Morels Homestead Coming to Steam VR

We are happy to announce that a PC VR version of Morels Homestead is coming to Steam on October 27th, 2022. Wishlist Now!

September 13, 2022 – North Judson, IN – Abrams Studios is pleased to announce a PC VR version of Morels: Homestead, is coming to the Steam platform on October 27, 2022. Morels: Homestead is a VR gaming experience about building your very own homestead, growing and harvesting crops, exploring and digging up treasure, trading and selling your way to glory as your story grows. Have a look at the Official Trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_42rMeuBpH4

Description

In this sandbox VR adventure, you’ll start with a blank canvas of empty land. Explore levels from many environments and find hundreds of unique items to keep for yourself or trade to grow your homestead into whatever you wish. Grow and harvest crops, hunt for the elusive Morel mushroom, and find rarities to give you valuable commodities for trade. Use your metal detector and trusty shovel to find and secure many different treasures. Let out your inner nature enthusiast and photograph beautiful and sometimes rare animals. The path you take is yours to choose. Every homestead will be unique.

Features

Design and maintain your own homestead.

Collect and harvest crops.

Over 60 animals and insects to discover and photograph.

Features 8 fully explorable maps.

Find hidden treasures using your metal detector.

Explore at night for a whole new experience.

Buy and sell your items at the in-game Farmer’s Market.

Take on quests to earn items or money to purchase things for your homestead.

Forage for mushrooms.

Find and collect treasures of all kinds.

The path you take is yours to choose. Every homestead will be unique.

Game History

After the release of Morels: The Hunt many in the community voiced their desire to see something similar in VR. We took that request a few steps further, turning a relaxing and immersive PC experience into something unique for the Oculus Platform. We are excited to bring this experience to PC VR and Steam. Morels: Homestead is a unique experience as it focuses on relaxation and immersion while completing tasks rather than high intensity interactions like many current VR games.

Developer: Abrams Studios

Steam Store: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2008440/Morels_Homestead/

Press kit: Press PCVR | Morels Homestead

Website: https://morelshomestead.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AbramsStudios
Contact: contact@morelshomestead.com

Release Date: May 16th, 2023

Platforms: Rift on Steam VR

Morels: Homestead Tropical Update!

We’ve just released our big Tropical Update! The update is free and has a lot to explore and experience. Below are some of the biggest updates.

2 New Explorable Maps

Each map features new collectables and quests.

Flamingo Island

Willow Tree Golf Course

2 New Homesteads

Beach Island and Tropical Land

Seashell Hunting

You can sell them for cash.

New Animals

Sprinkler System

You can now purchase sprinkler systems for your garden boxes. You can purchase them by trigger clicking on the garden boxes to bring up their item menu. After purchasing you will see the sprinkler system working. You will no longer need to manually water the plants in the garden box. You can still purchase fertilizer and manually fertilize plants if you would like them to grow faster.

-New save slots. You can now have multiple saved games.

-All maps have had their graphics slightly updated.

-A “Sell All Seashells and Metals” button has been added to the Misc Vendor.

-Blewit Mushrooms have been added to the new maps.

-2 new garden seeds. Coconut tree and a pineapple tree.

-Many new homestead items to purchase in the Farmer’s Market.

-Farmer’s Market and the Main Menu have been updated to match the new artwork of the Tropical Update.

There are some other updates as well but these are the main ones. We hope you enjoy the update!

-The Abrams Studios Team

Anniversary Update Now Live!

We are extremely excited to announce that our Anniversary Update is now live! We are also running a Special Promotion of 50% Off until Nov 6th to celebrate the anniversary and the update. We want to thank all of our beta testers for helping us out. We hope everyone enjoys the update!

New Trailer

WHAT’S IN THE UPDATE

New Achievements

REPLACED INSIDE CABIN MENU WITH 3D ENVIRONMENT

Environment and Shopping

New Items to Buy

You can now buy a Snorkel to allow you to stay underwater for 2 minutes at a time. Also purchase a Fast Travel Map to allow you to Fast Travel back to you home base at any time from anywhere.

NEW TROPHY ROOM

You now have a trophy room. It has a whiteboard with an overview off all your task completions. It has a display for your Golden Morels. You can change the photos on the walls to any of your photos you’ve taken.

There have been many collectables added to the game that are displayed in this room as well.

Now earn golden mushrooms for the other mushrooms you collect. These are displayed here as well.

