Hello there seedlings!

Hotfix Update 0.5.5.6121 is now live! Today's update rounds up quite a few fixes from reported issues that should make the experience better.

If you are getting any issues please send them in for us to look at (via discord or mailing bugs@kynseed.com).

A big thanks to all of your support whether by sending in bugs, leaving a review letting us know what you think, hanging out in the community, or even by simply playing the game.

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🔶 Meeting a character allows you to see their traits as well as stats
🔶 Pig poop is now effective as fertiliser to speed all grown seeds by one day
🔶 Sheep poop is now effective as fertiliser to raise the rating of certain growables
🔶 Traits visible for recipe results once the player has made the recipe once
🔶 Adjusted player speedup to happen from becoming adult in the game
🔶 Switch a character introduction to cutscene to hopefully fix issues with it getting stuck
❌ Fixed lost item tasks using legacy items by switching them to new ones (this will reset progress of these tasks in existing saves)
❌ Fix for shop book not displaying when you buy a shop
❌ Fix for shoppers continuing to spawn in while certain UI menus are onscreen
❌ Fix for gift mails giving duplicate recipes/proverbs of existing unread gift mails
❌ Fix for some mails going to archive automatically
❌ Fixed accidental gifting when clicking up/down arrows in the inventory box
❌ Fix visual appearance of hotbar for buckets/jars not changing when swapping in a different one
❌ Fixed Retirement Home curse not affecting spouse when loading save
❌ Fix for sword not levelling up in combat
❌ Fix for fishing rod not enabling skills menu
❌ Correct spouse age in save portrait
❌ Fixed issue with Fae shops not getting restocked during a play session
❌ Fixed issue with npcs not resetting their info limit each season
❌ Fixed item names not showing on skills screen
❌ Fixed night ambient carrying over when quitting to title screen
❌ Collection tasks don't count items dropped from the inventory that are picked up again
❌ NPCs in alphabetical order on the relationship screen
❌ Inventory proverbs listed alphabetically
❌ Multipart task steps in order with previously completed steps at the top
❌ Clicking on the hotbar area while it was invisible no longer makes sound
❌ Fixes for the player movement on various level exits/entrances
❌ Each market stall is guaranteed to sell unique seeds based on those available for that haven

🔷Additionᅠᅠ🔶Improvementᅠᅠ❌Fix

Hello there seedlings!

Just a small hotfix today while work continues apace on improvements and adding more content.

If you are getting any issues please send them in for us to look at (via discord or mailing bugs@kynseed.com).

A big thanks to all of your support whether by sending in bugs, leaving a review letting us know what you think, hanging out in the community, or even by simply playing the game.

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❌ Fix for not receiving items from gifts in the mail

🔷Additionᅠᅠ🔶Improvementᅠᅠ❌Fix

Hello there seedlings!

Just squeezing into 2021 here's a small hotfix update.

If you are getting any issues please send them in for us to look at (via discord or mailing bugs@kynseed.com).

A big thanks to all of your support whether by sending in bugs, leaving a review letting us know what you think, hanging out in the community, or even by simply playing the game.

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❌ Fix for issue starting new game after going to load a save
❌ Fix for chat boxes having the dpad options accessible leading to not get the fishing rod
❌ Fix to make fishing rod available after the first season in the game if it wasn't acquired (including existing saves)
❌ Fix to prevent crash when selling certain items to the Fae from the blacksmith with a certain perk
❌ Fix for crash loading into Briar with a follower

🔷Additionᅠᅠ🔶Improvementᅠᅠ❌Fix

Hello there seedlings!

Just in time for the winter holidays here's another update bringing further UI improvements and fixes along with new water visuals!

If you are getting any issues please send them in for us to look at (via discord or mailing bugs@kynseed.com).

A big thanks to all of your support whether by sending in bugs, leaving a review letting us know what you think, hanging out in the community, or even by simply playing the game.

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🔷 Further UI switched to the new system
🔷 Skill screen
🔷 Mailbox
🔷 Intro choice
🔷 Gamepad Radial
🔷 Monument stone
🔷 Pet whistle
🔷 Noticeboard
🔷 Overhead text and more onscreen messages
🔷 Water and lighting has been visually enhanced with shaders (for lower spec PCs there are settings in the options to adjust the quality of the effects which may improve framerate)
🔷 Bubble help (currently on F3 key), this pauses the game and gives some context sensitive help for a variety of onscreen objects and certain npcs
🔶 Can toggle to view the descriptions of goddess effects on the results screen after offering
❌ Fix where mosses would not grow out of level
❌ Throwing minigame is ended on leaving the level and the npc now returns if you do go back that same day
❌ Elderberry bushes preset in Evergreen
❌ Salad Days blessing works with using the sickle
❌ Fixed cases where melee and ranged tutorials could get reactivated as tasks and stuck because they were already completed
❌ Fixed item ratings text and conditions where it was mismatched
❌ Correct blacksmith prices when selling from the shelf from balance data

🔷Additionᅠᅠ🔶Improvementᅠᅠ❌Fix

Hello there seedlings!

