Spirit Of The Island News

Hello! How is it going, friends?

We are glad to introduce our newest update! Some really cool stuff is awaiting you there

NEW

• We've added a lot of new items to the museum! Listing them will take a lot of space, so we'll include pictures with some of them.
  
• Two new islands are now available: Silver Lake and Land of the Ghosts! Land of the Ghosts is inhabited by really powerful creatures, so make sure to come prepared. And Silver Lake is THE fishing island
• wink wink*.
  
• New creatures: Ancient Golems. They are slow, but strong and resistant. There are 3 different types of them, so prepare for a tough fight.
  
• New vehicles: Scooter and Quadricycle! They are really fast and cool, so make sure to prepare a big garage for them.
  
• We've added new items to the Combat Bench: Boots, Shields, and Accessories! Shields will provide a passive defence bonus and accessories can do a variety of things, from increasing your HP to making you character more resistant to different deliberations.
  

CHNAGES

• Added some texts when you interact with Vacancy House and Staff House, just to show what they are;
  
• Quest log is now in the top-left corner of the screen.
  

FIXED

• Fixed the bug when you weren't able to move some of the objects;
  
• Fixed a bug when you couldn't go to the upper or lower floor of the upgraded house in multiplayer;
  
• Fixed some audio problems with Dead Hunter;
  
• Did some changes to creature animations;
  
• Now all defeated pirates will show up in your stats;
  
• Fixed item descriptions - quantity and days to harvest;
  
• Fixed minimap graphics;
  

Are you enjoying Spirit of the Island? If yes, please make sure to leave us a review on Steam or some feedback on our Discord server!

We'll have more news about exciting things, such as full release coming up soon.

Until then, see you!

Hello!

Second part of the "Now Hiring!" update is now live, with a bit more additions than planned!

NEW

• We've added house upgrades! To use them, interact with the Gear icon at the left side your house;
  
• Vacancy Houses are now available. You can build them to rent out for tourists. The rent will be collected automatically and the amount will depend on Decoration system, which will be added later;
  
• New Island, - “Good Old Flies”! There, you will find many treasures, fishing spots, pirates and some strong trolls - better come prepared!
  
• You can now see all creatures behind walls and objects - we've added the same transparecny effect as we did for the players.
  

CHNGED

• Adjusted destroyable objects (like mining stones) respawn rate from 15 to 5 days;
  
• Adjusted fruits, mushrooms and other interactive objects growth rate from 18 days to 6;
  
• Changed coin prices for all staff houses;
  
• Improved rain performance;
  
• Increased the interactive range of the Water Pump;
  
• Now you can fill all water bottles at once - the tech is here!
  

FIXES

• Fixed trade audio playing anywhere on the map;
  
• Fixed the error, when Staff Tower allowed only 2 workers, instead of 3;
  
• Fixed the bug when buying new animals wouldn't cost coins;
  
• Fixed town names in French and German.
  

Hello!

Today is the Dragon Boat Festival - a traditional Chinese holiday which occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar.



There are several stories tied to the origin of this event:

The ancient one says that this national holiday originated as a ritual, which will help avoid bad luck. But why the bad luck in June? You see, people believed that fifth month of the calendar is unlucky and that illness and natural disasters are more common at this time of year.

But a more commonly believed story tells us that the festival commemorates the passing of Qu Yuan, a poet and minister in the ancient state of Chu. When the emperor decided to ally with the increasingly powerful state of Qin, Qu was banished for opposing the alliance and even accused of treason. During his exile, Qu Yuan wrote a great deal of poetry. Twenty-eight years later, Qin captured Ying, the Chu capital. In despair, Qu Yuan committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo River.

It is said that the local people, who admired him, raced out in their boats to save him, or at least retrieve his body. This is said to have been the origin of dragon boat races. When his body could not be found, they dropped balls of sticky rice into the river so that the fish would eat them instead of Qu Yuan's body. This is said to be the origin of zongzi - is a traditional Chinese rice dish made of glutinous rice stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo leaves.

