Deck the Halls! Twinklebys Yuletide Event Begins Today

Running from December 16th to January 13th, this festive update introduces a bunch of holiday decorations and treats, six cheerful new Neighbours, and new backdrops to transform your archipelago into a floating winter wonderland!

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Are you ready to embrace the festive and comfy Holiday season in your snow-covered archipelago? Visit Molligans Antiques during this cozy event to discover a special seasonal selection of items including Christmas trees, holiday gifts and star-shaped candles, a selection of yummy Yuletide food, and more. Collect the full Yuletide item sets to receive extra rewards! Six new Neighbours have also arrived in Twinkleby.

The celebration doesnt stop there: Twinkleby will be available at 50% off as part of the Steam Winter Sale, with the Original Soundtrack also discounted 30% and a new bundle also launches today called [u]Mice & Cozy [/u]: combining Twinkleby and [u]https://store.steampowered.com/app/3008740/Winter_Burrow\"" style="color:#bb86fc;text-decoration:none;">Winter Burrow [/u] at a 10% discount!

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[u]Twinkleby Yuletide Features:[/u]

Yuletide Item Set - Time to snuggle in and get the Holiday spirit in place, decorate your gardens and houses with holiday gifts and festive lights. Light up the Yuletide tree or the Yule Goat.

Yuletide Food Set - A selection of yummy Yuletide food including: candy canes, a gingerbread house, rice pudding and saffron buns.

Six New Yuletide Characters Lucia, who lights up the night, Ms. Cabrera, the goat, and Niels the house-loving santa are all here looking for Yuletide cheer. Along with them comes Roscoe the Reindeer, Schneeman the Snowman and Lady Applebottom who is, you guessed it, an apple.

A Holiday to Remember - Festive Frames & Filters in the Photo Mode.

New Backdrops Fireworks & Aurora Borealis. Celebrate the holidays and the new year with the fabulous Fireworks Backdrop available during Yuletide! And sighted for the very first time at this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localised entirely within Twinkleby. The new Aurora Borealis backdrop is here, shimmering in all its glory!

New Item Sets Potted Plants, Curtains, Lanterns and more Puffy Furniture! Not only are the Seasonal Items arriving for Yuletide, more decoration pieces can now be found in Molligan\'s Antiques and the chests flying around the archipelago. Decorate your houses with new greenery from the Potted Plant Set and cosy up your walls and windows to keep the cold away with the new Curtain Set. Huddle up in one of the chairs, beds or sofas from the Puffy Set II and spread some light in the winter with the new Lantern Set.

Messages in Bottles - Letters from Rare Neighbours have started to show up, hinting at what theyre looking for to arrive to your islands.

Key Rebinding - That\'s right, if you\'ve ever felt your buttons are situated in the entirely wrong place, you\'re now free to change them as you like!

Cute Little Birds - At least we think they\'re cute.

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All Twinkleby Yuletide items purchased in the store during the event will stay available for any player that got them. Once the Yuletide event is over, the items will no longer be available at the store. Along with these additions, the update will also deliver several fixes and quality-of-life improvements, focusing on reported issues and suggestions by players. Another patch is scheduled to roll out in Q1.

Happy Yuletide

Might and Delight

Patch notes can be found here !

Hello Neighbours!

As part of the Yuletide update we have some changes coming your way!

Check out the Yuletide In-Game event information here!

Additions and Changes:

• Added 6 new rare Neighbours! Maybe they will be attracted to all the cozy wintertime islands you will be making?

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• Added 2 Yuletide seasonal item sets.

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• Added 5 new item sets.

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• Added two new backdrops. Look out for them in your chests!

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• You can now find message bottles on or falling next to your islands! These contain hints for what certain rare Neighbours require to arrive on your islands. You can now also see these hints for all the rare Neighbours your have encountered so far in the Collections menu.

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• Hovering over the happiness progression meter of an island will now display an information panel with all your inhabitants and their current happiness percentage.

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• The Controls menu has been added. Here you can rebind keys to customize the input to your liking!

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• Added small birds that fly around the islands.

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• Added frames and filters to Photo Mode.

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• Updated the look of the menu buttons on the map screen.

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• The Obbler is now unlocked earlier in the game.

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• Added a new pickup & place sound effect for books and other paper-based items.

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• Credits will now play when you finish the final reward of the final island, instead of at the half reward.

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• The credits is now always accessible from the title screen.

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• Updated various item thumbnails for consistency.

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• Increased the light range of certain lamps.

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• Made placing of the large wooden bridge slightly more lenient.

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• Improved level of detail (LOD) transitions.

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• Raised the volume of the radio and fireplace sound effects.

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Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that caused Chests to not generate the correct amount of items.

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• Fixed a bug that caused the \"Continue\" button to not show when returning to the title screen.

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• Fixed a bug that could cause reflections to not work as intended.

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• Fixed a bug that caused Neighbours to gain happniess while being evicted.

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• Fixed a bug that caused the item set completion checkmark to not show.

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• Fixed a bug that caused some characters to not have the exhale effect shown during winter.

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That\'s it for now.

Happy decorating!

/Arvid and the Twinkleby team