Settlemoon news & patch notes

Hello, Catalysts! This update's intended to help the game be a little more self-sufficient. I noticed some very rare bugs where some save files would be partially corrupted. To help with that, I've beefed up the backup system and added a Load Backup menu in the title screen. There's also a couple other bits of UI improvements; Steam screenshots should now work again (yay!) and I added a "time remaining" section to the loading screen. This is a...partial fix. I noticed a (again, very rare) bug where the loading screen would get stuck and I'm unsure if it's just processing a lot of time or if it's legit getting stuck somewhere. With that change, if it happens again (IF...) then that'll help narrow it down. It's also just really cool to watch how much time it's simulating.

MENUS/UI:

• The title screen now includes a menu for loading backup files. There are 5 layers of backups as well as one that's made just before starting a new moon.
• If a file fails to load, it now attempts to load backups more reliably.
• The "catching up..." phase of loading now displays how much time is left to simulate.
• Fixed steam screenshots being disabled.

Hello, Catalysts! It's been a while, hasn't it? I hope everyone's been enjoying the game in its current state! Honestly, this silly lil' idle game did much better than I ever thought it would. Thanks! but that begs the question...what have I been up to in the meantime? What about the game? Will X bugs ever be fixed????

What has Lepioid LLC been doing?

if the game hasn't been updated, what have I been doing? Well, recently, I got together with some cool friends and made another game: Dreams of Aether! It's a fun little microgame collection that was a blast to work on. Check it out here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3463050/Dreams_of_Aether/ Once we got that all finished, I kinda had to take a break from gamedev, haha. It was kind of a marathon! But obviously I'd never stay away forever, so I'm looking to get back into the thick of it. Make some new things, update some old things, all that fun stuff.

What about Settlemoon?

I think Settlemoon's pretty...setttled at this point! It's got a good amount of content and it's MOSTLY smoothed out. (i'll get to that in a bit.) I do have a lot of stuff that I think could be changed about the weird idle-townbuilder formula, but I think that's something better saved for a sequel or spiritual successor. Believe me, there's a LOT of stuff behind the scenes that I wanna do with Settlemoon's world, still. Also, I have an Android port in the works! It's in a PRETTY good state but I'd still need to confirm everything on the port works and finalize everything on the storefront and legal end. When I think it's ready to release, I'll let you guys know!

Bug fixes?

I'm aware of some rare bugs that are pretty game-ruining! Unfortunately due to the rarity and how much of the game's effects take time to happen, it's really hard to reproduce anything. I'm still gonna take measures to fix them, though! Here's what I'm planning:

• Much more robust save backups
• Better file management (manual backups and file select)
• Failsafe for getting stuck on "catching up..."

The actual timeframe of fixing these I'm not entirely sure of yet; unfortunately bugfixes are something that take a mysterious amount of time. So for now I'm chalking it up to "soon(tm)". That's everything for now! Thanks for reading this, and again, thanks for sticking with my silly lil' game for so long!

Hello, Catalysts! So, technically this is a smaller patch, hence why it's v2.4b and not v2.5. There's no new big features or buildings or anything in this, but there's a lot of little changes that add up, and some of them affect a lot of what you're looking at. Namely: Text outlines!! Adventurer names and button labels have outlines on the text now, which changes the "visual identity" of the game a lot IMO. I'm a bit of a stickler for visual details. I also rewrote the tutorial card to make it flow a lot better and unlock in piecemeal; i noticed a lot of players just skimmed through the card and forgot about it, since they didn't have any context for what they were reading. Now it should stay a lot more relevant!

UI:

• Held items are a little more...glowy.
• Added new cooler-looking UI for hold clicking.
• Adventurer nametags and button numbers have outlines now! Extra readability.
• Fixed a 0 showing up when placing a building.

BUILDINGS:

• Added a new animated hint to SQ4's building related to the hold clicking change.
• SQ4's building now triggers a save when activated.
• Refined SQ1's update popup a little so it doesn't have an awkward empty space.
• Nerfed update rates of SQ3's buildings to balance out with the decor buffs. (that got ridiculous.)
• The bloodmoon inn can now hold every item a normal inn can.
• Fixed warehouses not triggering when they only have items.
• Fixed warehouses rarely filling a shop with an item that wasn't already in there.

PROGRESSION:

• Redid the tutorial card with new dialogue, rearranged pages and an extra page to help with pacing.
• The tutorial card now hides most pages and is shown piecemeal as the pages become relevant.
• Fixed milestones popping up on the prestige screen.
• Fixed SQ7 not saving its completed status through prestiges, causing it to start and immediately finish.

Hello again! Tiny fix. Teeny fix. Probably not going to be the only fix. You know how these things go.

QUESTS:

• Fixed a crash when attempting to pay for a boss quest.
• Added a failsafe if you somehow don't get the milestone for a boss clear the first time; it'll now attempt to re-unlock it every time you pay for the quest.

