Echoes of the Plum Grove News

• Cockatiel, Lovebird, and Parrot addition (all can perch on your characters shoulder!)
  
• Dachshund, Shiba Inu, Samoyed, Tortie Cat, and Siamese cat are all new pet options.
  
• Tourists, immigrants, and ghosts may be custom characters from our Kickstarter backers
  
• New items: garden bed
  
• Added a stone vein to the mine
  

• Fixed infinite loading and cutscene issues when switching characters
  
• Fixed issue with multiple tools that could do the same task - fixes using your pickaxe in the mine among other issues
  
• Fixed tiles that are unusable on your farm on reload
  
• Fixed the issue where if an item is dragged for too long it becomes huge
  
• Fixed green thumb perk
  
• Fixed issue where moving your barn doesn't clear the animal trough
  
• Various dialog fixes
  
• Various controller fixes
  
• Master and ambient volumes settings should be loaded correctly at startup
  
• If you change your heir to a farm helper the day you take over as them, you will not constantly transfer your items to the farmer helper chest
  

• Reduced wheat, oat, and corn prices. Increased flour price
  
• Performance fix: Increased performance when many villagers were on screen
  
• Performance fix: Reduced performance issues of farm helpers without any tasks
  
• Simplified Chinese: Update item hover to have visible tags
  
• New graphics option to reduce or turn off snow effects
  
• Keyboard pops up for text input on Steamdeck
  
• Scaled up smaller fonts and UI elements on Steamdeck
  
• Updated tutorial tab text based on current control scheme
  
• Cooking multiple items will also multiply skill gain appropriately
  
• Added checkmarks in collections menu when you've cooked a recipe or caught a fish to help track achievements
  
• Eggs can now drop at increased quality
  

• Fixed bug where you couldn't change your family's professions
  
• Fixed bug where controller hover for recipes doesn't update
  

• 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
  

• 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
  

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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