Shared Farms, Trading & Paintings - Update 0.0.19

New update is live, and it's a big one. The headline is that Hayfield got a lot more social: you can now share a farm with a friend and build on it together, trade items player to player, and there's an in-world mailbox that handles invites and gifts (including gifts to friends who are offline).

There's also a bunch of new stuff to mess around with. Paintable canvases let you draw your own artwork and hang it on your walls. You can sit on benches and chairs. And if you hold T you get a dance wheel, which other players can see, for better or worse.

Full list below.

New

• Added shared farms - invite a friend and build on the same farm together

• Added player to player trading

• Added an in-world mailbox for invites, gifts and mail

• Added paintable canvases - paint your own artwork and hang it on your walls, in three sizes

• Added a dance wheel - hold T to pick a dance, other players see it

• You can now sit on benches and chairs, and other players see you sitting

• Added rebindable keys and a new Controls tab in the settings

• Added rotating hourly and daily offers to the shop and the build bar

• Added a cosmetic shop to the character panel

• Added 46 new build items

• You can now place props on top of other placeables like tables and shelves

• You can now remove the shared wall between two adjacent rooms

• Added a search field to the build panel

• Added search and quick quantity buttons to the shop

• Machines now show an icon of what they are currently producing

• You can now feed animals and leave gifts while visiting

• You can now use first person mode while visiting

• Added Steam invites and joining friends

• Added a report button and a toggle to hide other players' paintings

Improvements

• Tutorial polish - smoother camera, it now teaches rotating and hiding roofs and walls, and hands you over to free play properly

• Raised the tutorial completion bonus from 300 to 700 coins

• The quest objective now has its own spot on the HUD and you can click it

• The friends list now shows levels and who is online

• Deleting a placeable now refunds 50% instead of 100%

• Removed the level requirement for fulfilling orders

• Removed the requirement to be indoors for certain recipes

• Removed the fire employee button - switch off their last task to let them go instead

• Golden goods now count for quests that asked for the plain item

• Dragging a golden ingredient into the mill now switches to the golden recipe automatically

• The game now tells you which lock is blocking an action and why, instead of doing nothing

• Smoother camera transition between top down and third person

• Your zoom level is kept when hopping to another random farm

• You can hold to harvest several crops at a time again

• Fertilizer now highlights the plots it can actually be used on

• You can now place doors while the walls are hidden

• Added an R to rotate hint when moving something

• Employees got new looks and proper face portraits

• Storage now has the same white, unblurred hover outline as everything else

• Info panels now close when you open the build panel

• The chest panel now closes when you click outside it

• The build panel no longer opens while visiting someone else's farm

Fixes

• Fixed watering not syncing correctly while visiting

• Fixed visitors seeing trees and locked land on plots the host had already unlocked

• Fixed missing tree trunks on locked plots

• Fixed the parcel panel showing up while visiting

• Fixed cows and donkeys not moving in corrals

• Fixed animals spawning on top of each other

• Fixed chicken and pig egg unlock levels being swapped

• Fixed the phantom tutorial arrow that stayed after restarting the game

• Fixed the tutorial arrow staying on screen after you already did the step

• Fixed the orders panel unlocking before you actually had an order

• Fixed being unable to move the camera in build mode

• Fixed object selection in build mode

• Fixed clicking things while visiting not opening their info panel, and your cursor swapping to a tool on hover

• Fixed chat bubbles and player names drawing over the UI

• Fixed chat and player names breaking after changing language

• Fixed Enter not working for chat while an info panel is open

• Fixed the settings panel overlapping in the Game tab

• Fixed overlapping sub tabs in the Decorations tab

• Fixed animal portrait backgrounds

• Fixed the cornmeal icon

• Fixed the manure icon sometimes not showing

• Fixed the plow count showing the wrong number after upgrading your hoe

A lot of this update came straight from playtest feedback, so keep it coming. There's a short feedback form in the ESC menu in game, and it genuinely helps us decide what to work on next.

Thanks for playing!

See you on the farm!

• Egon