Tiny Glade news & patch notes

Hey y'all! We're happy to announce that Tiny Glade now runs on macOS! We sneakily released the Mac version two weeks ago as a semi-secret beta, and it went well, so now it's official. Woooo! Mac users can finally pet the sheep and ride rollercoasters (um, the rest of the game should work too 🤭) To run Tiny Glade on macOS, you'll need a Mac equipped with an Apple silicon chip: M1, M2, M3, etc., or the A18 Pro in MacBook Neo. We don't plan to support the older Intel Macs, as very few of them would actually be able to run the game (and the rare ones with AMD graphics can use the Windows/Linux builds by booting those OSes). The oldest version of macOS we've tested is 14 (Sonoma), and the newest is 26 (Tahoe). As such, we're claiming 14 (Sonoma) as the minimum requirement. If you find that it works on 13 (Ventura), that's cool, but we can't promise that it will continue working. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/1097259a5bc029b88fda8bbaf9b2e5623e402aba.jpg Please note that the macOS edition is still rather fresh out of the oven -- we ended up rewriting half of our graphics engine to support it well, which means that it contains some experimental code 👀 We also only have two test devices (a 13" MBP M1 and a MacBook Neo), so please shout in the forums if you run into trouble with your config; and if you're a Mac expert and see us struggling with support in the forums, plz send help xD Finally, because Mac users often have ambivalent relationships with input devices... a mouse with two buttons + scroll wheel is highly recommended. If you don't have such an artifact, then a two-finger tap on the trackpad works as a right click. If that's awkward to use for camera rotation, you can also bind it to a key in settings (which is something that the PC version can't do yet, so hey, we also have a Mac-exclusive feature... for now) Lots of l🍏ve as always, Tom & Ana

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/a8a7f1558023bd4b8930c31ef1d9c3b49a86d726.jpg Hello hello! This is Oda speaking 👋 As some of you might now, I’m the composer on Tiny Glade, and today I have a special announcement that will hopefully make your hearts sing 🎶 For the past few months I’ve been working on something special, and that something special is a new version of the soundtrack, made especially for vinyl! It features new mixes of my favorite tunes from each glade, carefully pieced together using instrument and ambience files from the game. It also contains the five new compositions I wrote for the “stairs” update, making it a total of 14 tracks. I think it captures the atmosphere of Tiny Glade, and I hope it can be your source of good vibes while reading, drawing, studying, or you know, going for a casual stroll with your vinyl player 🍃 The vinyl will be released in Q2 2026, and can be preordered through Stumpy Frog Records' website. It’s also possible to pre-order a digital version on Bandcamp, which will be released at the same time. The digital version will also contain the beautiful artwork by Thomas Chamberlain-Keen as a bonus download ✨ I wish you all cozy Winter holidays ❤ P.S. I’ve also updated the original soundtrack (on both Steam and Bandcamp), adding the new compositions from the “stairs” update! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/ec45ff9160ff78d554b75fa78f6d3fe908429d9d.jpg

Hullooooooooooooo here's a small patch with a few tweaks & fixes we've gathered recently: 🎃 Halloween weekly theme (it will be available from the 24th of October until the 31st of October) 🌿 Fix ivy growing over doors & windows (finally!) (it seems we haven't caught all the rogue ways it sneaks onto doors & windows yet ^^") 👆 Add our own mouse cursor (disabled by default) for when the OS cursor refuses to show up to work ☁️ Detect if running in GeForce NOW, work around session freezing when using the photo mode folder button 🛠️ Bundle parts of our asset pipeline to make texture replacement easier 🛠️ Slightly reduce video memory utilization 🛠️ Don't load old texture assets that Steam failed to delete 🐛 Fix some crashes when very low on video memory Askion kataski! (we're definitely not playing too much Hades 2) Ana & Tom

Hey, y'all! Hope the start of autumn is treating you well. I could use a bit more summer, to be honest; but there is a certain charm to the chill of the wind - the kind that pulls you back to your computer :P This post is a bit unusual for us, but I figured it is worth a small announcement. We've made two new bundles, which give you 10% discounts for the games inside. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/59018/Tiny_Towns/ The first one is with the lovely folks who work on Town to City. I suspect a lot of you have already heard of it! They've just launched their game into early access. It's very cute and chill. It even has people (! :D). https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/59147/Tiny_Glade_x_MakeRoom/ And the second one is with Make Room, which also released recently. If you've been craving interiors, that one might be for you! Aaaand, that's all for now ∠(^ー^) Love, Ana & Tom

Howdy! We continue monitoring the game's stability and your bug reports following the launch of the stairs update, and we've noticed a few reports of stairs climbing invisible terrain upon loading a glade. We saw this during the beta, and thought we'd fixed it, but it still managed to sneak through. This patch should finally resolve it. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/3cfd8c0e9c1b0174997603302aacda69b56a1183.png We've also noticed that owners of GeForce RTX 50-series GPUs are experiencing crashes when launching the game. Those crashes are linked to the just-released 580.88 driver. We're in contact with NVIDIA about the issue, and we've added an in-game warning with a link to download the 577.00 driver, which works fine. Thanks for all the crash reports and troubleshooting help! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/97078ba96ffdb36a1bc42027fcfed6976bc2806a.png BTW, a few folks are experiencing crashes on startup due to Steam incorrectly deploying the patch. There's a handful of old files that it failed to delete, and Tiny Glade crashes while trying to load them. Our crash reporter detects and highlights this problem - if you see it complaining about problems with the game's installation, try the steps it outlines, or reinstall the game, so that the old files get deleted. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/6c27242ef7a37f7fdc38fc1abc96065f362bbdbc.png Patch notes:

• 👻⛰️ Fix phantom terrain for real this time
• 🔥 Add warning for broken NVIDIA driver 580.88 on RTX 50-series cards
• 🔥 Add additional resolution advice to the crash reporter for a few external factors that mess with the game

Love, Tom & Ana

Hi, all! Here comes a small patch with a few fixes: 🚒 Detect the presence of stale game files upon a crash - Steam failed to delete them for some folks, the game tries to load them, and then crashes 🐛 Hopefully fix inability to delete glades - if a glade with the same folder name existed inside the deleted-saves folder, the deletion would fail. Now it will rename the save folder, and proceed to moving it into deleted-saves 🐛 Fix floor pattern not being inherited when creating a snapped shape ✍️ Display a small link when a stair node is attached to a wall (before it was displaying a small circle around the node and that was not very clear ^^") 👩‍🏫 Add a tutorial hint on how to detach stairs from a wall 🧹 Sanitize a crash when using coloring menu on a wall that was just undone 🧹 Sanitize a crash related to zero length curves when drawing walls and fences ✍️ and while I was at it, I figured I'd finally improve the wall snapping UI. When snapping to a wall while drawing a wall or a fence, the game will display a solid line with a dot that follows the shape of the wall you're snapping to, instead of two straight dashed lines. Love, Ana & Tom

Hi, everyone! I'm so happy to share that the stairs update has finally landed in the main branch of the game. This is by far our biggest update, and we've been cooking it since *checks calendar* omg, since March x_x Huge thanks to everyone who helped us test it while it was in beta <3 It includes a lot of complicated changes since we've rewritten multiple systems to support stairs, and I'm so happy that it's finally liiiiiiiive. Phew, okay, without further ado, lemme walk you through all the new shinies :3

Stairs tool

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/2883adb3cdabcb490f47f8ae5748b11059639738.gif The star of this update is of course the new stairs! Initially the tool set was intended for stairs alone, but we've designed it to also accommodate bridges and walkways. You click to place individual nodes, and you can access a detailed editing mode by right-clicking existing stairs. They come with customization of color and railings, and you can even place clutter on top. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/e82b3468b26470a2f0467aa5fcfc1966c3c21405.gif Stairs turn into platforms & ladders depending on steepness, and can be attached to walls and flattened roofs. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/1f03f8d63cd4f5a44eb126a37f13760c3cd545f2.gif Stairs understand if you place them on buildings - they snake around towers, and automatically create little platforms to go around corners. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/a67521d08c483eb936364a15ab14634842534cab.gif At some point we realized that it would be nice to have the ability to delete supports where you don't want them. But what should happen if all supports are deleted? Should we still try to create a pillar or stilts? Well, luckily we know a few wizards, and they happily lent us some of their spells 🧙 Thus, when stairs are unsupported, a magical effect will appear to help them levitate. Of course we conform to the Mana Conservation Act of 2016, and don't cast those spells for nothing - stairs can be non-magically supported by many things, for example a building, a wall, even other supported stairs. Okay, let's see if there is anything else on my list... ohh! yes! There is also a secret feature 👀 If you want a hint: cart + stairs = ??? . If you want another hint: SHOW ME THE SECRET FEATURE. The secret feature comes with additional controls: You can use WASD to go faster, slower as well as lean left and right. There's also an advanced version: cart + cart + cart + stairs = ???. Full spoilers: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/14a2c434ddb0416d5a9fb854a52ef7222b4127be.jpg

Cobblestone

Another new addition is cobblestone roads. They are located under a path tool, and they come in 3 variants. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/4e92331d7eac4ffc4a2b2ac0006b0263db6f3321.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/74d9141eaea3b58c651a6730db9f048648e107d8.gif You can combine the variants, and blend them with paths, creating more run-down or chaotic surfaces. Me, I'm more of a lawful-alignment cobblestone person, but I’m very curious how you’re gonna use them! Could this be the sunset of using platforms for cobblestone-clad towns? :o

New floor textures

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/e58e911cd84c2f847abd9f6108ab69ce0a5c8004.jpg The old floor pattern got a visual uplift, and acquired new friends: 2 stone and 3 wood patterns. They can be accessed via the customization tool.

