Kynseed News

Hello there seedlings!

Within the update you can now buy any Apothecary and diagnose the local populaces problems.
As always, these things are an ongoing development, so expect bugs, balancing issues and an overwhelming urge to sprinkle herbs on things.

We appreciated any feedback at our usual channels on Discord, our forums or in the Steam Discussions.

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🔷 Apothecary is now open for business
ᅠᅠ🔷 Serve patients to cure 22 ailments (these unlock as your reputation gets higher)
ᅠᅠ🔷 3 minigames to help craft powders, creams and potions
ᅠᅠ🔷 Discover branded and off-brand cures that can be made and stored for future customers
ᅠᅠ🔷Order stock of common ingredients
ᅠᅠ🔷Send your spouse to gather rare ingredients from ‘Other’ as a temporary measure
ᅠᅠ🔷Fob customers off with a placebo that has a 50% chance of helping them feel better
ᅠᅠ🔷Hire a worker to take over running the shop (but remember they need premade items or ingredients to craft with for the best results)
ᅠᅠ🔷Help is available on most screens with F1 or pressing the left stick in on gamepad which will give both text instructions and an overlay showing controls
ᅠᅠ🔷Rework of the Clockwork Clock visuals and functions
🔷 Major reworking of the texture system in progress. Game currently uses more graphics memory but that should be reduced soon.
🔷 6 new Fairweather items are available, up to 3 appear per year
ᅠᅠ🔷A lovely vase to keep your spouse sweet
ᅠᅠ🔷A pendant that lets you buy gossip from those who don’t like you
ᅠᅠ🔷A magical mirror that increases your charm
ᅠᅠ🔷A Reminder system that attaches to your clock
ᅠᅠ🔷Forget-Me-Yet seeds that grow a flower that makes any opinion neutral
ᅠᅠ🔷Introducing TURDIS – Get around the world from outhouse to outhouse via a quick flush
🔶Several books rewritten
🔶Additional items available from shops/traders and gathering for the apothecary
🔶Gossip and proverbs from apothecary owning npcs has a bias towards relevant items
🔶Changed logging to show attempted resolution and current resolution
❌Fix for keybinding crash
❌Fix for unresponsive characters in tavern levels when there were no spaces to fill
❌Further navigation and AI upgrades to fix current issues
❌Fix for rare crash in racing event levels when the event closes
❌Fix for Willowdown Farm map screen not drawing correctly at the start

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Steam Sale

Seasoned Greetings Seedlings! Christmas is nigh and as always the Steam Winter Sale has begun.
PixelCount Studios is glad to be part of the sale again, and Kynseed is available with a humble 10 percent discount.

So, get thee hence to the market (Steam) and grab yourself a copy before Herbert Lemon gets there and scares you away by offering you one of his seasoned walnuts.

Price Rise

To give fair notice, once the next two updates are in place in 2021 we will be raising the price of the game a little to help with maintaining the castle. Those cobwebs won’t clean themselves and the castle Broonies eat a ridiculous amount of food from our larders. No wonder Old Mother Hubbard’s dog is always hungry!

Upcoming content

What are the next two updates you might ask? Well the first is the exciting Apothecary Update, and after that a new intro and more story being written by none other than super talented Fable trilogy/Assassins Creed and Sackboy writer, Mark Llabres Hill (Mark is locked in a small room with a large supply of candles and writing supplies... we should maybe consider actually giving him some food too). Along with the new intro we'll also be doing a lot of spring cleaning on the game to make it even more entertaining.


Have a great Christmas all and stay safe. Things are not easy but by pulling together and escaping into our favourite hobby, we hope you can all get through these tough times.

See you in the New Year!

Love,
PixelCount

Hello there seedlings!

While work continues on the next larger update including the Apothecary, here is another small update of fixes and improvements!

A big thanks to all of your support whether by sending in bugs, leaving a review letting us know what you think, hanging out in the community, or even by simply playing the game.

