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(THIS IS A FRESH NEW UNSTABLE BUILD. Y'ALL KNOW THE DRILL. EXPECT BUGS AND ISSUES.)

Before we get to all the patchnotes and stuff, the good part for everyone who wants to skip all the nonsense... THE LINK!

DOWNLOAD UPDATE 0.0.3.5 HERE

(VERSION IS NOW 0.0.3.5 DUE TO BUGFIXES! THANK YOU FOR THE ADDITIONAL REPORTS!)

HOWDY FARMERS!

At long last, it's finally here! The big one! The main event! The lead act!

Alright, maybe I'm upselling it a bit. But finally, after all the blood, sweat, tears, and bare-knuckle-brawling with the camera system to get it to behave properly, IT'S COMPLETE!

This update, of course, includes the newest villager and pinkest cow of the line up, Candace! She'll sell ingredients for baking, and various foods to feed your cows!

That's right, you heard that correctly! FEED them! Rather than feeding them from the eternal void, you now have to actually get them food and feed them yourself via the new feeding minigame!

The minigame itself is simple. All you need to do is select food from your inventory. It'll fatten up the cow and make them fuller depending on the type of food you gave them, and then will give you a small hexagonal coloured piece. Matching three or more of these together will bring your cow's Fullness down and create a higher numbered hexagon. The higher the hexagon matched, the more Fullness you'll reduce on your cow to allow you to keep feeding them!

And, of course, the barn is now fully usable! You can enter, assign cows to stables, and pick them up to follow you whenever you'd like! You'll also now need to assign them a stable before milking them, as milking will always take place at their stable!

And yes, of course each cow gets to put their own personal touches on their room in the barn!

There's of course PLENTY more changes and additions, such as the new Oven that can be crafted at the workstation and used for cooking, and the newest dryad type, the Wheat Dryad!

However, for a more comprehensive list of changes and additions, you can check the patchnotes below!

0.0.3.0 PATCHNOTES:
-NEW COW: Candace the Baker! This cheerful, party-ready airhead will sell you ingredients to bake your own goods, or sell you some delicious treats so you can skip right to the good stuff!
-NEW MINIGAME: Feeding! The feeding skillcheck has been replaced with a match-style minigame that uses food in your inventory to fatten up your cows.
-NEW CRAFTING: Cooking! Create an oven and start making some delicious dishes!
-NEW DRYAD: Wheat Dryad! A whole new crop to add to the farm! She produces wheat, a staple for baking! You can buy her seeds from June!
-NEW STATE: Bloated! Cows can now become bloated at every weight state when their Fullness is sufficiently high.
-Cows will become gassy at high Fullness. Turning off "Gas Volume" in options completely removes this for those who do not prefer it.
-The Barn has been implemented!
-Inside the Barn are stables which can be assigned to each cow. Once assigned, they will be brought there for milking and will fill their room with personal touches unique to each cow.
-Cows can now be ordered to follow, and brought inside buildings with you.
-Cutscenes now trigger a "black bars" mode on the screen.
-Reworked the dialogue system.
-Added "Moods", which affect the dialogue of cows.
-Chairs can now be destroyed by cows of sufficient weight.
-Boulders now spawn on the farm. They can be destroyed for stone.
-Added craftable refrigerator, oven, and lava lamps.
-Added calm particles to backgrounds.
-Fixed issues with the lighting system when coming in and out of buildings repeatedly.
-Saving and loading has been made more stable, but a warning is now issued when you attempt to load an old save version.
-Completely reworked the camera system.
-Like, completely reworked it. The bug should be gone this time.
-Seriously. Like, completely gone.
-Fixed a bug where the topmost border of the screen had feet randomly walking across it over the barn.
-Made the Discipline minigame for Dryads less annoying to do.
-Fixed a bug where picking up a lot of items at once made most of them disappear.
-Fixed a bug which broke the game when talking to someone in front of a door.
-Made June 20% more cottage-core.
-Fixed a bug where Mocha approved of June's cottage-core aesthetic.
-A few other small things, like SFX tweaks!