Hello, Catalysts! Hope those cold winter nights are treating you well. Or if you're on the southern hemisphere, those warm summer nights. I'm not jealous. Here's an update that smooths a lot of things out. Most notably is the Full Restock feature; in the Dropped Items menu, you'll find a big bag full of stuff. Dropping that on a shop will automatically cram every item it can from your dropped items into that building, meaning you can restock a building you just placed (or replaced) REALLY quickly. Besides that, there's a lot of weird UI things fixed! Nothing super revolutionary on its own but it should add up to be a smoother experience overall. Crash fixes, guild fixes, UI adjustments, new options, all that good stuff!

ADVENTURERS:

• Added 5 new hats and heads.
• More kobolds will show up after clearing certain things.
• Friends without names now display a more generic name with "BUD 1", "BUD 2", etc. They're your buds :)

BUILDINGS:

• Placing a building over a blueprint of itself will simply delete the blueprint instead of picking it up.
• Fixed guildhalls displaying the level of the building and not the guild.
• Dumping items into the incinerator now gives you 1 second per item.
• Fixed a guild issue where picking a raid would only consider the class of the last member.
• Fixed guild members signing up for multiple guilds at a time.
• Post offices now show a small profile picture of the NPC that dropped off the mail.
• Fixed the ferris wheel using a smaller collision box when placing it than when actually placed.

MENUS (ADDITIONS):

• Added a Quick Restock item to the Dropped Items menu. Dropping this onto a building will restock every possible item from your storage into it.
• Added new game options: "Menu Friction" and "Camera Friction". These adjust how fast those slow to a stop after swiping them. If you want your swipes to send the menus farther, lower this setting.
• Added the "Held Item Locks Camera" game option. With it, tapping will not grab the camera when holding a building or item, and hovering near the edge of the screen will scroll. This option makes touchscreen controls a little smoother.

MENUS (FIXES):

• Fixed a crash when trying to select a pet from an empty outfit history slot.
• Menus are now more strict on swiping down to close. You need to actually swipe downwards for it to close; diagonals will keep it open.
• Updated the seasonal pawn shop's icon to show that it's different from the regular one.
• You can now hold click on buildings to pick them up in the Buildings menu.
• Fixed a visual bug with the Dropped Items menu saying you're about to grab an item from a button with 0 on it.
• Placing a monster on a quest in Scout mode now switches it to Open.
• Clicking on a quest scroll while holding something no longer cycles its status.

TOUCHSCREENS:

• Held mats/items no longer float to your tapping position if you're tapping a menu.
• Held items now float towards your avatar similar to how other held things do.
• Fixed quest monsters zooming in from offscreen when grabbed.

PROGRESSION:

• Menu explanation cards don't appear until you're done with the tutorial. It was a little frontloaded.
• Unlocking an achievement statue will refresh the buildings menu if it appears in the chosen building filters.
• Fixed SQ1's requirements always being the same.
• The post-Boss 4 storycard (the one with big pages) now has a larger click detection area when displaying said large pages.
• Fixed a boss quest losing a completion when the game is closed and reopened and it isn't repeating.
• Fixed Rose looking at the wrong button during the building tutorial.

MISC:

• Slightly updated some resource icons. (honey and batteries use a specific black color now instead of adaptive, just like slime and glass.)
• Update popups no longer show up on full-town screenshots.
• Update popups now delete old ones if there's enough of them to keep popping up for 30 seconds. (that's a lot of updates!)
• The friends list now loads at the very start of launching the game, ensuring they stay loaded in weird cases where loading into town is interrupted for some reason.
• Added an extra hint to a hint card.
• Added to some building category names for linguistical consistency.

Hello! Just some quick fixes for some pretty important things. Deleting buildings permanently is pretty bad.

BUILDINGS:

• Fixed buildings not going back into storage when you remove them with another building.
• Fixed the ferris wheel leaving behind the base when removed via the renovator. (It was actually left behind when you delete it normally, just invisible. Whoops!)
• Fixed the phonograph not being solid.
• When the town is renovating, the camera only moves to the newest building's position when it's offscreen.

Hello, Catalysts! This update's got some very highly sought-after improvements for how building things works. Most notably, Decorations have had a huge rebalancing. They're now a lot stronger and more interesting to place down; As a decor takes up more space, the range it reaches gets further while the boost it provides gets weaker. This means you can get a LOT of decor overlapping one building to supercharge it. Not only that, there's now what I call the Town Renovator! You now have three little snow globes in the buildings menu. Using one of these will swap out your ENTIRE town with whatever you have already stored in there. It's a really fast way to change your town's layout, or just bulldoze everything and try something new. That's the most notable changes, but there's more than that! Here's the full patch notes:

BUILDINGS (Features):

• Added a Town Renovator! You can swap out your town layout using 3 different slots, letting you quickly clear out or change up your town.
• Added a phonograph. It's buildable late in NG+ and plays a certain someone's tracks after their work is done.
• Attempting to place a building over multiple others now stores all overlapping ones (and you still pick up the closest one)
• A couple more decorations are now paintable. (Boss 4's table and candle, as well as some seasonal decor)
• Added a secret to a building. (Hint: Bubble)
• Pawn shops now offer stacks of 5 materials instead of single materials, making them more worth it for the real estate.
• Warehouses now accept up to 12 sellable items and will attempt to distribute them to refill stores as well as materials.

