Hello shopkeepers!

It's been one week since the Early Access launch of Faire Trade, and what a whirlwind it's been. We are completely blown away by your response. Can you believe the game got over 10k wishlists before launch?!

From all of us on the team - thank you. Truly. You're an awesome bunch. Whether you were/are a playtester, early adopter, fan, or new shopkeeper, you have made this all possible.

Your feedback, bug reports, and reviews have been incredibly helpful (and honestly, a joy to read through).

We've put together an FAQ, which we'll keep updating as we get more questions coming in.

We’ve been busy behind the counter this week! First and foremost, we're focusing on fixing the most common bugs and crashes to ensure a smoother experience. We have gone through most of the critical bugs and much needed improvements, and we'll continue our work on the remaining few. After that, we need to catch up on our technical debt that we accrued over the last months. Basically removing some of the short sighted duct-tape solutions in favor of longer lasting support and stability in key areas. You can find the up-to-date changelog at the bottom of this post.

Patch 14580 was released yesterday - you can find the full changelog here.

We've had a lot of requests for controller support, so that's something we'd like to look into next.

Of course, there are more things planned in terms of new features, crafting options, and other fun additions, but right now we need to prioritize and tackle things in the right order.

As many of you know, Faire Trade is offering support for community translations. French is currently at 96.40% and German is at 75.10%. At 100% they get added to the game! Other languages are being worked on too. Are you a polyglot? We'd really appreciate your help. It's really as easy as filling out a spreadsheet, and you can do as little or as much as you want.

More info on community translations[steamcommunity.com]

We’ve loved seeing your shops pop up across social media and Discord. Keep sharing them! Whether it’s a humble one-roomer or a full-on mall, we want to see how you're getting on.

Tag us or drop your screenshots on Discord[discord.gg].

The shop that you can see on the cover image of this post was made by Pandorian. Maybe your shop will feature on the cover image next?

Check out these creations from Lidusia, Bear, anniedee, Loki is a cat, and scailman over on Discord. It's so fun to see how differently everyone plays the game, whether you're opting for efficiency, style, or just simply a fire hazard.

We’re reading every message, report, review, and suggestion, even if we can’t reply to them all. The early access journey has only just begun, and your ideas are helping shape what’s next. If you haven't yet left a review, we would appreciate this massively!

Thank you again for making Faire Trade something truly special <3

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Hey Shopkeepers!

While we've been hotfixing critical issues whenever they've come up during the weekend, we've also been working on other reported issues & improvements. Here are the patch notes for version 14850 that should be out now (you may have to reboot steam if it doesn't update).

TECH

• Fixed an issue where entrances that were already placed in the home/farm would break the game

• Added double sided signs to make it easier to read from both sides

• Fixed the camera orbit when traveling between domains.

• Improved Level Up Skills objective by also checking the values when loading the objective

• Fixed an issue where the max level of a skill wasn't checking against the right variable, resulting in the objective not being updated correctly.

• Armor & Weapon displays would also scale products down to 0.8, these are now scaled to 1 instead

• Tweaked the height at which the navmesh is carved, this should give you some more freedom when placing wall furniture high up on the wall.

• Cycladen 1 and Kungen 1 had incorrectly set colliders.

• Kilo 1 had the wrong tag assigned to its colliders, which blocked then blocked pathfinding

• Events should now not be able to spawn twice at the same time

• Skills will now go through the previous levels to unlock anything that was changed in the data after the file was saved.

• Loading in a creative save file now correctly sets the purchase price of furniture to 0

• Fixed an issue where one-off events were also being triggered in year 2

• Fixed the filtering on trader menus breaking when similar IDs with different qualities were present

• Reverted to a previous version of the KingsDay code, where products were always unique per trader. Added a fallback in case not enough products are unlocked.

• Clicking New Game/Load Game/Continue multiple times would try to load the game twice, resulting in a crash.

UI

• Crafting menu skill panels used an initially wrong vertical position.

• When a skill is maxed out, the menu now says so rather than showing infinite progress.

• Fixed Unlock button not disappearing when switching tabs in any of the unlock menus

• Added a confirmation prompt when clearing a planter or smelter slot.

