Moonstone Island News

Welcome, Alchemists!

Did you see?? We're having a major sale on Moonstone Island, our DLC, Soundtrack, and Art Book right here on Steam until the 22nd!

• Moonstone Island - 25% off
  
• Delightful Little Comforts DLC - 35% off
  
• Eerie Items DLC - 35% off
  
• Artbook - 25% off
  
• Soundtrack - 25% off
  
• December's Lovely Cozies DLC - 35% off
  
• Designed for Lovers DLC - 20% off
  

We also just dropped a brand new, love-themed DLC called Designed for Lovers! Let’s get into what you get for just USD - 3.99 USD/18.00 CNY/3,99 EU/3.39 GBP:

• Box of Chocolates
  
• Heart Archway
  
• Love Lamp
  
• Heart Rug
  
• Loveseat
  
• Heart House
  

Here's all the new furniture that comes FREE in the recent Valentine’s update, which also allows you to MARRY the partner of your choosing:

• Flower Petals
  
• Heart Bed
  
• Heart Tub
  
• Villager Portraits
  
• Heart Window
  
• Champagne
  
• Lava Lamp
  
• Item Frame
  
• Red Bouquet
  
• Blue Bouquet
  
• White Chair
  
• Runner Rug
  
• Street Lamp
  
• Lovebird House
  

Grab items to your heart's content and have a LOVELY, LOVE-FILLED WEEK!

~ Studio Supersoft

IT'S HERE, ALCHEMISTS!

Well, to be accurate, several things are here.

Number One: Valentine's Day!

Number two: Our new Valentine's-themed DLC, which is full of things shaped like hearts, is live and available to buy right now.

Number three: Our latest update, which is also live, brings a ton of love-themed things, like new furniture, new Villager dialogue, and the most Valentiney thing of all: being able to marry your favorite person in Moonstone Island!

Let's talk about the things that you'll be getting in this FREE Valentine's Update!

• Marriage! You can now marry your sweetie with the new Moonstone Ring. Propose to them and see what they say!
  
• Wedding ceremony! You and your boo will get to have an intimate, cozy ceremony on the Moonstone Island cliffs, overlooking the skies. There's new dialogue here too!
  
• Wedding outfits! Choose from three wedding outfits to suit your style!
  
• Move in together! Once you're married, your spouse will move in with you. This also means new dialogue and new animations, which are custom to each character :)
  
• New Spirits! Largely themed around the Electric type (because, uh, love is... electric), these new Spirits include a robot dog, a toaster mouse, and a stinky sock!
  
• New Dark fish! Woo!
  
• New achievements! Double woo!
  
• Transparent pixels on the loom!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TRIPLE WOOOOO
  

There are a lot of cool, smaller changes that we'll be highlighting in patch notes later this week, too!

DLC
We also have a new DLC: the "Designed for Lovers" Collection! It comes with five romance-themed items and a new house:

• Box of Chocolates
  
• Heart Archway
  
• Love Lamp
  
• Heart Rug
  
• Loveseat
  
• AND a Heart-Shaped House Exterior
  

Here's all the new furniture that comes FREE in the Valentine’s update:

• Flower Petals
  
• Heart Bed
  
• Heart Tub
  
• Villager Portraits (put a pic of your beloved in the frame!)
  
• Heart Window
  
• Champagne
  
• Lava Lamp (it's animated!)
  
• Red Bouquet
  
• Blue Bouquet
  
• White Chair
  
• Runner Rug
  
• Street Lamp
  
• Lovebird House Exterior
  

The DLC will cost 3.39 GBP / 3.99 USD / 3.99 EUR and releases the same day as the update! There will be a 20% launch discount too!

That's all for this post, my loves, so I hope you enjoy this new update and pleeeease show us the things you make with the transparent pixels on the loom. You have no idea how excited I am to see what everyone does with them!

– Kate, Community Manager, and Your Valentine

Hello, Adorable Alchemists!

The winter is here, the new year has come, and it's almost time for everyone's second favorite holiday about buying things, eating rich foods, and trying to impress all the cuties in your life: Valentine's Day!!!!

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Speaking of cuties, just take a look inside this heart-shaped box right here, and you'll find a few tokens of our love coming to you on February 13th...

💝 LOVE TOKEN #1

It wouldn't be a Valentine's update without being able to show your undying devotion to the person who means the most to you. In the game, I mean.

