Happy Fall 🍁
We’re happy to roll out an update that’s focused on some quality of life updates to enhance your time while playing Echoes of the Plum Grove!

Check out what's new:

• Inventory Management Made Easier: A new dropdown feature has been added to help you sort inventory and chests with ease.
  
• Tailor Shop Refresh: The tailor's inventory will now shuffle cosmetics you’ve already purchased.
  
• Gifting Medicine & More: You can now gift medicine, potions, or soap to help prevent or heal diseases in NPCS or family members. These items follow the gifting cooldown, so plan wisely!
  
• Smarter Family Movement: Family members will now spend less time blocking the stairs or lingering in the entryway.
  
• Pet Cap Increased: You can now have up to 5 pets! More critters for your family to love and care for.
  
• Improved Shop & Storage Control: Updates for smoother interactions while navigating shops and storage.
  
• Tidying Up Achievements: We’ve removed unreleased content from the achievements list and collection book to ensure everything matches the current in-game content.

Thank you all for your continued support and feedback! We're constantly looking for ways to improve the game, so keep sharing your thoughts with us.

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Build v1.0.4.3s is live with the following updates and features:

• Added anti-aliasing options in graphics settings, FXAA enabled by default
  
• Ambient tracks should play again properly
  
• Updated Japanese Characters
  
• Updated Rose's name in German

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Hello All 💜

We're thrilled to announce that we have added support for five new languages: Portuguese, German, Korean, Spanish, and Japanese! We know many of you have been eagerly awaiting this, and we sincerely appreciate your patience as we've worked to make it happen.

We also want to take a moment to thank everyone we met at PAX West recently. It was a pleasure to connect with such passionate fans, and your support means the world to us.

A few other features that will be going live with this update include:

• Decreased install size
  
• Increased graphical performance
  
• Added in new mailboxes
  
• Fixed duplicate house issue

As always, thank you for being a part of this journey with us!


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We’ve added a new feature to help you track the family histories of your character and of each villager. In the Family tab, you'll now find a tree icon in the upper right corner. Clicking on it will take you to your family tree. There you can explore the connections and relationships. Additionally, you can click on individuals in the Village tab to view their family trees. See when people died, cause of death, year they were born, spouses, children and more!


We are also excited to announce that Echoes of the Plum Grove is now compatible with Mac! We’ve been working hard to get an experience for our Mac users, and we can’t wait for you to join us in exploring Honeywood with us.

Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to seeing all your family trees!


Sarah and Erik
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Thank you all for your patience as we roll out more content and bug fixes!

We are thrilled to announce that our game is now officially Steam Deck verified! You can enjoy a seamless and optimized experience on your Steam Deck to take Plum Grove on the go. Thank you to all who helped us test and for your patience while we perfected the Steam Deck experience!

• Cockatiel, Lovebird, and Parrot addition (all can perch on your characters shoulder!)
  
• Dachshund, Shiba Inu, Samoyed, Tortie Cat, and Siamese cat are all new pet options.
  
• Tourists, immigrants, and ghosts may be custom characters from our Kickstarter backers
  
• New items: garden bed
  
• Added a stone vein to the mine

Now, when tourists visit, a new villager arrives, or you encounter a blood moon, the villagers you see might be custom-made characters from our Kickstarter backers! Don't be surprised if you see interesting outfits or unique names walking around or moving into town.

• Fixed infinite loading and cutscene issues when switching characters
  
• Fixed issue with multiple tools that could do the same task - fixes using your pickaxe in the mine among other issues
  
• Fixed tiles that are unusable on your farm on reload
  
• Fixed the issue where if an item is dragged for too long it becomes huge
  
• Fixed green thumb perk
  
• Fixed issue where moving your barn doesn't clear the animal trough
  
• Various dialog fixes
  
• Various controller fixes
  
• Master and ambient volumes settings should be loaded correctly at startup
  
• If you change your heir to a farm helper the day you take over as them, you will not constantly transfer your items to the farmer helper chest

