Hey everyone! It’s been a busy month here at Code Cozy, and we’ve been working hard to make your experience smoother, prettier, and more enjoyable. Here’s everything we’ve been up to:

New Features & Big Changes

• Fishing Improvements
  • Added dialogue for fishing that gives feedback on why you didn’t catch a fish (because sometimes the fish are just too clever).
  • Updated the fishing UI to be simpler and give basic directions.
  • Casting gauge now affects casting distance, so aim carefully!
  • Disabled pausing the game while fishing to keep things fair.
• Building System Updates
  • You can no longer build outside the zone (no more floating islands on the river).
  • If your build overlaps with something, it’ll refuse to place.
  • Wandering 3 seconds off the farm now auto-turns off build mode (no more building in the middle of town).
  • Quality of life improvement: Using the hammer now auto-builds the plot.
• Dialogue & NPCs
  • Added a new dialogue UI and NPC cameras for a more immersive experience.
  • Introduced a special arrow button to end conversations, replacing the generic [Leave] and [Nevermind] options.

Visual & World Updates

• Levels & Lighting
  • Made sure levels and level loaders line up properly.
  • Removed extra overlight levels to avoid light conflicts.
  • Fixed textures on several assets, including ORM-to-mask errors.
  • Fixed shrunken assets from reimports (no more dollhouse-sized tables).
• Art & Assets
  • Imported and swapped a ton of art assets: sinks, stairs, bulletin boards, axes, hammers, kaiberries, scythes, and more!
  • Updated building textures (except the blacksmith, they’re still working on their glow-up).
  • Added more meshes and detailing to the town hall to make it feel more alive.
  • The library and general store levels have had a massive visual update, be sure to check them out!
  • Put the map in the engine and added toggleable fishing locations.

Miscellaneous Fixes & Improvements

• Added checks for physics and velocity before turning off physics. Let us know if you encounter the infinite velocity spinning stick!
• Made enemies not interactable. They’re past the point of conversation anyway.
• Removed scroll wheels from chests and reduced their size to 25 slots.
• Updated door opening and closing logic for consistency.
• Fixed the tea pet’s movement (it was stuck due to scaling issues).
• Implemented the sitting animation node for your character.
• Removed normals from fish to improve their appearance.
• Added collision to small berries and tree fruits to prevent them from falling through the ground.

Known Issues

We’re aware of the following issues and are working on fixes. Here’s a breakdown by category:

• Input
  • Can not trigger combat mode.
  • Watering unbuilt plot.
• Building
  • Movement retains after interacting.
  • Hoed plots cannot be walked or run onto.
  • Plots do not get saved.
• Audio
  • Falling noise effect.
  • Watering soundFX on pause screen.
• AI
  • ENT walking animation is backwards.
• Level Design
  • Lighting near the fireplace.
  • Fern's house is dark.
• Dialogue
  • Eriato text block "do you need anything?"
  • Saoirse dialogue size code visible.
• Lighting
  • Player’s shadow glitches in water.
  • Tree shadow pixelates over water.
  • Player image reflection by water near fence.
• Inventory
  • Equipping item on top of another item causes the item in the hotbar to disappear after re-equip.
  • Catching fish doesn’t update stack in hotbar.
  • Invisible inventory items.
  • Unwanted object replacement.
  • Holding tools are not in Fern's hands.
  • Pickaxe is comically large.
• Art
  • Trees are super pixelated and need to be more tiled.
• Gameplay
  • Night time got too dark.
• Fishing
  • Stuck bug if in fishing mode at the end of the day.
  • Fishing gets stuck on the wall.
  • Bobber gets stuck on the edge of the bank.
• Farming
  • Cannot interact with farming plots when left-clicking with equipment.
  • Plots interactable text says "Placeholder Text."
  • No place to use the axe.
• Settings
  • Display type doesn’t save.

Thank You!

We couldn’t do this without your feedback and support. Keep sharing your thoughts with us, and stay tuned for more updates!