This is a list of bug fixes and improvements for individual patches. For more information as well as in-game examples and screenshots, check out the Garden Paws Steam news page or Kickstarter blog.
- Human Character DLC introduces Human Characters to Garden Paws
- With the Human Character DLC there are now Hairstyles available that can be used in any animal.
- New Special Dyes sold by Malu after a questline
- New Kozita Items Dragon Habitat and Gem Pillar
- There's now a new hat accessory slot so you can equip 2 items in your head.
- Dragon Eggs and Statues are now bigger. Dragon Statues positioning has been updated to make it easier to find.
- 5 World and Character slots are available now!
- New Wooden Building Pieces (Bridges, tunnels, a new ramp and more!)
- New Paw Hotbar Slot that can't be filled but can be used to have nothing selected.
- Skin Tester Tool updated to handle clothing items, paint straight in the tool and create Item JSON files.
- ModManager updated to make it easier to turn on modding console/ modding sandbox and launch the game.
- Winter terrain visuals have been updated. The first 10 days of winter will have a grassy snow terrain, as well as the last 10 days of winter. Days 11-19 will remain the same as it was.
- Forest Habitat now takes dark and fairy dragons
- Fixed an issue with the hatchery that sometimes prevented progress on hatching.
- Fixed an issue with the Crafted Beehives that prevented it from giving honey.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the White Shirt to showing up on the player
- Fixed an issue with the Ruins Puzzle parts/door not moving.
- Fixed an issue with the Stained Glass Tortoise
- A new face was added.
- Sierra now sells 6 items instead of 3 - The new purchasable house in town can now be painted.(edited)
v1.4.9 (April 2021)[]
Version 1.4.9
- New Island Shop Level 5 floating items should now be on the ground
- New Island teleporter to purchaseable home should be fixed now.
- Problem preventing mods from being installed from the in-game menu should be fixed
- New Island one of the treasure dig spots that was unnacessible inside a mountain has been moved
- New Island Invisible collider near Miners has been fixed.
- Fixed many "not harvestable" trees/rocks/ferns.
- Fixed floating objects. (Berry bush, trees/rocks/etc)
- Fixed shop table height.
- Added no build zones to the town and future castle area. Player can build in "strategic" spots in town; around their home and player homes.
- Added merch link to the start screen.
v1.4.7 (December 2020)[]
Version 1.4.7
- New Kozita cooking recipes.
- Happy New Years Mail
- New Stone chests that can be crafted early game and a larger version that can be traded with Pamela.
- The game now displays your steam avatar in the main menu if it successfully connects to steam.
- The game now saves a per-world backup besides the regular backups it already saved before.
- Dragon Fruit Seed bundle and Pineapple Seed Bundle stack to 10
- Dragons now eat Dragon Fruit sometimes besides requesting cuddles.
- Ester now tells players how many easter eggs are left.
- Fixed an edge case that could result in losing items when using the auto-deposit feature
- Dragon Statues now make noise like the chests do.
- Game Audio and music has been updated.
- If you hold down the select button with the gamepad over an item you can now move it like you were clicking it with the mouse.
- Stopped using the "Graphics Jobs System" as it seems to cause random crashes for some people.
- Implement Simplified Chinese as one of the languages. If you would like to help translate the game to your own language please join us on https://www.localizor.com/garden-paws
- The game now detects corrupted saves and attempts to load previous saves for you if that happens.
- The game now detects if you have mac saves in the old mac saves folder and offers to move them to the new place for you.
- The customers should now stutter less going to the shop table
- Quests now show accept/ not accept options again.
- More performance optimization improvements.
- Fixed an issue in the Cooking Station that prevented it from displaying the grid view.
- Fixed an issue with sprinklers sometimes not watering the plants correctly
- Fixed an issue with abandoning quests.
- Fixed an issue that prevented using shops with the gamepad.
- Fixed an issue that happened when picking up bulletin board quests in multiplayer.
- Fixed an issue that happened when you took the dragon out of the pet slot while flying it.
- Fixed an issue with the bunny treat not showing up after you read the mail from poppy.
v1.4.6 (December 2020)[]
Version 1.4.6
- Lots of Optimization improvements
- Kozita Expansion questline with many new items
- New Creature: Owls and Transport Baskets
- New Creature: Dragons
- New Creature: Elephants
- More Breeding - Alpaca, Cow, Fox, Bunny
- Better Loot Chest drops for late-game players
- Gamepad improvements including better inventory management
- Superior Furnace questline with Beltran late game
- GhostyHalloween Island Reward
- New Kitsune Fox Skins
- Flower Sprinkler (Winter only in Pamela's hut)
- If you're zoomed in on the map you can now click and drag the map to move the map view around.
