20.5. Patch Notes

Gameplay & Features

• Added special string trimmer for the Old Era.

• Jack, Pablo, Weston and Roche (in the ‘60s) and Tony (in Modern Times) now sell string trimmers.

• Vehicle descriptions/functions are now displayed alongside the vehicle name when using ES.

• Late harvests (Nov–Dec) now yield 20% fewer crops if sown late.

Farming

• Cut grass (hay) is no longer recognized as a tool or placed in the tool belt after being picked up.

• Cut grass can now be transformed into animal food in both the Barn and Cowshed.

  • Enter the building, select cut grass in your inventory, and the proper option will appear.

• Adjusted cut grass weight balance:

  • 1 piece of cut grass now weighs 1 unit in inventory.

  • Converts into 10 kg of hay in storage buildings.

Gardening

• Gardening data is now separated between Old Era and Modern Era.

• Gardening progress now saves correctly as two distinct data sets.

• Existing saves without Modern Era gardening data will temporarily use Old Era data to avoid losing progress, but both eras will now progress independently.

• Ground that was shoveled or raked without seeds planted no longer resets after jumping between eras on the same day.

• Ground state now properly persists after returning from era jumps.

Vehicles & Machinery

• Vehicles should no longer slide down steep hills after exiting.

• Added working sounds for headers, hay balers, and fertilizers.

• Reworked geometry and physics for the 9m cereal header to improve stability after spawning in stores or loading saves at low FPS.

• Fixed optical glitch on Alabio 530 vehicle LCD controls.

• Cars no longer appear to drive above bridges.

World & Environment Fixes

• Fixed underground building parts behind Jeremy’s farm.

• Fixed staircase sections outside the player house not properly touching the ground.

• Fixed painting issues on the starting farm main house staircase.

• Fixed missing beams under the veranda of the main house.

• Moved a treasure chest hidden in a buyable forest in the northeast so it no longer obstructs farm work.

• Round Table #2 can now be placed correctly.

• Fixed porch collision box trapping the player while sprinting into it.