Botany Manor News

Hello everyone!

We have another botanical patch for you all!

This patch includes a small amount of fixes:

* If you're holding an item when saving, you'll still be holding the item when you later load the game.
* Added a fix for disappearing items, and any previously disappeared items will be in the spot they were placed.

Have a great Tuesday!

The Botany Manor Team

Hey botanists! We’re so happy to see you all enjoying Botany Manor!

Thank you all for communicating and reporting issues, we have fixed up a bunch and listed them below. Please understand we are a very small team and are still addressing other issues, which will roll out in due time.

Full list of fixes:

* Replaced ‘move up’ with ‘move down’ on the tower lever.
* Added a collider to the kitchen wall so the interaction dots of the scale weights don’t see through.
* Some localisation fixes.
* Make sure saving doesn’t happen while sitting down, causing a potential locked player state on resuming the game.
* Fix a typo in the letter from Arabella’s sister in the Flower Room.
* Fix a typo on the squirrel card in the Boat House.
* Make sure the letter lock is correctly localised in Traditional and Simplified Chinese at the start of the game.
* Trigger the plant growth achievement after growing a plant, so players with missing achievements can trigger it even after completing the game.
* Added a chapter select to main menu, so you can easily restart/replay a chapter. This should help currently soft-locked players while we work on more fixes.
* Fix an issue where the Formal Garden key would be missing when resuming the game, if it was not picked up in previous session.

* Prevent players from exiting the tower while it's going up, causing them to soft lock the game.
* Make sure the game doesn't autosave on resuming in main menu, overriding their save data.

Hello Botanists,

We're so excited to announce that Botany Manor is out now on Steam!

Join Arabella Greene in her quest to grow all the plants inside her botanical research book 'Forgotten Flora' and discover the many clues scattered around the grounds of the manor.

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Don't forget to join our Discord for any puzzle hints or feedback, and we also made a handy bug reporting form should you experience an issue.

Hello fellow botanists!

There are only a few more days before you’ll get to explore the grounds of Botany Manor! Just before we launch on the 9th of April, Balloon Studios' creative director Laure De Mey has put together a new video, taking you through one of the enchanting puzzles you’ll encounter.

Pixie Tears are one of the rare forgotten flora that retired botanist Arabella Greene has collected as part of her long years of research. Like many of the plants in her collection, this specimen requires a very specific set of circumstances in order for it to bloom. Laure walks us through Arabella's research collection to determine just how to make this mysterious flower flourish.

You can learn more about the Pixie Tears by watching the video below (spoiler alert!):

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Thank you all so much for all your support during development. We can’t wait for you to play Botany Manor next week, so please give us a wishlist and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok to make sure you’re kept up to date.