Hi!

Today's update brings a feature that has been asked for a long time - the option to have flat farms, with no scenery. This increases the number of workable tiles, so we've upped the difficulty for flat farms a bit to compensate.

We've also added new items as usual, including a few new ones for the Wasabi Pack. We saw some of you felt the Wasabi pack didn't offer enough for its asking price, so we added new fences and inner decorations (from requests done by users). Don't get concerned, this kind of additions to DLC won't be done on a regular basis!

Today's Farm showcase: "I call it "The Golden Bathroom" lol" by Nichaay


New features:

• You can now select a farm style upon creation: Standard (the one all previous farms had), Watery, Steep and Flat.

Improvements:

• Roads of different types will now connect in most cases, with a few exceptions where they wouldn't look good (Asphalt and dirt road for example).
  
• Added an option to opt out of sending automatic debug stats.
  
• Removed some words from the banned words list that are related to farms (such as "pig").

New items:

• Wasabi pack: 2 new fences, 4 new paintings, new fan decoration.
  
• Rustic houses, Water Tank

Gameplay changes:

• Ponds and Animal fields have now a maximum size of 2,000 tiles. Any other than that will be split into a second pond. Current ponds won't be changed until you move/delete a tile from them. This was done to help with performance/memory issues that come with extreme pond sizes.

Bugfixes:

• Upgraded Unity Engine version, hopefully it will help with some random crashes people were having.
  
• Improved performance when recycling tiles from a very large pond/animal field.
  
• Should have fixed player spawning on positions other than the bus stop.

Hi! We're releasing a quick patch today with 2 small fixes for issues that were introduced in yesterday's update.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed Barn buildings not being shown in the main menu background.
  
• Replaced Barn decorations in the initial farm layout with Windmills (since they are utility buildings now).

Hi! Today we're releasing our first content pack, the Wasabi Pack!. It features plenty of japan-themed items & decorations, to further customize your farmer & farm.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/919770

You can get it now with a launch discount, or get it together with the Supporters Pack for an additional discount, by purchasing the DLC Collection Bundle: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/9059/Farm_Together_DLC_Collection/

We're also including new free items such as the Red Barn or the Red Silo, as well as new features such as the ability to search a specific farm by name, so you'll no longer need to add the player to Steam Friends if you don't want!

For this week's Farm Showcase, there have been so many good pictures that we couldn't settle with just one, so we're posting a bunch of them!

"Spooky land" by Leasie


"Ok i think i just shot the best picture i have ever taken in this game" by Mr Pumpkin


Untitled by Pris


"Some strange stuff goin on at my farm rn" by Hiroshark



New features:

• New content pack - Wasabi Pack
  
• Added an option in the find farms filter to look for a specific farm name. It has to be the exact full username, it won't do partial searches.

New items:

• Windpump, Red Silo, Sand road, Red Barn, Vintage Camera

Improvements:

• Minor Shop UI improvements in the buildings section.
  
• The preview for locked walls/floors in houses will be now blacked.
  
• Added Sand floor type, some trees (such as palms and cactii) will use this new surface.

Gameplay changes:

• Barns and the new red barn will now act as Storage buildings, increasing overall resource storage. Previously placed barns will be converted to the new type.
  
• Water tiles have been moved from the Decoration to the Roads section.
  
• Halved price of the cursed Pumpkins
  
• The boost meter now also doubles resource yield of harvests and increases money earnings by approximately 20%.

Bugfixes:

• Should have fixed graphic crashes on certain cards related to the Pirannhas.
  
• Fixed long chat lines being cut.
  
• Fixed gold nuggets exchange not being properly applied on visitors.
  
• Trees will no longer collide right away when planted.
  
• Fixed issue in the find farms section that could cause to show negative money values.

Ready for some scares?



Our Halloween event, Haunted Harvest, starts today!

Let's celebrate the spookiest time of the year! Plant tons of Cursed Pumpkins to unlock new themed items that will send chills down your spine!

We're also pushing an update with some requested features and bugfixes, so check them out!

Today's Farm showcase: Happy Halloween from the graveyard at Strawberry Fields! by cursedcream


New features:

• You can now quickly recycle several items by entering mass recycle mode, to do this hold and release the recycle key.
  
• Added a simple profanity filter for chat. You can disable it (or disable all text chat) in the Game options.

Gameplay changes:

• "Harvest only" permission level now allows to plow on harvested land.

Others:

• Changed a few rocks for small lakes in one of the terrain chunks.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed wrong smoke puffs when placing fences besides buildings.
  
• Fixed blurry pictures in Photo mode.

Wow, it's been a blast! After the launch weekend, we're glad to see so many of you having fun with the game!

It will be a little while until the next update while we work on some of the requested features (such as a way to quickly recycle many items at once, and a chat filter option), but we wanted to tell you about the new event that will start this Wednesday.



The new event (Halloween) will work pretty much like the Easter event worked during the Early Access: New items will become available during the event, and you'll need to harvest a number of them in order to unlock themed rewards.

The event will take noticeably more time to complete than the Easter did (which was too easy, to be honest), and it will be shorter (15 days instead of 1 month), but the lower unlock tiers should still be rather manageable, with the higher tiers being more demanding. Also remember you can help other people harvesting them, as harvested items will count both towards your target and the farm owner's!

Finally, we wanted to show some screenshots posted in the Farm Showcase section of the Official Discord server. Check them out!

Untitled by goatz


Untitled by Mr Pumpkin


Untitled by Mr Pumpkin


"Taking a break" by LetTheBodyFall


"Rabbits got into my cabbage patch!" by cursedcream


"My farm spawn location" by Reyz


"Just doing business" by Bosco


Untitled by Queen


"Got my husband to play" by cursedcream


Untitled by Queen


Want to share your own pictures so we can feature them in our announcements? You can do that in the "Farm Showcase" forum section, or in the #farm-showcase channel of the Discord server!

