Moonstone Island News

Happy Autumn, Alchemists!

September is nearly over, and that means it's almost Scary Month™️, but there's nothing scary about the FREE UPDATE we're launching today! Well, that might not be true. Those of a delicate disposition may find some of our new Spirits a bit creepy, depending on how you feel about things like disembodied hands (oooh) and dogs (aaaah). We cannot be held responsible for any heart attacks you receive from playing Moonstone Island. I think.

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Let's take a look at all the tasty new content we're adding today:

• 4 new spirits - These new babies are Psychic, Dark, Electric, and Ice type
  
• 3 new seasonal events - The Spirit Spring Festival, the Lunar Festival, and a Cooking Festival
  
• New “Community Chest” in Rowan’s shop - You can find free stuff and gifts in here!
  
• New “token of affection” item - A reward from the festivals that gives you relationship points with an NPC of your choosing
  
• New spirit barn exteriors - For the first time EVER!
  
• Updated furniture placement system to allow items to sit more snugly against walls - Because it's annoying when decor looks all weirdy
  
• New NPC dialogue - Many words, much like these ones, all written by ME
  
• New decorations - See below!
  

Why be vague when we can tell you all about the new decor? Let's do that! Here's what comes with the free update:

• Farm-Style Spirit Barn Exterior
  
• Spirit Barn Portal
  
• Full Moon Statue
  
• Ancient Spirit Statue
  
• Fireworks Rug
  
• Food Festival Trophy
  
• Pile of Leaves
  
• Mushroom Stool
  
• Mushroom Table
  

There is also our Autumnal Accessories DLC, which costs $3.99 (with a 10% launch discount for the first week) and it comes with:

• Mushroom Spirit Barn
  
• Autumnal Archway
  
• Electricone Rug
  
• Leaf Stool
  
• Ghostshroom lamp
  
• Ghostshroom Rug
  

And that's it for our big autumnal bonanza! Go carve the pumpkin! Eat a cinnamon! Dress up as ghost! And, above all, a genuinely huge thank you for supporting us for this past year. It's been real cool, and that's largely due to all of y'all. 💕

– Kate, Community Manager and occasional enjoyer of an autumnal hot chocolate

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Get out the birthday candles, because Moonstone Island is ONE YEAR OLD! Well, I guess that's just a singular birthday candle, but still. It's been a whole year since our launch, and we can hardly believe it – we've had so much happen in those last 12 months. So many updates and DLCs! So much love and fanart from the community! So many new Spirits, items, cards, and things to do! And, of course, SOOOO MANY BUG FIXES.

In celebration of our anniversabirthday, we're releasing an even bigger update than normal on September 30th:

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🌟🌟🌟 THE FESTIVALS UPDATE! 🌟🌟🌟

You've been asking for events, and you're getting them! This free update will add new seasonal festivals, new dialog, new Spirits, and maybe even a new character to meet.

But that's not all! We're also doing our last paid DLC of 2024:

🍂🍂🍂 Autumnal Accessories DLC! 🍂🍂🍂

As you can probably guess, Autumn Accessories are all about the colors of fall. It comes with lots of decor to make your place look as autumnal as possible, which will go nicely with last year's Halloween decor, or even the Christmastime turkey (you can pretend it's Thanksgiving)!

We'll have more details to share later, so make sure you're on our Discord and our newsletter. All the best jokes are in there. All the worst jokes are here on Steam, obviously.

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– Kate, community manager, and Chief Anniversabirthday Celebrator

If my calculations are correct (they probably aren't), then this is our 20th patch notes! Wow. We're almost old enough to drink in the US. Or something.

Anyway, just two things today:

• The invisible Spirits bug has been fixed! Make sure to update your game, and your Spirits will go from being nonexistent to being very, very existent. Yay!!!
  
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• Ossono's Dish of the Day, as well as the wine and beer from the Tavern, weren't actually having any effect on stamina. This prevented people from getting the "She Did Warn You" achievement. But it's fixed now, which means you can eat all the terrible food you want! I hope you all pass out! Yay!!!
  

Alrighty, that's it. See ya for patch 21!

– Kate, community manager who is extremely legally allowed to drink

Hello, friends! Good news: I just got wisdom tooth surgery! Wait, no, that's not the good news. The good news is they let me keep my teeth! And I put them under my pillow, just in case, and instead of money, the tooth fairy left me some patch notes! Isn't that weird?

