Your avatar can now use tools on the tile they're currently standing on. Scarecrows are even scarier and better lit, too. The tutorial is also in the middle of being improved.
- In case you didn't notice, rasta bars are in the plant health panel!
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug were scarecrows pickup radius was equal to the scare aura.
- Unbounded tools so they can now use your current square. (Should be all tools)
- Fixed lighting issues on scarecrow, crows, and bucket
Known Issues
- We don't support metric units yet, but it's on our to-do list.
Thursday Livestream Event
We have yet another livestream happening October 5 at 1:30pm. Care to join? Here's the link: https://www.twitch.tv/cashcropgame
Cash Crop Update: Version 0.31 Is Live
For the love of birds!
Following the flight of our crows last week, we decided to give your Cash Crop farm a break. There are now scarecrows available to help keep those pesky birdies away from your beloved crops. We also gave the plant health status panels some love.
- Crows are now on the farm (aw!) and they stress your plants out (boo!).
Quality of Life Changes
- Field tool now provides more specific feedback when placing.
- Phone OS (Pause menu) now has a save button next to the close button.
- Options menu has more options for exiting with or without saving.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where the field tool sometimes doesn't create a bottom row properly.
- Various spelling errors fixed.
- Fixed a bug where you could spawn multiples of characters.
- Contract amount tooltip corrected when you have 0oz.
- Minor tutorial bug fixes.
- Old hire buttons in the staff tree have been removed.
Known Issues
- The field tool is only capable of one way of dragging.
Cash Crop Update: Version 0.29 Is Live
The future is now!
The Cash Crop farm signed up for a data plan and has a smart phone. Wanna see the apps they downloaded? Open up any menu screen to see the changes that have been made, along with some new options available in this latest patch. You now have access to the water bucket tool, and Crew AI character swapping has been smoothed out along with the usual list of bug fixes.
- New menu now includes music track info
- Water Bucket can be unlocked from the Supplier in the Skill Tree screen
- Better Crew AI when swapping characters
Quality of Life Changes
- Options menu is now available
- Added Camera Lock/Invert to Options menu
- Music pitch disable is also available within Options menu
Bug Fixes
- Firing current character is now fixed
- Capper's starting plants are fixed
Known Issues
- The field tool is missing indicators for why it can and can't be placed
- The field tool is only capable of one way of dragging
- The field tool sometimes doesn’t create a bottom row properly
- Contracts don't complete sometimes
Cash Crop Update! Version 0.28.1 Is Live
It's that time again!
Crew menu, field assignments, and a little teaser for everyone to enjoy in this week's patch.
- New Crew screen for managing/hiring/firing crew.
- Crew can now be assigned a field to specifically watch.
Quality of Life Changes
- Plant health panel has been rebuilt and shouldn't tear or hop around anymore.
Bug Fixes
- Crew have all taken a class at the local community college and should no longer get stuck watering or fertilizing plants.
- Moving forward (since 0.27.x), old saves are now attempted to be updated with the latest features when continuing games. We will be continually improving this moving forwards.
Teaser
Poly decided technology is the way of the future. She's working on getting a smart phone instead of her current brick. She will miss playing Snake, though...
Known Issues
- Firing your currently active crew member will make the game bug out. Select a different character in the upper right if you experience this problem.
- Hitting tab while menu screen is active will still change active crew member.
Cash Crop Update! Version 0.27.1 Is Live
Fellow Cannabis Millionaires,
Character select, starting perks, and an improved field tool await you in the latest patch!
- You can place fields of any length or width. Instead of having just a few preset options your field tool lets you click and drag to build the exact field you want.
- Character select has been added. When starting a new game you can choose from any members you've unlocked. Each character has a unique perk which shapes their playstyle.
Quality of Life Changes
- Reduced GUI tearing when inspecting plants. We'll keep working on this one.
Bug Fixes
- Save files now display their correct character portrait.
Known Issues
- Sprinklers may occasionally conflict with plants when they occupy the same tile.
- You may see tearing and weirdness on some GUI elements when inspecting plants.
- Crew may freak out causing instability when watering at turbo game speed.
Help Us Decide What To Work On Next
Hey Cash Croppers,
While we're working on the much-requested Character Selector, we wanted to check in with you guys to ask what you'd like to see us work on next.
Option 1 - More Tools: Add more fun tools for taking care of your plants. We'll create a variety of tools including buckets, watering pails, extended reach trimmers, and more. Buckets let you throw water onto your plants which splashes, watering nearby plants. The watering pale and improved trimmers let you reach plants further away.