UPDATED CAMERA

Animal Outline

When in camera mode, the animals will now have an outline when they are in focus. Green means they have not been photographed that day and gray means they have already been photographed. This only applies during daytime hours. We found it a bit too easy if this was also applied during the night.

Quick Capture

We have added the option to quick capture with the camera. No longer do you have to wait until you look at the photo to take a new picture. You can now quickly take many pictures in a row. This should make the whole experience of photographing animals a bit easier. This will be the default method. You can still toggle to look at the photo on.

Moved Photographed Text

We moved the text letting you know what animal you photographed to the bottom right and changed its look a little bit. This way you will still be able to take photos quickly without anything in your view.

UPDATED PICKUP

Crosshairs Pickup

We have updated the Crosshairs Pickup Method and made it the default pickup method. There should no longer be any issues of not people able to pickup a mushroom. With this method, you will no longer have to look straight down all the time. This should make the experience much more relaxing and enjoyable. You can switch back to the old pickup method with the green circle guide by turning off Crosshairs Pickup Method in Gameplay under Settings.

SWIMMABLE WATER AND FISH

Swim in Water

You can now swim in water. Press the crouch button to dive down and then just look in the direction you want to swim. Toggle crouch again and look up at the surface to swim back up.

Photograph the Fish

You can photograph and get points for the fish.

Objects and Insects

You can now get points for photographing some objects and insects.

MUSHROOMS

New Blewit Mushrooms

We have added a new mushroom to hunt. Blewit Mushrooms.

You now can collect all mushrooms, including poisonous mushroom right from the beginning of the game.

MUSHROOM MARKERS

Now choose from several colors of mushroom markers.

MAP UPDATES

Every location in the game has been updated

All maps have been updated with new lighting, some new or updated meshes, dust particle effects, collectables, and more.

STACKABLE INVENTORY

You inventory is now stackable.

OTHER NOTABLE UPDATES

– Added 6 new songs to the Acoustic playlist. Found in the game menu under In Game Music.
– Optimized the game. It was very CPU bound before. We have spent some time optimizing the animals and other things to fix help this.
– New, simpler tutorial
– You can now toggle Crouch on or off. No longer do you need to hold it down.
– You can now skip Intro Montages by pressing Enter on the keyboard.
– Updated Minimap Images to be more simple and help save on memory.
– Made Ticks less frequent.
– Fixed numerous bugs.
– Several other small features or fixes.

The new map and new animals did not make it into this update. They will be saved for a future update along with and updated UI and some other new features.

We just want to thank everyone for their support and for the positive reviews. We hope enjoys the new update. Happy Hunting!

-The Abrams Studios Team

Morels Anniversary Update Preview and Beta Testers

Time has really flown by. It’s been a year since the release of Morels: The Hunt, and to celebrate we’re releasing our biggest update ever! Please browse below to see some of the changes on the way. In preparation of the upcoming update we’d love a few volunteers who are interested in early access to this content. We are looking for bug testers to spend some time in game making sure the update is a smooth release. If you’re interested, please respond below or send us a private message and let us know! We’ll be sending out invites to a private discord for bug reporting and a discussion of the beta version of the update.

REPLACED INSIDE CABIN MENU WITH 3D ENVIRONMENT

Environment and Shopping

New Items to Buy

You can now buy a Snorkel to allow you to stay underwater for 2 minutes at a time. Also purchase a Fast Travel Map to allow you to Fast Travel back to you home base at any time from anywhere.

NEW TROPHY ROOM

There have been many collectables added to the game that are displayed in this room as well.

Now earn golden mushrooms for the other mushrooms you collect. These are displayed here as well.

UPDATED CAMERA

Animal Outline

Quick Capture

Moved Photographed Text

UPDATED PICKUP

Crosshairs Pickup

SWIMMABLE WATER AND FISH

Swim in Water

You can now swim in water. Press the crouch button to dive down and then just look in the direction you want to swim. Toggle crouch again and look up at the surface to swim back up.

Photograph the Fish

You can photograph and get points for the fish.

Objects and Insects

You can now get points for photographing some objects and insects.

MUSHROOMS

New Blewit Mushrooms

We have added a new mushroom to hunt. Blewit Mushrooms.

You now can collect all mushrooms, including poisonous mushroom right from the beginning of the game.

MUSHROOM MARKERS

Now choose from several colors of mushroom markers.

MAP UPDATES

Every location in the game has been updated

All maps have been updated with new lighting, some new or updated meshes, dust particle effects, collectables, and more.

STACKABLE INVENTORY

You inventory is now stable.

