Hogvalord — patch notes and updates
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| Something New is Brewing: Introducing Ancestral Fury | 2026-06-29 | Hello everyone,I’m thrilled to share a project that has been quietly growing alongside my current work. I am officially pulling back the curtain on my upcoming solo project: Ancestral Fury.A New Chapter, A Shared PassionFor the past 18 months, I have been pouring my consistent, daily focus into a world that has been living in my head for even longer. If you’ve enjoyed my previous work, I think you’ll find a familiar spirit here. While the gameplay is a shift, the passion for high-impact, engaging experiences remains the core of everything I build.What is Ancestral Fury?Ancestral Fury is a modern, immersive beat 'em up deeply inspired by the r |
| HOGVALORD: THE RANCH ON STEAM NEXT FEST JUNE 2024 | 2024-06-05 | Hello fellow Hogmasters! If you used to play Hogvalord, enjoyed raising Hogragon, but found other features such as questing or fighting troublesome, then we would like to introduce you to Hogvalord: The Ranch! Have a look at our full trailer to get a brief idea of what our new game is like: We're also excited to announce that we are part of Steam Next Fest June 2024! Join us on June 10 @ 5pm PDT / 8pm EST to watch our dev play! Or experience the game yourself by trying out our free demo. The second livestream will be on June 15 @ 5pm PDT / 8pm EST Our demo will be up until the end of Steam Next Fest. Try it out and let us know what you think. |
| A NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT FOR NEW YEAR | 2024-01-30 | Happy New Year everyone! I'm trying to bring all the experience from Hogvalord to make a better new game in this year. I also wish you all the best for the new year. And please take a look at Hogvalord: The Ranch! |
| QUICK ACCESS BUTTON UPDATE | 2022-07-22 | Hello, fellow hogmasters! How's the ranch? In the previous update, we added relationship content into the game. Have you tried it out? We hope you have a good time making friends with Patricia. Recently we got a request to have more quick slot. It's a fast-paced technological era that we are living in, we understand that convenience is king. So we process to forge one right away in our digital smithy. Now you can buy the blueprint of the quick access button from the merchant. Use the blueprint to unlock the second slot. Hope it helps make your farming life easier! Again, thank you for supporting us by either choosing Hogvalord to play or givi |
| RELATIONSHIP UPDATE | 2022-06-24 | Hello, fellow hogmasters! How are you all doing? This time, last year, Hogvalord has made its first appearance. Certainly simple and humble at first, but with the help of our little community, this title kept growing little by little. Thanks to that, we are able to be here to celebrate the second summer. And we just found out something surprising about summer. That, according to Wikipedia, there are at least eight songs with the title "Summer Love" dating back to 1957. So, summer is a season of love, too, huh? Well, we are not sure about that. But we will take it as a good excuse to bring up our most expected update: RELATIONSHIP! Yay! PATCH |
| NEW UPDATE IS COMING: RELATIONSHIP! | 2022-04-30 | Hello fellow ranchers, It's almost a year since Hogvalord was out. The gameplay was really simple and straight to the point in the early days. You move back to your hometown. Receiving an abandoned land. Spending some sweat, blood (maybe tears too) to get your startup pig farm running. Fighting monsters or whoever trespass your land. Playing witchcraft with the piggies. Growing your own veggies. And recently, a feature to build and enter your own house to sleep and avoid monsters. That's pretty much everything one would do to settle down, you might think. But wait, that isn't the end. It's time for something even more joyful and meaningful. D |
| UPDATE 1.0.53 NOTE | 2022-04-02 | General: Add auto-saving when the player gets to sleep in the tent. Rebalancing the hog price. You will gain more profit from selling hogs. Fixed bugs: The image of the hog didn't show up in the inventory tab. |
| UPDATE 1.0.52 NOTE | 2022-03-23 | Fixed bugs: The player can't complete the tutorial because the counter worked improperly. |
| NEW VERSION 1.0.5 | 2022-03-05 | General: Adjustment to the characteristics and statistics makes the Hogragons live longer and cleverer. They can open the door and go inside the ranch when they're hungry and thirsty. A new NPC came to Spring Village. You can sell your items for her as much as you want. That's the fastest way to become rich. Adjustment to Lucas's movement direction makes the gamepad and keyboard controlling easier. Speed up the animation when Lucas picks the thing up. |
| UPDATE 1.0.4 NOTE | 2022-02-19 | General: The new achievements are available for the players who like challenges. It's cool to have something to show off on your profile, and you will get them while enjoying this game. The natural border in the forests shows the boundary clearer. You can find it easier to know where you can put your steps. Filling water to the trough is quicker than before. You don't have to spend so much time and energy on this task anymore. Tip: the rain also helps you with this kind of job. Adjustment to the characteristics and statistics makes the hogs live longer and cleverer. They can open the door and go inside the ranch when they're hungry and thirst |
