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Critter CoveNewsMajor Update Build 345
Game update

Major Update Build 345

Critter Cove · published 14 May 2026, 13:17 UTC

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New Features

Create-A-Critter & The Salon: You can now complete the final building in the game, the Salon, and create your own custom critters! 

Once created, they will arrive with the next tour boat.
You can continue to edit your critters, but you cannot change their personalities!
You can have up to 10 custom critters, but will NOT get an additional slot if you ask them to leave

Woolington Questline: Help Woolington and the museum with some problems relating to a mysterious lost Ark

Performance Improvements: This is especially noticeable on the Steam Deck, which now gets a 15% performance increase and faster loading times. We've also added brand new visual effects for things like sparkling items, fire, water etc.Salon Quest: Repeatable shop quest to earn doubloons and build your relationship with the salon shopkeeper.Competition Critters: 7 new critters will be joining the roster, these are the winners from our latest Critter Creation Contest on Discord. Please welcome Arco the boar, Katnip the plant cat, Quanta the lizard, Cobran the green heron, Ollie the opossum, Shae the ball python & Opalite the unideer.New Character Creation Options: Two new heads: monkey & pony. Three new tails: monkey, opossum & gator. New nose options (located under the facial hair slot) for humans, cat, pony, monkey, seamonster, dinosaur & robot heads.New clothing options: Dress of Embers, a black and red variation of the Dress of Darkness & a new headwrap hat, the snake headwrap.Quality of Life & Other Updates

Sickness Balancing Updates: Critters will now always heal when given medicine instead of having a chance to heal, and will have a chance to visit the clinic when ill. Also added a medicine vending cabinet to the clinic where sick critters can pick up their own prescriptions if you keep it stocked.
New Anti-Aliasing Options: In addition to the existing FXAA, we've implemented stronger - and more system intensive - options including MSAA and TAA.
Auto Save Options: Crafting Tweaks: If making an item would use up an inventory slot, you can now craft that item without "inventory full" messages, and you can now create multiples of slop.

Other Updates

  • Fixed an issue where crafted items such as bread would show as a red item in the cooking menus

  • You now must build the cafe before getting other blueprints, fixing a number of issues

  • Renard is now always visible on the map

  • You can sell the starting hat now, if you hate cool hats

  • Certain fish no longer swim out of aquariums

  • Tourists cooking at the grill now have the proper dialogue

  • Fixed Woolington incorrectly appearing outside the museum

  • The Donation box now properly shows up during Museum expansion

  • Opening treasure maps should no longer show a duplicate you

  • Fixed an issue with bakery quests where crates would not clear up

  • Changing texture quality no longer changes the quality of loading screens

  • Added type icons to the clothing and furniture store items

  • Did some work on bird spawning so they don't explode in front of the player so much

  • Drowning sounds no longer persist after you start drowning but put on Scuba

  • Player can now gain reputation with Woolington by doing quests and turning in treasures

  • The game will now properly save fullscreen/windowed settings

  • The "2 Fast 2 Tubious" achievement now only gets granted when you have all upgrades

  • New icon for game settings that makes more sense

  • Pressing LB at the end of a menu now wraps around to the start of that menu

  • You should no longer be locked out of sick critters homes during the day

  • Fixed some confusing text in the character creator. 

  • Removed duplicate Tool Crates that some players have in their inventory

  • Shop payout balance pass – increased prices on several of the shops to make them more valuable

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