0.0.3.5 PATCHNOTES:
-Fixed more inventory bugs while gifting.
-Fixed a bug that got the player stuck on the stables when feeding.
-Fixed some bugs that broke the game when multiple dialogues opened at once.
-Timers and Fullness now no longer pause when changing rooms.
-Fixed a bug where characters couldn't be interacted with after using a bovinity potion.
-Fixed a bug that caused crashes when girls were full when they changed sizes.
-Fixed a bug where wildberry dryad sprites wouldn't show parts of her body.
-Fixed a bug that allowed multiple cows to follow the player, usually resulting in crashed.
-Fixed a bug where trying to milk a cow outside the barn would crash the game.
-Fixed some feeding minigame bugs that caused crashed.
-Fixed some inventory bugs.
-Fixed a bug that made dryads no longer burp.
-Fixed a bug where Candace's bloated state wouldn't load properly.
-Fixed bugs with bloated dialogue crashing the game.

-Fixed a bug that caused crashes when talking to dryads.
-Fixed a bug that didn't let you re-enter the barn once you took a cow from their stable.
-Fixed a bug that caused S'apphire to crash the game when she felt like it.

Alright! that just about covers it for now!

As always, please feel free to leave feedback, suggestions, or any other comments! I read everything and love to know what y'all think of the updates.

Until next time, Farmers!

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Czyzman

Candace! Yay! Fate has me at work currently but you've given me something to look forward to after! Breaking furniture is going to be awesome. :D

Anonymous

Yay! Been looking forward to it!

Cream

Glorious day! I'm excited for the build!

Anonymous

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Lurkinlad

Today is good day

Anonymous

The game seems to crash whenever you right click on a dryad to speak with her!

Anonymous

New sprites look great, and the feeding minigame is fun. There are a lot of crashes, though. Trying to speak with a dryad causes a crash, and it also seems to crash when trying to load Candace's bloated state at immobile size. I also am seeing a lot of strange crashes related to inventory - like everything will be called "Cheeseburger" and if I try to use anything the game will crash. Saving often and re-loading gets around a lot of the more random inventory bugs/crashes, but unfortunately Dryads seem to be broken and I can't feed Candace too much while she's immobile (Haven't tried with the other girls). But the potential for the update is there! I hope this is not discouraging haha.

Tommy Showbiz

New build is wonderful, LOVE the new minigame for feeding. Bug wise, I am also getting a hard crash anytime you attempt to speak to the dryads. There also seems to be an issue with the barn where if you assign one of the girls to a barn slot, but you attempt to re-enter the barn without one of them being there, the game will crash. There also appears to be a bug where after you give one of the girls a bovine potion, the camera will center on them until you hit escape.

Rev

Awesome - Looking forward to checking out the new build after work!

Dandys Chest

Thank you for the reports! I've just put out a fix for the hard-crashing bugs, and I'll look into the inventory issues right now!

Dandys Chest

Thank you Tommy! :D Just put out a fix for the bugs you've reported! I can't get the Bovine Potion one to replicate for me, but I'll dig around for it.

Outlawz170

Haven't played it yet, but I'm sure the quality of work you put in will shine through like always, thank you! For such an expansive update

Anonymous

Awesome! Can confirm dryads are working now. I'm still getting a crash when Candace reaches 200/250 fullness. Here's the Code Error, if it helps: ERROR in action number 1 of Draw Event for object obj_npc: Trying to draw non-existing sprite. at gml_Object_obj_npc_Draw_0 #### gml_Object_obj_npc_Draw_0 (line -1) gml_Object_obj_candace_Draw_0 (line -1) Again, you're doing great work!