Plaster peel parameter

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/79d1900aa11c58577d66b33083752944507e6c36.gif Buildings with plaster got a new customization option: the intensity of plaster peeling off.

Ability to cycle through clutter

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/0c09eb805017a310ecd31cf7982f30a73f254fbf.gif You can now select which clutter you want by entering its focus mode (by default, right-click). This also includes additional clutter with carved pumpkins with glowing eyes from the Halloween update, so you don't need to have a special glade anymore to get them.

Photo mode filters in build mode

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/9c8ea4e9ed8512518b8340dc84fff411b44bf911.jpg The filters, brightness, contrast and saturation adjustments will now also be applied in build mode. So if you want to make it more spoopy, or turn summer into a chilly day, now you can do that even while building. To reset it all back to default, select the first filter in the gallery (the one with a bookmark icon), and click the reset buttons next to sliders.

Auto-save & backup menu

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/22cdd56f23711ae24b18910cfbe060b7ac58b39e.jpg We've rewritten our save system, and added autosave in the background. Previously saving the game was an expensive operation, and happened only if you pressed the ESC key, entered photo mode, quit the game, or if the game panicked (crashed in a controlled manner). While this worked fairly well, if your computer lost power or hard-crashed, you could lose progress. Now the game saves automatically and transparently in the background after *every* operation you perform (don't worry about your hard drive's longevity - only the relevant updates are sent to disk). In addition to that, Tiny Glade will automatically backup your save every 5 minutes, keeping four of those backups around, approximately 5, 10, 60 and 120 minutes old (additional backups are also created upon panics too). This means that if something catastrophic happens to your system, or Steam Cloud goes haywire, you should still be able to load a relevant backup. There's also UI for loading those now.

Notable visual changes

Circular half-timber rework + roof tiles

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/84a39c637b9fa9db9b0b85fea20e0df91aa98950.jpg Timbering on towers has received a visual uplift too! They're no longer made out of small wooden pieces (which could look broken in certain configurations), but instead are one continuous curved wooden beam. The roof tiles have also been upgraded to have more detail.

Fix snow on platform borders

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/2f25c7c0696a783de573377daab9376f98c5db5d.jpg (thank you, anonymous player, for sending us a bug report with this beautiful scene attached) The snow on auto-generated stairs and platform borders has been cleaned up, so the snowy towns should look more consistent now!

New music

Oda Tilset has composed 5 new music tracks 💞 one for each glade type.

Optimizations

This patch also includes a number of optimizations, primarily on the CPU side. If the performance on your system was limited by the graphics card, they won't do much, but otherwise you might notice your frame rate doubling in more complex builds.

Experimental Mac compatibility

While we don't yet have a Mac build that we can share, we've been working on it in the background, and made some progress. The fixes and workarounds for Mac's quirks are in our codebase now, and it's now possible to run the Windows version inside a patched CrossOver 25 on macOS on Apple Silicon. Please note that this is still experimental, and we can't offer assistance with running the game on Mac - we're still unfamiliar with the platform, and the Windows→macOS translation layers are outside of our control. Please read our guide for more details. More disclaimers and stuffs: This is a temporary workaround until we've resolved all remaining issues with native macOS support. Also note that we don't plan to support Intel Macs via macOS - most couldn't run the game due to hardware & driver limitations, and the ones with Radeon cards that could, have been able to run it all along on Linux/Windows via Boot Camp

Copying your beta saves into the main game

If you helped us testing the beta, first of all, a huge thank you!! If you'd like to transfer your beta saves into the main game, you need to manually copy them from the beta saves folder: * Each save folder is named with a bunch of numbers. You can see which save it is by looking at "screenshot.jpg" inside the folder. * Copy the desired saves from the "beta-saves" folder into "saves" in "C:/Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/Saved Games/Tiny Glade/Steam/YOUR_STEAM_ID" ("~/.local/share/Tiny Glade/Steam/YOUR_STEAM_ID" on Linux)

Staying on the old version

If you wish to stay on the old version for any reason, it's still available. To switch to the old build, right-click Tiny Glade in your Steam Library, then go to Properties → Betas → Beta Participation, and select "old-1_13_2". Please note that we won't support the old version with any new features or fixes. Please note that an older version of the game won't be able to load saves made by a newer version. Tiny Glade automatically upgrades saves upon loading, so if you downgrade Tiny Glade, it won't be able to load saves that you'd previously saved or loaded in the new version. When in doubt, manually back up your "saves" folder. If your save file has already been upgraded, and you can't load it in the old game, you can restore the save from a special backup automatically created when upgrading (more info here). ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Patch notes:

Major:

• ✨ Stairs tool
• ✨ 3 variants of cobblestone
• ✨ 5 new floor variants
• 🎢 Roller coaster mode
• ⛑️ Background autosave and backups

Gameplay & UX:

• ✨ Add ability to cycle through the available clutter in the clutter focus mode
• 👩‍🏫 Update starting builds with new features + add 3 new ones
• 🎨 Add customization of plaster peel amount
• ⛑️ Add UI for loading game backups
• ✍ Holding "disable snapping" key (default: LCtrl) now prevents windows from turning into doors
• ✍ Rectangle editing now behaves itself when in low camera angles
• ✍ Rectangle rotation is now snappier & no longer does a small jump at the start of an edit
• ✋ Prevent “sheep pet hand” from taking over the screen
• 💡 Don't offer window light customization for trapdoors (since they don’t emit light)
• 🌥️ Adapt object highlight color to surrounding lighting (to avoid excessive contrast at night when hovering over building elements)
• 🐛 Fix stuttering when building on water (fix intermittent misses in cursor-terrain intersection)
• 🐛 Fix first-person ghost mode (noclip) toggle not working on gamepads/controllers
• 🖱️ Fix Steam Deck being hesitant to switch to mouse & keyboard mode
• 📈 Bump max wall limit to 20,480

Visual:

• 📷 Apply photo mode filters in build mode too
• 🎨 Add subtle edge damage and remove green noise overlay from roof tiles
• 🎨 Rework circular half-timbering
• 🎨 Fix snow on platform borders and auto-generated stairs
• 🎨 Add random slits to lilypads
• 🎨 Update stone floor texture
• 🎨 Add parallax mapping to floors (ray march all the things!)
• 🐛 Remove diagonal supports from wooden pillars on towers if there is not enough space
• 🐛 Prevent platforms from going below minimum height limit in very old save files
• 🐛 Fix cottage window outlines being glitchy / black / colorful

SFX & Music:

• 🎼 Add five new music tracks
• 🔊 Tweak undo sounds
• 🔊 Add an additional audio detail when moving a building overlapping other buildings
• 🔊 Fix volume difference between placing decorators and moving them
• 👂 Make path draw sounds quicker to stop
• 👂 Slightly reduce latency of all audio events
• 🐛 Fix window audio not playing when moving camera instead of cursor

Image Quality:

• 🕶️ Speed up brightness adaptation, and fix flicker therein
• 🌅 Add subtle glare (“bloom”) around bright objects
• 🌞 Fix gradient inversion / dark outline around the sun
• 🔬 Improve quality of indirect lighting’s rough specular reflections
• 🔬 Improve image upsampling quality with "resolution scale" < 1.0 (use edge-adaptive spatial upsampling)
• 🐛 Make "white wall" albedo actually white in global illumination (it was greenish)
• 🐛 Fix tree branches abruptly disappearing close to the camera
• 🐛 Fix depth of field artifacts in close-up tree branches
• 🐛 Fix color banding on sky by dithering it
• 🐛 Fix additional color banding on sky and other smooth gradients coming from image rescaling
• 🐛 Fix black halos around bright objects (clamp negative ringing in image resampling)
• 🐛 Fix colors of trees & terrain in global illumination
• 🐛 Fix indirect light leaking through terrain
• 🔬 Improve accuracy of shadows in global illumination

Performance:

