[h3]Hello gardeners,[/h3] We are well on our way into Spring now and as we inch through the year we get ever closer to the release of The Garden Path! While work continues behind the scenes, we took a big step at the end of April as we placed 100 early access copies of the game on itch.io (with only 35 left)! For now, though, let’s head into what’s new in The Garden Path. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//40610797/c7d69988de8a8e2fa833cbe8440320eb595ec6c6.png[/img] [h3]Game Updates [/h3] An updated character creator screen is now available, not only providing many more increments between each option but also including an entirely new slider to select your character's hair colour separate to skin tone. This means the total number of options has increased from 22 to almost 2,000! Changes also include better contrast from darker skin tones, as well as silver or greying hair. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//40610797/b6275558c02b79a38722f3aa68ac0a384918383b.gif[/img] Mulches have been added to the game, stocked and sold by Buttercup. Mulches are a way to further customise your garden. You can adjust the level of the soil to better accommodate different plants, choose to speed up, slow down, or totally halt the growth of the plant, and also cast the plant in a permanent state of spring, summer, autumn or winter, either to capitalise on certain harvestables, or change the look of certain trees throughout the Garden. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//40610797/ffad074f70bea5744c016a5d3183a373666cb56a.jpg[/img] And coming very shortly: [b]conker battles! [/b]Put your collected conkers to the test against residents of the Garden, collect winnings and build up a win streak. Villagers will challenge you to a match, and you'll pick which of your conkers you're willing to risk. Soon you'll be able to customise your conkers, and they'll change in hardiness and appearance depending on their age or which botanicals you apply. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//40610797/2b7a077b8269bb784ce433b79ca514bea78ce409.gif[/img] [h3]Your usual reminder![/h3] And as always, here is your reminder that you can join our official Discord Community server, which you can join here. Here you can chat with the team, meet fellow backers, and help me shape The Garden Path! And of course, we encourage you to share your real-life gardening with your fellow gardening gamers 🪴 Until next time… Louis, carrotcake [b]Join our [url=https://discord.gg/nWTg5WvZbU]Discord server[/url] Follow us on Twitter: [url=https://twitter.com/fromcarrotcake]@fromcarrotcake[/url] Check out our TikTok: [url=https://www.tiktok.com/@fromcarrotcake]@fromcarrotcake[/url] Find us on Instagram: [url=https://www.instagram.com/fromcarrotcake/]@fromcarrotcake[/url] Keep up via Mastodon: [url=https://mastodon.art/@ldurrant]@ldurrant[/url] Wishlist us on Steam: [/b] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1638500/The_Garden_Path/