Catfish Idle Pond news & patch notes

Hi everyone! I hope you're enjoying the game so far. I’m excited to share what’s coming in update v1.2.0, which will release when it’s ready.

New Features in upcoming v1.2.0

• Dynamic Weather System: Rain, snow, and thunderstorms will now roll across the island.

  • Choose your favorite weather manually.

  • Let it shift automatically throughout the day (default).

  • Or sync it with real-world weather from your chosen city.

• Adaptive Music: The soundtrack now changes with the weather, for a more immersive atmosphere.

• Improved Day/Night Transitions: Smoother lighting shifts to match evolving weather conditions.

  • Now you can pick Lighting mode, from Day, Night, Auto and Real-time.

• Cosmetic Interactions: Click on some island elements(like bushes, lights, etc) to see them spring to life.

• New Cosmetics & Character Skins: A couple of new cosmetics and character skins.

🔧 Work in Progress

• Mechanical Set Unlocking: I’m reworking the system to be more interactive. Soon, you’ll unlock new mechanical fish by playing mini-games instead of relying on random drops. This will make new set feel a bit more unique and more fun to play.

• Upcoming Fish Sets: Development is ongoing, and new sets will be released in future updates. All future sets will include a unique unlocking mechanic.

Thank you for your continued support and feedback—it inspires me to keep building and improving on this game. Stay tuned for more updates! ːer_heartː

Added

• Added island zooming, you can now resize island with mouse wheel, just hover over the island and scroll up or down.

• Added slightly better support for portrait monitors, when switching to portrait monitor restart the game so it can start on portrait monitor with correct scaling.

• Added Journal window dragging, you can now left click and drag window where you want, just don't lose it ːabfpeekː

• Added startup check on missed achievements for unlocking all fish sets and completing all fish sets.

Improved

• Updated shadow distance for zoomed out island.

• Updated Fish Log to show caught fish count per fish in the tooltip.

• Updated Stats page, made caught count and money spent more readable.

Fixes

• Fixed tooltip startup size bug.

• Fixed Audio startup spike.

• Fixed spelling on Evil Cat description.

• Fixed no achievement for "Finishing base set"

• Fixed no achievement for "Unlocking all sets"

• Fixed startup issue with stats ui for fishing catch speed and fish find/value.

• Fixed cosmetics reset back to default on startup.

• Added better description for some mechanical fish.

• Fixed Change All Cosmetics Achievement.

• Updated fish thumbnail scaling for lower res displays.

• Improved Notification and Tooltip text readability.

• Fixed issue with icons flickering and disappearing when opening shop for the first time.

• Updated all fish pixel art to not have random pixel in the corners.

• Updated Mechanical and Celestial set unlock conditions.

• Adjusted some cosmetics for the night time.

• Updated all fish base price

• Fixed issue with starting fish pond count