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• Patch Notes·6 Sept 2026Official

  Blighted Harvest 0.3.1 Quality of Life Patch

  Just some minor bug fixes and various quality of life improvements. -Moved some survivor corpse positions to be more noticable -All arrows now cost less feathers to craft (Glass: 2, Steel: 2, Bronze: 4) -Fixed the missing texture on the fried egg object -Fixed an audio bug that wouldn't let footsteps play when walking in the Stillwater Temple -Fixed a small clipping issue with glowshrooms in the carpenters barn -Fixed a bug that wouldn't save the state of the broken lantern posts in abode backyards -All nectar flowers now have a different position to make them less hidden away and now show the current amount of nectar they have generated -Barnabas’ trader signs now have hanging lanterns so they stick out better at night -Adjusted the amount of feathers looting birdnests gives -Fixed a few bugs with the repair armor action -Persephone will now immediately put the harvester away when gathering water. -Reduced the amount of glass, leather, and linen in the world. -Persephone can now cast flower glow on her pyrina even with not enough mana. This will give half the original glow time, and can only be casted when your glow is about to run out. The glow with this light is also much dimmer than usual. -Added a small mana regeneration tip if the player's mana is low. -Added 2 randomized scrap items in the rootarch abode -Added a tip that appears when picking up scrap for the first time to harvest scrap at a workbench for resources -Reduced the amount of thread gained from leather gloves -Added loading screen tips/lore info with there being 18 gameplay tips and 17 lorebook information that can appear -Crouching is no longer required to collect water -The “added to bag” notification now shows the inventory group the just picked up item belongs to. -Adjusted nighttime and interior exposure, making the lighting slightly brighter WARNING: Because the save system was altered in this patch, your 0.3 save will no longer be playable and you have to start a new save game. Sorry!
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• Patch Notes·31 Aug 2026Official

  UPDATE 0.3 BLIGHTED HARVEST EARLY LAUNCH!

  BLIGHTED HARVEST IS HERE EARLY!This update is pretty big and redefines the entire gameplay loop and irons out loads of bugs and balancing issues!With this update I'm confident to say that Dawn finally feels like its found its footing and I can't wait to begin working on 0.4 immediately! I hope you enjoy!PATCH NOTES:COOKING AND ALCHEMY-Added a completely new Cooking & Alchemy system, featuring improved user interfaces, rebalanced recipes, new meals, and damageable cookware.-Added new cooking ingredients: Watercress, crow egg, honeycomb, and aima berry.-Added Copper Bowl-Added new cookware: Cauldron, Mortar & Pestle, and Cleaver.-Reworked Prudence and Nocturnus potions with new effects.-Buffed Ambrosia, Charm, and Vigor.–Adjusted sanity loss and gain from consuming food.-All potion and food recipes have been adjusted.-Crafting and cooking now restore a small amount of sanity.-Removed several food items and ingredients including honey, flour, powdered milk, cheese, butter, bread, pound cake, honey treat, honey bar, fresh milk, oatmeal, and more.-Preserved food is now less common.-Persephone can now build campfires on any clear, solid ground. GARDENING-Completely overhauled the gardening system.-The hydration bar now shows the exact hydration level of the crop-Both blighted water and pure water can be used to water crops now-Added Improvised Plantfood as a craftable, weaker alternative to Plantfood-Added weed attacks.-Improved the gardening user interface.-Added new plant models for different growth stages.-Rain now hydrates crops MELODIES-Added Monster Hearts. Monsters now drop their hearts when killed.-Added Melody Basins, a new facility found at certain unmarked areas across the map. Monster Hearts and other resources can be used to craft melodies.-Added 3 new melodies: Rubus, Cynth, and Venling.-Equipped melodies now provide passive effects.-Equipped melodies are now lost upon death.-Removed Melody Cores and their associated fights. TOOLS-Removed the lockpicking min...
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• Patch Notes·23 Aug 2026Official

  Update 0.3: Blighted Harvest Releasing September 1st!

  Hello!Update 0.3: Blighted Harvest is just around the corner! All of the new exciting features are now fully implemented including a whole new melody system, redesigned gardening, improved combat, new quality of life features, a cooking system overhaul, and many many bug fixes!Play the new update on Tuesday, September 1st!
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• Patch Notes·23 Jun 2026Official

  Garden Renewed Patch 0.21

  Just a small patch before work on 0.3, introducing new control hotkey options and mouse settings. -Added customizable control hotkeys -Added Mouse sensitivity and Invert Y axis options -Slight edits to prelude text -Fixed setting for new lighting enabled option not being saved
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• Patch Notes·21 Jun 2026Official

  Update 2.0 Garden Renewed

  UI & Quality of Life -Completely redesigned the menu UI to better match the game's aesthetic. -Improved HUD layout to provide clearer and more useful player information. -Added a new crafting UI with component placement mechanics. -Reworked the in-game paper map and added new location icons. -Equipment slots now play sound effects. -Added tooltips for items required to repair abode facilities. -Players can now press E to close certain menus (Workbench, Sewing Machine, Bed) instead of only Tab or Escape. -Updated the Early Access tab in the main menu. -Added a new Early Access launch splash image. -Added sound effects to several main menu buttons that previously had none. -Changed the main menu music. -Added a save version compatibility prompt when loading older saves. -Added a new help section in the pause menu -Added new dynamic tutorial tips Combat & Equipment -Removed all melee weapons (Axe, Knife, Cog Mace, and Cursed Bat). -Added new harvester melee combat and harvester modification system. -Added Remnant, a new crossbow that players begin the game with. -Renamed both previous crossbows. -Added crossbow bolt variants, including two new bolts: Glass Bolt, Bronze Bolt -Monster stats have been rebalanced. Inventory & Crafting -Added a new inventory carry weight system. Each item category now has its own maximum carry weight. -Adjusted the weight of every item. -Removed all forging equipment and the forging system. -Added a new forging menu to the Workbench. -Added the Crucible and Clay Pot. -Removed cooking gear and replaced it with the Cauldron. -Adjusted various crafting and cooking recipes. -Added new items: -Machine Fragment -Scrap Wood -Glass Shard -Introduced a new Heavy Scrap mechanic, currently being tested with car batteries. NPCs -Removed NPC Reputation. -Added temporary NPC dialogue. -Added a new Chat interaction for NPCs. This feature will be expanded in a future update. -Trader menus have been adjusted to support the new items. World -Added a waterfal...
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