⭐ Fields of Mistria patch v1.0.4 is here! This patch contains some high priority bug fixes. As always, thank you to everyone who reported bugs and provided feedback to us!

🐛 Bug Report Form[docs.google.com]

📝 General Feedback Form[docs.google.com]

Patch notes will feature a 🌼 emoji whenever the change is based on community feedback and bug reporting!

v1.0.4 Patch Notes:

\[Bug Fixes]

🎮 Gameplay

• 🌼Stillwell’s Quests now correctly track defeated monsters.

• 🌼Monster names now display correctly in Stillwell’s Quest objectives, replacing “MISSING”.

• 🌼Missing portraits now display correctly in the final Mines cutscene.

⭐ Fields of Mistria patch v1.0.3 is here! This patch contains some QOL updates as well as bug and crash fixes. As always, thank you to everyone who reported bugs and provided feedback to us!

🐛 Bug Report Form[forms.gle]

📝 General Feedback Form[docs.google.com]

Patch notes will feature a 🌼 emoji whenever the change is based on community feedback and bug reporting!

1.0.3 Patch Notes:

\[Updates]

🎮 Gameplay

• 🌼 Festival setup days (Spring 14, Fall 7, Winter 7) can no longer be selected as Wedding Days. 

  Note: If you’ve already selected these dates, the Spring and Harvest festivals won’t initiate as intended, but will work properly in the following years.

🎨 Art

• The Seasonal Stock icon in Shop UIs has been updated for clarity.

\[Bug Fixes]

🎮 Gameplay

• 🌼 Players can no longer hop into collisions and get stuck.

• 🌼 Enchanterns can no longer freeze while charging.

• 🌼 Clod projectiles caught with a Bug Net no longer invisibly persist in the air and harm the player.

• 🌼 Gryphon Statues can no longer become immune to damage.

• 🌼 The Deliberate Debris II Skill Perk now works on debris spawned at the top of a new season.

• 🌼 Players now receive the letter reward for completing the Museum.

• 🌼 Song Crystals associated with late-game content are no longer available before relevant game content has been seen.

• 🌼 Fish Bait can now be thrown into the corners of ponds.

✨ QOL

• 🌼 Certain achievements (e.g. True Love, Parent) now more reliably pop at the time they are achieved.

• 🌼 Various typos have been fixed.

🎨 Art & Visuals

• 🌼 NPCs now appear in Bathhouse Date photos as intended.

• 🌼 Trees now fall away from the player when chopped, as intended.

• 🌼 Lights now appear correctly during inclement weather.

• 🌼 Fish bobber VFX have been restored.

• 🌼 The Timbered Farmhouse variant now appears correctly

• 🌼 Wedding Day photos no longer show rainy weather.

• 🌼 Player now renders properly during Adeline’s 8H event.

• 🌼 Fixed issues that may have caused incorrect colors on certain monitors.

• 🌼 Fixed a visual glitch in March's 8 heart event.

💛 NPCs

• 🌼 March no longer says a different NPC’s engagement congratulations line.

• 🌼 Requests from the new Saturday Market vendors no longer appear before they arrive in town.

• 🌼 Spouses can no longer be invited to the Harvest Festival dance when they are not on the Festival grounds in town.

• 🌼 NPCs no longer say dialogue about the player missing the Shooting Star Festival date if they talk to them past midnight on Summer 28.

🔊 Sound

• 🌼 The player’s chosen Bell sound now persists when saving/loading the game.

🖥️ UI

• 🌼 Quests in the Quest UI are now consistently sorted alphanumerically.

❌ Crash Fixes

• 🌼 Having a Spouse at a Festival no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼 Starting a conversation while running on a Mount no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼 Improperly formatted text markers in text no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼 Using the elevators in the Mines no longer occasionally causes the game to crash.

• 🌼 Placing down a Pet after carrying them into a cutscene will no longer crash the game.

• 🌼 A crash in one of the final Mine cutscenes has been fixed. 

• 🌼 Throwing a furniture item down after immediately placing it no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼 Rapidly navigating the Presets menu while deleting Presets no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼 Fighting flame sprites no longer rarely crashes the game.

• 🌼 Holding an animal on the farm while trying to move an animal to a new Barn/Coop in the Ranching UI no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼 Teleporting onto the farm into a cutscene no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼 Animals setting unidentified animations no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼 An issue with Clod projectiles no longer crashes the game.

\[Known Issues]

These are some high priority issues we are aware of and actively working on.

