Garden Paws News

A whole new winter island full of winter wonders!

To celebrate the holidays we made a new Winter Island for Garden Paws! In this Island you will find a brand new Snowball fight minigame. There are also many Snowmen scattered around the island to be destroyed with snowballs. These snowmen can drop coal or winter tickets.

If you're in winter you'll find a new destination on Conrad's Dock

[h2]Quick Patch Notes[/h2]

• Added a new Winter Island during the winter with a new winter mini-game, snowballs and snowmen scattered around to find and destroy with the snowballs.
  
• Fixed an issue with buildables not updating color/position properly in multiplayer if the host is too far away from it when guest moves/paints.
  
• Fixed an issue with cows not being milkable after first day
  
• Fixed an issue with Halloween island dropping people in the water forever if they pass out there.
  
• Fixed an issue with Halloween island's chests not respawning the next year.
  
• Fixed an issue with some minor visual-only particles not spawning properly. - Added a little cute jiggle animation to breakables when they get hit.
  
• Wild animal habitat's trigger has been increased slightly.
  
• When closing your game on a different island than the regular island, the game will now resume from there when you open it again.
  

The last update was PACKED with content, with that we did hear of some bugs from the public and are happy to say we've fixed almost if not all the high priority bugs. We appreciate the community reporting bugs, without you they'd hide and we wouldn't know about them. Huge thanks to this amazing community.

As a little thanks from the Bitten Toast team we have sent you some mail in game with some festive hats for you and your friends. Happy Holidays!

• Tons of bug fixes! If you find any bugs after this update please let us know.
  
• Fruit Trees; Apple, Orange, Lemon and Cherry (trees change each season)
  
• Pamela's Shop/Trading Center has been added (mysterious tree trunk house) here you can trade for new items
  
• Pamela's items: Daisy lamp, Daisy Rug, Daisy Ball, Clover Rug, Veggie Basket (chest)
  
• Blueberry Bushes
• 27 new food recipes (4 are cakes that you can place and decorate with)
  
• Paintable carpets and paintings. The wall/floor paintbrushes can be used on these (60+ patterns).
  
• Accessory Item: Unicorn Horn
  
• Accessory Item: Antlers
• Accessory Item: 6 new wings (swirl designs and bee wings)
  

Huge building system update: The hammer and item shifter now have a "Selector" option. By clicking this you can select the item you'd like to interact with.

Potion Paws crossover items have been added. The 26 crossover furniture items are just for owning Potion Paws in the same Steam library. You'll receive the workbench in the mail on day 2 in game. Potion Paws Kickstarter Exclusive Cat with Cape Keys have also been sent out.

26 crossover furniture items Cat Ghost Pet/Mount

Don't forget to open Garden Paws during the holidays to get something special from us!





Apples, Oranges, Lemons, Cherries, oh my! There are 4 fruit trees that can be found around Florens and the nearby islands. Each season there will be a new tree type in the wilds, if you don't want to wait for the wild fruit trees you can plant your own. Each tree even has a rare chance to drop seeds when being harvested.

These new fruits can be used in one of the many new cooking recipes at the cooking station or oven. There's more! You can now find Blueberry Bushes in the wild as well!







We're happy to say we've added the Potion Paws crossover items. We added even more items then we originally set out to add. There are 26 furniture items to decorate with! You may even find the Cat Ghost mount lurking in a cave that you can befriend with some stardust! You can tame as many of these as you'd like.

If you own Potion Paws in the same Steam library as Garden Paws you'll receive in-game mail containing the Mysterious Potion Table blueprint. Once you've crafted this workbench you'll unlock the rest of the Potion Paws crossover items.



We've added two new items that can be painted with the wall paintbrushes. This will open up over 60 painting variations and 60+ carpet styles. This upgrade can be purchased from Roman after you've unlocked the Painting Station.





The Building System received a huge improvement in this update. When placing a piece, using the hammer or the item shifter there is now an option for opening a "Selector". When in selector mode your mouse is visible and you can mouse over different buttons on the UI to select what socket or building piece you want to interact with.



This makes it easier to build faster and make less mistakes. It also makes mistakes easier to fix since with the new selector menu you can hammer out even the hard to select things like the sprinklers.







Pamela's Trading Center has finally opened its doors to the people of Florens. You can find the big tree trunk on Ferret Island. Inside you will find Pamela the Unicorn. Pamela doesn't use coins and instead prefers trading items for their wares.