Photo Credit: 內灣野薑花粽 by Flickr user shenghunglin

You might be thinking "why tell you this?". Well, we kinda stumbled upon and thought that it could be really cool to try and recreate some of the historic events in Spirit of the Island later on. Would you like to see time-limited themed events in the game? Please tell us in the comments!

As for the date, sadly, we don't have boat racing or zongzi, but you can do a memorial voyage across the Archipelago with your friend to commemorate the date - it's the thought that counts after all.

Have a great weekend everyone - we are looking forward for your thoughts!

Hello!

Our most awaited update, which includes the Staff system, is now live! This time, the update will be distributed in two parts: today we are releasing Staff, some of the new content and fixes, and a bit later we'll add House Upgrades and a whole new Decoration System. Without further ado, let's proceed to the patchnotes!



NEW

• Brand new Staff System: build Staff houses and hire sellers and housekeepers by using contracts on tourists! To create contracts, you'd need to make an Office Table first. You sellers will always go to the shop that you've first built - meaning that if you made a smaller shop first, they will go there and then to the next one and so on;
  
• Added the new Finance window (accessed by pressing "Z" on the keyboard), where you can manage staff roles;
  
• Additionally, we've added brand new Rich Tourists: they look bigger and more fancy plus their pockets are full of coin!
  
• Added transparency effects to the player's model - now you can see yourself behind various objects;
  
• Red, Purple and Orange Mushrooms and also Bee Hives, Fruit Bushes and different valuable Rocks can respawn on a wider selection of islands now;
  
• New building - Silo. You need Silo to store animal food for your workers. Please note that once you add your animal feed there, you can't take it out anymore.
  

How to use Staff?
First things first: to make an office table, you'll need one star in Crafting and many electrical parts!



After this, you'd need a house for all of your future staff. This is where things get a bit tricky: to build a Simple Staff House or Staff tower, you will need three starts in crafting, $2000 and a bunch of various resources. Staff House will host 1 worker, and Staff Tower can host 2.



But if you want to make the biggest one - Fancy Staff House - get ready to work for it! You'll need to get your crafting to the max level, the same $2000 and a moderate amount of other resources. But this one can host 3 workers at once!



To manage your stuff, press "Z" to open Finance window, and then click on this button:



Here, you can manage all your current staff. You'll be able to rename them as well! To fire someone, just click on the red thumbs down button.



That's it! Pretty simple, right? Staff will add a lot of free time for your adventures, so use it wisely!

CHANGES

• Now items will drop from Shops if you break them down;
  
• Increased number of tourists who visit your island on a daily basis, but it will still depend on your player level.
  
• Pressing "F1" will now show the debug console - this is to improve our bug reporting!
  

FIXES

• Fixed a bug, where you could fish with a broken fishing rod;
  
• Fixed fruit trees changing their colors way too much at Fall;
  
• Fixed many pathfinding issues with tourists - they won't mindlessly wander away now;
  
• Fixed a bug when tourists started ignoring your shops after a certain amount of days has passed in the game;
  
• Fixed NPC chat resetting in every new season.
  
• Fixed a bug where tourists would get stuck in the shop in multiplayer, making you unable to use it;
  
• Now tea works properly and makes you feel good and refreshed, instead of making you tired;
  
• Ui icons won't glitch out now;
  
• Sailing now uses the correct amount of fuel;
  
• Fixed a bug, when your bike wasn't moving with your garage;
  
• Lots of localisation fixes;
  
• Fixed pirate collision models;
  
• Fixed wood chopping sounds.
  

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1592110/Spirit_of_the_Island/

Version v0.19.2 is now live with some new content and fixes. This month we will also have another big update soon and this week we achieved an amazing Milestone: 2000 members in our Discord community. THANK YOU!

News

• New building move mode: some buildings are now able to move, after you build it. Usually props like chairs, tables, workbench and more. To move, default key is ‘G’, press it near objects that has an Icon indicating that you can move, when you get near.
  

# Fixes

• Fixed major bug where some props were missing for new games starting from v0.19.0;
  
• Fixed remap key language texts (working with other languages now);
  
• Fixed translation texts for key remapping;
  
• Fixed combat bonus per skill not working;
  

Stay tuned.
Cheers.