Veterinary Clinic, Weather System & Cream Roan Coats! š“š§ļø Update 1.8.0.1
Howdy Ranchers! š“š§ļø The eight content update is here with a ton of new features, including a new villager, new forage, a weather system, and new coat colors! As weāre approaching the end of Early Access, Iāve also been spending more time on bug fixing and quality of life improvements to prepare for the full release. You can view the full list of changes below!
[h2]The Veterinarian[/h2]
Meet your new neighbour, Dr. Amelia Trotter! Sheāll be waiting for you in the veterinary clinic in Rivershine Town. Her clinic offers an array of remedies and poultices to treat your horses, in addition to a fewā¦ mysteriousā¦ tonics to boost your horses!
[h2]Horse Illnesses[/h2]
Your horses can now become ill, depending on how they are cared for. A healthy horse will be very unlikely to fall sick, while an unhealthy horse surely will. Which illness they get will depend on their satiety, care, energy, the weather and the season.
For example, dirty horses might become ill with mud fever, which can be treated with a poultice. Low satiety can cause malnourishment, while low energy brings on exhaustion. These are treated with remedies, either purchased from the veterinarian or crafted yourself from medicinal forage!
Additionally, you might now encounter sick horses when catching them in the wild. If you choose to adopt them, itāll be up to you to get them back in good shape!
[h2]Remedies & Poultices[/h2]
While all remedies are available for sale at the veterinary clinic, it might be worth your time to craft them yourself instead!
First, youāll have to purchase the recipes in Ameliaās shop, and then gather the necessary ingredients. New medicinal forage can be found to craft these recipes, such as garlic, ginger, clay and peppermint. Explore the trails to discover where they grow!
[h2]Boosts & Tonics[/h2]
In addition to remedies, Amelia sells boosts you can use for various effects on your horses. For example, you can now grow your horseās hair faster, or freeze it to stay at the same length!
The veterinarian also offers potent tonics to boost your horseās growth. Complete your mareās pregnancy or help your foal grow up overnightā¦ No need to skip days, as long as you can cover the vetās expensive fees for her potions!
[h2]Weather System[/h2]
Get ready to face the elements! There is now a chance for sunny, cloudy, rainy or snowy days, depending on the season.
Keep in mind that on rainy and snowy days, your unhealthy horses have a chance to develop rain rot if they are left outside without a blanket. Healthy horses shouldnāt have much trouble with it, and it can always be treated with a poultice!
Iāve also added a new setting named āForever Sunnyā that can be turned on to prevent all weather events. This can be used if the new weather is too demanding on your computer and causes lag, or just if you prefer to keep the skies clear!
[h2]Foal Bottle Feed[/h2]
As a little addition to foal care, you can now bottle feed your foals to gain extra trust while theyāre growing up! Collect the milk from your nursing mareās stall and give it yourself to your foal for that extra bond.
[h2]Cream Roan Horses[/h2]
Discover nine new breeding exclusive coat colors by mixing roan and cream horses together! These include coats such as palomino roan, buckskin roan and smoky cream roan. Some of these are my new favorites - I hope youāll enjoy them too!
[h2]General Changes[/h2]
[h2]Whatās Next?[/h2]
After doing some planning for the full release, Iāve decided to combine the last two updates on the roadmap, Home Sweet Home and Village Life, into a single bigger content update that will mark the full release of the game!
As planned, this update will include new additions to your ranch, pets, seasonal events and villager friendships. I have a few more surprises in store for this update to make it exciting for both new players and for those who have been playing The Ranch of Rivershine over the last two years!
Thank you for reading and enjoy your time in Rivershine! ĆloĆÆse
[h2]The Veterinarian[/h2]
Meet your new neighbour, Dr. Amelia Trotter! Sheāll be waiting for you in the veterinary clinic in Rivershine Town. Her clinic offers an array of remedies and poultices to treat your horses, in addition to a fewā¦ mysteriousā¦ tonics to boost your horses!
[h2]Horse Illnesses[/h2]
Your horses can now become ill, depending on how they are cared for. A healthy horse will be very unlikely to fall sick, while an unhealthy horse surely will. Which illness they get will depend on their satiety, care, energy, the weather and the season.
For example, dirty horses might become ill with mud fever, which can be treated with a poultice. Low satiety can cause malnourishment, while low energy brings on exhaustion. These are treated with remedies, either purchased from the veterinarian or crafted yourself from medicinal forage!
Additionally, you might now encounter sick horses when catching them in the wild. If you choose to adopt them, itāll be up to you to get them back in good shape!
[h2]Remedies & Poultices[/h2]
While all remedies are available for sale at the veterinary clinic, it might be worth your time to craft them yourself instead!
