Tales of Autumn update for 16 March 2023

Autumn buildings' new look has arrived!

This face-lift has been a slow burner for quite some time, as I wanted all buildings to be ready before release. Each building now has a distinct look, primarily to give them some character, but also to help you learn the map (for anyone who hasn’t played yet, prior to this all buildings looked pretty similar).

Some of the new looks:

Ranch buildings

Hal’s house and Autumn’s Library

Ruth’s Ranch animal store

You may have also noticed a few small updates over the last week or three. Over the course of these, the below list have all been added or fixed.

• New special interactions ahead of secret achievements
• The Pumpkin contest introduction cutscene was starting with the pumpkins half-grown!
• Closed a few exploits where you could earn a crazy amount of affection points with Claudia, Ruth or any biome-barn resident that enjoys water!
• Closed a softlock opportunity when first revealing the farm field
• Changed Henry’s response to essence items once the apothecary has reopened
• Fixed a bug that was stopping crop fertilizers from being applied
• Fixed a few random typos
• Fixed an issue where the fireplace wasn’t always accepting wood!
• Giving positive gifts in a row will now earn you karma with the town. Currently this is set to happen every 5 gifts, and if you give a dislike gift it’ll reduce your counter by 1.
• Adam, Lee and Ethan were occasionally appearing in the wrong place once the reserve has been opened
• You can now partially pay Ruth’s tab using the Nature reserve’s funds
• Additional dialogue
• Morgan now visits Autumn on his birthday!
• Changed Akra’s birthday to Spring 10
• Fixed a bug where Claudia’s white mouse quest wasn’t completing
• Added ‘Encourage’ as an action within the chicken drop game
• Stopped owned Buzzards flying away

Additionally I’ve completed a decent chunk of the next update where a new character considers moving to Autumn, and along a new tool/game mechanic with them! I’m going to carry on with this as the main focus, and hopefully release it early April.

Thanks for reading. Get in touch in the forums, email or Discord with any questions, feedback, issues, or just to say hi :)

Scott