Morels: The Hunt News

As always thanks so much to everyone who supports us. We appreciate you all so very much. Please find below some of what we've been working on after listening to your feedback since our big Anniversary Update.

-Updated German Translation Errors. (A special thanks to MB for all of the help!)
-Fixed collision issue of some of the trees in the Rocky Mountains map that were making they animals
behave erratically around them.
-Added a few more Achievement checks when you load into the cabin map.
-Fixed weekly task issue and weekly task achievement issue.
-Fixed this issue of not being able to pickup mushroom markers in main Cabin map.
-Fixed the issue of the potentially game breaking bug up if you were to hide the UI with H while the map
was out on the horse.
-Fixed the issue in Redwoods where some of the Rats were not able to be photographed.
-Fixed the hovering grizzly bear issue.
-Fixed some floating meshes in Rocky Mountain Map.
-Fixed the issue of Fish not being able to be photographed near the bridge in the Texas Ranch Map.
-Lowered the Camera exposure a little bit.

We just released an update to the Anniversary Update with some new features, and bug fixes.





[h3]You can now bind multiple things to the same key. [/h3]

A number of you had expressed an interest in being able to pick up mushrooms with the left mouse button. You can now do this and take photos both with the left mouse. If you would like to pick up mushrooms with the left mouse, you can do so by going to Settings, then Input and changing the pickup method to Left Mouse button.

[h3]Loading screen slideshow option[/h3]

You can now Turn Off the Squirrel Pong Loading Screen in Settings under Gameplay. This will set all loading screens to the standard Slideshow Loading Screen and it will move on by itself once the level is loaded.

[h3]Option for old menu screen[/h3]

A few players have mentioned that they liked the old Main Menu Background and Music before the Anniversary Update. You can now choose between the New Main Menu Background and Music and the old one. On the bottom right of the Main Menu you will now see an option to Turn Off the New Main Menu and switch back to the old one.

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

- Fixed Main Menu from stretching on certain size monitors
- Set energy back to 100 percent when entering a new map.
- Stop poisonous mushrooms from increasing energy if not on Easy Mode. You can collect poisonous mushrooms but they should not of been increasing your energy or points unless you were on Easy.
- Fixed Photos from not saving the correct one.
- Fixed Mushroom Markers from showing you can pick it up when there isn’t one there.
- Fixed your rotation when dismounting from the horse so you are facing the direction you were looking before you dismounted.
- Lowered the audio warning that plays when you get a Tick.
- We believe we have fixed the issue of occasionally not being able to get off of your horse. If this does happen to you, a temporary fix is to open and close the map.
- Added the Trout to your Career Stats that you can view after your first season.
- We are still looking into the fatal error bugs. We have not been able to reproduce it on our end yet.
- We are still looking into the weekly task bug. We have not been able to reproduce it on our end yet.

We also wanted to apologize for not mentioning that there may be issues when loading old save files on the new update. If you were affected by this, you can send us an email to [email protected] and we will do our best to get your save files fixed and running on the new update.

We just want to thank everyone who has been playing Morels and for the positive reviews. It really does mean so much to us.

Happy Hunting!

-The Abrams Studios Team

We are extremely excited to announce that our Anniversary Update is now live! We are also running a Special Promotion of 50% Off until Nov 6th to celebrate the anniversary and the update. We want to thank all of our beta testers for helping us out. We hope everyone enjoys the update!


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[h3]Environment and Shopping[/h3]



[h3]New Items to Buy[/h3]

You can now buy a Snorkel to allow you to stay underwater for 2 minutes at a time. Also purchase a Fast Travel Map to allow you to Fast Travel back to you home base at any time from anywhere.



[h3]NEW TROPHY ROOM[/h3]



You now have a trophy room. It has a whiteboard with an overview off all your task completions. It has a display for your Golden Morels. You can change the photos on the walls to any of your photos you’ve taken.

There have been many collectables added to the game that are displayed in this room as well.



Now earn golden mushrooms for the other mushrooms you collect. These are displayed here as well.





[h3]Animal Outline[/h3]

When in camera mode, the animals will now have an outline when they are in focus. Green means they have not been photographed that day and gray means they have already been photographed. This only applies during daytime hours. We found it a bit too easy if this was also applied during the night.



[h3]Quick Capture[/h3]

We have added the option to quick capture with the camera. No longer do you have to wait until you look at the photo to take a new picture. You can now quickly take many pictures in a row. This should make the whole experience of photographing animals a bit easier. This will be the default method. You can still toggle to look at the photo on.



[h3]Moved Photographed Text[/h3]

We moved the text letting you know what animal you photographed to the bottom right and changed its look a little bit. This way you will still be able to take photos quickly without anything in your view.





[h3]Crosshairs Pickup[/h3]

We have updated the Crosshairs Pickup Method and made it the default pickup method. There should no longer be any issues of not people able to pickup a mushroom. With this method, you will no longer have to look straight down all the time. This should make the experience much more relaxing and enjoyable. You can switch back to the old pickup method with the green circle guide by turning off Crosshairs Pickup Method in Gameplay under Settings.





[h3]Swim in Water[/h3]

You can now swim in water. Press the crouch button to dive down and then just look in the direction you want to swim. Toggle crouch again and look up at the surface to swim back up.



[h3]Photograph the Fish[/h3]

You can photograph and get points for the fish.



[h3]Objects and Insects[/h3]

You can now get points for photographing some objects and insects.





