holoVillage: Our Cozy Days news & patch notes

Update Notes

Thank you for playing holoVillage.

We've released the following update today.

Additions / Adjustments

• Added a fine-adjustment mode for facility placement that locks the character's facing direction

  • Activate by holding Shift (keyboard) or R2/RT (controller) while moving with a Construction Ticket equipped

  • Also works when repositioning with the Hammer

• Cooking now retains the previously selected quantity for easier consecutive crafting

• Added Apple Juice, Pickles, and French Fries to the initially unlocked cooking recipes

  • All initial farm crops, as well as apples gathered from the Grassland, can now be used in cooking

  • These will also be unlocked for players already in-game if not yet unlocked

• UI improvements to the material selection screen in Smithing Development

  • Stats preview now shown on mouse hover when adding materials

  • Fixed an issue where clicking outside item icons (but still within the background frame) would close the UI

  • Other minor behavior adjustments

• Villagers tending a shop can now be given "Pose" or "Come With Me" commands

• Sped up the initial loading of Kumarin Store screens and outfit-related screens

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where equipment crafted at the Anvil and meals made at the Cooking Station would sell for less than the displayed price when sold to NPCs other than Smiths and Cooks

• Fixed an issue where clicking directly on the dish icon would not register when cooking is complete

• Minor adjustments to visitor and villager behavior

Bug fixes will continue to be released on an ongoing basis regardless of the above.

If you experience issues after the update, please try verifying the integrity of the game files using the steps below:

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0C48-FCBD-DA71-93EB

For other issues requiring individual support, please contact us at:

[email protected]

Please note: we are unable to respond to inquiries about planned additions of new hololive members; however, we are actively considering them.

We hope you continue to enjoy holoVillage.

Update Notes

Thank you for playing holoVillage.

We've released the following update today.

Additions / Adjustments

• Added new color variations for Color Walls in Housing

• Added new crafting recipes and items using certain fish caught while Fishing

  • If you've already obtained the relevant fish, you can unlock the recipe by moving it from the Item Box into your inventory.

• Large placed objects (such as houses) now become semi-transparent when the character moves behind them

• Added the M key as a shortcut for opening the Map

• The ground now correctly remains in a watered state after harvesting crops during rain

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Gathering Damage Up effect was not being applied correctly

• Fixed an issue in Housing where some color variations of the Prison Wooden Door were unusable

• Fixed an issue where using a Pickaxe to retrieve a planted Shining Seed would turn it into a regular Seed

Bug fixes will continue to be released on an ongoing basis regardless of the above.

If you experience issues after the update, please try verifying the integrity of the game files using the steps below:

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0C48-FCBD-DA71-93EB

If the game gets stuck on the loading screen at launch, please contact us at:

[email protected]

We hope you continue to enjoy holoVillage.

Update Notes

Thank you for playing holoVillage.

We've released the following update today.

Additions / Adjustments

• Fishing Balance Adjustments

  • Eased the difficulty balance and encounter rates for rare fish

  • Increased the effect of the Fishing Job quest endgame item from 5% to 30%

  • About the rare fish encounter rate boost: Regardless of these changes, the encounter rate boost is applied as multiplication on top of the base rate. For example, if the base rate is 10% and equipment provides a +30% boost, the resulting rate is 13%.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where certain beds could not be slept in

• Fixed an issue where BGM would cut out when transitioning between areas in rapid succession

• Adjusted shelf area positions on some furniture (Country series)

• Adjusted the AquaLite Rod's magic, and fixed an issue where it could fail to deal damage to enemies

• Fixed UI issues with the cooking interface when using a controller

• Other minor fixes

Bug fixes will continue to be released on an ongoing basis regardless of the above.

If you experience issues after the update, please try verifying the integrity of the game files using the steps below:

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0C48-FCBD-DA71-93EB

If the game gets stuck on the loading screen at launch, please contact us at:

[email protected]

We hope you continue to enjoy holoVillage.

Update Notes

Thank you for playing holoVillage.

We've released the following update today.

Additions / Adjustments

• Offline Play Support

  • Internet connection is now required only for the first launch; subsequent launches can be played offline

  • Kumarin Tickets accumulate internally and are granted all at once on your next online launch

  • Outfits and furniture cannot be purchased in Offline Mode

• Easing the Fuel Shortage

  • A Giant Tree yielding a large amount of wood now appears in the Grassland area

  • Additional trees placed in the Grassland area

  • Giant Coal yielding a large amount of coal now appears in the Mountain area

  • Additional coal placed in the Mountain area

  • Improved Oil efficiency — one piece now smelts 3 ingots

• Added a new Random Title Call voice (Japanese only) by Kikirara Vivi, recorded live on her stream

• Significantly buffed the rare fish encounter rate boost from Fishing abilities and similar effects

• Added crafting recipes for some endgame tools

• Changed certain key materials for unlocking crafting recipes to be more intuitive

• Other minor fixes, including SFX volume adjustments for some enemies and UI corrections

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where a non-existent Hoe was displayed in the Encyclopedia

• Fixed an issue where using Fast Travel immediately after defeating a boss could allow re-entry to the boss room

• Implemented safeguards against save data corruption caused by game or PC shutdowns

  • If corruption has already occurred and is not resolved, please contact us by email at [email protected]

Planned Future Improvements

• Adjustments to rare fish in Fishing

• Adding additional moments outside of boss fights where time does not pass

• Improvements to village facility placement controls

• Quality-of-life improvements for character movement speed, actions, and more

Bug fixes will continue to be released on an ongoing basis regardless of the above.