- Crystal Paw and Birch Glass Shelf are now dyeable
- Guitar has been fixed and can now be played again.
- Four Christmas sweaters that were missing from Dasher's shop have been added to Dasher's shop.
- The Grey Ferret can now be placed in the Ferret Habitat
- Music no longer overlaps after you change islands.
- Pegasus and Skeleton Horse can now be placed in any stables.
- New sand collecting spots have been added closer to the player's house.
- Changed the icon on one of the Cat Tabby skins so it doesn't have the same icon as the other cat tabby skin.
- Made the shed Item Icons slightly smaller in hopes of fixing an issue with the last row of items not responding to clicks.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the animal showing their preferred food above their head when feeding.
- Fixed missing colliders in Castle Interior.
- Fixed an issue with the "Pick All" button on the Cooking Station
- Fixed an issue with the Dungeon Master costume breaking on the Horse and Dragon characters.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent bears/beetles from leaving the bear cave
- Fixed an issue that could prevent the cat ghost from being tamed.
- Fixed some issues found in 1.4.6 including some issues with kozita questline, elephant taming, dragon statue not being tradeable and others.
- Fixed some more issues foundn in 1.4.6 including some gamepad issues. Gamepad can now be used with Item Shifter and Building items. Screenshot Camera keybindings and item shifter keybindings now are in the Controls menu. If you don't have them set up restore defaults in the top of the controls menu.
- New Kozita cooking recipes.
- Happy New Years Mail
- New Stone chests that can be crafted early game and a larger version that can be traded with Pamela.
- The game now displays your steam avatar in the main menu if it successfully connects to steam.
- The game now saves a per-world backup besides the regular backups it already saved before.
- Dragon Fruit Seed bundle and Pineapple Seed Bundle stack to 10
- Dragons now eat Dragon Fruit sometimes besides requesting cuddles.
- Ester now tells players how many easter eggs are left.
- Fixed an edge case that could result in losing items when using the auto-deposit feature
- Dragon Statues now make noise like the chests do.
- Game Audio and music has been updated.
- If you hold down the select button with the gamepad over an item you can now move it like you were clicking it with the mouse.
- Stopped using the "Graphics Jobs System" as it seems to cause random crashes for some people.
- Implement Simplified Chinese as one of the languages. If you would like to help translate the game to your own language please join us on https://www.localizor.com/garden-paws
- The game now detects corrupted saves and attempts to load previous saves for you if that happens.
- The game now detects if you have mac saves in the old mac saves folder and offers to move them to the new place for you.
- The customers should now stutter less going to the shop table
- Quests now show accept/ not accept options again.
- More performance optimization improvements.
- Fixed an issue in the Cooking Station that prevented it from displaying the grid view.
- Fixed an issue with sprinklers sometimes not watering the plants correctly
- Fixed an issue with abandoning quests.
- Fixed an issue that prevented using shops with the gamepad.
- Fixed an issue that happened when picking up bulletin board quests in multiplayer.
- Fixed an issue that happened when you took the dragon out of the pet slot while flying it.
- Fixed an issue with the bunny treat not showing up after you read the mail from poppy.
v1.4.5 (October 17th, 2020)[]
Version 1.4.5
- Added breeding for unique colour and size variants for cats, chickens, and sheep
- A new quest line with Bruce introducing the Passion Fruit Tree
- Breeding Pen and breeding treats
- Bumblebee Shirt, Blossom Shirt, Deer Shirt, Ladybug Shirt and Rainbow Paw Shirt, and White Shirt added
- New items to purchase with PumpCoins on Halloween island
- There is a new Spooky Paintbrush with 9 new designs to paint with and is available on Halloween Island.
- If you have Pumpcoins to spare, Petey the Pirate will now take them off your hand and give you Golden Coins in exchange.
- The Outhouse is now a storage unit for Poop and Fertilizer.
- 16 New Quests to complete.
- Cats now have a slightly higher chance to drop fish.
- There's a new black and brown dog skin.
- Thiago updated several parts of the audio of the game.
- Potentially fixed a rare bug in the dungeon where the guest sees a different dungeon level from the host.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the soap dispenser from being placed in the world.
- Fixed a bug with the wrong music playing when you come back from a different island to the main island.
- Fixed an issue with halloween chests respawning too soon.
- Thiago's FMOD update
- The game now keeps track of the amount of animals you bred
- Fixed an issue with the Pumpkin Soup recipe
v1.4.2 (July 24th, 2020)[]
Version 1.4.2
- Roses in the winter.
- New Rose Furniture Set, which can be painted with the furniture paintbrush.
