Chillquarium — 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wing Haven Trailer Release and 50% off Chillquarium! | 2026-04-17 | Hello everyone! First of all, thank you for your incredible response to last week's news post. It’s been great to be back sharing things about Chillquarium and Wing Haven with you all. ❤️ You’ve really helped get Chillquarium on Android and iOS off to a great start and nearly 1000 of you have signed up for the Wing Haven playtest already! If you’ve not signed up yet, make sure to do so now by filling in the form here: PLAYTEST SIGN UPS - https://forms.gle/aup1tzjabBZBkRaDASo, onto today's exciting news: 🐦 WING HAVEN TRAILER RELEASE 🐦It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve just released the first short trailer for Wing Haven. We know it’s ju |
| Chillquarium Coming to Mobile and Wing Haven News! | 2026-04-09 | Hi everyone! It's been a while! Despite the radio silence I've been here the whole time, working away behind the scenes, and I finally have some exciting news to share! Once again, thanks so much for all of your support over the last few years, it’s been an incredible journey and one that I’m not done with yet! WING HAVEN 🐦Once again, thank you so much for your patience and excitement for Wing Haven. Progress has been steady and in April you’ll get your first glimpse of the game. 👀So, if you still haven't wishlisted Wing Haven on Steam, make sure you do now to hear about all the news the second it drops! And also join our Discord server to |
| 1.3.7 Hotfix B | 2025-05-30 | Fixed the remaining game-breaking bug + a few small changes: Fixed bug where some European users were not getting offline earnings Fixed bug where alt-tab feeding stopped working You can now close the collection highlight menu |
| Hotfix 5/29 | 2025-05-29 | As expected, the engine change led to some unintended side effects! I've fixed the most dire ones: Fixed a rendering incompatibility error which was causing the game to crash on older machines Fixed an issue where the Oarfish was not showing up. If you had any and played before this hotfix, they may be gone now unfortunately, sorry about that! Fixed a bug where the lights would refuse to change during the day Fixed an infinite money glitch where buying 100 golden pelagic dudes packs caused you to actually gain money instead of losing it Fixed bug where swap tank buttons still showed up on newly added fish. There are still more things to fix, |
| Chillquarium 1.3.7 Patch Notes | 2025-05-28 | Hey y'all! I've been working for the last few months on migrating Chillquarium from Godot 3.5 to the current Godot 4.4. This is an under-the-hood engine upgrade that wound up taking longer than I expected, but should make the game easier for me to maintain and work on moving forward. Migrating the game led to a lot of unexpected bugs that I have tracked down, and while I think everything is working now, it is likely that there are more bugs that I have not yet seen! So if anything weird turns up, let me know in the Steam forums or in the #bug-reports channel on the Discord server. As always, bug reports are a huge help, thanks to those of you |
| V1.3.4 Patch Notes | 2025-03-10 | Hey everyone! Here's a patch for a few of the most prominent issues and bug reports I've been getting based on the changes from the last patch. UX Improvements The game now saves and creates a backup when it is closed via alt+f4 or the exit window button. Achievements now require all 26 fish rather than 25, which was confusing for a lot of people. (Don't worry, if you already had the achievement it will not be taken away!) Reduced volume when opening golden packs. Cards now warn you if the tank has the wrong water type. Card packs now display the water type they need in the shop. Scroll bars are now more prominent. Removed the sell fish hotke |
| Achievement hotfix | 2025-02-15 | Fixed another bug causing achievements not to update in some cases. |
| Hotfix Feb 4th | 2025-02-04 | Fixed a bug where new achievements weren't updating if fish grew up while the game was closed Fixed a visual bug where fish with very high incomes displayed "Earning $0.01 per day" |
| Chillquarium Version 1.3 Update! | 2025-02-03 | Happy New Fish Day Everybody! Hi y'all! I'm extremely excited to announce that after a bunch of work, Chillquarium version 1.3 is finally here! I am continually grateful to all of you for playing my game and letting me spend my time doing what I love, and as thanks I plan to keep adding stuff to Chillquarium for as long as people are interested in playing it |
