Horticular News

Additions

• Help text added to the crash reporter if a crash seems to be caused by audio issues.
  

Changes

• Corbett now gains nectar faster on easy difficulty and even more so in peaceful mode.
  
• Fruit drops are much more common now but have smaller yields so there's no risk for going extreme amounts of time before getting one.
  
• Hortic day love numbers don't round up anymore.
  
• Creature pre-sickness effect now shows up later.
  
• Barrier spell no longer affects habitats (unless you make it fully untraversable).
  
• Plantain Lily renamed to Hosta to minimize the risk of accidentally thinking it's the water lily.
  

Fixes

• Fixed issue making flyers, especially the owl, look ridiculous but also hilarious.
  
• Buffoon quest would get reset on loading a game with the quest active, resulting in multiple buffoons but only one that would finish the quest.
  
• Animals couldn't make use of shelter if it was placed on top of something, including moss or leaves.
  
• German text for Plantain Lily didn't have the same name in the item as in the quest description.
  
• Archived mail was retroactively updated when read in the mail archive.
  

Modding

• Auto surface unlock constant added.
  

To mark off the end of the launch week, this patch, while minor, contains quite a few fixes bundled with some QoL goodies.

Added

• Copy from the Spade and Placer tools has made its way to the Habitat tool. It lets you quickly track the species of the hovered habitat center.
  

Changes

• When tracking a new species, the habitat marker is now reset automatically.
  
• English (other languages localized at a later date) text for the Twitch channel setting now has a hint that it's the name and not URL that is needed.
  
• Added English (other languages localized at a later date) interactability hint to signpost.
  

Fixes

• Sometimes upgrade costs were slightly off when you had the upgrade to reduce allocated animal energy.
  
• Dance Ritual quest wasn't completable with stacked items.
  
• Some menus could end up in an uncloseable state if pressing the hotkey quickly enough after closing it.
  
• Currently dug tiles look strange in the main menu.
  
• Hortic Day showed the wrong value for Layout. It actually used an internal value and didn't correspond to the one you would see in the game details UI.
  
• Piranha was misspelled.
  

Modding

• Add support for setting a surface tag as forbidden.
  

Added

• Crash reporter now gives hint text if the problem seems to be an outdated graphics driver.
  

Fixes

• Fixed rare crash when using the signpost.
  
• Fixed issue with initial Mercury portrait.
  
• Fixed issue with Spender medal being way too hard to max out.
  

Added:

• Button to disable Games by Friends from the main menu without having to enter the settings.
  

Fixed:

• Tutorials had errors when using French.
  
• Some characters not showing in the letters when using French.