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Black Garden (Alpha 0.1.4) Winter Update!


Merry Christmas everyone!

I decided to do a little surprise, Winter themed update for the game. This update pushed back the release date for 0.1.5 but did add some festive feels to the game. The Winter's Day event will likely last until the next major update some time after 7th of January.

A portion of what was coming in 0.1.5 is actually now released in this update instead.

Remember to backup your saves!

Full Change Log:

  • Winter's Day Event implemented!
  • You can build Snowmen with the Goblin kids! A snowman can be brought to life by crafting a special heart item with Alchemy. The Snowman joins you as a minion and carries a unique Scarf and Accessory items which can be equipped to the player instead.
  • Snow now replaces Rain as a weather effect and Snow Piles replace Rain Puddles. Both changes are purely cosmetic.
  • Special, festive items now spawn along side other forest floor items. These include various Candy Canes, Snow and Snowflakes.
  • Chests now have a chance to spawn as giant present boxes instead, these contain special festive loot and recipes.
  • Various festive consumables, furniture, weapons and accessories can be crafted by learning recipes found in festive chests.
  • 2 Recipe books will be given on game start up or through opening the chest in Lapis's room (3 for Patreons).
  • Ice nodes can spawn instead of the usual gathering nodes, these can be mined for the Ice crafting material. Ice can be ground into Snow.
  • Werewolves wear festive hats and have a chance to drop them on defeat instead of bangles.
  • Festive food items are more effective during this event.
  • Sugar Rush special buff has been added, adding a 10 turn +15% bonus to both VP and WP as well as a minor VP and WP regeneration.

Other Changes:

  • Save deletion bug related to place-able lights has been fixed. Make sure you pick up any lights that had been placed before activating them again.
  • Craft gauge colours have been changed slightly to improve visibility by adding some more contrast.
  • Critical crafting has been added. The bar will briefly flash white, hitting enter in that moment will award +50% more crafting exp to the given crafting profession.
  • Cute Bow, Bone Amulet, Twine Amulet, Cloth Tunic, Bandit Belt, Barbarian Bandana, Soldier Glove, Merchant Hat had minor reworks, mostly buffing them slightly.
  • Mining 101 manuals have been added as drops to chests.
  • [Gift] tags have been removed from Sandals and Cute Sandals as they can not be gifted yet.
  • Garnet Weald now has a distinct battle background, differing from that of the Emerald Forest.
  • Incidence of Rainy Weather has been slightly decreased (Again!).
  • Fixed a bug that made you start with 10 VP worth of damage if starting as a Mage or a Fighter.
  • Snail Minion now recovers when sleeping and after leaving your party.
  • Battle Skills for Level 2 Black Magic, and Athletics have been added as well as a few cross discipline skills between the combat specs.
  • Cologne is now implemented and grants +1 Reputation bonus when Talking or Flirting, a +1 bonus to Seduction/Persuasion and Haggle Rolls as well as +25% to income from Brothel Work while active.
  • Fixed a bug that allowed Slimes to dissolve your gear when you ran away or defeated them.
  • Slime Cantrip spells have been slightly buffed.
  • Beehives now correctly award Wax in addition to Honey!
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Spider Farms from being sold to the Merchants.

Files

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Dec 25, 2019

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Happy holidays to you, too! Wow. I don't know how to back up saves, so it's that start-fresh time again...

You  can just take the save files out of the game folder and put a copy of them somewhere else just in case they get deleted by something as had happened in the past with the lamp bug. Otherwise just put them into the new game folder and continue playing, no need to start again!

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Aw, that's okay, Feyring. I don't mind starting over--it gives me fresh perspective. I might do that this time, though, since there are special recipes and so on--I didn't get the two recipe books from the Queen's chest, though I have gotten some from gift-box chests since.

Thanks for the heads up, that bug seemed to only happen if starting a new game. I fixed it now and the version uploaded now should award the recipes in chest.

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Thanks for the quick reply! It's always fun to find new recipes, even if it's just one at a time. I especially like critical crafting, too! It mixes up the flow of trying to make a sequence of items, and makes you wake up and pay attention.


Edit: Whoops, just found a winter's day coat. Its description is just -DEFINE-.

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Thank you for the heads up, I assumed I had taken it out as it was not finished. I'll have it removed in next update and I'll make sure that people that found them get some coins added to their inventory instead, or maybe another coat.