| THE NEW VERSION, 1.0.32, NOW'S AVAILABLE | 2022-01-22 | After testing this new version for a while, it's time to give it a go. I also drew this artwork as a gift for showing my appreciation to you (my beloved players). I hope you will like all the new improvements in this 1.0.32 version. Once again, I'm very grateful to the players (dear customers) who have enthusiastically contacted me, sending me the necessary information to fix bugs in my product and allowing me to serve all of you better. |
| WHAT'S NEW IN THE UPCOMING UPDATE 1.0.32 | 2022-01-16 | Improve Lucas's sword fighting ability. You can hit multiple targets with only one swing. Double the arrow damage. The player who likes the ranged weapon and hunting will feel more comfortable entering the forests. Adjust the mushroom effectiveness. Each time players consume a mushroom, their sword damage increase in five seconds. Show the saved games after the game-over screen. This screen saves players time and helps a player to retry the game quickly. Improve the UI of dialogue. Reduce the required manures the players have to offer the guardian when they want to collect wood in the Secret forest. Reduce the required manures for planting. A |
| NEXT GAME UPDATE VERSION 1.0.3 | 2022-01-08 | WHAT'S NEW Improve Lucas's combat movement and animation to reduce the struggling when players join the combat with the monster. You used to worry about the lacking of stone for your building. Those issues have now gone away. You can find stone in the Spring Forest whenever you want. The game added a few tips for some items in the first time access to help understand their usage and where the player can find more tips and tricks. The game now shows the notifications for auto-saving. All the above improvements came from user feedback, and my mission is to listen and try my best to make the user experience better. Thank you for your support and |
| OFFICIAL WINTER RELEASE - Discount 25% | 2021-12-29 | Artwork for a happy new year. I wish you all of the health to overcome the pandemic. I also have good news for all Hogvalord's supporters that the game will have a discount for the official release starting from Jan 1th, 2022, and last for two weeks. Please put Hogvalord on your wishlist to get the promotion. |
| HOME SWEET HOME UPDATE | 2021-11-15 | Hello, fellow hogmasters! How are you all doing? We are back with another exciting content this time. PATCH HIGHLIGHT It's been almost half a year since Hogvalord was released in Early Access. For people who have tried this title since the very beginning, you could tell that this isn't a usual farming game. It's tough in many ways. A limited number of items provided by the local merchant, energy points that dropping after each task you performed, tricky monsters, nightly harassment on your own land, etc. We know that not everyone is a fan of action and survival. Some of us prefer a relaxing and tranquil gameplay, like most pure farming games |
| SMALL UPDATES | 2021-10-10 | * Fixed Christy appears twice at the end of the game story. * Fixed the farm defending quest does not hide when the player goes out of the farm. |
| LOCALIZATION UPDATE | 2021-10-03 | Hello, fellow Hogmasters! How are you all doing? Is the farm work that we introduced able to keep you company? We are back with a small update this time. PATCH HIGHLIGHT Hogvalord kingdom has just finished learning a new language! Now you can choose between English and Vietnamese to enjoy Lucas' journey. BUG FIXED Sometimes you can fertilize the plants from afar, we have stopped this paranormal ability! The dragon fruit costs 10 manures instead of 5 manures for fertilization. UPCOMING UPDATE There is no place like home. We know that the tent is more like a shelter than an actual home - where you could feel safe and enjoying at the same time. |
| FARMING UPDATE | 2021-09-12 | Hello fellow hogmasters, we are back with more update and improvements. Are you ready to sweat even more than before? PATCH HIGHLIGHT Finally, the farming feature is here. Since the hogs start giving more and more babies whenever they like to, our merchant can barely keep up with the food supply. So he decided to sell you farming skill books instead. Now you can learn to grow veggies by yourself. It would be tiring, but we hope you enjoy the process! Treasure finding: if you ever feeling poor, just go to the Spring Forest, you will find a not very secret fortune there. IMPROVEMENT: Rebalance the first part of the game to reduce problems that |
| HOTFIX August | 2021-08-28 | Dear hogmasters, here is a small patch to fix some issues after the latest update. If you happen to catch a bug, still, please send them in for us via hogvalord@gmail.com, or just write straight to our Steam forum. We will get back to ya within 24 hours for quick pest control 😎 To fasten the process, you can follow this 1 min video: BUGS FIXED Bow stucks in hand while doing other activities Sometimes player can collect honey from afar IMPROVEMENT Redesign hog window. For a neater, prettier look ☺ UPCOMING UPDATE A farming game is not a farming game without growing your own crops, right? It's coming late, but you will be able to learn agricul |
| NEW WEAPON UPDATE | 2021-08-15 | PATCH HIGHLIGHT Not all those who wander are lost, Maybe all you need is just some arrows. Dear farmers, our merchant is selling blueprint for bow and arrow now. Buy once, use for life. Your daily life will get much easier with this long ranged weapon. Bee house: you need more honey to heal, but wild bees are too wild? How about homemade bees? Buy blueprint from the merchant to build bee house at your own farm, each unit provide one honey a day. IMPROVEMENT The legendary A, W, S, D is here. You can move around with the keyboard now. Other than that, we would like to send a special thanks to player DJ_Snake89 for the bug report last week. It w |