Here's another small hotfix following the latest update! If you are still getting any issues please send them in for us to look at (via discord or mailing bugs@kynseed.com).

A big thanks to all of your support whether by sending in bugs, leaving a review letting us know what you think, hanging out in the community, or even by simply playing the game.

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🔷 Setup moss growing on certain tree stumps
🔶 Switched Spade in shops to be the Tin Shovel
❌ Fix for hotbar disappearing after completing combat
❌ Prevented exiting the lemonade stand via dpad menu options that could lead to crashes
❌ Goddess Offerings no longer partially save placed offerings to avoid issues
❌ If multiple tasks expect the same item it correctly gifts towards ones where progress can be made
❌ Fixed an assert for Truffles when loading certain save games
❌ Correctly display calendar cooking event in Summer season only

🔷Additionᅠᅠ🔶Improvementᅠᅠ❌Fixᅠᅠ➕Internal!

Greetings Seedings!

What is that smell coming from the castle kitchens?
Hmmmm smells like some sort of freshly baked pie!
Our stomachs are rumbling like distant thunder.
Let's head downstairs and see what's cooking, in the Oven Ready Cooking Update.

What better way to start your culinary career than with a good old fashioned Recipe Book.
Collect recipes and flick through the jam-encrusted pages in search of marvellous meals.
There are 7, yes SEVEN different cooking minigames to try as you whip up a creamy frenzy of fantastical foodstuffs.



Thick, creamy, tasty, homely, simple.
But enough about me! Let's talk soups.
Simply grind your ingredients in the Hob, before you put it on the hob.
Confused?
Well, it will all make sense.
Just time the arrow to the groove in this simplest of soup-making sections.



Do people called Stu like stew? Does Stewart make stew art?
How much stew could a Stu stew if a stewing stew could stew stew?
Who knows?
In this minigame, you must choose the ingredients and add them to the pot in the right order.
The timers will flip one by one so try to get them all to finish at the same time!



We're jammin'!
Yes, preserve your preserves for posterity with the jam making!
Chop up your berries and pop them in the pot before the sands of time run out.
Watch the temperature and always try to keep it balanced.
Hmmm sticky, sweet and jam-packed with goodness.



Rollin' rollin' rollin',
Keep that pastry rollin',
Rollin' rollin' rollin'
Raw dough!
The world is a much better place with pastry on your face.



Puddings always bring glad tidings, as well as adding a few inches to the waistline.
Fairly simple to make, just make sure you don't burn them in the kiln.
I just realised I am drooling as I type this, but...must...resist...puddings...



Man can not live on bread alone, they say.
You could, if the bread was big enough. You could have a baguette as a table and a nice sourdough chair too. At night, you'd take off your loafers and slip into bread, and your naan would come and tuck you in.
Can you tell that I am hungry?



Sandwiches are the best thing since sliced bread, with a filling.
Invented by the Earl of Sandwich, thousands of years ago, Quillians keep the quaint tradition alive by making some truly disgusting homages to a once noble art.
Can you do any better? Could you create a toastie that won't make even your pigs barf?



Cooking is not the only thing included in this lovely update.
We have started overhauling the entire UI!
So expect a new WIP inventory, Status, Task screen and calendar.
We added new banners, task systems, hotbars and all sorts of other goodies.
Please excuse that some of the old UI is still hanging around like a bad smell, but we will get rid of that stink with some freshly baked Apple Bread.







We have spent a good couple of months or so creating a new editor tool that allows us to create events to finally flesh out the land of Quill.
We have 3 such tests of it's power in this update...a weather event, a competition and something a little bit more quirky.
This all paves the way for tons of new story, goals, things to see, things to do, things to mess with and surprises aplenty.
See if you can discover them!



We also have a few extra lovely bits and bobs in the update...please read the patch notes for more information.
Until next time friends! Happy cooking!

LOVE,

Hello there seedlings!

The latest update The Oven Ready Cooking Update is now available and here is the changelog of what has been updated! As always, these things are an ongoing development, so expect bugs, balancing issues and an overwhelming urge to sprinkle herbs on things.

We appreciated any feedback at our usual channels on Discord, our forums or in the Steam Discussions.