• 🦥 Make the processing of decorators (windows etc.) lazy, so we don’t burn CPU cycles for nothing
• 🏇 Parallelize the processing of in-world 3D UI
• 🏇 Tweak level of detail selection for plank meshes (make planks faster and prettier)
• 🏇 Discard tiny distant objects from being shadow casters
• 🏇 Parallelize Vulkan command buffer recording
• 🐛 Fix duck trajectory planner wasting CPU cycles if ducks can’t find landing spots
• 🔬 Limit max anisotropy of textures from 16 to 4
• 🤏 Enable BC7 texture compression for more assets
• 🤏 Switch some assets to BC4 texture compression
• 🧊 Limit menu frame rate to <= 60 (to save power)

Platform support:

• ✨ Add Qualcomm Snapdragon X as a recognized platform (add driver version check & download links)
• 🐧 Fix color channel swap on Linux + Wayland
• 🐧 Maybe fix Linux crash reporter copy-to-clipboard
• 🍏 Add experimental compatibility with patched CrossOver 25 on MacOS
• 🍏 Add CrossOver/WINE - specific workarounds for the driver info screen being black
• 🍏 Fix out-of-bounds GPU buffer writes on Mac
• 🍏 Add compatibility with MoltenVK 1.3+

Misc:

• 🚒 Handle more silly graphics drivers (swapchain image acquisition freezing the game)
• 🧊 Add diagnostic tool for detecting game freezes/hangs (“--detect-hang” launch parameter)
• 🧯 Gracefully handle disk write errors in the save system, and surface them via UI
• 🤏 Slim down save file size a bit
• 🌡️ Default FPS limit to 60 for new game installations
• 🐛 Fix numerical overflow crashing long sessions (recycle render instance identifiers)
• 🐛 Fix a crash related to near-zero-sized gates
• 🐛 Fix half texel offset in CPU-side texture sampling (fix applies only in new glades)
• 🐛 Fix ghost lantern & crash when switching from lantern mode to wall eraser
• 🐛 Fix an assortment of numerical errors in curve processing
• 🖖 Fix a few graphics validation errors revealed by Vulkan Configurator’s extra tests
• 🖖 Move from compute- to raster-based presentation for improved compatibility

P.S. If you encounter any bugs, please send us a report by pressing F6 while in the game. If you encounter any crashes, please share the crash codes via Steam forums. We will be actively monitoring them in the upcoming days! Thank you! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/231a400ff01227a9a3cb51718379ff01118ba542.jpg (or, should I say, the remainder of summer 😄) Love, Ana & Tom P.P.S. build 1.14.0a contains a quick crash fix: sometimes when switching to Halloween glades, the music system was trying to incorrectly reference one of the new tracks (thank you for the swift crash report!)

Hi, folks! Usually our betas last only a week or two. and so we keep the patch notes in Discord. This update is way bigger and thus is taking longer to test, so we figured it would be nice to keep you all updated on how it's going. We will be adding the notes into this event as new patches come 📝🙇‍♀️

July 28

1.14.0-beta34 is up! 💅 When stairs have both magic supports & railings, first offer customization for magic, and then for railings 🧊 Don't render the world while in the main menu 🧊 Limit menu frame rate to <= 60 (to save power)

July 27

1.14.0-beta33c is up! 🏃 Optimize stair floor (walkway) rendering by moving it to our GPU-driven pipeline 🐛 Fix stairs glitching upon cursor hovering control hints 📐 Tweak interaction geo of stairs attached at 90 degrees to walls (it was hard to grab them)

July 25

1.14.0-beta32 is up! 🧲 Fix stair snapping behavior 🧹 Removed the toggle to switch to pre-1.14.0 tower timberframing. This old version of timberframe doesn't work with stairs, since it's, well, old ^^ and we're getting bug reports on that. We've concluded that it's confusing to have this option offered, since the expectation is that it would work with the rest of the features of the game. 🔬 Tweak sensitivity of stair recalculation (should reduce reshuffling on glade reload) 🐛 Fix the cursor staying visible and moving while rotating the camera

July 24

1.14.0-beta31 is up! 🐛 Fix magic effect not disappearing for grounded ladders with removed supports 1.14.0-beta30 is up! 🏇 Optimization for the stairs magic effect - recalculate the effect only when needed (if you used the magic stairs, we'd greatly appreciate if you check that it still works in your build correctly) 🎨 Offer magic effect coloring on ladders too 🎨 Don't offer magic effect coloring when no magic effect is present 🐛 Reset camera lens & artistic effect settings when creating new glades 🐛 Don't add magic effect if stairs are grounded Status update: we're getting to the finish line! The biggest remaining piece, the optimization for magic effect, has landed, and now we will be monitoring whether it's stable and works as expected. Assuming no major fixes are required, we're estimating we can ship the update early next week

July 23

1.14.0-beta29 is up! 🎨 Add color customization to the stairs magic effect 🎨 Magic effect will no longer be reshuffled when moving/changing stair segment, but stay consistent 🧑‍🏫 Update starting builds with new features from the update + add 3 new ones 🐛 Fix stairs UI gizmos sometimes treated as obscured when they shouldn't 🐛 Fix another crash related to hovering over an add supports button on stairs

July 22

1.14.0-beta28b is very unexciting, and just reduces some internal log spam 1.14.0-beta28 is up! Just fixing an oopsie: 🐛 Fix a crash when hovering over an add supports button on stairs for a longer section (tysm for the crash reports!) 1.14.0-beta27 is up! 🐛 Fix stair floors missing a bottom ✍️ Show approximate preview of arches when hovering over the re-add supports button in stairs focus mode ⚠️ We've run into too many issues with building support removal. We thought we could quickly sneak this into this update as a cool bonus, but it turned out more complicated than we'd anticipated, and we don't want to ship something half-broken 😅 We've decided to look into it again later to avoid delaying the stairs update any further. Thus, this feature is removed for now. (if you used it in your saves, the effect will remain). Thank you for all the feedback & bug reports 🧡 P.S: the stairs no-supports work as before, this only affects buildings.

July 21

1.14.0-beta26 is up! 🐛 Deduplicate pillars between stair segments 🐛 Random crash fixes 1.14.0-beta25 is up! 🐛 Fix inability to delete stone supports in stairs that were attached between two different walls/buildings 🐛 Fix stair stone railing being distorted even when no magic effect was present

July 20

1.14.0-beta24 is up! ✨ Add ability to remove stair supports by using hammer tool (you can re-add them back in focus mode) ✨ Add ability to remove building supports by using hammer tool (you can re-add them back in focus mode) 🧹 Toggle for no-supports for stairs has been removed in favor of the new UX ✨ Add Qualcomm Snapdragon X as a supported platform 🍏 Add experimental compatibility with patched CrossOver 25 on MacOS (Needs MoltenVK 1.3. You can use CXPatcher for this; before patching, go to"Advanced Options", and from the "Patch MoltenVK" drop-down at the top, pick "Latest MVK (...)") You can now remove supports per stair segment. When no supports are present, the stairs will become suspended mid-air with the force of magic 🧙However, if a stair section overlaps with any other structure, it will be considered supported, and the magic effect will not appear. Some of the new code is a bit slow. Please mind the performance gap while we carry out the optimizations 👨‍🔧👩‍🔧

July 17

1.14.0-beta23 is up! 🐛 Fix crash on RMB of newly dragged clutter 🛠️ Fix clutter being nuked from stairs on insert or delete point 1.14.0-beta22 is up! 🐛 Fix crash when moving clutter to an invalid location 1.14.0-beta21 is up! ✍️ Add a "will be changed" warning to the no-support toggle 🐛 Don't offer to insert a new stair point when dragging any other gizmo 🐛 Fix light leaking through terrain in GI 💥 Fix misc stair-related crashes 💥 Fix crash with near-zero-sized gates

July 16

A quick status update: we're getting closer to wrapping up the bug fixing, however, we've realized that the current option for "no supports" on stairs we added in `beta19` doesn't feel like Tiny Glade. We don't want to remove it though, as we see its potential and the fun you can have with it. Therefore, we're going to spend additional time finding a UX that feels at home with Tiny Glade. We're guessing we need an extra week, and the beta will hopefully be finished at the end of next week.

July 15

1.14.0-beta20 is up! 🈂️ Translations ✍️ Auto-attach newly inserted stair points to an appropriate wall or flat roof, if they're inserted into an edge that's attached to same wall/roof ✍️ Split the building category of the toolbar into two rows 🐛 Fix leftover plaster on fences for reallzz (it will also be automatically removed if your build has any) 🐛 Fix continue stairs not always retaining stair style 🐛 Fix stairs reacting to phantom terrain

July 14

1.14.0-beta19 is up! ✨ No supports option for stairs (available in the customization menu) ✍️ Remember last used stair color, railing type and ladder color 🐛 Don't create half arches if the attachment wall doesn't have enough space for it 🐛 Sanitize rogue plaster on fences (thank you for the reports! unfortunately, we still can't find a repro for it, but this fix should at least prevent this from happening; if it happens again, please shout!) 🐛 Fix single node stairs rotation gizmo being misaligned when on flat roofs 🐛 Don't offer rotating single node stairs if they're wall-attached 🐛 Don't offer inserting a new point if it's a single node stair Status update: we're currently wrapping up the remaining issues and bugs. We're hoping to be done by the end of this week / beginning of next week!

