Roots of Pacha News

Hello Pachans!

We have so many exciting things in the works, such as being included in the upcoming Save and Sound event on September 11 at 11 am PDT. To celebrate, we put together a behind-the-scenes look into the music of Roots of Pacha, along with a short performance. We’re so excited to be alongside so many excellent games! We hope you enjoy the show.

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[h2]Consoles & Update 1.1[/h2]
Work on consoles has been going well and is on track to be released later this year!



While working on consoles, we discovered how much attention they would need, so we adjusted the list of features for update 1.1. This update will launch for all platforms, including Steam, on the day of the consoles’ release. The current list of features to be included in 1.1 is:

• Voda romanceable
  
• New Friendship cutscenes with non-romanceable characters (Ron/Tetih, Brah/Vor, Maeri/Vuak, Igrork, Gin, Zelk)
  
• NPC gifts given by smoke signals
  
• Ability to Break a Union and corresponding schedules and dialogues
  
• New Savanna animal unlocked in Year 2
  
• Japanese support
  
• Performance optimizations
  
• Smaller QoL and bug fixes
  

Depending on how the remaining work on consoles goes, we’re also exploring including some of these:

• New Union locations
  
• Optional Hunting/Gathering Minigame
  
• Traps
  
• Growable mushroom/herb pots
  

[h2]After 1.1[/h2]
We originally wanted to include children growing to the “kid” stage and animal & plant evolution in 1.1, but those will now be in a future update. Here’s some WIP of those features.





Seeing everyone play and enjoy the game has been an amazing experience. As a small team, we want to ensure the updates get as much love and attention as the base game. After 1.1, we will keep updating the game next year as we have grand plans to add two more regions and more features to the mid and end-game.

We think it will be worth the wait, and as always, we’ll keep you updated on how the development is going.

You rock!
The Soda Den Team

The music that accompanies you as explore and farm is here! We’re incredibly excited for you to experience all the love we’ve put into our remastered melodies.

[h2]🎵The official Roots of Pacha soundtrack is out!🎵[/h2]

Here we share some OST specs:

• 28 curated songs lasting over 120 minutes. Designed by intermixing ambient sound with the music to give a Pachan experience.
  
• More than 2 hours to enjoy the RoP vibes.
  
• Contains music from the Main Menu, Character Creation, all regions, and all seasons.
  
• Audio formats: .mp3 and .wav
  

We’re thrilled to announce that Roots of Pacha is a part of Simfest! From today until July 24th, 10 am PDT, get the brand new OST 🎵 and game bundle for an extra discount.



Thank you all for your support. We look forward to hearing your feedback on the Soundtrack!

You rock!
The Soda Den Team

Fixes
- Players could get soft locked when opening craft tools and bartering menus from dialogue.
- Building placement UI had inconsistent button behavior with the mouse.
- Choosing to be barefoot still showed character using shoes.
- Mount could enter storage shed, but it couldn't exit.
- Animal variant was not marked as known in the collections UI when using rare and legendary pinecones
- Jizu's exchange was missing Smilodon Claws footwear.*
- Mograni and Yakuan exclusive pots were available in Reese's exchange.*
- Pacha Tree fruits were visible before cutscene.
- Couldn't talk to NPCs using the hammocks and swings.

* needs to pass a day to be fixed so the exchange daily stock is refreshed

Hello, Pachans!
The first step of the Roadmap is already here. The Quality of Life update is now live! There is so much fun to discover, like:

Smilodon outfit. We love fashion and know this new outfit will make you smile.

New romanceable NPC. Enjoy more cozy moments with Jag in three new flower cutscenes and maybe even form a Union with him.



Pacha tree fruit. Once you complete the Pyramid, you'll be able to exchange for Pacha fruit that grants different boons to make your life easier. Be sure to save a good amount of contributions. You'll need them.

+50 new decos. A set of new elegant decorations is available to exchange with Reese. You can make your home even cozier with the new pots, furniture, and lighting fixtures in bronze, silver, and gold varieties.



Moving buildings. Did you find a better spot for your home? Now you can relocate idea builds and your hut by talking to Croll.

Flower cutscene indicator. It can be easy to lose track of relationships when you're busy in the fields. A new cutscene indicator will help you know which villager is waiting to share a special moment.

Magic Hand Axe. Complete all the challenges in the caves to get this dream tool.



Jukk, the stylist. For 500 contributions, you can ask Jukk to refresh your style.

Obsidian mirror. Tired of that hairstyle or tattoo? This mirror is more than just an elegant home accessory. Change your appearance by interacting with it.



Your house, your rules. If you pass out in your house, you will still wake up there.

And more! The full changelog is listed below 🎉

We hope you enjoy the QoL update and have as much fun as we did making it. Stay tuned for more updates as we progress along the Road Map.