🔷 Cooking minigame revamped into 7 minigame variations for making...
ᅠᅠ🔷 Stews
ᅠᅠ🔷 Jams
ᅠᅠ🔷 Pies
ᅠᅠ 🔷 Sandwiches
ᅠᅠ 🔷 Puddings
ᅠᅠ 🔷 Soups
ᅠᅠ 🔷 Bread
🔷 Started the switch of UI over to new system, screens done so far include
ᅠᅠ 🔷 Inventory
ᅠᅠ 🔷 Calendar/Task list
ᅠᅠ 🔷 Status for player and npcs
ᅠᅠ 🔷 Options
ᅠᅠ 🔷 Many popups in the game
ᅠᅠ 🔷 PC Hotbar
ᅠᅠ 🔷 More to follow
🔷 New Event/Behaviour system in place to power future story, events and AI work. A few new events are in place to test the system.
🔶 Many recipes have changed ingredients and traits
🔶 Additional recipes added
🔶 First pass of an intriguing, very handy and expensive new Fairweather item
🔶 Only the exact Goddess effect applies from offerings
🔶 Various goddess offerings adjusted
🔶 Small mine added to Homesteads with some ore
🔶 Foot sfx changes on wooden tiles
🔶 Glass lens available from all traders if not acquired
❌ Fix for buying rating not always matching what was on offer
❌ Loading a save game in Briar loads into the player's farm instead
❌ When transported to different locations fishing rod will reset
❌ Fix for Thatterway getting confused going through Rivermoor
❌ Confirm for quitting lemonade stall selling
❌ Fix for farming help noticeboards not being completable with Hydrate skill unlocked or if a goddess boon is in effect that quickens growth
❌ Fix for certain item wanted tasks not having a reward
❌ Fix for certain events getting listed twice
❌ Fix for certain growables not appearing in seasons due to old saved data for the growables
❌ Fix for selling table interact auto closing
❌ Fix for infinite selling items from lemonade stand in certain circumstances
❌ Fixed case where sword could be used outside combat
❌ Prevented blank mail from shops after end of year tax
❌ Player is fixed to the spot while casting/reeling in fishing
❌ Item icon fills in for skills like Parry when unlocked
❌ Can only enter races with a matching animal type
❌ Fix for item requests from locked fae realms
❌ Cooling phase of blacksmith minigame gives less durability boost when not accurate to make 5 star durability harder
❌ LampLyter name visible on insects that are not to catch
❌ Active onscreen task cleared if it is removed in some way
❌ Masters can't be gifted other than for their skills
❌ Level music doesn't start and overlap with shop music at dawn of a new day

🔷Additionᅠᅠ🔶Improvementᅠᅠ❌Fixᅠᅠ➕Internal

Hello there seedlings!

Here's another small hotfix following the latest update on combat! If you are still getting any issues please send them in for us to look at (via discord or mailing bugs@kynseed.com).

A big thanks to all of your support whether by sending in bugs, leaving a review letting us know what you think, hanging out in the community, or even by simply playing the game.

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🔶 Some minor tweaks to certain UI appearances
🔶 Adjusted some family secret rewards (further balancing will happen in the future)
❌ Fix for creeping vines crash in combat if the hag dies before it reaches the player the first time it is used
❌ Fix for crash with certain patient ailments in certain circumstances
❌ Fix for fishing rod sometimes not being obtainable after the end of summer
❌ Fix for certain mails appearing automatically in archive. This retroactively fixes existing saves with this problem
❌ Some fixes around animals not behaving as expected
❌ Fix for various UI screens having the mouse highlight appear while the gamepad is in use
❌ Adjusted secrets in chat system to exhaust all potential info before falling back to lines stating there is no more info to find (at least right now!)
❌ Toggling follow for animals no longer raises the relationship opinion
❌ Fae shop owners go straight into selling when interacted with
❌ Fix for debug message on entering the wrong combination for a family secret box
❌ Prevent exclamations appearing on wanderers



🔷Additionᅠᅠ🔶Improvementᅠᅠ❌Fixᅠᅠ➕Internal!

Hello there seedlings!

Here's another small hotfix following the latest update on combat! If you are still getting any issues please send them in for us to look at (via discord or mailing bugs@kynseed.com).

A big thanks to all of your support whether by sending in bugs, leaving a review letting us know what you think, hanging out in the community, or even by simply playing the game.

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❌Fix for statue room getting stuck
❌ Fix for crash during combat tutorial with certain key presses
❌ Fix for shelf items not being removed by workers in certain circumstances
❌ Fix for crash on apothecary patient in rare timing circumstances
❌ Fix for reduced flow of patients


🔷Additionᅠᅠ🔶Improvementᅠᅠ❌Fixᅠᅠ➕Internal!

Hello there seedlings!

Here's another small hotfix following the latest update on combat! If you are still getting any issues please send them in for us to look at (via discord or mailing bugs@kynseed.com).

A big thanks to all of your support whether by sending in bugs, leaving a review letting us know what you think, hanging out in the community, or even by simply playing the game.

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🔶 Added timer to statue puzzle room
🔶 Some extra text instructions/guidance for combat
🔶 Some player stats get a small boost at adult age
❌ Prevent time moving forward while in combat to new year's day
❌ Speculative fix for issue with apoth worker
❌ Fix for good store shop rebuying crash in certain circumstances
❌ Fix for crash on parrying certain attacks


🔷Additionᅠᅠ🔶Improvementᅠᅠ❌Fixᅠᅠ➕Internal!