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November Update

Howdy Ranchers! In this month’s devlog, we’re diving into two big updates: improvements to the Saloon and new additions to your Vampire Lair.

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addedIn this month’s devlog, we’re diving into two big updates: improvements to the Saloon and new additions to your Vampire Lair.
changedSaloonPrepare or fetch their meal. Food cooked during Dinner Service will have the "Fresh" modifier which increases a dishes base price.
changedSaloonAfter their first meal, guests will continue ordering drinks and extra courses, boosting your earnings. Dirty dishes accumulate as the service goes on, but the Sink lets you wash up and recover used Tankards.
addedSaloonFood and Drink will keep your humans sane and full of that precious blood. Feeding on them later fuels your research, unlocking new technologies and crafting recipes to improve your town and grow your influence.
changedLairIn the demo, I played around with a grid-based room-building system, but I’ve since moved to a more pre-defined layout. This lets me craft moodier spaces that fit the vampire theme much better.
addedLairYour Lair starts out small, but it’ll expand as your influence grows. You’ll unlock new rooms—like the Prisoner Cell, Cellar, Moonroom, Arcane Study, Kitchen, and Dining Room by completing quests for the townsfolk around Rockhound.

Vampire Rancher changes

addedIn this month’s devlog, we’re diving into two big updates: improvements to the Saloon and new additions to your Vampire Lair.
changedPrepare or fetch their meal. Food cooked during Dinner Service will have the "Fresh" modifier which increases a dishes base price.
changedAfter their first meal, guests will continue ordering drinks and extra courses, boosting your earnings. Dirty dishes accumulate as the service goes on, but the Sink lets you wash up and recover used Tankards.
addedFood and Drink will keep your humans sane and full of that precious blood. Feeding on them later fuels your research, unlocking new technologies and crafting recipes to improve your town and grow your influence.
changedIn the demo, I played around with a grid-based room-building system, but I’ve since moved to a more pre-defined layout. This lets me craft moodier spaces that fit the vampire theme much better.

Howdy Ranchers!

In this month’s devlog, we’re diving into two big updates: improvements to the Saloon and new additions to your Vampire Lair.

Saloon

The Dinner Service is one of the key ways you’ll earn money in Vampire Rancher, so getting the mechanics right has been a priority this month. I’ve been refining how patrons arrive, order, and react as you serve them. If you've ever played any order-fulfillment or time-management style restaurant games, then hopefully this should feel familiar to you.

Once you ring the Dinner Bell, guests will trickle into the Saloon. From there, it’s up to you to:

  1. Take their order

  2. Prepare or fetch their meal. Food cooked during Dinner Service will have the "Fresh" modifier which increases a dishes base price.

  3. Serve it before their patience runs out

After their first meal, guests will continue ordering drinks and extra courses, boosting your earnings. Dirty dishes accumulate as the service goes on, but the Sink lets you wash up and recover used Tankards.

Additionally, you can activate your Blood Ability - Gluttony, hypnotizing humans into craving even more food and drink. It's a good way to earn even more cash, so make sure you have extra food and drink stocked up to serve.

Food and Drink will keep your humans sane and full of that precious blood. Feeding on them later fuels your research, unlocking new technologies and crafting recipes to improve your town and grow your influence.

Lair

In the demo, I played around with a grid-based room-building system, but I’ve since moved to a more pre-defined layout. This lets me craft moodier spaces that fit the vampire theme much better.

Your Lair starts out small, but it’ll expand as your influence grows. You’ll unlock new rooms—like the Prisoner Cell, Cellar, Moonroom, Arcane Study, Kitchen, and Dining Room by completing quests for the townsfolk around Rockhound.

Cell If you like some of the boons that a certain human possesses, you can keep them in the Cell indefinitely. In exchange, you'll need to feed them and their Sanity recovers much more slowly.

"I like watching you sleep. It's, um, kind of fascinating to me".

Kitchen and Cellar

Food prepared in the Kitchen cooks a little faster and rewards extra XP, giving you a nice boost if you're stacking food for Dinner Service. Likewise, anything brewed, fermented, or processed in the Cellar finishes sooner, making it a great place to speed up your production cycle. The Sink here will also recover used Tankards from the Saloon.

Arcane Study

Blood-processing equipment will research faster in this room. Additionally, you'll be able to perform Rituals, like regenerating overworld resources, conjuring rain, or summoning a Thrall/Beast of Burden to help in the Mines. I'm still figuring this one out, so if you have any ideas, let me know in the comments!

This wraps it up for this month's devlog. Thanks for sticking with us and for all your patience. your support means the world, and I can’t wait to share more with you next month.

BONUS: Here are a few extra GIFs. They’re quest-related teasers, so I’ll keep the details a mystery for now!

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