Cozy Grove
v5.1 minor update
- If you've been playing for more than a year, seasonal festivals would previously have broken on repeat. We've fixed that.
- Removed unneeded backups from iOS
- Fixed bug preventing some timed quests from repeating in the future
- Stop players from accidentally selling quest critters. Can reacquire.
- Halved Seagull Q21 wood & iron requirements.
- Can't buy duplicate Surfer, Wolf, Emperor or Wary quest items from Kit
- Fixed T3 Ben cats not having colored necks
- All characters can be given their winter gifts outside of the festival
- Fixed controller not regaining focus when closing the splash using touch
- Fixed, or at least lessened, softlock from giving an item to bear then starting two actions
- Added a satellite dish to Jeremy's territory, which will tell you where all your tools are located
- Radar icons do not appear during hugs and the dance party
- Fixed issue with an Archie clothing quest sometimes having a goal of "NaN"
- Fix broken gossip text in certain languages
- Improvements to save system to increase speed and stability
- Memory improvements to help performance on low-end devices and consoles
- Information about the timing of upcoming seasonal events now appears in the main menu
- Bugfixes for issues with the winter festival when encountered for the second year in a row.
- Fix for caught bugs looking visually like they are outside the net
- Other bugfixes and improvements
Hotfix v5.01
The major Spring Update is now live, and also, the New Neighbears DLC!
New Neighbears contains the following:
- 4 new bears. Their stories are longer than any of the game’s original bears, but also designed to take less calendar time to complete – i.e. less waiting in between story beats, and no “waiting for one bear to give you something that another bear needs.” (See, we’ve been listening to you!) These bears appear on the island once you have ascended certain of the old bears.
- A new type of critter – Butterflies – to catch and collect during the Spring and Summer seasons.
- A new option (once you’ve completed a certain quest, we won’t say more than that) to bring all the bears together in one place with you for a special group moment.
- A new song added to the background music collection
- Unique new clothing that you’ll automatically receive upon purchasing the DLC
- Bonus: some free expansions for your clothing closet, as an extra “thank you” for supporting us.
- Bonus: a free, special house cat.
The Spring Update brings Ms. Carouse back to the island, and with her:
- New festival items you can earn.
- Dyes, which allow you to change the color of decorations
- Orchids, which are a Spring-only source of special dyes
- Ducklings, a temporary Spring pet that will follow you around the island once you've unlocked them!
- A new gold storage chest you can buy from Pandam, if you're a late game player with way too much gold in your inventory.
- ... and more, including some nice bugfixes and balance tweaks.
Thank you, all of you, for your support and encouragement. As always, we are very grateful to you, and we hope you enjoy these updates. :)
Update 4.2
- Added an additional row of slots to the default backpack size (increasing it for everyone)
- Fix for issue where cats were not visually appearing hungry, even though they were hungry
- Canceled animal yoga class (animals won’t appear bent out of shape anymore)
- Sped up the animal feeding animation sequence
- Allow players to select what items to give in all delivery quests, not just some of them
- Fix for getting stuck when scrolling in inventory/filters
- Fixed issue where the game could freeze if the player drops a large stack of decorations
- Allison’s photo quests require less food
- Quest turn-in UI stays visible when quest log is open
- Quest log and backpack UIs auto-hide when you’re moving an item
- New solution that will hopefully prevent players from borking their save files by accidentally time travelling backwards. (No guarantees here, but we tried our best.)
- Speculative fix that will hopefully stop chaseable imps from sometimes getting trapped inside objects and thus becoming uncatchable by the player
- Add support for future premium DLC!
- Pandam no longer sells snow sculptures
- Updated catbox button UI to make it more obvious how to convert hairballs into other essence.
- Fix for issue where the dowsing rod might fail to detect new targets at the start of a new day.
- Cleaned up some technical debt.
- Various minor performance improvements.
