Summary:
New:
* A new villager.
* A new questline involving Rem.
* A whole new island to explore.
* Lots of new blocks, including furniture, flowers and tiles.
* New pets. (Two of which are unlocked in the pet store.)
* New farm animals.
* New VIP merchant.
* New crops to grow.
* New bugs to catch.
* New fish to catch.
* New achievements.


Changes:
* A completely redone tutorial involving most of the villagers.
* Night transitions are now much shorter.
* Pet following changes.
* Reset Key Bindings option has been added for the custom keybindings.


Fixes:
* Fixed certain cases that caused black screens.
* Discord, and other recording programs, should be able to capture the game properly again.
* Fixed players getting disconnected during night transitions.
* Fixes for world holes showing up.
* Fixed some issues with the game not pausing.
* Numerous quest progression fixes.




Full Changes:
New:
* A new villager by the name of Tomti.
* A new questline involving Rem.
* A new island has been added. Includes caves and more.
* A new VIP merchant which appears partway through the new questline.
* 13 new bugs to catch.
* 7 new fish to catch.
* 6 new crops to grow. (4 of which have golden variants)
* 3 new farm animals.
* 6 new pets. (2 of which are unlocked with and sold alongside the Cat and Dog.)
* New recipes.
* New dialogue windows to help explain mechanics during the tutorial.
* 100+ new tiles added. Including furniture, decorations and blocks.
* Added 5 new achievements.