BUILDINGS (Adjustments):

• Buffed overall decor range and strength. Now as a general guideline, the more space the decor takes up, the larger its range gets while the weaker its boost gets. There's a couple exceptions though to keep some interesting niches.

Previous decor stats: Type Range Boost Extra Tiny (12px wide) 10 30% Tiny (16px) 10 30% Small (24px) 30 20% Medium (32px) 30 20% Large (48px) 30 40% Huge (64px) 30 40% Trees 30 20% Lamps 30 10% New decor stats: Type Range Boost Extra Tiny (12px wide) 20 16% Tiny (16px) 14 40% Small (24px) 38 34% Medium (32px) 60 28% Large (48px) 80 22% Huge (64px) 100 16% Trees 50 30% Lamps 120 6%

• Slowed down the base rate of building updates: 20-25 minutes -> 25-30 minutes
• Adjusted stats of some decor that didn't match the standard of the rest of the decor.
• Increased level of T1 class shops, 1.0 -> 1.5
• Fixed some incorrectly-colored building menu icons.
• Buildings that hold items but don't sell them no longer contribute the items to town level. (refineries and the warehouse are the only buildings that do this.)

MENUS/UI:

• Added building UI displaying how decor affects them when you place something down.
• Added update popups. These appear with a chime whenever something happens from real-time updates. Visits, purchases, taking quests, etc. (You can turn these off in the options menu.)
• Added new UI to forbidden knowledge to make its effects clearer.
• Fixed a long slowdown during judgement if you have an absurd amount of money from the previous run.
• Fixed the camera during the ending breaking on very very wide windows.
• Added visual variants for the loop badges when you get a lot of them.
• Reading cards now makes the music quieter.
• The screenshot buttons now display the town stats (if the option with menus visible is used) and the amount of loops completed.
• Fixed the Menu-enabled screenshot button not displaying menus that were offscreen in-game.
• The building menu now displays the number of each building placed in town.
• Added more material sprites to one of the guide cards to hopefully encourage experimentation a little more.

PROGRESSION:

• Increased requirement for the Decorator achievement, 110% -> 200% total buffs (to account for decor being way stronger now)
• Added an NG+ reward building for Boss 6's request
• Loading in now checks to see if you're missing any achievement statues, then adds them back.
• Fixed the Expansions statue not being unlocked correctly.

ADVENTURERS:

• Added sounds to NPCs spawning, making the music quieter for a second.

Hello, Catalysts! It's been one whole year since the game first released, and I couldn't be happier with how everything has gone. To celebrate, we've updated the game with some anniversary-related things, as well as some good old quality-of-life to hopefully make the early parts of the game easier and less...confusing. Maybe on my next game I should just explain everything with text, haha.

BUILDINGS:

• Added 3 new floor types: Brick, Quilt and Classic Rock
• Added an anniversary shop! Sells random fireworks and a party hat.
• Added a new set of decor! Things hanging on ropes, a new late-game flower, and a FIRE JET. Normal stuff.
• Increased capacity per-item of Warehouses, 99 -> 999
• Fixed the Incinerator not being solid.
• Fixed a Hitching Post decor being buried in the ground.

PROGRESSION:

• Some old envelopes have appeared in the menus...They point out the basics of how each menu works. They show up as a hint button on those menus as well, so you can turn that off in the options.
• Added more steps to the town expansion so that little task starts much earlier. There's now a trinket associated with it! If you're loading an old save file, it'll consider those already done.

ADVENTURERS:

• Added 5 new hats and 5 new heads.
• Adventurers have a chance to be very color-coordinated...what do you think determines that?

MENUS:

• Added a rapid click function for the Materials menu; you can now hold rapid click to stack up mats EXTREMELY fast.
• Added more clarification to the Decor hint card.

Hello again, Catalysts! Very small hotfix today for some pretty important bugs.

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed a crash that happens when first starting NG+.
• Fixed buildings becoming intangible if you cancel moving one.

Hello again, Catalysts! As is the nature of game development, no patch can survive being un-hotfixed for long. Here's some visual fixes regarding some new things added in v2.1.

ADVENTURERS:

• Fixed falling adventurers teleporting onscreen from above.
• Made pets less prone to taking a bunch of tiny steps.

ITEMS:

• Fixed some missing names in new items.
• Fixed incorrect sprites with some gem items.
• Fixed negative stats on items using the wrong icons.

