Sun Haven News

[h3]Hey Everybody![/h3]

Its Bruce, from Pixel Sprout Studios!

We just released a small micropatch with bug fixes for Patch 0.4. While small micropatches like these are mainly about speedy bug fixes, I'm happy to say that we also included a few quality of life changes!

[h3]Micropatch 0.4.2[/h3]

[h3]Bug Fixes:[/h3]

• Fixed a bug that caused the Magma Bug to crash the game
  
• Rain in Withergate now waters crops on the Withergate Rooftop Farm
  
• Phantom Cape can no longer grant infinite air skips
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the mines to be temporarily inaccessible after dying
  
• Improved skateboard mount player animations
  
• Dozens of other minor bug fixes

[h3]Content:[/h3]

• The Load Character menu now has options to restore Backup Saves
• All Crafting Tables now have sorting and filtering options
• Added accessibility to the Withergate Rooftop Farm from the groundfloor of the Withergate Apartment elevator
  
• All Fishing net recipes moved to the Loom crafting table
  
• All Fertilizer recipes moved to the Grinder crafting table
  

See you all soon with another large content update! (hint: it's a big Withergate patch!)

Cheers, and have fun!
Bruce, Pixel Sprout Studios Director

Patch 0.4 - Nel’Vari Update

Hello, everyone!

It's Michael, Writer at Pixel Sprout Studios!

Welcome back to another Pixel Sprout Studios patch update. I have to say, today’s update is HEFTY - and just in time for the holiday break! Did somebody say “Sun Haven binge-fest?”

First and foremost, Sun Haven’s main narrative has greatly expanded! That’s right folks, you can now play through the entirety of the Nel’Vari section of the main questline, over 40 new quests to complete. You will most definitely want to check it out, especially if you’re interested in a fast travel system between Nel’Vari and Sun Haven!

The Elven town of Nel’Vari has also been significantly revamped! I’m talking about the maps, the NPCs, the quests, the shops, the music - heck, there’s even a town map now! On top of this, a revamped Nel’Vari wouldn’t be complete without a brand new player farm now, would it?

Now, I’ll quit talking your ear off so you can scan through the entire list of changes below. Be sure to check out the quality of life updates, too!


[h3]Sun Haven Patch 0.4:[/h3]

Main Questline Update:
- New Path to Nel'Vari Questline (Current saves that have reached Nel’Vari will receive this quest upon updating)
- New Storyline to unlock Nel'Vari Player Farm
- New Nivara Questline


Nel’Vari Map Updates:
- Nel'Vari Player Farm
- New Nel’Vari Player Treehouse
- 12 New Nel’Vari crops
- Added Animals and Creatures that can be attracted to your Nel’Vari Farm
- Nel’Vari Fast Travel
- 25+ New Nel'Vari NPCs
- Nel'Vari Town Map Rework
- New Nel'Vari Shops: General Store, Clothing Store, Pet Store
- Updated Nel’Vari Shops: Cape Store, Crossbow Store, Farm Animal Shop, Mount Store
- Nel'Vari Bulletin Board is now functional
- Added 20 Nel'Vari Bulletin Board Quests
- Nel'Vari Town Map
- 15+ New Nel'Vari songs
- 4 New Nel’Vari Pets
- 1 New Mount

Mines Updates:
- Mine Reward Floors (Old saves will need to unlock these floors)
- 4 Treasure Rooms
- A New Hungry ‘Blockade’ will appear on these floors
- Some Mines Floors now have enemies
- 8 New Mines Enemies

Chest Updates:
- Chests now have sort/deposit options
- Wooden Chests can be renamed and recolored when they are open
- Fridges can now store food
- Wardrobes can now store equipment and clothes

Other Changes:
- Added Steam Cloud Saving
- When you exit the game you will be able to open the game and start in the last town’s
Player Home you were staying in
- 700+ New Player Clothing and Furniture throughout Sun Haven, Nel’Vari, and Withergate
- Buy 1, 5, and 20 buttons for Shops
- Trees now grow in stages
- Oak Tree Seeds can be purchased from the Sun Haven Farming Store
- Nel'Vari Tree Seeds can be purchased from the Nel’Vari General Store
- New Minimap hover over text for locations
- New icons for combat skill tree
- Updated icons and descriptions for 700+ items
- EXP Bars are now visible inside the Skill Tree tab
- Shipping Portal UI now displays how much the total value of the chest
- Sun Haven Shipping Portal now animates when interacting with it
- New Sun Haven House exterior (new saves start with the updated house appearance, old saves remain with the old exterior appearance currently)
- Houses and House Demolition Kits are now sold at the Townhall
- Preparing for external house customization next patch