• Reduced wheat, oat, and corn prices. Increased flour price
  
• Performance fix: Increased performance when many villagers were on screen
  
• Performance fix: Reduced performance issues of farm helpers without any tasks
  
• Simplified Chinese: Update item hover to have visible tags
  
• New graphics option to reduce or turn off snow effects
  
• Keyboard pops up for text input on Steamdeck
  
• Scaled up smaller fonts and UI elements on Steamdeck
  
• Updated tutorial tab text based on current control scheme
  
• Cooking multiple items will also multiply skill gain appropriately
  
• Added checkmarks in collections menu when you've cooked a recipe or caught a fish to help track achievements
  
• Eggs can now drop at increased quality

We are having exciting updates in progress and we can't wait to share them with you soon!

Hi everyone!

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We have been made aware with our last update that there are two major bugs affecting players.
We have applied a hotfix to address the following issues:

• Fixed bug where you couldn't change your family's professions
  
• Fixed bug where controller hover for recipes doesn't update

Thank you again to our wonderful community for quickly identifying these two bugs, and for your patience and understanding.

Sarah & Erik

Can you believe it's been 2 weeks since we've launched? So many of you have shown your support for our cozy lil' game and we can't thank you enough.

It took us a bit, but we wanted to make sure we had everything as polished as we could make it for this update. We did our best to tackle as many bugs as possible and rebalanced a few things based on community feedback. Along with some adorable new features like the additional pet skins, this update also includes full controller support and basic modding capabilities!

Along with those key features and all of the updates listed in the patch notes below, we've also started to compile a list of frequently asked questions. You can check out the current list on the Plum Grove FAQ in the Steam Discussion board.


We know of a few issues that remain with controller support which we are continuing to work on. We will be monitoring both our Discord and the Steam Discussions closely to make sure everything is working smoothly outside of these remaining issues.

• Interact button on your farm
  
• Shop/Chest menu
  
• Pressing A when talking should complete the current text first
  
• Item drop hovers
  
• Inability to input text

The world of community-led modding for Plum Grove has officially begun! Basic mod support has been added to the game and the community has already started creating. Make sure to backup your saves and use the mod support at your own risk when it comes to save files and progression. Join our discord[discord.gg] to find more information on mods.

• Unzip https://unwoundgames.com/mods/cosmetics.zip to your game's data path: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Unwound Games\Echoes of the Plum Grove\mods
  
• Type in "mods" into the redeem code box

• 3 new pet skins (2 cats, 1 dog)
  
• Pigs produce 1 waste/day, interact with them to collect.
  
• Blueprints can now be sold for 50 coins
  
• Bayberry can now be used to make soap
  
• Paint is sold 100% of the time by a ship
  
• Baby's start crying when they are hungry
  
• Scythe is usable by farm helpers for harvesting
  
• New potion that makes it rain the next day
  
• Increased all crop buy prices by 8 (sell prices by 4)
  
• Increase number of stones sold by carpenters, hunters, and the blacksmith
  
• Increase number of wood sold by carpenters and added to hunters
  
• Add spare hammers to the blacksmith's inventory
  
• You can rename your pets
  
• Set lavender as an ingredient
  
• Current day is marked on calendar
  
• Increased amount of materials from butchering

• Nausea from disease is cleared when game is loaded
  
• Add date icon to calendar
  
• NPCs ignore weddings to go on dates
  
• Removed unused gender symbol from animal hovers
  
• Improved blueprint and recipe descriptions to list when you already know them
  
• Finished food pulses slightly in kitchen menu
  
• Baby's in family tab are no longer marked as "Adult" or "Elder"
  
• House of spells isn't closed during holidays
  
• Improved steel tool chance
  
• Building tab has mouse clickable close buttons
  
• Better controller support (more fixes incoming)
  
• Fixed up some tutorial descriptions

• Adoption papers don't make the kid think you are both their parent and child
  
• Some string fixes
  
• Dates who die before the date won't try to still go
  
• Halloween no longer gives exponential rewards for higher tier candies
  
• Fix adoption paper bug in perpetuity
  
• Remove the child hat exploit
  
• Various crashing and infinite loading bugs - Please create or repost on a bug thread if you're still experiencing these issues after the update.
  