Hello, Catalysts! Pretty big update! New buildings, new cards, and a WHOLE lot of little tweaks here and there to make things smoother. If you're playing on the Steam Deck, everything should properly adapt to it now! Also important is a controls menu! Wow! I'm so adamant on developers adding these, yet I didn't add one to my own game. How hypocritical...UNTIL NOW.

PROGRESSION:

• Added a Rabbit & Steel cameo! It should show up after Boss 3 becomes available.
• Added Hint Cards that you get as you progress through the game. These should have (still cryptic) hints on how some mechanics work.
• (hopefully) fixed the ending not accounting for placed buildings.
• Most cards you get are now non-dismissable until you get to the end of them.
• Fixed the tutorial card re-view on the main menu playing the unlock animation.

BUILDINGS:

• Added a Warehouse! These evenly distribute materials you put in them across town, refilling shop stocks.
• Added an Incinerator! These burn up materials and items for a small amount of extra time to the current night.
• Added a Grill! It's a lategame variant of the Bakery, though it's not a lot of overlap.
• New Decor! A popcorn machine, hitching post, tacky lightup arrow sign, and more!
• Clocks now have standard decor properties.
• The signal catcher now works a little differently. Once it gets a signal, you hold click on it for a second. After you do that, then it sets ALL elements to 0 and unlocks the signal.
• T2 class shops have had their attract rates slightly buffed.
• Moths no longer push out of each other if they're past the town borders, so hopefully they don't push out of the screen.
• Geode Shops now create a Rock Bag out of 100 pebbles...that sells for as much as 100 pebbles.
• Boss 5's material now makes a new item in T1 class shops.

ADVENTURERS:

• Optimized offscreen adventurers; they don't update every frame now.
• Fixed NPCs holding the wrong card if new cards were added after they spawned (again).
• Fixed adventurers walking in place.
• Picking up an adventurer while stock displays are open now shows some stats about them and what they've bought.

UI:

• Added a Controls menu! You can now rebind your controls. Yay!
• The options button is now darker on the title screen so as to be less eye-catching during the intro.
• Made various improvements to how controllers handle.
• The cursor now snaps to "ENTER WORLD" on controller so you can get in real fast.
• Changed how cameo cards look to be a little cooler.
• Popup menus now have a nice little animation when they spawn.
• There's now a Button Magnifier option. With it enabled, it shows a much larger number when stacking up resources.
• Fixed grabbing menus if you're already holding the mouse down.
• the "Reset Default Options" button in submenus now only resets the options present in that submenu.
• The cursor now shows an indicator when scrolling.

COMPATABILITY:

• The game now always starts in fullscreen when in Big Picture Mode.
• Fullscreen and window size options no longer appear when on the Steam Deck or other fullscreen-only platforms.
• The tutorial's control prompts now adapt to the type of control scheme you're using.
• Steam deck and Big Picture Mode now display virtual keyboards when renaming a friend.
• Added A+X as a default binding for rapid click on controllers.

QUESTS:

• Boss quests are now limited to 300 completions to keep save file sizes consistent.
• Fixed being able to add materials to a completed fetch quest.
• Increased ice nautilus drops: 6 ice 3 shell -> 10 ice 6 shell
• Increased pillow drops: 4 silk 6 feather -> 8 silk 8 feather
• Applied save compression to the quests file. You shouldn't notice anything, but still worth noting!

WORLD:

• Added several new rare moon variants.
• Fixed some names.

Hello, Catalysts! A good bunch of you have cleared NG+ now. Good to see it! There were a bunch of reports of friends lists having some weirdness when it hits the limit. Along with fixing that, I made the file compress the same way others do, which means I can afford to increase the friends limit without changing the file size! Yay!

MENUS:

• Increased the friend limit to 125. Have fun!
• Fixed the friends list getting all weird if you hit the limit.
• Fixed recently-added friends forgetting they're already in town if the game is restarted.

PROGRESSION:

• In sidequest 6, fixed an NPC saving incorrectly if the game closes during a crucial moment.

BUILDINGS:

• Fixed the giant pillar in NG+ being highlighted as buildable when you can't afford it.
• The brewery now shows that materials can be put into it when you hover over them.

TECHNICAL STUFF:

• Applied some compression to the friends file. This shouldn't affect anything on your end but I'm writing it down anyway.
• Queued up savefiles now set the saving cooldown immediately to prevent a potential frame-perfect double-save. MAYBE that fixes the freezing i've seen people get? We'll have to investigate further to figure out what's causing this.

Hello, excavating Catalysts! Do you like shovels? Do you like shovels that don't break? Then this update is for you.

SHOVEL:

• Fixed picking up invisible buttons when using the shovel.
• Adjusted the final photo of the shovel sidequest.
• Made a couple of the shovel spots easier to hit.
• Fixed a crash when double-clicking the shovel.
• Fixed a crash when trying to pick up a material while holding the shovel and vice versa.
• The shovel.

