Patch Notes 0.21.26

ACRES · build 18964735 · published

On SteamNotes only · this build shipped before we watched the app

🏆 New Features: In-Game Achievements

  • Achievements are now saved locally.
  • View your progress via Pause Menu > Achievements.
  • Added manual resync option with your platform (e.g., Steam).

⚙️ Application Loading Improvements

  • Shortened intro loading animation for quicker startup.
  • Added new platform loading screen images

🎮 UI & Gamepad Quality of Life Updates

  • Improved crop selection navigation with gamepad.
  • Enhanced farmhand navigation support for gamepad users.
  • Loan Management: Added “Take Out” and “Pay Off” buttons with gamepad accessibility.
  • Farm Details Panel is now scrollable—better support for smaller screens or high UI scale settings.
  • Max UI scale reduced to 120% to prevent layout breakage.
  • Adjusted crop right D-Pad glyph position.
  • Display platform-specific gamepad glyphs for better clarity.
  • Tool category tooltips now appear directly on the HUD (no longer hover-only), with updated backgrounds for better visibility on gamepad.
  • Added right thumbstick scrolling to Video Settings.

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a potential crash when removing placeables with the “Blocked” status (non-deferred removal trait).
  • Resolved a divide-by-zero error on certain crop tooltips.
  • Removed curve pointer in FCurvedProgress trait, Optimized updates and avoids potential crash
  • Steam Deck & Console: Main menu now correctly selects the first button on load (no more needing to tap the screen).
  • Fixed video settings bug during engine construction by setting values explicitly.

🛠️ Engine & Optimization

  • Now running on a custom-compiled engine built from source.
  • Introduced framework support for instanceable farm field buildings.
  • Soil subject spawning is now optimized for better performance.
  • Added an option to disable starting forest—improves performance on lower-end systems.
  • Added new steam betas branch, Previous - Last Stable Branch
Patch Notes 0.21.26 · ACRES build 18964735 · SteamPeaks