Garden Paws News

First off Thank You from the Devs of this little project; Dan, Kristina, and Thiago for all your wonderful support as we make Garden Paws. Every supportive tweet, review, message is incredible and we thank you dearly as we put our hearts into Garden Paws.

Being a small team of two developers and a composer is definitely a ton of work but we're really proud of how far Garden Paws has come in the last few months and are excited for 2019! To start it off we have a huge content update!

• Full In-Game Controller Support
  
• Sprinklers
  
• Discount Bin
  
• Museum and Collections
  
• The Inn-terior for the Inn and Museum
  

New Items:

• Compost Bin and a fertilizer recipe change
  
• Furnace
  
• Large Stone and Wood Storage Sheds
  
• 8 (16 slot) "decorative" chests
  
• Marble Display Cases, Anvil, New Wings, Pumpkin Planter, 13 new crops
  
• And lots, lots more. (Read more below..)
  

Implementing the full controller support has been a huge priority for us and we're glad to say it's fully implemented in-game. The main menu is the only area it's not 100% in yet, and Dan will be working on this over the next couple days.



We heard the community and have added sprinklers. They come in 3 tiers, Copper, Silver and Gold. The blueprint is not available at the start of the game but will be unlocked as you play, if you'd like some spoilers we suggest you join our wonderful community over on discord by following this link: https://discord.gg/QXseXfR





We've heard you might want to get rid of all those insects and other items quickly and at a discount. With that, we've added the Discount Bin! Any items you place in the discount bin will sell for half price at the end of the day, this item is upgradeable with Frank.





The first stages of the Museum has been added, with 15 collections to fulfill and more to come later. Once you complete a collection you'll be rewarded with new items and possibly even some information on how to tame a furry friend.





Sadie's rustic inn has been built, with your help of course. The Inn brings along some new quests and soon a new shop where you'll be able to purchase your favourite beverages and Sadie's famous grilled fish!





The fertilizer can now be crafted in the Compost Bin, and with a new recipe. It now takes 5 poop and only 1 wheat to make 5 fertilizer overnight. Fertilizer takes 0 stamina to use, and has a 25% chance to yield a seed when harvesting.





Beltran isn't the only Blacksmith in town anymore! Build yourself a Furnace and Anvil to start smelting ores and sand from anywhere. There are also quite a few new quests that will teach you how to make one of the many new storage chests.

This last month we've added even more new items including; Black and Gold Wings, Rainbow Fairy Wings, Pumpkin and Stone Planters, Glass and more. We've also added a lot of new skins including the "Glow" skin set that is available for every current character in 6 colour variations.





Minor improvements towards the optimization, the February update will be heavily focussed on optimizing the game as well as improving multiplayer.

We've seen a relatively frequent problem arise with connection issues that has usually been resolved by disabling firewalls or switching who hosts the lobby. If you have any problems with multiplayer please contact Dan or Kristina, (the two devs), and we'll be happy to help.

You can contact us through Discord: https://discord.gg/QXseXfR
or email ([email protected])

The map has been updated with the new islands, a sound has been added when you take a screenshot with F8, and many more small fixes are in this update.



We will be doing a small patch in a couple days, after that we'll be doing a heavy optimization update. This update will be focused around improving multiplayer and overall performance. As much as we'd like to do another huge content update, we feel this is more important at this stage.

As our only programmer, Dan will be mainly focussing on optimization for February. Kristina, (the other dev), will be working on the Creative Mode and a new shop that will sell all your Landscaping needs. Thiago, (our composer), will be, and has been working on the seasons music as well as compiling the soundtrack for it's release.

We hope you've been enjoying Garden Paws, and again Thank you for all your support! Every positive tweet, review, and comment means the world to us!

If you'd like to see the full patch-notes check the Patchnotes channel in our Discord: https://discord.gg/QXseXfR

Charlie needs your help building a Guard Tower for those cold Winter nights! Among this quest line and more we currently have 276 quests to complete in Garden Paws. We are constantly adding more quests and hope to hit 300 very soon.




This latest update we have been working on adding more animals to raise on your farm!

Here are the new animals:

• Lamb (mature: Sheep)
  
• Baby Goat (mature: Goat)
  
• Baby Alpaca (mature: Alpaca)
  
• Duckling (mature: Duck)
  
• Mallard Duckling (mature: Mallard Duck)
  

Each animal can be matured in the barn, or for the ducks, the Duck Pond.

Each animal can also be equipped through your pet slot in your inventory. With all these new items we've added 2 more upgrades for the Barn and Duck Pond so you can increase the capacity from 3 to 6 if you'd like.


With new animals, come new items! Here's a quick list of what's been added.

• Duck Feathers, Duck Eggs, Gold Poop, Goat Milk, Wool, Alpaca Fiber
  
• Sand and Sand Dollars. Which can be gathered from piles along the beach.
  
• Coal and Marble rocks that can be found in the ruins caves.
  

Rain isn't going to stop us from having fun! Rainy days are great, you don't have to water your crops!


We have steadily been improving the performance for multiplayer as well as fixing some bugs, the latest patch should run even smoother.

A quick note, we've noticed that some firewalls protect against people joining you or you joining an online lobby, if you're experiencing this, that could be why. We have also been suggesting switching who hosts the lobby, this has resulted in a more stable game experience.

If you're experiencing problems with multiplayer or any other aspect to the game, we welcome you to join our discord or email us, we'll be happy to help.

www.gardenpawsgame.com/discord - [email protected]



Just a dragon looking for some tasty fish, nothing to see here.


