Dinkum News

This hotfix will hopefully address the issues that has been preventing players from saving and showing some text correctly during gameplay.

This bug was caused by an error on my end due to an implementation of a localisation tool.

I am sorry to anyone who has experienced problems saving over the past 2 days. I hope that this update lets you return to your regular Dinkum-ing.

Thanks,

James

G’day everyone,

I am absolutely thrilled to unveil the brand-new Dinkum artwork. Bonza! I thought that it was time to give Dinkum’s artwork a bit of a refresh, a new coat of paint you might even say. We spoke to the very talented Natalia if she could make Dinkum’s art sparkle. And this is what she came up with. Personally, I love it! What about you?



Dinkum is also part of the Steam Winter Sale, and as of right now it has a wintery-cool 30% discount – the first time ever too. If you haven't joined the Dinkum community, now's your golden opportunity. Join the crew and spend the holidays having a great time on your, or your friend’s, Dinkum island.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1062520/Dinkum/

Thank you everyone for playing Dinkum this year! I hope you’ve all enjoyed the updates, and I can’t wait to share the progress of the next update with you all in the new year!


Have a good one,

James

G’day mate,

I don’t know if you’ve noticed it, but a special feeling is in the air. People are more relaxed, the animals are more cheerful, and even John is sharing a funny joke or two, ha ha ha! The Holidays are coming to Dinkum Island, meaning the Festive season is upon us!

Everything’s ready for a Festive dinner. Benny, stay away from the presents!

Our old friend Nick who paid us a visit last year is back again. He says that he loves the beach a lot, as it’s really cold where he’s originally from. You’ll find him relaxing on the beach if it’s a sunny morning, so look for him. You never know what interesting things he might have with him this time. Also, there’s been some strange things falling out of the sky recently. If you want more details, please check the bulletin board. I wonder what they can be…

Our old good mate Nick is back in Dinkum too!

There have also been reports of some strange white Jackaroo’s running around. It’s almost as if they are lost. Maybe you could catch them and take them to an Animal Drop Off Point?

That’s it from me for today, but before I leave, I just want to wish you a happy holiday break, no matter where you are. Thank you so much for spending time with me and everyone else on the Dinkum Island this year. I hope we will spend even more time as the holiday season is upon us.

Have a happy and relaxing Holidays!

Take good care of yourself and Happy Holidays! And if you want to know all the Festive event-related additions, check the changelog below.

Fletch - Head of Island Exploration



Changelog

- Coconuts can now be placed in Billy Cans.
- Prawns can now be cooked.
- Added some new furniture.
- The Festive Visitor can craft some new items to decorate your island.
- The mysterious Present bags you can find on your bulletin board in December contain some new items.
- Fixed a bug that caused fallen satellites to “stick” to vehicles.
- Fixed a bug that would let satellites be pushed around preventing completion of investigation quests.
- The beach ball now floats in water.
- Other minor bug fixes and animation fixes.

Read more details about last year's Festive update right HERE.

PS. For all those who are busy during the Holiday season, don’t worry. You can access this seasonal event whenever you want. Just set your system clock to December and launch Dinkum.

• Coconuts can now be placed in Billy Cans
  
• Prawns can now be cooked
  
• Added some new furniture
  
• Fixed a bug that caused fallen satellites to “stick” to vehicles
  
• Fixed a bug that would let satellites be pushed around preventing completion of investigation quests
  
• The beach ball now floats in water
  
• Fixed a bug that would occasionally prevent saving
  
• Other minor bug fixes and animation fixes
  

Hi there. I just wanted to let you know that I am aware that some players have been having issues with saving and loading their games.

Since releasing Dinkum I have paid as much care as possible to keeping player’s saves throughout the entire Early Access period. This always has been and continues to be very important to me.

For the Summer Sun Update we made a lot of changes to the internal of Dinkum, including writing a new save system. The old system was very bloated - it had far too many separate files and often caused problems with Steam Cloud syncs. The new system is much smaller, taking the file amount down from around 60 files to just 3.

The Summer Sun update was tested publicly for over three weeks, this was in part due to my concerns with the new save system. Over those 3 weeks, a lot of bugs were reported, but no issues were found relating to players using the new save system.

However, since the public release, some rare cases of save file corruption have been reported. For anyone that has experienced this I would like to sincerely apologize. I know how much some player’s islands mean to them and I can not express my regret enough.

I have been working tirelessly on improving the new save system and I’ve included these changes in this hotfix. I am hopeful that these changes will mitigate any further problems.

Once again, I apologize if your save was affected by these changes.

I hope this hotfix prevents these kinds of problems in future.

Thank you everyone for your understanding and patience,

James

Patch notes:

• Fixed a problem that prevented some games from saving and loading correctly
  
• Fixed a problem that prevented save slots from appearing correctly
  
• Decreased save and load time
  
• Increased probability of rain for some seasons
  
• Fixed the Festive Roo Plush changing to regular Roo Plush when picked up
  
• Festive Roo Plush will no longer appear in shops and is no longer orderable