OTHER NOTABLE UPDATES

– Optimized the game. It was very CPU bound before. We have spent some time optimizing the animals and other things to fix help this.
– New, simpler tutorial
– You can now toggle Crouch on or off. No longer do you need to hold it down.
– You can now skip Intro Montages by pressing Enter on the keyboard or bottom face button on a controller.
– Updated Minimap Images to be more simple and help save on memory.
– Made Ticks less frequent.
– Fixed numerous bugs.
– Several other small features or fixes.

The new map and new animals did not make it into this update. They will be saved for a future update along with some other new features.

We just want to thank everyone for their support and for the positive reviews. We hope everyone will enjoy the update. Happy Hunting!

-The Abrams Studios Team

Steam Summer Sale is Live!

The actual morels season may be over for most of us, but that doesn’t mean the fun has to stop! We are discounting Morels: The Hunt 33% for the Steam Summer Sale!

-The Abrams Studios Team

Morels Summer Update

THE UPDATES

We have completely reworked the way you detect animals with the photo/camera system. The new detection system should be more accurate and finally fix the wrong animal/dead animal bug.
Fixed mouse and gamepad movements to be smoother. This will be especially noticeable on lower end machines.
Optimized Texas Ranch.
Optimized other maps in various minor ways.
Fixed area in Georgia where you could previously get into an unplayble area.
Fixed area in Texas that where could get into an unplayble area.
Increased chances for chanterelle mushrooms in a couple maps. Players were having a really hard time getting the weekly task for it.
We added more tarantulas and scorpions in Texas. We also added a possibility to see them in the Rocky Mountains and Redwood Forest maps.
Fixed invert Y when on the ATV.
Fixed a few other minor bugs.

We want to thank everyone who has taken the time to play Morels. It really means a lot to us.

Thank you, Enjoy the Update, and Happy Hunting!

-The Abrams Studios Team

Steam Trading Cards

Hey everyone,

We’re super excited to announce that Morels: The Hunt trading cards are now available on Steam! Now whenever you play the game, you’ll be able to unlock and earn profile backgrounds, trading cards, and emoticons. You’ll be able to collect a set of 15 unique cards.

BADGES

BACKGROUNDS

EMOTICONS

Happy collecting!

More information about Steam Trading Cards:
Steam Trading Cards page
FAQ

Morels Spring Update is Live. 50% OFF SPECIAL PROMOTION!

Our Big Spring Update is live! We are also running a Special Promotion of 50% Off to celebrate the update until March 31st at 10am PST. A discount this big just a few months after launching was not really in our plans. With more people home and having less money from the far reaching effects of COVID-19, we felt this was the right thing to do.

Let’s go over the update. Most of it was already listed in our last post about the update coming soon.

NEW ANIMALS:

We have added several new animals like barn owls, sparrows, snapping turtles, and longhorn cattle. We have also added a new mystery animal for the Redwoods map.

YOUR SEASON AFTER 100 DAYS:

When you finish your season it will bring you back to the main cabin screen. It will then reward you with a bag that allows you to start collecting poisonous mushrooms.

You will also now be able to view stats for any completed season and your career stats. Your game will have unlimited seasons and each season will keep adding to your career totals.

Anything you purchased, points, and your hunter’s manual all get carried over to the next season as well.

MUSHROOM MARKERS:

You can now pickup your markers and they will go back into your inventory.

DIFFICULTY SETTING:

We’ve added a difficulty setting. On Easy there will not be any ticks or poison ivy.

EXPLORATION MODE:

We’ve enabled Exploration Mode from the start of the game. You no longer have to finish a season to try it out. So if you were wanting to try it out but haven’t finished a full season yet you will now be able to. In this mode there are no seasons. You will get 25,000 points to start with, unlock all maps from the very beginning, and allow you to have some fun playing as animals. This mode is for fun and anything you do will not count towards records, unlocking or achievements.

OTHER UPDATES AND FIXES:

– We added a message in the shop that shows if you have already purchased an item.

– There is a message that pops up when you click on Delete Game that asks you to confirm that you want to delete your game instead of just deleting it.

– Fixed the Hunter Level Achievement Bug if you were picking up with the New Look at Method.

– We added an extra check for achievements completed whenever you are at the main cabin menu.

– We are still working on a fix for the dead animal or wrong animal detected bug. Since we still have not been able to reproduce this bug on our end we won’t know for sure if we have fixed it or not. We did some things that should help. If this happens to anyone else and you you are able to reproduce it please let us know how you were able to do it.

