🐾 PawPad Palace — Preview 40!
Build: https://www.patreon.com/AetherDecay/posts/0-2-0-preview-40-170744444
The current Supporter build has reached 0.2.0-preview.40.
Since Preview 37, PawPad Palace has received new shared moments with Faye, a visible relationship overview, more everyday activity around Willowmere and new reasons to explore the coast.
🌙 An evening of your own
Faye can now invite you to spend an evening together at Willow Green after the appropriate earlier relationship moments.
Depending on where you and Faye stand, the invitation and conversation reflect either friendship or mutual romantic interest.
You can talk together or simply spend some quiet time watching the evening, without needing to complete another care quota or wait a required number of days.
Faye also remembers your actual choices about spending time together and taking initiative, allowing them to come up naturally again during a later ordinary visit.
If you aren't ready to answer everything during the outing, unfinished choices can be continued on another evening.
❤️ See where you stand with Faye
The Pause menu now includes a dedicated Relationships page.
Here you can see:
Faye's current Trust
your current relationship stage
ten confirmed milestones from your shared history
progress toward Second Paw
progress toward Full Trust / Close company
contextual guidance about what may come next
The system reflects progress you've actually made rather than awarding extra relationship points simply for repeating care.
🚶 Faye has more of an everyday routine
Faye now has additional reasons to move around Willowmere outside of your visits.
She can make recurring café supply pickups and visit the station letterbox, depending on her actual work and morning routine.
Completed errands and her chosen routes are preserved through Continue, helping her movement around town feel connected rather than resetting arbitrarily.
Travel itself has also been improved, including automatic transitions when reaching area exits and better handling of outdoor exposure and work preparation.
🪑 Easier world interactions
Nearby benches now have their own Sit action alongside Talk, making it easier to choose whether you want to interact with Faye or simply sit nearby.
Deliberate seating interactions also take priority when signs and character interaction areas overlap.
Moving between areas is smoother too, with automatic map transitions when you reach an exit.
🌅 Sleep when you're ready
Sleep until 06:00 is now available at any hour.
You no longer need to wait for Faye to return home first. If unfinished care would be interrupted, the game explicitly lets you postpone it before advancing to the next morning.
🌿 More seasonal gathering
Gathering has expanded to six persistent plant patches across Willow Green, Willow Lane and the Coastal Garden.
Plants now have saved growth cycles, clearer silhouettes and habitat-based locations while retaining the existing four-day regrowth system and your previously gathered ingredients.
🌊 Discover Lantern Point
Lantern Point now has its own deliberate VIEW interaction.
Stop and watch a live coastal panorama that reflects the actual world around you, including:
time of day • weather • moving water • birds • night sky • lighthouse light
The viewpoint also includes quiet sea ambience and optional coastal observations.
Pause, Reduced Motion, sound settings and phone controls are all supported.
💾 Progress stays with you
Supported saves have been migrated to schema 15, preserving your previous history and progress while leaving new Preview 38–40 choices untouched until you actually experience them.
Existing care and Close Company access are preserved as well.
✨ Willowmere keeps becoming more alive
Preview 38–40 focuses less on simply adding another location or care interaction and more on making the world around Faye feel persistent.
She has places to go and everyday things to do. Your relationship is easier to understand. Shared time can happen outside of care. And exploring Willowmere now gives you more things to discover along the way.
Current Supporter Build: 0.2.0-preview.40
Thank you to everyone following the development of PawPad Palace — and especially to the Supporters making continued development possible. 🐾❤️