Farm Together - Polar Pack

New features:
Houses that can you can build and enter, with a new shop inside featuring plenty of furniture and decorations!
New Items:
3 New Pigs
3 New Chickens
2 New Cows
1 New Flower ( Oleander )
1 New Crop ( Purple Cauliflower )
1 New Fence (light posts)
1 New Decoration (Mailbox)
Improvements:
Now you can flip fences while placing/moving them by pressing the move key, same way as with buildings.
For sufficiently large amounts of items, an outline of their icon will be shown in the map.
On the Map, fuel stations are colored differently. Same with houses.
The resource icon is not shown on feeders if they are not required.
Gameplay changes:
Increased flower level up speed.
Bugfixes:
Fixed rotation for the preview of some decorations not being consistent.
Fixed the Nectarine Tree not becoming transparent when behind it.
Fixed UI getting stuck if you quickly press the map/interaction key after teleporting.

New features:
Increased farm size to 5x5 unlockable areas. Area unlock level threshold has been reduced a bit so it's easier to unlock chunks now.
Created 10 new area layouts to fill the new space.
New items:

• Saanen Goat
• Purple Hydrangea
• Two aquatic decorations: Rubber duck and Boat

New customization items:

• Round Glasses
• New cap
• Kabuki face paint

Improvements:
On 64bit versions of Windows, the game executable is now 64bits as well. It should help with some out-of-memory crashes in specific farms.
Quest Discard key has been changed from Alt to Control.
Bugfixes:
Fixed Goats model so they have 2 udders instead of 4.
Fixed Quest rewards not counting towards the "Earn 500 Medals" achievement.

Hi!

Today's update main feature is the addition of a new animal, the Goat!

We're also adding plenty of new items in many different categories, as well as a number of quality of life improvements and bugfixes, so make sure to check out the patch notes!

Today's Farm Showcase: "Thank you for this cute dress!" by Lydia


New features:

• New farm items:
  • Coffea tree
  • Almond tree
  • Goats!
  • Red scorpion fish
  • Iridescent Shark
  • Blowfish
  • Blue Hydrangea
  • Pink Hydrangea
  • Venus Flytrap
  • Flax
• New customization items:
  • New skirt color
  • 2 new pairs of glasses
  • Cat face paint
  • New gesture: Thinking

Improvements:

• When placing crops on non-plowed land, the character will plow land without the need of cancelling placement, plowing and reselecting the item again in the shop.
• Improved overall CPU performance of big animal fields.
• Quests now have an icon telling their length.
• Number of items planted of something is shown on the shop window.
• Maximum allowed guest permissions for farms has been changed to "Plant".
• Reduced a bit the duration of the vehicle work animation (it was longer than initially intended).

Gameplay changes:

• Added a new quest for farms over level 20. The quest length has been changed a bit, the short ones should be obtainable in a single session.
• New quests will reward more Medals depending on the farm level.
• Changed the flower system: Now flowers will not stop growing if they run out of water, instead they will always take the same time to grow and the money earned will depend on how much time they had water. The minimum money they yield has also been increased.
• Adjusted experience values of some items.
• Farm visitors will now increase their boost meter by feeding animals or planting Quest crops (only crops).

Bugfixes:

• Character will no longer "walk in place" when performing a series of consecutive tasks.
• Fixed Map not working properly when using a gamepad.
• Fixed fence highlight being rotated wrong when moving them under specific circumstances
• Fixed being unable to sort items in the shop window when using a gamepad (by changing the Sort button).
• Fixed skybox issues in Photo mode.
• Fixed feeders not working properly upon farm load.
• Fixed being able to grant Full permissions to Guests on the Pause menu.
• Fixed steps on water being quieter than on land.

We also wanted to let you know that we're working on allowing bigger farms in the near future (probably 5x5 plots instead of 5x3 as it's now), as well as other major features that will still take a long time to be complete.

Hi!

Today we're bringing another hotfix, this time fixing the issue where the shop would show empty if you were playing in Danish, along with an useful Map key.

New features:
Map key: By pressing the M key you can open the Farm map and quickly travel to the Bus Stop or any Point of Interest you've built.
Improvements:
When using a PS4 gamepad, button face icons should change accordingly.
Gameplay changes:
Sprinkler Flower effect changed from 65% to 80%. Many people were against the addition of this mechanic, but we still feel it's necessary, so we've toned it down.
Bugfixes:
"Grass" roads will no longer be shown in the map.
Fixed shop showing empty when playing in Danish language.