- There are 12 purchasable tropical plants that range from 500 coins to 10000 coins each. These are only purchasable from Herb on Kozita Island.
- Herb has new quests that unlock 3 new shop stalls to purchase items. There is the Rose and Lavender Seed Stall, the Tropical Plants Stall and the Garden Furniture Stall.
- Herb also sells a cute new straw hat.
- Who doesn't need a cute decorative bicycle that can be painted!
- New Furniture Items: Lanterns, Plant Shelf, Stool, Wind Spinner, Sign Board, Plate, Bowl, Pitcher, and more!
- You can now further decorate your shop! If you have the shop level 5 upgrade you can now toggle the decorations on/off at a new sign located near the tree.
- The tree beside your shop is no longer invincible, it can be defeated with an axe when your shop is level 5.
- The lavender color variations can now be bundled.
- The pineapples can now be bundled as well.
- Paintbrushes can now use the object selector to paint with precision.
- You can now make Pineapple and Raspberry filling and pie.
- The lamp posts and outhouse in the world can now be removed with the hammer.
- Treasure Map Bottles and Rare Fishing spots have been increased.
- Any grammatical errors reported have been corrected.
- Some characters walk around and will emote when you fart in front of them.
- The toilet and fridge can now be painted.
- You can no longer destroy a cooking station or an oven that's in the process of crafting an item.
- Picking fruit is slightly faster.
- When playing online the password will save so you don't have to enter it each time you create a room.
- Fixed an issue that happened when swimming while mounted on an animal.
- Looking to change your shop up? Try placing a table on top of your current shop tables and item shifting them down.
- Changed Assistant's cut from 30% to 20%
- Treasure Maps should now turn brown after using.
- There should be no more audio problems when returning from Kozita island
- You can now remove skins added to the starduster without glittering them.
- Fixed a problem with the pirate item trades that prevented multiple trades to be done until you restarted the game.
- Pineapple Seed Bundle can now be planted
- Fixed a problem that made red roses invisible
- Fixed a problem with the blue paintbrush being used on birch furniture
- Fixed an issue with McCoy's fish delivery
v1.4.1 (July 3rd, 2020)[]
Version 1.4.1
- Story mode max player amount has been increased from 4 to 10.
- The first part of the new island, Kozita has been added including new quests, the animal sanctuary, and new rare animal variations to obtain.
- The Kart and Raft are now in story mode and can be obtained on the new island (that is accessible year 4).
- There is a new NPC Petey the Pirate who will teach you how to craft treasure maps and hunt for treasure. This character also brings along new furniture and clothing items.
- Partial German Translations
- New crops: Raspberries, Limes, Pineapples and 7 Lavender colour variations.
- Missing bouquet recipes added, bug fixes and other changes.
- New NPC, Herb the Kozita Seed Seller
- New outfits and 2 new sets of wings.
- Energy obtained from food has been adjusted. You roughly obtain energy roughly equivalent to 10% the sell price of the item. (Something that sells for 100 = 10 energy, 50 = 50 energy and so on.) When in the dungeon you obtain HP instead of Energy.
- The bouquet recipes for the hydrangeas and pink leaf flowers have been added.
- Plant fiber seed now has a price and can be sold or dropped on the ground.
- Some grammatical mistakes in quests have been fixed.
- Bug fix: Fixed a bug that was preventing Splash from selling the hedgehog skin.
- Bug fix: Fixed a bug that was preventing the earthquake cut scene from being shown.
- The Bear Rainbow Skin colour name has been corrected.
- Added save button if you would like to manually save the game.
v1.3.8 (April 9th, 2020)[]
Version 1.3.8
- More Dungeon Levels
- Castle Upgrade
- Cosmetic Tools Shop
- Skunk
- Fishing Upgrades
- Stone Sprinkler
- Emote Wheel (with +2 emotes)
- Gamepad Improvements
- Several multiplayer issues have been fixed.
- Copper, Silver and Gold sprinklers radius' have been slightly increased (to a 20% larger radius). The stone watering size is slightly smaller than the copper.
- Loot Chests now have a chance to contain better rewards
- Some stacks have been increased from 1 to 10
- Jellyfish prices have been increased by 25 coins.
- The Silver Pickaxe, Silver Axe, Gold Pickaxe and the Gold Axe sell prices have been increased.
- Beetles now have a rare chance to drop fertilizer.
- Hippos now can drop piles of poop (3x poop)
- Bulletin Board Quests now should be able to be tracked.
- Fixed the Dungeon Shop in multiplayer mode.
- Fixed the Jetpack in Creative Mode.
