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Staxel

Patch Staxel 1.4.39 (191005a)

Staxel 1.4.39 (191005a)

This patch contains a rebalance of seed maker, as well as some smaller fixes. All golden seeds chances from the seed maker have been increased, and certain crops will give more seeds back.

Note: Gold fruit in the seedmaker have not been changed this update.


  • Increased all gold seed chances from the seedmaker.
  • Seed amounts have been made less random, and have been slightly increased across the board.
  • Cheesecake does not require the Patisserie Mixer anymore.
  • Coffee beans now count as berries in terms of pricing. (Sell for about 1/10 the price.) They still grow year round.
  • Certain emotes no longer appear from the lucky box.
  • Fixed the off chance that rain could stay raining indoors for a long period of time, when enabling the "prevent weather indoors" option.
  • Added "/hasCheated" as a command to check if the world has been cheated.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause farms 2-4 to rotate into the town and destroy buildings.
  • Fancy Table and Fancy Table Small now have docks to place items in.
  • Animal Hunger has been capped to 2 food, rather than the previous 5 food. (They will eat 2 things if left alone for a while)
  • Removed the ability for animals to despawn if left hungry and unhappy for too long.
  • Harden animal scripts to stop them from infinitely eating.
  • Fixed sponges having the wrong name on occasion.
  • Giant turnip is no longer a quest item and is sellable.
  • You can now select dialogue options with right click.
  • Make sure some commands give proper errors when you don’t have enough arguments.
  • Counters and store shelves are now required to be placed on the ground, in order to count, for all stores.
  • Safety checks for duplicated control bindings.
  • Avoid crashing if recipe book goes out of range.
  • Avoid crashing on docks in cases where it expected an item but none was found.



Patch Staxel 1.4.37 (190807a)

With this update the bobblehead collection should be complete. This patch also fixes a couple issues that have occured due to the last update, such as postbox troubles and yellow roofs becoming black.


  • Bobbleheads for Jamie and Eris has been added. If you already have completed their final quests, you should be able to get it by talking to them again.
  • Added a “Are you sure?” check to returning home via main menu.
  • Added a new way to sort reactions when multiple reactions contain the same ingredients. Should heavily prioritise the recipe that is “most correct”.
  • Clothing, sponges and other items without default codes should now work properly as part of reactions.
  • Fixed yellow roof pieces changing into black roof pieces.
  • Fixed an internal crash if more items with a category was placed in docks than needed for a sign/postboxes.
  • Above fix also fixes a duplication bug that would occur upon placing an item in an area that was crashing.
  • Fixed a couple NPC’s that would allow you to give the Friendship bracelet as a normal item. (These npc’s will not take the item anymore.)
  • Fixed Aliza giving away 4 resource signs every time you need 1.
  • Fixed Aliza counting resource sign that isn’t complete as missing.
  • Resource signs are no longer quest items.
  • Fixed some other NPC’s giving their totem even while the totem was placed and incomplete.
  • Small changes to make transformation more reliable and less likely to eat clothing.
  • Fixed a crash associated with a tile having no bounding collision.
  • If a postman can’t find any postboxes to go to, they will leave the village rather than completely disappear.
  • Fixed some cases which caused the mail in UI to not represent the currently selected mail.
  • Mail of different petal counts will no longer stack together.
  • If mail is stacked, the postbox will only take 1 mail at a time.
  • If mail was stacked when sending, the reader will no longer open all mail at the same time.
  • NPC’s will not ask for an item that cannot be gotten from the catalogue. (They will still ask for things not unlocked however.)
  • Fixed a green line appearing on Golden Water Melon seeds.


Patch Staxel 1.4.36 (190723a)

This patch aims to fix a couple of reported issues, and to make sure “Unexpected EOF while reading vlq” crash does not happen again.


  • Sleeping bag is available in the general store. Again. This time I checked.
  • Fix cloud blocks not keeping other blocks held up.
  • Stone blocks will drop stone when cascading.
  • Roofing has been updated to allow for being placed upside down. They will be upside down if a block is above them.
  • Upside down roofs will no longer be sold, and will give a normal roof when broken.
  • Recipes that included a step that was to be done multiple times, will now display how many times that step is needed.
  • Recipes requiring a step to be completed multiple times will check for that many resultant items first.
  • Add an option to run content builder with validation in the mod manager.
  • Allowed all game versions (i.e. Steam, GOG) to play together with no extra hassle.
  • Fixed the root cause of “Unexpected EOF while reading vlq.”, and it will not happen in future.
  • Fixed Fancy Candles being 1 tile smaller than they should be.
  • Changed mushroom sofa recipe to require 4 fine lumber rather than 8 lumber.
  • Grocery store counters can now sell items.
  • Content builder will check for edge cases of two items will not have the same code. (Such as a tile and a normal item)
  • Added the ability to indicate that a recipe step is to be done multiple times.

