Major update
Update 0.20 — Our Biggest Update: Speak, Craft and Explore!
Play and Learn: English · published · build 24663210
Update 0.20 is here! 🎉
This is our biggest update. Thank you for playing and sending ideas!
⚠️ Important: Old saves do not work with this build. The game will ask you at the start — please say YES and begin a new game.
🗣️ Speaking
- Every room now has 250 sentences — about 5,500 new sentences, all easy A1 English.
- About 16,000 voice files. A man asks, a woman answers.
- Longer, more natural answers in the Hotel and Job Interview.
🗿 Idiom Caves
- Learn 300 idioms and phrases from 26 teachers.
- Your lesson list shows on screen. Finish a set — the teacher claps, pays you gold and says goodbye!
- New Idiom Book: every phrase you say turns black. Collect them all!
🔨 Cooking and Crafting
- New masters: 4 Shamans for potions, a Blacksmith for gold and silver work, an Archaeologist for old treasures.
- Two kitchens: simple food and chef food.
- All 222 recipes are new. Sleep Potion = milk + lavender + honey. Coffee helps you focus! ☕
- A Supplier sells flour, salt, sugar and other simple things.
- Crafted items now sell for a good price. Collect, craft, get rich!
🎭 Characters
- 99 characters! 16 are free. Special looks cost gold — the JOKER costs 5,000!
- The Character Master changes your look and your name.
🎲 World
- Loot comes back on every map. It is a loot game too now!
- A home timer: finish your adventure before you go home — or pay 50 gold.
- Phone Tower: real callers, harder questions, snakes-and-ladders jumps!
- Fishing: catch every fish — but the spots get empty for a while.
Have fun and tell us your ideas! 💙
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