Hello, Catalysts! Another hotfix. Smoothing things out. You know the drill. In addition to bugfixes, though, you can now SIT ON BENCHES AND STUFF. You can click on your adventurer to make them interact with the building they're standing in front of, if they can. Otherwise they'll just jump in place. Woohoo!

MENUS:

• Fixed not being able to swap outfits.
• The exit confirmation menu now waits until the game is done saving to actually close the game.
• The exit confirmation menu now suppresses automatic updates like most other menus do.
• Cards with objective counters now highlight the counter when showing unlocks. It's also been moved lower.
• During the tutorial, the double click prompt now blinks faster.

ADVENTURERS:

• You can now click on yourself to interact with buildings like other adventurers do.
• Fixed rearranging the friends list not updating in-town adventurers correctly.
• Fixed guildmembers keeping the chatbadge after you remove them. Freeloaders.

BUILDINGS:

• Changed the soccer ball to be more mechanically consistent with the rest of the game.
• Fixed a reversed sprite on a certain building that, according to achievement stats, I don't think anyone's gotten yet.

Hello again, Catalysts!! Very small fast hotfix for this; we were getting reports of a very strange crash. Remember when I said "Everything's proooobably okay"? Turns out that wasn't entirely true, haha. We'll be keeping an eye out on any other issues.

THE ONLY PATCH NOTE:

• Fixed a crash on load when a cocoon attempted to spawn.

Hello, Catalysts! Nice lil' QoL and bugfix patch here. Most notably, moths and beetles make NOISES when you click them now. Hopefully that's not too startling! Also, that "New Discoveries" tab's weird behavior is fixed. It shouldn't send you into an empty menu anymore. Also changed a bunch of stuff under the hood that SHOULDN'T affect anything. Everything's proooobably okay.

BUILDINGS:

• Clickable town-things (moths, shrines) no longer react on certain menus. (buildings and visitors)
• Moths and Beetles now make noises when you click them.
• Fixed some missing item names in the geode shop.

MENUS:

• Materials and Item menus now support rapid-click: hold it down and sweep over the buttons to grab a sampling of all of them
• Fixed the "New Discoveries" building filters locking you in an empty buildings menu.
• The building filters menu now updates live as buildings are marked as seen.
• Changed the name of the "Shops" menu to "Utility" to be more accurate.
• Added some missing building filter names.
• Fixed menus lagging behind by 1 frame (i think this was caused by a gamemaker update)
• Fixed a crash when rearranging friends that are in a guild.
• Holding a shovel now hides boss arenas and makes voids transparent.

PROGRESSION:

• Fixed the NG+ tutorial having a softlock with checking if you have enough resources to build an Inn.
• Fixed the NG+ intro screen putting the score tally on the wrong layer. It now appears behind the menu.
• Fixed prestiging not tallying anything up (that was broken???)
• Fixed Sidequest 2 starting in the wrong state until something refreshes it.
• Fixed Sidequest 6 not properly setting the state of quests.

Hello, Catalysts! Small hotfix for some things that could stall things out in NG+ as well as a couple other things that snuck in. No categories this time, not really enough notes for that. (heehee)

• Fixed an unruly cooldown timer on NG+ NPC appearances.
• Fixed some unnamed items.
• Fixed the rapid click hotkey buzzing when holding it over an empty button.

Hello, Catalysts! Version 2.0, The New Moon+ Update, is finally here! This update adds a whole bunch of new things to do once everything's all done and you start NG+. There's also a bunch of QoL and bugfixes to smooth things out regardless of how much you've progressed. The New Moon+ stuff puts a twist on the usual mechanics you've gotten used to over the course of the game. Perform alchemy, build rides and do more weird stuff! Complete these side-objectives and you'll learn more about Settlemoon's history and inner workings. If you've got a town in late-game NG+, I'd GENTLY recommend waiting until your next loop to start the new content. It's not necessary, though! You'll just have a real big head-start on the new content due to having a bunch of bosses beaten and stacks of resources. It might be a little overwhelming! For a more detailed FAQ on starting this update, check out this thread in Discussions. Patch notes:

HIGHLIGHTS

• NG+ STORYLINE ADDED! There is now a variety of new things added to NG+ runs. Existing towns in NG+ will also get this content over time, but I softly recommend trying it on a new loop.
• Added new Steam achievements for NG+.

ADVENTURERS

• Adventurers can now spawn with uncommon Back cosmetics. Wings and tails!
• Adventurers have a very rare chance to drop in.
• Adventurers that are leaving town can now be flung into the sky and off the sides.
• Fixed NPCs being unable to spawn on the right side of town.
• Fixed adventurers walking on air. (sorry)
• Once a minute, a low-level adventurer will leave and be replaced by another low-level.

