Echoes of the Plum Grove News

Update 1.0.1 is live!

Can you believe it's been 2 weeks since we've launched? So many of you have shown your support for our cozy lil' game and we can't thank you enough.

It took us a bit, but we wanted to make sure we had everything as polished as we could make it for this update. We did our best to tackle as many bugs as possible and rebalanced a few things based on community feedback. Along with some adorable new features like the additional pet skins, this update also includes full controller support and basic modding capabilities!

Along with those key features and all of the updates listed in the patch notes below, we've also started to compile a list of frequently asked questions. You can check out the current list on the Plum Grove FAQ in the Steam Discussion board.

We know of a few issues that remain with controller support which we are continuing to work on. We will be monitoring both our Discord and the Steam Discussions closely to make sure everything is working smoothly outside of these remaining issues.

Interact button on your farm
Shop/Chest menu
Pressing A when talking should complete the current text first
Item drop hovers
Inability to input text

The world of community-led modding for Plum Grove has officially begun! Basic mod support has been added to the game and the community has already started creating. Make sure to backup your saves and use the mod support at your own risk when it comes to save files and progression. Join our discord to find more information on mods.

Unzip https://unwoundgames.com/mods/cosmetics.zip to your game's data path: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Unwound Games\Echoes of the Plum Grove\mods
Type in "mods" into the redeem code box

3 new pet skins (2 cats, 1 dog)
Pigs produce 1 waste/day, interact with them to collect.
Blueprints can now be sold for 50 coins
Bayberry can now be used to make soap
Paint is sold 100% of the time by a ship
Baby's start crying when they are hungry
Scythe is usable by farm helpers for harvesting
New potion that makes it rain the next day
Increased all crop buy prices by 8 (sell prices by 4)
Increase number of stones sold by carpenters, hunters, and the blacksmith
Increase number of wood sold by carpenters and added to hunters
Add spare hammers to the blacksmith's inventory
You can rename your pets
Set lavender as an ingredient
Current day is marked on calendar
Increased amount of materials from butchering

Nausea from disease is cleared when game is loaded
Add date icon to calendar
NPCs ignore weddings to go on dates
Removed unused gender symbol from animal hovers
Improved blueprint and recipe descriptions to list when you already know them
Finished food pulses slightly in kitchen menu
Baby's in family tab are no longer marked as "Adult" or "Elder"
House of spells isn't closed during holidays
Improved steel tool chance
Building tab has mouse clickable close buttons
Better controller support (more fixes incoming)
Fixed up some tutorial descriptions

Adoption papers don't make the kid think you are both their parent and child
Some string fixes
Dates who die before the date won't try to still go
Halloween no longer gives exponential rewards for higher tier candies
Fix adoption paper bug in perpetuity
Remove the child hat exploit
Various crashing and infinite loading bugs - Please create or repost on a bug thread if you're still experiencing these issues after the update.
Fixed sleeping potion
Fixed scything for farm helpers
Player no longer gets a bugged wedding screen if their betrothed dies on the day of their wedding
Fix boats not finding replacements when they die
Fix issue regarding hair color and some system locales (including Turkish)
Fixed chicken coop centering
Fix not needing materials to fix the bridge
Blood moon quests should not clear one first midnight
More minor bug/string fixes
Eyelashes should be independent of gender
Needs properly go down after switching character and loading an autosave
Fixed sheep, rainbow goat, and midnight goat products

If you haven’t yet, we’d greatly appreciate it if you left us an honest review on Steam. Steam reviews are incredibly important for indie games and more reviews mean more wonderful gamers like yourselves can discover the game. We are looking forward to continuing to watch all of you dive in and enjoy Echoes of the Plum Grove.

Happy Legacy Building!
Sarah & Erik

Adorable Stardew Valley style farming sim reveals post launch plans

Following a successful launch, new farming game and life sim Echoes of the Plum Grove has plenty more to come in the weeks and months to follow. With an adorable papercraft presentation but a willingness to tackle tough topics such as sickness and death, Plum Grove has already landed to a 'very positive' Steam reception, and developer Unwound Games reveals what's currently in the works as it thanks players for their support.

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Post-Launch Plans

We cannot thank you all enough for the overwhelming support since launch!

With over 400 reviews on Steam already and a bunch of wonderful people sharing their feedback and passing along bug reports for us to look into, this has truly been an amazing few days. We wanted to make sure to take some time to address a couple of the bigger concerns and share our plans for the coming weeks with all of you.

First things first, we’ll be dropping an update next week sometime! This update will include more pet options, bug fixes, and improved controller support! Even if we don’t quite reach full controller support in the next week, we will continue to improve it with the goal of full controller support as soon as possible.

We couldn't help but give you a little teaser of one of the birds, even though they're not flying into the next update. But here's some good news: you'll get two new cat options, one new dog option, and even a pet pig to pick from! That means you'll have four pets to choose from—excluding our feathered friends. Secondly, we are aware of a game crash happening for a small set of Windows 11 users. We have been working with our publishers to try and replicate the issue but have had no luck so far. If you happen to have a game crash (or any other bug/issue), we would greatly appreciate you joining our Discord so that we can work directly with you to try and get as much information as possible. If you can’t join Discord or simply don’t wish to, sharing as much information as possible with us in the Bug Reports forum on Steam is another option.

[h3]Outside of the upcoming patch, we also wanted to share some of the other upcoming features on the horizon.[/h3]

Steam Deck Verification
Furniture/Decor for walls such as paintings and hanging pots and pans
Family tree menu so that you can see your lineage
Ability to inoculate your family / give medicine to family members
Saving the Sick Quests (NPCs who will request medicine be sent through the mail)

Lastly, one of the things we have picked up on from our community is the lack of help with large farms in terms of watering. We are having talks about how to fix this, but as a quick fix, we are going to be putting in a unique potion you can buy from the witch (for relatively cheap) that once drunk, rain will be triggered the next day ❤️ 🌧️ We hope this helps in the short term for all our fabulous players out there.

Given that we’re a small team of two, we’ll be working hard to deliver as many of these features within the first month. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work through this list. Please know that we’ll be around throughout May to fix bugs, implement the new content, and answer your questions.

[h3]Kickstarter Stretch Goals[/h3]
We also want to remind you of the stretch goals from our Kickstarter campaign! You can look forward to these making their way into the game in the future:

Thunderstorms
Three songbirds for your home interior
New character: Old Man Rickett!!
NPC painting Hobby: You’ll be able to purchase unique paintings from NPC’s with this hobby!

Again, thank you so much for your support! We are intently reading feedback, our bug threads, and watching people's playthroughs and we are shocked by how much you guys are loving the game ❤️
We are looking forward to the months to come and seeing all of you dive in and enjoy Echoes of the Plum Grove. If you haven’t yet, we’d greatly appreciate it if you left us an honest review on Steam. Steam reviews are incredibly important for indie games and more reviews mean more wonderful gamers like yourselves can discover the game.

Happy Legacy Building!
Sarah & Erik

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