We've got big plans for Garden Paws including adding more levels to the Dungeon, and even a huge new island to explore and more! We welcome you to join our discord or follow our twitter for spoilers as we work on them.



We originally set out to release Garden Paws on the Switch this December, but have to ask the community to wait a bit longer so we can get the game to be the best it can be without rushing. We hope you understand we are working our hardest to get the game to the Switch without cutting content we would love to see in Garden Paws.



Devs are Dan and Kristina with the game audio by Thiago Adamo

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It seems we missed posting the last couple updates here, terribly sorry for that. The devs (Dan and Kristina) have been hard at work on the game and have lots of content to share with you that has come out over the last couple months.

Going to keep this short and sweet as we're almost ready to push another update with quite a bit of new content and lots of bug fixes. It's been going through beta testing for the last few days and should be ready to send out very soon.

For now here are some of the things you may have seen pop up in your game.



[h2]New Creatures:[/h2]

• Penguins (3 colours and one baby)
  
• Kitsune Fox (Reg and Legendary versions)
  
• Robot (that can collect every animal product and even milk cows)
  

[h2]New Items and Upgrades (Roman)[/h2]

• Penguin Habitat
  
• Jewelry Station and 30 crafting recipes
  
• Decoration Station
  
• Dungeon Workstation
  
• Winter items; 5 ice furniture pieces, tree, decorated tree, presents, stocking, gingerbread decoration, snowflake, wreath
  
• New furniture; Toilet, Bathtub with duckies, Pineapple Table,
  
• Garden Decorations; outhouse, 4 decorative benches, tiered hedges, streetlamp, wood pile, barrels, wooden folding table, round table, overpass, hay pile
  
• Decoration items including; coin pile, book pile, diamonds, pineapple, glass pineapple, unicorn cake, carrot cake, crystal paw
  

[h2]Winter Update[/h2]

Are you a fan of the match two mini-game in the Summer? You'll be happy to know we've added a match two game for the Winter as well! This mini-game will bring in exclusive items that can only be obtained at the game.

There are 21 unique winter themed items including a Candy Cane Fence, Ice Table, Ice Shelves, a Sleigh and a Winter Tree.

[h2]More Quests![/h2]



In this update we're happy to say we've added 80+ new quests including seasonal quests! The seasonal quests will trigger every year so you'll never run out of quests in Garden Paws! These quests are mainly focused around trading materials for items with the townsfolk of Florens.

[h2]Penguins[/h2]



Looking for a chill companion? Keep an eye out for the penguins that can be spotted on a northern island in the Winter! These cute companions can be found in black, pink or blue! There is even a cute baby penguin that can be tamed.

Once you have this companion tamed in its igloo, it will bring you rocks, fish and even geodes once a day! If you find yourself with 100 tamed penguins you may even spot the Legendary Penguin that is so large it can be ridden!

[h2]Kitsune Fox[/h2]



Looking for a unique legendary fox? If you find yourself having tamed 25 foxes you may spot the Kitsune Fox in the forest! This fox can be tamed in just one day with a Bright Damsel fish. If you tame 100 Foxes you may even spot the Legendary Kitsune Fox that is large enough to be a mount!

The Kitsune Fox and Legendary Kitsune Fox have a higher chance to bring rare fish and can even bring you a Mystery Box.

[h2]The Robot[/h2]

Very late game (year 3) you'll get a certain quest from Mooney to pick up a mystery crate from Conrad. Follow the beeps to your very own collection robot! This robot will collect all dropped animal products and will even milk your cows and goats!



[h2]Next Update[/h2]

The next update is coming very soon and will feature quite a few bug fixes, the crash error and introduce new items including the fruit trees, berry bushes, 20+ cooking recipes and more.

[h2]Links, Links, LINKS![/h2]

Discord: www.discord.gg/BittenToast

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GardenPawsGame

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

You may have noticed there has been a dungeon in Garden Paws for the last couple weeks. We might have forgotten to write an update, sorry about that. Hope you're enjoying it! If you're not a dungeon fan, don't worry the dungeon is not necessary to the main game and can be ignored.



The dungeon currently has 10 procedurally generated levels with the 10th level being the boss level. You can collect dungeon specific loot here and familiar items including geodes, plant fiber and coal. You can also collect shards that can be used to purchase goods from the shop floor on level 11.

The Shopkeeper doesn't always have the things you're looking for...