BUILDINGS

• Added a Geode Shop! Take a chance with your excess rocks.
• The rest of the elemental shrines have been given proper recipes.
• Fixed Guildmembers not levelling up if they aren't friends.
• When deciding quests, Guildmembers now consider the classes of all of their comrades too.
• While guilds will prefer certain quest types, they'll still have a chance of taking unfitting options.
• Shrines now constantly release a slow stream of particle effects.

ITEMS

• Adventurers now have a chance to buy the default item if a shop's inventory is small enough.
• Adjusted endgame item stats to not be so ridiculous.
• Adjusted how item stats contribute to the world to make them decay faster overall.

MENUS

• Added (optional) Scroll Bars to menus!
• Friends and quests now wait for you to stop swiping before being counted as dragged off.
• Resource buttons in the Visitors menu now display a negative amount of money, to be consistent with quests.
• Storycards now display things that they unlock.
• Pressing Back (escape, backspace, etc.) when menus are closed prompts you to close the game.
• The World Map now changes color according to the current event.
• Added a new *experimental* keybind: Holding both Left click and Right click while on the Visitors menu lets you sweep across the screen and buy any material you hover over.

QUESTS

• Reworked how adventurers decide on quests to act like more of a weighted list.
• Monsters now attempt to move out of the way of Boss buttons.
• Fixed monster quests being overly-preferred by every class.
• Class lights on quests are now hidden until you beat the Eye Stalker.
• The moth that appears on uncleared bosses now better adapts its color to the boss. Yay!

WORLD

• Added Silver Beetles! They spawn in empty spaces and fly away after a few minutes, but if you manage to click on them you get 50 silver. This should help out early game.
• Melee and Ranged cocoons now spawn unique moths, which temporarily change the normal moon to slight variants.
• An odd constellation appears at the start of a new run...
• The language now makes sense. Good luck!
• Fixed dead cocoons saving as live moths.

TUTORIAL

• The Town guide has been reworked to be a lot more descriptive.
• When stocking the inn for the first time, the guide moth now flies to the TOP of the inn.
• The tutorial now skips the step where you have to double click a building to open its stock.
• The tutorial now has a step that forces the Buildings menu to the Shops category.

ALSO

• Revamped controller support. The Left stick now moves freely while the Dpad attempts to snap to buttons.
• Fixed the NG+ ending cutscene having a jarring cutoff on super-widescreen windows.

Hello! Time for an update outside of the game itself; we've updated some regional prices that use USD to match the recommended price. They are now as follows:

• CIS: $8.49
• South Asia: $6.99
• LATAM: $7.99
• MENA: $7.99

Also, we've updated the store page to be a little more filled out now. It's even got little GIFs and headers and stuff! Check it out!

It's almost here!! Woohoo!! The New Moon+ Update (formerly "new moon part 2") is a BIG update for Settlemoon that puts an entire new spin on New Game+ runs. New useful buildings, new goals to hit, and new cards to collect! It's like playing the game all over again! All you'll need to do to see all of this new cool story content is to beat the game at least once. A new NPC will arrive in your town to kick things off. While I'd softly recommend trying this content in tandem with a new NG+ (or even NG+++++) playthrough, you can delve into the new stuff even if your town is in an endgame state. This new storyline will put a bunch of twists to the usual town-building and quest-posting formula. Good luck trying to fit everything! Maybe you'll be able to find some extra practical uses for all the new stuff you get... Even if you haven't beaten the game yet, there will still be plenty of Quality-of-Life fixes to help smooth things out! Stuff like quests, guild halls and menu navigation have all seen some improvements. See you on March 25th! The next full moon! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44164046/9d1d671fc34131120902b0bceb5d845812c18e2c.gif

Hello again, Catalysts! Hope you enjoyed the holidays! This patch fixes a few things I noticed over the break; most notably it makes cocoons show up a little more reliably, with an extra hint to how they can work once you get more space.

ADVENTURERS:

• Fixed adventurer names appearing behind buildings when said adventurers are sitting down.
• Adventurers no longer discuss current trends until you have forbidden knowledge.
• Fixed adventurers showing up early during the tutorial if you start a new moon.

WORLD:

• Fixed an endgame animation playing at the same time as getting a milestone card.
• If there's no room to spawn a cocoon and you don't have any spots for them, it will attempt to spawn one over the bridge out of town.
• There is now a sketchy moth spot that shows up in the sketchy part of town.

Hello, Catalysts! It's time, it's time! Time for the New Moon update.....PART 1. Yeah, remember when I said the update has two parts? And how I wanted to release it before the end of the year? Yeah i actually split it up into two updates. I suppose this one could be called the..."almost new moon, but still kind of a waning crescent" update. This update focuses on a smoother first experience. Obscure mechanics like item stats, guilds and cocoons should be easier to interpret now, and there should be fewer points where the player doesn't know what to do next. Of course, we'll be keeping an eye on it to see if it sticks the landing and making further adjustments on what doesn't. Part 2 of the update will focus on adding a ton of stuff to NG+ runs! I've talked about it on another post already so I won't repeat much. You can see what I said about it here. That part of the update will definitely be in early 2024. Also in this update is a special little cameo from Cobalt Core! You'll get it once the Level 50 boss introduces themselves. That's the second cameo appearance in this game, along with Familiars.io!

