Patch Notes 0.21.26

🏆 New Features: In-Game Achievements

• Achievements are now saved locally.

• View your progress via Pause Menu > Achievements.

• Added manual resync option with your platform (e.g., Steam).

⚙️ Application Loading Improvements

• Shortened intro loading animation for quicker startup.

• Added new platform loading screen images

🎮 UI & Gamepad Quality of Life Updates

• Improved crop selection navigation with gamepad.

• Enhanced farmhand navigation support for gamepad users.

• AddedLoan ManagementAdded “Take Out” and “Pay Off” buttons with gamepad accessibility.

• Farm Details Panel is now scrollable—better support for smaller screens or high UI scale settings.

• Max UI scale reduced to 120% to prevent layout breakage.

• Adjusted crop right D-Pad glyph position.

• Display platform-specific gamepad glyphs for better clarity.

• Tool category tooltips now appear directly on the HUD (no longer hover-only), with updated backgrounds for better visibility on gamepad.

• Added right thumbstick scrolling to Video Settings.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a potential crash when removing placeables with the “Blocked” status (non-deferred removal trait).

• Resolved a divide-by-zero error on certain crop tooltips.

• Removed curve pointer in FCurvedProgress trait, Optimized updates and avoids potential crash

• Steam Deck & Console: Main menu now correctly selects the first button on load (no more needing to tap the screen).

• Fixed video settings bug during engine construction by setting values explicitly.

🛠️ Engine & Optimization

• Now running on a custom-compiled engine built from source.

• Introduced framework support for instanceable farm field buildings.

• Soil subject spawning is now optimized for better performance.

• Added an option to disable starting forest—improves performance on lower-end systems.

• Added new steam betas branch, Previous - Last Stable Branch