• Best patch first: The Spirit Barn lag should be fixed now! We optimised some stuff, so it should run nice and smooth now
  
• Chests no longer wiggle! I'm kinda sad about this one because it was super cute
  
• Fixed a little cheat where you could use the keyboard and mouse to select one item in a shop with the mouse, and pay for a separate one using the keyboard, but it would use the price of the keyboard one. That's a thing called stealing and we won't stand for it!
  
• Fixed the text for Comfy Chair and Bulletin Board (the materials text was getting cut off)
  
• Fixed the Spanish translation of "Spirit Research: Intro to Egg"
  
• Giving Magic Man mirror shards outside his hut used to result in him putting them in his pocket and forgetting about them. He now remembers to actually put them in the mirror
  
• You can now use the Spirit Storage machine from within the Spirit Barn, so you can bring out new Spirits whenever you want. And it won't lag! Because we fixed that!!!
  
• The balloon was flying WAY too fast in the dungeons. We fixed it. Apologies, speedrunners
  
• Optimised the end of day process to reduce lag – you can now go to sleep much faster! Someone put this fix in real life pls
  
• Fixed a bug where characters would remain semi-transparent if the player left the building before they fully materialised. Ferra is not supposed to be a ghost
  

Thanks, tooth fairy!

– Kate, community manager who actually genuinely had wisdom tooth surgery, that part was true

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to the first episode of Patch Notes Kitchen, with me, Kate – I mean, Moonstonio McChefhat, famous TV cooking guy!

Today we're making a tasty three-course meal: a Bugfixes Soufflé, followed by a hearty Marinated Content Steak served with Baby New Spirits, and for dessert, DLC! Which stands for Delicious Layer Cake, obviously.

The first step in this recipe is to add the following to your game:

[h2]New Content[/h2]

• The ability to COOK!
  
• New crafting stations (prep table, stove, recipe book)
  
• Dozens of meals with unique effects
  
• New cooking questline (given by Ossono on Spring 16 or a few days after updating for in-progress games)
  
• New LORE
  
• New cooking-themed decorations
  
• Four new spirits: Eleplant (water), Jelbell (psychic), Grampus (ice), and Fangface (dark)
  
• New NPC likes/dislikes (spoiler: they're all meals)
  

Now that the Content Steak is in the oven, prepare your Bugfixes Soufflé! Here are some notes on how to make it:

[h2]Bugfixes[/h2]

• Did you use a broom/fishing rod/warp whistle near a shrine or a warpstone, and accidentally activate it instead of using the item? Not any more! We fixed it
  
• Used the correct font for the "purchased" text in other languages
  
• You can no longer feed Spirits old boots. Also, don't do that! Ew!
  
• Increased the size of the white circle shown when activating the Ando tree, because you cool dudes with ultra-wide monitors weren't getting the full effect
  
• Magic Man's house was appearing underneath the swimming pool. He's mysterious and strange, but not THAT mysterious and strange, so we changed that
  
• You can no longer feed Spirits multiple stat reset potions to cause them to gain points somehow. I'm continually impressed by all these cheats but we must fix them, sorry
  
• You can no longer feed fish to Spirits in battles. Apparently Fishbo assumed it was a mean intimidation tactic and he got really upset
  
• Tobin bought some glow-in-the-dark paint online, and now the fishing bobber lights up at night for easier fishing
  
• Restored Magic Man's missing dialogues – he's meant to say stuff after you pick up the temple seals!
  
• You can no longer steal Zed's museum of Spirit resources. CONGRATULATIONS, YOU INVENTED STEALING ON A PEACEFUL ISLAND. You monsters.
  
• You can't place furniture in other people's houses and workplaces any more. I mean, I know Quill's taste in decor is very "guy who owns a single armchair and a PlayStation 5", but he has to learn that on his own, k?
  

And finally, the Delicious Layer Cake, also known as the Chef's Kiss DLC, is live today. It's a paid DLC, but it's decor only!

As a reminder of what it includes:

• Bakery House Skin
  
• Donut Rug
  
• Cloche
  
• Pot Rack
  
• Marble Counter
  
• Marble Counter with Sink
  

Aaaand that's everything! All of these bugfixes + more will also be coming to the Switch today, as well as the Pool Party DLC and Russian language options, so if you're also playing on the Nintendo RectangleTM, then it should run a lot more smoothly now.

As always, you're the best. Mwah.

– Kate, community manager and owner of a chef's blowtorch 🔥