Box Bakery news & patch notes

1.Remaining buff quantities can now be viewed from the outside! The latest version is now 34; you can check the version number in the bottom left corner of the game. Previously, some cuties mentioned feeling anxious about buff quantities because they had to click in every time to see how many were left. Now, the quantities for all buff items are displayed on the outside.

Another updated feature is that items can now be equipped at night too! Before, they could only be equipped before opening during the day. Many friends forgot to equip them and ended up having to grind through a whole day of business without buffs. This issue is now resolved!

2.You can now switch through multiple pages by clicking here! Previously, clicking here would only jump to the intermediate level of the first corresponding sticker. Now, clicking multiple times allows you to jump directly from Intermediate - Advanced - Rare - to the next sticker of the same attribute's Intermediate - Advanced - Rare. You can continuously view various stickers with corresponding attributes! Isn't that great!?

3.There are also some miscellaneous small updates Fixed a bug where the achievement \ could not be completed after the random missions were updated. Fixed a bug where the Little Fox character illustration could not be fully collected because the Blobfish was not unlocked. Added dialogues related to the Little Hedgehog and the Little Teddy. Fixed a bug where the Little Teddy's personality was too annoying. Added dialogues where the Little Pig and the Schnauzer persuade the Little Teddy not to be so annoying. Added meeting dialogues for the three CAT kittens. Fixed an issue where a cleaning item at the very bottom of Snowy Town could not be reached. Fixed a bug where pressing the spacebar while opening the Little Calico interface in the crafting screen would cause a food item to be crafted. Fixed a bug where the BGM might disappear while playing. Fixed a bug in the Blue Sky Town main quest where, if a little animal was heading out, the mission \ would exclude that specific animal.

Important! Important! Important! There’s something very important to explain: After you log into the game and open it, you’ll see something like this.

These two are both your current save files. To prevent accidental overwriting, we created two backups. The blue one is the auto save, which will save automatically. All the other red save files do NOT auto save!

Which means:

If you want to preserve a specific moment, you need to press ESC during gameplay to open the pause menu,

then manually save,

and create a new save file.

Important: At any time, loading a red save file WILL overwrite the blue auto save!

So if you want to keep the progress in the blue save, you must, must, MUST remember to manually save it as a red save file!!!!!! This is extremely important—please pay close attention!!!

If you want to keep your progress, make sure to save it as a red save file!

Here are some additional new features and updates:

1. You can now favorite recipes! That’s right! You can now favorite individual recipes in the game. No matter the type, flavor, or price, once a recipe is favorited, it will always appear at the top. In both the recipe book and your inventory, favorited recipes will always have the highest display priority!

2. Daily quests can now be refreshed infinitely Yes! Now, every Monday (in-game Monday), you will accumulate one free refresh for random quests. After completing quests, you can choose whether to refresh and get a new batch. This means daily quests can essentially be refreshed unlimited times—as long as you can keep completing them!

3. Managed towns now accumulate friendship points Previously, many players mentioned that friendship points were lacking in the late game. So we’ve added a system where towns can accumulate friendship points while you’re away. And! This accumulation is no longer tied to real-world time. It is now based on in-game time. Each in-game day gives you 5 friendship points, and after unlocking 6 towns, that becomes 30 points per day! This should help everyone push toward full achievements in the late game.

That’s right! Previously, a lot of players who backed the crowdfunding campaign said they couldn’t find their own names.

And honestly, with more than 1,000 people in the 39.9 tier, it really was hard to find them!

So we worked overtime to add a name search function.

Now, in the latest version of the game — you can check the version number in the bottom-left corner in-game; the last number is the version number, and the current latest version is 29 — open the phone app and go into the Thank You List, and you’ll find the feature shown in the image there!

PS: Since many players share the same name, you can see in the image that there are three identical “Little Sheep” names in the Thank You List. Because of that, we added a function where each click switches to another matching result.

So now, it’s not just players whose exact name is “Little Sheep” who can be found — players whose names contain the word “Little Sheep” can also be found. You can even use this to see who else shares part of the same name element as you, haha.

In this same version, we also fixed some small bugs, which I’ve listed below:

• Fixed an issue in the main story of the fourth town where Fish was not unlocked, causing one item in the Little Jellyfish character collection to remain locked.

• Fixed some typos in certain quests.

• Fixed a UI conflict that happened if \ and \ were triggered at the same time.

• Fixed an issue where the little salamander and the little cockroach could meet, but their meeting story did not trigger.

• Fixed an issue during comic collection where, if Little Cockroach had not been unlocked, one of the pug’s comics could not be unlocked, making it impossible to complete the full comic achievement.

• Fixed the issue where the Auto Checkout toggle button was enabled by default on the left side, which felt a bit counterintuitive.

• Fixed an issue where the achievement “Sticker Shop Regular” could not accumulate progress properly on the Steam page.

We’ve released a new update! Everyone can give it a try.

