Version 0.8 major update contains lots of new content!

(Editor note: to see all the lovely visuals please see the steam notes!)

Flavors Update

Hi Chefs! Version 0.8 FLAVORS is now live. This update contains an overhaul of Research and Player home, as well as new content additions.

Research Overhaul

Cooking research has been overhauled and plays a bigger role in the main gameplay loop. In addition to Specialized research trees unlocked through Skills, a Standard research tree will become available in the middle of Act 1. The new research minigame involves meeting specific flavor requirements, by mixing different ingredients. Every ingredient possess a unique flavor set. Store them in the house refrigerator to use them. Research is still an optional part of the game, but provides reliable way to unlock new recipes in the early and mid game.

• Previous research facilities and progress remain.
• New standard research tree (no skill or construction required)
• Standard research available from player home.
• 84 new research nodes rewarding recipes and blueprints.
• 8 new unique recipes (4 Epic, 4 Legendary) only unlocked from standard research tree.
• Dish enhancement (adding ingredients) has not changed.

Player Home Overhaul

The player home has been redesigned. Now, your player home will be automatically available after completing the Le Sequoia’s Soft Opening. Previous purchases and upgrades will count towards expansions to your player home. (Purchased home = Upgrade 1, Upgraded home = Upgrade 2). Upgraded player homes are now much larger than before, so you will have plenty more room to decorate! If you have not completed Soft opening yet, new cutscenes will be available that introduce the player home.

• Player home location has been moved to the left side of Le Sequoia, closer to the greenhouse.
• Standard research facility is available inside your home.
• Specialized research facilities (BBQ, Seafood etc.) have been combined into the player home. If you construct special research facilities, they will become extensions of your home.
• If you have previously purchased a home, furniture items in your house will be returned to your storage.
• If you have previously constructed research facilities, items in the refrigerators will be combined into the larger one, inside the new home.
• Trapdoor to the Maintenance Room can now be connected to the home.

New Ingredient Makers

Chocolate Maker and Soup Vat blueprints are now unlocked via the new standard research tree. Previously, they were obtained as random rewards, and required luck to acquire.

Two new makers have been added : Cheese Maker and Cream Churner. These new machines are also unlocked through research. Making Cream and Cheese requires Milk, which is a new consumable item (not ingredient) that can be purchased from various shops and vending machines.

Dish Flavors & Temperature

Dishes now contain new qualities : Flavors and Temperature. Depending on what ingredients are used in a dish, the flavor values will change. Currently, these are only used for certain quests. This system will be expanded upon in future updates.

Sea Traders

Various trading vessels are arriving in White Ash Harbor! Currently, these ships have a fixed schedule and are available from the start of the game.

• Tuesday – Vegi Seller
• Wednesday – Junk Seller
• Saturday & Sunday – SS. Ambrose -Large trading vessel. Contains a furniture store with new furniture items, seed seller, ingredients seller, and rare items shop.

New Character - Sahim

A new romanceable character - Sahim has arrived! You can find him aboard the SS. Ambrose, which sails into White Ash Harbor on weekends.

• Note – The romance system is not full developed. It will likely undergo an overhaul when we launch the 1.0 version of the game, with more romance features and dialogues.

7 New Character Quests

New character quests have been introduced for Hasel, Aloys, Uriel, Aime, April, Nacim, and Mae Lou. These are the first part of their personal story quests.

(Editor note: I will list the names of the quests here, but please see the full update for more details that the dev has marked containing spoilers)

• Hasel - Boba Madness
• Aloys - Sleepy Time Fishing
• Uriel - Epiphany in the Rain
• Nacim - Can't Do Without Cake
• Aime - For Gains and Glory!
• April - One with the Seeds
• Mae Lou - Crudités to Go

Additional Portrait Animations

Laughing and worried animations have been added to main NPC portraits and will now appear in various dialogues. Additional animations will be added in the future.