You can now name chests and lock them, chests are locked by default in multiplayer.

Sammy now only sells Spring + Summer seeds, with a new seller introduced Fall day 1 that will sell Fall + Winter seeds permanently.

In the last update we added (!) on the Anvil, and a few other places when you interact with them the first time. This will prompt a screen to pop up with helpful tips.

The hot bar scroll direction has been reversed, if you'd like to change it or any other settings you can do so in the main menu under "Controls".

Tips have been added on the loading screen.

Milk stacks have been increased from 10 to 30.


As always we'd like to give a big Thank You to everyone that has supported us so far, with your tweets, reviews, and just sharing the game in general. We plan on one more update before the new year with a small surprise.

What are we working on next?

Dan and Kristina are currently working on adding more content, while squishing any bugs that pop up of course. The next content updates that we have planned, without giving too many spoilers, include a fast travel system, a furnace to smelt ores, and the Museum.

This is just our short term update list, we're also working on the Dungeon, Cooking and more. But, those are a bit further out.

Thiago (our audio dev) has been working on the music for the Seasons, each Fall and Winter will rotate to new soundtrack.

In today's update we are giving players a special gift for the holidays. If you log into the game between 24th December 2018, 6am PST and 25th December 11:59pm PST you will receive a gift in your in-game mail.

The gift is not an exclusive item and can be obtained in-game outside of this 2 day window as well. All winter items that are being added will permanently stay in the game.





We have been hard at work updating and testing the multiplayer and we're happy to say that most of the issues have been fixed in the new patch that is about to go live.



We've done over 20 hours of multiplayer testing over the past 2 days with the latest build and had a lot of fun playing with members of the community.





During winter there is now a new shop seller that sells festive costumes, perfect to get in the holiday spirit. 18 new costumes have been added to the game.





Thank you so much for all your support. We are so happy with all the love and kind words directed to us with the steam release, and for all the lovely reviews we have been receiving. We couldn't be happier with how Garden Paws is coming along.

Happy Holidays! Daniel, Kristina and Thiago

Discord: www.gardenpawsgame.com/discord

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GardenPawsGame

A quick update from the devs:

Daniel and I (Kristina), have been incredibly active across all social media platforms during the Steam launch. We have been addressing bugs and issues and are glad to say we already have a patch for some of them, along with some new content.

A bit about us, Daniel and I are partners working on the game with Thiago Adamo who does our audio. Daniel handles all of our programming, most of the artwork and brings his expertise to the game, having multiple releases across multiple platforms. I on the other hand handle the overall design meaning level creation, art, content, quests, etc..

We both do a bit of everything, other than audio, and plan on adding lots more to Garden Paws. We're excited to share the first big update since we launched.





Had to reset the control definitions in this update.

• Bouquets have been added for the seasonal crops.
  
• 16+ New quests have been added bringing us over 240 quests in the game.
  
• 10 New skins have been added bringing us to over 250 skins in the game..
  
• Added one more default skin to all the animals.
  
• Introduced a new upgrade, the Tree Farm. This will appear in summer.
  
• Basic chest can now be crafted without a workbench from day one.
  
• Steam Cloud sync is now available for the game.
  
• We are working on multiplayer optimization and bug fixes.
  

• New mail has been added and quests have been altered to make a few things clearer in the game for new players.
  
• Splash's shop should no longer display too many skins at once.
  
• Some prices for the skins in the shop have been reduced.
  
• Solved an issue with the delivery of the quest "Town Orders" that could potentially be affecting other quests as well.
  
• Fixed an issue with the UI displaying incorrectly on Ultra-wide resolutions
  
• Home is now marked in the map
  
• Loading flower now changes colors based on the current season.
  
• Fixed an issue with opening containers or using the home door when about to pass out.
  
• Auto-run no longer stops running when bumping into something.
  
• Chickens now have a rare chance to drop Golden Chicken Eggs.
  
• Star Light no longer rotates to face you.
  
• Fixed an issue with the customers forming a conga-line party near the bridge after leaving the shop
  
• Clicking the Action button with a hammer selected without anything to destroy around you now brings up a notification.
  
• Fixed an issue with Frank's upgrade table not showing certain upgrades until restarting the game.
  

We have added the Tree Farm that is a quest/upgrade that will appear in game in Summer Year 1. Without giving too many spoilers this will be a great way, late game, to earn some extra wood with just a bit of an investment into Bruce.



With the new plants showing up around the islands in Fall and Winter we have added the bouquet blueprints for them, along with some more quests with Elizabeth.





We have added another 10 skins to Garden Paws, bringing us past 250 obtainable skins!





We want to give a huge thank you for all the support and kind words we've received for Garden Paws. The last 6 months developing this game has been incredible and we're excited for the new chapter for Garden Paws!

Discord: www.gardenpawsgame.com/discord

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GardenPawsGame

Hello,

Thank you very much for all your feedback and kind words. In this update we added the bird playable character and fixed some of the issues the players found. We'll be implementing the achievements and gamepad support in the next patch.

• Bird character introduced
  

• CPU performance improvements in the picking up/moving items code
  
• Fixed a glitch with alberto's broken glider disappearing when picked
  
• Guests can now purchase upgrades from frank as well.
  
• Twitch Integration is now fixed
  
• Steam Achievements have been implemented
  
• You can now input a custom resolution in the audio/video resolution menu.