We want to thank everyone who has taken the time to play Morels. It really means a lot to us. We will continue to try and make Morels the best game that we can. If you ever have issues or problems with anything don’t hesitate to contact us. You can email your support questions to support@abramsstudios.com. You can also contact us through our website’s contact form. http://www.abramsstudios.com/contact/.

Thank you, Enjoy the Update, and Happy Hunting!

-The Abrams Studios Team

Big Morels: The Hunt Update Coming Soon!

We will be releasing our newest update soon! Here are some of the updates and fixes that will be coming.

NEW ANIMALS:

We have added several new animals like barn owls, sparrows, snapping turtles, and longhorn cattle. We have also added a new mystery animal for the Redwoods map.

YOUR SEASON AFTER 100 DAYS:

When you finish your season it will bring you back to the main cabin screen. It will then reward you with a bag that allows you to start collecting poisonous mushrooms.

You will also now be able to view stats for any completed season and your career stats. Your game will have unlimited seasons and each season will keep adding to your career totals.

Anything you purchased, points, and your hunter’s manual all get carried over to the next season as well.

MUSHROOM MARKERS:

You can now pickup your markers and they will go back into your inventory.

DIFFICULTY SETTING:

We’ve added a difficulty setting. On Easy there will not be any ticks or poison ivy.

EXPLORATION MODE:

OTHER UPDATES AND FIXES:

– We added a message in the shop that shows if you have already purchased an item.

– There is a message that pops up when you click on Delete Game that asks you to confirm that you want to delete your game instead of just deleting it.

– Fixed the Hunter Level Achievement Bug if you were picking up with the New Look at Method.

We will post another announcement once the update is live. We just wanted to give everyone and preview of what is coming. View post on Community Hub.

We want to thank everyone who has taken the time to play Morels. It really means a lot to us. We will continue to try and make Morels the best game that we can. If you ever have issues or problems with anything don’t hesitate to contact us. You can email your support questions to support@abramsstudios.com. You can also contact us through or website’s contact form. http://www.abramsstudios.com/contact/.

Thank you and Happy Hunting!

-The Abrams Studios Team

Morels Screenshot Contest Winners

We are very excited to announce the winners of our Screenshot Contest for Morels: The Hunt. There were so many great screenshots. This made it very it difficult for us to only choose 5 winners. Thank you so much to everyone who participated.

Winners

Goldelie – Horse on Texas Ranch
Ossobuco – Redwood Forest Creek
mostlyplaying – Squirrel in the Grass
Nemea – Texas Ranch Farm
Goldelie – Deer in a Cave

Horse on Texas Ranch by Goldelie

Redwood Forest Creek by Ossobuco

Squirrel in the Grass by mostlyplaying

Texas Ranch Farm by Nemea

Deer in a Cave by Goldelie

Congratulations to all of the winners!

Your screenshots will be added to the loading screen slideshow in Morels: The Hunt. You will see them in our next update coming soon.

Thank you again to everyone who participated and shared their screenshots.

-The Abrams Studios Team

Morels

New Trailer

WHAT’S IN THE UPDATE

REPLACED INSIDE CABIN MENU WITH 3D ENVIRONMENT

New Items to Buy

NEW TROPHY ROOM

UPDATED CAMERA

Animal Outline

Quick Capture

Moved Photographed Text

UPDATED PICKUP

Crosshairs Pickup

SWIMMABLE WATER AND FISH

Swim in Water

Photograph the Fish

Objects and Insects

MUSHROOMS

New Blewit Mushrooms

MUSHROOM MARKERS

MAP UPDATES

All maps have been updated with new lighting, some new or updated meshes, dust particle effects, collectables, and more.

STACKABLE INVENTORY

OTHER NOTABLE UPDATES

REPLACED INSIDE CABIN MENU WITH 3D ENVIRONMENT

Environment and Shopping

New Items to Buy

NEW TROPHY ROOM

UPDATED CAMERA

Animal Outline

Quick Capture

Moved Photographed Text

UPDATED PICKUP

Crosshairs Pickup

SWIMMABLE WATER AND FISH

Swim in Water

MUSHROOMS

New Blewit Mushrooms

MUSHROOM MARKERS

MAP UPDATES

STACKABLE INVENTORY

OTHER NOTABLE UPDATES

NEW ANIMALS:

YOUR SEASON AFTER 100 DAYS:

MUSHROOM MARKERS:

DIFFICULTY SETTING:

EXPLORATION MODE:

OTHER UPDATES AND FIXES:

Winners

Congratulations to all of the winners!

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