Development Digest October 8th - 15th

It's Friday! I know everyone is excited for the release of the Halloween event, Witch's Eve. It'll be here soon. We need to finalize a few more things before I let you all know the update day. I promise it's worth the wait. I hope you don't get too upset with me about all the redacted things. It's the main reason Kindred hasn't been streaming - too many secrets. Any who, here's this weeks update:

Working on:

• Tutorial cards for the new menu
  
• [REDACTED]
  
• [REDACTED] enemy
  
• General Witch’s Eve festivities and bugs our dedicated testers find
  

New:

• Tutorial menu in journal
  
• Harvestable item
  
• 60+ new items (including furniture, food, recipes, costumes, and more)
  
• [REDACTED] [REDACTED] mechanic
  
• [REDACTED] area
  
• [REDACTED] [REDACTED] dialog
  
• Witch’s Eve dialog
  
• Gameplay effects for modifying stats
  
• Sleepy Haven Witch’s Eve area
  
• Halloween weapons (last year’s weapons are returning as well)
  
• Candy exchange booth for tickets
  
• Halloween decor in Hope Harbor, Sleepy Haven, and Moonberry Farms
  
• [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
  
• [REDACTED] enemy
  
• [REDACTED] storyline quest
  
• [REDACTED] x27 cause I can’t spoil this stuff
  

Improved:

• Gamepad functionality
  
• Placeable items rotation and ability to snap to nearby objects (can toggle on and off)
  
• Farming and Cooking rebalance
  
• How the game saves to prevent corrupted files
  
• Clyde moved from his hill to join in the Witch’s Eve festivities (he’s still on Castaway Rock though)
  
• Costume check for trick-or-treating
  

Fixed:

• Pumpkin enemy
  
• Smelter XP gain visual bug - you now gain XP when withdrawing the ingots
  
• Azura Mushrooms were set to a stack of 99 instead of 100
  
• Franklin doesn’t talk to you forever anymore
  
• Xanthus no longer let’s you tell him the same thing twice
  
• Norbert no longer holds a shield and his animations make sense
  
• Eldin now checks to see if you have the correct item with you
  
• Wind whirlers
  
• Cova Nuts can be used in the seed maker now
  
• Wild farmlands seeds yield the correct plants now
  
• Ferry saves upgrade after logging out
  
• Iron mining pick is now made with iron
  
• Missing fireflies have been found
  
• Mail that didn’t advance the quest
  
• Finn’s Furnishings has thicker walls now
  
• Furniture doesn’t belong on people anymore