We hope you continue to enjoy holoVillage.

Update Notes

The following update has been released for holoVillage.

Additions / Adjustments

• Replaced some of Himemori Luna's voice lines with versions recorded live on her stream

• Significantly raised the village facility placement limit (approx. 50 → approx. 100)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where loading "From the Start of Day" on a day a villager joins could result in the villager not being invited

• Fixed errors in the English text for Cooking Recipe Memo D

Planned Future Improvements

• Support for play in offline environments

• Adjustments such as increasing rare fish encounter rates in Fishing

• Adding additional moments outside of boss fights where time does not pass

• Improvements to village facility placement controls

• Quality-of-life improvements for character movement speed, actions, and more

Ongoing Bug Fixes

Bug fixes will continue to be released on an ongoing basis. For example:

• Automatic save data backup and auto-recovery for corruption

Update Notes

The following update has been released for holoVillage.

Additions / Adjustments

• Added Nekomata Okayu's voice to the Random Title Call

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where swapping the Confirm button in settings would cause guides for buttons other than the swapped one to display incorrectly

• Fixed an issue where the second-tier Fertilizer Expansion and Sow Expansion abilities were not taking effect

• Fixed an issue where opening the map or starting Fishing at the exact moment a day ends would cause time to stop progressing

• Fixed an issue where the Status screen could not be opened depending on the item being held

• Fixed an issue where using Fast Travel immediately after defeating the final boss would cause the player to fall through the ground

• Made minor corrections to Shirakami Fubuki's and Ookami Mio's rooms

Planned Future Improvements

• Support for play in offline environments

• Quality-of-life improvements for character movement speed, actions, and more

• Adding additional moments outside of boss fights where time does not pass

• Various improvements to facility placement within the village (raising the placement limit, improving placement controls)

• Easing the strike rate and adjusting difficulty for fish in endgame Fishing content

Ongoing Bug Fixes

Bug fixes will continue to be released on an ongoing basis. For example:

• Automatic save data backup and auto-recovery for corruption

• Loading "From the Start of Day" on a day a villager joins may result in the villager not being invited (will be fixed in the next update)

• Addressing cases where button guides don't match the connected device

Update Notes

The following update has been released for holoVillage.

Improvements / Adjustments

• Time no longer passes during boss fights

• Reduced the strength of some endgame fish in Fishing

• Mallet price changed from 600 → 100 coins

Bug Fixes

• Smithing fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the materials list could overflow the screen, making materials unselectable

  • Fixed an issue where enhancing equipment stored in the Item Box would not grant abilities

  • Fixed an issue where Equipment Development would become impossible once the development recipe history exceeded a certain size

• Fixed an issue in the quest "Gather Emergency Supplies for the Village" where speaking to the quest giver with only part of the required delivery materials would consume those materials without progressing the quest

• Fixed an issue where the first Farming Job quest could not progress if a Farm had already been purchased from Nodoka and placed before accepting the quest

  • If you've already placed a Farm, speak to Kedama Korone to advance the quest

• Renamed a Fishing quest whose title incorrectly referenced "Volcano" even though the target fish cannot be caught there; the title now reflects the correct location

• Fixed so that the player's outfit is now correctly reflected in new villager arrival event scenes

• Fixed an issue where Cloud Save data was not syncing correctly between devices

Interim Measures for Environment-Specific Issues

• Save data corruption caused by application crashes and similar events

  • A simple auto-recovery feature has been implemented in this update. However, depending on the location of the corruption, some cases may still be unrecoverable; further measures will be considered.

• Window mode / resolution settings persistently malfunctioning depending on the display in use

  • Fullscreen mode behavior was part of the underlying issue, so following the practice of many recent titles, the game has been consolidated to its default Borderless Window setting. This is a provisional measure for users who had become unable to play, and we will monitor the situation going forward.

  • The combination of ultra-wide displays and Borderless Window is now supported. When playing on aspect ratios other than 16:9, black bars will appear at the margins; this is by design.

  • To prevent crashes, the frame rate cap is now set to 120 even when VSync is off. However, because there is little practical benefit to disabling VSync in this game, we are considering making VSync always-on in a future update.

Planned Future Improvements

• Support for play in offline environments

• Improvements to character movement speed and action responsiveness

• Adding additional moments outside of boss fights where time does not pass

• Various improvements to facility placement within the village

Ongoing Bug Fixes

Bug fixes will continue to be released on an ongoing basis, including the following:

• In some environments, button guide icons may not match the connected controller type (Xbox / PS / Switch)

• In rare cases, starting Fishing or attempting Fast Travel at the exact moment a day ends can leave the game stuck at night, requiring a restart

• Loading "From the Start of Day" on a day a villager joins may result in the villager not being invited

• Some Job Abilities are not functioning as intended

• Adjusting the strike rate of fish in endgame Fishing content