Garden Paws News

Casually dancing in front of the easter items. (K to dance.)

Every day 15 in Spring you'll be able to meet Ester the Easter Bunny in Florens! We hope you like hunting for Easter Eggs because with the help of the townsfolk Ester has hidden 20 Eggs for you to collect!

The colourful Egg Cracking Station!

Once you find an egg you can bring it back to Ester to crack it open for Bunny Tickets and other goodies like Geodes, Equipment and even Gold Poop! If you find one of the rare eggs you'll have a chance to get rare items including Fairy Wings, Gems and more!

A Flower Fountain!

Once you get some Bunny Tickets you can trade them for the Easter items or crates by simply going up to the item you'd like and trading the tickets.

Some of the Aprons coming into Garden Paws! Do you have a favourite?

There are tons of new items to collect! Here's a list of the new items you can find in this update:

• Faberge Egg Chest (Red, Green and Blue)
  
• 2 Rainbow Dragon Skins
• 4 New Crowns (Including a Flower Crown and Golden Egg Crown)
  
• 18 Aprons (Can be equipped in your accessory slot so you can still wear clothes, if you'd like.)
  
• Pastel Coloured Bunnies (Pink, Green, Blue and Purple)
  
• Flower Fountain
• Egg Flower Centerpiece
• Egg Shrub
• Stone Bird Bath
• Pastel Coloured Planters (Purple, Yellow, Green and Blue)
  
• 4 Decoration Balloons (Red, Green, Blue and Purple)
  

Golden Egg Crown anyone?


Since switching over to Bolt to host our Multiplayer Servers we have noticed a HUGE boost in Multiplayer performance. There have been a couple bugs that have been brought to our attention and this update has addressed them. This includes the bug where some people would get the "Session Connection Failed" error.

We are constantly working on this feature and will be addressing any bugs that come up as we're made aware of them. We appreciate your patience as we tackle Multiplayer.

(Some of these have already been implemented in past updates, that we may have missed mentioning.)

• UI Scaling has been added, and can be found in the Settings under Audio and Video.
  
• The Glider speed has been increased.
  
• Some items were able to be walked through, those have been made whole again.
  
• The size of the icons in the display cases has been increased.
  
• Elizabeth now shows what they're selling on the table.
  
• You can now place and remove a stack of 10 Coal/Ore/Sand in the Furnace at once.
  
• The oven bug has been fixed, you can only cook one thing at a time now.
  

Cracking Eggs at Sunrise


Over the next week we're going to be working on implementing over 50 Quests that will introduce a Fast Travel between the town of Florens and the campground.

Here's some of what you can expect to see in Garden Paws in the next few months:

• Procedural Dungeon (optional combat)
  
• Creative Mode
• A HUGE new island to explore
  
• More Furniture Sets and Building Pieces
  
• Berry Bushes and Fruit Trees
  
• Legendary Animals
  
• More Animals to Tame and Raise (plus Beekeeping!)
  
• Bunny and Chicken Breeding
• More NPC's and Quests
  

We're thinking of implementing a Giant Legendary Chicken you can ride.



Want to see us live on Twitch? You can catch Dan or Kristina every Wednesday and Friday at 2pm PST here.

We'll either be working on Garden Paws, playing Garden Paws or just hanging out answering questions and giving spoilers.

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bittentoastgames

We're always around on Discord, Twitter and Facebook!

Discord: www.gardenpawsgame.com/discord

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GardenPawsGame

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bittentoastgames/

We have spent the last couple weeks really focusing on the multiplayer bugs and performance and after hours of testing we're glad to say it's looking great!!

Huge Thank You to our Beta Testers and everyone that has submitted a bug or provided feedback, being such a small team we really appreciate all your support. It's been a ton of fun playing this game with the community and hanging out in Discord.

• Multiplayer middleware was changed to Photon Bolt. With this change the multiplayer is faster more stable and disconnects are less likely to happen.
  
• Now if disconnects happen the game tries to reconnect, and if successful you can keep playing with your friends right from where you left off.
  
• Loading and saving have been optimized. Loading times are now considerably faster.
  
• Halloween Island is now accessible on multiplayer.
  
• Several multiplayer issues have been solved
  
• Coal drops have been increased to 3-8.
  
• Sprinkler radius have been increased slightly.
  
• Glider speed has been slightly increased.
  

