Hi Ranchers! 🐴❄️ The second content update for The Ranch of Rivershine is ready just in time for the holidays! It's time to visit the saddlery in town, tack up your horse with new equipment, and wrap them up in a blanket for the cold season! We also have some additional improvements to the game with wild horse pen upgrades, a statue tracker and more bug fixes!
New Tack
Your horses are ready for a new style! You’ll now be able to equip your horse with a much wider variety of bridles, saddles and saddles pads. In addition to that, I’ve also added new types of tack such as leg wraps, breast collars, halters, accessories and blankets.
Feel free to mix and match the equipment to your liking, as it won’t have an impact on your horse’s performance or abilities. Just choose what looks best to you!
To fit in all the new types of tack, the horse interface is now separated into two sections. The first one contains all of the horse care actions, while the second one contains the horse tack options. I’ve also added a new medicine action, which will be expanded on later during the veterinary content update.
Old Saddlery
A new store is open in town! The saddlery works a bit differently than other stores as it features a rotating inventory, so make sure to visit it daily to see all the new tack. You’ll be able to view the tack available for sale that day before purchasing it!
New Villager
And to run the saddlery, a new villager moved into town! Shin Dae lives in town and crafts all kinds of horse tack. He’ll help you get started with equipping your horse by gifting you some pieces, and then sending you on a treasure hunt!
Tack Treasure Hunt
Make sure to look in the best hiding spots and find hidden chests all over the town, ranch and trails to gain unique tack! There are currently 3 hidden chests per area, each containing a new piece of tack you can’t find anywhere else.
Keep track of how many chests you’ve found with a new addition on your map!
Horse Statue Tracker
You’ll now be able to save yourself some time by keeping track of the horse statues in the quest interface. Each statue has its own progress bar that will start updating once you complete the quest for it, so you can easily keep track of your progress with each of them!
Wild Horse Upgrades
I’ve received feedback after the last update that it would be more fun to improve the wild horse’s skills as the game progresses. In this update, you’ll be able to purchase upgrades for the wild horse pens. This will allow you to improve the maximum skills wild horses can have, from beginner to expert!
Once the corrals are fully upgraded, you’ll find all sorts of horses, but you can get lucky with a horse that has all expert skills!
What's Next?
For the next content update, I’ll be working on the Rocky Mountain update! This will include a whole new area to explore, four new cross country competitions, a flexibility training arena and new wild horses with a unique coat color to catch.
This will be quite a big update, but I’ll be sure to keep you all updated on my progress in the Cozy Bee Game’s Discord server. Make sure to join if you’d like to follow along with the development of The Ranch of Rivershine!
General Changes
Added multiple entrances around the wild horse pens to make it easier to corral horses.
Reviewed the breeding system so that the coat colors and coat types of both parents are mixed correctly.
Changed the horse’s statue so that they only glow when the quest to use them is complete.
Changed the order of some quests to improve the early game’s pace.
Translated all new content to French.
Bug Fixes
Removed all rocks from Pine Forest to prevent wild horses from getting stuck on them.
Fixed a bug that caused wild horses to get stuck around the maze in Lupine Meadow.
Fixed a bug that allowed inspecting wild horses before bringing them in the round pen, which could get the game stuck.
Fixed a bug where foals would run around the pasture while the horse interface is open.
Fixed a bug that allowed taking out a horse of retirement even if no stall were available, which caused the horse to disappear from the game.
Fixed a bug that caused horses taken out of the retirement pasture to always have a short mane and tail.
Thank you all for reading my devlog and I hope you’ll enjoy this new saddlery update!
It's December update time! and also the first update for Cufflinks and Cages!
One of the main pieces of feedback we've gotten is that the task system feels a bit directionless and completely RNG dependant, which when you're developing the game and you know exactly how things are supposed to be triggered it doesn't feel random, but we hadn't sufficiently communicated these things to the player. So this update, and the next few updates will work on improving some of the UI elements to help guide you towards making the choices needed to be progressing, which in this update includes the "Post-it notes" which will let you know when you've unlocked a scene. Coming soon is more upgrades to the task system to make it have better overall progression, and then a menu that will show you what your completion percentage of the game scenes you've seen. Hope you enjoy this update, as this game has been something different from us, and we're excited to see where it goes! -THM Studios
Ahoy, kids! We have been planning to make a roadmap for "Escape from the Nursing Home" for a long time and now it's time! Our team will continue to support the game and release small updates, including bug fixes and improvements, however, we have a few GLOBAL plans and here they are:
A bit over a month, we have some exciting features to bring you as well as bug fixes!
The town's job board is now operational! Complete jobs from various NPC and gain items, popularity and friendship. You can now increase your town popularity as well.
The NPCs have gotten a big update as well. You can now give them items. They have more dialogs as well.
Lastly the Chronodex has been added to view all the monsters. A new tool to scan monsters can help you unlock all the Chronodex data.
*** This update requires a complete data reset. You can do so on the main menu, bottom right.
--- Features --- - INPC faces now show when talking to them - npc friendship shown next to face - You can give items to NPCs now - They can Hate, Dislike, Meh, Like and Love the items - Each one with their own dialogs. Increase/Decrease Friendship - You can now click passports in the player menu. - This opens the towns menu for that passport - View all INPC (Birthday, gifts given, friendship) - View town info (Popularity, Quest Board, lore) - Mobile/PC now have free roam movement - When clicking items outside shop/inventory, a pop up will appear with its info. - Entering towns first time shows welcome pop up - Adding gold will show a pop up - Can talk to town healer from desk - Switch between monsters in monster info menu - ChronoDex! View monster stats/info and show any caught/seen - Rotate screen in settings - Scan tool added - Use scan in battles to learn more about monsters.
--- Visual --- - Mon info menu background behind mon changed - Leveling up now shows stats increase - Leveling up VFX on monsters - (Mobile/PC) Dialog border moved over past hotbar
--- Bugs --- - Sleeping always caused it to be a new day - Can walk behind Tvs - Healer in town direction changed to south - Aptitude always calculating 0 - Dialog sound plays if sound is off
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Aarin Lohar, the town blacksmith, can now forge copper, iron, silver, or gold keys for you. They will be used to unlock secret doors and open locked chests.
In the landing, woods, and dungeons, chests that have a chain wrapped around them have been replaced with chests without a chain. In the future, chests with a chain wrapped around them will represent locked chests.
A couple of secret doors have been added (if we said where, they wouldn't be secret), as well as a locked chest. There will be more in the future.
The exit doors in the Guild Dungeons have been changed from wooden trap doors to ladderways with sliding concrete covers that better befit a dungeon.
Performance enhancements were made to the actor and item information systems.