Economy Rebalance:
- Lowered starting gold
- Lowered gold from intro quests, chests, some cooked food, some enemies,
- Increased orb prices of most Nel'Vari items
- And More

Balance Changes:
- Lowered mana gained from Mana Tomes, Elios Fountain, Wishing Well, Main Questline, and Food
- Minor combat balance for spells and enemies
- Saving now also retains your current health, mana, and your location

Bug Fixes:
- Attempted major multiplayer disconnecting
- Gifts not giving proper response
- Delivery quests not working
- General Minor Bug fixes




Wait, did that say we can store food in refrigerators?? Finally, my chests will no longer smell like last week’s Dorado!

Is this update shaping up to be everything you dreamed of and more? Is it literally the only thing you wished for this holiday season? Comment below with your thoughts and reactions to this patch update!

That should cover all the content released in this update! If you want to hang out with the community and celebrate some new content, swing by Sun Haven’s Discord! You can follow the convenient link that I’ll place riiiiiiight here.

I’ll sign out by wishing a happy holidays to everyone who’s celebrating this season! And to everyone else, a happy and healthy December!



Stay warm friends,

Michael, Sun Haven Writer

Hey Everybody!

We’ve got something for you that is certainly a minor doozy. We are talking about a micropatch here!

This micropatch is focused on fixing some critical bugs from the 0.3.1 patch, and adding some quality of life updates while we are at it. So this patch isn’t really about adding a lot of new content and more about fixing a few bugs that slipped through the cracks.


Take a peek below for a closer look at exactly what we’re adding and fixing!

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug that prevented players from breaking the healing glorite nodes during the Dynus Boss Fight
- Fixed a bug that caused a casted fishing line to go across the screen in Multiplayer
- The Phantom Cape now only casts a second Air Skip
- The Well Fed buff no longer stacks
- The Sunite Axe’s animations are no longer invisible
- Fixed map bugs in various mines and the glorite mines
- Fixed the black border on multiple maps
- The Soul Orb Crops seed stage is now functional
- Fixed a bug that prevented players from catching the Rainbow Trout with a fishing rod
- The Dynus Altar flooring texture was updated
- Fixed floating fishing nets on the farm
- Fixed a bug that caused the Cerberus Mount to be replaced by another mount
- The Fortified spell can now be cast

General:
- Sun Haven now has a loading screen when you launch the game
- Enhanced the performance of Sun Haven when the game boots up
- Fish sell prices were nerfed
- Misc. Foragables and other items sell prices have also been balanced
- Dynus’s Cooking Altar now gives players a new reward along with the Phantom Plate Gloves


Content:
- All clothing item now show their sprites instead of the generic icons
- The Basic Fishing Rod now has an icon
- The platforms that appear during the Dynus Boss Fight now better match his lair

And that about covers it! This little update is sure to boost your gameplay experience as well as fix those nasty little bugs and defects that made it to the live environment. That’s as win-win as it gets!

Thanks for tuning in and checking up on us. I hope your… how is it already October… October is going well so far! As a side note, today was the first day of the season that felt chilly enough to have a cup of morning tea. With that and this patch in tandem, we’re looking at a cozy and happy autumn.

Have fun, be kind, and be happy!

- Michael, Sun Haven Writer

(Sep 30, 2021)

Welcome back, folks!

It's Michael, from Pixel Sprout Studios!

Are y’all ready for a good old fashioned patch update? I sure hope so!

This is kind of a doozy of an update. Not only have we seriously revamped fishing in Sun Haven, but we’ve added the final boss fight! And there are plenty of other changes to go over too, so let’s get into it.

Let’s start with the final boss fight, since that’s easily the coolest thing since sliced anything. We’ve added more to the main quest line, including the final boss section in Withergate. You’ll find that there are multiple ways to overcome the final boss, so you may have a tough decision to make depending on the type of character you’re playing - will you seek victory in the throes of battle or use your skills to work toward a peaceful alternative?

I’m really excited for you all to play through this content, because it includes some really unique rewards - including a LOT of cool loot!