| Development Small Talk | 2021-08-07 | Hello there fellow digi-farmers! How are you all doing? So, Hogvalord is almost 2 months old in Early Access now. We are still a bit far from a fully polished product. But the content is getting richer after each update and bugs reports that we received. From small little ones to big bad ones that make us want to faint at first sight. And as always, we would like to shout out a big thanks for taking the trouble and getting back to us! That said, we want to make it clear that, during this Early Access period, we are still a work-in-progress product, so please bear with us that bugs and beasts might appear somewhere, anywhere after a new update |
| HOTFIX 1.0.16 | 2021-07-27 | Fixed bug: the merchant does not show piglet for selling. Fixed bug: Hog selection panel show wrong information. Added: Bee House blueprint. The player can collect one honey per day with this new construction. There is no more hard work in the forest to get honey. Update: legendary creature behavior, more helpful in the battle against monsters harassment. - Thap Tam Studio - |
| GAME UPDATE | 2021-07-24 | Hello fellow farmers, we are back with more update and improvements. How is your experience so far? PATCH HIGHLIGHT In this update, we have brought in breeding feature. Any mature hog can produce 1 offspring a lifetime. Hope this will lighten the economic burden on your shoulder! Selling system: now you can choose which piggy to let go and which to keep IMPROVEMENT: A more fabulous and noticeable notification, with sound and animation :) Customer alert: let you know whenever a customer visits your shop, even if the stall is off screen, or if you are slacking off somewhere Option to ignore conversation with Stone Guardian, talk less do more sa |
| GACHA POTION UPDATE | 2021-07-11 | Hello fellow farmers, hope you guys are having a great time in the valley. PATCH HIGHLIGHT We've just got news from the National Department of Agriculture! They are developing a new magical potion that can give your piggies more fashionable outlooks. Our merchant already have the first batch of potion in stock!!! Check it out! What's more? In this patch we also add in a logbook for you. Raise all type of hogs and record that in your collection! IMPROVEMENT Adding more variation for Lucas' sword fight animation Item: mushroom effect now will last longer, enjoy the superpower of mushroom hero! Economy balancing: rock price is reduced to 40 gold |
| NEW UPDATE - 1.0.8 | 2021-06-26 | |
| SMALL UPDATE 1.0.6 | 2021-06-22 | In this update, I would like to thank the player who found the bug relates to the quest to cut all the trees. It rarely happens, but it did appear to some players. That's an important issue that harms the player experience when they try Hogvalord for the first time. Luckily, player Pyr0l didn't give up on me, a solo developer, and his first debut game. I tried to investigate and fix the issue with the log and saved files provided by Pyr0l, but I still need more people to join me in this journey to make a better Hogvalord. Thank you all for your support and understanding. WHAT'S NEW IN THIS SMALL UPDATE: Fixed bug: trees don't show up on the h |
| Hogvalord Showbiz | 2021-06-12 | Dear future farmers, As you know, Hogvalord is out on 18 June, hence our developer is currently spending all his superpower on the code job to make sure it will be a smooth debut. That aside, today's main topic is about Hogvalord Showbiz!!! It's a remote village, the community is small, the folks are rather odd, but they definitely aren't shy away from making introduction to the newcomer. Meet our funny and friendly valley dwellers: Christy, Patricia, Michael and Forest Guardian. Christy: Christy is a tough looking and stubborn woman, owner of a big estate in the Great Hills. Despite being a hogmaster, she never successfully raise any hog. In |
| How to hog in Hogvalord? | 2021-06-05 | Hey guys, it's June now, two more weeks till Hogvalord release! Are you ready for a working holiday in our remote valley? To prepare you for the best possible experience, we would like to introduce more about the hogs in today post. Because these little guys are the ones that you will eat, sleep, fight and angrily live with throughout the whole gameplay. Piggies, in Hogvalord, are special. We design them to be individuals with their own behaviour. You don't have control over what they do. They act according to their needs of food, water and rest. They're lazy and silly. They like to wander. They love making deadly mess. As the owner, not only |
| Introducing Hogvalord, a survival hog farm RPG from Thap Tam Studio | 2021-05-22 | Today, I’m extremely excited to announce my first debut game, Hogvalord. After nearly two years of development, the game Hogvalord will be on Steam soon, around June 19th-20th, 2021. What made me so proud about this project is getting things done without the Kick Starter campaign or any early access or publisher. There’s no secret about that because I’m a solo developer. I can’t manage everything outside of the development scope. I don’t have enough resources (people and budget) to handle marketing campaigns or building a community with daily or weekly updates. The only possible way for me is to focus 100% on developing the game and finish it |