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[h3]We interrupt your regularly scheduled frog hugging to ask for a favour 🐸

It’s time to cast your vote and decide which category you’d like to see Wildmender nominated for in the Steam Awards this year![/h3]

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While you’re free to choose any category you think is most suitable for Wildmender, we would love to be nominated for the Sit Back and Relax category!

The Sit Back and Relax category is for those games that you go to after a busy day, so that you can just let your worries melt away. They’re the ones you turn to when you need that moment of zen.

So why do we think Wildmender belongs in this category?

While Wildmender is a survival game, our intention was always to create a calmer, more wholesome, and more customizable survival experience, centred on cultivating and enjoying a beautiful oasis garden rather than fighting tooth-and-nail for resources. We hope that Wildmender has become a blossoming refuge of relaxation for you!

The top five nominees for each category will be revealed leading up to the Winter Sale, so keep your eyes peeled to see which category Wildmender gets nominated for and get ready to start voting all over again!

Thank you for reading our important announcement.

Now go and hug those frogs 🐸



Haven’t had the chance to play Wildmender yet?

Now’s the perfect time!

Wildmender is currently 10% off as part of the Autumn Sale, so grab your copy while you can and embrace your moment of gardening zen.



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Hi Wildmenders!
In this week’s patch update, we made good strides on fixes as well as performance improvements once again. We’ve just pushed build 201 on Steam. Looking ahead, we are entering the holiday season, so stay tuned for more events and announcements.

Now, onto the patch notes.

Changes:

• Updated the text of the “Collect Copper” tutorial step to be clearer, in English and Chinese.
  
• Increased the health of Windmills and Water Pipes:
  
• Water Pipe 30 -> 50
  
• Water Pipe Splitter 30 -> 60
  
• Windmill 150 -> 200
  

Fixes:

• Fixed several achievements not unlocking for guest players in multiplayer: “Umbrella Farmer”, “An Acquired Taste”, “Technically Known As ‘Water’”, and “Desperate Times, Desperate Measures.”
  
• Fixed some large trees and cultivars with large size modifiers, such as the Enduring Oak, not crowding each other as intended (This also fixes these plants self-seeding too close together).
  
• Fixed automatic respawn sometimes failing if the player was facing the wrong direction.
  
• Fixed “Wraith Attack Soon” warning appearing during quests that disabled wraith attacks.
  
• Fixed a case where a guest player could find the object carried on their back invisible, and be unable to put it down or pick up anything else, if the hosting player reloaded a save. This issue could have affected plants, frogs, and Ancient Worker Bee Sigils.
  
• Fixed Serpent Statue being convertible into a Crab Statue.
  
• Fixed some issues with prioritization of procedural trees (led to trees not generating when they should).
  
• Improved navigation of Spirit Darters and Frogs to reduce them getting lost or stuck inside rocks.
  
• Fixed another edge case where the Titan Crab’s claw could block major locations (Ex, the Arx Altar).
  
• Fixed lightning strike ground decals not cleaning up correctly after the strike finishes.
  
• Fixed the issue of Naia’s zone revival quest starting if the player had not yet completed the Meadow Mothers quest.
  
• Fixed a case where the Traditional Chinese language setting could prevent sending text chat.
  
• Fixed the issue of a player being unable to select other Sigils Gates on the gate map while carrying multiple acorn cultivars in controller mode.
  
• Fixed a case where a guest player could get stuck “jumping” over the Titan Crab.
  

Performance

• Improved networking of inventory items and clock time (should reduce desyncs of either).
  
• Improved memory usage over time in long play sessions, particularly as a multiplayer host.
  
• Improved performance of plant and biome simulation, particularly in large gardens.
  
• Improved performance of single-player load, especially in worlds with lots of biome modifiers (Mothers).
  
• Smoothed out simulation performance so it should create fewer noticeable framerate spikes.
  

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

Can you beelieve that the Canyons used to be a hive of activity? Where mages used to swarm? 🐝


Gleb, known as The God of the Earth, Construction and Crafts, or simply the Earth Shaper, is the ruler of the Canyons. He is a Bee, one who took great pride in his city. Mages and artists from all over the world swarmed to his Mage Retreats and some of the best work was produced under his watchful eye. He masterminded the construction of magical worker bees, who built temples. Everything was going well.


Until he was betrayed.



The mages, who once were his allies, turned on Gleb. They poisoned their homes, their lives, their city. Their leader called the Mage Retreats “a danger to society”, and they agreed. Gleb, now powerless without his priests and allies, could only watch as the Canyons were plunged into darkness.


While Gleb feels anger and resentment toward those who betrayed him, he is also wracked with feelings of guilt and remorse. Gleb sees Naia as an ally, and Stryge as a friend, although he’s not sure she’d return that affection. He’s open to helping you, he’s just not sure how to.


“They may think themselves immortal, but they are weak and foolish.”



Gleb, once saved, will gift you the Earthwright’s Chisel. This powerful tool has the ability to level and shape the very earth you’re standing on and was what allowed him to carve the canyons. Normally, someone would need to study and practise for years to master it. Unfortunately, you do not have that time.


He will also give you the ability to harvest honey through soldier and worker bees. This honey can be used to create delicious Festival Cakes, although they are a little dry, so make sure to have some water when you fancy a sweet treat.


His power, while muted, will also cleanse the poison of the Canyons in most places, leaving you free from the toxins to become a busy bee!

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Header image by Crazyoutlaw27.

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

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[h3]Desert survival is all about managing and conserving your resources 🏜️

Thankfully we'll be starting our first EVER Steam sale today, so you can conserve your cash and still enjoy an epic adventure with our 10% discount on 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 3 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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A month and a half after launch, Wildmender is better than ever! Control the flow of water from wellsprings to fine-tune your garden and manage your inventory with even greater ease thanks to recent feature updates. You'll also find performance improvements, bug fixes, and balance changes to improve the game as a whole.

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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It’s time to see if the pen is mightier than the…spade? ✍️


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This month, we’re challenging you to write a short story (or poem!) in the eyes of one of the gods of Wildmender. The content can be around the events before, during, or after Wildmender - as long as it’s from their perspective. The maximum word count is 250, but do not stress if you want to do something smaller.


The top five (yes, five!) entries will all win an exclusive Wildmender hardback notebook for all your note-taking and writing needs! Let your creativity blossom in style.





This competition will run from Monday 13th November until Thursday November 30th. To enter, send in your entry as either a Word document or a Google document in the #writing-challenge channel of the Wildmender Discord. Remember to make sure you set the link to “Anyone Can View” if you’re submitting a Google Doc, otherwise we won’t be able to access it!


Please format your submission in the following way:


Title of the submission at the top of the page (this is not included in your word count)
Your first name or alias under the title (no full names please!)
The writing piece itself below your first name or alias


We won’t look at the submissions until November 30th, so feel free to keep rewriting/editing until the deadline. We’ll announce the five lucky winners on Friday December 8th.


Best of luck and remember…


“My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed” - Walt Whitman


Terms and conditions apply.


Want to get a little inspiration before you start penning your masterpiece?


Then check out our video on the Gods of Wildmender 👇


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We’ve also started a series of deep dives on the Gods of Wildmender. You can find the first our nurturing tigress Naia here

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