It’s time for our very first update after 1.0!

We’re excited to announce the arrival of Tales of Seikyu’s “Shrine of Love” – a content update with some fun new features and quality-of-life improvements based on your feedback. Here’s a little look at some (but by no means all) of what you can expect from this update. 🌸

Visit the Inari Shrine to weave the threads of fate and adjust your relationships with Seikyu’s romanceable villagers. You’ll now be able to use the Inari Shrine to break up with a partner you’ve romantically committed to, get divorced, and even pursue romance with villagers you’ve previously rejected. Just make sure you’ve got the right offerings to hand.

Yokai like their own space, but we appreciate that some of you were a little confused when your spouses moved into their own rooms in your farmhouse. Well, you’re now able to spend the night with your spouse whenever you want by interacting with the marital bed. Whether you want to cuddle up every night or only when you feel like it, it’s your relationship and you get to decide what that looks like 💘

We’ve been working on some adjustments to the Yokai Scarecrow to make farming even easier! Yokai Scarecrows will now tend to their duties (including planting crops) the moment they are placed, and we’ve given them the ability to fertilize crops. You can also now place Yokai Scarecrows in the farming area outside Yiki-Onna’s house for even more efficiency!

Ranch buildings can now be placed within farming areas, giving you more freedom over your farm’s layout. Who says you have to fill your farm with fields, after all? You’ll also now be able to upgrade ranch facilities using the Livestock Bell.

This was a big one for community feedback and we were happy to oblige. We’ve improved the crafting system so that materials stored in storage chests can now be used directly when crafting – no more ferrying items back and forth! We’ve also added a quick-transfer function to storage chests, allowing players to quickly transfer matching items from their inventories into existing stacks within chests at the push of a button.

William Shakespeare once wrote “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet…” and we think he was on to something there! Names can hold a lot of meaning, but they don’t have to be forever because you can now change your character name and the name of your farmhouse via the Statistics section in the in-game menu.

You can change your character’s appearance at any time by entering the character customization menu via any in-game mirror, but our wonderful community pointed out to us that not all of the customisation options were present when doing so. We’ve since updated this feature to allow you to change your character’s body type from masculine presenting to feminine presenting for total freedom of customization. You’re a member of the shapeshifting fox clan after all, you should be able to change your appearance as you please!

We’ll be sharing a more detailed list of patch notes alongside this announcement post, so keep an eye out for that if you want a closer look at everything 1.1. For now, we hope you enjoy these updates and we want you to know that your feedback is just as important and appreciated now as it was during Early Access ( っ˶´ ˘ `)っ♡

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• Added a relationship management feature to the shrine. Players can now interact with the shrine to manage their relationships with NPCs, including breaking up, getting divorced, and reopening romance routes with NPCs they previously rejected.
  
• Materials stored in storage chests can now be used directly when crafting.
  
• Added a quick-storage feature for storage chests, allowing players to transfer matching item categories from their inventory into a chest with a single action.
  
• Added a fertilizing function to scarecrows.
  
• Added warnings in the scarecrow UI for seeds that cannot be planted during the current season.
  
• After getting married, players can now interact with the marital bed and spend the night with their spouse.
  
• Players can now change their character name and farmhouse name from the Stats screen.
  
• Players can now change their character’s gender from the character customization screen.
  
• Ranch buildings can now be placed within farmland areas.
  
• Ranch facilities can now be upgraded through the Livestock Bell.

• Improved livestock mood calculations, reducing the likelihood of animals becoming unhappy too easily.
  
• Removing rotten items now only requires a short press of F.
  
• Scarecrows now begin planting seeds immediately instead of waiting until the following day.
  
• Monster Scarecrows can now be placed in the farming area outside Yuki-onna’s house.
  
• Auto-pickup is now enabled by default.

• Fixed an issue where the map icon for the fox den remained visible after the den was opened.
  
• Fixed an issue where players could not enter Yoni’s house during the Bamboo Vine quest.
  
• Fixed an issue where affection points did not refresh immediately after interacting with an NPC.
  
• Fixed an issue with third-person camera FOV initialization in Photo Mode.
  
• Fixed an issue with the cooldown for horn production.
  
• Fixed an issue where scarecrow watering consumed the player’s stamina.
  
• Fixed an issue where the first farmhouse upgrade did not take effect.
  
• Fixed an issue where the lower half of the wedding kimono could not be crafted.
  
• Fixed an issue where a new tutorial could start while another tutorial was already active.
  
• Fixed animation issues during ending cutscenes.
  
• Fixed an issue where bulletin board quests could feature NPCs who had not yet been unlocked.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Arrow Statue’s idle configuration.
  
• Fixed an issue where Yuki-onna did not appear in the affection list.
  
• Fixed an issue where crafting materials could be incorrectly cleared when the recipe index remained unchanged.
  
• Fixed an issue where triggering a cutscene while fishing could cause the game to freeze.
  
• Fixed an issue with the collision of the Tuser pet.
  
• Fixed an issue where animals could continue to be born overnight even when the animal house was full.
  
• Fixed an issue where the ranch tutorial did not detect an already placed chicken coop.
  
• Fixed an issue where item icons could display incorrectly when the crafting screen was initialized.
  
• Fixed an issue with carpet navigation settings.
  
• Fixed an issue where repeatedly pressing the harvest button while transformed could grant experience multiple times.
  
• Fixed various environment issues, including floating grass on the mountain, terrain clipping on Kappa Island, sitting underwater at the hot spring, flying outside the boundaries of the ruins, and becoming stuck while dashing on the stairs near Theo’s house.
  
• Fixed an issue where Yoni clipped through a tree during a story sequence.
  
• Fixed an issue where players could obtain Fox Form before unlocking Slime Form.
  
• Fixed unstable sorting on the quest screen.
  
• Fixed an issue where the NPC house interface remained open after selecting a teleport icon on the world map.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player could remain seated after leaving the restricted area.
  
• Fixed an issue where monsters housed in the Monster Hut could incorrectly trigger birth events.