Dinkum News

G’day everyone!

The Weekend Deal has started and with it a sweet deal on the game. If you want to spend your upcoming weekend in the wild Australian-inspired outback, build your own town, grow some veggies, make friends, and even pet a wombat or two, you can do all that for less!

You can now buy Dinkum with a 20% discount, which will end on Monday, 13th of February. And if you already have the game and you’re enjoying it, perhaps you would like to gift it to someone special this Valentine's Day so that you can explore Dinkum Island together!


Enjoy your weekend everyone!


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Hey there,

I've had my head down working hard on Dinkum's next update. I really wanted to have it ready for everyone to play in early February, but things are taking a little bit longer than expected, so I will need a bit more time.

The Bloomin’ Spring update is the first of many updates where I will be focusing on a specific season. My goal for this update is to make the in-game Spring feel different to the other seasons by offering different events and new things to discover around the island.



I would like to keep some of these things a surprise, but being Spring, you can imagine there will be a lot of wildflowers spawning around your island. Another change I’m happy to share is the sun now sets at different times in each season. Winter being the shortest day with the sun setting around 6pm like usual. Summer and Spring have longer days, with the sun setting around 8pm-9pm.

I have been teasing some of the upcoming items and features through screenshots on Dinkum's Discord. But I have some new pics to show off here as well.

These mines look different…

The Rowboat grew up?

Finally, this update will include a bunch of smaller quality-of-life tweaks. Things like crates and chests now have an auto stack button, for stacking all the items from your inventory straight into the chest’s stack. There is now a "collect and delete all" button for collecting all your mail at once. This will hopefully make trapping rewards a bit less tedious. Oh and Theodore will now accept more than one donation at a time at the museum, so you can get back out there and catch even more fish and bugs for him.

There is a bit more that’s coming in the next update, but I will tell you all about it next time - unless Fletch beats me to it! And I hope you all understand that I want this update to be as good as it can be. I do appreciate your patience and I hope you don't mind waiting just a little bit longer for it. I hope that you will feel the wait was worth it.


That’s all for this post, so I’m going to get back to working on the update.

Thanks,

James

G’day!

Can you feel the heat?! It’s scorching, isn't it! It’s time to get out your bathers, hats, and sunscreen from the closets (as they say down here, it’s time to slip, slop, slap!). Summer is officially here - on the island of Dinkum at least. So if you are looking for a little winter escape to a place that’s a bit more warmer, you can hide inside your house and play Dinkum for 20% off.

Dinkum is 20% OFF during the Steam Winter Sale!

The sale starts right now and will end on Thursday the 5th of January 2023 at 10 am PT | 7 pm CET and on Friday, the 6th of January at 5 am AEDT.


Stay cool or warm depending on where you are, and speak to you soon!


Regards,

James


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A patch to fix an issue with key bindings.

This is a small update to fix a bug that was filling some player's log files and preventing steam cloud from uploading their saves.

If you have experienced any troubles with Steam cloud. please launch the game from the last device you played it on and select "use local files". Doing this twice will clear the large log files in your save directory and allow the save to upload to the cloud.

I hope everyone is enjoying the festive update and sorry for any inconvenience!