First, youāll have to purchase the recipes in Ameliaās shop, and then gather the necessary ingredients. New medicinal forage can be found to craft these recipes, such as garlic, ginger, clay and peppermint. Explore the trails to discover where they grow!
[h2]Boosts & Tonics[/h2]
In addition to remedies, Amelia sells boosts you can use for various effects on your horses. For example, you can now grow your horseās hair faster, or freeze it to stay at the same length!
The veterinarian also offers potent tonics to boost your horseās growth. Complete your mareās pregnancy or help your foal grow up overnightā¦ No need to skip days, as long as you can cover the vetās expensive fees for her potions!
[h2]Weather System[/h2]
Get ready to face the elements! There is now a chance for sunny, cloudy, rainy or snowy days, depending on the season.
Keep in mind that on rainy and snowy days, your unhealthy horses have a chance to develop rain rot if they are left outside without a blanket. Healthy horses shouldnāt have much trouble with it, and it can always be treated with a poultice!
Iāve also added a new setting named āForever Sunnyā that can be turned on to prevent all weather events. This can be used if the new weather is too demanding on your computer and causes lag, or just if you prefer to keep the skies clear!
[h2]Foal Bottle Feed[/h2]
As a little addition to foal care, you can now bottle feed your foals to gain extra trust while theyāre growing up! Collect the milk from your nursing mareās stall and give it yourself to your foal for that extra bond.
[h2]Cream Roan Horses[/h2]
Discover nine new breeding exclusive coat colors by mixing roan and cream horses together! These include coats such as palomino roan, buckskin roan and smoky cream roan. Some of these are my new favorites - I hope youāll enjoy them too!
[h2]General Changes[/h2]
- Added four new arena obstacle courses for sale in Riverās shop.
- Added a new brush for sale in Georgeās shop.
- Added a āKeyboard Controlā setting that can be turned on to control the camera with the keyboard instead of the mouse. This setting should be particularly useful for players using a touchpad.
- Added a āForever Springā setting to keep the foliage and environment colors in spring all year long.
- Added a new quest with Madelaine to explain how the auction house upgrades in her shop work.
- Added a name randomizer in the horseās interface.
- Increased the space available in the retirement pasture from each upgrade, with the last upgrade now granting a total of 24 spaces instead of 16. There will be additional changes to the retirement pasture in the next update.
- Increased the chance for the leg markings to be the same height on horses found in the auction house and in the wild.
- Added more coat colors for the NPC horses.
- Added two new travel stones in Rivershine Town.
- Added the pasture doors being open or closed to the save data.
- Changed the mouse cursor to a custom cursor.
- Changed the recipe list to be divided in categories for clarity.
- Added a āNotesā section in the inventory to record your own memos.
- Fixed an issue with the boots flickering on the male player character.
- Fixed an issue with the intermediate flower fence course caused by the obstacles being too close to each other.
- Fixed an issue where taking a horse out of the pasture to ride did not work correctly.
- Fixed an issue where wandering horses could trigger travelling to a new area.
- Fixed an issue where the arena jumps would sometimes disappear after selecting a course.
- Fixed various issues caused by pressing pause during competitions, which resulted in game breaking bugs.
- Fixed an issue where a competition could be completed multiple times from a single competition, creating various bugs.
- Changed the dapple colors on bay base horses to be lighter and more visible.
- Changed the foal behaviour so that they stay with their mom in the correct pasture. They will still be in separate pastures on the first load but after placing them together, they will stay together.
- Fixed an issue that would set a mare as not nursing while she still had a foal.
- Fixed an audio issue at the start of the game when loading in a save file.
- Fixed Gallant Deerās name not being visible on his statue.
- Fixed the square saddle pad clipping with the pregnant mare modelās belly.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Coastal Chase competition to be marked as complete without participating in it.
- Fixed various issues with hair dyes not appearing correctly.
- Updated the tips displayed on the loading screens.
- Changed the Azure Coast competition winning times to be slightly easier.
- Removed the tameness loss from retiring a horse.
- Fixed various trail jumps in Pine Forest.
- Fixed an issue that caused the player to be invisible during the statue blessing cinematic if they were in first person.
- Fixed an issue that allowed horses to walk on the auction houseās roof.
- Fixed an animation stutter when mounting tall horses.
- Fixed placement issues with the first person camera.
- Fixed various typos.
[h2]Whatās Next?[/h2]
After doing some planning for the full release, Iāve decided to combine the last two updates on the roadmap, Home Sweet Home and Village Life, into a single bigger content update that will mark the full release of the game!
As planned, this update will include new additions to your ranch, pets, seasonal events and villager friendships. I have a few more surprises in store for this update to make it exciting for both new players and for those who have been playing The Ranch of Rivershine over the last two years!
Thank you for reading and enjoy your time in Rivershine! ĆloĆÆse