Hi! Today's update is just a hotfix for some issues introduced in yesterday's one.

Bugfixes:
Fixed last selected shop item not being remembered.
Should improve draw distance related issues.
Last update reduced the number of items enabled behind you, but increased draw distance by ~50-60% as a side effect. This caused some performance issues specially on high/very high quality settings, since the draw distance increase is more noticeable there.

This bugfix just reduces the draw distance back to numbers closer to what they were before.
Fixed draw distance being 20% higher after entering and closing photo mode.
While in Photo mode, draw distance is increased (so more items are shown for a better picture), but it wasn't being set back to the original value, potentially lowering framerate.
Fixed face paint not being shown on Very Low detail settings.
Limited max Render Scale to 120%.
While not exactly a bug, setting Render Scale to values higher than 120% wouldn't increase the crispness of the image by much, but could incur in a huge performance drop, so we've removed the ability to do it.

New features:
Now you can see a map of your farm when interacting with points of interest or the bus stop (once you have at least one point of interest built). We'll add a map key in the future.
New items:

• Kiwifruit
• Cacao tree
• Olive tree
• Harlequin Rabbit
• Carp
• Salmon
• Hydrangea
• Lavender
• Residential fence and door
• Playground fence and door

New customization items:

• Girly skirt
• Militar face paint
• Assorted tractor antennas

Improvements:
You can now sort items in the shop by level ascending or descending
When opening the shop window at night, the preview item will be lit.
When placing/moving items, you can now rotate them by pressing the Move key, without the need to orientate your character (you can still do it that way). Each press will rotate 90 degrees.
Items behind the character are removed earlier. More items in front of the character will be shown (please let us know if this causes a big performance hit on your computers).
If the game finds a problem while saving farm data, it will go directly to the main menu and let you know of the problem.
The lock icon in the shop is now closed, not open :)
Video settings are no longer synchronized on Steam Cloud.
Gameplay changes:
New quests will now give bigger medal rewards on higher farm levels.
Most achievements can now be unlocked while visiting other farms, as long as the event is triggered while you're on it.
Flowers no longer require to be watered on specific seasons, they will need to be harvested on their specific seasons instead.
Flowers being watered with sprinklers will only grow to 65% of their max growth.
Reduced requirements for some accumulative achievements.
Bugfixes:
Fixed all animals in a plot starting to walk at the same time.
Fixed gamepad input not being ignored while the game is in background
Should have fixed the "white screen with big black areas" issue.

New features:

• Experience boost: Visiting other farms and helping with the harvest will increase your boost meter, which allows you to get double experience for a farm you own.
• Many farm items now have more complex unlock requirements (reach a specific level of another farm item). Note that quests currently in progress may ask for a locked item. It's up to you to discard them or unlock the item and complete them. New quests won't show this issue.
• New items:
  • Thrianta Rabbit
  • Egg Market
  • American Paint Horse
  • Bonsai
  • Weeping Willow
• New customization face paints and makeup.
• New avatar clothing: Shorts and t-shirt

Improvements:

• You can now see the resource inventory by pressing the Tab key (no need to open the Pause menu).
• When harvesting items and there's no more room for a resource it will show "Full".
• You can now recycle 9 tiles of animals and ponds with the tractor.
• Animals are reset to their base position when hidden. This should fix the "animals getting out of fences issue", and possibly reduce the number of "cow castles".

Gameplay changes:

• Reduced a bit resource requirements of Feeders.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed fish going through the ground when placing new pond tiles.

New features:
New resource: Mushrooms (added to mushroom crops and the Dead tree)
New customization hairstyles for girl bodies.
New animals: Rabbits
New flag: Iran
New crops: Parasol Mushroom,Shiitake Mushroom
New buildings: Fish Market, Mushroom stand
New decoration items: Planters and Pots (you can show any crop/flower in these and they will act as decoration).
Improvements:
The "Customize" button in the main menu will now show an exclamation mark if there are new customization items available.
You can now add players to favorites and look for them in the Find Farms section
You can now look for players that have recently played with you in the Find Farms section.
The Bus Station acts now as a Point of Interest (you can travel to/from it).
You can now scroll in the text chat with the mouse wheel.
Bugfixes:
Fixed quests not autocompleting when having deprecated items (old Poppies/Roses)
Fixed player level up not showing the proper number

Hi! Today's update brings a whole new category of items, the Flowers. They are delicate long-term crops that benefit from regular care.