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🔷 Npcs will occasionally now have mini conversations with each other
🔶 Npc navigation has had some further upgrades for avoiding one another and correctly positioning
🔶 Various level fixes for layering and navigation
🔶 Mouse scroll works for changing time on the sleeping UI
🔶 The sack on the farm groups items from gathering and orders them to see all star rating versions next to each other if there are any
🔶 Adjustment to npc talk range to be a bit closer to the player
➕ New npc behaviours setup with state machine to gradually replace and simplify the existing system
❌ Fix for sequence triggering early on day 13 meaning the sibling wasn't at North Gate
❌ Preventative fix for crash related to npc dates
❌ Fix for crash around closing time for certain events on festival levels
❌ Fix for possible cause of partner delay after gathering
❌ Fix for Fine Fayre and Fest Field navigation around stalls
❌ Fix for Marshtyt getting out of position rarely
❌ Fix for pets stuck on sale when they shouldn't be
❌ Fix for create custom task task only working on the player farm level
❌ Lower left icon set is correct for all seasons
❌ Teleports in Candlewych West/Loverwood/Naida's Glory now work as intended
❌ Fixed an issue where having a certain item would unlock all portals!

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Hello there seedlings!

While work continues on the next larger update, here is another small update of fixes based on player reported issues!

A big thanks to all of your support whether by sending in bugs, leaving a review letting us know what you think, hanging out in the community, or even by simply playing the game.

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🔷 Original dog now ages ingame
🔶 Some menus and the shortcuts for gamepad have changed
🔶 Map is on the back button now
🔶 Status is now on dpad left and contains the overview of npcs
🔶 Skills is now on dpad right on its own separate to npc overview
🔶 Lute is back as a minigame prize but has lost its power to make people sleep
❌ Moved eat marker for Boots/Winters house so they should appear in different spots
❌ NPCs will no longer buy items for crazy prices at the Good Store if you are out of the level and have a worker
❌ Reduced instances of landfish and made fish move a bit more often
❌ Fix for animals resetting opinion after loading a savegame from now on
❌ Adjust throwing position for adult while riding
❌ Fix for goddess offering stacking items disappearing
❌ Fix for left mouse down facing direction not working correctly while in a fixed camera position such as the Good Store
❌ 2 preventative fix for potential navigation crashes while changing levels
❌ Fix for extra exit appearing on Burial Grounds map
❌ Reduced player snapping out of position from riding and dismounting. Some cases of issues may still persist
❌ Reduced player wall glitch on leaving bed potential
❌ Preventative fix for crash on trying to go through a level exit to a level id that does not exist

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Hello there seedlings!

This is just a quick patch to followup from the recent Relationship Update based on player reported issues!

A big thanks to all of your support whether by sending in bugs, leaving a review letting us know what you think, hanging out in the community, or even by simply playing the game.

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🔶 Switched dog in Vale to be a puppy
🔶 Aging version of villagers used in preference to old version. Initially sleep anims will be missing due to this.
🔶 Options on options screen a bit more spread out so you can't select two at once
🔶 Adjusted some nav in Candlewych Village to get the npcs moving around more
🔶 Some debug to help figure out screen freeze problems
❌ Various nav fixes to improve overall navigation positioning, erratic movement paths, one frame character flickering and an occasional crash caused by threading
❌ Fix for softlock on level changing while alt-tabbing
❌ Fix for dates in Mellowfield not working for the go to show step
❌ Fixed missing Pott greeting text
❌ Fix for normal apples sometimes acting like gassy now that the two are separate, apples on trees show as normal apples
❌ Fix for extra exits showing in Mellowbrook
❌ Fix for Rosie Crust animations being the wrong way round
❌ Fix for Roger side idle sprite size difference
❌ Crash fix for pinning invalid task in the calendar
❌ Crash fix for wheel with certain stats
❌ Can remove tasks of noticeboard/gift item/delivery type in the prologue
❌ Can no longer gain milk at random locations on the levels

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