• Fixed sleeping potion
  
• Fixed scything for farm helpers
  
• Player no longer gets a bugged wedding screen if their betrothed dies on the day of their wedding
  
• Fix boats not finding replacements when they die
  
• Fix issue regarding hair color and some system locales (including Turkish)
  
• Fixed chicken coop centering
  
• Fix not needing materials to fix the bridge
  
• Blood moon quests should not clear one first midnight
  
• More minor bug/string fixes
  
• Eyelashes should be independent of gender
  
• Needs properly go down after switching character and loading an autosave
  
• Fixed sheep, rainbow goat, and midnight goat products

If you haven’t yet, we’d greatly appreciate it if you left us an honest review on Steam. Steam reviews are incredibly important for indie games and more reviews mean more wonderful gamers like yourselves can discover the game. We are looking forward to continuing to watch all of you dive in and enjoy Echoes of the Plum Grove.

Happy Legacy Building!
Sarah & Erik


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We cannot thank you all enough for the overwhelming support since launch!

With over 400 reviews on Steam already and a bunch of wonderful people sharing their feedback and passing along bug reports for us to look into, this has truly been an amazing few days. We wanted to make sure to take some time to address a couple of the bigger concerns and share our plans for the coming weeks with all of you.


First things first, we’ll be dropping an update next week sometime! This update will include more pet options, bug fixes, and improved controller support! Even if we don’t quite reach full controller support in the next week, we will continue to improve it with the goal of full controller support as soon as possible.

We couldn't help but give you a little teaser of one of the birds, even though they're not flying into the next update. But here's some good news: you'll get two new cat options, one new dog option, and even a pet pig to pick from! That means you'll have four pets to choose from—excluding our feathered friends. Secondly, we are aware of a game crash happening for a small set of Windows 11 users. We have been working with our publishers to try and replicate the issue but have had no luck so far. If you happen to have a game crash (or any other bug/issue), we would greatly appreciate you joining our Discord[discord.gg] so that we can work directly with you to try and get as much information as possible. If you can’t join Discord or simply don’t wish to, sharing as much information as possible with us in the Bug Reports forum on Steam is another option.

• Steam Deck Verification
  
• Furniture/Decor for walls such as paintings and hanging pots and pans
  
• Family tree menu so that you can see your lineage
  
• Ability to inoculate your family / give medicine to family members
  
• Saving the Sick Quests (NPCs who will request medicine be sent through the mail)

Lastly, one of the things we have picked up on from our community is the lack of help with large farms in terms of watering. We are having talks about how to fix this, but as a quick fix, we are going to be putting in a unique potion you can buy from the witch (for relatively cheap) that once drunk, rain will be triggered the next day ❤️ 🌧️ We hope this helps in the short term for all our fabulous players out there.

Given that we’re a small team of two, we’ll be working hard to deliver as many of these features within the first month. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work through this list. Please know that we’ll be around throughout May to fix bugs, implement the new content, and answer your questions.

We also want to remind you of the stretch goals from our Kickstarter campaign! You can look forward to these making their way into the game in the future:

• Thunderstorms
  
• Three songbirds for your home interior
  
• New character: Old Man Rickett!!
  
• NPC painting Hobby: You’ll be able to purchase unique paintings from NPC’s with this hobby!

Again, thank you so much for your support! We are intently reading feedback, our bug threads, and watching people's playthroughs and we are shocked by how much you guys are loving the game ❤️
We are looking forward to the months to come and seeing all of you dive in and enjoy Echoes of the Plum Grove. If you haven’t yet, we’d greatly appreciate it if you left us an honest review on Steam. Steam reviews are incredibly important for indie games and more reviews mean more wonderful gamers like yourselves can discover the game.

Happy Legacy Building!
Sarah & Erik



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