Wildmender News

“The cold never bothered me anyway.”

And we want to make sure the cold never bothers YOU either. What better way to warm up than with a wearable Wildmender blanket and other Wildmender goodies - with multiple ways to win!


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1599330/Wildmender/


Please Note: Due to shipping costs, both of these giveaways are only open to residents of North America and Europe (excluding Russia and Ukarine).





[h3]Winter Garden Challenge ☃️[/h3]

Unlike our previous competitions, there are three enterable categories! Everyone can enter each category once, but you can only win in one. You can use the same garden/save file for all three entries.

Each category will have a winner, who will receive a Wildmender wearable blanket, a Wildmender notebook, and a Wildmender mug - perfect for a relaxing evening by the fire. This competition runs from Friday, December 22nd to Friday, January 12th.


Winter Wonderland – Submit a screenshot of your Winter Wonderland Garden. The criteria here is that your Garden needs to be predominantly blue, white, and red - the colours of the holidays - and have a magical feel!

Season's Greetings – In this category, you’ll need to submit an edited Seasons Greetings style postcard using a screenshot of your garden. The most beautiful postcard wins!

Holly Jolly Wildmas – You can use any screenshot from Wildmender (doesn’t have to be your garden), spruce it up in a photo editor, and make it as jolly as possible! All entries need to be edited to some degree and link to a seasonal winter theme. The funniest image wins!


*Terms and conditions apply. However, the eligibility for the Competition is only for those who are 18 years and above of age as of the date of entry. To enter the Competition you must be a resident of North America and Europe (excluding Russia and Ukraine). This Competition is not open to all residents Worldwide. We may ask you to submit proof of your eligibility to the Competition. The Competition is void where prohibited by law. Employees, independent contractors, interns, officers, directors, and agents of Kwalee Ltd. (the “Sponsor“) their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, suppliers and their immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of each are not eligible to participate in the Competition. The Competition is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

[h3]Winter Giveaway✨- THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED[/h3]

For this giveaway, all you need to do is complete one or more entry methods via GLEAM. Three winners will be randomly selected and receive a Wildmender wearable blanket and a copy of Wildmender. This will run from Friday, December 22nd to Friday, January 5th.

Follow this link to see the multiple different entry methods. The more entries you complete, the higher your chances are of winning!



[h3]Good luck![/h3]




Garden (and cover image) by Jorrrrn.


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[h3]It’s the season to wrap up warm and be cozy around the fireplace 🔥

And what better way to celebrate than with a massive 20% off Wildmender![/h3]

Wildmender is a survival gardening game about bringing a deserted world back to life.

Explore the vast desert, alone or with up to three friends in online multiplayer. Collect plants and bring them back to your garden to thrive. Craft new tools and use them to shape the earth, and channel water to your plants. Delve into the mysteries of a fallen civilization and discover their magic. Befriend animals, spirits, and seek out the gods to help you defend the land from the vicious wraiths who seek to corrupt it.

It’s up to you to save the world, one seed at a time.


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As 2023 comes to a close, there is no better time to jump into Wildmender! Performance improvements, bug fixes, and balance changes based on community feedback have all been added to improve the experience, allowing you to sit back and relax.

Want to get an idea of the possibilities that await you in the wonderful world of Wildmender?

Then check out our accolades trailer, which was made using gardens that were built by our incredible community members 👇

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Don't forget to join our Discord server to take part in our creative writing competition, which launched today!

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Hi Wildmenders!

In today’s update we’ve continued to fix more bugs, including some long-standing issues affecting your most impressive irrigation projects. The build today is available on Steam, while the corresponding console update may take some additional time to be released. If you’re cross-playing with friends between PC and Consoles, please see the instructions below on how to keep playing together on the previous version.

Thank you again for all the beautiful gardens you’ve created and shared. We look forward to seeing still more of them in the new year, and we have more fixes, improvements, and features coming for you to look forward to as well.

Now, onto the patch notes!

Build 202

Features & Changes

• Added support for text entry using Steam’s onscreen keyboard on the Steam Deck
  
• Changed how water and pipes are simulated when far from the player. Distant water will now update much more frequently (though still not quite as often as when the player is close), which should greatly reduce cases of channels and ponds drying up in your absence.
  