Option 2 - Improved Equipment and Hardware: We revamp equipment and hardware. Fields become point, click, drag, so you can build fields with the exact dimensions you'd like. While expanding irrigation with more sprinklers, and improved hoses/spigots.
Option 3 - Crew, AI and RPG play: Crew get some more love. We add "leveling up" or similar mechanics to crew, so that they have specializations which improve with use over time. We also take a pass at assigning crew to specific fields, or farms.
Option 4 - Pests, Disease, Weather: We add more gameplay around random weather events, pests (such as fungus gnats, rats, and birds), and other baddies who can wreck your harvest. Place traps, chase off animals with your hose, build scarecrows shades, and tarps to deal with the challenges of outdoor growing (rain, wind, fog, and storm effects.)
If we don't hear a strong opinion from you guys this week, we'll probably start work on click-and-drag fields.
P.S. Oh and here's a (draft) mock-up of the character select screen.
Cash Crop Update! Version 0.25.3 Is Live
The feedback we’ve received this week has been invaluable. We re-worked the economy, removed some frustration points you guys identified, as well as adding a wholesale marketplace and fixing a handful of nefarious bugs.
- Wholesale Marketplace! Got some leftover Snicklefritz hanging around? Plies of Purple Urkle? Now you can sell bud on the open market! Hire the marketer to access the wholesale marketplace. Access the marketplace by clicking on your bud inventory icon (bottom left-hand corner of your screen).
Quality of Life Changes
- Colas no longer need to be manually harvested. They will be scooped up along with loose buds after you harvest your plants.
- Rebalancing harvest to favor more bud and less colas. Instead of needing to harvest a bunch of colas, it has been reworked to be mostly the bud pickups and colas will be a rare spawn that contains bonus bud.
- Each plant’s needs have been rebalanced to make them easier, especially in the early game - as well as more distinct from the other strains.
- The cost to hire the Agronomist and Manager have been significantly reduced.
- Reoccurring costs (farm lease, field upkeep, worker payroll) have been set to $0. Some players were able to reach unwinnable states. We’ll readdress reoccurring costs later when the economy is more developed.
Bug Fixes
- Contract spawning bug! We have located another set of edge cases that cause contracts to not spawn after loading a saved game.
- Contract reward bug! We have located another set of edge cases that cause contracts to not properly complete when finishing an any strain contract.
- Fixed a bug where you would be unable to quit to main menu on game over screens.
Known Issues
- Hash-E contract does not appear during the tutorial. You can continue playing through.
- Sprinklers may occasionally conflict with plants, when they occupy the same tile.
Version 0.24.3 Is Live
It's been an exciting week for the team! We've been busy implementing the bug fixes and suggestions we've heard from you. Thanks again for your patience and all of your bug reports; you've kept Blaggarth extremely busy and we have a lot to show for it!
- Delete button for saves.
- Pickup range increased to unlimited. (It was unclear when you were in-range or not)
- Improved Tutorial.
- Option to skip the tutorial on new saves.
- Replaced buggy bud inventory with new improved inventory.
Bankrupt Game Over - HashE will warn you when you can't meet the bills for the week.
- If you end the week with less that $0 and HashE has warned you then the game will end.
Crew
- 3 more crew members are available to help out on the farm.
- The crew menu has been removed for now. We will add it back in when we add the advanced crew feature.
Staff Menu The Lawyer has a few new things to unlock!
- A part time paralegal to help manage contracts.
- Some new fine print that you can add to contracts.
Options Menu - You can now copy the save file location to the clipboard.
- You can control which music tracks are playing.
Contracts Menu - Added a tooltip to the due date.
- Added an indicator when fine print is active.
- Fixed bug related to overdue contracts still being available to accept.
- Some code cleanup that helps with performance on lower end machines.
- Contracts now order more intelligently. Accepted -> Available Contracts -> Failed and Completed.
- Contracts now better indicate what strains it requires and how many you have available. (Several new hover tooltips)
- Contract negotiation has been cleaned up and clarified. (Checkout the new hover tooltips when negotiating)
- Added a fix for some edge cases that were causing contracts to not complete properly.
Harvest Menu - Plants now show time remaining to harvest.
Bug Fixes
- Contracts rebalanced to be easier when starting out.
- Picking up objects should now be more consistent.
- Fixing contract payout bug
- Fixed a bug where dialogue in menus would get stuck.
Quality of Life Changes - Confirmation message on successful game save.
- Bankrupt game over condition reworked. See below.
- Colas now have a countdown when you break them into bud.
- More detailed information on save/game version to help us track down bugs that people are having.
- Smarter AI pathfinding. HashE gave the crew the ability to teleport if they get stuck for too long.
