We hope you’ve been having a wonderful November! With fall comes crispy leaves, cocoa by the fire, bundling up in blankets, and news about the Sun Haven Nintendo Switch release!
Drumroll please…
Sun Haven will be available for digital purchase in the Nintendo Switch eShop on November 29th, 2024!
(Americas region only)
You read that right, Sun Haven will be available on the Switch for the Americas region later this month on Black Friday, November 29th, at 7am PST.
These regions include:
The United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Peru.
For those of you worldwide, we will have more news to share about our release dates outside of the Americas very soon, but rest assured, Sun Haven will be coming to Switch to players worldwide over the next couple of months.
We are happy to be bringing Sun Haven to the Nintendo Switch at 30+ FPS, on par with other beloved games on the Switch, like Breath of the Wild or even Fortnite. Our team has put so much heart and soul into optimizing Sun Haven to make it run just like it would on PC, as indistinguishable as possible. In fact, there are essentially zero content differences between the two platforms as a result of all the amazing engineering work we’ve managed to accomplish. We hope you can see that effort when you get your hands on the Nintendo Switch Edition of Sun Haven later this month!
We’ve also prepared a Switch release FAQ that will hopefully answer any of your burning questions, so keep reading below for more information - including a sneak peek at some gameplay of Sun Haven on the Nintendo Switch!
Let’s jump right into it!
Sun Haven Nintendo Switch FAQ
When is Sun Haven releasing on the Switch? - Sun Haven will be available for digital purchase on the Nintendo Switch eShop on November 29th, 2024 at 7 AM PST.
Will there be a physical release? - We are not planning a physical release of Sun Haven upon launch, but we are definitely considering the potential for a physical release in the future!
Can I pre-order Sun Haven on the Switch? - Sun Haven will not be available for pre-order for the Americas region but will potentially have pre-orders for other regions.
Is Sun Haven coming to other consoles? - We hope to port Sun Haven to other consoles like Xbox and Playstation someday, but right now our focus is on Steam and Nintendo Switch specifically!
Will the Switch version have the same content as the Steam version? - The Nintendo Switch release of Sun Haven will match what is available right now on Steam at launch.
Is the Switch version going to be multiplayer? - The Switch version will not have multiplayer at this time, but once Sun Haven is released on the Switch, we will be looking into how difficult it will be to add multiplayer!
Will the Switch version support cross-platform saves or cross-play? - The Switch version will not have cross-play at this time. Your Steam and Nintendo Switch character save files will be separate!
Will the Switch version have translations? - Yes! The Switch version of Sun Haven will be available in 19 different languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
Are you still offering Kickstarter key swaps from Switch to Steam? - Yes we are! If you want to change your Sun Haven Backer Key from Switch to Steam, please send an email to pixelsproutdistribution@gmail.com and we will work on getting your keys swapped over as soon as possible!
When will I get my Kickstarter backer rewards? - For those who requested Nintendo Switch keys and are from the Americas, you should receive a Nintendo Switch key at launch. As for the cosmetic rewards, those will be delivered at a later date.
Is Sun Haven going to be available on upcoming Nintendo Consoles? - Our goal is to have Sun Haven available on all upcoming Nintendo platforms and/or consoles!
Now, who wants to see Sun Haven in all its beautiful, bright-screened glory on the Nintendo Switch?
Sun Haven on the Switch? Very cutesy. Very mindful. Very demure.
Lastly, we want to extend our sincerest apologies for the time that it’s taken to bring Sun Haven to the Switch. The port, development, testing, and approval process has taken far longer than we originally expected or anticipated, and we are very sorry for the delays and the inconvenience to all of our Switch Backers and other players without Steam who haven’t been able to play Sun Haven yet. We spent much of our time making sure that Switch players would not get an older version of Sun Haven, and would get a game that is just as good as the PC version. We completely understand your frustrations, and we’re very sorry for the delays. We are excited for the Nintendo Switch Edition of Sun Haven to be in your hands now!