- Fixed an issue that prevented animals from being fed if they moved too far from their spawn spot.
- Fixed Chess Piece position reset not syncing correctly in multiplayer
- Fixed an issue with the snow flashing on foundations in winter.
- Fixed an issue with the grill when 2 different type of fish are on it.
- Fixed an issue with Halloween Island chests not respawning correctly
- Fixed an issue with skins and equipment not dropping with the correct drop rates on the loot chests
- Moar sneaky patches, more dungeon items, more museum collections, wanderer is more fancy now.
- Players can now see other players health in the dungeon in multiplayer on the top right. They should be able to see other players in the dungeon map as blue dots.
- A popup will appear if another player dies in the multiplayer in the dungeon.
- Now there's also a dungeon chest in the dungeon shop that links to a chest in hash's area outside.
- There are more dungeon craftables in the workbench (also a workbench is available in the dungeon shop).
- Can tame dungeon monsters now
v1.3.7 (January 25th, 2020)[]
Version 1.3.5
- Fixed an issue with the wand not firing
- More Customer AI Improvements
- Feeding Trough should now be available for purchase after the quest
- Fixed an issue with changing regions on the online main menu.
- Fixed an issue with the default face not being selectable.
- Fixed an issue with time travelling when changing islands/going to dungeon.
- Fixed an issue with the super shed not showing it's custom name.
- Fixed an issue with the Star Globe not being placeable.
- Fixed a bug that made easter eggs not spawn if somehow you skipped spring 1st.
- Fixed a bug with taming the legendary penguin.
- Fixed a bug with time travelling when coming back to an island in a different season.
- Potentially fixed a bug with cooking stations pickup.
- Rolled back reflections issue.
- Fixed a bug with picking up all items from cooking station
- Fixed a bug with sometimes the accept button not working on the bulletin board.
- Potentially fixed a bug with the guest showing up back in front of the dungeon every day after going to the dungeon in one of the days.
v1.3.5 (December 31st, 2019)[]
Version 1.3.5
- 3 New blueberry recipes
- 3 New purchaseable houses.
- 2 New Winter-themed wall paintbrushes.
- The Happy Holidays mail has been removed and replaced with a Happy New Years mail.
- Replaced A star pathfinding with Native Navmeshs, hoping that will fix the crashing in the dungeon some people have been experiencing.
- That should also fix the issue with customers going behind the counter.
- Patchnotes in-game now pull from a remote location so can be updated more easily.
- There is now a in-game popup that lets you know if corrupt installation files are detected.
- Fixed an issue with the shellfish traps instantly being retrieved after placing.
- Fixed an issue that would reset painting in the house walls/floor after visiting the dungeon or other islands.
- New Music and SFX for winter island and winter island games.
- Fixed a problem with certain NPCs being underwater
- Made Frank stop hiding under their porch
- Added a render distance slider to the settings menu.
- Did some improvements on the customers AI.
- Customers should no longer be showing up in the sky for guests in multiplayer after shop closes.
- Fixed some issues with Pamela's trades.
- Fixed an issue with players getting stuck in creative world.
- Fixed an issue with multiple wall/floor painting frames in the same house.
- Fixed an issue with feeding animals in coops.
v1.3.4 (December 28th, 2019)[]
Version 1.3.4
- Added a new Winter Island during the winter with a new winter mini-game, snowballs and snowmen scattered around to find and destroy with the snowballs.
- Fixed an issue with buildables not updating color/position properly in multiplayer if the host is too far away from it when guest moves/paints.
- Fixed an issue with cows not being milkable after first day
- Fixed an issue with Halloween island dropping people in the water forever if they pass out there.
- Fixed an issue with Halloween island's chests not respawning the next year.
- Fixed an issue with some minor visual-only particles not spawning properly. - Added a little cute jiggle animation to breakables when they get hit.
- Wild animal habitat's trigger has been increased slightly.
- When closing your game on a different island than the regular island, the game will now resume from there when you open it again.
v1.3.2 (December 6th, 2019)[]
Version 1.3.2
- Fixed the legendary animals only showing up when you get close to them, you should be able to spot them with the screenshot camera again.
- Fixed a problem with crashing involving the astar pathfinding generation under certain conditions (fixed against a save that would crash 100% of the times when loading)
- Implemented a check to see if buildable objects are missing for the guest. If it detects that buildable objects are missing it now sends a request to the host for a resync which should fix it. (So buildable objects shouldn't go missing anymore for guests hopefully...)
- Fixed an issue with the bulletin board quests not being able to be delivered/closed/abandoned after second day
- Also fixed an issue preventing the use of custom skins created by players.
- Dungeon workbench now has healing powder