• Increased the respawn chances of mineral heaps and Canyons market stalls after a storm (respawn at these locations should now be guaranteed unless you have reduced the drop rate in difficulty settings)
  
• If the Wraith Attack Frequency difficulty setting is set to 0, roaming wraiths will no longer spawn in the Canyons
  
• Reduced the biome weight applied by restored Mystical Springs, allowing biome Mothers to be placed nearer to them and have an effect
  
• When placing an object or plant and looking away from the ground, the game will now place it at the placement range limit instead of showing a confusing message (such as “can’t plant in soil”)
  
• Adjusted a number of UI elements to better support non-English languages without overflowing text. Notably, the inventory UI is slightly wider now.
  

Fixes

• Fix to quest pinning that will prioritize the individual gear quests over the main canyons quest, and individual Arx temple quests over the main Arx quest.
  
• Fixed getting stuck in the Gleb temple door when entering the temple.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed stacks of items to be duplicated
  
• Fixed a ghost quest (“Beloved Flowers”) granting Spiritual memories instead of Survival memories
  
• Fixed a number of cases where critters (the Pangolin or Frogs) could get stuck in inaccessible locations, or inside each other
  
• Fixed a graphical bug where bodies of water would show visible “cracks” between sections of mesh
  
• Fixed a graphical bug where fertilizer spread on Arable soil would have blocky edges
  
• Fixed several issues with plants in planters disappearing, either when planted or upon reloading the save
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause the background tree generation queue to get stuck, causing plants to stop loading as the player traveled
  
• Fixed a Titan Crab animation desync between host and client that could cause client players to get stuck in the air
  

Optimizations

• Improved overall memory usage
  
• Reduced small hitches when opening major UI pages
  
• Small performance improvements to tree loading and general culling
  

Consoles & Crossplay
Unfortunately some of the fixes we’ve made in Build 202 have made this version incompatible in multiplayer with the version currently available on consoles. If you want to continue playing with friends on consoles, you can switch to the ‘crossplay’ Steam beta to continue playing on the previous version.

In your Steam library right click on Wildmender, go to Properties, find the Betas tab, select the Beta Participation dropdown and select “crossplay - For compatibility with current console builds”

Once this patch goes live on consoles, you can switch back to “None” on the betas tab, and get playing on the latest version.


Thank you all for all your support and stay tuned for more updates!

From life-giving water and fertile earth, we move to a goddess whose power is a little more...destructive. ⚡


Stryge is the Goddess of Storms, Sky, and Magic. She’s an Eagle that rules the Salt Flats. While she has quite the temper, get on the destructive deity’s good side and she will bless you with the knowledge of her power.


She rewards the ambitious and does not mind flaunting her power over the weather. She could bless the rains or conjure a wicked lightning storm at her will. Alas, abusing her gifts or deceiving her only amplifies her already rather fickle attitude to everyone around.

“Here to misuse what’s left of my power?”



The Salt Flats used to be a prosperous place - the three lighthouses became beacons of hope and knowledge for adventuring mages. Stryge often had a soft spot for plants, such as the Moon Glory flowers that blossomed in Gleb’s Canyons. The local Witchwood trees were tended to by the Mages, much to her delight. The Mages in turn benefited from this arrangement, since the Salt Flats yielded precious pearls that local water often created.

“The wraiths took everything in this world in the hope of eternal life. Let them suffer in the world they’ve made.”



Free Stryge from her wraith prison and she’ll grant you the power of the wind through the Cloak of Winds. Initially, it’ll allow you to glide through the air (consuming your mana as you do so) but, if you continue to be brave, you may impress her enough to upgrade it. She may even find you talon-ted!


She will also allow you a small amount of her “shocking” power if you bring her a dry feather from one of the surviving birds. Throw this feather to unleash a concentrated lighting bolt and a gust of wind- good for clearing wraiths and their murky corruption. The further away you throw, the more powerful the wind will be!

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Header image by Crazyoutlaw27.

Want to know about the other gods? See our deep dives on Naia and Gleb!

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We’ve found a strange card in the sand. It’s of… Naia? Hold on, there’s another one! That’s Stryge. This can mean only one thing…


Wildmender Steam trading cards are now available!





Alongside trading cards, you can collect badges, profile backgrounds, and custom emoticons. They’re all based on the gods, companions, and world of Wildmender, and look pretty fancy if we do say so ourselves.


The best part? You only need to play Wildmender to receive them! Can you collect them all?


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1599330/Wildmender/


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