ADVENTURERS:

• Added plenty of new adventurer cosmetic options.
• Friend cards have now been visually reworked to take up less space.
• Friend codes have been updated to be thinner and envelop the name in brackets too. (old ones still work.)
• Soldiers can now learn a way to not faceplant.
• Adventurers can now discuss the latest trends.
• Shepherds can now buy mushroom tomes.
• Gordo has arrived.
• During the opening, a certain moth appears more often...
• Low-level adventurers leave much faster, speeding up early game.
• If there are no adventurers in town with the sky lit, it will spawn a random adventurer to keep you company.
• Certain NPCs spawning will now have a much shorter cooldown for the next NPC spawning.
• Increased spawn chance of crossover-giving mailmanteaters.

PROGRESSION:

• Stocking the inn during the tutorial will summon a lot of adventurers to it.
• Bosses now show up at lower levels.
• Increased starting silver, 600 -> 2000
• The starting quest now finishes in 10 seconds instead of 1 minute.
• The starting quest now gives some Stone and Fireballs too.
• Finishing the starting quest now spawns double the monsters on the map.
• The Merchant achievement now checks for Inns too.

QUESTS:

• Halved resources, cost and time for some beginning monsters so they act more piecemeal.
• Drastically sped up monster spawn rate; 15 minutes -> 5 minutes

BUILDINGS:

• Refined effects when items are bought, to (hopefully) make their effects clearer.
• Magic shops now have icons for their elements.
• Buffed training area boosts, 2 -> 4
• Added plenty of new decor: Chess pieces, topiary, balloons...
• Added event variants of guild halls!
• Guild halls now display some extra info, clarifying their purpose.

WORLD:

• Leafy cocoons are now starry...
• Leafy cocoons will now become "branded" when close to hatching, locking it in.
• Leafy cocoons now determine its outcome via a total of all influencing factors while it was pupating, not just the most prominent at the end.
• Starting a new moon will summon a burst of adventurers depending on your town level.
• Constellations now appear in the sky...
• A cameo from Cobalt Core and Sunshine Heavy Industries has appeared! It'll show up soon after the Lv. 50 boss introduces themselves.

MENUS:

• The buildings menu now has a filter for new buildings.
• The buildings menu now turns on both new and highlight buildings when one is in both categories.
• Fixed touchscreens not registering taps on a menu occasionally.
• The NG+ building category has been moved closer to the center of the list.
• The options menu has been split up into several sub-menus to reduce clutter.
• Added options for fullscreen and saving/reseting window size.

OTHER:

• Corrected a background sprite in the ending.
• Some other materials are now floaty.
• Fixed the Excavator achievement not unlocking in rare cases.
• Deleting your save file should now be more thorough.
• Did a lot of behind the scenes setup for Part 2. Nothing noticable yet...

Hello, Catalysts! Here's a little sneak peek into what's next for Settlemoon. We're working on a really big content update!! So big in fact that it's worth actually naming:

The New Moon update.

This update has two big parts: A big chunk of stuff to do for people who've already beaten the game, and one that makes confusing bits a lot easier to understand. First: The content update! I don't want to reveal EVERYthing in this update, so for now... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44164046/1b8bbcdbbf852effe922a479943d95ba7e8677ba.gif The majority of stuff added in this update will be exclusive to NG+ runs. If it's your first time through, you won't encounter these. And with good reason; there'll be a lot of twists to existing mechanics that would be pretty tough to figure out if you aren't already familiar with them. It's an odd sort of hard mode, I suppose! Of course, if you want to just ignore all the new weird stuff and replay the game as if it's the first run again, you can do that too. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44164046/eb2f238d985bf194b6efb7eec515bb173f45284b.png If this is your first run through the game, there'll be some interesting changes before you beat it, too! This set of changes is mostly to make it easier to understand what's going on behind the scenes. Mostly in regards to what those funny little symbols on some items mean, but we're also going to make the opening hours much easier to get through, so you don't just stall out frame 1. This isn't a game meant to be binged or anything (go to bed!!), but being immediately hit with a requirement to just close the game for a few hours can definitely be a turn-off. That tends to happen way later in most other idlers, but in Settlemoon it's a part of the core game loop; we'd like to make it feel less jarring and a bit more natural for the player to transition to the stage of the game where you want for the town to do its own thing for a little bit before opening it back up. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44164046/98775a4f6d7e9583d39cf8f51621639393b1ed81.gif Thanks for checking this out! I'd LIKE to get this update out before the end of the year, but I think it's too early to give an actual date. Thanks for your patience regardless! This year has been nuts with other game releases anyway.