July 13

1.14.0-beta18 is up! ✍️ Allow rotating single node stairs 🐛 Fix roof-attached single node stairs having pillars going all the way down to terrain 🐛 Fix pillar bottoms stealing "insert point" focus 🐛 Fix ladders slightly floating above terrain/roofs 🐛 Fix ladders creating floor supports when elevation wasn't high enough

July 12

1.14.0-beta17 is up! ⚙ Add a toggle in game settings for the old-style timberframe 🐛 Fix phantom lantern & crash when switching from lantern mode to wall eraser 🐛 Fix crashes in assembly of near-zero-length railings 🐛 Fix flicker of clutter move UI, and related random crashes

July 11

1.14.0-beta16 is up (just a few smol things cause we're taking a mini break) 🔨 Extra check for railing generation on two separate buildings :blame_AMD: Add an extra AMD driver DLL check to the crash reporter 🐛 Fix instance index overflow crashing long sessions 🐧 Maybe fix Linux crash reporter copy to clipboard 🎢 Fix coaster flicker & excessive stair-attached deco recalc 🔨 Harden save file writing some more against disk errors

July 09

✨ Wooden railings for stairs 🕰️ Fix stairs undo/redo weirdness when splitting walls 🎢 Input prompt for rollercoaster now correctly displays with controller 🐛 Fix UI gizmos sometimes splitting into two (thank you for the F6 reports!!); turns out the camera distortion from photomode was applied to one rendering pass, but not the other 🐛 Disallow diagonal supports for wooden pillars on towers if the pillar is too short 🐛 Tweak sensitivity of discarding railing ends 🐛 Fix bald grass after last stair segment is removed (fr fr no cap this time) 🐛 Fix color flashes in bloom when resizing the window sometimes 🐛 Make bloom scale resolution-independent 🐛 Fix black halos around bright objects 🔬 Improve image upsampling quality with "resolution scale" < 1.0 (use edge-adaptive spatial upsampling) 🐛 Fix walls blinking out of existence during replay 🧯 Gracefully handle file "access denied" operating system errors in the save system :blame_AMD: Handle more silly behavior of graphics drivers (swapchain image acquisition hanging) 🧊 Add game hang/freeze detector (--detect-hang launch parameter)

July 07

1.14.0-beta14 is up! 🔊 Stairs have proper SFX now~ 👨‍🏫 Control hints/tutorial for stairs 🎨 Add railing to the ends of wall-attached stairs 🐛 Fix gaps in curved timberframing 🐛 Fix decorator & wall sfx not playing when moving the camera with wasd, but keeping the cursor still 🧯 Gracefully handle disk write errors in the save system

July 06

1.14.0-beta13 is up, with some rollercoaster silliness from last night's hacking, and one fix from Ana who's doing real work 🎢 Fix the disappearing cart problem 🎢 Don't forget the last segment for closed tracks 🎢 Add WASD controls 🎢 Don't play footstep sounds in coaster 🎢 Make the simulation framerate-independent 👮‍♀️🌳 Tighten tree border control

July 05

1.14.0-beta12 is up! 🐛 Fix duck trajectory planner wasting CPU cycles 🐛 Fix fences contracting plasteritis 👮‍♀️🌳 Implement tree border control 🐛 Fix window-related crashes when merging walls 🪟🚪 Eat the balcony cake and have it too

July 04

1.14.0-beta11 is up! ✨ Added ability to cycle through the available clutter in the clutter focus mode (ideally, we'd have a proper menu, but this should help meanwhile!) 🎨 Make stair bricks look more random ✋ Prevent sheep pet hand from taking over the screen ✍ Revert LCtrl preventing windows from turning into doors, but make smallest width stairs not create doors ✍ Keep stair stubs when you click and don't move ✍ When placing stairs, they no longer disappear when you hover over other decorators 🐛 Fix decorators not recomputing on changing terrain 🐛 Fix ladder floors not having edges (oopise from adding railings) 🐛 Fix newly-connected stairs not inheriting the parameters such as ladder color, railings and color (otherwise, things get mismatch in history when coloring) 🐛 Prevent stair steps sinking too low 🐛 Undo accidental rotation change of clutter on round towers (affects clutter on round roofs, but matches non-beta) 🔉 Fix photomode icon playing brick sound 🎢 ????????

July 03

1.14.0-beta10 is up! ✨ Added stair railings ✍ Prevent stairs trying to snap to angled roofs ✍ Don't offer attachment to existing stairs if snapping is disabled ✍ Don't snap stairs to walls if snapping is disabled ✍ Reverse color of plaster icons 🐛 Fix pillar collision geometry preventing interaction with stairs gizmos when in water 🐛 Fix ghost mode toggle not working in FPS camera with controller input

July 02

1.14.0-beta is up! 👂 Make path draw sounds quicker to stop 🐛 Prevent stairs from splitting into ladders & walkways in edge cases where you don't expect it 🐛 Arrest illegal ladders & arches that would fix themselves upon reloading the game 🐛 Fix color banding on sky 🐛 Fix DoF artifacts in close-up tree branches 🐛 Fix tree branches abruptly disappearing close to the camera 🎢 ????????

July 01

1.14.0-beta8 is up! ✍ Holding "disable snapping" key (default: LCtrl) now prevents windows from turning into doors ✍ Rectangle editing now behaves itself when in low camera angles ✍ Rectangle rotation is now snappier & no longer does a small jump at the start of an edit 🐛 Fix cases when stair gizmos become unresponsive in focus mode when there are lots of stairs around 🔊 Fix volume difference between placing decorators and moving them

June 30

1.14.0-beta7 is up! It's a very 🐛🔫 patch 🐛 Fix building pillars ignoring stairs 🐛 Fix stair placement disappearing when hovering over existing stair nodes 🐛 Fix single node stairs not offering to be connected to existing stairs 🐛 Fix stairs UI being shown in main menu 💥 Misc crash fixes :blameintel: Fix stutterfest on Intel UHD

June 29

1.14.0-beta6 is up! 📐 Railings/merlons are now removed around stairs, walkways & ladders 🤏 Slightly increased the slope at which walkways turn into stairs, to make ramps more useful 🐛 Fixed visual glitches on sloped walkways This will likely affect some features of your builds, especially if you overlapped buildings & stairs a bunch, e.g. for making bridges with railings. Those are still possible using similar approaches, just might need a slight nudge to the stairs and/or platforms. 1.14.0-beta5 is up! 🐛 fix missing stair pillars when underwater 🐛 fix single node stair supports being too skinny after the previous patch (oops) ✍ better stairs UI responsiveness when hovering over gizmos 🌥️ derive edit highlight from sky brightness (to avoid overly bright highlight at night) 🎨 ladder bottom point no longer offsets forward if it's connected to another ladder (for more continuous ladder sculptures and masts ;D)

June 28

A new build is up! (1.14.0-beta4) 🐛 When in focus mode, you can interact with move, height & insert point gizmos even when obstructed by a wall 🎨 Single-node stairs now have arches 🌀 Stair-attached decorators can be rotated 🤏 Stairs can have a slightly smaller min width 👉 Your stair-attached clutter will likely change its rotation due to this update. Pardon the inconvenience, but 'twas necessary to allow rotation editing. 1.14.0(beta3) is up Fix doors not spawning 🚪 :sheephammer:

June 27

1.14.0(beta2) is up! ✨ Ladders can now be colored 🐛 Fixed the ghost stairs that rotated with the camera 🐛 Fixed plaster peel leaking wall preview color when hovered 🐛 Offer plaster peel option for freehand walls as well 🛠️ Made gizmos smaller in focus mode when stair nodes are close to each other 🛠️ Modified min width for stairs to be no slimmer than brick depth (otherwise it exposed gaps)

Helloooo, everyone! We're finally ready to start testing our biggest update yet 🙌 There are a looooot of misc fixes and smaller things - we'll do the full notes once the patch is released in the game proper, but for the sake of brevity, for now I'll highlight only the main stuff. That's where we'd appreciate your help testing - we'd be super grateful if you report bugs (via F6) and crashes (via the crash reporter's pop-up window) 🙏 Tom & I will be actively monitoring and fixing things as they pop up. If you need a reminder on how betas work and how to opt-in, please see instructions at the bottom of the post. All righty! Without any further ado:

Stairs

The biggest addition is of course stairs! They turn into platforms & ladders depending on steepness, and can be attached to walls and flattened roofs. You can access a detailed editing mode by right-clicking them, and you can even place clutter on top of them. Please note that the SFX is a work-in-progress. We didn't want to stall the playtesting, and we still need to add the final sounds (the ones in the game are placeholders, and will change).

Cobblestone

There are 3 new cobblestone variants of path tool!

New floor patterns

The old floor pattern got a visual uplift, and acquired new friends: 2 stone and 3 wood patterns. They can be accessed via the customization tool.

