Hello Birders! We've been hard at work on a new region map (we'll have more info soon!), but ahead of that we have a new update for you all. By popular demand, the American Woodcock (along with a few other birds) dances its way into Goose Lake!

Patch 1.0.47

NEW BIRDS

• 5 new birds have found their way into Goose Lake!

• We've got: Black Chinned Hummingbird, Golden Eagle, Mourning Dove, Pileated Woodpecker, and the vagrant (but requested so often it would be silly NOT to include...) American Woodcock.

• (spoiler on the last bird in the list): American Woodcock has a special animation for walking along the ground

Utility Upgrades

• There is now a new upgrade category called "Utility"

• There is now a Utility Upgrade that increases your hotbar capacity, up to 9 total slots!

• We also moved the Scrapbook Pages to Utility.

• This means you no longer need to max out Scrapbook Pages to get the Camera Upgrades achievement.

Fixes

• Fixed layering bug in which shiny birds draw in front of thickets

• Fix water shader foam (Thanks Green Fox!).

• Re-enabled occlusion culling, which got disabled by accident. (Should not happen in the future)

• Fixed navigation bug on Steam Deck that caused the settings menu to have a flickering tooltip and be un-navigable.

• Fixed scrolling bug in inventory while using controller

• Fixed texture mapping on some seed bags (icon should be more visible in shop/inventory)

• Fixed occlusion culling bug at the end of the pier in Marsh.

Experimental Changes

• Enabled Physics Interpolation, this should make the game feel smoother at very high framerates

• We no longer use Steam Voice Chat, we now record your mic directly into the game. This SHOULD fix a microphone issues seen by a good chunk of players... hopefully.

• We also have a gain slider now directly in-game to increase your microphone input volume.

Misc Changes

• Increased max framerate to 240 (apparently some monitors go that high!)

• Moved buttons in the settings to the bottom of the panel (ie: [c]Delete Old Photos[/c] is no longer at the very top)

• Added a button in settings that behaves like [c]getlogs[/c] command to streamline bug reports.

• Added a button in settings that behaves like [c]opensavedata[/c] command for the same reason

• "Points of Interest" tab now has an index page.

• Raised the price of Scrapbook Pages Upgrade

Hello Birders!

Today we have another patch that includes a variety of quality of life features, requested tweaks, and more bug fixes! We just wanted to give everyone a heads up that things might slow down a bit until mid-June, as now that the game is in a stable state for the vast majoirty of players, the team is going to take some much needed time off. We'll still be monitoring the server and steam discussion forums, but don't expect us to reply with the speed we have been the last few weeks.

Patch 1.0.31

Major Feature: Warp Totems!

• Each biome's shop now has a new section. Currently the only item in each section is a Warp Totem that will teleport you to that biome.

Major Feature: Shiny Bell!

• This item can only be bought in the Snow Biome. It's a consumable item that spawns a Shiny Bird instantly! Shiny hunters rejoice!

Fixes

• Pressing the Guidebook key while Identify Birds Upgrade is active will open the page for that bird only while that bird is targeted by the camera (was persisted longer than that)

• Seeds now float in the water

• Water birds no longer get stuck while doing their eating animation

• Camera and Binoculars are no longer affected by your FOV.

• Items no longer make a UI click noise when left clicking.

• Fixed obscure UI bugs in game session window, namely: kicking 2 players consecutively works.

• Fixed bug where "Is There Fall Damage" achievement was obtained by getting snagged in world geometry.

UX Changes

• Cosmetics Menu buttons are no longer animated and instead use static thumbnails. Technically a visual downgrade but should prevent the cosmetics menu from crashing on some computers.

• Seed Bag thumbnails are rotated towards the camera.

• Seed Bag designs are updated to be more visually distinct.

• Beige Seeds are now Blue Seeds (functionality unchanged, just making them easier to tell apart)

• Whistle thumbnails are more centered

• Whistles now show up in the guidebook for each bird page.

• Latin name in the guidebook is now italics (I had to write a shader for this because our font doesn't have an italics variant, I hope you appreciate my hard work)

• Selecting a photo to be swapped out now shows the current photo as the first photo in the camera roll.

• Swapping out a photo will now append that photo to your camera roll.

• Adjusting an audio slider now plays a sound on the relevant audio bus so you can gauge how loud it is.

• Changed the Shiny Spawn Sound... again!

• Adjusted some colors in Develop-o-tron UI

Misc Changes

• Replaced the "Missing Image" that shows up if a photo is not available.

• [c]redevelopallphotos[/c] debug command no longer runs the develop cutscene (so you don't need to page through all 1000 photos or whatever)

• Camera shutter sound is now audible to all players (ie: you can now hear when other players are taking a photo)

• Add diagnostic telemetry when Steam fails to initialize and when a loading screen sits for too long.

• You can now access the cosmetics menu from the Outhouse by pressing the interact button.

• Changed ordering of Camera upgrades so Scrapbook Pages are last on the list.

Also! The whole dev team was interviewed on DevDive, where we talk about games that inspire and Flock Around's development cycle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNw89wWTOuA