Hi Farmers,

Happy New Year 2024! Our development team had a much-needed rest and is now ready with another release:

Bugfixes:

• Fixed incorrect loading of save backup, causing backup save to not load when the save is corrupted.
  
• Prevented some cases of corrupted save data.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing game entry if any save files were corrupted.
  
• Resolved backup files appearing in the main list but not loading.
  
• Solved a problem where nothing could be placed in house storage when the panel was first opened.
  
• Updated to address hairstyle clipping issues.
  
• Added safety checks for cooking to prevent further crashes.
  
• Fixed an issue where fruit tart and seaweed ingredients were not inserted after canceling ingredients.
  
• Corrected incorrect flower textures.
  
• Fixed an issue where Zarah, Luke, and Wakuu's heart 10 cutscenes were not triggering in some cases.
  
• Resolved incorrect player skin in Mark's Heart 10.
  
• Fixed the wrong 3D mesh for decoy objects.
  
• Addressed the issue of time freezing while fishing.
  
• Fixed a crash when using traps.
  
• Resolved an issue with spike traps not dealing damage.
  
• Corrected a tool action exploit using vault animations.
  
• Disabled the ability to move fruit plants to floor tiles.
  
• Fixed a crash when changing mine levels while being attacked by certain monsters.
  
• Addressed placement issues for some curtains.
  
• Resolved a potential random crash due to a rare logic timing issue.
  
• Fixed crashes occurring when skipping dialogues in baby cutscenes.
  
• Corrected the issue of not being able to find Olan on the map.
  
• Fixed Amalo's attack behavior.
  
• Resolved the issue of Theo wearing a swimsuit in the Community Center on Spring Day 1.
  
• Fixed schedules for Kenny, Mark, and Pablo during the Winter Fair.
  
• Resolved an issue preventing the opening of decor mode after entering the winter festival.
  
• Fixed an issue where an NPC spouse would get stuck in the starting position after decor mode.
  
• Corrected an issue where Leah and Millie's heart 10 events were not triggering in some cases.
  
• Fixed problems with the aging barrel and item refinement.
  
• Addressed an issue where Surya's heart 10 event was not triggering in some cases.
  
• Resolved some instances where Scott would drop the baby while carrying them.
  
• Fixed various dialogue typos.
  
• Fixed issues with cutscene logic requirements.
  
• Fixed issues and zoom behavior in decor mode UX.
  
• Fixed dynamic dialogue issues for Zarah after having a kid.
  
• Fixed the hedgehog seahorse issue.
  
• Fixed the issue of hay disappearing from the silo when moving the silo building.
  
• Fixed a stair collision issue in the forest area.
  
• Fixed the tutorial panel making the pickstarter cutscene stuck.
  
• Fixed the wrong race track for the pet race minigame.
  
• Fixed crashing when opening the Cow Competition Panel UI [Xbox only].
  
• Fixed a crash when starting the Cow and Chicken competition [Xbox only].
  
• Attempted to avoid crashes by limiting the number of spawned slime projectiles at a time in combat.
  
• Fixed the Trivia Interactible Choice Panel by adding a function to change the list options instead of re-showing the choice panel.
  
• Fixed a crash in the main event harvest when opening the panel.
  
• Fixed certain heart events that couldn't be triggered.
  
• Fixed crashes caused by an older fix to farm tiles.
  
• Fixed the absence of SFX in some cutscenes.
  

Improvements:

• Implemented Sort Priority Player points to match NPC points on all Leaderboard Mini Games.
  
• Updated minigame leaderboard points & NPC Participants to ensure the player still wins if they tie the top leaderboard points.
  
• Hidden turtles from the map.
  

Balancing:

• Removed tags for deleted items so they won't appear in the journal.
  
• Enabled Arame to show in the Journal.
  

Localizations:

• Fixed problematic font setup for the Korean language.
  
• Implemented various translation improvements.
  

Once again, thank you so much to everyone for reporting bugs to our team; we really appreciate it.

Best,
Stairway Team