We've also added new decorations, the most important ones being the Soccer Ball and the Beach Ball that you can kick around the farm. Their position is synchronized over the net so you can actually play some games with them!

Today's Farm showcase: Untitled by Filmpaisan


New features:

• New item category: Flowers, with Poppies, Roses and Daisies
• Completely removed Poppy and Rose from the Plants category. Any Poppy or Rose planted before this update will be converted to Broccoli. They will also be removed from any quest in progress, and the quest will be recreated if it's no longer valid.
• New items:
  • Soccer Ball and Beach Ball (synchronized position). These items have a limitation on how many of them can be placed on a single farm to avoid network saturation.
  • Low grass Road: This allows you to place the same grass used in buildings and decorations, and avoid accidental placement of items on them. This road will not grant the speed boost.
  • Vegetable Truck: High level, improved version of the Vegetable Cart.
  • New decorations: Sundial, Pottery Wheel
  • New animals: Arabian Horse
  • New crops: Cherokee Purple Tomato, Red Pine Mushroom
• New languages: Polish and Danish
• New country flags: Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon

Improvements:

• Limited the maximum number of points of interest that can be placed to 20.
• You can now flip a fence on its place when Moving it.
• Quest Log: The number of currently placed/planted items of that kind is shown.
• Disabled Fences collision while placing them (now they perform the same as buildings)
• Improved some hair colors' looks.
• Slightly increase color saturation (was lowered in a previous updated).

Gameplay changes:

• Reduced some daily wait times (Quest discard, Honeycombs) from 24h to 23h to prevent the leap-day effect.
• Crops now have only a 50% chance of withering after a week (otherwise they'll remain able to be harvested forever).

Bugfixes:

• Prevented farm from trying to simulate negative time offsets upon loading.
• Farms previously loaded with negative time offsets should now work properly again (seasons should start advancing again).
• Fixed Easter Bunny Hat unlock message showing an Id instead of text.
• Fixed Point of Interest numbers not being shown on Very Low Quality.
• Should retroactively fix some Easter items that weren't properly unlocked at the time.
• Fixed crops water level incorrectly maxing on specific situations when loading a game .
• Should have fixed a number of crashes related to out-of-memory.

New features:

• Easter event: Plant Easter Eggs and unlock new customization items and decorations for your farm!
• New items:
  • Point of Interest, that allows you to quickly get to other points in your farm.
  • Sprinklers that will keep adjacent tiles watered.
  • Horses: Holsteiner, Appaloosa
  • Walnut Tree
  • Mushroom
  • Leek
  • Tomato
  • 3 kites in the Fences section.
  • New flags: Bahrein, Bangladesh
• New customization items:
  • Flower hairband
  • Army backpack

Improvements:

• Added a key to quickly open the Quest Log (defaults to L).
• You will now move faster on roads.
• Items required for Quests will now have an icon on the Shop.

Gameplay changes:

• Reduced item level harvest bonus.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed heat wave effect being shown briefly after joining a farm.
• Improved file load handling, it should prevent loading issues related with Steam Cloud when it's disabled.
• Fixed error message not being shown when there's an error loading the farm.
• Fixed getting stuck when placing the Stable.

Toady's update features the addition of the Alpaca, along with the new quest sytem and many more features, such as being able to mesh together animals/fish of similar races, and many other improvements and fixes!

