Patch 1.30 and the full update history
What Patch 1.30 changed on 27 October 2026, the item-by-item comparison with Patch 1.20, and every patch since launch with dates and contents.
Patch 1.30 landed on 27 October 2026 with English, French and Spanish text, the Seeder, the 10-item bathroom set and the birthday event; Patch 1.20 landed on 29 September with camping furniture and four new animals.
Village in the Shade has shipped nine patches since launch, two of them billed as free content updates. Patch 1.30 is the current build, released 27 October 2026.
Patch 1.30, in full
Released 27 October 2026 as Free Update #2.
| Category | Change |
|---|---|
| Languages | English, French and Spanish text added |
| New tool | Seeder — sows seeds, seedlings and fertilizer across a 3-tile strip; upgradeable at the anvil |
| Seeder gate | Crossroads hokora restored to at least stage 3, then a letter |
| New furniture | Plumbing Fixture series, 10 items, gated behind the Fox Hunting Permit |
| New event | Protagonist's birthday — set a date, then talk to villagers on the day |
| Birthday gate | Year 2 plus one day after the main scenario (Shade) or after Nago arrives (Sunshine) |
| Building | Barns, greenhouses and other buildings can be flipped horizontally when relocated |
| Whistle | The Miracle Whistle no longer ends when you enter a building on your farm |
| Naming | Brand names editable from the field guide; names up to 8 characters |
| Input | A hardware-dependent pad appears during name entry for kanji input (Japanese only) |
| Materials | Green Dye is easier to obtain |
| Catalog | Decorative trees added to the catalog |
| Quality of life | Longer item hand-over range; the dog can enter the doghouse |
| Announced | Paid DLC scheduled for Spring 2027 |
Patch 1.20 versus 1.30
Both updates added furniture, animals or tools, so the comparison is mostly about what kind of content each one was.
| Patch 1.20 (29 Sep 2026) | Patch 1.30 (27 Oct 2026) | |
|---|---|---|
| Theme | Farm expansion | Language and home life |
| Furniture | Camping series, 11 items | Plumbing Fixture series, 10 items |
| Gate | Pheasant Hunting Permit | Fox Hunting Permit |
| Animals | Silkie Chicken, Mallard, Fluffy Cow, Spotted Goat | None new |
| Tool | None | Seeder |
| New farmland | Yes, one extra plot | No |
| Catalog | Furniture Catalog added | Decorative trees added to it |
| Events | None new | Birthday event |
| Languages | None | English, French, Spanish |
| Machines | Hold-to-load on processors | No change |
If you are returning after a break, 1.30 is the one that matters: it added the three languages most players were waiting for, plus the Seeder that removes most of the planting chore.
Full patch timeline
| Date | Version | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Jul 2026 | Launch | Steam release; additional languages announced as coming |
| 31 Jul 2026 | Hotfix | Key config settings were not saving |
| 4 Aug 2026 | 1.04 | Fixed being stuck indoors after a holiday, the Spring 7 evening event, the Spring 5 turnip tutorial, and a progression block above 60 FPS |
| 10 Aug 2026 | 1.05 | Fixed blocked night events at home, livestock loss from upgrading pen two first, Chinana's dining event item loss, a crash when upgrading buildings full of processors, and the graveyard event |
| 17 Aug 2026 | 1.06 | Fixed a pickaxe crash in indoor facilities and a coop disappearance on old saves |
| 26 Aug 2026 | 1.08 | Cashmere Goat unlock, fertilizer effects, three skill rates, achievement unlock reliability, Glass Shards rate, Spring seed unlocks, request filtering, item pickup, sickle harvest skill |
| 27 Aug 2026 | 1.08.1 | Fixed unresponsive controls after the Lost Book event |
| 3 Sep 2026 | 1.09 | Trap retrieval and multi-catch fixes, five rolling saves per slot, easier waterfall fishing, building on paddies |
| 15 Sep 2026 | Store update | Deluxe Edition and Simplified Chinese support |
| 29 Sep 2026 | 1.20 | Camping furniture, four new animals, extra farmland, Furniture Catalog, livestock and scarecrow fixes |
| 27 Oct 2026 | 1.30 | English/French/Spanish, Seeder, bathroom set, birthday event, building mirroring |
| Spring 2027 | Paid DLC | Announced, not released |
What the patch history says about the game
Three of the first five patches fixed progression blockers, not polish: an event on Spring 7 that would not fire, a harvest tutorial that could soft-lock if you fenced your field, and a holiday bug that trapped you indoors. If you played in the first two weeks, that was the experience.
The pattern after that is steady quality-of-life work: trap retrieval, save backups, pickup radius, request filtering. The known issues page keeps the bug side separate from the content side.
Next
- Unlock list — every gate these patches introduced.
- Furniture sets — the 21 items from 1.20 and 1.30.
- Editions and prices — including the Spring 2027 DLC situation.
