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Additional items for Lost & Found Box
Occasionally, players may lose items such as quest rewards when they have a full inventory, as reward items are dropped on the ground and despawn the following day. This can affect the overall progress and experience of the player, especially if the item is not obtainable via other means.

To address that, we have added quest items that can potentially be lost in this way to the the Lost & Found box on Level 2 of the Violet Archive:
- Chest Recipe, if you've read the mail, 'Simple Storage'.
- Seed Sieve Recipe, if you've completed 'The Basics of Research' Quest

These are items that can be found in the Lost & Found box since v0.2.5:
- Town map, if you've completed the 'Meet the Researchers' Quest
- Seed Bowl Recipe, if you've completed the 'Beginnings of a Bestiary Quest'

Other changes
- Added Flame Cactus Fruit as possible answer for 'Fresh Fruit' puzzle piece.

Thanks,
Miki

- Fixed a rare bug where the 'Unidentified Fish Part' quest cannot be completed when talking to Vallee.
- Fixed an occasional bug where NPCs 'after-hangout' dialogue persists on a new day.
- Changed: For the 'Unidentified Fish Part' quest, the player no longer needs to have a Fish research scroll in their inventory to complete the quest.
- Fixed a visual bug where Vallee was moving on the spot during the 'Unidentified Fish Part' quest.

Thanks,
- Miki

- Fixed: Creatures not making produce despite having the right conditions.
- Fixed: In-game keyboard for the controller showing up when taming a new creature while using KB/M.

Sorry about the bug regarding creature produce - I made a mistake while optimising the code in our previous update. Creatures should drop their produce accordingly after this fix.

Thanks,
- Miki

This hotfix includes some optimisation for later-game saves where players have many crops and creatures on their farms. If you still face any noticeable FPS drops, do let us know and drop us your save file so we can look into it. Thank you!

General
- Fixed: Unable to use Blueberries and other crop-berries to craft Berry Bait
- Fixed "ghost" dropped item (related to Preservers) that causes "Inventory Full" notifications.
- Fixed energy bar overlapping with bag icon, by giving the bar a maximum display length (i.e. any furthur increase in base energy will not translate to a visual increase).
- Fixed creature inventory showing in cutscenes
- Fixed camera view for Hangout: Waterfall Activity for 2496x1664 resolutions.
- Fixed a collision error for a snowmound in the garden area.

Optimisation
- Some code optimisation (for crops & tamed creatures), with noticeable improvements on some later-game saves.

Controller fixes
- Fixed Fish Map in Sesame's Hut where Fishing Locations were not updating when using LS to navigate.
- Fixed being able to open animal info UI and chest simultaneously.
- Fixed item overlap with research tooltip (when hovering over magnifying glass)

Hi researchers! This update focuses on improving the inventory- and farm- management experience for players, including the addition of a few highly-requested QOL features. Here are the changes:

[h3]Inventory QOL[/h3]
- Added: Auto-sort button for both the player's inventory and chests.
- Added: Auto-add to/pull from chest buttons.
- Get coloured chests using a Paintbrush.

[h3]Pigments & Paints[/h3]
- Added Pigments and Paintbrushes for 18 colours.
- Paintbrushes are a new type of item that has durability. It's currently the only item in game with durability.
- Added Mixer (Crafting Station) for making pigments.
- Ming will start selling the related recipes and items from 14 Spring onwards at his Marketplace shop.
- Items labelled 'Dye material' can be used with the Mixer to make pigments.
- More customisation: Paintbrushes can be used on Chests, Fences, and Troughs.
Coloured chests, fences and troughs

[h3]Lost & Found box[/h3]
- Added a Lost & Found box at Level 2 of the Violet Archive that stores progression-related items that are lost. Retrieve the following from the box if you haven't received them:

• Town map, if you've completed the Meet the Researchers Quest
  
• Seed Bowl Recipe, if you've completed the Beginnings of a Bestiary Quest
  

Lost & Found Box

[h3]Additional Decor[/h3]
- 3 more Garden Planter variants in Yan Yan's shop.
- 3 more paintings in Ming's shop (unlocked with seasons).

[h3]Other changes, improvements, and fixes[/h3]
- [Controller] Improved detection consistency of some objects, such as chests.
- Fixed: When chest is open, the tooltip for the last row of inventory overlaps with items.
- Fixed: Dung Beetle perk procs on soil that already has the correct fertiliser.
- Moved one of the town's benches slightly to the left, to make decorating more symmetrical.

[h3]📝What's next[/h3]
Hope you enjoy these changes! I can't wait to see how players decorate their farms.

We'll continue to fix bugs, and also start working on our first major content update (v0.3). I'll share more details when they're ready, but the v0.3 update will be all about automation, such as adding sprinklers (finally!), and more cool things. Stay tuned! And if you have any ideas, we're always happy to hear from you!

- Miki