💖💖💖 THAT'S RIGHT MOONSTONE ISLAND WILL HAVE MARRIAGE 💖💖💖

Moonstone Island has jumped on the new trend of "getting married", and that means you'll now be able to propose to your partner, hold a wedding ceremony (with cute outfits and a range of options for you to wear), have a reception with friends and family, and then your spouse will even move into your house!



We've written lots of new dialogue and made new animations for your spouse!!!! This is something we've been dreaming of doing for aaaaages, and we’re super excited about the new NPC content :D

💝 LOVE TOKEN #2

It's DLC!!! And this time, it's themed around the most romantic time of year, as dictated by greeting cards companies.

Our Valentine's DLC will allow you to go ALL IN on the heart-shaped theme, with a heart rug, a heart house skin for your house, a heart box of chocolates, a heart archway (or "heartchway") and a heart lamp, as well as a loveseat. It's not shaped like a heart, but it has "love" in the name!

The DLC, which launches on February 13th, will cost $3.99 with a 20% launch discount. 💖



💝 LOVE TOKEN #3

A new update is here, and much like love, it don't cost a thing! As with all our big updates, this one contains a LOT of stuff that will improve the life of the game, as well as your enjoyment and fun-having time.

Some highlights:

• Five new Spirits!
  
• An updated taming system
  
• Magic Man attends festivals now
  
• A new home exterior skin - An adorable Bird House!
  
• Lots of new items
  
• ...and moooooore????
  

I'll be telling you the details about all those free items soon 🎁👀

💝 LOVE TOKEN #4

I can't tell you what this one is yet, but I can tease the heck out of it, right?

We've got a collab in the works. It's a REALLY good one.

That's all.


See you next time for more deets!!!

– Kate, Community Manager and lover of love

I am usually so good at knowing what newsletter number we are on, but it's been a while since the last newsletter, and over the Christmas break, I forgot how to count, so... Welcome back! How's it going? How was your Christmas/New Year/non-denominational winter holidays? Or summer holidays, if you're in the Southern Hemisphere? You know, I've actually never been south of the equator. Maybe I should make that my new year's resolution!

Our break was great, and we're already working on some COOL STUFF FOR SOON TIMES. Can't tell you about it yet, but maybe I'll give a little hint: I had to write a lot of new stuff! It's the first time I've done a significant amount of non-item-description writing since the game released!!!!! How exciting.
New Year, New Meeeee!!

I wanted to do a little retrospective of 2023, because I saw other games studios doing it, and it looked cool. So! Let's go! 2023 retrospective!!!

• Sandy and Kate (the lead dev and the writer, AKA me) met for the first time at GDC, and we got to show off the game as part of The Mix
  
• I wrote about 100,000 words of dialogue and we sent it to localisation ON TIME 😎
  
• We had a demo in the Steam Next Fest
  
• We announced our release date
  
• We ran multiple closed betas to make the game really really good
  
• We released Moonstone Island on September 20th (how has it only been 4 months what)
  
• We got Steam Deck Verified ✅
  
• We announced the Switch version (coming Spring 2024!) at Nintendo's Indie World in December
  
• We released three DLC packs (Decor, Halloween, and Winter)
  
• We did 12 big patches that added tons of content, too
  
• We hit 50k Twitter followers which honestly feels less cool now that Twitter is in the toilet but STILL
  
• Our Discord hit 4,000 members
  
• We met all of youuuuuuu
  

I can't believe we got so much great fan art in the last few weeks! I honestly expected it to get real quiet on the fan art front, but no! There's so much!!!

Okay, admittedly, this first one is not technically fan art. It's commissioned emotes, made by Briggyea for Eylime's Twitch and Discord, themed around YOURS TRULY. Look how cute these are! There's a chad Fishbo, a sus Ribbite, and a "This Is Fine" Bonfire! Amazing work, 10/10.



And you know what else we love to see? People's OC Spirit designs! Seriously, it's probably the cutest fan art we get to see, and we wish we could make them all real! This lil guy is by TenaciousTurnip, and he's an ice Spirit that lives in a stocking. I want to eat him.







*contented purr* Meow.
(Mr Morris had a great break, thank you for asking. But now, it's back to CEO duties for this sleepy kitty.)

And that's all for this week! Welcome back, and happy 2024!

– Kate, Community Manager and Writer of Many Secret New Words