Also, if you haven’t left a review yet, we would greatly appreciate it if you would. 💖

You rock!
-The Soda Den Team



[h2]Full changelog [/h2]
Feats
- Jag is now romanceable.
- Buildings placed by the players in the village can now be moved.
- Change your character’s appearance by going to Jukk and later by exchanging for an obsidian mirror.
- 50+ new decorations, floors, and fences that will be available as you progress in the game.
- New farm building: Storage Shed. An empty space to decorate or use for processing.
- Smilodon clothing and footwear to match the current hat.
- An indicator in the NPCs lists to show if you’ve met all the conditions and can trigger a cutscene with them.
- A button to auto-assign seasonal seeds to the radial. Tools and seeds assigned to the radial can also be removed now.
- A blueprint for a new tool, the Magic Handaxe, is given after completing the caves.
- The tree at the top of the pyramid will bear magical fruit after completing the main story.
- Jungle field has a tutorial now after completing the main story.
- After obtaining the water wheel and befriending Vuak, you’ll be able to crush gems to color fires.
- Dance while at festivals.
- Name storage boxes.
- Animals that a ready for shearing/milking will show an emote when you’re nearby.
- 5 new skin tones.
- Added a “Grass Sprouts” craftable to regrow grass in the fields, available after researching animal taming.
- The attune minigame can be canceled if no notes have been played, without consuming a charge.
- Improved feedback in attune minigame when a note is not played on time.
- Passing out inside your house will have you wake up there instead of in Igrork & Maeri’s.
- Minimap can be moved by click+drag if using a mouse.
- Move wall decorations instead of remove when expanding a player house or shed.
- When placing/moving a building in the village, the area and any objects that need to be removed are highlighted.
- Resulting quality is shown for items being processed in the processors menu.
- Added lobby to start New Year’s festival in multiplayer.
- Improved all translations: Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. (tutorial images will be updated in following patch)
- Updated credits with community manager, localization team, community testers, and backers who recently filled out their surveys.

Changes
- Jungle field won’t allow fertilizer to balance and prepare it for its future use.
- Rebalanced items' contribution values to make processing more meaningful, especially in early-game and late-game stages.
- When adding vinegar to a pickler, it’ll now let you pickle multiple things, from 1 to 5, depending on the value and quality of the vinegar used. The resulting quality of the pickled product depends only on the input, not the vinegar.
- The quality of a product made in a cask will depend only on the quality of the main product and not the hardwood, herb, or mushroom.

• Harvest, tree, and animal products: increased their processed value for every processor, especially the early ones (smoker, drier, and fermenter).
  
• Fish: decreased the contribution value of the highest-tier fish, decreased dried fish processed items value, and increased smoked, fermented, and pickled fish.
  

Fixes
- Duplicated wall items when upgrading house.
- Water Wheel adding quality to items that should have no quality.
- Can’t water tree in pyramid with a multi-tile water tool.
- Voda 2 flower event not hiding objects.
- Locating NPCs in the minimap when in a festival led to errors.
- Mouse not working when selecting/choosing to upgrade a building.
- Visual glitch when kissing an NPC doing an activity (like chopping wood).
- Some animal variant icons not properly assigned or missing pixels.
- Some text was not properly visible when using Noto Sans font.
- Tags not showing for some medicinal herbs.
- Picking up items when in a menu could make an item disappear in multiplayer.
- Bartering menu opens for everyone after finishing Zelk’s idea in multiplayer.
- Couldn’t use granary and breeding pen at the same time in multiplayer.
- Incorrect attune message for players who join a multiplayer game late and who don’t have a flute yet.
- Duplicated interiors in multiplayer.
- First cave challenge desync errors in multiplayer.
- SFXs fixes and missing sounds.
- Typos, dialogue, and schedules fixes.

First of all,





A little over a month has passed since the 1.0 release of Roots of Pacha. We couldn’t be happier with the initial reception of the game and can’t thank all of you enough. Your feedback and kind words have made us even more excited to see Roots of Pacha reach its full potential.


We’re also super excited to be included in the Cozy & Family Friendly Games Celebration! If you haven’t grabbed a copy there’s a 10% discount during the event.




We’re happy to see so many people making it to the end of the main story, enjoying the village they worked hard to create, watching their families grow, finding those rare and legendary animals, and even starting new saves to do it all over again! We think everyone will be extra excited to see what we have in store.

Driven by the setting, we took the risk of interweaving many of the systems in Roots of Pacha as it felt natural to make the community work as a real one. We feel this made RoP a unique take on a farming sim, with systems growing on top of each other like the farms you cultivate. To be able to achieve the same feeling, our current plan is to do 2 larger updates with a small patch leading up to them.

Beyond the Quality of Life patch, we can only commit to a general timeframe as we want to ensure the updates are of the highest quality and not rushed. As we get further along in development, we’ll be able to give you exact dates and in the meantime, we’ll share our progress via Discord and occasionally social media too.






A small update with a group of quality-of-life features, the promised localization fixes, and some commonly requested player feedback, which will come in the following weeks.





This update will focus on an expansion of the current systems. That includes children growing to the “kid stage,” plant and animal evolution, new Union locations, another romanceable option, the ability to break your union, and more interactions with pets. We also plan to expand the end-game content and include “smaller” details like players being able to sit in places around the world and other community suggestions.

We’d like to launch this update along with consoles. They’re separate processes that are currently being worked on in parallel, so we’re hopeful they’ll be ready at about the same time later this year.




This update will include a whole new level of content, like kids growing to teen years and “ball sport” from the Kickstarter stretch goals, but it will mainly consist of being able to visit the Mograni and Yakuan settlements. You’ll be able to explore their regions, the Tundra and Turtle Islands, find new fauna and flora, discover Ideas, meet new characters (some being romanceable), and dive into new caves. This will be a much larger update that will take more time to create. Our plan is for this one to come out sometime next year.

As we mentioned before, we can’t commit to exact dates for the updates yet as we want to make sure they’re meaningful and fully tested before they reach your hands. We’re confident that our team will be able to deliver it in an acceptable time frame.

Thank you all for following us on this journey. If you haven’t already, we’d greatly appreciate it if you could leave us a review on Steam. It helps a lot.

You rock!
The Soda Den Team