Havendock News

[h2]Hey, Settlers![/h2]

Havendock is launching into 1.0 in just 5 days 🎉
Here’s a little update with everything you might want to know ahead of release.

[h3]🕒 Release Time[/h3]
The full version of Havendock sets sail on April 22, 2025 at:
6 a.m. PST (US West)
9 a.m. EST (US East)
1 p.m. UTC
3 p.m. CEST (Europe)
9 p.m. CST (China)
11 p.m. AEST (Australia)

[h3]💵 Pricing[/h3]
The base price will stay at 19.99 USD / 19.50 EUR / 68 CNY (or the equivalent in your local currency), and to celebrate the launch, we’ll be offering a 25% launch discount for the first two weeks.

[h3]🚀 The 1.0 Update & Beyond[/h3]
With the 1.0 update, you’ll reach a meaningful moment at the end of your journey, and from there, you’ll face two very different paths to shape your destiny.
But this isn’t the end, not even close! There's more on the horizon for Havendock, and we’ll be sharing what’s next on release day.

[h3]🎨 New Key Art[/h3]
And finally, to mark this milestone, we’ve put together brand new key art that reflects how far Havendock has come throughout Early Access. And if you look closely… it may even hint at what’s still to come 👀

Thank you for all the support, ideas, feedback, and love you’ve shown over the past two years! We're all very excited to share this next chapter with you, and hope Havendock continues to be a cozy, creative place you enjoy returning to 💙

See you on launch day 🌊

— Alex, Project Lead @ Pretty Soon 🦆

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Improvements and fixes:
Fix sleeping bar and some tooltips mentioning Rocks instead of House
Fix being unable to enter cave after first entry
Fix 'not enough ingredients' text spam when you stop drinking from the fountain
Fix character panel text overflow and center aligned overdrive text
Fix settler priority overview panel description overlapping title of panel
Fix unable to toggle inventory via shortcut key while in the cave
Improve talk to settler dialogs

Localization:
Fix settler panel overflowing texts on certain languages
Fix Recherche text overflow in Guidebook panel
Fix farm seed UI hover tooltip research texts not translated
Fix Hope not being translated for tooltip on Hope Bar in Civilization Panel
Fix settler overdire text not translating Yes/No text
Fix Research notification tooltip not translated
Fix "Lv" text not translated
Fix settler priority overview panel copy button text overflow on some languages
Fix Research Panel help button tooltip not translated
Fix pier button text overflow on certain languages

Hey all,

This is the final content update before 1.0 goes live on Apr 22 2025! (Refer to previous announcement on 1.0)

[h2]New Journal Entries[/h2]



Havendock's storyline expands in the 1.0 update. This update makes the final preparations necessary to wrap it up. Since Early Access, the journal unlocks pieces of lore unlock as you explore the world. In this update, 11 new journal entries have been added - but the final 5 will only be revealed from a new island in the 1.0 update.

[h2]New Ranch research[/h2]



Ranch now unlocks by a research. When it was unlocked from the beginning, it caused confusion as you could never use the eggs from ranching until much later when the incubator is unlocked. Thus, they are now put as a research behind the incubator.



[h2]New epic ending[/h2]

Only on the experimental branch: When you reach the final stage of the game, you'll now be faced with two choices that shape your destiny. Each one leads to a different ending. A new ending and a new resource have been added to mark the final closure of your journey.

I would show an exciting picture here but it would be spoiler content.

This will be available on the default branch in 1.0.

[h2]Changelog[/h2]
Content:

Hey all,

I'm super excited to finally share that Havendock will be launching into Version 1.0 on April 22, 2025!

It’s a poetic date as it is nearly identical to April 20, 2023, the date Havendock first set sail in Early Access.

When I go to bed every night after a whole day of programming, I find myself reflecting on the past-sometimes more than I’d like to admit. I ask myself so many times if I should have done certain things differently. I could never have predicted the challenges and lessons along the way, but what I also did not predict, was how awesome you guys are.

The occasional encouragement from you all kept me going. I try to respond when I can, but even if I don't, I do read them. I know I might not have been able to please everyone in every way, but I've done my best and will continue to do so. I'm incredibly grateful to those of you who have stuck with me through it all.

I came here to make games. Havendock may be my first, but it isn’t my last. No matter what comes next, Havendock will always hold a special place in my heart.

But enough rambling - I’m thrilled to share a brand new trailer we’ve put together, and I hope you enjoy the final version of the game when it launches!

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

As the trailer says, 1.0 isn't the end. Ideas that couldn't fit into 1.0 will be released as updates after 1.0 is stable. Thank you for being part of this epic journey with me.

— YYZ

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Hey all,

I’m happy to share that Cloud Save is now working! 🎉 No more worrying about losing your progress, your saves will now be backed up automatically.

Right now, Cloud Save is only available for Windows. If you run into any issues or something isn’t working as expected, please let me know!

It took a bit of testing to get this up and running, but I’m glad to finally have it working. Hope this makes your experience smoother!

Edit to clarify confusion in comments: The game has two cloud save systems - Steam's Cloud save, and the existing PlayFab cloud save which has existed long before the game came to Steam - the secondary cloud save allowed players not on Steam to backup their saves. This system is optional but it has not been removed as there are people who still use it.

— YYZ

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