Spiritfarer (Switch): Software updates (latest: Ver. 1.13.0)

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On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various Software updates for Spiritfarer on Nintendo Switch (originally released on August 18th 2020 in Europe and North America, and September 29th 2020 Japan)!

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Spiritfarer – Ver. 1.13.0 (Jackie and Daria Update)

Release date: December 13th 2021 (North America, Europe) / December 14th 2021 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Added:

New Spirits:

Jackie, the Hyena:

The caretaker of all the patients at Overbrook.

Jackie’s house

Daria, the Bat:

One of the patient of Jackie. She is prone to very erratic behaviors.

New Content:

New Island: Overbrook

New Event: Mind Palace

New station upgrade: Beehive

Sweet new recipes!

New Overbrook-related shenanigans!

Quality of Life Improvement:

Player Manual: Read all previously received hints, tips & tricks for Spiritfarer, from inside your Pause Menu!

Changes:

The last two Figureheads each cost 1 extra flower.

Meetings with now occur at 1/5/9 spirits released, from 1/4/8.

Multiple achievements got updated requirements:

→ Spiritfared Achievement now requires 13 Spirits Released to complete, up from 11.
→ Upgraded all buildings (added Jackie’s house)
→ Mood related achievements:
All Spirit Ecstatic, 5 Ecstatic Spirits & Any Spirit (added Jackie & Daria to requirements or potential spirits)
All Collections Collected (updated with new recipes)

Bug fixes:

Fixed the Mist Guardian will pop up for a second before he is meant to appear during the second encounter.

Fixed pop-up speech bubbles may appear above Summer while she is hibernating.

Switch only:

Fixed lots of large performance and stability issues.

Fixed Elena not acknowledging that the player has successfully done the hard thunderstorm challenge.

Fixed “Join the TLG family” screens’ interactive textbox.

Fixed the graphical issues when skipping the Intro cinematic too quickly.

Fixed the third save slot crashing as soon you save/quit anywhere in the game.

Additional notes: none.
Source: Thunder Lotus Games

Spiritfarer – Ver. 1.12.0

Release date: September 28th 2021 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Changes:

Minor changes to Gustav’s monologues.

Changed Start Game text to Continue/New Game according to if any saves exist or not

Modified Francis’ acetate quest to be unique

Modified Buck’s Mood graph so it scales properly during the building quest

Modified Beverly’s food related quest to be skippable (Laksa)

Modified Spiritfared achievement requirements from 10 spirits >>>> 11 spirits

Modified the layers for items spawning in Floating Crate event to avoid overlaps

Modified the priorities of some of Beverly’s conversations

Modified two typos from Gwen and Atul’s dialogs

Modified Astrid & Giovanni’s priorities so they come to welcome new spirits

Modified Safe Travel mode to enable events if it’s disabled while the boat is on an event.

Modified Lily’s flowers to only grow after meeting Hades

Modified Build Mode to only show available customization on building with decorations

Modified Delete Save Button from F12 >>>> F4

Disabled Stargazing mode when at the Everdoor

Added:

Added transition animation to Beverly between hug and talk animations

Bug fixes:

Fixed the text bubble appearing before the fade-in when the build mode activates

Fixed loss of functionality in Controls menu

Fixed Gwen’s Kitchen quest validation dialogue not triggering

Fixed the navigation of the Music Mini-Game button in the rebinding menu

Fixed the duplicate Stella at the end of a hug with any spirits

Fixed the issue where you can’t apply resolution changes when width or height has an identical component as the current resolution

Fixed the second player’s recipe UI appearing over map

Fixed sheep upgrade getting removed when going in and out of enclosure to feed it

Fixed chicks going into different chicken coops before maturing into full grown chickens

Fixed the player falling out of building when hugging next to a wall with another building under it

Fixed some expressions not playing ever again after the first time

Fixed an issue where an acetate would not drop from a chest during a quest

Fixed the ”Safe Travel mode” keyboard button not working in Azerty and Dvorak mode

Fixed an issue where Cow Stall and Sheep Corral improvements were available before finding the blueprints in the world

Fixed an issue where the Everdoor atmosphere didn’t trigger when Stella came to the Everdoor a second time right after finishing The Last Voyage

Fixed an issue where the controller would vibrate even when left unused

Fixed an issue where Beverly would not recognize her favorite food as her favorite

Fixed an issue where Gwen’s quest “Set Sail, Captain!” didn’t continue forwards after clearing the trash on the boat.

Fixed an issue where the map’s projector would fail to open properly.

And a slew of very minor bug fixes.

Switch only:

Fixed various issues caused by playing in save slots other than #1 in local co-op

Additional notes: none.
Source: Thunder Lotus Games

Spiritfarer – Ver. 1.11.0 (Beverly Update)

Release date: August 31st 2021 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

New Spirit:

Beverly: A tiny owl found in Oxbury

→ Beverly’s house
→ Full length spirit questline

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 Looter’s Literary 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:

→ Laksa: 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.