Update 4.1
- Faster world-loading with better-arranged biomes
- After learning a recipe, we now show the item image preview so you can see what you've learned
- Adjusted blackberry seasonality to fix missing berries in Dec
- Fixed floating bushes
- Imp decorations can be sold for a small amount of cash
- Improved performance in general
- Improve performance of dowsing action, specifically
- Improved font support for multiple languages
- SFX bugfixes for picking up and placing items
- Fall candy can be bought back if accidentally sold
- Pay for costs (like crafting) from the smallest stack first
- Snowfolk available before Day 30
- Snowballs and Snow Crystals can be re-purchased if accidentally sold
- Wigs now show the Owned count
- Fixed issues related to cat happiness and incorrect feeding rewards.
- Add interior decoration and treasure map tags to filters
- Other minor improvements
The major Winter Update is now live!
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- The Winter Festival begins December 23rd and runs for 6 whole weeks. It includes: new snowfolk characters you can craft and speak to, special gifts you can make for some of your island friends, and lots of fun with snow!
- Most collection, crafting and storage UIs now have filters, to help you quickly find the item you’re looking for.
- When you buy a hint from Charlotte, you can now choose which quest to buy it for.
- The new Wishing Well now appears on fully-expanded islands. It allows you to buy the rarer recipes you might still be missing, if you can rustle up enough coin...
- New background music track.
- There is now one more tent upgrade (and 5th interior room) that can be purchased via Flamey.
- New "complete the pattern" minigame that spawns randomly in the world.
- Pandam now sells greens and roasted roots, in addition to his usual things.
- Clothing closet default size increased by 30. You can buy more space for it, too.
- Improvements to photography quests and hints to make them less confusing / difficult.
- Perishable items left on the ground inside your tent will no longer disappear over time.
- Bears will generally avoid wandering on top of hidden objects.
- Darla and Ms. Carouse will not request clothing that's awarded by a quest and thus not immediately obtainable.
- Blue clams once again give essence when you hit them with enough skips.
- When bears step in front of major landmarks (thus hiding them), the hidden landmarks will be slightly less transparent / more visible.
- Fixed issue that was causing Darla to give out more than the expected numbers of clothing items like tichels.
- Various performance improvements/optimizations.
- Various other bugfixes and minor improvements.
We have already started work on our Spring update. We'll share more details next year!
v3.2.0 is now available!
- Have you been wondering what cat hairballs are useful for? We're finally ready to tell you! Hairballs are the meta essence - they can now be converted into any other essence via your catbox. :D
- Improvements to selecting an item when there are multiple nearby/overlapping objects. This will hopefully reduce frustration some folks have reported feeling when they are trying to click or tap on a specific animal or object in a crowded space.
- We've upgraded our game engine, which should help us better support old and new devices while adding new features and improvements.
- Improvements to info panels so they don't extend off-screen on some devices
- Radar will point you at nearby rocks that you can harvest
- Fix for cat beckoner recipe for ultra rare demon cats
- Darla won't ask for hats you can only buy with wolf coins
- Darla wont request clothes that can be locked by quests
- Jester mask is now correctly tagged as a full face mask, not a hat
- Fixed a number of bugs/issues with photography quests
- Ursula will give you some decorations you might need to do her photography quest
- Fix one-off patches of ground surrounded by beach
- Improved inventory sort ordering
- Fixed bug preventing animals from getting increased happiness from ultra-rare and legendary decorations
- Removed old obsolete berry jam and sunflower items
- Automatically remove old/deprecated items from collections that shouldn't be there
- Fixed issue where Flamey wasn't aware of spirit logs in chests
- Hungry imps shouldn't drop unnecessary excess quest items
- Jack-o'-lanterns can now be sold for a small amount of coins
- Fall lamps now limited to Ms. Carouse's store.
- Fixed a memory leak that could cause game to crash over time.
- Fix bug causing some pinned crafting recipes to display unreadable code instead of a description of the recipe.
- Fixed a bug that caused some recipes to drop at the wrong times
- Other minor fixes and improvements
As always, these changes were driven largely by the community's feedback. Thank you as always for helping us make Cozy Grove a better game.