Spiritfarer Beverly Update Patch Notes

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Freshly minted patch notes are here to accompany the launch of the Spiritfarer Beverly Update. We’ve pulled together the full Spiritfarer patch notes here to save you the hassle of tracking them down.

The latest update to Thunder Lotus’ much-loved after-life management sim includes the titular spirit, Beverly, new features, narrative tweaks, and quality of life improvements. Notable additions include a three save slot system, the delightful-sounding Buck’s Lottery Littery reviews treasure map quests, a radio to spruce up the lounge, and a helping of new spicy foods to rustle up.

Here are the full patch notes for the Spiritfarer Beverly Update.

Spiritfarer Beverly Update Trailer (ESRB)

New Spirit:

Beverly: A tiny owl found in Oxbury

Beverly’s house
Full length spirit questline

Spiritfarer Beverly Update Features:

New save system : you can now have 3 save slots.
New Station – Archive room: A place where you can store and look up old documents. Prime location to view treasure maps or Acetates.
Buck’s Lottery Littery reviews: Special magazines that contains a series of quests with treasure maps.
Radio in the Lounge: Hang out by the bar and take a listen to any of the songs from the soundtrack you’ve heard befor
New spicy foods have been added:

Laska: A delicious spicy noodle soup that will cure any cold.
Milquetoast: It’s just wet bread.
Flamin’ Firebirdz: After a bag of these bad boys, you won’t even feel your face.
Aloo Gobi: A vegetable delight with flavour to boot.
Chai Latte: A spicy drink for cold or hot days.
Chilaquiles: A breakfast classic for people in the know.
Dakgangjeong: Sweet, crispy and spicy. Three delicious words!

Quality of Life Improvements:

You can now keep track of required materials for buildings, houses, stations and improvements inside the Captain’s log.
Destination queue: select up to 3 points to explore in a single travel!
New “Safe Travel” mode for travelling, which automatically skips events during your next travel.
You can enable and disable Alex’s bus station music.
In-game optional assistance for all Elena’s events when you fail.
New Watering Upgrade and visuals for Field and Garden (Quest rewards)
Sitting on any chair at night now enables the Stargazing mode, which hides the buildings and shows the starry night sky.
Added more drawings from Stanley!
“Going to sleep” sequence is now faster.
Small screenshake when you use the light burst ability.
Documents in Inventory: New to Old, the red appears on them to mark them as “new”.
New Game Options available:

Screenshake (scale 1-10)
Controller vibrations (scale 1-10)
Input Source (Direct Input / Raw input)
Text bubble size (scale 1-10)
Game running in background (Disabled / Enabled)

Improved Build mode:

Ship View mode: disable the UI to see your boat in full.
The star cursor should be bigger and is now bound to the grid.
Selecting a building should snap the cursor to the middle of said building.
Hovering over buildings shows their name in the edit/improve mode.

Small UI tweaks:

There is a “No blueprint” text display when trying improve buildings with no improvements available.
The “Build” button will now appear greyed out if you hover a building that you are unable to build.

Spiritfarer Beverly Update Narrative Improvements:

Tweaked the narrative surrounding Stanley’s takeover of the Guest house:

A new shenanigan quest unlocks, which prompts the player to craft a new Guest house.
Some spirits will complain about their lack of habitation. They will also show a “hates sleeping outside” mood debuff if they are forced to sleep outside.