Baking with Fruit

Today we have a smaller update to share with you. It's now possible to cook certain recipes with products tagged as Fruit. You can obtain 7 new floor colors and 10 new display colors for 4 different displays. And finally, there are a lot of fixes and improvements to reported issues. Let's dig in!

Baking with Fruit

Last Cooking Update added 68 new products and recipes to Faire Trade. As with every update, we keep a close eye on incoming errors and feedback of things that are easily fixed to give you a smooth and enjoyable shopkeeping experience.

One error that stood out was related to making Tart, Fruit Cake and Bundt Cake. These recipes actually introduced a new crafting mechanic which works in the game systems but required more UI and UX development to be properly supported.

This new crafting mechanic can accept products with a tag as input instead of a specific product. Take Fruit Cake for example, one of the ingredients can be any product tagged as Fruit. While that sounds fairly simple, this had some interesting UI/UX considerations that needed to be fleshed out.

This update now offers the ability to choose which products are used to craft something and gives you the ability to browse which ingredients are used for each input. This also improves on a previous issue where mixed quality inputs was not that easy to browse.

Supporting this feature took another 2 weeks of development but we are glad that crafting recipes can now support products by tag. This opens up exciting new possibilities for the future.

10 New Colors for 4 Displays

7 New Floor Colors

Future development

One much requested feature is controller support and we have been going through the code and systems to do all the preliminary work necessary to get baseline controller support up and running. There is a lot of ground to cover and some upcoming changes may not seem that exciting but will make sense in the context of playing with a controller.

With that I'll leave you with the patch notes so that we can get back to grinding through bug reports, feature requests, and eventually exciting new features!

Patch 15605

ART

• Added 7 new color variations for displays Elim, Elkenrade, Ell, and Elkerzee.

• Smelter had a faulty shadow mesh and was not casting any shadows.

• Added 7 new color variations for the Haaren floors.

• Fixed wall seam in Koudoum.

TECH

• Camera tilt should now correctly update when changing the camera distance.

• Final dialogue of Wolfaert when delivering the Quiche wasn't being triggered.

• Fixed an issue where events would not keep the modifications to the market throughout the entire event, this should now remain consistent until the event ends.

UI

• Displays using tag filtered slots such as armor displays should now indicate if there are no items available in the player's inventory that fit that slot.

• Added the Fish tag to filter the counter & trader menus with.

• Room Recipes menu now shows the tags that are affected for workshop rooms (for example, the Kitchen).

• Added tags to the Market Information menu and changed the values to just show the prices.

• Crafting menu now hides date and time similar to the Display menu.

• Crafting menu tooltips should now also show when a craft is in progress which is especially useful for planters to indicate why a crop is not growing out of season.

• Crafting menus can now support tag input recipes in addition to the traditional product input.

• Crafting recipes with multiple varying