New music

Oda Tilset composed 5 new tracks for us 💞 one for each glade season.

Circular timbering rework

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/69e12bf75f8d17a44fd7552cc3e25508fadebafd.jpg Timbering on towers has received a visual uplift too! They're no longer made out of small wooden pieces, but instead are one continuous curved wooden beam. This should look way neater, especially on narrow towers :3

Photomode filters in game mode

The filters, brightness, contrast or saturation adjustments will now be also applied to the game mode. So if you want to make it more spoopy, or turn summer into a chilly day, now you can do that even while building. To reset it back to default, select the first filter in the gallery (the one with a bookmark icon).

Auto-save & backup menu

We've rewritten our save system, and added autosave in the background. Previously saving the game was an expensive operation, and happened only if you pressed the ESC key, entered photo mode, quit the game, or of the game panicked (crashed in a controlled manner). While this worked fairly well, if your computer lost power or hard-crashed, you could lose progress. Now the game saves automatically and transparently in the background after *every* operation you perform (don't worry about your hard drive's longevity - only the relevant updates are sent to disk). In addition to that, Tiny Glade will automatically backup your save every 5 minutes, keeping four of those backups around, approximately 5, 10, 60 and 120 minutes old (additional backups are also created upon panics too). This means that if something catastrophic happens to your system, or Steam Cloud goes haywire, you should still be able to load a relevant backup. There's also UI for loading those.

Testing this beta patch

If you'd like to help out and opt into the beta, go to Tiny Glade in your Steam Library, then Properties → Betas → Beta participation → Select "beta-1_14_0". The save files of this beta are separate from the main version of the game, and this is a beta rather than a regular patch. What does that all mean?

• When using the beta, you won't see the glades you've built in the default branch.
• We made beta saves separate from the regular saves because the beta branch contains new code unavailable in the default branch. Thus, the save files created in beta won't work in the default branch until we merge the beta into the default branch.
• You can however copy your previous saves manually into the beta if you like.
• Saves for the beta are in the "beta-saves" folder alongside "saves" in "C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\Saved Games\Tiny Glade\SteamYOUR_STEAM_ID" ("~/.local/share/Tiny Glade/Steam/YOUR_STEAM_ID" on Linux)
• The beta saves are not synchronized to Steam Cloud.
• Some stuff might misbehave, and we might need to make changes if necessary. Beware that your beta builds might change
• After the beta is closed, you'll be able to just (manually) copy over your beta saves into the regular saves folder.
• Please see our troubleshooting guide for more information about saves.

How to report a bug

If you encounter something broken, or would like to send any feedback about this beta, we'd appreciate an in-game report using the F6 key 📝 If the matter would benefit from a discussion, you're also welcome to write a comment to this post or on Discord. Thank you for reading and playing! We hope you have fun 💚 Love, Ana & Tom

Hi, everyone! Hope you’re well and starting to feel all summery 🌞 We’ve been working on the next update, which has now accumulated quite a few goodies. Lemme give you a tiny sneak peek :3 We’re adding cobblestone! At some point I started toying with parallax mapping, and after a few promising experiments, Tom & I had a Bilbo Baggins moment of “why shouldn’t we make cobblestone with it”. We both got super geeky tweaking the art & shaders, and it was some of the most fun I had in recent memory of Tiny Glade development. After multiple very obsessive days, we've arrived at three cobblestone variants. I’m chuffed that we got it to perform well too (thanks, Tom!). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/4e92331d7eac4ffc4a2b2ac0006b0263db6f3321.jpg You can combine the variants and blend them with paths, creating more run-down or chaotic surfaces. Me, I'm more of a lawful-alignment cobblestone person, but I’m very curious how you’re gonna use it! Could this be the sunset of using platforms for cobblestone-clad towns? :o {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/74d9141eaea3b58c651a6730db9f048648e107d8.gif Still, the most exciting feature we’re working on is stairs. Up till now, you’d make those by manually aligning tiny wall pieces, which gets, ummm, rather laborious… I did that for two daily themes, and it will forever be etched in my memory T_T Welp, perhaps soon we can say goodbye to that! Here is a GIF of what we have now (but please bear in mind this is very work-in-progress stuff, and will change). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/12c254ed152ed0a1e6daa5bd6782e612d4e631aa.gif We’re now ironing out various edge cases, of which there are many... Stairs are the biggest and most complicated change we’ve done since Tiny Glade’s launch. For them to feel the way we want, we’ve reworked several systems around object generation, attachment, and various bookkeeping. It’s our 5th prototype now; this one is finally starting to feel good, and, dare I say, fun to play with (Tom screaming in the background: “nooo, don’t say the f-word, you’ll jinx it!”). Anyway, that’s very motivating, compared to when, you know, you just conclude it’s a dead end, and throw everything away >_<. So we’re quite excited! Hope you’re excited too :D There’re more (smaller) things coming too, but I’m gonna keep them a surprise 🎁 Anyhoo, that’s all~ Thank you for reading, and we wish you a lovely day! Love, Ana & Tom

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/be35ea21ea9050236c1e8bb4373b7ac4c3b867bd.jpg This feels kinda crazy but Tiny Glade has been nominated for Technical Achievement at BAFTA 2025 alongside Astro Bot, Black Myth: Wukong, Call of Duty, Senua's Saga, and Warhammer 😳 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/d536d20a2146af766fdb14a67cf85dfc7436df5b.jpg It's a huge honor for Tom & me and our little home-baked loaf of tech 🍞 We’re grateful for having had the chance to channel our nerdiness into a game that makes people smile. Thank you all for playing and being in this small corner of the internet with us 💚 Love, Ana & Tom

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/89a85ae751c41e28756898fab0b1df26c52ba0ed.jpg Wooo! We just got an email from Valve that Tiny Glade is now officially Steam Deck Verified. 🎉 🎉 That's all I wanted to share 😄 Hope you have a good rest of the week! Love, Ana & Tom P.S.: if you were waiting for Steam Deck verification to get Tiny Glade, you may want to wait just a bit longer - the Spring Sale should start any moment now, and we'll have a discount!

Howdy! Just a quick fix here. In the process of allowing buildings to go lower in 1.13.0, we accidentally broke timber framing under roofs. Sorry for the breakage - it's managed to sneak past our automated tests. Here's the broken version: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/1691faadd7124b92b29087e719dd623547b39c98.jpg And here's how it should look like: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/9f04124d5ef75ae03d29fc8c5f5828c460f8295f.jpg Thus, the change list:

• 🐛🦜 Unshiver me timbers

Thanks for the bug reports <3 Love, Tom & Ana

Hullo! This was going to be a smol sneaky patch, but the powers that be decided that the 20 line code change would be a 200MB update. Compilers, how do they work? Nobody knows... *cough*, anyway xD

• 🐛 Fix startup crash if audio fails to initialize (say, you have no sound card, or it has a borked driver)

🎉 Love, Tom & Ana

Welp that's embarrassing, looks like we broke the loading of your Halloween builds due to an invalid asset reference... Sorry about that 😢🧡 It was a silly thing, so I'll make sure to harden our build process against this kinda mistake in the future. It also took us way too long to spot the crash, as our file integrity checker was incorrectly claiming that it was due to messed up files in your game installation. The incorrect diagnosis was due local changes I had in our build tool that prepares file manifests for those integrity checks. My bad. Without further ado:

• 🐛 Fix crash when loading Halloween music.

Apologies again for the crashes. Love, Tom (& Ana is asleep, but she'd certainly send love too)

Hello~! The new update is finally properly cooked 👨‍🍳👩‍🍳 Many thanks to everyone who helped us test it 💚 If you've seen the beta preview post from the last week, we've accumulated a few new fixes - you can see the new additions at the bottom. Hope you enjoy this update!

