Game update

Mouse input guidance - v0.5.4 Hotfix

Feed The Forest · published 15 Jun 2026, 12:24 UTC

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Hi snailers,

Feed the Forest will be in Steam Next Fest, we hope a lot of new players will jump in! Please share the game with friends or your favourite streamer, it helps an enormous amount!

Small update: We got worried that someone might miss how to plant now that mouse movement is in. So we decided to do some tweaks to how you learn the controls.

And we've made sprinting into an upgrade! You'll have to do a bit of hard work in the beginning to unlock sprinting, but once you buy it, it feels amazing.

If you have an existing save file, you'll have to buy sprinting from the Water shop in order to get back to rolling!

Cheers, Victor, Edd, Andrés

Changelog for v0.5.4

Added

Overlays showing how to control the game using mouse input only.

Changed

Sprinting will no longer be active on game start - you can buy this ancient movement art from the Water!
Graphics API priority for Linux so it prioritizes Vulkan.

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