While Dan has been working on the multiplayer, Kristina has been writing quests galore as well as working on some new items. The next update we will be working on adding over 50 quests as well as the Spring Festival! This update will also come this month in time for Easter.

The Spring Festival will have an Easter Egg hunt, tons of new items and more! We'll share more on that soon.



If you've caught our streams or have seen us in Discord you might already know that we started working on a HUGE new area. This area will feature 2 towns with quite a few surprises. Did someone say new mounts? ;)



Without giving too many spoilers all we can say for now is we're very excited to start adding some epic content to Garden Paws!

We've been having a ton of fun streaming, if you'd like to catch some spoilers or just hang out with devs Dan and Kristina you can find us on twitch at BittenToastGames.

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Multiplayer is our main focus for the next update. Dan (our programmer) will be replacing the multiplayer middleware. This means a complete revamp of the multiplayer code. As we are just a small team of 3 (Daniel, Kristina and Thiago), please bear with us as we get the multiplayer patched up.



The horse playable character has been added. (Thanks to one of our Kickstarter Designer Backers!)

There's now a horse mount and stable. You can also ride many of the larger farm animals!





There's an assistant! You can now hire an assistant to run your shop, for a % of the sales that is.

Cooking

More cooking has been added! You can now use the churn, the oven or the cooking station to make over 20 new recipes!





Furniture Blueprint Merchant has been added, and can be upgraded in town through Frank.



New item: Crystal Furniture Set (Workbench + 10 furniture pieces, this is the first of 3 thanks to our Kickstarter stretch goals.)



New item: Crystal Planter (Time to make one fancy farm!)



New item: Glass Building Pieces (Foundation, Wall, Wall with Door, Ramp)



New item: Bumblebee Dress (Thanks to one of our Kickstarter Designer Backers!)

New item: Silver and Gold Tools. These items will do more damage when harvesting and can be purchased from Beltran.

You can now nap for multiple hours at a time at the hammock. (Only available in Single Player.)



24+ new skins have been added, bringing us over 350 Collectable skins.

29 New quests have been added.



Antique items now do respawn.

This past update we have been heavily focusing on optimization and we're glad to say we've made some improvements. Not only that but we've been working on some bugs, including that pesky one that was disconecting clients on the next day in multiplayer.



Along with the optimization and bug fixes we have included quite a few new items and over 20 new quests.


30 Fairy Wings have been added in various colours
Deer Dress, Ladybug Dress, Black Suit Jacket, Professor Jacket





The Kickstarter Steampunk items are also fully implemented in this update. Including not one, but two gliders and two clothing pieces. We will be sending the Kickstarter wallpapers in the next update. If you're one of our Kickstarter Backers you will be receiving keys to access that content this week.





Due to popular demand we have added dialogue for the townsfolk of Florens sooner than we initially planned. We hope you enjoy this feature.



There is a new shop in Florens, the Garden Shop! Once you progress through certain quests you'll be able to aid a new member joining Florens. When this new shop is open you'll be able to purchase decorative rocks, hedges, ferns, benches potted plants and more!





If you're enjoying those wood shipments, you'll love to hear there is a new questline that will lead you to daily stone shipments!

• The "do not build" collission has been reduced at the chicken coop area, you may now build inside the pen or on top of the coop.
  
• A couple tyops have been fixed in the quests and mail.
  
• Oh noes! A few fo skins that were missing noses have found their noses.
  
• The waterfalls no longer splash as much.
  
• Fixed the colliders on multiple items including the bridge near Sammy.
  
• The skin named "12,000" has been renamed to "Cosmos Cat", silly Splash.
  
• Some ferns that have been found floating have since been grounded.
  
• The limited time valentines day mail event has been removed. The items can still be obained in the game through the shopkeepers.
  
• Some items in the crafting menus have been rearranged.
  

Today we released a small update to wish you all a happy valentines day! We are working on a bigger update heavily focused on multiplayer bugs and optimization that will be coming by the end of the month.

In today's update we introduced 2 heart-themed items. If you play within the next day you will receive a them as a little gift on your mailbox, but those items will be permanently available for purchase on Clovis' store from now on.



This update also introduces our latest playable character, the Dog! This character was requested by one of our Kickstarter Character Designers, Marley Pebble.



In this update the Wanderer set up a couple of new collections to be filled up for reward and an error that was popping up with the use of the Crystal Bed was fixed.

We hope you've been enjoying Garden Paws! Have a great Valentines day, and again Thank you for all your support!