🌿Changelog #5: MOAR Productivity & Customization

Both we and our Woodlings have been mucho busy with improvements that you asked for. Your response to the demo is AMAZING 💚 A lot of valuable feedback lets us make the game that YOU want to play and use everyday. Keep on sending us your notes and suggestions, so we can make the grove the coziest place on Steam 🤗🍂🧸☕🍪🌈🌞

Here’s what’s new:

🛠️ Quality of Life & Controls

• You can now move Fields freely

• Added a Mute button (instantly silence all sounds) 🔇

• Paths now connect with each other (including different types + bridges)

• Move UI panels: Pomodoro Settings, Habits, Ambients

• Resizable Ambients window

• Choose your starting day of the week (Sat / Sun / Mon)

• Game can now minimize to taskbar

• Reduced FPS in mini mode to lower CPU usage

• Rotate buildings with scroll or R key

🌱 Village & Gameplay

• Idle Rest fields now have varied usage timing and ranges (eg. Woodlings won’t all jump out of the trampoline at the same time anymore 🎪)

• New Trainer buildings — Woodlings can train during breaks

• Fix: you can no longer place fishing spots between two ponds

✅ Task Tracker & Notebook

• Drag & drop tasks between tabs

• Completed tasks now move to the bottom

• Notebook now supports tabs for better organization 📓

• You can create Subtasks by dropping tasks onto each other

📊 Stats & Progress Tracking

• Added stats from previous days

• New graph view for statistics 📈

• New stats:

  • Number of Pomodoro sessions completed

  • Habits added / completed

  • Mouse & keyboard clicks

• You can now browse habits from previous weeks

⏱️ Pomodoro Improvements

• You can now name Pomodoro groups

• You can also name individual time segments

⚙️ Experiments & Prototypes

• Early tests of:

  • Auto-watering system

  • Auto-seeding system (3 stages: empty / full / active)

As always — thank you for all the ideas, feedback, and bug reports 💚 They really shape how the Grove grows.

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