Dev Update: Singing the theme for a hospital

Greetings Seedlings!

The Apothecary Update is finally out and budding healers are getting their eager hands on their pestles, and giving things a good mash.

The update was a little bit slow to appear due to a large re-design of how parts of the apothecary worked...poor Nick was up to his eyeballs trying to make sense of our documents and discussions!
The team pulled through with a fantastic base we can build on, and with your valued feedback we can shape this very unique business into er...shape.

What is also very cool to come from this is that the UI developments, and the minigame mechanics made for the various apothecary stations, can now be utilised elsewhere, especially in regards to the cooking minigames.

Eventually you will be able to chop up your carrots, stir your stews and juice your berries like a regular Gordon Ramsbottom.

"Hey! PixelCount team! What's in the next update?" you shout, while keeping one eye on your boiling cauldron. Well we have a whole new section of intro to add, which will give a more exciting and mysterious start. The Prologue is having a fine tune, with brand new dialogue, character edits, story tweaks and tasks moved about etc.

We also want to set Nick and Mr Weekes free on the lighting and weather systems to bring our visuals and atmosphere bang up to date, to increase your immersion and make the world feel even better. Going beyond that, NPC stories to add depth, a spanky new top secret combat system, having kids and nurturing their little minds are all in our development sights.

As always we thank you for your amazing support and patience, and now in this latest update, patients.
Below is a little look at some of the treasures you can find within the game right now...


[h3]PATIENT DIAGNOSIS[/h3]
Open your Apothecary and the NPCs of the world will come in with a variety of ailments.
Listen to their problems and try to work out how best to counter those bad Traits that are afflicting them.



[h3]THE MEDICAL TOME[/h3]
Use your own knowledge or if wanting to speed things up, you can refer to a fine book that will tell you some of the recipes needed to cure various maladies.
Powders, Creams and Potions are available to view with any unlocked knowledge.



[h3]CRAFTING POWDERS[/h3]
You can mix a nice Powder by chopping and grinding your ingredients and then mashing them with the pestle. Try and find all the crunchy bits to ensure a fine powder that will soothe your patient's problems in no time.



[h3]CRAFTING CREAMS[/h3]
If it is something superficial, then perhaps a Cream will suffice?
Turn on the Bunsen burners and keep stirring to check consistency.
On the left, the extract seeps from your ingredients and emerges as concentrated drops of healing goodness.
On the right, wax to thicken. Don't make it too runny or too thick!



[h3]CREATING POTIONS[/h3]
A more magical malady plaguing your patrons?
Then you need a fine potion.
Stick your ingredients in the crusher to extract that lovely juice.
Pour into the pot and watch the reaction.
Ice forming? Turn up the heat. Bubbles? Turn down the heat.
Check the colour chart and find the correct reagent dispenser of the opposite colour to the smoke to neutralise the reaction.
Grind, pull and squirt your way to success!







[h3]MR FAIRWEATHER'S NEW STOCK[/h3]
As well as the Apothecary, there are some nice new items from our Fae friend to consider.
Below are three such items, Mirror Mirror, Waterman's Reminder, and the Vase of Forgiveness.
You can also buy Forget-Me-Yet seeds, Judith's Charming Charmer Charm and the brilliantly useful Turdis.
Just don't use the latter one if someone else hasn't flushed.



That's it for this update. For full details of the changelog check here and if you want reach us try our Discord!

We hope you enjoyed your peek inside the world of Kynseed and its ongoing quest to become a game we can be proud of and that players will cherish.

To all who have already jumped aboard, we thank you deeply and await your bugs, feedback and bribes with an excited trepidation. If that's such a thing. Feel free to join us here

Til next time, friends.

LOVE,