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.

Cʜᴀɴɢᴇʟᴏɢ
🔶 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.

Cʜᴀɴɢᴇʟᴏɢ
❌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.

Cʜᴀɴɢᴇʟᴏɢ
🔶 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!

Greetings Seedings!

As we look out of the castle window we spy a disturbance in the twisted forests yonder.
Grabbing our telescopes, we spy dark dealings afoot.
Looks like it is time to open up the castle armoury and send cartloads of sharp, pointy weaponry off into the village, where our lovely community of villagers can arm themselves and go sort out the bother, because we are just far too scared.
Why do you think we work in a castle?!

And thus, we welcome you to ‘Hag & Slash: The Combat Update.


Simplewood is the first of 3 increasingly tricksy places to explore and test your skills against the first set of wonderful denizens we have cooked up for you in our development cauldron.
Within the glades you will find danger, but also some respite and intrigue...a sample of what is to come as we build out the 'fungeons', as we don’t call them.
Within this fabulous update you will also find new Reputation Perks for all your shops, and a lovely little new level to explore, with a very helpful new Master residing within, plus a bunch of fixes and other little bits & bobs.
So get your backpack dusted off, wear reinforced underwear, and prepare for a bit of the old Hag & Slash!




To experience what combat has to offer, enter the depths of Simplewood, the easiest of our dark forests. You will find Simplewood at the top centre of Rivermoor. You should bump into Jogon, who will teach you the way of the blade.
However, if you do not keep your wits about you, then you can be something’s dinner before you can say “Ouch!”
Within each ‘dungeon’ you can elect to go right and stay at the same difficulty, or head deeper in, increasing the difficulty but opening up much more potential for tasty rewards!




Prepare thyself!
Literally. Equip any weapons (up to 2 swords, madam), pack a good meal and stuff up to 10 combat items into your pack.
You can also take in 1 charm and 1 ward which will buff you and debuff your enemies.
If it is night, then maybe a lantern will be handy!
Items can be bought or crafted, and weapons can affect different creatures in different ways.




Kynseed had a sparkly new combat system that marries the look of a turn-based RPG, but has the reactions and strategy of an action combat game.
Think of it as a mix of One Step From Eden, the Super Mario RPG’s and Steamworld Quest.
You can attack your lane or diagonally adjacent, and each enemy position matches a button on your gamepad.
Combat is ruled by ‘Stamina’, and each attack uses one unit, although there are ways for the skilful to get free hits.
Moving and blocking deplete your stamina so make sure you have enough.
Stamina recharges and the rate of how fast depends on your stamina stat.







By far the most useful and fun move, Parrying is something you will need to learn if you want to maximise your effectiveness (and it is FUN as we keep saying).
Time a block at just the right moment and you can reflect a projectile back at the slinger, or stop a melee attack and leave them open to a quick counter, the first hit of which is free.
Not everything can be parried though so watch out!




If you meet Moon the Archery Master, you may get a bow to aid you.
Bows initially don’t cause much damage, but are most effective at knocking enemies out of blocking, draining their stamina and stunning them...buying you time.
You have just 6 arrows per run but may find more on your explorations.




Those items you packed earlier? Well, you can use them anytime.
Some items can be used on yourself, or thrown onto what we call, ‘Nodes’...the halfway point of a lane between yourself and the enemy.
And some items can be hurled directly at enemies.
Bees. That’s all we will say.




As you travel from glade to glade in the forest, you may come across other room types.
These can be anything from little challenges to mysterious interactive elements...we will let you discover these.
You may also find a campfire to heal, although doing so will force you up a few levels of difficulty!



The update also contains a new region called Drownhill and some extra work on making the 3 shop types fun.
You can now raise reputation to earn perk points that you can spend on...you guessed it...Perks!
This is just the start of improving the business aspect of the game.
You will also find more proverbs filled in and a number of other fixes and little nuggets as detailed in the changelist which our scribe scrabbled to scribble.



We can’t wait to hear your feedback and watch your videos and streams as you battle the first set of foes in an update we are intensely proud of.
We poured a lot of hard work and love into this, and jugs of coffee into ourselves, just so we could send you to do our dirty work in the dark forest.
We want a cut of the loot by the way.

Until next time friends!

LOVE,

Hello there seedlings!

The latest update Hag & Slash: The Combat 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.

