Hello Friends,

I'm really excited to release one of the most significant updates for Playne so far that brings biomes and many improvements for VR.

Biomes😄

• Grow new species of trees for Story, Sandbox and Evolve modes
• Three new species of trees: Aspen, Beech and Lombardy Poplar
• Completed Playne? Create multiple instances and start the journey again
• Choose trees that grow at different rates

Improvements & Fixes

• Torch that illuminate the ground to help you plant seeds at night in Sandbox mode.
• Many typos have been fixed. 👊 Huge thanks to those of you that sent me details of typos in the game.
• Birds now tweet again during the day 🤷🏽‍♂️
• Better, more realistic water
• Steam Cloud save load quota increased to accommodate bigger saves
• Various other minor bug fixes

VR Fixes and Improvements

• Full graphics overhaul and engine tweaks. Game should be crisper, performance should be better.
• New tutorial system gives you better onboarding onto Playne VR
• New dialogue interaction system for Fox. You will no longer need to walk around the fox to get the best angle so you can read the dialogue window (🤦🏽‍♂️ what was I thinking? part I)
• Game controls rethink and redesign. Gone are the complicated grip system for the weather and time power (🤦🏽‍♂️what was I thinking? part II)
• Planting controls rethink and redesign. You no longer need to actually touch the ground to plant the seeds (🤦🏽‍♂️what was I thinking? part III)
• Sandbox seed view needs less hand turn
• New weather and time UI
• Cosmos and G2 controller added, although still not officially supported until a few of you can confirm that they work 🤷🏽‍♂️
• New, dare I say more beautiful, main menu
[*[ Better, clearer settings ui
• Better laser that doesn't shoot beyond the menu + full laser pointer system
• Grip should no longer interfere with interactions on Index

Gameplay Changes

• Sandbox and Story mode will no longer grow together. You now need to choose which biome/game mode you want to grow by meditating there. However you will still earn seeds for sandbox mode when you meditate in story mode.
• The original tree in Playne now grows in 60 days, about twice as fast as before. I've reduced this since you can now grow multiple biomes.

New Bug Tracking and Feature Request System

You can add, comment and vote on bug reports and feature requests. 👍 ??
Playne: https://vismaya.upvoty.com/b/playne/
Playne VR: https://vismaya.upvoty.com/b/playne-vr/

Big thanks to my Patreons:

💖 G'ma, 💖 AcidOxidant, 💖 Barbara Weitbrecht, 💖 Erzhena Soktoeva, 💖 Holger, 💖 Jesse Hutchison, 💖 John Hounihan, 💖 Juan Fassone, 💖 Karl, 💖 Matt Gray, 💖 Maxime Attimont, 💖 Meditation Mind, 💖 Michelle Roberts, 💖 pitgamer, 💖 za7ch, 💖 Agelorus, 💖 Elizabeth Parks, 💖 Rodney Armand, 💖 Christian Böning, 💖 Jesus Redondo, 💖 jussi, 💖 Kidjchai Yingsery, 💖 Konohura, 💖 Margaret Howe, 💖 Michiel Krol, 💖 Oliver Waegner,💖 Sasha Hernandez, 💖 VagrantFox.

Special Thanks

Special thanks to G'ma for being one of the first to plant over 1,000 trees in Playne and supporting me for such a long time on Patreon. Also, big thanks to KalisChilde and the other mods for looking over the Discord. Thanks also to all you folks who helped me with testing this update.

Translations

Translations are a bit sketchy at the moment on Playne, and this is my fault since I've had to either redraft or redo some of the text on each patch. I'm doing localisation with our translators next so hopefully we can get some of this cleaned up. Until this happens, I'm removing the official 'interface localised' classification on Steam.

Partners

Lastly, make sure you check out the partners channel on Payne's discord. There are some wonderful communities that we are partnered with, including Meditation Mind, Safe in Our World and Guardians Mental Health.

Our Discord: https://discord.gg/Hu3UKBC
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/krishs

Hope you all enjoy this update and please do let me know I've broken anything with this update.

Much Love 🖖,
Krish.