{"sticky":{"title":"Early Access Known Issues","bodyHtml":"<h3><strong>💰Known Issues – Backer Boutique &amp; Steam</strong></h3><p></p><ul><li><strong>Growing Together Bundle / Supporter Pack:</strong> Greeny's outfit, which is part of the bundle/pack, is not being automatically granted upon purchase. We're looking into this and if you bought this bundle, you will be sure to receive the Greeny outfit as soon as we've fixed this!</li></ul><h3>🏘️<strong>Known Issues – Housing Showcase</strong></h3><p></p><ul><li><strong>Claiming Housing Showcase Rewards Hangs: </strong>If you go to claim housing Showcase rewards it will hang the client. You'll need to exit and rejoin until we can deploy a fix.</li></ul><p></p><h3><strong>🎮Known Issues – Gamepad</strong></h3><ul><li><strong>Settings Navigation:</strong> On Gamepad you must use the D-Pad to navigate and adjust settings, the Thumbsticks are unsupported</li><li><strong>Login Screen Server Selection:</strong> The Select Region Button isn’t highlighting correctly when selected with a Gamepad, but will function.</li><li><strong>Exiting Loftia:</strong> You currently can’t quit Loftia from the Login Screen with gamepad. You can exit Loftia from the in-world menu. </li><li><strong>Gamepad and Mouse Conflicts: </strong>When using both a keyboard and mouse and gamepad you can get in a state with the Loftia cursor visible. To re-enable the gamepad you need to click into the Loftia window. </li><li><strong>Gamepad Not working: </strong>In Steam<strong> </strong>\nRight Click on Loftia &gt; Properties &gt; Controller and change to Enable Steam Input  </li></ul><h3><strong>💬Known Issues – Quests</strong></h3><ul><li><strong>Amani’s ‘Ready to Rumble’: </strong>Will not detect skills you levelled before the quest started, and will require you to level 3 additional skills to complete the quest stage.<br /></li><li><strong>Amani's 'Daily Do Good': </strong>We're aware of some players, especially those who played the demo, not being able to progress this questline. If you run into any issues here please file a bug report and let us know on Discord.</li></ul><h3><strong>🕹️Known Issues – Gameplay</strong></h3><ul><li><strong>No Mass Recycling: </strong>The Recycler currently only allows recycling a single object at time, we're working on allow mass recycling.</li><li><strong>Hydroponic Solution needs to be carried to be used: </strong>Unlike most items which can be used on your player island while in your storage chest, hydroponic solution needs to be carried to refill the Hydrofarm.</li><li><strong>Stuck Underwater: </strong>If you find yourself stuck underwater, use the Teleport to Start ability found at the bottom of the Menu Hub screen to get unstuck. Please report any stuck locations and we'll get Cliff and Milo on making them safe for all Loftians.<strong> </strong></li><li><strong>Graffiti Wall Art Decoration is Unplaceable: </strong>The largest piece of Graffiti Wall Art cannot be placed inside player houses currently.</li><li><strong>Gridfall Obstacle Vestiges Glow: </strong>After destroying obstacles with the level 3 hammer, the remaining pieces flash as if they can be destroyed, but they cannot.</li></ul><p></p><h3><strong>🧠</strong><strong>Known Issues – Memories</strong></h3><ul><li><strong> Loftia City Completionist - </strong>Demo issues: If we manually granted this memory to you during the demo you may have missing memories still in EA, please reach out on Discord if you do! </li><li><strong>Gridfall Historian:</strong> Due to an item incorrectly counting as an artifact, this memory is not currently obtainable for many players. We are working to remove this item from the requirements.</li></ul><p></p><p></p><h3><strong>🎨Known Issues – Visual</strong></h3><ul><li><strong>Motion Sickness: </strong>We've added new settings to help reduce motion sickness. If you're still having issues please let us know more on Discord! </li><li><strong>Disappearing Decorations when Painting: </strong>As part of the motion Sickness camera physics and fading changes we introduced a bug where some decorations disappear when you zoom in on them to edit their colors. Editing their colors will still work! If you can't see the changed objects, choose your colors and apply changes and the object will reappear. We're aware and working on a fix.</li></ul><ul><li><strong>Background NPCs:</strong> Background NPCs may occasionally wander into unintended locations, in the spirit of spooky season this includes appearing to hover in midair.</li><li><strong>Cutscene stealing pets: </strong>Pets and their UI elements can sometimes appear in cut scenes when they should be hidden.<br /></li><li><strong>Cutscene stealing players: </strong>Players can sometimes appear at the edges of cut scenes when they should be hidden.</li><li><strong>Backer Boutique Item Preview Issues: </strong>We're investigating some Backer Boutique items not previewing correctly in the Boutique.</li><li><strong>Adventurous Pets:</strong> Pets sometimes get themselves in the most unique places, no worries if your cat is stuck in a tree. It will teleport back to you once you switch servers.