Hello adventurers!
We have a lot of news so it’s highly recommended to grab a cup of your favourite drink before you start reading. There are tons of new and cool stuff packed in this announcement. Let’s get started!
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First and foremost our new DLC — Adventureland.
Mark the date: 03.10.2023 (October 3rd, 2023). That’s when Adventureland will launch for all players around the globe. Release time will be announced at a later date. The base price is $2,99/€2,99 with a 10% launch discount and an additional 5% loyalty discount for all owners of the base game.
Adventureland unlocks a whole new entertainment industry for you to use and enjoy. Build your own amusement park with 7 unique attractions and interact with your visitors like never before. Decorate your park, build pavements, add fancy lights and plants. The fancier, the better: your level of decoration will directly impact the profits your park brings. We can’t wait to see all your creations!
The best of all is that unlike the first DLC, Adventureland doesn’t need a new save game to function — you can jump straight into new stuff without any worries. Another cool thing is how we implemented co-op mode: only the host needs to own the DLC. The second player can join the game without their own copy and still enjoy all new content for free.
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That’s it for Adventureland. We hope that you are excited for all upcoming content and extended possibilities that it will bring to the Spirit of the Island.
Next we’d like to talk about Quality of Life and Beach Resort. We had a ton of requests from our dear community and we are excited to reveal what will be arriving as part of the upcoming free update.
Very important: all new Quality of Life features will be available on PC first and come to consoles at a later date. The reason for that is certification. If we add all these new features right now, it would postpone the release by another 1.5-2 months. We don’t want this to happen, so we will add everything later in a free DLC or an update, whichever we can release quicker. We hope you understand.
New Quality of Life features list:
- The tech is here: now you can create buildings without moving resources to your character’s inventory;
- Players and tourists can sit on the chairs;
- All fruit trees will show their names when you get close to them;
- Items like fishing rods will stack in your inventory;
- Chests will have more than one backpack in coop;
- You can move objects on your island now. Even the palm trees, yes;
- We added new special effects in the Museum;
- We removed lightning strike effect during rain to improve performance;
- We’ve changed how museum stores items to adjust for better text fonts;
- Option to invert the scroll wheel direction on the item hotbar.
You thought that’s it? NO! We have a few more exciting things to announce.
Next up: New Story.
In the second half of November (final date TBA), we will release another big update that will bring a brand new main storyline and an updated side quest system in Spirit of the Island. We’ve completely reworked the story, but don’t want to spoil anything, so you’ll have to wait and see everything for yourself later. Important: to play the new story, you will need to create a new savegame, because it is so different from the old one that they cannot be merged together.
Together with the new story, we will bring a second round of highly requested Quality of Life changes, which are taking a bit longer to implement:
- Inventory drag and drop for items;
- New items, such as beach umbrellas, chairs, and other new decorative items for the tourists.
Together with the new story, we’ll also add Japanese translations and we will preserve the old storyline in all available languages. With that, you will be able to enjoy both old and new storylines and keep your savegame. We’ll also add an option to choose between old and new story modes when you start a new game, so all new players can try both and compare. For your very first playthrough, we are strongly recommending picking the new one though.
Thank you so much for sticking together with us! Spirit of the Island has grown to be the game it’s today thanks to YOU, our dear community. We are truly grateful for your feedback and inputs and we hope that you will still be with us in our next journeys too *wink wink*.
Have a pleasant day!