• We are continuing to work on additional performance and graphical optimizations. We plan to release performance-focused updates in our next patch. Thank you for your patience and understanding!

• Localization Beta additions and and corrections are ongoing. Thank you for sharing your feedback! As a reminder, localization feedback can be sent via the localized forms on our website[www.fieldsofmistria.com].

HOT FIX:

• 🌼 Reflecting a Rock Clod attack now does the correct amount of damage.

• 🌼 Date photo portraits now appear correctly for all NPCs.

⭐ Fields of Mistria patch v1.0.2 is here! This patch contains some QOL updates as well as bug and crash fixes. As always, thank you to everyone who reported bugs and provided feedback to us!

🐛 Bug Report Form[forms.gle]

📝 General Feedback Form[docs.google.com]

Patch notes will feature a 🌼 emoji whenever the change is based on community feedback and bug reporting!

1.0.2 Patch Notes:

\[New Features]

🎨 Art

• 🌼New hairstyles have been added to the default menu and to Vera’s stall.

\[Updates]

🖥️ Performance

• Improved performance when other programs, such as AMD and Nvidia's proprietary game overlays, are rendered in the same window as Fields of Mistria.

🎨 Art

• Additional collisions have been added to the beach pier.

🌎 Localization

• Additional translations have been added in French, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

• 🌼Some Simplified Chinese translations have been updated.

\[Bug Fixes]

🎮 Gameplay

• 🌼The Shooting Star Festival softlock has been fixed.

• 🌼Fixed a bug that caused Animal Toys to be unremovable (when it mistakenly thought an animal was using it). They can now be removed with the pickaxe when not in use as intended.

• 🌼The new home exterior letter from Landen now arrives at the correct time. The carpenter’s shop and the player’s home must be fully upgraded to unlock the new home exteriors.

• 🌼Mimics no longer give rewards when fed invalid items such as tools.

• 🌼Player can no longer receive multiple Big Eggs.

• 🌼Animal Festival now works for players whose birthdays were on Winter 10th.

• 🌼Players can no longer glitch their way into the Bell Tower before it’s unlocked.

• 🌼Tools no longer mistakenly stack in the player’s inventory.

• 🌼Fixed a bug that caused the mystical feather to be dropped in the Dragonsworn Glade instead of the players’ home if their inventory was full.

• Mimics no longer drop pet skins without the “Friend Shaped” perk being acquired.

• 🌼The “Time Flies” achievement now works as intended. 

• 🌼Adjusted item drop rates for monsters in the final Mine biome.

✨ QOL

• Updated collisions to reduce players getting stuck in corners and on objects.

• Fixed a typo in Balor’s post-birth line. 

🎨 Art & Visuals

• 🌼The statue of Caldarus can no longer accidentally be shown holding a baby.

• Children no longer appear during date cutscenes.

• 🌼The Mine’s Elevator interaction range has been adjusted.

• Doorway transition collisions have been adjusted.

💛 NPCs

• 🌼Josephine’s Harvest Festival dialouge now fires correctly.

🔊 Sound

• Mount footstep sounds updated to the correct mounts.

🌎 Localization

• 🌼Certain Friday Night at the Inn dialogue in localization betas no longer crashes the game.

• Rock clod localization in the quest log no longer appears as “MISSING”.

❌ Crash Fixes

• 🌼Fixed a bug with animal sounds that could cause the game to crash.

• 🌼Destroying a 10 Heart item while it’s restoring the player’s stamina/health no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼Certain home configurations no longer crash the game at the start of the wedding cutscene.

• 🌼Fixed a crash involving mana usage.

• 🌼IO errors (file access) no longer crash the game.

• 🌼Interacting with the Bell Tower ladders in quick succession no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼Interacting with the menu while on a mount no longer occasionally crashes the game.

• 🌼Enchanterns going out of bounds in the Mines no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼Unlocking the Big Chicken mount if the player has no mount no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼Rapidly navigating around the Dragonshrine menu no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼Fixed some rare crashes that occurred on start-up.

\[Known Issues]

These are some high priority issues we are aware of and actively working on.

• We are working on additional performance and graphical optimizations.

  Note: If you are experiencing performance issues, please make sure you update your graphics card drivers and your computer as a first step.