Because Sun Haven was our first game, it’s safe to say we’ve learned a lot from Sun Haven’s development and publishing, and we will make every effort to improve our development, communication, and publishing going forward. Thank you very much for your continued support, patience, and understanding. We couldn’t do this without you. ❤️
Phew, that was a lot of information, thanks for sticking with us through it all! If you have any other questions, concerns, suggestions, bugs to report, or the desire to make new friends, be sure to join our Discord here: https://discord.gg/sunhaven
Have a wonderful week! We’ll see you soon for the Nintendo Switch release! 🎮
Micropatch 1.7.1: Fixed Halloween Portraits and Updated DLC Store Images
Hey everyone!
We just released another micropatch that is live now on Steam for Windows, Steam Deck, and Mac! This micropatch includes some updates and bug fixes for:
Added additional images to the new DLC packs to display all the items you will receive in the main menu shop
Fixed some new DLC Items not showing in Vault Shops
Fixed an issue causing Halloween Busts to be floating off the bottom of the screen
Fixed the Flower Farm skill description to match the new Tuesday delivery day
Fixed typos in Karish’s Halloween event dialogue
Fixed an issue causing people who purchased Lucius’ Moon Souvenirs Chest to receive Lucia’s Mystical Finery Chest in the mail
Fixed the Claws and Paws Pack, Liam's Homemade Gifts Pack, and Kai's Curiosities Pack shop descriptions
Attempted a fix causing the main menu shop to appear shifted down minorly on Mac
The Cardboard Cap no longer makes the player bald
Catherine's Witchy Spellbook can now be placed on tables
Adjusted Donovan's Rug so it can now be placed near walls and furniture
Fixed an issue causing Lynn’s Chest to appear as Tea Temple Chest
Fixed an issue causing the Orange Tiger Tail and Orange Tigress Tail to have swapped sprites in-game
Nature's Gift Headdress no longer makes the player’s head appear flat
Feather Flight Headband no longer makes the player’s head appear flat
Fixed an issue causing the player's normal hair to appear under the Lost Musician Veil Wig
Fixed Poofy Pants (Blue) name to match Poofy Shirt (Teal)
Added a pop-up notification to the main menu shop if players have the Steam Overlay turned off
As always, make sure you log out of Steam and log back in so you get the update! If you run into any issues at all, please let us know in the #report-bugs channel in our Discord server and follow the pinned report template so we can help!
Happy November! 🍂🦃
Tavielle, Community Manager Pixel Sprout Studios
Sun Haven Patch 1.7
Hi everyone!
Can you believe it’s almost Halloween already?! It feels like the first day of summer was only yesterday… In any case, we’ve got another minor update hot off the press to celebrate the spooky season, and we can’t wait to share it with you!
Before we talk about Patch 1.7, we’re sure you’re all antsy for an update on the Nintendo Switch release. Good news, we will have an official FAQ, a sneak peek of Switch gameplay footage, and more news about the Switch port soon, so please stay tuned! We really appreciate your patience throughout this longer-than-expected process, but we are very excited to share more information soon. 👀
Now, onto the update…
Sun Haven Patch 1.7has new decor items, Halloween festival portraits, optimization improvements, French translation improvements, in-game exclusive DLC packs of all your favorite romanceable characters, and more!