The dungeon shop contains a dungeon exclusive furniture set, the Dungeon Stone set and a rare cape! If you still have spare shards, don't worry you can exchange them with Hash for coins.



There are also relics in the dungeon to make each run exciting and different. Some of the relics increase damage, speed and even loot gained!

We plan on adding more levels to the dungeon in the future with more monsters, bosses, loot and all that good stuff.

You can find exciting loot chests in the dungeon!



Think the dungeon is too easy? You can increase the difficulty with a hidden puzzle. When you first enter the dungeon (before going into the danger zone), you can shoot the blue mushrooms on the right wall from smallest to largest to activate hardcore mode.



The hardcore mode reduces your HP from 250 to 100, increases the damage the monsters do and increases the loot drops.



We are pretty proud of how far Garden Paws has come this last year, especially with a small team of 3 (2 Developers and 1 Composer). Over the next month(s) we plan on adding the Fruit Trees, a new island, new tameable creatures, the rest of the dungeon, and a new NPC that will have a shop with various decoration items.

We're always working on optimization and will be focusing on this pretty heavily as we start the port to the Switch. Our goal is to have Garden Paws release on the Switch December of this year!



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While Dan is working on the Dungeon, Kristina took this opportunity to sneak in 5 furniture sets. Yup, you heard that right, there are 72 new furniture pieces coming in with this update!

Along with the new furniture we've decided to sneak in a few dozen candles that we made on stream with the community. Once you purchase the Candle Workbench from Roman (and some upgrades) you'll be able to craft 48 place-able candles.

The new workbenches for the furniture sets!

• New Furniture Set : Pink/Purple Galaxy Set (total 13 pieces, can be purchased from Roman)
  
• New Furniture Set: Black Galaxy Set (total 13 pieces, can be purchased from Roman)
  
• New Furniture Set: Modern Black Set (total 14 pieces, can be purchased from Roman)
  
• New Furniture Set: Rainbow Paw Set (total 14 pieces, can be purchased from Roman)
  
• New Furniture Set: Splatter Set (total 13 pieces, can be purchased from Roman)
  
• New Item: Candle Workstation and 16 candles in 3 sizes (totally 48 place-able candles)
  
• New Item: Standing Torch
  
• 6 New Building Pieces (various walls and floors)
  
• New Upgrade: Shop Prices Upgrade Book (Frank) With this upgrade you'll see how much a table of goods will sell for.
  

Which is your favourite? We always want to hear from the community, what style of furniture set would you like to see in the future?

Anyone love rainbows as much as we do?

Who wants to hear us talk about the furniture sets when we can just show you some epic photos! These are only the first few sets of many more to come! Want to see more check out our Twitch, Twitter and Discord for those sweet spoilers!

Dreaming up what you'll do with this Dark Galaxy furniture set?

Anyone want a splash of colour? The Splatter set might be for you!

Or maybe no color at all?

Maybe a little bit of colour in the galaxy



We heard from the community you'd like more building pieces so we snuck a few into this update. All the items, (other than the corner plaster wall), are unlocked from day one in game. Hope you enjoy!

Some of the new building pieces.

• Half Wooden Foundation
  
• Triangle Wooden Foundation
  
• Half Wall
  
• Short Wall
  
• Corner Plaster Wall
  
• Window "decoration"
  

Have too much honey? Once you get the Candle Workstation from Roman you'll be able to craft candles in 3 different sizes, totally 48 candles. For performance reasons we couldn't animate the candles flame but we did also include the Standing Torch in this update. If your computer is up for the challenge you can place some standing torches and use the Item Shifter to shift them into the candles.



:O This new face!

• We added about 12 new faces. Which is your favourite face?
  
• We've added a Shop Prices Upgrade Book, once you've purchased the upgrade from Frank you'll be able to see the total sell price of all the items on the table.
  
• Standing Torch has been added as a build-able.
  
• The summer memory game now shows all the combinations after you've played.
  
• The bubble hit box has been increased and it raises slower.
  
• The wand shoots further and is faster.
  
• The wand camera transition is smoother.
  

2D Challenge

Every week or two we do a build challenge in our Discord but everyone is welcome to join! This week we are challenging you to build a 2d scene! It can be a home, garden, shop or surprise us! Creative lobbies go up to 32 people so bring your friends!

If you'd like to support us the best thing you can do is talk, tweet and share Garden Paws, it means a lot to us!

Thanks! -Dan, Kristina & Thiago

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