Changes:
* A completely redone tutorial.
* Non-server owning players can now do the tutorial.
* Tutorial is spread out over several ingame days.
* Adjusted Leif’s postal quest for use in the tutorial.
* Adjusted Riah’s fishing spot quest for use in the tutorial.
* Water crops achievement can now be gotten by watering hoed dirt as well.
* Players can no longer spawn with a hoe and shovel if they have completed the tutorial. (Now given early on in the tutorial instead.)
* Selling item achievement only cares about selling an item and not selling a crop.
* The first villager arrival will happen on day 10, or when the tutorial is completed. Whichever is later.
* Can no longer get villager friendship quests without finishing the tutorial.
* Default chat speed is now 1.5x. (.5x chat speeds are now selectable.)
* Added a postbox to the farm for new worlds. (And other minor updates to the barn.)
* Changed backend rendering system.
* Should have less Black Screens.
* Should play nicer with recording software. (For example: Discord)
* Improved Night Transition times.
* Players will also no longer disconnect during long night transitions.
* Night transition time is especially improved on days where islands are reset.
* Reset key binding option has been added to the keybinding menu. As well as size adjustments.
* Pet following behaviour has been changed.
* Pets slow down when getting close to the owner.
* Pets will now get bored if the owner is not moving around. (Leading them to seating, sleeping, begging etc.)
* Pets will not immediately start following until the owner is a certain distance away.
* Pets will interrupt sleeping and sitting in order to follow their owner.
* Non-owners can get pets to follow. (Owner can always get a pet to follow them, even if it was following someone else first.)
* Other pet adjustments:
* Cat, Dog and Rabbit houses are no longer offset off their tiles.
* Some pet behaviours have been adjusted to last longer and to not follow players as much if they are nearby.
* Pet hunger and wellbeing has been changed to not get as affected when multiple days have passed without being fed.
* Pets following a villager will no longer get hungry, nor unhappy.
* Forest Bunny no longer has 2 sets of eyes and the tail has been recoloured.
* Rabbit ears no longer have a gap between them and the head during some animations.
* Town Square and Festival grounds now have protection enabled by default.
* Festival grounds protection gets disabled during certain festivals.
* Postman now leaves after Midday. (Previously 9:30-10am.)
* Building store and General store now sell items at tier 1 to get each other to tier 2.
* Building store also sells more items to repair other town buildings.
* All grasses now spread.
* All grasses can now be hoed into dirt.
* All grasses now have seed packets which can be bought.
* It is now more common to get more expensive seeds out of mixed seeds.
* A large number of model adjustments:
* Fixed colouring on a number of tiles.
* Fossils are more consistent with each other.
* Some model size adjustments.
* Golden coffee bean now looks like a bean.
* Red stone has been made more red.
* Town Square and Festival grounds archway model has been adjusted to suggest that they are a marker.
* A new tile with the old look Festival grounds marker look.
* Sequoia wood tiles using the wrong file.
* Hoeing dirt will now give a more descriptive error if there is a tile above that it can’t break.
* Pet Shop displays and Troughs have been made 1 wide instead of 2 wide.
* Buying and selling adjustments
* Buying and selling items now use 4 digits of precision instead of 2. (So 199900 instead of 190000)
* Changed rounding mode on buying/selling. Stone and other 1 petal goods will no longer go to 0 petals when selling too many.
* If an item is to be sold for 0 petals, it is still allowed to sell.
* Npc Adjustments
* Cirahna spawn day has been changed from 42 to 30.
* Villager tables and rewards are now purchasable from catalogue once unlocked.
* Leif will now spawn at the General store when starting a new world.
* Max will prefer to be next to chairs in the town more often.
* Adjusted spawn logic of Morel’s Mushrooms and Oscar’s Trash during quests.
* Oscar’s trash quest now has some leniency if some trash is still existing.
* Make it so Leif’s Friends quest can be triggered if giving him an item.
* No longer need to talk to Wren 3 times before having her accept to be a postal officer for the village.
* Cirahna and Morel are now required before you can start Eris’s liked quest.
* Changed it so Eris, Jamie and Oscar will arrive after Emelia and Cecile, if not already spawned in the village.
* Cirahna will try to wander less often, and will prefer being in her home when it is built.
* Category Fixes:
* Farm furniture sets are no longer tagged as mushrooms.
* Fireflies can no longer spawn on the ocean.
* Fossils can no longer spawn on fences.
* Lots of bugs now have the right categories.
* Mail can now comfortably show 2 lines for topic titles.
* Can’t sleep notification when game is paused but tutorial has been completed has been changed.
* Bacon can now be eaten.
* Orange, red and yellow juices are now drinkable.
* Butter, Cream and Dark wood blocks are now starter recipes.
* Old trash can now works like the new trash can.
* Improved shoulders on most NPC’s. (Less color flickering on shoulders.)
* Wand no longer says it waters tiles.
* Pumpking Feast Maze no longer has a pillar of grass blocks on a corner.
* Coconut Tree has been rotated so the trunk is over the main tile.
* Debug building tools now place random alts.
* Axe can now spam clicked to destroy blocks, similar to the pickaxe.
* Rosemary will now ask the player to remake her shop if it is broken.
* Control hints are now always shown when creating a new world.
* The Special Mushroom for Morel now gives a pink glow.
* Communications tower and resource signs will now show on the map.
* Town hall requires desks instead of bureaus.
* If a villager is forced to stay still due to a quest, they can no longer talk about daily quests, nor get daily quests.
* Cirahna now causes two look direction updates in case she fell down a tile when getting up.


