Hello,
After the short Steam beta period, today we're releasing a big update with plenty of new content and features!
New Content
Added plenty of new achievements to unlock.
Added new Golden decorations with steep unlock and purchase requirements.
New harvestable type: Herbs. These items can be placed in plowed land at any time, but can only be harvested on specific seasons. Herbs are unlocked at Farm Level 60. The category will be hidden until then.
New production buildings: Loom and Tint Extractor.
New resource: Fabric.
New town shop: Apothecary, to sell the new herbs resources.
New minerals: Copper, Silver and Gold
Improvements
Added a setting to increase icon size in the map.
Added a Brightness/Contrast accesibility setting (Only Steam for now, will be included in next update for consoles)
Gameplay changes
Increased farm size to 9x9 plots. New plots will be placed surrounding the previous 7x7 area. Plots over 50 will also require some medals on top of diamonds.
Reduced diamonds required to purchase new plots. This reduction is more noticeable on the last unlocked farms.
Favour exchange ratios for money are improved a bit more with farm level.
Increased max level of most town shops to 250.
Increased overall capacity of shops.
Slightly increased stock recovery speed of shops.
Increased warehouse max level to 500.
Increased max farm / player level to 1,000.
Increased maximum farmhand work area to 24x24
Increased farmhand movement speed.
The Tea Factory now uses the newly added herb resources. The ones previously used by the Tea Factory are now used by the Tint Extractor.
Parsley is no longer a crop, and will be now in the Herbs category.
Increased Max garage level to 200. Auto Tractor speed can now reach 150%. Fuel Recovery stops improving at level 100.
Adjusted anti cheat option to have less false positives.
Bugfixes
Fixed memory leak when switching farms. This could lead to crashes on systems with a low memory budget.
Fixed fuel difference between host and guests when switching farms. This could lead to the "synchronization lost" errors while playing, and seeing different results from player actions.
Fixed UI menus only working for a specific controller after switching farms while playing in splitscreen (Only Steam for now, will be included in next update for consoles).
Fixed animals floating over water (Only Steam for now, will be included in next update for consoles)
Information for Steam beta players
Do I need to do something now?
No, the update will bring you back to the default branch. No need to do anything other than update the game as usual. Thank you for helping us test the update!
Today's Farm showcase: "Cyber DLC" by KālīMa - TRFTSY