Updates

This is a list of **updates** about the *Spirittea* game:

* New UI elements for the Spirits section of the in-game menu
* New UI elements for the Collections section of the in-game menu
* New UI elements for the Friendships section of the in-game menu
* New button prompts for when an item can be used
* The Queen figurine is now easier to get
* Fixed a bunch of NPC pathing issues
* Fixed some more bathhouse weirdness
* The snowmen quest is fixed for those people who were encountering some weirdness
* Figurines can now be sold for more Moolags
* Fixed Eric's quest, where he'd stand next to the restaurant for some reason
* NPCs will follow you slightly better now
* NPCs hobbies no longer show as "1" in the notebook
* Seaweed isn't called "seaweed soup" in the shop anymore
* You don't lose your bike when you get hit by a snowball anymore
* You can't pass through the bridge on the east side of town anymore
* Fixed the bath monkeys. Stupid monkeys
* Swapped two of the dig sites that were incorrectly interchanged
* DEFINITELY fixed Sujin's quest this time
* Fixed NPCs being missing or stuck during Meet the Townsfolk
* Made 2 of the books purchaseable more than once in the shop
* Loads of other stuff

### 1.5.3

Spirittea 1.5.3 was released on December 7, 2023

* Fixed a bug where the home cooking UI doesn't recognise the new doubled storage and fridge sizes
* Added Juso, Flitt, Lunariss and Avanis as spirits which appear around the town if you’ve completed their quest
* Fixed a bug where the "Fall is Coming" painting was appearing EVERYWHERE once up on display
* Levelling up while sweeping the bathhouse won't cause bugs with the brooms anymore
* The baby boar doesn't move during a loading screen or if time is paused
* Fixed a bug where players couldn't get into the tunnel by the temple due to an invisible barrier
* Removed the ability to eat as a tanuki, which was causing a soft lock
* Fixed a bug where Quill's sand castle wouldn't appear
* Fixed a bug where the pamphlet was showing Jillian & Yari's friendship as 0 if they were out of town
* Your bike will now appear outside of your home when you sleep or become exhausted, so it will never get lost
* The repair kit used to fix the shrine for Bruce's quest will now be destroyed after repairing it 3 times
* Added more quest hints for Leigh
* Julian's knife now has a name!
* Cooking elixirs at home now produces 3 of them instead of 1
* Ensured that plants regrow their fruits
* Fixed a bug where Fonuki wasn't revealed in-game after the reveal sequence
* Fixed a visual bug with large text and boxes when looking at recipe ingredients in the bathhouse recipe book
* Fixed a bug where the spirit's countdown timer in Clarence's quest was displaying too large in other languages
* Fixed a bug where NPC hobbies appear as "1" instead of a word
* Fixed a bug where berry bushes were growing odd items rather than berries? weird

### 1.5.2

Spirittea 1.5.2 was released on November 29, 2023

* Separated Miko and Amelia more when they're preparing kimchi in front of the shop in the mornings (this one was especially tough, never get between a lady and her kimchi!!)
* Removed using joystick as an option for karaoke minigame as inputs were too inaccurate and we were failing you for no reason (sorry!)
* Removed penalty of losing points if you mistime in the karaoke minigame, making it a lot easier
* Ensured one-of-a-kind shrine items cannot be sold (making completing the shrines impossible)
* Fixed Sora's bug-catching text to use the correct player name
* Fixed spirit vision teapot blinking and not resetting after sleeping
* Fixed issue where if you close the bathhouse, NPC helpers with towels in the main room will not spawn their towels unless you go to another room and come back. Now the towels will appear where/when they should
* Fixed the stinker statue being misnamed sun melon(??)
* You're now NOT able to be holding a towel (clean, wet, dirty), open your bag and swap to a different item (resulting in towel ending up in backpack)
* The game now checks that there are at least 10 towels (the starting number) available to you in the bathhouse somewhere. If you lose any towels in a shift, they should now reappear!
* Added some code for players who collected the bard and prisoner figurine before the bug where they weren't counted as collected was fixed. Now you can get the achievement!
* Fixed a bug where player health was below 0, meaning they couldn't move

### 1.5.0

Spirittea 1.5.0 was released on November 23, 2023

* The recipes for Butterfruit Pie and Mixed Veg Pizza can now be found in the shop rotation
* The demon pepper spawns \*way\* more now
* Ling's skeleton! It turns out it was sometimes parking itself \*under\* the bridge to the right of town. So it was there, but you umm... couldn't see it. The skeleton will stop nearby now, rather than under the bridge. If you're still struggling to find it, maybe try hitting the interact button under the bridge!!
* Amelia and Clarence's quests can't clash anymore
* Added a TON more localization to the game
* Insects now make a flutter noise! Lovely
* Towels won't get stuck in impossible to reach places anymore. Stupid idiot towels
* Generally fixed more issues with spirit bathhouse placement
* The final 2 figurines will be recorded now!
* Fixed a bunch more various crashes!

### November 21, 2023

Spirittea 1.4.9 was released on November 21, 2023

* Items given to you via friendship won't sometimes disappear anymore
* Fixed a ton of crashes
* If you're eating when you hit 0 stamina, it won't explode anymore
* If you're hanging out with an NPC and they have a different activity to do, they'll keep doing your activity instead
* You can catch fireflies and cloud cats in your bug trap safely now!
* Spirits shouldn't randomly disappear when placing them in the bathhouse now
* Baby monkeys can't swim in hard to reach places
* NPCs working your bathhouse won't lose towels anymore
* You can now put wet towels on the wet towel table!
* You can now put dry towels on the dry towel table!
* Fixed a bug with spirit vision getting stuck during the weird popup text box quest
* Song now has art asset changes based on her mood
* Fixed issue where people were getting a black screen when loading the game (sorry!)
* Added missing localization for Spanish, Chinese and Japanese (still a few bits to fix up though!)
* Made fishing easier!
* Doubled the amount of items you can have in the world at once (for all those extra fish you’re going to be catching!)
* Tripled the size of your house and fridge storage (for all you hoarders)
* AND Steam Cloud issues between Steamdeck and PC are now sorted!

### November 17, 2023

* Fixed the issue where Fae never finishes her bathhouse work! Just jump to the next day and she should FINALLY finish up
* Fixed the issue where you can sometimes get locked in place while fishing!
* Fae doesn't randomly call you Dan anymore! Who the \*heck\* is Dan anyway?!
* The book will say your town name now instead of some other place
* Fae can give you her map properly now!
* Moby has a soaking animation when he goes in the hotspring now!
* Some other bits and pieces

### November 16, 2023

* Villagers who aren't meant to be on the map at certain times (eg. Ling, Tifa, Sora) shouldn't show anymore
* Sujin's quest is fixed!
* It won't rain as much anymore, thank god!
* Some of the endless fishing issues should be resolved
* The cooking minigame should work properly now
* Fixed some issues with the drinking minigames
* Some other bits and pieces

You'll get the download automatically. We're hoping to put ANOTHER update out tomorrow, that we hope will include:
* Steam Cloud support
* Fixing the issue with Fae not finishing her work at the bathhouse
* Some other issues you've been reporting to us