Verdant Skies 1.3: Teenagers and Quantum Technology

We've been working on this major update to Verdant Skies for months, and we're happy to release the largest update yet!

Major Items:

• Your child can now grow up into a teenager. Guide them through their formative years at boarding school, then watch them blossom into their own person as they return to the colony!

• A new set of Quantum Technology events that tie into the growth of your child. This features a bunch of new unlockable blueprints and craftable items, including some high-priced special end game items.

• All new UI artwork for the entire game!

• A special "The End" event, featuring a new vocal song.

Finally,

Full changelog:

• 4 new boss fish, each can only be found in certain circumstancesandafter you've found all the other fish in that area.

• New shaders for the UI, including sparkle effects.

• Baby naming events for each character- these events also support naming previously born babies.

• The journal more directly explains what you need to have a baby with someone.

• A bunch of additional baby and move-in dialogs for Nessa.

• Special sleeping messages when you've moved-in or married someone.

• Remove some debugging splicers which were accidentally added to the map.

• The Deep Core Miner is now cheaper to build.

• Animals won't eat if they were recently fed.

• Animals now show all of their food preferences - just click on them repeatedly.

• Shorten AI timers after wedding events, the eclipse party.

• Rewrite name input dialogs to support a wider variety of name types (animals, children, nicknames, etc)

• Improvements to genetic splicer UI, including text issues with names, animal quality traits, and more.

• Fix scale on Anthony's dresser and collider on Zaheen's Tapestry.

• Clay pits now respawn with more clay in them.

Fixes:

• Fix the move-in event triggers, they no longer require max friendship.

• Fix the genes for the animal growth rate trait so it can't be affected faster growth and slower growth at the same time.

• Fix mouse input on the clothing UI.

• Fix an off by one issue with counting the number of times your baby has slept.

• Many minor event fixes!

Finally, be sure to check out the Marina Expansion Mod, here in the steam workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1667729331 This amazing new mod by MidknightMasquerade adds a Marina Diamante, a traveling food critic. There's a huge amount of great content in this mod, so check it out!