Important note: The main quest line is NOT finished and there is more content on its way! We decided to jump ahead to the final boss section of the main quest line because the additional content is technically optional/not mandatory. Stick with us though, because we’re still working on adding a significant midsection to the main quest line!

In addition to adding the final boss, we’ve entirely revamped fishing, expanded on our update to the mines, and added 10 new NPCs to Withergate!

You know what? Why don’t you just take a gander at the full list of changes here:

Main Questline Updates:
- Added quests to the Withergate main storyline up to Confronting Dynus (6/6)
- You can now meet Dynus the Moon Dragon beneath Withergate Castle
- Challenge him to a duel or appease him with offerings to gain his favor

Dynus Altars:
- Dynus Altar room is now functional
- 9 themed Altars to complete
-Complete Altars to receive exclusive rewards:
-New armor set, mount, crop and more!

Dynus Duel:
- Battle the Moon Dragon in an epic fight!
- Note: You can fight Dynus in Single Player and Multiplayer but the fight is currently only a single player experience. You cannot currently fight him as a group.
- Defeat him or appease him to receive exclusive rewards

Midnight Isle:
- A new Withergate based fishing map with increased fish quality and spawn rate

Glorite Mines:
- Added 5 new Glorite mines maps
- New rare ore: Glorite
- Can be used to craft the Glorite Tools and Glorite Furniture Set

Withergate Updates:
- New Withergate NPCs with walk paths and dialogue cycles
- Added Withergate Bulletin Board
- 20 quests now available!

Mines update (2/2):
- Sun Haven Mines visual update
- New themes every 10 floors
- New mines music to match the new themes

Fishing System Overhaul:
- New Fishing mini game
- Added 35 new fish (15 Sun Haven, 10 Nel’Vari, and 10 Withergate)
- Added fishing nets to automate catching fish on the Sun Haven Player Farm
- Added 7 New Fishing rods with unique perks
- Fish are now consumable
- Fish now have specific locations, split between: Sun Haven player farm, Sun Haven Town, Sun Haven Beach, the forest, the wilderness, Nel’Vari town, Nel’Vari forest, Withergate Town, Withergate forest, and the Sewer
- Removed Copper, Iron, Adamant, Mithril, and Sunite Fishing Rods

Skill Tree Updates:
- Added an entirely new Fishing skill tree with 21 new skill nodes
- Combat tree rework
- Attack Damage rework
- Nodes that allow players to gain extra money have been rebalanced
- More farming skill nodes coming next patch

Other Changes:
- Added 777 New Item Descriptions
- Buff icon trackers now visible above your toolbar
- New sound effects
- Chest Opening
- Fishing Line casting
- and More!
- New icons for a plethora of inventory items
- Crossbow damage balance
- Sword damage balancing
- Monster damage balancing
- Armor defense balancing
- Retuning Quest rewards to include Fishing EXP
- New hats, clothing, and accessories coming next patch

Bug Fixes:
- Attempted fix for crashing
- Attempted fix for inventory wipe in Multiplayer
- Attempted fix for a bug preventing Sun Haven from opening
- Attempted fix for numerous other bugs


In case it’s not apparent by the content listed above, the Pixel Sprout team really busted it out for this patch! We hope you love the new content as much as we do. Be sure to take some screenshots of the new stuff and post it in our Screenshots channel on Discord! Personally, that’s my second favorite channel on the Sun Haven Discord, following close behind the Fan Art channel (so much talent though).

Thank you all for checking in on this update! Go play the new content already!!


Until next time, friends!
Michael, Sun Haven Writer

Patch notes for 0.2.2a

This minor patch is focused on improving some critical bugs from Multiplayer, as well as several other common general bugs.

Multiplayer:
- Improved stability of multiplayer
- Reduced disconnections in multiplayer
- Fixed the issue causing inventories to be wiped from disconnecting
- Removed automatic 10 second timeout from connecting and replaced with a button instead

General:
- Fixed pass out days on increments of day 28 starting past day 112
- Improved perfomance slightly, especially at the player farm
- Fixed some dialogue from NPC not giving keepsakes
- Fixed some crafting bugs causing a crafter to not work overnight
- Fixed quests taking armor off players or take different quality items
- Removed tiles being placed on beach
- Fixed some decorations sinking into ground on beach
- Cutscenes now dismount players (including hangouts)
- Fixed platforming to be more reliable
- Fixed dozens of small issues with clothings, decorations, and UI elements

Content:
- Added +1,+5,Max buttons to crafting tables.