<br /></li></ul><h3><strong>🎵Known Issues – Sound &amp; Music</strong></h3><ul><li><strong>Loading Screen Beeps:</strong> Ghosts in the machine are trying to communicate through random sound fx during the loading screens, we're working to calm them.</li></ul><h3><strong>🍎Known Issues – Mac</strong></h3><ul><li><strong>Performance and Stability: </strong>Macs may experience performance issues or crashes, particularly older Macs with less than 16 GB of RAM. We recommend using Low graphics settings if you experience any issues. We're actively working to optimize Mac performance.</li></ul><h3><strong>⚙️Known Issues – Performance &amp; Technical Issues</strong></h3><ul><li><strong>Installing Loftia to External Drives: </strong>If you install Loftia to a slow external drive it will greatly increase load times which can lead to timeouts and crashes.<br /></li><li><strong>Empty Stations in Player Housing: </strong>We're seeing a very rare bug where stations in player housing are all empty. If you encounter this please file or upvote a bug report on it. You can fix this by travelling to a district and then returning to player housing.</li><li><strong>General Oddities and Curiosities: </strong>We're rarely seeing UI elements stop functioning, if at any point you encounter an odd bug we recommend logging out and back in Loftia to see if the tried and true ritual of turning it off and on again fixes it.</li><li><strong>Friends List: </strong>Loftian's are super friendly and those with more than 100 friends are experiencing lag when opening their friends list. We're aware an investigating was to keep it fast and friendly.</li></ul><h3><strong>🌐Known Issues – Localization</strong></h3><p>We’re actively working with our translation team at Wordkeepers on Localization Quality Assurance (LQA) issues identified in recent testing. They primarily fall into the following categories.</p><ul><li><strong>Word ordering and grammar: </strong>Some text, such as clover colors is assembled dynamically (concatenated) in game which can result in the wrong word order and/or unnatural phrasing in languages other than English. </li><li><strong>Missing or Untranslated Text: </strong>Some strings may still appear in English, including UI elements, quest text, and in some cases placeholder content. </li><li><strong>Text Display and Formatting in UIs: </strong>Some translations don’t fit into the game’s UI leading to overlapping or incorrectly displayed texts. </li></ul><p></p><p></p>","updatedAt":"2026-11-05T22:44:25.981Z"},"posts":[{"postId":"news_4c695479-5371-4a70-a945-44deb03b0458","title":"Early Access Patch Notes #1","date":"2026-11-04","bodyHtml":"<p>\n</p><h3>🛠️ Bug Fixes</h3><ul><li>Added Greeny’s Leaf Hat and Vine Bag to the Supporter Pack, plus the extra styles. Your items will update when you next log in.</li><li>Fixed issues with batteries getting stuck after being upgraded.</li><li>Fixed the “Supported Dome initiative” and “Supported Turbine initiative” memories tracking the wrong tasks.</li><li>You can now retrieve as many items from a vending machine as your inventory has room for, instead of needing space for the whole stack. Hoarders rejoice!</li></ul><ul><li>Fixed an endless loading screen when returning to a House Showcase, usually  when checking results. Probably, this one is tricky!</li><li>Fixed flickering/crazy visuals on the Solar and Cosmic trails</li><li>Fixed incorrect Pip prices displayed for some currencies (100x too high). Steam checkout already showed and charged the correct amounts, but we've corrected the visuals in-game.</li></ul><p>\n</p><h3>✨ Improvements</h3><ul><li>Removed the remaining-time countdown from the Season Pass screen, it didn't do anything and was just confusing</li><li>Moved the Dome tab before the Turbine tab</li><li>Added a limit of one Share Box per island. Existing boxes can still be moved, even if you already have more than one.\n\n</li></ul>"},{"postId":"news_b13f96b0-a8e1-4bb2-822a-093e022e26eb","title":"Loftia Demo Patch Notes #3","date":"2026-10-24","bodyHtml":"<h3>🛠️ Bug Fixes</h3><ul><li>Fixed movement and interactions becoming stuck when using Adventure antennas. Probably for real this time!</li><li>Fixed blocked exits in some Lake Biome Adventure Gauntlets.</li><li>Fixed your own chat messages sometimes appearing blank, particularly during Adventures.</li><li>Fixed house walls incorrectly blocking furniture placement when there was enough room.</li><li>Fixed decorations rotating slightly when disabling grid snapping.</li><li>Fixed controller inputs accidentally stashing furniture while selecting paint colours.</li><li>Fixed the shortcut for pinning contribution bins.</li><li>Fixed unnecessary camera movements when opening screens from the Menu Hub.</li></ul><h3>✨ Improvements</h3><ul><li>Improved respawning after falling off Adventure islands.</li><li>Updated Demo reward banners with their correct models and icons.</li><li>Improved placement of banners and other wall decorations, making them easier to place reliably and allowing banners to sit closer to walls.