• Additions and improvements to localizations based on player feedback are in the works! Thank you for sharing your feedback. As a reminder, localization feedback can be sent via the localized forms on our website[www.fieldsofmistria.com].

⭐ Fields of Mistria patch v1.0.1 is here! This patch contains some bug and crash fixes from v1.0.0. As always, thank you to everyone who reported bugs and provided feedback to us!

🐛 Bug Report Form[docs.google.com]

📝 General Feedback Form[forms.gle]

Patch notes will feature a 🌼 emoji whenever the change is based on community feedback and bug reporting!

1.0.1 Patch Notes:

\[Bug Fixes]

🎮 Gameplay

• 🌼The Crown Requests letter text has been updated to reflect the new unlock conditions.

🎨 Art & Visuals

• 🌼NPCs are visible in all Date Photos again, regardless of the current season.

• The Mines Crate Chair preview in the woodcrafting menu now displays as intended.

🌎 Localization

• 🌼A specific dialogue string in Russian no longer crashes.

❌ Crash Fixes

• 🌼Loading a Friday Save with a schedule bug will no longer crash the game.

• 🌼Viewing the Mistmare in the Ranching UI with no animals or without the Horse Statue “Nice Ride” perk no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼Inviting the secret bachelor to the Harvest Festival from the Deep Woods no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼Entering an Arena Room in the Mines from a Treasure or Ritual Chamber room no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼Skipping the Breaking the Fire Seal cutscene no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼Picking up an item in the Journal UI and then opening the Town Rank Guide no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼Killing a Rock Stack no longer sometimes crashes the game.

• 🌼Invalid wallpaper decor from mods no longer crashes the game. An alternate sprite will appear instead.

• 🌼A bug with defeated monsters no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼A rare shadow issue in Town no longer crashes the game.

Fields of Mistria 1.0 Patch Notes

⭐ We are delighted to announce that Fields of Mistria's 1.0 Update has arrived!

This patch introduces our 1.0 Major Update features, including Marriage, Children, the completion of the Town Repair Questline, and more!

🐛https://forms.gle/9sUZ4VAVvMR3gABU8Bug Report Form[forms.gle]

📝https://forms.gle/YuU4iqpH7jgQPYkv9General Feedback Form[forms.gle]

Patch notes will feature a 🌼 emoji whenever the change is based on community feedback and bug reporting!

1.0.0 Patch Notes:

\[Highlights]

• The Town Repair Questline can now be completed!

• The Town Renown Cap has been raised to 100.

• The Mistril Town Rank Event has been added to the game.

• NPC Heart Level Cap has been raised to 10.

• 10 Heart (Proposal) Events have been added to the game.

• Wedding Events & Marriage have been added to the game.

• Children have been added to the game.

• The “Saturday Market Plaza” Quest has been added to the game.

• The “Repair the Bell Tower” Quest has been added to the game.

• Stillwell & Zorel join the Saturday Market.

• The Museum can now be completed.

• Steam Achievements have been added.

  Note: Achievements will be retroactively received after loading an existing save, and will populate based on that save data. If you would prefer to start fresh without receiving retroactive achievements, all you will need to do is start a new save file.

• Beta localizations for 7 languages have been added to the game:

  • Chinese (Simplified)

  • Chinese (Traditional)

  • French

  • Japanese

  • Korean

  • Russian

  • Spanish 

Note: For more details on what to expect from our initial beta localizations, please see our previous blog post here.

\[New Features]

🎮 Gameplay

• Unlocking Stillwell will allow you to access Mission Quests from his Mission Board at the Saturday Market.

• Unlocking Zorel will allow you to purchase Crystal Resonators and Song Crystals at the Saturday Market. This feature allows customization of the music that plays on your farm and in the rooms of your home.

• The exterior of your house can now be customized from a selection of styles after it’s been fully upgraded.

  Note: You will receive a letter from Landen after fully upgrading your house, which will unlock this feature in the Carpenter’s Shop.

• 7 new perks have been added to the game, including:

  • Cooking:

    • Espresso Yourself

  • Ranching:

    • Playtime

    • Eggstra

    • Close Bond II

    • True Trust

  • Woodcrafting:

    • Hammer Timing IV

    • Deliberate Debris II

• The “Engagement Ring” item will now become craftable at a Forge after reaching 10 Hearts with an NPC you’re dating. 

  Note: Elsie will deliver the recipe to you the morning after reaching Heart Level 10. Use the recipe scroll to unlock it.

