Research Story News

[h3][✨v0.8 is in development and will go live in early May✨][/h3]

[h2]Greetings, Researchers![/h2]

It's been a while~ Quite a bit of things happening behind the scenes, and I wanted to make sure things were working as intended before sharing a devlog! We plan to launch this v0.8 update in early May.

[h2]Major Feature: Farm Buildings - Build, Move, Demolish[/h2]

This is a big one - letting players have the ability to build Farm Buildings from Theo's shop. This includes building, moving, and demolishing the building.



[h3]Farm Building: Dormancy Barn 💤[/h3]

We hear you - there are so many creatures to manage!

There'll be 4 new creatures this update (more below), which makes 29 total creature types in the game! We need something to help with the many creatures players will tame throughout the game.

The Dormancy Barn is a storage area for creatures, where you can keep your critters. Stored critters will not require much upkeep - the player will not need to feed them (there's already food in the barn), and their bond and happiness will remain unchanged.
Little dormant creatures with unique sprites!

[h2]New Content and QOL Features[/h2]
[h3]New Introductory Quest: Creature Traits 🐓[/h3]
A new introductory quest has been added. All players will be able to get and complete the quest (even on an old save).


[h3]4 new creatures! 🦋[/h3]
We've added 4 creatures that only appear in Year 2! One of them is a Glimmoth - look how cute!


[h3]Added 'Summit', a new unlockable area in the Peaks 🗻[/h3]
Players will be able to unlock an additional (small) part of the map, called the 'Summit'. There is a mountain spring where you can soak a little~



[h3]Creature Compendium 📖[/h3]
Players can obtain a Creature Compendium, which shows all tamed creatures and their details.



There are a few other smaller changes which I'll list in a patch note once the update is live!

Tty soon,
Miki 🤍

- Fixed Vallee getting stuck with a bugged dialogue that states 'Bug: text cannot be read from file ID: -4.' Players would need to sleep in bed for her dialogue to reset and return to normal.
- Fixed some collision boxes in the Tavern's second floor rooms.

Thank you for playing!
Miki 🤍

Fixes
- Fixed Eira's House Visit Quest still showing up in questlog even though quest has been completed.
- Fixed Suo'e not attending the Winter Festival if player hung out with him the day before.
- Fixed a crash that happens if player talks to Teagan during the Winter Festival if Suo'e did not attend.
- Fixed Hangout Events end time.

On the side, I'm still working on the next content update! The focus would be on creatures + creature management - I'll share more when ready!
- Miki 🤍

After learning that Steam cloud saves can sometimes go wrong, the game now creates local backups as well. The next time you save a file, local backups will be created in the Backups_Local folder. They can be accessed via %LOCALAPPDATA%\ResearchStory\Backups_Local. Older saves prior to this update do not have local backups.

• Added local backup files.
  

Thanks for your patience~
Miki 🤍

- Fixed crash when checking another shelf after browsing cave creature books in the Archive.

Happy researching!
Miki 🤍