Longvinter in Jingle Jam Charity

First, I want to wish all of you a very good start to December. I have some exciting news to disclose. Firstly, Longvinter is participating in a charity event where you can donate to any charity and receive a collection of games, including Longvinter. All the money goes towards the charities. The link to the event is here: [Jingle Jam Charity]

More Customization

You've been asking for more customization options, and we're delivering. Going forward, you will receive compendium outfits for each type of compendium: Farming, Fishing, and Hunting. The Cooking outfit is still in production but will arrive after December. Once you've unlocked all items in a given compendium, the outfit will appear in your inventory, and you can equip it from the newly renamed 'Shop & Customize' screen in the menu. We've also added custom backpacks, other clothing items, new faces, and hats. More details on how to achieve them in the next chapter. Pictures of few:

New Item Shop & Vintercoins

As mentioned earlier, there's now a new item shop accessible from the customize menu. Here, you can buy items to wear while adventuring on Longvinter Island. Vintercoins, a currency you can buy with your Steam wallet, are also introduced. Additionally, you'll earn 500 Vintercoins by playing about 30 minutes daily. Players who have previously played Longvinter can retroactively redeem Vintercoins based on their playtime. Note that your games library must be public to achieve this.

Some items are only obtainable from tackle boxes, which drop randomly as you play. These can be opened with keys available in the shop, purchasable with Vintercoins so no real-world money is needed to obtain and open tackle boxes.

Free Tackle Boxes

Starting today, you'll also receive Christmas edition Tackle Boxes that don't require keys to open. Simply click on them in your inventory in character creation to open them!

1.12 Retrospective

I want to take a moment to review the initial launch of the 1.12 update and address the issues experienced in the first week. This was the largest overhaul we've done since the game's initial launch, and it will be the last major overhaul of a singular system. The reason for the overhaul was to allow more customization of items and placeables. Now, each item can have unique values, so we don't need to create multiple instances of the same item with minor differences. We can also now store states, like a mini turret battery state, which persists even if you pick it up to relocate. Server lag issues are our top priority, and the item shop and customization shop were completed before we launched 1.12, even to the experimental branch. Thank you for being patient, and we'll return next week with another bug fix update!

[ 2023-12-01 17:02:22 CET ] [ Original post ]