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You have to talk to the farmer girl in the park. If you don't have that unlocked yet, spend more time exploring the city.

Hey there, thanks for the reply! I must have overlooked the message about plants dying during the upgrade. No big deal either way. As for the build I'm playing on, it's the release version of v.18. I downloaded the game in its entirety after the official drop using the mirror link. Since resetting back to a pre-garden save, I've yet to encounter the problem again, though I've yet to attempt the upgrade again. When I get around to it, I'll make note if the error occurs again, along with a proper capture of the error message. Thank you for your time!

Well exceeded my expectations for a puzzle horror game. Well done!

Hey Runey! I'm on my third play through of the game since trying it around two years ago, and it's great to see all the progress you've made. The game is seriously impressive and you should be proud!

That being said, I've encountered what I think is a strange bug with the garden. I build the base garden extension (when the option to plant first appears) and planted potatoes. I soon realized I could then build the greenhouse and decided to do so. My first minor complaint is that this locks me out of checking the plants, as it tells you the area is under construction; but the important part is that I seem to have soft locked the garden somehow. The countdown until the upgrade is finished is acting very strange, as it sometimes fails to show up at all and even completely reset on me. I've waited over two weeks in game, and it still hasn't finished. I've also had a few error screens that appear to relate to the garden and the failure to retrieve a garden object (Sorry if this sounds dumb, I know very little about coding). I've been just selecting "rollback" as I have on past versions, on the rare occasion something like this has happened, and while the game doesn't feed me another error it doesn't seem to fix the issue either. If it occurs again, I will copy the error text so you don't have to try and decipher my layman description.

[SPOILERS AHEAD] Another factor that might be important is that I got a few forced events during the upgrade time. From what I remember, they were Ashley's event involving pills, Lin's event involving three masked elves, and the Ashley's mother event involving oral with Ashley. Hopefully those descriptions make sense, trying to keep it vague as to avoid outright spoilers for other readers.

I hope at least some of that information was useful. For now, I'm reverting to an older save before the purchase to see if I can get around the bug that way. Can't wait to see what else you come up with in the future! Good luck, and thank you for all your hard work!