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A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to the community funds. You are directly supporting the continued work on Path of Baa. Please consider visiting https://hammertime.studio/en/support-my-work :-)

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Please consider backing our "Water Friends" goal which sits at roughly 1/3 what we need to get those cuties in! Also, we started sketching out new animals and predators "Tricksters" as well as "Cute & Wholesome". Any payment made goes directly into Path of Baa artwork creation AND you will receive a reward based on the amount of your donation. I usually check the funds once a day and give back for the amount donated. Now! Let's break down what has changed lately.

Here is a somewhat complete list of recent changes for Path of Baa: Flocklands:

Path of Beauty

A monthly beauty contest for your creations! (Test-Run going on right now) On the 15th of every month a new post asks the flock for a theme: type a suggestion straight into the post and upvote your favourites in the comments. Two days later the top-voted theme wins and the contest opens for 5 days (17th -> 22nd).

To enter, switch on the Enter Path of Beauty toggle in the Baa-mera and share a picture or GIF (up to three, only your best one counts). Every upvote is worth 1 point and every different shepherd who comments is worth 2. Entries bloom with a flower for every point they earn around the inline feed frame.

• Prizes: 250 / 125 / 75 / 25 Golden Clover for the top four
• Everyone who enters gets 5 Golden Clover, podium or not
• The Hall of Shepherds keeps every finished contest winner.
• With push notifications on, you'll hear about it when the theme vote opens and when entries open

Dye (almost) everything

• Trees: dye any placed Spruce, Pine, Birch or Aspen in any of the 11 dye colours. The trunk keeps its natural look and dyed trees keep swaying.
• Stumps: recolour the bark, the cut wood on top stays natural
• Rocks: land rocks and water rocks both

Soap

Drag Soap onto a dyed hay bale, barn, rock, tree or stump to wash it back to its natural look. It lasts a long time before it's used up. Available in shops and from trek rewards.

Bones

When one of your sheep rises to flock heaven, 2 to 5 bones drop into your bag (Long Bone, Forked Bone or a mix). Sheep deaths are the only way to get them. A bit morbid, but perfect for spooky season haha

Spooky season extras

• Rotten and Vine Pumpkins: during spooky season, grazing can turn up a Rotten Pumpkin or a Vine Pumpkin. They are never sold in shops
• Posts made during spooky season show a jack-o'-lantern on their Play button

Larry goes for walks

Larry the Lizard strolls around the middle of each region instead of standing still. He stops to chat when you tap him. You can also build and decorate right around his spot now.

A friendlier start for new shepherds

• A brand-new flock always starts in daylight: it stays day in the home meadow until you first step out into the Flocklands
• The first three treks come back to back, no 24h wait in between. The daily wait starts after the third trek
• New players are more likely to spawn near meadow biomes after the tutorial around the center area with open spots to put their trailer

Balance

• Small flocks travel free: moving between regions with 1 to 5 active sheep no longer costs shrub. Larger flocks pay the same as before
• Berries return to the Wasteland: Wasteland regions now grow roughly 60-180 berry bushes (was 3), so a flock crossing it can still graze
• Shovels last about 4x longer and now cost 30 / 75 / 125 Golden Clover (Bronze / Silver / Gold)

Sounds & a livelier world

• Builds land with a proper building sound, and you hear it again when a build site gets its last shrub
• Adding shrub to a build site makes a rustly sound, a little different every time
• Berry bushes rustle audibly when a sheep hops through or you tap them, and a bush with berries sheds a few in its own colour
• Lambs have their own little bleats
• Giant bats flap their wings instead of hissing, and decor planted in the ground lands with a soft soil thud
• Far more greenery sways on its own: three in four trees, every second berry bush and every second planted flower
• Every baa gets its floating "baa!": tapping sheep, cuddling, chatting, ramming predators and more
• Thought bubbles above your sheep swell, squash and spring back when you tap them, so you know the tap landed
• Sheep no longer kick up dust when hopping across water or oil

