This week was all about how the game looks and feels: nine windows rebuilt from scratch, a new shop in the village, every villager as Ronke, Halloween at Minionke's castle and a big pile of fixes from your feedback. All of it goes to testers first, then into the next update.
At a glance
Nine new windows
Each place now feels like itself: a mill, a shop, a mine, a bait shack. They're simpler to read too, with one list, the thing you picked, and one big button.
Atsuga's Decoration House Testers first
Atsuga opens a Decoration House in the village: cosmetics for your villager, and decorations and art for your farm.
- Pay with gold, and a few premium pieces with RONKE.
- Every piece has a rarity tag:
- Bundles only charge for the pieces you're missing. Already own one piece of a set? The set gets cheaper.
- Try a look on the stage before you buy it.
Decor boosters
Some decorations do more than look nice. The Golden Banana Statue, a marble Ronke holding a golden banana, gives your crops a +5% chance of a double harvest. One statue counts per farm.
The shelf also has fences, planters, gnomes, posters, paintings and a little fountain for your farm.
Everyone is Ronke Coming soon
Every villager in Ronke Village is now Ronke, each in an outfit that fits their job: Jockey Jo in Horske racing silks, Trainer Tess in a Dogke tracksuit, Skipper in a yellow rain hat and coat.
And you: everyone now plays as Ronke, in their own style. Pick a fur colour, try skins, and mix cosmetics for every part of your look in the new MAKE YOUR VILLAGER window, with new pieces at Atsuga's Decoration House.
Minionke's Spooky Castle Under construction
Something spooky is going up at the end of the town road. In the Haunted Hollow, Minionke is building a Spooky Castle, with owls, crooked trees, a graveyard and a few zombie Ronkes shuffling about. Until it opens, it's a construction site.
When it opens:
- Collect cookies and treatsFind them around the village, earn them from villagers' orders, and keep an eye out when you harvest your crops.
- Visit MinionkeTrade your cookies and treats for a mystery box.
- Open itOut comes a Halloween cosmetic. Some pieces, like the goggles and the Minionke skin, you can only get from the castle.
Limited costumes Once they're gone, they're gone
Every Halloween costume from Minionke's boxes is limited. Each one has a fixed total for the whole game, and the castle shows how many are left.
Airdropped at launch. Collect your costumes during this phase, and they'll be airdropped to you at the game launch.
When?
The castle opens for Halloween. Until then it stays a construction site, and we'll tell you here and in the community the moment it opens.
Bug Busters: pick your level Testers first
Mido's ten jobs now come in three levels, and you choose for each job. EASY is gentler: fewer, slower bugs and more honey to start with. NORMAL is the game you know. HARD brings more bugs, tougher and faster. Harder pays more: up to double the reward on HARD.
Clear a job on any level to open the next one, and your stars are kept for each level.
Quality of life
Keyboard shortcuts
- On your farm: 1 to 6 pick Hoe, Water, Hand, Move, Ghost and Remove.
- Esc puts the tool down.
- In the village: H flies you home to your farm.
- T opens the village chat.
And also
- Crafting costs energy: the windmill, Feed Factory, Dairy and Bakery cost 3 energy a craft, shown on the button.
- Cassava and chili now unlock at level 7.
- Fixed: cows that vanished from farms, the mining spot that moved around, and names that showed up as “<null>”.
What's coming, and how
Thank you for every bug report and every idea. Keep them coming in the community. Every bit of feedback lands on my desk.