Cozy Grove — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Cozy Grove 2 is coming to Steam! | 2026-03-10 | Well hello there, Spirit Scouts! First, I want to express on behalf of the entire team of Foxes: thank you so much for supporting us and waiting for news while we navigated this whole "return to independent studio life" business. We've essentially been heads down planning from the very moment we learned Spry Fox would once again be independent. As our team is on the smaller side for projects of this scale, you can see probably get a sense for how much has been going on in the past three months!.. which is why we're really excited to finally be able to confirm that Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit is coming to Steam! Not only that, but it's available t |
| We have big news for fans of little square bears.. | 2025-12-11 | Hi everyone! It's been a moment, so we first want to check in and share what we've been up to. Well.. it's been busy, to say the least! Earlier this year, we officially announced Spirit Crossing, our cozy MMO focused on connection inside of a vast, lovingly crafted world we've been working on. Spirit Crossing is a little bit different from everything we've worked on in the past, but made with the same attention to writing, art, and charming square bears. You may have also seen some other big news for us recently: Spry Fox is becoming an independent studio once more. 🦊 We'll chat more about what this means in the coming days, but essentially, |
| v5.1 minor update | 2022-05-17 | - Bugfixes for the new dye UI - If you've been playing for more than a year, seasonal festivals would previously have broken on repeat. We've fixed that. - Removed unneeded backups from iOS - Fixed bug preventing some timed quests from repeating in the future - Stop players from accidentally selling quest critters. Can reacquire. - Halved Seagull Q21 wood & iron requirements. - Can't buy duplicate Surfer, Wolf, Emperor or Wary quest items from Kit - Fixed T3 Ben cats not having colored necks - All characters can be given their winter gifts outside of the festival - Fixed controller not regaining focus when closing the splash using touch - Fix |
| Hotfix v5.01 | 2022-04-29 | Minor hotfix to fix broken bear gossip in some non-English languages |
| The major Spring Update is now live, and also, the New Neighbears DLC! | 2022-04-26 | We are so pleased to announce the release of both our free Spring Update, as well as our first DLC for Cozy Grove, the New Neighbears DLC! New Neighbears contains the following: 4 new bears. Their stories are longer than any of the game’s original bears, but also designed to take less calendar time to complete – i.e. less waiting in between story beats, and no “waiting for one bear to give you something that another bear needs.” (See, we’ve been listening to you!) These bears appear on the island once you have ascended certain of the old bears. A new type of critter – Butterflies – to catch and collect during the Spring and Summer seasons. A |
| Update 4.2 | 2022-02-16 | Howdy Scouts! This is intended to be the last update before our major Spring Update and New Neighbears DLC. It's a rollup of bugfixes and QoL that we don't want to make you wait for: Added an additional row of slots to the default backpack size (increasing it for everyone) Fix for issue where cats were not visually appearing hungry, even though they were hungry Canceled animal yoga class (animals won’t appear bent out of shape anymore) Sped up the animal feeding animation sequence Allow players to select what items to give in all delivery quests, not just some of them Fix for getting stuck when scrolling in inventory/filters Fixed issue where |
| Update 4.1 | 2022-01-05 | Happy new year, Scouts! This was supposed to be a "minor" update, but it has some pretty significant performance improvements and QoL changes, in addition to some important bugfixes, that perhaps make this a "medium" update? What's between minor and major?? Anyway, enjoy! ːsteamhappyː - Faster world-loading with better-arranged biomes - After learning a recipe, we now show the item image preview so you can see what you've learned - Adjusted blackberry seasonality to fix missing berries in Dec - Fixed floating bushes - Imp decorations can be sold for a small amount of cash - Improved performance in general - Improve performance of dowsing acti |
| The major Winter Update is now live! | 2021-12-20 | Hi Scouts! We're pleased to release our third major update to Cozy Grove! Here's a list of the highlights for the "Winter Update": The Winter Festival begins December 23rd and runs for 6 whole weeks. It includes: new snowfolk characters you can craft and speak to, special gifts you can make for some of your island friends, and lots of fun with snow! Most collection, crafting and storage UIs now have filters, to help you quickly find the item you’re looking for. When you buy a hint from Charlotte, you can now choose which quest to buy it for. The new Wishing Well now appears on fully-expanded islands. It allows you to buy the rarer recipes you |
| v3.2.0 is now available! | 2021-11-04 | As of now v3.2.0 has been made available on PC and is being submitted for certification to Apple Arcade and consoles! The changes include: Have you been wondering what cat hairballs are useful for? We're finally ready to tell you! Hairballs are the meta essence - they can now be converted into any other essence via your catbox. :D Improvements to selecting an item when there are multiple nearby/overlapping objects. This will hopefully reduce frustration some folks have reported feeling when they are trying to click or tap on a specific animal or object in a crowded space. We've upgraded our game engine, which should help us better support old |
| The major Autumn Update is now live! | 2021-10-07 | Hi Scouts! We're pleased to release our second major update to Cozy Grove! Here's a list of the highlights for the "Autumn Update": If you've upgraded it enough, you can now go inside your tent and decorate the interior! As you further upgrade your tent with Flamey, more rooms will be added to the interior (but not every upgrade adds a new room). You can decorate your tent's interior to your heart's content. When you enter for the first time, there should be a small housewarming gift waiting for you within. You know what enjoys hanging out indoors with people? Cats do! Lure them into your tent with the mysterious Cat Beckoner. Experiment and |