Let’s dive right in! 🎃
Check out some of the adorable new paths, fences, and gates! 😍
Sun Haven Patch 1.7
New Decorative Items:
Added 24 new craftable fences and matching gates to the Advanced Furniture Table
Bamboo Fence
Bamboo Gate
Iron Ridged Fence
Iron Ridged Gate
Red Woven Fence
Red Woven Gate
Brick Fence
Brick Gate
Farmer's Fence
Farmer's Gate
Swashbuckler Fence
Swashbuckler Gate
Ancient Amethyst Fence
Ancient Amethyst Gate
Iron Rod Fence
Iron Rod Gate
Reinforced Fence
Reinforced Gate
Copper Paneled Fence
Copper Paneled Gate
Gilded Steel Fence
Gilded Steel Gate
Frosted Iron Fence
Frosted Iron Gate
Added 34 new craftable tiles to the Tile Maker
Sand Floor TIle
Rainbow Floor Tile
Seashell Checkered Floor Tile
Beach Sand Floor Tile
Teddy Bear Floor Tile
Golden Moon Floor Tile
Purple Moon Floor Tile
Spooky Floor Tile
Cherry and Strawberry Floor Tile
Blue Skull Floor Tile
Black Skull Floor Tile
Diagonal Dark Oak Floor Tile
Overgrown Pink Brick Floor Tile
Pink Brick Floor Tile
Mottled Brown Stone Floor Tile
Mottled Pink Stone Floor Tile
Brown Tiled Floor Tile
Simple Stones Floor Tile
Light Floral Stone Floor Tile
Chiseled Floral Stone Floor Tile
Grassy Flower Floor Tile
Grassy Stoney Floor Tile
Rounded Stone Floor Tile
Dark Floral Stone Floor Tile
Stepping Stone Floor Tile
Overgrown Wooden Slat Floor Tile
Simple Woven Floor Tile
Rose Stone Floor Tile
Heart Checkered Floor Tile
Wooden Stepping Stone Floor Tile
Stitched Spooky Floor Tile
Orange Gilded Floor Tile
Mismatched Wooden Floor Tile
Steel Plate Floor Tile
Coming Soon: Over 300 new craftable furniture items!
Halloween Portraits:
Added unique Halloween costume portraits for all romanceable characters during the Halloween event
Major Optimizations:
Adjusted lighting throughout Sun Haven, Nel’Vari, and Withergate
Adjusted particles throughout Sun Haven, Nel’Vari, and Withergate
Added new optimizations to reduce lag and improve performance
Majorly reduced loading time when selecting a New Character
Majorly reduced loading time when selecting Load Character
Community Translations:
Minorly updated French translations based on community-translated text
UI:
Updated mailbox notification pop-up UI
Added an in-game store for purchasing DLC items
Balance Changes:
Increased player movement speed by 2%
Lowered the in-game time required for a seed maker to produce seeds
Seed maker mana costs have been adjusted
Starting max mana has been increased from 10 to 20 mana
Increased hardwood and heavystone drops by 2
Increased the speed of eating food by 30%
Nerfed the spawn rate of seaweed by 25%
Increased the spawn rate of driftwood by 25%
Adjusted the Flower Farm skill tree perk to now deliver seeds on Tuesday and not Friday
Increased the Hidden Gems skill tree perk to now have a 25% chance to obtain a sapphire
Decreased the Hustle skill tree perk movement speed to 2/3.5%/5%
Increased the Self Sustaining skill tree perk to 6/8/10 mana restoration
Increased the mana cost of casting the Bubble Net spell to 65/60/55 mana
Lowered the EXP gained from Nel’Vari mine and Withergate mine rocks
Increased the Top Shelf skill tree perk sell prices to 5/10/15% for animal products
Increased the Happy Animals skill tree perk to 10/20/30% chance to get an extra animal product
Lowered base mana regen from 0.2 to .175
Increased the Delicious Experience skill tree perk to get 20/40/60% more EXP from jams
Bug Fixes:
Attempted a fix on a bug causing character portraits to flash white
Fixed an issue causing some busts to be offset
The seed maker skill now clarifies that you have the chance to obtain 1 extra seed
Features in Development:
Nintendo Switch port
Steam Deck verification
Another new region
New romanceable character dates
Updated romanceable character likes and dislikes
More festivals and events
Multiplayer update with PvP combat and more
Multiplayer player-to-player marriage
Customizable house interior flooring
More house exterior customization
More farm decorations, and furniture items
DLC:
We are excited to announce that 25 new DLC packs will be available in the new in-game store with Patch 1.7! All DLCs will be extra, optional, and cosmetic only, and will never contain exclusive story content.
There are now fresh sets of furniture and decor items, clothing items, and pets based on your favorite romanceable characters available via the new in-game store!
