Author’s Note (last updated 6/9/2024)

Happy birthday, Katrielle! Hard to believe it's been already a year, where in the world did the time go???

We are currently working on the updates for the Katrielle Mod. I would have loved to have the update out today, but the scheduling of real life shenanigans for myself and ToastieV left us with so little time to work on the mod. However, for the sake of transparency I do want to leave a little more concrete of an idea as to how much has been done behind the scenes, so allow me to pull back the curtains a little bit and show you some of the things we have done since the release of 1.6 (and I will happily exclude the first couple of months of us no-lifing Stardew for "research purposes" >___<)

So the main thing with Katrielle that has been the bane of my existence over the past year is the translations. When making Katrielle from the beginning, I did not consider translations at all, and having to comb through all the previously made dialogue to allot for translations, especially with a character with a LOT of dialogue based on conditions, it made for a nightmarishly large task that I've put off doing again and again. It's the embodiment of "oh yeah, I do have to make the entire video game, huh?" (it's a mod, but same concept applies) On the previous author's note, I mentioned getting burnt out from working on the mod, and this is 95% of the reason why. So, of course when 1.6 added a bunch of additional dialogue possibilities such as the Stardrop Tea and reacting to events occurring in town, I had to make more dialogue, which in turn would also need translations. Sigh...

Well, it's definitely getting there, so at least there's that. Approximately 1600 lines of dialogue between events, day to day dialogue when she is both single and married (and that also includes the glitching dialogue too), and I only know that because that's how many lines have been prepped and ready for translations. I say "approximately 1600" because there IS still more lines of dialogue to be added with the new update as well as...

A couple of new events! There were a couple of events that were conjured up, mostly out of a whim and a need to deviate from translation hell. There are three events, one event for the bad ending, the Secret Ending, and the Dating path. Two of those events have already been completed, and the third event is in the works. Hopefully, you will be able to see one of those new events in your file.

Of course, I should mention the bug fixes. And there are quite a few, both gathered from the past year, as well as the 1.6 update. There was a good chunk of Content Patcher stuff that, while it kinda works in 1.6, not all of it does. The two biggest items, the ones that needed to be prioritized, rae some Secret Route occurrences with NPCs moving to a new location (if you know, you know :]), as well as Custom Music, which was one I *REALLY* did not want to compromise on. Due to Custom Music no longer being compatible to 1.6, I had to basically revamp EVERYTHING music-wise for Katrielle. Luckily, 1.6 did allow music to be incorporated easily without the need of any external mods, BUT I need to actually figure out how to do that, and I sorta did. I'm still working on those bugs though...

There is one more thing, but I'll let ToastieV talk about it.