• “NPC Special Items” received from NPCs 10-Heart (Proposal) Events have been added. 

  Note: It is possible to view all events and collect all the special items before deciding to proceed with a proposal (if desired), as 10-Heart events can be retriggered with the Engagement Ring until you choose to propose and become engaged.

• Elements of your wedding (such as flower color, cake flavor, and meal served at the reception) can be customized via wedding planning dialogue with your fiance in the days leading up to your wedding.

• The “Mystical Feather” item will now become available via a cutscene in the weeks following your marriage, allowing you to trigger an optional family planning discussion for players who wish to have a child.

• Via the Combat Perk “Friend-Shaped,” all monsters now drop Pet Skins that make your pet take on the appearance of that monster.

• The Big Chicken mount has been added to the game.

• An additional “Friday Night at the Inn” storyline has been added after finishing the Mines Storyline.

• New Requests have been added to the Request Board.

• 2 new Museum Sets and associated rewards have been added.

  • Honey Set

  • Terrarium Treasures Set

✨ QOL

• 🌼 The player character can now be rotated in the customization menu.

• 🌼 Players can optionally disable the break-up letters and associated follow-up lines that acknowledge the change in status from “Dating” to “Best Friends” that occurs by default after getting engaged (when dating multiple NPCs).

  Note: this setting will not disable the break-up themselves, and will become available in the gameplay settings menu via the engagement tutorial cutscene.

• 🌼 Players can optionally disable the status change from “Dating” to “Best Friends” that occurs by default post-engagement (when dating multiple NPCs).

  Note: this setting will disable the break-ups entirely, and will become available in the gameplay settings menu via the engagement tutorial cutscene, but must be toggled prior to confirming an engagement in order to take effect.

🎨 Art

• Cloud shadows now appear outside on sunny days.

💛 NPCs

• NPC Heart Level Cap has been raised to 10.

• 10 Heart (Proposal) Events have been added. 

• Engagement dialogue has been added.

• Wedding Events have been added.

• Events related to having a child have been added.

• Post-Marriage dialogue and NPC routines have been added.

• New dialogue has been added to the game.

🔊 Sound

• A new winter song has been added.

• 4 existing seasonal songs will now swap to special extended versions after progressing through the game.

• 10 new songs have been added via Song Crystals

\[Updates]

🎮 Gameplay

• You can now interact with NPCs you are dating, engaged to, or married to, to kiss them.

• Taking an NPC on a date will now increase their heart level more.

• Town Rank Quests have been added to better guide existing progression.

• Museum Wing rooms can now be entered to view your collection.

• The order of popups when donating items to the museum has been updated such that Museum Set Complete popups now appear directly after seeing their respective donated items popup.

• Previously inaccessible cooking recipes are now available in-game.

✨ QOL

• 🌼 Drop rates on items received from Mines treasure chests have been improved.

• 🌼Ritual Chamber and Treasure room spawn rates have been adjusted to be more common.

• 🌼 Your animals will be fed and your crops watered automatically during March’s 8-Heart Event.

• 🌼 The speak interaction now takes priority when multiple interactions overlap near NPCs.

• New Graphics settings have been added to the settings menu, including brightness & saturation sliders and options to better customize the game’s performance on your machine.

• The Birthday selection screen now has a header that says “Select Your Birthday”.

🎨 Art

• Ryis’ Hawthorn tree now has an intermediate growth stage.

• The Bathhouse water wheel now animates.

• 🌼Additional UI indicators have been added, including a directional arrow when placing furniture, an arrow icon over Mines ladders, and a talk icon over Caldarus’ Statue.

• New furniture items have been added to the game, including:

  • Monster Set

  • Ornate Set

  • Bonsai Set

  • Dragon Set

  • And more! 

• New cosmetics have been added to the game, including:

  • Barrel Hat

  • Wedding Outfits

  • Beetle Mandible Horns

  • Dragonfly Wings

  • And more!

\[Bug Fixes]

• 🌼 Substantial improvements to performance since the last update.

• 🌼 Fixed early errors on startup which prevented the game from launching on certain old PCs.

• 🌼 Reduced the game's VRAM usage by over 50%, which should help with performance on older machines.

• 🌼Players can no longer walk on water by moving diagonally into corners.

• 🌼The game no longer crashes due to the Pet being in the wrong location while their job is active.