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.

Added new narrative moments with some Spirits in some specific locations.

Added hints to each character’s favorite food in their dialogs.

Spirits now have more interactions with one another.

The changes to Gustav’s story are coming in a patch very soon, they sadly missed the boat for this content update.

Additional notes: none.
Source: Thunder Lotus Games

Spiritfarer – Ver. 1.10.0

Release date: May 31st 2021 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Fix:

Fixed faulty behavior in build mode

Re-added splashes when turtle goes back down

Fix player stuck playing as daffodil in single player

Make sure Music prompt is displayed in pause menu

Make Stella go back to idle at the end of conversation if it ended with an expression

Make controller icons adapt to last controller used

Prevent rebinding gamepad’s A button as the Back button due to issue with Music mini game.

Modified Gwen’s mansion door opening conditions

Fix camera bug in coop in Gurenu Fields after leaving build mode

Series of small fixes to manage an edge case with Lily’s reveal.

Fixed a small issue where Lily often appeared uncentered when sleeping

Disabled auto-save during Lily’s reveal sequence

Lily now glows when idle at night to more resemble her glowy interactive butterfly state

Changed Lily lighting so it is not affected by the player light too much

Quality of Life Improvement:

Sawmill minigame no longer completely fail if 1 plank failed

Added out of screen pointer for butterflies’ welcome sequence

Additional notes: none.
Source: Thunder Lotus Games

Spiritfarer – Ver. 1.8.0

Release date: May 5th 2021 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Camera zooming out way to much in coop.

Player control only the cat and/or can only play in single player.

Hugging ghost spirit blocking controls.

Removed a placeholder item (Acetate 2).

Additional notes: none.
Source: Thunder Lotus Games

Spiritfarer – Ver. 1.6.0

Release date: April 20th 2021 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Added features on all ports:

New spirit – Lily The Butterfly: Appears near the very end of the game and gives more insight into Stella’s life.

Island’s names now appear while fast travelling.

Bus Stops are easier to see from the Fast Travel screen.

Fishing can now be done in coop

New visual effects when Stanley is found.

New atmosphere for Buck’s event.

New UI showing how many items can be added to stations.

The boat can now travel at night after the first conversation with Lily.

New coop controller assignment screen. (On all ports except Switch)

Fixes on all ports:

Buck’s event can no longer start during another atmosphere (rain, stars, etc.)

Recipe collection now shares the same sorting as the recipe book.

Fix cat joystick rebindings not being saved

Prevent menus from clipping down the bottom of the screen when playing in coop.

Fix Alice confirming the sheep shearing quest next to an unshorn sheep.

Fix player getting stuck in the run animation

Fix Smithy automatically starting when smithing brass sheet at a low frame rate

Fix Smithy being more likely to break on the first hit

Fix navigation inside the Pause Menu

Fix user still getting planks if they fails the minigame

Fixes exclusive to Switch:

Fix cat’s behaviours and inventory when player’s controller is disabled

Fix turtles not appearing the next day after sleeping next to them

Fix item collected message not displaying when item is removed from inventory in a conversation

Fix the rightmost cultist denizen to sometimes spawn at the wrong location

Modified Elena placement on the island

Fix Summer slowly going down ladders

Additional notes: none.
Source: Thunder Lotus Games

Spiritfarer – Ver. 1.5.0

Release date: January 29th 2021 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixes:

Alice should correctly stay at the prow for the second part of her welcome, instead of walking left.

Made the cat stay put when Stella is carrying Alice.

Reenabled Alice’s kitchen call to prevent her from starting the kitchen quest at a random position.

Alice’s placement during her kitchen conversation

Pillbug event initialization not working properly at high framerates.

Make sure interactions can not get stuck waiting for a lerp animation

Building unmovable if accidentally got placed out of bounds

Beetle not disappearing if quit/continue during ghost event

Animal station upgrades

Loss of control when quit/continue too soon after a sleep

Invisible wall stopping player player from getting back to the boat after dragon in co-op

Field plant growing super fast with music when cat sings along

Co-op pointers sometimes being active in main menu

Stop turtles from overlapping when doing a travel that goes past multiple turtles

Stella animation getting stuck when holding a direction during first conversation with Deer

Fast travel map jerking to place after map opened when at a point near the border of the map

Station trade UI staying open in co-op in second player quits to main menu during trade

Missing loading screen doing quit/continue very quickly

Lightning bottle not spawning for cat during storm

Dust bunnies interaction not staying disabled when coming back to boat from an island after doing the event

Spirits disappearing when moving a building to deck level while spirit is outside the building

Cursor moving back to (0,0) after decorating a building in build mode

Bug in music minigame where staying pressed on the keys triggered note successes

Bug in music minigame where pressing Tab to exit opened quest log

Stop spirits from getting stuck when interacting with them on the extremity of ladders

Animation bug when shearing a sheep facing other way just after feeding it

Cat jittering instead of singing along to music minigame

Modified condition for enable of dog old coin treasure

Modified verysad conversations for all spirits (lowered priority to not block quests)

Modified Cow station seeinside

Modified beetle object (disabled by default) in Stan’s House

Modified conditions for Buck’s conversations orc fights

Modified disable condition for Seal (conversation manager bug)

Modified Dog Quest graph for treasures and build house quests

Localization:

A very minor French typo.