a1ternative

hey, just wanted to comment on a few things here. firstly, even after the new update i seem to be running into several crashes happening at various times. at the point i'm at in the game i've only turned mocha into a cow and am usually interacting with her when it happens. i have a few screenshots saved as examples if you're interested

a1ternative

oops, accidentally sent the previous comment instead of paragraphing it LOL anyways, on the gameplay side of things, while i do like the dryads i got pretty tired of having to interact with them nearly every time i wanted them to drink something. the discipline minigame is much better now, but trying to guess what they want in the flirting game is still decently annoying. i also think that the rate that they should grow larger at should be sped up somewhat, as i've already got mocha to an immobile state before any of them reached maximum size. the cooking minigame is SPECTACULAR though and i'm loving the look of the new barn. candace is really great even if her personality isn't my cup of tea. overall, really great stuff here :)

Anonymous

Hey, first off huge congrats on what you've made so far. This is the best game of its kind in the community and there's really nothing quite like it. Your focus on the sound effects stands out, as does all your attention to the details of the bigger sized sprites. You did a fantastic job on the dialogue as well, and I like the new lines that go along with the different moods. One thing I miss now with this change is how the dialogue would change as the cows increased in size. As it is now, it seems like the dialogue changes based on their mood and fullness, independent of size. One of my favorite parts of the last version of the game were these dialogue changes that accompanied the sizes, and if possible I'd love to see these return!

Dandys Chest

Hey mate! First of all, yeah, if you could either share what the error code is or anything like that, it'd be much appreciated to try and figure out why Mocha's crashing your game! As for the concerns with the dryads, I may turn down how often they require attention to avoid annoyance. However, I dont want to make them grow at a quicker rate, since having them at high sizes offers a LOT of their resources, so making it too easy to get them there quickly would basically just encourage people to speedrun it. The way dryads grow is a bit different to cows as well. Once sufficiently watered, they will slowly grow over time during the day. Giving them more water doesn't necessarily mean they'll grow faster. Each one has a randomized grow timer that ticks down once all of their needs are met, so trying to get them to the final stage as quickly as possible won't do much. To rush it along, you basically just have to buy a bunch of daylight potions to maximize their growth. Hope this helps! And thank you for the feedback! <3

Dandys Chest

Thank you! And yeah, I'm actually looking into making some sort of script that will interrupt their dialogue with belches and groans at bigger sizes so that their dialogue doesn't feel unchanged between sizes! So I'm hoping to be able to add it in to a future build soon! :)

Grima

YEEHAW DRYADS LETS GOOO! For real I love them and this update. Really like getting little details about the cows with their stables. (Also bless you Dandy for the quick fixes, dryads are getting those big gulps again) :D

Dandys Chest

If I can break it fast, I can fix it fast too! Glad you're loving the new yeehaw dryads! >:D

Anonymous

That sounds amazing. Really enjoying the added dialogue, and am excited that at least one additional bigger size is likely to be added in the future--something I love about your stories is how big characters get so early. You do a great job of finding ways to keep the story, characters, and weight gain moving along past points where other stories would just stop. Great job again and thanks for the reply!

Grima

I'm just imagining sky walking from a field of them like the *country girls make do* meme

Alice Eldritch

Heya, still confused as to how you get wood, can't seem to figure it out lol

Dandys Chest

Resources aren't obtainable yet except for stone. Wood and Metal are just from the chest in front of the barn!

Anonymous

Great stuff! For bugs thus far, I've found two; if you give June the potion of bovinity, when the cutscene ends the camera stays centered on her and locks out all other controls. Another is when Mocha declines a potion of digestion, the game hard crashes

Rev

You did some incredible work with this one - fantastic update! Loving the new features. Candace is a wonderful addition and that feeding minigame is great! I really appreciate all of the new dialogue - good stuff!

Dandys Chest

Thank you! Looking into the cutscene issue now! For the second, what do you mean when Mocha declines a potion of digestion?

TastyBot

I have my first immobile cow. As I said earlier Candace was first.