Farm Together has finished its Early Access process and is available now!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/673950/Farm_Together/

It's been an incredible experience to watch so many people enjoying the game and being so creative for the 7 months the game has been in Early Access! We sincerely hope you keep enjoying the game for a long time.

We want to thank our backers for the support and feedback offered through the whole process so, as compensation for the effort you've done (and endured our mistakes in some cases), we'll gift you with a Supporters Pack DLC for free, including exclusive clothing, hairstyles and a new tractor.

Also wanted to add: Don't you worry! We've got plenty of content planned for the future (starting with a Halloween event that will start next week), and plan to keep working on the game as long as there's a demand for it, so please pass by the Steam Forums, the Official subreddit, or the Official Discord group[discord.gg] and leave your comments!

Hi!


The Milkstone Studios team salutes you!

Today's update is released a bit ahead of time before we come out of Early Access!

This update features a number of fixes and improvements, as well as new items, but the main feature is the addition of the Supporters Pack, the first DLC for the game.

All Early Access backers will get this DLC for free as a thank you gift. The DLC will be given once we make the switch to the full Release.

Today's Farm Showcase: Untitled by Hathaway


New features:

• Added Supporters Pack DLC
  
• You can now Pin quests so they are visible all the time on the HUD. Pinned questst will be seen by everyone in the farm, and only the owner or players with Full permissions can pin/unpin quests.

New items:

• Golden decorations: These decorations require a farm level over 100. They will only be shown in the shop window when unlocked.
  
• Fences: Birdhouse, Equestrian hurdles
  
• 3 decorative houses.
  
• Woodpile, haypile.
  
• New house wall colors.
  
• 2 New hairstyles, one for male and another for female avatars.
  
• 2 New t-shirt clothes

Improvements:

• You can now clear lines from the Welcome message
  
• Added a "Feel free to do anything" option to the Welcome Message.
  
• UI sounds have now their own slider in the Audio settings section.

Gameplay changes:

• Increased level cap for items (crops, trees, etc) to 200 (each level is progressively harder to obtain) due to feedback from users.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed Rainbow tag for pets.
  
• Fixed being able to move/delete decorations when someone is sitting on them.
  
• Fixed push-to-talk key activating while using the text chat.
  
• Fixed a song showing its price as "0 flowers".
  
• Fixed locked animals being sorted wrong on "availability" mode.

Hi!



Today's update features the Welcome messages, that farm owners can configure so visitors get a tip on how they can help when joining a farm. We're also doing a number of changes adjusting past week's level cap change, along with bugfixes and new content.

New items:

• Crop: Aloe Vera
  
• Crop: Asparagus
  
• Crop: Crookneck Pumpkin
  
• Tree: Rice
  
• New Bath decoration line for houses.
  
• Wall decorations: Hexes and black hexes.
  
• Hat: Gangster hat (3 variations)

New features:

• Welcome Messages: The farm owner can now configure welcome messages that visitors will see when entering. This can be done from the Farm Settings screen.

Gameplay changes:

• Readjusted level caps: Level caps for players and items is reverted back to 100. For farms, it's changed to 200, but leveling up from 100 onwards will be progressively harder. Experience will be readjusted, so you will be moved back to the proper level in the new system.
  
• Farmhands: Increased upkeep price (2 tickets every hour instead of every 2 hours), and reduced maximum time they can be paid in advance (4 hours instead of 8).

Improvements:

• Quest related items are now shown in yellow in the farm map.

Bugfixes:

• Should have fixed a 1x1 resolution problem in Linux.

Hi!

We're releasing an update fixing a number of issues.

Gameplay changes:

• Quest item count requirements are fixed from level 100 onwards.
  
• Level up rewards are fixed from level 100 onwards.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed sound settings not being properly applied when loading a farm.

Hi!



Today's update brings a number of changes in preparation for the exit of Early Access, which is coming very soon!

The most important feature added is the increase of the level cap from 100 to 999. All experience previously obtained will count towards the new cap, so you may go up a number of levels at once if you reached level 100 some time ago.

On top of that, you now have a very slight chance of getting a gold nugget when harvesting items. This chance will increase along with the level of an item.

Gold nuggets can be exchanged in a new building, the Pawn Shop, for other currency and resources.

We've also done some changes to the way game data is stored. This should lead to slightly shorter load times. You shouldn't have any problem with that, but please let us know if you experience any issue.

Today's Farm showcase: "Dog" by Furidos


New features:

• New resource: Gold Nugget. There's a very small chance of getting a gold nugget when harvesting items.

New items:

• Pawn Shop, a building where you can trade gold nuggets for money and resources.
  
• Modern Cooker (can be placed instead of the standard cooker).
  
• Modern Fridge
  
• New roads: Stone Tiles, Slate trail, gold trail
  
• Plenty of new recipes and paintings.

Gameplay changes:

• Increased level cap to 999. All levels above 100 will require the same amount of experience to level up.

Improvements:

• Changed the way game data is stored. This is an engineering improvement that will enable us to create new builds faster, and could improve loading times too.
  
• Improved fish rendering performance, like we did with animals in an earlier update.
  
• Improved tree rendering performance when having many trees of the same type together.
  
• Changed a bit the way Farmhands work area preview is shown.
  
• Recipes are properly sorted in the Select Recipe window.
  
• Shop window should fit in screen in 5:4 aspect ratios (for old TFT screens).

Bugfixes:

• Fixed Farmhand Shop preview now being blacked out if you had it locked.
  
• Fixed House Shop window showing all items as new when visiting another farm.