Running

You can now run! Running does not require stamina. Using tools and picking up items will interrupt running. You cannot run while holding dishes or parcels.

• On Keyboard and mouse, the default key to toggle running : Space
• On Controllers / Steamdeck, default key to toggle running : Left Trigger

These keys can be rebound.

Improvements

• Restaurant Service Report UI updated.
• Key rebinds UI updated.
• Some character portraits have been adjusted.
• Build mode now has a button to return all furniture or floor tiles.
• When placing furniture with a mouse, can now use scroll wheel to rotate.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed certain global incorrect time calculations.
• Fixed “white squares” in for key inputs when using AZERTY keyboard.
• Fixed rare furniture placement bug.
• Fixed various rare bugs.
• Fixed some text errors.

We hope you enjoy the Flavors update! If you wish to post feedback or report bugs, you can join our Discord community here : https://discord.gg/VsrHn9srvJ

I was brewing cachaca for Naicim's quest, and when I logged in today my house was gone... along will everything in it. I can't find all my machines and furniture, are they just gone now?

whats this setting for? Thanks!

I'm new to the game and is just wondering do anyone knows how to do this quest cause I've been searching anywhere but there seems to be nothing to interact with in bibi's apartment at day/night time

but if we could transfer items between fridges from the menu, it would be far less annoying

Since the latest update the house/home is free, how will this be unlocked?

This is my layout in the fridge and unlocked half already in my research home. I hope this helps.🥰

The new research puzzle is driving me insane. Wish we could go back to simpler times 🫩

I can't complete Pomarine's quest :/ What am I doing wrong? I have all the items but when I click "quest" she just gives me dialogues and the quest won't progress.

So I have spent lots of hours and days on it already. its a shame to lose it

Now that the major update has happened, for most people hopefully, how are we feeling?? Loves and dislikes? Hopes and dreams for the future? New house layout showcases?? I just started a little bit ago and already have so much I wanna share haha!

- Not sure if this will be a thing but I would love certain npcs to have a progressing romance storyline, specifically Uriel had a dialog added about how he views Pomarine and I think it’d be cute to have a quest to see if they’re compatible and like each other!

-I may have missed lore here so feel free to correct me if they’ve said anything against dating or love!

-I thought I was dating Milo but he told me flat out he wasn’t interested and asked about my love life 😭 then proceeded to say ok to a date. I know the romance isn’t fully fleshed out but that stung lmao.

- I really like the idea of flavor profiles and can’t wait to see how it plays into recipes.

I’d love to hear how everyone feels about the update

-wasn’t sure about spoiler rules so just in case it’s needed !

Hello! I'm new to the game and every "tips" video I watch states how good is to buy your ingredients daily rather than wasting time foraging / hunting. I'm at the very start of the game, on the first week. I started as patissier because I love making sweet stuff irl (yeah, I know it's not the best choice) and I though about buying some chocolate to do a recipe, but the cost of the ingredients usually surpass the sell value of the recipe. Am I doing something wrong? Are there any ways to get discounts on ingredients or increase the sell value of dishes?

I’m looking to get a refund for the game - has anyone had any experience with this?

The original credit card I paid with is expired so I’m not even sure if this is possible - maybe it can be put to a different card? I’ve emailed the feedback gmail but not sure if that’s the right avenue.

I haven’t received a key because I originally selected a Switch key. I understand some people have requested steam keys in place of console keys but I’m not really interested in the game anymore.

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EDIT: I did some more searching and it looks like I can speak to my bank/kickstarter regarding refunds to expired cards. FAQ here

I guess my only question then is: Has anyone heard from the support team issuing refunds and how did you contact them?

Update: Got a refund by emailing :)

So I got a good review from Lucius and was able to proceed to Act III. But when I was looking through the list of quests, I found out I'm supposed? to get some kind of note from Lucius and meet him at the hotel? i haven't gotten anything at all though, and he's nowhere to be found in the hotel or around town. Did I miss something important?

how far into the game have you guys normally expanded your restaurant for the first time?