Today's Farm Showcase: "Scenic, forested marketplace" by Adam



Honorable mention: "How me&friends play chess" by zaiHappy


New features:

• New quest log system: Now you can have up to 3 quests available (starts with one, you get two quests on level 5 and three on level 10), and they have a better looking quest log.
• Experimental dedicated server support (see thread on the forums for instructions)
• Added Flags for Estonia,Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and 3 older games of ours
• You can now discard a quest and get a new one (limited by once per day).
• New community translation: Estonian
• New farm items:
  • Huacaya Alpaca
  • Suri Alpaca
  • Tamarind tree
  • Fig tree
  • Raspberry
  • Garlic
  • Swordfish
• New customization items:
  • Tractor: Harvester
  • Backpack: Cat
  • Backpack: Professor

Improvements:

• When moving items, you can now enqueue 9 instead of 8
• An icon is shown for newly unlocked items.
• Animal fields and ponds will now mesh together, depending on their race. For animals, food won't be shared but they can be fed at the same time. (this change won't come into effect right away for previously placed fields).
• When feeding / fishing, the number of remaining actions is shown on the bottom left area.
• You can now hold the interaction button pressed to keep feeding/fishing a large pond/animal field. It also works for some things such as plowing after harvesting crops.
• Added a new Tutorial step explaining that time advances even if you're not playing.

Gameplay changes:

• Increased requirements to reach high experience levels, so getting to level 100 isn't as easy. This change is not applied retroactively, so you will mantain the level you reached before.
• Increased number of animals you can feed with a single click (12 instead of 10) and ponds you can fish with a single click (15 instead of 10).
• Remaining fuel is saved for the farm owner.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed collision issues with fences and rocks
• Fixed roads on slopes not working in a specific terrain piece
• Fixed inventory alignment issues on certain languages
• Fixed fences being lost when trying to move them to invalid positions.

New features:

• New crops: Broccoli, Agave, Blueberry
• New tree: Lychee
• New fish: Hammerhead Shark
• New decorations: Stable, Tool shed
• New path: Railroad
• 2 New avatar hats.
• Option to disable mouse cursor lock to window
• Option to set maximum framerate when VSync is disabled
• Option to set maximum framerate when the game is on the background
• Option to use the run key as a toggle
• Option to hide tile icons, or reduce their size.
• Added Japanese and Thai languages
• Added Uruguay flag

Improvements:

• You can now move crops (as long as the target tile is plowed).
• Sunflowers will all be rotated in a similar overall direction.
• Fences can now be flipped.
• Roads will now be connected through slopes.
• Reduced number of animals rendered per tile on low quality settings to improve framerate.
• Weather effects are shown on the Season HUD.
• Country flags are now mirrored on one side (logos and images aren't).
• Cows now have grassed ground instead of dirt.

Gameplay changes:

• Doubled chance of special weather effects
• Reduced earnings and price of several trees, animals and ponds to bring them more in line with crops.
• Changed the way ponds work: Now you will fish them in groups of 10 instead of all at the same time, but you won't have a money penalty. Growth is now calculated per tile, so the "reset timer" exploit should be fixed as well.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed Unlock chunk confirmation dialog not working with the space key.
• Fixed chat not showing when Expert mode is enabled.
• Fixed invalid Storage size issues caused by previous update.
• Fixed collision issues with the withered tree

New features:
Seasons now have a small chance (1/8) of having a weather effect (rain, heat or snow).
Added a confirmation dialog when unlocking a new chunk of land.
Added French, Chinese, Turkish, Finnish, Hungarian, Dutch community translations.
Added an "Expert Mode" option that hides the game UI and tile preview for better immersion. In this mode, you can use the Tab key to show the interface for a moment. Hiding icons will probably come in a later update.
Added a Gas Station that generates more fuel per second and has a bigger tank.
New crops: Corn, Potato, 2 Roses
Added a non-directional sign.
New fences: Gate variants of previous fences.
New customization item: Viking helmet
Improvements:
Added some autorecovery features to the farm list, so if the file is not saved properly, it will be recovered (you'll lose your player progress level, but not the farms).
You can now harvest animals with the tractor.
You can now delete tiles with the tractor.
Gameplay changes:
Pond earnings are now calculated per tile instead of globally, which should make them more predictable.
Ponds now give 1 item experience point per use.
Gas stations can now be interacted anytime as long as they have 25 points of fuel (instead of having to wait 1 minute).
Fruit Press now requires 50 fruit instead of 25, but it can be used every minute (instead of 5 minutes).
Bugfixes:
Should fix most out-of-memory crashes.
Fixed big pond / animal field memory usage.
Fixed save tasks not performing in time when having big ponds/fields.
Fixed withered crops being VERY small.
(Hopefully)Fixed visual bugs on some Radeon cards.