Patch Staxel 1.4.35 (190613a)

This update was focused on improving questing and making completing a building slightly easier. It also features bug fixes and some other improvements.


  • Tiles placed on top of tables, counters and other storage places can now count towards a sign/postbox. (Tiles must appear full size, and not all signs (i.e. Barn, Chicken Coop etc) will accept stored items.)
  • If your inventory is full when an NPC gives you an item. They will send it via mail instead of dropping it on the ground. (Quests done before mailbox is given and certain other cases will not send mail.)
  • If a mail would give you money, claiming it will always give you the money.
  • Backup quest completion will now properly work for Aliza Max and Riah. (For old saves.)
  • Sleeping Bag will now appear in store as intended.
  • Fixed Riah trying to sell you a second totem, when she gives you a totem when your inventory is full.
  • If you told Aliza the barn is complete, Max will not require the barn to still be complete when talking to him.
  • Fixed Farm Fan acting crazy during the Harvest Festival.
  • Fixed up the case of two identical cardboard boxes showing up in game.
  • Postbox will now appear when searching for “mail” in the catalogues.
  • Made inventory screen more forgiving of mouse movement. Should solve some issues of cursor disappearing.
  • Villager job items can now include tiles placed in storage. But only if they count towards the sign.
  • Starbits will give an inventory full message if attempted to be picked up but will stay emitting particles.
  • Fix Morel being able to pathfind while at the Mushroom Island.
  • Box Deleter will no longer act like it is a Box Placer. You can now also get rid of it like normal.
  • Patch files will now give warnings on revalidation if they are patching nothing. (Can be turned off per file.)

Patch Staxel 1.4.34 (190603a)

A small update to fix up some bugs and other issues.

  • All NPC’s for festivals will reset every year. Allowing you to get the limited items, once per year.
  • Players no longer get debuffed for fainting in creative mode.
  • Removed a check that might have caused some people to not get the build a barn quest from Aliza.
  • Fixed Likes for Aliza, Cirahna, and Oscar. Added some additional likes as well.
  • Snails are now actually counted as snails by the game.
  • Starbits merchant will not help with Sell Boxes, nor mention that you can resell items.
  • Cecile’s monster is now more tolerable of multiplayer. (No longer pickup able at the wrong times, will respawn if missing etc.)
  • Fix a Null Reference that would occur if a .patch file was invalid.
  • Manifest files can no longer be edited by .patch files.
  • Added an “Are You Sure” check to deleting all mods.
  • Onigiri recipe now uses Boiled rice and not uncooked rice.
  • Fishing gatherables with negative spawn chance weight, will now be made positive.
  • Added a box deleter tool. Acts like the box placer, except only deletes the area.
  • Added a sleeping bag, which does not set the players home.
  • Made the earliest sleep time to a bit after midday.
  • Fixed several issues that occurred when attempting to do a daily quest after midnight.
  • NPC’s will (mostly) stay in their home until wake up time.
  • Farm Fan stays out for more of the night.
  • Game should no longer crash due to back in time exception.

Patch Staxel 1.4.33 (190521a)

This patch was focused on fixing a couple issues that were happening later in the game, as well as some other minor issues.


  • Added a button to swap an entire inventory row with the main row.
  • Added rotating the hotbar and inventory using alt+scrollwheel
  • Fix collections menu skipping half a page when pressing the arrows.
  • Slightly increase the height of the fishing pond to allow for more layers of water.
  • Fixed some bugs and fish not showing up in the collections menu.
  • Fix talking to Tourists early messing up Max’s final quest.
  • Fixed the delay on the sponge, causing it to place much later.
  • Fix 2 infinite dialogue loops for Max’s final quest.
  • Fix backup villager spawns for Max’s final quest.
  • Leif’s prison is now indestructible.
  • Treetop village will no longer teleport you before you hit the ground. It will teleport if you walk too far away.
  • Added a backup to Riah to complete the fishing spot quest for very old worlds.
  • Fixed a couple Null Pointer Exceptions.
  • Don’t crash if a player somehow gets the same exact quest twice.
  • Added priority to patch files. Higher priority means it is applied later.

Staxel 1.4.31 (190506a)

This is an update that aims to fix some of the randomization issues, causing it to be harder than necessary to find items. As well as smoothing out some of the issues with quests.


