Coral Island News

Hi Farmers,

This hotfix addresses game performance optimizations for the Steam Deck and resolves some edge-case crashes in the game.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed freezes during the Semeru wedding event on the Steam Deck. The previous fix missed some scenarios.
  
• Fixed freezes during the unwanted guest cutscene on the Steam Deck.
  
• Fixed an issue where the UI would disappear after interacting with the rename panel.
  
• Fixed a bug that made floating resources unpickable in certain cases.
  
• Fixed the ability to open the pause menu while fishing, this shouldn't be possible.
  
• Fixed missing fishing animations during fishing.
  
• Fixed a crash when moving the underwater barn to a location occupied by a chest or a machine with active temperature.
  
• Fixed a crash when moving the underwater barn building.
  
• Fixed a crash when sleeping or saving after upgrading the barn to level 2.
  

Improvements:

• Reduced freezes occurring at 12:00, 16:00, and 18:00 in-game when playing on the Steam Deck.
  
• IOstore has been disabled, allowing the game to be modded again. Due to this change, the hotfix is larger in size than usual, as you will need to redownload some files. This won't increase the game's size on your computer.
  

Thank you for your continued support and happy farming!

Best regards,
Stairway Team

Steam Hotfix v1.1b-1231

Hi Farmers,

This hotfix focuses on optimizing game performance and addressing some edge-case crashes in the game.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a crash that occurred when collecting overlapping eggs in the chicken coop.
  
• Fixed a crash caused by a meteor or satellite hitting a fruit tree.
  
• Resolved an issue in controller-only mode where the cursor became stuck after pressing "back" in the Lake Temple offering menu.
  
• Fixed a cursor freeze in controller-only mode when exiting the dating list in the Hangout Menu.
  
• Addressed a bug where no upgrade information appeared at the blacksmith after completing an upgrade.
  
• Resolved a critical issue where merit points from tree planting were incorrectly applied daily after completing the Tree Planting Festival.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred after completing the dinosaur hologram cutscene.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred after participating in Apple Bobbing during the Harvest Festival.
  
• Fixed a crash that happened in certain cases when playing the match-pattern mini-game at Winter Fair.
  

Improvements:

• Removed the "busy" text from certain NPCs during activity animations.
  
• Optimized performance by improving asset loading logic in the Ramen Shop.
  
• Drastically reduced hitching issues on the Steam Deck by implementing more efficient memory garbage collection.
  

Localization:

• Resolved various translation issues.
  

We hope this update enhances your gameplay experience, especially for those playing on the Steam Deck.

Best regards,
Stairway Team

Steam Hotfix v1.1b-1231

Hi Farmers,

This hotfix focuses on optimizing game performance and addressing some edge-case crashes in the game.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a crash that occurred when collecting overlapping eggs in the chicken coop.
  
• Fixed a crash caused by a meteor or satellite hitting a fruit tree.
  
• Resolved an issue in controller-only mode where the cursor became stuck after pressing "back" in the Lake Temple offering menu.
  
• Fixed a cursor freeze in controller-only mode when exiting the dating list in the Hangout Menu.
  
• Addressed a bug where no upgrade information appeared at the blacksmith after completing an upgrade.
  
• Resolved a critical issue where merit points from tree planting were incorrectly applied daily after completing the Tree Planting Festival.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred after completing the dinosaur hologram cutscene.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred after participating in Apple Bobbing during the Harvest Festival.
  
• Fixed a crash that happened in certain cases when playing the match-pattern mini-game at Winter Fair.
  

Improvements:

• Removed the "busy" text from certain NPCs during activity animations.
  
• Optimized performance by improving asset loading logic in the Ramen Shop.
  
• Drastically reduced hitching issues on the Steam Deck by implementing more efficient memory garbage collection.
  
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Localization:

• Resolved various translation issues.
  

We hope this update enhances your gameplay experience, especially for those playing on the Steam Deck.

Best regards,
Stairway Team

Steam Hotfix v1.1b-1230

Hi Farmers,

More hotfixes to address some high-priority issues from our last update:

Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue with our dynamic dialogue system where older dynamic dialogues were running when they shouldn't.
  
• Fixed an issue where dynamic dialogues after festivals and town rank increases were not triggering.
  
• Fixed a wedding cutscene issue causing a black screen and preventing progression.
  
• Fixed an issue where legendary fish could be caught using a fish net.
  
• Fixed a crash when upgrading a house to level 3.
  
• Fixed an issue where the shop panel does not appear to choose a tail after the One of Us cutscene.
  
• Fixed incorrect incomplete items for some offerings in the Temple.
  
• Fixed Steam achievements not registering. We have fixed almost all achievements issues except the following sometimes won't unlock: Gulliver's Voyage, Undersea Mystery, Darkest Cavern. Don't worry, we will fix that in the next hotfix.
  
• Fixed background music not playing in the "Bonk the Skeleton" mini-game.
  

Localizations:

• Fixed various issues with translations.
  

Thank you so much for your feedback and reports. We really appreciate it. We apologize that this update is a bit buggy because of the preparation of the save files for the next multiplayer update. As always, we'll keep on making Coral Island better.

Best regards,
Stairway Team

Steam Hotfix v1.1b-1229

Hi Farmers,

This small hotfixes fix urgent issues with our last release:

Bugfixes:

• Fixed no cutscene after achieving town rank A.
  
• Fixed issue with Precious Gems offering reset to 0 if player already offered some gems. Unfortunately, if player already loaded the game and saves to the next day, we can not recover the lost gems with this fix. We're really sorry about this.
  

Thank you so much for the feedback and report. We really appreciate it. We're already on our way to fix them, but the above are urgent so we made this small hotfix first.

Best regards,
Stairway Team