2x terrain height

You can simply extend terrain higher now, making builds more epic, and ensuring that every day is leg day for the imaginary inhabitants. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/4e0a47af38ae2f45b4413ef55ff85f7c53b3518b.jpg

Movable terrain chunks

You can now right-click on terrain chunks, revealing the ability to move them. This mode also shows all the other available controls, like changing height and falloff. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/ccef8a32bce056b1c261a41922b5ee2fe380e58e.gif

Rotatable towers

Circular buildings shall no longer look upon rectangular ones with jealousy. If you right-click a round building, you'll now see a curved arrow that lets you adjust rotation. Now you can get those support pillars juuust right. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/7e483081d98197fd14e4bfd956b769033a287925.gif

Lower minimum height for buildings with roofs

We wouldn't want to break any laws of physics, so now that we've allowed higher elevation of terrain, we figured that to compensate, we could also allow buildings to go lower. For buildings with roofs, we'd previously restricted their minimum height such that you could still have wooden gates in them, but we figured that's not a necessary restriction. You can now make them very short, almost tent-like. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/b9a695d996dcbe1436aad404334c469a6d0af090.jpg

Tiny Glade Super Resolution (TGSR)

We've been hearing here and there that Tiny Glade can turn graphics cards into leaf blowers 🍃 The main reason is that we render the image at full resolution, whereas most graphically-intensive games these days support upscaling via DLSS, FSR or XeSS. With those, games render at a reduced resolution (which is cheaper), and then synthesize full-res images by correlating information across frames. We've now added TGSR - our own technique sporting competitive image quality and performance. Compared to TAA with 100% resolution scale, "TGSR Quality" can result in ~50% less GPU power use while maintaining good image quality (note that this is not 2x frame rate, as performance and power have a non-linear relationship). You can enable TGSR in Settings → Video → Image. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/050978bf86a38653229a8527439af51c97a6f2b9.jpg (Illustration only; TGSR Ultra Performance is only recommended for very weak graphics cards) (Why not integrate DLSS, FSR or XeSS? We still might, and we've internally tested the former two. DLSS has funny licensing requirements though, the public XeSS 1.x doesn't support Vulkan yet, and we'd have to ensure our integration of all of those matches the expectations of their vendors)

Steam Deck video settings change

If you play on the Steam Deck, you may notice a change in visuals. We've optimized the default settings to strike a better balance between performance, image clarity, and power use. The Deck now uses "TGSR Quality" by default, and an FPS limit of 30. In our tests, this allows the device to stay cool and quiet, and last around 3h on a full battery, whereas with the previous settings, it was rather loud and power-hungry.

Other

* 🚭 Toggleable chimney smoke * ⚙ Settings: add an option to hide the glade border (it will still appear when you're trying to build outside of it) * ✏️ Glade border is now a dashed line instead of a solid one * 🎶 Music system has been completely reworked, which should fix stuttering on game startup, rare hiccups and properly randomize the tracks when starting a new glade. * 🐛 Fix trees placed on water sinking underwater when grabbed * 🐛 Fix path-x-water erase SFX being too loud when undoing * 🐛 Remove obvious repetition and sharp cutoff from water erase SFX * 📎 Save backups: renamed history.json.datetime.bak into history-backup-datetime.json, to make renaming easier, since the file extension is not shown by default in Windows * 📎 Save backups: add a 30 sec cooldown before a new backup is made * 🐛 Reduce temporal smearing and edge artifacts on water. * 🐛 Fix clutter refusing to sit on elevated terrain if there's a wall behind it. * ⚙ Add graphics quality presets * 📺️ Add brightness and gamma settings * 🔊 Iterate on path-x-water SFX * 🗃 Bump solid vertex color object limit to 32k (things like cloth hangers, some clutter objects) * 🐛 Fix a bug where dawn jingle volume didn't correspond to music volume (and it would play even when the music was muted) * 🐛 Fix a gap between terrain and water on the glade border * 🈂 Add misc missing localizations (the display settings descriptions are coming soon!) * 🈂 Add localization of Steam Actions (the controller layout menu) Oh, and last but not least, we fixed large wooden brackets, so now they are properly removed to make space for windows, doors, etc. They will also disappear for buildings with lowest height (for nicer overhangs). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/f80fe6687f9dec676cfbfebaf020fdfb8d10b4d2.gif Aaaand, that's all :3 Have a lovely weekend 💗 Love Ana & Tom PS: if you helped us test the beta and would like to transfer your beta saves into the main game, see "testing this beta patch" notes in the beta preview post.

Hullo-hullo! We have a bag of goodies for you today! 🥕🍬 As we hide away in our coding cave, a sound of intense keyboard tapping echoes in the background, whispering faint secrets of our stair tool prototypes. And while that will take some time to emerge, we've also accumulated a variety of smaller improvements, and figured we could package them up into their own update :3 👉️ Please see the bottom of this post for info about testing this patch preview.

2x terrain height

You can simply extend terrain higher now, making builds more epic, and ensuring that every day is leg day for the imaginary inhabitants. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/4e0a47af38ae2f45b4413ef55ff85f7c53b3518b.jpg

Movable terrain chunks

You can now right-click on terrain chunks, revealing the ability to move them. This mode also shows all the other available controls, like changing height and falloff. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/ccef8a32bce056b1c261a41922b5ee2fe380e58e.gif

Rotatable towers

Circular buildings shall no longer look upon rectangular ones with jealousy. If you right-click a round building, you'll now see a curved arrow that lets you adjust rotation. Now you can get those support pillars juuust right. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/7e483081d98197fd14e4bfd956b769033a287925.gif

Lower minimum height for buildings with roofs

We wouldn't want to break any laws of physics, so now that we've allowed higher elevation of terrain, we figured that to compensate, we could also allow buildings to go lower. For buildings with roofs, we'd previously restricted their minimum height such that you could still have wooden gates in them, but we figured that's not a necessary restriction. You can now make them very short, almost tent-like. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/b9a695d996dcbe1436aad404334c469a6d0af090.jpg

Tiny Glade Super Resolution (TGSR)

We've been hearing here and there that Tiny Glade can turn graphics cards into leaf blowers 🍃 The main reason is that we'd render the image at full resolution, whereas most graphically-intensive games these days use upscaling via DLSS, FSR or XeSS. Those let games render at a reduced resolution (which is cheaper), and then synthesize full-res images by correlating information across frames. We've now added TGSR - our own technique sporting competitive image quality and performance. It is now enabled by default, replacing our temporal anti-aliasing (TAA, which is still available). Compared to TAA, "TGSR Quality" can result in ~50% less GPU power use overall, while maintaining good image quality. You'll find options in a new menu under Settings → Video → Image. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/050978bf86a38653229a8527439af51c97a6f2b9.jpg (Why not integrate DLSS, FSR or XeSS? We still might, and we've internally tested the former two. DLSS has funny licensing requirements though, the public XeSS 1.x doesn't support Vulkan yet, and we'd have to ensure our integration of all of those matches the expectations of their vendors)

Other

* 🚭 Toggleable chimney smoke * ⚙✍ Settings: add an option to hide the glade border (it will still appear when you're trying to build outside of it) * ✏️ Glade border is now a dashed line instead of a solid one * 🎶 Music system has been completely reworked, which should fix stuttering on game startup, rare hiccups and properly randomize the tracks when starting a new glade. * 🐛 Fix trees placed on water sinking underwater when grabbed * 🐛 Fix path-x-water erase SFX being too loud when undoing * 🐛 Remove obvious repetition and sharp cutoff from water erase SFX * 📎 Save backups: renamed history.json.datetime.bak into history-backup-datetime.json, to make renaming easier, since the file extension is not shown by default in Windows * 📎 Save backups: add a 30 sec cooldown before a new backup is made * 🐛 Reduce temporal smearing and edge artifacts on water. * 🐛 Fix clutter refusing to sit on elevated terrain if there's a wall behind it.

Testing this beta patch

If you'd like to help out and opt into the beta, go to Tiny Glade in your Steam Library, then Properties → Betas → Beta participation → Select "beta-1_13_0". The save files of this beta are separate from the main version of the game, and this is a beta rather than a regular patch. What does that all mean?

• When using the beta, you won't see the glades you've built in the default branch.
• We made beta saves separate from the regular saves because the beta branch contains new code unavailable in the default branch. Thus, the save files created in beta won't work in the default branch until we merge the beta into the default branch.
• You can however copy your previous saves manually into the beta if you like.
• Saves for the beta are in the "beta-saves" folder alongside "saves" in "C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\Saved Games\Tiny Glade\Steam\YOUR_STEAM_ID" ("~/.local/share/Tiny Glade/Steam/YOUR_STEAM_ID" on Linux)
• The beta saves are not synchronized to Steam Cloud.
• Some stuff might misbehave, and we might need to make changes if necessary. Beware that your beta builds might change
• After the beta is closed, you'll be able to just (manually) copy over your beta saves into the regular saves folder.
• Please see our troubleshooting guide for more information about saves.

How to report a bug

If you encounter something broken, or would like to send any feedback about this preview, we'd appreciate an in-game report using the F6 key 📝 If the matter would benefit from a discussion, you're also welcome to write a comment to this post (but we might take a few days to respond cause we're a bit busy with dev and life things right now). Thank you! 💗 Love Tom & Ana

Hulloooo, just a couple of small fixes here:

• 🐛 Fixed the right trigger not working in external controllers hooked up to a Steam Deck.
• 🐛 Fixed mouse button remapping affecting controller bindings.

Love, Tom & Ana

Hellowdy there, how are thee? I hope the frosty season is treating you well 💙 Here in the land of fika, the sun is slowly awakening from its nap, and the cold will only last three more months 🤭 While not great for vitamin D, the darkness does align with productive game development. We've finished conjuring the ancient incantations of Steam Input, infused the magicks of VDFs and action glyphs into Tiny Glade, and the tickbox of "Controller Support" is now officially ticked! Thanks to everyone who helped us test the beta :3 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/2a0d3e2af439b0d2dccbdd49ca488ac836e47bcb.jpg

Your Steam may need booping

Steam sometimes caches old controller layouts, and you may need to restart it and/or reapply the official layout. Otherwise it might end up being an odd crossbreed of our new one and something from the before times.