• 🌼Players can no longer earn second place in the Harvest Festival despite turning in a winning amount of Queen berries.

• Hayden’s weathervane now correctly reappears on his barn after you return it during the Find the Weathervane quest.

• Stepping stones on the beach now play stone footstep SFX.

• Certain popups (e.g. unlocking new hairstyles) have been widened to better fit on the screen.

• Repeatedly ringing the Bell no longer raises the Ranching Skill level.

• Placeable forge animations have been restored.

• Rock Stacks can no longer get stuck in an idle animation.

• Flame Spirits no longer get stuck idle after attacking.

• 🌼The game no longer encounters a rare crash when scrolling through the museum menu rapidly.

• Shooting Star Festival-related dialogue can no longer fire past midnight on Summer 27.

• Players can no longer obtain cosmetics from the Chicken Statue for animals they haven’t unlocked yet.

• It is no longer possible to equip armor and miss unlocking its associated cosmetic.

• NPCs eat specific meals where intended during certain cutscenes instead of randomized meals.

• The camera no longer zooms rapidly when tabbing back into the game window during the End of Day pan.

• 🌼NPC sub-icons on Date Photos have been restored.

• 🌼You can no longer get stuck in certain doorways.

• The Flying Tome now appears at the appropriate depth relative to its wind attack VFX.

HOTFIX:

• 🌼A crash on startup related to the introduction of localized languages has been fixed!

Thank you to everyone who joined us on our Early Access journey, shared feedback, showed us your farms, created fan art, and loved Mistria as much as we do. 

Whether you are returning to your farm or starting a brand new adventure, we hope you'll enjoy everything waiting for you in Mistria. 

Although we have now reached full release, that doesn’t mean we want to stop hearing from you. Please send us your feedback[forms.gle] and let us know what you’re most excited to see next!

After all, 1.0 is only the beginning.🌱

Fields of Mistria 1.0 Update FAQ

As we get closer to Fields of Mistria’s upcoming 1.0 release date, we wanted to take this opportunity to answer some frequently asked questions from our players. We hope you will find them helpful!

To read about the new features coming in the 1.0 release, please see our previous post here.

When will Fields of Mistria’s 1.0 Update release?

Please see the release time map below:

Will I need to start a new save file for 1.0?

No, all saves will carry over to 1.0, and players will be able to experience all the new content regardless of how far into Fields of Mistria they are.

Will the price of Fields of Mistria rise for its 1.0 release?

No, we do not plan to raise the price of Fields of Mistria for 1.0.

Will I need a new save for achievements?

No, players will retroactively earn achievements for things they’ve already accomplished and won’t need a new save file for early-game achievements.

Will there be content after 1.0?

Yes, we are planning for additional content updates and patches after 1.0.

Will Fields of Mistria be coming to console?

We are currently focused on bringing the game to its 1.0 release on PC, and will evaluate potential ports at a future time. Please stay tuned.

What will happen to my other relationships when I get married?

If you were dating multiple characters prior to getting married, they will switch to “best friend” status afterward.

Will I have the ability to opt out of having a child after marriage?

Yes. The player has full control over whether or not they decide to have a baby.

What languages will Fields of Mistria be localized into? 

We currently have plans to release the "Beta" translations for Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish for our 1.0 release. We may add additional languages at a later date.

What can I expect from “Beta” localizations?

Gameplay features and content in the 1.0 update will be accessible by any player regardless of selected language, but translated text (particularly for late-game features) may be missing or incomplete initially depending on the selected language. 

The Beta localizations will be updated and improved regularly until they are ready to be considered fully released. If a piece of text is unavailable in your selected language, it will temporarily appear in English.

We estimate that each Beta language will be around 75% complete when 1.0 releases.

Why release the localizations in “Beta”?

Over the two years that Fields of Mistria has been in Early Access, listening to player feedback has been a major component of our development process. We believe that by similarly listening to feedback from early adopters of our Beta localizations, we can ultimately provide a better final localization.

Thank you in advance to those players who plan to provide feedback and report issues. We will provide a link to official report forms for each Beta language once the 1.0 update goes live!

⭐ Fields of Mistria patch v0.16.5 is here! This non-content patch contains bug fixes for our highest-priority bugs, including the UI softlock bug. Thank you to everyone who reported bugs and shared feedback. Your reports have helped us identify and resolve these issues.

