See you at the stream!
https://www.twitch.tv/toplitzgames
Farmer's Dynasty
We're live very soon! Today, 4 pm CET
See you at the stream!
https://www.twitch.tv/toplitzgames
A quick reminder about the stream tomorrow, May 8th, 4 pm CET
We'll make it short: don't miss it!
https://www.twitch.tv/toplitzgames
Farmer's Dynasty is streaming farm life - May 8th 2019 - 4 pm CET
Hello!
Today we want to announce our very first expedition to streaming Farmer’s Dynasty. So, expect a lot of farming action and maybe we’ll lift the myth-enshrouded secret of the pigeons!
When, you ask? May 8th at 4 pm CET.
Farmer's Dynasty Discord server now available!
Hello!
You wanted it! You get it! We secretly worked on plans to overthrow the world and to rule the galaxy, yet we only got a Discord server. Maybe you can help us with the remaining stuff! So, welcome to our official Discord!
https://discord.gg/ENwgPPW
Major Performance and Graphics Update (0.997, 2019 04 12 )
Enjoy and ... Farm on!
Characters
- New NPC models, textures and animations. New NPCs tend to be similar to old ones in appearance, but better quality and with better skeleton.
- New NPCs can speak (mouth movement) and blink their eyes. They also yawn, chew and so forth.
- All female NPCs have hair or hats.
- Decreased probability of glasses for NPCs (only for a new game, not from saved game).
- Additional sets of different clothing for all NPCs.
- NPCs can switch parts of clothing.
- Different NPC faces within the same model
- Clothing and faces persist through save.
- Hight of various NPCs adjusted.
- Skinmeshes of various NPCs corrected.
Repairing & Design
- Buildings can now be painted in different colors.
- When buying concrete plaster in building materials store, player is given 24 colors to choose from. Plaster will be in a chosen color and when finishing external walls using this plaster, they will have the color too.
- Player can buy plasters of different colors one by one - materials on the palette will have the color selected for him to see
- Last chosen color is remembered in the menu.
- If rebuilding with plaster with a color, player tab menu shows current plaster color on a rebuilding main icon.
- Buildings in the distance (compressed) properly display colors of painted walls.
- Fixed flickering of colors when transitioning into a compressed building.
- Ability to repaint painted surfaces with new color (but not the same one).
- Better animations when adding concrete plaster.
Machinery
- New tractor added.
- New tractor by default has similar color as in cover art (but not when its already loaded from a game saved when it was green).
- New tractor has more powerful engine and a bit bigger tank.
- Improvements to new tractor's physics shape and balance.
Animals
- Added rooster to be bought in the agro store.
- Hen breeding introduced. If there are unpicked eggs from previous and rooster is present, there is a chance that new hen will hatch.
- If the henhouse is full and egg hatches, chickens are automatically sold with proper info.
- Introduced ducks and geese, to be bought separately in agro store.
- Ducks and geese are not dependent on the bird food, they feed themselves by the lake nearby.
- Ducks and geese give eggs with much less probability than the hen do. However these eggs are better and more expensive if sold.
- Ducks and geese stay in player barn overnight and player should look for their eggs there
- Pigeons introduced.
- New animals correctly stated in farm stats info (reformatted a bit to fit).
Additional & Bugfixes
- Restored proper info regarding fixing player farm buildings.
- Fixed bug allowing to buy animals and seedlings even if not having proper money.
- New/improved PBR lighting. This includes global illumination, physical reflections, direct and indirect lighting and fogs.
- New HDR curves and tone maps.
- Improved AA filtering.
- Improved transitions between different mesh LoD stages.
- Less invasive bloom (no overbrights).
- Problems with Tree LoDs fixed.
- Wide number of code optimizations (mostly on the CPU side).
- Fixed missing mirror sockets in some vehicles.
- Render issues when moving fast fixed.
- Reorganized agro store menu. Divided into 3 categories switchable with tabs for clear navigation.
- Added new greenhouse vegetable: bell pepper.
- Added canned bell pepper to be cooked by player.
- Wife can cook delicious stuffed peppers if bell peppers are stored in the pantry.
- New greenhouse plants also correctly stated in farm stats info.
- Improvements to digging with wheels.
- Improved shadow projector quality and probing density.
- Improved shadows detail and ranges.
- More precise NPC position.
- Fixes to HDS physics after game load.
- Fixes to bales and material physics after game load.
- Fixes to near world physics recovery after player quick travel.
- Fixed bug when fixing/rebuilding a part only partially and moving back, it was sometimes rendered huge and somewhere else.
- Optimized grass rendering.
- Lowered speed limit that determines if a trailer can be unhitched. Was 12 or 18 km/h (depending on a vehicle), lowered to about 4 km/h.
- Improved physics parameters for Amazone KG4000.
- Shadows from vehicle wheels should be displayed properly.
- Fixed blinking of iron fences in distance.
The taste of the near future - Big update incoming!
The clock is ticking! Soon we’ll release the new update containing a bunch of big changes! As a teaser we have some exclusive screenshots for you – check them out!
0.996, 2019 02 27 (February Update)
as we needed to drop the update for January we're back in action with the February Update. Without further redo, here's the changelog:
- Reformatted agricultural store menu dialogs to accomodate wider language texts.
- Fixed having veggies in a greenhouse after starting a new game.
- All old trailers can now be connected to new tractors.
Additional - New greenhouse plant: Melons. Seedlings are available at the agricultural store.
- New inventory items: Melon, Canned Melon, Apple & Melon pie.