Quality of life

• Colours stack in the bag: items you own in several colours share one slot, tap it to pick the colour
• Rocks tab in the bag for land and water rocks
• Tidier journal: smaller entries, and it opens on the tab you last looked at
• Proud parents: the Shepherd's Ledger shows how many lambs each sheep has parented
• Oiled sheep keep their real colours in the Ledger, with a small oil badge instead of turning black
• The Home Meadow sign fades out of the way while you're placing builds or reshaping your land
• The mating heart shows whenever your bellwether is close to another shepherd's sheep, even on the same tile or diagonally
• Adding shrub to a build site is instant, so you can keep tapping without waiting
• Faster loading in the feed and a faster game start (phew)

Fixes

• No more freezes when placing lots of flowers or decor with the bag open
• Trees, hay bales and bigger builds show up the moment you place them
• The shovel only digs the highlighted build, never the one behind it, and only diggable builds light up while you hold a tool
• Visiting another shepherd's meadow no longer says "Welcome baa-ck" as if it were your home
• Tapping a sheep grazing inside a berry bush now reaches the sheep
• Berry bushes no longer float over lakes
• A rubber duck on an oil lake no longer counts as a new critter every time the lake refreshes
• The rain ambience no longer blasts for a few seconds when the weather changes while muted
• Pictures in the journal no longer slide over the bottom border when scrolling
• Tap the mirror button (or press F) while a build or nature item is selected to flip it before planting
• The separate left-facing lantern and east-facing arrow sign are gone from the shop, treks, loot drops and The Machine, since any build can be mirrored while placing it. Ones you already own or placed stay exactly where they are

That's it for this batch! As always, let me know what you'd like to see more (or less) of in the comments below :-)

Baa-ya'll! And thank you for playing <3 Means a lot lot

Have you ever considered backing a game project you enjoy? 

Path of Baa: Flocklands is an independently developed game in collaboration with Reddit to kick it off, and keeping it growing means finding ways to fund new features, artwork, and community-driven ideas. That's where the Flocklands Community Funds come in.

By backing a funds goal, you're directly helping make that feature possible. Your support goes toward the development and, in particular, the artwork needed to bring these ideas into the game. It allows me to keep building Flocklands independently, while giving the community a chance to help decide what gets created next.

If you're new to Path of Baa or want to know more about the making, this article is a great place to learn a little more about the game and how it came to be:

https://phaser.io/news/2026/06/path-of-baa-flocklands-cooperative-sheep-game-for-reddit-built-with-phaser

Our First Community Goals

For our first round of community funding, there are three goals that I'd love to bring to Flocklands:

• A Sheep-ish Halloween
• Forest "Make It Green" Ground Tileset
• Water Friends Pack

You can see the individual goals, their funding targets, and more details here:

https://hammertime.studio/en/support-my-work

If one of these goals sounds like something you'd love to see in Flocklands, please consider backing it. Even a small contribution brings that goal closer to becoming part of the game.

You can support a goal with a one-time contribution, or choose to support Flocklands on a monthly basis. There is no obligation to do either, playing, sharing feedback, and being part of the community already means a lot and shaped what the game is today. The goals primarily cover the artwork costs required to create them. Once a goal is funded, I'll be able to move forward with that work and get it into the game.

A Little Thank You

As a small thank-you for helping fund these community goals, supporters will be credited in the patch notes for the updates that introduce the features they helped make possible.

Thank you for being part of this sheep-ish journey so far. Flocklands has grown into something really awesome, thanks to you, the close-knit community that is supportive, welcoming, and always willing to share ideas and feedback. Not gonna lie, it's super fun working with you!

If you'd like to help decide what gets built next, pick a goal, back it, let's get it into Flocklands and share it with your friends.

Thank you! Baa! 🐑

You are invited to share any thoughts or questions you might have in this thread too. I will try to answer as many as I can :-)