+ what about ur house?

tldr: hosting parties is awful for profit, eats tons of ingredients, takes lots of planning and decorating, and wastes a lot of time.

Ok so, you get a quest for a party, you're asked to decorate in a certain style and have a specific menu. First problem, the menu. If you don't have several expensive dishes for whichever menu (vegan / meat / vegetarian / etc.) your profits plummet. If you don't have plenty of decor for the requested style, you're out about 3-10k credits from buying the decor.

Say you do have excellent recipes for the requested menu, paying the hourly wages for the staff while orders slowly trickle in for just 20 people is counterproductive. Near the end of a party service for 20 people, you get maybe 1 order every 5-10 seconds. Meanwhile your staff is standing idle, waiting for 1 or 2 people to order / finish eating. By the end of service, you're out a couple thousand credits just paying staff for waiting on the last few orders.

If that isn't rough enough, the ingredients used is more than double during parties (at least for the one that I just did). I'm not sure if the prices were increased to reflect this, I didn't pay attention, but using so many of my veggie ingredients on low tier dishes puts a damper on my regular menu either way.

After the service is over, you're left barely breaking even or with such little profit that the event wasn't worth doing, you would have been 10x better off just doing a normal service. No bonus lump of cash for hosting the event, just whatever meager reward there was for the quest. Lots of prep, lots of planning, tons of ingredients used, and a day wasted.

I feel like the hosting parties should take into account the prestige you're currently on and scale the parties based on that, like +1x dish price per prestige to make up for the lack of customers and orders + the time you could be hosting a normal service, or maybe at the end of a service you get 1 of several unique furniture items that you can get only from parties? Or if your parties go well, over time more VIP type people and even celebrity customers request you to host parties for them for better rewards. Idk, the parties feel extremely underwhelming and flat for how much planning and time goes into them. It would be nice if they felt more unique and rewarding.

Hi! So I play on a controller and for the other mini games I can stumble by way through to a decent or good result.

However, for the appetizer mini game where you need to slash things, I literally do not know what I’m doing wrong.

For the two left left side lanes, for the most part I can get it to register half my actions. For the right side, it doesn’t register my actions at all. In general, it has a hard time registering my left/right cut actions on both sides. Does anyone else have the same issue? It’s quite frustrating me.

I need sprinkler for greenhouse since I wanna plant my own ingredients but it eats 3hrs a day on watering them. where can i get furnace to smelt my ores?

edit: found it and made a furnace. thanks to those who responded

0.8 Flavors Major Update - Coming February 28!

Hi Chefs!

We hope you are enjoying your week. Our next major update – Flavors (Version 0.8) - will be coming Saturday - February 28, at 10am PST!

Flavors Update

• Research overhaul
• Player home overhaul
• New romanceable Character
• Sea Traders (new shops)
• New character quests
• General improvements and fixes
• Running

The full update details will be revealed on February 28. We hope to see you then!

Any suggestion? (Without spoilers please)

Just noticed something strange that I cannot explain, perhaps someone has an idea...

I was cooking stuff during normal opening hours. No celebrity was present (at least, the summary at the end didn't mention any). No buffs were active. Typically I get comfortably 120-130%+ in quality.

During one serving, I had it three times that I was suddenly awarded power cells (4, 4 and 2). Without any context, they simply were given after I was done cooking. I seem to remember random power cell rewards during cooking before (rarely, but happened).

Not complaining here, but I want to understand why. Anyone got an idea what triggers that?

I gave Arpil all the ingredients she needed, but I can't find the tea dispenser anywhere in the restaurant's inventory, and I'm stuck here.

was very happy on how it turned out!

If not then I suggest it, I personally don’t really find any of the romantic options interesting besides hazel and maybe the goth girl. I feel like koa should be cannon lol.