Anonymous

Hey so I encountered a bug where right after you feed the cows, and go to give them an item a random item will replace the cursor and every other item will read the cursor item, after that even if the item disappears from the cursor and everything goes back to normal the game will crash

Anonymous

This has happened a couple times before but were random occurrences, tho the one I talked about happened nearly every time

Anonymous

Another one tho i don’t know if intentional or not the dryads bo longer burp after being filled to the brim

Lurkinlad

the game sometimes crashes when giving digestion potions, crash note read ___________________________________________ ############################################################################################ ERROR in action number 1 of Draw Event for object obj_inventory: Unable to find instance for object index 114717 at gml_Object_obj_inventory_Draw_73 ############################################################################################ gml_Object_obj_inventory_Draw_73 (line -1) it's mostly been happening right after saving for me also It crashed when I tried to milk June outside of the stable ___________________________________________ ############################################################################################ ERROR in action number 1 of Step Event0 for object obj_milkinggame: Unable to find instance for object index 163 at gml_Object_obj_milkinggame_Step_0 ############################################################################################ gml_Object_obj_milkinggame_Step_0 (line -1)

Anonymous

She'd say something like "Ew, no thanks" and then Skye would say "Who said I don't pamper my cows" and the game crashes

Lurkinlad

game crashed during feeding minigame ___________________________________________ ############################################################################################ ERROR in action number 1 of Step Event0 for object obj_feedgamepattern03: Unable to find instance for object index -4 at gml_Object_obj_feedgamepattern03_Step_0 ############################################################################################ gml_Object_obj_feedgamepattern03_Step_0 (line -1)

Lurkinlad

Sometimes when giving out potions of digestion they reject it and say the dialogue for when you give them an ineligible item so they’re probably not being whitelisted as something that can be given, but it only happens sometimes is the thing

a1ternative

thanks for taking the time to reply! i think i understand the dryads a lot more now and i definitely understand why you wouldn't want them to grow faster. i'm about to send you a private message with one of the error codes i have received, and i hope it helps in your troubleshooting!

Enemyslime

After loading my save file where i had candace and mocha following me when i saved mocha completely disappeared from my save file :(

Dandys Chest

Oh heck. Yeah disappearing Mochas aren't supposed to happen... I'll try to roll out a patch for this right away.

amognus

When i fed candace to 400 weight, she was full at the same time and resulted in me not being able to load my save anymore, error code reads (also maybe make a lil gui to edit cow weights money or smth temporarily just so we can test the game for bugs more easily?): ___________________________________________ ############################################################################################ ERROR in action number 1 of Step Event0 for object obj_candace: Variable .x(0, -2147483648) cannot be resolved. at gml_Object_obj_candace_Step_0 ############################################################################################ gml_Object_obj_candace_Step_0 (line -1)

Anonymous

I have a similar issue as amognus, but instead of Candace being the one who causes it when reaching 400, it is Mocha. ___________________________________________ ############################################################################################ ERROR in action number 1 of Step Event0 for object obj_mocha: Unable to find instance for object index -4 at gml_Object_obj_mocha_Step_0 ############################################################################################ gml_Object_obj_mocha_Step_0 (line -1)

WhiteWalker43

I've encountered a bug where when you give the girls the bovinity potion, no matter who first, where afterwards I can no longer move or interact with any of the characters, when I paused and came back it fixed it so I don't think the bug is pressing, but I wanted to notify anyways

WhiteWalker43

Update, after using the second potion on a girl, it does it again so it seems definitely tied to that.

ShoreMcLoving

So the idea is to match the tiles to make more room in their stomachs? What's the point of the clear board option? Is playing the game more optimal?

