Research Story News

- Fixed a crash that happens to players with larger resolutions when hanging out with Rhea in the woods.
- Fixed a crash that could happen the day after you crafted something in a Preserver.
- Fixed waking up in the void if bed was removed before fainting.
- Fixed players getting stuck in the Spinning Wheel.
- Fixed occasional duplicates in journal entries.
- Fixed being unable to complete 'The Basics of Research II' quest when talking to Vallee.
- Fixed: One of Crayfish's spawn locations is not displayed in journal.
- Fixed watermelon description text error.
- Fixed an occasional crash after a completing a darts mini-game with an NPC.
- Fixed a bug/exploit where you can get artifacts before completing puzzles.
- Fixed being able to submit Job Board timed quests after the deadline.

Fixes
- Fixed: Suo'e getting stuck on "late" dialogue if you start a hangout late with him.
- Fixed a crash that happens after going on a date with Vallee in the Tavern.
- All wild plants should now drop at least 1 seed after observation is complete.
- Fixed players getting stuck on a stalagmite to the south of the first cave.
- Attempt to fix a rare bug that causes disappearing placeables (affects Crafting Stations).

Changes
- Added diet options for Sproutkitten and Boar.

Due to Summer not having a Vegetable-type crop implemented yet, we're making these changes to facilitate gameplay.
- Some crops such as corn can now be used to craft Vegetable Bowls and Veggie Bait.
- Some crops such as corn now fulfils the Veggie-lover trait.

- Fixed: Rare crash that could happen when entering a farm with crops present.
- Fixed: Getting quest rewards multiple times for the same quest.
- Fixed: Crashes related to planting seeds and loading save files on farm.
- Fixed a crash that happens when using fertiliser on tilled ground.
- Fixed a bug for players with 3440x1440 resolutions that leads to inaccessible Violet Archive shelf UI.

- Fixed: Some crops could not be harvested after loading a game.
- Fixed: Duplicated fishing rod.

[h2]Greetings Researchers![/h2]

[h3]✨ Research Story is out now in Early Access! ✨[/h3]
Start your journey in the town of Shimmerbrook! Do research by observing and recording plants, creatures and fish. Grow crops, tame creatures, and build your dream farm! Meet various townsfolk and bring them out on dates. Explore deep into the mines. Uncover mysteries and learn the story behind the development of Shimmerbrook!
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[h3]🌳 Building Research Story with the community[/h3]
As mentioned before, we're looking forward to building Research Story with the community during Early Access. Since we started sharing our game, community feedback has been instrumental in making the game what it is today - and we plan to continue engaging our players! We'll be reading the feedback wherever we can - such as on Steam forums and in our Discord server. If you'd like to be even closer to our development journey, we'd be happy to see you in our Discord server! 👋



[h3]📜 Early Access Roadmap[/h3]

While most of the core features of RS are in place, we have major upcoming features and content you can look forward to as outlined in our Roadmap below! On top of the larger updates, the game will continue to receive regular patches and smaller updates.

The Roadmap may be adjusted based on community feedback, and the order of the updates may shift, but the key features listed will be included in the game before its full release.

And as always, thank you so much for supporting us on this journey and we’re excited to start this next chapter with you!

The Roadmap outlines the major updates planned for Research Story during the Early Access period.

- Miki