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✨v0.7 Update: New features and content

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New research content! 📖

- Added 16 new researchables: 4 creatures, 4 plants, and 8 fish for players to discover!

• Creatures: Weedip, Pumouse, Glaciroll, Stone Golem
  
• Plants: Rawbulb, Grubulb, Bassbulb, Sulflora
  
• Fish: Mud Skitter, Lumifish, Cactus Puffer, Flatfish, Sharpfin, Rainbow Skitter, Bonefish and Lava Puffer
  

- Added Meaty Bait & Nutty Bait.

- Added unique creature behaviours

• Unique behaviours added for some of the new creatures. This expands on existing research methods that requires players to observe a 'resting' creature.
  
• During certain behaviours, such as Foraging and Hiding, creatures will not be interested in the players' Feed Bowls. Wait for the creature to start wandering again before attempting to tame them!
  
• Weedip foraging:
  
  

Cave Variations 🗻

- Mine Floor types has been added as habitats for the new flora and fauna:

• Tunnel
  
• Circular
  
• Weedy (only in Cave Biome)
  
• Workshop (only in Lava Biome)
  

Winter Festival ⛄️

We've added the last festival for the year, the Winter Festival! In this festival, players can compete with townsfolk in the Snowball Frenzy minigame.


As with all festivals, unique festival dialogue and Festival Decor have also been added.

- New Decor:

• Snowball Frenzy Memento (Snowball)
  
• Snowball Frenzy Trophy (Snowball)
  
• Snowball Frenzy Memento (Target)
  
• Snowball Frenzy Trophy (Target)
  
• Snowglobe (Tree)
  
• Snowglobe (House)
  
• Snowflake Rug
  
• Snowflake Chair
  
• Fir Frog Plush
  

3 New OSTs 🎹

• A Very Merry Winter Fest
  
• Town Night - Lingering Wisps
  
• Fungal Formations
  

(New tracks by bosu, Shevone, and Tyd)

New Feature: Equipment 👒

Players can now find Equipment as they progress. These are (sometimes cosmetic) items that give minor buffs to players! There are currently 5 pieces of equipment in the game. More will be added in the future!

- Equipment:

• Flower Crown
  
• Bunny Ears
  
• Fisher Hat
  
• Bulb Amulet
  
• Marine Ring
  

✨Official launch of Simplified Chinese localisation 💬

Simplified Chinese has been officially added to the main build of Research Story! We'll be using the Early Access period to see how players feel about the localisation, and make improvements along the way.

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Other improvements and changes

- Polished 'Recording Station' UI.
- Added tracker for number of books completed in each Recording Station.
- Reorganized some research book requirements to fit the new additions.
- Reorganized some journal pages to fit the new additions.
- Mixer reclassified from 'Building' to 'Crafting Station'.
- Added fishing minigame mechanics that applies to new fish:

• "Switching", where the difficulty switches each time the progress bar increases.
  
• "Increasing"/"Decreasing", where the difficulty increases/decreases each time the progress bar increases.
  

Bugfixes

- Fixed a bug where loading into a game -> observing a creature in the current map that requires 'observe while they are resting' does not register as completing the observation.
- Fixed missing 'Foraging Location' for Flame Cactus.
- Fixed a bug where flipping pages in the journal may not end up on the correct page.
- Other minor fixes.

📝 What's next

As mentioned in a previous devlog, I'll be working on Creature Variants & Steam Achievements for our next update. I'll share more when I start work on them!

In other news, we're so close to 100 reviews! That's really amazing. I read each review, comment, and discussion and feel grateful for every one of them. If you enjoy RS, consider leaving a review to support us! It helps more than you'd think! :)

Happy Holidays and I'm looking forward to going into a new year with you guys! 2024 will be an exciting year for RS for sure. <3
- Miki