Roots of Pacha (Switch): all the updates (latest: Ver. 1.3.0 – Sun and Moon)

22 April 2025 Lite_Agent Roots of Pacha, Soda Den

On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various updates for Roots of Pacha on Nintendo Switch (originally released in November 2023 in North America, Europe, and Japan)!

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Roots of Pacha – Ver. 1.3.0 (Sun and Moon)

Release date: April 22nd/23rd at 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM BST / 7PM CEST / 3AM JST
Patch notes (highlights):

Explore the Mograni Mountains and Yakuan Islands, two new regions with three subregions each, learn new practices and rituals, and see the majestic sights of the neighboring Mograni and Yakuan cultures that built them.

The stars will align to form new Ideas like ironworking as well as new mechanics like bug catching.

Dig deep into an intertwining cave system opened by hidden sigils that unlock new Pachan possibilities and unveil ancestral secrets.

Learn about the other clan’s ways of living by joining their sun and moon festivals, playing “Dice” with the Mograni, and performing music with the Yakuans.

Travel to the lands of the sun to find flora like Rye, Lentil Seeds, and Soaproot to create life-altering inventions like the soap processor.

Tame new fauna in the lands of the moon, like dodos and pandas.

Expand your own Pachan world with these clan’s ways.

Foster harmonious coexistence by helping each clan develop their own Ideas for growth.

Meet new characters, including new romance options like the Mograni silver fox, Azkel, and Sayra, a Yakuan resident recovering from past heartbreak.

Trade with new friends for fresh outfits, discover the art of setting sail on a raft to fish, and decorate your home with new goods from the Mograni and Yakuans to live the Pachan life like never before.

Patch notes:

New region Tundra, where the Mograni clan live, with 3 subareas.

New region Islands, where the Yakuan clan live, with 3 subareas.

19 new befriendable NPCs.

2 new romanceable NPCs, Sayra from the Yakuans and Azkel from the Mograni.

2 new tameable pets: pandas and sivatheriums.

4 new plants: rice, grapes, rye, and lentils.

4 new gatherables: sugarcane, chamomile, calendula, dill, soaproot.

2 new tameable farm animals: mouflons and dodos.

2 Ideas for new processors: jam making and soap making.

2 Ideas for new ways of fishing: line fishing and water traps, with 18 new fish.

Iron working Idea and iron tools with greater power/range.

A new tool for bug-catching with a minigame.

30 bugs to catch.

2 new festivals: Festival of Quro and Festival of Lune, with a new ball minigame.

Mograni Dice minigame with skins and other rewards to be earned.

Amphitheatre minigame where you can play and learn new songs.

Sun and Moon caves: where the main story that finished in the pyramid continues.

6 new fruit trees.

14 new plant variants to discover inside the caves.

6 new animals to breed by discovering their trait selections in the caves: cow, pig, chicken, goat, sheep, llama.

8 final tasks for game completion, cutscene, and reward.

Added Special Deals mechanic when bartering with other clans.

38 new decorations.

2 new clothing options.

2 new footwear options.

12 new hats.

19 new dishes.

NPC minimap list filtering options.

Meet Beast in the Mograni camp if the Touk 4 flower cutscene has happened.

Changes

Beekeeping idea now also accepts any item tagged as wildflower besides sunflower.

Bronze pickaxe power increased.

Additional notes: none
Source: Soda Den PR (22/04/2025) / Soda Den (Steam)

Roots of Pacha – Ver. 1.2.0

Release date: July 31st 2024 (North America, Europe) / August 1st 2024 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Feats

Intermediate saves: save and resume the game at any time by going to your bed and choosing “Save at current time.”

Olla: an early watering Idea which holds 16 charges and waters the surrounding plants.

School: a late game idea where the clan’s children will go learn with Daari.

School learning station: after building the school you’ll get a learning station which can be placed in the fields affecting a 7×4 area. The children of the school will check it every morning to: clean affected sheds and talk to the animals living inside, water and harvest plants, refill ollas, pump irrigation pumps, harvest honey, and harvest trees. Up to 4 learning stations are available with higher prosperity.

