Hi Adventurers!
Welcome to Spring, well, nearly spring, just a week of winter left.
While we enjoy the last few days of snow and ice, we are excited to share that a preview of Patch 3.1: Quality of Life is live right now on the PBE (PC only).
If you’d like a sneak peek at what’s coming in Patch 3.1, you can join the Public Beta Environment (PBE) and help us test this patch out before release! Join our Discord and check out #pbe-info for more information on how to opt in! If you experience any bugs on the PBE, please report them in our Discord.
So, let’s jump into a peek at Patch 3.1: Quality of Life!
Meet your newest little neighbor!
New Repairable Structures
Your neighbors around Sun Haven have been so caught up in their own adventures that sometimes repairs fall to the wayside. With this update, you will see structures, new and old, around Sun Haven that need help being fixed up.
Some of these have special storylines and history, so take a moment to help out around town, be a good neighbor, and earn some extra community tokens!
Now I can craft something yummy!
Recipe Pop-Up
As you adventure, you may have noticed new recipes appearing in your crafting tables, without a clue as to when you unlocked them. With the new Recipe Pop-Up notification, every few level ups and every quest completion, every time a new recipe unlocks, you will be alerted to it!
Frames so smooth, you might call them polished!
Optimizations and Bug Fixes
We spent the past months dedicated to further polishing Sun Haven. So, we focused on behind-the-scenes adjustments to make Sun Haven’s performance feel smoother. A larger optimization we are making specifically affects areas with high foliage density, like Nel’Vari, which we hope will prevent lag on most systems. Additionally, crashes after extended play should occur less frequently; our goal is for crashes never to occur, so we hope these optimizations help make that goal a reality for all players. This is all part of our efforts to improve the experience for players on lower spec computers, Nintendo Switch, and eventually make the big port onto Xbox and PlayStation as smooth as possible.
Along with optimizing maps further, we read every single bug report and did our best to fix many of the critical issues you all have reported. This includes missing localization, adjustments to controller support to make tools react more consistently, adding missing romance items to shops, and much more.
There will be bugs; that is the nature of game dev, but we will continue to do our best to efficiently fix and support player-reported issues. We thank you for your support which help make Sun Haven a better game.
Team Credits
Since our 1.0 release, Sun Haven is in the best place it has ever been. Work we are proud to put our name on.
Coming in Sun Haven Patch 3.1 will be team credits. These credits will be on the main menu, listing out those who contributed to this project and helped bring our story to life. Our priority has been to make Sun Haven the best it can be for players. Sun Haven is our first game, so there have been a ton of bugs and improvements that players requested and that we have wanted to fix. We want to take this moment to send a big thank you to everyone who helped work on Sun Haven. We did an amazing job, and Sun Haven is in the most bug-free, stable spot it's ever been!
Fixing relationships or fixing your town, that's Sun Haven for you!
We know this patch doesn’t include as much new content as previous patches, but our goal for this patch was to optimize, polish, and make Sun Haven feel better than ever before. This work is incredibly important for us to be able to bring Sun Haven to other platforms soon! If you want to get a chance to test out these new repairables and optimizations before they're released, the new content for Patch 3.1: Quality of Life, is available now on the PBE for PC only. Join us on Discord for the chance to play them today!
Have an amazing week, everyone!
Pixel Sprout Studios
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