THESE PLUSHIES ARE THE CUTEST THINGS EVER.
As mentioned previously, we will continue to release minor patches until after Sun Haven is available on Nintendo Switch. Right now we have a lot of exciting new features in development, and we can’t wait for you to see more soon!
Micropatch 1.5.7: Updated Traditional Chinese and Spanish Translations
Hey everyone!
We just released another micropatch that is live now on Steam for Windows, Steam Deck, and Mac! This micropatch includes some updates and bug fixes for:
Minorly updated community translation for Spanish
Minorly updated community translation for Traditional Chinese
Translated RNPC home items that can be examined
Translated the Taxi sign in Sun Haven
Translated the overnight cutscene with Seedil
Fixed an issue with the overnight cutscene where the Delivery Dragon mistakenly says you answered the question incorrectly
Fixed Tidewitch Robe in Load Character menu
Fixed an issue with the 15-minute-days setting not saving properly
Fixed an issue that didn’t allow you to use the Withergate Well to refill your watering can when using a controller
Added the ability to use Small and Large Mana Tomes from your hotbar when using a controller
Added missing romanceable character records to the Record Store
Updated default controller buttons on the hotbar (now L and R Bumpers)
Updated default controller buttons for secondary use buttons (now Right Trigger and Left Trigger)
Improved optimizations throughout Sun Haven to assist with load times
Removed the confirm button on the birthday selection screen in Character Creation
Changing your language while in game now takes you back to the main menu
If you would like to help out with more language translations that will continue to be updated in future patches, please join our Discord here: https://discord.gg/sunhaven
Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to the translation efforts so far. We are very, very grateful for your knowledge and the effort that you’re putting into helping us bring Sun Haven to more players worldwide! ❤️
As always, make sure you log out of Steam and log back in so you get the update! If you run into any issues at all, please let us know in the #report-bugs channel in our Discord server and follow the pinned report template so we can help!
Have a wonderful week! 🎃
Tavielle, Community Manager Pixel Sprout Studios
Micropatch 1.5.6: Updated Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional
Hey everyone!
We just released another micropatch that is live now on Steam for Windows, Steam Deck, and Mac! This micropatch includes:
Minorly updated community translation for Simplified Chinese
Minorly updated community translation for Traditional Chinese
Fixed an issue with the iron sword causing players to become stuck
If you would like to help out with the Simplified and Traditional Chinese language translations that will continue to be updated, please join our Discord here: https://discord.gg/sunhaven
Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to the translation efforts so far. We are very, very grateful for your knowledge and the effort that you’re putting into helping us bring Sun Haven to more players worldwide! ❤️
As always, make sure you log out of Steam and log back in so you get the update! If you run into any issues at all, please let us know in the #report-bugs channel in our Discord server and follow the pinned report template so we can help!
Have a great weekend! 🎉
Tavielle, Community Manager Pixel Sprout Studios
Micropatch 1.5.5: Updated Community Translations
Hey Adventurers!
We just released another micropatch that is live now on Steam for Windows, Steam Deck, and Mac! This micropatch includes updated community translation text for the following 5 languages:
Korean
Brazilian Portuguese
German
Japanese
Russian
We’re extremely thankful for the help we've received from the community volunteers so far, and we hope to bring even more improvements, fixes, and optimizations to the translation process and supported languages in the future!
Some languages and dialogue in the game could use some more help, too! If you're fluent in any of the following languages, then we could really use your help with translating in-game text so we can continue to make Sun Haven available to players worldwide:
Korean
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Japanese
German
Brazilian Portuguese
French
Danish
Polish
Swedish
Italian
Russian
Ukrainian
Turkish
Spanish
Dutch
Norwegian
Portuguese
If you’re interested in volunteering to help with any of the above Sun Haven translations, please join our Discord and head to the #how-to-translate channel here: https://discord.gg/sunhaven
Thanks again to everyone who has contributed to the translation efforts. Your work is very appreciated, and we truly couldn’t do this without you. Thank you!