🔷 Combat completely redone into a Reactive Realtime Combat system
ᅠᅠ🔷 Head to Simplewood, at the top of Rivermoor to meet Jogon, Master of Combat and learn the way of the sword
ᅠᅠ🔷 Fight against 5 enemy types with multiple abilties to figure out
ᅠᅠ🔷 Equip a loadout of two swords, a ward/charm, 10 combat items and a meal
ᅠᅠ🔷 Choose your strategy carefully where death can cost you fairweather tax years of your life!
ᅠᅠ🔷 Take your dog into battle for help
ᅠᅠ🔷 Pick Combat items in paused mode to aid in attack, defense and healing
ᅠᅠ🔷 Travel deeper into the forest for tougher difficulty with better rewards
ᅠᅠ🔷 Some areas allow for rest and little minigames for additional loot
🔷 Drownhill, a new region in Summerdown to explore
ᅠᅠ🔷 Includes Moon - learn how to use a bow from our latest Master
🔷 Can order some fresh goods for the good store
🔷 Good store selling table reused for storage when player owned (items will be placed out automatically each hour while the shop is open if you have a worker)
🔷 Shop reputation levelling reworked with perk points unlocked as reputation goes up with 10 perks per shop
🔶 Apothecary crafting adjusted to be easier. Branded or offbrand results from curing all or partial traits
🔶 Apothecary ailments/maladies based on season along with shop reputation level
🔶 Apothecary crafting with no patient and recipe set now crafts combat items
🔶 Setup for blacksmith orders to be based on reputation level and also cover all 5 available ore types
🔶 Ledger UI updated
🔶 Various level tweaks mainly for collision, nav and layering
🔶 Counter staff should display thinking dots while deciding the response to customers
🔶 Blacksmith orders collected with self service due to a closed shop will still provide some rep
🔶 Blacksmith shelf browser customers served by a worker when you have no shelf items will provide a placebo item with similar 50/50 chance of gaining a little rep and brass or losing a little rep
❌ Fix for blacksmith npc crafters mostly only making the first order in the list
❌ Storage shows star rating next to stock
❌ Fix for out of level apothecary workers being lazy to help patients
❌ Fix for some spelling errors in text
❌ Mushrooms have proverbs
❌ Radishes no longer have the gassy trait
❌ Offering points are retained on leaving the goddess statue prompt to avoid exploitation
❌Afternoon is counted from 1pm to 6pm to overlap with Dusk for one hour
❌ Speculative fix for rare crash when raining from certain level changes
❌ Heartroot icon correct size ingame
❌ Fix for shop skill and relationship appearing altered when setting different staff for the currently active shop hours
❌ Stopped customer countdown going up while bartering
❌ Fix for rare softlock in Evergreen at the end of the year
❌ Fix for Dusk Cherry being treated as a recipe
❌ Dusk Cherries and Sugar Plums spawn in winter as intended
❌ Prevented White Rose/Rose of Romance from being requested in favours
❌ Fix for good store and apoth shops where the camera would snap inside when close to the walls outside
❌ Tavern will still open if the player marries one of the staff
❌ Blacksmith apprentice crafting can use some ore from the npc owned store if they have any spare (one added per day). Any brass from crafting these is reduced compared to the player providing their own ore
❌ No pollen weather appearing inside shops
❌ On selling a Good Store it restocks when you next enter the level
❌ Prevented purchase of multiple recipes from sellers like Mellowbrook Apothecary
❌ No more freebie premade cures if the player serves patients!
❌ Fix for follow points of followers that meant they got in the way more frequently
❌ Count next to ore in ledger should be what is in stock for workers rather than include the player's inventory
❌ Blacksmith worker should be able to craft shelf items if not all orders are complete due to missing ore
❌ Followers should follow in interiors
❌ Lemonade stand profit info should only include gains from the lemonade stand
❌ Shouldn't be able to access the options screen while changing level
❌ NPCs should recover from getting into non-navigable spots
❌ Fixed many star rating placeholder gossip lines
❌ Babies shouldn't start conversations

🔷Additionᅠᅠ🔶Improvementᅠᅠ❌Fixᅠᅠ➕Internal

Hello there seedlings!

Here's another small hotfix mostly to resolve known crash issues! 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.

Cʜᴀɴɢᴇʟᴏɢ
❌ Fix for sim crash in market levels
❌ Fix for audio crash on resuming game from standby (seems to be linked to audio output device being removed, eg. headphones removed from laptop)
❌ Fix for graphics memory leak over time that likely resulted in various crashes
❌ Fix for apothecary colour chart appearing corrupted while clicking on it to look closer
❌ Fix for Caorthann not appearing in the new fae region

🔷Additionᅠᅠ🔶Improvementᅠᅠ❌Fixᅠᅠ➕Internal!

Hello there seedlings!

This quick update should resolve a few bugs that slipped through. 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.

Cʜᴀɴɢᴇʟᴏɢ
🔶 Adjusted fish spawning, additional proverbs and traits for newer items
❌ Fix for sim crash with spilled honey,etc
❌ Fix for post auction sim crash
❌ Adjusted serving area for blacksmith in Mellowbrook

🔷Additionᅠᅠ🔶Improvementᅠᅠ❌Fixᅠᅠ➕Internal!

Hello there seedlings!