Children new stage: toddlers can be enrolled in school to make them grow up to school-age children. Your child will get one of 4 personalities and eventually choose from 8 professions, with unique dialogue and gifts for the different combinations.

School-age children can wear hats, different clothes and you can also change their hair style and color.

Newborn, toddlers, and school-age children attend festivals.

Romanceables schedules adjustments to spend a bit more time in the house during the morning.

Added more dialogue for romanceables.

2 new Union locations: caves and beach, in addition to the existing Pacha Tree location.

Kiss your partner in your Union reception.

New dance music pools depending on who you dance with.

Partners, nannies, and school-age children can now use the seats placed in your house.

Added “Available to date” setting, which will prevent you from being asked to start dating in 6 flower cutscenes. The setting can be changed anytime in Settings->Gameplay and won’t affect your ability to use the context action “Start Dating.”

Added 5 new skin tones and 5 hair colors.

Quick “Transfer all” and “Transfer matching” items in storage boxes and inventory. New Sorting methods added.

Pets can be sent to fetch in different areas and bring back items from them.

Cave lions and wolves can grow to be adult pets by giving them “Baby Shroom,” which is obtained in Glyptodon’s Tree shop.

Some pets can be mounted: mammoths, spiders, adult cave lions, and adult wolves.

Animals in the village will show an arrow when they’re in the tall grass area to make it easier to find them.

Animals can be fed alfalfa.

You can now put multiple items in processors (solar dryers, fermenters, etc.) by holding the main action button. It also works when picking up the produced items.

Processors can now be removed while producing with a confirmation.

New Village subcategory under Journal to show the prosperity objects and the players’ lifetime contribution.

A button was added in Settings->Exit to take a screenshot without the UI.

Trap locations now show on the map after interacting with them and show whether they have a trap and if it’s ready.

Jag will now ask you if you want to go with him to the festivals that can be reached from the map: Competition Day, Clans Gathering, Cave Painting.

Cave challenges can be exited to retry later. They can also be skipped and marked as completed, although no achievement will be given in this case.

The unstuck button changes from a “Go back a few steps” to “Go back to checkpoint” when in the caves and now works when in owl/monkey mode.

The dialogue before using the forest shortcut to the village is displayed only the first 3 times.

Igrork’s nursery shows the current count of the selected seed in your seedbag.

Mounts can be sent to their sheds/herds/home.

Frer starts using the harpoon a few days after the idea is researched.

Vallah, Touk, and Krak will always go to the New Year festival if they’re the partner of any player.

New fishing mini-game UI

Added Korean language.

Added Traditional Chinese language.

Rebalance

Lowered regeneration rate for field debris.

Most meditation buffs will now last a full day.

Stone fences need 3 stones instead of 4.

Grob has some feathers and boar fur to exchange weekly.

Fishing consumes a little bit more stamina.

Animal sheds cost more at 750 contributions.

Fixes

Active Idea smoke signals showing in “Past.”

Riding points for players when racing.

Water tool executing water animation when empty and not targeting anything.

Additional notes: none
Source: Soda Den (Steam)

Roots of Pacha – Ver. 1.1.0

Release date: December 7th 2023 (North America, Europe) / December 8th 2023 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Features

You can now change your name in-game in the You tab.

Fixes

If in Union with Vallah, Touk, and Zeda thought you had divorced her.

Herb and mushroom growers didn’t keep the item when loading a save if they had already produced.

Potential soft lock on Carnival and Competition Day if you broke up with Jelrod and Ibon or Jelrod and Mana at the same time.

[Switch] Audio issues after a few in-game days when using tools that target multiple tiles.

[Switch] Audio issues when going to the bear challenge.

[Switch] Names with non-latin characters were getting saved as “???”.

Additional notes: none
Source: Soda Den (Kickstarter)

How to download updates for Roots of Pacha for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for Roots of Pacha, you have three options:

let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.

To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.