</li><li>Removed the Back shortcut during initial character customisation to prevent accidentally leaving the screen.</li></ul>"},{"postId":"news_08e8f33a-b156-431b-ad66-b3b0d6160797","title":"Loftia Demo Patch Notes #2","date":"2026-10-23","bodyHtml":"<h3>🛠️ Bug Fixes</h3><ul><li>Additional fixes for traveling to House Showcase results and collecting rewards.</li><li>Fixed movement and interactions sometimes becoming locked after multiplayer interactions, such as Adventure antennas. <em>(This fixed failed we're still investigating)</em></li><li>Fixed group neighborhood travel repeatedly failing or returning players to the login screen.</li><li>Fixed Pebble's City Tour quest becoming stuck after an interruption or disconnection. You can now speak to Pebble to resume the tour.</li><li>Fixed occasionally being unable to enter Decorate Mode outside your house.</li><li>Fixed furniture placement sometimes being incorrectly blocked by the floor inside your house.</li><li>Fixed large default trees becoming impossible to place after picking them up.</li><li>Fixed missing weather icons and incorrect solar panel information on some home islands.</li><li>Fixed conflicting saved quest progress causing repeated dialogue or blocked progression after reconnecting, particularly with Pebble (that scoundrel!).</li><li>Potential fix for players getting stuck in the ground when returning to Loftia City from an Adventure.</li><li>Fixed issues with Pebble's Birthday Party Bot, including quest completion and the camera becoming detached after closing the completed project screen.</li><li>Fixed World Project memories incorrectly counting completed contributions.</li><li>Corrected player counts used by World Projects and World Maintenance during busy periods.</li><li>Fixed newly available neighborhood space not being detected after the last player leaves.</li></ul><h3>✨ Improvements</h3><ul><li>Improved dialogue camera angles around Milo's Workshop, the Air Tram, and Herb.</li><li>Login now automatically retries temporary connection failures instead of immediately displaying an error.</li><li>Added clearer login messages when Steam is offline, isn't running, or may need an update.</li><li>Added a preview of Demo rewards to the <strong>Link Your Email</strong> button and fixed controller activation.</li><li>Removed placeholder rarity icons from some items.</li></ul><h3>🌿 World Changes</h3><ul><li>Removed plantable Garden Beds from Loftia City. We may bring them back in the future with clearer information about their shared, public nature.</li></ul>"},{"postId":"news_5e375a42-fb5c-4bba-92cd-b374b6775df5","title":"Loftia Demo Patch Notes #1","date":"2026-10-21","bodyHtml":"<p>It's been an exciting start to Steam Next Fest for Loftia! Thank you so much for your patience, support, and for spending time with us in Loftia.</p><p>We know some of you have encountered a few bumps along the way, and we really appreciate everyone who's taken the time to share feedback and report issues.</p><p>Our first patch addresses many of the issues you've reported, and we'll continue working on fixes and improvements throughout Steam Next Fest and as we head toward Early Access. Thanks for helping us make Loftia better!</p><h3>🛠️ Bug Fixes</h3><ul><li>Fixed being sent back to the login screen when checking House Showcase results.</li><li>Fixed (probably!) item fragments remaining uncombined after collecting enough pieces.</li><li>Fixed Daily Do-Good getting stuck when Pebble's Birthday Party project was already complete. Not a problem yet, but it would have been soon!</li><li>Fixed being unable to rebind controller buttons while using a controller. Oops.</li><li>Fixed \"A Note from the Team\" appearing when opening Daily Summary.</li><li>Fixed long character-name error messages not wrapping on the login screen.</li><li>Fixed duplicate Pebble and Cliff characters appearing during the crack-reveal cutscene.</li><li>Fixed the player's hair appearing stiff in cutscenes when hair movement is enabled.</li><li>Fixed title-screen settings disabling depth of field during gameplay.</li></ul><h3>🌱 Gameplay &amp; Balance</h3><ul><li>Clarified where to find Scrambled Coordinates for Ryder's quest and increased their drop chance during that quest step.</li><li>Bloom and Scrambled Coordinates from the Daily Goodies Chest now unlock after completing Ryder's intro Adventure quest.</li><li>Solar panels now generate more energy in rain and at night, particularly when both are happening. Rain/Night was bleak before.</li></ul><h3>✨ UI &amp; Tutorial Improvements</h3><ul><li>Improved the Tool Wheel tutorial prompt. It now appears during the planting step, stays visible for up to four minutes, and dismisses only when you open the wheel. Please, please find your carrots now!</li><li>Added hover and click sounds to more character customization buttons.</li></ul><h3>⚙️ Performance &amp; Audio</h3><ul><li>Reduced maximum CPU usage during shader preparation to help keep computers happy while loading.</li><li>Rebalanced audio, including quieter vending machines, rivers, fire pits, and Pebble's wave sound.</li></ul>"}],"nextCursor":null}