Fixes:
* Fixed a case where time would advance after unpausing.
* Fixed a case where time did not pause when loading into a world.
* Fixed some cases where the player’s outfit would get lost after transforming.
* Fixed shop shelves sometimes spawning with no items on the first day.
* Fixed merchants sometimes not spawning on the first day.
* Fix NPC’s appearing under ground if they have not moved yet.
* Fixed some cases where extreme lag could occur and caused disconnects.
* Fix losing items completely if a quest item is inserted into a full inventory.
* Fixed daily quests thinking they expired at midnight and not after dawn.
* Made duplicate vip merchants less common, including previous merchant checking to see if they should disappear after some time has passed.
* Fixed a bug which could cause mail to be overwritten when a modded mail goes missing.
* This fixes cases of an unread mail staying unread even when being read.
* This fixes getting duplicate mail from a source.
* This fixes being able to continue getting rewards from a single mail.
* Fixed cases where players could talk to NPC’s, which stopped them, but not initiate dialogue.
* Fixed spreading tiles preferring to go towards a single corner, and thus spreading in lines.
* Fixed totems being considered valid tier 0 even if some building requirements are not met.
* Fixed dogs being unable to beg.
* Fixed some cases where a villager would never ask to arrive.
* Fixed cows and other animals jumping super high, and through roof’s in some cases.
* Fixed Farm fan not always going to the Harvest Festival in all cases.
* Allowed Max to fix more cases where a tutorial was not completed correctly.
* Fixed Left handed offsets being wrong for many items.
* Fixed Leif’s and Morel’s tile rewards acting like tables when they weren’t.
* If a villager loses it’s outfit for whatever reason, it will now get replaced with their default outfit on world start.
* Fixed some cases where sprinklers would not get registered and therefore would not water plants at night transition.
* Fixed spawning another Stray Cat whenever Rosemary’s liked quest is completed.
* Fixed Rosemary potentially getting stuck after completing the Stray Cat quest.
* Fix having to click multiple times for option dialogue to show when talking to merchants.
* Fix merchants sometimes not saving their dialogue on world close, which meant they could repeat dialogue they shouldn’t.
* Fixed the dialogue capture breaking if pausing when talking to merchants.
* Fixed the Rainbow Butterfly requirement on the Museum not showing up on the right quest.
* Fixed players will no longer switch between swimming and standing constantly
* Fixed crash in dialogue if it asked to remove multiple items of a category, but they were different items.
* Fixed a case where getting the Tractor Fossil was impossible. (Talk to Farm Fan if you have this issue.)
* Fixed a case where you could be stuck at the Treetop village. (Talking to Rem should resolve this now.)
* Fixed a bug where quest tiles would be counted multiple times, and would not be removed properly in certain cases.
* Fixed cases where players could do Jamie’s first and final quest out of order and locking them out of progressing it.
* Fixed cases where Yoshi and Damian could disappear forever with no way of getting them back.
* Fix some cases where compound tiles could stick around when a tile’s size has been changed.
* Fixed a case where postmen may not spawn at all. (Talk to Leif if you are currently having this problem.)
* Fixed info book talking about the Hoe when trying to get the Hammer.
* Fixed Santa hat removing hair.
* Fixed Aliza only showing 7 of 8 options when her store is broken.


Modding:
* Mod manager and Steam launcher can now detect what mod caused staxel to fail to start, and give that to the user.
* New offmaps are now loaded in when the world is started as long as they are added to world gen.
* Ability to add weathers to be set when going to an offmap island.
* Added logging for when dialogue changes between nodes.
* Auto tiling will now resolve compound tiles to their main tile. (This means large tile can now be the target of auto tiling.)
* If a dock tile is removed, it should drop the items stored on it.
* Catchables now check if their tile exists when content building.
* Can now specify if a VIP merchant should only appear after a global is set.
* A number of new dialogue commands.
* Replacer item component now gives a default notification tile of dirt.
* The ability to edit the following files with patches: Worldgen.config, villagerPools.config, criticalVillageBuildings.config, worldGen.config
* Fixed issue where not all dialogue commands were validated if they were contained in an if statement.
* Fixed a bug which would cause dialogue crashing if options were added to an if statement, and one branch had no options.
* Added the ability for Farm Fan to temporarily stay at a location.
* A block type has been added to pop up on screen guides if interacted with.
* Treasure now make sure to check for items that crashed
* Can be disabled with “bypassItemCheck”.
* Structure color limits have been upped to 4095 colours.
* Added ways to check to see if a file exists or doesn’t exist before doing a patch.
* “patchIfFileExists” or “patchIfFilesExists”
* “patchIfFileDontExist” or “patchIfFilesDontExist”
* A file has been added so mods can patch extra categories to not add for daily fetch quests.