Corrected a minor technical typo in korean loc.

Additional notes: none.
Source: Thunder Lotus Games

Spiritfarer – Ver. 1.4.0

Release date: October 7th 2020 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Features:

Added Korean localization

Removed requirement to hold jump button to go high when bouncing

Fixes:

Fixed texts overlapping in the Controls menu

Fixed an issue causing infinite loading screens

Fixed smelting shoe experiment sometimes breaking the game

Added a failsafe quest to prevent a rare blocker during Alice’s final quests

Fixed minor bugs in various Alice scenes

Improved Cyrillic font legibility

Fixed Lynx not giving smelted Ore

Fixed rain not working when loading an island with rain from the start menu

Fixed sawmill log counter not resetting to zero when you cancel interaction

Fixed player falling through wall after a cat hug or mushroom interaction in cabin

Removed cat hug zoom in when inside a building

Fixed sheep visuals overlapping/flashing when multiple sheep are brought back to the island

Fixed cat disappearing behind boat after Fast Travel

Stopped Alex the Seal’s music from playing after Fast Travel

Fixed some visual problems with denizen/spirit reveal sequences

Removed unused audio from Stella and Walrus animations

Fixed spirits sometimes teleporting during eat animation

Fixed an issue preventing building on top of Astrid’s house

Fixed Privacy policy box not resizing to fit the text

Privacy policy now only displays in user language

Various minor bug fixes and optimizations

Additional notes: none.
Source: Thunder Lotus Games

Spiritfarer – Ver. 1.3.0

Release date: September 28th 2020 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Features:

Marked two keys as revised to get them translated.

Localization update, translating some missing strings as well as adding several corrections

Added Japanese translation

Fixes:

Fix some texts overlapping in the menus

Fix issue where you couldn’t activate the zipline shrine if you had activated the bounce shrine

Remove possibilty to set daffodil to player 1 in single player (could block the intro cinematic)

Fix issue allowing you to pass the rock barrier without the rock breaker

Fixed issue where Alice’s carrying questline could be broken by a saving event before reaching destination

Changed one of Alice’s mood perk target (mean gossip) so she wouldn’t wander around the boat when she can’t walk anymore

Slightly tweaked the time range of the carry conversation so that it fit better with the clock.

Disabled right interaction during Alice’s trip, right before she gets hurt.

Disabled Alice’s interaction when she is being carried to avoid issues with Daffodil

Added status flag count for Frog Quest

Added properties to two pub food

Prevent some texts to overflow in the menus

Add failsafe so sheep can’t eat non-edible crops

Fix sheep being stuck in eating animation when you harvest the plant it’s eating

Fixed issue where Charron was pixelated during the intro

Fix rounding problems in collector UI

Fix Atul never making planks

Added a “Celebrate if not loading” celebration mode to quests to prevent Alice’s “Taking the low road” quest from celebrating every load.

Throw the BoatChanged event when canceling a building swap to prevent false states.

Several UI improvements and fixes

Reclassified Rice pudding as a dessert, not a breakfast food

Added non-breaking space tags to a conversation so coordinates are is more readable.

Switch correctly prevent Switch from saving on Exit

Repair:

Make mushroom seed fishable again if seed was eaten

Minor tweak to meke the “Down the rabbit hole” quest inactive after releasing Alice.

Prevent Stella from being locked in an interaction if user exited the game when a spirit was on tender at the Everdoor or during a last voyage.

Additional notes: none.
Source: Thunder Lotus Games

Spiritfarer – Ver. 1.2.0

Release date: September 2nd 2020 (North America, Europe)
Patch notes:

Features:

Added localization in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese

Fixes:

Optimized memory usage to lower the potential of crashes

Fixed an issue causing progression of the story lines or player abilities to rollback to a previous state, breaking the game. Please note that the patch will address the root cause of the issue – but if the issues with your game’s progression persist following this patch, it is unlikely that we will be able to “repair” your progress.

Fixed an issue where the ship got stuck on a physical barrier on the map.

Fixed hints being shown multiple times.

Fixed some texts overlapping in the menus.

Fixed issue where you couldn’t activate the zipline shrine if you had activated the bounce shrine.

Removed the possibility to set daffodil to player 1 in single player.

Various fixes to Alice requests and story lines.

Various fixes to Gwen requests and story lines.

Various fixes to Bruce and Mickey requests and story lines.

Other minor bug fixes and optimizations.

Additional notes: none.
Source: Thunder Lotus Games

How to download updates for Spiritfarer for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for Spiritfarer, 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.