This month has been kind of a quiet one for me. Most of the changes have been bug fixes or balancing tweaks. A ton of progress has also been made for controller support and button remapping, but those changes will have to wait until the next big content update. Today though, I want to focus on the upcoming Livestock addition to the game! In the next update, you'll stumble upon James in the Forest pondering over a mysterious egglike object...
These eggs are known as "Ambrios" and they hatch into all kinds of different animals! Capturing, hatching, and breeding new Ambrios will be incredibly useful as each animal has many different variants that will yield all kinds of unique materials.
In order to catch new Ambrios, you'll have to build a Capture Crate. Placing one of these down on your property will attract different animals who will leave their Ambrios for you to collect. The type of Ambrio you catch will depend on the item you use as bait.
Once you have some Ambrios, you can begin hatching them. Simply build a Barn, then put the Ambrios into one of the hatching slots. After a few days, your new furry/feathery friend will appear! These animals will immediately start producing new materials for you to utilize however you see fit. Animals can also be freely returned to their Ambrios if you want to switch out new ones for different seasons.
The work's not done yet though, because every animal also has a "Pedigree". If an animal has a high Pedigree, it will produce better materials and more of them! The Pedigree that an animal is born with depends on the quality of the Ambrio used to hatch it.
Capture Crates will always return a "Wild" Ambrio, which is the lowest quality. If you want animals with a higher Pedigree, you'll have to keep multiples of the same species together in a Barn. When there are enough in the Barn, they have a chance of breeding and offering you a new Ambrio of a higher quality! You can also increase the chance of getting a higher quality Ambrio by giving them lots of pets and feeding them nice food to increase their Happiness! I'm sure everyone will be happy to hear, the entire thing is being built with the same QoL improvements as the other parts of the game. Animals will not need to be fed every day to produce materials, you won't need to enter a separate building just to feed them, and you don't need to be near them to interact with them. This is the first of many update previews to come. If you'd like to receive chaotic spur of the moment updates, I'm going to start posting those to the Discord server as they are developed!