Dandys Chest

Yeah! Matching tiles will make their Fullness go down, so it's optimal to try and play the matching game! And clearing the board is for if you run out of spaces to put down tiles and need to start over.

amognus

Not a glitch i dont think, but if you leave a cow in stable, their fullness (or hunger) wont go down, same goes for if youre in barn, its like stopping time outside

WhiteWalker43

Encountered this glitch and crash when exploring the menus and gifting a cow something: ___________________________________________ ############################################################################################ ERROR in action number 1 of Draw Event for object obj_inventory: Unable to find instance for object index 104583 at gml_Object_obj_inventory_Draw_73 ############################################################################################ gml_Object_obj_inventory_Draw_73 (line -1)

WhiteWalker43

Tried to gift her an obedience potion instead of the burger and got this: ___________________________________________ ############################################################################################ ERROR in action number 1 of Draw Event for object obj_inventory: Unable to find instance for object index 102540 at gml_Object_obj_inventory_Draw_73 ############################################################################################ gml_Object_obj_inventory_Draw_73 (line -1)

WhiteWalker43

It seems like Mocha and June are glitched for gifts, the error log below is for that while I had another glitch that had the profile for Mocha when going from talking to feeding end up in an 0 and what looked like a small berry dryad, but I was able to progress through it just fine so it wasn't game breaking ___________________________________________ ############################################################################################ ERROR in action number 1 of Draw Event for object obj_inventory: Unable to find instance for object index 100824 at gml_Object_obj_inventory_Draw_73 ############################################################################################ gml_Object_obj_inventory_Draw_73 (line -1)

WhiteWalker43

Seems like RNG when a glitch happens and when it doesn't with the gift system, I even got a glitch where when my cursor hovered over the obedience potion it came back as a cheeseburger.

Dandys Chest

Yeah, looking into Inventory glitches right now. Getting a lot of people reporting things turning into cheeseburgers lmao Ty for the reports!

clinko clinko

shoot i just wanted to say that this project is so insanely amazing its like a dream come true. the time put into the sprite art and the sound design is blowing my mind. i love how mocha is one of the only cows that will submit to whatever no matter what her mood is LMAO. it'd be great to have a bit of extra interaction with the cows through belly rubs or teasing, but im sure you've heard all this before. this feeding minigame is also really intriguing, having it so they are able to eat more so long as you are doing well is a really cool incentive. i dunno how feasible it is to do this, but it'd be great for extra bonuses for doing well like more milk production, or a longer time in the bloated state. either way its fantastic. i ended up relying on straight buying food from candace for keeping stocks up, along with endless wildberries. i found that cooking takes a bit too many ingredients to gather up in the end but maybe thats just me. would be great to have someone or somethin automatically take care of those dryads, i found after a certain number it gets real tiring to take care of all of em. would be fun to have like a "favorite" dryad that produces more yield if you yourself take care of them. legit i can't wait to see more thank you SO MUCH for all your work its INCREDIBLE!!!

Dandys Chest

Automated dryad farming is definitely something I wanna look into with time, especially as the game grows and more content is added. And thank you so much! I'm so glad you're enjoying the project so far, and I hope you'll love everything that's to come! :D <3

Silurian Haint

Wow, I'm blown away by this game, even at such an early stage. It's inspired me to get back into game development. I do have a question, if you don't mind answering it: what are the sprite sizes for each stage of the cows? I've been waffling on what size to use for my sprites, but I love that they grow as they get bigger.

Dandys Chest

Thank you! As far as spritework, I tend to like working in the 32x or 48x range, but for this project, I'm doing the base size of characters at 64x pixels, and then obviously larger as needed for the bigger sizes :P

Benwhu

I just feel like im missing a crucial step for the dryads 😅, i dont know how to make them grow past their first stage, run into the same conundrum back in version 2.1.1. (This is not a bug, is just a severe case of skill issue from my part 😅)

Benwhu

I figured it out on how to grow the dryads, tho i seem to have find this bugs that whenever i save the game it resets at least for now candance, a cow's fullness and milk bar respectively, also i found that whenever candance gets sent to the barn her fullness and milk also reset.

Dandys Chest

I'll look into that fullness and milk issue. As for the dryads, all you need to do is keep them watered for a few days! They'll grow during the daylight as long as they've been sufficiently watered. :)