[h3]New Blewit Mushrooms[/h3]

We have added a new mushroom to hunt. Blewit Mushrooms.



[h3]You now can collect all mushrooms, including poisonous mushroom right from the beginning of the game.[/h3]



[h3]Now choose from several colors of mushroom markers.[/h3]





[h3]Every location in the game has been updated[/h3]

All maps have been updated with new lighting, some new or updated meshes, dust particle effects, collectables, and more.





[h3]You inventory is now stackable.[/h3]





- Added 6 new songs to the Acoustic playlist. Found in the game menu under In Game Music.
- Optimized the game. It was very CPU bound before. We have spent some time optimizing the animals and other things to fix help this.
- New, simpler tutorial
- You can now toggle Crouch on or off. No longer do you need to hold it down.
- You can now skip Intro Montages by pressing Enter on the keyboard.
- Updated Minimap Images to be more simple and help save on memory.
- Made Ticks less frequent.
- Fixed numerous bugs.
- Several other small features or fixes.

The new map and new animals did not make it into this update. They will be saved for a future update along with and updated UI and some other new features.

We just want to thank everyone for their support and for the positive reviews. We hope enjoys the new update. Happy Hunting!

-The Abrams Studios Team

Time has really flown by. It's been a year since the release of Morels: The Hunt, and to celebrate we're releasing our biggest update ever! Please browse below to see some of the changes on the way. In preparation of the upcoming update we'd love a few volunteers who are interested in early access to this content. We are looking for bug testers to spend some time in game making sure the update is a smooth release. If you're interested, please respond below or send us a private message and let us know! We'll be sending out invites to a private discord for bug reporting and a discussion of the beta version of the update.


[h3]Environment and Shopping[/h3]



[h3]New Items to Buy[/h3]

You can now buy a Snorkel to allow you to stay underwater for 2 minutes at a time. Also purchase a Fast Travel Map to allow you to Fast Travel back to you home base at any time from anywhere.



[h3]NEW TROPHY ROOM[/h3]



You now have a trophy room. It has a whiteboard with an overview off all your task completions. It has a display for your Golden Morels. You can change the photos on the walls to any of your photos you’ve taken.

There have been many collectables added to the game that are displayed in this room as well.



Now earn golden mushrooms for the other mushrooms you collect. These are displayed here as well.





[h3]Animal Outline[/h3]

When in camera mode, the animals will now have an outline when they are in focus. Green means they have not been photographed that day and gray means they have already been photographed. This only applies during daytime hours. We found it a bit too easy if this was also applied during the night.



[h3]Quick Capture[/h3]

We have added the option to quick capture with the camera. No longer do you have to wait until you look at the photo to take a new picture. You can now quickly take many pictures in a row. This should make the whole experience of photographing animals a bit easier. This will be the default method. You can still toggle to look at the photo on.



[h3]Moved Photographed Text[/h3]

We moved the text letting you know what animal you photographed to the bottom right and changed its look a little bit. This way you will still be able to take photos quickly without anything in your view.





[h3]Crosshairs Pickup[/h3]

We have updated the Crosshairs Pickup Method and made it the default pickup method. There should no longer be any issues of not people able to pickup a mushroom. With this method, you will no longer have to look straight down all the time. This should make the experience much more relaxing and enjoyable. You can switch back to the old pickup method with the green circle guide by turning off Crosshairs Pickup Method in Gameplay under Settings.





[h3]Swim in Water[/h3]

You can now swim in water. Press the crouch button to dive down and then just look in the direction you want to swim. Toggle crouch again and look up at the surface to swim back up.



[h3]Photograph the Fish[/h3]

You can photograph and get points for the fish.



[h3]Objects and Insects[/h3]

You can now get points for photographing some objects and insects.





[h3]New Blewit Mushrooms[/h3]

We have added a new mushroom to hunt. Blewit Mushrooms.



[h3]You now can collect all mushrooms, including poisonous mushroom right from the beginning of the game.[/h3]



[h3]Now choose from several colors of mushroom markers.[/h3]





[h3]Every location in the game has been updated[/h3]

All maps have been updated with new lighting, some new or updated meshes, dust particle effects, collectables, and more.





[h3]You inventory is now stable.[/h3]





- Optimized the game. It was very CPU bound before. We have spent some time optimizing the animals and other things to fix help this.
- New, simpler tutorial
- You can now toggle Crouch on or off. No longer do you need to hold it down.
- You can now skip Intro Montages by pressing Enter on the keyboard or bottom face button on a controller.
- Updated Minimap Images to be more simple and help save on memory.
- Made Ticks less frequent.
- Fixed numerous bugs.
- Several other small features or fixes.

The new map and new animals did not make it into this update. They will be saved for a future update along with some other new features.

We just want to thank everyone for their support and for the positive reviews. We hope everyone will enjoy the update. Happy Hunting!

-The Abrams Studios Team

We just released a minor update with a couple of fixes.

Fixed an issue with the camera detection. The distance for animal detection was getting messed up after the first time you used it or zoomed in and out.

Fixed an issue with the Horse to let you get back on it when you are right next to it after dismounting.

We would also like to let everyone know that we are working on a Big Anniversary Update set to be released in October. We will post more information about it soon. We will be looking for Testers to help us test the update. We will create a discord group for the testing. Just a few of the updates will be a new map, new animals, swimming, photographing fish, stackable inventory, updated lighting and environments, quick photo option, different colored mushroom markers and more!

We will post more information on the update soon.

-The Abrams Studios Team