🐛 Bug Report Form[forms.gle]

📝 General Feedback Form[docs.google.com]

Patch notes will feature a 🌼 emoji whenever the change is based on community feedback and bug reporting!

0.16.5 Patch Notes:

\[Bug Fixes]

🎮 Gameplay

• 🌼 Fixed the bug that caused players to get stuck in menus, such as Hayden’s Sell Animals menu. 

• 🌼 The Animal Festival runs correctly in Year 2 and subsequent years.

\[Known Issues]

These are issues we are aware of and working to fix as soon as possible:

• Performance Issues: We are aware of the graphical and performance issues some players are experiencing, particularly on AMD and Intel integrated GPUs, and are working to improve them.

⭐ Fields of Mistria patch v0.16.4 is here! This non-content patch contains performance improvements as well as bug and crash fixes. Thank you to everyone who reported bugs and shared feedback following the engine migration. Your reports have helped us identify and resolve many of the issues addressed in this update.

🐛 Bug Report Form[forms.gle]

📝 General Feedback Form[docs.google.com]

Patch notes will feature a 🌼 emoji whenever the change is based on community feedback and bug reporting!

0.16.4 Patch Notes:

\[Bug Fixes]

🖥️ Performance

• 🌼 Improved frame rates, especially in busier areas such as farms.

• 🌼 Reduced memory usage during startup by up to 50%, meaning the game should launch more smoothly for players who were experiencing issues.

• 🌼 Optimized world rendering for smoother gameplay.

• 🌼 Improved performance and reduced stuttering on some AMD graphics hardware.

🎮 Gameplay

• 🌼 The large essence stone’s crafting level has been restored.

• 🌼 Monsters no longer occasionally double-destroy themselves.

✨ QOL

• “Stuck” button in the menu now works outside buildings.

• 🌼 Players no longer get stuck in doorways, such as those in the carpenter's house and Terithia's house.

🎨 Art & Visuals

• 🌼 Vera’s register now displays correctly.

• 🌼 Fixed Eiland’s walk animation at the game’s start.

• Fixed some shadow rendering.

❌ Crash Fixes

• 🌼 Fixed a crash that could occur while saving.

• 🌼 Birds leaving trees no longer crash the game.

• 🌼 Using the pickaxe after leaving a room no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼 Casting the Growth spell repeatedly on trees no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼 Going through doorways while holding fish bait no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼 Defeating Rock Stacks no longer occasionally crashes the game.

• 🌼 Turning on the lights of specific mine floors no longer crashes the game.

\[Known Issues]

These are issues we are aware of and working to fix as soon as possible:

• The UI Softlock: This is a high-priority bug for us. We’ve added improved logging to help investigate this issue further.

• Equipping Armor Crash: We believe we’ve solved this issue, but we’ve also added additional logging to the game to track this bug.

⭐ Fields of Mistria patch v0.16.3 is here! This non-content patch contains bug and crash fixes that were introduced in our v0.16.2 update. As always, thank you to everyone who reported bugs and provided feedback to us!

🐛 Bug Report Form[forms.gle]

📝 General Feedback Form[docs.google.com]

Patch notes will feature a 🌼 emoji whenever the change is based on community feedback and bug reporting!

\[Updates]

🖥️ UI

• Removed the settings option for “High-Res Framebuffers” it is now always on.

\[Bug Fixes]

🎮 Performance

• 🌼 Fixed general performance issues, particularly on large resolutions.

• 🌼 Fixed screen tearing when VSync is enabled. For players still experiencing screen tearing, make sure VSync is enabled in game and in your driver settings.

• 🌼 Fixed stutters that occasionally appeared in gameplay.

• 🌼 Fixed slowdowns caused by farms with several animals.

🎨 Art & Visuals

• 🌼 Fixed a graphical bug with Winter sheep.

• 🌼 Fixed a graphical bug that appeared in the Final Seal cutscene.

• 🌼 Town bridge shadow now displays correctly.

• 🌼 Summit Wallpaper now displays correctly.

❌ Crash Fixes

• 🌼 Bugs no longer crash the game by spawning out of bounds

• 🌼 Casting the Summon Rain spell and entering a new room no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼 Fixed a rare crash that could occur when the journal was opened during crafting.

• 🌼 Attending the “Date” version of the Shooting Star Festival with the secret bachelor or bachelorette no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼 Bugs failing to spawn via pheromones no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼 Celine 4H event no longer occasionally crashes the game.