Control hints

If you'd like to see the control hints/tutorial again, make sure to click Settings -> Game -> Control Hints -> Reset.

What's there

• All the menus and UIs can now be navigated using controllers: DPad/Left Joystick, A/B, L1/R1.
• The same is also true for the keyboard: Arrow keys, Enter/Esc, PgDown/PgUp.
• There's now two action sets in Steam Input: one for gameplay, and one for the menu.
• Action sets expose a whole bunch of extra controls useful for custom layouts.
• Tutorials/input hints in the game show controller glyphs.
• The game will dynamically detect any connected controllers, and seamlessly read input from all of them and/or keyboard + mouse.
• On Steam Deck, the folder icon in photo mode now shows an info screen for where to find screenshots in SteamOS's menus.
• There's now a "Controller Bindings" button in the Controls menu (only shows if you have a controller connected).
• Ditto for key bindings; they have been moved to their own sub-screen.
• You can now draw walls & fences by clicking and moving the camera instead of the cursor.

What's not there yet

There's a few things that we'll address in future patches:

• There's a bunch of new strings that we haven't yet localized to other languages.
• If you change the toolbar alignment in settings, you'll need to restart the game, or controller mapping will be all borked.
• Our graphics driver warning/information screen doesn't support controllers yet.

What's next

Our next step in controller land is to fix a few small things, and then ask Valve to have another look at our Steam Deck support. Then we can hopefully get "Deck Verified" soon :3 Beyond that, we have a few updates cooking, ranging from optimizations to gameplay features, but more on that soon, so make sure to keep those radio receivers well tuned 📻🧓 Stay awesome! Love, Tom & Ana

Hey y'all! 👋 You may remember that we've been working on proper Steam Deck support. As a side effect of that, we're adding general controller support too 🤗🎮️ Before we make it official, we'd love to hear from you. While we do have hands, and we did our best to roll, boop, and pat them all over PS4, Xbox and Steam Deck controllers, we trust that you'll do that more expertly. Let us know what you think about the default controller mapping, and please poke us if you encounter any usability issues 📝 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/b03bb6d22d98124dd2386eff0e8448c51575c101.jpg

Note on left vs right triggers

A likely thing that might throw some folks off is that we've put the primary interaction ("left mouse click") on the left trigger, while it might be expected on the right. We found it physically tricky to use the right joystick for precise manipulation in the game while also holding the right trigger at the same time, so we put them on separate hands. If you find that a different configuration works better for you, let us know!

Testing this beta patch

If you'd like to help out and opt into the beta, go to Tiny Glade in your Steam Library, then Properties → Betas → Beta participation → Select "beta-1_12_0". Unlike some of the other betas, no shenanigans are needed with save files. Please note that if you've previously played using the controller, you may need to switch to the new official layout.

What's there

• All the menus and UIs can now be navigated using controllers: DPad, A/B, L1/R1.
• The same is also true for the keyboard: Arrow keys, Enter/Esc, PgDown/PgUp.
• There's now two action sets in Steam Input, one for gameplay, and one for the menu.
• The action sets expose a whole bunch of extra controls.
• The default controller layout uses those actions instead of emulating mouse/keyboard interactions.

What's not there yet

There's a few things that we'll address in future patches:

• Tutorials still only show keyboard/mouse controls. We still need to extend our code to add support for acquiring the correct icons from Steam. Meanwhile, you can check the bindings in Steam's own controller mapping menus.
• There's a bunch of new strings that we haven't yet localized to other languages.
• If you change the toolbar alignment in settings, you'll need to restart the game, or controller mapping will be all borked.
• Hot-plugging of controllers doesn't work, and if you have multiple controllers attached, only one is recognized.

Feedback

You're welcome to share it in this post's thread 💛 Thanks a lot :3 Love, Tom & Ana

Hi everyone! Here comes the first patch of 2025 :3 As you might have read in our latest dev diary, we're currently working on improving the Steam Deck experience, and this is the first patch towards that goal!

New camera options

Rotation

Rotation around the cursor (PC Default) Currently, when holding RMB, the camera rotates around the point under the cursor. Conceptually, you can think of the cursor "grabbing" the point. For example, in the gif below, because the cursor is over the pumpkins, the camera rotates around them. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/1e9a7599c741444909fddc235debdda90602308b.gif Rotation around the center (New option, Steam Deck default) The new option allows to rotate around the center of the screen instead. Thus, in the example below, even though our cursor is over the pumpkins, the camera will rotate around the house. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/8bdc27d37e660d57942c71dd685ba0e61ab5e6d4.gif This mode should improve the Steam Deck experience, and if you’re on PC, and you’ve been struggling with the camera suddenly yeeting itself as you try to rotate, we recommend checking it out too! You can switch the mode in Settings ➡ Controls ➡ Camera (2/7) ➡ Camera Rotation Pivot ➡ Center Region. There's two variants of this: "Center point" and "Center region". The former rotates around the point that is directly in the center of the screen. While precise and easy to understand, it is often surprising, especially with tall builds -- you might want to rotate around a tower, but the screen center is just to the side of it, causing the rotation to be anchored on the background. The "Center region" variant aims to address that by considering points in a square around the screen center, and finding the most promising rotation pivot within it. Tiny Glade on Steam Deck will now use the "Center region" variant by default. If you'd like to switch back to the old default, select "Cursor point" in the settings menu.

Zoom

Zoom towards the cursor (PC Default) Same applies to the zoom. By default, the camera will zoom in/out the point under the cursor. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/37c654a60cc6256e641a75abd13c202518df0512.gif Zoom towards the center (New option, Steam Deck default) The new option allows to remap the camera to zoom in/out the center of the screen instead. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/443e72948254c347f5a2c5784772affd11332f45.gif You can switch the mode in Settings ➡ Controls ➡ Camera (2/7) ➡ Camera Zoom Pivot ➡ Center Region. Tiny Glade on Steam Deck will now use the "Center region" variant by default. If you'd like to switch back to the old default, select "Cursor point" in the settings menu.

Misc

Aaaand we also did a few miscellaneous fixes, here is the full list:

• ✍ Toolbar will no longer exceed the bounds of the game window
• ✍ Toolbar's subcategories are now correctly sorted when cycling through them by repeatedly clicking the main category buttons
• ⚙️ Default resolution scale to 0.7 on the Steam Deck (the game might look blurrier on Steam Deck, but will run considerably faster)
• 🔊 Iteration and small fixes for clutter SFX
• 🐛 Fix a potential synchronization bug in presenting rendered images to the screen (another wild guess that might help with NVIDIA crashes)
• 🐛 Fix resolution scale shrinking and staying low upon alt-tabbing in memory-constrained conditions (the game will attempt to restore the desired resolution scale once VRAM is available again, and will no longer save the automatically-reduced scale to settings)
• 🔬 Add more graphics troubleshooting options to "Vulkan extension settings"

That's all for now. Thank you for reading, and stay awesome! Love, Tom & Ana

Hello-hello! We hope you had a lovely winter break, and the new year had started with a good dose of fun hobbies, warm beverages and baked goods 🥧 We’re baking something too, and though not edible, it will be a good contribution to the cozy evenings. We’re working on controller support & improving the experience on Steam Deck 🎮 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/85eb1a65dd8b46e9bd7b84711fac3e56fa627b59.jpg A good chunk of this work will be general QoL improvements and fixes, so we’ve decided to break the work up into multiple smaller patches, and make them live as soon as they’re ready in the coming weeks. One such update is already available, where we’ve added an alternative mode for camera rotation and zoom. This mode should improve the Steam Deck experience, and if you’re on PC, and you’ve been struggling with the camera suddenly yeeting itself as you try to rotate, we recommend checking it out too! See here for the full patch notes. We expect that these patches will take our time until early February(ish). Afterwards we plan to switch to improving more gameplay stuff. Aaaand that’s all for this short dev diary. Thank you for reading and hope you have a good day 🧡 Love, Ana & Tom P.S. we’re also preparing a batch of 30 new daily themes, and they will start on January 22 📅

Hey y'all! :3 Hope you're having a wonderful holiday break filled with the scent of pine tree and cinnamon 🌲🥧 If Tiny Glade runs well for you, keep enjoying it with your favorite pairing of pepparkaka / tomtegröt / glögg / julmust. If the game is giving you trouble however, read on! We're having an influx of new players, so I'm also noticing a spike in crash reports. Most seem to be coming from external sources, so I've upgraded our crash reporter to detect those, and provide specific advice. Our nemesis, graphics crashes, have also appeared again. In order to help diagnose them, the patch now adds automatic logging of our internal rendering operations, and also links to a new troubleshooting section about those graphics issues. Hopefully this helps a few folks 🧡 Details:

• Add "rendering workarounds" to "Vulkan extension settings"
• Link to troubleshooting advice on "DEVICE_LOST" (GPU hang)
• Improve reliability of graphics driver crash detection
• Detect crashes due to a broken Vulkan subsystem (vulkan-1.dll)
• Detect crashes (potentially) due to ASUS GPU Tweak III
• Add logging of internal renderer operations

Stay awesome! Love, Tom & Ana P.S. We always test our patches, but if you start having issues with the game, and you think it's due to our latest patch, we usually move the previous build to a Steam "beta". In this case, the previous build is available in the beta called "old-1_11_1a" (Right click Tiny Glade in your Steam Library → Properties → Betas → Beta Participation).

