Stay: Forever Home | Build Notes

Players may appear too tall or float above the ground in VR.
- This can be fixed by returning to MR or restarting the app.
Planters and items may shift positions or disappear when switching between VR and MR.
- The ancient power of the Long Curse is always trying to reimpose itself on the player’s little enclave, so any amount of small mischief can happen. Especially with Mosslings around.
Moving between floors to different saved rooms can cause Ember to disappear.
- This can be fixed by clearing the room data for all but one room.
Frisbees and flat objects may fall through the ground and disappear.
- Check Lost and Found!
Ember can clip into the environment or get mildly stuck in some areas.
- Try calling her if she gets stuck!
Items may clip or overlap visually when placed in your bag or backpack.
- Visual issue only — The backpack is magical but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect. It was made by a 19th-century prospector who lacked formal instruction. (He built the cabin as well, but you won’t learn about that on this island.)
Fingers may move or twitch even when hands are still.
- Visual issue only. One of the stranger Otherlands side effects.
Sometimes flowers don’t want to go in their planters.
- Moving between VR and MR or restarting the app should fix it.
On the Trade Board, “Hours” appears in English even in other languages.
- Visual issue only. Jacoby’s a faerie born in the 18th-century; he didn’t go to finishing school.
Unsupported characters may appear in the French translation. These are intermittent and shouldn’t impact legibility.
- See above. Jacoby’s doing his best. C’est la vie.
Ember may appear sleepy even after a long break.
- We also wonder what she got up to while you were gone! (Feeding her treats restores her energy.)
Some decorating requests, like the tree, may appear unclear.
- Ember wants you to place the decoration!
Some objects in Ember’s mouth can get knocked out unintentionally.
Small doghouses don’t stack correctly in the backpack.
Sometimes objects received from trade don’t quite fit in the mailbox.
Some backpack upgrade slots are uneven, making them harder to interact with.
If you feed Ember a biscuit from behind her head, it may appear tiny and reusable.
A brief black screen flicker may appear after accepting app permissions.
The purple smoke and sparkles effect may play in the wrong location when you first open the door to Ember’s world.
If you place more than the required items for a trade in the mailbox, the trade may not complete.

Update 1

Release Notes

Thank you to everyone playing Stay: Forever Home! We hope you’re enjoying it, and we deeply appreciate all your reviews, feedback, and reports. The team has been reading closely, and we’re thrilled so many of you are spending time with Ember! This update focuses primarily on fixing as many bugs and player grievances as we could, with plenty more improvements to come. We’ve also added some new features and performance tweaks!

New!

New toy! Flying discs are now available from the far end of the Otherlands, or perhaps beyond.
New VFX, to bring more life and magic to the world.
You can now place wall and floor decorations by tossing them where you want them to be – the first of many UI polishes.
New animations for Ember, and fixes for the old ones.

Improved!

Performance and visual fidelity upgrades: smoother shadows, higher resolution, better outdoor performance.
Distance Grab improvements: better handling of distant objects and geometry blockers.
Controller tracking has been refined for smoother hand motion.
Improved plant interactions – plants without pots will now die if left on the ground!
The door orb now requires a small force to activate – allowing better storage options.

Bug Fixes

Oh boy, here we go!

Planter received from trading was bigger than the mailbox.
White texture displayed on a plant near mossling statues.
Object models clipped with item count numbers when placing in bag.
Pom pom / poppy flowers had LOD issues.
Ember made a disgust face with her mouth open.
Big fruit was hard to pop.
Smooth Locomotion: player could get stuck behind rocks or grass patches.
Japanese characters were blurry and hard to read.
Grabbing blue seed from pot could break hand model.
Fruit taken by Ember while backpack was close could glitch and break.
LOD issues on beige and grey rocks and near the waterfall.
Ember paused awkwardly and squinted unexpectedly.
Screen flashed briefly when Ember pounced on mosslings.
Tutorial flower wouldn’t return to planter.
Mailbox items duplicated after switching between MR and VR.
Difficulties grabbing items from backpack in portal.
Mailbox door hard to grab and close.
Items could disappear when distance-grabbed near backpack.
Severe LOD issues near the cabin’s rock fence.
Unsupported characters appeared in French.
Gift couldn’t be grabbed after Thief Mossling encounter.
Flying toy from trade needed a restart to activate.
Previously dug treasure spots generated excessive orbs.
Ember sometimes froze in T-pose instead of digging.
Outdoor objects could go missing when quitting while spawning.
Outdoor spawn failures when transitioning outside while paused.
Cliffside near cabin had major occlusion issues.
Grabbed objects defaulted to awkward angles.
“Hours” on Trade Board remained in English across all locales.
Items on ground misplaced after quitting or switching scenes.
Ember walked through chest, causing interaction issues.
Backpack upgrade slots were uneven and hard to use.
Accessories prioritized lower in distance-grab than other assets.
Ember got stuck on vine blocker during tutorial.
Cabin door grab could trigger nearby item grabs instead.
Lost + Found failed to retrieve player inventory.
Item taken by thief could become un-interactable post-encounter.
Ember barked at invisible vines when none were present.
Tutorial wants persisted for entire first session.
Seed pickup caused floaty/broken hand behavior.
Bridge dig spot was unreachable for Ember.
Wrist inventory audio lingered after closing.
Pond area movement blockers were inconsistent.
Planters disappeared when moving between VR and MR.
Unplaceable trade card blocked mailbox interactions.
Potato/radish plants reappeared incorrectly after removal.
Purple smoke/sparkles VFX spawned at incorrect location.
Crash triggered when clearing thorns.
Thorn particle effects did not disappear properly.
Possible to get stuck on tallest hill.
Ember held spinning disc awkwardly.
Flying toy jumped erratically if grabbed after flight.
Ember could become stuck after issuing “Find” command.
Cabin door + wake-up animation caused Ember to freeze.
Backpack disappeared when exiting outside with it in hand.
Two thorns failed to respawn after 12 hours.
Spinning disc could fall through ground or become ungrabbable.
Tutorial progress sometimes failed to save.
Spinning disc and items sank through misaligned colliders.
Spinning disc interaction broke when removing from backpack.
Thief mosslings were too aggressive at high forage levels.
Quitting with door/objects in hand caused duplication.
Door impact threshold too sensitive.
Distance grab made seed placement in planter difficult.
Bag collect sounds were not playing.
Tradeboard upgrade tab showed unusable trades (all required pear).

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