Hello, Catalysts! Very small patch here, but this should fix a huge and VERY stubborn bug. Glad to have finally been able to hunt this one down. We're still working on a pretty dang meaty content update and smoothing out the early game, but that's for another post...

GENERAL:

• Fixed an issue where certain save files (i.e. friends list and floor tiles) would not load properly and be overwritten, if launched on a new device with cloud saves.

Another lil' hotfix update! warmfix? room-temperature-fix? I've made this joke already. This one's mostly to do with the endgame and starting second playthroughs. The polish never ends, so they say!

BUILDINGS:

• Fixed the item analyzer putting dropped materials that touch it in limbo.
• Display stands and item analyzers no longer consume the item used. (they get put into your dropped items bag)
• Fixed low-level guilds dealing negative damage to high-level bosses.

PROGRESSION:

• The centerpiece now displays hint images for all materials needed, not just event mats.
• Fixed the friends list being cleared if the game is closed after the ending.
• Fixed an ending marker not saving if the game is closed after the ending.

Hello again! Another lil' hotfix. We noticed a lot of folk getting weird bugs where a "GUILD" quest would look like it just repeats endlessly without completing. It shouldn't do that now.

QUESTS:

-Fixed quests with a GUILD status getting stuck for absurd amounts of time. -Fixed inaccuracies with quest timers that caused timers to appear to loop.

BUILDINGS:

-Fixed being able to place buildings waaaaaaaaaay out of bounds if your window was wide enough.

Hello again! Another hotfix. Is it a hotfix? what's the threshold of a hotfix being hot? how long does it take for a patch to cool down? If you've noticed some ridiculously stacked quest completions, it's not just you! It WAS actually a bug. Fetch quests should no longer take...6 seconds to complete.

MENUS:

• The option to disable the help button on the main menu now also disables menu names and has been renamed to "Hint Text on Menus".
• There is now a building category for some endgame buildings.

QUESTS:

• Completed quests that also have an ongoing repeat will now show the timer.
• Fixed an issue where guilds would permanently lower the time it takes to complete a quest.
• Quests now update their cost and wait times on load to match updates.

Whoops! I thought the lists were in the right order but they weren't. Now they are. Dun worry 'bout it. That's what these letter hotfixes are for.

• Fixed the Moons menu using an incorrect icon after gaining forbidden knowledge.

Hello, Catalysts! Big change here: All timers now last 50% longer. I had tuned the Stars one specifically for overnight; set things up, sleep for 8 hours (hopefully), and it'd be done when you wake up. Moons are for more active times; if you're running errands or something. Turns out these were way too short. It was frustrating to just have it run out by the time you're done. So now, even overnight, the town should be active in the morning! Additionally, more UI clarity and tutorialization. In hindsight I probably should have focused much more on this pre-release, but hey! No time like the present. If learning the game and navigating menus felt too confusing for you, give this a try! We've also seen some folks say they've plateaued around Lv. 60, and made some changes to hopefully help people get over that wall easier. Still gonna keep an eye on that! And lastly, I've thrown in some new decor as a bonus! Some of them are exclusive to special moons...

MOONS:

• Increased time limit for Stars: 8 -> 12 hours
• Increased time limit for all Moons: 4 -> 6 hours

TUTORIAL:

• The helper moth will now land on back buttons when highlighted.
• Back buttons now have a much brighter sprite when highlighted.
• Rose will point at more buttons when trying to lead you to the Quests tab.
• Options on the main menu that aren't relevant yet will be locked, to reduce getting lost in menus.
• When you first get the card explaining how time works, it can't be dismissed until you read through all of it.
• When waiting for the tutorial quest to finish, the back button on the quest menu will now be highlighted.
• Adjusted the phrasing of the tutorial card to better explain the purpose of quests.

MENUS:

• Menus now have NAMES! They display briefly when you open them. This should help a lot when getting your bearings as well as helping other players.
• Fixed the buildings menu temporarily disabling picking up buildings after placing an item stand.
• Menu moths will now land on things more reliably instead of spinning around them for a long time.
• After gaining forbidden knowledge, the Sky menu changes some icons...

BUILDINGS:

• Increased the Large Inn's level, 1.5 -> 1.75
• Increased the Moth Tree's level, 1 -> 1.5
• Moved some secondary shops closer to the front of the list, so they're more easily seen.
• Underground decor is now easier to pick up.
• Added some new decor! A bamboo plant, a dock, a boat, a spooky clocktower, and more!
• Added a hanging sign variant for the display stand.
• Drinks made from event materials are now even more polarized.

UI:

• Fixed the autosave status flickering with a lot of icons for 1 frame before switching to the "lot of files" icon.
• Changed the icon for autosave saving a lot of files.
• There are now different sprites for different envelopes, as well as a new sprite for your mail collection tab.