EVERFOREST UPDATE v0.10.0 - 11/23/2023

Welcome to the EverForest where you’re a force of nature in our FIRST early-access release into Australia and New Zealand! This is a brand new kind of “Play-to-Plant™” merge adventure—where you’ll play to plant trees in the EverForest—and, as you progress in the game, we’ll plant real trees in the real world on your behalf. Through lots of testing, we’ve discovered that so many players are passionate about making a real-world impact as they experience a fun, relaxing, addictive merge adventure game. We’re excited for you to meet Mother Nature and restore the EverForest and grow it into a flourishing, thriving ecosystem. But first, you’ll have to get past a couple of big disasters! (Don’t worry—you’ll have amazing animal helpers.) You’ll discover two EverForest regions with many secrets and delights to uncover. Below are some release notes—info about what you’ll be doing in the EverForest inside this release. You’ll also see some known issues that you might experience—and some potential solves, too. The whole EverForest team thanks you for playing—and planting.

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

• EXPANDED EVERFOREST! You’ll explore, restore, and grow two distinct regions in the EverForest! Help your animal friends establish themselves in the WHISPERING WOODLANDS and MYSTICAL MOUNTAIN regions—and work with them to overcome flood damage—and some Giant Invasive Hogweed!

• CREATURES! PLANTABLES! There are 11 animals and their unique plantables to discover and level-up. Gather wacky merge items and complete quests for your creature buddies. Help them build homes and grow the EverForest—and uncover some of their secrets.

• REAL TREES! Earn Real Tree Points as you play. You’ll collect Real Tree Points when you complete simple daily tasks, when you level up, and when you pledge to take real world actions. When you hit milestones and turn them in, we’ll plant real trees in the REAL WORLD on your behalf.

• STORE! An all-new, in-app store full of things to purchase, including Reward Boxes, Creature Cards, Time Skips, Merge Objects, and more—all to help you become a Force of Nature in the EverForest!

• VIP (Very Important Planter) Status! Purchase a VIP pass. It includes enough points to plant a real tree! VIP purchase includes:

  • 7 Days of VIP access

  • 1x Instant VIP Reward Box including 2000 Real Tree Points!

  • 7x daily VIP reward box (1 / day) each includes 100 Real Tree Points, 1 hour Time Skip and more

  • 5x earned Real Tree Points (excluding purchases)

Your feedback is incredibly helpful as we make this game amazing. If you have things to say (suggestions for improvements and/or kudos), please consider becoming an EverForest Insider by contacting [e-mail] — You’ll help to shape the future of the game (and our planet)!

 KNOWN ISSUES

• No backwards compatibility: If you have played a previous version of EverForest, your save file will not be compatible with this release. A future update will be coming that will allow existing players to play this release, but this current version is intended for new players. If you’ve played before and want to play this version, please contact customer support and they’ll reset your player account, but you will lose all progress and it can’t be restored.

• Player level cap: You’ll be able to advance to level 15, but won’t be able to go beyond level 15. Past this, you’ll be able to play the game and complete quests, but progress will be halted. This cap will be raised in future releases!

• Animal collection cap: For this release the animal collection is limited to 11 animals. You may see space for other animals in the collection, but you won’t be able to access their cards in this release.

• Animal level cap: For now, your animal is capped at level 5. This cap will be raised with future releases.

• Stuttering: The game may experience performance issues such as stuttering or jitteriness on certain phones (especially those with a Mali-G78 processor such as the Google Pixel 6). We apologize if you experience this because it’ll make it tough to enjoy playing. The team will tackle this issue in a future release.

• Can’t find BeeBot: Occasionally, BeeBot will fly through the EverForest in places where you can’t see or interact with them.

• Umi the Spotted Owl disappears: Occasionally Umi will disappear from the forest. (Hoo knows where she goes?!) If that happens, please restart the game and she should reappear.

• Game doesn’t progress while away! Occasionally, the game may not progress while you have it suspended or closed. If you start the game and then suspend / close it again, the issue should resolve.

• Invalid reward box timers: Some reward boxes will show a “Reward box ready to claim” timer. This can be ignored except on the free daily reward box.

• Stretching! On some devices the UI isn’t scaling properly, and things looked stretched.

• Creature sorting! Sorting your creature collection by creature level is not working properly.

• Google account linking: Players can’t link their Google account in this release.

• Invalid timers in the store: Occasionally, if you enter the store using another method other than tapping on the icon in the main tray at the bottom of the screen, the store timers may not report the correct values. Enter the store via the icon at the bottom of the screen and you’ll see the correct timer value.