100th Steam Update! The Brownie Caravan Update

Hey everyone! It's been a LONG road to get here, but this is a pretty significant update for us! The Brownie Caravan is a small side event, but the effort of hundreds of hours of coding, writing, animation, and artistic labor along with the introduction of a new area of Cloverton and several new activities and shops! We encourage you to explore and have fun with them as you experience everything the wandering, fortune telling Brownies have to offer the charming folks of Cloverton!

Additions

• The Brownie Caravan - access to the Faire Grounds will open, and the Caravan will visit for two days of every season!
  
  • 8 new unlockable sprite sex scenes with full narration are obtainable as part of this event
    
  • New high-tier consumable items will be available only from a Caravan merchant
    
• Added Kaleida, a recruitable NPC that can serve as a ‘utility spellcaster’ in the player’s dungeon party
  
  • Kaleida can be recruited during the Brownie Caravan event
    
  • After recruitment, Kaleida will move around between the Farm and Cloverton on a basic daily schedule
    
  • Kaleida’s passive ability - Card Reading - where each turn Kaleida will be able to select a tarot card from a random draw in order to enhance her spellcasting abilities
    
• Characters shown in dialogue can now show various expressions or emotes - currently this is limited to the new Brownie Caravan dialogue content
  

Changes

• Replaced placeholder visuals for Kaleida’s combat abilities & UI
  
• Calendar window will highlight the selected day with greater visibility
  
• Reduced memory usage for all Royal Matchmaker date sequences, which was potentially causing crashes
  
• Widened the gap between two static camera trigger zones by Cloverton docks to prevent player moving off-screen
  
• Revised ambiguous language in daily log crop harvesting description
  
• Prevented switching menu tabs or closing the menu while modifying a key binding
  

Fixes

• Updated Popondopolous’ dialogue portrait
  
• Corrected colours on Morgan x Thrund sprite scene
  
• Corrected incorrectly filled colour in Cat F Wild dialogue sprite
  
• Some Cloverton NPCs has distorted outlines on mouse-over
  
• Interaction bubbles should no longer be distorting on mouse-over
  
• Fixed a crash when moving monsters between barn & pastures
  
• Revised Kaleida’s Karmic Intervention ability which causes an error during Sting’s boss fight
  
• Monster UI portraits should no longer appear distorted
  
• Fertiliser now correctly protects against weather on the last day before it’s expiration
  
• Fixed in-season fertiliser appearing as if it were the incorrect season
  
• Fixed lower-middle farm plots on Lucia’s construction UI being linked to the wrong plots
  
• Fixed jobs board showing the incorrect work amount for Shipping
  
• Merchants visiting Cloverton should no longer arrive a day early
  
• Centaur’s Quick Draw ability is now considered a ranged attack
  
• Sealed walkable space around hole in Savannah F8 poacher island
  
• Bireli’s sex scene is now correctly categorised as male
  
• Guidebook UI should no longer be able to open two pages on top of each other
  
• Adjusted layering of bushes in Cloverton that were overlapping certain merchants