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Hello everyone! 🎉
Welcome to the full Beta 1.3 “Haunted Harvest” Update for Idle Picker, bringing a spooky twist to your block-breaking adventure. This update introduces new features, quality-of-life improvements, and more. Let’s dive into the key changes:
New Features:
- Farming Sub-Area: Unlock the farming sub-area in the Desert, and cultivate your own harvest. 🚜🌾
- Abundant Crops and Seeds: Seven new crops and seeds have been added to diversify your agricultural endeavors. 🌽🌻
- Meet the Hoe: A new tool type – hoes – has arrived, impacting field tilling and crop yield. Better hoes mean higher-quality crops. 🌾🔨
- 21 Hoe Tiers: Explore 21 hoe tiers, with more to come in future updates. 🛠️📈
- Bone Meal: Accelerate your farming with Bone Meal, providing a boost to crop growth. 💀🌱
- Farm Fields: Start your own fields and reap the rewards of your hard work. 🏞️🌾
- Overflow XP: Players can now see their overflow XP after reaching the max tier for a tool, enhancing progression tracking. 💪💫
- Unique Area Unlock Sound: Each new area now comes with a distinct sound effect when unlocked, adding to the sense of accomplishment. 🔓🎶
- Halloween Event: Dive into the Halloween Event area until November 6, 2023, for spine-tingling surprises! (WIFI CONNECTION REQUIRED) 🎃👻
- Limited Time Blocks and Items: Collect over THIRTY new LIMITED TIME! foraging blocks, mining blocks, seeds, crops, and tools. 🌟⚒️
- Rare Discoveries: Hunt for three LIMITED TIME! rare blocks and toolsets, each offering unique qualities. 💎✨
- “Any” Preferred Tool Type: A new “any” preferred tool type for certain blocks provides more flexibility. 🛠️🔧
- Exciting Events: In-game events (WIFI CONNECTION REQUIRED) offer unique gameplay modifiers. 📡🎉
- Show Only Event Items: Customize your inventory to display only event items, making it easier to track limited-time goodies. 📦
- In-Game Clock: Manage your time effectively with the new in-game clock. ⏰
- “Haunted Harvest” Sub-Title: Dive into the “Haunted Harvest” update and enjoy a thrilling new theme. 🍂🎃
Bug Fixes and Improvements:
- The update addresses issues with Tool Hotbar images, Mining/Foraging Fortune text, “Block Skip” menu, script execution order, and more.
- The Tool XP bar is now correctly displayed.
- Number abbreviation has been optimized for larger values.
- The UI has been updated for a fresh look and improved user experience.
- Rare blocks can now be broken with any tool.
- The Picktoria map now closes when changing areas.
- Notifications for rare toolsets have been adjusted.
- Fixed and improved 30 over more things!
Thank you for being part of the Idle Picker community, and I hope you enjoy the “Haunted Harvest” update. Happy mining! ⛏️💎🍂🎃