This update should hopefully resolve the most common reported issues since the 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.

Cʜᴀɴɢᴇʟᴏɢ
🔶 Various additional star ratings setup for items
🔶 Extra logging round npc actions
❌ Nightberries don't stop day 1 cutscene
❌ Fix for crash with npc crafting in apothecary with certain ingredients
❌ Fix for rare situations where npcs wouldn't react at the time for dates
❌ Goods Market event listed for all havens
❌ Player always visible while riding floating pig
❌ Fix for various Vale npcs sleeping
❌ Fix for fishing rod slot assignment on gamepad blur
❌ Npcs shouldn't ask for items they don't like for favours
❌ Lambs no longer rideable
❌ Crumblechalk mine exit to farm closed until you have the key
❌ C key can close the calendar as well as open it
❌ Fix for doubled up heads of some characters while sleeping
❌ Fix for animal poop happening out of level
❌ Fix for wisps lighting the lamps in some circumstances
❌ Fixed sibling stuck repeating the same dialogue instead of looping through interact lines
❌ Fix for slow build up of leaves while on options screen that could cause slowdown
❌ Fix for eldersberry potentially having different sprite
❌ Fix for Whistleroot in Dreamer's Nook appearing all times of day
❌ No favours possible for traders

🔷Additionᅠᅠ🔶Improvementᅠᅠ❌Fixᅠᅠ➕Internal!

Hello there seedlings!

This update should hopefully resolve the most common reported issues since the 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.

Cʜᴀɴɢᴇʟᴏɢ
❌ Fix for Ash task causing lockup at 6pm ingame
❌ Fix for occasional issue changing levels while raining
❌ Preventative fixes around text group counts and bit more info on crashes about the player npc and object targets
❌ Fix for crash riding floating pig (invisible player to be looked into)

🔷Additionᅠᅠ🔶Improvementᅠᅠ❌Fixᅠᅠ➕Internal!

Greetings Seedings!

It’s that time again, when we lower the castle portcullis and send our excitable update sheep down the road into our community.
This fabulous update is a feast for the eyes and ears, as well as being packed with mystery and story.
Over the next few weeks, we will reveal more about the next update as our sheep reaches ramming speed as it charges down the hill towards the dark forest.
Judging by the helmet that our sheep is wearing, it would seem that there is going to be a bit of rough n tumble and the apothecary might need to stock up on wound treatments!
As for now, let’s have a look inside the Gathering Storm update, that we proudly present to you.

WEATHER & LIGHTING

Probably the stars of the show are our new lighting and weather systems.
Rain, fog, wind, heat and snow bring a level of immersion to Quill that takes the game to ambient heights.

WIND

A light breeze or a full-on gale. The Goddesses provide.

RAIN

Rain has various intensities, from “It’s spitting!” to “I love storms!”
Our resident weather coding expert Nick, also made it so it does not rain indoors, and the sound changes whether you are near bodies of water, near greenhouses and when you are snug inside.

SNOW

Ahhh a lovely crisp winter’s day. The tingle of a snowflake on your nose. The blast of icy death as a blizzard whacks you in the face.

FOG

From morning mists to creepy pea-soupers to colourful Fae rainbow clouds, you can’t beat fog for sheer atmosphere. Some say it is Dragon’s breath. Others say it is a visible aerosol of tiny water droplets. Some people are less fun than others.

LIGHTS & LANTERNS

Lights now contain themselves in houses. We tweaked the times of day and more importantly, made the lantern really cool and actually useful.

A NEW PET

Introducing the FILIFRYTH!
This magnificent and strange bushy owl is not so easy to tame, unless you know the way.
But what is the ability that this odd yet cute little creature has?
We are not telling you because that would be taking the Piscatootle.

NEW INTRO & MAJOR PROLOGUE CHANGES

Yes, we added some initial mystery and set up to the story, changed a ton of dialogue and moved tasks around. There will be fun. There will be shocks. There will be fear. There will be blood. Just kidding, that’s a great movie.

FAE REALM OF EVERGREEN

Find the method to unlock it, and you can visit the lush forests of Evergreen. Strange noises drift from ancient trees and bizarre denizens wander amongst the whispering trees and gentle streams with their discordant music.




The update also contains delights such as a new region transition system, various tweaks and polish and an absolute ton of bug fixes. We also probably introduced an absolute ton more too.

Some of you with high awareness stats may have noticed a very modest price rise on the Store page. We felt the added content to date justified a small raise, and this will help keep the Castle Guards from revolting. Some of them are already revolting, but their mother's love them.

We can’t wait to hear your feedback and see your screenshots and watch your streams.
So immerse yourself, wrap up warm and experience the elements of our brand new update, brought to you by the hard-working Gnomes of PixelCount (they tried to form a union, but were hungry so formed an onion).

Until next time friends!

LOVE,