Hello everyone, this is the Aeruta development team🔆 Welcome to Volume 3 of the Aeruta Dev Log! Following the Fall Major Update in November, have you all gotten into the “rhythm” of kneading bread dough? 🥖 Just as we sow seeds in the spring and harvest them in the fall, we had finally reached the time to welcome our first major update, exactly six months after releasing early access! Sorry for the long wait, but how about we take a quick look back at everything the fall update brought us🍁 [hr][/hr] [h3]◾ Holding a Steam Playtest before the official Fall Major Update![/h3] Prior to the big update, we held a Steam Playtest for three days to collect all your valuable feedback. We were overjoyed to receive a total of 114 completed surveys! These surveys were filled with valuable opinions, creative ideas, tons of encouragement, and most importantly, real impressions of the gameplay experience. Some of you gave us such in-depth analysis it was like reading a graduation thesis 📝 Additionally, many people actively shared bug reports and insights on Discord. It was thanks to the help of all of these people that we were able to make our Fall Major Update even better! ✨ We had also received some feedback that the Playtest was too short! We’d like to let you all know we’re sorry for that and we’ll be more considerate next time! [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43525165/2d43ae04c7ed343b2d847b732d8252e866217737.jpg[/img] [h3]◾ As the harvest season begins, a major update is ready🍁 [/h3] Looking back, we are amazed at the incredible reception of the update😲 Following the update, the total number of reviews we received from you on Steam exceeded 350 and the “Recent Reviews” reached 98%, so we are very happy that so many of you enjoyed the update! To celebrate this delightful achievement, we held a big celebration in the studio, ordering fried chicken for the whole team for the first time in a long time 🍗✨ Let's take a look at all the wonderful things that happened, shall we! 🦊 Maintained user ratings at “Very Positive” and increased the favorability rate from 87% to 89% 🦊 More than 400 people added Teddy Bread to their wish list every day 🦊 Over 600 people were fighting to pay off their debt in Bakersfield daily [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43525165/a4faaeae965f4abebe3e7c141a1ef1a43101604a.jpg[/img] [h3]◾ Further changes based on your feedback![/h3] In addition to the planned contents such as the second island, new characters, and raising the level cap for various systems, we made various changes based on your feedback in this update. Here’s an overview of the changes we made! 🍞 NPC elements (additional conversation variations, gifts, friendship system, meeting characters during adventures) 🍞 Added “Patti Defense Battle,” a stage great for collecting lots of patti dough! 🍞 Addition of icon to notify completion of skill cooldowns 🍞 Addition of numerical display of materials in your possession in the stage selection map UI 🍞 Added window resolution options for various ratios Besides this, many other design adjustments and improvements were also made thanks to your valuable feedback. Thank you all so much! 🌏 [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43525165/087da1ae4f8ac2e2bf4cb89586b18a7cc3521361.jpg[/img] [h3]◾ Development plans for 2025 are now available![/h3] Following the adventures on the second island, even more trials await on Chaya’s road to heroism… The Aeruta Crystal has been stolen by a mysterious black mist, and the Adventurer's Guild has a conflict with the goddesses. Will Chaya successfully pass the Adventurer’s test and graduate from being a rookie adventurer? 💥[b] All will be revealed come 2025! [/b]💥. Around next spring, we plan to add friendship events for the goddesses! Get ready to conquer their hearts! And what’s more, we plan to implement a third island by the end of 2025. Not only will a third weapon option be made available, but a very interesting system is also in the works… There’s so much to look forward to✨ [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43525165/59a3d831b014cdd3b6d0523c122a0230df687351.jpg[/img] November was full of busy days preparing for the major update, so unfortunately the development diary took a temporary break... but during this period, preparations were well underway behind the scenes! When it finally comes time to pick up the pen, it's pretty hard to know where to start talking, though. We wanted to share with you all the feelings of joy and gratitude we’ve felt, behind-the-scenes development stories, trivia, our personal thoughts on Aeruta, and answer some of your survey questions… We really had so much more we wanted to tell you, but we’ll be sharing even more in the future🌻 [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43525165/7ea9a601da15954f11e5207691eb4b815f6776b3.jpg[/img] With the little bit of 2024 that remains, a few weeks ago we took our rolling pins to the G-eight gaming exhibition in Taiwan. There was an adventurer at the event who breathed a sigh of relief after defeating Birdy Captain then turned to us and said, “I've been so busy with work before New Year's Eve I haven't had time to play the updated content at all...' Thank you all so much for your hard work TT… Effie's Bakery will always be here for you! May 2025 be a year filled with strength, willpower, and good luck for all of you! ✨ We will continue to improve on our shortcomings and produce an even better game, so look forward to more surprises in the future! Let's do our best together in the new year! 🦊🍞 [hr][/hr]https://store.steampowered.com/app/2286780/ Discord：https://discord.com/invite/FF7MGuZKt2 Facebook：https://www.facebook.com/fromdawn0024 Offical X(Dev)：https://twitter.com/FromDawnGames Offical X：https://twitter.com/Aeruta_official ※All images shown are a work in progress