1.2.0
PlayPets 1.2.0 puts each panel on one page, keeps a play tool in hand from one spot to the next, and lets the moon follow the real sky.
Free app, MIT license, No PlayPets account
What changed
- Place & atmosphere, Play and Friends & settings are each one page of sections, with no tabs or Back buttons. Play groups Find, Garden and Group games, and the game that is on ends from its own tile.
- The dig and tree tools stay in hand: each spot sends the next free friend, and 1, 2 and 3 switch between digging, a tree and a seed until Esc puts the tool away. Right-click bare ground for Dig here, or a friend for Talk, Play and Dig.
- Turn on Let them dig on their own now and then in Settings → Friends & AI and idle friends dig a spot of their own now and then.
- A friend's name tag opens the conversation. Pulling up a flower or a tree and putting a gift away happen at once, with a few seconds to undo in the notice below; only something that cannot come back asks first.
- Settings → Friends & AI holds every AI connection, and Edit opens the form right there. In a large window the list of sections stays beside the open one; a small window opens them one at a time. About PlayPets groups its pages and opens the data folder, and App updates links to what changed in the version you use.
- Everything the yard tells you, what a game asks, a find's card and a notice, appears in one place just above the dock, and cards wait their turn instead of replacing each other.
- In a small window the corner menu button appears when the pointer is over the window, so the yard alone stays on your desktop.
- At night the stars stay in the sky behind the hills, and the moon shows its real phase. The harvest event now runs from September 8, and the big golden moon rises around its first full moon, as at Chuseok and the Mid-Autumn Festival.
- Dark mode keeps name tags and speech bubbles readable over the painted yard, and Korean, Japanese and Chinese text no longer breaks in the middle of a word.
Read The yard and games and Settings for details.