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The 14.9 update is FILLED to the brim with exciting new changes and we’re happy to share that we have more things planned for friendship rewards and Gems.

Proximity Chat

What’s that saying… With open chat comes great responsibility?

The 14.9 update will introduce a big change to unlocking the Proximity Chat with others. Now, instead of waiting until Level 3 Friendship to be able to freely chat with others without having to rely only on Expressions, you can unlock it at Level 1, obtained by introducing yourself to Strangers.

As we mentioned before in the “Challenge of open communication in online games” blog – there’s a higher risk of toxicity with open chat when it is done with a large group. Although our alpha community is pretty knit-tight and welcoming, as we expand our playerbase, we want to limit the possibility that someone could exploit chat to say mean or hurtful things to others.

Based on your feedback, we wanted to make it a little easier to interact with others, especially when it comes to doing co-op activities, but still give you autonomy to choose who you want to interact with. 

The open chat with other members of the same fluffalo train ride and sit & chat will remain unchanged. 

We hope that those changes make interacting and bonding with others a lot simpler.

If you ever find someone acting against our Community Rules and Guidelines, please follow the guide on how to Mute, Block and Report other players here.

Friendship Levels & Gems

We also added more ways to obtain Friend Gems. Now, instead of getting it only through proximity harvesting, you’ll get:

• 10 automatically every day
• Harvesting resources in co-op activities: 2 for small harvestables; 3 for medium harvestables; 4 for large harvestables (wood stumps, ore)
• For certain World Events: 2 for Yearning for the Mines and Fluffalo Parade, 4 for Dance Party, Rudi’s Boss, and Gifting Trees.
• Proximity looting: 1 friend gem per harvest (excluding the harvestables that give co-op loot)

The daily cap of Friend Gems you can obtain each day is still the same (50).

We’re also removing the friendship gem offering cap. You can interact with your friends and offer them as many Friendship Gems as you’d like to level up in a single day, as long as you still have gems to offer. This will also allow players to have more self-governance of their own relationships and decide how much they want to interact with others.

We have increased the value of Tier 2 and Tier 3 gifts, as they will reduce the number of gifts you have to give to a friend to reach a certain level. 

These changes will be implemented with the 14.9 update this week. Let us know your thoughts and first impressions over at #general-feedback when the update is live!