Have a grape Monday! 🍇
Tavielle, Community Manager Pixel Sprout Studios
Sun Haven Community Translations
Hi Adventurers, happy Monday!
We are so excited to announce an important update on our Community Translations project. ALL of Sun Haven's in-game text and dialogue is now available for community assistance in the following languages:
Korean
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Japanese
German
French
Brazilian Portuguese
Danish
Polish
Swedish
Italian
Russian
Ukrainian
Turkish
Spanish
Dutch
Norwegian
Portuguese
If you're fluent in any of the above languages, then we could use your help to do some of the initial translations for the game. Details are in our discord here: https://discord.gg/sunhaven
There will be a translations update soon to implement previously community-translated text into the game! The texts on these newly supported community translated docs will also be added, but before that can happen, we will be vetting the content that gets translated to ensure the text is as accurate as possible. We’re very grateful for the help we've received from the community so far, and we hope to bring even more improvements, fixes, and optimizations to the translation process and supported languages in the future! Thanks for your continued support!
For more information, head to the #how-to-translate channel in our Discord!
Have a great week!
Tavielle, Community Manager Pixel Sprout Studios
Micropatch 1.5.4: Crashing and Disappearing Barn Animal Fixes
Hey Adventurers, it’s Tavielle here!
We just released another micropatch that is live now on Steam for Windows, Steam Deck, and Mac! This micropatch includes fixes and updates for bugs, issues, and feedback from the community, such as:
Fixed an issue causing multiplayer games to crash
Fixed an issue causing barn animals to disappear
As always, make sure you log out of Steam and log back in so you get the update! If you run into any issues at all, please let us know in the #report-bugs channel in our Discord server and follow the pinned report template so we can help!
Happy ranching! 🐮 🐷
Tavielle, Community Manager Pixel Sprout Studios
Regional Price Adjustments
Hi everyone,
We wanted to let everyone know that we’re going to be making some economic adjustments with our pricing.
We haven’t made any price adjustments to Sun Haven since it was first released in 2021, so as of today, we’ve made adjustments to more closely match Steam’s pricing recommendations for Sun Haven across multiple different regions. This pricing is intelligently created by Steam, is how we initially set the price for the game in all regions, and is how nearly all games on Steam set their localized pricing. Because it’s been several years, some small regions have changed greatly, so in those cases we’ve opted to go lower than Steam’s recommended pricing. Additionally, we’ve also decreased the price of a few DLC packs, and added localized prices for LATAM, CIS, MENA, and SASIA which should make the game significantly more affordable in those regions.
Thank you so much for your continued support, and happy gaming!
Pixel Sprout Studios
Mac Saves Issue and Cross Platform Cloud Saving
Hey everyone,
We've just made a change today that allows Steam Cloud Saves to now transfer across all devices. If you have multiple Windows and Mac devices, all your saves should now be available across all of your devices (as long as you have Steam Cloud Saving enabled, which should be the default for all Steam users)!
Unfortunately for some Mac Operating Systems, this does involve the save folder moving, meaning that your save file temporarily might not be showing up in game anymore. If you experience this issue, don’t worry, your save file is not deleted or gone!
To fix this issue, please follow these steps:
Go to /Users/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/Library/Application Support/com.PixelSproutStudios.SunHaven and copy your Saves folder
Paste your saves folder into /Users/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/Library/Application Support/Pixel Sprout Studios/Sun Haven
Notes:
If you are having trouble finding the folder, please use the Finder -> Go To Folder, and try typing the folders above.
If you aren't seeing some of the folders, press “CMD+ Shift + .” to view hidden folders.
This should fix your missing saves and return them to normal. Making this move also allows your old saves to make use of the Steam Cloud Saves feature going forward if you’d also like to play on other devices now!.
Thanks everyone for your patience as we continue to improve Sun Haven. We’re sorry that this improvement involves manual work on your end, and in the future, we will try to make it so these types of changes are made automatically for all operating systems.
If you run into any issues at all, please let us know in the #report-bugs channel in our Discord server.
