Gorge Valley - Update 0.0.3.8: Barn & Buffet! (Patreon)

(THIS IS THE PREVIOUS STABLE BUILD! IT SHOULD BE DECENTLY LOW ON BUGS, BUT OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS STILL EARLY DEVELOPMENT. BE WARY OF CRASHES.)

Before we get to all the patchnotes and stuff, the good part for everyone who wants to skip all the nonsense... THE LINK!

DOWNLOAD UPDATE 0.0.3.8 HERE

HOWDY FARMERS!

At long last, it's finally here! The big one! The main event! The lead act!

Alright, maybe I'm upselling it a bit. But finally, after all the blood, sweat, tears, and bare-knuckle-brawling with the camera system to get it to behave properly, IT'S COMPLETE!

This update, of course, includes the newest villager and pinkest cow of the line up, Candace! She'll sell ingredients for baking, and various foods to feed your cows!

That's right, you heard that correctly! FEED them! Rather than feeding them from the eternal void, you now have to actually get them food and feed them yourself via the new feeding minigame!

The minigame itself is simple. All you need to do is select food from your inventory. It'll fatten up the cow and make them fuller depending on the type of food you gave them, and then will give you a small hexagonal coloured piece. Matching three or more of these together will bring your cow's Fullness down and create a higher numbered hexagon. The higher the hexagon matched, the more Fullness you'll reduce on your cow to allow you to keep feeding them!

And, of course, the barn is now fully usable! You can enter, assign cows to stables, and pick them up to follow you whenever you'd like! You'll also now need to assign them a stable before milking them, as milking will always take place at their stable!

And yes, of course each cow gets to put their own personal touches on their room in the barn!

There's of course PLENTY more changes and additions, such as the new Oven that can be crafted at the workstation and used for cooking, and the newest dryad type, the Wheat Dryad!

However, for a more comprehensive list of changes and additions, you can check the patchnotes below!

0.0.3.0 PATCHNOTES:
-NEW COW: Candace the Baker! This cheerful, party-ready airhead will sell you ingredients to bake your own goods, or sell you some delicious treats so you can skip right to the good stuff!
-NEW MINIGAME: Feeding! The feeding skillcheck has been replaced with a match-style minigame that uses food in your inventory to fatten up your cows.
-NEW CRAFTING: Cooking! Create an oven and start making some delicious dishes!
-NEW DRYAD: Wheat Dryad! A whole new crop to add to the farm! She produces wheat, a staple for baking! You can buy her seeds from June!
-NEW STATE: Bloated! Cows can now become bloated at every weight state when their Fullness is sufficiently high.
-Cows will become gassy at high Fullness. Turning off "Gas Volume" in options completely removes this for those who do not prefer it.
-The Barn has been implemented!
-Inside the Barn are stables which can be assigned to each cow. Once assigned, they will be brought there for milking and will fill their room with personal touches unique to each cow.
-Cows can now be ordered to follow, and brought inside buildings with you.
-Cutscenes now trigger a "black bars" mode on the screen.
-Reworked the dialogue system.
-Added "Moods", which affect the dialogue of cows.
-Chairs can now be destroyed by cows of sufficient weight.
-Boulders now spawn on the farm. They can be destroyed for stone.
-Added craftable refrigerator, oven, and lava lamps.
-Added calm particles to backgrounds.
-Fixed issues with the lighting system when coming in and out of buildings repeatedly.
-Saving and loading has been made more stable, but a warning is now issued when you attempt to load an old save version.
-Completely reworked the camera system.
-Like, completely reworked it. The bug should be gone this time.
-Seriously. Like, completely gone.
-Fixed a bug where the topmost border of the screen had feet randomly walking across it over the barn.
-Made the Discipline minigame for Dryads less annoying to do.
-Fixed a bug where picking up a lot of items at once made most of them disappear.
-Fixed a bug which broke the game when talking to someone in front of a door.
-Made June 20% more cottage-core.
-Fixed a bug where Mocha approved of June's cottage-core aesthetic.
-A few other small things, like SFX tweaks!

0.0.3.8 PATCHNOTES:
-Fixed some game-breaking inventory bugs.
-Fixed a bug that made Izzy not spawn in new games.
-Made Fullness drain from the Feeding Minigame lower so as to not bypass overfeeding entirely.
-Cow Fullness and Milk no longer rapidly drain when you're away from cows.
-Cows will now actually refuse being fed when in a bad mood from overfeeding, so as to prevent just feeding them one thing at a time and ignoring Fullness.
-Fixed a bug that drained cow Fullness and Milk when saving.
-Time now actually passes when you leave a room.
-Fixed a bug that spawned 2 copies of Sky.
-Cows will now slowly produce milk even if not fed.
-Fixed more inventory bugs while gifting.
-Fixed a bug that got the player stuck on the stables when feeding.
-Fixed some bugs that broke the game when multiple dialogues opened at once.
-Timers and Fullness now no longer pause when changing rooms.
-Fixed a bug where characters couldn't be interacted with after using a bovinity potion.
-Fixed a bug that caused crashes when girls were full when they changed sizes.
-Fixed a bug where wildberry dryad sprites wouldn't show parts of her body.
-Fixed a bug that allowed multiple cows to follow the player, usually resulting in crashed.
-Fixed a bug where trying to milk a cow outside the barn would crash the game.
-Fixed some feeding minigame bugs that caused crashed.
-Fixed some inventory bugs.
-Fixed a bug that made dryads no longer burp.
-Fixed a bug where Candace's bloated state wouldn't load properly.
-Fixed bugs with bloated dialogue crashing the game.
-Fixed a bug that caused crashes when talking to dryads.
-Fixed a bug that didn't let you re-enter the barn once you took a cow from their stable.
-Fixed a bug that caused S'apphire to crash the game when she felt like it.

Alright! that just about covers it for now!

As always, please feel free to leave feedback, suggestions, or any other comments! I read everything and love to know what y'all think of the updates.

Until next time, Farmers!