| Save File Integrity Hotfix V1.2.3 | 2024-11-11 | Quick patch notes that represent a surprising amount of development effort. Added a manual rollback system that lets you revert your save file to a previous session in case of save file corruption. Older backups are sent to the system recycle bin rather than deleted completely. Fixed one more known issue that was leading to backup saves being corrupted. My hope is that this update should kill save file corruptions for good, because even if something corrupting happens it will only mean that the previous session is lost rather than everything. Just want to say a sincere apology to anyone who has lost their save file. This has been an issue tha |
| V1.2.2 Achievement hotfix | 2024-07-22 | Fixed a bug where Spring Pals achievements were not updating properly Added a framerate cap option New rainbow fish now display as silhouettes Updated schooling behavior for Spring Pals Fixed a bug where cards could get stuck on screen I've been meaning to launch this update for a long time! Life has been very busy my way, as I've just gotten married and moved into a new house, but things are finally slowing down enough that I can get more dev time in! Happy fishing, -Ben |
| Save file integrity hotfix | 2024-06-07 | Reworked backup save file system for Windows to prevent save file corruption |
| Wing Haven announcement + Chillquarium Version 1.2 Update! | 2024-06-02 | Hello everyone, it's been a while but I'm back with three big pieces of news! I'm announcing Wing Haven -- the bird-themed sequel to Chillquarium! Wing Haven is a game about populating wildlife sanctuaries with rare birds! It's a spiritual successor to Chillquarium, but I'm really excited about the variety that comes from having new biomes to build in and fill with native plant species. If you are interested, you can head over to the Steam page and add it to your wishlist, it does a lot for the Steam algorithm if you do! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2790850/Wing_Haven/ For the time being, Wing Haven is still in the early stages of devel |
| Announcing the Gnorp & Chill Bundle! | 2024-02-24 | Hey everyone! I'm super excited to announce that myco, the creator of (the) Gnorp Apologue and I have teamed up to create a bundle on Steam! You can get both games together for 15% off, or if you already own Chillquarium (I assume you probably do if you're reading this), then you can still get Gnorpin' for 15% off! (the) Gnorp Apologue is another awesome solo-developed idle game. It is immensely satisfying and very well polished. Seriously, the amount of dopamine I get from making my little dudes slam into this rock is off the charts. If you like Chillquarium, do yourself a favor and check this game out as well. You can even play both games a |
| Save file integrity hotfix #2 | 2024-02-17 | Added an extra layer of protection against save file corruption. |
| Hotfix 1.1.3 | 2024-02-14 | Reduced strain on filesystem to combat save file corruption. Newly earned Mythics now display properly in the popup. Reset Data UI is improved. Resetting save file now starts the tutorial again, so the quest money can be earned. Fixed a bug where an additional controller being plugged in could cause the menu screen animation to loop, rendering the game unplayable. |
| Simplified Chinese Hotfix | 2024-01-11 | Fixed a bug where certain simplified Chinese characters did not show up in certain circumstances. |
| Hotfix V1.1.1 | 2023-12-28 | -Fixed a bug where money values did not display for certain players -Fixed a bug where the "Rainbow Rule" was not applying to Mythic fish |
| Chillquarium version 1.1 update! | 2023-12-25 | Hello everyone! Merry Fishmas to you all! I'm back, with a new update to Chillquarium! Things have been really busy at work but I'm finally ready to push a new build. Patch Notes Additional language support! Chillquarium now supports Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian! Huge thanks to the folks at IndieArk for their excellent translations! New content! Added a mythic fish to each pack which is 10x rarer than the legendaries! (Not required for achievements) Added some additional painted colorings for some of the fish! These have a chance to appear once the standard pai |
| Steam Winter Sale Discount! | 2023-12-21 | Hello everyone! It's our favorite time of the year -- the Steam Winter Sale! If you're looking for gift ideas for your friends and family, this game makes for a great virtual stocking stuffer! Development of the next update is still chugging steadily along, and I'm looking forward to getting a bit more content into the game for you folks! Stay tuned! Happiest Holidays, -Ben |