- Apple & Melon pie is cooked by wife, if player has apples and melons stored in the pantry. - New feature: Scarecrows
- Scarecrows can be placed in a predefined place in player's orchard and in the middle of fields.
- Scarecrows increase crops in orchard (2x more apples) and in fields (by additional 10%)
- Scarecrows cost 150 euro each, but they increase SP on creation.
- Places where scarecrows can be build are visible in Engineer's Sight.
- Scarecrows on fields have collisions disabled when driving (to not mess up field work) - New feature: Apples on trees
- Apples grow on trees, both in player's orchard near the house, and elsewhere in the world.
- There are more apples in player's orchard than in the other (far away) trees, but any can be picked.
- Apples are green 20 days after being picked up, and turn red (ripe) 40 days after being picked up.
- Green apples cannot be picked up, only red apples can.
- Nearby apples ready to pick up are highlighted green in ES. - Added ability to order fertilizing on player's fields (workers).
- Improved buyable kitchen model and textures.
Bugfixes
Best,
your Toplitz & UMEO Team
0.995b, 2018 12 28 (Language Update)
Localization
- Added voice overs in French, Italian and Spanish.
- Added Turkish localization (text).
- On first start, game defaults language to Steam language (English as fallback when selected language is not supported).
- Text and voice language can be changed in game, but Steam's language tab in the library option has higher priority.
- Changing game language in Steam settings to any of the vocalised languages, automatically changes voice over language.
- If switching via Steam to a non-vocalized language, voice overs default to English.
Bugfixes
- Dog gravity ignores flying drone.
- When player is flying the drone, dog returns to his house.
- Fixed rare rooftop issues on some barns.
- Several adjustments to Grass Distance Ultra setting.
Best,
your Toplitz & UMEO Team
0.994f, 2018 12 19 (Hotfix)
Hotfix uploaded:
- When material is on the unloading ramp, E uses the material, Enter sells it.
- Fixed bug that allowed to use sold material source indefinitely.
- Wider key prompt representation affecting several languages.
- Altered way of translating UTF-8 to internal Unicode.
- Added debug console texts to test systems where lockit fails to load.
- Fixed bug where drone was active as player in the greenhouse.
- Fixed repair mode changing after a single repair action.
- Drone shadow solid (used to flicker in certain angles).
- Adjusted font size for load/save menu.
If the font in the main menu fails to render please send !ConsoleLog.txt from the game folder to support@toplitz-productions.com or post its content in our Bug report thread on Steam.
Best,
your Toplitz & UMEO Team
0.994c, 2018 12 18 (December Update)
December Update is now live!
Bugfixes
- Fixed bug of detail textures leaking into vehicle dashboards.
- Adjusted 3p lift and drop angle for worker plow, it should be more parralel to the ground and the wheel should not sink.
- Adjusted wheel position in the plow.
- Fix rear mirrors positioning.
- Fixed issue where player hands (not tools) were visible while milking cow.
- Proper (not blinking) fade ins, including the one after bus travel.
- Improved params for workers, workers should properly reach any field in the world.
- Fixed disappearing workers.
- Fixed mirror blue sky intensity.
- Improved/fixed physics params for baler and bale trailer.
- Helper should not drive in circles in the middle of the field.
- Helper properly leaves the field and drives to his original starting point.
- Helper properly destroys attached vehicles when finished working on field.
- Changing between packed and unpacked state of the building should not be visible any more.
- Proper rotation while NPC fishing.
- Proper position and rotation while NPC sawing.
- Fixed projector specular calculations that were resulting in speculars visible through the object.
- Children voices restored.
- Proper Unicode/UTF8 support.
- Properly switching action-related texts when switching language.
- Properly switching plant and crops names after switching language.
- County names properly switched after switching language.
- Proper PTOs for non-3P vehicles.
Balancing
- Decreased bale sale price to 50%.
- Increased worker fee proportionally.
- Grass hay bales give x2 to cow food and x2 value on sale.
- Added social points on dialogs.
Additional
- Added text languages: Polish, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Korean, Japanese. [Turkish will follow soon.]
- Added new item: Headlamp.
- Headlamp is modelled on top of player's hat.
- Added new item: Drone.
- Added ultra setting for grass visibility range affecting tree lods and object appearing distance as well.
- On ultra grass distance, lod for crops moved to 200m.
- Better params for worker's header lift, should keep the header more forceful to the ground.
- Proper coding of game message error windows.
- Wife/kids can gather eggs, milk cows and gather older greenhouse plants (only functional, not visible).
- Wife collects greenhouse veggies just after ther best ripe period (it's still best to collect them manually).
- Wife collecting the greenhouse veggies will only trigger if the player is not near the farm.
- Cannot buy vehicles when it is night.
- Building store not operational during the night.
- Agricultural market not operational during the night.
- Bale market (selling bales) not operational during the night.
- Player cannot use bus stops if he has less than 5 Euro.
- Bus tickets cost between 2 and 5 Eur depending on travel distance.
- Ability to select amount while cooking in home kitchen.
- Ability to sell owned fields using main map.
- Added compass in ES.
- Compass displays world directions and action/special places much further than actual ES in 3D.
- Grass mowed from fields actually leaves hay, can be baled.
- Drone can be bought (replenished daily at John's).
- Drone can be launched from player inventory.
- Entering any menu or TAB menu cancels drone flight.
- Drone can be moved forward, sideways, up/down fith full flight freedom.
- Most amount choice bars have options to add/increase by a fixed value.
- Added recipe for cooking with eggs.
Options
- Currency choice in options menu.
- Text language choice in the main menu.
- Spoken language choice in options menu.
Best,
your Toplitz & UMEO team