Cozy Grove

- Mythical decorations can now use legendary dyes
- Fixed bug that could sometimes prevent Charlotte from giving you a location hint for a quest item.
- Shell model letters auto-delete after you've claimed the shell model.
- Clothing for Beatrice's quest will now be available when her quest is active
- The main menu "festival calendar" has been adjusted so that the end date of every festival is displayed as happening on the last full day of the festival, instead of the following day (festivals technically end at 5am local time, but midnight to 5am isn't "another day" in most people's minds!)
- Fixed issue with Clyde critter quest
- Yet more performance and memory improvements
- Fixed bug which could cause dyed items to become un-dyed if you also possess an un-dyed copy of that item and then sort them together.
- Fixed issue with Ben's timed quest
- Updated various localizations with improvements suggested by the community
- Prevent repeatable letters from being sent excessively.
- Winter Festival length reduced to 5 weeks; starts on Dec 20. Tweaked drop values to compensate.
- Fixed a bug preventing players from loading their save file if they haven't played the game in a very long time (during the last Winter Festival)
- Fix visual issue with layers when critter catching.
- Other minor bugfixes and improvements.

- Bugfixes for the new dye UI
- If you've been playing for more than a year, seasonal festivals would previously have broken on repeat. We've fixed that.
- Removed unneeded backups from iOS
- Fixed bug preventing some timed quests from repeating in the future
- Stop players from accidentally selling quest critters. Can reacquire.
- Halved Seagull Q21 wood & iron requirements.
- Can't buy duplicate Surfer, Wolf, Emperor or Wary quest items from Kit
- Fixed T3 Ben cats not having colored necks
- All characters can be given their winter gifts outside of the festival
- Fixed controller not regaining focus when closing the splash using touch
- Fixed, or at least lessened, softlock from giving an item to bear then starting two actions
- Added a satellite dish to Jeremy's territory, which will tell you where all your tools are located
- Radar icons do not appear during hugs and the dance party
- Fixed issue with an Archie clothing quest sometimes having a goal of "NaN"
- Fix broken gossip text in certain languages
- Improvements to save system to increase speed and stability
- Memory improvements to help performance on low-end devices and consoles
- Information about the timing of upcoming seasonal events now appears in the main menu
- Bugfixes for issues with the winter festival when encountered for the second year in a row.
- Fix for caught bugs looking visually like they are outside the net
- Other bugfixes and improvements

Word of your legendary scouting deeds has spread throughout the spirit world... and that means more ghosts want your help. The "New Neighbears DLC" adds four new ghost bears, each featuring lengthy personal stories and no long waits between their requests. Bring peace to Cozy Grove's original bears to unlock these special visitors from afar!

The New Neighbears DLC also features:
- A new critter type, butterflies, to catch and collect during the Spring and Summer seasons.
- Unique new clothing
- A new song added to the game's soundtrack.
- Some free expansions for your clothing closet
- Spring Festival! Starting April 27th, Ms. Carouse returns to Cozy Grove. We won't spoil her surprises...
- A new "dye" system has been added to the game, enabling you to customize the colors of your decorations.
- Mosquito critters have had their behaviors revamped; they are a bit more chill now.
- Manually saving and returning to the main menu has been sped up substantially.
- Other minor bugfixes and improvements.

This is intended to be the last update before our major Spring Update and New Neighbears DLC. It's a rollup of bugfixes and QoL that we don't want to make you wait for:
- Added an additional row of slots to the default backpack size (increasing it for everyone)
- Fix for issue where cats were not visually appearing hungry, even though they were hungry
- Canceled animal yoga class (animals won’t appear bent out of shape anymore)
- Sped up the animal feeding animation sequence
- Allow players to select what items to give in all delivery quests, not just some of them
- Fix for getting stuck when scrolling in inventory/filters
- Fixed issue where the game could freeze if the player drops a large stack of decorations
- Allison’s photo quests require less food
- Quest turn-in UI stays visible when quest log is open
- Quest log and backpack UIs auto-hide when you’re moving an item
- New solution that will hopefully prevent players from borking their save files by accidentally time travelling backwards. (No guarantees here, but we tried our best.)
- Speculative fix that will hopefully stop chaseable imps from sometimes getting trapped inside objects and thus becoming uncatchable by the player
- Add support for future premium DLC!
- Pandam no longer sells snow sculptures
- Updated catbox button UI to make it more obvious how to convert hairballs into other essence.
- Fix for issue where the dowsing rod might fail to detect new targets at the start of a new day.
- Cleaned up some technical debt.
- Various minor performance improvements.

