Adorable monster-tamer and cozy game Moonstone Island is celebrating one year since launch and developers dropped a new content update to celebrate!
The new update that released on September 30 includes four new spirits, three new seasonal festivals, new decor (and an updated furniture placement system!) and more. Developers also released the Autumnal Accessories DLC pack. I’ll include the full patch notes at the end of the article!
Content in the update includes
- The The Spirit Spring Festival, the Lunar Festival, and a Cooking Festival
- The four new spirits who are Psychic, Dark, Electric, and Ice type (two are crossovers!)
- A new Community Chest in Rowan’s shop where you can find free stuff and gifts
- A new “token of affection” item that is a festival reward to give you relationship points with the NPC of your choice
- The ability to recycle
- First new spirit barn exteriors
- New NPC dialogue
- New decor and the updated furniture placement system. The new system allows items to “sit more snugly against walls because it’s annoying when decor looks all weirdy.” (No lies detected.)
- Farm-Style Spirit Barn Exterior
- Spirit Barn Portal
- Full Moon Statue
- Ancient Spirit Statue
- Fireworks Rug
- Food Festival Trophy
- Pile of Leaves
- Mushroom Stool
- Mushroom Table
One of the new Spirits is a cross-over with fellow monster-tamer (also recommended!) Coromon. Coromon also launched some new fun outfits to inject a little Moonstone Island energy into the game.
Moonstone Island is available to play on PC and Nintendo Switch.
Moonstone Island Patch Notes for September 2024
Community Manager Kate shared the patch notes in the Moonstone Island Discord! Here’s a look at what she shared:
New things
- You can now do good for the environment with the new RECYCLER! Do not put Spirits in the Recycler.
- JUICE! You can make juice now!
- Four new Spirits, including TWO crossovers, and one that’s shaped like… a hand? Wait, don’t we already have a hand Spirit…?
- New DLC: Autumn Accessories!
- New decor!
- NEW BARN EXTERIOR! It’s the first time we’re doing this!!!!
- A smaller greenhouse, for cuter gardens
- A smaller Spirit Barn portal, for putting next to the Science Center (or, y’know, wherever)
- We heard you like water, so we put some water in your water. Bottles now contain 10x water, for easier cooking!
- Did one of your tools go missing? We added some new code that will restore your lost tools! Just pretend the tool fairies found it for you
- Paolo invented stepladders, which means it’s now easier to place objects higher up on walls
- Increased tab size in settings menu for all platforms
- Updated “exhaust” icon on cards to look more like a bin, because “bin” is a better indicator of exhaust than a red arrow
Bug Fixes
- You can’t put warp totems (and other special items) in chests anymore
- Moved the white selection box behind the item quantity number in inventory/crafting screens for better readability
- You can now split stacks in the bottom inventory row
- Fish icons are now displayed properly in crafting recipes
- Optimized collision masks in NPC hobby animations (so you can bump into them better)
- You can no longer click/touch items on the inventory bar when the UI is hidden
- When you’re looking at lures in your toolbar, it doesn’t say “Equip” any more (since you can only do this from your inventory, not the toolbar)
- Mouse cursor now changes to a little hand when hovering over items that can be picked up
- You can’t feed Spirits Old Boots anymore
- We fixed the Wine and Beer items, and they should actually have an effect on stamina now! This also fixes the “She Did Warn You” achievement and the Dish of the Day bug
- The “Water” icon is now slightly different, so it doesn’t look like a potion
- YOU CAN’T EAT YOUR BROOM ANYMORE
- Placing objects on tables is now a bit easier
- Ferra’s date responses in German were backwards, so we fixed that (turns out she was using Duolingo upside-down)
- Selling seeds to Gaiana and Ofelia now has the text “Sell Seeds” instead of just “Sell”
- Fixed the Holo Potion – it was disabling after any Spirit tame, not just Holo Spirit tames
- The Alchemy Lab and Furnace now work properly on PC, and don’t just eat all your materials
Switch-Specific bug fixes
- Fixed the collision problem that prevented players from placing bridges on some tiles
- Spirits no longer disappear from the Spirit Barn when using auto feeders
- The clouds now have a beautiful parallax effect (which they were supposed to have already, but didn’t)
