Devlogs
Version 1.11.0 M4 Released
Posted August 04, 2026 by devgb
New systems
- persistent Breeding Ledger for purchases, hatches and births
- parent records, generation, inherited trait, variant and origin for each animal
- nine rare livestock variants across chickens, cattle and sheep
- permanent rare-variant discovery catalog
- three daily real-time competitions: Heritage Show, Produce Fair and Grand Livestock Exhibition
- locked score, opponent, placement, timer and rewards at entry
- permanent ribbons, Breeder Tokens and competition history
- rare-variant visual accents inside the animated barn interiors
Rules
- purchased livestock always uses the common appearance
- rare variants can arise only from hatching or birth
- welfare, generation and rare parents improve a bounded variant chance
- show animals must be adult, available and not pregnant
- entered animals are blocked from sale and breeding until the result is claimed
- each competition category can be completed once per Farm day
Corrections and hardening
- claimed competition entries now leave the active queue and remain in bounded history, preventing old claims from evicting newly started shows
- invalid variant IDs in malformed pedigree records are normalized to the species common variant
- duplicate pedigree, competition and operation records are bounded and deduplicated
- Story Chronicle now contains 41 chronological entries
- Tutorial Farm topic now covers pedigrees, rare variants, ribbons and livestock shows
- Complete Player's Guide and English/German Quick Starts updated for M4