  • Shops and Merchants now use a biased spawn system. They will rotate their stock with new items more regularly.
  • Added Kitchen Sink, Kitchen Table, Kitchen Counter, TV, Fridge, Door Frame, Bathtub, Sink, Toilet, Desk Clock, Computer and Office Filing cabinet to the furniture merchant.
  • Many totems are now excluded as being part of the town, including the barn and fishing spot. It should be easier to find a home for Cirahna and Morel.
  • Farm animals will now follow you if you have food, that you can give them, in your hands.
  • Petal rewards for quests have been slightly increased for all quests.
  • Pet houses can no longer be placed in Festival grounds. (Can no longer lose the pet permanently this way.
  • Animal renamer appears in the catalogue.
  • Fixed Easter eggs spawning when they should not be.
  • Increased the relative chance to get any Quest Fish.
  • Spider Cave and Cotton Island will now reset once a month.
  • Fixed a bug which could count a Quest Fish as part of the spawnable pool when it wasn’t.
  • Fixed a bug where after using a player renamer would mean that animal renamers would only rename the player.
  • Slop Trough is now distinct from the normal trough.
  • Pet shop shelves are now distinct from normal shelves.
  • Can no longer empty a sponge, if there is not space for it in the inventory.
  • Fixed Airship Parts and Mundane Transformation potion items being quest items.
  • Emelia will give you the cheesecake recipe if you have not already learnt it. (If you are not finished the quest, you can talk to her to gain it.)
  • Fixed a bug where you could not use the player list commands if the person had a space in their name.
  • Spare Rainbow Butterfly harvests can now be removed by talking to Vorlen after finishing his quest.
  • Spare Tower Door keys can now be removed by talking to Eris after finishing his quest.
  • Spare Demon Door keys can now be removed by talking to Jamie after finishing his quest.
  • Spare Game Contracts and Pitch Documents can now be removed by talking to Jamie after finishing his quest.
  • A new tile has been added to the catalogue. A small blue crate which you place quest items into.
  • Recipes will no longer content build if the result is a quest item. Unless you provide a value to bypass the check.
  • Fixed a couple of layer issues on easter Accessories.
  • Large number of updates to the Asset Manager.
  • Added an editor to the Asset Manager which allows you to edit world files. (e.g. Remove the cheat flag from worlds.)

Staxel 1.4.30

This is a small update to fix some bugs found since the Arcade Update. (1.2.29)

[List]
<*> Fixed an error that could occur when the postman failed to find a grocery store
<*> Fixed another crash caused by an empty name in character generator.
<*> Scythe has been sped up a tiny bit.
<*> Fixed the offsetted Princess Dress model.
<*> Fixed an issue where the controller could select nothing on the recipe screen. (And cause an internal crash.)
<*> Fixed some cases where Cirahna would get stuck with no Dialogue when trying to check for mailboxes.

Arcade Update



Take a trip back to the most excellent golden age of arcade gaming with the all new Arcade Mini-Games available in Staxel! After you've had the local video game enthusiast twist your arm to build them a sterling Arcade, simply interact with one of the normal Arcade Machines to gain access to the new mini-games. They come in three flavours, reflecting the playstyle of early arcade games, but we'll let you discover those for yourself. We hope you enjoy!

Patch Staxel 1.4.29 (190422a)


  • The arcade machine now contains 3 games.
  • The game now allows the user to add their own modded minigames to the Arcade Machine.
  • You can now edit mail by left clicking on the Mail Counter.
  • Candy prices have been lowered.
  • Villagers will always show when an item is unlocked.
  • Mouse 4 and Mouse 5 are now bindable.
  • Mouse buttons can now be double clicked to sprint. (If bound to movement.)
  • Magnifying glass now unlocks items you look at.
  • Stray Cat can now be spawned again if it goes missing. (By talking to Rosemary.)
  • Stray Cat should also avoid being taken if the quest is already complete, or not started by the player talking.
  • Eris will try to go to Daily quests more often.
  • Cirahna will give items again if they go missing.
  • Growth Time of the giant mushroom has been lowered to 1 day per visual change. (Down from 2.)
  • Wedding gifts can be sold, and are no longer quest items.
  • Barn sign is now sold with the rest of animal furniture once the barn quest is complete.
  • Players can now buy water from the callum was here catalogue, as long as they purchase it with starbits first.
  • Allow Mushroom walls to be searched for. (Will now also unlock in catalogue.)
  • Max will now remove the giant turnips as well as the seeds.
  • Changes to Max’s Friend quest to improve reliability. (If stuck talking to the villagers, try again and it should continue now.)
  • Watering Can stack size lowered to 1.
  • Watering Can should be used in crafting recipes 100% of the time now.
  • Restrict Lief from liking the upgraded tools, and thus requesting them.
  • Lower the distance required for Signs/Postboxes to be considered “Away From Town” (From 175 blocks away from any town totems to 100 blocks.)