• 🌼 Fixed an issue with Controller Trigger Buttons causing the game to crash.

• 🌼 Disconnecting a controller while entering text in big picture mode no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼 Animals in Barns & Coops no longer crash the game during the end-of-day menu.

• 🌼 Interacting with the Ruins Window furniture item no longer crashes the game.

\[Known Issues]

These are issues we are aware of and working to fix as soon as possible:

• Performance issues on lower-spec devices.

• Menus occasionally getting stuck and unable to close.

• Crashes on start-up involving low memory availability.

\[Hotfix]

• 🌼 Fixed a graphical bug that appeared in the Final Seal cutscene (for real this time).

⭐ Fields of Mistria patch v0.16.2 is here! This patch is primarily a performance and stability update with the migration to a new engine. We’ve also added support for Linux + SteamOS.

This non-content update is designed to improve stability and performance across a wide range of hardware. If you’ve tried Fields of Mistria before and had performance issues, we recommend trying again after updating to this latest version!

If you notice any new performance issues or unexpected behavior after the update, please let us know via our bug report form so we can investigate and fix it. 

🐛 Bug Report Form[forms.gle]

📝 General Feedback Form[docs.google.com]

Patch notes will feature a 🌼 emoji whenever the change is based on community feedback and bug reporting!

New Engine FAQs

Why migrate to a new engine?

As Fields of Mistria has continued to expand throughout Early Access, the game has outgrown its original engine. To deliver the best possible experience for players, we have been working hard behind the scenes to transition the game over to an internally developed engine.

The goal of this engine migration is to improve overall stability and performance, eliminate crashes, support a wider range of hardware configurations, and make future development smoother as the game continues to expand and we begin to explore porting to additional platforms. The new engine will also improve support for modding, making mods easier to create, update, and manage in the future.

What does this mean for mods?

Mods created for the previous engine version will not be compatible with the new engine. Players using existing modded saves may experience unexpected issues with modded content. When installing mods after this update, please make sure they are specifically made for the new engine to ensure compatibility. 

We know this transition may temporarily disrupt some players' mod setups, and we thank everyone for their patience during this process. We're incredibly grateful for the creativity and hard work of our modding community, and this migration will ultimately provide a stronger foundation for modding, making it easier to create and maintain mods and enabling even more customization possibilities.

For modders, we’ve created a guide and documentation to help understand the new engine:

https://github.com/NPC-Studio/mistria-sdk 

0.16.2 Patch Notes:

\[Highlights]

• Migrated Fields of Mistria to a new internal engine.

• General performance optimizations and stability improvements.

• Improved support for integrated graphics, allowing Fields of Mistria to run on a wider range of hardware.

• Added native support for Steam Deck, which will improve performance.

• Resolved the longstanding JSON Parse Error and Dragon Shrine Error bugs through the new engine migration, eliminating two of our longest-standing technical issues.

• Added support for Linux + SteamOS. Note: Fields of Mistria only supports Linux through Steam Linux Runtime 4.0 ("steamrt4") on Steam OS. Attempting to run Fields of Mistria outside Steam, in another distro, or in another runtime is not officially supported, and the game may not run as intended.

\[Steam Deck]

• On Steam Deck, we expect better, more stable performance with a smaller memory footprint. To enable the native version, make sure "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool" is unchecked in the game's Compatibility settings. This option is disabled by default, so most players won't need to make any changes.

📢 Hotfix:

\[Bug Fixes]

🎮 Gameplay

• 🌼Fixed an issue where existing saves on the Steam Deck did not appear in the load menu.

  Note: Missing saves can be redownloaded from: https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorageapp/

  and placed in \[%LOCALAPPDATA%/FieldsOfMistria/saves] on Windows and \[~/.local/share/FieldsOfMistria/saves] on Linux. 

• The Starter Farm Bridge now has the required Crafting level of 20.

• 🌼Adopting animals now works as intended.

🎨 Art & Visuals

• Fixed some GFX-related issues.

• Screen no longer flickers when entering the Mines during the “Unlocking the Mines” cutscene.

❌ Crash Fixes

• 🌼Fixed a crash when remapping certain gamepad buttons. (Note: PS5 touchpad functionality will be restored at a later time).

• Spawning a bug no longer crashes the game.

• 🌼Failing to delete a save file no longer crashes the game.