Meet Yara, Juno, Roderick & Paula!

Check out our new trailer...



That's right, there are FOUR new villagers to befriend! 🤝










The four new villagers are arriving in Hokko today as part of the Narrative Update!

This new update also includes:

- A new intro to the game 🥰
- The ability to create furniture from pre-existing designs 🎨

Full patch notes below - Enjoy! 💖

New

• Completely reworked introduction to the game, initial progression and narrative.
  
• Ability to create furniture from pre-existing designs
  
• Four additional characters: Yara, Juno, Roderick and Paula
  

Changes

• Added spring joints to villagers ears to make them springy
  
• Community: Player created lights can now be turned on/off
  
• Saving makes a backup which it will automatically restore from if the save process doesn't complete successfully
  
• Replaced sprinting ring UI with sweat effect
  
• Worked into villager heads, eyes, expressions
  
• Enabled "look around" on villager eyes to add more life
  
• Community: Added toggles for avatar freckles and cheek highlight
  
• You can now move flowers placed indoors
  
• Community: Balancing tweaks on Fishing Tournaments
  
• Game now cleans up unused custom content files, reducing the size of large saves
  
• Community: Added all community theme suggestions to the game for future creator challenges
  
• Added thumbnails for hair styles in appearance screen
  
• Community: Sleeping before 4am and choosing "next day" will sleep until 8am instead.
  
• Objects loaded from saves now done in batches, speeding up loading times on heavy levels (like the Meadow)
  
• Blueprints tweaks: Removed the small storage blueprint, tweaked size requirements on blueprints, small object will now always be placed on top of things, large object always placed under.
  
• Blueprints now are unlocked through initial progression gameplay and so are removed from Carpenter Store
  

Fixes

• Fixed popping lighting in Moss' shop
  
• Villagers no longer rotate and become pushable while sitting on chairs in the Inn
  
• Fixed bug where villagers would keep emoting & talking after you interrupt them during a conversation
  
• Community: Improved placement of fishing chests
  
• Community: Improved placement of weeds
  
• Added "clean up" for weeds and chests that have ended up in a bad location
  
• Community: Fixed issue causing detailed custom creations to be displayed incorrectly
  
• Fixed camera popping
  
• Community: Fix for undo queue issues on Painting Tool
  
• Fixed awkward starting layout in Lazy villagers homes
  
• Community: Better handling of interactables and furniture, in other words: you can now talk to people on bridges.
  
• Fixed bug where a new save slot wouldn't be created if a directory with the new save slot's number already exists
  
• Fixed bug where highlight marker would stay visible when boarding the train
  
• Community: Improved placement of villagers in homes
  
• Fix for floating visitors in Inn
  
• Community: Workshop now goes transparent when player is behind it
  
• Fix for being able to place things on stairs and bridges
  
• Community: Fix for storage showing it has items when it's empty, preventing selling and use in design tool
  
• Deleting a save slot when others exist will set the new active slot to the first slot, instead of an empty "new game" slot
  
• Community: Fixed an issue where fish would ignore bait
  
• Fixes for items getting lost in storage
  
• Fix for issue causing some savedata to not get saved properly
  

We'd love to hear what you think of this new update and who your favourite new villager is!

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