas.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed Shop window not properly updating current money values.

Hi!

Today we're releasing a fix addressing a number of issues introduced in recent updates.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed Yellow tomato not being yellow.
  
• Fixed Shop UI not being managed properly, causing possible performance degradation and memory leaks.
  
• Fixed some errors related with the Shop UI.
  
• Fixed an error that could cause some issues when playing online.

Hi!



Today's update features new customization options, such as the Business Suit or a new Tractor, the Buggy. Check them out!

We also wanted to thank you for voting on the farmhands poll. Now that it's clear that you prefer to have human looking helpers (67% to 33%), we can move forward.

Today's Farm showcase: "for all of you guys" by SoňaMoonlight


Honorable mention: Perfect Day by FoxNamedFrost


New features:

• "Recent Visitors" and "Custom Permissions" sections have been added to Farm Settings in the pause menu (only visible if someone did join your farm, or if you assigned custom permissions to someone), so you can favorite/change permissions/ban after a player has left.
  
• Added Vietnamese language. Kudos to Nguyễn Thành Đạt for the translation (this was actually added in past week's update, but we forgot to mention it).

New items:

• 4 New 2x1 Paintings for the house
  
• New clothing: Business Suit
  
• New Tractor: Buggie
  
• 2 New animal backpacks
  
• New earrings: Dolphin earrings

Improvements:

• Improved Shop window performance, now it should open more smoothly.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed smoke puffs on snow not being white.

Hi!

For the next big update (which will be Farmhands that help you take care of the farm), we want to hear your opinion on one matter.

We are a bit divided on how these Farmhands should look:

One option is to show them as standard characters, with fixed body parts and random gender/looks.

The second option is to show them as robots/droids.

You can let us know what you prefer by voting here: http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=5b75a0e8e4b0f78c70add6c8

Worker Concepts:


Robot Concepts:


Feel free to share your opinions in the forums, the Discord or the Reddit!

(By the way, we've just released a hotfix for yesterday's update fixing pets being rendered when people enter a different house).

Hi! Today's update features pets, loyal companions that will follow you around and react to your emotes! You can customize their type (cat or dog, colors and collar) and appearance in the Customize section.

We're also adding new clothing and a new tractor (the Dumper), as well as some minor changes here and there.

For the next thing in the roadmap (and possibly the last big update before the game exits Early Access), we want you to take part in the decision making. Stay tuned, because tomorrow we'll ask your opinion on the next feature!

Today's Farm Showcase: Happy summer everyone by Neojack


New features:

• Customizable pet that follows you around!

Improvements:

• Changed default controller layout so LT is used for the tractor and LB to show the map. (Previously both LT/RT were used to run).

New items:

• Tractor: Dumper
  
• Clothing: Chef
  
• 2 New animal backpacks

Bugfixes:

• Fixed two stone house doors being switched up.
  
• Fixed lamps added in last update being lit during day.

Hi!



First of all, apologies for the lack of updates these past weeks! Part of the team was on a short vacation, so that's the reason we've been so silent. However we're back with new updates!

This update features plenty of new content, such as Donkeys, the Fireman clothing, or the Steamroller tractor. It also includes a number of small fixes to bugs detected since the last update, and some minor interface changes.

We're also adding 3 new achievements related to houses, and enabled trading cards. One of the profile backgrounds has a small teaser of what's to come in a future update, so try to get them all!

Today's Farm showcase: "Sneak peek at the abandoned forest section of the farm..." by Mr. Z


New features:

• 3 New achievements
  
• Enabled Steam Trading Cards

New Items:

• New Animal: Donkey
  
• New crops: Rye, Barley, Turnip, Pineapple
  
• New fish: Clownfish
  
• New decorations: Goal, Sports stands, City lights, Camping trailer, lighthouse
  
• New clothing: Fireman
  
• 4 New rings
  
• 5 New backpacks

Improvements:

• You can now rotate appliances in houses when placing them. Some can be rotated in 90-degrees increments, others only in 180 degrees
  
• Improved dynamic ornaments so they are not so jittery on low framerates.
  
• When trying to load a Public/Private farm while offline, a prompt will be shown asking if you want to play in Local mode.
  
• Added a small interaction delay on some important warnings (such as recycle confirmation dialogs)
  
• Added a second confirmation warning on the "Delete farm" prompt.
  
• Improved the "Save error" dialog behavior, now it will ask you if you want to go back to the main menu.
  
• Added new characters in the Quest Log, so they don't repeat as often.

Gameplay changes:

• Increased Silo storage from 50 to 80.
  
  Bugfixes:
  
  • Fixed UI sliders showing always "100"
    
  • Fixed reflections when standing on specific tiles in the Stone House
    
  • Fixed bug when deleting house appliances while moving them
    
  • Fixed bonsai not rotating properly.
    
  • Fixed "New" icon appearing again on already visited items.
    
  • Fixed being able to go underwater in photo mode
    
  • Fixed "Permissions" text not showing on the player details menu.

Hi! Today's update brings new pieces of furniture and house decorations to further customize your house!

This update also includes an automatic savegame backup feature, as well as a new permission level (Quests).

Lastly, we've also updated the engine to the latest version available (2018.2). It introduced a number of quirks we've had to fix, but some may have gone unnoticed, so please be sure to report any problems you might have.

Today's Farm Showcase: "Harvesting Potatoes" by Ildrim


Note: We're experiencing an issue with Ambient Occlusion in the Linux build (everything is shown white). We have been unable to fix it so far, and we're not sure if it's a common problem or related to our Linux rig, so please disable Ambient Occlusion if you are having problems.

New features:

• New permission level: "Quests". In this level, guests can only plant crops for the available quests, and only until there are enough crops to fulfill the requirement.
  
• New language: Traditional Chinese.

New house items:

• Added "Walnut" line of furniture
  
• Added new walls and floors
  
• Added new house decorations.

Improvements:

• A savegame backup is performed every 10 minutes. If an error is found while loading a farm, the game will attempt to load the game from the backup.
  
• Upgraded to Unity Engine 2018.2.0f2 . If you experience some issues please let us know.

Gameplay changes:

• Plowing on harvested land now increases the Boost meter.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed UI navigation problems with keyboard/gamepad in the shop window.

Hi!

We haven't seen any major issue from people playing the new version of the game in the beta branch, so we've pushed the update to everyone.

Please check the previous post for details on what's featured in this update:

https://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791461544865/announcements/detail/2629423802409193374