This update includes several automation features, such as:

• Auto-restock mini counters

• Automatic checkout

• NPC passersby automatically purchasing items

• NPCs prioritizing the auto-restock counter

We’ve also improved the phone call system.

• Now up to six characters can be present in the shop at the same time, which makes calling animals during business hours much easier.

There are also some smaller quality-of-life improvements, for example:

• The top-right corner now shows how many customers are left for the day.

• The calendar screen shows how many days you’ve spent in the game.

• Clicking a missing ingredient in a recipe will take you directly to Sanhua’s shop.

• Clicking a missing semi-finished ingredient will take you directly to the recipe for that item.

• Press Q in any interface to instantly open Sanhua’s shop.

• Hovering your mouse over the level indicator will show how many more orders are needed to reach the next level.

While trying to make the story progression smoother, I changed a condition for triggering a cutscene about half an hour ago. Unfortunately, that change caused the main quest in the first town — “Ask Xiao Hui to Help Shoot an Advertisement” — to become impossible to complete. (It was working before, and I accidentally broke it…)

If you are currently stuck on this quest, please exit the game and update to the latest version, then enter the game again and it should work normally.

The correct quest counter should be 0/1 (it was mistakenly showing 0/3 before).

For players who have already unlocked the scene where Xiao Hui agrees to shoot the advertisement, the quest should automatically complete once you enter the game again after updating.

Sorry about the trouble, and thank you for your patience!

Today is a very special day for us — Box Bakery is finally out now on Steam.

This game has been in development for years, and it means so much to finally share it with all of you. Thank you for your patience, your encouragement, and for following this journey with us.

Many of you have been here since the early days — playing the demo, leaving feedback, and supporting the project. Your kindness and enthusiasm truly helped us keep going while making this game.

If you run into any issues or have questions while playing, please don’t hesitate to reach out. You’re always welcome to join our Discord community, and we’ll be very happy to help and answer any questions.

Thank you again for being here and supporting Box Bakery.

We hope you enjoy your time in the little bakery world we created.

Love

Mangobox Games

It’s finally happening……

Box Bakery will officially launch on March 6, 2026

At 10:00 AM (China Standard Time, UTC+8).

Over the past few years, we’ve been building this game together with all of you — improving it, reworking it, testing it, worrying about it… step by step. And now, we’re finally here. The full version is ready, and I truly can’t wait for you to play it.

To celebrate the release, I’ll be opening a Steam livestream right at launch time, and I’ll play the game live with you. I really want to share this moment with everyone who has been waiting, supporting, and growing with us along the way.

Thank you for your patience.Thank you for being part of this journey.

March 6 — let’s officially meet.

See you there！

We’re excited to share that the final version of the Box Bakery Demo will be released on February 2, 2026!

The full version of the game is scheduled to officially launch in March 2026.

Development Progress

At this stage, the core game is fully completed and we are currently running a closed playtest with over 100 players to polish balance, performance, and overall experience.

Save Data Compatibility

This upcoming Demo is fully compatible with the full version of the game. This means your progress in the Demo will carry over when the full game launches.

If save transfer is blocked due to system privacy permissions, players can still manually migrate their save files from their local storage to continue their journey.

Thank you so much for your patience and support throughout development. We can’t wait to finally welcome you into the world of Box Bakery.

Thank you all for playing our game! Reading your comments, fixing bugs, and adding new content have kept us energized every single day!

The demo will be going offline on July 30th, so it’s time to say goodbye for now. During this test, we’ve added tons of new features and systems, and also fixed some very deep-rooted bugs. Since we can’t carry these foundational issues into the full release, your current demo save data won’t carry over.

We’re working hard on even more new features, new characters, and lots and lots (and lots!) of fun content! ✨

This goodbye is just so we can return in even better shape when the full version is ready. Thank you so much for your support and understanding.

There might be a second demo in the future, featuring the latest version of the game — we’ll secretly post about it when the time comes, so keep an eye out!

Don’t forget to follow us, and we hope to see you again in your dreams.

— From the dev team of Box Bakery, still busy baking in the kitchen! 🧁

We are currently working on the story content for the next town, and we expect to finish production by the end of this year (fingers crossed!). This demo includes only 3 hours of main story content (that’s right — while you can technically keep playing, the main storyline is limited to about 3 hours, and each animal only has two collectible stamps for now).

Thank you so much for your enthusiastic support and for playing our demo — we’ll do our very best to make the full game even better!ːsteamhappyː

Unfortunately, this demo is a progress-wipe test version, and your save data won’t carry over to the full release. But here’s the good news — the official version will include many new features, with deeper gameplay and expanded content. We hope you’re looking forward to it!

In the future, we plan to develop six completely different towns, each with eight unique animal friends you can befriend — that’s a total of 48 distinct animal characters to meet and explore!

We truly hope you’ll have a great time playing our game. See you in the next update — love you all! 💛

Thank you all for joining us! Our Discord channel invite code is pSAUkq4CQb — we’d love to see you there! Come hang out, share your thoughts, report bugs, and be part of our cozy little community. We can’t wait to meet you!