0.8.24 – Area Expansion, New Challenge, and Tree Growing Feature

We have just released a new update for Ranch, Farm and Store Simulator. This version brings new features that expand your ranching possibilities, along with improvements and fixes that aim to make daily gameplay smoother and more enjoyable. Thank you for all the feedback and bug reports you continue to send through the in-game Bug Report system and Steam Discussion. Your input helps us identify issues faster and refine the experience for everyone.

Over the past week, many of you requested more land to grow your ranch, additional challenges, and features that support long-term resource management. Based on your feedback, here are the new features included in this update: 🌿

New Features

1. Farm Area Expansion Your ranch now has more usable land. This expanded area gives you extra space to grow crops, raise more animals, and freely design the layout of your dream farm. You need to reach certain level and have certain money and or diamonds to expand the area.

   

   

2. New Challenges

   New challenges has been added for players who enjoy progression-based goals. This will give you fresh objectives to complete and new rewards to look forward to as you advance. The Diamonds earned from completing each challenges can also be used for purchasing area expansions, allowing you to further grow and develop your ranch.

   

   

3. Tree Growing Feature You can now plant tree seedlings and let them grow over time through several stages. Once they reach full maturity, trees can be cut down using the chainsaw to produce wood materials. This gives you a renewable source of lumber directly from your farm and adds more depth to your long-term planning.

   

   

   

Improvements and Fixes

Beyond the new features above, we also worked on several quality-of-life updates and fixes to improve stability and smoothness during gameplay.

1. New BGM for Day and Night We added new background music variations for daytime and nighttime. You can choose whether to use multiple BGMs or stick with a single theme through the settings menu.

2. Improved Load and Save Flow The New Game button has been removed from the Load Game screen to prevent confusion. Saving to a specific slot can only be done through the Pause Menu, while automatic saves will always use the Autosave slot.

3. Fix Duplicate Paintings We resolved an issue where certain paintings appeared twice or showed duplicated visuals.

4. Fix Load Game Stuck Some players encountered loading issues caused by incorrectly stored box commodity states. We have fixed the core problem, so affected save files should now load correctly.

5. Fix Picking Up Commodity Boxes in Water Interaction detection has been improved so boxes that fall into the water can be retrieved more easily.

6. Fix Delivery Area Check When Buying Tools The delivery spot for new tools sometimes detected nearby objects incorrectly. This check has now been fixed so purchases behave as expected.

7. Fix Box Storage Interaction Rapidly taking and placing Box Storage could cause unexpected behavior. This interaction is now more stable.

8. Fix Sheep Wool Visual Sheep should no longer appear to have wool immediately after being sheared. Their visuals now update correctly according to their current state.

   

We’d also like to clarify some reports we received regarding lost save data. We assume this may have occurred due to autosave progression being overwritten when selecting New Game. To help prevent this confusion, we have removed the New Game button from the Load Game menu, as explained in Improvement point number 2. To clarify, saving progress to a specific slot can only be done through the Pause Menu, and the autosave slot will always be overwritten automatically at the top.

Thank you for playing and supporting Ranch, Farm and Store Simulator. Your feedback plays an important role in shaping each update, and we truly appreciate the time you spend reporting issues and sharing suggestions. We hope this update brings more room to grow, more goals to pursue, and a smoother ranching experience overall.

If you enjoy the game, we would be grateful if you leave a review, and feel free to share your ideas or suggestions in the Discussions section. 😀

Happy playing! 😀🐄🐓

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