Oh my gosh, folks, you did it! Thanks to your nominations, Tiny Glade is one of the finalists in the "Sit Back and Relax" Steam Awards category 💖💖 We can hardly believe it, this is already beyond what we've ever expected :DD if you'd like to vote for us in the finals too, you can do so in the box above. Thanks again, you're all awesome! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/b6a2fb10ccd743700637494e3f1966576a8b4859.png Lots of love, Ana & Tom

Oops! We accidentally gave fish and birds too many treats and they were being extremely hyperactive 😅😅😅 This is fixed now! Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks to everyone who reported the bug 💚 (You might need to restart your Steam client to prompt the update) Love, Ana & Tom

Hi, everyone! This is just a small patch with a few fixes:

• 🐛🌳 Fix trees hovering above ground when grabbed from elevated terrain
• 🈂 Add missing translations for the "Control Hints" sub-category in the settings menu
• 🎨 Change settings menu overlay from green to white when in Winter glade during the day
• 🔉 Fix volume of placing lanterns & flags into water
• 🔉 Add a unique sound for placing arrow slits
• 🔉 Tweak water draw and erase sounds in Winter glade
• 🔉 Greatly reduce column sounds intensity to avoid the cacophony when they spawn and despawn in a quick succession
• 🔉 Tweak raise building sounds and moving half-timbered buildings
• 🔉 Fix water ambience being too strong dependent on where the camera is
• 🔉 Add ray-traced occlusion for water ambience and duck landing & takeoff SFX
• 🔉 Fix first person footstep sounds playing the water/path/garden when walking on structures

Have a good day! Love, Ana, Tom & Martin

Hello-hello! Hope you're well and feeling festive ⛄ You might have noticed that we've been beta testing new features 👀 You might even have participated, in which case - wholeheartedly thank you 🧡 We're happy to say that it is time to release this update into the wild!

Highlights

Movable clutter

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/637024e507fc4e34886436e43c726c02f9d7eec4.gif First highlight of the update is the ability to adjust the automatically spawned clutter. You can now move, rotate, delete and clone it. I can't wait to see what you make - picnic spots, taverns, a hut where a hoarder of food baskets dwells? :DD

Many lights

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/58d5b8efe12e7d5d39696dfa4fc2441d9ece7f88.gif build by Omayli You might have noticed that only 32 lights illuminated things before. Not anymore! We've cooked fancy lighting tech that has allowed us to remove the light count limit as well as adjust the intensity of lights. Just in time for the festive season :3

Daily themes + Winter music

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/cf567d87497edc81c7042f35c24f78031250c4ef.png We've prepared 7 festive daily themes that will run from Dec 19 until Dec 26. And we've also updated Winter music with new layers for the holiday season ❄

New clutter objects

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/4c903c13508408bcaac57a50829d02b5116011c9.jpg I couldn't resist a fantasy of making a market for the holiday season, so there's now a stall with bread and a stall with veggies. And then I thought a crate of fish would go well too. A few evenings later, there were also an anvil, fabric rolls (Tom says they look like bedrolls, heh), a rack with brooms, a door bell, a dörrkrans and a new flower box. And then I thought, why not bring back Halloween clutter too (a barrel with candles, 2 variants of pumpkins, a cart with pumpkins, boxes with pumpkins). Hopefully these will be fun to play with, especially now that you can arrange them to your liking 😊 Okay, phew, this covers the highlights 😄 and below you can find the full changelog 📝

Changelog

Major:

✨ Automatically spawned clutter can now be moved, rotated, deleted and cloned

💡 Light limit has been lifted from 32 to 32,768

🎶❄ Updated Winter music with more festive layers for the holiday season Minor:

💡 Lantern light intensity can now be chosen among 3 values

💡 Lantern light colors now have equal luminous power (so blue and purple look similar in intensity to other colors)

🗃 New clutter objects: anvil, fabric rolls, stall with breads, stall with veggies, crate with fish, rack with brooms, bench without basket, door bell, dörrkrans, flower box + halloween themed clutter (barrel with candles, 2 variants of pumpkins, crate with pumpkins, boxes with pumpkins)

📅 7 festive daily themes coming on Dec 19 - Dec 26

🐦Birds can sit on bird nests, lanterns, flags, and some clutter objects

🐑 Sheep will now avoid clutter

🧱 Brick limit has been lifted from 1M to 2M

🐼 Roof tile limit has been lifted from 128k to 256k

💌 F6 feedback tool can now also be used to send performance benchmarks to us

👻 Lanterns and flags now ignore collision with fences when placed on terrain, so you can place them closer for neater arrangements

💫 Holding a disable snapping key (LCtrl by default) while manipulating rotatable objects (ground flags, ground lanterns and clutter) will switch to rotation

💌 In the main menu, there's a newsletter button now next to Discord

👩‍🏫 In the settings menu, Tutorials have been renamed to "Control Hints", and there's no longer "enable tutorial" button. Instead, there's "complete all" which will mark all hints as completed to hide them. This way, when a new feature arrives, you always get a hint about the new controls. Fixes:

😱 Fixed incorrect handling of WinAPI display mode errors, which could result in a crash loop upon enabling Fullscreen.

💾 Use "File::sync_all" / "FlushFileBuffers" before closing files to reduce save corruption risk on Windows (thanks, Notepad++ forums folks!)

🐛 Fix rogue underground floors and columns which sometimes were interfering with placement of objects

🐛 Fix NaN-related crash when looking perfectly down and placing lanterns

🔉 Fix water ambience attenuation in first person mode

🔉 Fix water ambience audio source to prioritize playing the source closest to the player camera

🐛 New tutorial additions will no longer reset the whole tutorial state (oops!)

🧹 Left-clicking on lanterns and clutter is now ignored, since they don't have a random seed that can be changed as a result of the clicking

🚩 Ground flags will change their pattern if you click on rotation gizmo too (not just the bottom white dot)

👀 The crash reporter will now detect crashes caused by OBS, and provide workaround info

🌳 Big tree in Olden glade is now easier to grab, and when grabbing it, it will no longer jump

🎨Fix settings menu overlay from purple to dark green when in Olden glade at night Aaaaand that's all for now. Thank you for reading :3 We wish you happy holidays! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/4541e5cb218ce5edb8138b8d66f092ea4fe1f861.jpg Love, Ana, Tom, Martin & Oda

Hi, everyone! We're wrapping up the movable clutter and many lights that we mentioned in our last dev diary. We aim to make the update live next week, and we'd like to make sure that these new features work well in the wild 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/de979f6c94204c864aaedfb66c7b786d9b57ee0b.gif

Testing this beta patch

If you'd like to help out and opt into the beta, go to Tiny Glade in your Steam Library, then Properties → Betas → Beta participation → Select "beta-1_11_0". The save files of this beta are separate from the main version of the game, and this is a beta rather than a regular patch. What does that all mean?

• When using the beta, you won't see the glades you've built in the default branch.
• We made beta saves separate from the regular saves because the beta branch contains new code unavailable in the default branch. Thus, the save files created in beta won't work in the default branch until we merge the beta into the default branch.
• You can however copy your previous saves manually into the beta if you like.
• Saves for the beta are in the "beta-saves" folder alongside "saves" in "C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\Saved Games\Tiny Glade\Steam\YOUR_STEAM_ID" ("~/.local/share/Tiny Glade/Steam/YOUR_STEAM_ID" on Linux)
• The beta saves are not synchronized to Steam Cloud.
• Some stuff might misbehave, and we might need to make changes if necessary. Beware that your beta builds might change
• After the beta is closed, you'll be able to just (manually) copy over your beta saves into the regular saves folder.
• Please see our troubleshooting guide for more information about saves.

How to report a bug

If you encounter something broken, we'd appreciate an in-game report using the F6 key 📝 and there is ⁠also a beta testing channel on Discord you're welcome to join. Thank you! 💗 Love, Ana & Tom

Oh, hey, it's Steam Awards time :DD If Tiny Glade was your moment of zen this year, consider nominating it for "Sit Back and Relax" 🐑🏆 Thank you 💗 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/1981bbc10dc22df54889e809f3f52e2c4bc268f1.gif Love, Ana & Tom {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43278662/2aecb62d203be71067e88434a68fc06f9cc339bc.gif (I really wanted to use this GIF. Thanks to Onyxia for making it :3)