• Fixed sorting by buy price for traders

• Greenhouse planter tooltips were not functioning properly

• Increased width of the money counter in the HUD

• Greenhouse planters should now allow seasonal crops to be planted.

• The end of day graph will now angle the day counter if this exceeds 100 to allow the numbers to be easier to read.

• You can no longer place an entrance in the farm & home domains

• Crafting stations with multiple skills did not have a line break to separate the skills.

• Exceeding maximum crafting skill would not cap at 100% in the crafting menu.

BALANCE

• Added Favor as a reward for most objectives

• Lowered the exp requirements for leveling up products by roughly 40%

• Tweaked the minor Beetles events to have slightly less impact, and the global one to have the same impact as the previous minor events.

OTHER

• Fixed Drought & Winter events not blocking similar versions, which could result in them happening at the same time.

• Added some missing event data

• Sand is now unlocked at Swindle level 8, together with the smelter.

• Fruit Bonanza was using the wrong event data.

• Chainmail Gauntlets (Iron) were not being unlocked when they should.

ART

• Employee hair colors were not using natural hair colors

• Fixed 4 displays and 19 decoration assets becoming invisible when the hide walls feature is active.

This morning we were notified of an issue with a save file that had a broken farm. We've been investigating this all day and have not been able to get a reproduction of it on our side, So while we continue to investigate the root cause we decided to add a fallback for save files when this is detected.

TECH

• If for some reason the domain nodes in a save file got corrupted, it will now load in the starter layout to at least not break the entire save file.

• Max skill achievement wasn't triggering as intended, these should now be granted when loading in a save file as well.

BALANCE

• Removed the Smithing tag from Brass, and added Music to be in line with Pyrite.

OTHER

• Pyrite Ore & Ingot were missing the CraftingResource tag

• Pyrite Ingot recipes had a duplicate ID assigned which resulted in some weird values when trying to smelt Pyrite

• Added the missing Painting tag to the smaller painting variants

UI

• Added a notification at the start of the day when an event starts

Over the weekend we were notified that farming could crash the game. This took a bit of investigating but it seems that we now have a fix for that issue. This fix comes in addition to a number of other fixes and improvements that were submitted to the project in the meantime.

ART

• Updated several light emitting decorations. Most notably the square and round fire pits.

• Fixed Koning wall set sticking through paintings and posters.

• Fixed Kotten wall material appearing bright while the set material was supposed to be dark. Also fixed the siblings materials in that set.

• Fors entrance should now also have its thickness adjusted.

• Fixed door shadows on Fiona.

• Fixed visual issue with the Kroma wall set where paintings or posters would clip through the wall.

TECH

• An issue would occur when stopping the game while a UI fade was happening.

• Fix for Ersthof being initially invalid when placed.

• IsPointInDomain didn't correctly check when something was at the exact boundary, causing the red highlighting to not work when trying to remove a wall using Remove Mode.

• Cursor raycast now also checks for door colliders and treat it as if it is a wall. This should make it easier to remove walls with doors.

• Updated colliders on Koudekerk.

• Updated surface colliders of the Kaag wall set.

• Fixed a bug where unlocking a 4 slot planter first could cause a critical error.

BALANCE

• Moved the Jar to level 2 Pottery, and moved everything after that down by 1 level.

OTHER

• Improved the interactable zone for Trader Post 2.

• Slightly shrunk the interactable zone for all counters & Trader Post 1.

UI

• Fixed an alignment issue in the confirmation window.

• Bug reporter now word wraps correctly.

• Fixed issue where deleting the continue save file wouldn't disable the button correctly.

• Detail panel in the load save menu is now also wiped when deleting the save file.

• Greenhouse room growth should now correctly be reflected in the planter slot progress.

• Greenhouse label would not be removed when moving a planter out of the greenhouse room.

• Crafting menu product fountain effect would briefly show quality result on the side of the screen.

• Crafting menu recipe grid should now adjust its height up to a maximum of 4 rows of recipes.

• Added employee expense to end of day screen.

• The crafting menu recipe grid panel height was not updating correctly for farming.

• Fixed an issue with the planting menu where the main window content would not show up after switching planter slots.

• Employee end of day text would stay on-screen after closing the screen.