| v2.3.0 is now available! | 2021-08-17 | As of now v2.3.0 has been made available on PC and is being submitted for certification to Apple Arcade and consoles! The changes include: New chests that you can use to store items in! Buy them from Mr. Kit's fully-upgraded store and place them on the ground to start using them. Optimizations for faster autosaving that should help further reduce some of the frame hitches. New menu option to reduce the frequency of autosaving, for those who want that. New menu button to manually save and continue playing. Fix issue where some mementos in Charlotte's book could be missing. More optimizations for critters to further reduce some frame hitches. I |
| v2.2.0 is now available! | 2021-07-21 | As of now v2.2.0 has been made available on PC and is being submitted for certification to Apple Arcade and consoles! The changes in v2.2.0 include: Fix some issues that could cause fewer critters to spawn than expected, and generally increased their spawn rate Performance improvements (optimizations to critters, and optimizations to animations in general) Possible fix for some save issues on Steam and Apple Arcade More robust saving system that will try recover if there are any saving issues Fix some errors in German and Dutch translations Reduced memory usage for some textures on iOS, tvOS and Switch Update some Turkish translations Workaro |
| Version 2.1.0 | 2021-07-01 | Allow feeding animals directly from tent storage Increased the stack size of certain quest items & raw foods Reduce the mushrooms required for mushroom salads Fixed Alison quest that had the wrong speaker name Fixed critter name being broken in Portuguese Adjustments to stone skipping targets so they can be further from the shore Fixed new rare hats that should be unique (but erroneously had color variations) Fix some issues where quest items were still highlighted in various UIs after they were no longer relevant Highlight closet items that are useful for fashion quests Fix bugs with animal happiness New rock-skipping loading screen tip Fixe |
| The major Summer Update is now live! | 2021-06-23 | Hey, fellow Scouts! We're super pleased to announce that our first major update to Cozy Grove is now live! There's a ton of new features, activities and content in this update: New feature: Critter-catching Warm weather always brings the critters out, right? Summer felt like the perfect time to introduce critter-catching to Cozy Grove. A whole assortment of crawling and flying critters (with seasonal variation, of course) will now populate the item. You can buy a net from Mr. Kit to catch them – like the fishing rod, it will never break, and like fish, critters will spawn semi-continuously. Mr. Kit is fond of critters and will pay a reasonabl |
| v1.8.0 is now available! | 2021-05-25 | As of today (May 25, 2021) v1.8.0 has been made available on the PC and is being submitted for certification to Apple Arcade and consoles! The changes in v1.8.0 include: New Scoutmaster letters (added on to the end of the launch batch) A "close" UI (x) button has been added to many UIs in order to eliminate the accidental UI closing issues that many of you have reported. These UIs can no longer be closed by clicking outside of them; instead, please tap the new close (x) button, or use the Esc key. Added new buttons for +/-10% value changes in the "craft amount" selection UI Scoutmaster letters can now give decor other than Rustic, after the f |
| v1.7.0 is now available! | 2021-05-06 | As of today (May 6, 2021) v1.7.0 has been made available on the PC and is being submitted for certification to Apple Arcade and consoles! The changes in v1.7.0 include: Remove old deleted inbox messages that increase save file size unnecessarily Prevent fish from spawning too far away (by the dark sunken island areas) Added normals for prettier lighting Some quests from Lee Berry can no longer be fulfilled with fence posts. QoL: merge multiple shipments from Allison into a single letter. Rarer fish categories are a tad easier to catch. Smaller fish nibble fewer times. Improved sorting of stacked & split items Added dedicated volume slider for |
| v1.6.2 is now available | 2021-04-28 | v1.6.2 is now available to all players on PC and is being submitted today (April 27, 2021) to Apple Arcade and consoles: Be able to craft a specific amount of an item, not just 1 or MAX Add option to purchase clothing closet expansions Add tutorial hint for harvesting rocks to help new users avoid confusion Various balance adjustments to Lee Berry quests Nerfed master shovel quest item requirements Decrease crafting costs for certain epic, legendary and unique recipes Higher level animals will not always require high level foods Reduce hardwood repair costs on pickaxe from 15 to 10 Holding shift will cause avatar to run even when navigating w |
| Art Livestream and Q&A session! | 2021-04-21 | The Cozy Grove art team will be livestreaming this Sunday, 10am PDT! Please join us to learn more about the process of creating the art in the game, witness a sketch or two happening in real time, and feel free to ask questions - we're happy to answer them if we can! Find us on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/spryfoxgames ːsteamhappyː |
| AMA with the lead producer and designer of Cozy Grove | 2021-04-21 | Hi everyone! Please join us on Reddit this Friday, April 23rd, at 9:30am PDT - we'll be taking your questions about Cozy Grove for at least an hour. We'll try to avoid spoilers, but beyond that, we're happy to discuss almost anything! Questions about gameplay mechanics? Inspirations for the game? How we came up with a giant rectangular fox salesman? The answers to that and more are within reach. ;-) The AMA will be hosted on the Cozy Grove subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/CozyGrove See you there! |
| 1.6.0 | 2021-04-19 | v1.6.0 is now available to all players on Steam! - Major polish pass on inventory UI; lots of community-requested improvements there! - UI improvement: snap decoration placement cursor to next point in pattern - Unlock lower-tier repair tool badges even after upgrading tools, so people can't get stuck never earning that badge - Improve reward from one of Jeremy's recurring quests which had potentially lackluster rewards. - Reduced requirements for several quests that seemed overly difficult or time-consuming to complete. (Especially true for Lee Berry) - Imps only drop imp essence, not other types. - Mr Kit can now sell more essence. - Fixed |