- Faster world-loading with better looking biomes
- After learning a recipe, we now show the item image preview so you can see what you've learned
- Adjusted blackberry seasonality to fix missing berries in Dec
- Fixed floating bushes
- Imp decorations can be sold for a small amount of cash
- Improved performance in general
- Improve performance of dowsing action, specifically
- Improved font support for multiple languages
- SFX bugfixes for picking up and placing items
- Fall candy can be bought back if accidentally sold
- Pay for costs (like crafting) from the smallest stack first
- Snowfolk available before Day 30
- Snowballs and Snow Crystals can be re-purchased if accidentally sold
- Wigs now show the Owned count
- Fixed issues related to cat happiness and incorrect feeding rewards.
- Add interior decoration and treasure map tags to filters
- Other minor improvements

- The Winter Festival begins December 23rd and runs for 6 weeks. Come experience: new snowfolk characters you can craft and talk to, special gifts you can make and give to the characters on the island, and lots of fun with snow!
- Most collection, crafting and storage UIs now have filters, to help you quickly find the item you’re looking for.
- When you buy a hint from Charlotte, you can now choose which quest to buy it for.
- New wishing well that appears on a fully-expanded island, and allows you to buy the rarer recipes you might still be missing, if you can rustle up enough coin...
- New background music track.
- There is now one more tent upgrade (and 5th interior room) that can be purchased via Flamey.
- New "complete the pattern" minigame that spawns randomly in the world.
- Pandam now sells greens and roasted roots.
- Clothing closet default size increased by 30. You can buy more space, too.
- Improvements to photography quests and hints to make them less confusing / difficult.
- Perishable items left on the ground inside your tent will no longer disappear over time.
- Bears will generally avoid wandering on top of hidden objects.
- Darla and Ms. Carouse will not request clothing that's awarded by a quest and thus not immediately obtainable.
- Blue clams once again give essence when you hit them with enough skips.
- When bears step in front of major landmarks (thus hiding them), the hidden landmarks will be slightly less transparent / more visible.
- Fixed issue that was causing Darla to give out more than the expected numbers of clothing items like tichels.
- Various performance improvements/optimizations.
- Various other bugfixes and minor improvements.

- Fixed a bug that could crash the game when entering the tent
- Various fixes for photography quests
- Added more community translators to credits
- Other minor fixes

- Chaseable imps will no longer spawn stuck in unreachable places
- Improved sorting so items merge
- Onion salads now require a few more onions
- Don't show happiness flyups if the final happiness of the affected plants/animals didn't change
- Bears will now only have one piece of gossip per day
- Joyous & happy imp essence can be recycled
- You can no longer sell items to Clyde
- Loading time improvements
- Return lost tools and some quest items to players who have managed to lose them
- Various other fixes

Hi Scouts! We're pleased to release our second major update to Cozy Grove! Here's a list of the highlights for the "Autumn Update":

- You can now go inside your tent and decorate the interior. Upgrade your tent with Flamey for more rooms, and decorate them to your heart's content. There should be a small housewarming gift waiting for you within.
- Cats! Lure them into your tent with the mysterious Cat Beckoner. Experiment and see which cats you can attract and share your recipes with others.
- New Halloween event, coming to Cozy Grove from 20 October till 1 November. Who knows what spookiness might descend on the island... Don't miss it!
- Accordion! Use it to harvest many plants simultaneously.
- Photography minigame! Join Arjun in his favorite activity to capture the magic of the island and your decorative scenes.
- Bunnies will now be available to join your outdoor birds and deer.
- New background music.
- Improved stone skipping activity.
- New clothing options, including some Halloween-exclusive outfits.
- Lots of new decorations for the new tent interior and outside.
- Improved decoration placement and movement.
- Added 20 slots to clothing closet.
- Many other minor bugfixes and improvements.

- New chests that you can use to store items in! Buy them from Mr. Kit's fully-upgraded store and place them on the ground to start using them.
- Optimizations for faster autosaving that should help further reduce some of the frame hitches.
- New menu option to reduce the frequency of autosaving, for those who want that.
- New menu button to manually save and continue playing.
- Fix issue where some mementos in Charlotte's book could be missing.
- More optimizations for critters to further reduce some frame hitches.
- Improved item descriptions to clearly indicate that rarer lamps have a wider reach for their light.
- Fix info panel saying cooked food takes 1 hour when it actually takes 5 minutes.
- Fix for Ted incorrectly using ascended quest speech when he should not.
- Shortened the time that passes between Bruin's quests 5-10.
- Converted Seagull Q21 to a hidden object quest instead of making the player wait for an item from Charlotte.
- Adjusted some quests with Seagull, Lee and Pius so you can hand in rarer items than required if you wish.
- More fixes for getting stuck on a quest where imps expect flyers.
- Fix an issue where the Signet Ring item could be given to the wrong quest first.
- Fix photobooth standees in Jeremy's territory not spawning enough.
- Shortened item descriptions of harvestable happiness, to avoid overly long item panels.
- Fix bug where some items could be floating in the air and inaccessible.
- Fix issues with iCloud where some saves could get partially corrupted, or it could ask you which save to keep twice.
- Fix bug where some saves would fail to load.
- Animal essence can now be recycled into lower tiers.
- Made the animal minder badges easier to get.
- Fix for bug that was causing crafting costs to be way higher than expected when they were paid partially from inventory and partially from other sources.
- Fix for drag & drop into quest UI causing items to sometimes get deleted.
- Add Francesca special gossip that teaches about growing orchards and their benefits.
- Fix for Seagull's final story quest being inaccessible for some players